Pick blokes who play every week. Or who are durable. Even if they are expensive. Biggest lesson I have learnt.Whose starting team can I copy next season?
I need to stop picking my starting side with my heart... keep starting poorly and always playing catch up.
Any volunteers?
For example. Don't pick anyone from GWS. Whitfield maybe. Even rookies are dubious. So much depth, they just flick guys who are playing ok. Port I kept away from. Richmond I kept away from except Rookies.
I had too many Essendon players....but they played virtually every week. Didn't help in R18, but sure did every other week when I didn't need to trade the campaigners out. Even old Lunchie only missed a week.
Probably why I had a bit of a vanilla team in the end. No POD's. But over the journey they were solid.