NRL Fantasy Part 74 - The Mods are Asleep Edition

Re Pangai, from Badel/Meyn at CM

"The Tongan international will have five days to respond to the breach notice, but unless he can provide a compelling counterargument, it appears Pangai Jr has played his last game for the Broncos."

"Broncos powerbrokers have had enough of Pangai Jr’s attitude – on and off the field – and discussed a zero-tolerance stance."

Apparently the CCTV shows Pangai presenting a Broncos jersey to someone at the barbershop.

Milchcow wrote:
Tangentially fantasy related. Yesterday mentioned to Robelgordo I have a dynasty team in NearlySport.

Today I have to make a decision on whether I want to keep Erin Clark or not into next year.
Do people think he will get any sort of decent role in 2021? or should I just cut him loose?

Assuming dynasty you can keep as many as possible.

With no real "rookie class" like NFL fantasy it's tough to bank on a future prospect where the likes of Clark wouldn't even be considered. We will certainly get some new rookies/change of role guys coming onto the scene so I'd probably let him go

broncos1718 wrote:Robson
Fotuaika Haas
carrigan lolo katoa
cleary moses
peachy talau
lomax ponga pap

hunt koro starling latrell
niu randall grant hetherington

290k in the bank with 8 trades left
thinking of going robson > tevaga and possibly katoa > mcinnes
not sure if i want to use 2 trades this week
any tips?

I like both these trades. Would you start Koro, with Tevaga and MC9 into 2RF? Lets you bench Carrigan to give you FRF cover.

Tommy_gun wrote:So I have 5 trades left (pre-trades) and almost 300k in the bank.

I want to upgrade Young and see 2 options:
Young > Tapau - gives me front row cover and 150k in the bank, but not that sold on Marty this year
Young > Fifita - Fifita higher ceiling however means that I am running with only 2 props and only 50k in bank

Cook
Hass Carrigan
Murray Yeo Lolo
Cleary Pearce
S.Crichton Talau
Teddy Pap Ponga
Hunt Tevaga Young Starling
Farnworth HTF Randall Wiliame

I still prefer Fifita even without the extra balance. With 4 trades left afterwards you should be okay.

TU: Robson to McInnes and keep Butcher (4 trades remaining)
TD: Robson to Cook and Butcher to Moses (3 trades remaining)

Will be mulling this over all day long

Welshy wrote:
Fui a likely trade in for me because I can keep Munster and play a decent 2RF option in his place for peanuts

This is exactly my reasoning for this, plus it removes a red dot from my reserves in Niu

Milchcow wrote:
Tangentially fantasy related. Yesterday mentioned to Robelgordo I have a dynasty team in NearlySport.

Today I have to make a decision on whether I want to keep Erin Clark or not into next year.
Do people think he will get any sort of decent role in 2021? or should I just cut him loose?

I think Titans are on track to a few good years. I reckon they will pick up a cheap 9 over the off the season. He doesn't strike me as the type of player the coach would see in his plans to get the Titans out of this slump. I think he is on the hunt for a decent 6/7 and a 9 over the off season.

Hookers who have an option for 2021:
Turpin has a player option for 2021 and 2022
Havili has a PO for 2021
Starling off contract
Levi off contract
Cameron Smith
McCullough
Watson
Roache
Cotter
Will Smith
Jake Friend
Mbye being shopped around (Tigers to pay 400K of his 800K contract too)


There are quite a few 9's off contract next year with no spot locked in yet.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Assuming dynasty you can keep as many as possible.

With no real "rookie class" like NFL fantasy it's tough to bank on a future prospect where the likes of Clark wouldn't even be considered. We will certainly get some new rookies/change of role guys coming onto the scene so I'd probably let him go

We can keep as many players each year as salary cap allows. I've had a good year so will be shedding a bunch of players in the off-season as they all jump in price.

But I am a chance at winning the comp will dump Clark and see if I can pick up a short term prospect just to try get some points over the next 2 months. Unless Peats goes down again Clark unlikely to do anything this year

I have 5 trades left & no trades for me this week. I'm going to loop Young & B. Sironen. My loop plan relies on Randall not playing so hopefully he's 1 of the 2 players cut from the 21 so it's clear he won't play.

Cook
Haas (c), J. Paulo
Taumalolo, Yeo, Carrigan
Cleary, DCE
S. Crichton, Talau
Tedesco, Ponga, Pappy

Mann, B. Hunt, Luai, Randall
B. Sironen, Young, HTF, Wiliame

Tommy_gun wrote:So I have 5 trades left (pre-trades) and almost 300k in the bank.

I want to upgrade Young and see 2 options:
Young > Tapau - gives me front row cover and 150k in the bank, but not that sold on Marty this year
Young > Fifita - Fifita higher ceiling however means that I am running with only 2 props and only 50k in bank

Cook
Hass Carrigan
Murray Yeo Lolo
Cleary Pearce
S.Crichton Talau
Teddy Pap Ponga
Hunt Tevaga Young Starling
Farnworth HTF Randall Wiliame

Tough one.

I do think the FRF cover would be the clincher for me. You are in a better position than most with 5 trades, but even then we still have a 3rd of the season to go.

Only problem is you need to make the trade before Manly final teams so would hope you’ve heard if Marty has passed HIA protocols prior. It was a decent knock. If he doesn’t play you end up with Herbie or Hammer in your 17 if I’m looking at your team right after Tevaga moves into the 13.

Gut feel is if ever Difi was going to go on a bad run of scores it’s now as well.

Extra 100k is nothing to sneeze at either.

Don't know if its been mentioned but Kane Evans to Warriors is official.

Yuck.

Milchcow wrote:

We can keep as many players each year as salary cap allows. I've had a good year so will be shedding a bunch of players in the off-season as they all jump in price.

But I am a chance at winning the comp will dump Clark and see if I can pick up a short term prospect just to try get some points over the next 2 months. Unless Peats goes down again Clark unlikely to do anything this year

Based on info provided, would say he's a cut.

my tv broke wrote:

Apparently the CCTV shows Pangai presenting a Broncos jersey to someone at the barbershop.

Why would you go out of your way to intentionally upset a room full of Bikies by disrespecting them like this...

filthridden wrote:Don't know if its been mentioned but Kane Evans to Warriors is official.

Yuck.

I like it in the regard that he's a big & tall & plays with a lot of aggression. This is what we need to dominate opposing packs. That's why I think Hetherington out will be a big loss because he brings that aggression & wants to dominate. None of our current props have that level of aggression.

standard-issue wrote:

Why would you go out of your way to intentionally upset a room full of Bikies by disrespecting them like this...

Ignoring positions - would you go for:

TU: Moses + Bateman
TD: Tevaga + Matterson (assuming he drops to around 750k)

robelgordo wrote:

I think he was legitimately dropped and won't come in.

All other players the Roosters have not played they've said it's precautionary due to coming off HIA (Teddy) or a niggle (JWH, B/J Moz), and they've been straight back in.

Why go through the effort of saying someone was dropped, then naming them in 21 the following week?

He's not Mary hey.


How are u brother!?

mrbrownstone wrote:Young -> CM9 locked in as my first trade. Leaves me with 6.

Tossing up a few variations for a second:

Siro -> Nikorima
HTF -> Cotric for boom/bust potential
Fog -> N Brown
Talau -> Fui to free up some cash
Niu/Randall -> Fui for depth
Pappy -> Brimson to free up some cash

Any of those worth doing, or just hold?

Team:

Spoiler:

Talau to Fui if I was to do any. Gives you a decent combination of coin and depth.

White Lightning wrote:

I like it in the regard that he's a big & tall & plays with a lot of aggression. This is what we need to dominate opposing packs. That's why I think Hetherington out will be a big loss because he brings that aggression & wants to dominate. None of our current props have that level of aggression.

Definitely agree with it from this perspective.

Don't agree with it from the point of his shadow boxing in the back of a team mates sex video and using a racial slur against Joey Vuna in the reserves not too long ago.
Just doesn't strike me as a good character. Then again if we really are looking at signing JDB apparently the club no longer gives a shit about the character of the player.

Does anyone have Lucy and Cook’s official BE’s?