2018 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 8

Milchcow wrote:
So with Nofoaluma dropped, does that give Lolohea a reprieve, with Thompson to the wing.

Thompson on the wing is probably still worth it, but not as good as fullback

You'd think if Cleary was planning to play Thompson at 1 before this, I don't see that changing, but you never know. Lolohea and Thompson to split the role even?

Did McQueen end up getting dropped too or just Nofo?

TheWeapon wrote:Did McQueen end up getting dropped too or just Nofo?

you could argue that mcqueen isn't a first grader anyway.

wolfking wrote:
You'd think if Cleary was planning to play Thompson at 1 before this, I don't see that changing, but you never know.  Lolohea and Thompson to split the role even?

If Parra can play 3 fullbacks, we can play 2. Maybe even name Lolohea on the wing and let them swap.

Best option for fantasy is Milne to centre, Naiqama to Wing.

Other option is straight swap Nofoaluma to Fonua.

deathbywarriors wrote:Is anyone else relying on one or two 2RF's to get DPP (2RF/FRF) to balance out their squad? My bench is looking a bit light on FRF unless it happens once team lists come out.

yep. pretty much every player I want is either a hook or a 2rf.

finding it hard to fill halves/centre/frf/last wfb with any real confidence.

Fortitude wrote:I reckon BJ's nickname should be Blumpkin, or Blumpy for short. Because he is both a BJ and Shit.

NB: Probs best not to google blumpkin at work NSFW.

Haha, that is hilarious!

Milchcow wrote:


If Parra can play 3 fullbacks, we can play 2. Maybe even name Lolohea on the wing and let them swap.

Best option for fantasy is Milne to centre, Naiqama to Wing.

Other option is straight swap Nofoaluma to Fonua.

Yeah, that's what I meant, should have specified. Can see Lolohea get a wing spot and as you say they swap through the game. I'm sure Nofo will be back next week or the the week after surely.

Who will jump straight on Milne if starting centre, and hope he holds onto it?

my tv broke wrote:Who will jump straight on Milne if starting centre, and hope he holds onto it?

That's the problem, with Nofo out and if Milne does go in, you can't really be confident that he will stay there at all.

If Doueihi is named as a bench player will anyone pick him up??

There's something to be said for going heavy in centres this year, trying to forget about it and looking for value elsewhere.

So... who are the best two centres in fantasy? Contenders Roberts, Gagai, Scott, Dugan, maybe Inglis, Latrell or Aubs?

my tv broke wrote:Who will jump straight on Milne if starting centre, and hope he holds onto it?

You’d have to really like Milne as a player at this point after frozen out all pre-season and I think the only thing we ever liked about him was being a new signing 228k in weakest position in the game.

At this point I couldn’t have him ahead of DPP wingers Isaako or Kennar

rhinoceroo wrote:There's something to be said for going heavy in centres this year, trying to forget about it and looking for value elsewhere.

So... who are the best two centres in fantasy? Contenders Roberts, Gagai, Scott, Dugan, maybe Inglis, Latrell or Aubs?

MItchell and Croker IMO. Gagai and Roberts are pricey but keepers also. BJ a good cheaper wildcard option.

StormTrooper96 wrote:If Doueihi is named as a bench player will anyone pick him up??

Not for me. Would be a single digit player from the bench. He relies on injury to break through. I will bring him in at bottom dollar if/when ARey goes down and it’s confirmed Farah is not his replacement!

GreenMachine wrote:At this point I couldn’t have him ahead of DPP wingers Isaako or Kennar

the problem with both of these guys is the very real chance they will average 15.

rhinoceroo wrote:There's something to be said for going heavy in centres this year, trying to forget about it and looking for value elsewhere.

So... who are the best two centres in fantasy? Contenders Roberts, Gagai, Scott, Dugan, maybe Inglis, Latrell or Aubs?

Not easy to find out and out guns there unless you turn back the clock a few years and go Dugan/Hayne

Looking at my team though, finding an extra 250K to get a second keeper centre would just destroy the rest of the squad. The only way is to downgrade Fifita to JBrom, and I don't think that's worth it.

rhinoceroo wrote:There's something to be said for going heavy in centres this year, trying to forget about it and looking for value elsewhere.

So... who are the best two centres in fantasy? Contenders Roberts, Gagai, Scott, Dugan, maybe Inglis, Latrell or Aubs?

Dugan, Cotric, Croker, Latrell and Moga as a smokey.

Any of those two, are set and forget I think. Very hard to have a balanced team (that includes smith) with set and forget ctrs though.

GreenMachine wrote:

Not easy to find out and out guns there unless you turn back the clock a few years and go Dugan/Hayne

*cough* Croker *cough* Cotric *cough*

Is having two set and forget centres worth forgoing Smith over??