NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 4 - A spawning salmon appears

Shady2K wrote:

At 487k lock him in if true

Lemmy KGB wrote:Whispers getting stronger that Rapana will be FB. Averaged 10 TBs a game in 2021 lol

Shady2K wrote:
At 487k lock him in if true

L-Jimmy wrote:



Ageing fullback, with a history of soft tissue injuries?

Playing in the 2nd worst backline in the comp?

With an R2 returning player meaning a reshuffle is on the cards?



Dude, I woudn't touch that with Welshy's vile pox-ridden member team, never mind my own.

Lemmy KGB wrote:

Too easy

L-Jimmy wrote:



Ageing fullback, with a history of soft tissue injuries?

Playing in the 2nd worst backline in the comp?

With an R2 returning player meaning a reshuffle is on the cards?



Dude, I woudn't touch that with Welshy's vile pox-ridden member team, never mind my own.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:MS word of warning to the POD squad

Part of the reason I started so poorly last year (50k after about 8 rounds) was a few low ownership players that were independently decent picks but didn't go as expected which left me needing mass changes to catch the pack.

Hastings, Collins, Ponga, Turbo, Kenny, TMM the main suspects. Add in some early injuries (Ford, Bsmith) to the usual dud popular picks (Talau, HSS, Doueihi) and there is no way back.

Going more cookie cutter makes it easier to not fall behind early then trade your way to the front

rhinoceroo wrote:

I don't know if there are any lessons to be learned here, but having started pretty well and got better last year, the main thing that seemed to be in my favour was avoiding the dud cows. I had plenty of dud or injured starters (Doueihi, Turbo, EButch, Cheese) but they were expensive enough to replace pretty easily to whoever in their range had the lowest BE (Hosking etc). What I didn't have was HSS or Talau hanging around. That meant that in the first eight weeks pretty much everyone was making money, which the big-ticket reliable guys like Cleary, Haas, Carrigan and Difita were scoring points.

Not sure what I'm trying to say here other than the obvious that building fast bank in the first couple of months makes the rest of the season much easier, and to do that pick the 18-21 guys who will actually make money. Anti-podding bad cows as important as getting on the good ones.

Lemmy KGB wrote:Whispers getting stronger that Rapana will be FB. Averaged 10 TBs a game in 2021 lol

Milchcow wrote:

I'd guess at the moment they expect Hands to not be on the bench when the round 1 teams are named, hoping Brad Arthur was telling the truth when he said he wanted an 80 minute hooker

Chewie wrote:You can't expect middle forwards and hookers to play large minutes in the first couple rounds. Something something about match fitness...

mattnz wrote:"it’s emerged experienced backrower Scott Sorensen is battling a leg injury, while rising star Liam Henry is also struggling due to illness.

However, both players are expected to take the field, but Wigan’s Luke Thompson is set to sit out after suffering a head knock 20 minutes into the Super League season."

Its a great sign that despite illness, Henry makes the 17 for a game that means something. Probably gets limited minutes because of it and everyone misses him.