by SoylentGreen Thu Feb 04, 2016 2:41 pm
Mearcat085 wrote:It's not so much that Merrin has left and therefore you expect LAM to step up that concerns me about him. It's more the amount of cattle they have. Dragons relied on Merrin for a lot of the time and looking at those stats whether he was or wasn't there, Ah Mau still only averaged 49.9 minutes per game. Now if he scores at an average of 49.1 that's almost one PPM and I'll take that every day but with their off season purchases, the availability of Packer etc etc will he get the minutes? If he only gets 40 minutes that reduces his average to around 36 and at 357k that is a harder decision to make.
The Dragons don't really have any quality genuine props. Just looking at the fantasy positions, Cooper, JDB, LAM & Lui are listed as FRF/2RF, and Creagh isn't a hulking front rower, so you're getting down to Packer and Masoe before you hit a genuine prop. Take out Frizell for the first few rounds (and who knows how long it will take for him to get up to big minutes), and it's the same situation in the 2nd row, with only Cooper and Thompson looking like taking big minutes.
They might have plenty of cattle, but I wouldn't call it prime beef.