NRL Fantasy 2019 Part 17

Johnny B Goode wrote:

Well who can you trade to? You seem to be in a position where there's little wriggle room to get rid of duds, only downgrades.

Too early to call duds on anyone but you might need to sideways trade just to pick up cash for upgrades.  

I think Morgan is a must. 20 tackles and 20 points from KM every week. His floor appears 35 and he got a score of 68 first up. No way he doesn't average 45+ from here so in the halves I think that's must have. It's his team and he is captain. Plus TMM doesn't kick.
So underperformers were Holland, Watson and DEdwards. So likely to go Watson to Morgan, bank cash and play Ravalawa. Then toss up DBrown and Keighran on a week to week basis.

Hoping you guys can help inflict some peace of mind on me. Had a pretty enjoyable first round and my only current concerns are a couple of bottom end duds.

Sorry if I missed this earlier today, but what are people doing with Sivo? Just going to ride out what may onky be a brief stint? Hope for a better week two?

My main issue is Hethrington. I could swap him for Bird and everything would be perfect. Except I would no longer have any FRF cover. So then it has to be Host or Lawrie? Doesn’t it? Even though neither have great job security and I miss out on Bird?

So do I then go with Bird and no FRF cover? Or do I just leave it as is? I know it’s not a massive problem, but Hethrington looks like a dud and I’d prefer to have someone there earning some coin. Thoughts? And thanks in advance.

filthridden wrote:

How do you see Burr staying in the team?

8. Bunty/LAM
9. Luke
10. Blair???
11. Papali'i
12. Harris
13. Burr

14. Burr
15. Roache
16. Tevaga
17. Lisone/Paasi/Bunty/LAM?.... only one prop on the bench? Do you think Roache gets dropped completely?

I just can't see Kearney going with that set up.

8. Bunty
9. Luke
10. Paasi/LAM
11. Blair/Papa
12. Harris
13. Blair/Papa

14. Tevaga
15. Roache
16. Lisone
17. LAM/Paasi

no room for Burr. No way he gets in ahead of Tevaga who is killing it in the middle when he comes on these days.

Didn't think it through. But tbh Burr has more to offer the team once Luke is back. There's essentially 3 hookers in the team with Roache, and it's supposed to be a real life team not Fantasy lol in saying that, you are right. Burr will drop out with Ayshford. Man, Warriors have way too many forwards. Even Pulu won't make first grade. Not the worst problem to have though.

filthridden wrote:

How do you see Burr staying in the team?

8. Bunty/LAM
9. Luke
10. Blair???
11. Papali'i
12. Harris
13. Burr

14. Burr
15. Roache
16. Tevaga
17. Lisone/Paasi/Bunty/LAM?.... only one prop on the bench? Do you think Roache gets dropped completely?

I just can't see Kearney going with that set up.

8. Bunty
9. Luke
10. Paasi/LAM
11. Blair/Papa
12. Harris
13. Blair/Papa

14. Tevaga
15. Roache
16. Lisone
17. LAM/Paasi

no room for Burr. No way he gets in ahead of Tevaga who is killing it in the middle when he comes on these days.

Blair is simply not a prop and should not be going back there.

Bunty
Luke
Paasi
Tohu
Blair
Ice

Jazz
LAM
Lisone
Whoever wins out of the likes of Burr, Sao, Pulu. Burr looks to have the edge there.

Roache goes to ressies so he can play full games each week.

Johnny B Goode wrote:Holland to Bateman seems like an upgrade so why I am not fully committed to it.  

Is it because I don't want to burn trades early and keep the faith or is it me being too stubborn to want to admit Holland was a POD pick that didn't fire?

I didn't pick him as a POD for that purpose. He was averaging 45 as a starting centre with goal kicking... hard to pass up at sub-$450k

Iron Mike wrote:Alright, can I ask for advice? Would any of you trade here?

Mahoney
Fifita Taupau
Lolo Arrow Murray
Keighran Brown
Holland Nikora
Watson Edwards Burns
R: Lane Niukore Garner Roache
E: Lawrie Burr Ravalawa Sivo

Only 33k in the bank.

Taupau to Surgess and Holland to Bateman?

I watched a bit of the Manly game and that was enough for me to be put off any Manly players for the time being.

SoylentGreen wrote:

My issue is trading out 2 players who underperformed, but still met (Napa) or were just below (Holland) their break evens, vs being stuck with two 212k players who failed.

I am more than happy to trade out Napa. He was only really a placeholder as I didn't trust Host/other cheapies as long term options but I needed a cheap FRF to facilitate the rest of my team. If Frizell is out for a while, then Host/Lawrie look a lot more enticing and I am happy to make the switch. Ideally KSims was back this week so you can see potential lineups with him in it, but will have to take a punt.

Holland I am more wary of trading out, but will still do it if I think its better for me long term.

On Bateman, I dont think ill have enough fund to get him on. If anyone would like to try help me find the funds be my guest. If he will be a keeper in the CTR's come seasons end I am happy to leave him till later down the track as if i want him as a keeper i wont need to worry about his cash generation in the hope he slides back to around 45-50 average and Holland can pick up his game. Might just look at Garrick -> Bird or any cow that pops up this week.

good news about sele, but even if he's named he might be a wait and see up until kickoff
which will be annoying given lawrie plays first match of the round

Is Bateman the first to switch to centre if there is an injury to an outside back for the raiders?

Babou wrote:Is Bateman the first to switch to centre if there is an injury to an outside back for the raiders?

he was the first to yesterday.

Regulator wrote:

Blair is simply not a prop and should not be going back there.

Bunty
Luke
Paasi
Tohu
Blair
Ice

Jazz
LAM
Lisone
Whoever wins out of the likes of Burr, Sao, Pulu. Burr looks to have the edge there.

Roache goes to ressies so he can play full games each week.

Blair is a better Prop than 2RF or Lock. I'm not talking stats here, just real life observations, but he's lazy af when he plays big minutes and it was fcuking me off on Saturday. He also doesn't have the lateral movement for nimbled footed edge runners. He needs to be in the middle to bring some fire to the middle but shouldn't be on for longer than 40min

Rapture_NRL wrote:

I didn't pick him as a POD for that purpose. He was averaging 45 as a starting centre with goal kicking... hard to pass up at sub-$450k

THIS! The POD was a bonus, but the fact he averaged 45 when starting CTR and now has Goal Kicking security. Bulldogs lost by a mile to Warriors, so i would discount the first game given they saw no ball. Bulldogs will improve, hopefully, and scores will even out. Holland could snatch a double this week against the Eels and make 70 points. Only problem is if they stink it up and Martin makes his way back in the team (very possible)

AFB will only get 90 points with a early plea and has no carry over points so how come people are saying he will get a 1 game suspension for an early plea

Teeth Eater wrote:Hoping you guys can help inflict some peace of mind on me. Had a pretty enjoyable first round and my only current concerns are a couple of bottom end duds.

Sorry if I missed this earlier today, but what are people doing with Sivo? Just going to ride out what may onky be a brief stint? Hope for a better week two?

My main issue is Hethrington. I could swap him for Bird and everything would be perfect. Except I would no longer have any FRF cover. So then it has to be Host or Lawrie? Doesn’t it? Even though neither have great job security and I miss out on Bird?

So do I then go with Bird and no FRF cover? Or do I just leave it as is? I know it’s not a massive problem, but Hethrington looks like a  dud and I’d prefer to have someone there earning some coin. Thoughts? And thanks in advance.

Don't worry about missing out on Bird, Lawrie will make more and be your FRF cover. Can't get every cow, Bird could turn around and get 25 points this round. Whereas I think Lawrie is good for 40 from 40 + minutes.

FalconSloth wrote:AFB will only get 90 points with a early plea and has no carry over points so how come people are saying  he will get a 1 game suspension for an early plea

Because he was charged with two seperate incidents. That’ll take him to 1 game. Unless he takes the early plea and successfully fights the second charge but risks three weeks doing that I think

FalconSloth wrote:AFB will only get 90 points with a early plea and has no carry over points so how come people are saying  he will get a 1 game suspension for an early plea

Because he has 2 charges, you mention only 1. Read this

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/03/15/lodge-facing-two-match-ban-from-storm-clash/

Iron Mike wrote:

Don't worry about missing out on Bird, Lawrie will make more and be your FRF cover. Can't get every cow, Bird could turn around and get 25 points this round. Whereas I think Lawrie is good for 40 from 40 + minutes.

Cool, thanks for the tip. That was also my concern with Bird. The thing I like most about him is his job security. But it does seem more sensible to bring in one of the Saints. Which one is the issue. Many seem to favour Lawrie, so for now I’ll go with that. First instinct was Host, but I’ll keep an eye on the situation and go with Lawrie if the better option. Thanks for your thoughts.

Well, at least I don’t have a trade decision to make. Brown - pec. Gone for 3 months. 11 points.

I’m doing quite well at 21,000th. Lol......my missus is beating me by 70 points. Fuck fantasy.

my tv broke wrote:Tamou made 56 tackles and 133 metres in 60 minutes. Wonder if he can maintain anywhere near that.. obviuosly minutes probably impacted by Sele injury

Not just Sele, but also Yeo, they were 2 forwards down