2016 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 7

Welshy wrote:

White Lightning wrote:@ KFP. I've been considering Sironen as well. He's much bigger & stronger this year & I watch the trial & he was really hitting it hard on every hit up. Your not going to find many guaranteed 80 minute players at a price of 284k.

Sironen has so far stolen a career off the back of his dad's name, that is in reality, in fantasy terms he is far worse! for an 80 min back rower he stinks, worse than Trex and only slightly better than Sam Tagatese

Milchcow wrote:

Welshy wrote:
Sironen has so far stolen a career off the back of his dad's name, that is in reality, in fantasy terms he is far worse! for an 80 min back rower he stinks, worse than Trex and only slightly better than Sam Tagatese

Sironen was actually quite good for about 2 months or so at the back end of whatever season he first cracked the starting team.
Maybe not fantasy good, but was a useful and promising NRL player. Then we had an off season and he has under performed ever since.

Welshy wrote:

Chucky wrote:
I might join you in retirement, he is in my team also.

Worse thing is was slagging guys for considering him a few days ago...what shall we do in our early retirement mate? SC? How much is Aubbs in that?

Loomer wrote:I'm looking at Rankin and Barba rotating HLF/WFB if both named.

Ash Taylor not been in any drafts of my team for weeks. I think he will be another Moses or worse. Is this just me?

Loomer wrote:I'm looking at Rankin and Barba rotating HLF/WFB if both named.

Ash Taylor not been in any drafts of my team for weeks. I think he will be another Moses or worse. Is this just me?

Honeysett wrote:

Loomer wrote:I'm looking at Rankin and Barba rotating HLF/WFB if both named.

Ash Taylor not been in any drafts of my team for weeks. I think he will be another Moses or worse. Is this just me?

As long as he's not in the 17 he'll still make enough cash to be able to trade him out later on

Dttragic2016 wrote:Hey everyone been reading the fantasy section on sportal since about 2012 but rarely posting.
How's everyone shaping up coming into TLW?

My current locks for my team are
Segs fifita woods Cartwright dce hastings taylor aubs at ctr (if 2nd row)mansour gordon barba (if fb)

Interested in your thoughts on the below
Napa
Kane evans
NAS
Rochow
Merrin

Napa already priced at 40 and Kevans at 30 but thinking these guys along with moa will be carrying the roosters the first 8 to 10 weeks，surely there's some upside there?

Rochow priced around 35..I'm thinking 80 mins for sure and seen as a future captain etc should mean he can hopefully avg 40 plus

Merrin is the tricky one. I'm thinking he's someone who may not impress in thr first month but will pay off across the season.

NAS genuinely open to opinions on. Also talk of grevs on here seems odd. HE'S a good player but leaving for pa thers in 2017，no one worried about the effect of that on his role?

Dttragic2016 wrote:
Tapine to the Raiders confirmed! Vaughan was one of my first men picked a month ago but this complicates things so much. Thoughts on the forwards rotation now?

SI wrote:
This.  And Loomer, why would you consider Rankin over Taylor?  Rankin will only ever be on the wing (or maybe centre) after Round 1.  And personally I think JLJ will get Brooks jersey for Round 1 anyway.  Taylor has a halves position locked up that is his to lose.

my tv broke wrote:

i had vaughan in my side from the start but pulled him out earlier in the week. i dont think he will turn into the beast i expected with the rise of boyd and now soliola moving into the middle as well + lima + FPN + fensom doing his usual middle job as well.

My opinions on players your other post:

Napa/Kane evans - i think both will get around 50 mins, napa maybe slightly higher. more value in evans. evans is very close to my team but not in it atm.
NAS - i dont think he'll score higher than he is priced.
Rochow - im just not a fan. i think he's a 35-40 point avg, 40 at best. he's been discussed so much and people have differing opinions
Merrin - i have merrin. i'm not all that concerned with his move to prop because i still think he'll pump out 55's in fairly big mins.

Krump wrote:Fork out the cash for a real captain Loomer.

Loomer wrote:Current 5 most expensive in my team

Surgess
Merrin
DCE
Teddy
Lichaa

Good enough or will I be punished for starting 4th season without CS9 and/or CP13?

Loomer wrote:

Looking at 2014 stats Surgess matched or bettered CS9 8 times not including where one of them didn't play.

If you take out the one time they tied on 76pts Surgess averaged 17pts more.

Obviously this is a form of cherry picking

Chewie wrote:Does Sue have any potential value at lock this year?
Just looking at Whitehead vs Sue at the moment... Sue might be the safer pick at the start of the season, even though I don't see him increase much