2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 39

zorasdomain wrote:

Game stats say he played 50 minutes. I can't remember him playing anywhere near that much but total minutes for the game adds up so I mustn't have been paying attention.

Cheers mate

2 weeks of mulling over potential trades and i'm scurrying around like a headless chook trying to figure out what to do.

So I have 14 good players & 3 crap players (Lamb, Talakai, Kelly) in my 17. Hopefully my forwards can compensate for their scores of 20 odd. It would be ideal for me if Field is bumped out of the 17 for the Dragons because if Talakai is dropped my a.e. will be either Cook or CHN. Risky because if Field comes off the bench for the last 5 mins & Talakai is dropped it will be like the Jacks syndrome haha. Risk=reward haha.

White Lightning wrote:So I have 14 good players & 3 crap players (Lamb, Talakai, Kelly) in my 17. Hopefully my forwards can compensate for their scores of 20 odd. It would be ideal for me if Field is bumped out of the 17 for the Dragons because if Talakai is dropped my a.e. will be either Cook or CHN. Risky because if Field comes off the bench for the last 5 mins & Talakai is dropped it will be like the Jacks syndrome haha. Risk=reward haha.

Talakai is confirmed out mate.

Spectre wrote:

JWH probably the safest. Frawley if you want a bit of a risk

sitting just inside the top 2k, im willing to take the risk....Frawley it is

Deuces wrote:

sitting just inside the top 2k, im willing to take the risk....Frawley it is

Don't let your positioning influence you. 2k is right up there and with good bye planning you will shoot up the standings.

In saying that I'm not against playing Frawley at all

mulvy wrote:

I'll still be cheering despite trading him. Go cows

I've kept Ponga so I will be cheering for Coote to blow his calf again. I know this is poor form but I'm an Aries so I'm a bastard.

White Lightning wrote:So I have 14 good players & 3 crap players (Lamb, Talakai, Kelly) in my 17. Hopefully my forwards can compensate for their scores of 20 odd. It would be ideal for me if Field is bumped out of the 17 for the Dragons because if Talakai is dropped my a.e. will be either Cook or CHN. Risky because if Field comes off the bench for the last 5 mins & Talakai is dropped it will be like the Jacks syndrome haha. Risk=reward haha.

Talakai is out

Looking forward to seeing how Ethan Lowe goes this game. I know they are hurting for forwards at the moment, but it will be interesting to see if he's back to 80mins.

White Lightning wrote:

I've kept Ponga so I will be cheering for Coote to blow his calf again. I know this is poor form but I'm an Aries so I'm a bastard.

Don't be that guy, can't stand wishing injuries on people for fantasy purposes

Gray has replaced Talakai in the centres with Fui still on the extended bench in jersey 20

Dear NRL

By not starting your games at the advertised time it means I go and do other things and often forget there's a game on. Plus it's amateur af. Get your shit together.

Signed
Every NRL supporter.

wolfking wrote:

Talakai is confirmed out mate.

The gamble has begun haha. Early injury to McCrone in the first 5 minutes for Field to play or Field gets bumped out of the 17.

White Lightning wrote:

I've kept Ponga so I will be cheering for Coote to blow his calf again. I know this is poor form but I'm an Aries so I'm a bastard.

I'm also an Aries, but I don't think I'm very bastardly. Maybe it's just you

But as a Nonga I hope that Ponga doesn't get to play again this year. Or at least not until everyone has already sold him.

White Lightning wrote:

The gamble has begun haha. Early injury to McCrone in the first 5 minutes for Field to play or Field gets bumped out of the 17.

Gone back to back.

Nice.

White Lightning wrote:

The gamble has begun haha. Early injury to McCrone in the first 5 minutes for Field to play or Field gets bumped out of the 17.

Yeah good luck with that

White Lightning wrote:

I've kept Ponga so I will be cheering for Coote to blow his calf again. I know this is poor form but I'm an Aries so I'm a bastard.

I lolled

Can't wish an injury and Coote seems like a non-tool which is always a plus.
Either way, I have no players playing tonight so an injury isn't going to change that but I wouldn't mind if the following players get sent off or score extremely poorly and I mean EXTREMELY. Like Jai Field or Feeney bad.

Hess
Frawley
Graham
Tolman
Elliott

filthridden wrote:

I lolled

Can't wish an injury and Coote seems like a non-tool which is always a plus.
Either way, I have no players playing tonight so an injury isn't going to change that but I wouldn't mind if the following players get sent off or score extremely poorly and I mean EXTREMELY. Like Jai Field or Feeney bad.

Hess
Frawley
Graham
Tolman
Elliott

Yeah sometimes if you don't have guys playing it can be fun to just death ride the popular ones you don't have

mulvy wrote:

I'll still be cheering despite trading him. Go cows

Cows have always been my 2nd favourite team as any team that denies Broncos a premiership is automatically my 2nd favorite team and having Hess and Ponga helped as well

I was going to go Wallace -> Brown and Idris -> Fui however 5 mins before lockout and a quick catch up glance of the forums, I changed it up and went Winterstein -> Elliot. I hadn't really intended to get Elliot because a part from a couple of tries and extra game time due to injury his scores haven't being anything special. I did need extra scorers for the byes so hopefully it pays off.

With this trade, it also means I'm playing Elliot tonight (not feeling very confident on him scoring that well tonight). The plan now is to do the Idris/Fui trade and next week get Brown in for Wallace and the following week Graham in for McGuire.