2018 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 41

I knew it. I saw it at 49 and had a meeting to go to and I thought to myself, I'm gonna fuckin miss it

Spoiler:

My team for the round
(C)am
Fifita, Kikau
Jurbo, RFM, JFH
Matterson, DCE
Hiku, Mitchell
Ponga, Teddy, Thompson
Cook, Murray, Maloney, 4th res tbc (Arrow)

Sau, Havili, Martin, Brimson

WT2K wrote:My team for the round
(C)am
Fifita, Kikau
Jurbo, RFM, JFH
Matterson, DCE
Hiku, Mitchell
Ponga, Teddy, Thompson
Cook, Murray, Maloney, 4th res tbc (Arrow)

Sau, Havili, Martin, Brimson

I predict 850. Based on a guess

wolfking wrote:Im playing Isaako over Thompson. Is that stupid?

I think the Tigers will go alright tonight. Not that that necessarily means a high score for Thompson, even if I'm right.

my tv broke wrote:

I think that is reading too much into it. I reckon he was phoning it in, in the early rounds. He noticeably pulled his finger out a few weeks ago.

I got him after the 81, which has been good to me so far with three scores of 60+ since.

Now just hoping he can keep it up, but once everyone is onboard, it doesn't matter as much, unless you make him captain.

Not just that, first few rounds were low scoring for everyone. Refs crackdown and all that meant lots of people were scoring poorly.

If I was trying to predict Taumalolo's next few scores, I'd rather go on his recent scoring as a guide rather than his home/away scoring

Verbal Kint wrote:

I predict 850. Based on a guess

Perhaps, but will it be a round looking like 950, until Sunday poor scores kill hope.
Or will it look like heading for 700, before someone goes nuts on Sunday and saves the round.

Milchcow wrote:

Perhaps, but will it be a round looking like 950, until Sunday poor scores kill hope.
Or will it look like heading for 700, before someone goes nuts on Sunday and saves the round.

Haha - yes, exactly! 'kin rollercoaster

Milchcow wrote:

I think the Tigers will go alright tonight. Not that that necessarily means a high score for Thompson, even if I'm right.

Got Marsters so hoping so. As bulldog said, flip of a coin between the two really.

I'm gonna agonise over this decision from now until kick off. Oh having footy training in between so can switch off

What are people doing with Arrow? How long do you think he'll be out? I'm burning trades, but can't afford to keep him too long?

Hannah2 wrote:What are people doing with Arrow? How long do you think he'll be out? I'm burning trades, but can't afford to keep him too long?

I'm keeping Arrow until something concrete comes out. Atm no one really knows how long he'll be out.

WT2K wrote:My team for the round
(C)am
Fifita, Kikau
Jurbo, RFM, JFH
Matterson, DCE
Hiku, Mitchell
Ponga, Teddy, Thompson
Cook, Murray, Maloney, 4th res tbc (Arrow)

Sau, Havili, Martin, Brimson

Very similar to me. Except I have:

Jcroker, Aitken, Rein and RTS

where you have

Matterson, Hiku, Mitchel and Thompson

Some news report from channel 9 said 1-4 weeks for Arrow... source is who the hell knows...

Hannah2 wrote:What are people doing with Arrow? How long do you think he'll be out? I'm burning trades, but can't afford to keep him too long?

The only info that has come out is no serious damage with the injury being a 1-3 week timeline, although reports have said he is being 'rested' this week.

Gut feeling is that he is back next week.

The reports about being rested come straight from the Titans, its on their website.

my tv broke wrote:The reports about being rested come straight from the Titans, its on their website.

Nathan Brown has been rested about four times now.

mulvy wrote:

Nathan Brown has been rested about four times now.

haha, get where you're coming from. doing my head in that one.

Brennans actual quotes on Tuesday were:

"He is still very sore and it is not the right thing to force him to play if not 100 percent right.

"I think it is best for him personally to hold him back and give him another week off and freshen him up for Newcastle or, if not, we have the bye the week after.

"He just nodded and said yep OK [when told he would not be selected]. He's not going to pull himself out of the team, I had to do it for him and protect him a little bit, so it was my call."

Obviously he does say that it *could* be two weeks, but the rest of what he says strongly suggests to me he'll only miss a week.

*Actually the Titans still have to play the Roosters before they have the bye. Hopefully someones told Garth.

Milchcow wrote:
The Merrin update was that his finger is f**ked, but he'll play on because everyone else is injured.

Not sure what the source was.

Didn't the Panthers offer him a free box of Krispy Kreme donuts if he decided to take the field?

krispy:

Which of the following looks the best combo?

1 - DCE/Crichton (1k left)

2 - DCE/Rapana (220k left)

3 - Reynolds/Surgess (100k left and so so many bunnies)

Verbal Kint wrote:New thread, time to post my team up for this round. Gives you guys a chance to catch me

Cook (c)
Kikau Fifita
Jurbo RFM Taumalolo
Matterson DCE
Mitchell Cotric
Ponga Tedesco JMK

Smith JFH Murray Rein
Martin Nicholls Brimson Crich10

Pretty average team, not sure if you can go up in the rankings with this team