2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 4

Fortitude wrote:Here is the team i've spent a while putting together, with a number of daily changes. I also have a list of reasons why I f&ck'n hate it.

HOK:
Mcinnes, Balin

(Reason I hate this line up. No Smith. Balin, Need to raise serious cash across the park to ever contemplate upgrading to smith in the future)

FRF
GBurges, Graham, Vaughan, Hoare

(reason I hate it, Gburg i'm not sold on. Vaughan is in as an attempt at a POD, Hoare reminds me of my Ex. Graham is cool)

2rf:

JDB, Whitehead, Hess, LLeilua, Stimson, Arrow
(Reason I hate: JDB is $$$ maybe not worth it at this stage, the rest are all following the crowd really)

Halves:
Cartwright, Lamb, Elgy, Nona
(cartwright might be better in the 2rfs, with maybe a better option like Hunt??. following the sheep with Lamb (see what I did there) and Elgy. Nona is no certainty to get minutes)

Centres:
Bird, Idris, Whare, Jennings

(eh, happy enough with this. is Whare isn't playing rd 1 ill consider swapping out or holding)

WFB:
RTS,Hayne, TTurbo, Ponga, Phythian.

(i'm sick of writing about my hates).

Bottom line, there is still plenty of room for improvement, particularly around the middle of the field.

Would love some advice.

Spectre wrote:I find it crazy that Alvaro can't hold down a first grade spot. He'd walk in to a lot of teams with the way he plays

Milchcow wrote:

Fortitude wrote:Here is the team i've spent a while putting together, with a number of daily changes. I also have a list of reasons why I f&ck'n hate it.

HOK:
Mcinnes, Balin

(Reason I hate this line up. No Smith. Balin, Need to raise serious cash across the park to ever contemplate upgrading to smith in the future)

FRF
GBurges, Graham, Vaughan, Hoare

(reason I hate it, Gburg i'm not sold on. Vaughan is in as an attempt at a POD, Hoare reminds me of my Ex. Graham is cool)

2rf:

JDB, Whitehead, Hess, LLeilua, Stimson, Arrow
(Reason I hate: JDB is $$$ maybe not worth it at this stage, the rest are all following the crowd really)

Halves:
Cartwright, Lamb, Elgy, Nona
(cartwright might be better in the 2rfs, with maybe a better option like Hunt??. following the sheep with Lamb (see what I did there) and Elgy. Nona is no certainty to get minutes)

Centres:
Bird, Idris, Whare, Jennings

(eh, happy enough with this. is Whare isn't playing rd 1 ill consider swapping out or holding)

WFB:
RTS,Hayne, TTurbo, Ponga, Phythian.

(i'm sick of writing about my hates).

Bottom line, there is still plenty of room for improvement, particularly around the middle of the field.

Would love some advice.

To address some of your hates.

JDB I think is a relative safe bet, assuming he keeps the big minute lock position he had for the 2nd half of last year.
He started slowly, and then got eased back after a mid-season injury - but he is one of the few players other than Smith/Fifita capable of a longer term 60+average. Long term I like him better than most in that price range.

Ballin and Gurgess I think will be fine if they are fully fit. Recent news on Gurgess has been mixed to negative so make sure you keep an eye on trials. Personally I am not trusting Ballin but I can see why people would be happy to take a punt.

Subs - I guess you'll have Ballin, Vaughan then 2 of Hoare, Leilua, Elgey, Whare. Doesn't looks solid enough for me. I am not confident you'll get reliable enough scoring from them. Especially for a team without Smith/Fifita I would expect to see stronger reserves

Cartwright scores fairly similar whether he's in 2nd row or the halves. His average slightly higher in the halves due to 2 stinkers from 2nd row last year, but in general its about the same.

pm888 wrote:this slater news is making uate look attractive... ffs

Feline wrote:Eels have names a non-first grade type side to play the Titans this weekend in a trial.

Relevant because who is deemed to be not first grade.

Daniel Alvaro, Dane Aukafolau, Troy Dargan, Isaac De Gois, Bureta Faraimo, Jamal Fogarty, David Gower, George Jennings, Matt Woods, Tim Mannah, Jack Morris, Marata Niukore, Rory O’Brien, Kaysa Pritchard, Jeff Robson, Kelepi Tanginoa, Honeti Tuha, Alex Twal, Joseph Ualesi, James Gammidge, Atini Gafa.

Looks like the King as 80 minute hooker role is mostly confirmed

Warriors wrote:

A lot of these guys weren't picked for the nines (maybe Fogarty, Gower, Jennings, Niukore, Tuha, Ualesi and Dargan) so I would say Brad Arthur is giving these guys a run and filling out the squad with Fogarty, Gower and Jennings. The rest of the first graders are being rested and the first graders that didn't play the 9s are getting a run, simple as that. Why else would Tim Mannah actually be playing?

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Time for the tin foil hat based on that Broncos team.

Bennett played Kodi Nikorima bigger minutes last year so that he would re-sign. Now that the Broncos have him locked up with Hunt on the way out Nikorima will spend the year in QLD cup preparing for a full time halfback role next year. Combining Parker retiring, Thaiday probably in his final year and a heap of young talented forwards at the Broncos Bennett can start bringing them on with bigger minutes preparing for the future. Broncos team could look something like this.

my tv broke wrote:Broncos have named a basically full strength 19 man squad for the WCC. No bench hooker so looks like macca will play 80 unless Glenn relieves him (doubt it).

Arrow and George Fai the notable forwards included in the squad and it would appear Pearson will travel as cover. No korbin sims, or adam blair

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Time for the tin foil hat based on that Broncos team.

Bennett played Kodi Nikorima bigger minutes last year so that he would re-sign. Now that the Broncos have him locked up with Hunt on the way out Nikorima will spend the year in QLD cup preparing for a full time halfback role next year. Combining Parker retiring, Thaiday probably in his final year and a heap of young talented forwards at the Broncos Bennett can start bringing them on with bigger minutes preparing for the future. Broncos team could look something like this.

8.Sims
9.McCullough
10.Blair
11.Thaiday
12.Gillett
13.McGuire
14.Glenn
15.Ofa
16.TPJ
17.Arrow

SI wrote:

Didn't JDB hit large scores again straight after injury? I remember being impressed with his first game back but not sure.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Still looking for 1 person for Ultimate League draft starting Friday morning. 12 hours per pick but obviously if we get everyone online we can pump a few rounds out quickly. Any interest?

wolfking wrote:

I'll join.  Does that mean everyone gets 12 hours to pick each time?  That would run for days, am I reading that right?

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Means if you don't pick within 12 hours you get an auto pick. Can pick in as little time as you want when it's your turn with most taking a few minutes. Just makes it easy with different schedules. League 2 draft looks like finishing in about a week. I'll PM the details of what you need to do.

All discussions take place in the Ultimate League thread so head on over and join in
https://www.nrlfantasyfanatics.com/t329p900-ultimate-footy

wolfking wrote:

Yeah, don't know how often I'll be able to get online once it's my turn, but we'll see.  Is there a code?  I asked in the other thread too.