NRL Fantasy 2022 Part 68 - Cleary Captaincy Conundrum

Not really going to know how manly are travelling as a group until they play a game.

Khany wrote:Just briefly on the Commonwealth Games, so over the media coverage of Emma McKeon and fucken Cody Simpson.

Agreed, also. Swimming is a fucking cactus sport anyway. Too many events with not enough variety. I’m not impressed if someone wins 7golds in the pool, that just means there are 3 or 4 events that are too similar. If you win gold at pole vault and then follow it up with a win in the marathon, that’s fucking way more impressive.

Also, no one cares how fast you can swim backwards.

Khany wrote:Just briefly on the Commonwealth Games, so over the media coverage of Emma McKeon and fucken Cody Simpson.

Ignorance is bliss, I suppose.

Fortitude wrote:

Agreed, also. Swimming is a fucking cactus sport anyway. Too many events with not enough variety. I’m not impressed if someone wins 7golds in the pool, that just means there are 3 or 4 events that are too similar. If you win gold at pole vault and then follow it up with a win in the marathon, that’s fucking way more impressive.

Also, no one cares how fast you can swim backwards.

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

Fortitude wrote:

Agreed, also. Swimming is a fucking cactus sport anyway. Too many events with not enough variety. I’m not impressed if someone wins 7golds in the pool, that just means there are 3 or 4 events that are too similar. If you win gold at pole vault and then follow it up with a win in the marathon, that’s fucking way more impressive.

Also, no one cares how fast you can swim backwards.

Pretty sure nobody would want to watch swimming if Australia wasn't good at it. Zzzzzzz.

Also there's no doubt that it's easier to accumulate gold medals in swimming. Nobody rocks up and competes in 7 athletics events, and if they did, they wouldn't be competitive in all of them.

Plus all the countries Australia competes against in this are either really cold or don't have swimming pools like The Simpsons episode when Krusty Burger has that Olympics promotion and then the Russians and East Germans boycott.

Change of plans after Kennedy out, looking to blow all 3 remaining trades

Cleary -> Burton
Moses -> D Brown
Kennedy -> Murray

Will have Walters and Cheese in a 17th man loop and if they both do well enough and/or hear a more positive prognosis on Moses, can reverse the last 2 and make it Kennedy to 802k only (Munster?)

wolfking wrote:

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

Welcome to the internet where knowing what you’re talking about doesn’t stop people from voicing their shit opinions.

I fully understand that I’m wrong, and that winning gold of any type in any sport is an achievement. I just reckon there are too many swimming event s

Fortitude wrote:

Welcome to the internet where knowing what you’re talking about doesn’t stop people from voicing their shit opinions.

I fully understand that I’m wrong, and that winning gold of any type in any sport is an achievement. I just reckon there are too many swimming event s

That's fair, I can get on board with that mate, and while I kind of understand where you are coming from, I think people do underestimate the complexity between each stroke. All 4 are completely different and the mechanics behind them. Plus it's like sprinting in athletics vs a marathon. You have your 50/100m races then your 1500m in the pool, so it's all relative and again, each has their own specialty area, but winning 7 gold in the pool is some achievement.

robelgordo wrote:Change of plans after Kennedy out, looking to blow all 3 remaining trades

Cleary -> Burton
Moses -> D Brown
Kennedy -> Murray

Will have Walters and Cheese in a 17th man loop and if they both do well enough and/or hear a more positive prognosis on Moses, can reverse the last 2 and make it Kennedy to 802k only (Munster?)

Sounds risky. Sounds like you can field a 17 using two trades.

I’d be doing that. The difference between a ‘better player’ v no player is enough to make me want to run with a trade up my sleeve so I don’t have to run with 16 players for a few weeks later.

If that makes sense

Fortitude wrote:

Sounds risky. Sounds like you can field a 17 using two trades.

I’d be doing that. The difference between a ‘better player’ v no player is enough to make me want to run with a trade up my sleeve so I don’t have to run with 16 players for a few weeks later.

If that makes sense

Yeah, I'd probably hold Moses this week and play Walters or Cheese.

I was watching some of the swimming heats last night...I watched & watched & not 1 Kiwi swimmer in any of the heats which btw were dominated by Aussie...you would think yes NZ is surrounded by water so NZ should be quite good at swimming but we aren't.

Fortitude wrote:

Sounds risky. Sounds like you can field a 17 using two trades.

I’d be doing that. The difference between a ‘better player’ v no player is enough to make me want to run with a trade up my sleeve so I don’t have to run with 16 players for a few weeks later.

If that makes sense

It does. I could make the 2, lose a few points now but I guess make a more targeted trade down the track when I lose someone else.

wolfking wrote:

Yeah, I'd probably hold Moses this week and play Walters or Cheese.

I'm already playing Walters or Cheese. If I make 2, I'm playing both. I can have a look at both before deciding.

wolfking wrote:

Yeah, I'd probably hold Moses this week and play Walters or Cheese.

If I hold Moses this week I’m playing Booth or Mbye.

Yipppeee

Trading Cleary and Moses out (like most), can only afford one:

TU: Munster
TD: Teddy

Teddy gives marginally better squad balance if that helps, can use Doueihi as WFB cover instead of Gagai.

Will decide my second trade based off which of these two I get.

There's also the option of holding the second trade, looping Gagai/Mbye as 17th man, and hoping one of them loses 21k this week so I can afford them next week. Based off MTB's site that'd mean Munster scoring 43 or less, or Teddy scoring 29 or less.

Milchcow wrote:
If I hold Moses I'm playing Ilias.

Maybe we'll get a good update from the club in the next couple of days. Might hold rather than spend my last trade if he might  be back soon

Would be rough trading in Brown who has a good average without Moses, for Moses to come back and ruin said trade

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

Would be rough trading in Brown who has a good average without Moses, for Moses to come back and ruin said trade

Still averaging 52 with Moses, just should likely get an uptick on KM without Moses

White Lightning wrote:I was watching some of the swimming heats last night...I watched & watched & not 1 Kiwi swimmer in any of the heats which btw were dominated by Aussie...you would think yes NZ is surrounded by water so NZ  should be quite good at swimming but we aren't.

No mate, unfortunately you guys aren't.