NRL Fantasy 2021 - Part 10 - ‘Lets get ready to rumble !!

Finally had a chance to have a look through the team lists so pretty happy with this
Bit of risk and reward and should keep things interesting

54k itb

Koroisau
BSmith Lodge Watson
Riki Host
Cleary Lam
Averillo Niu
Tedesco Papenhuyzen Hoy

McCullough
Turpin
JBrailey
Liddle

LCroker Moylan Gosiewski Laurie

Aardvark wrote:

Fine line between positivity and delusion isn’t there. Based on this I’m considering taking him out of my team.....that and the basketball shorts he was wearing

.....also went away for an hour or two and everyone is now on Milf. I thought I was the only fool.

Lol. I'm so easily swayed.

my tv broke wrote:

All the talk is that the whole pre season was spent on defense. Players have said they havent done much work on attack.

All well and good but fell away badly in the trial. Big worry if they also cant score points lol

Its a bit like training the house down though.

No team that sucked the previous year is going to say "our defense was actually pretty good, so we've been trying to come up with some slick attacking moves in the off-season"

Aardvark wrote:

Fine line between positivity and delusion isn’t there. Based on this I’m considering taking him out of my team.....that and the basketball shorts he was wearing

.....also went away for an hour or two and everyone is now on Milf. I thought I was the only fool.

Everyone was pretty keen on Milf early in the pre-season.

Then he got injured so we looked elsewhere. Now, as his fitness is confirmed everyone is coming home to Mama (that's what the M in Milf stands for, right?)

Can anyone confirm the magic number is 13400 exactly?

Just making some updates to the team planner. Not sure what I would do without this.

my tv broke wrote:Ive really come around to Sitili but I cant fit him in. Obvs the stats say he is slightly underpriced but more of a gut feel on him. Just like the fact hes got his preferred right side and running beside Keary cant be a bad thing

I’m trying to fit him in...based on nothing but gut and the old eye test I just feel he is going to step up this year and would definitely rate him over Host (who is in that spot at the moment)

Just need to find another mid I’m happy to play in 17 instead of Tino (who I’m not entirely convinced by) Looking closely at Leota.

Syzy wrote:Can anyone confirm the magic number is 13400 exactly?

Just making some updates to the team planner. Not sure what I would do without this.

If you want it exact, use 13399.92
That's about as accurate as I can determine it

edit: but the round 1 number will be different, probably lower

I did a rejiggle to get Milf and Turpin in my team and now I feel gross.. as a Broncos supporter it will be great to have 7 guya from the team.. but also as a broncos supporter... I am not excited.

Gilbert suffered his tibia fracture ~9th Feb and typical recovery time is 6-8 weeks. Potential 1-1 switch with Hoy, which is making me consider running without Edge cover (Crichton on the bench covering edge and mid). @Mulvy do you think Gilbert will walk in to the cows starting lineup?

my tv broke wrote:

Im looking at my side and i cant fault any of the selections and despite the favt its cookie cutter here, i dont think im following group think with any of them, really

I'm personally not sold on Tino or Papenhuyzen but am going with the hive mind for safety.  

Seriously I genuinely think goal kicking is just going to offset the slight decrease in attacking stats from Paps playing in a team without Cam.  

I think RTS is going to put up just as good scores but don't know if I can go against the popularity of Paps if I'm wrong.

TU: Welch, Host and Croker
TD: Paulo, Alvaro and Gosiewski

Stuff it going for random players i want to pick. Either be great or terrible either way im having fun

Mr Snrub wrote:

I'm personally not sold on Tino or Papenhuyzen but am going with the hive mind for safety.  

Seriously I genuinely think goal kicking is just going to offset the slight decrease in attacking stats from Paps playing in a team without Cam.  

I think RTS is going to put up just as good scores but don't know if I can go against the popularity of Paps if I'm wrong.

You and me both re: Papy. I just had a play around and can swap Milf + Pappy for Hoy and Matterson

Difference is Paps could increase to 55+ a year or stay around 50, not much downside, whereas RTS is stuck trying to break that 50 average with not much upside

Milchcow wrote:

Everyone was pretty keen on Milf early in the pre-season.

Then he got injured so we looked elsewhere. Now, as his fitness is confirmed everyone is coming home to Mama (that's what the M in Milf stands for, right?)

Correction....I’m the only fool that had him in the whole time

The thing is that Papy is like 80kg. He is only going to get better as he plays. So much potential and I seriously think he could be better than Ponga (irl) soon

Mr Snrub wrote:

I'm personally not sold on Tino or Papenhuyzen but am going with the hive mind for safety.  

Seriously I genuinely think goal kicking is just going to offset the slight decrease in attacking stats from Paps playing in a team without Cam.  

I think RTS is going to put up just as good scores but don't know if I can go against the popularity of Paps if I'm wrong.

Tino is someone ive not had at any stage. At this point it would just be fomo if i do grab him.

Think im pretty settled now tho

Boozecluez wrote:Finally had a chance to have a look through the team lists so pretty happy with this
Bit of risk and reward and should keep things interesting

54k itb

Koroisau
BSmith Lodge Watson
Riki Host
Cleary Lam
Averillo Niu
Tedesco Papenhuyzen Hoy

McCullough
Turpin
JBrailey
Liddle

LCroker Moylan Gosiewski Laurie

That squad is some weaponry. Interesting (and tempting) to see it on paper as I was thinking of putting together something similar, with all those hookers. I do not dislike it one bit.

Post TLT team


Koroisau
Tino, BSMith, Watson
DFifita, Riki
Cleary (C), Brooks
Bird, Averillo
Teddy, Hoy, Laurie

Brailey, Liddle, Lodge, Lam
LAM, Leniu, Croker, Niu

Not to keen on Croker, but he's in the EMG
If Lam doesn't suit I can switch to Milf
No Edge cover atm, planning to pick up Gilbert down the track, or Kerr might surprise us.
After round 4 I'll work out what to do with BSmith and Hoy

ytsb wrote:Gilbert suffered his tibia fracture ~9th Feb and typical recovery time is 6-8 weeks. Potential 1-1 switch with Hoy, which is making me consider running without Edge cover (Crichton on the bench covering edge and mid). @Mulvy do you think Gilbert will walk in to the cows starting lineup?

I thought it was a fibula fracture and he wasn't out that long? New coach so hard to know. Reports were that he was training in the middle, won't replace the starters, but I'd be very surprised if he didn't nab a bench spot. Probably not ideal for fantasy if that's the case. I don't have any inside info though.