2023 Liverpool Bulldogs

Looks good mate, nothing wrong in waiting

The safe bet is to play Alamoti with JAC back, still might myself
Bula is safe as everyone is playing and Sele isn't terrible though can't comment on how he scores as tried to avoid that minutes/role headache myself

Anyways all the best this week and have fun with the bye planner haha

I think I'd spend that bank on upgrading Ford, with a view to Alamoti to Te Whare next week.

I like Ford -> Bird or Tohu personally.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:
Getting Bird gives me the option of looping two of and playing the other from Alamoti/Sele/Bula.

Should we be worried about Birds lower minutes last week, not sure he is worth the spend if he’s playing 50-55 minutes

I don't own him, but wouldn't be too worried, still reckon he can pump out somewhere near 1PPM in 50-60 mins at lock.

I do prefer Tohu out of those two options though.

If you don’t want Tohu have you looked at getting back Hopgood mate? I’m bringing him in plays all major bye rounds and has the valuable DPP. Oh actually fuck you might just be short of that in one trade. 

My gut tells me Te Whare is a trap but time will tell. 

Well done on sticking to the process mate you’ve flown up the ranks it shows it can change quickly with smart moves.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Right I have absolutely no bloody idea how to proceed this week. After my first rank drop in a month I’m keen to get them back and some.
All week I’ve been keen on various ways of getting Oloapu and Edwards into my team but realistically that’s something that can wait till after the bye.

Should really prioritise a couple of Round 13 players or maybe just go for Oloapu + gun.

Team is lining up like this with 19 trades and 4K in the bank

JMK
Tino, Carrigan, Horse
Preston, Loiero
Hynes, Cleary
Bird, Lemmy
Teddy, Miller, Perham

Boyd, Cheese, Sele, Bula
Niko, Alamoti, SJ, Manu

My ideal trade will probably be something like Tino/Alamoti to Tapine/Oloapu. Gets a good Round 13 player and a fairly solid cow which has benefits from Round 14 onwards.

An alternative is to get Tatola and really put 380k away to attack the bye round next week.

Any thoughts guys?

I'm not sure you really need to trade at all this week, although you can probably afford to with 19 left and your proposed trades look perfectly solid.

However, Tino with a mid-40s BE isn't going anywhere price-wise, Alamoti you can probably get one more price-rise out of, and Loiero/Boyd et al who are close to peaking can have one more week too.

At the moment your R13 team is looking like:

JMK
Horse Sele x
x x
SJ Niko
Bird Lemuelu
Miller x x

So I guess targeting 2 edges and a mid next week, although if you get Burbo could stick him at edge and target Walsh at WFB instead.

My 2C: If I were you I think I'd probably hold this week, then next week you can do something like Alamoti, Boyd, Loiero, Tino -> Burbo + 3 R13 guns (your pick of Tohu/Tapine/Hopgood/Matto/Young/Walsh et al), then Kodi -> Oloapu in R14.

That way you have clarity on who's playing Origin and can get a free look at Burbo. I also think I prefer Tohu to Tapine long term, so waiting a week means you can get him instead. I like Tatola but think having both him and Sele is overkill, and you should be able to bank enough cash from a Alamoti -> Burbo cashdown to facilitate the other upgrades anyway.

Not sure there will be much material difference between Tapine and Tino's scoring this week, and Oloapu is gonna be in your emg's anyway, so you're not exactly damaging your scoring this week by holding.

I don't get them all right, but hope you ended up holding Tino haha

You'd be killing it this week with Carrigan and Tino.

You've got 19 trades so that's more left than most I'd say. The important thing about the bye rounds is quality not quantity.

I'd target Hopgood Tohu Ponga. Leaves you 16 trades which is still a good number to have under your sleeve.

Can you afford those 3 with Cheese Miller Alamoti out? I don't know how much you have in the bank. If that's too expensive then I don't hate Ford (useful DPP) instead of Hopgood.

If your bank is still 4k as per MTBs site, you could do following with 1k left

Miller to Ponga
Perham to Oloapu 
Cheese to Ford
Alamoti to Hopgood