Week 3 team

Team after trades:

Brailey
Alvaro Watson Leniu
Fifita Riki
Cleary Lam
Bird Roberts
Teddy Papy Laurie

Turpin Liddle Crichton Schuster
Hoy Utoikamanu Averillo Niu

Few decisions to make:

- Captain without Cleary - if we choose Crichton, then we'll have to work out whether he's better slotting in at MID or EDG (probably EDG given the additional coverage we have at MID and the chance that Riki might not play?)
- starting MID lineup (I'm assuming Watson, and Alvaro given Dragons play early)
- new HLF to replace Cleary
- new WFB to replace Papy
- who to leave out of the 17 (pick two).  With Cleary and Papy out, we only have 19 players to choose from.  And with a few different combos to consider, its probably easiest to vote on the bottom two players rather than 16th and 17th man.

If anyone is a master of the dark art, and can see an optimal way of lining the team up, feel free to post below.

Any case for leaving Bird/Roberts out ahead of Niu/Averillo??

(I voted leaving Niu/Averillo out because of them being remaining 2 options, but something to consider if people agree)

Yeah sorry, i was turning myself inside/out with the various options and ran out of space. But happy to run another quick poll on CTRs later today if it becomes clear that Niu is not going to get the WFB gig ahead of Hoy.

Anyone got any ideas about best way to set up the team. At the moment, team is lining up as follows:

Brailey
Alvaro Watson Leniu
Fifita Crichton (c)
Schuster Lam
Bird Roberts
Teddy Hoy Laurie

Turpin Liddle Riki Cleary
Papy Niu Utoikamanu Averillo

Start Papy and loop between Niu and Hoy? Or start Cleary and Loop Lam and Averillo?

Can't loop both

how would the Niu/Hoy loop work?

Papy as starter

18. Hoy
19. Niu
20. Stefano

Swap Stefano/Hoy if Niu goes really well.

Alternatively Cleary as starter

18. Niu
19. Lam
20. Averillo

If Lam sucks we can swap Niu with Hoy or Averillo

got it thanks. Am thinking the WFB option is better...

Its a bit tough actually. because I just noticed Cleary is currently 17th man, so we'd have to commit to a crappy 17th man

Might be easier to just drop Averillo and Stefano out of the 17 and run with the other 17 players

that's true and what we've got anyway, as per the poll. Stefano is 20th and Averillo is 21st. if Niu goes off, we still get his score coming in as 17th man. So all we would be doing is replacing Hoy for Stefano.