2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 5

my tv broke wrote:

Broncos  game is Sunday 6AM AEST live on GEM (7am ADST). There is a replay at 9 or 10am or something on foxsports.

Sharks v Wigan Warriors, Feb 20, 1:40am AEDT (so basically LATE sunday night). must be a day game

Cheers mate.

Here is the Wenty side for this weekends trial, so a few borderline 1st graders in there, shows where they are at in the pecking order

Wenworthville Magpies

1. Honeti Tuha

2. Bureta Faraimo

3. George Jennings

4. Dane Aukafolau

5. James Gammidge

6. Jamal Fogarty

7. Jeff Robson

8. Alex Twal

9. Cameron King

10. Rory O’Brien

11. Marata Niukore

12. Kelepi Tanginoa

13. David Gower

Interchange

14. James Hasson

15. Atini Gafa

16. Sam Gorman

17. Reece Goldsmith

Is Wade Graham undervalued as his stats in every area were down on previous years?

Bren wrote:Wasn't Rabs talking up Talakai last week? Surely he would have some inside info and know who to look out for. He has a good track record and runs on the board as I clearly remember him talking up Cody Walker before he went on to have a breakout season.

I think Talakai gets first dibs, but there are enormous wraps on Braiden Burns. I think Talakai could end up centre and Burns on the wing. Ultimately I'd like to see 1. Inglis 2. Johnson 3. Hunt (not being talked about much, but solid scorer) 4. Burns 5. Gray. Having said that, I'm waiting until TLT. I haven't got a clue

At the moment practically my entire team bar Gurgess bros have first round bye. Should I be concerned. Why is it all the players I want come from teams with first round bye?

Rabbit wrote:

I think Talakai gets first dibs, but there are enormous wraps on Braiden Burns. I think Talakai could end up centre and Burns on the wing. Ultimately I'd like to see 1. Inglis 2. Johnson 3. Hunt (not being talked about much, but solid scorer) 4. Burns 5. Gray. Having said that,  I'm waiting until TLT. I haven't got a clue

He is a POD I'm seriously thinking about.

No Worries wrote:

I can't imagine this causing any issues at all when people start seeing that almost every player is offside almost every play

Don't know if it has been meantioned. But Josh MacGuire now available at 2RF.

Milchcow wrote:

I can't imagine this causing any issues at all when people start seeing that almost every player is offside almost every play

haha, oh man, thats gonna cause some whinging.

might force the refs into being more vigilant on enforcing it, but damn its gonna cause dramas.

my tv broke wrote:

haha, oh man, thats gonna cause some whinging.

might force the refs into being more vigilant on enforcing it, but damn its gonna cause dramas.

Yeah, more penalties and slowing the game down more is all we need.

Not sure what the thought process is. The refs don't benefit from it. It's just going to give home viewers another reason to hate them.

wolfking wrote:

Yeah, more penalties and slowing the game down more is all we need.

Hopefully the pre-season refs talk (they let all the teams know what they'll be focusing on before the season starts and how they'll be reffing) invovles the 10m offside.

If the first round, teams are penalised for being off-side a number of times, they will change their tactics so to not give away penalties all the time. The idea of the 10m is to have a reasonably fast game. If it's enforced and teams dont want to get penalised then it should in turn speed the game up a bit more which is what we want.

I think the virtual 10m line will be a great thing but not necessarily straight away.

pm888 wrote:Not sure what the thought process is. The refs don't benefit from it. It's just going to give home viewers another reason to hate them.

Theory is that if the refs know they'll be under scrutiny for it, they'll more likely enforce it.

Loomer wrote:Is Wade Graham undervalued as his stats in every area were down on previous years?

Problem before 2016 was Wade was relied on for a lot of the sharks attacking prior to Maloney/Townsend/Barba. So at a guess his stats were probably inflated due to having his hands on the ball a lot more.
I think he was also playing through a niggly injury too last year so make of that what you want, probably slightly undervalued but there are probably better options

pm888 wrote:Not sure what the thought process is. The refs don't benefit from it. It's just going to give home viewers another reason to hate them.

Yep. And what most don't realise is the broadcast you watch has the ref mics off unless they are talking to a player or reffering something to the bunker. There is plenty of chat between the bunker and refs on who's going early or outside backs who are standing offside. The ref then warns the player on the run. Now the armchair critics are going to be losing their mind over nothing.

filthridden wrote:

Theory is that if the refs know they'll be under scrutiny for it, they'll more likely enforce it.

Or it's just another example of the media controlling what the refs focus on by creating fake news.

No Worries wrote:

Or it's just another example of the media controlling what the refs focus on by creating fake news.

Make the NRL great again, too much fake news

Anyone think matagi will improve this year?

Goondalf wrote:Anyone think matagi will improve this year?

nah