Overall rank 18587 Prev rank 9927
So i doubled my rank this week! Oh dear....
Don't know if I could have intentionally sabotaged my team worse! If things could go awry they went awry. I have essentially harpooned it by missing 3 weeks of Nathan Cleary, yes I broke the rule and trded him out on the bye, and it STINGss.......
So not much to do, except learn the lesson for the future and try and salvage this year
Thankfully there are still 21 rounds to try and claw back so respectability, but things are tough, having messed up in such a mannaer thus far
Trades last week were Korosiau out for Brailey and Doorey out for Kodi Nikorima, so while in theory they seemed good, Korosiau went back to 80 mins and had a good game and poor old jayden got a season ending injury (guy has no luck), Kodi was meant to be stashed on the emergencies, but due to Tapine's late out he found his was onto the scored 16 and lost money! ahah.
Anyway I shall give a breakdown of the players as per usual and my thoughts on each of them aswell as plans going forward,
Jayden Brailey 42 poor guy, injury curtailed him, really enjoy watching knights, there is a grittyness about them this year and he was at the forefront of it, injured on 60 mins he would likely of hit his 50+ score and done what I wanted from him, not sure what to do with hooker, but I might play boyd there in the interim, we shall see
Carrigan 48 another poor score from patty, especially given that he played 75 min, did a lot of passing which I dont think is his forte, huge break even this week so he will most likely lose money, I have two rules going forward in fantasy and one of them is cleary and Haas, whatever it takes, I dont think I will trade him this week, too much else to sort out, hope against hope he turns it on against the titans.
Stefano Utoikamanu 38 prettyy standard fare from stefano, got his minutes, low tackle count but just about got 100 metres running, pretty much had my fill of him, and hes made me $130+k, most likely trade him out for a cheaper Mid who will fill a similar role and average similar points, also he is on a bye this week so seems appropriate
J Ford 52 another good week for him, pleased to see him inflate his score with that try, warriors love attacking right or at least did in this game, makes sense with SJ being so ball dominant, holding this guy, nice low break even, 80 mins and playing for a gritty team, keep it up
Preston 42 thought he was rather unfortunate to be sinbinned, very overzealous reffing and bunkering, still a fairly ok score for a woeful bulldogs team who got hammered by mitchell et al, holding him and hope he has more luck this week
Hosking 54 another solid game from Zac and hes named again, bit of a workhorse, I'm a fan, hopefully Ivan doesnt make any silly changes, enjoyed mick ennis talking him up in commentary, not that that has any bearing on his selection or performance, be interesting to see how his role and job security developes
A Reynolds 47 passable score I guess, but certainly a disappointing run from him over what seemed like good fixtures for him, even his goal kicking has been poor, he will be a makeweight for either hynes or cleary this week, we shall see
Sj 60 great score again, dont expect him to get 70+ each game but he continues to play great and score well, I intend to keep him, so see what I can wrangle in trades
Alamoti 18 Feel super sorry for him, hung out to dry by the injuries to dogs and a rampant souths team, they ran riot on the right side of the attack and him and topine had zero change to defend, I'm actually worried that JAC being out will affect his scores going forward, but Its not the most important area for me to fix up so hope he bounces back
Staggs 37 conflicted, prettyy decent score considering it was all base stats, but frustrated that between hudson young and croker they locked him up. I'd really like to trade him at some point, but for now there are no immediate cash downs and i have other fish to fry, so I just continue to ride the staggs rollercoaster, lets see what happens next week, will it be 20 or 60 or somewhere in between (fwiw 39 average isnt that bad for season thus far)
MIller 57 he is averaging 56.3 points, 214m, 9 tb, and now has the goal kicking, hes also made 240k, fantasy royalty this season, pleased to have him and enjoying watching him play, keep it up mate
Walsh 64 (c) 128 i acttually managed to captain my best scoring player this week, to score 64 without any major attacking stats was great, the broncos had been wobbling a little over the last few games so while this result was unexpected its symptomatic of how sloppy broncos had been. As fdor walsh, will continue to hold him, i had expected him to be QLD number 1, but now POnga is alledgedly back in round 8, we will see what occurs
Turbo 16 so when people say match ups don't matter I always advocate that they do and penrith away is gonna be a game where your players, especially outside backs fail to score well. This was a pretty poor effort, and more worrying was him playing 80 with an injury, losing money and coping a crap score add to the issues with this, hes named again this week so not sure what to do, dont really see trading him out as the play, I guess i just have to hope hes not hindered and he bounces back
Interchange
NIkorima 16 i cheaped out on getting Isiah Katoa, to save 20k ish, and kodi's historical average played a part, and I got punished, Tapine's withdrawal was completely unseen, and the next man up was Warbrick who had already posted a 13, I didnt expect Kodi to be this bad, (Fantasy wise) at least he is playing again this week and dolphins bounced back and played well, fingers crossed he redeems himself, but I'm not enthused by him
Boyd 40 had a good game on eye test and this wasnt the worst score considering sexton took the majority of the kicking metres, speaking of which sexton is rather unlucky to pick up a fractured wrist and with foran named again boyd will go back to do the lion share of the kicking, so hes a hold for me now, i would like to get in a gun hooker, but as they are so expensive i miight run boyd there and max out other positions, i havent played around with trades yet, but one or both of cleary and hynes is on my list
Hopgood 39 steady fall from grace for hopgood, lowest minutes for him and least effective game, he seems to be the odd man out at parra, i could trade him this week so I don't lose alot of cash, but I will see what else I am doing, thisw potential problem has come at an inopportune time where I am still deciding on what to do to rescue the rest of the team, its a thinker for sure. I did say in my write up last week that we still didnt know what his role or mins or average was likely to be and I think we are still clueless and i believe it will be subject to change, not someone we can hang our hat on going forward
Perham 20 having 3 bulldogs when they got trounced hurt, they had all been good enough until this week. Looking at TLT it seems a few reinforcements have arrived, Iwas happy enough having perham in my emergencies as the 4th WFB cover, but I keep requiring him to score for me and its not ideal. One thing about him Is he has enough workrate and involvement that I never feel like single figures is likely, but hes also doesnt make me think he will GUN it
Emergency
Warbrick 12 poor score, cheap wingers can put these up, glad i dont play him week to week, but then he wasnt far behind turbo
Wilton BYE pleased he's back, less pleased to see Graham named on the interchange, hopefully he covers middle rather than edge as sharks have lost a few there, we shall see
Tapine DNP congrats on your baby, congrats for wasting 700k on my emergencys, redeemer this week in what looked like an improved raiders
HSS DNP his replacement player great, I dont expect to see him suit up again for raiders anytime soon, I will eventually need centre cover!
In terms of trades for the next round,
Brailey, is out for the season, he is gone this week,
Uto, had more or less maxxed out and I dont expect him to score significantly better than he currently is, will anyone,
Reynolds, can be a makeweight for Hynes or Cleary, 75k ish between them might be the decider,
Hopgood, an asset that has gone toxic, who represents alot of money to spend elswhere, but are there any suitbale cash down Mids,
HSS, dead spot but not causing me trouble
Unsure who I get in will look at everyone elses trades, and forum activity and make a plan
The good news is THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER ( I hope)
learn some valuable lessons in the first 6 weeks of the season and been truly spanked by going offscript
time to write the wrongs and make another charge
Thanks for reading,
Told you so's, advice, comiserations all welcomed,
Will have a play with trades and update in here