NRL Fantasy 2022 - Part 65 - No Papi :,(

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Pretty keen on Booth, Doueihi and Haas as 3 of my trade ins.

Latrell, Fifita, Curran, Hastings vying for the 4th.

Hastings gives me a 3 HLF bench
Fifita let’s move Harris down to the bench for MID/EDG cover
Latrell let’s me move Ponga down for WFB cover

UKJC wrote:

I’ve not managed to catch up on all the games from the weekend yet. How did Hastings look at lock? Do you think he’s likely to keep the spot?

UKJC wrote:Hi guys,

Appreciate I don’t post in here a lot (spend more time catching up on the chat due to time difference/work so often miles behind & everything that people are asking are already replied to by the time I get up to date, will try get better though!) so understandable if no-one wants to help with advice but thought I’d ask the question anyway.

Currently sat 101 overall with 4(+4) trades to go.  

Got Barnett > Fifita & Mam > Doueihi locked in, then struggling to decide after that.

The two options I’ve got are:
TU: Mahoney > Cook (leaves 0 ITB & 1(+4) trades
TD: Mahoney > Murray & Rushton > Booth (leaves 90k ITB & just the 4 bonus trades).

Leaving a squad of:
Grant
Klemmer Haas iPap
Fifita Elliott
Cleary DCE
Burton Aitken
Hynes Teddy Latrell
Cook/Murray Tohu Doueihi RFM
Ramsey Booth/Rushton Koula Palasia

Plan would then be in a couple of weeks to  downgrade Koula to a cheaper backup centre and upgrade Ramsey to a final gun for position 17, with RFM 18th man, then pray for minimal injuries/suspensions.

I keep going backwards and forwards on the two options. First one leaves me an extra trade, but then no cash to assist with the final upgrade.
Second option gives me that extra cash & Murray only averages 3 less than Cook for 109k cheaper, but is Booth going to be reliable as a backup hooker or could he be out of the team or benched in a week or two? This option also removes any ability to loop with getting rid of the only red dot in my squad.

Bit of a long post so thanks if you’ve taken the time to read it, and any advice is appreciated.

bigbruno wrote:

Cook for me mate. He’s an out and out gun and he needs to perform on the run home. Cash ITB is a worry but let that be next weeks worry.

Murray also just had a pretty bad KO, so who knows how good he is.

filthridden wrote:Are we allowed to have three people from the UK posting at once? Is this allowed?!

Welshy wrote:

Would go with this, Cook is out and out best fantasy hooker this season (unless you want to run Cotter there on return)

Murray taken some huge knocks and few similar scorers around his price

filthridden wrote:Are we allowed to have three people from the UK posting at once? Is this allowed?!

Welshy wrote:

I'm on about Friz being out with injury then Mann to to lock and Barnett edge scenario mate

Khany wrote:Expecting Bird back to Ctr soon, no way Mbye sees the season out without injury.

Bethany_B wrote:am I insane to be considering captaining Latrell in addition to buying him this week?

He is on an absolute tear the last three weeks and I don't exactly have faith in the Storm's defence to hold, especially not our right side with Walker Mitchell and AJ running at Seve and Wishart (or Anderson if they swap late). Add to that his goal kicking and the fact that I'm ranked at 3.8k and have been treading water the last few weeks, and I'm seriously considering doing it despite my better judgment.

First thought was C Cook or Cleary but you guys know I love a risky captain

Milchcow wrote:

Latrell went massive against the Storm last year if you want a sign.

If you want to go crazy he's as good a bet as any.

I don't think Cleary is an auto captain. DCE, Hynes, Cook all in the conversation, plus whatever PODs people want

Bethany_B wrote:am I insane to be considering captaining Latrell in addition to buying him this week?

He is on an absolute tear the last three weeks and I don't exactly have faith in the Storm's defence to hold, especially not our right side with Walker Mitchell and AJ running at Seve and Wishart (or Anderson if they swap late). Add to that his goal kicking and the fact that I'm ranked at 3.8k and have been treading water the last few weeks, and I'm seriously considering doing it despite my better judgment.

First thought was C Cook or Cleary but you guys know I love a risky captain

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:For once my team gives me options for who to leave in EMG. How would you guys set up here?
At the moment I have

Grant
Haas, Ipap, Lolo
Fifita, Barnett
Cleary, DCE
Burton, Bird
Hynes, Doueihi, Ponga

Moses, Harris, Hughes, Matamua
McInnes, RFM, Booth, Trindall


Would you move any of these guys around?

Daedalus wrote:

Agree with this, Cook feels like the right call and the cash could be made by Palasia to a 220k if you are really desperate next week for cash (and it’s only burning the trade you saved this week)