2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 60

my tv broke wrote:

will he be charged with "mouthing off" ? haha what is this

Not sure maybe he got arrested for causing a public disturbance or maybe he wasn't arrested but will be in trouble at the Bulldogs & disciplined.

White Lightning wrote:Apparently Josh Reynolds is in a bit of strife. Police allege he mouthed off at Northies nightclub security when asked to leave due to his level of intoxication on Friday night.

Old news, he was with the Morris brothers, got RSAed mouthed off that he wasn't. Left and walked into the Sting Bar next door, which would suggest he may have been right. Slap on wrist ? May be a fine ? Non story

SoylentGreen wrote:ok - team for the week:

McCullough, McInnes
Fifita, Taupau, Graham (Gurgess)
Mannering(C), Crichton, Lolo, Gallen, McGuire, (LeBrown)
Cleary, DCE, (Moses, Brown)
BJ, SMat, (Scott, Fui)
Munster, Edwards, Walker (Semi, Abbey)

Any of those outside the 17 that should be in?

Semi could be worth a punt, he's in hot form. He will be up against Moga and Kahu, could do some damage.

Leilua had a one off season last year. The whole Raiders team did. They had one of the shortest premiership windows in history and they were an Edrick Lee away from a grand final.

wolfking wrote:

I'd go as low as a third even quarter of the player.  He's as bad as his Newcastle days at the moment.

His defence has been horrific at times. Has had a few good games but overall wayyyy down on last season.

MilfordTheMagician wrote:

BJ is half the player he was last season.

He's been down on last year, sure. But that was a fucking good patch of form - not many players will ever hit those marks. He's still averaging a try every second game, a line break a game and 100m a game. Thats better then "scrub" level.

Cody Walker averages higher in the halves, doesn't he?

Rippin and Tearin wrote:Im considering cashing out Fui to bring in Dufty. That will cover me for Rapana this round, and allow me to bring in another gun in the forwards.

BUT, whats the deal with Dufty? Is it likely he plays FB from now on?

Gut feel is that the bloke is a massive trap who cashed in against a very poor Manly team and who will subsequently start rolling out sub-20 scores.

Having said that, the bloke could easily play another game or two and drift off into oblivion (given other appear to be favoured for the utility spot), so may not be a big risk anyway.

filthridden wrote:Cody Walker averages higher in the halves, doesn't he?

The chat earlier in the year suggested he scores better in the halves.

No numbers to back that up thoug

filthridden wrote:Cody Walker averages higher in the halves, doesn't he?

UL numbers, so take it with a grain of salt but itll be close enough;

Total - avg 37, median 36, std dev 16
HLF - avg 42, median 40, std dev 16
FB - avg 32, median 30, std dev 14

ED: typo

Both averages lower than I thought but especially bad at fullback.

Those are Jarryd Hayne-bad numbers

filthridden wrote:Both averages lower than I thought but especially bad at fullback.

Those are Jarryd Hayne-bad numbers :lol: :pp:

The NRL FF numbers might be higher, those are from UL.

But the poor guy plays for Souths, you can't expect too much from him.

Thinking (c) Crichton this weekend. Can't trust Cam anymore (as in I'm not convinced he's definitely going to play)

McInnes (Smith)
Vaughan, Brown (Taupau)
Crichton, Gallen, JDB (Surgess)
Cleary, Pearce (Munster)
Scott, Hayne
Tedesco, Dedwards, Walker

Fui Lewi and Joey (the nephews?) on the pine.
Duck Tales was so fucking cool when I was eight.

Dufty is the new Dylan Edwards

bluetige wrote:Dufty is the new Dylan Edwards

But will he keep the position all year?

Trade in Vaughan or Fifita?

Crichton captain seems a no-brainer, but you just know that as soon as you do it he will either disrupt his current injury or get rested and play small minutes

No Worries wrote:

into the Sting Bar

Sounds like he has served his punishment then.

Random wrote:

But will he keep the position all year?

Casualty ward has Aitken as indefinite. That probably just means they don't know yet. Sounds like it was like Milfords injury so hopefully a couple of weeks maybe? I'm bringing Dufty in so hope to get a couple of weeks out of him.

Garden Chair wrote:Crichton captain seems a no-brainer, but you just know that as soon as you do it he will either disrupt his current injury or get rested and play small minutes

I'm pretty much 99% sold on Crichton as captain also. The fear is if Surgess plays and Sutton an 80 minute player, I hope Crichton doesn't become the new Fui and goes off then Surgess moves into second row like previous weeks. If Madge has learnt anything, he surely needs to see that this doesn't work and disrupts the team greatly. Leave your backrowers at 80 minutes keep Surgess at lock and rotate your forwards more often like you were doing in that mid season period, that worked for him and gives less opportunities for the Burgess boys to drop the ball.

Crichton has showed there is no reason to take him off, obvioulsy of course the injury but by the sounds of it, he desperately wants to play the full game for the rest of the year, and I think he's earned that right.