NRL Fantasy 2019 Part 41

Verbal Kint wrote:

I think I'm skipping Farah. The old git haha

Haha, I'm going to risk the ride. Maybe he still has a banner in him, just like the old days

Even though the banner boy hasn't really been spoken about this week, just keep in mind, a certain Bulldogs player last year scored 101 causing a mass trade in. (well, decent amount of teams traded him in, especially yours truely.) Got -1 the next week and struggled to hit 40 for the rest of the year.

Buramada wrote:

leave capewell out or better yet trade him out

Saving him for next week then upgrade to RTS once the hammy gets through a game

wolfking wrote:Did anyone see young Mahoney on League Life tonight?  I thought he'd be a little bit of a dickhead by the looks of him but he is a very humble, well spoken, kind, down to earth young fella who handled himself very well.  Does charity work also and just was a great kid and great to hear him speak.  

I think after that, and him being a QLDer, might have to bite the bullet and get him back in.  I've always had a rule that once I trade a player out he's done no matter what, but I think I have to make an exception for this kid.  He's Jake Friend 2.0.  Plays round 12 too, but means missing Smith in the short term.

Yep, we all know a little smart arse prick that looks a bit like him, but he was awesome.  Same as Okunbar last week.  For all the dicks we have in our game it's great to see these young blokes coming through.

Verbal Kint wrote:

I think I'm skipping Farah. The old git haha

It would be just like Farah to stop scoring well after everyone traded him in

I don't want to sell Cook, but ditching him now allows me to do all sorts of nice things going forward:

Rein
Fifita, Taupau
Murray, Crichton, Arrow
Morgan, Wighton
Bateman, Nikora
Ponga, Ted, CNK

Mahoney, Surgess, Haas, Burr

CHT, Carty, Sivo, Lomax

Burr/CHT to Lolo/Cheapie and a Morgan downgrade for cash would be my only planned trades pre-byes, leaving me with 19. Then Rein/Mahoney to Smith/McInnis, a Sivo downgrade, two halve upgrades, cash out the pre-bye cheapies, CNK to RTS, Surgess to a Round 16 gun. Then Cook back after Origin and trades in the bank. That's the plan, now to watch form and injuries tear it apart.

Buramada wrote:i think this is the week i can finally get rid of bmith and ravalava to deardon and crichton

leaves me with

mahoney
tolman fifita (c)
taupau crichton murray
morgan cht
bateman nikora
tedesco ponga cnk

rein burr twal haas
deardon sivo xerri borris

i get that its good to bring in a gun half/hooker eventually but i am happy with who i have got for now... i am hoping deardon will be the next cht

There is a good chance that Deardon goes well.....but looking at your team just reminded me that Borris existed!! WTF happened there, wasn't it supposed to be two weeks?

Aardvark wrote:

There is a good chance that Deardon goes well.....but looking at your team just reminded me that Borris existed!! WTF happened there, wasn't it supposed to be two weeks?

borris is my aubbo... i am keeping the faith -- or more accurately I want to get rid of ravalava and bmith more -- i originally tried to go borris to arey but I was a few k short

rhinoceroo wrote:I don't want to sell Cook, but ditching him now allows me to do all sorts of nice things going forward:

Rein
Fifita, Taupau
Murray, Crichton, Arrow
Morgan, Wighton
Bateman, Nikora
Ponga, Ted, CNK

Mahoney, Surgess, Haas, Burr

CHT, Carty, Sivo, Lomax

Burr/CHT to Lolo/Cheapie and a Morgan downgrade for cash would be my only planned trades pre-byes, leaving me with 19. Then Rein/Mahoney to Smith/McInnis, a Sivo downgrade, two halve upgrades, cash out the pre-bye cheapies, CNK to RTS, Surgess to a Round 16 gun. Then Cook back after Origin and trades in the bank. That's the plan, now to watch form and injuries tear it apart.

I don't have Cook, but I wouldn't be selling him. Am I missing something? He's averaging 62. Now I traded him out before origin last year and as it turns out, that went quite well. And may be a good play again this year. But WAY too premature in round 8 imo.

rhinoceroo wrote:I don't want to sell Cook, but ditching him now allows me to do all sorts of nice things going forward:

Rein
Fifita, Taupau
Murray, Crichton, Arrow
Morgan, Wighton
Bateman, Nikora
Ponga, Ted, CNK

Mahoney, Surgess, Haas, Burr

CHT, Carty, Sivo, Lomax

Burr/CHT to Lolo/Cheapie and a Morgan downgrade for cash would be my only planned trades pre-byes, leaving me with 19. Then Rein/Mahoney to Smith/McInnis, a Sivo downgrade, two halve upgrades, cash out the pre-bye cheapies, CNK to RTS, Surgess to a Round 16 gun. Then Cook back after Origin and trades in the bank. That's the plan, now to watch form and injuries tear it apart.

whats your team worth rhinoceroo -- looks like you have a heap of cash with those players

Buramada wrote:

borris is my aubbo... i am keeping the faith -- or more accurately I want to get rid of ravalava and bmith more -- i originally tried to go borris to arey but I was a few k short

Not losing any money either just checked and ownership is still 3.5% and nrl.com says he is back next round

Aardvark wrote:

Not losing any money either just checked and ownership is still 3.5% and nrl.com says he is back next round

Trade in!

Probably old news but the player filter is working again on both app and desktop versions

Mulvy wrote:

I don't have Cook, but I wouldn't be selling him. Am I missing something? He's averaging 62. Now I traded him out before origin last year and as it turns out, that went quite well. And may be a good play again this year. But WAY too premature in round 8 imo.

Yeah, I'd prefer not to, but I will be trading before Origin for sure and don't think I'll be losing anything over next four rounds while my target prices are trending up and my sell prices are trending down. I could wait another week or two but there's a fair chance that if I do then won't be able to afford the moves I want.

Also, I've obviously watched Cook carefully (he's been Captain every week) and while he's still a gun, he's not the ubergun he was last year... whether through the Souths play-the-balls being slower with the twins playing shit, or a greater instinct to put the ball on his boot rather than run, or defences backing off him so he passes before the line the huge tear-up plays are just not happening. (Obviously he'll score 100 against the Broncs now.)

Aardvark wrote:Probably old news but the player filter is working again on both app and desktop versions

Nope. News to me

Buramada wrote:

whats your team worth rhinoceroo -- looks like you have a heap of cash with those players

$12.8m

Mulvy wrote:

Nope. News to me

We can thank Borris for his help there...another Reason for a trade in

Also, where's Krump? I'm sure he can do better than my current avatar for our preseason avatar bet?

I'm close to going Garner to Bateman and Morgan to Pearce (almost a straight swap).

I think Garner will continue to score well and make money however I've been regretting not bringing Bateman in since week 1 and Garner is my best upgrade option.

If Pearce was playing Rd 12, the trade would be locked in. I think Pearce is going to start firing and getting back to old form and he's at a great price at the moment.

I'm coming somewhere in the 4000's so have to take a few risks to catchup.

rhinoceroo wrote:

Yeah, I'd prefer not to, but I will be trading before Origin for sure and don't think I'll be losing anything over next four rounds while my target prices are trending up and my sell prices are trending down. I could wait another week or two but there's a fair chance that if I do then won't be able to afford the moves I want.

Also, I've obviously watched Cook carefully (he's been Captain every week) and while he's still a gun, he's not the ubergun he was last year... whether through the Souths play-the-balls being slower with the twins playing shit, or a greater instinct to put the ball on his boot rather than run, or defences backing off him so he passes before the line the huge tear-up plays are just not happening. (Obviously he'll score 100 against the Broncs now.)

Yeah, although Cook's averaging 61, I've been disappointed from a captaincy point of view - particularly since he was an absolute premium price at the start of the season. I was really hoping he'd continue pumping out massive scores and I could set and forget him as a captain.