NRL Fantasy 2018 Thread Part 24

Pre trades I had

Smith
Fifita, Arrow
Whitehead, Murray, Griffin
Doueihi, Croker
Inglis, Isaako
Tedesco, Ponga, JMK

Lodge
Cook
RFM
Rochow

Kikau
Kennar
Havili
Cartwright

$400,000 odd banked

this round I wanted trades where I got Kikau into my scoring players whilst improving my halves with a gun and solidifying my WFB so I'd only be playing Isaako/Kennar as scoring hopes and the rest would be pretty reliable scorers

The Doueihi to bench thwarted my plans to have both Croker and JMK in my non scoring reserves straight off the bat but what can you do, so the only way I feel I can achieve the above is to move Smith out for a gun half - Put Cook starting hooker, move Kikau into cooks scoring INT position and use my cash to upgrade Carty into a WFB gun

Trades I have settled on currently are 
Smith - Koro via Cook
Carty - Edwards

Cook
Fifita, Arrow
Whitehead, Murray, Griffin
Koro, JMK/Croker 
Inglis, Isaako 
Tedesco, Ponga, Edwards

Lodge
RFM
Kikau
Rochow

looks much better to me

@Welshy

That's the issue here, plenty of mid ranger forwards to fill the bench and earn $$ but not as many halves.
Also assuming no injuries then having a great 18/19th player doesn't help your scoring.
Awesome depth doesn't help if you score a 15 and a 10 in your halves

Worst case you bring him back once a mid ranger maxes out

I like that second team, Isaako isn't really that much different from say a Hiku.
Your second half is weak but that's for another week haha

Boozecluez wrote:@Welshy

That's the issue here, plenty of mid ranger forwards to fill the bench and earn $$ but not as many halves.
Also assuming no injuries then having a great 18/19th player doesn't help your scoring.
Awesome depth doesn't help if you score a 15 and a 10 in your halves

Exactly mate! I have to do something and getting Kikau into my scoring reserves whilst dropping the hit and hopes like JMK and Croker on the bench gives my team the best higher scoring chance, adding Edwards and Koro really sures up 2 problem areas for me and if they get outscored by a JMK/Croker try scoring double at least he is making some money again

@Boozecluez

Or I could get Thompson in and save a shed load of cash for further upgrades down the line

I can do the following trades which leaves me with not a dollar left in the bank(meant to be then?) what do you think fellas?
Smith to Koro
Croker to JFH

Cook
Fifita Lodge
Murray Arrow RFM
DCE Koroisau
Mitchell Isaako
Tedesco Ponga Thompson

Kikau
Griffin
JFH
Rochow

TPJ
Doueihi
Kennar
JMK

Ideally I wouldn't be trading again until the cows have peaked so fingers crossed form and injuries permitting I think it looks ok but Id love anyone's opinion?

Boozecluez wrote:@Welshy

That's the issue here, plenty of mid ranger forwards to fill the bench and earn $$ but not as many halves.
Also assuming no injuries then having a great 18/19th player doesn't help your scoring.
Awesome depth doesn't help if you score a 15 and a 10 in your halves

Worst case you bring him back once a mid ranger maxes out

Also having shit depth doesn't help your main 17 as evidenced by me

EME scores of 15, 8, 3 and DNP last week. 712 from the spuds.

Welshy wrote:@Boozecluez

Or I could get Thompson in and save a shed load of cash for further upgrades down the line

Thompson I think is too late, unsure what others think
Edwards is a keeper, Thompson on the wing isn't (Unless he keeps scoring doubles haha)

WT Winfield wrote:

Also having shit depth doesn't help your main 17 as evidenced by me

EME scores of 15, 8, 3 and DNP last week. 712 from the spuds.

Haha I have been getting nailed too, Havili/JMk
Thats the thing, Smith out fixes both of those in one hit

I think it's a balancing act, but in an ideal world you can play your 18-21 at a pinch but you don't want big money tied up there early on in the season
Sometimes you got to bit the bullet and play a cheapie for a week, short term injuries happen

Boozecluez wrote:

Thompson I think is too late, unsure what others think
Edwards is a keeper, Thompson on the wing isn't (Unless he keeps scoring doubles haha)

Only priced at 32 still and outside Marsters who is a fucking weapon, plus everyone has him ahha

Yeah with these reduced squads and limited cash making + cover opportunities, I might have to ease up on the don't-trade-Smith bandwagon.

I'll stick to the old methods for now, but some of the Cam to gun half + cash trades could work out alright in the long run, if you jag the right half.

danseels1985 wrote:I can do the following trades which leaves me with not a dollar left in the bank(meant to be then?) what do you think fellas?
Smith to Koro
Croker to JFH

Cook
Fifita Lodge
Murray Arrow RFM
DCE Koroisau
Mitchell Isaako
Tedesco Ponga Thompson

Kikau
Griffin
JFH
Rochow

TPJ
Doueihi
Kennar
JMK

Ideally I wouldn't be trading again until the cows have peaked so fingers crossed form and injuries permitting I think it looks ok but Id love anyone's opinion?

Looks strong when you have TPJ as your 18th man.. Can't argue with that team at all and similar to most..

Trades done. Will not review, well maybe, since it feels a bit wrong.

After years of stability with CS9 I can't play the captain roulette with boom/bust players.
So CS9 > McCullough as my new capt.

I have plenty of them boom/bust players so 2nd trade is chasing a bit more stability.
Cody W.> Koro.

Stop trading now please me

I've got Cody Walker to, anyone else think it a luxury trade to be trading him away ?

Revraiser wrote:I've  got Cody Walker to, anyone else think it a luxury trade to be trading him away ?

Yes

@Archer

Are the Raiders actually playing this week? Should I play JMK over Croker and Doueihi?

@Rabs

How many mins before Reynolds gets injured?

Revraiser wrote:I've  got Cody Walker to, anyone else think it a luxury trade to be trading him away ?

Cant see a positive ? DDP ARey back this weekend I would be holding.

Yeah, I'm holding doughty for ARey's inevitable.
Currently wondering whether NAS > Rochow is too sideways. Any thoughts?

L-Jimmy wrote:Yeah, I'm holding doughty for ARey's inevitable.
Currently wondering whether NAS > Rochow is too sideways.  Any thoughts?

Too sideways , no other options ?

Sorry if this has been mentioned elsewhere, and sorry if it's not the right spot, but anyone know what's happening with Kennar? Not only is he not listed in the team list this week, but there is no mention of why he's not there, or when/if he will be back? Can't find info about it anywhere. What's happened to the chap?

L-Jimmy wrote:Yeah, I'm holding doughty for ARey's inevitable.
Currently wondering whether NAS > Rochow is too sideways.  Any thoughts?

I still think NAS is a potential future trade in. I started with Rochow. Not sure I'd get now if I didn't have