If you’re like me and you were holding onto Chad, I hope (like me) that you also don’t own Drummond. Even though I was steadfast on holding Chad on last weeks video, I must admit some doubt starting creeping into my mind the more I thought about his return from injury last year.

Now don’t get me wrong, I would never trade just to cover 0′s. If I was getting particularly fragile in a position then I would look at it. The reason for all of this personal spiel is that I can picture a few teams eating donuts in their back line this week, or playing a couple too many rookies because you’ve had to bench injured guns.

fish Well, if you’re looking to rectify this I’d be strongly considering Sam Fisher. He’s well underpriced at $341K. Obviously to have dropped over $50K it’s fair to say his start to the season hasn’t been the best, but hasn’t been too bad. He’s had a couple of tons and three 90′s (including two 90′s in his past two games) but the important thing is that he started 2008 similarly before going bang in the second half of the year.

It was Round 14 where he started really picking up his pace and came home scoring five tons in his last nine games (that doesn’t count the three tons he scored from his three finals games). He’s not likely to pull down those monster scores considering he didn’t score 130+ last season and only two scores in the 120′s. What you do get from a Sam Fisher in form is fairly consistent scores in the 100-115 range.

Having held onto Cornes for a week, I know I’m starting to think that trading sideways to Fisher will be worth it. Sure, the extra trade would be nice, but five more weeks of a streaky rookie back will be very frustrating. Even if you don’t have Cornes and you’re just looking to upgrade one of those rookies to a keeper then you’ll struggle to find a cheaper option than Fisher. The only ones I’m seeing are the injury prone Ellis, old man with brittle job security Peter Burgoyne (yeah, I’ve got him), a couple of SuperCoach specialists with sketchy DT history in Gilbee and Newman and of course, Hodgey who I’ve written about previously. Fisher looks the safe option to me, because I see more risk with the others and just as much upside.

By the way, this article is also an attack on Toby, because he keeps winding me up about jinxing players, so I’ll keep writing about his Sainters (three and counting). Mind you, I don’t want to jinx them too much because after this week I’ll have all three of those guys, but if I’m going down I’ll take Toby’s premiership dreams with me.