NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 26 - Tries are base stats

Levi can hang around for now

Rapana to Iro
Murray to Hynes

White Lightning wrote:why would he drop cook he's been 1 of their better players

On the basis of no firm knowledge whatsoever, here's a theory:


Souths are a team with a severe culture problem. This is coming out in poor performances from senior players.

The culture problem stems from Cody and Latrell, who are close friends.

Should Cody be dropped, Latrell will cause the dressing room culture to worsen further.

But a message on performance needs to be sent to the team on the unacceptable nature of poor performance. This message is best done by dropping a senior player.

Cook is lower in dressing room influence than other senior players, and towards the end of his career. He can be more safely dropped, to send the message, than can Latrell, or Cody.

It also gives heightened pressure on Cody, by leaving him with fewer points to which deflect blame. This will support his dropping in a few more games, decreasing the blow back from their star player.

tl;dr - Cook back R8, Cody dropped R9

Cook 18th man FML

Dear god I might have to hold Sitili for his 5pts off the bench

BCT05 wrote:Dear god I might have to hold Sitili for his 5pts off the bench

Thinking the same -.-

Rapana + Cotric out for me makes so much more sense. Cotric must be so far down Ricky's pecking order.

im tired of having 3-4 players out every week ha

Carnage 15 green dots again

Any news on how long Rapana is out for?

Chan and Talagi only get me two of these cheapies (Iro and Chevy would be my picks, though I'm as worried about those two as I am the two shit-kickers I'd be trading out).

Problem with all this is I'd miss Angus so probably need to sacrifice Levi. Would give me 17 for the first time in three weeks but no room for error.

L-Jimmy wrote:


On the basis of no firm knowledge whatsoever, here's a theory:


Souths are a team with a severe culture problem. This is coming out in poor performances from senior players.

The culture problem stems from Cody and Latrell, who are close friends.

Should Cody be dropped, Latrell will cause the dressing room culture to worsen further.

But a message on performance needs to be sent to the team on the unacceptable nature of poor performance. This message is best done by dropping a senior player.

Cook is lower in dressing room influence than other senior players, and towards the end of his career. He can be more safely dropped, to send the message, than can Latrell, or Cody.

It also gives heightened pressure on Cody, by leaving him with fewer points to which deflect blame. This will support his dropping in a few more games, decreasing the blow back from their star player.

tl;dr - Cook back R8, Cody dropped R9

I've also dropped Murray down to #14 to put him on notice and fire him up

With the influx of hias at the moment I am changing my loop strategy.

Instead of trying to switch between my two poorest scorers, I am putting an early player in the loop in case they cop an early hia then I can swap 18th man in.

Wish I had done this with Teddy last week.
Giving BSmith an out this round. Salmon 18th man.

Sorry to those who are struggling to field 17. That's been me too the last few weeks. Nice to have 18 green dots this round.

L-Jimmy wrote:


On the basis of no firm knowledge whatsoever, here's a theory:


Souths are a team with a severe culture problem. This is coming out in poor performances from senior players.

The culture problem stems from Cody and Latrell, who are close friends.

Should Cody be dropped, Latrell will cause the dressing room culture to worsen further.

But a message on performance needs to be sent to the team on the unacceptable nature of poor performance. This message is best done by dropping a senior player.

Cook is lower in dressing room influence than other senior players, and towards the end of his career. He can be more safely dropped, to send the message, than can Latrell, or Cody.

It also gives heightened pressure on Cody, by leaving him with fewer points to which deflect blame. This will support his dropping in a few more games, decreasing the blow back from their star player.

tl;dr - Cook back R8, Cody dropped R9

All that is probably true based on what we've seen so far this year, and would make a lot of sense, if the coach was 12 years old.

To each their own, but from where I'm seated Cook and Murray are the only two guys in that team who at least look like they give a shit each week. Maybe a couple of others, but making an example of one of these two doesn't make sense at all to a logical mind.

Reklaw wrote:im tired of having 3-4 players out every week ha

I'll swap your 3-4 for my 5-8.

RandomSil wrote:Any poor souls like me have Finefeuiaki at the moment, and what's the plan with him?

Very sad owner too, but at this stage all you can do is take his 25-29 points each week and trade him out when the other fires extinguish.

I'm sure Invisible People and Ghosts are extremely nice humans and entities, but I don't want them in my Fantasy team.

It seems wise to save my second trade for the year, but finding it difficult not to say no to a ticket aboard the Iro Express. Chan would be the one to make way.

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:Carnage 15 green dots again

Any news on how long Rapana is out for?

if Chevy plays well enough, Rapana ain't coming back to fullback any time soon

Need a mid, Harris is my limit, anyone else springs to mind other than Curran ?

6 red dots, going to trade out the 2 that have been dropped.

Blaize and Chan out.

Looking at Iro and Jye, have a feeling he finds a way to stick around with other Souths players under-performing.

Hopefully back to a full squad next week, with the return of Cleary, Taylan, Galvin and Rapana.

ForanAgainst wrote:It seems wise to save my second trade for the year, but finding it difficult not to say no to a ticket aboard the Iro Express. Chan would be the one to make way.

You'll regret not having him if he holds the spot for the season.

Weiland wrote:Things are so bad I am considering trading in Tom Chester. It would mean I could do Chan to Angus.

There are other cheaper options - Jye, Iro, Chevy.