2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 46

Welshy wrote:
Not really mate, Friz was playing the edge reckon Graham starts with JTurbo in the 13 and a JDB bench, which would piss me off being a JBD owner

Of course. Really good player J Turbo.

I can still see the experience of Merrin and having played a lot of prop winning him a jumper ahead of a JDB. Fellow JDB owner so would be pissed off too!

trades set by Monday, Pritchard -> McInnes, Frawley -> Lolohea, only problem is that i can't play him unless i reserve him over Elliot, and i'm inclined to believe his score last week was an outlier and he'll give me one last great score before being turned into Tolo next week.

I'd prefer Vaughn over JDB cause I don't own Vaughn

Cotric to someone who plays Round 15 (Marsters?), JWH to Fifita. Setting up final 17.

my tv broke wrote:

fuck, you had me there. aha

Sad that it could have been true

What to do with Pritchard? I already have McInnes and only 12 trades left so trading him to Smith might have to be the go.

I've not had much luck the past few rounds expecially with some players that I brought in for the byes. Coupled with some injuries, I've taken a big hit in the rankings.

My last two rounds have been shockers only managing 650 from 14 this week, having wasted some trades lately I'm starting to run low and cash itb is minimal so not sure where too from here.

If Smith and Graham are out I'm in a bit of trouble.

My predicted 17 based on Graham and Norman being out

Smith (McInnes)
Brown, Gurgess
Surgess, Gallen, Crichton (Whitehead, BThompson)
Johnson, Walker
Moga, Leilua
Teddy, Lolo, RTS (Dedwards)

Not terrible but not great either.
BThompson probably turned into a cheapie soon to upgrade... someone. :-/

Is there a rumour Smith could be out for longer?

filthridden wrote:Is there a rumour Smith could be out for longer?

I'm worried. He looked wrecked after origin (and during). Never not backed up previosuly. Could he be broken?

Finch wrote:Moses injured

http://www.thefaultreport.com.au/sport/mitchell-moses-knocked-out-by-tackle-bag-at-training/

I thought this was real at first and spat my coffee over the screen when reading the comments from Arthur.

So Bodene is getting upgraded to most likely Tolo.  It sucks Manly have a bye next week cause I'd probably jump on Marty right away.  Still might.

Not sold on Merrin still, he would have only had a 45 odd if he didn't make that bust.

Suli hitting the 300K, nice.

Pain wrote:

I'm worried.  He looked wrecked after origin (and during).  Never not backed up previosuly.  Could he be broken?

What is he 34? He's a freak when it comes to the game but you can't keep performing at that level forever. Granted if they played Saturday or Sunday he probably would have played, but broken or not, the guy is a champion and is human and I'm one year younger and couldn't image putting myself through what he and all of these guys do.

Which 2 would you rather have as your starting centres from DWalker, SMat and Cotric?
I want one of them to become Tedesco and it was always going to be Cotric that would go because of his byes, but he keeps outscoring the other two so I'm not sure what to do.

zorasdomain wrote:Which 2 would you rather have as your starting centres from DWalker, SMat and Cotric?
I want one of them to become Tedesco and it was always going to be Cotric that would go because of his byes, but he keeps outscoring the other two so I'm not sure what to do.

I'd put Cotric over both of those at the moment. Then SMat then Walker. SMat is a gun but just lacks consistency and obviously the head knocks.

I have SMat and will hold him and play him put I think what affected him was there was one point where he dropped off the tackle and stayed on the ground, obviously copped another knock. I thought he was done, but somehow he stayed out there, but wasn't the same the rest of the game. Saying that, all three don't play next week and Walker and SMat will both come in handy in 18. Cotric just finds those easy junk fantasy points we are all looking for.

Thinking this week I'll do Hampton > BSmith & Wallace > Taupau. 

Will give me a 17 of:

Friend
Taupau, McGuire, Graham
Gallen (C), Taumalolo, Surgess, Mannering, Crichton, Merrin
Munster, CWalker
SMat, Cotric
Slater, RTS, Semi

I'll switch Suli in as last reserve for Graham if any of my earlier NPR's look like giving me a bad AE should Graham not play.

wolfking wrote:

I'd put Cotric over both of those at the moment.  Then SMat then Walker.  SMat is a gun but just lacks consistency and obviously the head knocks.  

I have SMat and will hold him and play him put I think what affected him was there was one point where he dropped off the tackle and stayed on the ground, obviously copped another knock.  I thought he was done, but somehow he stayed out there, but wasn't the same the rest of the game.  Saying that, all three don't play next week and Walker and SMat will both come in handy in 18.  Cotric just finds those easy junk fantasy points we are all looking for.

Thanks heaps for the reply, I think I mostly agree. Dylan is also the most expensive after his price rises from his huge scores so I get the most out of him if I sell. He's a nice POD when he does go huge but I don't expect him to get many more 60+ scores. At least not until after I sell him