2017 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 58

Spuddies wrote:
I'm leaning towards this but I miss Smith and I'm sick of having to worry about who I'll captain each week!

That alone is a good enough reason and why Smith is so important to have in your side.

Not having him available as a captain option during the bye period really set me back, he'll be set and forget for me from here on.

Pain wrote:Team could be

Macca 
Taupau Fifita JBrom
Surgess Chrichton JDB Mannering Brown
Munster Cleary CWalker 
Turbo Scott
Teddy RTS Edwards

Res. King Gurgess Fui Moga Lolohea

Definitely Macca Munster and Teddy looking at that.

mango wrote:

Definitely Macca Munster and Teddy looking at that.

Cheers mate.

Well shit those are both my HLF's gone. Oh dear my tenuous hold on my league is slipping away from me ever so slightly.

So
SJ & A Rey out. Pearce and DCE in.

$25k and 1 trade left. Oy vey. Should I move Munster to HLF and get Teddy in. Decisions, decisions. Aye aye aye

mango wrote:In need of some advice lads.

SJ to Pearce and Fui to Teddy gives me a final 17 of,

Smith, McInnes
Fifita, Taupau
Gallen, Surgess, Mannering, JDB, Taumalolo, Brown
Pearce, Cleary  ( WFB dpp)
TTurbo, Scott, Hayne
Tedesco, Munster, Mansour, RTS, Edwards

Or save the two trades for another week as I can cover SJ with Munster for now.

Thanks in advance.

if you don't have to do it this week I would have look this week, to see how Pearce goes with the new dummy half. What kind of service he gets !!

Wait what the fuck.. Reynolds is out?

My season is doomed if A. Reynolds is missing a month.

I have Friend, Johnson and Reynolds I would need to move with only 2 trades.

Add to that, it would mean I would end up playing 1 of Scott/Fuimoana in my squad as well as a result of not being able to trade all 3.

Random wrote:Wait what the fuck.. Reynolds is out?

Someone posted a photo on Twitter of A Rey in a thumb guard at a fan day or something. Thought it might have been a lot of nothing as playing on with a thumb guard is not uncommon.
The Mole tweeted about him missing a month though and even he wouldn't be posting such blatant fake news so it must be true.

Taking a punt, going Munster over Friend for the run in, final 17 and 2 trades ledt

Smith McInnes
Fifita Taupau
Gallen Crichton Surgess Mannering JDB Taumalolo
Munster Cleary
Leilua Hayne
Edwards Mansour Tedesco

I need 3 reserves from:

SMat, Fui, Moses, BJ, Semi

Morning champs. Just after a bit of team advice.

McInnes, Friend
Fifita, Taupau, Nuff, Nuff
Crichton, Gallen, Taumalolo, Surgess, JDB, ET
DCE, Cleary, Nuff, Nuff
Croker, SMat, Hayne, Kelly
Edwards, Turbo, Mansour, MWZ, Nuff

5 trades left and 320k in the bank. Rank at 720 an hoping to keep climbing.

mango wrote:The Duges and Fergo drama has made the news headlines on TV now, we'll be hearing loads more about it tomorrow.

I reckon they've both played they're last origin and although they weren't entirely to blame for the loss, they'll be used as scapegoats. On top of the culture problem that's being reported about the team, its not a good look for NSW.

A couple of my mates don't seem to think duges and fergo going to a pub for 8 hours, 5 days before the game, is an issue.

To me, it just reflects their poor character/attitude and lack of respect for their teammates. Origin is a beast and you need to do everything right. They'd lost 10 of the past 11 series ffs. It should be an "all for one, one for all" mentality. Between the two of them, they couldn't have stopped and said, "wait, this might be a silly idea", especially given their history?

If NSW won then the story doesn't get published, but they didn't win, so here we are.

my tv broke wrote:

A couple of my mates don't seem to think duges and fergo going to a pub for 8 hours, 5 days before the game, is an issue.

To me, it just reflects their poor character/attitude and lack of respect for their teammates. Origin is a beast and you need to do everything right. They'd lost 10 of the past 11 series ffs. Between the two of them, they couldn't have stopped and said, "wait, this is a silly idea" ? If NSW won then the story doesn't get published, but they didn't win, so here we are.

Why is it an issue? They had a day off and went to the pub to have a social meet up with mates - no report of poor behaviour or over indulging. What else is there to do in Kingscliffe? Loz made it clear there was no curfew on players.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Morning champs. Just after a bit of team advice.

McInnes, Friend
Fifita, Taupau, Nuff, Nuff
Crichton, Gallen, Taumalolo, Surgess, JDB, ET
DCE, Cleary, Nuff, Nuff
Croker, SMat, Hayne, Kelly
Edwards, Turbo, Mansour, MWZ, Nuff

5 trades left and 320k in the bank. Rank at 720 an hoping to keep climbing.

Few options that I can easily see;

Friend to Smith
SMat/Croker/ET to Teddy via Turbo
ET to Mannering/Brown

wolfking wrote:

Few options that I can easily see;

Friend to Smith
SMat/Croker/ET to Teddy via Turbo
ET to Mannering/Brown

Cheers wolf. Will have a look at those

I'd be better off trading both SJ and A Reynolds this week, and getting Smith next week, right? (obviously this is pending confirmation of reynolds injury).

Just gotta pick the right captain, for a change.

Thinking about not bringing in Pearce as he has a high b/e and who knows how he will play without Friend,then I realised he is playing Newcastle hmm. It all depends on Scott keeping that CTR spot otherwise I'll bring in Turbo for Fui.
How does this team look?

Smith McInnes
Fifita Taupau Brown Eisenhuth
Taumalolo Gallen JDB Surgess Crichton Fai
Pearce DCE NuBrown Hampton
BJ Scott Fuimaono Kelly
Munster Mansour Edwards Hayne Phythian

Picking up Macca and Teddy for Friend and SMat for a net spend of 100k is really really temptin

Damn you arey.... first sj now this. Ok to the wiser heads out there i am contemplating 2 options
A. Sj and arey to dce and teddy via munster...means no dpp to cover if one of halves go down
B. Sj and arey to dce ans guths via dpp. Allows dpp to cover injuries.

As i only have 1 trade left after this i think it would be wiser to go option b and miss on teddy.

Thoughts?

Random wrote:My season is doomed if A. Reynolds is missing a month.

I have Friend, Johnson and Reynolds I would need to move with only 2 trades.

Add to that, it would mean I would end up playing 1 of Scott/Fuimoana in my squad as well as a result of not being able to trade all 3.

Friend is listed as coming back rd 23 but with the way these guys recover I reckon he'll be back before then so you'll still get 4 or 5 games out of him.

The other two have to go unless you have someone decent that can fill in temporarily for Reynolds who is also a chance of coming back early as well.

You're not alone with these problems mate, I'm down to my last 2 trades as well and will need to move SJ. Big decisions will need to be made this week.