Hondo wrote:In the battle of the under-performing starters I lucked out with 3 (Gawn, Ryan and Neale) to Buddy's 2 (Newman and Heppell) and fell a measely 7 points short.
I was tossing up Kelly (132) or Neale (44) as a trade in for Selwood and picked badly. There were about 10 others I could have chosen ahead of Neale as it turned out.
Even with Neale and Ryan on field for about 76 points going into Sunday it was me Gawn + Ryder verses McEvoy + 63 so I thought I was likely to win still ... and then Gawn pulled out a 56 on me () and it then came down to Ryder v McEvoy + 7 and in the end Ryder and McEvoy broke even.
Buddy must have traded out Danger last week because that was looking to be the key part if I won. I got the 141 plus he was my captain whereas Buddy didn't have the luxury of VCing Danger like I did.
You were pretty stiff Hondo. I certainly pinched that one. Danger trade the week before almost back fired, and i also did the Selwood trade, but picked Sloane instead of Neale (who I was seriously considering, along with Kelly and Titch).