2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 27

White Lightning wrote:

Yes great team mate & it's stacked right across the park. It reminds me of Pamela Anderson running down the beach in Batwatch cause she is stacked too.

Bahahahaha!
And Thankyou.
Hopefully Hampton can make some money, I'm still thinking about cook but then I won't have enough for whitehead and it craps on my plans for next week haaha.
It's good to bounce my ideas off you guys..

Fortitude wrote:Having to fight the urge to trade rage again this week.

Can bring in McInnes for brailey. But requires going kbrom to nuff.

Leaves me with McInnes, kfausi, chn, Yates, elgy, jacks, idris and abbey as my playing reserves. It's very thin

That's not really rage trading is it. I'm fighting the urge to make no trades

Loomer wrote:

That's not really rage trading is it. I'm fighting the urge to make no trades

Feel like it's rushing double trades at the expense of balance.

No?

Ponga really is an interesting prospect...

Fortitude wrote:

Feel like it's rushing double trades at the expense of balance.

No?

Rage trading is aargh Merrin scored rubbish, I'm rage trading. Brailey hasn't been in my 17 last 2 weeks. I can understand why you want to upgrade him but you're paying top $$$$ and burning 2 trades. Compulsive trading maybe?

@Fortitude wrote:Having to fight the urge to trade rage again this week.

Can bring in McInnes for brailey. But requires going kbrom to nuff.

Leaves me with McInnes, kfausi, chn, Yates, elgy, jacks, idris and abbey as my playing reserves. It's very thin 

That's not too bad reserve wise! Wish I could afford McInnes! And you should get a decent 40 out of Kafusi and CHN

Loomer wrote:

Rage trading is aargh Merrin scored rubbish, I'm rage trading. Brailey hasn't been in my 17 last 2 weeks. I can understand why you want to upgrade him but you're paying top $$$$ and burning 2 trades. Compulsive trading maybe?

What ever sort of trades it is.

I want to improve my reserves. But not sure on best approach.

filthridden wrote:Ponga really is an interesting prospect...

He is an awesome player, fast, nimble, elusive. 
Will be interesting to see how many points he makes off the bench this weekend around the tired forwards.

Is ponga actually going to play off the bench or is this just based off being listed at #14?

Would surprise me if he actually played as a bench hooker.

Onthebeatpete wrote:

He is an awesome player, fast, nimble, elusive. 
Will be interesting to see how many points he makes off the bench this weekend around the tired forwards.

The problem is that he's already $200k and any points he makes, he'll increase in value.

I imagine if he does play off the bench, it'd be Coote playing hooker or going into the halves and Morgan into hooker or some such move.

Can't see Ponga playing anything but fullback at this stage.

At $200k, I honestly think I've missed the boat on this one. Death riding Ponga!

my tv broke wrote:Is ponga actually going to play off the bench or is this just based off being listed at #14?

Would surprise me if he actually played as a bench hooker.

I reckon Ponga is just there in case Coote doesn't play. I think they'll bring Leary onto the bench to spell Hampton.

Coote plays, Ponga replaced by Leary
Coote doesn't play, Ponga starts & Leary on bench.

I feel like ponga will come in if coote is no good but if cootes fine then leary will be in the 17 to relieve hampton

Edit: WL just said exactly that

Granville confirmed out for 6 weeks right?

How many minutes are we expecting Hampton to get?

Bren wrote:

White Lightning wrote:It's funny reading the Cowboys forum today. A couple of days ago they were saying yeah it's only the Tigers & we'll beat them by 50. Today after the news that Granville is out plus the fact that they reckon Morgan's shoulder injury is worse than first thought & also because they reckon Coote won't play they are now panicking & freaking out a little.

Why is that funny? Take out Macca, Milf and Boyd and the Broncos would struggle as well.

We already do....

Best choice between Cooks, Pritchard, and Hampton or is it best to give it a week?

Spectre wrote:Granville confirmed out for 6 weeks right?

How many minutes are we expecting Hampton to get?

Granville out for 3-6 weeks - quite a difference.

Rippin and Tearin wrote:
Thanks mate, yeah Im reasonably up to play on whats gone on with him this year. What I am not so confident in is whether his return to playing in the back-row from this week will translate into scores similar to last year. Will his role be the same or have things changed in the Raiders pack? For example, he is listed at 12, but I thought he played much of last year at lock.

Not sure if you got an answer rnt. He's playing the same role this year, out on the rhs 2nd row, feeding tries to leipana. Soli and Bateman played lock last year, as they are doing this year (with priest also spending some time there it seems).

Random wrote:Best choice between Cooks, Pritchard, and Hampton or is it best to give it a week?

Cook is the best option but how he scores as a starter with Farah there or if he gets benched again is unknown. Pritchard misses too many tackles and doesn't average enough to be worth a buy in my opinion. Hampton too risky for my liking.

I can hold off on trading any of them in and get a McInnes/Macca in by Round 8 but y'know I still get this feeling like Cook could be a good shout. Dude is an out and out 80 minute gun Hooker but just keeps getting screwed over.

Regarding Yates. Thoughts? No real info I can find on him, even checked out their forum for any scrap.

Rory Kostjasyn will be on the bench once he is over his injury (soon you would think)
Pauli Pauli is playing NSW cup so won't be far away either
Anthony Tupou is now playing and unsure what is happening with Jacob Saifiti
So there are a lot of bench players for only 4 spots.

No hurry to trade out Yates. If he plays he'll make cash (short term at least)

If not just sit on him until a decent trade option appears. Yates to JBrom might be viable in a couple of weeks.