NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 5

No Worries wrote:

My contribution to current proceedings is take Grant out of your team now to save you time later. Rumour is NRL have it in the too hard basket and wont be approving it.

Bugger, Luai back into the 17

Bethany_B wrote:

Fair enough. I've had gun halves in and out of my side but I think having both Haas and Lolo will make up for it. JMK is likely to get enough mins to score in the high 40s, which is pretty handy to have. Also, Lolo plays round 12 and won't play Origin while many of the other guns will.

As for Friend, I reckon Verrills will steal enough mins to ruin him. His games in 2018 that were sub 70 mins weren't that good, and I doubt he gets more than 60 mins at best. Verrills is a gun and he'll get plenty of mins.

If Verrils is there Friend would be a huge risk. I believe the regular season games that Friend played in 2019 there was no Verrils though. It's a TLT decision really

Rapture_NRL wrote:

If Verrils is there Friend would be a huge risk. I believe the regular season games that Friend played in 2019 there was no Verrils though. It's a TLT decision really

Not really, there's the extended bench and Robinson likes a game day switcheroo. TLT mightn't help that much, trials should though maybe.

JMK might be a decent shout if you're worried about Croft.

2019 games 70+ minutes - 48.8 average
80 minutes - 50 average

Katoa only likely to take minutes if he's gassed and no real other hooker except for JJ at a stretch. Plays 12 I believe too

Word on the street is that CHT will have the kicking duties at the Warriors. Is he a better option then than Brimson?

Rapture_NRL wrote:JMK might be a decent shout if you're worried about Croft.

2019 games 70+ minutes - 48.8 average
80 minutes - 50 average

Katoa only likely to take minutes if he's gassed and no real other hooker except for JJ at a stretch. Plays 12 I believe too

Who has the vest value, JMK or Korisou?

Goodnight Kiwi wrote:

Agree here Pookus. Hold tight! I am also a Burns fanboy and he is staying in my side. Potential cut price gun centre in a tricky position v potential 2nd-tier-gun Half that will need to be traded for a final team.

7 games of 80mins in 2019 for a 44.7 average. Priced at 34. Shhhhh

I prefer Burns to forum favourite Brimson in the same price range. If you have 40k and a DPP to shuffle around that's my preference

A bit of talk on George Williams. He's cheap in SC & VSDT so he's in my team but his price is outrageous in fantasy so I don't own. Some poster on nrlsctalk provided his 2019 ESL stats which exclude kick mtrs because they donb't recognise these in sc:
14 tries, 21 ta's, 122 tb's, 18 lb's, 46 offloads

The poster said what stood out in the limited games he saw G. Williams play was his activity level of involvement i.e. constantly looking to run the ball & always backing up breaks.
It's also worth noting he has a great combo with J. Bateman as they were former team mates in the ESL & internationally.
Also atm he has a calf injury which Stuart revealed recently so that's worth monitoring & also the fact J. Bateman might miss a few games due to his surgery could lessen G. Williams appeal.

White Lightning wrote:A bit of talk on George Williams. He's cheap in SC & VSDT so he's in my team but his price is outrageous in fantasy so I don't own. Some poster on nrlsctalk provided his 2019 ESL stats which exclude kick mtrs because they donb't recognise these in sc:
14 tries, 21 ta's, 122 tb's, 18 lb's, 46 offloads

The poster said what stood out in the limited games he saw G. Williams play was his activity level of involvement i.e. constantly looking to run the ball & always backing up breaks.
It's also worth noting he has a great combo with J. Bateman as they were former team mates in the ESL & internationally.
Also atm he has a calf injury which Stuart revealed recently so that's worth monitoring & also the fact J. Bateman might miss a few games due to his surgery could lessen G. Williams appeal.

The minimal game time I've seen of him it looks like he can only pass in one direction at a first grade level. I can't back myself to pick a player that fundamentally flawed

Sharks just about named a 1st grade side for the 9s. Just chucked a few bucks on them at 15.00 to win it

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

The minimal game time I've seen of him it looks like he can only pass in one direction at a first grade level. I can't back myself to pick a player that fundamentally flawed

As long as it's backwards he should be OK.

Picturing Zoolander not being able to turn left.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

I prefer Burns to forum favourite Brimson in the same price range. If you have 40k and a DPP to shuffle around that's my preference

I may slot Burns in as well, not keen on Lomax or Best.

The Pascoe Fiasco wrote:Word on the street is that CHT will have the kicking duties at the Warriors. Is he a better option then than Brimson?

Could be. If goal kicking that would suggest he is starting at 5/8. Last year averaged 36 there (priced at 31) though he wasn't goal kicking in a couple of those games. Probably not quite enough value. I'd be worried also that after a few weeks when the hookers are fit that Nikorima comes back into the halves.

I have no stats to base it on, but I wonder if CHT starting is better for RTS. Niko tends to skip across sideways jamming everyone for room. From memory (?) CHT plays straighter which could maybe open up more space for RTS. I could be talking out my arse here, I tend to not watch Warriors games as closely.

I was tempted to go with Easy E as my 2nd prop, but may end up with Molo instead.

Chewie wrote:I was tempted to go with Easy E as my 2nd prop, but may end up with Molo instead.

You've gotta be made of Molo.

Seriously though, how come? Need the cash? Doubts about Esesesesese? Or confidence in Molo?

Chewie wrote:I was tempted to go with Easy E as my 2nd prop, but may end up with Molo instead.

I like Mikaele at this point better than Molo.

Mulvy wrote:

You've gotta be made of Molo.

Seriously though, how come? Need the cash? Doubts about Esesesesese? Or confidence in Molo?

Herman would need around 48-50mins to be of value.

I can’t see him getting more than 40-42mins.

Mulvy wrote:

Could be. If goal kicking that would suggest he is starting at 5/8. Last year averaged 36 there (priced at 31) though he wasn't goal kicking in a couple of those games. Probably not quite enough value. I'd be worried also that after a few weeks when the hookers are fit that Nikorima comes back into the halves.

I have no stats to base it on, but I wonder if CHT starting is better for RTS. Niko tends to skip across sideways jamming everyone for room. From memory (?) CHT plays straighter which could maybe open up more space for RTS. I could be talking out my arse here, I tend to not watch Warriors games as closely.

I read somewhere goal kicking is worth about 5-6 points a game.

Mulvy wrote:

You've gotta be made of Molo.

Seriously though, how come? Need the cash? Doubts about Esesesesese? Or confidence in Molo?

Rabbits21 wrote:
I like Mikaele at this point better than Molo.

Esesesssseseee will be coming of the bench with Klemmer and Daifiti starting, I reckon he'll do well, but he comes at an akward price.
Molo's cheap, and will get 30+ minutes with Scott & Bolton Ltd. gone, I think he can avg about 35ish (like the last few rounds of 2019)
Mikaele's stats don't really fill me with confidence

No Worries wrote:

I read somewhere goal kicking is worth about 5-6 points a game.

Mitchell last season averaged 4pts per game and had 3 games with +7 conversions