NRL Fantasy 2022 Part 16 - That's a Starling Choice

Community team trades poll

https://www.nrlfantasyfanatics.com/t1903-round-3-trades#584668

mrbrownstone wrote:Thoughts on the following:

a) Lolo + Vailea -> Starling and May/Thompson + ~200-250k Cleary bank. Means playing 2 of Bullemor, Coates, Ilias and May/Thompson this week

b) Bullemor + Russell -> Starling & Thompson + 2k. Less Cleary bank (plan would be Mahoney + Lolo -> Cleary + cheapie next week) but a stronger team for this week.

Probably leaning A at this point.

I am looking at option A with Thompson

wait, so starling doesnt have a bench hooker? well then. come on down crap player big fantasy score small man.

main issue with my trade ideas (lolo out) is how thin it will leave me at mid if any of the risky cows start to fade early (king's.. and bully....)

my tv broke wrote:wait, so starling doesnt have a bench hooker? well then. come on down crap player big fantasy score small man.

Frawley will probably spell him 15-20mins

Ramitinmyhaaas wrote:

MS who do you like better out of Yeo & Curran? h2h team so byes and origin don't matter, having difficulties splitting the two

I'm not MS, but some thoughts. As a H2H player you are bringing in a keeper. It is not especially important what those players score in the next 5 weeks but very important what the get during H2H finals.

Part of the interest in Yeo is that with a few big guns out he is playing high minutes and people expect that to happen for the next 3- weeks. I expect this to dial back later in the year, especially if Panthers well inside the top 8. But you know he'll be there.

Curran also has risk that he'll be great until Tohu returns. Then what? None of us really know. Plenty seem to be assuming he'll grab one of the edge spots. Maybe. Maybe not. If he ends up coming from the bench after Tohu returns he will have been the wrong bet.

Sorry - I reckon I just added confusion for you.

mrbrownstone wrote:Thoughts on the following:

a) Lolo + Vailea -> Starling and May/Thompson + ~200-250k Cleary bank. Means playing 2 of Bullemor, Coates, Ilias and May/Thompson this week

b) Bullemor + Russell -> Starling & Thompson + 2k. Less Cleary bank (plan would be Mahoney + Lolo -> Cleary + cheapie next week) but a stronger team for this week.

Probably leaning A at this point.

I lean toward B.

The cash tied up in Mahoney and Lolo will still be there (mostly) when you decide to bring in Cleary. If Cleary puts up a poor first score, or gets Covid or something else happens, you may want to wait a couple of weeks on Cleary, and I know I'd rather be playing Mahoney and Lolo in the interim, who are both capable of banners on their day despite recent form.

Loomer wrote:

Frawley will probably spell him 15-20mins

Out of 11 games at starting hooker Starling has only played less than 70 minutes twice, both those times he either had Hodgson or Havili on the bench...

Jumping Marlin wrote:

I'm not MS, but some thoughts.  As a H2H player you are bringing in a keeper.   It is not especially important what those players score in the next 5 weeks but very important what the get during H2H finals.  

Part of the interest in Yeo is that with a  few big guns out he is playing high minutes and people expect that to happen for the next 3- weeks.  I expect this to dial back later in the year, especially if Panthers well inside the top 8.  But you know he'll be there.

Curran also has risk that he'll be great until Tohu returns.  Then what?  None of us really know.  Plenty seem to be assuming he'll grab one of the edge spots.  Maybe.  Maybe not.  If he ends up coming from the bench after Tohu returns he will have been the wrong bet.

Sorry - I reckon I just added confusion for you.

Agree, if you are bringing in a keeper, you want one that has an improved role for the season, not a few weeks.

I have decided to bite the bullet and trade Cleary in this week seeing as I had aside some $ already, if I am going to offload ACri anyway.

I'll keep 1 eye on Starling and grab him next week if he plays good minutes and scores 48+

plus I want to give all my potential spuds 1 more week, because I traded some too early last year.

Jumping Marlin wrote:

I'm not MS, but some thoughts.  As a H2H player you are bringing in a keeper.   It is not especially important what those players score in the next 5 weeks but very important what the get during H2H finals.  

Part of the interest in Yeo is that with a  few big guns out he is playing high minutes and people expect that to happen for the next 3- weeks.  I expect this to dial back later in the year, especially if Panthers well inside the top 8.  But you know he'll be there.

Curran also has risk that he'll be great until Tohu returns.  Then what?  None of us really know.  Plenty seem to be assuming he'll grab one of the edge spots.  Maybe.  Maybe not.  If he ends up coming from the bench after Tohu returns he will have been the wrong bet.

Sorry - I reckon I just added confusion for you.

Hahaha nah thanks mate appreciate any input to my questions!

Think I'm leaning towards Curran, I've got faith he will go back to an edge role when Tohu returns where in 2021 he scored pretty well from what I've researched. DPP massive advantage too!

Who takes Hastings spot for the next few weeks?

Probably irrelevant but just asking

my tv broke wrote:wait, so starling doesnt have a bench hooker? well then. come on down crap player big fantasy score small man.

main issue with my trade ideas (lolo out) is how thin it will leave me at mid if any of the risky cows start to fade early (king's.. and bully....)

If the game is close and on the line Starling will play big mins.

Thoughts on Bullemor to Starling and Tuilagi to Thompson? Leaves me short on edges though. I’d have 171k spare after those trades.

My main concern is how I’ll have enough to get Cleary and I just am not able to currently.

Ramitinmyhaaas wrote:

Hahaha nah thanks mate appreciate any input to my questions!

Think I'm leaning towards Curran, I've got faith he will go back to an edge role when Tohu returns where in 2021 he scored pretty well from what I've researched. DPP massive advantage too!

I think Curran has been playing extra minutes with players exiting the game. Lodge only got 1 stint of 20 minutes. All the other MIDs looked to have got normal minutes, Curran looks to have played more because of it. When Lodge is getting 50 minutes, not sure what Curran will be getting.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Who takes Hastings spot for the next few weeks?

Probably irrelevant but just asking

Some poor bastard who will then take the fall for Brooks playing like the uninterested spoilt child that he is. 

Rabbits21 wrote:
If the game is close and on the line Starling will play big mins.

Thoughts on Bullemor to Starling and Tuilagi to Thompson? Leaves me short on edges though. I’d have 171k spare after those trades.

My main concern is how I’ll have enough to get Cleary and I just am not able to currently.

These are exactly the trades I made.
As I've already stated, Bully looks pretty much cooked - too many options for the Mad Scientist to mess around with his minutes / role and Schuster on the horizon.
Tuilagi was harder to ditch, but wit Leo and Starling looking like pretty certain cash gen players it was a no-brainer.

I was going to go

Bullemor to Starling and Tuilagi to Thompson but im missing out on Tago.

Is it worth going Tago instead of Starling (then likely getting Starling next week with Mahoney to him for Cleary funds)

The Bludger#2 wrote:
Some poor bastard who will then take the fall for Brooks playing like the uninterested spoilt child that he is. 

Surely Madge and Brooks HAVE to be on the chopping block?

Like so many consecutive years with underwhelming results. So much scrutiny from players over the way Madge coaches. Brooks stalled harder in his development than I stalled my mums car when I was 13.

When do they say, okay let's rebuild. They have become what the Cowboys were in the 2000's. A place to go and retire! They have guys like Doueihi, Uto, Laurie that they can build around and Koro and a couple others coming in 2023, piss off the bludgers like Brooks, Liddle (plays 5 games a year), Offa, etc. Surely there is some young talent in Western Sydney they can get around. Look at the young blokes coming through the Panthers and Eels.

The Tigers management surely can't be looking at their current roster thinking, man we really have a chance to knock off those teams at the top.

StormTrooper96 wrote:

Surely Madge and Brooks HAVE to be on the chopping block?

Like so many consecutive years with underwhelming results. So much scrutiny from players over the way Madge coaches. Brooks stalled harder in his development than I stalled my mums car when I was 13.

When do they say, okay let's rebuild. They have guys like Doueihi, Uto, Laurie that they can build around, piss off the bludgers like Brooks, Liddle (plays 5 games a year), Offa, etc. Surely there is some young talent in Western Sydney they can get around. Look at the young blokes coming through the Panthers and Eels.

The Tigers management surely can't be looking at their current roster thinking, man we really have a chance to knock off those teams at the top.

Pretty much what Tim Sheens was brought back for. Long term rebuild with focus on juniors while trying to stay competitive using current roster.

mattnz wrote:
I think Curran has been playing extra minutes with players exiting the game. Lodge only got 1 stint of 20 minutes. All the other MIDs looked to have got normal minutes, Curran looks to have played more because of it. When Lodge is getting 50 minutes, not sure what Curran will be getting.

Curran is probs their best player imo, in 2021 played hardly any gamers under 60 mins and has improved this year too. Feel like 60+ mins is guaranteed for him tbh.

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