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Tackles and Tinnies Presents: The Fantasy Files Ep. 10 - R18: No Ryan, No Rules – Chris & Andy Take Over 🔄🇳🇿🎙️
12 Plays18 days ago
With Ryan off galivanting across New Zealand, Chris jumps in the host chair, joined by none other than SuperCoach sharpshooter Andy for a chaotic, data-packed, and highly questionable takeover of the Fantasy Files 🎧
💥 This Week’s Line-Up:
🧠 Trade Talk Without the Tyrant
– No 1% chirps, no smug flexing — just real SuperCoach strategy
– Who’s rising, who’s falling, and who’s fool’s gold?
🧢 Buy, Hold, Sell
– Is Karapani still worth it?
– Are we trusting AJ after THAT score?
– What to do with injury carnage and dead weight?
📈 Captaincy Chaos
– Andy’s gone rogue with a smokey VC
– Chris is playing safe (or is he?)
📬 Fan Questions + Listener Calls
– Yes, we read your DMs — even the unhinged ones
– Community picks, rage trades & trap warnings galore
🎧 Tune in for an episode with less Ryan, but more panic, more spreadsheets, and plenty of banter.
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Transcript
00:00:01
Tackles and Tinnies
Hey, Tacky Tackle and Tinney's listeners. Welcome back.
00:00:04
Andy
we doing?
00:00:04
Tackles and Tinnies
um Ryan is away. So it's your boys, Chris and Andy this week. um
00:00:09
Andy
and it was good
00:00:12
Tackles and Tinnies
It's round 18. Obviously it's the final bye round. There's been like so much injury carnage along with, know, Jacob Kira has been annoyingly caught up to New South Wales 18th man. I think teams are going to struggle to field 13 this week, I think, and beyond, reckon.
00:00:27
Tackles and Tinnies
um Obviously ah like and subscribe. for this podcast, you know, smash a like for like YouTube. I don't know True social Bebo, MySpace, wherever you get your social media, Spotify today.
00:00:40
Andy
TikTok, TikTok's the big one. Follow on the TikTok.
00:00:45
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:00:45
Andy
so
00:00:46
Tackles and Tinnies
TikTok. Yeah. You can see how old I am, Andy.
00:00:49
Andy
Yeah, that's right. I'm virtually the same age.
00:00:52
Tackles and Tinnies
the j
00:00:52
Andy
um and
00:00:53
Tackles and Tinnies
The generations past me.
00:00:55
Andy
Yeah, that's right. Ryan's all r's all over it.
00:00:58
Tackles and Tinnies
um Yeah, look, today we're going to talk round reviews. We'll talk about origin squads, trade targets, you know, how many trades are two, a few trades. Is it seven? Is it eight? Is it 14?
00:01:10
Tackles and Tinnies
We'll talk best fullbacks probably for the run home. And then we'll probably also talk about captaincy options, which is going to become increasingly important. Andy, don't think we've seen you on this podcast since about round five or so. How's your season been going? How have you been?
00:01:25
Andy
So have been going, i was going really well, um, from round five after a bit a slump, um, over, you know, over the last five weeks, I was kind of charging towards, you know, top 1%. And then the,
00:01:42
Andy
the The second bye kind of killed me a little bit. I only had 13 and 13 for the bye didn't really cut it with a few really bad scores scored under a thousand, um which was, you know, under par dropped a bit. And then again, last week, ah poor captaincy choice ah dropped down a bit. So i was, I was going really well and just a couple bad rounds, just, it's really easy to lose it.
00:02:08
Andy
Unfortunately, it's so, it takes you so long to make it up and, within Within a matter of minutes, it's all gone. a of a scramble at the moment, i'm trying to figure out what I'm looking at for my end run and this next buy. um Once I get through the buy, I think, yeah, the next stage will be interesting.
00:02:27
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, fair. ah Where you ranked overall, approximately.
00:02:30
Andy
I dropped to, I think I'm, I dropped to 9,600. Yeah.
00:02:38
Tackles and Tinnies
Cool. so So still top 10. Still top 10%.
00:02:41
Andy
Yes, but I was at 5000.
00:02:42
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:02:43
Andy
So it' it's been a long drop.
00:02:43
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, true. Oh, look. I mean, Andy, i look, I totally get what you mean. it's I got up to 199 at some point, and it's just been red arrows. It's all been downhill since. So I scored...
00:02:57
Tackles and Tinnies
1367 this week and I'm at 2009 overall.
00:03:01
Andy
Yeah.
00:03:02
Tackles and Tinnies
It was a pretty good week for me this week. um You know, I totally get what you're saying in terms of just bad captaincies, you know, two weeks ago or two or three weeks ago, I, I captain drinky for like 33 and then a few before that 14.
00:03:13
Andy
Yeah.
00:03:14
Tackles and Tinnies
And this week I went back to the drinky.
00:03:15
Andy
And then he captured him last week. You just got to keep drinking water.
00:03:16
Tackles and Tinnies
Well, yeah.
00:03:20
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah. Yeah. Third time lucky. Yeah.
00:03:23
Andy
yeah
00:03:24
Tackles and Tinnies
He's got 34. Yeah.
00:03:25
Andy
Glutton for punishment. um Yeah, well, Drinkwater, interestingly, is one of the ones that I don't own. And, you know, obviously this week, you know, I've been getting away with it because I didn't have him and it wasn't scoring well.
00:03:34
Tackles and Tinnies
Thank you.
00:03:38
Andy
And this week, first, the Titans, obviously, absolutely decimated, ah you know, ah injury-ridden, Tom Weaver, all of that. Just, yeah, not a very good Titan squad at the moment um and just poor defensively.
00:03:51
Andy
And, yeah, Drinkwater ran around them.
00:03:55
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, especially that second try he had. There was like a massive hole. It was one off the ruck and he just dives right through like untouched as well. But i look, man, again, I know what you're saying.
00:04:03
Andy
yeah
00:04:05
Tackles and Tinnies
I faded Herbie. And since round 14, 105, 150, 106. Like he's like a 1915K. Like I don't know. I don't get it. How can be that good looking and you know and that good super coach, man?
00:04:18
Andy
yeah
00:04:19
Tackles and Tinnies
Like fantasy. Like it just it's just unfair. Some people just win the lottery. Yeah.
00:04:23
Andy
I would have no idea. Yeah, no idea.
00:04:26
Tackles and Tinnies
Um, and so look, what'd you say?
00:04:28
Andy
British accent as well, doesn't he?
00:04:31
Tackles and Tinnies
Sorry.
00:04:31
Andy
He's got a British accent as well.
00:04:33
Tackles and Tinnies
i know. Ah, free from free.
00:04:35
Andy
It's got all it, the whole install package.
00:04:35
Tackles and Tinnies
He's got, he's got it all. Um, hey look, we'll, um, we'll briefly talk, uh, uh, game three origin team lists have come out, you know, Queensland versus New South Wales and Sydney before we talk super coach.
00:04:38
Andy
um
00:04:50
Tackles and Tinnies
Um, Andy, do you want to talk about Queensland? Obviously, you know, The main things, you know, Hammer to the fullback, Mr. Japan, Gamut Shibasaki, he's ah left centre, you know, Big Papa, Josh Papa Lee, he's starting as well with prop, Vries Walsh, extended squad.
00:05:08
Tackles and Tinnies
You liking it You liking your chances for Queensland? Hmm.
00:05:13
Andy
always nervous, always nervous against a stacked New South Wales squad. um i mean, you just look at the New South Wales side and you're just like, oh my God, I have a pit in my stomach about like, how are we going to do this?
00:05:28
Andy
hi I don't mind the inclusion of some of these young guys. They come out, they've got something to prove, like, you know, they really want to be there.
00:05:38
Andy
um But is it going to be enough against Stephen Crichton, who, you know, has kind of, in my eyes, reached another level of super coach or even just playing this year.
00:05:49
Andy
Like he's he's made himself not just a like defensive player. He's now also like this offensive like tackle busting like gun.
00:06:02
Andy
Like he can just do it all now. um So just is it going to be enough against Stephen Crichton? I'm not sure, but it'd be good to watch. um The hammer at fullback, um look at home minded, he had a great game over the weekend. um But he also you know started the season really poor as well.
00:06:21
Andy
um For me, I would have loved to see Reece Walsh in there. I just think he's electric, um especially just his pace and what he can add to a squad. he just He just kicks it up a notch. um But obviously, you know, Billy doesn't think he's up to it at the moment. I know Billy really likes Walsh. So if I think cautiously, i think he's he's selected to...
00:06:46
Andy
So he doesn't he's not going to be worried about injury, I'm not sure. But yeah, i would have loved to see him Walsh there. But I think the the rest of the squad is pretty much copy and paste what we've always done um with the two new guns in the centre.
00:06:58
Andy
I really like seeing Kurt Mann at 14. I think he was super impactful last game. um Yeah, those are my big big kind of like two...
00:07:10
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, no, look, I echo a lot of these sentiments, you know, i think it's a great squad, you know, I think in Billy, you trust, you know, I'm very nervous, you know, even though, you know, I agree, i agree, like,
00:07:21
Tackles and Tinnies
You know, on paper, we look fantastic. But, you know, game three, Queensland spirit comes out. We somehow will manage to lose it again. You know, you're thinking to you. I'm thinking to myself, look, surely we can't, you know, give away another 8-0 opening half penalty count. I can't see us losing it, but we could.
00:07:38
Tackles and Tinnies
i'm so I'm so glad that Reece Walsh isn't playing. Like when you talk about people but like, you know, players who can just break the game open, you know, Reece Walsh, you know, he's right up there, you know. so But i agree with that, you know, Hammer, you know.
00:07:50
Tackles and Tinnies
He gave Billy little choice. he scored four tries last game. So yeah. um For New South Wales, was obviously mostly unchanged, you know as usual, justice for the bag man, Terrell May.
00:08:01
Tackles and Tinnies
What does he have to do to get picked? But um obviously I was a bit annoyed at Kira's getting caught 18th man, you know, obviously annoying for, for super coach, you know, I know he's covering for Toto, but you have Bradman best, Izzy Katawa. They're all on the buy. Just, just put one of them 18th Yeah, I think that, again, on paper we should win, but the issue is whether, you know, whether Laurie picks fit plays. It was just frustrating to see Cleary last game, like, large as a passenger.
00:08:30
Tackles and Tinnies
you know, is he Katoa? He's in the wings. Like, if either him or Luai are unfit, I think you just have to blood him, just like Billy, you know, is blooding Shiba, in my view. um Andy, do you have a java prediction in terms of score?
00:08:43
Andy
Well, I guess like ah my question about the New South Wales, what is where is Burton?
00:08:48
Tackles and Tinnies
yeah I don't know i don't know but i don't know why you wouldn't why you wouldn't have him in the team when Luai, you know, had that boil, you know, and had to go to hospital.
00:08:55
Andy
Yeah.
00:08:57
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah. Yeah.
00:08:57
Andy
Yeah, both. Yeah, both. Lui didn't play last week and Cleary's been nursing a groin thing. um who do you even put in the centers? Like, does Latrell go into the centers? like And then say, like, say Cleary goes down.
00:09:12
Andy
Do you move Luai into the seven and Latrell into the, into the six or like, guess you have Connor Watson there as well, though.
00:09:18
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, I suspect that would be the case because obviously Littrell is at left center. Yeah, and then kind of Watson slots into the back line, really.
00:09:22
Andy
Connor Watson's great utility. He's the big one, I'd say.
00:09:27
Tackles and Tinnies
guess if like yeah I guess if you like i guess if like either Luai or Cleary, we knew that they were injured beforehand they weren't going to play him. I think they're just going to play Katoa. He's so good going to his left. you know As you know, that whole Dolphins you know left left side is so good, but he's also lethal on the right as well, which you know as a halfback.
00:09:44
Tackles and Tinnies
So I think he can go either way, and I think you could he could cover both Cleary and Luai, and I guess that's why he possibly is in the team you know with Moses out.
00:09:51
Andy
Who was this? Sorry.
00:09:52
Tackles and Tinnies
ah Is he Katoa? Isaiah Katoa?
00:09:54
Andy
Was he in the team i could and
00:09:55
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, yeah. He got caught up along with Jack. Is it Jack Williams? Did Adam Dewey get caught up as well? I can't remember.
00:10:03
Andy
the team? He's never left. He got caught and yeah called up into the first origin camp and just have been hanging around.
00:10:09
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, what did Ryan say? He's delivering the Uber Eats. Yeah.
00:10:15
Andy
ah but he He had a great weekend. Like, ah all all all ribbing over Dewey aside. Like he's a he's a great half.
00:10:25
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, I actually really enjoyed him. You know, and obviously we'll talk Tigers a little bit later. um You know, we talk trade targets because they will be playing Roosters this week and we are very depleted.
00:10:35
Tackles and Tinnies
um Talking about depletions, obviously injury carnage as well. You know, I'll just very briefly rattle for a few players who should have been playing this weekend or, you know, people hoping will be playing, you know, Luke Metcalf, ACL, he's done for the season.
00:10:49
Tackles and Tinnies
Nathan Lawson shoulder blade fracture. He won't be this weekend Toby Couchman. He's done his shoulder He's going to need surgery.
00:10:55
Andy
Voice
00:10:57
Tackles and Tinnies
Uh, Calen Ponga, Liz Frank injury, which is a mid foot sprain. That's four to six weeks. And with that, that's the, the night season over Hamish Stewart. Did he get a, I think he got a cat one or, or injury, uh, HIA or something like that.
00:11:12
Tackles and Tinnies
Um, and then obviously Api Corosau or as, uh, Andrew Moore on ABC Grandstand likes to call him Coroya sale. He also had a cat one HIA, so he'll miss the Brewster's game.
00:11:19
Andy
us now
00:11:24
Tackles and Tinnies
Uh, Shout out to Jakey, who pretty much had all these players, and he's gone from having like 16 players to like 10 this week. So tears for Jakey, our podcast co-host.
00:11:36
Andy
Someone's got to cursed. Someone has to be cursed. I'm just glad it's not me.
00:11:42
Tackles and Tinnies
um Okay, well, let's um let's talk trade targets. you know I think um the juiciest matchups this week, Andy, are Melbourne Storm versus ah The queensland cowboys ah sorry North Queensland Cowboys, you know, the Cowboys, as you know, they've got multiple personality disorder. They'll be amazing for 20 minutes and then they'll just have five unforced errors in the next 10.
00:12:03
Tackles and Tinnies
And then obviously um the ah the Roosters versus the Tigers could be an absolute Tigers massacre. We're missing half of our first grade team as we talked about Appy, Luai, Buller.
00:12:14
Tackles and Tinnies
For newer Bolle, yeah, it could suck a little bit. um Andy, I'm going to list about four or five players, you know, top four traded in. You tell me if you're interested or not or whether they're just absolute traps for young players.
00:12:26
Tackles and Tinnies
um Marky Mark, Mark Noewelnda Nidawaze, 633K. He's the number one most traded in. He's averaging 74. um Jacob Preston, he amazing.
00:12:37
Tackles and Tinnies
The second most traded, 690K, averaging 74, 17% owned in the top 10%.
00:12:38
Andy
As you
00:12:46
Tackles and Tinnies
ah The third most traded, Jed Stewart, absolute cheapy at 198K. And then finally, your boy, Jerome Hughes. He's finally delivered.
00:12:57
Tackles and Tinnies
moat Fourth most traded in, fresh $133,682K.
00:12:57
Andy
let's
00:13:02
Tackles and Tinnies
Do you think any ah or all of these four players should be bought by people listening this week, Andy?
00:13:10
Andy
there's definitely There's definitely benefits players. to you know all of these players um you know, starting from the top, like Marky Mark, like, yeah, he's proven like on that, on that wing, I'm assuming that's where he's staying.
00:13:26
Andy
um You know, he is, he's got the skills, he's got the talent, he's got the flair that like he can be seen as a season, season keeper. I guess the thing is like, who do you get to him from?
00:13:41
Andy
is it worth paying up for him you I guess, who are you letting go um
00:13:47
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep. yep
00:13:47
Andy
In my mind, there's a few CCW targets that I want to hit. And for me, I've thought about trading him in this week, but for me at the moment,
00:14:02
Andy
I'm not trading him in just because I want to make sure I have the funds for certain other positions. Like I really need to clean up my hooker, um, to RF is getting a bit light with a few injuries and just things like that. So at the moment he's a no, but
00:14:17
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep.
00:14:17
Andy
i completely understand anyone that trades him in. I think, i think he is a good buy.
00:14:23
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep. um Preston?
00:14:25
Andy
um exactly the same thing um look if you know if you have someone that you can go directly sideways from him to that like could be going out like ah like maybe like a tina or a house but have you missed the boat on being able to trade them out as well um i think preston's a gun i think ah don't mind him with a few tough matchups, because I think they really kind of like push him to run harder and they play through the middle a bit more.
00:14:57
Andy
um So I like ah like Preston as a buy. um Broncos followed by North Queensland and followed by St. George. i I can't say why not buy him.
00:15:08
Andy
um Same thing though, it comes down to funds and do you see him as a season keeper? If you see him as a season keeper, absolutely. um He's definitely a buy.
00:15:19
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, and look, with Marky Mark, I think he's a luxury buy at CTW, you know, like I reckon, you know, a lot of squads, they've got Herbie, Kiraz, Garrick, and they might even want Lomax or Val Holmes. That's at five, you know, five gun CTWs, you know.
00:15:35
Andy
Yeah.
00:15:35
Tackles and Tinnies
And, you know, but, you know, he does it crazy intangible stuff, but I think you buy him if you think he's, you know, he's a seasoned keeper something like that, you know, we're so low on trades. It's hard to buy these guys who are, you know, who, you know, who might go bad, good, but if they go badly, then you're stuck with them for the rest of year.
00:15:50
Tackles and Tinnies
You know, Jacob Preston, I agree you as well.
00:15:50
Andy
like
00:15:51
Tackles and Tinnies
I think it's a good thing to have like a pod or two. You know, if you don't have a pod yet, like I think most people have, you know, Dylan Lucas, Eli Katoa, Keon Kalamatangi, and also Tino in their second row.
00:16:06
Tackles and Tinnies
So if you don't have a pod, I don't think Jacob is actually a bad go. You know, plays it like you said, yeah.
00:16:10
Andy
I currently have Hoskins. I'm not sure if Hoskins is a pot or not or just... I think for the last two, Jed Stewart, I understand people buying
00:16:16
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, i think I think it's hard to sell Hosking this week because he plays round 18. Yeah, he plays this week. So he's hard to trade this week specifically. Yeah.
00:16:25
Andy
don't know.
00:16:28
Andy
the the last two jed stewart i understand why people are buying him um just he's dirt cheap and you know, this will be his like third game.
00:16:46
Andy
We don't really see him gaining any value and of his two games he's played so far, he's scored 45 44.
00:16:47
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep. yep
00:16:53
Andy
For me, know, um for me you know it's not worth the trade for someone that's probably, I'm never gonna play except for this week.
00:17:08
Andy
um And for someone that, you know, in in an AE situation where you're playing and someone off your bench, um I don't want that, you know, 44 or 40 points. Cause what did, what did the Raiders win last week?
00:17:25
Tackles and Tinnies
um
00:17:27
Andy
22 to 18. Okay. So it wasn't a massive, massive win, but still in 22. And didn't he score a try as well?
00:17:35
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, no, he's scored a try and each. His base is absolutely dreadful. Like, I agree with you, man. Like, AE Nightmare is what you're asking for if you buy Jet Striglade. I think you should just literally buy any Nuff.
00:17:44
Andy
ah
00:17:45
Tackles and Tinnies
Any Nuff at all at 198k. Don't touch him.
00:17:47
Andy
Well, I guess that brings in, I guess the option of, you know, Kane Bradley.
00:17:54
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:17:55
Andy
I think that's ah better got look at a you know cheap enough dual 2RF that move around.
00:17:55
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:18:03
Andy
um I'm assuming he's covering for Liera, I'm not sure. um what's his What's his position and is he security?
00:18:11
Tackles and Tinnies
Um, well in the first game or two, he's played, he's played the wing, but I think he's starting this week and I think he could be wing again. I can't remember. I did have a quick look at team list Tuesday.
00:18:21
Andy
Is he playing for Coates then?
00:18:21
Tackles and Tinnies
Um, um I think it, yeah, I think it could be. Either that or was far longer. He's also out with a hamstring injury. So both, yeah.
00:18:31
Andy
Oh, right. Okay. Well...
00:18:32
Tackles and Tinnies
So they need two. They two they need they need two wingers this week, basically the Storm.
00:18:36
Andy
Right.
00:18:37
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:18:37
Andy
Okay. Because I did see Joe Chan in there as well. So...
00:18:40
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, he's at center.
00:18:40
Andy
Okay.
00:18:40
Tackles and Tinnies
So I reckon Bradley's at, yeah, at one of the, playing one of the wings this week. Yeah.
00:18:44
Andy
And then ah Anderson is moving to wing then.
00:18:48
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, I reckon so. That would make sense. yeah
00:18:50
Andy
um Okay. So, you know, if Farlongo's out, Kane Bradley in my eyes would be a far better cheapy to buy if you are looking to move someone and free up some cash.
00:19:03
Andy
Um, and then with that dual position and if he loses his spot, he's also dirt cheap.
00:19:08
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:19:09
Andy
Um, but in like a really strong storm side, no more buys, you know, he's good for the rest of the season if he's in.
00:19:09
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:19:15
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep.
00:19:16
Andy
Um, so if I was looking for a cheapy, I wouldn't judge Stewart wouldn't be it. It'd be Kane Bradley.
00:19:22
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep. I, I liked it.
00:19:22
Andy
um
00:19:23
Tackles and Tinnies
I liked that for the extra 35 K that you get for him, you get that jewel, that jewel CT dub to RF. It's just so valuable. You can move him and Lucas up and down, whatever you want.
00:19:34
Tackles and Tinnies
It's yeah. I like that as well.
00:19:36
Andy
a lot of freedom when it comes to injuries as well.
00:19:36
Tackles and Tinnies
Um,
00:19:39
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah. um And then finally, Jerome Hughes. Do you reckon and he's a must-buy this weekend against um against the Cowboys, Andy? I know you've ranted about him a few times on our chat.
00:19:48
Andy
you
00:19:50
Tackles and Tinnies
Thank you.
00:19:50
Andy
Look, is this, is this the comeback of Jerome Hughes? Is this the finals run of him making back to back half back of the year?
00:20:01
Andy
I don't think so. However, I would love to see it um two games scoring greater than a hundred in every other week. He's scored 45, 32, 41, 51. He scored That was his next best game. And yeah, I don't think he has it in him to, you know, put another ton.
00:20:29
Andy
If you have thought about buying Harry Grant, know, as your hooker, I would be avoiding Hughes and I would be getting, I would just be waiting and getting someone else.
00:20:42
Andy
If it's just, if it's the Metcalf money, I'd be waiting and just
00:20:44
Tackles and Tinnies
Mm-hmm.
00:20:47
Andy
and buying someone else you can get like Dearden or someone for a nice home run stretch. That being said, Cowboys have a bit of a tough run. Um, yeah, I would be getting it someone and diversifying my spine.
00:20:59
Andy
um
00:20:59
Tackles and Tinnies
yeah
00:21:00
Andy
you were thinking about getting grant. Um, cause you know, if storm go bad, then you're, you're in trouble. And it comes back to where is the ball going?
00:21:11
Andy
A lot of the season it's been coming through Pappenhausen, whereas now, you know, Pappenhausen saw nothing and Jerome Hughes went off, but that was rare.
00:21:22
Andy
So for me, I wouldn't buy Hughes. um He had a great game and he has the potential, but I just think the ball is still going through Pappenhausen. I think with possibly a dry track up in Queensland, I think they still they still get away with And I think a lot of the ball is going to come through Papps again.
00:21:36
Tackles and Tinnies
Queensland.
00:21:43
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep. Yeah. I, I, I like that, um, that financial advice there, you know, to diversify not, you know, don't put all your stocks in the one basket.
00:21:50
Andy
not financial advice. Yeah.
00:21:56
Tackles and Tinnies
So basically listeners, I think Andy's saying, look, if you're a Metcalf owner, uh, Probably don't, you be patient. Don't swap to Hughes this week. Consider something else, you know, like a Grant, you know, like a Tom Dearden, like a Nathan Cleary, you know, in round 19 or so, which is, yeah.
00:22:14
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, interesting. I like that. um Do you have any trade targets in particular that you think people need to have that must be a must-have this week? You know, Teddy, you know, Ellie Katoa, like, or are these guys, you know, you expect they should all be being bored and if not, you know, you should just delete the app?
00:22:31
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep.
00:22:33
Andy
ah Never delete the app. Go down with the ship as always. um As far as anyone that I think you need to have, that's interesting.
00:22:45
Andy
I think Tedesco is the first one that kind of like really pops into my mind as, you know, big matchup this week. ah You know, decimated, decimated target squad, unfortunately.
00:22:54
Tackles and Tinnies
Against the Tigers. yep
00:22:59
Andy
he... yeah he He has the most potential to kind of go off. Do you need him? ah don't think so. And it all comes down to what your team's looking at, looking like at the moment.
00:23:14
Andy
all of the All of these people like Tedesco, you know, your Kaloma Tungis, you even, you know, they're all expensive.
00:23:14
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep. yep
00:23:25
Andy
And what are you trading to get this person in? Like, are you losing out? Is it worth the trade? Are you going to get whoever you get whoever you just traded out back in?
00:23:38
Andy
I think if you want to sit on Teddy for you know the season, which you know I've sat on Teddy for most of the season now, um absolutely. Because I think he is a really consistent player.
00:23:52
Andy
um
00:23:53
Tackles and Tinnies
ye
00:23:53
Andy
But is he must-have?
00:23:56
Andy
i don't think so.
00:23:58
Tackles and Tinnies
Okay. Well, I mean, Andy, it sounds like you're saying, hey, maybe not must-have this week. ah We'll talk a little bit later when we talk about fullbacks of run home and we'll talk about whether he's a must-have for the end of season as well.
00:24:13
Andy
I do think, however, I'm just gonna put this in there.
00:24:14
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:24:15
Andy
If you are gonna buy Teddy, you should buy him this week.
00:24:18
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep. Yep. I do like what you're saying as well. You know, our other co-host, Adam, he always talks about in a vacuum, yes, buy this player. But he says that often when you're buying players, you're not usually just buying the one player.
00:24:31
Tackles and Tinnies
You're usually buying two players, really. You know, the one that, you know, ah because usually it facilitates one player goes up and one player goes down. You're downgrading for one player. So it's a two players. Will they, you know, beat the score of the other two players that you're trading out? So,
00:24:46
Tackles and Tinnies
it makes a lot of sense is what you're saying. And I think that actually reflects why not many players are must-haves really, because you can always get away without something because if it facilitates something else, really. Fine. Well, look, um,
00:24:59
Tackles and Tinnies
I guess we'll probably also talk about, you know, trades for the run home. I currently have eight. I've used, I'm probably using zero this week. And I guess the question is, yeah, how many trades is too few trades? And if you've got eight, you know, should you be concerned?
00:25:15
Tackles and Tinnies
um I'll go first, Andy. I think it really, like, Honestly, it depends on your team. don't Don't let other people, you know, tell you, oh, if you've got 14, you know, if you don't have 14, you know, you're done for.
00:25:27
Tackles and Tinnies
Because at the end of the day, it's all about, you know, just getting your best 18 on the park and, you know, and you want 18 guns. Like if you are, I think a better question to ask really is how many guns do you have?
00:25:39
Tackles and Tinnies
For example, if you've got 18 guns, it doesn't matter if you've got six trades left because you could hold on all of them because you've got you've got your final team. you know But rather, you know if you've got only your four away, four guns away, and you've got seven trades left, then now you're going to only have a max free trades if you you know take four trades to get all your guns in, really, in my view.
00:26:02
Tackles and Tinnies
I think i've for players who or teams who've you know max traded mostly as well, I think it's always better than max trade you know early in the season, get to the top 10,000 or so, and then play it out.
00:26:14
Tackles and Tinnies
It's going to be really hard, I think, this season, Andy. in my view, you know, if you're coming 20,000, 30,000, and you've got 14, 15, 16 trades, you know, it's going to be hard to find pods. I think when everybody's got the same squad, you know, and got a lot of these guns forts,
00:26:30
Andy
I think I'm because I'm so far out of it. i think I'm in kind of a better situation than you are. Whereas I have a little bit of free ability to kind of just, you know, throw it out there and just try and take a bit of risk and like not really take too much care into what happens because I'm not getting near the top.
00:26:55
Andy
There's no way, way too far behind 10,000 what? what ah Nine weeks. It's not going to happen or less than that. So for me, um'm currently at 11 trades pre-trades this week.
00:27:11
Andy
I only have playing.
00:27:18
Andy
It's a semi-decent 12.
00:27:22
Andy
but I would like at least two more playing this week just for safety reasons. Because i because the buys are when you can move the most.
00:27:33
Andy
In the first buy, I moved up the most. And in the last buy, moved down the most. And that's the most I've moved all season. So the buyers can really change how you are positionally. And if you if you have a strong team, you don't necessarily have to pull everything apart to get like a heap of numbers, especially with limited trades, because you can see that every single week someone's getting injured.
00:27:58
Andy
But if you have the ability and you have some trades free, I would be making sure I have a solid team going forward, just even in this buy round, but it also positions you to do well for the rest of the season moving forward. They have to kind of be keepers in my mind.
00:28:17
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:28:17
Andy
Um,
00:28:17
Tackles and Tinnies
How many, how many keepers do you think that we need to have in your team this season in order to kind of do well? You know, do you think it's 18, 16, 20? twenty Like how many nuffs do you think we have to have? Actually, that's another question you could ask instead.
00:28:33
Andy
I think you can probably have at least, you can have a few nuffs. It's so hard to say because each season, like you think you think everything's going well and then your're like your key player goes down.
00:28:47
Andy
um
00:28:49
Andy
So I think that as far as season keepers, you don't have to have, I don't know if you necessarily have to have like 18 guns
00:29:00
Tackles and Tinnies
ye
00:29:01
Andy
you have to have somewhat decent spread.
00:29:07
Andy
um And what I guess I mean by that is is you want to have players that play that are playing consistently and that you're going to probably be able to plug them in if someone goes down or players that might get a call up and might get you know inflated minutes if something happens.
00:29:27
Andy
you know The players that have actually been playing, um people that are just kind of getting plugged in for now that you have no idea what's happening with them. um That's tough, but yeah, it's hard to say. i the end The end run is the thing I probably struggle with the most.
00:29:48
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep.
00:29:48
Andy
And I mean, this is a great Adam question, but yeah, it's hard to say. It's so unknown.
00:29:56
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep.
00:29:57
Andy
because there's so much variability in like what's gonna happen over the next few weeks. How many injuries do we get from origin?
00:30:02
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep.
00:30:05
Andy
How many restings do we get from origin? um Or how many injuries did did we just get happen during the season? Like I bought Jaden Campbell and one week later he had a HIA.
00:30:14
Tackles and Tinnies
yeah
00:30:15
Andy
So, you know, it's, it's, there's too much variability in this whole thing. So I feel like you aren't just, you can't just do all nuffs and all guns because you need to be able to rely on your other players.
00:30:21
Tackles and Tinnies
True. Yep. Are you going to have more guns in your CTWs or in your front row forward slash 2RF?
00:30:39
Tackles and Tinnies
ah yeah how many I'll put it this way. how many How many guns are you looking for at for for for CTW? Again, I know it's a hard question to answer. That's literally what you kind of said two minutes ago, a minute ago.
00:30:51
Andy
um
00:30:54
Andy
I have for me because of where I'm at, I'm not looking so much at who I'm going to buy. i have players that I think would benefit me, but I also am trying to aim for people that are lower percentage owned.
00:31:13
Tackles and Tinnies
ye
00:31:14
Andy
to just mainly just just pod pod the rest of the way because that's the only way i'm going to be able to make up any ground is by kind of doing when everyone's digging i'm zagging really yeah
00:31:24
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, that's interesting. So basically whether you get four, five, six, or even seven gun CTW depends on how low owned people are, guns are really.
00:31:36
Tackles and Tinnies
For example, if you're finding, you know, low max is like 40% owned, you're probably just not going to go him, even though, even if, you know, even if you initially were going to go, and that's what you're kind of getting at.
00:31:45
Andy
that is That is a big thought factor.
00:31:47
Tackles and Tinnies
ye
00:31:47
Andy
um And yeah, I think, you know, there's a lot of there's a lot of really good CTWs we see it every week that, you know, anyone can go off.
00:31:57
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep.
00:31:59
Andy
Like even the new like Karapani, like he scored another, scored another,
00:31:59
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep. Yeah.
00:32:04
Andy
ah
00:32:05
Tackles and Tinnies
80 or 90 this week.
00:32:05
Andy
people
00:32:06
Tackles and Tinnies
like Sorry, 70 for a year or something like that. yeah
00:32:08
Andy
yeah and absolutely brained it and it was dirt cheap.
00:32:10
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:32:10
Andy
So CTW is one of the ones where I think you can,
00:32:11
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:32:15
Andy
you can kind of get away with possibly going someone a bit more mid range. Um, but yeah.
00:32:20
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:32:23
Andy
And it also kind of be depends, I guess, on how the team is structured. So for Eels, are they going to rely heavily on Lomax because he's kind of like one of the more marquee players now, or when Dylan Brown comes it back, is, is he going to play a little bit more and like, you're going to see less ball towards Lomax.
00:32:42
Andy
Um, Once again, it's just, it's so hard at this time to tell. It's always just go with your guts and and see what feels good. and
00:32:52
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, and um you were also talking about earlier, one last question here before we move on to fullbacks. You were talking about, hey, you want to clear out space now so that you can get a ah ah a gun hooker for the, for the or or just any type of hooker for the end home run.
00:33:09
Tackles and Tinnies
um Sorry, run home. What are you thinking? Are you thinking one gun, no guns, two guns at hooker? Because it's just it's such a shitty position, really.
00:33:20
Andy
it It really is. um The problem that I have at the moment and is i have ah
00:33:28
Tackles and Tinnies
Kalani Goings.
00:33:28
Andy
i have no i have goings, yes. And I also have Sandon Smith who, you know, in a few weeks, his job security is going to go um and he's going to get reduced minutes.
00:33:35
Tackles and Tinnies
yep
00:33:42
Andy
um That's just a fact. Um, as far as it comes to hookers, you know, grant is up there. Unfortunately I own three or four bloody storm players already. Um, so it's hard for me to justify getting grant.
00:33:59
Andy
Um, you know, Blake Braley, very hit and miss starling kind of wish I kept him all season.
00:34:07
Tackles and Tinnies
Connor Watson.
00:34:07
Andy
ah Yeah. Connor Watson is the big one. um it would' have been good if he wasn't playing in origin and he's got that jewel as well. um
00:34:19
Andy
Yeah. Kurt Donahue. I mean, i talked about him ah on messenger a few weeks ago, asking if anyone liked him and he went and scored 77.
00:34:21
Tackles and Tinnies
okay
00:34:31
Andy
So possibly after this round, he could be a bit of a look in um same as Jeremy Marshall King. He's dirt cheap at the moment and like looked really good on the track. I don't feel like they're job sharing anymore. Donahue's moved into a more of a 13 role.
00:34:44
Andy
All right.
00:34:45
Tackles and Tinnies
Well, I think Donahue will be moving into the for all actually, obviously, because Nick Arima has gone down as well. Yeah.
00:34:51
Andy
Okay.
00:34:52
Tackles and Tinnies
JMK, obviously he's got a try for 88 as well, but I think that I can't remember seeing a hook.
00:34:52
Andy
Yeah.
00:34:58
Tackles and Tinnies
ah Obviously they're not playing this week, but I can't remember. Yeah. I think, I think JMK did play 80 last week as well. So if that is the way going forward, it might be, it might be the way to go as well. Yeah.
00:35:10
Tackles and Tinnies
I think Nick Arima's out for several weeks too.
00:35:10
Andy
is he Originally in the season, Jeremy Marshall King was job sharing with Plath. Was he
00:35:18
Tackles and Tinnies
and No, I think, i think, I think Plath was that, I think he was that second row.
00:35:18
Andy
Was
00:35:22
Tackles and Tinnies
I think he was probably up sharing either Orrin Keeley or like Donahue, I reckon, or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. He wasn't getting 80 minutes. I think he was getting of like 54, 60 minutes something like that. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:34
Andy
But yeah, for... you know, for someone a bit cheaper, Donahue, I kind of, I taking a bit of a risk, but could go here at, you know, 2.6% ownership. Yeah.
00:35:46
Tackles and Tinnies
Oh, 100%. Look, at 5'8", as well, you know, like that left-hand side, you know, we talked about it earlier today, at the Dolphins. Dude, they're absolutely killing it. Absolute monster points. You know, every game, they're scoring 40 to 50 points.
00:35:59
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, it could be the Vi.
00:35:59
Andy
yeah
00:36:00
Tackles and Tinnies
It could be the Vi, seriously.
00:36:01
Andy
yeah Well, I guess the big question is with what we're talking about now is if we if we're talking about the Dolphins go left, is it worth keeping Jermaine Asako?
00:36:02
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:36:16
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah. um It's a great question. I'm hoping, honestly, I'm hoping that because they, I think they give the ball because, because Nick Arima's there and he's so dominant really. Like, I mean, last season when, you know, Nick Arima sometimes will be on the right and they will just literally pass the to him on the right. I think he, he commands the ball very much. You know, this year could obviously could tell a bit more, but I think now that maybe I don't, there's no basis for this, but you know, now that Nick Arima, maybe they'll just go, Oh, we're not as good.
00:36:42
Tackles and Tinnies
On the left, you know, there's no second receiver there. We don't believe in Donahue. And therefore, they might just go right instead. Who knows? Yeah, super coach, man.
00:36:51
Andy
Love will wait and see. um Yeah, I feel... Yeah, I don't know. Jim Anisako, he's an interesting one for a sell this week for me. ah And I'm glad I got your thoughts on it.
00:36:59
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep.
00:37:03
Andy
Just purely because, yeah, they don't go right. He... A few seasons ago, you know, he was, you know, the aerial specialist.
00:37:12
Tackles and Tinnies
ye
00:37:12
Andy
um And it's like they don't even kick the ball anymore. um Herbie Farnworth is absolutely destructive on the left centre. Yeah. And why wouldn't you go that way every single time?
00:37:25
Andy
and He's a natural man.
00:37:26
Tackles and Tinnies
100%, just tackle breaks.
00:37:27
Andy
on
00:37:27
Tackles and Tinnies
He's unable to, you know, you can't stop him from offloading as well. There's so much second second plays happening because of that. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, we'll talk about trades in a moment, but we'll quickly talk fullbacks for the run home before we go trades. Obviously, you know, I reckon most teams, Andy, would have Teddy, Drinky, Pappy, Turbo, you know, JC, even maybe Gufo as a combination of those three.
00:37:51
Tackles and Tinnies
Like, um do you think that, That combination, you know, is a continued, you know, will be the one, you know, will be you know that pool of players. We're going to pick from those or, you know, there's a couple of fullbacks who are coming off origin and in the next week.
00:38:07
Tackles and Tinnies
Also, I'll list three of them, the main ones, and then you tell me if you think any of these guys are worth it for the run home and who you' trade out for. ah Dylan Edwards, his six hundred and forty seven k he's from his starting price and he's had a free game average of eighty one Penrith, I think, you know, I'm pretty sure most and NRL fans are pretty upset that they've virtually just hit premiership form all of a sudden out of nowhere.
00:38:31
Tackles and Tinnies
um They, listen to this draw that they have in the next five rounds. Para, Souths, West Tigers, Titans, and Newcastle, literally the bottom five teams in the competition.
00:38:43
Tackles and Tinnies
They play all five of them in the next five rounds, essentially. Latrell Mitchell, he's 644K. He's got a free game average of 75. You know, um obviously, you know, little bit concerned about that they don't have Cody Walker and Jaden Sullivan who broke his leg.
00:38:59
Tackles and Tinnies
yeah I know that you have Cody Walker, Andy, in your um in your draft.
00:39:04
Andy
Oh, draft.
00:39:04
Tackles and Tinnies
Hit me up if you want Sam Walker.
00:39:04
Andy
Yeah. yeah Well, I did offer you Jeremy Marshall King for Sam Walker. I'm not sure if you saw that last week, but I canceled that.
00:39:10
Tackles and Tinnies
Oh, did you?
00:39:11
Andy
I canceled that quickly.
00:39:11
Tackles and Tinnies
Oh, you gave me Grant Anderson. I said, get out of here a few weeks ago.
00:39:17
Andy
was laughing
00:39:17
Tackles and Tinnies
Maybe I should take that up. Yeah. I've got like, I think I've got Sam barrels in my, at my hooker position. It's awful. It's awful.
00:39:24
Andy
ah knew you I knew you needed one. and I had Donahue. So
00:39:27
Tackles and Tinnies
Hey, trade me back up again. Maybe I should just buy Donahue.
00:39:30
Andy
that's right. Donahue is.
00:39:31
Tackles and Tinnies
of i'll just put a waiver on from Kurt Donahue this week. um
00:39:34
Andy
No, I never got him.
00:39:35
Tackles and Tinnies
Go back to Latrell Mitchell. um He's matchup proof, but he has a couple of hard draw. Has a hard draw. He's got the buy in round 19. Then he's got Penrith Sharks and Broncos.
00:39:48
Tackles and Tinnies
and And finally, Reece Walsh, who we talked about earlier. He's So everybody's about the same price here. He's got a free game average of 80. He plays Gold Coast next week. And then Para and Souths.
00:39:58
Tackles and Tinnies
And then obviously he plays Melbourne, i think twice at some point in before now in round 27 as well. Do you like any of Edwards, Mitchell or Walsh, Andy?
00:40:08
Andy
Look, I think, you know, Edwards, he he proved, you know, last season that he was an absolute gun and he doesn't need Cleary and he actually thrives without Cleary.
00:40:24
Andy
um It will be interesting to see if he's rested after the bye and i guess... If he's rested, does he make it a better buy or does it make a worse buy? Because now you've only got four matchups.
00:40:40
Andy
And do you keep him for the whole season? ah definitely think he is a keepable fullback. um He will be on the radar. He's dirt cheap at 647. And yeah, got a couple of really good, really good matchups.
00:40:56
Andy
Was he goal kicking last week? lost
00:40:59
Tackles and Tinnies
He was skewed a little bit last week because he was goal kicking because clearly he didn't. Yeah. But I think he scored four points from goal kicking because what was the end result?
00:41:03
Andy
yeah Oh yeah, that's true.
00:41:07
Tackles and Tinnies
Was it like eight, six or something? Yeah. Or something like that.
00:41:11
Andy
yeah
00:41:11
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:41:12
Andy
um So yeah, I think, I think he's definitely, definitely good look in for a potential buy um and exactly the same with like Latrell Mitchell, you know, he has that ability to go absolutely monstrous and like, yeah, he's a proven gun. Yeah.
00:41:33
Andy
Tough, tough couple of matchups with Panthers and Sharks, I think. um You know, Broncos and then round 23, Gold Coast, Paris and George, Sydney.
00:41:46
Andy
You can definitely make an argument for buying him. But...
00:41:50
Tackles and Tinnies
Or would you wait afterwards, after he plays the Broncos, and then jump Luttrell?
00:41:55
Andy
See, Broncos are tough because like like most teams this season, like they there's no good matchups. It can really just be how everyone turns up that week. Who put in the prep, who put in the effort to train, who read their...
00:42:10
Andy
like who read there like their match draw, like who knows what weaknesses the other team has. Like everyone's just on this year. um So I think Luttrell and Souths can definitely give a bit of an upset to the Broncos any day of the week.
00:42:26
Andy
um Who else? Rhys Walsh. Who has he got?
00:42:33
Tackles and Tinnies
ah
00:42:33
Andy
For me, Titans, Parra. Far out.
00:42:37
Tackles and Tinnies
And then South too.
00:42:38
Andy
Yeah, these are all really great matchups.
00:42:40
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:42:42
Andy
You could argue buying any of these fullbacks.
00:42:45
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:42:46
Andy
um Matchups there, proven guns. Rhys Walsh somehow only scored a 62 last week. I didn't actually catch the game. How do you think he looked?
00:42:58
Tackles and Tinnies
I thought he looked awesome. Absolutely awesome last week. I was like, he was, oh, there was a few, like there was just one where, you know, like I haven't seen him do this, like where he absolutely just stepped.
00:43:09
Tackles and Tinnies
um I think, I can't remember who was like Aaron Clark and left him for dead. It just so happened that somebody, you know, ah ah was it CNK or somebody just tackled him in the in goal or something i kept him up or something like that.
00:43:21
Tackles and Tinnies
um It was crazy. I was like, dude, put this guy in origin, really. And then obviously, I think that was before Hammer scored four tries or something like that. It was, yeah. And then, you know, he he had that try assist as well ah to shiver. That look, he's been great. His passing game's been great these last few weeks. I think he's found all his form back, really.
00:43:39
Tackles and Tinnies
Like, I'll put it this way then, Andy. Like, if money is no option and you can have any free guys to finish off the season, who are you picking? Who would you like to? Are you going to keep Pappy and Teddy and...
00:43:50
Tackles and Tinnies
Who's in turbo?
00:43:53
Andy
I don't have Turbo. No, traded him out.
00:43:54
Tackles and Tinnies
Not that. but Yep.
00:43:56
Andy
um And then, you know, scored a 75 last week. Good on him. i Really happy for all the Turbo holders. yeah Currently, i have Tedesco and Pappy and Jaden Campbell, who unfortunately is still on HIA, which is a bit strange.
00:44:09
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:44:12
Andy
I thought he was out last week. Jaden Campbell...
00:44:18
Tackles and Tinnies
Oh, he's not playing this week because, um, The Titans are on the buy.
00:44:23
Andy
Oh, that's true.
00:44:23
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:44:24
Andy
That makes a lot of sense.
00:44:25
Tackles and Tinnies
There's relief for you, Andy, this week.
00:44:27
Andy
Yeah. So he'll move. So Jaden Campbell move into my five, eight and Metcalf will get traded.
00:44:31
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep.
00:44:33
Andy
Um, so that will leave me about 600 ish from Metcalf.
00:44:37
Tackles and Tinnies
yeah
00:44:37
Andy
Um, ideally I can afford anyone, um, which is a nice position for me.
00:44:44
Tackles and Tinnies
ye
00:44:44
Andy
ah I think I missed the drink water boat. I think his matchups are a bit tough, um especially the next two, three rounds.
00:44:52
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:44:56
Andy
So Melbourne this round, which, you know, it could go either way.
00:44:59
Tackles and Tinnies
He scored 105 a few weeks ago at Amy Park. Yeah.
00:45:03
Andy
Yeah. Yeah. Which, you know, this could be the revenge tour for Melbourne. You saw what they did to sharks, um you know, just last week, they got absolutely decimated at shark park and turned around and, you know, got the wind back on them.
00:45:12
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:45:17
Andy
Thought i knew, feel like that was always going to happen. ah Followed by the bulldogs, followed by the dolphins. I mean, dolphins there, they just look really good and they absolutely decimated them last time. I think,
00:45:31
Andy
I would love to have already had drink water, but I don't think he's a buy.
00:45:34
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep.
00:45:34
Andy
um Who else? And then it's I think it really just comes down to
00:45:42
Andy
who do you have your most faith in
00:45:45
Andy
um For Dylan Edwards, I think he had a good round. Does this mean the Panthers are back? Who knows? I kind of, I'm hoping they're not because I would love to go to a grand final without Fenrith in It definitely can still happen. Rhys Walsh coming off a bit of an injury as well.
00:46:09
Andy
ah For me, kind of like the, I'm wanting to go.
00:46:15
Andy
yeah It's really hard to say.
00:46:18
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep. Yep. Well, for what it's worth, ill I'll just tell listeners what I think. I think Teddy's a season keeper. I'm, I think, I just don't think Pappy's a season keeper. As much as you said that, you know, all the ball goes through, all the ball goes through, ah goes through him last week.
00:46:36
Tackles and Tinnies
Not, not at all. It all went through Jerome Hughes and Ellie Katoa and Pappy was nowhere to be seen. I think he's a trader for sure. I reckon I'd like to get Dylan Edwards in, in round 19, but,
00:46:47
Tackles and Tinnies
And then I'm probably going to trade him out when he his draw gets tough. And I'll get him Mitchell in when he's when he gets a really good matchup, you know, in about round 23 or 22 or 24 or so. And then um I think it's not the right move. I don't think Drinkie's a keeper.
00:47:03
Tackles and Tinnies
And, you know, but, you know, as I said, I'm going to keep Drinkie for sure because I love him. He's my favorite player. Drinkie.
00:47:10
Andy
Right. Yeah.
00:47:12
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, that's exactly right. It's drinky or stinky. Hopefully more drinky than stinky. But um yeah.
00:47:16
Andy
yeah
00:47:17
Tackles and Tinnies
um Anyways, we've got the trades.
00:47:18
Andy
um have to
00:47:19
Tackles and Tinnies
um Yeah. Yeah. This week I'm considering zero. Like i said, I've got eight, eight, eight trades left. I don't have enough trades. The players I want enough out this week, Dewey, Sand and Smith. I've got to count on their scores this week. And unless one of my players absolutely shits the bed, you know, looking at you, Billy Smith, um I think I might not trade this week.
00:47:38
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:47:39
Andy
Yeah.
00:47:39
Tackles and Tinnies
What about you, Andy?
00:47:41
Andy
Look, ah I have some injuries to contend with. Currently, you know, and looking at Bradley. um And the other one is Preston.
00:47:55
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep.
00:47:55
Andy
With Koloa Vitangi getting the jewel, I'm considering trading Tino out. and moving up into the front row and bringing Preston in to really kind of round out my two RF I had him before had him for like one week before his injury, he went pretty well.
00:48:12
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:48:20
Andy
And then, you know,
00:48:24
Andy
I just wanted him wanted him back. I think he's such a great player, explosive and you know it's a really good looking dogs team. So for me, Preston, Bradley, frees up funds and gets a gun that I want.
00:48:37
Tackles and Tinnies
No, I like it. I actually think the Tino trade is actually really, really smart. I just refuse to do it because he because he's like dropped like, you know, so much money, you know, too much cash. And as I'm like, I've got it.
00:48:49
Tackles and Tinnies
It's a sunken cost fallacy. You know, like I've lost too much money. I need him to go back up before I can trade him. But I just know he's going to score poorly. You know, that sternum injury, you know, apparently he's okay now. But, you know, i I really don't believe that until that, you know, somebody actually says he's okay or he says it himself really.
00:49:04
Tackles and Tinnies
So I do really like that. Yeah. I reckon you could be in for a big week this week, especially we f if Preston goes big. Yeah. um And then finally, we'll talk ah captains. um You want to go first this time?
00:49:16
Tackles and Tinnies
Who are you thinking of captaining?
00:49:17
Andy
All
00:49:17
Tackles and Tinnies
VC and captained. You don't have to go for everybody. Just go for who you're doing really. And then we'll explain it briefly.
00:49:24
Andy
right. In order, I'm thinking VC Paps into Teddy.
00:49:32
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep.
00:49:32
Andy
I mean, I i almost think it's self-explanatory. i think, you know, no Munster leaves, you know, one person scoring-less down.
00:49:43
Andy
lot more ball probably comes through Pappenhausen. I think he's due for another big one. ah You know, as I said before, also a bit of a revenge tour for the Storm going up to Queensland and trying to to get one up on the Cowboys.
00:49:59
Andy
ah with a decimated side as well. so I think they can hopefully get a win and perhaps get a lot of points. So that's my VC. And then Tedesco as well. Also, you know, absolutely obliterated West Tigers squad.
00:50:11
Andy
um I think, yeah, that's, it's, there can only be two.
00:50:13
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah, that makes sense.
00:50:15
Andy
um
00:50:16
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:50:17
Andy
Yeah. What about yourself?
00:50:17
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah. um um Very similar to you. I'm going to Jerome Hughes instead of Pappy. Either that or just go Drinky as a VC. And then it's Captain Teddy, really. Yeah.
00:50:32
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah. He'll he'll he'll go three digits. Yeah.
00:50:36
Andy
Yeah, I would say that's going to be the most captained of the round.
00:50:36
Tackles and Tinnies
I've jinxed him now.
00:50:40
Tackles and Tinnies
Yep. Yeah. um Yeah. I wouldn't, to listeners, I definitely wouldn't overthink it The main thing is as long as you see Teddy, if you, if it so happens that you go big with whoever you VCE, it's a free loop.
00:50:51
Tackles and Tinnies
Brilliant. Take it, but make sure if you can, and you've got Teddy, make sure he's your C is what I would say to to listeners out there. um And really that's pretty much everything. Everything we've wrapped up in 51 minutes, Andy.
00:51:03
Tackles and Tinnies
ah
00:51:04
Andy
if Efficient.
00:51:06
Tackles and Tinnies
Yeah.
00:51:07
Andy
Man, two minutes a lot, I think it's is's very efficient.
00:51:07
Tackles and Tinnies
I like it. Yeah. Hey, it was a pleasure for having you here. You know, hopefully we'll see you more often.
00:51:16
Andy
That's right.
00:51:16
Tackles and Tinnies
Thank you very much.
00:51:16
Andy
Thank you for having me and letting me come on and and ramble a bit about my non-conherent ah non-coherent thoughts about what I need to be doing with my team.
00:51:26
Tackles and Tinnies
um Yeah. Now also speaking of that, now I thought about it. I would like to just make an amend and make it a correction. ah Not financial advice that Andy said today.
00:51:34
Andy
the
00:51:35
Tackles and Tinnies
realized that none of us have a financial degree. um Anyways, i love you listeners. Ryan and Jakey will be back next week.
00:51:47
Tackles and Tinnies
Hopefully um like, and subscribe once again. Yes. On TikTok. ah Happy super coaching everybody. See you guys ah next week.