2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 14

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

Looking for some narrative with the Idris selection?

I would go 1.Talakai 2.Idris 3.Cotric 4.Suli 5.Kelly IF they all start (don't have Moga). There seems to be doubt over whether the first two DO start, obviously if they're on the bench they move to the bottom of the list.

rhinoceroo wrote:

I would go 1.Talakai 2.Idris 3.Cotric 4.Suli 5.Kelly IF they all start (don't have Moga). There seems to be doubt over whether the first two DO start, obviously if they're on the bench they move to the bottom of the list.

Kelly below Suli? Kelly barely touched the ball, looked dangerous whenever he did, more to come from him no doubt!

Welshy wrote:
Kelly below Suli? Kelly barely touched the ball, looked dangerous whenever he did, more to come from him no doubt!

Disagree. Scored a nice try, but did practically nothing other than that, and scored about 5 points outside that one play. Missed tackles, didn't involve himself and looked SLOW when chased down by Semi with about 20 yards start from DCE's break.

It may be that he went into his shell after that big hit/welcome to first grade lesson, but I didn't see enough of him to put in my 17 again. Suli, on the other hand, looks a natural in a team that likes to spin it wide, and will score a hell of a lot more tries than Manly. That logic works for Cotric as well.

Pretty sure we will see changes in the forward pack for the bunnies this week, Crichton springs to mind.
Also think Cook may move to 7

Also for those chasing last weeks points of Teddy, Tigers draw about to get real ugly after this weekend against the Panthers, Raiders (A), Storm (H), Dragons (H), Cowboys (A), Eels (A).
Teddy will probably still average 50 but that's what he's priced at, he won't hit 90's too often over the next wee while one would think.

rhinoceroo wrote:

Disagree. Scored a nice try, but did practically nothing other than that, and scored about 5 points outside that one play. Missed tackles, didn't involve himself and looked SLOW when chased down by Semi with about 20 yards start from DCE's break.

It may be that he went into his shell after that big hit/welcome to first grade lesson, but I didn't see enough of him to put in my 17 again. Suli, on the other hand, looks a natural in a team that likes to spin it wide, and will score a hell of a lot more tries than Manly. That logic works for Cotric as well.

He did look slow mate don't think he realised how close Semi was behind him, I reckon he improves after his first hitout! Got TBs in him. I'm probably looking at CTR being more involved than a winger but valid points about the tigers backline and the raiders

These trades sound alright?
Pythian to Moga via Mitchell
Prior to Wallace

McInnes Brailey
Fifita Wallace Musgrove Papalli
JDB Gallen SMat Kaufusi Siro MCK
Cleary Lamb Elgey Jacks
Moga Talakai Idris Kelly
TTurbo Mitchell RTS Hayne Cotric

Moving Mitchell down means I can leave Jayne on the bench, although I won't have a dpp in the CTRs to move him back easily.
Other option is to miss Moga and bring in Suli

Goondalf wrote:These trades sound alright?
Pythian to Moga via Mitchell
Prior to Wallace

Sounds good, although Prior to Wallace sideways?

Madness to trade in Barnett based off that one game. He averaged 50 last year in a very limited number of games when the Knights had less back row depth. He was already very busy in that 75 minutes on the edge averaging 32 tackles and 125 metres. I predicted him at around 60 minutes per game at lock so would expect him tackles per minute to increase but his metres per run to be slightly down. With Phythian going down injured Sione moved to the backs and Barnett came back on the edge. Yates was already on the field at this point playing lock. Hard to tell if Barnett was due back on at any point since he came on as a direct replacement for Phythian. If Barnett manages to play a similar amount of game time(65+) and put up some decent base stats(45 tackles) then he will be my number one trade priority. But I would not be trading him in off the back of a score in increased minutes that involved attacking stats and kick metres

dreamers wrote:


Sounds good, although Prior to Wallace sideways?

Not sideways if Prior continues to get 42 minutes and Wallace gets 55 mins +. If that is the case Prior will average (35-40) and Wallace (40-50). Good stepping stone to JBrom in 3/4/5 weeks time is what I'm hoping for.

And if Wallace is going that well I might just keep him and move him back to 2nd row, and use SMAT, Sironen etc to pick up JBrom instead. The DPP is a nice bonus.

Gonna try hold jbrom, reserves of sironen, fkaufusi, brailey and elgey.....not confident in it to say the least as i have jwh now in starting 17.

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Madness to trade in Barnett based off that one game. He averaged 50 last year in a very limited number of games when the Knights had less back row depth. He was already very busy in that 75 minutes on the edge averaging 32 tackles and 125 metres. I predicted him at around 60 minutes per game at lock so would expect him tackles per minute to increase but his metres per run to be slightly down. With Phythian going down injured Sione moved to the backs and Barnett came back on the edge. Yates was already on the field at this point playing lock. Hard to tell if Barnett was due back on at any point since he came on as a direct replacement for Phythian. If Barnett manages to play a similar amount of game time(65+) and put up some decent base stats(45 tackles) then he will be my number one trade priority. But I would not be trading him in off the back of a score in increased minutes that involved attacking stats and kick metres

He did score 60 off base stats, its why i am considering upgrading jwh to him

Ross96p wrote:I know smith is the leading fantasy player but i think the tactic this year is to start with someone like mcinnes and use cash cow money to get smith later on when his value has dropped,  631 000 is alot

Gonna trade him in round 8 so you can trade him out in round 11 before he misses 4 games in 8 weeks?

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Are Burns/Jennings likely to be any good fantasy wise?

Burns scored 2 tries for 20 odd points in the charity shield so I'll be avoiding if he is named. If it's Jennings he has a bit more upside

Cheers @Random and @Shanbon for the help with my team.

Still have no idea what to do, but at least I have a few more options haha!

Welshy wrote:
I'd say Jennings will be more so than Burns

What are you basing this on? Lower grade stats say otherwise

Welshy wrote:Guys with the cashie CTRs, who you starting with this week? Early call of Idris (if named to start) and Talakai for me

Talakai and Cotric for me. Not running Idris until he shows he can play 80. Cotric put up solid base stats against a strong defense team and is marking up on Edrick Lee

Honestly never got the popularity for Daifiti on here and Renegades but trading after 1 game

Showbags wrote:

He did score 60 off base stats, its why i am considering upgrading jwh to him

In potentially 11 extra minutes. If he backs it up this week I'm all over him but it's a wait and see for me as all my players scored what I expected. If I had a failed mid ranger in Saifiti/JWH etc. I would be considering it

Hoping for a cashie in the forwards this week to trade Saifiti. If there is no one I'll hold tight.