NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 23 - Injuries, injuries and more injuries :(

Krump wrote:
I'm in the same position and seriously considering just bringing Haas straight in. Fuck waiting to see what happens with his minutes

Ditto. Lam > Walker. Some mid > Haas. He’ll be straight into beast mode. Slug

Loomer wrote:

What did Tino score in the game tonight?

I'm honestly not sure this week's score will make a large difference to my decision just like the previous week isn't either.
But fwiw he scores 48

Welshy wrote:
Lunatic

There may be a strong correlation with the amount of cans I’d had, sitting around a camp fire and this stupid trade.

Live by the can
Die by the can

Jackson will be suspended for 1 wk

I double cow-ed this week so I'm loathe to do so again because my scoring 17 will suffer. Lam to either SOS or Walker will be one I think, although I'm wary of picking up the non-dominant half in the Warriors after one good performance. On the flip side, Walker is an unknown quantity and can probably wait a week more than SOS can.

The other trade will hopefully be some kind of upgrade. Who and what, I haven't even started to consider yet with two games still to go. Without hexing myself, I can ill-afford another injury in my team

If anyone needs a footy fix. Can watch NSW cup at 1:45pm. Knights v Wests.
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Slug wrote:

Ditto. Lam > Walker. Some mid > Haas. He’ll be straight into beast mode. Slug

Sounds good Slug

StuDogg101 wrote:I double cow-ed this week so I'm loathe to do so again because my scoring 17 will suffer. Lam to either SOS or Walker will be one I think, although I'm wary of picking up the non-dominant half in the Warriors after one good performance.On the flip side, Walker is an unknown quantity and can probably wait a week more than SOS can.

The other trade will hopefully be some kind of upgrade. Who and what, I haven't even started to consider yet with two games still to go. Without hexing myself, I can ill-afford another injury in my team

If anything SOS was steering the ship and Niko playing off the cuff. SOS more kick metres

Khany wrote:Jackson will be suspended for 1 wk

What for?

Bird suspended for one game for those that have him

Rabbits21 wrote:
What for?

ABC grandstand said before he has been charged for a crusher

Rabbits21 wrote:
What for?

Crusher tackle

Packer & MCK in NSW cup. WT will be 1-17

easytiger wrote:Here's my summary of popular trade ins from this week:
(And how they performed relative to their price point):

Popular targets: (scored) [vs priced avg]
Joshua Jason Justin Schuster (63) [+40]
Mitch Kenny (49) [+15]

Those were my 2 trades, played both and traded out Davey/Lam
Last weeks trades were Ah Mau and Davey

So 3/4 have worked out ok so far, Davey was just unlucky
Swings in roundabouts this game, win some and lose some

Just read 19 injuries so far in round 3. Absolutely crazy!

Tookey wrote:Just read 19 injuries so far in round 3. Absolutely crazy!

Wow that is crazy, think will be happy just to get through the round unscathed
Hopefully these remaining 2 games arent a blood bath

Archer wrote:
I'm honestly not sure this week's score will make a large difference to my decision just like the previous week isn't either.
But fwiw he scores 48

Now that I'm on my PC I can go into a bit more detail on what I meant by this rather than the cryptic response that's here. To me what's important this year for particular players is not just the number of minutes they play, but the period they play those minutes. In both games so far Tino has been rested before the end of the first half, so he isn't running at any tired defences then and he generally goes on to play most of if not all of the second half once he's back so by the time the game closes out, he's the tired defence teams are running at, rather than the fresh guy running at those tired defenders.

Compare this to someone like say Paolo, who in week 1 and 2 had a short rest in the first half but was back out to end the half. Was rested midway through the second half and then came out fresh again to close out the game. In both halves he's getting a bit of a rest so he isn't a liability himself and then having the opportunity to exploit tired defences. He picked up a try each time and a bunch of TB's, incidentally he also made a tonne of tackles (perhaps being the fresher guy out during that period also meant he had to get across to more tackles while his teammates were too tired to make it). This week he played less minutes sure, but he also missed the end of the first half and then didn't get the rest midway in the second half so didn't get either of those opportunities to come on fresh at tired defences.
Now if Tino got a similar rotation but was scoring poorly I'd have a bit more interest as he's getting the amount of minutes I'd like, but so far it looks like Hollbrook is using Fotuaika and Peachey to run at the tired defences (completely understandable) and Tino's rotation has looked a lot more like wk 3 Paulo.

I mean I've got some other reasons for likely looking to trade him out, but the above is a decent part of it and what I'll be checking out in the cowboys game, rather than whether or not he manages to jag a try or some TB's against one of the weaker teams in the comp. Hope at some point in my incomprehensible dribble I've made a tiny bit of sense, otherwise oh well, I'll be back to posting short nonsense again anyhow

Boozecluez wrote:

Wow that is crazy, think will be happy just to get through the round unscathed
Hopefully these remaining 2 games arent a blood bath

Fingers crossed. Can't remember a round with so many injuries.

Been lucky with my team with just Lam injured. Possible Lam to SOS trade depending on TLT.

Archer wrote:
Now that I'm on my PC I can go into a bit more detail on what I meant by this rather than the cryptic response that's here. To me what's important this year for particular players is not just the number of minutes they play, but the period they play those minutes. In both games so far Tino has been rested before the end of the first half, so he isn't running at any tired defences then and he generally goes on to play most of if not all of the second half once he's back so by the time the game closes out, he's the tired defence teams are running at, rather than the fresh guy running at those tired defenders.

Compare this to someone like say Paolo, who in week 1 and 2 had a short rest in the first half but was back out to end the half. Was rested midway through the second half and then came out fresh again to close out the game. In both halves he's getting a bit of a rest so he isn't a liability himself and then having the opportunity to exploit tired defences. He picked up a try each time and a bunch of TB's, incidentally he also made a tonne of tackles (perhaps being the fresher guy out during that period also meant he had to get across to more tackles while his teammates were too tired to make it). This week he played less minutes sure, but he also missed the end of the first half and then didn't get the rest midway in the second half so didn't get either of those opportunities to come on fresh at tired defences.
Now if Tino got a similar rotation but was scoring poorly I'd have a bit more interest as he's getting the amount of minutes I'd like, but so far it looks like Hollbrook is using Fotuaika and Peachey to run at the tired defences (completely understandable) and Tino's rotation has looked a lot more like wk 3 Paulo.

I mean I've got some other reasons for likely looking to trade him out, but the above is a decent part of it and what I'll be checking out in the cowboys game, rather than whether or not he manages to jag a try or some TB's against one of the weaker teams in the comp. Hope at some point in my incomprehensible dribble I've made a tiny bit of sense, otherwise oh well, I'll be back to posting short nonsense again anyhow

Posts this like with proper justifications are what make this forum so good. I don't have Tino myself and haven't watched any Titans games yet but what you said makes complete sense.

EDIT: I can't believe I legitimately typed "Posts this like". Brain in complete shutdown after a big night. I need an IV drip

Tookey wrote:Just read 19 injuries so far in round 3. Absolutely crazy!

Players association pushing for 18th man. AFL have introduced a concussion reserve this season. NRL will be following soon too, I'd say.