2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 57

Thanks lads.

Smith
Fifi Taupau
Harris Tolo Crichton
Coggar ARey
Mitchell Marsters
Ponga Teddy MBye

Cook Arrow Griffin Martin

JFH Mann Doueihi Olive

8 trades still after these 4 trades with SJ will still have 200K. I think I will probably go SJ.

Bump

Trades and team with 4 trades remaining for the run home:

Fonua > Lewis
Ponga > RTS
Cleary > SJ
Tuala > Milf

Cook
Fifita, Arrow
Taumalolo, Surgess, Martin
SJ, Milf
Aitken, Hopoate
Tedesco, RTS, Walker

Smith, McInnes, Kikau, DCE
Harris, WGraham, Lewis, Brimson

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Bump

Trades and team with 4 trades remaining for the run home:

Fonua > Lewis
Ponga > RTS
Cleary > SJ
Tuala > Milf

Cook
Fifita, Arrow
Taumalolo, Surgess, Martin
SJ, Milf
Aitken, Hopoate
Tedesco, RTS, Walker

Smith, McInnes, Kikau, DCE
Harris, WGraham, Lewis, Brimson

Looks good mate. I will hold Ponga though.

So far I have Harris => Aitken, Olive => Lewis.

Gives me this with $260k ITB, 6 trades;

Smith
Arrow Fifi
Lolo Jurbo Surgess
ARey SJ
Aitken Mitchell
Holmes Pong RTS

Cook, Ese'ese, Martin, TPJ | Friend, Dugan, Holland, Lewis

Next week Friend will become Farah (might do it this week), -$30k, leaving $230k to upgrade a back (need to see the Sharks line up with Dugan and Holmes there to decide who goes) to a Forward (Gallen likely, possibly Taupau if I wait a week..).

With that approach, if Dugan goes to centre next week and Holmes stays at 1, I have good cover for Ponga rather than having to use Holland.

Once Ponga returns would leave me a strong EMG crew of TPJ, Martin, Holland and Lewis for the final weeks.

Any advice, let me know..

wolfking wrote:

Looks good mate. I will hold Ponga though.

I am leaning towards keeping Ponga and ditching Harris.

Maybe sell them both and death ride their fantasy scores when they return. Advantage of that is I can afford basically any replacement., and it does not matter if they miss an extra week coming back

Milchcow wrote:

I am leaning towards keeping Ponga and ditching Harris.

Maybe sell them both and death ride their fantasy scores when they return. Advantage of that is I can afford basically any replacement., and it does not matter if they miss an extra week coming back

If Harris and Ponga are out for a month I'll definitely be letting both go. Just have to wait for some word from the clubs.

And yes will be nice to pick and choose whoever I like as a replacement.

If Ponga is 3-4 weeks he is a hold. That might only be 1-2 games he misses. Nobody else is capable of hitting close to his scores in WFB, I already have Tedesco and Turbo

Harris can go if 4 weeks or more. Plenty of equivalent (if not better) scorers around his price point.

White Lightning wrote:

Cogger still has cash to make because with Ponga out Watson will play f/b, Cogger will keep starting when Pearce returns. Sure both Pearce & Cogger are halfbacks but in modern football it's not a problem.

Wow, good point but Coggar will lose his KM's with Pearce back and Im trading fir Lewis who will make more cash.

Pookus McFly wrote:If Ponga is 3-4 weeks he is a hold. That might only be 1-2 games he misses. Nobody else is capable of hitting close to his scores in WFB, I already have Tedesco and Turbo

Harris can go if 4 weeks or more. Plenty of equivalent (if not better) scorers around his price point.

That is a fair point. He would miss 3 games if out for a month though and I'm not keen on playing Brimson for that long.

Trading in McInnes and SJ with their BE's just cause they play this week makes me a bit sour.

What's the consensus on Holland?? Worth bringing in after his performance last week??

If I keep Ponga I'll need to move Hopo down to WFB and Holland into CTR and hope like hell the Bulldogs can win games

Looking at three trades this week:

Inglis ---> Aitken
Cogger ---> L.Lewis
Gosieski ---> McInnes? Not sold on him but he's the best looking option as a keeper. Who else is a goer for $800k? Worth holding the trade for a round and foregoing the 50ish points McInnes will rack up? I can't see anyone else suitable at a glance.

I have Holland and played him. I reckon he'll score around 26 this week as is the nature of CTRs.

This is a stupid idea(I think) but I was thinking of the following trades if Sua is out this week

Harris to Aitken
Sua to SJ
Ponga to James

Leaves me with this team and 4 trades/38k remaining

Cook
Fifita Arrow
Taumalolo Jurbo James
DCE SJ
Mitchell Aitken
Tedesco Mbye Isaako

Smith
McInnes
Brown
ARey

Martin
Hetherington
Fainu
Brimson

Thoughts?