2016 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 34

Pookus McFly wrote:

Well to be fair, I really only care about players for the big bye rounds. Already have a full 17 for the others, so I would probably prefer they dont play unless its 12, 15, 18.
Su'a only plays once, but Hughes plays twice. Mathematically, Sua'a needs to outscore both Hughe's games to be the better choice- but because of his position, its certainly possible. That's the risk- Su'a's round 12 vs Hughes round 12 (and 18 if he plays combined).

Good point, as long as you can cover r19, which is a long way away and anything can happen.



Got my eye on Su'a, Hughes and Aitken this week (got Semi Trailer last week). Not totally convinced now that Taylor is a keeper, just couldn't work out how Taylor will spread the minutes. Farah (9), Halatau (9 & 11-13), Ballin (9 & 13) & Taylor (9 & 11-13) could all be in the 17.

Got my 18 man supersquad ready just in time to not be able to use them all for 8 weeks -_-

Smith (Parcell)
Graham Surgess (JTrbo)
Merrin Mannering Fensom (Whitehead) (ET)
Hunt DCE (Norman AE)
Croker Dugan
Tedesco Munster Radradra

Poss trades this week:

Lamb > Hughes
Henry (finally) > Taylor
Jennings > Su'a

Would give me a nice stacked second row v similar to the one posted earlier (only would have Taylor instead of Thompson) but possibly weak in the CTRs. Would be looking to get Aitken in over the next few weeks - 19 trades left. Hughes and Su'a both have DPP which could be handy later on for shifting them about.

Speaking of Pauli Pauli and his 61, will S'ua be running at Moses this week?

Milchcow wrote:
Speaking of Pauli Pauli and his 61, will S'ua be running at Moses this week?

Nope it'll be Glenn running at him.

So...

If i do garvey ti deGois 
Parker  to Mau 
JSaifiti  to ET 

I'll be running with this team for round 12

DeGois 
Graham  Tolman Esesese 
Whitehead Fensom Mau ET
Hunt Norman 
BJ Aitken Holland
Gordon Radradra Gutherson Eden

This guy - Tevita Pangai Junior - could bang out some serious TB's in one week !

Only the one trade for me.

Blaw to ET.

Did look at Lamb to Sezer since its only like 60k but then I looked as his recent scores..

Pain wrote:So...

If i do garvey ti deGois 
Parker  to Mau 
JSaifiti  to ET 

I'll be running with this team for round 12

DeGois 
Graham  Tolman Esesese 
Whitehead Fensom Mau ET
Hunt Norman 
BJ Aitken Holland
Gordon Radradra Gutherson Eden

Mate, go for it, you will halve that ranking. How are you for the rest of the byes? How many trades left?

SI wrote:

Mate, go for it, you will halve that ranking.  How are you for the rest of the byes?  How many trades left?

Round 15 lite on but the rest sound be ok. Only 12 trades left but have 15 would ok having in my 17 week to week.

Pain wrote:

SI wrote:

Mate, go for it, you will halve that ranking.  How are you for the rest of the byes?  How many trades left?

Round 15 lite on but the rest sound be ok. Only 12 trades left but have 15 would ok having in my 17 week to week.

I think the temptation to have that 17 in a round where some are struggling to field 10 would be too strong for me to resist not using the trades. You are 100 points off 500th and 200 points off 200th. Just personally I would be doing it and then promising myself not to trade next round (you have 17 in 13 right?)

Mighty Fishes wrote:Only the one trade for me.

Blaw to ET.

Did look at Lamb to Sezer since its only like 60k but then I looked as his recent scores..

Was just stalking your team, is this Round your worse bye Round?

Mighty Fishes wrote:Only the one trade for me.

Blaw to ET.

Did look at Lamb to Sezer since its only like 60k but then I looked as his recent scores..

Sezer is in a pretty big form slump, definitely would steer clear. To me it looks like there are still teething issues in our spine relating to who is the chief shot caller and until thats sorted out I don't think his form will pick up. That's probably not a simple thing.

Have 9 playing this week 10 if Bhana makes the cut.

My team for this week is

Graham Packer JJ
Whitehead ETay Moeroa
Hunt Mbye Hughes
Leilua Holland
Aitken Gordon Toutai

Not too bad.

SI wrote:

Was just stalking your team, is this Round your worse bye Round?

Yeah it is that's why I don't want to use trades on it! I have 11 which is ok not great but ok, would have been 13 with Teddy and Lamb ofcourse.. Grrr

Archer wrote:

Sezer is in a pretty big form slump, definitely would steer clear. To me it looks like there are still teething issues in our spine relating to who is the chief shot caller and until thats sorted out I don't think his form will pick up. That's probably not a simple thing.

For sure! But I think i'd like to see him string a few scores together before even considering him. Which I think he is too far gone this year to worry about.

Just noticed I have currently 7 players for Rd 18. Team is looking pretty good for the run home though.

Mighty Fishes wrote:

For sure! But I think i'd like to see him string a few scores together before even considering him. Which I think he is too far gone this year to worry about.

The other part that would chase me away is that he doesn't seem to be doing the majority of kicking. Even though I'd say he is far and away our best kicker, with Hodgson being next best, it seems like he is sharing the duties with Austin more than I'd like. Someone on the GH posted the stats for the weekends game and it was something like in the first half Sezer took 5 kicks to Austins 1 but in the second, Austin took 4 to Sezer's 1. That almost sounds like a gameplan and something that would hurt his scores week in week out for you. Good idea to just rule him out this season fantasy wise I think.

possible trades for me this week: 
lolohea -> milf
blaw -> asiata

concerned having mbye and milf in same team, so if not seriously considering tolman