NRL Fantasy 2019 Part 44

GreenMachine wrote:And also all you reds just keep on walking... alone, together or however the hell you like... without that premier league trophy in hand for ideally another 29 years

Why is this forum so heavily Liverpool.
Old Craig Johnston fans? Or young Harry Kewell fans?

Big fan of the Dutch players playing for Liverpool over the years. And playing as a Striker and a Centre Back myself over the years I take a liking to van Dijk. He's the Aubusson of the premier league to me.

It was great to see those 2 Liverpool traitors Suarez & Coutinho losing.

Nikorima's inclusion is one of two spine changes for the Warriors ahead of their match with the Dragons at Suncorp Stadium, with Kearney also dropping veteran hooker Issac Luke due to issues with his defence.
With Luke named on an extended bench and spending all of Wednesday's field session playing with the reserve-grade group, Nathaniel Roache is set to start at hooker with Karl Lawton joining the interchange.
Tuivasa-Sheck said while news of Luke's demotion came as a shock, he backed the decision by Kearney.
"Yeah it was a surprise, but that's the plan we are going off this weekend and coach has made the call," Tuivasa-Sheck said.
"[Issac] has been good, he trained really well [this week].
"It's always tough to go back to the [Canterbury] Cup side. But Issac is a professional, he'll take it in for a bit but then he will be on to his next job and go out and perform well for the cup side."
Meanwhile despite neither having kicked a goal at NRL level before, the goalkicking responsibilities for Saturday's match look set to fall to either Nikorima or rookie centre Patrick Herbert.
The pair both kicked at the end of Wednesday's training session, while Tohu Harris all but ruled himself out as a candidate.
"If you ask [Kodi], he's said he's going to be kicking for goal, so he's not short on confidence," Kearney said.
"[But] Patrick is a pretty capable goalkicker, so we will see what happens."
- via NRL.com

Seem as though Kodi thinks he is kicking goals. Also seems like Luke will not come back. RTS even sounds like he has accepted Luke's demotion.

Kearney is a big fan of Roache. It doesn't surprise me that they've dropped Luke now Roache is back to 100%

Could Roache be a decent pick up?

White Lightning wrote:It was great to see those 2 Liverpool traitors Suarez & Coutinho losing.

Lowest of all low grubs he is.

Kicked shit out of your boy Andy Robertson and just want to hope no damage done there as he’s arguably more important to you boys than Salah. 

Good while until the champions league final so should have everyone fit and healthy, and only a young Ajax side spearheaded by bloody Dusan Tadic to beat!

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Could Roache be a decent pick up?

Is a beast fantasy wise. Racks up the points! BE 27 and only needs 60 minutes to post a good score. At 381K would be a lot better with no Lawton but Kearney could just be building his tank up to take on the 80.

Edit: Just had a look at some past stats and actually scores really well when playing 40+ minutes at hooker.

My dad has already booked his ticket to Madrid (they were already planning on being back there at the time, he isn't travelling from Aus for it)

He had access to a ticket for the 2005 final in Istanbul, but ended up not taking it because it was going to require insane logistics to physically get to the game from Sydney

After that result he went to Athens in 2007 without a ticket hoping to scalp one, but missed out.

Hope he manages to get himself a ticket this time (and a good result)

StormTrooper96 wrote:

Is a beast fantasy wise. Racks up the points! BE 27 and only needs 60 minutes to post a good score. At 381K would be a lot better with no Lawton but Kearney could just be building his tank up to take on the 80.

Could be an interesting gamble for teams like mine. Should make a bit of cash if he gets 60 minutes regularly. My luck though is he's back in reserves next week haha

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:

Could be an interesting gamble for teams like mine. Should make a bit of cash if he gets 60 minutes regularly. My luck though is he's back in reserves next week haha

Nearly 5% ownership but I would say that is a fair chunk of casual players.

His price is a throw off though... Could possibly get similar scores from Turpin with slightly better JS and close to base price.
If he looks like a 50pt scorer and his job security sures up before next week could be a good pick up.

Bumping again one last time(was it something I said?)

Thinking of just going Bateman and CHT to Dearden and CS9 leaving me with this:

19 trades 174k bank

Cook
Fifita Tolman
Murray Taupau Arrow
ARey Ponga
Nikora Xerri
Hughes CNK Sivo

Smith
Mahoney
Rein
Haas

Lawrie
Whitbread
Dearden
Brown

Will ride it out with Xerri til Burns comes back,will trade out Drown for him if he isn’t back yet. Hughes needs to be upgraded also but not urgent immediately. Thoughts?

danseels1985 wrote:Bumping again one last time(was it something I said?)

Thinking of just going Bateman and CHT to Dearden and CS9 leaving me with this:

19 trades 174k bank

Cook
Fifita Tolman
Murray Taupau Arrow
ARey Ponga
Nikora Xerri
Hughes CNK Sivo

Smith
Mahoney
Rein
Haas

Lawrie
Whitbread
Dearden
Brown

Will ride it out with Xerri til Burns comes back,will trade out Drown for him if he isn’t back yet. Hughes needs to be upgraded also but not urgent immediately. Thoughts?

Do you want to be playing Sivo week in week out (even though he is going great guns - wish I could have afforded Ponga a few weeks back without selling Sivo instead of Ravalawa). Could go double gun (??) with Pearce maybe and move Ponga back to WFB and then push Lawrie back into starting 17

Camo123 wrote:

Do you want to be playing Sivo week in week out (even though he is going great guns - wish I could have afforded Ponga a few weeks back without selling Sivo instead of Ravalawa). Could go double gun (??) with Pearce maybe and move Ponga back to WFB and then push Lawrie back into starting 17

Yes I had thought of that,I guess I’m hedging my bets with Sivo aren’t I.Food for thought I suppose but the rest of the team looks decent?

Sounds like Murray is firming for origin - Freddy chatting about him here https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/state-of-origin/teams/new-south-wales/nsw-coach-brad-fittler-explains-why-victor-radley-is-falling-behind-cameron-murray-in-the-blues-origin-race/news-story/dad67071103d22291efdb4576b31b6b6

White Lightning wrote:

Your reasoning is sound but Lomax has only played in his favoured ctr position once & that was last week. He was on 22 at half time & in the 2nd half the Dragons got smashed so he didn't score too well & I think he ended up on 31. However they are playing the Warriors this week & there will be no capitulation in the 2nd half.

Limited sample and all, but Lomax played CTR in the final regular season game last year vs. Knights.

Scored 29 with 4 goals, 21 tackles and a TA. Gave away 2 penalties and 3 errors.

I'd be playing Xerri over him if I had Lomax. Playing Sivo over them both though.

StormTrooper96 wrote:Nikorima's inclusion is one of two spine changes for the Warriors ahead of their match with the Dragons at Suncorp Stadium, with Kearney also dropping veteran hooker Issac Luke due to issues with his defence.
With Luke named on an extended bench and spending all of Wednesday's field session playing with the reserve-grade group, Nathaniel Roache is set to start at hooker with Karl Lawton joining the interchange.
Tuivasa-Sheck said while news of Luke's demotion came as a shock, he backed the decision by Kearney.
"Yeah it was a surprise, but that's the plan we are going off this weekend and coach has made the call," Tuivasa-Sheck said.
"[Issac] has been good, he trained really well [this week].
"It's always tough to go back to the [Canterbury] Cup side. But Issac is a professional, he'll take it in for a bit but then he will be on to his next job and go out and perform well for the cup side."
Meanwhile despite neither having kicked a goal at NRL level before, the goalkicking responsibilities for Saturday's match look set to fall to either Nikorima or rookie centre Patrick Herbert.
The pair both kicked at the end of Wednesday's training session, while Tohu Harris all but ruled himself out as a candidate.
"If you ask [Kodi], he's said he's going to be kicking for goal, so he's not short on confidence," Kearney said.
"[But] Patrick is a pretty capable goalkicker, so we will see what happens."
- via NRL.com

Seem as though Kodi thinks he is kicking goals. Also seems like Luke will not come back. RTS even sounds like he has accepted Luke's demotion.

He's the captain, not like he is going to say in public that his coach made a bad decision.

WT2K wrote:Sounds like Murray is firming for origin - Freddy chatting about him here https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/state-of-origin/teams/new-south-wales/nsw-coach-brad-fittler-explains-why-victor-radley-is-falling-behind-cameron-murray-in-the-blues-origin-race/news-story/dad67071103d22291efdb4576b31b6b6

Good for NSW, bad for fantasy

He deserves it though and looks like a future NSW and Australian Captain

Some pretty talented NSW youngsters coming through considering murray, mitchell, ramien, xerri, cleary, haas, TTurbo, crichton, TPJ, radley all coming through and even the likes of teddy and klemmer, JTurbo, the friz, cordner etc all at good ages. Do NSW even have 1 player in their likely squad over 30?

Helps me be less depressed about the once in a generation player of this generation being a queenslander. Check my avatar if you're not sure who I mean

Queensland still have the edge in the halves though which is key and will mean they are never out of it

danseels1985 wrote:Bumping again one last time(was it something I said?)

Thinking of just going Bateman and CHT to Dearden and CS9 leaving me with this:

19 trades 174k bank

Cook
Fifita Tolman
Murray Taupau Arrow
ARey Ponga
Nikora Xerri
Hughes CNK Sivo

Smith
Mahoney
Rein
Haas

Lawrie
Whitbread
Dearden
Brown

Will ride it out with Xerri til Burns comes back,will trade out Drown for him if he isn’t back yet. Hughes needs to be upgraded also but not urgent immediately. Thoughts?

Haha nah this place just runs fast mate and you're traveling too well for most of us to give advice anyway!

Dearden gives you halves cover and looping ability potentially with brown. Time probably to streamline your squad a bit like I'm trying to do lately. As in, strengthen your 17 and get closer to base price cows who you think will be ready post origin, then save trades

Because of sivo, i'd consider bateman to ARey or a half of your choosing and pushing ponga back to the back, or a WFB. You're an eels fan though and the scores he's putting out are nothing to be sneezed at.

I'm on the xerri train too for a while. hoping he sees more ball. can't see another centre I want to splash on. would be mitchell but origin means he isn't worth it for me. I am still carrying burns so will slot him in there when I can

WT2K wrote:CHT > Dearden and Garner > Arey locked in. Bateman becomes Lolo next week.

My thinking exactly

White Lightning wrote:

Your reasoning is sound but Lomax has only played in his favoured ctr position once & that was last week. He was on 22 at half time & in the 2nd half the Dragons got smashed so he didn't score too well & I think he ended up on 31. However they are playing the Warriors this week & there will be no capitulation in the 2nd half.

There probably will be, just not from the Dragons