NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 15 - Cheese and Garlick Naan

mrbrownstone wrote:Thoughts on Robson vs Mahoney?

Mahoney probably represents better value, but I'm still a bit gunshy about him being a keeper rather than this being a form blip.

Robson you probably get what you pay for in terms of value, but is definitely a keeper, plays R13, and has a good upcoming draw for attacking stats which we know he loves.

I'm on Mahoney because I can't afford the price difference while selling Ford instead of Egan Butcher.

mrbrownstone wrote:Thoughts on Robson vs Mahoney?

Mahoney probably represents better value, but I'm still a bit gunshy about him being a keeper rather than this being a form blip.

Robson you probably get what you pay for in terms of value, but is definitely a keeper, plays R13, and has a good upcoming draw for attacking stats which we know he loves.

Mahoney owner - happy with him so far, uncharacteristic errors this week hurting his score, should have gone 60+ again. I expect him to at least match, if not better Robson for scoring, also plays 2 Origin byes.

Kinda tempted to keep Smith around for HOK/MID bench cover

The bye will probably do him some good soon too and won't play origin

500k DPP player is kinda hard to replace so might loop him this week

The Goat Boys wrote:

Would be very close, it`s either him or Ponga.

If Ponga is fit I believe they will stick with him.

There is always Brimson for fullback.

User Name wrote:

There is always Brimson for fullback.

Or HTF if he keeps going well too

mattnz wrote:

Last year they ran Cotter for 80 minutes and Carrigan for huge minutes. Don't need 3 MIDs.

That`s a fair point.

As a QLD fan I would rather them put Walsh at Fullback if the alternative was Walsh and Ponga in the 17.

Walsh might just straight up win the job also.

Not sure if this was posted before, but Roosters released Tuku Hau Tapuha in order to accommodate NRown signing

What odds are people giving John Bateman of playing this week. Named in 20 but a couple of rumours saying he'd be right this week.

Milchcow wrote:
What odds are people giving John Bateman of playing this week. Named in 20 but a couple of rumours saying he'd be right this week.

Saw two different pieces of Information, one saying he would play the other stating round 4 is a definite.

Would put it at 70% Round 4 and 30% This week

Update: The nrl website is quite confident he get`s included in the 17.

The byes are starting to get interesting as throw in injuries and depth is starting to getting tested
Having a decent playable 13-17 and reserves will be important going forward

Only takes a couple players to get benched/dropped (Carty/Trindall/Boyd), an HIA or 2 with byes each week and you could be struggling to field 17

Otherwise you could be relying on those dodgy AKP/HSS type players each week and these are quite volatile

You won't get a Preston every week so might have to rely on the DPP Smiths and Boyds of the world to plug the gaps and hang around all year

Milchcow wrote:

Best in the business - Tanah Boyd

I know I'm not the only one in this situation

Yeah not ideal. If you can I'd look at an upgrade this week. Even Mahoney for a cheaper option.

Very excited to see the new warriors FB was good in trials and brilliant in QCup, slight fella but keen as and great stepping

Sure hope there's not any truth to the Doueihi injured rumour and he ends up a late out. Wakeham into the team for the first time

wolfking wrote:

Yeah not ideal.  If you can I'd look at an upgrade this week.  Even Mahoney for a cheaper option.

Not a lot of interest in Mahoney at this price. Don't think its too different to his long term average

If I am buying someone for points I'd rather wait and get Cook/Grant

I don't normally post the whole team, but last week might've been the worst I've ever had, copped so many injuries and PODs arent firing. I'm just happy I have 17 this week. My head says to do something like Brailey>Mahoney/Grant + BSmith>Preston, but I might need to make higher risk plays with how bad my rank is now (spoiler: it's 52k). Any thoughts that I missed would be appreciated.

Brailey
Tofu Haas HopGod
EButch Katoa
Trindall Hastings
Alamoti HSS
Mitchell Miller Warbrick

Carty BSmith Doorey Cleary
Katoa Boyd Ford Talau

Wouldve been nice to target guys like DCE, Walsh and Bird.

Goodnight Kiwi wrote:

For which of your teams?

Bahahah both of them him and Hopgood was the only double ups I had

Bethany_B wrote:I've come up with a better idea for my trades this week - Boyd and Ford to Mahoney and Sloan.

This lets me keep E Butcher who should at least score decently, and I can reassess next week with his bye coming up. Ford still has money to make but that low score will put a brake on him for the next 2-3 weeks.

Leaves me $24k bank and the following side

Mahoney
Haas, Murray, HopGOAT
E Butcher, E Katoa
Doueihi, Trindall
Bird, Alamoti
Hammer, Walsh, Miller

Loiero, Carty, Preston, Cleary (looper)

I Katoa, Warbrick, Sloan, Talau

Very much like this trade option better.

Milchcow wrote:
Not sure if this was posted before, but Roosters released Tuku Hau Tapuha  in order to accommodate NRown signing

Roosters released one person? Far out we can expect a signing spree in the next few days

Wakeham has scored 65 + 67 in his 2 NSW Cup games this year (That includes goal kicking, but if he's replacing Doueihi he'd likely kick for Tigers too)

Wests NSW Cup team actually scores tries to convert though

MF wrote:

Roosters released one person? Far out we can expect a signing spree in the next few days

Tapuha played 3 first grade games back in 2021

So they can probably get 2 origin reps in with the money saved