2018 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 59

my tv broke wrote:Alright so rnd 18 team after Sua to Farah

Smith
Fifita taupau
Taumalolo Arrow Brown
Reynolds Milford
Mitchell Hoppa
Tedesco mbye RTS
R: Cook Crichton SJ Farah
E: Surgess Lewis Holland Mann

191k in bank hopefully enough for Ponga when he returns. 4 trades.

Havent decided on 18th man. assuming there are origin players that are rested too.

The way the top 8 has condensed in the last couple weeks may mean coaches are reluctant to rest players too... hopefully

Brilliant side MTB. I’d like to say mine is very similar but I’ve got a little more hooker crazy so you have the edge on me in the halves and centres, and def can’t compete with Burgess as 18th man!

Smith Cook Farah Mcinnes
Fifita Taupau James
Taumalolo Martin Arrow (4/6 Prop 2RF DPP)
SJ DCE (Brimson)
Aitken Olive (Looping Isaako and Tuala)
Tedesco Mbye RTS (Katao)


Focus is on Ponga back as, and when and otherwise sweating injuries.

Bench is generally Cook, Farah, McInnes, Arrow/James

So im out of trades so hoping dugan and matterson are back this week

My final team

smith
fifita taupau
brown arrow crichton
reynolds sj
dugan aitken
turbo ponga rts

gallen materson farah surgess

martin issako holland olive

^^^ Good team if they are all on the park. If you had a couple trades up your sleeve you'd be laughing..

Really hope Dugan is back this week at centre, which means I can keep Holmes and Dugan fills in for Ponga.

Friend to Farah is locked for me, if Holmes is put on the wing he'll become Gallen to finish my team.

1 trade left and dont know whether to switch Tuala to Ramien, bring Farah in, bring any top WFB in which would be a starter, or grab Cook. Cook means my season remaining centres are Lafai and Tuala and Wfb is Cotric / Teddy / one of three other tidbitz...

Wont be holding the trade, one of the above will be final move and watch it all from the fetal position  

Everyone should have a good team this week.

Smith
Fifita Arrow
Taumalolo JTrbo Martin
DCE SJ
Aitken Hiku
TTrbo Tedesco RTS

Cook
Farah
Gallen
Surgess

JFH
Cleary
Tuala
Katoa

Hiku/Tuala - CTR only trade left to make. Was thinking about Mitchell, assuming he pulls up well after origin.Hope I don't regret not getting Croker/Leilua last week

I have with 5 trades (1 remaining this week) and $230k;

Cook
Fifi Arrow
Jurbo Lolo Martin
SJ Arey
Mitchell Aitken
Dugan RTS Holmes

Cook
Eseese
Farah
Surgess

TPJ, Lewis, Holland, Ponga+

With $230k I have plenty of options here, I can go Holmes to Taupau, or Dugan to Teddy/Turbo, but I want to keep one of Holmes/Dugan until Ponga is back.. TPJ might be worth upgrading to Gallen while he is still in reach, but I wouldn't gain much. I need TLT to help me out I think. Or some advice from the NRLFF!

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It would be RTS back out, or maybe Mbye if he drops off, to get Ponga back.

With Su'A losing so much cash last week things will be tight. I may have to wait a week on Ponga and hope he drops some $$$.

Pre round 17 I was tossing up Aitken or RTS, and went RTS just on gut feel. Means that Hoppa is in my final side going forward but after the weekend I'm happy enough with that, although now a little worried about the Warriors and RTS slumping. Thems the breaks.

Just noticed Dave Fifita 53 pts in 51 mins. 25 tackles 101 metres in his second game of NRL as an 18 year old.

The kid has only played 4 games of queensland cup, since stepping up from u18s

43 tackles in two games, 0 misses.

Trajan wrote:On another subject my faith in humanity has been restored somewhat with the first 4 Thai boys successfully rescued from that cave complex.
Those divers from around the world working together have achieved the impossible so far. Early days yet but there is reasonable hope that all the boys and the coach will get out of that bloody cave alive.
Well done Thailand and all the international experts and helpers.
Just goes to show how the human spirit can overcome adversity if we work together.

Pretty amazing. Had a dream last night about a boat capsizing and a plane going down in the water and me rescuing people from both after being on the boat myself. Think I had the whole situation on my mind.

Keeping an eye on news and hoping everyone gets out of that cave OK.

my tv broke wrote:Just noticed Dave Fifita 53 pts in 51 mins. 25 tackles 101 metres in his second game of NRL as an 18 year old.

The kid has only played 4 games of queensland cup, since stepping up from u18s

43 tackles in two games, 0 misses.

Kind of wish I did take the punt like I was talking about but probably not a reliable option moving forward.

Trajan wrote:On another subject my faith in humanity has been restored somewhat with the first 4 Thai boys successfully rescued from that cave complex.
Those divers from around the world working together have achieved the impossible so far. Early days yet but there is reasonable hope that all the boys and the coach will get out of that bloody cave alive.
Well done Thailand and all the international experts and helpers.
Just goes to show how the human spirit can overcome adversity if we work together.

Indeed. The wil and courage of everyone involved is amazing. Hopefully the rest of the little fellas make it out safe too.

wolfking wrote:

Kind of wish I did take the punt like I was talking about but probably not a reliable option moving forward.

I don't think you can be too hard on yourself. In both games he almost certainly played extra minutes due to injuries (Sua last week, Staggs this week).

my tv broke wrote:

I don't think you can be too hard on yourself. In both games he almost certainly played extra minutes due to injuries (Sua last week, Staggs this week).

Yeah mate. Thats what I thought too re Staggs going off. Gun kid though. Has a massive future.

I am at a bit of a crossroad this week as to what direction to head in. Get in Tedesco (will give me turbo Ponga Teddy when Ponga is fit) and then can bring in someone like Croft if he regains his spot. Or should I go for more of my bench/18th man spot such as Farah, Gallen, means I settle for something a bit lower than teddy
Also read something today about wighton being given a 6 week ban. Was weird that sticky didn’t put cotric into FB, shift Croker onto the wing and put pimple into centres like he normally would once abbey went off. If anyone has a spare minute to chuck some ideas up for my squad that would be great. Have 9 trades left so I am good for trades.

601/9 for me this round
60.1 avg score is not bad for a bye round (includes Captain Smith, Martin, Luai, Croker)

Brimson>Farah for me this week, leaves the team for the run home looking like:

Smith
Fifi Surgess
Lolo Brown Martin
DCE SJ
Teddy RTS Mbye

Cook McInnes Farah Arrow
Ponga Lewis Fainu Holland

2 Trades left and no money lol. RTS as an 18th man shouldn't be too bad. Hurts not having Taupau or JTurbo but I'll have to live. 600 odd ranking. Here's hoping for no injuries.

Chewie wrote:601/9 for me this round
60.1 avg score is not bad for a bye round (includes Captain Smith, Martin, Luai, Croker)

Great work Chewie having all the top round scorers.

Thai boys being pulled out of a cave. Pretty sure there's a joke in there somewhere.

But I am happy for the kids.

Reklaw wrote:Brimson>Farah for me this week, leaves the team for the run home looking like:

Smith
Fifi Surgess
Lolo Brown Martin
DCE SJ
Teddy RTS Mbye

Cook McInnes Farah Arrow
Ponga Lewis Fainu Holland

2 Trades left and no money lol. RTS as an 18th man shouldn't be too bad. Hurts not having Taupau or JTurbo but I'll have to live. 600 odd ranking. Here's hoping for no injuries.

You'll struggle without any centres

What got me about the boys in the cave is the difference in cultures. When I saw pictures of them in the cave they were all sitting together patiently with no one making a noise as per the asian culture. If it had been a bunch of white boys from America they would of been all panicking, running around, screaming & balling their eyes out.