2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 41

filthridden wrote:Surely if Stew dropped the stew he'd been stewing then Stew would be stewing.

Stew feels stewpid for not being stewdious enough to see this stewpendous pun.

I've been trying to think of creative ways of bringing Surgess in. The way I can do it involves binning CS9 to McInnes. What do you guys think of this since I want McInnes in my final 17 anyway? Current team with 21 trades and $75k:

CS9, KPritchard
Fifita, JWallace, FKaufusi, Tetevano
GTrain, JDB, Crichton, Whitehead, CHN, AElliot
Norman, Munster, Niko, Frawley
BJ, TTurbo, Moga, Idris
RTS, Slater, Hayne, Suli, Abbey

Plan this week is: Tturbo to SJohnson via Munster. Idris to Fuimaono
R12 trade will be CS9 to CWalker via Niko. CHN to Surgess. Fifita/Kaufusi to Graham
R13 trade will be Norman to NPR. Niko to McInnes

When origin is over I can then upgrade KPritchard back to CS9

thoughts?

filthridden wrote:How are people expecting to score next week?

I'm thinking I'll be looking at around 650 with this team

McCulloch (c)
Brown, Graham (Ese'ese)
Surgess, Crichton, Whitehead (BT, Fuimaono)
Johnson, Walker
Moga, Leilua
RTS

Treating CNK as a bonus if he plays and not including RJennings or Norman.

Actually hoping for 800+ in first bye. All being well with planned trades next week should have 17.

Friend, Brailey
Graham, JWH
Gallen (c), Surgess, Mannering, Crichton, Whitehead, Fui
SJ, KNik
Aubs, Cotric
RTS, Walker, Guth

Caahout KNik and upgrade Brailey to McInnes and will have 16 for round 13 as well (17 if Kodi cashout plays, 15 if, as is more likely, Slater doesn't back up from Origin). Will be really pissed off if Mannering not back next week as that'll cost 100+ points, but if he is hoping to hugely improve on my 500th place, before dropping back in Round 15 where I'll only have 11 or 12 players. Rounds 16/18/19 should be ok, but next fortnight is where I have to make my move.

Can't decide on the order of my trades so hoping someone on here can give me some guidance.

Had my bye planning all sorted for this week and next:
Slater, CHN, McGuire, Wallace, Smith out
Walker, Gallen, Brown, Graham, Friend in

Norman's injury fucked me over and now I'm tossing up whether to do Norman to Johnson or go to Walker as I'd previously planned on having him for the byes. Currently have gone Johnson but not locked in yet.

If I go with Johnson I am short on CHN to Gal this week but not sure what to do with my front rowers. Thinking Wallace is the better to get out this week and the smart play is to bring in Brown with Graham likely to drop a little bit more and any cash at this stage matters. On the flip side though if McGuire pulls out a big performance it might convince me enough to keep him through the byes and I'd rather have Graham than Brown for the rest of the season.

Or do I go with the bye friendly player in Walker over Johnson, upgrade CHN to Gal this week and then decide if I want to hold McGuire next week while giving myself the option of Graham or Brown if I do and just upgrade Wallace. In which case I might potentially be able to squeeze out enough dollars to upgrade Slater to Johnson next week via Walker DPP but haven't run the numbers on this yet. Don't think it would end up being in my best interest though as I think it would leave me just short on my planned Niko to Munster trade in rd 13. But part of the appeal for me was doing Slater and Niko to Walker and Munster for DPP switches when necessary, and ditching Slater rather than a benched Niko once Hunt is back. Or do Slater to rd 13 anyway, do a downgrade somewhere and upgrade Niko to the gun half that I planned on having in Norman.

Fortitude wrote:Is George Fai likely to get a go during byes and SOO?

R12 only relevant for Broncos. 10-25pts probably but ok I guess if it's a cash out

So this week I have finnnnaaaallly decided to go with this team..

C. Smith, (A. McCullough)
A. Fifita, J. Graham
E. Whitehead, P. Gallen, A. Crichton, (A. Elliott) (S. Stone) (C. Harawira Naera)
S. Johnson, A. Reynolds
J. Leilua, N. Cotric
J. Tedesco, R. Tuivasa Sheck, C. Walker

Non playing reserves, S. Radradra, J. Hayne, T. Fuimanono, B. Kelly, J. Field, J. Feeney, B. Spina

Do you guys think I should play Fuimanono or Kelly over J. Leilua???? I'm really tempted to choose Fuimanono and bench Leilua...........

Barrnett training well apparently. Just be wary Sam Stone owners, but if he was to come back into the starting side I'd assume it would be his normal lock position.

Taking a punt on Moses (in for Norman). Lets me get Surgess this week. Graham and CWalker next week

rhinoceroo wrote:

Actually hoping for 800+ in first bye. All being well with planned trades next week should have 17.

Friend, Brailey
Graham, JWH
Gallen (c), Surgess, Mannering, Crichton, Whitehead, Fui
SJ, KNik
Aubs, Cotric
RTS, Walker, Guth

Caahout KNik and upgrade Brailey to McInnes and will have 16 for round 13 as well (17 if Kodi cashout plays, 15 if, as is more likely, Slater doesn't back up from Origin). Will be really pissed off if Mannering not back next week as that'll cost 100+ points, but if he is hoping to hugely improve on my 500th place, before dropping back in Round 15 where I'll only have 11 or 12 players. Rounds 16/18/19 should be ok, but next fortnight is where I have to make my move.

Nice looking team 
I think round 15 is gonna tough for most people

wolfking wrote:Barrnett training well apparently.  Just be wary Sam Stone owners, but if he was to come back into the starting side I'd assume it would be his normal lock position.

Yeah I think he would come in for Josh king. Sammy Stone has been awesome too, doesn't miss many tackles.

I have this bad feeling Gallen is going to be essential 12 and 15 and I don't have him

rhinoceroo wrote:

Actually hoping for 800+ in first bye. All being well with planned trades next week should have 17.

Friend, Brailey
Graham, JWH
Gallen (c), Surgess, Mannering, Crichton, Whitehead, Fui
SJ, KNik
Aubs, Cotric
RTS, Walker, Guth

Caahout KNik and upgrade Brailey to McInnes and will have 16 for round 13 as well (17 if Kodi cashout plays, 15 if, as is more likely, Slater doesn't back up from Origin). Will be really pissed off if Mannering not back next week as that'll cost 100+ points, but if he is hoping to hugely improve on my 500th place, before dropping back in Round 15 where I'll only have 11 or 12 players. Rounds 16/18/19 should be ok, but next fortnight is where I have to make my move.

What planning, where are you overall this year?

Onthebeatpete wrote:

Nice looking team 
I think round 15 is gonna tough for most people

15 is impossible unless you're prepared to jump off players like Whitehead to a Tofu which is my rough strategy

Here's a conspiracy theory re: Kaufusi - Bellamy hooked him last week and named him on the bench this week to reduce the chances he gets picked for origin (remembering that he was 18th man last year) - with a big chunk of the Storm guaranteed origin spots and less depth than they've had in previous years, I could see Bellamy trying to avoid losing anyone else.

/removes tinfoil hat

SoylentGreen wrote:Here's a conspiracy theory re: Kaufusi - Bellamy hooked him last week and named him on the bench this week to reduce the chances he gets picked for origin (remembering that he was 18th man last year) - with a big chunk of the Storm guaranteed origin spots and less depth than they've had in previous years, I could see Bellamy trying to avoid losing anyone else.

/removes tinfoil hat

Haha it's a possibility, it does reduce his chances to impress the selectors.
He wasn't playing that Badly other than a few errors, he could have given him a rest also, he had pretty much played every single minute of every game this year so far.

OnTheLast wrote:

What planning, where are you overall this year?

Around 500th. I've had an eye on the byes from early on, so will be interesting to see it has effect...

not a bad theory

also reading rumours that munster is first in line to replace JT if he gets injured again...

https://www.triplem.com.au/shows/the-grill-team/content/cameron-munster-to-replace-johnathan-thurston-in-origin-report

SoylentGreen wrote:Here's a conspiracy theory re: Kaufusi - Bellamy hooked him last week and named him on the bench this week to reduce the chances he gets picked for origin (remembering that he was 18th man last year) - with a big chunk of the Storm guaranteed origin spots and less depth than they've had in previous years, I could see Bellamy trying to avoid losing anyone else.

/removes tinfoil hat

Haha, nice work mate. I still think the benching is a rev up and it could switch on the day.

pm888 wrote:not a bad theory

also reading rumours that munster is first in line to replace JT if he gets injured again...

https://www.triplem.com.au/shows/the-grill-team/content/cameron-munster-to-replace-johnathan-thurston-in-origin-report

Was going to get Munster this week, but am waiting until round 13 for this very reason.  Kid is a gun and a future star.