NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 13 - Reece Walsh, Future Immortal

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:
We may need to have a sit down and come up with a plan because it’s looking grim.

585/13c

Not much better here

GarethEllisismyDad wrote:

Not much better here

At least trades look fairly straight forward at first glance.

Cheese > Preston
Hogdson > Mahoney

mattnz wrote:

Didn't realise Butcher got 44, a bad week and hit his BE still.

EButcher may be on the chopping block this week, too many options with similar potential at nearly half the price tag

Chewie wrote:

EButcher may be on the chopping block this week, too many options with similar potential at nearly half the price tag

Yeah, agree. As soon as I trade him out he will get a try and 70 though.

Bethany_B wrote:

Unless one of my four players tomorrow gets injured, I am seriously considering just getting Teague in and hoping he can stay in the team, as I already have most of the guys that people will be wanting to buy next week (Preston, IKat, Hammer, Walsh, Bird etc.) and only really have Talau and Egan Butcher as sell candidates (even they may not be worth selling tbf).

Teague seems like he's going to explode eventually, it's just a matter of time, much like Preston this year and Hopgood last year.

If Talau bombs tomorrow and you have CTR/WFB cover it wouldn't be the worst move at all. That said, the way Stone's been mentioned in the off-season, you'd have to assume that for 2023, Teague is the back up option for injuries. Which isn't to say he won't get decent minutes throughout the year. Like I say, not a bad acquisition if everything else aligns. And who knows... Bennett is obviously no muppet. Maybe he finds a place for Teague anyway...

mattnz wrote:Bellamy says NAS is a medial ligament, likely to be a couple of weeks, tempted to hold him for looping, beasting!

As long as it's not long term, you probably should. With best will in the world, you're probably not used to your team all scoring well, but when it does it's a great opportunity to bank trades rather than chasing a shiny thing.

You know it's not been a good round when you've got trades sorted on Saturday. Smith/Butcher to Katoa/Preston. 625C with Ponga, D.Saifiti and Boyd left.

Teeth Eater wrote:

If Talau bombs tomorrow and you have CTR/WFB cover it wouldn't be the worst move at all. That said, the way Stone's been mentioned in the off-season, you'd have to assume that for 2023, Teague is the back up option for injuries. Which isn't to say he won't get decent minutes throughout the year. Like I say, not a bad acquisition if everything else aligns. And who knows... Bennett is obviously no muppet. Maybe he finds a place for Teague anyway...

Yeah realistically I only see Teague staying in at the expense of Donoghoe, rather than Stone. Ese'ese is also a threat so it'd be a risky buy, but it could pay off big time if he can keep going.

As long as nobody gets injured tomorrow I can probably just hold both trades and bask in the great feeling of having a good team.

rhinoceroo wrote:

As long as it's not long term, you probably should. With best will in the world, you're probably not used to your team all scoring well, but when it does it's a great opportunity to bank trades rather than chasing a shiny thing.

Thanks for the advice, I am tempted to only trade Butcher this week, but could fix up my WFBs and CTRs, have $307k available to do it, without trading NAS, by getting rid of someone like Talau or HSS for the Hammer. Would leave me with a back 5 of:
HTF Alamoti
Ponga Walsh Miller

The rest of my team is pretty stacked for now (currently relying on Trindall and Carty though).

NAS will be my only out next week, (no Panthers) and only have 1 other Rooster in the team if I trade Butcher, then 1 Titan the following week.

If that NAS shows up every couple of weeks, no reason he can't average 60 this season. Should have hit 75 this week, after a 53 doing nothing last week.

Ford could be an interesting trade in to get a loop next week.

mattnz wrote:Ford could be an interesting trade in to get a loop next week.

So just in addition to my post earlier, you're reading it like I am? That if you fail a HIA this week, there's 0 chance you're suiting up next week?

mattnz wrote:

Thanks for the advice, I am tempted to only trade Butcher this week, but could fix up my WFBs and CTRs, have $307k available to do it, without trading NAS, by getting rid of someone like Talau or HSS for the Hammer. Would leave me with a back 5 of:
HTF Alamoti
Ponga Walsh Miller

The rest of my team is pretty stacked for now (currently relying on Trindall and Carty though).

NAS will be my only out next week, (no Panthers) and only have 1 other Rooster in the team if I trade Butcher, then 1 Titan the following week.

If that NAS shows up every couple of weeks, no reason he can't average 60 this season. Should have hit 75 this week, after a 53 doing nothing last week.

Hammer in to the centres is a fair upgrade, and not against trading Butcher if you need to further sort out back five. At this stage of the season though better to concentrate on cash gen if your starters are pretty much taking care of themselves, so would rather trade him to a must-have cow if you can see one, rather than eg Walsh.

Obviously you have Preston already but if BMM goes 40+ and looks secure it could be him. Would also build bank so you can upgrade rather than cash out Carty/Trindall when you're forced to trade them in the next few weeks, and have a bigger choice of players. At that point you can even "sort out" your back five by getting an underpriced Teddy. Patience...

Hughes 79
Grant 64
Katoa 63
NAS 53
Loiero 41
Warbrick 30

Kiraz 90
Preston 62
Ming 60
Mahoney 54
Sutton 48
Alamoti 46
Perham 43
Burton 36

Sutton just the ebbs n flows of Nrl minute wise ?

rhinoceroo wrote:Hughes 79
Grant 64
Katoa 63
NAS 53
Warbrick 30

Kiraz 90
Preston 62
Ming 60
Mahoney 54
Sutton 48
Alamoti 46
Perham 43
Burton 36

Ouch. Playing HSS over Alamoti just got a bit more painful.

Teeth Eater wrote:

So just in addition to my post earlier, you're reading it like I am? That if you fail a HIA this week, there's 0 chance you're suiting up next week?

No there is a chance. Still have the 6 day concussion protocol. Radley and Blore both just failed it.

There was pre season talk of a mandatory 11 days. Seems inevitable. Sensible thing would be from next season but knowing NRL they’ll introduce it randomly midseason. Magic round, perhaps.

robelgordo wrote:

No there is a chance. Still have the 6 day concussion protocol. Radley and Blore both just failed it.

There was pre season talk of a mandatory 11 days. Seems inevitable. Sensible thing would be from NRL season but knowing NRL they’ll introduce it randomly midseason. Magic round, perhaps.

Cool, thanks for the knowledge. I am definitely treating Ford as a red dot next week, but I guess we’ll see. On the surface, I thought it looked like he may return today, but obviously there’s no telling with these things.

Brought in ITT and played him over Alamoti

I’m good at this

Bethany_B wrote:

Grouse wrote:Our Raiders team are a bunch of weak gutted dogs.

Goodnight all.

Amazing!

Updates were kind 754/13c notice the guy currently in first scored 999 without hopgood as captain. Crazy score for a round 2 team