Rate My Team 2019

Drifterspence wrote:

Simply cant see Sezer going backwards and therefor there isnt too much risk in taking a stab

True that. I suppose him hitting 40s is reasonable without Austin

Redneck_hori wrote:nice team t43597

can I call you t4?

1 note would be to omit the barba, I have a hunch he is not playing this year.

Thanks. Yeah feel free to call me t4. I have replaced Barba

Aardvark Ratnick wrote:I dont normally go in this kinda thing but early doors so
D.Cook(c)
A.Twal , TPJ
I.Papali,Murray,Sorensen
A.Rey,Morgan
Capewell,Lomax
Ponga,Isaako,MGordon

Hass,Allen,Stimson,Staggs

Burns,Salmon,Keighran,Egan

Looks good man just wondering what you thoughts are around Gordon? Think he will go to another level this year? Or just mid POD?

Just changed my team name to Midrange PODs.

Have only got 4 players in my playing 17 with > 10% ownership... Cam Smith (C), Cam Murray, Capewell and Dylan Brown. Going to be an interesting year

Morning, hope everyone had a restful offseason.
Thought id chuck my team up. Pretty templatey

Macca
TPJ, Tolman
Arrow, Matterson, Murray
Morgan, Sezer
Capewell, Bateman
Hughes, Edwards, Lomax

Stimson, Whitehead, Egan, Haas
CHT, DBrown, Allan, Ravalawa

Any thoughts appreciated

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Morning, hope everyone had a restful offseason.
Thought id chuck my team up. Pretty templatey

Macca
TPJ, Tolman
Arrow, Matterson, Murray
Morgan, Sezer
Capewell, Bateman
Hughes, Edwards, Lomax

Stimson, Whitehead, Egan, Haas
CHT, DBrown, Allan, Ravalawa

Any thoughts appreciated

Your CTRs are stacked! Was the hardest position to fill for me last season, so makes a lot of sense. I would prefer Keighran rather than Sezer. He must be decent because they deliberately haven't bothered to try to replace SJ with all the talent coming through. Have a look at Sezers scores the last few years, he is a known quantity and had bad form his whole time in Canberra.

Drifterspence wrote:

Looks good man just wondering what you thoughts are around Gordon? Think he will go to another level this year? Or just mid POD?

Gordon is really just a filler for the time being until the trials are over, thx for the input cheers.

mattnz wrote:

Your CTRs are stacked! Was the hardest position to fill for me last season, so makes a lot of sense. I would prefer Keighran rather than Sezer. He must be decent because they deliberately haven't bothered to try to replace SJ with all the talent coming through. Have a look at Sezers scores the last few years, he is a known quantity and had bad form his whole time in Canberra.

Yeah not overly keen on Sezer but was all I could afford.

I've dropped Arrow for IPap and brought in Arey instead.

Plenty of options will have to see how things go with trials and TLs

After extensive analysis, I finally have a team that I am comfortable with pending TLT. Not a cookie cutter team, I have named it "Midrange PODs", it is stacked with them throughout and have $110k in the bank to play with come TLT when a few of my assumptions dont get the opportunity I was hoping they deserved.

My playing 17 only has 4 players with >10% ownership. Smith, Capewell, D. Brown, Murray

Smith (C)
Paulo, Ah Mau
L. Leilua, Kikau, Murray
D. Brown, Koroisau
Holland, Capewell
Katoa, DWZ, Drinkwater

Egan, Mahoney, Sue, Twal

Haas, Lomax, Keighran, Ravalawa

Bring on TLT to finalize it!

mattnz wrote:After extensive analysis, I finally have a team that I am comfortable with pending TLT. Not a cookie cutter team, I have named it "Midrange PODs", it is stacked with them throughout and have $110k in the bank to play with come TLT when a few of my assumptions dont get the opportunity I was hoping they deserved.

My playing 17 only has 4 players with >10% ownership. Smith, Capewell, D. Brown, Murray

Smith (C)
Paulo, Ah Mau
L. Leilua, Kikau, Murray
D. Brown, Koroisau
Holland, Capewell
Katoa, DWZ, Drinkwater

Egan, Mahoney, Sue, Twal

Haas, Lomax, Keighran, Ravalawa

Bring on TLT to finalize it!

A few of these guys will be obvious boom/busts based on TLT (some of them will also see ownership skyrocket if TLT turns out how you expect)

The interesting one to me is Sue. I've had him in my team before, he's one of the "PPM Kings" who promises a lot but delivers a little. Do you think the change of clubs will do him good? I guess if Napa does end up suspended he'll probably get a senior prop role. but for me he has been in the comp long enough that if he was going to be a fantasy gun, he would have shown it already.

Also not sure there is much value in Katoa, his scores aren't terrible, but don't think they are good enough to warrant a starting spot in your team, unless you think he'll show big improvement.

Milchy wrote:

A few of these guys will be obvious boom/busts based on TLT (some of them will also see ownership skyrocket if TLT turns out how you expect)

The interesting one to me is Sue. I've had him in my team before, he's one of the "PPM Kings" who promises a lot but delivers a little. Do you think the change of clubs will do him good? I guess if Napa does end up suspended he'll probably get a senior prop role. but for me he has been in the comp long enough that if he was going to be a fantasy gun, he would have shown it already.

Also not sure there is much value in Katoa, his scores aren't terrible, but don't think they are good enough to warrant a starting spot in your team, unless you think he'll show big improvement.

Katoa is based on 7 factors:
1. Form is actually great, averaged 54 in 12 games in ISP after coming back from his broken jaw
2. Will be SJs winger - Fusitua was top try scorer last season due to SJ cutout passes
3. Moylan at fullback - going to be passing to his wingers to run the ball back
4. Really fast and a tackle breaking machine, really elusive
5. Expect the extra $160k from an unknown rookie to be well spent to get some decent scores
6. Those burned last year won't get him this year
7. Wait for his 3 try game then cash him out

I see Sue being the biggest benefactor of Napas demise.

Please rate
(C) C Smith
LAM Haas
Jurbo Murray Gillett
Morgan Sezer
Capewell Bird
Edwards Watson Teddy

Stimson
Mahoney
Egan
Keighran

KalkadoonWarrior wrote:Please rate
(C) C Smith
LAM  Haas
Jurbo Murray Gillett
Morgan Sezer
Capewell Bird
Edwards Watson Teddy

Stimson
Mahoney
Egan
Keighran

Don't rate Haas as a starting prop and you have no cover at Prop in your team either.

Iron Mike wrote:R Mahoney (if four forwards on bench)
LAM Twal
Murray Papali'i Lane
Cleary Morgan
JBateman Capewell
Watson DEdwards Lomax

Egan Sorensen LLeilua Stimson

Haas HHunt Keighran DBrown

Cleary to start then possibly Murray will be the obvious Captain picks. Other rookie players to consider will be R Garrick, Ravalawa, C Allan, A Hopoate, B Nikora, J Salmon.

I think the prospect of having a team without Cook and Smith is viable and if you are without any of them most people are with McCullough.

Which is an option I am warming up to. Essentially it looks like you are exchanging McCullough for Cleary. For whatever reason when i look at your team I can't help but feel you must have a lot of cash left over in your cap or that you have just gone too hard for your bench imo. If I don't have a Hooker I can trust as Captain I would want to have at least two viable Captain picks and Murray is a maybe. I just feel your team is too middle of the road.

For clarification, I decided to take McCullough out of my squad and put Cleary in and this is the team I have.

R. Mahoney
A. Fifita, A. Tolman
J. Arrow, C. Murray, E. Whitehead
M. Morgan, N. Cleary
J. Bateman, K. Capewell
D. Edwards, J. Mansour, H. Hunt/Z. Lomax

W. Egan, S. Sorensen, P. Haas, J. Bird

D. Brown, Z. Lomax, L. Burr, A. Keirghan

With the rookies being able to swap out. Like yes my bench looks weaker because you have two mid-tier guys there but my captain options are J. Arrow, A. Fifita, N. Cleary, and then C. Murray.

Who should I captain?
 And any advice would be great thanks.



I thought DCE had a long neck till I saw that pic of Watson

Random wrote:For clarification, I decided to take McCullough out of my squad and put Cleary in and this is the team I have.

R. Mahoney
A. Fifita, A. Tolman
J. Arrow, C. Murray, E. Whitehead
M. Morgan, N. Cleary
J. Bateman, K. Capewell
D. Edwards, J. Mansour, H. Hunt/Z. Lomax

W. Egan, S. Sorensen, P. Haas, J. Bird

D. Brown, Z. Lomax, L. Burr, A. Keirghan

With the rookies being able to swap out. Like yes my bench looks weaker because you have two mid-tier guys there but my captain options are J. Arrow, A. Fifita, N. Cleary, and then C. Murray.

Looks pretty balanced, amazing what you can do with the rest of the team when you just have a mid range hooker starting.

Centers are stacked, set and forget for the year.

mattnz wrote:

Don't rate Haas as a starting prop and you have no cover at Prop in your team either.

Good points, thanks. Prop seems the toughest spot to fill for me

CountessDeKent wrote:Who should I captain?
 And any advice would be great thanks.

Arrow until he breaks

Random wrote:For clarification, I decided to take McCullough out of my squad and put Cleary in and this is the team I have.

R. Mahoney
A. Fifita, A. Tolman
J. Arrow, C. Murray, E. Whitehead
M. Morgan, N. Cleary
J. Bateman, K. Capewell
D. Edwards, J. Mansour, H. Hunt/Z. Lomax

W. Egan, S. Sorensen, P. Haas, J. Bird

D. Brown, Z. Lomax, L. Burr, A. Keirghan

With the rookies being able to swap out. Like yes my bench looks weaker because you have two mid-tier guys there but my captain options are J. Arrow, A. Fifita, N. Cleary, and then C. Murray.

So after taking your advice into account:

R. Mahoney
A. Fifita, Twal
J. Arrow, C. Murray, Stimson
M. Morgan, N. Cleary
J. Bateman, K. Capewell
D. Edwards, C Watson, Z. Lomax

W. Egan, S. Sorensen, P. Haas, L Leilua

D. Brown, Ravalawa, L. Burr, A. Keirghan.

Differences are Bird + Whitehead + Tolman + Mansour vs Twal + Stimson + LLeilua + CWatson. It does look like with the changes I made I save a tonne of trades.