2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 52

I'm going out on a limb and saying Angus plays 50 cook 45.

I see some of you guys starting Tuala in your centres. Are you confident he will retain his spot for the year? He looks like a more solid option than Hiku.

Chewie wrote:

Looking good!

I personally don't see Surgess as a keeper this season.
Martin is a keeper unless his role changes
Kikau is a borderline keeper, but is a hold for now

Cheers Chewie

I have included them because I don't see how I can upgrade them to anyone meaningful.

luckynumber8 wrote:I see some of you guys starting Tuala in your centres. Are you confident he will retain his spot for the year? He looks like a more solid option than Hiku.

I'm just hoping this week the Cowboys can put the Eels away and he somehow grabs a try.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

I'm just hoping this week the Cowboys can put the Eels away and he somehow grabs a try.

I hope he keeps the spot. The cowboys need some youth in that line up. Linnett is horrible.

luckynumber8 wrote:

I hope he keeps the spot. The cowboys need some youth in that line up. Linnett is horrible.

Yeah hope he keeps it too.

DT reporting Mbye still in talks for early release from dogs. Roosters in for Woods and that Monday could be the last game for both in Bulldogs colours.

Or I can trade out Cook/Matterson this round for McInnes/Cleary that will increase my bank to 420k

Keep Watson this week and trade him to Turbo next week bringing my bank down to 320k.

When the time comes and hopefully Cook has come down to the 800 mark I can make a decision on wether to go Graham/Murray straight back to Cook in Rd19.

Will cost me 4 trades at the best and 5 at the worst.

Make sense?

Rippin and Tearin wrote:Hey guys, where can I find the match stats for Origin I?

I know people are used to using MTB's site, but the NRL match centre is not too bad these days

luckynumber8 wrote:

I hope he keeps the spot. The cowboys need some youth in that line up. Linnett is horrible.

Linnett has been underrated. Working out of our own end he has been invaluable but I think his time at centre should be over. He's a big body though and I hope we retain him as a bench forward that can cover centre. We really need some speed in that backline though and I don't rate O'Neill at all so I hope Enari keeps his spot. I'm not sure why Hampton's been dropped though. He's fast and was going well, maybe some off field stuff, don't know.

Edit: Thinking about it some more, I guess because we haven't seen him play much this year you forget things - my nickname for Linnett used to be dickfingers, haha. But he has been valuable over the years, just don't want him at centre anymore.

WT2K wrote:DT reporting Mbye still in talks for early release from dogs. Roosters in for Woods and that Monday could be the last game for both in Bulldogs colours.

Hope somehow he can have a big one for his last game.

Rank 86.
1 trade = Thompson > McInnes
Leaves me with 12 trades and 441k bank

Smith (c)
Fifita Arrow
Taupau Taumalolo Murray
Reynolds Gutherson
Mitchell Chee-Kam
Tedesco Ponga Cotric

McInnes Friend Havili Pangai-Jr

Martin Doueihi Isaako Katoa

Was originally going to bring in SJ for Murray this week but think I'll wait a week on that trade.

Anything else I'm missing?

WT2K wrote:DT reporting Mbye still in talks for early release from dogs. Roosters in for Woods and that Monday could be the last game for both in Bulldogs colours.

If this is true it should mean continued big minutes for Martin right? And he would also be frontrunner for goal kicking right? So if you don't have him, could he be a cut price keeper? I Could get him in for Gosi perhaps. With a BE of -1, I don't want to wait the week to see how it all pans out.

Plan at this stage is Matterson to McInnes and Gosiewski to Olive. Then next week if Souths forward rotation is back to normal Murray to cash out and Lane to SJ/Milford. Then round 16 if Mbye has dropped form/joined Tigers and misses 17 I will trade him to Aitken leaving me with this team by round 17

Cook
Fifita TPJ
Taumalolo Arrow Harris
DCE SJ
Mitchell Aitken
Tedesco Ponga Isaako(will become TTurbo after origin)

Smith
McInnes
Sua
ARey

Martin
Brimson
Olive
212k

Should be 12 players for round 17

Rabbit wrote:

I’ve sold him but the reason for the extended break is wrist surgery, not concussion, as I understand it.

Not sure this has been posted on this thread or not...

Make it So wrote:

I was going to upgrade Murray to Smith this week, but going to trade out Matterson instead.
Looking at getting another gun halfback next week

With Murray starting this week, he becomes a hold right? His BE is 43, so it is reasonable but posting a good score could result in some coin.

While Martin is on the bench, could be a trade out but a BE of -1 means he is a hold and should rise in price until the bye round.

Random wrote:With Murray starting this week, he becomes a hold right? His BE is 43, so it is reasonable but posting a good score could result in some coin.

While Martin is on the bench, could be a trade out but a BE of -1 means he is a hold and should rise in price until the bye round.

Martin will start won't he?

FrizellsFootSchLong' wrote:

If this is true it should mean continued big minutes for Martin right? And he would also be frontrunner for goal kicking right? So if you don't have him, could he be a cut price keeper? I Could get him in for Gosi perhaps. With a BE of -1, I don't want to wait the week to see how it all pans out.

Woods doesn't really have a direct impact on Martin.
Only that him leaving might bring Tolman into prop and remove him from the lock rotation where he might be sharing with Jackson.

Goalkicker would be Martin or Holland (depending partly on if Holland goes into starting team)

Milchcow wrote:

Woods doesn't really have a direct impact on Martin.
Only that him leaving might bring Tolman into prop and remove him from the lock rotation where he might be sharing with Jackson.

Goalkicker would be Martin or Holland (depending partly on if Holland goes into starting team)

Exactly, that's what I mean. Tolman would have to go into the prop rotation wouldn't he?