Dananz wrote:Hello my fellow fantasizers!
Thought I was done and dusted with NRL Fantasy - managed to avoid making a team for a couple of seasons and freed up my brain to rent some more space to... FPL...
Anyway, at some weak-minded late hour I cracked open a team in pre-season and here I am - trawling the sites for news, back lurking here with the best, and getting over-excited about transferring Cobbo in for Wong this week.
It's been comforting to see almost all of the familiar names still here! Even the original Rabbit is back! I miss Welshy though - what happened to him?
I'm mostly playing my own game this year - I don't think I'm in any leagues yet. Team name is Rongotigers. (I lost my original team name 'Rongotai Tigers' because in a stronger pre-season moment I deleted my account and decided I didn't need to devote a big chunk of my time to this all over again. Lasted about 2 days...)
Anyway, I decided it would be fun to go big at the back. Figured if I set the backline up as mostly set and mostly forget, I can get more semi-keepers in early (with backline keepers generally being cheaper than forward keepers). And then spend more of the season messing around with making money for the forwards. Obviously never a winning strategy, but it's fun having a backline of 'stars' to root for when watching the games.
So now I've got Cobbo sitting optimistically next to RTS. Teddy, Turbo and Papps at the back (Really missing Walsh but I currently have a policy of no double ups in the backs - Cobbo seemed the next best thing.) Cleary and Moses in the halves. (Still missing Nicho). Grant at hooker at Api on the bench.
That of course means the rest of my team is made up of cheapies, featuring the Glory of Seyfarth in my starting mids. No Hass dilemma for me! No room for May either...
Anyway, figured I should break my lurk and pay my respects. I won't be a very active poster (3 little critters running around), but I want to say thank you all for being here. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, hopes, dreams, brags, fails and humour. It's medicine for the soul, and makes me feel slightly less ridiculous for still being obsessively attached to this fun little game.
All the best for Round 3!
Dananz