NRL Fantasy 2024 Part 22 - Why would you captain a WFB?

Mulvy wrote:

standard-issue wrote:

Our Mod Draft match up this week will go down to wire.

Did you join that thing?

You mean SEQSS?

South East Queensland and Surrounds Swingers group.

They have Teams right?

Mulvy wrote:

I see your Flanagun trade out and raise you a Cook trade out.

Damien the beach sprinter!!! Played very well on Friday I was impressed. Non owner though but just happy generally in how he played.

Milchcow wrote:
i was out today and just catching up.

Looks like I made a mistake in trading out Flanagan a couple of weeks ago. I still own Levi and Shoes


Also, the obstruction rule has been like this for many, many, years now.
Rather than complain about it, I think a good idea would be for teams to practice running decoys that don't stop in the line or impede any defenders

Anyone who plays Footy know a 'decoy' called a block shape consists of a lead (front door) and a jokey (back door). the point of it is to isolate a defender to make a decision. If run correctly, (NRL players are lazy with this), the lead even if not receiving the ball should run an unders line THROUGH the gap on the inside shoulder of the defender. If run correctly it can almost never be called an obstruction. A lot of players, even at NRL level cut too far into the gap and end up hitting the player on the inside of the guy they are trying to isolate, which ends up obstructing the defender.

They change of direction should be minor, Defenders are always going to be sliding out on shifts, so most of the time a minor change in direction is more effective.

I see Hasler tore strips off the Titans in the sheds tonight he specifically went over and tore Tanah Boyd a new one as well………

Flanno 40 with a turn over and a try assist thank you very much kind sir!

Well done to Wolfy and Rhinoceroo their pod Ben Hunt is going well.

Rabbits21 wrote:I see Hasler tore strips off the Titans in the sheds tonight he specifically went over and tore Tanah Boyd a new one as well………

Tanah is truly woeful. Maybe we will see Weaver (I think that's who played the trials) step in sooner rather than later.

Convinced updates don’t exist after Campbell went down. Was missing error but was missing at least 5 tackles and still came away with 1 tackle

Camo123 wrote:Convinced updates don’t exist after Campbell went down. Was missing error but was missing at least 5 tackles and still came away with 1 tackle

Suffering a bit of Catch32 with Campbell, as a non-owner looking to buy next week I’m pleased he missed his BE (32), but now doubting I want him because he got less than 32.

BBowler wrote:

Suffering a bit of Catch32 with Campbell, as a non-owner looking to buy next week I’m pleased he missed his BE (32), but now doubting I want him because he got less than 32.

Haha same boat here. Think I’ll still do it unless Talagi has a decent role for the Eels tomorrow. 

One of them comes in for Toops

Rabbits21 wrote:https://twitter.com/ReadingThePlay/status/1773924078854037775

No 8 point try?

Billy Slater would have missed every second week if they charged that back in his day

syn13 wrote:I think the easiest solution to stopping players from diving is to not have your players run decoys where they end up standing in the defensive line and then get all ‘surprised pikachu face’ when they get pinged for obstruction, it’s not like they haven’t had like 4 years to figure it out and still manage to do it every other game.

Yep, I'm on the same page. Even though it was a stupid no try call, there's no reason for JWH to stop running right in front of Edwards. Just keep jogging through and there's no obstruction call and it's a try. Same as Jake Trbojevic last week, just keep on running

kamikamicameleons wrote:

Yep, I'm on the same page. Even though it was a stupid no try call, there's no reason for JWH to stop running right in front of Edwards. Just keep jogging through and there's no obstruction call and it's a try. Same as Jake Trbojevic last week, just keep on running

It was three days ago now so maybe my memory is hazy but my recollection is he jogged through about 10m. Then Edwards - who was about 20m off the ball - makes a decision to barrel straight into him. I mean perhaps JWH could’ve kept running a decoy beyond the try line, maybe into the stands, but perhaps Edwards could’ve taken one of the other 35748 possible routes to try and make a cover tackle?

Is it possible to want decoy runners to run decoys properly and players not to deliberately run into them and fall over when they are nowhere near the hole created and nowhere near making a tackle? Do I have to choose a side here?

Rabbits21 wrote:
Damien the beach sprinter!!! Played very well on Friday I was impressed. Non owner though but just happy generally in how he played.

What's this about him being a beach sprinter? Tell me more

If I'd known that earlier, there's no way I would've sold

standard-issue wrote:I've been meaning to say thankyou for all of the Birthday wishes last week.  So, thankyou all!

It's always a worry singling someone out on here (who could forget the Chewie debacle of 2022 when our favourite Wookie made a rookie dookie and excluded 93% of the Forum).  Although to his credit, Chew slowly dragged it back via 13 edits to eventually only ostracise 87% of us!

But a special shout out to NW for climbing up on top of the Leichhardt scoreboard to announce my 50th  

Didn't realise it was the half century
No wonder the Tigers had extra motivation to get the win

BBowler wrote:

Suffering a bit of Catch32 with Campbell, as a non-owner looking to buy next week I’m pleased he missed his BE (32), but now doubting I want him because he got less than 32.

Watched him really closely. Definitely looked better when Fifita was on

In the end he gets one of Burbo/Strange out of my CTRs which is a net positive

Mulvy wrote:

I see your Flanagun trade out and raise you a Cook trade out.

Ouch!

kamikamicameleons wrote:

Billy Slater would have missed every second week if they charged that back in his day

Remember that time Slater king fu kicked Klemmer in the face and got the penalty?

robelgordo wrote:

Remember that time Slater king fu kicked Klemmer in the face and got the penalty?

Haha, as clear as if it were yesterday. It hurts me that he seems like a genuinely good bloke outside of footy, because he was just the dirtiest prick on the field

It's a good day for my team's score to get resurrected with 7 players taking the field
Happy Easter!

Chewie wrote:It's a good day for my team's score to get resurrected with 7 players taking the field
Happy Easter!

I hope you score well today Chewie