NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 62 - Captain Grant hype-train edition

Teeth Eater wrote:

I struggle to cop a loss like that to a team that has just been getting towelled up by anyone over the last few weeks, but it is what it is. Like you say, nothing to worry about. Just a shit night. Eels really could not have played worse and they still got as close as they did which was kind of encouraging. Moses and Matterson back should hopefully fix things up again.

Yeah it was one of those off games, Mahoney had a shocker. Losing NBrown midway through the game wasn't good either. The Eels will bounce back.

In other news...I'm looking at an above par score again this week. 865 with Koro, Yeo, and Cleary to go. The Chewie charge is still on

danseels1985 wrote:


Yeah mate we need that organising half back again,Dylan and Field are ball runners so we lacked that structure that Mitch brings. Matto is the buy of the season in my eyes so that’s a big void to fill on that right edge. Also missing Stone,Kaufusi,Evans plus Browny only playing half the game. If we hadn’t have been sleepwalking that first 20 we would have rolled them. Try on halftime was decisive too. Oh and there’s a reason why George Jennings doesn’t play more often,he fucken sucks. Even an out of sorts Fergie is miles ahead of him

Mate, Eels got a try that shouldn't of been awarded, so the score is a bit flattering.

Chewie wrote:

Yeah it was one of those off games, Mahoney had a shocker. Losing NBrown midway through the game wasn't good either. The Eels will bounce back.

In other news...I'm looking at an above par score again this week. 865 with Koro, Yeo, and Cleary to go. The Chewie charge is still on

So, how about those mighty eagles!

Finally my team starts to click.
13c/843. Lolo, Koro, Cleary and Rudolf to play. Niu’s 11 was a bit of a bummer.

Biggest issue coming out the Eels loss tonight is probably going to be that Sivo injury. That looked unpleasant and it's always a fucker when it happens in the last few seconds of the match too. Could definitely have done without that to top the night off.

Holy balls, you're having a monster round, Chewie. I have those three and Lolo left to play. Only issue is I'm sitting on 700 going into it. Niu and Talau in centres absolutely killing me.

856 with Yeo, Lolo, Koro and Luai to go. I suppose the Cleary and Robson owners might send me tumbling back a few ranks.

still on 679 (had no players in this last game except Field in my EMG) with the 4 Panthers (Api/Yeo/Luai/Crichton) plus Lolo left, I'm getting absolutely blasted this week and it's not good. What's most annoying is Fotu getting robbed of his TBs yet again and Angus going down hurt, as beside those two, all my players did pretty well, and the couple that didn't (Niu and Papy) are pretty highly owned. Idk how I'm doing so badly given that.

I reckon I'll score about 900 (roughly Crichton 30, Luai 40, Yeo 45, Koro 50, Lolo 60), which is complete garbage compared to some scores I'm seeing, my only chance of holding my pre-round rank of 544 is if Luai and Crichton run absolutely riot on that edge.

Finch wrote:

Mate, Eels got a try that shouldn't of been awarded, so the score is a bit flattering.

Imagine if Turbo played

Teeth Eater wrote:Biggest issue coming out the Eels loss tonight is probably going to be that Sivo injury. That looked unpleasant and it's always a fucker when it happens in the last few seconds of the match too. Could definitely have done without that to top the night off.

Holy balls, you're having a monster round, Chewie. I have those three and Lolo left to play. Only issue is I'm sitting on 700 going into it. Niu and Talau in centres absolutely killing me.  

Yeah that Sivo injury sucks, we should have most of the guys back in the next week or 2.
Hats off to Manly though, they came out strong tonight.

I have Niu & Fogarty in the team as well, luckily I have Captain Haas, Carrigan, Lucy, DCE, Teddy, Ponga & Macca to balance it out. Hopefully Cleary does well tomorrow too

currently ranked 151 which will probably drop a bit with Tolo, Robson, and l**ps for other coaches

Sivo has been cleared of any serious damage. Should be sweet for next week.

Chewie wrote:

Yeah that Sivo injury sucks, we should have most of the guys back in the next week or 2.
Hats off to Manly though, they came out strong tonight.

I have Niu & Fogarty in the team as well, luckily I have Captain Haas, Carrigan, Lucy, DCE, Teddy, Ponga & Macca to balance it out. Hopefully Cleary does well tomorrow too

Not having Lucy has single-handedly buried me in my $$ H2H this week. Well, playing those two shitty centres combined with not owning Lucy, to be exact.

If Cleary can help me out with a score somewhere between 129-130, I should be right, though.

Apart from two centres and Papy... oh, and Field. Okay, so I've fucked up quite a bit, lol. But all the other guys in my team have scored very well.

Anyway, good going for you. Congrats on that rank... surely not going backwards?

KingTeddy wrote:Sivo has been cleared of any serious damage. Should be sweet for next week.

That is sex to my ears.

Just realised I could have gone JWH > RCG this week and still had the cash to go Lowe > Butcher next week. Now I think with my bank and RCG price increase I won't be able to afford that double trade, what a blunder!

Snatchpato wrote:Just realised I could have gone JWH > RCG this week and still had the cash to go Lowe > Butcher next week. Now I think with my bank and RCG price increase I won't be able to afford that double trade, what a blunder!

RCG was one of my smokeys to start the year,really wanted to start with him but I held off last minute. Started slowly but he’s killing it now,just had this feeling he would have a big year

That was a good effort by J. Paulo to end up on 52 points although N. Brown not returning let him play 61 mins. The first 20 mins of the game he was shite & missed the tackle on Taupau when he scored his try & I was thinking he's not going to crack 35 points but the next 20 mins of the 1st half he improved & being on 19 at half time wasn't too bad & then he kicked on in the 2nd half with a 33 point 2nd half.

Feel off the pace this week but a few still to come

684 with Taumalolo, Cleary, Crichton, RTS and Koro to come could be anything
Super Saturday was kind with Cook, DCE and Murray my only 3 in action
Low scores from all my podish players with Mofo(30), Young(32), Croker(20), Papy(32)
I imagine everyone played Niu(11) because he scored 50 last week and that’s how fantasy work

Have managed to avoid the injury carnage so far and Farnworth red dot allowed me to miss Fogarty

831 with 'Lolo, Koro & Yeo to come .... I'll take their averages please fantasy gods, I'm not greedy.

Can’t help but feel after the initial sugar high of the 4 trade week putting me in front(80 odd from captain Haas), that I would have been much better positioned without it
Ignoring the fact that it helped out those that were scrambling my own team has probably suffered in the long run
I wouldn’t have traded out Lucy
I wouldn’t own Hudson Young
I would have captained Cook the last 3 weeks where he has outscored Haas in 2/3
I wouldn’t have blown all my cash so instead of being 40k short of Drinkwater to RTS last week I would have been able to afford the trade. That would mean this week I would have had a spare trade to grab Ponga and I probably get his score over Niu

Although I still wouldn’t own Haas, his price is now a lot more manageable than it was at the time of the trade

Will prob trade drinkworth to a cheapie today, in order to fund Luai to Hunt next week.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Can’t help but feel after the initial sugar high of the 4 trade week putting me in front(80 odd from captain Haas), that I would have been much better positioned without it
Ignoring the fact that it helped out those that were scrambling my own team has probably suffered in the long run
I wouldn’t have traded out Lucy
I wouldn’t own Hudson Young
I would have captained Cook the last 3 weeks where he has outscored Haas in 2/3
I wouldn’t have blown all my cash so instead of being 40k short of Drinkwater to RTS last week I would have been able to afford the trade. That would mean this week I would have had a spare trade to grab Ponga and I probably get his score over Niu

Although I still wouldn’t own Haas, his price is now a lot more manageable than it was at the time of the trade

What were your 4 trade ins and your overall rank in round 7 (Pre x4 trade ins) and last week round 9
Given it has been a few weeks would be interesting to see where you went with them

My trade ins were Tedesco,Robson,Johnson,Taupau and was ranked 615th round 7, and round 9 was 65th

Taupau and Johnson have been average but both boom/bust type players so hoping Johnson has a big game soon
Hindsight only Johnson I would change for DCE but then I play overall not H2H so there is still time

603 incl sua loop score. Koro cleary tohu and captain Lolo to come. Hoping to hit 900. What's par for this round? Hope everyone's enjoying their weekend's, with talk of increased restrictions in NSW it's going to a boring as hell next few weeks if they go ahead