NRL Fantasy 2019 Part 11

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

my tv broke wrote:Im quite tempted to have TPJ still, although logic says its too risky. Will still play big mins, comes on against tired opposition. Flegler will not play big mins.

Touched on it a bit earlier in the offseason but now that roles are more defined this is how I see Brisbane game plan working out. This will have a minimal impact on fantasy outside of attacking opportunities but should give a bit of insight into the pack

The move of Gillett from edge to middle is no coincidence and not related to fitness imo. Quite simply Seibold wants to follow a similar attacking structure to Souths used last year and Gillett is the best ball playing forward they have. So what does this look like? Lots of long shifts sideline to sideline with Gillett(previous Cam Murray) playing as the link man in the middle. Assuming that Nikorima throws the first pass most of the time due to Milford having the better running game(shades of Cody Walker) the bread and butter red zone play that got the left winger a bunch of tries in 2018 looks like this.

Right side centre Roberts plays the ball after an attacking chance. Right side second rower Su’a angles in towards the markets to freeze the defense while Nikorima gets the ball out the back and straightens towards the line. Flat pass thrown to Gillett who has time and space to decide to tuck and run allowing a quick play the ball or play the next option. If Gillett takes it to the line and decides to pass he will have one of the big boppers as a lead runner(Ofa/Lodge/Flegler all seem the type to fill this role) with Milford at pace sweeping round the outside. Most of the action happens around the left upright which gives Milford 25-30 metres to work with. On his outside he then gets the option to hit a rampaging TPJ(Gurgess played this role last year) for a quick play the ball/possible line break. Fifita is also capable of playing in this spot with his size speed and footwork. Milford’s other option is the classic Boyd 3 on 2 which sees Oates score in the corner more often than not.


So what does all this mean for fantasy? Gillett will be doing a lot more ball playing than recent years. TPJ will be getting a lot of space on attacking sets in the channel normally reserved for second rowers. Oates is going to score a lot of tries.

Tl;dr The offseason is too long and I’m a crackpot

SI wrote:

Welcome to the forum Seibs.

Welshy wrote:so which one of Su'a ,Glenn is playing the 80 role, Sutton/Burgess did last year?

Welshy wrote:so which one of Su'a ,Glenn is playing the 80 role, Sutton/Burgess did last year?

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Early money is on Glenn

Welshy wrote:

Glenn averaged 73 minutes already, no interest there from me, but Su'a has some potential

too much risk for me early season, only one I really fancy is Gillett from that pack make-up

mattnz wrote:

I'm sure there was discussion of Sua getting some time in the middle at some stage too?

multiple.scoregasms wrote:
If I had to choose my two most hated clubs Souths and Broncos would be an easy 1 and 2

Pookus McFly wrote:

multiple.scoregasms wrote:
If I had to choose my two most hated clubs Souths and Broncos would be an easy 1 and 2

Who do you support?

I hate them.

SI wrote:

Rorters!!!

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Touched on it a bit earlier in the offseason but now that roles are more defined this is how I see Brisbane game plan working out. This will have a minimal impact on fantasy outside of attacking opportunities but should give a bit of insight into the pack

The move of Gillett from edge to middle is no coincidence and not related to fitness imo. Quite simply Seibold wants to follow a similar attacking structure to Souths used last year and Gillett is the best ball playing forward they have. So what does this look like? Lots of long shifts sideline to sideline with Gillett(previous Cam Murray) playing as the link man in the middle. Assuming that Nikorima throws the first pass most of the time due to Milford having the better running game(shades of Cody Walker) the bread and butter red zone play that got the left winger a bunch of tries in 2018 looks like this.

Right side centre Roberts plays the ball after an attacking chance. Right side second rower Su’a angles in towards the markets to freeze the defense while Nikorima gets the ball out the back and straightens towards the line. Flat pass thrown to Gillett who has time and space to decide to tuck and run allowing a quick play the ball or play the next option. If Gillett takes it to the line and decides to pass he will have one of the big boppers as a lead runner(Ofa/Lodge/Flegler all seem the type to fill this role) with Milford at pace sweeping round the outside. Most of the action happens around the left upright which gives Milford 25-30 metres to work with. On his outside he then gets the option to hit a rampaging TPJ(Gurgess played this role last year) for a quick play the ball/possible line break. Fifita is also capable of playing in this spot with his size speed and footwork. Milford’s other option is the classic Boyd 3 on 2 which sees Oates score in the corner more often than not.


So what does all this mean for fantasy? Gillett will be doing a lot more ball playing than recent years. TPJ will be getting a lot of space on attacking sets in the channel normally reserved for second rowers. Oates is going to score a lot of tries.

Tl;dr The offseason is too long and I’m a crackpot

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Touched on it a bit earlier in the offseason but now that roles are more defined this is how I see Brisbane game plan working out. This will have a minimal impact on fantasy outside of attacking opportunities but should give a bit of insight into the pack

The move of Gillett from edge to middle is no coincidence and not related to fitness imo. Quite simply Seibold wants to follow a similar attacking structure to Souths used last year and Gillett is the best ball playing forward they have. So what does this look like? Lots of long shifts sideline to sideline with Gillett(previous Cam Murray) playing as the link man in the middle. Assuming that Nikorima throws the first pass most of the time due to Milford having the better running game(shades of Cody Walker) the bread and butter red zone play that got the left winger a bunch of tries in 2018 looks like this.

Right side centre Roberts plays the ball after an attacking chance. Right side second rower Su’a angles in towards the markets to freeze the defense while Nikorima gets the ball out the back and straightens towards the line. Flat pass thrown to Gillett who has time and space to decide to tuck and run allowing a quick play the ball or play the next option. If Gillett takes it to the line and decides to pass he will have one of the big boppers as a lead runner(Ofa/Lodge/Flegler all seem the type to fill this role) with Milford at pace sweeping round the outside. Most of the action happens around the left upright which gives Milford 25-30 metres to work with. On his outside he then gets the option to hit a rampaging TPJ(Gurgess played this role last year) for a quick play the ball/possible line break. Fifita is also capable of playing in this spot with his size speed and footwork. Milford’s other option is the classic Boyd 3 on 2 which sees Oates score in the corner more often than not.


So what does all this mean for fantasy? Gillett will be doing a lot more ball playing than recent years. TPJ will be getting a lot of space on attacking sets in the channel normally reserved for second rowers. Oates is going to score a lot of tries.


Tl;dr The offseason is too long and I’m a crackpot

my tv broke wrote:Broncos website says Siebold has "announced" his Round 1 team

1.      Darius Boyd
2.      Corey Oates
3.      James Roberts
4.      Jack Bird
5.      Jamayne Isaako
6.      Anthony Milford
7.      Kodi Nikorima
8.      Matthew Lodge
9.      Andrew McCullough
10.   Joe Ofahengaue
11.   Alex Glenn
12.   Jaydn Su’A
13.   Matt Gillett

Interchange:

14.   Kotoni Staggs
15.   David Fifita
16.   Thomas Flegler
17.   Tevita Pangai jnr
18.   Shaun Fensom

surmo13 wrote:surprising squad, but i'm pretty excited for the impact Pangai and Fifita will have in that middle section of the game. As mtb mentioned in amongst all the high praise for the 2 above, Su'A has been sold very short, he was great on the edge last year before injury hit, I'm skeptical about Glenn's place more than his, but then i do recognize that Glenn had a blinder of a pre-season and earned first crack, and may be important with the amount of young guys in the team.