NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 45 - Fanatical Times

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Good time to go off topic posting about the best player we have played with/against

Played with Isabelle Kelly's brother in under 19s. He was comfortably the best player on the field every week in the Rhys Martin mould. Peaked as a NSW cup/9's player

Played against Zane Tetevano in local league rugby back in 2016. Bastards played him at outside centre while I was on the wing. Reckon I missed atleast 8 tackles just on him in a 100+ point loss. Was a monster anchoring the boat race at the pub after as well

Enchanted Glossy Flamingo wrote:Are we going back to captaining Cleary over Hynes again? Feels a bit like chasing points, but 96 with a ton of MTs and kicking again sounds pretty good to me. OTOH maybe Hynes guns it after the criticism over the last few days?

Bethany_B wrote:

Selling Hynes the week after I just bought him is probably the stupidest possible trade I could possibly think of. Surely you aren't serious about that?

I would much rather get rid of Sloan (who could very easily lose all the money he's made by R13 and then score another 10 points in R13) for a non-R13 player (Oloapu) and allow Ford to Horse (or Hopgood or JDB in fact).

Quality matters more than quantity and realistically I can only get one more good player that plays R13 - it's either Horse, Hopgood or JDB.

I do not have enough trades left to be selling genuine guns like Hynes, Cleary, Fifita etc. - Cook I would consider but he's too cheap to get anyone good for and I would then be forced to play Cheese as my only hooker

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Grabbing him this week.

I think he starts sooner rather than later and I like what I've seen on the eye test. Once starting I think he is a 35-40 point guy in a season severely lacking cash cows

Krump wrote:
I thought MF had the worst viewing habits possible after the other night but this takes the cake.
To not see a single episode you must have a reason or are you just cutting off your nose to spite your face at this point?

Krump wrote:
Dont remember playing against anyone like that off the top of my head but played with Scott Bolton and Brett Anderson. Didn’t lose many.

Bethany_B wrote:

Selling Hynes the week after I just bought him is probably the stupidest possible trade I could possibly think of. Surely you aren't serious about that?

I would much rather get rid of Sloan (who could very easily lose all the money he's made by R13 and then score another 10 points in R13) for a non-R13 player (Oloapu) and allow Ford to Horse (or Hopgood or JDB in fact).

Quality matters more than quantity and realistically I can only get one more good player that plays R13 - it's either Horse, Hopgood or JDB.

I do not have enough trades left to be selling genuine guns like Hynes, Cleary, Fifita etc. - Cook I would consider but he's too cheap to get anyone good for and I would then be forced to play Cheese as my only hooker

Krump wrote:
what’s your team value Beth?

L-Jimmy wrote:

Not the main issue (poodle-focused bestiality takes that gong), but no-Simpsons is definitely top 3.

Krump wrote:
Going back? This is gonna make me sound like a hindsight hero but there’s been plenty of signs that this type of game was coming for hynes. No one is infallible

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Scott Bolton is a good one. Main stay first grader

Round 16 team:

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Good time to go off topic posting about the best player we have played with/against

Played with Isabelle Kelly's brother in under 19s. He was comfortably the best player on the field every week in the Rhys Martin mould. Peaked as a NSW cup/9's player

Played against Zane Tetevano in local league rugby back in 2016. Bastards played him at outside centre while I was on the wing. Reckon I missed atleast 8 tackles just on him in a 100+ point loss. Was a monster anchoring the boat race at the pub after as well

Lchy wrote:Possibly in the minority but I don't hate a Billy Smith trade in, thought he looked better on the left than Suaalii has all year.

I'm also biased because I made my 1st XV rugby debut against him in high school when he was the year above me and he absolutely shitmixed a 16 year old Lchy for two tries in the 20 minutes I was on the field. So by trading him in it gives me a chance to tell this story as much as possible and abuse my 15 minutes of fame

AL wrote:

Not sure I have any acceptable justification other than I stopped watching cartoons when I was a kid. I think I tried to watch a couple at the prompting of others or to see what all the fuss was about, just didn’t float my boat so would turn off pretty quickly. Maybe I didn’t give it a fair chance.

Has that ship sailed? What’s the Simpsons BE?

Krump wrote:
Ando was the prodigy that just didn’t eventuate, easily the most ridiculously talented player I’ve ever been on a field with. Had some issues in Sydney then a terrible leg break in Melbourne, just one of those who got away that you never hear about.

Bethany_B wrote:

Selling Hynes the week after I just bought him is probably the stupidest possible trade I could possibly think of. Surely you aren't serious about that?

I would much rather get rid of Sloan (who could very easily lose all the money he's made by R13 and then score another 10 points in R13) for a non-R13 player (Oloapu) and allow Ford to Horse (or Hopgood or JDB in fact).

Quality matters more than quantity and realistically I can only get one more good player that plays R13 - it's either Horse, Hopgood or JDB.

I do not have enough trades left to be selling genuine guns like Hynes, Cleary, Fifita etc. - Cook I would consider but he's too cheap to get anyone good for and I would then be forced to play Cheese as my only hooker

Contrastinghobby wrote:Something from the vault, 2019 season

Look how many trades are left  

Point is do whatever is fun, I rolled the dice that year on a chance to win it and sure it didn't work out but it was worth trying.
Managed to hang in until about rd 22 then blew out to 40th at the end haha.
Go hard and get your team sorted early, then hang on for dear life until the end and crash in a blaze of glory

An extra 8 trades this year for the run home, tell him he's dreamin'

Round 16 team:

wolfking wrote:

His ranking must not be serious either then.