Round 10 Review, Score 913 Rd rank 14833
Overall Rank 8566 Prev 8649
So the week started off great, then Hynes happened, overall it was a bit of let down, but not disaterous, gained 100 places which is essentially standing still at my lowly rank, the trades didnt exactly excel, as Mcinnes was a late switch to start and boshed out a score that we'd been hoping for the previous week, curran got big minutes after being named on the bench, the bright spot was Bula in for HSS and played very well, Horse looked good but almost so good that I am now worried he might play origin and the jury is well and truly out on Tatola!
Full review
Boyd 66 phenomenal work from Tannah again, I remarked last week he was leading the 3 round avearge for hookers, another great score will help that, shame that titans have such a poor bye schedule, but titans are playing good and he is key, 829metres kicking this weekend was redonk
Carrigan 52 52 for more good work from patty, this achieved in only 55 minutes, I actually think its good management from kevvie to play his satr middles for less time when they are not required, games against melbourne and penrith in the next two before origin mean he should see big mins and be needed to step up, still plan to trade him after roiund 12 and hoping he is priced about the same as hopgood as I will want hopgoods dual position over 13, 16,19
Tapine 53 I've actually made my peace with Tapine, he's not what I wanted when I bought him and I was follish enough to not dispense of him, I will now hold him and enjoy his consistency, his PPM remains at 1.03, so I am at the ricky stuart mercy for minutes, hope he does something spectacular, but its no longer expected
Horburgh 56 only 62mins for Corey this week, but still a great PPM, and he played excellently, eye test he was great, and i can see why he's been killing it this year, will make me some money and is a welcome addition, my head says he won't play origin, mainly due to the amount of other middles QLD have, but my heart thinks there is a chance, think he'd just be such a great character there, we shall see
Wilton 71 did not see the sharks result coming at all, but very pleasing to see my favourite player reward with another try and good performance, his base is there every week (average 37 tackles, 130 metres) this week though he had 7 tackle breaks and an offload on top of the try, i do believe he is capable of replicating his attacking threat most weeks, and manly and newcastle in the next two should be good, either way his floor is very high, I think he's an extremely overlooked fantasy asset, but thats cool, for example his owenrship is 4.2% and only 6.66 in the top 5000.
Hosking 65 More good work from mr hosking, i think martin might be back soon, so I see his days as being numbered, but until he is not named I won't overthink it and keep playing him, Wilton has big base and so does he, avergaing 40.9 tackles per game and 97 run metres, a few more attacking stats and he'll crush
SJ 67 a very impressive score considering no attacking stats, he played excellent in real life, and racked up huge kick metres, 841. Does a bit of everything and has a good schedule over the next little while after his bye, will be holding for the forseeable
Hynes 74 (c) well the big disappointment of the weekend, pretty sure I recommended him to anyone who was on the fence about trading him in, so apologies if I swayed you, I really expected an easy cronulla victory, so firstly congrats to the dolphins, lack of ball, and lack of defence for cronulla really put paid to him doing much, no panic, no harm, no issue, i think the biggest disappointment for us owners of hynes is how well cleary did, but I'll still back hynes as the better option and expect him to have a WOW of a game vs manly this week, think i heard on the podcast its his worse score since hes been at sharks, so an abberation.
Bird 50 honestly didnt impress me to the eye, but to score a 50 in 54 minutes, no complaints, should we be concerned that he only got 54 mins? should we be concerned about the rumours hes asked for a release? I don't know, but I am not gonna trade a dual with a 50 average who playes good bye schedule yet, fingers crossed hes back up to 80 mins this week
Manu 50 my centres combined for 100, and that is great, Roosters were very poor vs cowboys, so for manu to grind out 50 points was pleasing, Its also good hes named there again, I'm not sure how long that will last, but while it does, I'll hold him. 90% owned by the top 5000, so we all rise or fall together with him
Bula 46 honestly was very impressed, good fantasy score, Try saver to win them the game, 180 metres running, 6 tackle breaks, and made me 50k, not much more to ask, think its his role for a while, big test for him this week, but after that he has some good fixtures, keep it going young man
Walsh 57 return to form for reece, I listened to the press conference after and Kevvie had challenged him to be more involved this week, and that he did, 13 tackle breaks, 163 metrs, 2 try assists and some LBs as well. I expect more of this, what excites me is we still havent seen his ceiling game, If he doesnt get selected for origin game 1 it would be a great bonus, but we will see what happens, I cant see the clamour to get rid of him, and I'd hate to watch the broncos not owning him
Tedesco 45 after his 56 in rd 8 vs the dragons I celebrated a bit too early, 45 in a well beaten side isnt too bad, but now they have the hardest fixture in the league, away at penrith, there seems to be something off at roosters this year, from angus, cheese, sualli, the centres, even their big middles, nothing feels like it should, the thing is NRL is unpredictable and if you told me roosters were going to go to penrith and put a clinic on, i'd have no trouble believing you, I hope it happens for manu and tedesco, but we shall see. I don't have a real plan with what to do within him over origin, but I wouldnt be mad at trading him to gutho who covers all the big byes, will wait and see,
Interchange
Ford 32 one of my favourite players this year so far, I think he was massively unfairly sin binned, and then succumbed to a HIA, now he misses the nexyt two gameweeks after being ruled out, so I have the connudrum what to do, he will be useful over the byes with his dual position, but at the same time its a lot of money to sit on the sidelines for two weeks, I could trade him out and then get him back in 13 for preston or one of the other edges, but I am very low on trades. I really enjoy watching him play, he is all action, mainly to the detriment of his fantasy scores, If i had to guess I think I will trade him, but will take advice from the forum and see what the prevailing thought is
Tatola 30 must have jumped the gun on this trade! pretty silly really because in his comeback game off the bench he played 45 mins and ran for 192 metres, whereas when named to start he only played 33! (and ran for 82) I can't argue with Demetriou as souths were killing it, but all the same a disappointing week for him, he did get through the game and is named to start again, so hopefully it is more of the 45+ minutes and 40+ score, hes in because he plays bye rd, and he is at his lowest price, hopefully he builds his minutes and scores, I don't expect huge scores, but I hope he has a run of high variance scores! I need it
Preston 60 nice that I held him, great he scored two tries, the bulldogs are still a poor team and I do believe he is a trade out soon, that said, He's not a desperate trade out, so lets see how he does against NZW and Gold coast next two weeks, the bulldogs may be a bad team but they do attack well, and he has proved to have a high ceiling,
NIkorima 39 feel like I got ribbed of a great score with Nikorima getting shifted to centre, and milf coming in, Dolphins on a bye, hes making money now and has a low BE, on a bye this week, I currently have SJ, Crossland and Niko for rd 13 hLF and can only play 2 of them, to that end he could be a trade out, but we shall see.there doesnt seem to be that many good cashouts, but Te whare would be more useful for the byes than niko if hes named. (no rush)
Emergencies
Oloapu 21 thought in real terms he played pretty ordinary, score wasnt great, will be excited when he starts getting named, but for now, he can sit in emergency
Couchman DNP not picked last week, not picked this week, 343k wasted, I will be trading him this week I think, its a shame because his DPP would be useful for the bye rounds, I dont see any of the dragons forwards making origin, so I dont see him getting a repieve back into the team
Miller Bye welcome back home versus goldcaost seems as good a game as any to remind people your are a fantasy gun
CRossland BYE named hooker again, lets hope he gets the 69min role he got in roudns 7 and 8 rather than the stupid interchange shit AOB pulled against the EEls in rd 9.
Thank you for reading,
Current plans are to trade out Ford, and Couchman, the thought is to only do so If i get someone who covers round 13, and 16, so that means, Manly, Newcastle, Cowboys and Parra players,
Hopgood,
Lane,
McClean,
Luki,
L Croker,
D brown,
Robson,
Drinkwater
are ones I'm looking at, money is tight so to stretch for robson, hopgood etc might mean 3 trades with nikorima coming out also and saddling myself with two duds (under 300k players) so I don't think its worth it.
Could jump off Preston or Hosking to facilitate Hopgood or the likes,
Parras. forward rotation still isnt set in stone and I don't want a low minute hopgood,
Much to think about
Team as follows before trades
Boyd
Carrigan, Tapine, Horsburgh
Wilton, Hosking
Sj, Hynes (c)
Bird, Manu,
Bula, Walsh, Tedesco
MIller, Tatola, Preston, Crossland
Oloapu, (Nikorima BYE, Couchman DNP, Ford HIA)
31k in bank