2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 63

WT Winfield wrote:If he wasn't scoring like he has the past 3 weeks (all with tries), it'd be the same as before and we'd have learned our lesson from this year.. hopefully.

Stuffness wrote:Out of curiosity, what sort of ranking did people get during their first year of playing fantasy? Trying to decide if i should burn my last 2 trades now trying to get max points or hold them as injury cover to guarantee my league win.
Sitting comfortably on top of my league with an average weekly point gap of 150 to the next best. It's worth noting that it's just a Fantasy Classic league so no bragging rights or anything to be gained, just a warm fuzzy feeling of smashing 15 teams all season hahaha.
Personally i'd like to save the trades but i'm wondering if this is my inexperience holding me back.
I'm thinking it's been a good go of a first year with cracking the 1k twice and currently ranked 3398 but i have nothing to compare this with to know if it is a good year or not.

WT Winfield wrote:I wonder what Merrin's chances of playing are.. I have Leota as a potential bad AE, but Merrin could nix that if he plays.

Hayne playing first sucks, want to leave him out and play both Munster and Leulia, but that AE risk..

Stuffness wrote:

ah, my mistake. I didn't realize he's scored a try in all 3.
I'm expecting knights players will score much better with what looks on paper to be a largely improved team next year.

Oz Sport Mad wrote:

And I respectively accept your differing opinion..........despite how blatantly incorrect it is

Look I've never been a Blair fanboy by any means but I can respect what he brings to a team and it is essentially what you earlier described i.e. a leader, both on and off the field that is a disciplined trainer (there would barely be a fitter prop in the comp).
He also brings a genuine toughness that the young blokes look up to (and that is from the mouth of Bennett himself).

I see your point regarding Bennett and Bellamy but on the flip side, his only other coaching experience was during a pretty tumultuous time at the Tigers when they were punting Sheens and bringing in Potter (but moving him on at the same time too).
In fairness to Blair, I know he was paid pretty well during his time at the Tigers but geez that has cost him a fair bit in terms of reputation (and probably subsequent contracts also).
It's only a small sample size over what has been a pretty bloody successful career but it appears to be the main thing that sticks in most people's minds.

Oz Sport Mad wrote:

Tough call.

Normally I'd suggest Merrin wouldn't be risked but this is a make or break game for the Panthers and the temptation for Griffin to play him would be fairly high I'd say.

Stuffness wrote:Out of curiosity, what sort of ranking did people get during their first year of playing fantasy? Trying to decide if i should burn my last 2 trades now trying to get max points or hold them as injury cover to guarantee my league win.
Sitting comfortably on top of my league with an average weekly point gap of 150 to the next best. It's worth noting that it's just a Fantasy Classic league so no bragging rights or anything to be gained, just a warm fuzzy feeling of smashing 15 teams all season hahaha.
Personally i'd like to save the trades but i'm wondering if this is my inexperience holding me back.
I'm thinking it's been a good go of a first year with cracking the 1k twice and currently ranked 3398 but i have nothing to compare this with to know if it is a good year or not.

WT Winfield wrote:

Yeah and considering Leota's only scheduled to play like 20 mins tops, I could see an 80% Merrin taking his spot come game day.

The other question is whether Hayne will show up or roll over against his old club after this week's dramas.. Would be playing him over Leulia, so maybe not the worst situation.

Moose wrote:Just a heads up to Jarryd Hayne owners. He will not be playing this week due to an "ankle injury". Titans have jumped on the plane to Sydney and Jarryd was not at the airport with the team.

bluetige wrote:Just come back fro my "holiday" to see the effects of no trades, people have vacated this forum in droves, its been really quiet in here. Even the mods have dropped their game, allowing a few threads to goto page 53.

Milchcow wrote:

The real disappointment is threads getting to page 53 without an appropriate party.

Guess you needs trades around to get the gifs happening