NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 49 - Funtime Fifita

White Lightning wrote:Which trade set do you like:
(a) Fifita & Alvaro out - Haas & Fogarty in or
(b) Fifita & Roberts out - Matterson & Fogarty in

Team before trades:
J. Brailey
Crichton, I. Papalii, Watson
Fifita, Tupounuai
Cleary, Moses
Peachey, Bird
Tedesco, Turbo, Laurie

S. Walker, Schuster, TPJ, Alvaro
Simonsson, Simpkin, Utoi, Roberts

Thoughts & thanks.

Out of those 2 choices I would go option A
I love Matterson, but he's high risk.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

I wouldn't be surprised if KBrom actually starts at 9 to keep Smoothy out of the initial softening up period. Smoothy comes on after 20 and plays out the game. Where this leaves Hynes, not sure

KBrom has played 9 for NZ before so he is more than capable.

Spectre wrote:If Mahoney scored 60 odd how much would he drop roughly?

between 25 and 30k

This forum is very persuasive this week. Or maybe it’s because I’m not at work and have more time to actually consider the posts I’m reading.

Anyway, moving to Gamble over Flegler and Matto over other fallen guns.

Milchcow wrote:

Harris is different to Haas/Turbo

Tohu will play 7 of the next 8 games. Haas/Trbo will play 6, plus potential rests for post-origin games. That's assuming Haas plays origin, which I don't think is a guarantee.
Fifita will play at most 4, with potential for rests as well.

A R13 gun will also play 7 of the next 8. Getting a R13 gun in now, and Tohu in later makes sense. But for those of us low on trades, who also want Fifita back in missing Tohu now may also mean missing Tohu altogether.

I understand Harris a lot more than I do any other origin player. Thought about him closely myself.

I think Haas is locked into Origin personally, but happy to be wrong.

Trading Fifita out, I'm not deadset on getting him back in. I want to, but can see myself not being able to.

https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/05/12/exit-over-ego-hodgson-wont-stay-in-starlings-way-but-a-ok-with-sticky/

Hodgson saying he expects to be on the field the same time as Starling coming on into a roving lock role.

wolfking wrote:

I understand Harris a lot more than I do any other origin player.  Thought about him closely myself.

I think Haas is locked into Origin personally, but happy to be wrong.

Trading Fifita out, I'm not deadset on getting him back in.  I want to, but can see myself not being able to.

I'm getting Haas and I think he'll play origin.
My reasoning is that he'll be one of the top guns, possibly second only to Cleary on averages for the year thus I think he'll be more expensive if I trade him in later in the season.
Fifita out because I think his price has probably peaked and I might be able to bring him in slightly cheaper post-origin if I'm in a position to do so.

Got an eye on Moses/Matterson for next week.
I definitely want to wait a week on Flegler and Madden but keen to see how they are used this week.

Quite likely I'll be proven wrong on all accounts but could work out!

wolfking wrote:https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/05/12/exit-over-ego-hodgson-wont-stay-in-starlings-way-but-a-ok-with-sticky/

Hodgson saying he expects to be on the field the same time as Starling coming on into a roving lock role.

Interesting... Was always a possibility but now he has said that, it does give some more confidence that Starling has the starting job reasonably secured. A steal at $475k if so, might ponder grabbing him this week and then Koro next week instead

I think I'm going to take a risk on Starling.

DFifita to Matterson
JRoberts to Starling

wolfking wrote:https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/05/12/exit-over-ego-hodgson-wont-stay-in-starlings-way-but-a-ok-with-sticky/

Hodgson saying he expects to be on the field the same time as Starling coming on into a roving lock role.

Boy that makes Starling very tempting with only a 48k gap from Stefano. Would be all over him if R13. Still might be a risk worth taking.

Any Dragons fans around? Why did Macca have his first sub 80 minute game of the year last week?

zim wrote:Any Dragons fans around? Why did Macca have his first sub 80 minute game of the year last week?

He just got an early mark bro to allow Junior Amone to get some game time. Nothing wrong with macca, just no need to play him when they are up big against the dogs

Fifita + Stefano > Matterson and Starling + 300K and 21 trades left to fund Koro next week. Wow that is tempting.

R13 Team would be

Brailey
Papalii Watson Leniu
Matterson X
Fogarty Moses
Roberts Bird
Laurie Crichton X
Simpkin

This is based of Simpkin and Roberts making the Tigers team who will probably be missing no one for Origin this year… Getting Koro in next week gives me 13 for R13.

StormTrooper96 wrote:Fifita + Stefano > Matterson and Starling + 300K and 21 trades left to fund Koro next week. Wow that is tempting.

R13 Team would be

Brailey
Papalii Watson Leniu
Matterson X
Fogarty Moses
Roberts Bird
Laurie Crichton X
Simpkin

This is based of Simpkin and Roberts making the Tigers team who will probably be missing no one for Origin this year… Getting Koro in next week gives me 13 for R13.

What's the plan with Starling? Planning to hold through 13?

Are people looking for a centre checking our Burton heading into round 13? Going alright in centre and probably picks up a few games in the halves over SOO which may give him a cash boost in time to ditch for the run home (or keep if he continues his purple patch in the Centres)

Do we see Alvaro's mins continuing to drop/hover around 25-30, or will he go back up to 35-40?

TU: He will get 35 mins or so
TD: He's not getting more than 30 for awhile.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

What's the plan with Starling? Planning to hold through 13?

Would be a great play if he can stay starting for 2 months

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:
Would be a great play if he can stay starting for 2 months

Yeah, he's tempting and potentially a price cut keeper if Hodgson is indeed on the outer. They haven't won a game though with him there. And by the time round 14 comes he'll be too expensive.

Hodgson doesn’t strike me as a lock, slow, honestly misses a lot of tackles as well, won’t be taking the hard runs. Bad move from a club looking to play someone they should just cut their losses on