NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 60 - Take your downdates on the Chin

Loomer wrote:To Haas or not to Haas? That is the question

robelgordo wrote:

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

https://x.com/thescxperience/status/1815957197689671750?s=46&t=Qm46odCKKW8EQHObqVyyfw

Do we think maybe NRL should just introduce a week between regular season and finals to avoid this?

Or reduce the season to a sensible number of weeks?

robelgordo wrote:

Do we think maybe NRL should just introduce a week between regular season and finals to avoid this?

Or reduce the season to a sensible number of weeks?

danseels1985 wrote:Any ideas what to do here guys?

76k

Grant
Yep Curran Koloa
Katoa Fifita
Hughes Cleary
Iro Wighton
Teddy Garrick Young

McInnes
Galvin
Starling
Pryce

Howarth
Weekes
Plath
Hughes

Loomer wrote:
You fine. Hold trades

standard-issue wrote:

Interesting to read the differing strategies and mine is to save trades.  Personally used more trades than I hoped for over the last 2 weeks (6 used) but Cleary in is obviously a must.

I'm left with 5 and happy-ish with my team (backs a bit weak).  Those 5 trades I am hoping to hold for the last 3 Rounds. Will mean I have the likes of Hands and Strange and Sipley hanging around my Emergencies instead of upgrading them.

Will cost me points over the next month; but if it goes to shit again then gives me the advantage in the last few weeks.

Rabbits21 wrote:
Hey mate I like that strategy a lot. Obviously if you get a couple of injuries the next few weeks even having 3 trades left for the last 3 weeks is a good place to be.

My trades last week and week before in round 19 were….


Round 19:
Hynes to JC

Round 20:
Aitken to Cleary
Api to Curran
Pryce to I. Tago

Leaves me 5 trades left now was thinking of trading Plath out but am now leaning to holding and just playing Samuela Fainu over him this week. If Plath shits the bed next two weeks then I could look at a Murray or Hosking.

Was weighing up Trindall this week and Wilton was another but Talakai can take mins off Wilton so I’ll stay clear. My hooker cover for Mahoney is Hands so think I’ll get Starling looks good for a 55-65mins role from here should be a mid 40’s guy I reckon I’m happy with that.

Leaves this (13.2mil team value so not as strong as others) but best I can do……

4 trades 125k spare and 

Mahoney
Tapine Haas Curran
Fifita Sorensen
Cleary Galvin
Iro Wighton
Garrick Teddy Drinky

JC Dylbags Starling S. Fainu
Plath I. Tago Hands S. Hughes

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:
Liking the Tapine pick there Rabs. Bit of a left field one but reckon he goes well for you.
That feels like a decent team for 13.2m as well

Rabbits21 wrote:
Thanks mate I did KPP to Tapine back in round 15. Tapine has avg 55.6 for me the last 5 games. I got him at 682k priced at 49 so happy about that. He’s avg 54mins as well a week the last 5 games so that’s about where I want him to be.

Also feel this year with all the carnage it’s better not to cash out to a red dot as that could hurt down the line.

Well done on managing your trades well again mate I am backing you for a ripper end to the season you should make lots of ranks.

Losing big cash on Hynes, Grant and Dylbags is what hurt me.

Picking Wighton up at 393k worked out well though. Avg 50.5 for me the last 6 weeks 303 points in 6 games. Was expecting low 40’s from him so he’s gone better than I thought.


Missing out on Wishart hurt me a lot too.

Khany wrote:Would be unhelpful having wishart benched and losing value, if Munster plays

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

Rabbits21 wrote:
Thanks mate I did KPP to Tapine back in round 15. Tapine has avg 55.6 for me the last 5 games. I got him at 682k priced at 49 so happy about that. He’s avg 54mins as well a week the last 5 games so that’s about where I want him to be.

Also feel this year with all the carnage it’s better not to cash out to a red dot as that could hurt down the line.

Well done on managing your trades well again mate I am backing you for a ripper end to the season you should make lots of ranks.

Losing big cash on Hynes, Grant and Dylbags is what hurt me.

Picking Wighton up at 393k worked out well though. Avg 50.5 for me the last 6 weeks 303 points in 6 games. Was expecting low 40’s from him so he’s gone better than I thought.


Missing out on Wishart hurt me a lot too.

Oh you’ve had him a while, that’s even better then.

Not owning Hynes at any point this year and Cleary on 3 different occasions has definitely made this year tougher than it’s needed to be, but things are looking up so yeah finish well and look forward to the next one.

Loomer wrote:To Haas or not to Haas? That is the question

standard-issue wrote:

Yeah, I grabbed Tapine Rd 15 as well.  He has been giving some scares with pretty average first stints-sometimes he'll be sitting on low 20's and you wonder if he is going to even make it to 40.

He hasn't quite hit the highs of his historical bye round runs.  But he is 20 rounds in and hasn't scored a meatie yet, so is definitely due.

Honeysett wrote:@danseels1985

Weekes, Plath, Pryce out. Pick up any of Haas, Barnett, Ponga, Crichton etc