2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 7

Loomer wrote:Absolutely GM. I hate seeing teams running with Fifi as I never start with him and always jealous. I'm just a CS9 Surgess JDB guy and Fifi gets hard to fit after them. This site has turned me around on Sironen. Awful player but good value as 5th 2RF

Everytime Fifita steps on the field and isn't in my team I'm terrified of what score he can put up in one run. Has to be in my team.

Loomer wrote:

Similar 2RF to me but I have CS9 and Surgess neither of us have Fifi. You've sunk your money into halves I don't like. Cleary surely is near his peak value and with the issues surrounding Norman I'd rather not risk him

Issues surrounding Norman?

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Loomer wrote:Absolutely GM. I hate seeing teams running with Fifi as I never start with him and always jealous. I'm just a CS9 Surgess JDB guy and Fifi gets hard to fit after them. This site has turned me around on Sironen. Awful player but good value as 5th 2RF

Everytime Fifita steps on the field and isn't in my team I'm terrified of what score he can put up in one run. Has to be in my team.

I didn't have him or Ryan James or Munster at all last year. I am actually not even mad that I fell away in the last 5 or 6 rounds, at least I know why.

mulvy wrote:

I've been looking at stats ad nauseam lately, but sometimes I think you just need to trust your eyes. I love watching the guy play. He will be a superstar. Breaks tackles for fun. He's only 20. He's fully fit now. And like you say another year in the system training solely at FB. Like I said locked in for me.

Manly will use T-Trbo like Wests use Tedesco i.e. he'll be the focal point of the attack. Manly have 3 home games in the first 4 so they have a comfortable early draw. T-Trbo will be heavily involved in any Manly tries & will either assist/score tries or both.

White Lightning wrote:

Manly will use T-Trbo like Wests use Tedesco i.e. he'll be the focal point of the attack. Manly have 3 home games in the first 4 so they have a comfortable early draw. T-Trbo will be heavily involved in any Manly tries & will either assist/score tries or both.

Yep.

mulvy wrote:

Loomer wrote:

Similar 2RF to me but I have CS9 and Surgess neither of us have Fifi. You've sunk your money into halves I don't like. Cleary surely is near his peak value and with the issues surrounding Norman I'd rather not risk him

Issues surrounding Norman?

Not sure if you saw my post on the last page but your team name supernintendochalmers was annoying me because I couldn't work it out, till it clicked with a bit of help from google!

Maybe. Or maybe with DCE, Green, Api as their spine Manly have more than enough playmakers and TT plays as a back-up runner on the shoulder. He still could score a lot of points that way, but don't see him in the Ted role.

Or maybe Manly haven't significantly improved on last year, and will suck, despite being at home

SI wrote:

Not sure if you saw my post on the last page but your team name supernintendochalmers was annoying me because I couldn't work it out, till it clicked with a bit of help from google!

Ah cheers mate, I missed it at the bottom of last page. Yes one of my favourite Simpsons references.

I mean they could well have Winterstein and Sironen as their starting back rowers and Jono Wright in the centres

Now I'm thinking I just drop the 90k I have spare turning Holmes into TTurbo and call it a day.

Although no doubt Holmes is a talent, hmmm might just get Don

Milchcow wrote:
I mean they could well have Winterstein and Sironen as their starting back rowers and Jono Wright in the centres

All the more reason to give the ball to Turbo

Anyone going cheap in the halves. These are my halves atm = TMM, Lamb, Elgey, Hingano & apart from Hingano being a 2 game cash cow the other 3 will be good cash cows till origin. Thoughts.

Milchcow wrote:
I mean they could well have Winterstein and Sironen as their starting back rowers and Jono Wright in the centres

Having second thoughts about Walker now

White Lightning wrote:Anyone going cheap in the halves. These are my halves atm = TMM, Lamb, Elgey, Hingano & apart from Hingano being a 2 game cash cow the other 3 will be good cash cows till origin. Thoughts.

cheapest half i would consider is Ash Taylor, too much risk attached if TMM, Lamb, Elgey all falter will need major downgrades elsewhere to fix

Did have Taylor locked in but Peats injury has thrown me off a tad

White Lightning wrote:Anyone going cheap in the halves. These are my halves atm = TMM, Lamb, Elgey, Hingano & apart from Hingano being a 2 game cash cow the other 3 will be good cash cows till origin. Thoughts.

TMM doesn't kick Elgey could eek out 100k by byes if lucky I have him 4th half atm but subject to cheaper cow and Hingano is just silly. How much do you expect to make before you have to waste a trade. Lamb I like

mulvy wrote:

Issues surrounding Norman?

Norman has a penchant for throwing the most exclusive sex parties. As long as he remembers to not film them, he should be gold for fantasy coaches.
great byes over the origin period.
many of the other teams with good byes: rabbits (reynolds) roosters (pearce) sharks (maloney), bulldogs (reynolds) have a good chance of rep footy, with pearce probably 90% in.
i think norman could be a set and forget the whole year. hopefully he learned from last year

pm888 wrote:

Norman has a penchant for throwing the most exclusive sex parties. As long as he remembers to not film them, he should be gold for fantasy coaches.
great byes over the origin period.
many of the other teams with good byes: rabbits (reynolds) roosters (pearce) sharks (maloney), bulldogs (reynolds) have a good chance of rep footy, with pearce probably 90% in.
i think norman could be a set and forget the whole year. hopefully he learned from last year

Oh, I was worried there was something new I didn't know about

Milchcow wrote:
Or maybe Manly haven't significantly improved on last year, and will suck, despite being at home

Thanks for a sobering perspective Milch, all this Turbo talk was making me look for ways to fit Tommy in my ultimate fantasy squad.
I could have easily lost hours of playing nrl fantasy tetris to fit him in without messing up the balance...
You saved my nigh!

Byes and all there's no way I'd pay more for Norman than SJ and atm my most expensive half is Moses