2018 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 47

filthridden wrote:

Assume Ponga failed the HIA as well if he only played 20-30mins?

Nah he came back on but the Knights were so bad that he may as well have been smoking doobies

This year can suck a big one.   Why do I even care so much. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mulvy wrote:

You should catch the ball. If you don't you should on err on the side of a knockon unless it's obvious. Like we've done for the last 100 years.

Can't agree. Rules should be applied as they are.

One of the chief causes of League's ref blaming culture is commentators acting as if the rules are just vague guidelines, and that refs should make decisions based on what they think the play deserves, rather than what actually happened.

Makes it hard for the refs if instead of just adjudicating on what happens, they also have to make a judgment call on whether the player should be punished or rewarded.

Sometimes players get to benefit from a 'mistake' and sometimes they get no reward for good play. Trying to make decisions based on the whims of what Phil Gould thinks should happen is just a bad idea

At least fantasy is doing better than VSDT.

Has a busy weekend so didn't get a chance to update team for Matterson and Fifita being out.
Capewell's 2 points coming in for both players.

I'd rather the Fantasy system, loophole and all than the shitty Dreamteam one.

And massive apologies to R&T whose login I have while he's away but couldn't update his team either

Milchcow wrote:

Can't agree. Rules should be applied as they are.

One of the chief causes of League's ref blaming culture is commentators acting as if the rules are just vague guidelines, and that refs should make decisions based on what they think the play deserves, rather than what actually happened.

Makes it hard for the refs if instead of just adjudicating on what happens, they also have to make a judgment call on whether the player should be punished or rewarded.

Sometimes players get to benefit from a 'mistake' and sometimes they get no reward for good play. Trying to make decisions based on the whims of what Phil Gould thinks should happen is just a bad idea

You've quoted Phil Gould again. I couldn't care less what he says. I'm watching fox. I also don't even know which particular "knock back" you are referring too. I'm stating my opinion in general. Refs have to make a decision in real time. It's hard and if your not sure it should be a knock-on. Bill Harrigan I think once said something like if it looks like a blank and smells like a blank, yeah can't remember. But whatever.

After the first 3 games I was 3/190 odd and thought I might have a good crack this week.

Now i'm riding a lame horse home hoping to scrape 800


It hasn't been anyone, it has been everyone.
Everyone but Smith.

Tigers doing their best to lose this

C'mon Tigers by the way!

Nofo try

How bout dem Sharkies. What a pleasurable win.

Moose wrote:How bout dem Sharkies. What a pleasurable win.

Confirmed

Milchcow wrote:
At least fantasy is doing better than VSDT.

Has a busy weekend so didn't get a chance to update team for Matterson and Fifita being out.
Capewell's 2 points coming in for both players.

I'd rather the Fantasy system, loophole and all than the shitty Dreamteam one.

And massive apologies to R&T whose login I have while he's away but couldn't update his team either

Same here I completely forgot to update it

If the Tigers win this, there will be no Queensland teams in the top 8.

filthridden wrote:If the Tigers win this, there will be no Queensland teams in the top 8.

Cool. We like the underdog status!

looks like Reynold's got injured....

MBye just doesn't give a fuck anymore.

RFM & JMK sucked, but at least MCK put in a decent CTR score, hopefully he showed enough to Cleary to keep him there, wasn’t the ‘get out of the way Rochow’ performance I was hoping for though

688. Surprised I didn't fall further than I did. RFM and JFH can GTFO.

Go Refs wrote:looks like Reynold's got injured....

I only noticed him looking a bit fucked when he went back to the bench. Did you see what happened on field? We looked decisively better when he was at Dummy Half. Liddle's running game has been great, but his service is average for a specialist Hooker in my opinion.

Yes! Managed to get 700 (pending updates) #winning