2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 46

my tv broke wrote:Tweeted Lone Scout re Hipgrave getting DPP as he is basically in the same boat as Fonua. He said theyll add him to the list of considerations. Might help anyone that is considering him.

I am quit interested in Hipgrave. Kid is a beast and is great to watch him play. Score was hampered by a lot of negatives (-18) last week, but he could well be a keeper if he tones that down. Or at least a great DPP 18th man. All assuming he keeps the edge spot that is.
So cheap still that I think I can afford to give him one more week and pickup round 14 if he guns it. Shouldn't miss a game from then on.

@Liverpool_Bulldog so would you not bring Fifita in this week? If I don't get him now, I probably won't until his price settles back to 900ish

Pookus McFly wrote:

Also saw photos of him (and Holland) practicing their goal kicking with the trainer on twitter this morning. No Mbye in the photo
No reason not to keep and play at least until round 18

Im an MBye owner but I fully expect him to lose his goal kicking.

Any reason why Levi appears twice on the first post B/Es?

Rapture_NRL wrote:@Liverpool_Bulldog so would you not bring Fifita in this week? If I don't get him now, I probably won't until his price settles back to 900ish

I have Fifita already so my view is slightly different.

I think he may be an exception to the rule though

filthridden wrote:Any reason why Levi appears twice on the first post B/Es?

I like to keep people on their toes

Pookus McFly wrote:

Also saw photos of him (and Holland) practicing their goal kicking with the trainer on twitter this morning. No Mbye in the photo
No reason not to keep and play at least until round 18

Bulldogs just tweeted some photos of mbye "doing extrqs today" practicing his goal kicking haha.

Shirts off too, for those that way inclined.

Milchcow wrote:

I like to keep people on their lactoes

Fixed

Anyone else not have any Eels or Broncos in their squad?

Milchcow wrote:

I like to keep people on their toes

SoylentGreen wrote:I've decided to get rid of Lamb & Sorensen for Martin & Fonua. Only problem is I don't know who to play in my 17.

Cook
Fifita, JFH
Taumalolo, Murray, RFM
DCE, Reynolds
Mitchell, Dugan
Teddy, Ponga, Fonua

Smith, Su'a, Martin, Kikau

Maloney, Havili, Thompson, Isaako.

Any advice on starting 17 would be appreciated.

My 2 cents, see edits above ^^

Whats everyones team value looking like? Judging by the rankings page id say most top 100 teams are between 14ish to 13.6ish?

filthridden wrote:Anyone else not have any Eels or Broncos in their squad?

yep

Havili > Harris is a pretty tempting little trade this week.

Fortitude wrote:Whats everyones team value looking like? Judging by the rankings page id say most top 100 teams are between 14ish to 13.6ish?

13.57 mil with 30k in the bank. Ranked outside the top 2000 though haha.

my tv broke wrote:

Bulldogs just tweeted some photos of mbye "doing extrqs today" practicing his goal kicking haha.

Shirts off too, for those that way inclined.

Maybe he hasn't lost the goal kicking just yet.

13.55 inc bank. Regrets not jumping on baloney and rein

Initially, I had traded out JFH (to Taupau).

Now that I'm mulling over my 17 for the week, I'm considering playing Fonua instead of Maloney (moving Mbye up into halves).

Now, If I'm going to leave him out of my 17 anyway, shouldn't I just trade him out now, instead of JFH?

I'm thinking Maloney verse the Dragons may struggle while at the same time Cleary takes on more of the ball. Fonua could rack up some TB's verse the Doggies.

hymenbustas wrote:13.55 inc bank. Regrets not jumping on baloney and rein

13.79 total. 17 trades left, after making two this week. Rank 350

13.85 with 17 trades left after 1 possible trade out of Havili > Harris, purely for final team purposes. Rank 52