NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 56 - Rabbits21 Stew

LODGE NOT AT TRAINING. JOSH JAMES ALSO TRAINING ON HALVES. NICE SEEING COBBO ON WING. HERBIE AND GLENN BOTH BACK TRAINING WITH SQUAD

— Biggest Fan (@Lavishka) May 23, 2021

sajjos wrote:@MTB who is Josh James?

LODGE NOT AT TRAINING. JOSH JAMES ALSO TRAINING ON HALVES. NICE SEEING COBBO ON WING. HERBIE AND GLENN BOTH BACK TRAINING WITH SQUAD

— Biggest Fan (@Lavishka) May 23, 2021

sajjos wrote:@MTB who is Josh James?

LODGE NOT AT TRAINING. JOSH JAMES ALSO TRAINING ON HALVES. NICE SEEING COBBO ON WING. HERBIE AND GLENN BOTH BACK TRAINING WITH SQUAD

— Biggest Fan (@Lavishka) May 23, 2021

filthridden wrote:Hey all,

Missed the weekend - if someone could give me a brief on what happened with these players that would be amazing.

Walker - just a low score ala Gamble last week? - Couldn't get into the game. Made a few mistakes. Broncos all over them.
Gamble - charged, suspension likely?
Starling - low score? - Similar to Walker. Couldn't get into the game. Raiders pack were run over all night. Storm played through the edges so not many tackles in the middle either
Matterson - HIA but he came back? Didn't see but would like to know.

Archer wrote:
Not having a go at you ET as I'm certain its not your intention and you've said yourself you often go against the crowd, but just thought it worth pointing out why perhaps some people are a bit tense around here. Often the discussion of Cleary is something that winds up simplified into "It was an easy call to make, who else were you going to Captain" which implies anyone who didn't make that decision was dumb, even if not intended that way. Anyone posting on a fantasy footy forum is probably at least a little competitive and doesn't like losing (some exceptions here for those who support perpetual shitters year on year in the real thing, you (we) likely are numb to it by now), so is already a bit sore about it before hearing they were a moron who couldn't make the obvious choice everyone else has.

The thing is though, like any part of your team decisions its more nuanced than that. The decision not to start with Cleary wasn't something you could easily rectify the next week, or week after that, as it required tearing your team apart and selling off other players you'd done your research on and formed an opinion on, off the back of 1/2/3 scores. By the time there was no longer just a couple of scores to go by you still had to tear your team apart only now he cost you even more.
Also the best case scenario for a Cleary owner was definitely not that he got a HIA or an injury, it was that he scored just 5 or 10 points less than he did last season (putting him at 60-65) and it wasn't an obvious immediate trade out. If he did that he was no longer top scorer despite paying the premium and then the Cleary owners would be faced with the same dilemma of whether or not that 1/2/3 weeks of scoring was an outlier or the norm and the other options may have gained in price by that time as he dropped. It wasn't even a wild fantasy, panthers were on fire last year and he had his hands in a lot of it. The thought that coaches may have a better plan for them, that the team form as a whole could drop (and don't kid yourself despite Cleary's "base" points appearing as though he'd still score the same in a far less successful team, he wouldn't) or that even his own form could drop off a bit after a devastating GF loss was far from a long shot, trust me... look at my guys.

All that said, I think as a non Cleary owner you just have to suck it up and whenever its implied you were a dumbass just shrug it off as unintended or someone talking with too much hindsight involved. Very few people are going to bother going into something enough to cover the nuances of something (and they honestly shouldn't, you'll wind up with a novel like this) and when it becomes simplified its easy to be misrepresented. Far more things to be annoyed with this year, both in fantasy (fuck KM scoring, Burton could become one of the top scorers in the comp joining the bulldogs if he just boots the ball and does nothing else) and the game itself (please please please don't fuck up origin further, let alone the finals series).

TLDR; Welshy sucks, Random (nvm, can't say it now I have to congratulate you, sigh, congrats) and Townsville too, same with the softcocks and old men who can't post gifs! And uh.. Free Papa!

ps: Come at me mod shitters

Moanaman wrote:Fuck thats romantic @Robelgordo

@Fortitude there is never an perfect time or place. They are going to say yes anyway so do it somewhere you, and they, feel comfortable.

sajjos wrote:@MTB who is Josh James?

LODGE NOT AT TRAINING. JOSH JAMES ALSO TRAINING ON HALVES. NICE SEEING COBBO ON WING. HERBIE AND GLENN BOTH BACK TRAINING WITH SQUAD

— Biggest Fan (@Lavishka) May 23, 2021

RandomSil wrote:Oh and speaking of better halves, mine said yes!

Archer wrote:
Anyone posting on a fantasy footy forum is probably at least a little competitive

sajjos wrote:@Archer I dont think anyone has questioned in the intelligence of non-Cleary owners. I know its a difficult decision to tear your team apart and go against the strategy that one believed in from the start but what's the point of having a whine about Cleary's scoring every time Panthers are playing.

Aardvark wrote:https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/05/21/round-11-nrl-judiciary-charges/


It's a long read