2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 62

who is opposite Fui? Brenko is yeah? Seems like the obvious choice again to play him over Scott (and Hayne, but i'm no chance of selecting him). Scott would be up against Aubbs assuming their is no late shuffles.

my tv broke wrote:who is opposite Fui? Brenko is yeah? Seems like the obvious choice again to play him over Scott (and Hayne, but i'm no chance of selecting him). Scott would be up against Aubbs assuming their is no late shuffles.

Fui will be up against Morris.

Moose wrote:Since you have 5 trades and minimal cash in the bank I would suggest downgrading someone to a nuffie and using the cash to make few upgrades. I think you should try and target someone like Tommy Turbo or a POD James Roberts.

wolfking wrote:
I think you're forwards are pretty set.  Fifi has been disappointing and JDB has been killing it, but that trade is a little sideways.  I'd strenthen up your backs. A downgrade is definitely what you should do and as Moose said, maybe aim for Turbo?

Cheers, Manly look like they have a good attacking run home as well

In the Wacko blog right now on the fox sports website, he is saying quite a bit that Crichton won't play 80. For instance;


Good afternoon Wacko! Is Crichton back to full fitness?
no battling foot, hip and both hand injuries


Will Crichton and Burgess play 80 this wk? If not how many mins??
Burgess yes, Crichton no

Probably can't take anything from it though.

Hold the phone, another one from Wacko coming through;

Rumor of crichton being benched this round?
heard same, just awaiting for my mailman to confirm

oh yeah, forgot about crichton being banged up last week. may well get reduced mins. can't take that captain risk.

Reverting to Smith, though tempted to go with Taumalolo.

wolfking wrote:

Fui will be up against Morris.

nah, checked the tape, Fui plays left, Brenko dogs right (so they match up on each other).

my tv broke wrote:

nah, checked the tape, Fui plays left, Brenko dogs right (so they match up on each other).

No worries, I thought both Fui and Brenko were at 4.

(C)am for me. I'm trying to score the most points.

If Crichton is benched, I'm tempted to revert one of my Munster->DCE, or Semi-> Rapa trades and trade Crichton to Gal.

I haven't seen it / read the interview however apparently Madge has said Crichton will be benched tonight as he needs to work on his defense

Surely it is because he has copped a few injuries of late.

Moose wrote:I haven't seen it / read the interview however apparently Madge has said Crichton will be benched tonight as he needs to work on his defense

Surely it is because he has copped a few injuries of late.

This is the reasoning?! He's our best player.

Does anyone know his BE?

Maybe Crichton coming off the bench will be Hess-esque. Come on nice and fresh against a tired defence, bust 10+ tackles and score a few meaties.

wolfking wrote:

This is the reasoning?! He's our best player.

Does anyone know his BE?

Exactly. It doesn't make sense. In rounds 20 and 21 he didn't even miss a tackle. He did miss 3 last round though. The only concerning stat is he missed 6 tackles verse the Cowboys (both games) however Souths won't be playing them again this season.

Crichton BE = 76

Moose wrote:
Exactly. It doesn't make sense. In rounds 20 and 21 he didn't even miss a tackle. He did miss 3 last round though. The only concerning stat is he missed 6 tackles verse the Cowboys (both games) however Souths won't be playing them again this season.

Crichton BE = 76

76, not too bad if he can still get 50-60 minutes. If that's Madge's reasoning he's seriously lost the plot.

So tempted to trade him if this is the case, who knows what will happen the next week. I might even keep him and bench him and play Slater/Dufty over him, then if he sucks use my last trade next week for Mannering or Gal. Screw you Madge, just bizarre!

'Benched' can sometimes mean he aint playing

Mighty Fishes wrote:


You should of said Hunt to really throw him!

Still weighing up if i should use my last trade on SJ out to any half and ride it home. Otherwise i am running DCE and Watson which is ok, just last weeks 21 from Watto stalled me. Anyone watch the rooters game and justify watto's lower score ?

Revraiser wrote:

Still weighing up if i should use my last trade on SJ out to any half and ride it home. Otherwise i am running DCE and Watson which is ok, just last weeks 21 from Watto stalled me. Anyone watch the rooters game and justify watto's lower score ?

Its harder when its your last trade!

I really want to biff Surgess for Vaughn or Papalii but being my last trade I want to keep it in case of a serious injury.

How long until Gordon is back? That might eb the only thing going against you for Watto

@Moose - I've been thinking about this all day, are you a Manly fan and if so can we call you Sexy Rexy

I'm a bit stuck and was hoping I could get some advice. Normally I can think things through myself but it's been a hectic day and the deadline is closing fast lol. My squad is as follows currently:

Smith (c) (King)
Fifita Vaughan
Gallen Surgess Crichton Mannering Taumalolo JDB
Pearce Nu Brown (Munster Laybutt)
TTrbo Scott (Fui SMat)
Tedesco Walker Edwards (TRD CMat)

2 trades, $87k bank

Do I just play Brown even though his hooker scores are average? Do I leave it up to chance of all the potential AEs (which will probably be Brown anyway)?

Or do I do a switcheroo and put Walker into half, and use a trade to bring in a nuffie CTR/WFB for say, CMat and play TTrbo at the back/Fui at CTR? I regret not having a DPP CTR/WFB cuz I wouldn't be stuck if I did

I'm loathe to use a trade for one week but it's a relatively important week in the H2H world. Anything I'm missing?