Daicos Owners Split 55/45 on Trade Timing. Two Rounds Later He's $118k Off His Peak and the Registry Said Captain Him at Confidence 9.
Round 11's Daicos trade-in debate was 55/45. Two rounds later, the price dropped to $520k and he posted 111 — here's how both sides of that call actually played out.
Daicos Owners Split 55/45 on Trade Timing. Two Rounds Later He's $118k Off His Peak and the Registry Said Captain Him at Confidence 9.
Half the room wanted him in immediately. The other half wanted to wait for "$500k-ish." He landed at $520k — the round before a 111.
Nick Daicos was the round 11 trade debate. Bring him in now while he's still a M1/M2 at a discount, or hold trades and wait for the price to keep sliding? Two rounds on, the registry has resolved it for both camps.
The 55/45 Split
The question that got the thread going: is now the right time to trade in Nick Daicos, or wait another week for a lower price?
55% said get him on the park immediately — swap out a cash-gen rookie for a genuine premo. Even if the price drops a little further, the on-field production gap is the bigger number.
45% said hold trades. Daicos was "still falling" and "$500K is an elite entry point" — worth one more week to buy at the bottom.
What the Registry Was Seeing
Go back to R9, the round right before this debate started. Daicos had just posted 67 — 16 points under his 83 BE — while carrying a knock through the Collingwood-Geelong game. Price: $567.1k, down from a season-high $638.2k in R3. The verdict was hold, don't captain, wait for Thursday team news. Cash gen "losing," job security still "strong," but the injury flag was live and confidence sat at 7.
That's the version of Daicos this debate was actually about — a few weeks removed from his best footy, price sliding, and a question mark over his body.
What Happened Next
R12: 111 in a 4-point loss to the Bulldogs — 35 clear of a freshly-lowered 76 BE. Price had fallen to $520.2k. The registry's read: "the R9 injury blip is behind him… hold with conviction." Confidence jumped from 7 to 9, and he's captain-viable again — the first time the registry's said that since Round 6.
Who Actually Called It
The "wait for $500k-ish" camp got close to exactly what they asked for — $520.2k is about as near to that number as this debate was ever going to land without an injury blowing the whole thing up. The "get him in now" camp weren't wrong either: even at 67, Daicos clearing his BE by double digits in a down week is still elite-MID-adjacent output.
But neither side priced in the actual outcome — the price kept falling and the bounce-back arrived in the same round. Whoever held the trade got Daicos $47k cheaper than the R9 entry point, the round before he put up 111.
Where This Leaves You at R13
Daicos sits at $520.2k, $118k off his season peak, hold-with-conviction, confidence 9, captain-viable. The price argument that had 45% of the room waiting has basically played out. The production argument that had the other 55% jumping early just got its best evidence of the season. If you're still sitting on this trade, the registry isn't hedging anymore — this is a hold, and it's a captain option again.
Updated: June 2026. Data sourced from RookieBible intel registry.
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