by Showbags Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:56 pm
To the Brailey owners out there. Why no love for Friend? He should be $490k next week and bottomed out after a few injury affected games and reduced minutes. You would say he is good for 50-55 points a game even WITH reduced minutes so won't lose value. Over origin he plays alternate byes to mcinnes and he is up against Raiders, Broncos, Tigers, Storm, Sharks and Rabbits, so with a few players out for origin you would reckon he plays close to 80min and against those teams he should rack up some tackles.
Since start of year he has been pencilled into my squad to trade out smith come round 12 for. My only concern is he and smith share the round 19 bye.
Obviously Macca is probably a better scorer (barring niko) but he shares a bye with Mcinnes
Pritchard has better byes....but please, he will average 35, that is 105 over 3 big byes. Friend will make that in 2 games so net points is identical over 3 byes and you are ahead overall for having a better scorer during non bye rounds.
Am I missing something? I know he has more back up on the bench, but he is about the cheapest he will be and I reckon Pearce is in origin and we know how well he scores without him.
so Brailey to Friend
round 12 smith to Mcinnes
Round 19, Friend to Smith
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