NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 12 - No need for a restart

Khany wrote:Cummins will finish as one of the greats.

Black Caps too many drop catches, Southee cant set a field and why pick a 4th bowler that only bowls 3 overs

Seriously looking at making just the 1 trade this week, maybe:
Kini > Terrell

Would give me both May brothers and $82k bank, with what looks like a respectable team. 14-17 should be significantly better points than last week, with the addition of Terrell and Seyfarth. A decent score from Cleary and no injuries would put me back on track.

Only 1 real weakness in the team, which is Flanagan in the halves. Can live with that for strength everywhere else in the 17, until I can grab Moses or Hynes in a few rounds.

Brandon
Tohu Smithies Tups
Wong Piakura
Cleary Flanagan
Taylan Kiraz
Turbo Papy Rapana

Terrell Seyfarth Luki Salmon
Levi Hughes Chan Strange

Shady2K wrote:Taylan did look very good but as others pointed out there were multiple other CTRs around that 630k range that did just as well as he did. Holmes, Manu, Garrick, Gagai, etc will all be up there

I am considering him but he’s not a must have slam dunk by any stretch

Absolutely a gun centre, but at this stage of the season, who's willing to pay premium for a centre?
He's currently $627, I'm terrible at the stats, but how much more expensive will he get?

I'd rather pay up for a Mid / Edge / Half - or, even WFB as there's very little cows with JS coming through at the back.

here's proof I got 784

Rabbits21 wrote:

That’s not the point the point is no matter what I suggest and I like feedback positive and negative is Aardvark never says anything positive re what I suggest he is the most negative to me on this forum and I’ve bit
my tongue for a long time now I have to get it off my chest

I said I don’t wanna have to rip my team up later I’d rather get Fog now than a scenario where Dogs keep losing which I think they will and then I’m stuck with only Cleary at half if Sexton comes in which will happen if he keeps being man of match in cup

Fuck me dude, he's just trying to help, settle down. Don't make me get my paddle.

mattnz wrote:Seriously looking at making just the 1 trade this week, maybe:
Kini > Terrell

Would give me both May brothers and $82k bank, with what looks like a respectable team. 14-17 should be significantly better points than last week, with the addition of Terrell and Seyfarth. A decent score from Cleary and no injuries would put me back on track.

Only 1 real weakness in the team, which is Flanagan in the halves. Can live with that for strength everywhere else in the 17, until I can grab Moses or Hynes in a few rounds.

Brandon
Tohu Smithies Tups
Wong Piakura
Cleary Flanagan
Taylan Kiraz
Turbo Papy Rapana

Terrell Seyfarth Luki Salmon
Levi Hughes Chan Strange

It's between May/RFM/Eisenhuth for me.

What's everyone's thoughts.

Seems like more risk in May's minutes in the medium term. But better base. Dragons also still an unknown quantity which affects RFM.

Maybe Eisenhuth is the better option.

Chewie wrote:

After updates Dan beats me by 4 points
703 - 707

GG:

Feel your pain, lost about 15 places in the FOG and 8000 spots overall with these so called updates. Downside of having Chan in my EMG I guess.

mattnz wrote:When I make a trade, it updates my overall score

That's pretty impressive, even by FanHub's standards.

Boozecluez wrote:Going to be a long run of the back fence, sitting placed 70,000 exactly with 5k in the bank.
Love a challenge, has me excited for a change  

Mate, I'd never bet against you. The Bludgers are currently ranked in the 42 000 and I bet you beat me by the end by at least 1000 ranks.

The Bludger#2 wrote:

Absolutely a gun centre, but at this stage of the season, who's willing to pay premium for a centre?
He's currently $627, I'm terrible at the stats, but how much more expensive will he get?

I'd rather pay up for a Mid / Edge / Half - or, even WFB as there's very little cows with JS coming through at the back.

If he hits Gagai level he is around $750k.

What I really like is that in 2 games at CTR in the best team in the comp, he has scored 52 and 66, without any tries or try assists in beaten sides and been their best on ground in both. He is also a try scoring machine, so they will come, on top of his great base.

lukeayee wrote:

It's between May/RFM/Eisenhuth for me.

What's everyone's thoughts.

Seems like more risk in May's minutes in the medium term. But better base. Dragons also still an unknown quantity which affects RFM.

Maybe Eisenhuth is the better option.

Eisenhuth vs RFM should be cleared up when teams are named and you can see if either are named at lock. Possible that neither is and they are both on the bench.

We saw what peak May can do in the finals series last year - 84 points in 56 minutes.

standard-issue wrote:

That's pretty impressive, even by FanHub's standards.

It seems to just be a visual bug on desktop, doesn't seem to be a thing on the app and also doesn't show outside the main team view on desktop.

Chewie wrote:

He went of with a cork, should be ok for next round

Nah. I reckon he got real loose in Newie after beating his old team (who showed him the door) and scoring a try.
Bet he's still recovering.

Rabbits21 wrote:
I don’t come on here to keep digging at a particular individual and if I do I’d hope someone pulls me up over it. That’s not how I was brought up to be. Say negative fine but maybe throw in something positive every so often so the person doesn’t feel they’re being attacked constantly.

Hey Rabs, I was just looking at your avatar and I think you have really lovely eyes.
I just wanted you to know.

Am I dumb to be considering buying Smithies instead of Fogarty (from Moses, this trade is to fund Kini to Terrell May).

Reasons for:

* Smithies looked absolutely elite in that big minute lock role, to the point where I think Ricky might move Horsburgh back to prop and bench Papali'i for the impact role. Eye test for him is off the charts.

* As good as Fog was last week, he won't kick 800 metres every game.

Reasons against:

* I would have to play either Flanagan or Strange at HLF 2 every week until I buy a HLF.

* Smithies is still at risk of losing minutes when Horsburgh returns.

The Bludger#2 wrote:

Mate, I'd never bet against you. The Bludgers are currently ranked in the 42 000 and I bet you beat me by the end by at least 1000 ranks.

I would....
The 7 fullbacks Cleary/Hynes team is the biggest hole I have dug myself and its pretty funny.
Going to have to sacrifice a good player to the gods and kini this week but not going to worry about that until thursday arvo haha

GL with your season

The Bludger#2 wrote:

Absolutely a gun centre, but at this stage of the season, who's willing to pay premium for a centre?
He's currently $627, I'm terrible at the stats, but how much more expensive will he get?

I'd rather pay up for a Mid / Edge / Half - or, even WFB as there's very little cows with JS coming through at the back.

Yep, he is tempting but doesn’t make sense to grab him. Still kinda want to tho lol

Like I said plenty of gun CTRs around his price too

Lmao this is a weird error, the app loads last year's R1 team when I click on R1 .

Also late updates dragged me up 5k from 29k to 24k so it's still only early days

Bethany_B wrote:Am I dumb to be considering buying Smithies instead of Fogarty (from Moses, this trade is to fund Kini to Terrell May).

Reasons for:

* Smithies looked absolutely elite in that big minute lock role, to the point where I think Ricky might move Horsburgh back to prop and bench Papali'i for the impact role. Eye test for him is off the charts.

* As good as Fog was last week, he won't kick 800 metres every game.

Reasons against:

* I would have to play either Flanagan or Strange at HLF 2 every week until I buy a HLF.

* Smithies is still at risk of losing minutes when Horsburgh returns.

Having watched the Raiders v. Knights game pretty closely, I reckon he could actually average 800kms this year.
There was absolutely nothing doing aside from Fog booting the ball down field, a good chase, solid / aggressive D from the Raiders pack and then short attacking kicks in the 'red zone'. Everything, and I mean everything, the Raiders will be doing this year will be run by Fog.

The Bludger#2 wrote:

Having watched the Raiders v. Knights game pretty closely, I reckon he could actually average 800kms this year.
There was absolutely nothing doing aside from Fog booting the ball down field, a good chase, solid / aggressive D from the Raiders pack and then short attacking kicks in the 'red zone'. Everything, and I mean everything, the Raiders will be doing this year will be run by Fog.

I don't doubt that he'll get a lot of kicking metres but surely that level isn't sustainable every week. I would think he'll get 400-600 most weeks, and this week may not get quite so many given that the Tigers suck.

Smithies just passes the eye test more.