2016 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 7

Mearcats wrote:I have what could potentially be a dumb question... Lol.

With NRL Fantasy releasing Thursday "Match Day" leagues does that mean those games are now no longer included in original fantasy (i.e. throughout the season) or is it another competition that runs concurrently?

It's just an added extra, something else you can win at.

[quote="Honeysett"]

Gray Ghost

Loomer wrote:

I bought the whole series recently, was one of my childhood favourites. Mum and I used to watch it when I was younger - she found it odd that I liked the Joker more than Batman

Honeysett wrote:


I bought the whole series recently, was one of my childhood favourites. Mum and I used to watch it when I was younger - she found it odd that I liked the Joker more than Batman

Have you watched the original Transformers again? I admit I purchased it a while back and enjoyed it more then I should have

Honeysett wrote:

It's just an added extra, something else you can win at.

Ah cheers Honeysett. I suppose they needed to make use of that match day tab on their website and app or ditch it, wasn't getting used much otherwise.

How many Thirsday night games are there this year?

Lol, *Thursday. Immaculate spelling on my behalf.

It's good that the team's have people that train the young blokes how to talk to the media, but if I have to hear again how competition for spots is good and makes you train harder and push each other to be better, one more time, I'm going to scream.

CP13 + Sue + Whitehead (three cows) and CLaw + Auva'a (227k spare)

OR

CP13 + Sue + Whitehead + Cartwright with the same centrepairing

OR

CP13 + Sue + Whitehead + CLaw with Croker and Auva'a in the centres?

Both last combos leave me around 40k

mulvy wrote:It's good that the team's have people that train the young blokes how to talk to the media, but if I have to hear again how competition for spots is good and makes you train harder and push each other to be better, one more time, I'm going to scream.

But thats what pre season is all about. Training the house down and looking fitter then ever.

Bren wrote:
But thats what pre season is all about. Training the house down and looking fitter then ever.

Not to mention post training drinks

Aardvark Ratnick wrote:

Not to mention post training drinks  

And for the morning after Pearce's favorite hair of the dog.

Don't know if this is news but West's tigers forum are pretty confident wing spot will go to Rankin.

http://www.weststigersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25891

"Which is why, three times a week, he and head coach Jason Taylor hang around on the training pitch long after everyone else has disappeared, together booting Steedens between the uprights."

What do we think of Rankin?

mulvy wrote:Don't know if this is news but West's tigers forum are pretty confident wing spot will go to Rankin.

http://www.weststigersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25891

"Which is why, three times a week, he and head coach Jason Taylor hang around on the training pitch long after everyone else has disappeared, together booting Steedens between the uprights."

What do we think of Rankin?

I thought this was pretty summed up a few weeks ago. I think at $179k he's a pass for a winger spot even if he does kick goals.

The fact that he is a DPP half is good to pair with Barba or Feeney but then begs the question why not just use Barba and Feeney?

Mighty Fishes wrote:

I thought this was pretty summed up a few weeks ago. I think at $179k he's a pass for a winger spot even if he does kick goals.

The fact that he is a DPP half is good to pair with Barba or Feeney but then begs the question why not just use Barba and Feeney?

Yeah I thought he was still fighting it out with Hunt and Addo-Carr, but now I've just read Hunt is out now (back/indefinite)

Bren wrote:
But thats what pre season is all about. Training the house down and looking fitter then ever.

Exactly. You can't take it one week at a time for another fortnight.

I'm sorta hoping that Rankin does not a great deal but just enough to settle and cement himself in the side for the first few weeks.

Then, when Pearce comes back I can dump JNiko, DPP Feeney to an NPR half and bring Rankin in.

Then he can go nuts!

Oh, and then to top it all off, dump Feeney for Te Maire Martin about round 10.

#wishfulthinkingmuch?

That Rankin talk was from before the weekends trial.

Personally I don't think I'll trust whoever gets the wing spot as I have doubted over their job security, (whoever it is)

So Moylan possibly out with a Back Injury

http://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-2016-matt-moylan-racing-clock-to-be-fit-for-penrith-panthers-opening-game/news-story/b201e17899c6cdea51027cf12873fff3

Mighty Fishes wrote:So Moylan possibly out with a Back Injury

http://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-2016-matt-moylan-racing-clock-to-be-fit-for-penrith-panthers-opening-game/news-story/b201e17899c6cdea51027cf12873fff3

sounds like he should be right. aside from this i was liking the look of the raiders price to win that game, will be helpful if moylan is out

theres an article on foxsports site about fensom, it says

Fensom is hoping to return to his 80-minute ways, especially now with the new interchange rules.

He feels the drop from 10 to eight will make the game faster and playing more minutes would help the bigger guys.

“The more athletic players you’ve got out there, the better you’re going to go,” he said.

he doesnt say anything specific about playing 80... he does say he's right for round 1..