Bramble Averaged 68.5 This Season. He Also Scored 27 in a Two-Point Thriller.
Lachlan Bramble's 68.5 season average is being carried by one 88 in a 66-point blowout loss. He's gone missing three times in 2026, including a 27 in last week's two-point thriller. The registry verdict is avoid.
Bramble Averaged 68.5 This Season. He Also Scored 27 in a Two-Point Thriller.
The 68.5 average is real. So is the pattern running underneath it. One of those numbers is doing all the hiding.
Lachlan Bramble sits at $311k-ish with a 68.5 season average and a 46 BE. On your SC tracker he looks fine — price isn't cratering, he clears the BE most weeks, nothing obvious screams "act now."
Except when you pull the full tape.
The Three Games the 68.5 Is Hiding
R0 and R1 were solid — 71 and 57, comfortably tracking above his 53 BE. Then R3: dropped from the 22 entirely. First omission, first red flag.
He returned in R5 with 58 (cleared the BE, cash gen still going backwards). R6 brought a 33 in a 75-point Geelong hammering — you can write that one off to team context. Then R7: 88 points in a 66-point loss to Sydney. His team scraped 60 total; Bramble posted 88 in a game that was already gone.
That 88 is what's holding the 68.5 average together.
R8: 68. Two consecutive BE clears. Looked like he'd genuinely turned the corner.
R9: 27 in a two-point thriller that Western Bulldogs won. Tight game. Ball available. Seven disposals.
No Context Excuse
The R9 registry verdict landed one phrase you won't see on your score app: "there is no context excuse here."
A 33 in a 75-point blowout? Forgivable — everyone has those. An R3 omission? Structural reset, fine. But 27 in a two-point thriller — a game Western Bulldogs won, with the ball up for grabs — that's the reading you can't explain away.
Three vanishing acts in nine available rounds. Two of them with no excuse available.
What to Do With Him Before R11
Cash gen has been negative since R5. At $311k he's losing value every week while that 68.5 average makes him look safe in the weekly tracker.
The coaches still holding are anchored to the R7 88 — the one score that made the season average look respectable. R9 answered whether that was a new ceiling or a good day in a lost cause.
The registry call after R9 is avoid — not "watch one more week," not "give him the R11 test." Your DEF corps almost certainly has better options at $300k-ish. The R11 trade window is the exit point.
Updated: 18 May 2026. Data sourced from RookieBible intel registry.
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