NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 33 - Was that the best round in the world? No it was just a tribute!

Very good then, nothing to see here

JRob will not only play this week, but will go large (for a CTR).

People with 3 CTRs will leave him out and be pissed, doubly so when people who were gonna leave him out were forced to play him because of Niu reportedly being dropped.

Others may even buy a CTR just so they don't have to play JRob.

Pretty sure that's how fantasy works

GreenMachine wrote:
You’re 100% right not a proven fantasy scorer as yet but is talented and breakout wouldnt surprise... fun fact - has never scored a first grade try. I think that would change at our place. Obv if he was still at the current panthers it would too.

Has already got himself a couple of tries in the reserves and CNK himself was barely a winger before his arrival too.

Interested in any panthers fans and if you liked the talent or were happy he left?

sister is a member so was watching them closely and he seemed like a very solid backup, got caught out a few times positionally didn't do anything overly flashy but was a solid returning the ball and involved himself a bit for run metres and obviously was younger than so gonna be improved from that time you would assume don't remember much of a ball playing game out the back but could've been developed

Assuming Milf and Niu out and Riki bench (and no other unexpected TLT dramas:

Is it worth saving 2 trades and playing Walker and Uto in my 17?

Full team:

Brailey
Tino, Watson, Uto
Fifita, Angus
Cleary, Schuster
Peachey, Bird
Teddy, Pappy, Laurie

Turpin, SOS, Liddle, Walker,
Milf, Riki, Niu, Simo

NRL Physio says CNK/Raiders can make decision on surgery (6-12 weeks) or rehab (3-6 weeks)

Given Raiders' secret healing powers CNK probably back soon, so wouldn't be looking at Aekins

So Nui and Walker were my set and forget centres. That worked out well. Cheers, Slug.

Walters is desperate. Te’o out means he needs an impact forward off the bench and he thinks Riki can be that. He’s probably right, but I expect he won’t be on the bench for long so I’m holding. Pangai needs more minutes so right edge suits. He’s mobile enough. I think dropping Nui is harsh. At least he has a crack. Every set he’s hitting it up 2nd or 3rd tackle. If anything it’s a bit predictable. Croft hasn’t shown anything at either Melbourne or the Broncos. Under pressure he just cracks. Milford will be back next week. Cheers, Slug.

Rough. From buzz:
@Cronulla_Sharks
There is strong mail Mezzatesta & Mace want John Morris to leave NOW and bring in a caretaker.
Talk about destroying a season. This is disgraceful.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

From memory it was a two game suspension for Koala? So not available this week but back for Round 7

Cheers @Liverpool_Bulldog, I guess this means Koala misses out on DPP Edge as he isn't playing in the magic Round 6 for positional updates then.

WT2K wrote:

Just speculation. Haven't got any better to replace him with either.

Zac cini is meant to be good isn’t he ?

Had a sexy little Moylan to Turbo trade lined up this week to make my WFB look a little nicer so I could stop playing Isaako. Then Niu news hits and without any back up CTR I'll probably have to bring in someone like Hampton instead (only want to make the one trade using Moylan).

Apologies, I've missed all the pages today but did this surprise others? In a team doing very questionable things I thought Niu was easily in the top 3-5 guys out there actually putting a bit of effort into what he was doing. How could a scenario pan out where he is the scapegoat for their woes when at least the kid has a crack? As a saddened Milf owner, I get that one... but I don't understand Niu getting dropped. It actually inspired me to write a letter today. It went a little like this;

Dear Kevin Walters,

Fuck you.

Warmest Regards,

Teeth Eater

Think ill be exiting fui before riki

WT Winfield wrote:JRob will not only play this week, but will go large (for a CTR).

People with 3 CTRs will leave him out and be pissed, doubly so when people who were gonna leave him out were forced to play him because of Niu reportedly being dropped.

Others may even buy a CTR just so they don't have to play JRob.

Pretty sure that's how fantasy works

JRob is just sick of playing Sundays at 4pm.

Finally gets an evening game this week on a Saturday. Against his old club. Look forward to a double

The dropped stuff seems no different to how everyone thought Averillo was gettinf dropped..

Slug wrote:Walters is desperate. Te’o out means he needs an impact forward off the bench and he thinks Riki can be that. He’s probably right, but I expect he won’t be on the bench for long so I’m holding. Pangai needs more minutes so right edge suits. He’s mobile enough. I think dropping Nui is harsh. At least he has a crack. Every set he’s hitting it up 2nd or 3rd tackle. If anything it’s a bit predictable. Croft hasn’t shown anything at either Melbourne or the Broncos. Under pressure he just cracks. Milford will be back next week. Cheers, Slug.

Agree with all this. I'll hold Riki, and I'll hope Milford dropping is brief. The Niu thing just annoys me. The only other scenario I could come up with today - as unlikely as it seems - is that Arthars has been that amazing in reserve grade that he made himself a must pick? Sounds very unlikely, but I don't understand the Niu dropping otherwise.

my tv broke wrote:

JRob is just sick of playing Sundays at 4pm.

Finally gets an evening game this week on a Saturday. Against his old club. Look forward to a double

The dropped stuff seems no different to how everyone thought Averillo was gettinf dropped..

If Roberts was up for a game against his old club, he'd be good against half the league

my tv broke wrote:

JRob is just sick of playing Sundays at 4pm.

Finally gets an evening game this week on a Saturday. Against his old club. Look forward to a double

The dropped stuff seems no different to how everyone thought Averillo was getting dropped..

Haha yeah after I posted I checked who we were actually playing, saw Souths, old club, cha-ching baby

WT2K wrote:Rough. From buzz:
@Cronulla_Sharks
There is strong mail Mezzatesta & Mace want John Morris to leave NOW and bring in a caretaker.
Talk about destroying a season. This is disgraceful.

Disgraceful from the Sharkies board!

You could tell SJ was disgusted with it on Matty last night and you'd have to imagine plenty of Sharks feel the same

Teeth Eater wrote:

Agree with all this. I'll hold Riki, and I'll hope Milford dropping is brief. The Niu thing just annoys me. The only other scenario I could come up with today - as unlikely as it seems - is that Arthars has been that amazing in reserve grade that he made himself a must pick? Sounds very unlikely, but I don't understand the Niu dropping otherwise.

Is Farnworth back? Otherwise it's Kennar and Arthars in the centres ahead of Niu (plus Mead on the wing?) against that Panthers backline, yikes.

How are the Broncos meant to generate NRL quality players when they don't give them NRL games to develop?