NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 91 times out of ten, Fifita scores that try

Back on the vaccine talk given there isn't much going on in here.

Had.my second jab yesterday, only very minor symptoms for the second jab which is a great relief given the trouble I had with the first.

Went out for lunch at the local on Freedom day. Wife has been stood down took NW Jr out of home schooling, it was by boooking only, no walk ups so had it booked 2 weeks ago. Rock up and every table has a booking on it with name number of guests and time. 1/2 the tables were no shows and clearly hadn't had the decency to cancel. After 106 days of lockdown, that's a dog act.

No Worries wrote:Went out for lunch at the local on Freedom day. Wife has been stood down took NW Jr out of home schooling, it was by boooking only, no walk ups so had it booked 2 weeks ago. Rock up and every table has a booking on it with name number of guests and time. 1/2 the tables were no shows and clearly hadn't had the decency to cancel. After 106 days of lockdown, that's a dog act.

A lot of places here last year were taking deposits for bookings due to fear of this.
100% have the decency to call and cancel.
Hospo need the money and you're also blocking someone else from that booking.

Also never agreed with the aussie sayings "What a dog" "you're a dog" "That's a dog act" etc.
Dogs are fucking loveable and loyal and would die for us.

More like a cat act. Those fuckers don't care for anything but themselves.

filthridden wrote:Also never agreed with the aussie sayings "What a dog" "you're a dog" "That's a dog act" etc.
Dogs are fucking loveable and loyal and would die for us.

haha.. i think about this sometimes.. i use the saying out of habit but yeah, it makes no sense at all.

Dolphins in 2023 is officially official.
Anyone going to get behind the Dolphins?

I hear Mattnz loves a pod

In other news, Ash Taylor has signed a train and trial deal with the NZ Warriors

I'm struggling to recall a time when any player has ever gone from a Million-dollar contract straight to a train and trial? (especially given no bad behaviour issue)

I hope with the pay-packet expectation removed that we start seeing the potential come through.

easytiger wrote:In other news, Ash Taylor has signed a train and trial deal with the NZ Warriors

I'm struggling to recall a time when any player has ever gone from a Million-dollar contract straight to a train and trial? (especially given no bad behaviour issue)

I hope with the pay-packet expectation removed that we start seeing the potential come through.

Given Johnson's injury history I'd say we're going to need a good back-up half so he'll be fighting for that role.
Good business for the club and hopefully Ash can get back to somewhere near his best.

filthridden wrote:

A lot of places here last year were taking deposits for bookings due to fear of this.
100% have the decency to call and cancel.
Hospo need the money and you're also blocking someone else from that booking.

Also never agreed with the aussie sayings "What a dog" "you're a dog" "That's a dog act" etc.
Dogs are fucking loveable and loyal and would die for us.

More like a cat act. Those fuckers don't care for anything but themselves.

Dogs also not good with the comms/booking systems so maybe appropriate in this case

Another one is 'Sick as a Dog'....dogs generally throw up, gobble it back up and carry on like nothing has happened

easytiger wrote:Dolphins in 2023 is officially official.
Anyone going to get behind the Dolphins?

I hear Mattnz loves a pod

Read a good theory about the Dolphins somewhere (can’t remember).

News Ltd want more Broncos games exclusive to Fox/Kayo, which means a 2nd Brisbane team for Ch9 to choose from.

But News Ltd are still majority owners of the Broncs

So the way to get A without damaging B too much is having the bid from the established suburban club in Brisbane’s north be successful, rather than either of the bids representing the expanding growth areas to the west of the city.

Slightly tinfoiling but also seems possibly legit…

Andrew Addo wrote:The structure of the season means there will be 12 more games played every year and clubs will receive 2 byes, which assists the workload management of our players

I did some quick math and it means you can't have the bye round where everyone has the week off. It becomes a 26 round comp with 3 rounds of 6 games and 5 byes. That gets everyone 2 byes but it's only 10 extra games. So it would be something similar

EDIT: Found my error

26 rounds
3 bye rounds
2 7 games / 3 byes
1 6 games / 5 byes

so who will be the other titans half to partner sexton....fogarty, a. taylor & to a lewwer extent peachey all gone

White Lightning wrote:so who will be the other titans half to partner sexton....fogarty, a. taylor & to a lewwer extent peachey all gone

Brimson?? and Campbell FB???

filthridden wrote:

Given Johnson's injury history I'd say we're going to need a good back-up half so he'll be fighting for that role.
Good business for the club and hopefully Ash can get back to somewhere near his best.

Not so sure even his best was that good. Always seemed over-rated.

mattnz wrote:
Not so sure even his best was that good. Always seemed over-rated.

Taylor had huge talent and huge wraps on him at a young age. He was junior kangaroos halfback at one point.
Since he started in first grade at the Titans, I don't think he had a real halves mentor and that may have stifled his development along with the culture at the GC.
Normally I'd say Warriors are the last club a player should come to if they're having issues developing but if he's training with and potentially being mentored by Shaun Johnson then he could get back on track to being a quality first grade halfback (I don't think anyone is expecting him to be a world beater anymore).

Mulvy wrote:

Brimson?? and Campbell FB???

Think that's the theory right there

No Worries wrote:

I did some quick math and it means you can't have the bye round where everyone has the week off. It becomes a 26 round comp with 3 rounds of 6 games and 5 byes. That gets everyone 2 byes but it's only 10 extra games. So it would be something similar

EDIT: Found my error

26 rounds
3 bye rounds
2 7 games / 3 byes
1 6 games / 5 byes

I was having a quick think about the structure and expecitng something like this

17 teams with 2 byes each = 34 byes

Odd number of teams means atleast 1 bye round per week for 25 weeks = 9 remaining

Structure of either 3,3,3 or 5,3,1 means there won't be many "big" bye rounds

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

I was having a quick think about the structure and expecitng something like this

17 teams with 2 byes each = 34 byes

Odd number of teams means atleast 1 bye round per week for 25 weeks = 9 remaining

Structure of either 3,3,3 or 5,3,1 means there won't be many "big" bye rounds

It’s gonna be 26 weeks, so it only 8 additional byes, which is only 4 games short of having full rounds

17 teams
26 rounds
204 games (max of 8 games/round)
34 byes (min of 1 bye/round, must be an odd number)

System 1 (as outlined by NW)

23 rounds with 8 games (184) and 1 bye (23)
2 rounds with 7 games (14) and 3 byes (6)
1 round with 6 games (6) and 5 byes (5)
No. of "big" bye rounds (i.e. more than 1 bye) = 3

Total games = 184 + 14 + 6 = 204
Total byes = 23 + 6 + 5 = 34

System 2 (I think this was used by the NRL in 1999)

24 rounds with 8 games (192) and 1 bye (24)
2 rounds with 6 games (12) and 5 byes (10)
No. of "big" bye rounds (i.e. more than 1 bye) = 2

Total games = 192 + 12 = 204
Total byes = 24 + 10 = 34

My 2nd jab last Friday led to me being extremely tired the whole of Saturday, like never b4, but that was it. Sunday I bounced back to normal.

That Taylor deal sounds like just what he needs.

filthridden wrote:

Since he started in first grade at the Titans, I don't think he had a real halves mentor and that may have stifled his development along with the culture at the GC.

A mate of mine knows Taylors uncle pretty well, and this essentially what his uncle told him a while back. Keep in mind his uncle is probably biased to protect/side with his nephew but he believes the Titans threw him in at 7, expected him to be a star, but with no real support/mentoring/etc. Taylor didn't cope well early on with being away from home/etc.

Apparently was on a fair bit less than a million dollars as well.