NRL Fantasy 2022 Part 59 - Who let the Dogs into the winner's circle

Welshy wrote:How many more weeks out for Cotter? Don't want to dump him

I’ve seen R20 return. Could be a stretch too far for me. Kind of on the fence because I love watching him play, but I need all decent hands on deck to make up for the shit.

mrbrownstone wrote:Don't own him, Aitken still has a career average of 42.2 at centre, not the end of the world, that's still keeper numbers.

Don't know why it's taken so long to try this tbh, team looks much stronger that way.

Depending how much you want to read into half a season, he didn't score very well at centre for the Warriors last year.

Tackle breaks have been nerfed which was one of his strongest sources of points at centre plus his tackle count is going to go down

Maybe he's still in keeper territory for CTR standards but it is 629k you could use elsewhere.

AL wrote:

I’ve seen R20 return. Could be a stretch too far for me. Kind of on the fence because I love watching him play, but I need all decent hands on deck to make up for the shit.

Ahhh that's annoying if its the case! Just after bye and I'd hold I think, but 20 might be a round too far

I've probably got the trades to get him back in if I i dumped him.

Was wondering this morning why eveyone was intent on dumping him when I seen him named this morning, then realised playing CTR again.

Was already on my trade out list with the concussion concerns but this confirms it for me.

Going the cheaper route, and getting Garner for his bye availability

Aitken - Garner
Butcher - IPap

Maybe
Cotter - Klem

leaves me 250K and 8 + 4 trades after the moves.

Welshy wrote:

Ahhh that's annoying if its the case! Just after bye and I'd hold I think, but 20 might be a round too far

I've probably got the trades to get him back in if I i dumped him.

It’s NRL Casualty Ward that has him at R20 return. Seems a long time including the bye week just gone, hopefully we get some more news this week.

Aitken to:

TU: Bird + 70k
TD: Garner

bigbruno wrote:Aitken to:

TU: Bird + 70k
TD: Garner

Garner for me mate, much higher 2RF average than Bird who has been poor this year especially

Welshy wrote:

Garner for me mate, much higher 2RF average than Bird who has been poor this year especially

Are his stats not boosted by the 2 tries though? Garner averaging 44 in EDGE this year, with 2 tries. Base of about 35

Bird Avg of 37, take out the 3 games where he was missing every tackle due to his arm and he's 42.5 with 2 tries.
Base looks very similar and that's with Bird with little to no attacking TB's anymore and plenty of missed tackles.

rhinoceroo wrote:

Any word whether him or Meaney will be kicking?

If Papy plays, I assume he'd be kicking, but I have no idea really.

Might look at the Friz over Carrigan, hopefully has a big end to the year

rhinoceroo wrote:As one of the few with Keary, red dot means I should probably hold trading him again until next week. Was going to cash down to Kennedy, but perhaps someone else will turn up next week, or maybe I won't need a full cash out. Not as if I was using Kennedy in 17 this round, might lose a little in cash rises but meh.

Butcher & Tago to Barnett & Hughes, pretty standard trades. Eyes on a few of Papy, Mitchell, Friz, Stefano, Kennedy, FBrown for next week to bolster R17.

Going to hold this week to loop Keppie/Mam

bigbruno wrote:

Are his stats not boosted by the 2 tries though? Garner averaging 44 in EDGE this year, with 2 tries. Base of about 35

Bird Avg of 37, take out the 3 games where he was missing every tackle due to his arm and he's 42.5 with 2 tries.
Base looks very similar and that's with Bird with little to no attacking TB's anymore and plenty of missed tackles.

legacy average of 49.4 for Garner

41.3 for Bird

As we are past half way of season, will come down to tries more than likely so no great shakes picking Bird over him mate

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Might look at the Friz over Carrigan, hopefully has a big end to the year

Friz

He's in for me! nice one

bigbruno wrote:Aitken to:

TU: Bird + 70k
TD: Garner

Will probably be doing one of these as well. Leaning to Bird at that price (wish I did it last week)

Welshy wrote:

Friz

He's in for me! nice one

Bit of a shakeup for me this week.

Ilias > Hughes
Fermor > Friz
Clark > Grant
Butcher > Barnett

Jeez you’d want some trades left to be trading Aitken for another centre. Surely most still have one of Penis/Tago/Koula left. Think I’m just gonna play Penis and move Aitken to a gun

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

Bit of a shakeup for me this week.

Ilias > Hughes
Fermor > Friz
Clark > Grant
Butcher > Barnett

Lots of upgrades - 3 rd 17 players - nicely bowled

With a few more around post TLT I'll put this up again

Attempting to get some interest for a central coast meet up again this year.

https://www.nrlfantasyfanatics.com/t1960p20-5th-annual-nrlff-meetup-sydney#633290

Roosters vs Dragons 3pm Saturday 16th of July at Central Coast stadium

Meet up before/during/after game as you see fit

Last weekyear was a decent turn out with SI, Chewie, Revs, Teeth and myself

Good chance to put some faces to names as well as have a few cold ones

For Adam Reynolds owners via Courier Mail:

“It’s probably another eight weeks until it’s 100 per cent again,” Reynolds said.

“The doctors say it’s a week-to-week thing. it depends on how many whacks I get on it, so hopefully the Cowboys defenders run the other way.

“I have a dislocated fracture of one of the ribs. It was pushed inwards so their main concern was doing damage to my lung, but the medical team has done a wonderful job over the last couple of weeks and I feel good enough to play against the Cowboys.

“I think I can handle the contact. The needles are pretty good these days, they take away most of the pain.

Why on earth would he admit that?