2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 5

Just built myself a zero in the bank team. Must be a sign. A sign my centers are absolutely rubbish.

Smith (in every revision I’ve done)
Graham Lodge (I’m flip flopping graham vs Tapau. Lodge nailed on)
Brown Murray Arrow (Template backrow)
Croft Watson (points for value pairing. Would rather Watson 14-17)
Milne Hiku (doubt I will start this light in such an awful fantasy position but both are squad must-haves)
Tedesco Ponga Hayne (yesteryear guns Hayne and/or Dugan will likely get me in as DPP of choice)

Lichaa (value)
RFM (how did I get sucked in to such pre season booming)
Cartwright (bench must have)
Paasi (where the hell did you come from... ahhh DPP FRF that leaves 0 in the bank)

Garvey/Havili
Croker
Kikau
Katao all pretty standard 18-21

Interesting article on Ricky Stuart's thoughts on the halves and dummy half roles.

https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/02/16/canberra-raiders-ricky-stuart-switches-halves-for-bulldogs-trial/

Got to keep an eye on their trials to see maybe S.Havili won't be worth it.....................

my tv broke wrote:Someone said it earlier in thread about the prizes.. its not really about thinking youre going to win them, but its about the NRL not valueing their fans. Its pathetic

You can have my $15 KFC voucher if I happen to win one.

Kaufusi try first leg of my multi. I hope Croft can set him up against that Leeds defence.

GreenMachine wrote:Just built myself a zero in the bank team. Must be a sign. A sign my centers are absolutely rubbish.

Smith (in every revision I’ve done)
Graham Lodge (I’m flip flopping graham vs Tapau. Lodge nailed on)
Brown Murray Arrow (Template backrow)
Croft Watson (points for value pairing. Would rather Watson 14-17)
Milne Hiku (doubt I will start this light in such an awful fantasy position but both are squad must-haves)
Tedesco Ponga Hayne (yesteryear guns Hayne and/or Dugan will likely get me in as DPP of choice)

Lichaa (value)
RFM (how did I get sucked in to such pre season booming)
Cartwright (bench must have)
Paasi (where the hell did you come from... ahhh DPP FRF that leaves 0 in the bank)

Garvey/Havili
Croker
Kikau
Katao all pretty standard 18-21

like it mate, plenty of potential value there but I don't like the Hayne pick at all, he was shit last year and can't see him going back to the old plane in the CTR spot

RFM I don't think you can go wrong with if named to start TLT, new regime and already pegged as a starting backrower, has big money making and scoring potential for so cheap

Pacey's Best wrote:

Got to keep an eye on their trials to see maybe S.Havili won't be worth it.....................

and it potentially makes Sam Williams worth it??

code delta wrote:
and it potentially makes Sam Williams worth it??

The thing is, its going to be difficult to tell how Ricky will use the bench based on the trial as it sounds like he just wants to see as many combinations as he can. What you'd ideally want to know is how long that third half might slot into hooker for (because three halves out there might take away from each other in things like KM, even if one is at hooker) and whether the hooker is a straight swap or pushes into the pack to spell one of the forwards for a little bit. Also its Ricky so its a 99% chance he changes it week to week. I kinda want to try put Sammy in my team (he already is actually) but the more i think about it the more i feel its safer to avoid them all and just pick up whoever the starting hooker is (although even that might be the thing that backfires in week 3 when he for whatever reason changes it).

my tv broke wrote:Whitehead on the trial match - "Ill be happy to do 80 if thats what he wants, but there'll be a few other boys thatll be itching to get a few minutes under their belt as well".

Interesting to say that about a trial..

*post not to be taken too seriously. I do have fun looking for those pre season quotes about "playing 80"

I read this as "I'd really like to avoid fat camp, but i think the other lardies would too so it might be a fight for minutes".

Croft in.
Bromwich in.

Trajan wrote:Kaufusi try first leg of my multi. I hope Croft can set him up against that Leeds defence.

Bad luck mate. First try or anytime??

Smith and Croft looking great. Smith a must have. JBrom with a nice try. Might be worth a punt.

my tv broke wrote:Croft in.
Bromwich in.

Get on them boys

Fuck, if NAS gets the minutes he'll score like Taumalolo.

Croft (C)

Great, now every man and his dog will have Croft. Slow down son.

Crofts 14% ownership set to risk

Just got my sky go player moving, how has JBrom gone apart from the try

Jbrom has come back on around 32min.

Doubt there are interchange restrictions tonight tho so a bit meaningless

12 interchanges, so not sure how much we can learn from minute splits.

NAS got fuck all minutes in that first stint.

JBrom looking not too bad.

my tv broke wrote:Croft in.
Bromwich in.

I love this time of year. Any one who does anything in a trial, particularly a televised one goes straight into everyone's team, even if they've just spent 3 weeks rubbishing them