2017 NRL.COM Fantasy Thread 54

Has any forumite disappeared, as they may have traded out ?

wolfking wrote:I'm pretty set on spending my Smith warchest to bring in Kapow.  Smith playing silly buggers so no point keeping money on the pine for 3 crucial rounds.  Potential team this week;

McInnes Brailey
Taupau Fifita Kaufusi Brown
Surgess Tolo JDB Crichton Elliot Fui
SJ Munster Lamb Laybutt
Smat Croker Cotric Kelly
RTS Slater Edwards Semi Lolohea

10 trades left and 1K!!  Not sure who gets the last reserve, but Elliot should bounce back.  Could sub in Cotric for SMat too and even give Lamb a run against the Tigers.  Plenty of options to get the Smith money back over the next few rounds.

I'm considering playing Lamb over C. Walker.

Revraiser wrote:Has any forumite disappeared, as they may have traded out ?

Slats would have if he'd been here.

Rabbit wrote:

Slats would have if he'd been here.

I almost have, could bend my season right over.
I like ur last post Rabbit, fuck em all !

Graham to Mannering or J Turbo?

TysonFrizellsBottomBitch wrote:I don't think a day goes by without this fucking name pissing me off.

It's only every secound day I wonder why archer isn't posting here.

Those wondering about Lewis Brown.
He is rubbish.
SI, he has never been a gun. He may have been relatively popular at one stage, but never a gun.
He has filled in for just about every position for Manly this year but rarely played decent minutes.
Last week he came on for Sironen and played in his position, as he will do this week IF he starts as named.
He played 21 minutes and scored 6 points from 6 tackles, 1 missed tackle and 21 metres.
However, he is still probably a better option than Whare.
With his BE of 79 you have a few weeks to look for yourself.

Hey guys, need some advice, who should I bring in out of these 4?
Taupau, Fifita, J. Bromwich or S. Burgess

Vaughan and McGuire out for Tualau and Kapow leaves me 200k to upgrade Lolohea and ET going into Rd18. Although none of the options available are gonna be useful byes wise.

ET > Buhrer
Lolohea > DCE/ARey via Munster

Should be good for byes but not nescessarily final 17 worthy.

Onthebeatpete wrote:Hey guys, need some advice, who should I bring in out of these 4?
Taupau, Fifita, J. Bromwich or S. Burgess

Taupau, S. Burgess, Fifita, J. Bromwich in that order for mine at this stage.

Chucky wrote:Those wondering about Lewis Brown.
He is rubbish.
SI, he has never been a gun. He may have been relatively popular at one stage, but never a gun.
He has filled in for just about every position for Manly this year but rarely played decent minutes.
Last week he came on for Sironen and played in his position, as he will do this week IF he starts as named.
He played 21 minutes and scored 6 points from 6 tackles, 1 missed tackle and 21 metres.
However, he is still probably a better option than Whare.
With his BE of 79 you have a few weeks to look for yourself.

I could have sworn he was the highest scoring Centre in a season in 09 or 2010?

Rabbit wrote:

Any DPPs in the 2RF?

Nope, unfortunately not. Would make a huge difference if I did. I am really unimpressed by all the FRFs this year. Taupau is the only one I don't completely hate the sound of but I can't afford him.

Rabbit wrote:Fuck these injuries. Fuck HIAs. Fuck the loophole. Fuck Ramesh and Vijay. And fuck QLD.

I have never agreed with you more, Rabbit

wolfking wrote:I'm pretty set on spending my Smith warchest to bring in Kapow.  Smith playing silly buggers so no point keeping money on the pine for 3 crucial rounds.  Potential team this week;

McInnes Brailey
Taupau Fifita Kaufusi Brown
Surgess Tolo JDB Crichton Elliot Fui
SJ Munster Lamb Laybutt
Smat Croker Cotric Kelly
RTS Slater Edwards Semi Lolohea

10 trades left and 1K!!  Not sure who gets the last reserve, but Elliot should bounce back.  Could sub in Cotric for SMat too and even give Lamb a run against the Tigers.  Plenty of options to get the Smith money back over the next few rounds.

Elliot has been shit for a few weeks now. I'd be reserving Fui over him personally. Elliot did come off for a HIA last week but didn't he pass it and he still didn't come back on?

Revraiser wrote:Has any forumite disappeared, as they may have traded out ?

He doesn't post here, but for Facebook people, Butters is out of trades

Chucky wrote:Those wondering about Lewis Brown.
He is rubbish.
SI, he has never been a gun. He may have been relatively popular at one stage, but never a gun.
He has filled in for just about every position for Manly this year but rarely played decent minutes.
Last week he came on for Sironen and played in his position, as he will do this week IF he starts as named.
He played 21 minutes and scored 6 points from 6 tackles, 1 missed tackle and 21 metres.
However, he is still probably a better option than Whare.
With his BE of 79 you have a few weeks to look for yourself.

That's nonsense. Agree with SI... He WAS a workhorse and machine. At the Warriors he looked like he was going to be anything early doors. Came to Penrith at a time when he was a 2RF listed as centre and almost a must own alongside likes of Nathan and Ben smith and Mannering who were similarly out of position fantasy options

Milch or ST or someone might have the related stats 6,7 years ago, but stats aside he always passed the eye test

GreenMachine wrote:

That's nonsense. Agree with SI... He WAS a workhorse and machine. At the Warriors he looked like he was going to be anything early doors. Came to Penrith at a time when he was a 2RF listed as centre and almost a must own alongside likes of Nathan and Ben smith and Mannering who were similarly out of position fantasy options

Milch or ST or someone might have the related stats 6,7 years ago, but stats aside he always passed the eye test

I seem to remember he was a 40s average when playing 80

Rabbit wrote:I'd already decided on the Vaughan> Taupau trade, but Graham out has really thrown the spanner in the works. I know I'm going to pay for this, but I'm afraid Captain Cam's kitty just got royally rogered and it's hello Future Australian Captain for Pritchard Means I'm stuck with Friend and FAC for the run home, but looking pretty good through 18/19 and Graham still to sell. Fuck these injuries. Fuck HIAs. Fuck the loophole. Fuck Ramesh and Vijay. And fuck QLD.

One of the great speeches

I too am doing Vaughan to Kapow.
Fucking Whitehead, Whitehead should play Survivor, I've been trying to trade the bastard for the last 5 weeks and just can't seem to get him off my island.

Flipped on my trades
Vaughan stays for another week while I reassess which guns I can afford/want/wanna see how Buhrer goes off the bench
Graham>JBrom gives me a bit of bye coverage and hopefully he is back to form. I'm not winning anyway just trying to climb to a decent rank now

Onthebeatpete wrote:Hey guys, need some advice, who should I bring in out of these 4?
Taupau, Fifita, J. Bromwich or S. Burgess

Personally I think Burgess, just because he is a wee bit more consistent than Taupau and Taupau has that sneaky habit of getting suspended. In saying that though Taupau's 10.6% ownership compared to Burgess 34.87% makes him more of a POD.