2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 49

This weeks trades

Whitehead>> Surgess
Wallace >> Brown

Also contemplating Moga down grade, maybe to Fui for bye coverage.

just noticed if I downgrade Frawley to Laybutt I can't attempt loophole as he would become an AE.

I might go Frawley to Laybutt to fund my Hess to JDB trade.
Keeping Slater for the time being... Looking at Cwalker to Edwards after this weekend

If QLD lose game 2, is Slater retained for game 3 ? its a strange one to be honest. Not picked for game 1 but now he's in for the must win, would they change their minds again if game 3 is a dead rubber? You could make a strong argument for putting Boyd back to #1 and Munster to left centre as a view towards 2018..

really hoping Cleary brings MWZ back after MCK got stepped all over last week, not just for the bye round points, him getting DPP would probably save me a trade down the line

My team for this round resembles closely the structure of how the raiders play.

Average start, Strong middle. And then epic fail.

Mcinnes
Vaughan, Gurgess
JDB,Surgess, Gallen, Crichton, Brown
Munster, Hampton
Fuimaono
Nofo

Even with the storm missing McLean, Welch, Glasby for rnd 15 (and probably rnd 18 too), there are no cheap Storm FRFs in the system

Fortitude wrote:My team for this round resembles closely the structure of how the raiders play.

Average start, Strong middle. And then epic fail.

Mcinnes
Vaughan, Gurgess
JDB,Surgess, Gallen, Crichton, Brown
Munster, Hampton
Fuimaono
Nofo

I can't beleive Nofo's price bro. He has to bounce back surely.

wolfking wrote:

I can't beleive Nofo's price bro.  He has to bounce back surely.

If they fuck of MCK and put in a real centre who can pass and defend, he is in with a shout.

Fortitude wrote:

If they fuck of MCK and put in a real centre who can pass and defend, he is in with a shout.

I'd be surprised if MCK keeps the gig this week over MWZ.

my tv broke wrote:If QLD lose game 2, is Slater retained for game 3 ? its a strange one to be honest. Not picked for game 1 but now he's in for the must win, would they change their minds again if game 3 is a dead rubber? You could make a strong argument for putting Boyd back to #1 and Munster to left centre as a view towards 2018..

Not as crazy as it sounds since anything could be possible if qld get smashed as hard as we did in game 1. Slater still has at least another origin campaign left in him. If we do go the scenario of giving youngsters some origin experience and leaving Slater out of game 3, we may as well leave Boyd out aswell. Holmes, Oates, Gagai in the back three, Munster can be anywhere from centre/halves or bench impact player.

Realistically this is JT's last origin run, I don't think we can let him finish by getting swept.

Milchcow wrote:
Run with Cotric until the end? Or ditch him this week

I was going to ditch him, but he's been scoring better than my 2 scoring centres so I don't think I can let him go.

Taking a punt on the storm teamlist based on previous week extended bench, I'm thinking it will be close to:
Young T, Addo Carr, Blair, Hawkins, Vunivalu, Munster, Jacks, Jbrom, Griffin, NAS, Kaufusi, Harris, Finucane, RES BSmith, Britt, Nicholls

May be a good time to downgrade a CTR to Hawkins if he does grab that ctr pos.

my tv broke wrote:Taking a punt on the storm teamlist based on previous week extended bench, I'm thinking it will be close to:
Young T, Addo Carr, Blair, Hawkins, Vunivalu, Munster, Jacks, Jbrom, Griffin, NAS, Kaufusi, Harris, Finucane, RES BSmith, Britt, Nicholls

May be a good time to downgrade a CTR to Hawkins.

Blair's injured until 18/19 ankle

mulvy wrote:

Blair's injured until 18/19 ankle

Oh yeah, well Hawkins seems like a definite starter in the centres then.

mulvy wrote:Will Hayne score well enough to make him my 18th man?

He is too damn frustrating to watch play. I'm not too happy having him on my bench but I don't want to burn another trade to dump him

I have zero faith in Hayne being worth keeping.

Centre still seems a lottery though. May as well pick who I play at random. Both my NPRs scored higher than both of my starting centres last week..

Trade in Lolo or JDB? Lolo better slightly on averages plus should play big minutes in the absence of all the Cows forwards. However JDB is cheaper, giving me 30k extra room to move on future trades. Or should I just trade none of them in and go for Taupau next round?

itsJay wrote:

He is too damn frustrating to watch play. I'm not too happy having him on my bench but I don't want to burn another trade to dump him

Yeah I don't want to waste any resources on him. I want to put everything into my 17, so the question is can I leave him there (saving a trade) as 18th man for the run home? If I had to play him for one week in my 17 would it be good enough or am I asking for trouble?

Pending TLT do I get my cashouts in now for 17 this week and 467k in the kitty 10 trades left

Cotric>Hawkins
Slater>Munster
Niko>Laybutt