mattnz wrote:
Is RFM going to be in your final FRF/2RF setup. You ideally want Fifi, Taupau, Lolo, Hess, Arrow as your starting 5, backed up by Surgess, maybe Kikau as higher upside than RFM and still on the rise currently so not a trade out, Manners will be a trade in when he bottoms out too as a keeper to finish strong as a round 17 player, Gallen will bottom out and start playing big minutes again, Brown will be an option leading into 13. To me RFM is expendable to get these top tier guns in now, without trading Arrow out to do it.
I wouldn't count on Manners as a keeper this year. He'd need that (near) 80 min middle forward gig back, which, after a couple people mentioning it here, and a conversation I have recently had with someone in the know, is unlikely to happen. Warriors are pretty happy with how they are tracking right now in the middle. Blair doing a good job starting the game at lock, Bunty getting through more work than was expected, and then the likes of Gavet Paasi Lisone etc. Manners looks set for an 80 min edge role which won't equate to keeper scores IMO.
So on that note, I actually think its quite hard to find FRF/2RF who will play 17 and will be keepers.
A couple that stand out to me are:
Harris
Arrow (possibly Origin?)
JDB (probably Origin?)
James (could be a stretch to think he's gonna be a keeper though)
Kick (keeper? might have to be)
So that leaves guys like:
RFM, JFH etc (boarder line keepers)
But you are not gonna want to bring any of those last group in just for their round 17 score, so you are gonna have to keep them if you bring them in surely....
SO it begs the question, who are people gonna be brining in, in the forwards to bulk up their round 17 numbers?