NRL Fantasy 2022 Part 33 - The return of the Hurrelcane, plus beans means HYNES

mattnz wrote:

They attack both sides of the field. Only one side is scoring tries!

WT Winfield wrote:

Realistically though, Tracey was due back Rd 6 and Talakai hit the money-making score in Rd 4. Prior to that he scored 37 with a try at SR and coming off 2021 with a string of sub 30 scores.

Trading him in for Rd 5 was largely motivated by the -10 BE and facing Tigers, hoping he could cash in there and then manage some 30s off the bench to hopefully make the 150k.

Trading in before Rd 6, it's unknown if he gets CTR and he's not a keeper without it. Unfortunately for most, he hits the equal 2nd highest score of his career at that point, against the Storm of all teams and suddenly he's 559k, priced at 40 and most people already have at least 2 CTRs hitting keeper averages.

Turned out worthwhile after that score and looks capable of averaging 40+ even without it if he holds the spot. I think a few will take the money and run in a few weeks though. Not gonna average 50+ and price will be at a point where he facilitates some real guns.

B/L wrote:So how many points do mulitalo and cleary need to beat papy and Hynes to make the trade a success. I'd be wanting 20 a week on average or it seems like 2 trades just got thrown in the bin.

rhinoceroo wrote:

Fantasy aside, Mulitalo is a really good player. Did we work out whether he can play Origin in the end? Or whether he'll be playing for the Kiwis (or Samoa) in the World Cup?

rhinoceroo wrote:

*he is not playing like 2021 Turbo

Revraiser wrote:

Best way to put it is that the Sharks did what they did in 40 mins, clocked off after. I dont see the negatives at all, in my time watching league it happens more often than not. A team dominates for a large period of a game, and then they don't.

People seem to want to bring down the Sharks as not top 4, when they have looked clear top 3. Easily. You have to watch the games atleast, scorelines mean nothing.

As for magnanimous, nice word, could be first time used on the forum. It also feels like some want Muli and Talakai to fail, like punts and out of the box picks are devilish ideas.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Sharks stopped going left because they stopped winning in the middle. Manly with the wind at their back, some line speed in defence and momentum kept winning the ruck

Some people would benefit from learning something about football rather than assuming that something worked in the first half so it will automatically work in the second

This video of Matty Johns explaining how you have to earn the right to go wide is a good start

https://streamable.com/sq4ca8

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

You literally quoted a graph that shows less than half their tries come on the left side. Sometimes I think you are deliberately contrarian

easytiger wrote:

That's a very astute summary.

I think every sane player would've come to the conclusion that the 17TB's he put on against the Knights was unlikely to be even remotely repeatable - but yeah, there was a great BE and not a bad risk (that has paid off very lucratively)

Had a muted performance against the Tigers facing Roberts of all people -> 45 points good, but not outstanding and still questions over LT job security and coming up against the miserly Storm.

The rest is history I guess

easytiger wrote:

For mine, Panthers, Storm & Sharks look well clear of the next best teams as present

WT Winfield wrote:

Realistically though, Tracey was due back Rd 6 and Talakai hit the money-making score in Rd 4. Prior to that he scored 37 with a try at SR and coming off 2021 with a string of sub 30 scores.

Trading him in for Rd 5 was largely motivated by the -10 BE and facing Tigers, hoping he could cash in there and then manage some 30s off the bench to hopefully make the 150k.

Trading in before Rd 6, it's unknown if he gets CTR and he's not a keeper without it. Unfortunately for most, he hits the equal 2nd highest score of his career at that point, against the Storm of all teams and suddenly he's 559k, priced at 40 and most people already have at least 2 CTRs hitting keeper averages.

Turned out worthwhile after that score and looks capable of averaging 40+ even without it if he holds the spot. I think a few will take the money and run in a few weeks though. Not gonna average 50+ and price will be at a point where he facilitates some real guns.

Revraiser wrote:I am not declaring Mulitalos season average, but what's been on watch for a couple of seasons now is that Mulitalo does look pretty special and aside from benfitting from Talakais service, he does move extremely well, have a nice touch on a whim type kick and is looking more involved each year, especially this year on the back of confidence. He is breaking tackles and pushing people off like never before. But as each week ticks by its easy to quote a price on a player that's already soaring, as being to pricey 'now'.  
As a Sharks fan, it's also easy to just enjoy the show and say f#ck fantasy anyway

Milchcow wrote:
What I don't understand is people saying their season is fine because they don't have Talakai.

Did they say the same thing about Ponga last week?
You can't have every single player that puts up a good score.

rhinoceroo wrote:

Fantasy aside, Mulitalo is a really good player. Did we work out whether he can play Origin in the end? Or whether he'll be playing for the Kiwis (or Samoa) in the World Cup?

Aardvark wrote:

don’t want them to fail but do want them to succeed a bit less (also wished I had picked them up, looked a few weeks ago but ‘logic’ got in the way)

Sharks are on a tear, it’s almost  like coherent recruitment and a decent coach make your team better

Milchcow wrote:
What I don't understand is people saying their season is fine because they don't have Talakai.

Did they say the same thing about Ponga last week?
You can't have every single player that puts up a good score.

Revraiser wrote:

Yeah even my wife said Hynes is 'so sexy', so there is that.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Sharks have looked a top 4 team since the first game and nothing last night changed that. Will be right up there come the pointy end of the season