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Can't promise to keep this up, but here's some addled thinking as it stands after TLT 1A
Cheese
Haas(vc), Tupouniua, A
Piakura, Wong
Cleary(c), B
Burbo, C
D, E, F
G, H, I, J
K, L, M, N
All the letters obviously depend on TLT 1B and there are a load of permutations depending on cost, position etc. Of the locked in squad:
Cheese: DPP. Upside. Fun. Hurt me again when you hurt yourself again.
Haas: Know the arguments against. Don't care. When he's on 42 at half time this weekend you won't be thinking about subguns with three points of value. VC locked.
Piakura: Can't not
Sitili/Wong: No faith in Roosters rotation, fully expect to be ditching one of them in month, but it's a lot easier to sell players than buy them. 10+ points of value if either/both turn into 80 minute players, some value even if they don't
Burbo: Fantasy centre named in the forwards. The Blonde Widow. Potentially useful red dot loop from round two onwards.
Of the "letters":
Fairly sure that A and G will be Smithies and Salmon when DPP added
B will be Moses or Hunt depending on how much cash I have or want to leave in bank
C will be Kris as a guaranteed starter after round one, slightly underpriced with hyper-useful dual for the early byes
That means I need another centre... Strange if named will be L. Can look at his score and bring in Aitken or another centre further up the letter list if he's trash, while taking K's score looping into the 17. Will have to have a complete rethink of the bench if Weekes gets the nod instead of Strange.
D and E... Ponga and Papy, locked
F... taking a punt on Kini. Kid's dynamite. Don't have any trust in a league player (Campbell) to have the first idea when he's actually ready to be back. Guy hasn't trained since September and is *way* nepo-verated anyway. Kini is a massive MattNZ selection that somehow MattNZ is against, so almost bound to be hit and keep his place all year. If he isn't, meh, trade.
H, I, J for the rest of the scoring 17 - this lot depend on price, position and teamlists, so can't be sure. Currently it's Luki, Elliott, Lussick but other contenders include Flegler, Kenny, Aitken, Blore, Hutchinson. There are going to be good value players missing out, but you can't have them all.
That leaves K, M and N for pure cows. Currently Bradley, Mikaele and Hughes. One might be Levi if I need hooker cover and he's starting, or something else might turn up.
Will try to update at the end of R1 when I discover that my team is somehow completely different to the one above, but this one would have done better.
Cheese
Haas(vc), Tupouniua, A
Piakura, Wong
Cleary(c), B
Burbo, C
D, E, F
G, H, I, J
K, L, M, N
All the letters obviously depend on TLT 1B and there are a load of permutations depending on cost, position etc. Of the locked in squad:
Cheese: DPP. Upside. Fun. Hurt me again when you hurt yourself again.
Haas: Know the arguments against. Don't care. When he's on 42 at half time this weekend you won't be thinking about subguns with three points of value. VC locked.
Piakura: Can't not
Sitili/Wong: No faith in Roosters rotation, fully expect to be ditching one of them in month, but it's a lot easier to sell players than buy them. 10+ points of value if either/both turn into 80 minute players, some value even if they don't
Burbo: Fantasy centre named in the forwards. The Blonde Widow. Potentially useful red dot loop from round two onwards.
Of the "letters":
Fairly sure that A and G will be Smithies and Salmon when DPP added
B will be Moses or Hunt depending on how much cash I have or want to leave in bank
C will be Kris as a guaranteed starter after round one, slightly underpriced with hyper-useful dual for the early byes
That means I need another centre... Strange if named will be L. Can look at his score and bring in Aitken or another centre further up the letter list if he's trash, while taking K's score looping into the 17. Will have to have a complete rethink of the bench if Weekes gets the nod instead of Strange.
D and E... Ponga and Papy, locked
F... taking a punt on Kini. Kid's dynamite. Don't have any trust in a league player (Campbell) to have the first idea when he's actually ready to be back. Guy hasn't trained since September and is *way* nepo-verated anyway. Kini is a massive MattNZ selection that somehow MattNZ is against, so almost bound to be hit and keep his place all year. If he isn't, meh, trade.
H, I, J for the rest of the scoring 17 - this lot depend on price, position and teamlists, so can't be sure. Currently it's Luki, Elliott, Lussick but other contenders include Flegler, Kenny, Aitken, Blore, Hutchinson. There are going to be good value players missing out, but you can't have them all.
That leaves K, M and N for pure cows. Currently Bradley, Mikaele and Hughes. One might be Levi if I need hooker cover and he's starting, or something else might turn up.
Will try to update at the end of R1 when I discover that my team is somehow completely different to the one above, but this one would have done better.
Ando
