NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 73 - 98% Stand and Applaud

Looking at Bula to Cheese, leaving me with 5 trades. Mainly for HOK cover but help at MID doesn’t hurt.

Grant
Horse, Hopgood, JDB
Fifita, Bateman
Cleary, Hynes
Manu, Lemmy
Ponga, Teddy, Isaako

DCE, Nikora, Cheese, Tohu
Simmo, SJ, Graham, Colquhoun.

Simmo in the loop and will probably take a 35+ as opposed to trading Tohu to someone.
Or do I just do Tohu to Murray and leave Simo as 18th man for the week

Anything else stand out lads?

I was hoping to hold this week, but NAS out probably means I need to trade. Scheduling seems to be a massive pain EVERY week. I'd love to see what Koula scores against the Dragons before trading. I'd love to trade NAS to Murray but no cash. I do have 17 green dots, but NAS is probably trade, out TBC weeks and EKatoa back too. Could get BS9 a third time, would give me some hooker coverage. Could just run out these plodders and decide next week:

Grant
Haas JDB Hopgood
Fifita Bateman
Hynes Cleary
Manu Ramien
Ted Ponga Dewards

DCE Nikora Null Koula

SJ Harris NAS Graham 3k, 3 trades.

That's a pretty scrappy 17 Bellyache has assembled there.

Revraiser wrote:

standard-issue wrote:

That's the full 80 minutes for me, with a chance of OT if I'm hungover.

Reminds me of a work colleague many years ago who fell asleep standing up in a file room, searching through files in a library type setup if u can imagine.

What a coincidink.  The last time I saw @Krump he too fell asleep standing up, although that was much less library and a lot more liquor.

At least when you and I had beers Revs we pretended to act like upstanding citizens.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Looking at Bula to Cheese, leaving me with 5 trades. Mainly for HOK cover but help at MID doesn’t hurt.

Grant
Horse, Hopgood, JDB
Fifita, Bateman
Cleary, Hynes
Manu, Lemmy
Ponga, Teddy, Isaako

DCE, Nikora, Cheese, Tohu
Simmo, SJ, Graham, Colquhoun.

Simmo in the loop and will probably take a 35+ as opposed to trading Tohu to someone.
Or do I just do Tohu to Murray and leave Simo as 18th man for the week

Anything else stand out lads?

Time to put those trades to use. I would do the Tohu to Murray trade as well.

Krump wrote:

Revraiser wrote:

Reminds me of a work colleague many years ago who fell asleep standing up in a file room, searching through files in a library type setup if u can imagine.

SI has seen a bloke pass out standing up before.

I'm tempted by Bula to Brandon too. Another reason I should've gotten Haumole over Garrick, could've afforded Hands to Brandon instead. Would leave 3 trades and doesn't feel enough with 6 rounds left still. Would rather use 2 to upgrade two peaked cows to a gun as season end draws closer.

Might just roll this out

Grant
Horse, Haas, Murray
IPap, Fifita
(C)leary, Hynes
Manu, Ramien
Teddy, Drink, Ponga

Hopgood, DCE, Garrick, SJ*

Sandon, Bula, Hands, VTW.

Looping Sandon and Bula for 17th man. 5 FBs ftw.

If Sandon and Bula both jagged scores, might dump VTW for a red dot CTR and sub Ramien out vs. Panthers.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Looking at Bula to Cheese, leaving me with 5 trades. Mainly for HOK cover but help at MID doesn’t hurt.

Grant
Horse, Hopgood, JDB
Fifita, Bateman
Cleary, Hynes
Manu, Lemmy
Ponga, Teddy, Isaako

DCE, Nikora, Cheese, Tohu
Simmo, SJ, Graham, Colquhoun.

Simmo in the loop and will probably take a 35+ as opposed to trading Tohu to someone.
Or do I just do Tohu to Murray and leave Simo as 18th man for the week

Anything else stand out lads?

Scheduling sucks for you too, would have been nice to see Simmo's score before trading Harris to Murray. With 5 trades left I think I would trade Tohu to Murray. It's possibly an upgrade anyway with the question marks on Harris minutes moving forward. Leaves a gun team with 4 trades left for the next six weeks. Sounds decent.

Mulvy wrote:

Personally I can't really visualize what the best option is here without the team for reference. I don't think I'd be trading out Hopgood though. Moses a little more tradable due to high BE (if you're likely to trade him out at some stage anyway, you wouldn't want it to be for a lot less than what he is currently) and I assume you have Cleary Hynes SJ (where team for reference would help) and he nets a bit more cash. I also would want more than one trade left, still six rounds to go. Who is Dylz? Lean towards option 1 or 2 at this stage.

Dylz is D. Edwards sorry

Team as it currently stands -

Grant
Haas Hopgood Hors
Bateman Fifita
Cleary Hynes
Penis Manu
Drinkwater Ponga Bula

Moses JDB SJ Nikora

Hands nuffie nuffie nuffie

standard-issue wrote:

What a coincidink.  The last time I saw @Krump he too fell asleep standing up, although that was much less library and a lot more liquor.

At least when you and I had beers Revs we pretended to act like upstanding citizens.

Absolute moral icons mate

standard-issue wrote:

What a coincidink.  The last time I saw @Krump he too fell asleep standing up, although that was much less library and a lot more liquor.

At least when you and I had beers Revs we pretended to act like upstanding citizens.

Make up your mind mate. Was I asleep upstanding or not?

WT Winfield wrote:I'm tempted by Bula to Brandon too. Another reason I should've gotten Haumole over Garrick, could've afforded Hands to Brandon instead. Would leave 3 trades and doesn't feel enough with 6 rounds left still. Would rather use 2 to upgrade two peaked cows to a gun as season end draws closer.

Might just roll this out

Grant
Horse, Haas, Murray
IPap, Fifita
(C)leary, Hynes
Manu, Ramien
Teddy, Drink, Ponga

Hopgood, DCE, Garrick, SJ*

Sandon, Bula, Hands, VTW.

Looping Sandon and Bula for 17th man. 5 FBs ftw.

If Sandon and Bula both jagged scores, might dump VTW for a red dot CTR and sub Ramien out vs. Panthers.

Sounds like a decent plan. Tough call, No guarantee BS9 is an upgrade over Bula, and he's so injury prone. I mean he should be an upgrade.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Looking at Bula to Cheese, leaving me with 5 trades. Mainly for HOK cover but help at MID doesn’t hurt.

Grant
Horse, Hopgood, JDB
Fifita, Bateman
Cleary, Hynes
Manu, Lemmy
Ponga, Teddy, Isaako

DCE, Nikora, Cheese, Tohu
Simmo, SJ, Graham, Colquhoun.

Simmo in the loop and will probably take a 35+ as opposed to trading Tohu to someone.
Or do I just do Tohu to Murray and leave Simo as 18th man for the week

Anything else stand out lads?

With 5 trades left it's ok to have a yeet

But see what Simo scores first and see if it's solid enough to take (probably a 40 for mine)

I think Hands needs to play 80 to be playable in your 17. Hands to Cheese is very tempting for a more reliable 18th man.
I only made one trade last week but that meant I held NAS and Boyd one week too long. Should have just pulled the trigger. Boyds cash loss has hurt a bit for this weeks trades.

Mulvy wrote:I was hoping to hold this week, but NAS out probably means I need to trade. Scheduling seems to be a massive pain EVERY week. I'd love to see what Koula scores against the Dragons before trading. I'd love to trade NAS to Murray but no cash. I do have 17 green dots, but NAS is probably trade, out TBC weeks and EKatoa back too. Could get BS9 a third time, would give me some hooker coverage. Could just run out these plodders and decide next week:

Grant
Haas JDB Hopgood
Fifita Bateman
Hynes Cleary
Manu Ramien
Ted Ponga Dewards

DCE Nikora Null Koula

SJ Harris NAS Graham 3k, 3 trades.

Having to commit to Koula's score from the get go is pretty gross mate. Would def be inclined to bin NAS this week since you can't have a look. 

Cheese is a fine option but you could look at the likes of Koloa or Fitzgibbon instead? Doesn't help with hooker coverage though

Well I'm down to 16 players. Who do I trade NAS to, leaving me with two trades?

filthridden wrote:Well I'm down to 16 players. Who do I trade NAS to, leaving me with two trades?

Any cash mate? 

I reckon the McInnes shout from Camo is a very nice option for NAS sellers if you have $40k laying around (Finucane out for rest of season)

Spectre wrote:

Dylz is D. Edwards sorry

Team as it currently stands -

Grant
Haas Hopgood Hors
Bateman Fifita
Cleary Hynes
Penis Manu
Drinkwater Ponga Bula

Moses JDB SJ Nikora

Hands nuffie nuffie nuffie

I think you can't really do more than two trades. So option 1 or 2, lean towards 2. But another tough call.

filthridden wrote:Well I'm down to 16 players. Who do I trade NAS to, leaving me with two trades?

I went Murray in the same position

BCT05 wrote:

Any cash mate? 

I reckon the McInnes shout from Camo is a very nice option for NAS sellers if you have $40k laying around (Finucane out for rest of season)

Yeah McInnes is a good shout. Not big numbers this year (yet) but last year averaged 57.7 without Finucane in the side

Now I'm contemplating between:

Murray
Cheese (18th)
Hands (19th)

or

McInnes
Cheese (18th)
Loiero (19th)