NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 3 - Trials by Combat

Milchcow wrote:

Chance of BMM getting named edge (or anywhere) in round 1 is zero, given the Dragons bye

Potentially he'll still be given DPP based on trials (its happened before, although I think that was in previous interpretations of DPP requirements)

Round 2 never mind, you get the point though. Even if he doesn't initially get dual, being available at MID is great and if he's starting on the edge he's getting enough mins to be value at 250k.

What does Roosters best back 5 look like?

FB Tedesco
Manu one CTR
Tupou one wing
Suaalii definitely other CTR or is he a chance at playing wing
Momirovski the last spot? Will someone like Allen/Paulo make it to the first choice team?

robelgordo wrote:Zac Cini starting CTR - whose place is he warming? Otherwise, I would

Waqa Blake

Based on these trial teams, I'm pretty keen to pickup Makinson, Walmsley and Percival

Milchcow wrote:
What does Roosters best back 5 look like?

FB Tedesco
Manu one CTR
Tupou one wing
Suaalii definitely other CTR or is he a chance at playing wing
Momirovski the last spot? Will someone like Allen/Paulo make it to the first choice team?

My guess would be Teddy FB, Tupou left wing, Suali'i left centre, Manu right centre, Paulo right wing.

Moanaman wrote:

Waqa Blake

Cheers, had blanked on that

Is Manly hooker Gordon Chan Kum Tong the first quad-barrelled name in NRL?

Pretty sure its happened in Women's game, but have we seen it in the Men's comp before?

Lots peeps getting ruled out by the latest trial TLT

Bethany_B wrote:

Round 2 never mind, you get the point though. Even if he doesn't initially get dual, being available at MID is great and if he's starting on the edge he's getting enough mins to be value at 250k.

I bet Fuimaono plays there at some point in the early rounds. And some people will no doubt be swayed into trading him in when he does

Fui named 18 in the trial, not sure if that is due to injury or because he's not very good (or both)

Milchcow wrote:

I bet Fuimaono plays there at some point in the early rounds. And some people will no doubt be swayed into trading him in when he does

Fui named 18 in the trial, not sure if that is due to injury or because he's not very good (or both)

Yeah given this is Griffin, that may happen, but BMM is apparently much slimmer than he was at the Warriors, which would make sense if he's playing edge instead of middle (insert "training the house down" joke here)

I know there's lots of value in the middle, but anyone looking at running it back with Max King? Not overly compelling stats, but could improve a little in his second year. I did love watching him play last year

Looking at St Helens team can't believe James Roby is still running around

Just had to google how old he was. He's 37. Cam Smith like in his longevity

Milchcow wrote:
Looking at St Helens team can't believe James Roby is still running around

Just had to google how old he was. He's 37. Cam Smith like in his longevity

Crazy thing is roby is still playing just as well as he ever did, like cam very little drop off

Reklaw wrote:I know there's lots of value in the middle, but anyone looking at running it back with Max King? Not overly compelling stats, but could improve a little in his second year. I did love watching him play last year

2nd year? He debuted in 2017 and has played 74 first grade games.

And I don't see him improving much on last year. Not enough to provide fantasy value at least

Milchcow wrote:

2nd year? He debuted in 2017 and has played 74 first grade games.

And I don't see him improving much on last year.  Not enough to provide fantasy value at least

Hmmm touche, idk why I thought that lol. Disregard, put Sutton/Carrigan/Elliot/etc back in

Who's this Danny Levi character that got the jump on every defence counsels favourite son Tom Starling? Surely not.......

Aardvark wrote:


Allegedly he smashed through gathering up the first 80% of the Woolworths/Lego "Farm Bricks' collection but as it became harder to find the missing pieces his interest waned and at present they are sitting on his coffee table looking a bit forlorn

As far as running a rugby league ball back from an opposition kick I have no intel on but I'll make sure to keep everyone posted

You could have given me a million guesses and I would have never landed on Lego!
Well done

Points of fantasy interest in 2nd trials:

Knights: Elliot bench (has been recovering from injury)
Roosters: Egan Butcher
Manly: Jurbo prop, Keppie mins watch??
Rabbitohs: No Milne in sight (suspended players can play trials as per Matterson & May)
Panthers: No Soni Luke in sight (definitely wouldn't take plunge on his role without a trial/WCC)
Cowboys: No Sadrugu (what a shock said no-one ever)
Warriors: Ford starting, Curran bench??
Tigers: No Blore/Matamua starting but Seyfarth is quite underpriced in small sample at EDG - depends on Bateman timeline

Keep reading MattNZ's love Sadrugu as Sadragu

Going to be a sad pasta now he's nowhere to be seen

Not SadGrogu?