2023 Liverpool Bulldogs

StuDogg101 wrote:

737 turned out to be a good score last week, congrats on the top 1k!

If you end up following through on those two trades you mentioned, that is huge. I guess Fifi is Origin recovery dependent, but I think he definitely plays.

What's your plan for Cleary going forward (if any)?

Haha at the time it didn’t feel so good but yeah will take the jump into the top 1k happily.

Have locked those trades in for now, they are just two players I really want and thought i might as well get them while I can. 

Yeah will have a look this week and see how Cleary goes and plan to get him in next week through some combo of players. May require losing a MID to get there but I have quite a few of those (Horse, JDB, Carrigan, Hopgood, Tohu, NAS) haha

Well a bit of carnage has meant trades need to be used so going with 4 this week with 3 big upgrades.

Blore to Bateman
Simpkin to Graham
Carrigan to Fifita
VTW to DCE

Leaves me with a full strength team of 

Grant
Horse, Hopgood, JDB
Fifita, Bateman
Hynes, SJ
Manu, Lemmy
Teddy, Ponga, Isaako

DCE, Boyd, Preston, Tohu
NAS, Bula, Simonsson, Graham

9 trades to go and can target Cleary next week

Team looks great mate! Big end to the season for you

Ando wrote:Team looks great mate! Big end to the season for you

Cheers mate. Hoping to keep the climb going. Need the fantasy gods to agree though

Good luck to you aswell, stellar season and hoping you finish strongly

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:
Cheers mate. Hoping to keep the climb going. Need the fantasy gods to agree though

Good luck to you aswell, stellar season and hoping you finish strongly

It’s gonna be a limp home for sure, I could really do with your number of trades haha

Got through that round with a solid 1010 and jumped 150 spots up to 772. Pretty happy with the team except for Isaako, definitely not living up to the price tag, can only hope he can right those wrongs after his bye. 

So with 9 trades left and not alot of money in the bank there doesn’t seem like much I can do this week trade wise. Team lining up like this.

Grant
Horse, JDB, Hopgood
Fifita, Bateman
Hynes, SJ
Manu, Simo
Ponga, Teddy, Bula

DCE, Boyd, Preston, Tohu
NAS, Lemmy, Isaako, Graham

Simo away to the Cowboys worries me a bit but not a lot I can do really. Hopefully get through this week unscathed and see how things look.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Got through that round with a solid 1010 and jumped 150 spots up to 772. Pretty happy with the team except for Isaako, definitely not living up to the price tag, can only hope he can right those wrongs after his bye. 

So with 9 trades left and not alot of money in the bank there doesn’t seem like much I can do this week trade wise. Team lining up like this.

Grant
Horse, JDB, Hopgood
Fifita, Bateman
Hynes, SJ
Manu, Simo
Ponga, Teddy, Bula

DCE, Boyd, Preston, Tohu
NAS, Lemmy, Isaako, Graham

Simo away to the Cowboys worries me a bit but not a lot I can do really. Hopefully get through this week unscathed and see how things look.

Simmo will be running at Hiku and Chad who both love a missed tackle. Really like your trades mentioned in the main thread. The late push for top 100 is on!

Ando wrote:

Simmo will be running at Hiku and Chad who both love a missed tackle. Really like your trades mentioned in the main thread. The late push for top 100 is on!

Haha fingers crossed the Cowboys regress to their early season form haha.

I’ve completely forgotten my trades now, although I’m quite interested in the young Sharks lad Colquhoun if he can hold that EDG spot while Wilton is out. Need to start having a proper look now

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

Haha fingers crossed the Cowboys regress to their early season form haha.

I’ve completely forgotten my trades now, although I’m quite interested in the young Sharks lad Colquhoun if he can hold that EDG spot while Wilton is out. Need to start having a proper look now

Looking at his NSW stats Colquhoun usually plays Prop for the Jets, I can see him starting the game on the EDG but Talakai coming on and playing there. Not worth the risk regardless of price.

Ando wrote:

Look at his NSW stats Colquhoun usually plays Prop for the Jets, I can see him starting the game on the EDG but Talakai coming on and playing there. Not worth the risk regardless of price.

Ahhhh all good, well that changes things. Now I’m gonna have to go for Skelton which doesn’t fill me with any confidence at all.

If i didn’t want Cleary so much this week I’d be happy to hold off on trading completely and see what next week brings. If you had to trade two out this week for Cleary/Skelton who would it be?

Isaako and NAS. Boyd 18th man.

So looks like I’ve managed some sort of trade combo I’m happy with. Still plenty of time between now and the round beginning.

Boyd > Cleary - minimum 15-20 point upgrade, higher ceiling.
Preston > Murray - minimum 10-15 point upgrade if Murray goes back to his normal scoring. Can go big
NAS > Piakura - Probably a point loss but hopefully Piakura won’t be in the scoring 17 unless he’s looped in or in a crisis.

Hopefully that gets me a somewhat competitive 17 and a decent bench at full strength.

Grant
Horse, JDB, Murray
Fifita, Bateman
Cleary, Hynes
Manu, Lemmy
Ponga, Teddy, Isaako

Hopgood, DCE, SJ, Tohu
Bula, Simo, Piakura, Graham

Leaves me 6 trades for the run home.

Few things I’m not sure of, first is having Bula and Simo in EMG. Hopefully I can select based on matchups each week. Second is Piakura, feels like a lot of money spent on a cash out but feels like the safe bet of the sub 350k guys.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:So looks like I’ve managed some sort of trade combo I’m happy with. Still plenty of time between now and the round beginning.

Boyd > Cleary - minimum 15-20 point upgrade, higher ceiling.
Preston > Murray - minimum 10-15 point upgrade if Murray goes back to his normal scoring. Can go big
NAS > Piakura - Probably a point loss but hopefully Piakura won’t be in the scoring 17 unless he’s looped in or in a crisis.

Hopefully that gets me a somewhat competitive 17 and a decent bench at full strength.

Grant
Horse, JDB, Murray
Fifita, Bateman
Cleary, Hynes
Manu, Lemmy
Ponga, Teddy, Isaako

Hopgood, DCE, SJ, Tohu
Bula, Simo, Piakura, Graham

Leaves me 6 trades for the run home.

Few things I’m not sure of, first is having Bula and Simo in EMG. Hopefully I can select based on matchups each week. Second is Piakura, feels like a lot of money spent on a cash out but feels like the safe bet of the sub 350k guys.

I like it overall mate, two big upgrades and a cashout, can't really complain. Only comment would be any interest in Joe O at 313k with RCG out as a Piakura alternative? Surely he sees decent minutes with that bench.

Think piakura will go alright, nice trades

mrbrownstone wrote:

I like it overall mate, two big upgrades and a cashout, can't really complain. Only comment would be any interest in Joe O at 313k with RCG out as a Piakura alternative? Surely he sees decent minutes with that bench.

GarethEllisismyDad wrote:Think piakura will go alright, nice trades

Yeah I had a good look at a few guys down in that price bracket. Might be worth a punt but with Hopgood and Tohu on the bench I don’t really need another MID. I know Hopgood covers both but would be nice to keep it even.

Also another Eel adds to problems later on when it comes to their bye. Hoping Piakura sticks around for another month and if I’ve been lucky and saved some trades then I can flick him on.

Still unsure about whether to go full cash out and grab Skelton/Colq and put some cash in the bank for a rainy day. JS is terrible and I’d prefer to have players that could be useful if needed.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:



Yeah I had a good look at a few guys down in that price bracket. Might be worth a punt but with Hopgood and Tohu on the bench I don’t really need another MID. I know Hopgood covers both but would be nice to keep it even.

Also another Eel adds to problems later on when it comes to their bye. Hoping Piakura sticks around for another month and if I’ve been lucky and saved some trades then I can flick him on.

Still unsure about whether to go full cash out and grab Skelton/Colq and put some cash in the bank for a rainy day. JS is terrible and I’d prefer to have players that could be useful if needed.

I'm slowly starting to look towards getting Colq...

Hopgood > 387k
Tohu > 260k

Think in a perfect world I'd rather keep Hopgood

Ando wrote:

I'm slowly starting to look towards getting Colq...

Hopgood > 387k
Tohu > 260k

Think in a perfect world I'd rather keep Hopgood

Naming him to start must bode well. And now that Wilton is out for the season they need someone to step up and take that position. Graham you’d think is past it now, Talakai a bit of a worry.

I mean if you take the punt and you get an 80 minute forward for a pretty decent team (most weeks), for dirt cheap then you are a winner. Doesn’t even matter what he scores really

Put Bula down at 21 this week so I could get a look at his score, after a 28 I have the option of taking it or trading Isaako to Edwards and hope like hell for a boom game against the Doggies. To be fair he’s probably a player I should finish the season with.

Will leave me 6 trades and a fairly settled team for the last 6 rounds

Sound decision or take the 28?

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Put Bula down at 21 this week so I could get a look at his score, after a 28 I have the option of taking it or trading Isaako to Edwards and hope like hell for a boom game against the Doggies. To be fair he’s probably a player I should finish the season with.

Will leave me 6 trades and a fairly settled team for the last 6 rounds

Sound decision or take the 28?

You're in a better position than most with 6 trades left after making that move. 28 is really middling if you're racing for a high rank to end the year

Edwards has a higher average with Cleary in the team and could easily hit 60+ but could also just be a distributor and get a 35 and make the trade pointless

Depends on your risk tolerance with the trades remaining but you're in a good spot to have a go

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Put Bula down at 21 this week so I could get a look at his score, after a 28 I have the option of taking it or trading Isaako to Edwards and hope like hell for a boom game against the Doggies. To be fair he’s probably a player I should finish the season with.

Will leave me 6 trades and a fairly settled team for the last 6 rounds

Sound decision or take the 28?

Take the 28!!