NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 46 - You say which fantasy group is at the top? I Can't Believe It's Not Butters

Mulvy wrote:

I'm keen on both Harris and Hopgood. Harris could use a week to get his knee right (which he will get with the rd12 bye) and Hopgood minutes/team mates/origin/bench rotations all up in the air. At this stage I intend to get both, but not until rd13

Hahaha...I was reading this thinking wait til R13 mate, then I got to the last bit..good moves but rem Eels have the bye in 14.

Loomer wrote:

Noone

Just deathride all the guns

Or you can cheer on me when Grant scuttles through 4 guys and flops over the line

Thoughts on Blues origin pack. I think the starting pack explains itself with a couple of spots available for bench who knows what Freddy will do…

8. Haas
9. Cook
10. Paulo
11. Murray
12. Martin
13. Yeo

14. Hynes/Api
15……..
16……..
17 Haumole

Spectre wrote:Who’s better to bring in this week between Brandon Smith and Drinky?

Both decent choices, if you don't need R13 coverage.

If you need a FB for R13 then drinky.

Fox is out

(Just info for Alamoti owners)

MF wrote:Surely the Warriors win easily this week with all the talks over the refs fucking them.

Or it’ll have the reverse effect and they’ll fuck ‘em even more

Listened to Magic Sponge podcast which recorded before CEO comments news broke and the other guy with NRL Physio said off the cuff, watching from the stands he thought Warriors copped a lot of bad calls

Spectre wrote:Who’s better to bring in this week between Brandon Smith and Drinky?

Deciding between these two as well. Leaning towards Brandon at the moment. Drinky on standby for me if Walsh makes origin.

Warriors playing at the same time as the Bulldogs is an absolute stitch up.

Would have loved to have seen Alamoti score before deciding who to trade Ford to

JDB for a blues jersey if he's not careful.

Owners will appreciate some underwhelming 40-50s for a few weeks so he's safe through the origin period.

Can sympathise with fox, I've tripped at the final hurdle a few times.

Rabbits21 wrote:Thoughts on Blues origin pack. I think the starting pack explains itself with a couple of spots available for bench who knows what Freddy will do…

8. Haas
9. Cook
10. Paulo
11. Murray
12. Martin
13. Yeo

14. Hynes/Api
15……..
16……..
17 Haumole

Liam Martin hasn't played since R7 - and isn't named to start this week. Even if he gets a game in I think he's unlikely for game 1. He's not that much better than his potential replacements that he's worth rushing back in.

Last year Api started and Cook off the bench. Don't think they'll have 2 hookers if Hynes does make the bench though.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Warriors playing at the same time as the Bulldogs is an absolute stitch up.

I'd love to see it if the Warriors kicked the game off 2 hours before their opponents.

Probably still not get any calls go their way even without an opposition

Seeing JAC out. Sucks for Alamoti hold. Might sell now

Latrell + couchman > jdb/hopgood + drinkwater

10k spare after that trade, so it’s potentially this week or never.

Gives me 2 extra players for round 13. Gives me points from drinkwater+jdb/hopgood this week, instead of latrell + hands/dunster.

Leaves me with 14 trades and the risk that a trade in makes origin/gets injured.

Thoughts?

Snatchpato wrote:JDB for a blues jersey if he's not careful.

Owners will appreciate some underwhelming 40-50s for a few weeks so he's safe through the origin period.

JDB for Origin would be a very bad look and a media disaster. Also, he's a great fantasy player but a plodding 7/10 in real life nowadays. Genuinely couldn't give NSW anything they couldn't get from Alex Twal. (Not that I'm suggesting Twal for Origin.)

Snatchpato wrote:JDB for a blues jersey if he's not careful.

Owners will appreciate some underwhelming 40-50s for a few weeks so he's safe through the origin period.

As a JDB non-owner, I hope he makes it, at least for game one. He did play all 3 games in 2018 so it's not like he hasn't been there before and done well.

Given that Jurbo's gone I think there's a decent chance of it.

Loomer wrote:

Listened to Magic Sponge podcast which recorded before CEO comments news broke and the other guy with NRL Physio said off the cuff, watching from the stands he thought Warriors copped a lot of bad calls

I am a Kiwi, but I have followed league since the early 80s, my team had always been the Raiders.

I will say this, through many years I have been a fairly unbiased viewer of Warriors games and have witnessed an overwhelming feeling of ref bias.

a lot of the 50/50 calls seem to go against the Warriors.

Over recent years I felt it had improved quite substantially from the earlier years, where previously it is a running joke amongst many fans that the Warriors play against 14 men.

I am sure if there is any bias it is unconscious, but I have seen it.

But I do feel like there is a lot of weekly ref scrutiny, so it's more likely our own biases subconsciously at play

Milchcow wrote:

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Warriors playing at the same time as the Bulldogs is an absolute stitch up.

I'd love to see it if the Warriors kicked the game off 2 hours before their opponents.

Probably still not get any calls go their way even without an opposition

Sounds like something the wascally wabbits would do #neverforget1909

rhinoceroo wrote:

Snatchpato wrote:JDB for a blues jersey if he's not careful.

Owners will appreciate some underwhelming 40-50s for a few weeks so he's safe through the origin period.

JDB for Origin would be a very bad look and a media disaster. Also, he's a great fantasy player but a plodding 7/10 in real life nowadays. Genuinely couldn't give NSW anything they couldn't get from Alex Twal. (Not that I'm suggesting Twal for Origin.)

This.

Also word out of the Shire is Twal is a smokey for Origin.

rhinoceroo wrote:

JDB for Origin would be a very bad look and a media disaster. Also, he's a great fantasy player but a plodding 7/10 in real life nowadays. Genuinely couldn't give NSW anything they couldn't get from Alex Twal. (Not that I'm suggesting Twal for Origin.)

#twalfororigin

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