NRL Fantasy 2019 part 54

Lone Scout reckons Connor Watson is likely to get the hooking role at the Knights. Hopefully Mann can stay at five-eighth and string some good scores together to justify my drunken decision to trade Dearden to Mann.

Great points Rabs and I see Britain as a key player in the Rabbitohs Premiership campaign, Cookie will need a rest at some stage .

Rabbit wrote:If you have Cook, Brittain is a great cash out. He covers for Cook...80 minutes....and is a point scoring hooker, not a Radley type dud. Bennett has form for resting his stars at very inconvenient moments during Origin and towards the semis. Anytime that happens, bingo....insurance. Also, if you have Cook you most likely already have a back up hooker, so Cook comes in, Brittain sits at #21. No damage done. If he scores in three or four games, you’ve made cash.

He’s a cash out who covers for the best scorer in fantasy. If you don’t have Cook, it could be a waste of a trade, but your team is poo anyway

Agree with all of this. Someone mentioned yesterday that Brittain is effectively a handcuff for if anything happens to Cook going forward, and the fact he's a big cash out as well makes it well worth the trade.

You have to roll the dice sometimes and I'd rather do it with someone who is $228k than not

surmo13 wrote:thinking i might just cut my losses on Farah to get an extra player this week, i worry that absolutely no-one has made mention of the out-of-nowhere rotation.

We at the 18th man have touched on Farah's situation, thinking if the tigers are in a close game Farah will get a majority of the minutes, however if it is a blowout on either side, Liddle will likely come on and play 'x' minutes. As the Tigers are grooming Liddle to take over the role.

Selling Farah seems like a good move now, as he price could plummet quite rapidly.

I might prioritise trading out Shitbread over Allan to brittain.

Titans have exact same team as last week so another 35 minutes for him and a score of 30. The extra cash is handy too for later.

Allan could see some extra attack over the origin period with all the guns out and is only one decent score away from a good price rise.

Without seeing my team who would you prioritise first?

Upvote to trade out Shitbread

Downvote to trade out Allan

18th_Man wrote:

We at the 18th man have touched on Farah's situation, thinking if the tigers are in a close game Farah will get a majority of the minutes, however if it is a blowout on either side, Liddle will likely come on and play 'x' minutes. As the Tigers are grooming Liddle to take over the role.

Selling Farah seems like a good move now, as he price could plummet quite rapidly.

When he went off though, it was 14-12 to Rabbitohs so that theory kind of doesn't make sense. Tigers had momentum given it looked like a training run early in the game and Tigers got the scoreline to within 2 points

He then missed the next 35 mins. I don't own him but there's definitely enough concern to say he won't be in the top 3 HOKs come the end of season (however McInnes' role may have slightly changed due to Dragons only have 1 on the bench for most of the second half)

Krump wrote:
This. He's a base price bye round player and thats it. If people are trying to justify trading him in from a cash making perspective they're on the wrong track.

Agree.

My two cents on Brittain is not only is he a round 12 likely good scorer and provides almost maximum cash out, I think there is an excellent chance he plays rd13 which could be important with the fall out from origin with potentially unexpected restings, injuries and dealing with the transition from rd12 teams to rd16/final teams. He might save me from having to play a Havili or worse in my 17. This could be useful even though I don't have Cook yet. When I get Cook in round 17 I'll then have the handcuff. I'm not expecting he will make cash and wouldn't leave my team the rest of the year. Red dot could be useful for looping some rounds also.

The only doubt I have is whether it's too early to kill a position. Maybe. But if you've done well with your cash making and have enough trades it hopefully won't matter.

With having only two real trade out options this week in D.Brown and Martin and only 13 trades left after these two I think I HAVE to miss Havili as I am grabbing Brittain and Taupau. I always planned to have 2-3 NPR's by the end of the year and grabbing one this early is no problem for me as he should hopefully see 2-3 games of hopefully good scores. Havili would be good for cash gain but I have Xerri, Lomax, Sivo, Mann, Young all making money at the moment with CNK, Tolman and Rein also being trade outs over the next 5 4 weeks, being only 5-6 players away from my final 17 that means I have 8 players to turn into 5-6. Grabbing Taupau now just fast tracks my final 17.

If Bennett repeats what he has done previously with Macca and his other origin players, Brittain will receive more game time than many expect.

Is anyone else giving Havili a miss like myself?

Camo123 wrote:

When he went off though,  it was 14-12 to Rabbitohs so that theory kind of doesn't make sense. Tigers had momentum given it looked like a training run early in the game and Tigers got the scoreline to within 2 points

He then missed the next 35 mins. I don't own him but there's definitely enough concern to say he won't be in the top 3 HOKs come the end of season (however McInnes' role may have slightly changed due to Dragons only have 1 on the bench for most of the second half)

Yeah as I said Tigers are grooming him and that's not to rule him out not coming on in close games and he added something to the Tigers when he came on. Would say Farah shouldn't be in anyone's final team at the end of the season, as it will be an unpleasant roller coaster ride and there will be better options available at other positions likely with more consistency to their game.

We will be watching McInnes situation closely, for the reason you provided about the Dragons only having 1 bench option last week.

Mulvy wrote:

Agree.

My two cents on Brittain is not only is he a round 12 likely good scorer and provides almost maximum cash out, I think there is an excellent chance he plays rd13 which could be important with the fall out from origin with potentially unexpected restings, injuries and dealing with the transition from rd12 teams to rd16/final teams. He might save me from having to play a Havili or worse in my 17. This could be useful even though I don't have Cook yet. When I get Cook in round 17 I'll then have the handcuff. I'm not expecting he will make cash and wouldn't leave my team the rest of the year. Red dot could be useful for looping some rounds also.

The only doubt I have is whether it's too early to kill a position. Maybe. But if you've done well with your cash making and have enough trades it hopefully won't matter.

This. Although I already own Cook. Brittain provides a good score this round plus potential good scores for another 1-2 rounds and possibility to be turned over if need be later on. Also god forbid any injury to Cook and he is first in.

churg wrote:Is anyone else giving Havili a miss like myself?

ME! but not by choice. I am forced too. So I will be death riding him hard.

EJ24 wrote:I might prioritise trading out Shitbread over Allan to brittain.

Titans have exact same team as last week so another 35 minutes for him and a score of 30. The extra cash is handy too for later.

Allan could see some extra attack over the origin period with all the guns out and is only one decent score away from a good price rise.

Without seeing my team who would you prioritise first?

Upvote to trade out Shitbread

Downvote to trade out Allan

If you aren't going to play them in round 12 why did you trade either of them in? Neither looked like world beaters in the scoring department.
Round 12:
Whoever you were planning to trade out next week>Brittain
Round 13:
Shitbread>Whoever you were planning to trade in next week

EJ24 wrote:I might prioritise trading out Shitbread over Allan to brittain.

Titans have exact same team as last week so another 35 minutes for him and a score of 30. The extra cash is handy too for later.

Allan could see some extra attack over the origin period with all the guns out and is only one decent score away from a good price rise.

Without seeing my team who would you prioritise first?

Upvote to trade out Shitbread

Downvote to trade out Allan

I'm trading out Whitbread for Brittain
After last week I don't see Whitbread getting enough minutes to score enough. I expect Brittain to score 45+ and I hope he gets a couple more games. Otherwise I'll use him to do the ###censored###