NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 75 - Voting has finished

SoylentGreen wrote:SJ is flavour of the month in the halves - now that Rd 17 is over, is he ahead of Moses and Fogarty? They're all about the same price, and I'm going to have to let one of them go when Cleary is back.

All those kick metres means he's pretty consistent, but his non-existent running game has a much lower ceiling.

I would say Moses is better, more of a closer call with Fog. Might depend whether you prefer 50s and 60s, or 30s and 80s.

I'd go Moses, Johnson, Fog

Just noticed Sele is out with no indication why

Wonder if he fell asleep again

Hearing SST might be out due a hamstring strain that he picked up last game - not because of his Instagram post or form https://twitter.com/OOOL1908/status/1414849077620002817?s=19

20 green dots is a bit of a novelty

This Tohu news is very pleasing.

I still need a forward if he isn't playing though, so thinking Hynes to iPap. Probably means no Pap for me, Turbo/Teddy/Walsh to wrap up the year. Unless I end up needing to move out Cleary.

Venues confirmed:

GC Fri night double header
GC 3pm Sat, Townsville 530, Melb 730
Suncorp Sun double header, GC 615

So Gold Coast is hosting 5 games in 5 days starting with Origin.

holy hell that’s the worst broncos pack i’ve seen. There’s one guy who makes any of the top teams - Haas. Outside of Payne there’s an Atacama of dryass daylight.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Someone sell me on Matterson vs CHN as trade out for Fifita. Whoever I don't trade sticks around all year

Same dillemma. Im keeping Matto. Scoring may be volatile but at least i know he will be in the 17 if injury free and in a better team. Who knows what sticky will do with CHN if they revert back to what they have dished up pre round 17. Lui out is one less moving part amongst the forwards for now. As a tigers supporter it burns me to say this as i still havent let it go.

“Cronulla aren’t taking Wade Graham. He’s probably out for the season now because he needs treatment on his head injuries."
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2021-covid-updates-relocation-andrew-abdo-peter-vlandys-queensland-latest-news-schedule-draw/news-story/46a1973ba98638ed71278d560ebd02d2

Is this the Wade Graham stuff people already knew, or additional new info?

L-Jimmy wrote:holy hell that’s the worst broncos pack i’ve seen. There’s one guy who makes any of the top teams - Haas. Outside of Payne there’s an Atacama of dryass daylight.

Yeah it looks pretty average but same starting pack that beat the sharks. They probably would have been beaten by a better team but they put in and tried hard. Might be something to the rumours of Lodge and TPJ being a bit disruptive.

Building for 2022! I hope.

I have 1.9 million dollars sitting outside of my 17 this week. Pretty happy with how my team is looking despite all of that, except having to choose out of Walker and Verrills in my 17. Have 10 trades but to be honest I don't see anyone that really needs to be traded.

robelgordo wrote:“Cronulla aren’t taking Wade Graham. He’s probably out for the season now because he needs treatment on his head injuries."
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2021-covid-updates-relocation-andrew-abdo-peter-vlandys-queensland-latest-news-schedule-draw/news-story/46a1973ba98638ed71278d560ebd02d2

Is this the Wade Graham stuff people already knew, or additional new info?

This was additional new info as of last night on nrl360 when Buzz reported it.

Some notes I made from a Podcast "The Weekly Rub Down" (a supercoach POD) which had Brien the NRL Physio on:

- Brien is more concerned some injuries than others. Injuries like rib damage (D. Saifiti), shoudler damage (Cleary, Tohu, Mahoney), and foot injuries (RFM) are more likely to be reinjured purely due to the nature of NRL and the fact they'll get bashed around during the game.

- Brien mentioned that Turbo (and most recovering from hamstring injuries) need to do a "quota" of sprints per week to ensure recovery goes well. He indicated that he'd expect Turbo (might) back up during an origin week, or to generally not be rested before finals due to actual game time being a great way to get in this "quota" of sprint minutes under his belt. He mentioned that data shows that people who don't get in their quota of sprints have a higher chance of reinjury.

- Brien expects Best to return more like round 20-21 than 23-24 (probably more relevent for those playing draft).

- Re above, typically players returning from syndesmosis injuries typically have no performance decrease upon return (cited To'o, Tupou, Hopoate, and Arrow all returning from these injuries and on aggregate having just as good if not better peformance upon return).

- Brien isn't worried about Luai's injury at all saying that most of those MCL injuries are from bad luck in a tackle, and the risk of re-injury is the same risk for a normal player, indicating that Luai will be 100% upon return.

- Finally they talked about Papy, and the fact that Brien is quietly concerned about bringing him in. He suggested that if Papy cops another head knock during a game (which is of course possible for any player, any time) the Storm might just say fuck it and call his season. Worth considering for those looking for a Hynes replacement, maybe worth considering other options.

All in all a great POD, very much worth a listen. @Ponga Yeo the Mann if you have any insights into my summary or the POD itself it'd be awesome to hear your thoughts as well.

Weiland wrote:I have 1.9 million dollars sitting outside of my 17 this week. Pretty happy with how my team is looking despite all of that, except having to choose out of Walker and Verrills in my 17. Have 10 trades but to be honest I don't see anyone that really needs to be traded.

Dude 10 trades left and not needing to use any? That's gold!

Well done with the trade management, especially because if I recall correctly your rank is pretty gangbusters as well.

TPJ to Papali'i. 6 trades left, 525k in the bank.

Hunt
Crichton, Tolman, Haas
Matterson, Fifita
Moses, SJ
Averillo, Bird
Walsh, Turbo, Teddy

Watson, Papali'i, CHN, Hynes

Brailey, Schoupp, Verrills, Roberts

I'm definitely carrying one too many players in the high 40's, low 50's average range. My season absolutely tanked last year when I ran out of trades and depth though so I don't see any urgent moves to be made yet.

Snatchpato wrote:
Dude 10 trades left and not needing to use any? That's gold!

Well done with the trade management, especially because if I recall correctly your rank is pretty gangbusters as well.

Well, not seeing any trades might down to me being blind haha. Really the only guys on the edge of being traded are Brailey and Watson. No one really stands out to me for Brailey at this point (needs to be a hooker) and Watson earned a reprieve with his last score. I have guys like Roberts who is essentially worthless until I need a centre and Walker isn't really expensive enough to do anything substantial with.

Actually, I might throw my team out there and see if anyone can suggest anything I need doing this week.

10 trades, 127k ITB

Brailey
Watson, Haas, Crichton
Fifita, Ipap
SJ, Fogarty
Bird, Averillo
Hynes, Teddy, TTurbo

Egan, Walsh, CHN, Walker
Cleary, Tohu, Roberts, Verrills

Walker is not ideal in the 17 but is only temporary until Tohu is back, Any suggested trades you guys can see that could be done?

Mahoney hard to refuse

Weiland wrote:Actually, I might throw my team out there and see if anyone can suggest anything I need doing this week.

10 trades, 127k ITB

Brailey
Watson, Haas, Crichton
Fifita, Ipap
SJ, Fogarty
Bird, Averillo
Hynes, Teddy, TTurbo

Egan, Walsh, CHN, Walker
Cleary, Tohu, Roberts, Verrills

Walker is not ideal in the 17 but is only temporary until Tohu is back, Any suggested trades you guys can see that could be done?

I would do Walker -> Radley, should give you a more consistent floor to cover until Harris is back.

Never thought I'd say bring back ikin to nrl360