R14 Trade talk

$91k in the bank. 12 trades remaining

Few guys on the trade out list. Where do we go from here?

Ford to Turpin

Bird to IPap

Most urgent priority is a hooker who plays next week. Bird to Cook and then his byes dovetail with Robson and they're set and forget 80 minute guys rather than messing around with Turpin. Don't really need another centre with Alamoti suddenly being useful again.

Still think we're carrying too many Origin guys, so would look at Haas to iPap and upgrade Niko to a R16 player tbc.

if all our origin players don't back up, we're looking at 15 players this week, so some sort of action is probably a good idea.

For me, Bird, Ford out, and maybe 1 of our origin guys (see on Thursday/Friday if we get news about any of them definitely not playing this week)

Just trying to work out Rd 16 numbers:

Robson
Edwards Hopgood (or EDG) XX
Preston XX
Oloapu XX
Alamoti Manu (or WFB)
Ponga (or HLF) Bula XX

Agree with Rhino. Bird to Cook so we've got a hooker next week, but otherwise we should look at Rd 16 trade-ins.

Not sure we need to make any other trades this week though, unless one or more of the Origin players don't back up.

Bird to cook as suggested is a popular move and almost set and forget
Also agree with x1 origin player but tricky to manage because they all play saturday evening or sunday

It's going to be tricky enough managing a team through this period (let alone a community one) so it makes sense not pissing around with cheap hookers

I think Haas to a ipap/nikora/bateman move works and would probably help others decide on here trying to make that move this week as well.

Still not urgent and wouldn't be end of the world if that didn't happen
Next week will probably be grabbing a value pick for depth once those teams come off the bye

I sort of want to wait until tomorrow to put a poll up, in case anything happens tonight that might make trade options clearer

Hopefully coaches give some sort of early warning n if players will back up.

Haas, Hynes the main ones we care about. if either of those gets a rest we may want to move them on

Has there been an update on who will/won't back up

Will get a post up today with trade poll but want to do it with maximum information if possible.

Also other than Bird - Cook anything else we want to look at