SuperCoach 2016: Top scores, winning team from Round 7, 2016
THE time has come to ask the unthinkable SuperCoach question: Should we trade Gary Ablett? Plus this week’s top scores and market watch.
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GARY Ablett has slipped to mere mortal status in SuperCoach and has players asking what has until now been an unthinkable question: Should we trade the great man?
Ablett is averaging 112 points a game — incredibly, his worst numbers since 2006.
In the past month the picture is even bleaker, with an average of just 95 over his past three games topped off by an 82 against Melbourne on Saturday night. It could have been a lot worse — he had just nine at quarter-time.
His stats weren’t terrible — 22 disposals at 82 per cent efficiency, eight contested possessions, four clearances, five inside-50s and two goals, both in the final quarter.
Spare a thought for the more than 19,000 SuperCoaches who had Ablett as captain. In a sign of his on-field struggles, that is just half the figure who put the “C” on the little master in Round 1.
He has a lot on his plate, battling ongoing injury problems and upset fans.
And now something unprecedented (barring injury) has happened: Ablett has entered the top 10 most traded out players list (at No.9; Sydney’s Callum Mills is top of the list).
His price has dropped four weeks in a row — he is now $60,000 cheaper than Round 1 and he has to score 152 against GWS to avoid another big drop. Amazingly you could trade him to Brownlow medallist Matt Priddis and come away with $35,000 change.
But it would cost you a vital trade with no guarantee the replacement will be any better (Priddis hasn’t scored above 90 for a month). And if anyone can go on a spree of 130-plus scores, it’s Gazza. For what it’s worth, he averages 165 in his past three against the Giants.
Will you hit the trade button? If the answer is yes, you’re braver than us.
ROUND 7 STARS
174 Max Gawn (Melb)
155 Steven Motlop (Geel)
149 Marcus Bontempelli (WB)
143 Scott Pendlebury (Coll)
142 Nick Riewoldt (StK)
WEEKLY TOP SCORES
2464 Kai & Summer, Paul
2463 Let’s Get Tropical, Daniel
2458 Next Man Up, Justin
2433 all star Bombers, Wayne
2425 Magic Matt, Wayne
2425 Still comin’, Trevor
OVERALL LEADERS
15,926 John’s Jets, John
15,909 BURST, brad
15,881 Big Boy McEvoy, Stephen
15,879 punisher74
15,876 Kung Fun Panda’s
THIS WEEK’S WINNING TEAM
Kai & Summer
Coach: Paul O’Connell
Score: 2464
DEFENDERS
Heath Shaw 102
Kade Simpson 122
Jimmy Bartel 113
Marcus Adams 77
Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti 86
Darcy Byrne-Jones 100
Michael Hartley 62
Nathan Broad 0
MIDFIELDERS
Patrick Dangerfield (c) 258
Luke Parker 89
Joel Selwood 132
Callan Ward 116
Gary Ablett 82
David Zaharakis 127
Scott Pendlebury 143
Tom Liberatore 99
Callum Mills 36
Josh Smith 49
Ryan Davis 0
RUCKS
Max Gawn 174
Nic Naitanui 101
Sam Grimley 0
FORWARDS
Aaron Hall 95
Dustin Martin 115
Daniel Wells 66
Sam Kerridge 82
Ben Kennedy 89
Mitch Brown 96
Tom Papley 85
Jonathan Simpkin 29
PLAYER OF THE WEEK: MAX GAWN
Gawn was the top-ranked player for the round after amassing 174 SuperCoach points against the Suns, a season-high haul and his second score about 170. He recorded 46 hitouts from 86 ruck contests attended, of which 21 went to the direct advantage of a teammate. He finished with 17 disposals, 13 contested possessions, six clearances and 2.3 from 86 per cent game time.
CHAMPION DATA MARKET WATCH
Patrick Cripps
Cripps enjoyed an $18,100 price rise after scoring a season-high 127 SuperCoach points against Collingwood. As always, it was his work in the clinches that shone, recording game-highs of 19 contested possessions and nine clearances to go with his 25 disposals. He didn’t hit the scoreboard with a goal, but did record two score assists.
Josh Kennedy
Kennedy was one of several Swans midfielders to dominate against Essendon, racking up a season-high 125 SuperCoach points. He finished with game-highs of 40 disposals, 16 contested possessions and 11 clearances, of which four were directly from centre bounces. He also had one score assist and was involved in 11 scoring chains.
YOUNG GUN: DARCY MACPHERSON
MacPherson was one of the Suns’ better performers in the heavy defeat to the Demons, finishing with 77 SuperCoach points in his AFL debut. He booted the opening goal of the game and finished with 10 disposals, nine tackles, four score involvements and one score assist from 78 per cent game time.
PERFECT 9
The jackpot is up to $60,000 this week after no one picked the top SuperCoach scorer in every game of Round 7. Two entrants picked five — a great effort considering just 17 people picked Anthony Miles to top-score on Friday night and 12 nominated Isaac Heeney against Essendon.
Get your entry in this week for a shot at the jackpot.
Richmond v Hawthorn
Anthony Miles 120
Collingwood v Carlton
Scott Pendlebury 143
Geelong v West Coast
Steven Motlop 155
Sydney v Essendon
Isaac Heeney 138
Gold Coast v Melbourne
Max Gawn 174
Western Bulldogs v Adelaide
Marcus Bontempelli 149
Fremantle v GWS Giants
Lachie Neale 124
St Kilda v North Melbourne
Nick Riewoldt 142
Port Adelaide v Brisbane Lions
Justin Westhoff 121
Originally published as SuperCoach 2016: Top scores, winning team from Round 7, 2016
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