2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 38

SoylentGreen wrote:I'm really stumped as to what to do - I need to get rid of Lamb, but don't have enough in the bank to upgrade him to anyone useful that I can see. I've got a whole bunch of cows that are still earning money, and the players I'd consider downgrading to raise some cash for the Lamb upgrade are in positions where the downgrade options are thin on the ground. Any thoughts?

91k in the bank, 22 trades.

Smith, Friend
McGuire, Wallace, Kaufusi, Yates
Gallen, Mannering, Crichton, Whitehead, CHN, Stone
Norman, Lamb, Elgey, Hampton
SMat, Cotric, Suli, Kelly
Slater, RTS, Semi, Abbey, TRD

Any bright ideas?

have you considered Frawley ? has the starting spot for 5 weeks, plays round 12, extra $100k to the bhank !!

I'm grabbing Frawley this week. Lamb is a spud and has to go before he bleeds money. There are no base price options likely to get a run and I think Frawley will perform well enough to hold the starting spot with a couple of wins. Could see Jrey come back off the bench after signing elsewhere while Mbye and Frawley start to build a combination for next year. The fantastic byes don't hurt the decision

luckynumber8 wrote:Is Farah the definite Blues hooker?

I have Cook and am torn on whether to sell him now or ride him over origin. If Robbie doesn't make the NSW team then Cook will keep playing 50ish minutes.

Not definite but for lack of any other real stand-out options, Loyal Laurie will stick to his pack of almost had it players. If Penrith weren't going so shit Peter Wallace probably could have overtaken Farah. Peats is an option but Daley's going to worry about his match fitness, injury proneness and lack of 'experience'.
I personally would also take McInnes or Cook over Farah but Daley will always do it his way.

filthridden wrote:

Not sure how they can or why they would pick Robbie when hes averaging about 45mins a game (excluding his 80 and his 7).

Farah will play origin !!
1. uninjured, so is capable of 70 - 80 minutes
2. only on the bench coz they are trying to bring Cook on
3 with Gallen not playing they could not afford to lose Farah's experience as well in one year

Anyone else bringing in Elliot or is he a trap?

Anything I need to specifically look out for in team lists tomorrow guys?

danseels1985 wrote:Anyone else bringing in Elliot or is he a trap?

What are your expectations from Elliot?

Anyone thinking Lichaa might have turned into a good midrange cash cow?

Dananz wrote:Anyone thinking Lichaa might have turned into a good midrange cash cow?

Gaah, BE still 50.

Welshy wrote:Anything I need to specifically look out for in team lists tomorrow guys?

jrey, dugan, thurston injured - welch gone this year
bhunt coming back from injury
elliot if he secures a starting spot
skd,jbrom (round 12 return?),proctor drug suspensions

hoping idris is back, field is in the 17

also just reading trex gone for the year. done his acl

Elgey > Frawley and Kelly > Semi are what I have atm. Problem is, huge risk and doesn't really build my cash fund a lot. Will leave me at 24 trades.

Welshy wrote:Anything I need to specifically look out for in team lists tomorrow guys?

pm went into more detail, but pretty much just picking out the short term guys from the long term replacements. Going to be quite the shakeup to teams this week with all the injuries over the weekend as well as behaviour suspensions and then the regular suspensions we found out about from last rd (Papa, Gurgess etc.), so it could be a bit of a battle separating the noise in your head and not falling for some short term traps. 

I think this week, being so close to origin is going to particularly tempting with the thinking "Oh he's only meant to be a 2 week replacement, but if somehow he holds the spot, just look at those byes, what a cashout!". No doubt I'll fall for it.

Milchcow wrote:

What are your expectations from Elliot?

Hopefully 30-35 a game and good bye coverage. Worth it?

I'm thinking of getting Elliot but he has to start. He will be full of confidence after scoring a try for Country after scoring 2 tries the previous week so he's in great form. Also in the big bye rounds he could be playing lock for Klemmer which will see him more involved. I think his long term prospects are much better than Frawley's & that he can lock down a starting role. Also the fact that he has a b/e of -7 this week will see a good price rise. I need a good starting downgrade option to get Norman & he's the cheapest starting option out there. My trades this week are looking like:
Winterstein out - Elliot in &
Lamb out - Norman in

Exactly what I was thinking as Winterstein has peaked and if i get Elliot in I can trade out McGuire for Gallen or Graham next week. I posted my team up earlier but nobody responded so I hope these are good trades

Cheers PM and Arch!

danseels1985 wrote:Exactly what I was thinking as Winterstein has peaked and if i get Elliot in I can trade out McGuire for Gallen or Graham next week. I posted my team up earlier but nobody responded so I hope these are good trades

I'm liking the fact that as soon as he came on for Country he scored a great try which showed his speed & he nearly scored again but in this instance he showed his strength as he was held by 3-4 defenders & he managed to struggle free but just fell short of the try line. I think his confidence & form are sky high atm & that's why I'm getting him. He's not a cash cow in the purest sense as he's priced at 238k but with a negative b/e if he scores in the 40's this week he'll make good money. He's also proved he can find the try line because he runs good lines, has speed, a good fend & is strong.

White Lightning wrote:I'm thinking of getting Elliot but he has to start. He will be full of confidence after scoring a try for Country after scoring 2 tries the previous week so he's in great form. Also in the big bye rounds he could be playing lock for Klemmer which will see him more involved. I think his long term prospects are much better than Frawley's & that he can lock down a starting role. Also the fact that he has a b/e of -7 this week will see a good price rise. I need a good starting downgrade option to get Norman & he's the cheapest starting option out there. My trades this week are looking like:
Winterstein out - Elliot in &
Lamb out - Norman in

Nice trades. Yip Winterstein has peaked and has bad byes so needs to be sold. Looks like Elliot should be a great pickup over they bye period

I'd pick Elliot up but right now my 2RF consists of Gal, Manners, ET, Crichton, Whitehead and Sele. I'm happy with that for now except for the part where Sele is useless but oh well what can you do.

Johnny B Goode wrote:I'd pick Elliot up but right now my 2RF consists of Gal, Manners, ET, Crichton, Whitehead and Sele. I'm happy with that for now except for the part where Sele is useless but oh well what can you do.  

Do you need him with the 2fr you already have?