2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 46

Fortitude wrote:Hampton worth holding on to until end of byes? or just boot him now? I figure Stone is in same boat.

You've held him this long, might as well make use out of him in 15 otherwise boot him before he loses all the cash he's made.

any ideas moving forward?
15 trades 140k

Farah, Smith jr
Vaughn, Graeme, Fifita, nuffty
Surgess, Taumalolo, Crichton, Gallen, Manners, Brown
Sj, Pearce, Frawley, nuffty
Cotric, Fuimoano, Kelly, Idris
Tedesco, RTS, Slater, Semi, Hayne

Any advice appreciated.

I've seen a few people trading fifita in, makes me think I'm doing something wrong as im trading him out next week with the plan of getting him back round 19.

Planning on running with this team from round 20.

Smith
Fifita Vaughan graham
Gallen Taumalolo Surgess Merrin Chrichton DeBelin
Johnson Cleary
Turbo Leiulua
Munster Slater Tedesco Elliot (18th man)

Will only have 3 trades for the run home

What final 17 are others aiming for, want to see if i stand a chance?

no_worryers wrote:any ideas moving forward?
15 trades 140k

Farah, Smith jr
Vaughn, Graeme, Fifita, nuffty
Surgess, Taumalolo, Crichton, Gallen, Manners, Brown
Sj, Pearce, Frawley, nuffty
Cotric, Fuimoano, Kelly, Idris
Tedesco, RTS, Slater, Semi, Hayne

Any advice appreciated.

You need another solid Centre I think, and Farah is an interesting choice. Could get Edwards and move Hayne up for Idris. He could go alright again back at FB. OR spend 50K odd and take a punt on BJ. Should go back to becoming a keeper. You'll need money to get rid of Farah later on too.

Johnny B Goode wrote:Put my team up for perusal, why not.

Frawley to Laybutt because I'm backing him to get a spot next week.  
Whitehead to Lolo so I don't deal with another big price rise
11 trades left. 60k in the bank

Smith, McInnes
Wallace, Graham, Leota, Sele
Gallen, Mannering, ET, Crichton, Surgess, Lolo  
SJ, ARey, Nu Brown, Laybutt
Cotric, Sione, Manu, Fuimaono
Guth, RTS, Slater, Edwards, Burns  

If ARey is out which he undoubtedly will be, I guess I'll have to shift Guth to the HLF's and bring in a nuffie DPP which ain't ideal but oh well I picked Mr Glass so that's what I get.

Would they not just use 2 of Hampton, Asiata and Thompson?

no_worryers wrote:any ideas moving forward?
15 trades 140k

Farah, Smith jr
Vaughn, Graeme, Fifita, nuffty
Surgess, Taumalolo, Crichton, Gallen, Manners, Brown
Sj, Pearce, Frawley, nuffty
Cotric, Fuimoano, Kelly, Idris
Tedesco, RTS, Slater, Semi, Hayne

Any advice appreciated.

question marks over frawley and fui's roles this week as jrey and goodwin may return pushing them back to the reserves.

i guess you could risk running with hayne in the ctrs by cashing out idris for a ctr/wfb nuff.

but a lot of us will have one shitty centre we are trying to fix. but its so hard to deal with it beacuse there arent too many good options with byes.

personally waiting on rond 16 and then moving moga to turbo if he is back. otherwise im not sure what the plan is

Aaron Woods must be happy he has left the Tigers for the stability of the Bulldogs

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/canterbury-bulldogs-players-call-crisis-meeting-to-arrest-nrl-slump-20170605-gwkv9n.html

chitmunkey wrote:I've seen a few people trading fifita in, makes me think I'm doing something wrong as im trading him out next week with the plan of getting him back round 19.

Surgess was one of the most traded out players last week.

Sometime the masses don't have a very long term strategy.

Its a crazy time to trade Fifita in, as he misses 3 of the next 6, and of the 3 he does play, 2 will be backing up from origin

Mighty Fishes wrote:

That's a nice looking team! I'm contemplating bringing in Smith for Frawley in a few weeks but I'm kinda happy with my side.

I reckon Radradra is the way to go looks like he's hit a bit of form back. In saying that I said SJ was a great captaincey choice last week

Thanks mate, that's all good, I was gonna go SJ anyway.
I have bought in Taumalolo this week for Whitehead and Lolohea for Stone. Do you think I should bring in a NPR instead of Lolohea instead? That way I can easily bring in Fifita next week but Lolohea gives me an extra person. Otherwise I will need to do 3 trades to bring Fifita in.

Onthebeatpete wrote:

Thanks mate, that's all good, I was gonna go SJ anyway.
I have bought in Taumalolo this week for Whitehead and Lolohea for Stone. Do you think I should bring in a NPR instead of Lolohea instead? That way I can easily bring in Fifita next week but Lolohea gives me an extra person. Otherwise I will need to do 3 trades to bring Fifita in.

How many trades do you have left?

no_worryers wrote:any ideas moving forward?
15 trades 140k

Farah, Smith jr
Vaughn, Graeme, Fifita, nuffty
Surgess, Taumalolo, Crichton, Gallen, Manners, Brown
Sj, Pearce, Frawley, nuffty
Cotric, Fuimoano, Kelly, Idris
Tedesco, RTS, Slater, Semi, Hayne

Any advice appreciated.

If nothing else I'd look at cashing out Idris. You'll need that money at some point. I think if you use Haynes DPP you can probably live with the C's you have until Turbo comes back at which time I would grab him. C options really aren't great right now, particularly when you keep the bye schedule in mind.

I guess you are kinda stuck with your hooker situation until after 19 when I presume you'll go Farah to Smith?

I personally think Rapana is still a good buy right now. If nothing else is urgent then perhaps RTS to Rapana could be ok ok option, but I guess that depends how you see those two moving forward. My thoughts are that RTS won't be a top 3 WFB but Rapana will be and I don't think that trade gets any cheaper. Then get confirmation on Slater and look to lose him next week.

I think you'll probably need to do something with Frawley next week too. The obvious option is Munster as he has great Byes from here and you can switch him to WFB later if you want. Probably fund that with Slater assuming he gets the Origin call up.

@pm888 @wolfking

cheers boys exactly what i was thinking idris to 138k nuffty. as for a plan
biggest problems generating cash and having crap bye coverage frawley to lolohea this week i reckons a goer. flick slater for edwards rts for nofo? next week fuck knows. these byes are a headache.

Mighty Fishes wrote:

How many trades do you have left?

Same as you lol. I think Lolohea is good, round 15 I can switch him up to the halves with walker to partner sj and he can cover my other fullbacks or halves with byes and injuries.
Maybe I'll get Vaughan instead of Fifita

Rippin and Tearin wrote:

If nothing else I'd look at cashing out Idris. You'll need that money at some point. I think if you use Haynes DPP you can probably live with the C's you have until Turbo comes back at which time I would grab him. C options really aren't great right now, particularly when you keep the bye schedule in mind.

I guess you are kinda stuck with your hooker situation until after 19 when I presume you'll go Farah to Smith?

I personally think Rapana is still a good buy right now. If nothing else is urgent then perhaps RTS to Rapana could be ok ok option, but I guess that depends how you see those two moving forward. My thoughts are that RTS won't be a top 3 WFB but Rapana will be and I don't think that trade gets any cheaper. Then get confirmation on Slater and look to lose him next week.

I think you'll probably need to do something with Frawley next week too. The obvious option is Munster as he has great Byes from here and you can switch him to WFB later if you want. Probably fund that with Slater assuming he gets the Origin call up.

bang on mate, i need funds for farah to smith it wont be too hard upgrading cotric to t-turbo round 16 along with hayne as my other keeper ctr.
i think i'l need a back three of teddy rapana and mansour/slater. im not sure whats the better play, buy rapana cheap (next week) and sacrifice bye round points or or grab lolhea potential cash cow and ........ nah fuck that. reverse trades

Just putting it out there.

The tigers seem to have a lot of long-term injuries and this Kyle Lovett guy playing 80 and scoring well. Is he worth a look

I sort of been sticking my head in the sand lately and not knowing where to start to fix up my team. Feels like I have too many mid rangers that I need to start converting to solid guns

Currently have
McInnes, Pritchard
Vaughan, JWallace, JGraham
GTrain, Burgess, Chrichton, JDB, Whitehead, AElliot
SJ, Munster, Niko, Frawley,
Leilua, Moga, Suli, Fui
CWalker, Slater, RTS, Hayne, FUAbbey

I'm getting a bit worried having only 14 trades remaining and $60k in bank. I eventually need to go Pritchard to CS9 and JWallace to Fifita which means at least 4 trades needed to do cash outs and then the upgrade.

My first thought is to cash out Niko and upgrade Whitehead to Lolo. The other option is to upgrade RTS to Teddy/Rapana but not sure if that is wise yet.

Is Leilua worth a shot even though he still has two byes to go? His price is juicy if he can bounce back and find some form.

no_worryers wrote:

bang on mate, i need funds for farah to smith it wont be too hard upgrading cotric to t-turbo round 16 along with hayne as my other keeper ctr.
i think i'l need a back three of teddy rapana and mansour/slater. im not sure whats the better play, buy rapana cheap (next week) and sacrifice bye round points or or grab lolhea potential cash cow and ........ nah fuck that. reverse trades

You've got a few more trades left than me so our situations may be a little different. However, for me its about getting guys in now that are keepers for the rest of the year. For that reason Lolohea just isn't an option. I see Rapana as a must have (perhaps my judgement is clouded by his last two games...) but when you look at the back 3 options there isn't a heap to chose from when looking at keepers. Teddy, Rapana + 1 is it IMO. On top of that you have to work out how much money you have moving forward and who you can afford. When I put the pieces together Rapana is the buy for me this week.

Feline wrote:Just putting it out there.

The tigers seem to have a lot of long-term injuries and this Kyle Lovett guy playing 80 and scoring well. Is he worth a look

He'll score alright whilst he's in the team. But has poor job security so could get dropped at any point. I'd only use him if you have the trades to replace him if you need to later on.

At $329k I don't think he represents amazing value

Congratulations to the 15 clubs who aren't the Warriors for managing to not sign Blake Ayshford for next year.