NRL Fantasy 2019 Part 29

How would you rank these players in order of importance to bring in: Okunbur, CHT, Rein, Ponga

Is Rein still a must to bring in with Mahoney playing 80 mins on the weekend (would you put Ponga in front of him to bring in)

Team (27k ITB)
Cook
Fifita Tolman
Arrow Murray Bateman
Morgan Cartwright
Bird Nikora
Tedesco CNK Sivo

Mahoney Whitehead Garner Lawrie
Garrick Ravalawa Brown Keighran

My team is very inflexible, I'm noticing with the players on the chopping block being Brown, Keighran, Whitehead and maybe Bird and Lawrie to fund other moves in a couple of weeks

Trade options are:
(1) Double cash cow of Brown + Keighran to CHT + Okunbur (Whitehead to Ponga next week)
(2) Brown + Whitehead to Xerri + Ponga
(3) Brown + Whitehead to CHT + Moses (still have to play one of cheap WFBs)

Did someone say Host got injured yesterday?

This week's likely trades for me:

Croft > Ponga
Keighran > CNKlockface

Means I can finally stop playing both Rava and Sivo in the 17. Could even avoid both but only Host and Garrick remain - think I'll stick Sivo at 17.

Anyone think it's too late to bring in CNK?

CHT made 24 tackles which is pretty good for someone who is mainly an attacking type of half. He's much better in attack than Keighran too. He looked solid on the weekend, just hope he doesn't stink it up the next 2 games ala Keighran.

sajjos wrote:

You don't have to drain the milk fully. If you are able to jump onto your final 17 players earlier then go for it. I think Verbal used this strategy last year and it worked for him. I know some of the POD's of yours have done very well but they may not be final keepers so keep an eye out.

Good advice thanks, was thinking that way too. Going to go Hughes > Ponga as my 2nd trade. Hughes has been solid, but hasn't had the breakout game I have been looking for that Ponga is going to provide.

After trades this week will have:
Rein
Fifita (C) AFB
Bateman Arrow Taupau
Moses Brown (loop)
Xerri Burns (loop)
Ponga CNK Katoa

Mahoney Nikora Lawrie Murray
Garner Sivo Carty Ravalawa (loop 2)

$57k remaining. Have really concentrated on getting a stronger bench in place, was sick of getting 30s there, was really letting the team down when targeting an average of 50+ per player for 900+ each week.

Despite using 2 trades each week for the last 4 rounds, pretty happy with how my team is shaping up.

Have gone Lane + Brown > Teddy + CHT. Other option is to go ponga + Okunbor

Cook (c)
Fifita | Twal
Garner | Arrow | Murray
Munster | DCE
Bird | Nikora
Sivo | Teddy | CNK

Bateman
CHT
Burr
Xerri
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Flegler
Kahu
Garrick
Keighran

Could probably sit on this team for a couple of weeks and milk the slow burners a bit more.

So who is Okunbur replacing at the moment? Is his spot only a rental?

danaconda86 wrote:Hey all, sitting at 359 overall - pretty happy with that so far.
Which gun would you rather bring in this week, Crichton or Ponga?
Also, Xerri ok to bring in as a cow?
Thanks.

In most teams WFB and Halves are much weaker than 2RF, so Ponga I expect. Xerri outside SJ will be great. Got no attacking ball this week outside Flanagan and still did well.

I am half tempted to bring in Haas this week instead of CHT. Seibold needs someone to come in and step up. Haas could see some big minutes off the bench and will want to cement his spot in the team and prove he isn't just a big person with a big name.

What caught my eye this week was C. Smith pretending to slip over so he didn't have to tackle Okunbor after getting run over 3-4 times haha.
Scored 866 up to rank 2,543 from 3,437 so happy with that. I had to play both Ravalawa & Sivo (he was so close to scoring that try when he ran onto that inside ball) so I'm looking at 2 decent wfb's. I can afford Gutherson & Meaney. If I went Ponga or Tedesco I wouldn't be able to afford Meaney who imo shows plenty of potential due to his speed which has led to 10 tb's in his last 2 games (4 v Wests & 6 v Storm). Gutherson & Meaney also play round 12.

Lane out - Gutherson in
D. Brown out - Meaney in

Cook (c) - he will carve up the Warriors
A. Fifita, Lawrie (with K. Sims & Host out he should get good mins)
Arrow, Murray, Bateman
Munster, L. Lewis (disappointed with his 43 since he was on 32 at h/t)
Nikora, Bird
Gutherson, Meaney, CNK

Mahoney, Capewell, Garner, Sele
Burr, Ravalawa, Sivo, A. Hopoate

Thoughts & thanks.

luckynumber8 wrote:So who is Okunbur replacing at the moment? Is his spot only a rental?

I think it was Montoya that made way.  Don't think he'll lose his spot somehow.

StormTrooper96 wrote:I am half tempted to bring in Haas this week instead of CHT. Seibold needs someone to come in and step up. Haas could see some big minutes off the bench and will want to cement his spot in the team and prove he isn't just a big person with a big name.

I gave him a bit of thought this morning too.

Did a quick bit of Monday lunchtime analysis. For those looking for a captain, these are the only players who have scored 50 or more in each of the 4 rounds played so far:

Farah
Murray
Klemmer
J Trbojevic
Matterson

Farah has actually pumped out 60+ every week so far.

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Cake Tiger wrote:Did a quick bit of Monday lunchtime analysis. For those looking for a captain, these are the only players who have scored 50 or more in each of the 4 rounds played so far:

Farah
Murray
Klemmer
J Trbojevic
Matterson

Farah has actually pumped out 60+ every week so far.

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Nice work.

In a similar vein, these are the 6 players to average 60 or more

Robbie Farah
Daly Cherry-Evans
Cameron McInnes
John Bateman
Andrew Fifita
Tom Trbojevic


Obviously TTrbo is out as captain.
But Farah as captain looks the good for those who have him

Rapture_NRL wrote:

Rapana was my 2018 Edwards and spilled cash everywhere. If he goes back to gun level then sure, but I need consistency.. I will look at this though,cheers

Its a little weird but i think the key to Rapa scoring well is based around Leilua, but not in the traditional sense of a CTR relying on his winger to pass, more so the pair feed off each other in their involvement. Whenever one takes a scoot the other is there waiting on an offload and then because they are in position if the offload doesn't come they look to take a scoot themselves on the back of a (usually) quick play the ball. BJ has seemed fairly involved this year but still a little down i think and they both are probably getting a bit less ball with CNK and Bateman involved (mind you that was a lovely ball from Charnze on the weekend so maybe he's just warming into it).

I might bring him in, but its more out of hope and because if my rank is busted i might as well take punts on blokes i like watching, but can definitely see the hesitation.

wolfking wrote:

I gave him a bit of thought this morning too.

Would not be surprised to see Offa go to lock and Haas straight in at #10.

wolfking wrote:

I think it was Montoya that made way.  Don't think he'll lose his spot somehow.

Was Crichton moving off that wing, Montoya became Hopa, which moved Meaney to fullback. Okunbur is safe, would be there just for his ability to start sets off well with strong running each time, and has been useful on attack as well.

Wait, speaking of that ball from CNK, that wasn't a LBA nor did they count it as a LB? So then maybe this comes back to some evidence of the discussion the other week about whether they always award a LB for tries and someone (I think it was SI?) mentioned that if the defensive line still had one or two players level they weren't counted in the past.

2min mark for reference:

My big buggaboo with the Bulldogs is the run they are on. Saw the same thing back end of last year when they were winning/competing in games and players, ALA Holland, scores were inflated. Saw first couple weeks when they weren't and the backs scores were suffering. Can the dogs keep up the scoring and competing with teams? This just scares me off a little.

Archer wrote:
Its a little weird but i think the key to Rapa scoring well is based around Leilua, but not in the traditional sense of a CTR relying on his winger to pass, more so the pair feed off each other in their involvement. Whenever one takes a scoot the other is there waiting on an offload and then because they are in position if the offload doesn't come they look to take a scoot themselves on the back of a (usually) quick play the ball. BJ has seemed fairly involved this year but still a little down i think and they both are probably getting a bit less ball with CNK and Bateman involved (mind you that was a lovely ball from Charnze on the weekend so maybe he's just warming into it).

I might bring him in, but its more out of hope and because if my rank is busted i might as well take punts on blokes i like watching, but can definitely see the hesitation.

That try with Rapana kicking to Leilua was unreal. They must have a code word to call that play, because as soon as Rapana got the ball and was taking off down the wing Leilua was running as fast as he could to the center of the field looking for that kick. Great to see.