The Swans have to make a decision on whether to let Gulden play hurt or send him for surgery<\/a> \u2013 which would put him out of action for months. Watch the injury news this week.<\/p>\nVerdict: If he\u2019s booked for surgery, it\u2019s a forced trade \u2013 Luke Davies-Uniacke ($526k) and Caleb Serong ($571k) are both great options. If he keeps playing you can hold through the Best 18 rounds before making a call.<\/p>\n
Mattaes Phillipou (St Kilda) | $168,400 | FWD | 27 points<\/p>\n
Youngster with a horror injury run looked ready to fire after a fantastic pre-season, only for the curse to return just before halftime at the MCG. He looked like one of the biggest bargains of the year, but can his body be trusted?<\/p>\n
The catch: The Saints say the injury was a corkie \u2013 fingers crossed. <\/p>\n
Verdict: If he\u2019s playing next week, we hold. If he\u2019s out past the byes we have to trade. <\/p>\n
Todd Marshall (Port Adelaide) | $147,900 | FWD | 90 points<\/p>\n
Big tick for the new role in defence with two intercept marks (one contested) and three kick-ins. But, like Gulden and Phillipou, he failed to finish the game, limping off with an apparent ankle injury.<\/p>\n
The catch: The role and money making potential is there. Can he stay fit?<\/p>\n
Verdict: Waiting on injury news. If it\u2019s under three weeks try to hold \u2013 as long as you can field 18 players.<\/p>\n
Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera (St Kilda) | $622,300 | DEF | 88 points<\/p>\n
Had a goal within the first three minutes against Melbourne and added two more. But spending plenty of time in the goalsquare means he just isn\u2019t getting his hands on the footy, picking up 18 and 19 disposals in the opening two rounds after averaging 30 a game last season. A big price drop is coming.<\/p>\n
The catch: He\u2019s still Nas. There will be huge scores if you can cop other coaches getting him cheaper.<\/p>\n
Verdict: I don\u2019t like the role but trades are precious. Deal with injuries first then consider a move if you don\u2019t have any other pressing issues.<\/p>\n
Jordan De Goey (Coll) | $321,100 | FWD-MID | 56 points<\/p>\n
Looked sharp kicking three goals in opening round but couldn\u2019t impact the contest the following week, finishing with 12 disposals without hitting the scoreboard. Just five centre bounce attendances.<\/p>\n
The catch: Has a bye this week so his price won\u2019t change until after round 3.<\/p>\n
Verdict: Needed a prime centre bounce role to be worth the investment, and he hasn\u2019t got it.<\/p>\n
Lachie Blakiston (Essendon) | $295,500 | DEF | 62 points<\/p>\n
Started brightly playing as Essendon\u2019s ruckman but was monstered by the Need Reeves-Lloyd Meek combination, winning four hitouts to advantage to go with nine disposals. Blakiston faces Dante Visentini on Sunday but then comes up against Tristan Xerri, Tim English, Max Gawn and Jarrod Witts in successive weeks. Yikes.<\/p>\n
The catch: There are a number of defensive rookies who are scoring this well or better, for much less cash.<\/p>\n
Verdict: Wait for his bubble game, but start assessing options. If you don\u2019t have Jaques or Serong, make the move now.<\/p>\n
Colby McKercher (North Melb) | $449,600 | DEF | 60 points<\/p>\n
Spent the first 14 minutes on the bench then mixed his time between half-back and half-forward when he did came on \u2013 a disaster for owners hoping for a return to the high kick-in role that resulted in premium-level scores on the back half of last season.<\/p>\n
The catch: It was his first game back after an interrupted pre-season. The time on ground will increase, but Luke Parker\u2019s success at half-back doesn\u2019t help his chances of slotting into that SuperCoach-friendly role.<\/p>\n
Verdict: One more week to assess.<\/p>\n
Charlie Curnow (Sydney) | $377,300 | FWD | 44 points<\/p>\n
Former Blue must be loving life in Sydney but it hasn\u2019t clicked so far in terms of goals (three) or SuperCoach, scoring 65 and 44. That\u2019s not enough to make money, let alone put points on the board.<\/p>\n
The catch: The Hawks on Thursday night then a bye before a tempting match-up with West Coast is too long to wait.<\/p>\n
Verdict: Will have to score 105 this week to avoid a price drop. Get one of the good forward rookies and redistribute the cash to improve your team.<\/p>\n
Sam Butler (Hawthorn) | $197,000 | FWD-MID | 29 points<\/p>\n
Paying up for a high-scoring rookie hasn\u2019t worked with scores of 54 and 29 so far. Had no tackles and didn\u2019t hit the scoreboard against the Bombers.<\/p>\n
The catch: Could lose money with another low score this week. That\u2019s not how rookies are supposed to work.<\/p>\n
Verdict: Trade now to a better rookie.<\/p>\n
OTHER ROUND 1 WORRIES<\/p>\n
Brodie Grundy (89), Lachie Whitfield (70), Clayton Oliver (69), Will Ashcroft (64), Stephen Coniglio (60), Dyson Sharp (57), Miles Bergman (56), Archie Roberts (53), Keidean Coleman (50), Andrew Brayshaw (47), Harry Dean (38). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One round in, 40 trades left \u2013 it\u2019s time to get to work. There\u2019s no time to waste…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,229078],"class_list":["post-542014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-supercoach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}