2018 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 66

I know B. Austin leads by example off the field with all the work he does but seriously on the field he is a selfish prick with the ball & always dummies & runs for himself. If I was his team mate I would bail him up in a corner & sort the prick out & inform him that's there's no i in team.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Thoughts on whether I should be burning my last two trades to bring in Cleary and TTurbo this week?

Farah/Lolo and WGraham to make way

If you think Cleary & TTurbo will improve your team score then go for it. However they are backs so be prepared for it to back fire. Also someone said there's no hooker on the Tigers bench so Farah is a hold if that's the case. You may also regret selling Taumalolo as he's in beast form. I would definitely sell W. Graham though.

I don't think it's been mentioned that Ryan Hall who joins the Roosters next year has done his acl & is expected to be out for 9 months & the 2019 nrl season starts in 7 months. Do they put clauses in contracts that if said player gets a long term injury then the club can rescind the contract or even defer the deal to the following year to ensure they don't get lumped with an injury riddled player.

Fox reporting Barrett has resigned effective immediately

Liddell was named in 18 last week also.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Fox reporting Barrett has resigned effective immediately

Good riddance. Bring back Toovey.

Yeah it's pretty tough. I have no cash saved. WGraham and Levi I have no problem with selling. 
But Would have to downgrade 1 to upgrade the other

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Yeah it's pretty tough. I have no cash saved. WGraham and Levi I have no problem with selling. 
But Would have to dowyngrade 1 to upgrade the other

My only concern is when's it ok to be tradeless?

White Lightning wrote:I don't think it's been mentioned that Ryan Hall who joins the Roosters next year has done his acl & is expected to be out for 9 months & the 2019 nrl season starts in 7 months. Do they put clauses in contracts that if said player gets a long term injury then the club can rescind the contract or even defer the deal to the following year to ensure they don't get lumped with an injury riddled player.

Don’t stress they have a back up winger in Brett Morris

Pain wrote:
My only concern is when's it ok to be tradeless?

I would prefer to use just the one trade. 

So basically Cleary/Turbo isn't possible unless it's Farah but I don't have the luxury of waiting to see if Liddle is there.

Could opt for Graham > JAC in one trade if Walker is poor

Bethany_B wrote:Thoughts on Joe Stimson as a POD? I'd be selling Widdop for him and he'd only be depth but considering the Storm have no edge back rowers on the bench or in the 21, that would mean that Kaufusi and Stimson would both play 80 from now till the end.


I might hold my trade though since Widdop is pretty handy for looping since I have three halves already (ARey, SJ, Cleary)

If I'm reading this right then yeah, I think having your red dot is more important.

SI wrote:

If I'm reading this right then yeah, I think having your red dot is more important.

Bloody red dot option cost me 2 points last week.
But it was worth it to know I could do it.

code delta wrote:

SI wrote:

If I'm reading this right then yeah, I think having your red dot is more important.

Bloody red dot option cost me 2 points last week.  
But it was worth it to know I could do it.

I'm actually yet to pool hop this year.

SI wrote:

I'm actually yet to pool hop this year.

Who should I pick out of Arrow, Kikau and Fainu? At the moment I have Arrow with the other two being pool hopped. Will allow me to see how Fainu goes before Kikau plays, have a feeling Kikau will go beast!

StormTrooper96 wrote:
Who should I pick out of Arrow, Kikau and Fainu? At the moment I have Arrow with the other two being pool hopped. Will allow me to see how Fainu goes before Kikau plays, have a feeling Kikau will go beast!

I'd do what you are doing. If Arrow gets the minutes he gets the points. I've lost a bit of faith in Kikau. Playing plenty of minutes and when was the last time he got a beast score? 5 weeks back with 76. Last weeks 44 was his best score since then.

code delta wrote:

StormTrooper96 wrote:
Who should I pick out of Arrow, Kikau and Fainu? At the moment I have Arrow with the other two being pool hopped. Will allow me to see how Fainu goes before Kikau plays, have a feeling Kikau will go beast!

I'd do what you are doing. If Arrow gets the minutes he gets the points. I've lost a bit of faith in Kikau. Playing plenty of minutes and when was the last time he got a beast score? 5 weeks back with 76. Last weeks 44 was his best score since then.

Pretty sure he stole Maloney's BBQ lunch leftovers out of the Pamfus smoko fridge. Has hardly given him the ball the last few games.

SI wrote:

Pretty sure he stole Maloney's BBQ lunch leftovers out of the Pamfus smoko fridge.  Has hardly given him the ball the last few games.

Yep.  I don't own Kikau so I'm not focused on him but still it's obvious to see that Maloney fucking hates his guts.

B/L wrote:Liddell was named in 18 last week also.

So then why name him there again if he was going to come onto the bench again? They looked shit and leaked through the middle when he came on. Hopefully Cleary saw that.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Thoughts on whether I should be burning my last two trades to bring in Cleary and TTurbo this week?

Farah/Lolo and WGraham to make way

Can you just trade Graham?

Have been pretty lucky with no major injuries haven't we? Have been down to one trade last three weeks and getting some strong scores. Just LOLO out this week, will cover with Niukore or Lewis/Holland.

The gamble to get the best team possible with 5 weeks remaining and 1 trade is paying off ... so far