NRL Fantasy 2019 Part 78

Well Lolo out means I'm definitely trading.

Cook
Haas Kapow
Murray Matterson Tevaga
Moses Johnson
Nikora Bateman
Teddy Ponga RTS

Smith McInnes Burns Lolo

Fifita Walters Brittain Fusitua  134k

My first thoughts are:

1. Trade Fifita. If I did I'd want a FRF otherwise I don't have cover, I'm thinking Klemmer, AFB, Vaughan, JFH, Lodge.

2. Trade Lolo. If I did, I could theoretically buy anyone I want because if Fifita is fit next week, Taupau gives me 2RF/FRF cover. I'd consider adding DCE, Cleary, Jurbo, Turbo, Brown, Watson, Arrow to the list.

3. Trade Brittain to a Verrils/Liddle type player up to 418k to increase depth and play them this week only given Fifita/Lolo/both should be back next week.

Thanks in advance for any help. Cheers lads

Mulvy wrote:Well Lolo out means I'm definitely trading.

Cook
Haas Kapow
Murray Matterson Tevaga
Moses Johnson
Nikora Bateman
Teddy Ponga RTS

Smith McInnes Burns Lolo

Fifita Walters Brittain Fusitua  134k

My first thoughts are:

1. Trade Fifita. If I did I'd want a FRF otherwise I don't have cover, I'm thinking Klemmer, AFB, Vaughan, JFH, Lodge.

2. Trade Lolo. If I did, I could theoretically buy anyone I want because if Fifita is fit next week, Taupau gives me 2RF/FRF cover. I'd consider adding DCE, Cleary, Jurbo, Turbo, Brown, Watson, Arrow to the list.

3. Trade Brittain to a Verrils/Liddle type player up to 418k to increase depth and play them this week only given Fifita/Lolo/both should be back next week.

Thanks in advance for any help. Cheers lads

How many trades left?

Mulvy wrote:Well Lolo out means I'm definitely trading.

Cook
Haas Kapow
Murray Matterson Tevaga
Moses Johnson
Nikora Bateman
Teddy Ponga RTS

Smith McInnes Burns Lolo

Fifita Walters Brittain Fusitua  134k

My first thoughts are:

1. Trade Fifita. If I did I'd want a FRF otherwise I don't have cover, I'm thinking Klemmer, AFB, Vaughan, JFH, Lodge.

2. Trade Lolo. If I did, I could theoretically buy anyone I want because if Fifita is fit next week, Taupau gives me 2RF/FRF cover. I'd consider adding DCE, Cleary, Jurbo, Turbo, Brown, Watson, Arrow to the list.

3. Trade Brittain to a Verrils/Liddle type player up to 418k to increase depth and play them this week only given Fifita/Lolo/both should be back next week.

Thanks in advance for any help. Cheers lads

Option 1 I think, and Klemmer is probably the safest bet of them, but my POD of choice is Josh Papalii. Dual position, 6.1% owned and has been killing it recently.

MilfordTheMagician wrote:

How many trades left?

One

StormTrooper96 wrote:Think Ponga could be a sneaky POD captain. Cowboys no McGuire, no Tolo, Hess in the centres, Cotter spelling Granville, McLean only coming back from injury. Knights at home and finals on the line, Ponga against his old club could go pretty big.

For me Ponga without the gk means I wouldn't captain him & he's not in the best of form lately.

MilfordTheMagician wrote:

If I had Moses he'd be my captain this week. He'll get 3 try assists even though one of them he won't deserve like last week

Moses will get rocked by a high shot from Wallace in the 21st minutes, go off for HIA and not return. D.Brown for 60.

White Lightning wrote:

Lomax is available for selection this week @ nrl physio so he gtg Wolfy.

Thanks mate. It's to be seen if he walks straight back into the team though after their win last week.

White Lightning wrote:

For me Ponga without the gk means I wouldn't captain him & he's not in the best of form lately.

Completely forgot he wasn't kicking. Maybe he is carrying an injury, hence the form drop and Lino now kicking. C is back onto Murray as my POD pick.

Mulvy wrote:

One

Fifita is playing injured even if he's back next week + coming off the bench (more than likely) so I'd trade him over Lolo. Klemmer/Paps the best options at FRF.

Wouldn't trade Lolo.

Verrills is in doubt this week so Liddle > Verrills in that regard. You won't be playing either by the time Farah/Friend is back in a few weeks time anyway.

To maximise points I'd trade Fifita to one of the big boppers because he's playing injured and a bench player now.

StormTrooper96 wrote:

Completely forgot he wasn't kicking. Maybe he is carrying an injury, hence the form drop and Lino now kicking. C is back onto Murray as my POD pick.

I don't have Ponga but I do have Turbo & I think he's carrying an injury as well because he's just not getting that involved like he was a month ago.

What do we think of leilua and tapine as budget replacements/17.5th men in rotation with burns?

Looking to move fifita on and only have 2 trades left

Fifita to Fifita anyone? Then I can leave Nikora at CTR.....am screwed if Lolo or Reynolds are out long term though

Long term (four rounds ) minutes for D Fifita a worry?

Ponga Yeo the Mann wrote:What do we think of leilua and tapine as budget replacements/17.5th men in rotation with burns?

Looking to move fifita on and only have 2 trades left

Leilua is coming back from a serious neck injury, I'd avoid.

Lolo injury makes the forums lively at least, although would appreciate future injuries only to guns I don’t own.

So most importantly what do we think Mann does this week? I’d be pretty happy with a 15 but hoping he goes big to like 27.

MilfordTheMagician wrote:

Leilua is coming back from a serious neck injury, I'd avoid.

Think he means Luciano Leilua for Dragons. With T Sims done for the season with surgery he might have the 2RF nailed down. Hard to tell what his scores will be like though not many high min games to go off

Ponga Yeo the Mann wrote:What do we think of leilua and tapine as budget replacements/17.5th men in rotation with burns?

Looking to move fifita on and only have 2 trades left

Yeah I've noticed Tapine has upped his fantasy scores over the last 2 weeks which has seen his minutes increase from the 40's to 60+ minutes so obviously he's regained match fitness now. However with Ryan Sutton back on the bench could he eat into Tapine's minutes. I'm not sure because Tapine is preferred by Ricky but you never know.
One player I'm looking at is Radley but only if he stays at lock. I am put off though by the Verrills injury because if it flares up again then Radley will go back to hooker which is not good for fantasy.

Camo123 wrote:

Think he means Luciano Leilua for Dragons. With T Sims done for the season with surgery he might have the 2RF nailed down. Hard to tell what his scores will be like though not many high min games to go off

Oh right.

Leilua is a decent punt. When given good minutes he can score well, but the minutes are the worry.

@Honeysett, do you have a trade?

I could be reading too much into it, but the lack of information about Tolo's injury is a concern IMO.

Mulvy wrote:

Yep, looks good.

Thanks Mulvy and Camo. Looking forward to getting Naden's 12 for his double meaty this week.