2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 38

Pookus McFly wrote:TLT was fairly kind to me this week.
Only complaints are CNK being dropped, and the super-obscure complaint that my cashout option Nu Brown seems to have fallen off the extended bench list in favor of Mortimer coming into the rounds where Maloney is a shoe-on to miss 12 and 15

danseels1985 wrote:If I trade out Kelly for a nuffy it leaves me with 2 red dots in my CTRs with Aubusson and BJ. Is this a bad idea? (obviously Idris is the other)

danseels1985 wrote:If I trade out Kelly for a nuffy it leaves me with 2 red dots in my CTRs with Aubusson and BJ. Is this a bad idea? (obviously Idris is the other)

zorasdomain wrote:

Pookus McFly wrote:TLT was fairly kind to me this week.
Only complaints are CNK being dropped, and the super-obscure complaint that my cashout option Nu Brown seems to have fallen off the extended bench list in favor of Mortimer coming into the rounds where Maloney is a shoe-on to miss 12 and 15

I'm concerned about the Mortimer thing too! I really thought Nu would be ahead in the pecking order but now with that team list I'm not as convinced. I was hoping to be able to buy him for Round 12 and will be super disappointed if Sharks play Morts instead.

SI wrote:

I bought NuBrown in last week.  Would be nice if he played over Origin, but was a cash out anyway for Jacks.  Morts was a surprise, but who knows what happens.  NuBrown has been named quite a few times in the 21 this year hasn't he?

code delta wrote:
So why don't you start by trading out Idis instead of Kelly? Idis not playing anymore and Kelly is?

SI wrote:

To me, yeah, too early in the season for any position mate, let alone Centre.  Only way I would even contemplate it is if I had 5 playing WFB's and the potential to DPP swap between C/WFB, which you don't.

White Lightning wrote:

I just read a comment on a Cowboys forum. They reckon Green might be using a smokescreen & make a last minute change moving Coote into the halves & bringing in Ponga at f/b. Lucky that the Cowboys play the first game so we will know for sure.
If this doesn't eventuate I would get Munster out of those 3 based on better bye coverage.

mango wrote:What's everyone doing with Ponga?

Pretty expensive to have sitting around as an NPR but with Coote being so injury prone, he could come back and kill it!

sajjos wrote:If Gray pushes Talakai out, is it worth holding him out for the bye rounds?

wolfking wrote:

Holding.  Depends on the depth of your squad though really.

mango wrote:

If I hold Ponga I'll have to play Hayne as one of my WFB's. The other concern is that if I dont do the trade now, the price difference between Ponga and Munster will keep increasing.

Pain wrote:

Surely he plays origin?

Beast From The Big East wrote:Just in regards to a few posters asking about player x or player y and commenting that they have good byes, I think it needs to be remembered that for a lot of players (Origin aside) all teams miss 2 games. If a team such as the eels, rabbits, roosters etc are deemed handy for byes it should be noted that at some point a player like Norman, Reynolds, Aubs will still be absent from your team for 2 games. If you care enough to base some trades around bye schedule, chuck your team into a bye planner for 5 minutes and see how you fair in the other rounds as it won't always be easy just to think you can field a 17 as there is only limited teams on a bye

code delta wrote:

Nice ranking.

Other than the general advice that's been offered so far, it's hard to offer more specific advice without posting your team.

pm888 wrote:anyone keen on j.edwards in the second row? starting again, potentially for 80 mins. i missed two staturday games the week before rep round so im not sure how he went
i understand woods got injured early which may have impacted his mins. but im looking at cashing chn out, and he is starting as opposed to elliot.

dont need him to set the world on fire, just some handy siro like scores would be nice to hold me over. am i missing something with the tigers that i should know about?

mango wrote:What's everyone doing with Ponga?

Pretty expensive to have sitting around as an NPR but with Coote being so injury prone, he could come back and kill it!

pm888 wrote:anyone keen on j.edwards in the second row? starting again, potentially for 80 mins. i missed two staturday games the week before rep round so im not sure how he went
i understand woods got injured early which may have impacted his mins. but im looking at cashing chn out, and he is starting as opposed to elliot.

dont need him to set the world on fire, just some handy siro like scores would be nice to hold me over. am i missing something with the tigers that i should know about?

danseels1985 wrote:

code delta wrote:
So why don't you start by trading out Idis instead of Kelly? Idis not playing anymore and Kelly is?

SI wrote:

To me, yeah, too early in the season for any position mate, let alone Centre.  Only way I would even contemplate it is if I had 5 playing WFB's and the potential to DPP swap between C/WFB, which you don't.

Yeah that's fair enough,I obviously want to upgrade Kelly or Idris but then I won't have the cash to bring in Gallen,Graham etc. I have 194k in the bank,any suggestions to what I should do? Also need funds for Suli to Munster soon as well. Any advice would be great

Smith McInnes
McGuire FKaufusi Ese ese Yates
JDB Surgess Brown Crichton CHN Fuimaono
SJ Norman Niko Hampton
BJ Aubusson Kelly Idris
RTS Slater Hayne Suli Phythian