Rd 10 discussion

966 for the round, overall rank of 5,833.  21 trades left, $34k in the bank.




Brailey
Haas, Crichton, Watson
Fifita, Harris
Cleary, Moses
Bird, Cini
Teddy, Turbo, Laurie

Schuster, Walker, Utoikamanu, Alvaro
Simpkin, Walsh, Niu, Papy

Feels like we're going to be talking about centres again...

Embarrassing that from Cini

Could afford Alvaro up to 492k in one trade. SCritchon, Averillo or Joey Manu in that range.

Stefano up to 461k. Farnworth, Harper and Kelly types.

Not sure of any good cashouts if wanting to go higher. The Alvaro trade looking attractive to me atm.

Think we might need to move Alvaro on. McGuire Arrival hasn't been good for him.

WTW pretty much covers the centres. If I was confident he'd keep the spot, Jesse Arthars would be worth a look too.

Why do we still have Niu? Isnt Staggs due back soonish to further push back the liklihood of him making a return.

RandomSil wrote:Why do we still have Niu? Isnt Staggs due back soonish to further push back the liklihood of him making a return.

He keeps getting shortlisted for a tradeout, but manages to dodge the bullet every time. Might have to start calling him Tesi Neo.

Neo to Arthurs or Joey L possible in one though.

Would need a cashout for 242k or less to afford Alvaro to Peachy. The non-rookies are 246k, so not much help there from the Blore types.

Alvaro to a centre might be the go. Unless something like Niu to Gamble allows us to afford someone better?

Niu to Hopoate or Tuala? Neither are going to set the world on fire but have good JS and hopefully can stop the run of trading centres. Arthurs or Leilua would just be too much risk of them losing their spot again later might as well pay the extras

What happens to Arthurs when Staggs comes back?

I didn't mind the Alvaro trade, but feels like a ridiculous luxury to trade out a player actually playing this weekend now.  Currently lining up with 15 men...

Brailey
Haas, Crichton, Watson
Schuster, Harris
Cleary, Moses
Bird, Cini
Teddy, Turbo, Laurie

Fifita, Walker, Utoikamanu, Alvaro
Simpkin, Walsh, Niu, Papy

maybe trade fifita to someone playing round 13 and who is going to make some cash.
Assuming fifita plays origin, he will miss 3 games in 5 rounds.

maybe Hughes ??

Otherwise trade him for Taumalolo assuming he will continue playing 70mins a game

Maybe something like Fifita -> Matterson and Cini -> Burton/Olam/SCrichton ?

trading out Niu instead of Cini, we could afford Peachey. same if we traded to Fogarty instead of Matterson

I reckon Fifita out

2 of the next 5 games means we can spend that money elsewhere

ALso drop Niu or Cini

get a CTR and a gun

For trade ins

Luciano Leilua is a good R13 gun we can swap back to Fifita later
We can even get IPap if we think he'll maintain his scoring
McCullough might be th ebest R13 gun we don't have.
Josh McGuire scoring well now at Dragons
JTrbo is a good price

i think most others are origin players, currently injured or have dubious job security

I was looking at Fifita, Stefano and Niu as the primary tradeout candidates.

Stefano + Niu only gives 822k to spend on 2 players. Something like Starling + Arthars/JLeilua, but I think I'd rather go for keepers.

Fifita to a Rd 13 gun - TPJ, Matterson, Macca, Luciano and Koroisau the main guys jumping out to me. Then we can grab any CTR we want through Niu or Stefano.

Thinking Matto and Peach, but those HIAs.. Macca probably the safest and most boring pick of the above.

Can see why people are interested in Matto, but its a bit of a risk for mine

If he gets injured its likely to be a long term out. Rather a bit more security in others

Flegler, Butcher, Harper and Burns could be people to look at as well if we didn't want an out and out gun.

Milchcow wrote:
Can see why people are interested in Matto, but its a bit of a risk for mine

If he gets injured its likely to be a long term out. Rather a bit more security in others

Yeah I've gone cold on Matto the more I think about it. Any HIA seems like a 2-3 week minimum that can turn into 6.

Koro's still dropping cash, so might be too good to ignore as we get closer to Rd 13, but can probably wait.

Luciano's low of 47 came when we won, also one of his two 50s against Knights when we won, so as long as we keep losing, Luciano's solid Probably one of the safest Tigers players, but that doesn't have much value right now.

Starting to lean the boring pick of Macca..

I like Fifita to Koro or Macca. I don't think Koro potentially losing another $20k or so should put us off him this week, the timing works with Fifita and he is already cheap, could go big any week. So I'd lean to Koro in.

And then Niu or Cini to a centre. I would think Cini might have more of a chance of getting back in the team soon and hence would be inclined to get rid of Niu? Niu to Peachey looks nice but paying max for Peachey at this stage

Koro's BE is around 75 and has a high of 59 in his last 10 games, and then an 88 with a try. Went above 75 three times last season and hit it one other time.

He doesn't mind a niggle too, so I reckon at least one more week can't hurt.

Not a fan of Koro.

TPJ?