NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 23 - Trade-a-palooza

Verbal Kint wrote:

Yeah, agree.

I've pretty much got three trades locked in (pending TLT). My 4th trade if used could be:

Musgrove to Lucy (or Isaako)
Walters to Turbo
Levi to DCE or Tedesco

Few names I haven't seen thrown around yet.

I think I'll be grabbing 2 Guns and 1-2 Cows.

Guns probably gonna be Turbo and Matto with Grant one of my cows.

Some of the stuff you guys come up with.. Read earlier Lil Papi off to accomodate Smith hahah cmon now

Predictions (probably not bold) off the top of my head
- Bateman not named in 17 at Raiders so no light shed on Horse's future
- Williams named ahead of Magoulis
- Latrell named at fullback
- Too many forwards at the Broncos to know what's happening
- Stephen Kearney to spoil our dreams of a rookie starter (other than Katoa)
- Yeo to lose minutes to Capewell
- At least one back we weren't expecting to get dropped get's dropped (Wiliame?)

Aardvark wrote:
- Latrell named at fullback
- Yeo to lose minutes to Capewell
- At least one back we weren't expecting to get dropped get's dropped (Wiliame?)

I think whoever said Latrell to 6 to cover Cody Walker is more likely to be on the money

TLT won't let us know Yeo/Capewell's minutes

Wiliame getting dropped would be a complete popcorn moment on this site as there are a tonne of people who are going to rely on him being named to field a team (I'm one of them, but would still enjoy the meltdown)

Aardvark wrote:Predictions (probably not bold) off the top of my head
- At least one back we weren't expecting to get dropped get's dropped (Wiliame?)

If Wiliame is dropped as well, I don't think I bother trying to restart, would leave me with just Crichton in centers.

Verbal Kint wrote:

Yeah, agree.

I've pretty much got three trades locked in (pending TLT). My 4th trade if used could be:

Musgrove to Lucy (or Isaako)
Walters to Turbo
Levi to DCE or Tedesco

For a second I thought those were your 3 locked in trades

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

For a second I thought those were your 3 locked in trades

Haha, I wish. That would be some war chest

Wiliame isn’t getting dropped, he earned his spot through a solid preseason and did nothing in the opening few rounds to warrant not getting picked, lafai is on the outer

mattnz wrote:
If Wiliame is dropped as well, I don't think I bother trying to restart, would leave me with just Crichton in centers.

Heaps of people will get mugged if Wiliame is dropped, or in a bunch of other scenarios, and you could still end up ahead of most of them with some good trades.

Milchcow wrote:

I think whoever said Latrell to 6 to cover Cody Walker is more likely to be on the money

TLT won't let us know Yeo/Capewell's minutes

Wiliame getting dropped would be a complete popcorn moment on this site as there are a tonne of people who are going to rely on him being named to field a team (I'm one of them, but would still enjoy the meltdown)

THAT WAS ME. IT WAS I, said the StormTrooper

Milchcow wrote:

I think whoever said Latrell to 6 to cover Cody Walker is more likely to be on the money

TLT won't let us know Yeo/Capewell's minutes

Wiliame getting dropped would be a complete popcorn moment on this site as there are a tonne of people who are going to rely on him being named to field a team (I'm one of them, but would still enjoy the meltdown)

I think Latrell is a good chance to play at 6 but Wiley old Wayne is a good chance to name him at fullback!

I just mentioned the Wiliame thing because my backline has been surprisingly undisturbed so I am going full dark funk mode

I'm also going to go with Walters named in the 17 (which I would love but is least likely to be true because despite his rep Reynolds is a better impact player)


Also surely the disappointing TLT bombshell and subsequent scramble is a big part of why this game is great!!!! (general comment not reply)

Even after TLT, expect late withdrawals for anyone that gets a cough, sore throat or runny nose. Going to be a difficult season. Dugan was stood down from training earlier this week for a sore throat.

I'm planning to make trades as late as possible over the weekend, so I don't get caught out adding a player that gets dropped last minute and cant reverse.

There is no way Latrell is named anywhere other than fullback. That's just how Bennett operates. The more the media say Latrell should be elsewhere the more stubborn Bennett will be about it.

I can't see Yeo not playing 80 mins. I expect JFH to be lock & Yeo 2fr to start the game & when Capewell comes on he'll spell JFH with Yeo moving to lock. Milchy posted this ages ago that 2fr's play big minutes you just don't swap a 2fr for a 2fr during the game.

my tv broke wrote:There is no way Latrell is named anywhere other than fullback. That's just how Bennett operates. The more the media say Latrell should be elsewhere the more stubborn Bennett will be about it.

And to be fair, he has the runs on the board

There were definitely a lot of loud voices about Lockyer being a failure at 5/8 back in the only days, that he should move back to fullback. He stuck with it, in the long run it worked. I feel the Mitchell switch will work with patience. I feel Ponga probably should’ve been given more than 3 games at 5/8 last year too.

White Lightning wrote:I can't see Yeo not playing 80 mins. I expect JFH to be lock & Yeo 2fr to start the game & when Capewell comes on he'll spell JFH with Yeo moving to lock. Milchy posted this ages ago that 2fr's play big minutes you just don't swap a 2fr for a 2fr during the game.

This is all true, I just want my prediction to also be true so i don't have consider Yeo as actually relevant after years of fantasy plodding

One of my internal rules is 'don't be tricked by Yeo'

Aardvark wrote:


This is all true, I just want my prediction to also be true so i don't have consider Yeo as actually relevant after years of fantasy plodding

One of my internal rules is 'don't be tricked by Yeo'

That was me with Manu Mau last year.. how can this old man about to go to super league suddenly be one of the best fantasy 2RFs going, clearly his teammate Nathan Brown is the one to get

Think I need to stop tinkering with my team until later today. Just put 4 trades together that ended with me having 8 blokes who can play Hooker.

White Lightning wrote:I can't see Yeo not playing 80 mins. I expect JFH to be lock & Yeo 2fr to start the game & when Capewell comes on he'll spell JFH with Yeo moving to lock. Milchy posted this ages ago that 2fr's play big minutes you just don't swap a 2fr for a 2fr during the game.

Yeo is only good value if getting 80 mins at lock. Capewell playing should mean he doesn't get that.

Can someone help me with match ups?

Shibasaki up against Naden? Or Whare?
Wiliame up against Hiku? Or Beale?

Thanks.