2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 7

Thoughts on my team please?

Cook
Fifita Lodge
Merrin Murray RFM
Thurston Croft
Maubbs Kennar
Ted Ponga Mitchell

Lichaa Cartwright Nichols Croker

McKendry Katoa 228k x2    73k

Thanks

I just checked out the stats of Ryan James.

The only major difference between his year of averaging 60 in 2016 and his year of averaging 48 in 2017 was an average of 3 to 4 missed tackles per game and a few less tries

Any clues to what caused this? The titans had some crazy injury problems last year and lots of people playing out of position. Maybe is the side is a little more stable this year the missed tackles will decrease again. Maybe it is all Kane Elgey's fault. In any case surely his scores will rebound a bit this year?

On the Hingano signing. I highly doubt the core of Austin and Sezer in the halves with Havili as the hooker will change significantly due to this.

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Thoughts on Leilua and Croker this year pal, alternatively will your lads be returning to 2016 form??

What changes from last year make you think they could return to 2016 form??
Of cause a new hooker.
And that hooker may actually be fantasy relevant.
I'm not sure about including Raiders backs this year.

Buramada wrote:I just checked out the stats of Ryan James.

The only major difference between his year of averaging 60 in 2016 and his year of averaging 48 in 2017 was an average of 3 to 4 missed tackles per game and a few less tries

Any clues to what caused this? The titans had some crazy injury problems last year and lots of people playing out of position. Maybe is the side is a little more stable this year the missed tackles will decrease again. Maybe it is all Kane Elgey's fault. In any case surely his scores will rebound a bit this year?

Elgy s fault

Buramada wrote:I just checked out the stats of Ryan James.

The only major difference between his year of averaging 60 in 2016 and his year of averaging 48 in 2017 was an average of 3 to 4 missed tackles per game and a few less tries

Any clues to what caused this? The titans had some crazy injury problems last year and lots of people playing out of position. Maybe is the side is a little more stable this year the missed tackles will decrease again. Maybe it is all Kane Elgey's fault. In any case surely his scores will rebound a bit this year?

Just be aware James has never scored anywhere near his top end yearly averages when playing on the edge

All his big years have come when he is playing prop

Mighty Fishes wrote:

Elgy s fault

So if Elgeys fault, why dont they get rid of him?

Should not hope for anything different this year right?

Welshy wrote:

Just be aware James has never scored anywhere near his top end yearly averages when playing on the edge

All his big years have come when he is playing prop

He was prop for both of these years and that is a huge difference in scoring. When has he played on the edge before? Is he playing there this year?

How can I find stats for him on the edge?

Buramada wrote:

So if Elgeys fault, why dont they get rid of him?

pass me the blower i'll make a call

Dttragic2016 wrote:On the Hingano signing. I highly doubt the core of Austin and Sezer in the halves with Havili as the hooker will change significantly due to this.

I thought this but didn't sezer start at hooker or something in the trial? the raiders have been doing some weird stuff.

Any time a coach starts messing about with combinations and positions mid game it always goes sour.

EDIT sorry havili started. not sure how many mins. apparently Williams played 60 mins of the game at half. Sezer played 13 mins at hooker later in the game. sidenote: the raiders forumers are really down on their hopes for this season..

Pookus McFly wrote:I never care for people giving these inane mystery equations.
But I am doing it.
For I am a proud hypocrite.

Brown + Latu
vs
Merrin + AFB

In terms of total points, I'd go the latter. It's tough to say who I'd choose though, as Brown is looking like a solid bet.

I personally think Merrin is going to get back to somewhere in that 52-55 point mark. Last year he was extremely out of shape, which both reduced his minutes and increased his missed tackles. I was stoked to grab him in fantasy draft with my 3rd round pick, because I'm expecting big things. (To put it in perspective, I drafted Merrin with my 1st round pick last year- and when I saw how out of shape he was in the trials, I was immediately full of regret).

I read about 2-3 weeks ago that apparently Hingano's little sister told her class that they were moving to Canberra.

my tv broke wrote:

I thought I read rumours late last year he wanted out of the Warriors (culture?). I suppose they signed Blake Green to a three year contract, so with SJ and Green it leaves little room to play NRL any time soon. The Raiders would provide more opportunities, if not immediately.

Yeah I think he just wants to play. Raiders must have offered something about first grade even if it’s not straight away.

my tv broke wrote:

I thought this but didn't sezer start at hooker or something in the trial? the raiders have been doing some weird stuff.

Any time a coach starts messing about with combinations and positions mid game it always goes sour.

Raiders don't have a coach, they've got Stuart.

Chucky wrote:
Raiders don't have a coach, they've got Stuart.

Not after round 10!!

Made a WAGs team looking for players who can go boom if the stars align right (plus the usual 228k lot). Completely unbalanced (love the backs, hate the depth), but could win a weekly if they still existed.

Cook
Taupau, Lodge
NAS, RFM, Tapine
SJ, Munster
BJ, Latrell
Tedesco, Mbye, Katoa

Lichaa, Cartwright, LCroker, LLeilua, Nicholls, Kikau, Kennar, Thompson. 6k left over

mulvy wrote:Thoughts on my team please?

Are you trying to send me a message?

my tv broke wrote:

Not after round 10!!

I'm so torn on what to put in your location..

Buramada wrote:

He was prop for both of these years and that is a huge difference in scoring. When has he played on the edge before? Is he playing there this year?

How can I find stats for him on the edge?

He is stated for a move back to the edge this year

Milchcow wrote:

Are you trying to send me a message?

Nah mate, that would be