2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 62

StormTrooper96 wrote:

I think it is worth it. Kikau is now playing an 80 minute edge roll and we all know what he can do. I know its not ideal but you have Holland to cover WFB/CTR and Clifford for Hlf cover. I mean grabbing kikau means you have to make a choice between arrow, martin, Kikau every week whereas without him you dont really have to worry, but it is good to have the luxury.

StormTrooper96 wrote:Going along with Wolfy I'll see if anyone can see some glaring problem that I cant see in my squad.

Cook
Fifita Taupau
Tolo Jurbo Chrichton
DCE SJ
Ramien Mitchell
Turbo Ponga Cotric

Smith McInnis Kikau Lam(Red Dot)

Martin Arrow Fainu Clifford

It is super hard to choose between Kikau, Martin, Arrow and Fainu. Ideally i want all to score around 50-60 so i dont feel hard done by, but i guess i just have to pick the two i think will go bananas on the day. Unless i have a chance to do some illicit shit! Only thing i dont have is WFB Cover, I have enough CTR cover with Cotric's DPP but i have no WFB Cover. I am thinking with all of my FRF/2rf cover i can pick between Chrichton/Tolo to turn into Teddy and then have Cotric as my 19th/20th man for WFB/CTR Cover and promote Arrow back into the starting side.

Trajan wrote:Now that his brother has " demoted " him to the Warriors v Titans match I expect Sutton to blow the pea out of the whistle. How this incompetent can be called the number one ref. is a complete farce.
Imagine being a Warriors or Titans fan this weekend? Thanks NRL for the spineless actions after the Raiders fiasco and the nepotism run riot by the Suttons. Lots of penalties this game to show that Sutton can control the fixture he has. You have been forewarned.

wolfking wrote:

That's tough, you actually don't really have any CTR cover either aswell as WFB cover because you don't have either in your EMG,  Cotric can't be moved becuase you have no one on your bench to come in.  That's probably the only concern you would have.  Good team otherwise and definitely get looping too.  You have trades don't you?  I would see how your forwards go this week and maybe look at getting some back cover in next week, but unless Ponga doesn't play you should be fine to wait and see.  Did you trade Ponga in this week?  Who was replacing him last week if not?

Trajan wrote:Now that his brother has " demoted " him to the Warriors v Titans match I expect Sutton to blow the pea out of the whistle. How this incompetent can be called the number one ref. is a complete farce.
Imagine being a Warriors or Titans fan this weekend? Thanks NRL for the spineless actions after the Raiders fiasco and the nepotism run riot by the Suttons. Lots of penalties this game to show that Sutton can control the fixture he has. You have been forewarned.

Chapper wrote:

As a Warriors fan I agree, I know the Warriors will never be "allowed" to win a premiership, but this situation just confirms it.

StormTrooper96 wrote:

Yeah mate got 3 trades and 13K. Thats the plan, see how the forwards go and whoever is lacking behind could be turned into Tedesco and Cotric into EMG for cover with Arrow into the forwards. Nar have always had ponga. I had Mitchell replacing him last week and C.Scott in CTR. This weeks trades were Brimson > Lam and C.Scott > Kikau.

Milchcow wrote:
Out of interest, i assume it was just Buzz Rothfield and his hack journalism that used the phrase 'demoted' regarding the Warriors/Titans game, and that the NRL didn't actually say anything like that.

Couldn't be stuffed looking it up, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

Chapper wrote:

As a Warriors fan I agree, I know the Warriors will never be "allowed" to win a premiership, but this situation just confirms it.

wolfking wrote:

Being shit doesn't help either to be fair.

Verbal Kint wrote:I've just removed the (c) from SJ after reading about the potential whistle-fest. So easily spooked

wolfking wrote:

https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/07/24/nrl-demotes-officials-over-botched-sione-katoa-try-ruling/

wolfking wrote:

Im expecting a whistle-fest for when SJ keeps running under the crossbars for some meat pies.

Krump wrote:
It says mover to a lower profile game in the article which is correct I guess.

Krump wrote:
It says mover to a lower profile game in the article which is correct I guess.

Milchcow wrote:

Its a better phrase than 'demoted' and technically correct, but its still not a good look.

If you were actually going to move them to a lower profile match, why not Knights vs Cowboys, rather than a game involving a team who still needs the win.

my tv broke wrote:

Yeah - its kind of funny to take offense to it. It *IS* a lower profile match, that isn't really an insult, just a fact. Its 8th vs 13th (or whatever Titans are), at the Sunday 2pm timeslot (not FTA, and on average less viewers in this slot).