2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 40

Johnny B Goode wrote:All I can say is the CTR situation this year makes me yearn for the days when it was Soliola/Bird and Aitken, set and forget.

Y'all could always try giving Josh Morris a go. The guy is the 5th best CTR as far as points scored goes. Has good byes and his time in Origin has passed him by.  

"The days" euan aitken lol

The days were Mannering and Ben Smith at centre

To me buying Taupau now is like getting Tedesco when he was well over $500k or Taumalolo/Vaughan paying a huge premium for someone who can't sustain that 3/5 round average...no way he can sustain those wild TB and offload numbers, he will finish around the 50 avg mark and his byes are shit. If people want him for final 17 for his explosive scoring potential I'd personally wait until R16

HAs there been any updates/clarity around Bannering's injury?

NRL.com has him listed as `indefinite', Fox as round 12, and all the talk at the start in the media was round 12.

Anyone heard anything more?

Rippin and Tearin wrote:HAs there been any updates/clarity around Bannering's injury?

NRL.com has him listed as `indefinite', Fox as round 12, and all the talk at the start in the media was round 12.

Anyone heard anything more?

Is that a typo for the keptin or a new pseudonym im not aware of...?

ryno_ wrote:

Is that a typo for the keptin or a new pseudonym im not aware of...?

Haha - maybe I've coined something new? Im trying to think what it could stand for though... Something to separate him from the garbage the Warriors put up on the weekend?

Rippin and Tearin wrote:

Haha - maybe I've coined something new? Im trying to think what it could stand for though... Something to separate him from the garbage the Warriors put up on the weekend?

Best-thing-to-come-out-of-Wellington-Mannering?

I wasn't having a go - its genuinely hard to keep up with the name shortenings sometimes.

ryno_ wrote:

Best-thing-to-come-out-of-Wellington-Mannering?

I wasn't having a go - its genuinely hard to keep up with the name shortenings sometimes.

Yeah mate, agreed. Nah either a typo or an autocorrect but it does have a bit of a ring to it huh! I just hope Bannering is Back for my round 12 team!!

Joey is lazy

I'm thinking

Norman (thanks for one round) ---> Walker
Leary ---> Fuimaono

Can't afford to trade out players who aren't injured/not being selected at the moment.

Next week will probably be Kaufusi --> Graham for the byes and leave it there for a while.

Any poor bastards pick up Rapana at 540k+ a few weeks back?? Now 450 with a 90 BE.

I'm still waiting on the Hess avatar of shame? The clock is ticking.

Is JDB>Graham next week a bad idea with a plan to get him back. Assuming he doesn't play Origin. If he does then he loses his appeal of holding over byes even more with crucial 15 gone

ryno_ wrote:

Best-thing-to-come-out-of-Wellington-Mannering?

I wasn't having a go - its genuinely hard to keep up with the name shortenings sometimes.

He grew up in Motueka/Nelson

Aubusson has a b/e of 61,shouldn't I cut him loose before he bleeds too much cash? I can swap him to Gallen,leaves my CTRs short but isn't that the case for everyone?

There actually hasn't been official confirmation on Norman's injury yet has there?

I would love to hold but Niko, Lamb and Frawley my other halves. Have Turbo and thinking of Croker as he's bottomed out. Good for round 12 but that's it, but it fucks my DPP's in the backs too which I don't like. Thinking Idris to Fui the second trade.

wolfking wrote:There actually hasn't been official confirmation on Norman's injury yet has there?

I would love to hold but Niko, Lamb and Frawley my other halves.  Have Turbo and thinking of Croker as he's bottomed out.  Good for round 12 but that's it, but it fucks my DPP's in the backs too which I don't like.  Thinking Idris to Fui the second trade.

Latest Re Norman, Turbo, Hayne

http://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-casualty-ward-titans-lose-jarryd-hayne-blues-concerns-for-tom-trbojevic/news-story/629e9206ed0c9c6b95f50a0d90baa889

danseels1985 wrote:Aubusson has a b/e of 61,shouldn't I cut him loose before he bleeds too much cash? I can swap him to Gallen,leaves my CTRs short but isn't that the case for everyone?

I'd hold him as a season keeper in the centers. Find another way to get Gallen

danseels1985 wrote:Aubusson has a b/e of 61,shouldn't I cut him loose before he bleeds too much cash? I can swap him to Gallen,leaves my CTRs short but isn't that the case for everyone?

Don't sell Aubbo, especially so close to origin where they'll lose Cordner and probably Guerra.

OnTheLast wrote:

Latest Re Norman, Turbo, Hayne

http://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-casualty-ward-titans-lose-jarryd-hayne-blues-concerns-for-tom-trbojevic/news-story/629e9206ed0c9c6b95f50a0d90baa889

So based on that, they haven't revealed the scan results for Norman. Don't know if that's good or bad.

wolfking wrote:

So based on that, they haven't revealed the scan results for Norman.  Don't know if that's good or bad.

Yep they're just guessing at this stage. I'm thinking of holding Norman and trading Turbo. Any reason I shouldn't get Will Hopoate?