NRLFF 2006 Fantasy thread - Round 3+4 El Magic round

wolfking wrote:Casey McGuire;

Round 1 - Hooker
Round 2 - Centre
Round 3 - Lock
Round 4 - bench

WTF?  Can he keep going and be named in every fucking position?!

Looks like I'll need a half, especially with McGuire needing punting probably round 5.  

He is one of 10 players in my team I’d like to remove this week... trading out Fitzgibbon last week looks really dumb now. A luxury trade. Like buying a yacht when youre living under a bridge.

White Lightning wrote:Grant Rovelli is the 10th highest scoring half (out of all half classifications) so at 308k he's great value. What's more impressive is that he's scored well coming off the bench in rounds 1 & 2. I remember him of course because he plays for the Warriors & he's a great little player & very tough & elusive.

Any idea what role he's playing?
Without stating the obvious, it's unusual to carry a bench half, and with scores of 34 & 39 I assume he's getting decent minutes.
Would it be Fien swapping to HOK for a period of the game?
Gatis as starting HOK is tempting at $246K also. Normally I'd just give him a week to see what he scores, but this would be two weeks - which means a double price bump if he goes well.

TLL back and starting second row, beautiful.

robelgordo wrote:

He is one of 10 players in my team I’d like to remove this week... trading out Fitzgibbon last week looks really dumb now. A luxury trade. Like buying a yacht when youre living under a bridge.

Buying a yacht after you've been living under a bridge sounds like a pretty good upgrade to me

robelgordo wrote:

He is one of 10 players in my team I’d like to remove this week... trading out Fitzgibbon last week looks really dumb now. A luxury trade. Like buying a yacht when youre living under a bridge.

Yeah, starting lock but playing from the bench next week doesn't spell that he has a good game a lock, one would think. I think I'll have to keep him and play him for these two rounds then try and punt him.

Lil' Georgie Gatis! Get in my team!

Best second rower to bring in. Any price. Thoughts?

Was looking at this Fitzhenry for a half but round 4 on the wing with Benji back.

filthridden wrote:Best second rower to bring in. Any price. Thoughts?

Hindmarsh, Tongue, Morrison, to a lesser extent Simpson or Waterhouse (but has a bye this week)
I have Tongue and Simpson and pretty happy with both at this point

Looks like i'll be plugging leaks rather than moving ahead. Unless I cop tony martin and Boyd in my 17

Lockyer out Thurston in
Price out Lowrie in

Round 3

Matt Sing
Hazem El Masri
Greg Inglis
Matthew Gidley
Mark Gasnier
Johnathan Thurston
Cooper Cronk
Alan Tongue
Matt Bickerstaff
Nathan Hindmarsh
Antonio Kaufusi
Luke Douglas
Cameron Smith
Aaron Gorrell
Tame Tupou
Todd Lowrie
Brian Carney
Grant Rovelli
Darren Albert
Steve Turner
Craig Stapleton

Round 4

Matt Sing
Tame Tupou
Greg Inglis
Matthew Gidley
Mark Gasnier
Johnathan Thurston
Cooper Cronk
Alan Tongue
Matt Bickerstaff
Nathan Hindmarsh
Luke Douglas
Craig Stapleton
Cameron Smith
Aaron Gorrell
Darren Albert
Todd Lowrie
Brian Carney
Grant Rovelli
Steve Turner
Antonio Kaufusi
Hazem El Masri

I should have 21K ITB.

God that took some faffing around today! Caffeine required

GreenMachine wrote:

Decent depth that. I think I’m going to hold Stagg for an easy move to Parker next week. Need to deal with Farah this week.

You must be tempted to bin Luck already too?

Think I'm just going to ride it out with Luck cause he is pretty cheap already, not far for his price to go. We all know he is a tackle bot, at some point he will get the minutes to show it

Luke Douglas in for Ben Jones
Kevin Kingston in for David Stagg

Round 3

Luke Covell
Darius Boyd
Greg Inglis
Chris Flannery
Dean Collis
Brent Sherwin
Tim Smith
Craig Fitzgibbon
Michael Luck
Jacob Lillyman
Steve Price
Ben Hannant
Cameron Smith
Shane Tronc
Michael Monaghan
Andrew Johns
Kevin Kingston

Luke Douglas
Adrian Purtell
Darren Albert
Shane Perry

Round 4

Luke Covell
Darius Boyd
Greg Inglis
Chris Flannery
Dean Collis
Brent Sherwin
Tim Smith
Craig Fitzgibbon
Michael Luck
Jacob Lillyman
Steve Price
Ben Hannant
Cameron Smith
Shane Tronc
Michael Monaghan
Luke Douglas
Kevin Kingston

Adrian Purtell
Darren Albert
Andrew Johns
Shane Perry

New fires to put out with Flannery on the bench and Lillyman dropped. Lucky Douglas looks set for a score with that bench

Just a note on naming teams

MS has done it properly
Full names of players, no positions, no gaps between the 17 and NPRs - if everyone can use that format it is easiest for me

Clack Bocks wrote:Looks like i'll be plugging leaks rather than moving ahead. Unless I cop tony martin and Boyd in my 17

Jesus. I am playing both probably for the year and still have a lot of holes that I can't fill.

OUT: Dean Young and Scott Geddes
IN: Alan Tongue and George Gatis

Round 3 team:

Steve Turner
Hazem El Masri
Brett Stewart
Greg Inglis
Dean Collis
Johnathan Thurston
Tim Smith
Micheal Luck
Anthony Laffranchi
Nathan Hindmarsh
Steve Price
Luke Douglas
Alan Tongue
PJ Marsh
Todd Carney
David Shillington
Jacob Lillyman
Darius Boyd
Brett Morris
George Gatis
Craig Stapleton

Can we enter our round 4 team after we see scores for round 3?
Actually never mind, I'll only have 17 players anyway hahaha

Round 4:

Steve Turner
Darius Boyd
Brett Stewart
Greg Inglis
Dean Collis
Johnathan Thurston
Tim Smith
Micheal Luck
Anthony Laffranchi
Nathan Hindmarsh
Steve Price
Luke Douglas
Alan Tongue
Craig Stapleton
George Gatis
David Shillington
PJ Marsh
Hazem El Masri
Brett Morris
Todd Carney
Jacob Lillyman

What does Michael Luck's role look like going forward from the bench? I wonder if he actually could improve his scoring. Wondering if I toss McGuire over him.

wolfking wrote:What does Michael Luck's role look like going forward from the bench?  I wonder if he actually could improve his scoring.  Wondering if I toss McGuire over him.

I don’t think it gets much worse. I’m thinking with 12 interchanges there’s much less value in starting second rowers (aside from guns) and slightly more on bench backrowers. Net effect for Luck might be zero? I would punt McGuire over Luck (would actually do so except I have Farah/Young/Kite to deal with so think I need to hold for now)

I honestly don't remember Luck ever starting from the bench so either my memory is shit (already proven) or he won't stay on the bench much longer, surely.