NRL Fantasy 2022 Part 42 - Tofu Haggis

Milchcow wrote:
Don't see the value in Watson. Already played a bunch of games this year prior to injury, and he is overpriced based on that. Don't see where the extra points will come from to make him gain cash, let alone get to keeper scores

mattnz wrote:

I am looking for it to be similar to the difference for Cheese.
Scores pretty meh as bench MID, but is a gun starting HOK with 60+ minutes.
They have pretty similar stats in both positions.

mattnz wrote:

I am looking for it to be similar to the difference for Cheese.
Scores pretty meh as bench MID, but is a gun starting HOK with 60+ minutes.
They have pretty similar stats in both positions.

Bethany_B wrote:

Hutchison will steal enough minutes to kill Watson's viability

mattnz wrote:

Only got 14 and 16 minutes off the bench. Even when starting HOK, was only getting 20ish minutes. Hardly a threat.
Verrils was averaging in the 50s with these minutes, all with base stats and Watson is a much better player, going to create more in attack on top of strong base.

Rabbits21 wrote:

Also thoughts on maybe putting the C on Grant this week given it’ll be very wet in QLD or should I just keep it on Cleary? Halfbacks against Storm have scored poorly though this year.

my tv broke wrote:

ease up turbo

Elementary my dear watson:

TherealTimSimona wrote:Think i'm gonna captain Grant instead of Cleary this week, Both sides gonna be doing a lot of defending and rather take my chance with a hooker than a half, gonna be raining as well

wolfking wrote:Cleary gonna be junk pointing it up everywhere this week.  Will be stinging after last week's loss.

mrbrownstone wrote:Listening to the NRL Fantasy Amateurs podcast and they pointed out that Saliva Havili has scored 40 and 46 the past 2 weeks and his mins have basically doubled from mid-20s to mid-40s. He's probably the beneficiary of a few injuries and Murray out wouldn't hurt his prospects. Anyone want to take that punt?

Milchcow wrote:
Ben Trbojevic scored 2 tries playing 80 minutes in the edge.

Now he's in the centres, what sort of average would you expect. He'll make money if he stays in the team, but will it be enough to justify 2 trades?

White Lightning wrote:

Yeah that sounds logical & worth it & if I owned Grant I would definitely consider him over Cleary but just because it's raining it doesn't mean Cleary won't do well. I think earlier in the year Hynes went large on a rainy night & I think a couple of years ago Cleary tonned up against the Warriors in Auckalnd when it was a rainy & cold night. Imo teams focus more on the basics when the weather is poor & I've seen some games where the error rate is quite low.

robelgordo wrote:

Yeah agree with this. It isn't the 80s and 90s, with guys playing in a mudpit with a slippery leather ball that when waterlogged resembles a brick.

Conditions are never anywhere near that bad these days.

Teams, if they play differently at all, will concentrate on the basics more - structure/shape, up the middle, long kicks - while not necessarily making more mistakes. Probably means halves are more influential and potentially more appealing.

Or, TL;DR - it's Nathan Cleary lads.

my tv broke wrote:

Sort of noticed that when its proper wet the ball handling and general gameplay is actually pretty good. Its those half half in between slightly slippery games that have a lot of dropped ball. When its greasy.

Anyway I hope the forecast is wrong and the weather is reasonable by Friday evening onwards.

robelgordo wrote:

Hoping the weather is ok-ish. Would be a shame if Magic Round is a bit of a washout. Would've thought aside from having the best stadium, the point of Brisbane is the weather is generally good. Don't let us down!

Holy Moly wrote:Haven't stopped tinkering.

This has been the hardest round to make the right moves for me. Lots of players on the table to choose from.