2018 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 2

Alfie wrote:

Same here. I've appeared confident with Cronk and Watson in posts previous but to be honest I'm not confident about either of them. Especially Cronk

Agonising over the halves for hours I came to the conclusion that only DCE or Munster are options.

Pookus McFly wrote:headache selections for every position but half.
Not really sold on anybody in the halves tbh

Alfie wrote:

Same here. I've appeared confident with Cronk and Watson in posts previous but to be honest I'm not confident about either of them. Especially Cronk

Same for me, moreso because I'm trying to find value

LCroker will start for me if named for Manly, then its from

Cronk
JRey
Croft
CWalker
Thurston
Mbye

White Lightning wrote:

Agonising over the halves for hours I came to the conclusion that only DCE or Munster are options.

At the beginning I was super happy with Munster in my team but at the time my bench was very average. Now I have a strong bench and I don't want to jeopardise that to bring him back

I remember in 2016 when Bulldogs were doing well, Mbye was killing it early on. I remember a 92 in one of the first games and a lot of high scores. No need to be embarrassed about that call I reckon

You can add Moses and Townsend as well

Alfie wrote:I remember in 2016 when Bulldogs were doing well, Mbye was killing it early on. I remember a 92 in one of the first games and a lot of high scores. No need to be embarrassed about that call I reckon

Just the unknown playing fullback, his skill set is certainly more suited to fullback than the halves, not sure he has the TB ability from fullback to rack up the Tedesco esque scores consistently though?

White Lightning wrote:That article about Austin playing hooker did not actually say he'd start at hooker. It said Garvey/Havili would start, Williams on bench & later on in the game Austin would spell Garvey/Havili & Williams would come on at hlf.

I'm not sure there has been anything at all about how they'll be used officially, thought it was all just speculation and the only thing known was that he had spent some time training at hooker.
My point was more that whenever Ricky has something "tricky" in his mind its anyone's guess what the outcome will be week to week, so if week 1 Austin/Williams is named in the 14 I'd be a little cautious about the hookers.
Take previous seasons, one week you'd see Baptiste play 40min another week he might not come on at all, which wouldn't impact Hodgo too much because he's class enough you leave him out there and find space, however i'm not so sure the same would happen for whoever is in his shoes this season.

If Cartwright starts I will be tempted to go super light and run him as my starting half. At least I can be sure he will increase in value whilst I see what the rest of the options are doing for this season, I am not confident in any of the premiums and worry the inverse will happen.

Welshy wrote:

Just the unknown playing fullback, his skill set is certainly more suited to fullback than the halves, not sure he has the TB ability from fullback to rack up the Tedesco esque scores consistently though?

Mention TB's and choose Teddy over Rapa as the benchmark... some days i swear you do it just to wind me up others I'm worried there might be something wrong with the Welsh water/air.

Archer wrote:
Mention TB's and choose Teddy over Rapa as the benchmark... some days i swear you do it just to wind me up others I'm worried there might be something wrong with the Welsh water/air.

Well when comparing Tedesco and Rapana there is a reason for it

Ted - avg 8 TBs a game
Rapa - avg 7 TBs a game



ouch.

Welshy wrote:

Well when comparing Tedesco and Rapana there is a reason for it

Ted - avg 8 TBs a game
Rapa - avg 7 TBs a game



ouch.

Thought you were talking about a players ability to break a tackle, not be awarded one for being a stats darling. My mistake.

If its purely on ability then Rapa breaks tackles like i break wind, frequently, just for fun and with reckless abandon. Whereas Tedesco also "breaks" tackles the way a woman breaks wind, so sneaky and careful you'd be forgiven for thinking it never actually happened....

Archer wrote:
Thought you were talking about a players ability to break a tackle, not be awarded one for being a stats darling. My mistake.

If its purely on ability then Rapa breaks tackles like i break wind, frequently, just for fun and with reckless abandon. Whereas Tedesco also "breaks" tackles the way a woman breaks wind, so sneaky and careful you'd be forgiven for thinking it never actually happened....

You crack me up.

Good to have you back

Welshy wrote:

You crack me up.

Good to have you back

Haha cheers, good to be back, where else would i get my inspiration from but here...

Speaking of, who are you leaving out of your team this season for some unknown reason? Would love to know the 2018 Whitehead ahead of time...

fantastic analogy

Archer wrote:

Welshy wrote:

Well when comparing Tedesco and Rapana there is a reason for it

Ted - avg 8 TBs a game
Rapa - avg 7 TBs a game



ouch.

Thought you were talking about a players ability to break a tackle, not be awarded one for being a stats darling. My mistake.

If its purely on ability then Rapa breaks tackles like i break wind, frequently, just for fun and with reckless abandon. Whereas Tedesco also "breaks" tackles the way a woman breaks wind, so sneaky and careful you'd be forgiven for thinking it never actually happened....

Kalyn 'Ponger' of course being the king of ghost TB's...

Archer wrote:
Haha cheers, good to be back, where else would i get my inspiration from but here...

Speaking of, who are you leaving out of your team this season for some unknown reason? Would love to know the 2018 Whitehead ahead of time...

Bunty Afoa with Pulu on the bench. I think he'll be quite popular among second year down syndromes

Trying out a non-Smith team

Cook
Graham Lodge
Brown McGuire Arrow
Thurston Croker
Maubbs Milne
Ted (c) Ponga GI

NAS
Lichaa
Garvey
Cartwright
Whare
Brimson
Kikau
TWright   15k

Archer wrote:
Haha cheers, good to be back, where else would i get my inspiration from but here...

Speaking of, who are you leaving out of your team this season for some unknown reason? Would love to know the 2018 Whitehead ahead of time...

Croft

got a feeling he goes gangbusters and plays 80 in spite of all the rest talk

mulvy wrote:Trying out a non-Smith team

Cook
Graham Lodge
Brown McGuire Arrow
Thurston Croker
Maubbs Milne
Ted (c)  Ponga GI

NAS
Lichaa
Garvey
Cartwright
Whare
Brimson
Kikau
TWright   15k

just fuck Whare off for opacic or kennar and you're sweet