NRL Fantasy 2019 thread part 8

Milchy wrote:
Fusitu'a played as SJ's winger last year and managed a 29.5 average
And that was with 22 tries.

This is my entire point. It doesn't matter how you score your points as long as you score them. And typically wingers don't score very many. Picking a winger that averaged 27 last year and expecting him to jump 7 points purely based on scoring a few tries is absurd

Fraser wrote:It might be just me but I seem to be seeing less and less teams with teddy in them. Any particular reason or are people just finding ot to hard to come up with the extra $?

Most are leaning towards going with one of the mid options Edwards/Drinkwater/Watson and a couple of cheapies in the Kahu/CNK tier

Seen as better value for money I guess with the gun WFB likely to have a low score at some point and drop a bit of cash

surmo13 wrote:it will foverer bug me way too much that the team player portraits are set up inside a circular border, only for the portraits themselves to have half the arms of the players cropped out to be shaped like a rectangle.

You could have kept that to yourself. It's gonna shit me all year now.

@my tv broke does Elliot Whitehead have stats for last year on your webpage. Great page by the way. Thanks!
They don't seem to come up when I click on him.

Iron Mike wrote:@my tv broke does Elliot Whitehead have stats for last year on your webpage. Great page by the way. Thanks!
They don't seem to come up when I click on him.

Whitehead doesn't have any stats on the official site either, which I assume is an unfixed Fanhub screw-up from something weird that happened with Whitehead in the FIRST WEEK of last year.

Milchy wrote:
Fusitu'a played as SJ's winger last year and managed a 29.5 average
And that was with 22 tries.

Reckon the loss of Harris with injury for that period contributed to why that whole right edge lost effectiveness.

Dragons are threatening to sue the NRL if JDB is stood down today. They are claiming that he should be treated as innocent until proven guilty. The NRL need to stay out of the media at the moment and I see this as a lose lose situation, stand JDB down and get sued, let him play and get shit for not standing him
Down.

I really want to try fit Milford in my team, I just feel he will have a Dally M kind of year this year. Been some talk over the off season he has been locked in and spent lots of time with the Johns brothers and also the AFL honing in on his kicking.

Fraser wrote:It might be just me but I seem to be seeing less and less teams with teddy in them. Any particular reason or are people just finding ot to hard to come up with the extra $?

I dropped Teddy for Kahu and brought in Taupau, without cs9 or cook in my team i needed a sure fire C and i am not confident putting that on Teddy... hopefully will find a way to get him back in my team thou

Who is the sporting news reporter? Is it Moley?

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Avatar bet? In his first 10 games this year I think Katoa will go below that. I'll even give you a little bit and set the line at 32.5 average with me taking the under

He's not starting lol Xerri will so can't do that bet

Milchy wrote:
Fusitu'a played as SJ's winger last year and managed a 29.5 average
And that was with 22 tries.

Yeah and he's expected to score less this year now that he gone

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

This is my entire point. It doesn't matter how you score your points as long as you score them. And typically wingers don't score very many. Picking a winger that averaged 27 last year and expecting him to jump 7 points purely based on scoring a few tries is absurd

It's just as absurd as expecting more ball down Cotric's and Bird's edge but people have said that

rhinoceroo wrote:

Whitehead doesn't have any stats on the official site either, which I assume is an unfixed Fanhub screw-up from something weird that happened with Whitehead in the FIRST WEEK of last year.

haha.. yeah I think it was something to do with his name being spelt wrong. Instead of just fixing the issue he has been added a second time in the system. I think I should be able to match them up.

EDIT: fixed now

StormTrooper96 wrote:I really want to try fit Milford in my team, I just feel he will have a Dally M kind of year this year. Been some talk over the off season he has been locked in and spent lots of time with the Johns brothers and also the AFL honing in on his kicking.

I really wanted to pick him, but he didn't return to full contact until just recently after shoulder surgery, and is now out of the trial this weekend because of a hammy issue. Just has me wary he might start slow, but I do think he'll have a career year.

Warning "training the house down" comment - he was apparently "the fittest he has ever been" in pre season this year. Broke his 1.2km PB by 12 seconds.

StormTrooper96 wrote:Dragons are threatening to sue the NRL if JDB is stood down today. They are claiming that he should be treated as innocent until proven guilty. The NRL need to stay out of the media at the moment and I see this as a lose lose situation, stand JDB down and get sued, let him play and get shit for not standing him
Down.

The NRL or more broadly, rugby league will ALWAYS be in the media. Its a no win. Either DeBelin/Walker and Co hog the headlines charged with something or the NRL, in trying to keep them out of the headlines, get flogged! We must remember the media will always dish up a story - they just determine the angle to get the most outrage amongst the public - which in turn sells papers and gets clicks on web pages. I'd love to see the sponsors pull the plug and the income stream for players go down the gurgler - then they might learn. After all, it was the players who wanted their wage based on income/sponsors. #backinmybox

I'm happy with Nikora at CTR (supposing he starts) but unhappy with Bird. Is Kahu going to score any better, or should I really just spring for Holland or Capewell at the expense of my bench?

Enchanted Glossy Flamingo wrote:I'm happy with Nikora at CTR (supposing he starts) but unhappy with Bird. Is Kahu going to score any better, or should I really just spring for Holland or Capewell at the expense of my bench?

You should have Holland in your team

Enchanted Glossy Flamingo wrote:I'm happy with Nikora at CTR (supposing he starts) but unhappy with Bird. Is Kahu going to score any better, or should I really just spring for Holland or Capewell at the expense of my bench?

Nothing wrong with a Nikora/Bird ctr pairing. I look at ctr scoring as a combo. If both as a total score average 30 each then I'm happy e.g. Nikora scores 40 & Bird 20. Bird is playing outside Milford & inside Oates & this is the preferred attacking edge so Bird should get plenty of ball.

Enchanted Glossy Flamingo wrote:I'm happy with Nikora at CTR (supposing he starts) but unhappy with Bird. Is Kahu going to score any better, or should I really just spring for Holland or Capewell at the expense of my bench?

Holland and Nikora for me. Will try and sneak Capewell onto the bench