2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 50

My team has been sliding for weeks now, advice very appreciated.

Cook
Kikau Fifita
Tolo JTurbo Hess
DCE Matterson
Fonua Aitken
Latrell Ponga Thompson

Mcinnes
Calker
Martin
Isaako

Olive
TMM
Brimson
Nicholls

Looking to trade out Nicholls and Thompson. Got 955k ITB. Thinking I am short a quality WFB and FRF. Tedesco could be good but leaves me with 555k and no one is worth getting at that price (that I have seen, but of course am glad to be proven wrong). Cotric, Mbye and RTS look to be the best of the cheaper blokes that play rnd 17 but then again Cotric could play origin and Mbye could get BYE if at Tigers by then...any ideas on what to do with my big money to fix my mess apreciated.

Cheers

Pain wrote:Milf could be a good pick up

No origin. No denver test. Plays 17. Scoring has been ok.

Not many halves fit the above criteria.

Smart Thinking, I would definitely jump on if I didn't already have DCE, Matterson, Brimson, TMM, Calker

Weird the storm will go from 7th to 4th for having the week off

Shooter McGavin wrote:My team has been sliding for weeks now, advice very appreciated.

Cook
Kikau Fifita
Tolo JTurbo Hess
DCE Matterson
Fonua Aitken
Latrell Ponga Thompson

Mcinnes
Calker
Martin
Isaako

Olive
TMM
Brimson
Nicholls

Looking to trade out Nicholls and Thompson. Got 955k ITB. Thinking I am short a quality WFB and FRF. Tedesco could be good but leaves me with 555k and no one is worth getting at that price (that I have seen, but of course am glad to be proven wrong). Cotric, Mbye and RTS look to be the best of the cheaper blokes that play rnd 17 but then again Cotric could play origin and Mbye could get BYE if at Tigers by then...any ideas on what to do with my big money to fix my mess apreciated.

Cheers

Firstly I would play C. Walker (v Titans) over Thompson (v Sharks away). The immediate problem is positions 15 & 17 which should be forwards. With that amount of money I would trade out Thompson & Nicholls & get 2 good forward scorers for your bench.

Mighty Fishes wrote:Weird the storm will go from 7th to 4th for having the week off

5th wont they? Warriors in 4th?

Will wait for team lists before trading. Feels bad possibly trading Isaako or Su’A due to the most likely return of McGuire and Glenn

DarkKnight wrote:

5th wont they? Warriors in 4th?

Hmm.. indeed

Weird the storm will go from 7th to 5th for having the week off

Suddenly that's not as impressive for some reason

White Lightning wrote:

Firstly I would play C. Walker (v Titans) over Thompson (v Sharks away). The immediate problem is positions 15 & 17 which should be forwards. With that amount of money I would trade out Thompson & Nicholls & get 2 good forward scorers for your bench.

Cheers WL! Fantasy a little harder now that origin players are getting picked on form and fantasy relevant players are becoming problematic to trade in rather then your typical Matt Scott selections keeping players like Arrow available for longer

Mighty Fishes wrote:Is it too late to bring in Rhyce Martin in? Cash out for Kikau about 150k and scoring nearly the same

Not sure, im tossing up whether he is a keeper right now or not.

He may very well be

My 2 trades atm are:
Murray out - Stimson in
Thompson out - Turbo in

Leaves me with 10 trades & 148k bank

Smith (c)
Fifita, Arrow
Jurbo, Taumalolo, Crichton
DCE, A-Rey
Mitchell, Fonua
Tedesco, Ponga, Turbo

Cook, Taupau, Martin, Su'a
Stimson, Cogger, Isaako, Doueihi

Mighty Fishes wrote:Is it too late to bring in Rhyce Martin in? Cash out for Kikau about 150k and scoring nearly the same

Not sure, im tossing up whether he is a keeper right now or not.

He may very well be

Need to punt Thompson, not sure for who yet.

600 neat for me.

Wrong choice on the 50/50 on who to captain between Taumalolo and Fifita. Thought Tauma was carrying injury too and been scoring like crap since I got him, so whatever.

Trading in Matterson and Crichton 2 weeks ago was a dud move.

Up to 2400th. Not sure I've even really been in the top 2000 other than that one Rd 1 when A Reynolds scored 90 about 4 years ago. Still not there, so dunno why I even mentioned it.

Keen to dump Thompson, probably to Olive or some Rd 17 cheapie.

Murray to Harris the other planned trade, but will hinge on origin and if Murray starts again next week for whatever reason.

WT2K wrote:Need to punt Thompson, not sure for who yet.

I was going to go with Cotric but then I thought Turbo at home against the Warriors will go large. Someone posted the other day that Barrett said both Trbo brothers will play all available games through the bye period.

White Lightning wrote:

I was going to go with Cotric but then I thought Turbo at home against the Warriors will go large. Someone posted the other day that Barrett said both Trbo brothers will play all available games through the bye period.

If that's the case then it's a done trade for me. Think most will be having Teddy, Ponga, Turbo back three.

WT2K wrote:
If that's the case then it's a done trade for me. Think most will be having  Teddy, Ponga, Turbo back three.

They need to start winning so I don't think Barrett has any other choice but to play his strongest team.

lukeaye wrote:

Not sure, im tossing up whether he is a keeper right now or not.

He may very well be

If Woods really does leave within the next two weeks, and MBye potentially leaving within a month, tthen I think Martin becomes a 70min player. Hell he may even become an 80min player who goal kicks. Even if he stays at 60mins he looks super eager to get involved.

I'm happy with my bye round - 672 pts and jumped about 900 spots to 1500ish overall.

First trade for the week done - Smith is finally recalled into my team since rd5,
Waiting to see what happens with Murray before deciding to swap him for McInnes. Twin Cams for the week has a nice ring to it!

It cost me trading Cook out, but I'm still hoping that will be worth it (bench/rested Rd 14 and 18). I guess I should make sure I have enough coin to get Cook back in after origin rather than splurge now.