2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 46

Frawley to Lolohea with my first trade
Should have a high tackle count every week and be good for 35. Nice 18th man in the run home
Considering Cotric to Mansour but I don't want to trade in an origin hopeful
Finally have some direction in my team so I'll start working towards what I want

Rts>Tedesco
Cotric>Mansour
Suli>TTurbo
Radradra>cash out
Talakai>cash out
Whitehead>Harris
Jwal>Vaughan
Tolman>Fifita
Capewell>cash out
Hampton>cash out

Leaves me with this team and 5 trades
Smith McInnes
Fifita Graham Vaughan NPR
Gallen Crichton JDB Brown Harris NPR
Sj Lolohea NPR NPR
Sione TTurbo NPR NPR
Walker Tedesco Mansour Hayne NPR

Just gotta figure it when to make the trades

If we work off the assumption that wallace makes game II is he a sell now?

Jorge Taufua out for Manly for the rest of the season. Does that mean Matt Wright gets the wing spot?

That brief moment of satisfaction when you open the NRL Fantasy app and it asks if you like NRL Fantasy and after a shit week were your team scores poorly you decide to press "NO".

So few things, I haven't been to active the last couple of weeks so I am sorry about that, and the list of questions I am about to ask.

- J. Graham officially out for this week and/or is he a must trade?
- What has happened with Sione Mata'Utia?
- Why are we ditching E. Whitehead now?
- J. Bromwich bottomed out? Worth waiting to grab him to see if he bounces back.
- Taumalolo, Taupau, Mannering, Merrin if I have to trade out J. Graham?
- How do I buy trades again?

im not convinced billy plays origin 2. who does he replace? do they put boyd on a wing and dump oates or gagai? oates and gagai were there best from origin one. they could put gagai in the centres for o'neil and play holmes on the wing? boyd on the wing imo will be a massive fail wen you can start a set with val holmes instead. so will they straight swap billy for boyd? .... cant see it

ps i have slater lol

Did many people end up holding on to Normy? Bloody hope he's back this week as expected, this Graham shit means my team needs it big time.

What am I going to do with Cook (Currently have McInnes/Cook). I have 80k bank but if I just ignore him he's just going to bleed cash & end up being worthless. I only have 12 trades & ultimately I want Smith back in my team but with Smith only playing 3 of the next 6 games he can wait until round 20 when the Storm have completed their 2nd trade. I don't really want to waste a trade getting another hooker & then trading again to Smith but it looks like I have no alternative. So do I downgrade to Brandon Smith or go sideways to someone like Brailey or go expensive like J. Friend or do I just get Smith & be damned. Thoughts & thanks.

no_worryers wrote:im not convinced billy plays origin 2. who does he replace? do they put boyd on a wing and dump oates or gagai? oates and gagai were there best from origin one. they could put gagai in the centres for o'neil and play holmes on the wing? boyd on the wing imo will be a massive fail wen you can start a set with val holmes instead. so will they straight swap billy for boyd? .... cant see it

ps i have slater lol

As a Slater owner but a QLD fan. I think the best option is O'Neill out, Boyd to the wing, Slater to FB.

He looked so good this past week and showed how great he is playing off the back of Cronk. I don't think we need someone like Valentine Holmes at the start of the set, we made decent meters coming out of our own end for the most part and that wont change. For me personally I think O'Neill is a alright club player but he is so average when it comes to Origin level.

Finch wrote:Jorge Taufua out for Manly for the rest of the season. Does that mean Matt Wright gets the wing spot?

Matt Wright currently playing fullback.
When Tom Turbo is back, Wright will play wing. Until then it will probably be Jono Wright, or Brad Parker.

no_worryers wrote:im not convinced billy plays origin 2. who does he replace? do they put boyd on a wing and dump oates or gagai? oates and gagai were there best from origin one. they could put gagai in the centres for o'neil and play holmes on the wing? boyd on the wing imo will be a massive fail wen you can start a set with val holmes instead. so will they straight swap billy for boyd? .... cant see it

ps i have slater lol

Boyd to wing Gagai to ctr has gotta be the path they take. Val likely misses out unless he replaces Oates (doubt it) or injuries occur. I finally got around to watching the first half of Origin and from what i saw, having someone like Slater sniffing around the middle to convert those half breaks or run that inside ball off Cronk would have gone a long way. Teddy was actually doing exactly that for the Blues and it was a big difference.

Welshy wrote:Might roll the dice on Billy the kid getting selected for origin 2

Billy - ARey via Walker
Whitehead - Merrin

Adam Reynolds in some doubt. Didn't finish the afternoon session today with his left knee heavily strapped.

Chucky wrote:
Adam Reynolds in some doubt. Didn't finish the afternoon session today with his left knee heavily strapped.

Literally just reversed trades after seeing the news mate. thanks fella

no_worryers wrote:im not convinced billy plays origin 2. who does he replace? do they put boyd on a wing and dump oates or gagai? oates and gagai were there best from origin one. they could put gagai in the centres for o'neil and play holmes on the wing? boyd on the wing imo will be a massive fail wen you can start a set with val holmes instead. so will they straight swap billy for boyd? .... cant see it

ps i have slater lol

Slater has to come in, he has been in such good form and has looked so dangerous in recent weeks. His combination with Smith and Cronk has barely missed a beat since the first couple of games back.

O'Neill was schooled by Hayne and was generally woeful. He will make way for Gagai to shift in one and Boyd will go to the wing I think. Holmes will probably miss out unless Oates gets dropped but I thought he was good, and they gave him a solid test.

Edit: beaten by Random and TFBB.

Hopefully if A-Rey is ruled out they either:
(a) move Walker to the halves or
(b) move Farah to the halves & start Cook at hooker for 80 minutes

(b) would solve my Cook problem but they'll do (a) for sure.

AL wrote:


Edit: beaten by Random and TFBB.

Lets not, Archer works better.... lets just go with Archer.... please

TysonFrizellsBottomBitch wrote:
Lets not, Archer works better.... lets just go with Archer.... please

Some of my finest work yet

multiple.scoregasms wrote:
Whitehead>Harris

I think you have to be mindful that harris may play a different role in the bye weeks.

i was tempted by harris but there are a few unknowns with the team make-up so i would wait for team lists week 15 at the very least

TysonFrizellsBottomBitch wrote:
Lets not, Archer works better.... lets just go with Archer.... please

Sorry Archer! Although to be fair, I did write Archer to start with, but there has been so many name and avatar changes of late I wasn't 100% sure if Archer was even right! So I thought TFBB was safer!

AL wrote:

Sorry Archer! Although to be fair, I did write Archer to start with, but there has been so many name and avatar changes of late I wasn't 100% sure if Archer was even right! So I thought TFBB was safer!

Stick with TFBB mate

I want the name Archer scratched from the face of the earth.....