2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 39

Shanbon wrote:

As bad as the spine is you cant just blame them. Its a team problem that has come from the coaching. The perfect example tonight was when attacking Eastwood busts a tackle turns gets a great offload off and then the guy who gets the ball looks up to the left and has 3 players to choose from to pass the ball too, Mybe next to him, Hoppa wrapping around and further wide James Graham. Guess what happens? He cuts out the 2 play makers and gives the ball to Graham, he does that thing he does where he runs to the line then slow as all hell passes wider. That pass mind you then finds another forward and the play dies. All that is because for 3 years they have been coached to play that way.

So Mbye is only coached to pass left on the 5th tackle?

You have to have in game nouse and guile and neither Mbye nor Lichaa has it

Playing to a coached structure is fine, but you have to know when to cut loose in vital areas, Reynolds does it

I emailed failhub asking for a detailed definition of a tackle break

I eagerly await their responce

Didn't see the game but kinda amazaed Hess scored another two tries, it's almost becoming normal, albeit for only 36 odd points.

Looking forward to Grahams price drop

Welshy wrote:
You are right, but the play from 9, 6 and 7 from the dogs was atrocious! Has to come from Lichaa he was constantly chucking pies left to Mbye all day, he has to control the ruck better and make better decisions.

Frawley was just as bad, running sideways 5 yards and popping to Klemmer, Tolman to hit up through the middle on the 4th tackle making another paltry 5m

Have to have some more invention than waiting to get lucky on the 5th tackle from a kick, especially when Mbye is the one taking that kick.

Let Mbye do some running on the 4th and Frawley taking on all general play kicking

Have to agree with all of thsi assessment.

Anyone having problems with the App, just keeps loading....

Archer wrote:
See i disagree, if they want a black and white system where its not subjective (I'm not going into the Norman one as i didn't see it and i wouldn't try to defend failhub anyway) then to me it makes the most sense to ignore whether or not an opposition player has touched the ball. Otherwise where do you draw the line. If a kick barely brushes a defender then it shouldn't be a TA either? What about if a pass brushes the finger tips of an attempted intercept?  Besides that I also think that the majority of time the kick itself is going to play a large part in the defenders fumble so I'm happy enough rewarding it as a good kick even if there are a couple of exceptions to that rule that wind up rewarded also.

For what its worth the fullah from Stats (old Prozone) who does the NRL stats never got back to me. I reckon that's pretty average. I also think they ballz'd that one up so perhaps thats why he never offered an explanation. Not very professional if you ask me.

Welshy wrote:I emailed failhub asking for a detailed definition of a tackle break

I eagerly await their responce

I also tried to contact fanhub with no response. I would dare say u will be eagerly awaiting that response for some time....

Honestly they are amateurs. I've asked around the circles I work in and of those that have had dealings with people involved, lets just say the feedback is not that flash. My guess is some of it comes down to the money involved and the rest just comes down to a few fullahs that just don't give a crap. The two usually tie in though right - you don't pay people well and they end up not caring much about their job....

hymenbustas wrote:So is everyone happy with AE's performance tonight? I thought it was a tad underwhelming for 70+ mins forward

I was really happy. For a start he's a $240k player (which I picked up at $170k) that looks to be cementing an 80 min 2RF roll. In terms of his actual fantasy output, I think overall 39 from a $240k player is good but obviously far from great, but I think if he continues in that roll he will get closer to 50 on average. SO overall really happy. And then you get the byes so....

Just gotta hope Des keeps running a 3 man bench Honestly can someone explain that?

Fuck the captain is on Crichton forgot to change it after I rolled back guess that will cost my league game

Revraiser wrote:Lolo ownership @30% but maybe alot of thise inside the top 80 dont have him. I went from 77 to 47 tonight on the back of Tolo, i dont have Graham or Tolman or Hess either. Find things like this intruiging.

@Revraiser did u have anyone else playing? I stayed at rank 62 with just Graham playing who outscored lolo by 2 points. Is it just me or do the live rankings jump all over the place?

Rabbitohs looking at signing Asiata. Doesn't say if it's mid season or next year.

Sauce: Au.sports.yahoo - 7th tackle

Fraser wrote:

@Revraiser did u have anyone else playing? I stayed at rank 62 with just Graham playing who outscored lolo by 2 points. Is it just me or do the live rankings jump all over the place?

Hey mate, actually yes Frawley. Thats 30 points i guess.
Alot of people say that live rankings are all over the shop but ive always found them great, they are according to whats happened etc

Unrelated but worthy of a mention. Can we believe the two scheduled games tonight arent switched around time wise ? I cant believe the scheduling.

manlybeaver wrote:Fuck the captain is on Crichton forgot to change it after I rolled back guess that will cost my league game

Yeah I noticed that when I looked at your match up with Chewie & thought oh no he forgot to change his captain. You never know though mate I think Crichton will be good for 80 mins & probably will get a 50+ score.

The Dragons have cut Havili & Leilua from their 21. The bench is now
Sims, Ah Mau, Sele, Field - 18. Faifai Loa 19. Host

I'm hoping Host comes in for Field so I don't get Field's score as an a.e. with Talakai not playing.

If Field does get bumped my a.e, will be either Cook or CHN.

Revraiser wrote:

Hey mate,  actually yes Frawley. Thats 30 points i guess.
Alot of people say that live rankings are all over the shop but ive always found them great, they are according to whats happened etc

Unrelated but worthy of a mention. Can we believe the two scheduled games tonight arent switched around time wise ? I cant believe the scheduling.

Ahh yeah that explains it then!

There were murmurs of Fuimaono starting tonight on this forum but I can't see any team list that suggests that.

Was going to downgrade Talakai to him and bank the cash. Wise move?

I did Yates>Elliot and had him NPR. Reasonably happy if he covers early bye and makes a bit of cash

White Lightning wrote:The Dragons have cut Havili & Leilua from their 21. The bench is now
Sims, Ah Mau, Sele, Field - 18. Faifai Loa 19. Host

I'm hoping Host comes in for Field so I don't get Field's score as an a.e. with Talakai not playing.

If Field does get bumped my a.e, will be either Cook or CHN.

Definitely a good chance he will drop off the bench so you should hopefully be sweet.

hymenbustas wrote:There were murmurs of Fuimaono starting tonight on this forum but I can't see any team list that suggests that.

Was going to downgrade Talakai to him and bank the cash. Wise move?

You won't know for sure until the team list is out I guess, but when they updated last night and they dropped two off the list it was Talakai and Murray out with Fui still there. So so far it seems the lists reflect what has been rumoured.

Loomer wrote:I did Yates>Elliot and had him NPR. Reasonably happy if he covers early bye and makes a bit of cash

Did FWinterstein out to A Elliot. Had him NPR too. Will net 35K just this week alone with a score of 39. Probably a wait and see but most likely will be used to get a gun after round 13 and before round 15.

I said to people on here to be weary of Tolman. Not sure I'd be happy to have picked him up at that price for a score of 41 but should still be good for the odd 55. Just has no attacking stats and the three missed tackles kills his score.
James Graham definitely a better option, and will drop $25K this week to a price around $465K.

Dissapointed that Lowe didn't see 80 minutes (only 57) for a score of 41. Doesn't look like he will be relevant this year.

Now onto scouting TKO, interested to see how he goes.

Happy with Frawleys 30, just needs a big score, preferably in R12 (only time he will be in my 17), means he can start building towards making some cash in the next few weeks.

Happy enough with last nights game as no1 went big and didn't have any scorers, dropped about 100 places back to 235.

Lolo seems to be the only relevant Cowboy and his price is dropping now so could be worth it before round 15.