2018 NRL Dream Team Virtual Sports/Sports Deck (VSDT) Part 1

By the way, what happened with Merrin last night? Cost me ~40 points. I was busy last night but did check the teams, then look this morning and he didn't play.

Gutted cause I had JFH on the bench but instead will get Doueihi's 2....

Rippin and Tearin wrote:By the way, what happened with Merrin last night? Cost me ~40 points. I was busy last night but did check the teams, then look this morning and he didn't play.

Gutted cause I had JFH on the bench but instead will get Doueihi's 2....

Thats harsh. Cruel game. Hurt in the warm up. I dont think there was much you could do even if watching as it was very late and im pretty sure game was locked out? Early call was dislocated finger but his arm was in a sling during footage, so assume its a bit more? Havent checked this morning on latest.

Bullbender wrote:
Thats harsh. Cruel game. Hurt in the warm up. I dont think there was much you could do even if watching as it was very late and im pretty sure game was locked out? Early call was dislocated finger but his arm was in a sling during footage, so assume its a bit more? Havent checked this morning on latest.

Thanks mate. Makes me feel a bit better that I wouldn’t have been able to do anything about it. Gutted though cause I would’ve been on track for a big score

Bullbender wrote:
Thats harsh. Cruel game. Hurt in the warm up. I dont think there was much you could do even if watching as it was very late and im pretty sure game was locked out? Early call was dislocated finger but his arm was in a sling during footage, so assume its a bit more? Havent checked this morning on latest.

First report was dislocation then during the match it came out he had a compound fracture. Bone thru skin isnt a good thing!!

Horrible luck R&T! Missed both games last night due to having friends for dinner, so just good luck none of my players were in Merrins boots

How’s everyone traveling so far? I’m 513 from 8, Captain Cook played. Only a couple players tonight and all the rest tomorrow by the looks

Rippin and Tearin wrote:By the way, what happened with Merrin last night? Cost me ~40 points. I was busy last night but did check the teams, then look this morning and he didn't play.

Gutted cause I had JFH on the bench but instead will get Doueihi's 2....

Same here mate. Did get about 3 minutes warning. Bren posted in the Fantasy thread but I didn't see it straight away as was writing a longish post; was watching the coverage but was 1 minute behind as rewound the Sio dropped try 3 or 4 times ; then went to sug Merrin out and the site was doing that green circle loading for about 30 seconds; literally saw the clock wind down to 0 while I was pressing the S on Merrin

Same thing happened when Maubbs was becnched early int season, had a minute to sub out but copped the loading screen for 30 seconds as was on my Draft page when heard. Ahhh well, I am semi rural so have to rely on wireless and it is so variable speed wise.

So I took the C off Cook for the first time in weeks and put in on Arrow. Like thats not enough the fantasy gods have me watch my VC Fifita trump Cook.

Good chance something is going to burn tonight.

No Worries wrote:So I took the C off Cook for the first time in weeks and put in on Arrow. Like thats not enough the fantasy gods have me watch my VC Fifita trump Cook.

Good chance something is going to burn tonight.

I don't mind what you burn. Got to love/hate h2h.

SI wrote:

Rippin and Tearin wrote:By the way, what happened with Merrin last night? Cost me ~40 points. I was busy last night but did check the teams, then look this morning and he didn't play.

Gutted cause I had JFH on the bench but instead will get Doueihi's 2....

Same here mate.  Did get about 3 minutes warning.  Bren posted in the Fantasy thread but I didn't see it straight away as was writing a longish post; was watching the coverage but was 1 minute behind as rewound the Sio dropped try 3 or 4 times ; then went to sug Merrin out and the site was doing that green circle loading for about 30 seconds; literally saw the clock wind down to 0 while I was pressing the S on Merrin

Same thing happened when Maubbs was becnched early int season, had a minute to sub out but copped the loading screen for 30 seconds as was on my Draft page when heard.  Ahhh well, I am semi rural so have to rely on wireless and it is so variable speed wise.  

Turns out it only cost me 5 points as would have had to go to Cartwright.

Feel sorry for Rippin though

Cheers guys, yeah bit of a set back for me this week. Expect to fall 100 points behind. Not only do I cop a 2 for Merrin, but I've had family stay with us all weekend and somehow I ended up with the c on Arrow instead of Smith who is what I thought I had it on.

Second looking very solid the round BTW. Seems like he is projected to hit around 1000. On the plus side 1st is not having a good round and third is not great either (but 50 better than first).

Rippin and Tearin wrote:Cheers guys, yeah bit of a set back for me this week. Expect to fall 100 points behind. Not only do I cop a 2 for Merrin, but I've had family stay with us all weekend and somehow I ended up with the c on Arrow instead of Smith who is what I thought I had it on.

Second looking very solid the round BTW. Seems like he is projected to hit around 1000. On the plus side 1st is not having a good round and third is not great either (but 50 better than first).

That team in second is one scary beast really!

Bit of a weird round again, lots of injuries and underperforming guns etc...

Going to be interesting for everyone trying to navigate the next few weeks, and then we head into the silliest part of the season, so plenty of changes to come

Great to see NRL FF L1 with a solid lead in the leagues race!

Milchcow wrote:
Although the Merrin situation sucks R&T, look on the bright side. Better that he did the injury in warmup, rather than the first tackle of the game - because then he would have dropped a tonne of cash, as well as giving you a crap score.

Haha, yeah absolutely.

Im still in top 10, but gonna require a ton of luck to stay in touch with first.

Also this week is a tricky situation trade-wise. Im anticipating, pending injury news, that Arrow, Merrin, and SJ are all out. If I want to field a so-called team of guns I'll have to use both my trades to deal with that. So looking like Merrin to Surgess and SJ to ?? or a Croker upgrade.

Rippin and Tearin wrote:

Haha, yeah absolutely.

Im still in top 10, but gonna require a ton of luck to stay in touch with first.

Also this week is a tricky situation trade-wise. Im anticipating, pending injury news, that Arrow, Merrin, and SJ are all out. If I want to field a so-called team of guns I'll have to use both my trades to deal with that. So looking like Merrin to Surgess and SJ to ?? or a Croker upgrade.

I'm glad i'm not as highly ranked as you, I couldn't deal with the pressure.

Team slowly coming together. 878 last weekend and up to rank 123 (nice number)
Trades this week,
Isaako to Fonua. Someone about to start loosing money to someone that is about to make some.
Mbye to DCE. Disappointment to keeper.

Have held Surgess for the last five weeks and SJ as well. Glad SJ came back last week and looking forward to Sam scoring points again. Now Arrow and SJ might not be playing.
At least I got rid of Nat Brown the secound week of his one week injury.

Hey lads - who do you guys trust as a 2nd half to DCE right now (with SJ out)?

Rippin and Tearin wrote:Hey lads - who do you guys trust as a 2nd half to DCE right now (with SJ out)?

I've been running with Cody Walker. Averages 51