NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 17 - Crack'a'Corona Sunday

Camo123 wrote:



This was potential team listed based off players in reserve grade: Corey Allan, George Jennings, Euan Aitken, Tautau Moga, Bryson Goodwin, Jake Clifford, Sam Williams, Daniel Alvaro, Harry Grant, Sauaso Sue, Chris McQueen, Matt Eisenhuth, Billy Magoulias. Interchange: Mason Lino, David Gower, Stefano Utoikamanu, Jayson Bukuya

Besides Bryson Goodwin that back 5 is

The Pascoe Fiasco wrote:
France is closing their schools according to my French wife. It won’t be long before we follow the herd!

The Pascoe Fiasco wrote:This COVID 19 crap is really pissing me off! They’ve just cancelled my U9 son’s game day in two weeks. Why can’t they play, but they can go to school, take public transport, handle money etc etc. The world has gone mad! Oh, and there still isn’t any bloody toilet paper!

filthridden wrote:

I can't see clubs letting go of players like Magoulias, Clifford, Lino or Aitken who are first backups for their clubs pretty much.

The Pascoe Fiasco wrote:

standard-issue wrote:

Tigers - Robert Jennings.

They can have Reynolds too!

Mearcats wrote:Ok fam, missed all Saturday and Sundays games. Anyone care to give me a fantasy relevant recap cos I don't wanna read back through two whole threads? Disclaimer... I wasn't fishing.

filthridden wrote:

It really doesn't make sense mate and just found an article where the guy is saying its not part of their plan:

https://politicshome.com/news/uk/health-and-care/illnesstreatments/news/110595/matt-hancock-insists-herd-immunity-not-part

"Matt Hancock has insisted that creating so-called "herd immunity" in the UK against coronavirus is not part of the Government's plan for tackling the killer illness."

Mr Hancock added: "Herd immunity is not a part of it. That is a scientific concept, not a goal or a strategy. Our goal is to protect life from this virus, our strategy is to protect the most vulnerable and protect the NHS through contain, delay, research and mitigate."

Here's a good read from one of the experts:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidemiologist-britain-herd-immunity-coronavirus-covid-19

"Policy should be directed at slowing the outbreak to a (more) manageable rate. What this looks like is strong social distancing. Anyone who can work from home, should. People who do not yet work from home should be encouraged to do so." - this is pretty much what the rest of the world is starting to do.

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-comments-about-herd-immunity/

"“Unfortunately, a very rough estimate suggests that we will only reach herd immunity to Covid-19 when approximately 60% of the population is immune (and remember that immunity is currently only reached by getting the infection as we have no vaccine!).  The major downside is that this will mean that in the UK alone at least 36 million people will need to be infected and recover.  It is almost impossible to predict what that will mean in terms of human costs but we are conservatively looking at 10,000s deaths, and possibly at 100,000s of death."

filthridden wrote:

This is a terrible idea. Its basically "We'll do this and hopefully no one dies".
Too much of a chance of it ending with a death. "It will most likely be totally fine" is nowhere near good enough odds.

Also making up stats like "99% will have minor flu like symptoms" is not helpful.

Rippin and Tearin wrote:Sorry, more questions - i literally didnt get to watch a minute of NRL.

Horsburgh - did he play on the edge? And did tapine play 80 at lock?

Did Yeo play 80 at lock too?

And Brailey and Walters - did they both play 80 at hooker?

And finally Friend - as far as we can tell is he splitting time with Verrils. I.e. he played 65 so Im presuming he came off for Verils?

Camo123 wrote:

Horsburgh & Tapine named at edge and lock but once game started Horsburgh played lock and Tapine edge which was better outcome for fantasy (i.e Ricky is a troll)

Yeo did play 80 but there were injuries to Tetevano & Kikau throughout game

Brailey I think also benefitted from injuries as Mulitalo got injured which meant Tracey come on at CTR but looked pretty comfortable playing 80. Walters played 80 at HOK (but a couple of sets was attacking at HLF to get a rest) but would have benefitted from Brooks' absence which meant JRey started (though Brooks could be out for 3-4 weeks)

Correct about Friend off at 65 mins for Verrills. Bit concerning, thought he would get a little bit longer

Mearcats wrote:Ok fam, missed all Saturday and Sundays games. Anyone care to give me a fantasy relevant recap cos I don't wanna read back through two whole threads? Disclaimer... I wasn't fishing.

Chewie wrote:

what's your team?

Welshy wrote:

We will see mate, unfortunately I wouldn't trust our government to not consider the extra cost of human life versus trying to get the country back to normalilty quicker in terms of returning the economy back to its pre virus state

rhinoceroo wrote:That Aussie Warriors idea is completely unworkable, as well as a virus petri-dish. They should just make all the Warriors games byes if they drop out, who cares if there are 7 or 8 games per weekend?

For fantasy, I'd suggest they take all Warriors players out of the game and you to drag in replacements with whatever bank you have without costing a trade, although I'd expect them to do nothing.

The Pascoe Fiasco wrote:So who has planned for the byes if the Once were Warriors take their ball and go home? When do the Broncos get the bye? I know I’m stuffed that week!