NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 57 - Lead with your chin

my tv broke wrote:Storm CEO on radio yesterday - https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=831958

"he won't be playing for the next couple of weeks at least as he continues to recover. We'll take a really conservative and cautious approach with ryan. There's no point for us or for him in terms of welfare and health in rushing him back".

a bit contradictory to Ponissi comments yesterday, but he sounded pretty strong on the above.

StormTrooper96 wrote:He was always going to be missing R13 and we were always going to be holding him so he misses R12, Origin and back R14 well rested and ready to fire!

my tv broke wrote:

I wasn't. I was going to punt him and therefore missing 12 was the kicker to do it.

Storm CEO comments on Papy are a little more concerning than what Ponissi said, so its starting to become clear that Papy should go instead of a FIT crichton.

my tv broke wrote:

I wasn't. I was going to punt him and therefore missing 12 was the kicker to do it.

Storm CEO comments on Papy are a little more concerning than what Ponissi said, so its starting to become clear that Papy should go instead of a FIT crichton.

my tv broke wrote:

I wasn't. I was going to punt him and therefore missing 12 was the kicker to do it.

Storm CEO comments on Papy are a little more concerning than what Ponissi said, so its starting to become clear that Papy should go instead of a FIT crichton.

StormTrooper96 wrote:Regarding Crichton and those trading him out – he actually only misses 1 fantasy relevant game (if Roosters can prove he was going to be selected for Origin).

He was always going to be missing R13 and we were always going to be holding him so he misses R12, Origin and back R14 well rested and ready to fire!

Aardvark wrote:


What do you reckon happens with Lodge?? Surely, given recent form, he has to play next week with Haas at SOO unless the deal is already done......

Lemmy KGB wrote:

Punting Walker too?

my tv broke wrote:

Sounds like it was all but done aside from ironing out how much Broncos will chip in. I'd be surprised if Lodge is still with us for round 13 tbh, but the Broncos might hold him for that week? Doesn't really matter though, we aren't contending for anything.

my tv broke wrote:

Not sure..

Unlike MS, I don't actually have a plan.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

I was not planning to hold him before suspension. It has just brought forward his trade date 1 week

Milchcow wrote:

Looking at a previous post of yours, you have 17 trades left.

That means 4 guys in your team are guaranteed to be there for the rest of the year (Teddy is one, but there will be 3 others)

If you trade out Tommy + Cleary and get them back in again, that is 4 trades on 2 spots.

So you'd have 13 trades left for 15 spots, which means another 2 players currently in your squad (in addition to Teddy + 3 from earlier) are there for the rest of the season.

That also assumes that every trade you make is for someone that will stay in your team. If there is anyone else you trade in with the goal of trading out for cash, that means 1 more person you can't spend a trade on.

Do you know which 6 people you will be keeping in your team? And do you have a backup plan in case one of them gets a long term injury/suspension.

I'd make sure you can answer that question before trading out people you want in your final team

Injuries/suspensions have probably been worse this year than last year. Combine that with a lot of popular fantasy players getting dropped, and most people are going to run out of trades earlier than usual this year.
Try and make sure you at least have a good team when that happens.

my tv broke wrote:

I thikn the worst thing he did was break the nrl covid restrictions lol (ultimately, not that big of a deal..)

robelgordo wrote:

Yeah I thought most people would be looking to trade him out over Origin. Perhaps plans changed with additional trades used to deal with injuries/suspensions and field 17 week-to-week.

EDG has been a great scoring position - contrary to preseason expectations - and Crichton is far from essential IMO when there’s Fifi, Harris, Papalii/Matto/Leilua/TPJ (all R13 players), Friz, Murray, even Schuster could easily stay in your team all season. And Wade Graham.

my tv broke wrote:

Sounds like it was all but done aside from ironing out how much Broncos will chip in. I'd be surprised if Lodge is still with us for round 13 tbh, but the Broncos might hold him for that week? Doesn't really matter though, we aren't contending for anything.

Rhys Kennedy has a virus and didn't complete training today but Walters says he will be good to go tomorrow.