NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 19 - It's Thursday - Still time to ditch the duds thread

Milchcow wrote:


Jelejasof put his hand up.

Main thing is to have someone ready to start trade/lineup polls in case I get caught up on things and don't have time.

Thats good - and MS too by the looks. Good to hear!

Taumalolo getting 70+ Minutes every week means he is best fantasy prospect in comp. I think he will settle down a bit though and go around 60/65 minutes

jelejasof wrote:

Full respect to the warriors players and organisation. Will be cheering for them in every match this year.

To be honest, I think thats the main reason they have done it. They are banking on it getting closed down eventually and dont want be the first to pull the pin!

The way CEO anounced it, it was all about the Warriors standing tall and firm with the NRL etc etc, for the fan base blah blah... Nothing about player safety - well not in the opening address anyway.

Teeth Eater wrote:

Completely agree. If the Eels manage to lose to the Titans this week I might do a straight swap and trade them in as my favourite team. 

I'm not across it all, but does this mean that if nrl is called off tomorrow the Warriors guys are still essentially 'trapped' here until this thing is all done, whenever that might be? Jeez I especially feel for the fellas with kids back at home.

Part of me feels they are being forced by guilt and probably being told they can’t go back anyway.
Really hope they can turn season around and go on a run!

Let’s gone Warriors

Welshy wrote:Taumalolo getting 70+ Minutes every week means he is best fantasy prospect in comp. I think he will settle down a bit though and go around 60/65 minutes

That was part of the reason why I decided I had to start with him. The Cows bench just looked light and it seemed like if Green was ever going to increase his mins, it was going to be this season. Hopefully it continues, but I agree it'll probably taper off, that's fine though.

Oh and he looked like a beast in trials, was ready to hit the ground running.

Well done to Drinkwater owners. He looks the goods so far. I was tempted to grab him last night but I'm trying to hold off trades until we know more about Kennedy/Lomax.

Rippin and Tearin wrote:@milchcow - how many forum members put their hands up to help you with the forum celeb team?

Keen to help out. Will be working from home for a few weeks atleast.
PM me if there's anything I can do!

Genuinely looking forward to the weekend of footy now. the only other game on paper that looks a bit boring is eels titans, but if the titans throw the ball around that could be good fun too.

any non-haas selections for captain? I don't have smith, cook or lolo so have had to go haas again.

Rippin and Tearin wrote:BREAKING - Warriors WILL STAY IN COMP!!

They don't call them Warriors for nothing - Kia Kaha boys

Dttragic2016 wrote:Genuinely looking forward to the weekend of footy now. the only other game on paper that looks a bit boring is eels titans, but if the titans throw the ball around that could be good fun too.

any non-haas selections for captain? I don't have smith, cook or lolo so have had to go haas again.

Never change..

lol

So far the deaths due to the virus
China = 3,245 deaths / Italy 3,405 / Iran = 1,284 / Spain = 8630 / Germany = 44 / Total = 8,808 deaths

People dying of starvation from theworldcounts.com
In 2020 = 1.9m deaths / this month = 480k deaths / this week = 110k deaths / today = 11.5k deaths

White Lightning wrote:So far the deaths due to the virus
China = 3,245 deaths / Italy 3,405 / Iran = 1,284 / Spain = 8630 / Germany = 44 / Total = 8,808 deaths

People dying of starvation from theworldcounts.com
In 2020 = 1.9m deaths / this month = 480k deaths / this week = 110k deaths / today = 11.5k deaths

So sad mate but truth is humans are cunts. We only care about this pandemic because it effects everyone and anyone not just a certain demographic. Sad but true

Welshy wrote:

So sad mate but truth is humans are cunts. We only care about this pandemic because it effects everyone and anyone not just a certain demographic. Sad but true

yeah, sad but true. we don't care about something that won't affect us directly. out of sight out of mind etc

White Lightning wrote:So far the deaths due to the virus
China = 3,245 deaths / Italy 3,405 / Iran = 1,284 / Spain = 8630 / Germany = 44 / Total = 8,808 deaths

People dying of starvation from theworldcounts.com
In 2020 = 1.9m deaths / this month = 480k deaths / this week = 110k deaths / today = 11.5k deaths

There are more deaths than that in China. On Four Corners the other week they were saying how in China they’re burning dead bodies and not accounting for them in the numbers!

White Lightning wrote:On Isaako & his very sick dad. Someone posted last night that apparently he'll stay in Aussie but will he be switched on mentally. Will the worry & anxiety he's going through affect his game. I was going to buy him in SC but I might just wait & see how he handles this very sad situation.

Isaako was average at the 9s and in trials. Do you think last weeks performance was a once off?

wolfking wrote:Are non Tolo owners going to rip their teams apart to get him in?  Only way I could would be by having to run a Luai or Rudolf in the 14-17 for a couple of weeks which isn't ideal.

Nah, i didn't pick him because i'm sure i remember Green fucking with his minutes for chunks of last year that brought down his average. Had nothing to do with Lolo as a player and his ability to score points, so will be patient for now and stick with the reasoning i had 8 days ago.

Honey Badger wrote:

Isaako was average at the 9s and in trials. Do you think last weeks performance was a once off?

It might of been the catalyst for him to believe in himself.

If he holds onto the confidence he may go really well.

I'm not sure myself, but I'm definitely considering grabbing him for Lomax.

my tv broke wrote:

yeah, sad but true. we don't care about something that won't affect us directly. out of sight out of mind etc

100% correct.

Embarrassing really, same for myself sometimes. Should do more

Dttragic2016 wrote:Genuinely looking forward to the weekend of footy now. the only other game on paper that looks a bit boring is eels titans, but if the titans throw the ball around that could be good fun too.

any non-haas selections for captain? I don't have smith, cook or lolo so have had to go haas again.

Cook for me, he owes me a big one after last week

Dttragic2016 wrote:Genuinely looking forward to the weekend of footy now. the only other game on paper that looks a bit boring is eels titans, but if the titans throw the ball around that could be good fun too.

any non-haas selections for captain? I don't have smith, cook or lolo so have had to go haas again.

Yep me. Didn't like the look of TTurbo up against Roosters, so it was down to Pap, Ponga, Carrigan or Koirosau. Went with Api, not because of last week, but because i think up against dragons there should be plenty of opportunities to make tackles and he's a decent shot of sneaking over for a try this week. Its a risk, but i knew that when i built the team with no clear captain choice.

Honey Badger wrote:

Isaako was average at the 9s and in trials. Do you think last weeks performance was a once off?

It's hard to say. If Souths played like they did last week in the first half they could keep him quiet but if they play like they did in the second half he could score good with the gk bonus. Which Bunnies team will turn up the 1st half team or the 2nd half team. Isaako is a very good ball runner who is hard to contain but if the Bunnies dominate he may not get many attacking stats.