2018 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 28

lukeaye wrote:Hiku and Kennar may actually be the top 5 CTR's for this year?

I can't see many options I really love other than aitken

Hiku looking like a keeper but Kennar is very reliant on tries. Eventually you will wanna upgrade to a keeper

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Scott, Rapana, Holmes all on my radar as "cash out" options with hopes of returning to form

Needed a CTR so going with Scott this round mate, Rapa will be coming in for JMK potentially next week

Thinking with katoa is that i need the cash to upgrade Williams and I just don't like any of the other downgrade options atm so I'm thinking of taking a punt on him now. I realise he isn't named but he apparently isn't to far away.

Welshy wrote:
Needed a CTR so going with Scott this round mate, Rapa will be coming in for JMK potentially next week

I prefer to see a decent score before making a trade. It's not just that his attacking stats are down. He had double digit tackles in 8/10 games at centre last year for an average of 13 tackles a game. This year his highest tackle count is 12. Tackle busts are down with not one game above his 2017 average of 4.3 per game.

Fraser wrote:Thinking with katoa is that i need the cash to upgrade Williams and I just don't like any of the other downgrade options atm so I'm thinking of taking a punt on him now. I realise he isn't named but he apparently isn't to far away.

I’m thinking similarly that Gosiewski may be a dud. Hastings is looking likely to be given a shot soon so I may take a punt on him at 267k.

Hi guys, does anyone have stats for Munster partnered with Jacks? It happened a few times last season from memory.

Also, someone mentioned G Jennings. With the way the Eels have named their side does it look like he's got a spot until Hayne comes back?

SI wrote:

How fucking fiery has 360 been the last couple of weeks!  Did you see him and Hooper go at it last week?

I loved it. Even though they are your typical dickhead journos, the passion they have for the game makes it really interesting and worthwhile IMO.

Hi first time poster. Currently ranked 532 after a decent week. My team is

Cook
Arrow afb
Murray harris rochow
Dce mbye
Kenner aitken
Tedesco ponga thompson

Rfm kikau griffen lodge

Godinet croker isaako jmk

228k itb

Looking at bringing in jfh for someone. Was thinking of straight upgrading godinet or isaako to him or doing someone like lodge or griffen. Both still with money to make. Any advice would be appriciated

Claytron wrote:Hi first time poster. Currently ranked 532 after a decent week. My team is

Cook
Arrow afb
Murray harris rochow
Dce mbye
Kenner aitken
Tedesco ponga thompson

Rfm kikau griffen lodge

Godinet croker isaako jmk

228k itb

Looking at bringing in jfh for someone. Was thinking of straight upgrading godinet or isaako to him or doing someone like lodge or griffen. Both still with money to make. Any advice would be appriciated

Godinet is not going to play again soon and doesn't mess with your centre cover like Isaako, so I would i upgrade to JFM from him.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

I prefer to see a decent score before making a trade. It's not just that his attacking stats are down. He had double digit tackles in 8/10 games at centre last year for an average of 13 tackles a game. This year his highest tackle count is 12. Tackle busts are down with not one game above his 2017 average of 4.3 per game.

pure hit and hope from me mate and I’m bored of running Isaako and GI, I’m hoping the move from croft shifts the Storm into gear and Scott and Munster start causing havoc on that left edge again

Claytron wrote:Hi first time poster. Currently ranked 532 after a decent week. My team is

Cook
Arrow afb
Murray harris rochow
Dce mbye
Kenner aitken
Tedesco ponga thompson

Rfm kikau griffen lodge

Godinet croker isaako jmk

228k itb

Looking at bringing in jfh for someone. Was thinking of straight upgrading godinet or isaako to him or doing someone like lodge or griffen. Both still with money to make. Any advice would be appriciated

Just my opinion but I think where possible upgrade the guys in your 17 as opposed to outside. For example if you upgraded Godinet you'd end up having to play one of your decent guys in the EMGs which I reckon is a bit of a waste. So if it makes sense in terms of BEs I'd look to got RFM to JFH (in fact thats the trade I have pencilled in for this week).

The advantages of that (over Gondinet for example) is that you are hopefully still increasing your total round points by 10 points but you get $100k for next week as opposed to eating up most of your CITB. At which time you could look to add another gun (Smith, Gallen, Taumalolo for example).

Interested to here what others think though.

Hey Moose.

Here’s your new avatar until next Monday.

Solid looking team Claytron.

Thought about bringing in a little known player called Cam Smith to strengthen your bench?

Griffin and Lodge could make way for JFH and Cam this week with 1k to spare by my calculations.

Griffin's BE is 34 and Lodge's 24 though, so probably do still have cash to make, but points should be better.

BUMP

Lodge to Katoa
Griffin to SJ

Sound ok?

Claytron wrote:Hi first time poster. Currently ranked 532 after a decent week. My team is

Cook
Arrow afb
Murray harris rochow
Dce mbye
Kenner aitken
Tedesco ponga thompson

Rfm kikau griffen lodge

Godinet croker isaako jmk

228k itb

Looking at bringing in jfh for someone. Was thinking of straight upgrading godinet or isaako to him or doing someone like lodge or griffen. Both still with money to make. Any advice would be appriciated

I strongly feel RFM has cash to make still and is a hold for now at least. There are so many people in doubt like Griffin, who should be higher priority with limited minutes becoming a factor. If I were you I would trade Griffin to JFH, as he is the most threatened player in your 17.

Not really Danseels, have no context to see for sure how it helps you though.

Katoa's a red dot and scored like 3 before he got injured.. on track for like 10? 20 with a big play?

SJ's a gun, so if you have to have him, go for it, but Lodge and Griffin aren't really urgent trades.. despite my previous post suggesting they could be traded.

Thanks winfield,yeah I was just tossing around ideas. I will probably not trade this week at least,have only banked 1 trade so far so need to relax haha.

On another note can we get up to page 51 today so we can have a gif party on my birthday please?!?! Lol maybe wishful thinking but this forum does move fast....

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Someone mentioned CHN earlier. 70 minutes from his only start this year, scored 35 in base against the Doggies.

Atm I'm going Lodge > JFH

Is Isaako > CHN worth a punt?

Anyone care to weigh in?

Bigger sample size if you look at CHN last year. Don have the stats but looks to me like he's about a 40 point player when he gets 60+ minutes. Someone will confirm. He definitely banged out some big scores last year, but then when he got the full time gig for the bulk of the second half of the season his scores fell away a bit.

Im not sure he's worth it. If he gets only 4 games (till Blake is back) he'll make a bit of money but not enough to warrant the trade, and Im not sure his stats warrant him as a starter above the types of guys most others have as their 17th man.

This is all off stab in the dark calculations though! Someone will probably be able to confirm one way or another.

Thoughts?