NRL Fantasy 2022 Part 5 - RIP Shane Warne

Bethany_B wrote:

Welch isn't bad (he offloads a lot so has some points to gain), but I think Uto's a better bet, more attacking upside and more likely to get big minutes

I actually have both in my side at the moment!

Randall
Arrow Uto Welch
Fifita Crichton
Llias Hynes
Penis SCrich
Sloan Coates Savage
B. Smith IPap Bullemor A.Fifi
Schneider MKing... Russell Koula (both for now)

Bethany_B wrote:

If you can make the gun hooker plan work with Lolo, sounds good, though if you want to free up even more money, Uto is another option.

Should clarify - current MID setup is Lolo, Uto, Bullemore with Fifita and M.King in the EMGs. A little bit light-on for MID. It's really hard to get a well balanced team with all of Cleary, Papy, Hynes (Who I am considering a must-have paired with moylan in an improved sharkies team), and Burton and Cook which sures up the nightmare CTR and HOK positions.

I'm leaning more and more towards going without Burton because I don't think he has as much upside as people think in a team I see being bottom 4 and paired with Averillo who might take some KMs, but likely means I need to carry a WFB like Jennings (best case) or Coates in the 18-21 which is disgusting, allowing Crichton to cover CTR.

solid team - apart from Coates

ytsb wrote:

Should clarify - current MID setup is Lolo, Uto, Bullemore with Fifita and M.King in the EMGs. A little bit light-on for MID. It's really hard to get a well balanced team with all of Cleary, Papy, Hynes (Who I am considering a must-have paired with moylan in an improved sharkies team), and Burton and Cook which sures up the nightmare CTR and HOK positions.

Ahh ok.

My setup is the following, though I may need to give up one of my guns to get Grant

Randall
Ipap, Uto, Bullemor
Fifita, Aitken
Cleary, Ilias
Penisini, Critta
Teddy, Papy, Coates

J King, Tago, Amone, Schneider

Paix, Russell, R Jennings, Vailea

Isnt Lolo unvaccinated and only got the exemption because he caught covid? Isnt there a risk he doesnt get vax and misses some weeks later while trying to re-catch covid for another exemption?

All players are at risk of catching covid, having a shot or not does not diminish the risk of getting covid, just the severity.

I have all 3 shots and got covid.

Antipodean1 wrote:All players are at risk of catching covid, having a shot or not does not diminish the risk of getting covid, just the severity.

This is not true. Getting the shot reduces the chance you will catch covid if exposed to it because the shot givesd your immune system exposure to the virus and it has the tools available to fight the virus off before it can establish.

mickspicks wrote:

I actually have both in my side at the moment!

Randall
Arrow Uto Welch
Fifita Crichton
Llias Hynes
SCrich
Sloan Coates Savage
B. Smith IPap Bullemor A.Fifi
Schneider MKing... Russell Koula (both for now)

Fixed ^^^

I asume Fifita is your captain?

Antipodean1 wrote:All players are at risk of catching covid, having a shot or not does not diminish the risk of getting covid, just the severity.

you missed the point, In QLD and VIC players cant play in those states without being vaccinated or having an exemption. Based on the weird press conference a majority of people believe Lolo isnt vaccinated but received the short exemption after having caught it. The risk is when his natural immunity exemption is up he wont be allowed to play

ytsb wrote:

This is not true. Getting the shot reduces the chance you will catch covid if exposed to it because the shot givesd your immune system exposure to the virus and it has the tools available to fight the virus off before it can establish.

Thanks for clarifying

Chewie wrote:

Fixed ^^^

I asume Fifita is your captain?

Hehe. Will wait for team lists but not so keen either tbf on the centres... penis and critter... yikes.

Angus of DFifi probably for captain.

Nothing set in stone.

Shanbon wrote:

you missed the point, In QLD and VIC players cant play in those states without being vaccinated or having an exemption. Based on the weird press conference a majority of people believe Lolo isnt vaccinated but received the short exemption after having caught it. The risk is when his natural immunity exemption is up he wont be allowed to play

Oh I see, thanks for clarifying, will see what further news comes out, appreciate the heads-up.

ytsb wrote:

This is not true. Getting the shot reduces the chance you will catch covid if exposed to it because the shot givesd your immune system exposure to the virus and it has the tools available to fight the virus off before it can establish.

You are 100% correct, what I should have said is being vaccinated still carries risk of getting infected, and the fact Lolo had covid does give him some immune response, so his likelihood of missing any more games than anyone else might be mitigated. However being a NZer,
I was not aware of the NSW/QLD covid rules that could impact Lolo.

Apologies to anyone offended by my sweeping generalisation earlier.

Looking forward to TLT

The main question for me is:
Will Papy & Cleary suit up?

If Cleary doesn't suit up I'll temporarily replace him with DCE. Thankfully they both play the 1st round.
If Papy doesn't play I'll get Taumalolo instead.

Antipodean1 wrote:

You are 100% correct, what I should have said is being vaccinated still carries risk of getting infected, and the fact Lolo had covid does give him some immune response, so his likelihood of missing any more games than anyone else might be mitigated. However being a NZer,
I was not aware of the NSW/QLD covid rules that could impact Lolo.

Apologies to anyone offended by my sweeping generalisation earlier.

You're a good man mate. What you said earlier was also true. Beats me why a bloke with 5 years left on a $1m/year contract won't just suck it up and get a vax (assuming he hasn't already). Like surely if you were scared of mRNA you'd cop moderna or something instead?

The Pascoe Fiasco wrote:I just read about Teddy’s big night out in October where he was fined by the NRL. Any idea why Squid Games is not suspended after bringing the game into disrepute? Other than playing for the Roosters of course!

Agree fully and it was all played as hush hush by ch 9. If it was some other teams it wouldn’t have been played as hush hush that’s for sure.

Rabbits21 wrote:
Agree fully and it was all played as hush hush by ch 9. If it was some other teams it wouldn’t have been played as hush hush that’s for sure.

Disgraceful hush hush :p

Shanbon wrote:

you missed the point, In QLD and VIC players cant play in those states without being vaccinated or having an exemption. Based on the weird press conference a majority of people believe Lolo isnt vaccinated but received the short exemption after having caught it. The risk is when his natural immunity exemption is up he wont be allowed to play

He was in doubt around late Dec-early Jan so I'd say his exemption (if it is 4 months) would end around April-May which is around R5-R8 depending on timeline

ytsb wrote:

You're a good man mate. What you said earlier was also true. Beats me why a bloke with 5 years left on a $1m/year contract won't just suck it up and get a vax (assuming he hasn't already). Like surely if you were scared of mRNA you'd cop moderna or something instead?

Yeah mate, it does seem a bit strange, will have to see what comes out in the pressers, I might have to do a bit more background, defo thrown my Lolo selection up in the air. I might run cheese instead.

mattnz wrote:

Lolo's upside potential isn't 55, it is in the 60-66 range from both 2019 & 2020. 55 would be a disappointing season.

Uto's max upside, all going to plan is 55.

I’m on Arrow currently gonna start on edge then move to middle I think he is in for a very big year and he has DPP. I think he will around 60mins and he’s a former proven fantasy gun.

25mins in or so I see Host coming on and Arrow going to middle.