NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 53 - Back to the footy!

Think I'll avoid Ponga and CNK this week and just reassess next week. I suspect down the line I will lament using a trade on either one for the sake of an extra number.

I will likely regret it when a healthy Ponga scores 98 but oh well.

Wooden Spoonerz wrote:Bird or Haumole?

I’d go bird, he’s the best centre for back end of the year

Manly won’t be good without dce and turbo and jurbo imo

Would you guys sacrifice a WFB this week (Ponga or Drinky) to run 11 but getting Tohu and Hopgood into the team? Would essentially be

Cook
JDB, Tapine, Harris
Ford, Curran
SJ, Cleary
Bird, Lemu
Drinky, Ponga

Niko/Crossland loop

or

Cook
JDB, Tapine, Harris
Ford, Hopgood
SJ, Cleary
Bird, Lemu
Drinky or Ponga

Niko/Crossland loop

Battle of the shitters
TU: Play Host
TD: Play couchman


Atleast I know with couchman I can lock in a 25. Who knows with host especially with koloa loitering around that team list

Edit: No bye edge, has been a problem position for me all year since the carty/hopgood left my team. Missing hosking/Preston appear to be my most crucial errors of the year

Welshy wrote:Would you guys sacrifice a WFB this week (Ponga or Drinky) to run 11 but getting Tohu and Hopgood into the team? Would essentially be

Cook
JDB, Tapine, Harris
Ford, Curran
SJ, Cleary
Bird, Lemu
Drinky, Ponga

Niko/Crossland loop

or

Cook
JDB, Tapine, Harris
Ford, Hopgood
SJ, Cleary
Bird, Lemu
Drinky or Ponga

Niko/Crossland loop

Yes, ponga is a question mark, Hopgood is going to be very useful for all byes and Harris is the premium mid (tied with jdb)

I’d do that, Hopgood could put score Curran and ponga combined especially as Curran is on bench (unless things have changed since I last checked)

hj1991 wrote:Battle of the shitters

TU: Play Host
TD: Play couchman


Atleast I know with couchman I can lock in a 25. Who knows with host especially with koloa loitering around that team list

Loop them with bye EDG if you have them

This is where I'm at this week

Robson
JDB(C) AFB Horse
Hopgood Lucy
SJ DBrown
Bird Lemu
AJ CNK XXX

Should be good for 1000

Moanaman wrote:Should be good for 1000

Come to think of it, what do we think Par will be this week? 650 is 50 average across 13 players

All this talking up of bird today and I'm seriously worried he's gonna pull up injured in warmups like last week or a first 10 min HIA. Jinx feels strong with this one

Who is everyone captaining this week?

For me CHOPGOOD

How much good would chopgood chop if chopgood could chop good

Which of these two should I be selling? I’ll be holding the other long term.

TU: Haas
TD: Walsh

Is there any chance BA goes bananas and puts Hopgood on an edge last minute? Im worried Ofa gives him an alternative at lock and he might think Carty/Doorey too light on the edges. It seems a little nutso, admittedly- but so is BA!

Campbell has has fluid drained from his sternum this week they say he’s 50/50 but I don’t think he plays.


“Graham needed fluid drained from his sternum this week.

The Rabbitohs are quietly confident that Keaon Koloamatangi will make his return from an ankle injury to play the Raiders. “

Courtesy of Daily Telegraph

Looks like I’m running with 12 starters and 1 playing from the bench. Gives me the following side:

JMK
Horse, JDB, Tohu
Hopgood, Ford
SJ, Katoa
Bird, Lemmy
Drinkwater, Ponga, Bula

Cleary, Hynes, Fifita, Hosking,
Manu, Oloapu, Billy Smith, Sele 

Sele is locked in for a trade next week to Turpin (if named).

All the best everyone. See you on the other side.

Moanaman wrote:

Come to think of it, what do we think Par will be this week? 650 is 50 average across 13 players

I think the average players is going less than expected - a lot more people focus on H2H than here I think

If par is normally say 950, I think low 500s will be average

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:Who is everyone captaining this week?

For me CHOPGOOD

How much good would chopgood chop if chopgood could chop good

Shaun Johnson

Pookus McFly wrote:Is there any chance BA goes bananas and puts Hopgood on an edge last minute? Im worried Ofa gives him an alternative at lock and he might think Carty/Doorey too light on the edges. It seems a little nutso, admittedly- but so is BA!

Haven't they got 3 mids on the bench? Can Doorey play 80? Defo a chance he spends some time on the edge

Would love the Dragons tonight to show that not everything needs to go through Hunt in future. Let Sullivan and Amone have the keys, even if it could fail spectacularly 

Under Hook you can bet Bird and JdB just would’ve played as de facto halves (and we lose comfortably anyway) so hoping the new coach at least tries something else. He has nothing to lose - he’s basically got no chance of getting the job next year.

Will take it as a win if we lose by less than we beat the Dolphins by last time and the young guys show something.

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:Who is everyone captaining this week?

For me CHOPGOOD

How much good would chopgood chop if chopgood could chop good

Community teams votes are as follows:

de belin - 14
Hopgood - 9
Johnson - 4

no votes for any other player.

GarethEllisismyDad wrote:

Shaun Johnson

I would but Metcalf in the team has me worried