2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 57

Thanks lads.

Smith
Fifi Taupau
Harris Tolo Crichton
Coggar ARey
Mitchell Marsters
Ponga Teddy MBye

Cook Arrow Griffin Martin

JFH Mann Doueihi Olive

8 trades still after these 4 trades with SJ will still have 200K. I think I will probably go SJ.

Bump

Trades and team with 4 trades remaining for the run home:

Fonua > Lewis
Ponga > RTS
Cleary > SJ
Tuala > Milf

Cook
Fifita, Arrow
Taumalolo, Surgess, Martin
SJ, Milf
Aitken, Hopoate
Tedesco, RTS, Walker

Smith, McInnes, Kikau, DCE
Harris, WGraham, Lewis, Brimson

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Bump

Trades and team with 4 trades remaining for the run home:

Fonua > Lewis
Ponga > RTS
Cleary > SJ
Tuala > Milf

Cook
Fifita, Arrow
Taumalolo, Surgess, Martin
SJ, Milf
Aitken, Hopoate
Tedesco, RTS, Walker

Smith, McInnes, Kikau, DCE
Harris, WGraham, Lewis, Brimson

Looks good mate. I will hold Ponga though.

So far I have Harris => Aitken, Olive => Lewis.

Gives me this with $260k ITB, 6 trades;

Smith
Arrow Fifi
Lolo Jurbo Surgess
ARey SJ
Aitken Mitchell
Holmes Pong RTS

Cook, Ese'ese, Martin, TPJ | Friend, Dugan, Holland, Lewis

Next week Friend will become Farah (might do it this week), -$30k, leaving $230k to upgrade a back (need to see the Sharks line up with Dugan and Holmes there to decide who goes) to a Forward (Gallen likely, possibly Taupau if I wait a week..).

With that approach, if Dugan goes to centre next week and Holmes stays at 1, I have good cover for Ponga rather than having to use Holland.

Once Ponga returns would leave me a strong EMG crew of TPJ, Martin, Holland and Lewis for the final weeks.

Any advice, let me know..

wolfking wrote:

Looks good mate. I will hold Ponga though.

I am leaning towards keeping Ponga and ditching Harris.

Maybe sell them both and death ride their fantasy scores when they return. Advantage of that is I can afford basically any replacement., and it does not matter if they miss an extra week coming back

Milchcow wrote:

I am leaning towards keeping Ponga and ditching Harris.

Maybe sell them both and death ride their fantasy scores when they return. Advantage of that is I can afford basically any replacement., and it does not matter if they miss an extra week coming back

If Harris and Ponga are out for a month I'll definitely be letting both go. Just have to wait for some word from the clubs.

And yes will be nice to pick and choose whoever I like as a replacement.

If Ponga is 3-4 weeks he is a hold. That might only be 1-2 games he misses. Nobody else is capable of hitting close to his scores in WFB, I already have Tedesco and Turbo

Harris can go if 4 weeks or more. Plenty of equivalent (if not better) scorers around his price point.

wolfking wrote:

Pearce back after the bye.

Cogger still has cash to make because with Ponga out Watson will play f/b, Cogger will keep starting when Pearce returns. Sure both Pearce & Cogger are halfbacks but in modern football it's not a problem.

White Lightning wrote:

Cogger still has cash to make because with Ponga out Watson will play f/b, Cogger will keep starting when Pearce returns. Sure both Pearce & Cogger are halfbacks but in modern football it's not a problem.

Wow, good point but Coggar will lose his KM's with Pearce back and Im trading fir Lewis who will make more cash.

@ wackos - Su'a was unavailable for the Maroons due to a foot injury which would me he's unavailable for the Broncos this round.

So wacko is inferring this but we all know how injured players suddenly recover so they can play for their clubs. But if he is out I'm down to 4 players haha.

Pookus McFly wrote:If Ponga is 3-4 weeks he is a hold. That might only be 1-2 games he misses. Nobody else is capable of hitting close to his scores in WFB, I already have Tedesco and Turbo

Harris can go if 4 weeks or more. Plenty of equivalent (if not better) scorers around his price point.

That is a fair point. He would miss 3 games if out for a month though and I'm not keen on playing Brimson for that long.

wolfking wrote:

Wow, good point but Coggar will lose his KM's with Pearce back and Im trading fir Lewis who will make more cash.

I never thought about Cogger's loss of km's.

Trading in McInnes and SJ with their BE's just cause they play this week makes me a bit sour.

I think I'll only use 2 trades which will leave 5 left:
Cogger out - L. Lewis in
Tuala out - Aitken in

Smith, McInnes, R. Martin, Su'a, L. Lewis, Aitken, Holland

I thought of getting SJ but he's not exactly posting big scores plus with a b/e of 68 he'll be cheaper post round 17. I thought about getting R. James but he ain't cheap @ 872k , priced at 60 points & he can't keep scoring tries every game.

What's the consensus on Holland?? Worth bringing in after his performance last week??

If I keep Ponga I'll need to move Hopo down to WFB and Holland into CTR and hope like hell the Bulldogs can win games

Looking at three trades this week:

Inglis ---> Aitken
Cogger ---> L.Lewis
Gosieski ---> McInnes? Not sold on him but he's the best looking option as a keeper. Who else is a goer for $800k? Worth holding the trade for a round and foregoing the 50ish points McInnes will rack up? I can't see anyone else suitable at a glance.

I have Holland and played him. I reckon he'll score around 26 this week as is the nature of CTRs.

This is a stupid idea(I think) but I was thinking of the following trades if Sua is out this week

Harris to Aitken
Sua to SJ
Ponga to James

Leaves me with this team and 4 trades/38k remaining

Cook
Fifita Arrow
Taumalolo Jurbo James
DCE SJ
Mitchell Aitken
Tedesco Mbye Isaako

Smith
McInnes
Brown
ARey

Martin
Hetherington
Fainu
Brimson

Thoughts?

I would bring in Holland. He's very under rated & is a good downgrade.