Defeat the Porpoise 2024

Team Post TLT - Week 1

Koroisau
Fonua-Blake Harris Tupooniua (VC)
Smithies Piakura
Cleary (C) Hutchison
Holmes Suli
Papenhoyzen Ponga Rapana

Strange Garner Salmon Bradley
Levi Hughes Mapalangi Mikaele

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:Team Post TLT - Week 1

Koroisau
Fonua-Blake Harris Tupooniua (VC)
Smithies Piakura
Cleary (C) Hutchison
Holmes Suli
Papenhoyzen Ponga Rapana

Strange Garner Salmon Bradley  
Levi Hughes Mapalangi Mikaele

Koroisau - goal kicking - expecting to play 80 again
Fonua-Blake - shifted to bigger minutes half way through last year maintained them keeper with a plus side perhaps 4 to 5 points undervalued
Harris - whats not to like - keeper who score consistently - slight injury risk but I am OK with that
Tupooniua (VC) - many people will have him
Smithies - the new flavour of the day - i saw him first
Piakura - pretty much everyone will have him
Cleary (C) - the one and only
Hutchison - value
Holmes - reliable keeper ctr - cowboys late bye - goal kicking evens out ctr bumps
Suli - underpriced based on last year - reliable scoring in a shit side that should be a lot better this year
Papenhuyzen - no explanation required
Ponga - the premier WFB with goal kicking
Rapana - actually took over from kris for the last five rounds of last year can go large often

Strange - better on the bench
Garner - if starting at EDG as expected everyone else will have him too - easy downgrade to Schuster
Salmon - here fishy fihsy
Bradley - WFB/EDG don't mind if I do  
Levi - cheap as HOK back up - preferred by Ricky when not injured
Hughes - slow burn but value
Mapalangi - the forgotten WFB/HLF value option - Tuala is not very good
Mikaele - speaks value even though a bench mid with Hess gone for the season

Ando wrote:Mattnz vibes

Dolphin vibez

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:

Koroisau - goal kicking - expecting to play 80 again

Expected by who?

Basically every predicted team I have seen has Simpkin/Galvin on the bench

AFB seems even value, but yep fine for a season keeper.
Harris is busted, sorry.
Cowboys bye schedule is less relevant for Origin players - Val will play.
Rapana is old and busted.
Mapalangi won't play.

But some fun and different picks nonetheless!

Milchcow wrote:

Expected by who?

Basically every predicted team I have seen has Simpkin/Galvin on the bench

Let's see then - If Galvin is too tall to be a half, he is certainly too tall to be a HOK

L-Jimmy wrote:AFB seems even value, but yep fine for a season keeper.
Harris is busted, sorry.
Cowboys bye schedule is less relevant for Origin players - Val will play.
Rapana is old and busted.
Mapalangi won't play.

But some fun and different picks nonetheless!

* AFB had a slow start to last season and undervalue because of that
* If Harris was busted last year, I will 100% take it - he is a cut-price keeper. Warriors just signed a new contract for 2025 for him. No way that happens if he is busted
* No bye till week 12 for Holmes. That is significant. can downgrade for origin
* Rapana is old and phenomenal - like a fine feckin wine
* Mapalangi will be WFB - Tuala is a myth - was only in the starting line up because Mapalangi got KO;d

Thanks for the tips, everyone!

New team after a day of pondering - I will risk picking Schuster in R1. His DPP and potential will save me a trade later in the year.

He is locked in for this Sunday.

I have also brought Cheese in after much internal debate. He is valuable, provided he does not get injured. I like the balance of this side better.

Koroisau
B. Smith Harris Tupouniua
Cartwright Piakura
Cleary(C) Boyd
Kris Suli
Papenhuyzen Ponga Rapana

Schuster Chan Salmon Strange
Niu Hughes Mikaele Mapalangi

Final Round 1 Team (Part A/Part B)

0k in the bank, nada nothing - quite happy with it in the end

Koroisau
Tupouniua Harris B.Smith
Wong Piakura
Flanagan Cleary
Niu Strange
Papenhuyzen Kiraz Rapana

Smithies B. Cartwright Boyd Schuster
Chan Salmon Hughes Cotric

Got rid of some mid-rangers... much more guns, and cows now

koroisau
tupounuia hopgood b.smith
wong piakura
cleary hutchison
niu kiraz
papenhuyzen ponga rapana

smithies schuster levi flanagan
chan salmon strange cotric

8k remaining

lussick
tupounuia hopgood b.smith (vc)
wong piakura
hutchison cleary (c)
russell strange
papenhuyzen taaffe rapana

harris mcinnes flanagan schuster
koroisau chan cotric vifita

thursday lock out - round 1 part 2

final scoring team R1

lussick
tupounuia hopgood b.smith (vc)
wong piakura
moses cleary (c)
russell strange
papenhuyzen taaffe rapana

harris palasia hughes schuster
koroisau kini cotric vifita

R2

Palasia OUT - McIntyre IN :afraid:
Vifita OUT - Galvin IN to the 17

end of r2

lussick
harris hopgood (vc) b.smith
tupounuia piakura
moses cleary (c)
russell strange
papenhuyzen taaffe rapana

koroisau galvin kini cotric
mcIntyre hughes wong schuster

809 last week not sure what to do - maybe even thinking no trades

55k spare

i am not keen on finefufu
considering Mann but i think his last two weeks are his ceiling in that role
not willing to give up hope on schuey coming back next week
want to save trades

any tips

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:end of r2

lussick
harris hopgood (vc) b.smith
tupounuia piakura
moses cleary (c)
russell strange
papenhuyzen taaffe rapana

koroisau galvin kini cotric
mcIntyre hughes wong schuster  

809 last week not sure what to do - maybe even thinking no trades

55k spare

i am not keen on finefufu
considering Mann but i think his last two weeks are his ceiling in that role
not willing to give up hope on schuey coming back next week
want to save trades

any tips

Wong's going to be a red dot in your team. And Sitili is not going to make any money baring a try, both are sells. Theres every chance we dont see Schuster for a while and thats money you could be using elsewhere. FF is a wait and see I agree. Terrell May should definitely be your target this week hes widely being bought and his price is about to sky rocket and gives you much needed MID cover, you have an easy way to get him too. Chans got his price moving along nicely too and Burbo still has money to make so you could definitely target 1 of them to find the cash for Bodyslam.

Suggestion;
Wong > Terrell May
Schuster/Sitili > Chan/Burbo

Thanks I am a bit slow though

Can you sell me on Terrel May though - he is on the bench this week with a lot of quality players in his way towards more than 30-35 minutes.

I cannot see him rising too much more in value based on this

The Dolphin Conspiracies wrote:Thanks I am a bit slow though

Can you sell me on Terrel May though - he is on the bench this week with a lot of quality players in his way towards more than 30-35 minutes.

I cannot see him rising too much more in value based on this

54 minutes off the bench in round 1, yes there were injuries which is why people waited on him. Then last week He got the start and got 57 minutes. There's every chance he comes into the starting line up again this week and racks up those sort of minutes again, watch the roosters late mail. Even off the bench he will be first one off it at this point and he wont play less then 40 (JWH is a 40 minute guy now days). Meaning 45 points based on his PPM seems like his floor with 60 and 70s in 50-60 minutes very reachable without a try. Being a roosters forward he might have the 40 point game but he could follow that up with a 60 the next.

Just the one trade for me this week

Wong to Baker

May also do McIntyre to Mann but half got the feeling I would like to see how McIntyre goes this week

R3 Team

lussick
harris hopgood (vc) b.smith
curran piakura
moses cleary (c)
russell strange
papenhuyzen taaffe rapana

koroisau galvin finefeuiaki tupounuia
schuster(loop) cotric kini hughes  

trades
wong ==> curran
McIntyre ==> finefeuiaki
23k in the bank