NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 82 - Monday Night Football DOUBLE HEADER!

wolfking wrote:Still toying with the best way to go.  My ranked has dropped to around 1800 so whatever I do doesn't mean shit now but here's my 17 this week;

Watson
Haas Tolo IPap
Crichton Fifita
Trindall DCE
Manu Bird
Hynes Walsh Ted

AFB CHN Burton Verrills

Brailey Peach Laurie Fog

3 trades and 65K.  My two options now are;

CHN - Blore
Fog - Cleary

Seems like a no brainer if he plays.  Means Manu would have to shift down and Hynes as a backup, or next week use my last trade on Hynes to Ponga/Mitchell.

My second option is to skip Cleary and add more depth.  Still liking from what I posted yesterday;

Fog - Ponga
Laurie - Avo

Gets rid of a red dot and at least I get some good depth for the last 5 weeks.  Means CHN and Hynes probably stay or can trade one next week.

Any thoughts good people, it's 50/50.  Ponga and CHN playing before Cleary really fucks with everything.  I could hold and play 17, but won't have the swing to do the Cleary trades next week.

Thinking with the ranking, Cleary has to be the all in play.  Could wait and trade Hynes to Cleary instead of CHN but Hynes' DPP more handy than CHN.  But saying that, CHN might be more handy as a player than Hynes.

Rabbits21 wrote:
Really tough call mate but in a season with so much  carnage maybe it’s better to have that better depth.

wolfking wrote:

Thanks for the thoughts mate.  It does seem having the depth is the smarter, conservative play, but Cleary is Cleary.  Even with Cleary, I'd still only have the one red dot in Laurie, but a few spuds.

mrbrownstone wrote:

I reckon go all out with Cleary. It's not like your depth is terrible as is. Your bench this week would be, what, AFB/Trindall/Burton and use Laurie as a loop for 2 of Verrills/Peach/Blore, with Brailey to come back in? That's fairly solid and not many teams will have both DCE and Cleary.

I'm not sure you need Avo anyway with the way he's scored recently and Bird, Burton and Manu already in your team.

TheRookie101 wrote:The thing is if we bring Cleary in and captain him he locks in. If he doesn’t play this week there’s no guarantee he plays next week either

Honeysett wrote:I've pulled the trigger on Fog to Murray. Leaving me with one trade and a team of 21 green dots.

Cook
Haas/Crichton/Watson
I'Pap/Fifita
Cleary/DCE
Olam/Bird
Teddy/Tommy/Latrell

Mahoney/Hughes/Murray/Doueihi
Walsh/CHN/Niu/Chambers

Rank of 2870 - wouldn't mind a top 2000 finish.

wolfking wrote:I don't think Cleary is any more at risk than any other player who can get injured at any time truthfully.  Sure the chances are there, but injuries can happen to anyone at anytime.

I traded To'o back in as he seemed almost bulletproof and whammo, out for six weeks.

wolfking wrote:Clearly last 5 game average is 105.  I think that's the only stat I need.  I will add average of 487 kick metres for those 5 games.  Hi record breaking game only had 266 kick metres.

Also in the run home Panthers face the Dragons and the Tigers.  Hasn't played either of those teams yet this year.

Honeysett wrote:I've pulled the trigger on Fog to Murray. Leaving me with one trade and a team of 21 green dots.

Cook
Haas/Crichton/Watson
I'Pap/Fifita
Cleary/DCE
Olam/Bird
Teddy/Tommy/Latrell

Mahoney/Hughes/Murray/Doueihi
Walsh/CHN/Niu/Chambers

Rank of 2870 - wouldn't mind a top 2000 finish.

Pain wrote:

It's just people trying to convince themselves they'll be ok without him.  I'd being doing the same if I could afford him or didn't have the trades.  Don't let it distract you mate.

robelgordo wrote:

I was tossing up a similar dilemma yesterday about to Cleary or not to Cleary. Ultimately I've concluded that if you have a decent 18th in case he doesn't play, it's worth bringing him in with the (c).