NRL Fantasy Part 76

Dragons are challenging the grading of Fui's charge, if successful he is available for another 60 min vs broncos.

Bethany_B wrote:What would you guys do with my team? 3 trades, 34k ITB, rank 1744 and falling fast

Tevaga
Haas, Fotuaika
Fifita, Lolo, Yeo
Cleary, Wighton
Lomax, Crichton
Ponga, Teddy, Papy

Carrigan, Mann, Talau, HTF

Randall, Averillo, Munster, Niu

If Haas is cleared - leave as is.
If Haas misses one week - trade Randall/Niu for the cheapest player who can fill in your 17 for the week
If Haas misses two weeks - ???
If Haas missed three weeks - a) sell Haas for a gun of any position, play Carrigan FRF and run with no FRF cover, b) bring in a FRF gun, preferably DPP (JFH, McGuire)

Bethany_B wrote:What would you guys do with my team? 3 trades, 34k ITB, rank 1744 and falling fast

Tevaga
Haas, Fotuaika
Fifita, Lolo, Yeo
Cleary, Wighton
Lomax, Crichton
Ponga, Teddy, Papy

Carrigan, Mann, Talau, HTF

Randall, Averillo, Munster, Niu

Thats quite a sticky situation you've got yourself in there...

Khany wrote:Dragons are challenging the grading of Fui's charge, if successful he is available for another 60 min vs broncos.

Godspeed Fui.

Mulvy wrote:

Nah feel like I'm treading water. I feel like I've got a competitive 17 if they are all on the park, but they haven't been and I think it's unlikely that they will, so I expect to keep treading best case scenario or flame out completely worst case. How about you mate?

It's so frustrating to be hit by injuries, I remember being in the top 100 last season, then I copped 2 rounds of injuries and never recovered. ran out of trades near the end and dropped ranks.
This season has been pretty good so far, after round 4 I hung around the 900-1100 ranks for 5 rounds, then my 1000+ run started.
round 09 score: 1044 - rank 524
round 10 score: 1089 - rank 255
round 11 score: 1023 - rank 280
round 12 score: 1016 - rank 345
round 13 score: 1101 - rank 118
round 14 score: 1014 - rank 102

I've got a competitive 16 with 17 & 18 being a bit boom/bust players
fingers crossed for the next 6 rounds

filthridden wrote:

If Haas is cleared - leave as is.
If Haas misses one week - trade Randall/Niu for the cheapest player who can fill in your 17 for the week
If Haas misses two weeks - ???
If Haas missed three weeks - a) sell Haas for a gun of any position, play Carrigan FRF and run with no FRF cover, b) bring in a FRF gun, preferably DPP (JFH, McGuire)

That sounds like my plan. Would be selling Randall to Hampton (literally base price, and both play the last game so I can see what happens there, if Asi gets back in then I can get him instead, otherwise I can go for To'a as a backup plan)

Cook
Haas Carrigan
Yeo Bateman Matterson
BHunt Cleary
Fuimaono Crichton
Ponga Papa Teddy

NBrown Tevaga Starling Farnworth
Grant Aubs HTF ODonnell

What would you do with my mess ? 2 trades left. Hoping Ricky sees the light and plays Starling for 80. Grants needs to go surely, but who for..

Revraiser wrote:

No no mate all G, not me. Just everytime i see it, I can't believe u have survived this long. Plus its a shame ur downvote cant be taken away.

It's only been a day and I can assure you it hasn't gone unnoticed.

This is what I'm rolling with pre-trades

5 trades 33k. 1795 rank.

CM9
Haas Taupau
Lolo Jurbo Tevaga
DCE Moses
Lomax Mitchell
Teddy Ponga Pap

Carrigan Fogarty Munster Fui

Sironen Talau HTF Randall

If Haas, Taupau, Munster, Fui, and Siro are all out I'm in big trouble. Need good news on a couple of them.

Would like to go Siro + Talau to Barnett + 212k (Hampton?) if Taupau and Munster are fit and Haas is hold-able. A lot of ifs.

SaveTheCheerleader wrote:Cook
Haas Carrigan
Yeo Bateman Matterson
BHunt Cleary
Fuimaono Crichton
Ponga Papa Teddy

NBrown Tevaga Starling Farnworth
Grant Aubs HTF ODonnell

What would you do with my mess ? 2 trades left. Hoping Ricky sees the light and plays Starling for 80. Grants needs to go surely, but who for..

You have no FRF cover and Haas is likely suspended, I would sell Grant to someone in that position. Your best bet is probably Papalii or Klemmer, but both have low scores in them. Other options include McGuire and JFH, but there really isn't much else there (though if Twal is back, you could buy him, that said he's a big injury risk even if he is back this week)

Chewie wrote:

It's so frustrating to be hit by injuries, I remember being in the top 100 last season, then I copped 2 rounds of injuries and never recovered. ran out of trades near the end and dropped ranks.
This season has been pretty good so far, after round 4 I hung around the 900-1100 ranks for 5 rounds, then my 1000+ run started.
round 09 score: 1044 - rank 524
round 10 score: 1089 - rank 255
round 11 score: 1023 - rank 280
round 12 score: 1016 - rank 345
round 13 score: 1101 - rank 118
round 14 score: 1014 - rank 102

I've got a competitive 16 with 17 & 18 being a bit boom/bust players
fingers crossed for the next 6 rounds

You're flying mate, good luck for the run home.

Yeah I think my chance of a high finish basically ended in round 9-10. In round 9 Mann and Leilua to Angus and Wakeham were disastrous trades. I remember thinking at the time though, I've been luckier with injuries and wanted to keep pushing hard or go down in flames trying. These bad trades were then compounded the following week when I lost Koro, Angus, Coates, Niu to long term injuries in the one round ("long term" in quotes for Koro). Since then Matterson's been a pain in the arse, but my problems began before that. Still got a chance of a top 100 finish though which I've never done so I'll keep pushing.

Understand that @storm skipper Cam Smith has only trained away from main group and is slated to do the same all week - comeback far more likely in round 16. Jahrome Hughes also unlikely v Parra. Club also plan to contest Jesse Bromwich's 'hip drop tackle' at judiciary
https://twitter.com/dan_walsh64/status/1295213038312669184?s=19

Who is Melbourne even going to play at Halves? Maybe Paps and move play Nicho at FB. Who else?

JSJSJSJ wrote:Who is Melbourne even going to play at Halves? Maybe Paps and move play Nicho at FB. Who else?

Cooper Johns.

JSJSJSJ wrote:Who is Melbourne even going to play at Halves? Maybe Paps and move play Nicho at FB. Who else?

Jacks HB and Hynes 5/8 would be my guess.

JSJSJSJ wrote:Who is Melbourne even going to play at Halves? Maybe Paps and move play Nicho at FB. Who else?

Assuming all of Munster, Hughes and CS9 are out, I can see 2 options.

A: Hynes 6, Jacks 7 (Hynes is a better ball player than Papy and was a half in lower grades)

B: Jacks 6, Johns 7 (If there's ever a time for Cooper Johns to debut, it's now)

Haas + Munster could get me Twal + Cook. Might have to seriously consider that if they're both out for another 2 weeks.

What happened to Sironen? Haven’t seen anything from NRL Physio. Can’t take a trick with cheapies this season.

1023 on the weekend and down to 72nd... only 99 pts from first place in Storm league. Young > Fifita worked well and Niu>Cotric was a gamble that really worked out. Twal and Smith would be massive inclusions to my team this week. Lucy scoring 69 with no tries really has me thinking if he is a hold. Butcher > Teddy in 1 trade looks the goods this week. Contemplating Lucy > Matterson as my other trade for my final team.
CS9
Haas Twal
Matto Lolo Fifita
DCE Cleary
Lomax Scrichton
Teddy Ponga Papy
Koro Carrigan Moses Randall
Sironen Cotric HTF Herbie

2 trades left... let’s go!!!

mrbrownstone wrote:Haas + Munster could get me Twal + Cook. Might have to seriously consider that if they're both out for another 2 weeks.

Hmm considering some similar trade outs