2016 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 30

People posting here with fancy 900+'s while I'm sitting here with a 822 and a Point of no-difference like Mitch Rein and Gutherson in my reserves. Oy vey it's been a tough year for me in Fantasy

Yeah, I suck too, 811, with Barba, Mansour, Bhana, Lowe, Holland and Guth on the bench. I also put Fego in my NPR for the first time this year.

823. I'm in all sorts sitting just inside 9k

Don't hate my team but just can't put it all together yet. Have most the guns I thought were worth having but this year is proving that having JDB and Milford is better than Fensom and SJ, as just one of many similar examples.

Will stick with what I've got and play long game!

Key Target over international break:
- Peats

831 pre updates.
Dropped out of top 1000.
Today was a disaster.
I've only seen 2 games this round so I don't even know what went wrong.

Got lucky today with Taylor being my ae for kennar. Didn't see the dogs game, first game where jacks son's tackle have been this low in a few weeks, anyone see why?

Clack Bocks wrote:Got lucky today with Taylor being my ae for kennar. Didn't see the dogs game, first game where jacks son's tackle have been this low in a few weeks, anyone see why?

He was beaten from pillar to post, had a few injuries throughout the game.

Honeysett wrote:

He was beaten from pillar to post, had a few injuries throughout the game.

Just realised how hard my post was to read.

So Jackson got moved to centres?

Some updates for warriors/dragons game.

Lillyman 60
Tevaga 58
Johnson 52
Luke 46
Gavet 33

Aiken 54
Dugan 31
Cooper 34
JDB 54

Scraped in with 908 thanks to trading to get Gutherson into my 17.

Into the top 600 but running very low on trades now (20) so might be stuck with this 25 til the byes, I think.

As a Broncos supporter, a few comments on that game. Sharks absolutely tore us to shreds in the first half, and I think whilst most of that was due to Sharks being enthusiastic and seizing the big game opportunity, a bit was due to Waddell doing an atrocious job at hooker. Stifled our attack and was too slow getting the ball away. I think he must've been watching a few too many games of NFL too, because he didn't seem to know how to pass the ball backwards. Once Niko came on they scored one try off the back of ill discipline, but Broncos looked an entirely rejuvenated team and I wasn't surprised to see it get as close as it did. Hell even McGuire did a much better job at hooker than Waddell did. I hope Wayne learns the lesson and drops him for next round. Sure Niko could play 80? Don't want to take anything away from Cronulla though, Broncs didn't have any right to make that game as close as they did, and they blew us off the park for the first 40, congrats lads.

On a fantasy note, absolutely spewing that it didn't save my change of captain back to Smith from Bunt this week. 798 pre updates from me, and my only sub 800 score since round 3. Feeling very disappointed with my team this week, especially at that fucker M. Gordon, and with Gutherson, Lamb, Gavet all sitting in my NPRs, all outscoring my captain. Might need a straitjacket to prevent me from trade raging this week, the team is on notice.

It was quite amazing IMO how much the Broncs missed Macca, such an underrated player. Waddell was fucking terrible, no other way to put it. Made Niko look like Cam fucking Smith.

wolfking wrote:It was quite amazing IMO how much the Broncs missed Macca, such an underrated player.  Waddell was fucking terrible, no other way to put it.  Made Niko look like Cam fucking Smith.

Here I was thinking Niko was actually doing a really good job at Hooker. Organised and quick getting the ball away. But now you point it out, that may just have been contrast.

I'm no expert man, I don't know, you could be right, but the ruck just seemed incomplete or something without Macca. I think Niko normally just just gets injected to the game just at the right time. Will be interesting to see him start a game at number 9. I can easily see why Wayne wanted to keep him on the bench at the start. They'll rush Macca back I'm sure.

finished on 935 preupdates, entered the top 1000 for the first time with rank 867!
Hurt having to play Barba when I knew he would not do well. Wish Manners was not injured.
Also had Gutherson, but so what? Nobody should be proud of having played Gutherson, it shows you have no depth. (unless you used a sneaky ae trick, then kudos to you). He was averaging 25 for his 5GA before that. Wonder how many will play him next week? I sure won't.

My Gordon to Munster trade was genius, but I regret my method of raising the cash.
Had PatMat to Lamb all week and got cold feet at the last second and traded Taylor to K.Niko.
Probably lost about 50-60k doing that, but as long as my team is performing I don't care.

How will I survive a 2 week wait!??!

Some updates for storm/Titans game :-)

Cam smith 63
J brom 43
Munster 68
T Harris 55

Douglas 38
Taylor 36...
McDonald 34
Davis 28

Titans scores haven't changed much..

Pookus McFly wrote:finished on 935 preupdates, entered the top 1000 for the first time with rank 867!
Hurt having to play Barba when I knew he would not do well. Wish Manners was not injured.
Also had Gutherson, but so what? Nobody should be proud of having played Gutherson, it shows you have no depth. (unless you used a sneaky ae trick, then kudos to you). He was averaging 25 for his 5GA before that. Wonder how many will play him next week? I sure won't.

My Gordon to Munster trade was genius, but I regret my method of raising the cash.
Had PatMat to Lamb all week and got cold feet at the last second and traded Taylor to K.Niko.
Probably lost about 50-60k doing that, but as long as my team is performing I don't care.

How will I survive a 2 week wait!??!

A rookie half in a struggling team. I can see why you got cold feet. I didnt see the game but i was suprised how well lamb scored. Any reason why he did so much kicking?

Cause Hodkinson kicked like an absolute spastic.

Need to fuck off Gordon and Mansour but wanted to upgrade a half or forward. Hmm....

Looks like Hastings could be a keeper, same with Mitchell. Barba needs to pull finger but expecting a few more points from him. Spewing I played Bhana over Fergo. Looks like Fergo can stay, I thought too Pearce back would help him but Bhana in the starting lineup was too tempting. Too bad he was fucking shit and will probably now be dropped. Lamb looks good though. If Hodko goes to origin too he's definitely staying in the team.

Onthebeatpete wrote:Some updates for storm/Titans game :-)

Cam smith 63
J brom 43
Munster 68
T Harris 55

Douglas 38
Taylor 36...
McDonald 34
Davis 28

Titans scores haven't changed much..

Fuck yeah, Captain Cam gets his TA and Goal!!

939 pre updates, rank 185. Put Barba into NPR because I knew it would be tough against the Broncos and played Gordon instead. I'm a genius. Speaking of NPR I've also got Gutherson, Aubbs and Auva'a. Ah well price rises are good. If there's no major carnage after the rep round I want to do Gordon to Lamb and BLaw to Mooper maybe. But I can't help but feel I'm using too many trades, have only banked 3.

Rookie question, how many trades should I have left now? Where's everyone else at?