NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 48 - Dragons when you buy your coach on Wish

Khany wrote:Leilua could be named in the cowboys squad, it seems if his matter is cleared Thursday he is free to play.  Even if it were a bench cameo

Our legal system is fucked.

Think I'll be trying really hard to hold this week though might have to drop NAS if we get any confirmation on his injury. Only 18 trades left and still have Couchman and only 1 half in my Round 13 playing 13. Jumped on luki and Billy last couple of rounds as a punt to try get cash gen going again which has worked out well. Still holding Staggs at this point he's too cheap to trade, at least until R16. Will be hard not to grab H Edwards if he's named at 13 though.

weekly review in my team tracker,

still not making up ground, but not despondent,

got to make a few trades this week,

any commentary welcomed

Would be incredible if ITT rose again from the ashes to score a hattrick, or a nice cashie popped his head up this week!

Had a bumper week, scoring 1034 while carrying Teddy. Good for team morale, that is!

the_great_wobbler wrote:Think I'll be trying really hard to hold this week though might have to drop NAS if we get any confirmation on his injury. Only 18 trades left and still have Couchman and only 1 half in my Round 13 playing 13. Jumped on luki and Billy last couple of rounds as a punt to try get cash gen going again which has worked out well. Still holding Staggs at this point he's too cheap to trade, at least until R16. Will be hard not to grab H Edwards if he's named at 13 though.

In his own words he says he has a rib injury and needs to needle up... but for some dumb kent reason he thought he wouldn't need to needle up on the weekend, hence coming off. He also said he heard a click in his knee that freaked him out a bit when tackled by Carrigan...

Community talk here

https://www.nrlfantasyfanatics.com/t2206-r12-trade-talk

Bula has already made me a rapid 172k --- good lad

NRL released video of what is or isn't a hip drop tackle
https://twitter.com/MarkGottlieb/status/1658021082392309760

mattnz wrote:NRL released video of what is or isn't a hip drop tackle
https://twitter.com/MarkGottlieb/status/1658021082392309760

both tweets were pretty good explainers tbf

they are a horrible tackle, that causes a lot of injury,

hope we now see a bit more common sense in terms of spectacle ruining unnecessary sinbins

NRL PHYSIO
@nrlphysio
“Last week at training he ran at 80% (speed), but that was the fastest he’s run since January.” - Brandy discussing Turbo

If Brandy’s on the money here, woah

GarethEllisismyDad wrote:

both tweets were pretty good explainers tbf

they are a horrible tackle, that causes a lot of injury,

hope we now see a bit more common sense in terms of spectacle ruining unnecessary sinbins

There are other tackles where the ball carrier is deliberately bent backwards without the player landing on their legs, should also be outlawed.

mattnz wrote:NRL PHYSIO
@nrlphysio
“Last week at training he ran at 80% (speed), but that was the fastest he’s run since January.” - Brandy discussing Turbo

If Brandy’s on the money here, woah

what are manly doing? crazy

mattnz wrote:NRL PHYSIO
@nrlphysio
“Last week at training he ran at 80% (speed), but that was the fastest he’s run since January.” - Brandy discussing Turbo

If Brandy’s on the money here, woah

That doesn’t seem right to me because he started the season the first few weeks looking as dangerous as he’s ever been, then there was that weirdness around whatever was going on with those back spasms before the Panthers game and he’s been playing scared ever since.

syn13 wrote:

That doesn’t seem right to me because he started the season the first few weeks looking as dangerous as he’s ever been, then there was that weirdness around whatever was going on with those back spasms before the Panthers game and he’s been playing scared ever since.

He probably trained at lesser intensity but come game day overdid it. He's a competitor. Telling him (or any player) to not go flat out is the most dumb kent advice. Injuries are weird AF and anything hammy related can show up from pretty much the back, the front and back of your legs, hips... throw in he's a tall mofo... bloke needs to not play, keep doing rehab and just get himself right.

Anyone looking at CNK as a round 13 pick up? If Teddy flops again I’ll need to get either of Drinky or CNK in round 13.

The 80% doesn’t surprise me with Turbo. I started the year with him and although he had a couple of good games he never got to any real pace. In one game he made a break from his own end but made no effort to run at all. Happy to have sold some time ago but open to picking him back up if he comes good.

Can't believe you guys all fell into the Teddy trap
I thought you all knew how to play fantasy

Chewie wrote:Can't believe you guys all fell into the Teddy trap
I thought you all knew how to play fantasy

I’m kinda happy I only jumped on at 620k. Would be nice to get that 70k back at some stage James.

Syzy wrote:The 80% doesn’t surprise me with Turbo.

This is just Siebold's newest coaching mantra. Training at 120% for the Broncos didn't work. So at Manly Siebs has them training at 80%.

No more techno at training, now its shoegaze