2016 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 41

Milchcow wrote:Anything official on Segeyaro yet?

Waiting for confirmation he'll be going overseas this year and not making a move to another NRL club prior to June 30

Here's Leeds's CEO talking about potential player movement (bottom of article). May be smoke and mirrors but sounds like any immediate move for Segeyaro is dependent on Hardaker going the other way (Hardaker would be an excellent mid-season pick-up, by the way, both in real life and fantasy terms). The other thing worth mentioning is that Leeds have a full overseas quota so for Segeyaro to come it would mean someone - most likely the useless Beau Buffoon - would have to be paid up and deregistered.

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/leeds-rhinos/leeds-rhinos-rhinos-chief-not-unduly-worried-about-potential-financial-shortfalls-1-7973188

Milchcow wrote:Anything official on Segeyaro yet?

Waiting for confirmation he'll be going overseas this year and not making a move to another NRL club prior to June 30

Really odd and surprising to see him out like he is. Thought he was really good for them and must be more to the story

Finch wrote:$352K in the Kitty

#GetOnMyLevel

$368K in the Kitty with 15 trades left.

#GetOnMyLevel

TBO wrote:

$368K in the Kitty with 15 trades left.

#GetOnMyLevel

rhinoceroo wrote:Bromwich is a bit of a headache. Think Storm are challenging the charge anticipating a ban now and thinking that's preferable to him having 93 points carrying over for the business end of the season. Would mean him missing 2 out of the next 3. When's the disciplinary date?

Never mind. Bromwich found not guilty, free to play.

Finch wrote:$352K in the Kitty

#GetOnMyLevel

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Bren wrote:

My Playing 17 for this week:

1. T Trbojevic
2. T Opacic
3. C Mata'utia
4. T Lolohea
5. K Holland
6. A Milford
7. S Johnson
8. A Fifita
9. C Smith
10. J Graham
11. B Thompson
12. E Whitehead
13. S Burgess

INTERCHANGE:
14. J De Belin
15. B Cartwright
16. J Trbojevic
17. N Cleary

EXTENDED:
18. P Pauli

NOT PLAYING:
M Parcell (injured)
M Gordon (bye)
V Toutai (bye)
C Gutherson (bye)



Plan for next week:

H Hunt OUT
J Tedesco IN
T Trbojevic INTO centres

@TBO - I was laughing at your #getonmylevel, not your squad

Bren wrote:@TBO - I was laughing at your #getonmylevel, not your squad

Really tempted by Parcell to Wallace. 3 round avg 47, BE 27, plays rd 18, plays 80min, Griffin seems to love him there and frankly he is doing really well there. Also frees up about 90k and gives me 17 for this round. And if there's a late exclusion I could then afford Mitchell to Ted. EDIT: Smith is other Hooker and Wallace would just be cover

Would probably need to aim to make my reserves for final 17, 2 x FRF and 2 x 2RF however which wasn't my original plan, but with Friend's avg come off a bit might be better.

Thoughts?

mulvy wrote:Really tempted by Parcell to Wallace. 3 round avg 47, BE 27, plays rd 18, plays 80min, Griffin seems to love him there and frankly he is doing really well there. Also frees up about 90k and gives me 17 for this round. And if there's a late exclusion I could then afford Mitchell to Ted. EDIT: Smith is other Hooker and Wallace would just be cover

Would probably need to aim to make my reserves for final 17, 2 x FRF and 2 x 2RF however which wasn't my original plan, but with Friend's avg come off a bit might be better.

Thoughts?

Sub 50 at hooker isn't keeper material.

TBO wrote:

Sub 50 at hooker isn't keeper material.

Care to explain what's wrong with my thought process rather than a sweeping statement? He would not be in my final 17 as I've stated.

mulvy wrote:Really tempted by Parcell to Wallace. 3 round avg 47, BE 27, plays rd 18, plays 80min, Griffin seems to love him there and frankly he is doing really well there. Also frees up about 90k and gives me 17 for this round. And if there's a late exclusion I could then afford Mitchell to Ted. EDIT: Smith is other Hooker and Wallace would just be cover

Would probably need to aim to make my reserves for final 17, 2 x FRF and 2 x 2RF however which wasn't my original plan, but with Friend's avg come off a bit might be better.

Thoughts?

I am considering this. Kind of. I don't know My other hooker is Friend and bringing in Smith at his current price really screws up every other plan I had for my entire team.
I calculated Wallace's average at hooker to be 45, so a bit better than his overall average, but still not great.
So sorry, I have nothing useful to offer. But I would also appreciate advice on this topic, if anyone has any. Or else any other VALUE hookers I may be overlooking.

mulvy wrote:

Care to explain what's wrong with my thought process rather than a sweeping statement? He would not be in my final 17 as I've stated.

I think its all good mate, though depends on your other players
It's not like previous years where all the hookers were smashing out big scores,with the reduced interchange and the chopping/changing of their minutes there are less 'must have' hookers.
Plenty of over 50 2RF/FRF players this year so can't see why it wouldn't work

I mean for similar value you could have Parcell 50/Napa 50 or Wallace 47 (rd3 avg) /James (61)

Just remember Wallace is a 2 trades gone, one in, one back out unless you shift him into your halves and use as cover for the run in mate

ideally you want Smith and one of Friend/Parcell/Lichaa (if Garvey disappears) as your final 2 hookers

zorasdomain wrote:

I am considering this. Kind of. I don't know My other hooker is Friend and bringing in Smith at his current price really screws up every other plan I had for my entire team.
I calculated Wallace's average at hooker to be 45, so a bit better than his overall average, but still not great.
So sorry, I have nothing useful to offer. But I would also appreciate advice on this topic, if anyone has any. Or else any other VALUE hookers I may be overlooking.

Haha, just did the same thing and got 45 avg at hooker also

Welshy wrote:Just remember Wallace is a 2 trades gone, one in, one back out unless you shift him into your halves and use as cover for the run in mate

ideally you want Smith and one of Friend/Parcell/Lichaa (if Garvey disappears) as your final 2 hookers

I'm confused Welshy, are you saying that I need a 50+ hooker as cover for Smith even if I don't intend to play him in my 17? I was thinking that Wallace just sits there as an 18th/19th man.

zorasdomain wrote:

I am considering this. Kind of. I don't know My other hooker is Friend and bringing in Smith at his current price really screws up every other plan I had for my entire team.
I calculated Wallace's average at hooker to be 45, so a bit better than his overall average, but still not great.
So sorry, I have nothing useful to offer. But I would also appreciate advice on this topic, if anyone has any. Or else any other VALUE hookers I may be overlooking.

Gee that's kinda different. I feel like Smith is a must have and you wouldn't go trading out Friend, so I'd be trying to work out ways to get Smith, if that helps.

Bit of a read of DCE and TTurbo:

http://www.zerotackle.com/surgeries-looming-for-manly-stars-22538/#X07O2gId74Jl48kT.97

Manly coach Trent Barrett says Daly Cherry-Evans and Tom Trbojevic will both have ankle surgery at the end of the season but will play on through the discomfort as the Sea Eagles try to unearth some hope in 2016.

"Tom is on one leg. He will have ankle surgery at the end of the year. So will Cherry," Barrett said.

"The people I feel sorry for are these blokes [playing]. You people don't see, the fans don't see, how hard Jake [Trbojevic] and the rest of these players work. They're up against it. It's bloody hard. It doesn't get any easier... we've got to go to Townsville next week.

"But there hasn't been a game this year where they've given up. And they won't."

Will be keeping a close eye on DCE's scores, I'm planning to bring in Johnson after round 18 so it'll either be DCE or Cleary to go

mulvy wrote:

Gee that's kinda different. I feel like Smith is a must have and you wouldn't go trading out Friend, so I'd be trying to work out ways to get Smith, if that helps.

Yeah, damn Friend and his recent drop in gun-ness ruining everything.
I think for you, though, it sounds like a feasible plan. I can understand your reasoning.

My problem is that I didn't have any idea what I was doing for the first 5 weeks or so and made a royal mess of my team. As such, my team value is only $8.6 mil, which seems to be way less than everyone else around here. I was thinking I might just need to give up and realise I can't have all the best players in every position. Eh, I dunno