NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 41 - Didn't see that coming!

Dttragic2016 wrote:Ended up on 920. Rank 7385 now. I'm usually just reading on my phone so don't post often but throwing up my team here to see if there's any general advice pre team-lists?

Brailey
Crichton SST Offa
Fifita Schuster
Cleary Moses
Peachey Roberts
Oates Laurie Teddy

Watson Simpkin Kenny SWalker
Fuimano Papz Momirovski SOS

26 trades and $10k bank.

My current thinking is this team isn't amazing and rank is trash so just going to plan for the byes and try to make a big jump there. So unless there's a super obvious trade in, will be prioritising guys who play round 13.

My order of giving a shit about competitions is NRLF (purely just based on being on here for almost a decade haha), DT (started off really well there) and SC (literally only care cos 3 of my mates are doing it this season). So of course I'm doing the worst on NRLF ffs!

Probably going to have to sell Kenny, Koroisau was close last week so probably starts this week

White Lightning wrote:I've been listening to a lot of Stevie Ray Vaughan lately he's possibly the greatest guitarist ever or most certainly right up there with Hendrix.

More misplaced humor from WL.

easytiger wrote:

I'm glad I play fantasy football, if for no other reason than discovering the astounding greatness of Ducks eating peas

Thank you

This is what we all need in our lives right now. Rabs doesn't need to lose his shit in a world where this exists

Around 50 min for Carty, appears to have rediscovered mojo

Tbh I am really liking the look of my team atm have max traded every week but 1 and I'm looking pretty solid for first bye round if everyone stays fit and healthy not sure if I should be happy or not however

Brailey
Tohu watson crichton
Schuster fifita
Moses cleary
Hopoate Opacic
Ponga turbo Laurie

Macca Simpkin walker walsh
Sos leniu moylan roberts

290k itb
Rank 7000

I would rather not double trade this week. I like McGuire and Burns is interesting too but we will see

Nothing really clear cut for my team this week. 18K short on Turpin to Haas unfortunately but down to 24 trades so I can't afford to double trade again.

Turpin to Moses seems like a good shout though for 45K. Really wanted to keep Turpin for the long haul but Kev doesn't care about my fantasy team obviously.

Liddle on the bench is not a surprise but makes playing Simpkin a bit dodgy but probably no choice. What does that mean for MBye then? Backline move for him maybe? Could be good for Stefan maybe but can't risk playing him either.

If Simo is back I can take a look at his score before trading Ted. Not sure I want to trade him though.

wolfking wrote:Nothing really clear cut for my team this week.  18K short on Turpin to Haas unfortunately but down to 24 trades so I can't afford to double trade again.

Turpin to Moses seems like a good shout though for 45K.  Really wanted to keep Turpin for the long haul but Kev doesn't care about my fantasy team obviously.

Liddle on the bench is not a surprise but makes playing Simpkin a bit dodgy but probably no choice.  What does that mean for MBye then?  Backline move for him maybe?  Could be good for Stefan maybe but can't risk playing him either.

If Simo is back I can take a look at his score before trading Ted.  Not sure I want to trade him though.

Well that’s some admin for the week mate. 1 step at a time

Townsend to Moses potentially the most obvious trade for the season for me, other then that I am totally confused

Still don't really have a lot of mid-rangers that aren't making cash/scoring well so to make significant upgrade on SOS/Utoikamanu/Alvaro will require 2 trades

Getting the likes of Haas/Harris/IPap would require Teddy trade, whereas someone like Leilua could be done over 2 weeks without selling Teddy

Chris nz wrote:Brailey
Tohu watson crichton
Schuster fifita
Moses cleary
Hopoate Opacic
Ponga turbo Laurie

Macca Simpkin walker walsh
Sos leniu moylan roberts

290k itb
Rank 7000

Yeah you probably don't even have to trade unless a good cow/one you really want comes up. Although with that amount of cash you could use it on an upgrade. Moylan maybe. Two functioning, non-Roberts centres is a great start though

I know cash generation should still be priority but I find it hard to get on board with the suggestions like Walsh, CHN, Burns etc. They could be gone in a week. With the way it's heading, I think I'd rather punt on a left field pick that I know will at least hold a position. Taking stabs in the dark with cows and fill in players is going to start biting us on the ass. I'm not confident in any cow this week, they all don't feel right to me yet;

Walsh - If Warriors keep losing, is RTS really going to stay on the wing? I missed the second half so if he moved to the halves maybe that's an option, but he can wait a week.

CHN - Ricky Stuart

Burns - Why was Kerr moved to the bench? Seemed like he was somewhat finding his feet on the edge but I didn't pay attention to him last week. Is Bird at 6 permanent? Hook seems to be throwing a few things around too and wouldn't trust the rookies. Alvaro seems to have locked up a good chunk of minutes and Lawrie and Vaughn aren't going anywhere. Fui will get minutes too but even he's falling off the radar and he's been pretty good for them. What makes Burns the new shiny toy here? Again, certainly can wait a week.

Curran - He was one I was interested in as I think last year we all had him in our initial teams but he didn't start. He's looked pretty good and would have had a solid base score if it weren't for that crazy sin binning. Siro and Katoa are probably better value on the edge but if he's named there again, he'd be the one I'd be most confident in, although I'm still not confident, if that makes sense.

Verills - Interesting how many minutes he played, but he looked good when he come in. If Marshke drops out or even back to the bench, I think he's the winner here. Although with his score, when he starts, can still wait a week.

I feel this may be a week to plug holes, get 17 on the park and not make any rash trade decisions unless it's an upgrade to the likes of a Turpin or SOS. Teddy is a tricky one. Really don't know what to do there, but I hope he plays so I can keep him.

wolfking wrote:I know cash generation should still be priority but I find it hard to get on board with the suggestions like Walsh, CHN, Burns etc.  They could be gone in a week.  With the way it's heading, I think I'd rather punt on a left field pick that I know will at least hold a position.  Taking stabs in the dark with cows and fill in players is going to start biting us on the ass.  I'm not confident in any cow this week, they all don't feel right to me yet;

Walsh - If Warriors keep losing, is RTS really going to stay on the wing?  I missed the second half so if he moved to the halves maybe that's an option, but he can wait a week.

CHN - Ricky Stuart

Burns - Why was Kerr moved to the bench?  Seemed like he was somewhat finding his feet on the edge but I didn't pay attention to him last week.  Is Bird at 6 permanent?  Hook seems to be throwing a few things around too and wouldn't trust the rookies.  Alvaro seems to have locked up a good chunk of minutes and Lawrie and Vaughn aren't going anywhere.  Fui will get minutes too but even he's falling off the radar and he's been pretty good for them.  What makes Burns the new shiny toy here?  Again, certainly can wait a week.

Curran - He was one I was interested in as I think last year we all had him in our initial teams but he didn't start.  He's looked pretty good and would have had a solid base score if it weren't for that crazy sin binning. Siro and Katoa are probably better value on the edge but if he's named there again, he'd be the one I'd be most confident in, although I'm still not confident, if that makes sense.

Verills - Interesting how many minutes he played, but he looked good when he come in.  If Marshke drops out or even back to the bench, I think he's the winner here.  Although with his score, when he starts, can still wait a week.

I feel this may be a week to plug holes, get 17 on the park and not make any rash trade decisions unless it's an upgrade to the likes of a Turpin or SOS.  Teddy is a tricky one.  Really don't know what to do there, but I hope he plays so I can keep him.

I do agree with you on all this, and if I didn't already have Verrills, it'd be an easy trade to buy him this week.

In my case, I'm 4k short of going Uto to Ponga (have 378k in the bank) and am planning to sell Niu to someone at 357k or less to raise the money.

if Teddy is out, I have to trade to have three WFBs, and I figure I may as well get Ponga in now before he runs off into the stratosphere.

If Curran can get off his charge (idk whether he's taken the plea), I think I'll pick him but otherwise I'm kind of stuck between Burns, CHN and Walsh

Bethany_B wrote:

I do agree with you on all this, and if I didn't already have Verrills, it'd be an easy trade to buy him this week.

In my case, I'm 4k short of going Uto to Ponga (have 378k in the bank) and am planning to sell Niu to someone at 357k or less to raise the money.

if Teddy is out, I have to trade to have three WFBs, and I figure I may as well get Ponga in now before he runs off into the stratosphere.

If Curran can get off his charge (idk whether he's taken the plea), I think I'll pick him but otherwise I'm kind of stuck between Burns, CHN and Walsh

Not if he's on the bench again it wouldn't be. You better hope he begins starting soon.

wolfking wrote:

Not if he's on the bench again it wouldn't be.  You better hope he begins starting soon.

Considering how much of a handbrake Marschke is on their attack, I highly doubt Verrills will still be on the bench in 2 weeks time.

I’m going to try not to trade pending TLT, although I do have just enough to go LAM to Edwards.

My team

Brailey
Welch Watson Haas
Fifita Schuster
Cleary Moses
Opacic Bird
Teddy Laurie Hampton

Angus Croker Walker LAM
Isaako Simpkin SOS Simonnson

25 trades $114K ITB

Papadontbleach wrote:I’m going to try not to trade pending TLT, although I do have just enough to go LAM to Edwards.

My team

Brailey
Welch Watson Haas
Fifita Schuster
Cleary Moses
Opacic Bird
Teddy Laurie Hampton

Angus Croker Walker LAM
Isaako Simpkin SOS Simonnson

25 trades $114K ITB

Trade SOS first if he's out again tomorrow.

SOS, Bsmith, Turpin to deal with. Hopefully no additional carnage tomorrow. Hoping teddy plays. 570k itb.

Jeez, 655K for Ted now with a BE of 102. Comes down to if you are going to keep him over Origin. If you weren't, probably pull the pin now, especially if he's out this week.

Papadontbleach wrote:I’m going to try not to trade pending TLT, although I do have just enough to go LAM to Edwards.

My team

Brailey
Welch Watson Haas
Fifita Schuster
Cleary Moses
Opacic Bird
Teddy Laurie Hampton

Angus Croker Walker LAM
Isaako Simpkin SOS Simonnson

25 trades $114K ITB

What are you expecting from Edwards?