2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 21

Archer wrote:
I'll take the fish, sorry @Welshy you'll get a chance for redemption later in the year, for now i want a Shetland up on the wall beside you. So one week avatar MF, nice and simple I win if Raiders win, you win if we are robbed?

When* you are robbed

So we're clear on the rules. I accept

Archer wrote:
I'll take the fish, sorry @Welshy you'll get a chance for redemption later in the year, for now i want a Shetland up on the wall beside you. So one week avatar MF, nice and simple I win if Raiders win, you win if we are robbed?

shit out

Mighty Fishes wrote:

When* you are robbed

So we're clear on the rules. I accept

Awesome, well I'm in Bruges this weekend so in the very unlikely event we lose, I'll have to ask a mod to update my pic but I've got a sneaky suspicion I won't have a problem finding one willing to do so.

@Chucky I'm not satisfied with my measly 9 point victory in Elite league this week, and I hope you will give me another chance to give you a proper thrashing in our L1 matchup.
Here are Dookies of War that are coming for you this week Chucky. Let me taste your fear, boy!

Smith(c) McInnes(r)
Wallace AFB
JDB Barnett ET Hess(r) Kaufusi(r)
DCE Lamb Jacks(r)
SMat Mitchell
Guthers RTS Ponga

Reading between the lines of that interview with Flanagan has made me think even more that brailey's time is up unfortunately. He can have one more appearance for me in NPR if Segeyaro makes the 17.

It was the comment about the job being his for the next 10 years but this year he can have some fun, that got me. Reeks of this year he's not quite ready and definitely won't be playing 80mins

Jacks feels like an Ok 4th reserve for now

Sironen > Whitehead
Moses > Gutho

Leaves me with 6k

Worth the trades or not really?

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Sironen > Whitehead
Moses > Gutho

Leaves me with 6k

Worth the trades or not really?

Can't have the money stashed forever, I don't mind these trades just don't expect Gutherson to keep carving

I agree, priced at 42 points now, Gutho will go up for a little and then come back down. People just get excited by his numbers but arn't looking at how he scored them during the game. Game 2 especially, scored 20 points in about 79 minutes. He has a twenty in him for sure. Even as a Gutho owner it would be funny if he gave it this week to panic all those who just traded him in

Had a close look at my side tonight and think I've settled on 2 trades. While I want to offload Guerra and Austin I have other players to get this week. And Guerra can go for Whitehead / Bhompson / JBromwich in week or 2 if it still looks like a go. I thought about Guerra > Hess this week and last, but that ship has sailed now imo. Not much to make off him seeing he will back on the bench next week most likely. I could do Guerra > Vaughan for 55k but I'm hesitant to do that with the other 3 I mentioned above dropping in price rapidly. Besides I have James Graham and Fifita up front already.

Suli 207k > Slater 217k

The coach drama at the Tigers make me wary of playing them, and hes been mud the past 2 weeks anyway so a return to kiddy football is probably on the cards sooner rather than later for him, and Slater is Slater... if he stays fit. That's a big IF, but for 10k it's worth a risk.

Hingano 180k > Jacks 220k

Missed the boat at the start picking the wrong one but he still has some coin to make. And Hingano's time is up anytime now, most likely this week. 28 tackles per game for Jacks against 3 solid teams is pretty handy. And surely when they play some shitto's he will jag a few more attacking stats. Either way there is no-one to downgrade Hingano to, so a small stepping stone upgrade is the only way to offload that I see atm.


Am I mad? LOL

Pookus McFly wrote:I agree, priced at 42 points now, Gutho will go up for a little and then come back down. People just get excited by his numbers but arn't looking at how he scored them during the game. Game 2 especially, scored 20 points in about 79 minutes. He has a twenty in him for sure. Even as a Gutho owner it would be funny if he gave it this week to panic all those who just traded him in

Missed him first up so will hopefully pick him up in the run to Origin.

Damnit, I feel like you guys have got in my head with Crichton.
I am so confident he moves back to the bench.
And yet...
Imagine if he somehow pulled a Hess and, even if through injury, he kept his spot. -What extraordinary value and great byes!
Any crazy motherfucker who makes such a ballsy gambit deserves for it to pay off.
And I want to be that crazy motherfucker so badly.

arsendragon wrote:Had a close look at my side tonight and think I've settled on 2 trades. While I want to offload Guerra and Austin I have other players to get this week. And Guerra can go for Whitehead / Bhompson / JBromwich in week or 2 if it still looks like a go. I thought about Guerra > Hess this week and last, but that ship has sailed now imo. Not much to make off him seeing he will back on the bench next week most likely. I could do Guerra > Vaughan for 55k but I'm hesitant to do that with the other 3 I mentioned above dropping in price rapidly. Besides I have James Graham and Fifita up front already.

Suli 207k > Slater 217k

The coach drama at the Tigers make me wary of playing them, and hes been mud the past 2 weeks anyway so a return to kiddy football is probably on the cards sooner rather than later for him, and Slater is Slater... if he stays fit. That's a big IF, but for 10k it's worth a risk.

Hingano 180k > Jacks 220k

Missed the boat at the start picking the wrong one but he still has some coin to make. And Hingano's time is up anytime now, most likely this week. 28 tackles per game for Jacks against 3 solid teams is pretty handy. And surely when they play some shitto's he will jag a few more attacking stats. Either way there is no-one to downgrade Hingano to, so a small stepping stone upgrade is the only way to offload that I see atm.


Am I mad? LOL

More I look at Slater the more I think I want him in my side, just matter of when to get him in and for who

SI wrote:

Missed him first up so will hopefully pick him up in the run to Origin.

Yeah smart play. It smarts watching Norman kill it knowing how long I had him in my draft teams, but I have resigned to waiting until round 11/12 now. He can't keep that up when he plays the harder teams.

Pookus McFly wrote:Damnit, I feel like you guys have got in my head with Crichton.
I am so confident he moves back to the bench.
And yet...
Imagine if he somehow pulled a Hess and, even if through injury, he kept his spot. -What extraordinary value and great byes!
Any crazy motherfucker who makes such a ballsy gambit deserves for it to pay off.
And I want to be that crazy motherfucker so badly.

Siro - Crichton next week if he holds his starting spot? Will give an indication of future plans when Burns return maybe

arsendragon wrote:Had a close look at my side tonight and think I've settled on 2 trades. While I want to offload Guerra and Austin I have other players to get this week. And Guerra can go for Whitehead / Bhompson / JBromwich in week or 2 if it still looks like a go. I thought about Guerra > Hess this week and last, but that ship has sailed now imo. Not much to make off him seeing he will back on the bench next week most likely. I could do Guerra > Vaughan for 55k but I'm hesitant to do that with the other 3 I mentioned above dropping in price rapidly. Besides I have James Graham and Fifita up front already.

Suli 207k > Slater 217k

The coach drama at the Tigers make me wary of playing them, and hes been mud the past 2 weeks anyway so a return to kiddy football is probably on the cards sooner rather than later for him, and Slater is Slater... if he stays fit. That's a big IF, but for 10k it's worth a risk.

Hingano 180k > Jacks 220k

Missed the boat at the start picking the wrong one but he still has some coin to make. And Hingano's time is up anytime now, most likely this week. 28 tackles per game for Jacks against 3 solid teams is pretty handy. And surely when they play some shitto's he will jag a few more attacking stats. Either way there is no-one to downgrade Hingano to, so a small stepping stone upgrade is the only way to offload that I see atm.


Am I mad? LOL

I like Hingano for Jacks, should keep scoring solid 30s for 4-5 weeks and make much better rises than Hingano who is struggling to make cash and could be out for Foran soon.
I like bringing in Slater, and am would like to do it myself but have to wait a week. I just don't think trading Suli is the right move. He is being paid too much to justify running around in the lower grades. Sure he has been bad, but no worse than a half dozen other Tigers (Naiquama cough cough) so I doubt he will be singled out. Still have a BE of 15. how would you feel if he scores a try this weekend or next and bags a 50 and he takes off for another 100k

Welshy wrote:
Siro - Crichton next week if he holds his starting spot? Will give an indication of future plans when Burns return maybe

Cannot sit on Siro. Will not abide it. Also I need to grab a new WFB so I don't have to play Abbey and I have no cash. Surprisingly, all my other middies are generating cash. but Siro is stunted. He is the only sellable player I have and much like the Tigers, I am only too eager to show him the door. He was already becoming either AFB or Capewell, and I was having a hard time wrestling that decision. Crichton has only made things more complicated.

Pookus McFly wrote:

I like Hingano for Jacks, should keep scoring solid 30s for 4-5 weeks and make much better rises than Hingano who is struggling to make cash and could be out for Foran soon.
I like bringing in Slater, and am would like to do it myself but have to wait a week. I just don't think trading Suli is the right move. He is being paid too much to justify running around in the lower grades. Sure he has been bad, but no worse than a half dozen other Tigers (Naiquama cough cough) so I doubt he will be singled out. Still have a BE of 15. how would you feel if he scores a try this weekend or next and bags a 50 and he takes off for another 100k

Yeah probably right on Suli. Ill have another look, but someone needs to be culled. If I trade Phythian > Slater ive got $0 left so cant make the other trade.

Pookus McFly wrote:I agree, priced at 42 points now, Gutho will go up for a little and then come back down. People just get excited by his numbers but arn't looking at how he scored them during the game. Game 2 especially, scored 20 points in about 79 minutes. He has a twenty in him for sure. Even as a Gutho owner it would be funny if he gave it this week to panic all those who just traded him in

Sitting up there on ya Gutho high horse, "oh he has a 20 in him for sure"

TRY LIVING WITH A BLOODY -3

Ruined my day that did

Pookus McFly wrote:@Chucky I'm not satisfied with my measly 9 point victory in Elite league this week, and I hope you will give me another chance to give you a proper thrashing in our L1 matchup.
Here are Dookies of War that are coming for you this week Chucky. Let me taste your fear, boy!

Smith(c) McInnes(r)
Wallace AFB
JDB Barnett ET Hess(r) Kaufusi(r)
DCE Lamb Jacks(r)
SMat Mitchell
Guthers RTS Ponga

I can't say that I was satisfied either.
My hopes rested on Fifita and Brailey upgrading but I fell short.
I'll have Stormin' Norman back this week to stiffen up my halves, which should also steal some of Gutherson's.
Haven't decided on trades yet, and I haven't looked to see who i'm up against in any of the leagues.
Best of luck.....

but not as much luck as you had last week.

Stone to ponga or slater or Aubbs