2019 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 3

Ah Welshy, no more Great Odin's Ravens!

The Yipee Try-ay Motherruckers

That's some funny shit right there!

Mulvy wrote:Ah Welshy, no more Great Odin's Ravens!

The Yipee Try-ay Motherruckers

That's some funny shit right there!

Fancied mixing it up fella! Plus I was watching Die Hard in the week

Seagulls, bahahahahahahaha!

"And I was like, that log had a child"  

Edit: Holy crap, there's tonnes of them! How did I not know!

Mulvy wrote:Seagulls, bahahahahahahaha!

"And I was like, that log had a child"  

Edit: Holy crap, there's tonnes of them! How did I not know!

The NFL ones are my favourite

Milchy wrote:
I'm pretty much avoiding all Raiders forwards at the moment. There is a lot of potential there, but until there something more concrete about who has what role, I am avoiding trying to guess the (fantasy) winner

I am on the same page mate. Ive read about 6 different forward rotations and all looked different

Eels minutes, anyone?

Brown, Alvaro, Lane interesting non-origin players, first two as potential keepers, third as value first bye round player.

Also opinions on Guth as handy DPP to last to first bye? Could be heavily involved from fb if Eels playing a rookie half.

Random wrote:I am struggling for Forward picks. Right now I have Fifita and Sutton pencilled in but I know Sutton needs to change and honestly I wouldn't mind Fifita getting downgraded as well to have some more cash.

Who are the underpriced options? I am not liking Tolman or Napa all that much.

Im loving leeson ah mau as an options he averaged about 40 last season cming off the bench. he will start this year. and i expect him to be scoring low 50s

Are people really skipping on cook? hes first picked in my team. yes hes expensive but its worth it. plus he is the only one priced onward of 800 for me.

King Assassin wrote:

Im loving leeson ah mau as an options he averaged about 40 last season cming off the bench. he will start this year. and i expect him to be scoring low 50s

This has happened before with LAM, I won't risk the money on him until I see the increase and ppm matching any extra time on the park

Pacey's Best wrote:

I feel the same way. I cannot find a Front Rower I like under 550K. Hopefully someone puts their hand up during the trails and impresses.

Agree Pacey and good to see you mate.

Korbin Sims and Dylan Napa the only cheapie watchlist ones for me, but wouldn’t it be great for old times sake if the new boss of Brisbane took a real liking to Shaun Fensom. He could be like the next Dallas Johnson (or old Shawn Fensom) again

StormTrooper96 wrote:Surely sticky has something for poms?

Proven to have really good work ethic the ones that come over and as a rule even the brutes pretty good/professional attitude?

Just a fresh change from former delinquent youths pissing on other people in queanbeyan pub bathrooms and that

King Assassin wrote:Are people really skipping on cook? hes first picked in my team. yes hes expensive but its worth it. plus he is the only one priced onward of 800 for me.

Will Bennett give him his head and let him do his own thing?

Change of coach only thing holding me back shelling out

Joined your leagues Chewie & Mulvy. Cheers boys.

rhinoceroo wrote:Eels minutes, anyone?

Brown, Alvaro, Lane interesting non-origin players, first two as potential keepers, third as value first bye round player.

Also opinions on Guth as handy DPP to last to first bye? Could be heavily involved from fb if Eels playing a rookie half.

Most of Gutherson's good scores in the past have included goal-kicking. If he played 5/8th I think there might still be a little bit of value but by the sounds of it that won't happen.

Thinking we can get a bit of insight into plans for new coaches McGuire/Hasler/Bennett/Cleary based on past forward trends?

Starting with Madge - Looks at past team structure on the bench he had a utility the majority of the time that would spell at hooker (McInnes starter with Cook/Keary/Talakai getting the spot depending on injury in 2016). In the second row there would be one bigger minute player getting close to 80 with the other edge getting 50-60 minutes regularly. In the middle there would be one big minute player getting 60-70(almost always Surgess) with one middle around 45-50 minutes and the rest getting scraps at 30 odd minutes a piece.

What we can take out of this:
We are likely to see Farah starting with Liddle spelling him off the bench. Once Marshall returns from injury one of Reynolds/Marshall will likely have the utility role and continue taking minutes from Farah.

With the Claw getting up there in age I expect Matterson to get the big minute edge role with Lawrence in the 60 odd minute role. Onto the middles, both Packer and Matulino are not capable of the 60-70 minute role so expecting this to go to whoever gets the lock role. This will be Twal or Eisenhuth with my preference for fantasy purposes being Twal. The other likely bench players Chee Kam(possibly gone?), Eisenhuth, Aloiai/Garner/Rochow/Musgrove getting lower minutes and probably not worth considering

Random wrote:

No I believe completely Vaughan can be a gun through and through. He just needs the minutes. I haven't seen or missed the breakdown of the minutes for the Dragons pack so I am unsure he gets the time needed.

Vaughan played 48 minutes per game in 2018 vs 47 minutes in 2017. Minutes arent the issue. His 2017 PPM was out of this world, it would be unreasonable to expect a player to perform at that level every year and for their body to hold up for it.

Where possible in any position I am going with high likelihood of change in minutes, rather than change in form. If the minutes change, scores will too.

mattnz wrote:

Vaughan played 48 minutes per game in 2018 vs 47 minutes in 2017. Minutes arent the issue. His 2017 PPM was out of this world, it would be unreasonable to expect a player to perform at that level every year and for their body to hold up for it.

Where possible in any position I am going with high likelihood of change in minutes, rather than change in form. If the minutes change, scores will too.

No JDB who is an absolute workhorse, not much to replace him so expect extras from vaughan, graham

Chewie wrote:

Yep Seagulls (Stop It Now)... starwars bad lipreading reference (worth a watch on YouTube)

I'll adjust the settings, better start in round 1, even though I'm expecting Fiona's team to mess up the start of the season

I hate Brenda. I prefer Bushes of Love

Welshy wrote:
No JDB who is an absolute workhorse, not much to replace him so expect extras from vaughan, graham

Who gets JDBs position? Surely that is the safer upside.

I know Drinkwater is expensive due to the 1 game but that score was just a result of Drinkwater being a real talent. These are his stats in 2018 ISP (played 22games) & as you will see he has a great deal of ability:
17 tries (2nd in ISP), 21 lb's (1st), 160 tb's (1st by country mile), 24 ta's (1st), 22 lba's (1st), 911 kick return metres (1st)