NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 28 - Eels in crisis, no minutes for gun cheapies

Camo123 wrote:
Yeah bit annoyed scenario didn’t change from last week, was hoping at least Martin was going to be back.

I thought he was running really good lines last week and may have done enough to secure spot (so is still a good pick up). Alternatively for me is a gun WFB. 

There was a good comparison mentioned with 2021 Burton where he took Momirovski spot after suspension and form kept his spot for rest of year.

GreenSchist wrote:I’d like to sit tight this week and not make any trades but a couple of points have me thinking.
Is it really worth waiting for Hynes over Cleary? $129k ain’t nothing to sneeze about and I’m not convinced Hynes doesn’t make Freddy’s squad.
Got me looking at a Hopgood to Cleary trade and I can do that if I bring in Lindsay Smith as my Mid cover (Carty out). Wish I knew more about Smiths role, but a nice 3-4 week cash grab appears to be worst case scenario with JFH out, unless Martin and Garner come back in and they mix up rotations.

Bethany_B wrote:Russell locked and loaded for me atm, should get CTR dual next week and he has the spot over Waqa on form.

Reynolds is going a week early for me, as I was planning to sell him for Hynes anyway and I don't think he'll go much over 55 if that given that Walsh does all the attack in that team. I've only made one mistake so far this year and that was buying Reynolds for 750k instead of SJ for 650k two weeks ago, and I intend to fix that this week.

Reynolds and Carty to SJ and Russell, 203k bank which will be used to buy Hynes next week:

Brailey
Haas, Murray, Hopgood
E Katoa, Hosking
Cleary, SJ
Bird, Alamoti
Walsh, Miller, Hammer

Loiero, Ford, Preston, Russell

Keppie, Warbrick, Sloan, I Katoa

BCT05 wrote:

Only 12 tackles for Hopgood this week

GreenSchist wrote:I’d like to sit tight this week and not make any trades but a couple of points have me thinking.
Is it really worth waiting for Hynes over Cleary? $129k ain’t nothing to sneeze about and I’m not convinced Hynes doesn’t make Freddy’s squad.
Got me looking at a Hopgood to Cleary trade and I can do that if I bring in Lindsay Smith as my Mid cover (Carty out). Wish I knew more about Smiths role, but a nice 3-4 week cash grab appears to be worst case scenario with JFH out, unless Martin and Garner come back in and they mix up rotations.

Shady2K wrote:

I'm a bit on the fence about Hynes. His price is really throwing me

Just future planning, say I want to get in two top line guns - Cook and Cleary. Right now they'd be combined 1745k

As a straight comparison, Hynes himself is 1008k, leaving 737k behind for the other player, for argument's sake. That'd be a Carrigan level kind of guy

Think everyone would go Cook and Cleary in this circumstance. And if Hynes does play SOO then he misses one extra game compared to Cleary

mattnz wrote:
What will you do at WFB over Origin period?

GreenSchist wrote:

Exactly. It’s not always about having the best guy but instead having the best balance and distribution of wealth. Hynes would be great but if the it means I can upgrade Warbrick to Teddy (or similar trade) then Cleary seems a no brainer.

wolfking wrote:Does everyone already have AFK or people not keen?  That BE is hard to ignore for me.  I think he comes in for HSS.

Camo123 wrote:
Yeah bit annoyed scenario didn’t change from last week, was hoping at least Martin was going to be back.

I thought he was running really good lines last week and may have done enough to secure spot (so is still a good pick up). Alternatively for me is a gun WFB. 

There was a good comparison mentioned with 2021 Burton where he took Momirovski spot after suspension and form kept his spot for rest of year.

GreenSchist wrote:I’d like to sit tight this week and not make any trades but a couple of points have me thinking.
Is it really worth waiting for Hynes over Cleary? $129k ain’t nothing to sneeze about and I’m not convinced Hynes doesn’t make Freddy’s squad.
Got me looking at a Hopgood to Cleary trade and I can do that if I bring in Lindsay Smith as my Mid cover (Carty out). Wish I knew more about Smiths role, but a nice 3-4 week cash grab appears to be worst case scenario with JFH out, unless Martin and Garner come back in and they mix up rotations.