NRL Fantasy 2019 Part 62

Chewie wrote:
Any particular reason why he started at Lock over Liu?

Liu went to prop to cover for JWH

Just a thought on all these international players being 'ruled out' of their international fixtures. It seems more like the clubs have gone "Hey mate, we really need you for the run home and can't risk you getting injured. We are going to have to sit you out of the international game".

Jennings (ruled out) - Eels. Possibly top 8 finish. Jennings a key player for them.
Mo Fo (ruled out) - Titans. No arrow, Wallace backing up. Need a big enforcer there.
Mansour (ruled out) - Panthers. Picking up some wins and will need to stay away from injury for the run home.

Seems more like their clubs are making up these 'injuries that need to be rested' rather than them actually not being able to play.

In other news: Here are expected/possible returns for players in R15
C.Horsburgh
J.Hodgson
J.Cogger
A.Woods
J.Brailey
P.Sami
L.Croker
T.Hodkinson
A.Guerra (Played C-Cup last week)
M.Scott
J.McLean
B.Burns (Rabbitohs Doctor said he will be training with the full squad next week and fit and firing after the rep round)
L.Lam
B.Morris
N.Roache

Other Notables are:
D.Brown is expected to play
N.McDonald is expected to be back in 5-6 weeks according to reports from the game on Friday.
A.Reynolds - Hope for him is that he will be training with the boys next week while he goes through some rehab in the gym this week (week off)

I'll definitely be trying to hold trades next week if I can get 17 players somehow, even with 11 trades, especially since destroying 2 last week. 16 going to be tough and 17 will be carnage once again. Current team is standing as;

Cook
Fifi Haas
Murray Tolo Bateman
Morgan Ponga
Xerri Nikora
RTS Teddy Sivo

Taupau MC9 Mahoney Havilli

CNK Lomax Dearden Brittain

11 trades and 28K. Havilli a problem but if Fifi can get off and Haas is right then should be able to field 17. Happy to look for 3 more players to finish keeper status (spots occupied by Xerri, Sivo and Havilli). Smith really the only one I want for 17 however but could do some sideways trades. Probably have to go SJ and one other mid tier gun to finish things off though.

surmo13 wrote:

Liu went to prop to cover for JWH

Tetevano was the guy named at prop to cover JWH. He bumped back to the bench in a reshuffle with Liu to prop.

StormTrooper96 wrote:

Jennings (ruled out) - Eels. Possibly top 8 finish. Jennings a key player for them.
Mo Fo (ruled out) - Titans. No arrow, Wallace backing up. Need a big enforcer there.
Mansour (ruled out) - Panthers. Picking up some wins and will need to stay away from injury for the run home.

Seems more like their clubs are making up these 'injuries that need to be rested' rather than them actually not being able to play.

MoFo has been playing the past few weeks with a broken wrist. Understandable if the Titans want to rest him from extra games

wolfking wrote:I'll definitely be trying to hold trades next week if I can get 17 players somehow, even with 11 trades, especially since destroying 2 last week.  16 going to be tough and 17 will be carnage once again.  Current team is standing as;

Cook
Fifi Haas
Murray Tolo Bateman
Morgan Ponga
Xerri Nikora
RTS Teddy Sivo

Taupau MC9 Mahoney Havilli

CNK Lomax Dearden Brittain

11 trades and 28K.  Havilli a problem but if Fifi can get off and Haas is right then should be able to field 17.  Happy to look for 3 more players to finish keeper status (spots occupied by Xerri, Sivo and Havilli).  Smith really the only one I want for 17 however but could do some sideways trades.  Probably have to go SJ and one other mid tier gun to finish things off though.

Yeah I think (if Watson keeps the 9) he will be a final 17 player and I think Xerri and possibly even Martin may find themselves in my final 17 also pending on prices of others. SJ/Brown/Burns/Lodge/Twal/Wighton are definitely mid-3/4 tier guns I am looking at. Lodge 4 game avg is 53, would be good if he keeps it up.

Milchy wrote:

MoFo has been playing the past few weeks with a broken wrist. Understandable if the Titans want to rest him from extra games

Actually I do remember this! My bad.

Worth brining SJ in before round 15 or before round 16?
Like Before  RD 16.
Dislike Before RD 15.

I had so many players lose a chunk of cash. Most are keepers but players like CNK losing 42k really hurts.

Dropped from 103rd two weeks ago to 284th currently. My current team with 10 trades and 50k ITB:

Cook
Fifita, Haas
Murray, Taumalolo, Taupau
Pearce, Milford
Xerri, Nikora
Tedesco, Ponga, RTS

Bateman, Mahoney, Martin, Farah
Havili, CNK, Garrick, Hutchison

CNK really needs to go and I don't want to cop another huge price drop. The only problem here is they play the Eels and he could go big. Might see what I can get going CNK and Havili to cheapie and someone like Crichton.

churg wrote:Worth brining SJ in before round 15 or before round 16?
Like Before  RD 16.
Dislike Before RD 15.

I'd definitely wait and see how he plays next game. He was rusty last week. He will drop a lot of cash again probably too.

StormTrooper96 wrote:

Yeah I think (if Watson keeps the 9) he will be a final 17 player and I think Xerri and possibly even Martin may find themselves in my final 17 also pending on prices of others. SJ/Brown/Burns/Lodge/Twal/Wighton are definitely mid-3/4 tier guns I am looking at. Lodge 4 game avg is 53, would be good if he keeps it up.

Levi at 9 and Watson at 6 is better than Watson at 9 and Mann at 6. Watson is a ball runner, you don't want him making 50 tackles a game.

Is Dylan Brown expected to slot straight into the No 6,or they might ease him ito it you think ?

churg wrote:Worth brining SJ in before round 15 or before round 16?
Like Before  RD 16.
Dislike Before RD 15.

With a BE of 81 he will more than likely lose money, unless his name is Tom.T. A game against the Bulldogs could play him back into form.

MilfordTheMagician wrote:

I'd definitely wait and see how he plays next game. He was rusty last week. He will drop a lot of cash again probably too.

Yea that's what I was thinking mate, just wanted to see what everyone else thought.

filthridden wrote:Team as it stands:

Cook
Fifita, Haas
Taumalolo, Murray, Taupau
Cleary, Pearce
Bateman, Nikora
Tedesco, Ponga, RTS

Smith, McInnes, Tauk, Martin

Xerri, Maranta, Dearden, Brittain

7 trades left. Will make 3 of my 4 trades in round 16 and otherwise will just be bringing in a keeper for Martin/Xerri at some stage.

Now the carnage really begins.

Haha, love the Maranta sizing!

Khany wrote:Is Dylan Brown expected to slot straight into the No 6,or they might ease him ito it you think ?

The last 12 weeks they have been chopping and changing the 6 between W.Smith and J.Salmon and have a chunk of losses in between. D.Brown was always the starting 6 from the start of the year. If he is 100% don't see why he wouldn't go straight back in.

StormTrooper96 wrote:

With a BE of 81 he will more than likely lose money, unless his name is Tom.T. A game against the Bulldogs could play him back into form.

He'll be a good buy if he starts firing. Yeah, I'd give it a week and hopefully his value will drop a bit.

Khany wrote:Is Dylan Brown expected to slot straight into the No 6,or they might ease him ito it you think ?

He is way better than Smith and Salmon. Salmon only played well on the weekend because he was up against a bunch of reserve graders.

Spuddies wrote:

He'll be a good buy if he starts firing. Yeah, I'd give it a week and hopefully his value will drop a bit.

Yeah he will likely lose another chunk even if he scores 50 points. Then will have the Broncos in R16 who will likely be missing Oates, Gillett, maybe Ofa, maybe Haas, maybe Fifita.

Does anyone fancy doing some number crunching to help me out (please)?

I need $2.7m from these players:
* Martin and Havili in r16
* CNK & Xerri in r17
* Mahoney in r18

I think I'm short but just wanted another set of eyes. My spreadsheet is a bit generous with averages/price rises. I expect these plans will be dead as soon as round 15 starts anyway...

Thx