NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 5

Milchcow wrote:

I'll likely be running 3, but the 3rd will be base price or close to it, and won't be in my scoring 17 barring injury. Someone like Zane Musgrove or another rookie.
if no cheap FRF look worth it, might run without cover, but it's z bit of a risk.

I ran without cover last year. But it was only like a week or two before I got cover in:

Host or Lawrie?
























I picked Lawrie

Mulvy wrote:

OOooh! I was looking at that a while ago, and a certain physio suggested probably wouldn't get the start. but defo interested.

At this stage most selection stuff from me is my own opinion. Should be helpful during the season but TLT will do most of that work for us

White Lightning wrote:Anyone playing Drinkwater as their 3rd wfb (405k hlf/wfb) if he starts in the halves.

He's another one of these awkwardly priced guys who could totally gun it. Nearly 50 points on average in qcup. But same problem as a lot of these guys. Won't be the dominant half. I wouldn't expect huge kms, not the gk as far as I'm aware, and job security concerns with Clifford. Love him as a player though and he's cheap.

Mulvy wrote:


Host or Lawrie?

Good times. 20 straight pages of Host v Lawrie discussions

Ponga Yeo the Mann wrote:

At this stage most selection stuff from me is my own opinion. Should be helpful during the season but TLT will do most of that work for us

Mate, your own opinion is highly valued around here I reckon. And correct too, everyone else agreed with you, I just jumped on a rumour I wanted to be true

robelgordo wrote:I love the specificity of the minutes projections now... 50 maybe 52, 68-70... All this is just confirming to me that I’m right to not waste any more time on my team until at least the second week of trials. Do like the chat tho.

I'm sorry Rabbits21, this made me giggle

Milchcow wrote:
Doesn't just about every player get seen in a moon boot at some point during the season these days.

By itself I don't think it means anything

Nathan Brown was in a moon boot 2 weeks into his 2 week (8 week) injury. Moon boots still scare the shit out of me!

Adrianoooo wrote:

He won’t be spending 80 minutes on the edge. If that’s the plan then I’m sure a whole lot of coaches in the league are happy with that

Haha, agreed.

Mulvy wrote:

I'm sorry Rabbits21, this made me giggle

Lol I can see why

Mulvy wrote:

Haha, agreed.

Murray will still spend quite an amount of time in the middle and he will be in a roaming role.

Murray could produce similar scores to Taumalolo I reckon, but Murray would need to be traded out at origin time whereas Lolo you’d be able to keep.

Rabbits21 wrote:
Murray will still spend quite an amount of time in the middle and he will be in a roaming role.

Murray could produce similar scores to Taumalolo I reckon, but Murray would need to be traded out at origin time whereas Lolo you’d be able to keep.

I don't see Murray's role changing that much despite what the old man says, although more minutes maybe. I'll change my mind perhaps if I see Murray on an edge for more than five minutes in the charity shield.

We agree on the second part, both guns, but Murray's minutes/role was reduced slightly over the origin period last year and I expect similar this year.

Hello Everyone!

Been lurking and lurking, and will most probably continue to do so, but just thought I'd drop in from Moscow to say hi, and to say thanks to everyone for all of the insight and updates (RIP Hon R.Analytics), and for ensuring that I am completely addicted to this damn thing once again...

I don't have too much to offer in return, other than a reminder that sometimes it's a lot of fun (thrilling even) to go off the beaten path, even if means going down in a blaze of glory...

Okay, so after being super anti-Hassthink, I eventually caved and put him in my team. It felt nice to stare at a reliable captain, and know that I had insured against massively falling behind the pack after a week 1 Hassplosion.

It lasted for one night.

Suddenly it was Knight plus 430k to play with again.

So now I'm feeling all cosy with this middling lot:

Friend
Merrin, Knight
D.Fifita, McGuire, W.Graham
JMK, J.Hughes
Lomax, Watkins
Edwards, Papenhuyzen, Isaako

Koroisau, J.Williams, J.Stimson, B.Brailey

Grant, Luai, Magoulias, To'a   2k ITB

Other players I really want: Cleary, G.Williams, V.Holmes, B.Smith.

Now just need to randomly pin the (C) on the donkey...

(Obviously everything is going to change 100 times.)

Remember, whatever you do, enjoy it!

From Russia with Love

Dananz

Dananz wrote:Hello Everyone!

Been lurking and lurking, and will most probably continue to do so, but just thought I'd drop in from Moscow to say hi, and to say thanks to everyone for all of the insight and updates (RIP Hon R.Analytics), and for ensuring that I am completely addicted to this damn thing once again...

I don't have too much to offer in return, other than a reminder that sometimes it's a lot of fun (thrilling even) to go off the beaten path, even if means going down in a blaze of glory...

Okay, so after being super anti-Hassthink, I eventually caved and put him in my team. It felt nice to stare at a reliable captain, and know that I had insured against massively falling behind the pack after a week 1 Hassplosion.

It lasted for one night.

Suddenly it was Knight plus 430k to play with again.

So now I'm feeling all cosy with this middling lot:

Friend
Merrin, Knight
D.Fifita, McGuire, W.Graham
JMK, J.Hughes
Lomax, Watkins
Edwards, Papenhuyzen, Isaako

Koroisau, J.Williams, J.Stimson, B.Brailey

Grant, Luai, Magoulias, To'a   2k ITB

Other players I really want: Cleary, G.Williams, V.Holmes, B.Smith.

Now just need to randomly pin the (C) on the donkey...

(Obviously everything is going to change 100 times.)

Remember, whatever you do, enjoy it!

From Russia with Love

Dananz

I am a fan of taking a different path but not seeing the benefit of not having haas or any other really reliable captain. It’s ended up as a team without guns and somehow still has a weak center pairing and no gun half. It’s hard to tell where all the money went.

Chewie wrote:In any case, is there any FRF who is going to score more than 10 points above their average?
Let me know if you know

Merrin

I watched an interview with Merrin from earlier in January. Deadset had a twinkle in his eye when talking about walking back into the Dragons sheds and how much it means to him/etc. If he starts at lock I reckon I'm sold.

Importantly it sounds like he's in a better headspace after a tough year away from family/etc.

Rabbits21 wrote:
Lol I can see why

The jokes on me anyway, pretty much straight after this I started tinkering with my team again - taking out Grant on the assumption the trade is falling through, bringing in Friend because it looks like he's going to be 80mins... 45 minutes later, lets just say I'm really missing that ~370k. Team feels very mid-rangy and 1-2 players short of not being trash.

my tv broke wrote:I watched an interview with Merrin from earlier in January. Deadset had a twinkle in his eye when talking about walking back into the Dragons sheds and how much it means to him/etc. If he starts at lock I reckon I'm sold.

Importantly it sounds like he's in a better headspace after a tough year away from family/etc.

Yeah but how many houses has he trained down?

I need something to cheer for this year, although I'm still very sceptical, the Merrin comeback tour may be it.

The Broncos have replaced Glenn and Coates in their 9s squad due to leg tightness.

Staggs will come in, good news as it would indicate he is back to full fitness and more importantly good to go for the coming trial games.

Mulvy wrote:

Mate, your own opinion is highly valued around here I reckon. And correct too, everyone else agreed with you, I just jumped on a rumour I wanted to be true

Haha thanks mate. I love the Herman Crab and he’s looking huge. I think he will get his fair share of TBs and offloads but would need things to go right for him to get the minutes to consistently get near 50

For what it’s worth Jacob saifiti is arguably more impressive in training than Daniel which surprised me

Ponga Yeo the Mann wrote:For what it’s worth Jacob saifiti is arguably more impressive in training than Daniel which surprised me

I have seen a few comments over the past month about how good Jacob is going in pre-season.

When they first came onto the scene I thought he looked the better all round player, interesting to see if he can get back to playing NRL consistently.