2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 17

Chewie wrote:

Yep... as Coach of my fantasy team I can't let CS9 get away with a sub-par performance without being penalised like he gets away with his shenanigans on field with the refs.
Cook deserves the Captaincy

Good call blue leader

Chewie wrote:

Yep... as Coach of my fantasy team I can't let CS9 get away with a sub-par performance without being penalised like he gets away with his shenanigans on field with the refs.
Cook deserves the Captaincy

I don't have the minerals to go against Smith 

Milchcow wrote:

Yep. Better to burn trades like crazy instead chasing cash.

After all, if fanhub don't show us number of trades remaining on the site, it means we have unlimited trades, right?

Yep, I'm trading like I have no limits on my trades. Where does it tell me the limits of trades I have left???
Done the 4 allowed trades so far. But where does it tell me how many trades I have left.
Help me please Fiona.

Archer wrote:Robinson is a funny one, if he gets involved he can hit a really good hot streak and net you a ton of cash/points, but he also has a tendency to just watch for the full 80 minutes and give you a single digit.

Did that used to be Thompson? He's doing alright now.

I think I'll give Latrell the flick with Croft and bulk up my bench. Thinking Tohu for starters. Who would be the best option under $716k? Apisai is tempting to play at half.

luckynumber8 wrote:I think I'll give Latrell the flick with Croft and bulk up my bench. Thinking Tohu for starters. Who would be the best option under $716k? Apisai is tempting to play at half.

I'd keep Latrell mate, averaging 33 without doing fuck all! Can't ask for more than that

I'm actually considering bringing in Latrell and pushing Isaako to my bench

Surely with 2 losses GI gets the move back to FB in a souths team shakeup?

So with only $1k itb I don't have much wiggle room to move Croft on. Doueihi seems the likely option at this stage, although may have missed that boat. Carty and Croker my other halves. Any ideas on what to do?

wt00 wrote:So with only $1k itb I don't have much wiggle room to move Croft on. Doueihi seems the likely option at this stage, although may have missed that boat. Carty and Croker my other halves. Any ideas on what to do?

Mate if Doueihi keeps his 1 games average he will make a bucket load of cash, ARey is around 3-4 weeks away if he averages 30 until arey returns he will still make some decent bank.

Very solid base starts and kid looks like he can bust a tackle, plus ARey gets injured again before end of season no doubt!

Also likely you have Croker somewhere in the team if Arey comes back earlier

I don't mind the trade

Want to bring in Murray this week, rather than TPJ, but means my 2nd FRF will be either Kikau or Rochow. Both looked great last week, but both did badly this week.

Who do you think is the most likely to bounce back? Worried about Rochow bouncing off TPJ like he did with NAS this week. Do you think Kikau was struggling from his injury the week before, they kept using him as the dummy runner, which was very frustrating.

After my 2 trades this is my potential line up:

Smith (c)
Lodge, Arrow
Jurbo, N. Brown, C. Murray
Cartwright, Doueihi
Mitchell, Kennar
Tedesco, Ponga, Isaako

Cook, Griffin, RFM, JFH

Rochow, Kikau, L. Croker, Havili

My last reserve spot could be anyone of my last 5 players but I'm punting on JFH if he starts which will probably happen like the last 2 rounds. He only scored 19 in round 2 but scored 40 in round 1. He is missing tackles but I'm hoping his match fitness will reduce that. Also the first 2 rounds he's played in high 30 degree heat & this round he'll be playing at night. He plays about 50-60 minutes & starts on the edge but moves into the middle when Merrin goes off & gets about 20 minutes there. I'm hoping he's good for about 30-35 points.

mattnz wrote:Want to bring in Murray this week, rather than TPJ, but means my 2nd FRF will be either Kikau or Rochow. Both looked great last week, but both did badly this week.

Who do you think is the most likely to bounce back? Worried about Rochow bouncing off TPJ like he did with NAS this week. Do you think Kikau was struggling from his injury the week before, they kept using him as the dummy runner, which was very frustrating.

Its a classic case of steady scoring in large minutes vs explosive potential in limited with Rochow vs Kikau mate

If the game goes away from Kikau, regardless of how devastating he is, without the ball he will score poorly.
Rochow was absolute mud, but he won't be that bad defensively again

Kikau scored 24 with no ball so that isn't crippling so with a decent amount of ball I'd expect almost a PPM from him, Rochow I would expect 35 in his minutes mate where he doesn't shit the bed

The Croft conundrum is intriging and the discussion lively. My head is telling me to trade, but his average from his 4 games last year just keeps me hanging on. I do think he's looking a little lost out there and he potentially could be there to make the numbers with Smith and Munster running the show.

Would be great if Bellamy dropped him for Jacks, but that's not an option.

I could use suggestions.

Cook
Fifita Arrow
Brown Murray Griffin
Croft Douehi
Maubbs Kennar
Teddy Ponga Mitchell

Lichaa Lodge RFM Cartwright

Kikau Havilii Nicholls Croker  51k

Thinking of downgrading Maubs and upgrading Croft. Other option is to just pick another centre (GI if FB?) giving Croft and Lichaa one more week and upgrade/downgrade those two next week if they fail again. Thanks.

wolfking wrote:The Croft conundrum is intriging and the discussion lively.  My head is telling me to trade, but his average from his 4 games last year just keeps me hanging on.  I do think he's looking a little lost out there and he potentially could be there to make the numbers with Smith and Munster running the show.

Would be great if Bellamy dropped him for Jacks, but that's not an option.

He has been close to busting the line a few times, I'm reluctant to lose him, minus his defence which I would expect to improve when Kaufusi returns his KM are the only other reason I'm a bit worried about

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He has been close to busting the line a few times, I'm reluctant to lose him, minus his defence which I would expect to improve when Kaufusi returns his KM are the only other reason I'm a bit worried about[/quote

Croft's missed tackles & lack of km's are 2 major flaws. You can either tackle or you can't & it doesn't matter who you have beside you because they can't protect him the whole game. You can be small like Croft & still be a demon tackler like a few players in the nrl but Croft doesn't seem to have a very good tackling technique & bounces out of tackles because he doesn't drive in with his shoulder because he is half hearted.

Yeah no way Rochow is that bad again I'm plying him again this week

White Lightning wrote:

It's the opposite with Croft and his tackling, he is flying in instead of setting himself up correctly and wrapping the legs

The KM are down because the Storm have only totalled 298 KM & 355KM in both games so far, i want to see his KM totals when when go over 500KM a game, but I may not hang onto him long enough to find out.

The MTs and errors are killing him and also has zero attacking stats, yet still going in the low 20s, which is why I'm tossing and turning over getting rid! when the attacking side comes he will go well

Archer wrote:I like that advice Revs, I've got LLeilua, I-Paps and Nicholls all in my emg, not to mention guys like Rochow, yet I think I'm actually considering J-Brom -> downgrade (most likely TPJ if i can swallow my pride) and Croft -> upgrade (am i crazy for considering Api?), with a similar line of thought; could be one week away from any of them being a great cow and i don't get a whole lot out of ditching them right now.

Yeah there is merit in it, you will have those who say you cant afford to have 'dead spots' in ur squad who arent making money. But its where i like to steer my own ship sonetimes.
I like Api as well, almost started with him. Versatile, Manly have started well. Not cheap though. I dont know Jbroms numbers, but jumping onto TPJ is still a gud move imo.

Revraiser wrote:

Yeah there is merit in it, you will have those who say you cant afford to have 'dead spots' in ur squad who arent making money. But its where i like to steer my own ship sonetimes.
I like Api as well, almost started with him. Versatile, Manly have started well. Not cheap though. I dont know Jbroms numbers, but jumping onto TPJ is still a gud move imo.

I'd dump Bromwich, started solidly but not getting the minutes to produce like he used to because his offloads have dried up and he can't tackle his way to 50s

As an alternative to the more explosive TPJ, Ese'Ese is getting good time on the park and can bust them