2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 2

White Lightning wrote:@ Filth. So you think Key is a nice guy my friend. Have a read of this.

http://aotearoaawiderperspective.com/2008/08/04/john-key-and-the-things-he-does-not-want-you-to-know-part-1-the-attack-on-the-nz-dollar-in-1987/

Other headlines on that website include:

"A beginners guide to 911 truth"
"How to recongnise a shill: 25 hallmarks of shill behaviour"
"The end of America, Facism in 10 easy steps"

Are you seriously going to claim this website/blogger is a credible source of anything?

Key was an investment banker. Investment bankers are slaves to the dollar. No doubt he did some bad, immoral things while earning the dollar. He then became leader of our country and do you know what, he made some decisions I don't agree with and probably more so behind close doors. Yes, most nations leaders probably do the same, yes that includes our previous leadders, no that does not make it right or OK.
He'll still be remembered as one of our countries best ever leaders and yes, I stand by that he's a nice guy.

Be glad you don't have to deal with Turnbull or Abbott over there. Can't comment if they're nice people or not as I have never met them but find very few redeeming qualities about either of them or their leadership style but then Australian politics is very different to that in NZ.

SoylentGreen wrote:Just read the DT's predicted Cowboys 17 - they've got a bench of Kaufusi, Hampton, Hess & Asiata. Seems super light - expecting Hess to play prop? If that's how they do line up, Bolton and Kaufusi look like super value.

One of my mates is a Cowboys member and while it's not exactly inside info he has been talking up Hess playing in the middle all preseason

This is what I've got at the moment. Much prefer Hingano and Cleary over Moses and Hodkinson

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

This is what I've got at the moment. Much prefer Hingano and Cleary over Moses and Hodkinson

Similar to what I have but I have no Munster or Cleary. I have Norman and Tedesco (I think?)

Also have someone else instead of Whare but don't remember who. Probably someone who'll be better than any of your players put together, MS... going on my history of beating you every year.

How many mins did Hingano play in round 24? (there's some data missing in @Milchcow's team planner) It looks like he'll be a reasonable cashcow for the beginning of the season.


Edit: Nevermind, I found it at nrl stats, it was 63 mins

30 points
11 tackles
74 Run meters
1 Try Ass
1 LB
1 LBA
2 TB
1 MT
2 Errors
32 KM

@ MS. Good team but why pick Munster if he plays in the halves. Mind you you've probably factored in Slater getting injured in round 1 so Munster will go back to f/b. Munster gets his points mainly from run metres & t/b's but he won't get these & won't get his hand on the ball enough at half with Cronk dominating.

Here's my no Smith team which I'm going with. Starting with Segeyaro instead but if he doesn't sign with the Sharks I'll probably revert to a Smith team:

Segeyaro (C. King)
Fifita, McGuire, Musgrove (Easy E)
Surgess, Sione Mata'utia, K-Brom, Hess, Kennedy (Stimson)
Norman, A-Rey, Cartwright (Hingano)
Whare, Idris (C. Scott, B. Kelly)
T-Trbo, RTS, Hayne (R. Jennings, Dylan Edwards)

6 more weeks of speculation, theories and hypotheticals, come on TLT I'm going nuts waiting

White Lightning wrote:@ MS. Good team but why pick Munster if he plays in the halves. Mind you you've probably factored in Slater getting injured in round 1 so Munster will go back to f/b. Munster gets his points mainly from run metres & t/b's but he won't get these & won't get his hand on the ball enough at half with Cronk dominating.

Munster will only be in my team if (as expected) Slater isn't fit round 1

Had a look at a team with my tried and true method of solid 2RFs. I actually quite like it

@ SG - I like your team as well except Uate. If you could upgrade him your team would be perfect mate.

White Lightning wrote:Here's my no Smith team which I'm going with. Starting with Segeyaro instead but if he doesn't sign with the Sharks I'll probably revert to a Smith team:

Segeyaro (C. King)
Fifita, McGuire, Musgrove (Easy E)
Surgess, Sione Mata'utia, K-Brom, Hess, Kennedy (Stimson)
Norman, A-Rey, Cartwright (Hingano)
Whare, Idris (C. Scott, B. Kelly)
T-Trbo, RTS, Hayne (R. Jennings, Dylan Edwards)

That's a 1000+ team if they all fire in a round, straight off the bat.

White Lightning wrote:@ SG - I like your team as well except Uate. If you could upgrade him your team would be perfect mate.

Kenny Sio

Mullen has tested positive for banned substance, suspended immediately pending investigation.

White Lightning wrote:@ SG - I like your team as well except Uate. If you could upgrade him your team would be perfect mate.

Yeah - he's clearly the weakest link. If Segeyaro ends up at the Sharks at around 300k, I could go him instead of Luke, and Holmes/French for Uate

my tv broke wrote:Mullen has tested positive for banned substance, suspended immediately pending investigation.

Wow he'd be the last person you'd think would do that.

my tv broke wrote:Mullen has tested positive for banned substance, suspended immediately pending investigation.

No! Not Mullverine!

Chewie wrote:

my tv broke wrote:Mullen has tested positive for banned substance, suspended immediately pending investigation.

No! Not Mullverine!

White Lightning wrote:

Wow he'd be the last person you'd think would do that.

Given his injury history, he was probably desperate to prolong his career.

Who needs Captain Cam? (c) Super Kenny Sio!


Also we should do a thing where a fan / supporter from each club recommends a Fantasy player from that squad (Example - early on my hot tip from the Broncos was Josh McGuire) then build a squad involving those players.

I suspect it would look something like this...

Storm - Smith
Broncos - McGuire
Tigers - Tedesco / ET / Woods