2016 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 10

WORD is that Issac Luke won’t be playing anywhere near the full 80 minutes for the Warriors against the Tigers tomorrow due to lack of match fitness.

Luke joined the Warriors after the summer break several kilos heavier than last year and still hasn’t quite shed all the extra weight.

That’s why coach Andrew McFadden named rookie Nathaniel Roache on the bench and he’s expected to get at least 20 minutes of action.

Thats a great Avatar Your Name, Mango's is pretty good too

Looks like I missed a lot of the fun over the last couple of days, been busy with other commitments so haven't spent much time online.

I watched the game last night, Oates had a blinder as well as a few other solid performances from both sides.

Bronco's look set for a big season, they'll be hard to beat.

Oh, and how good was that bunker, would love a man cave like that

Speedball Deluxe wrote:Was watching nrl 360 last night and toovey reckoned DCE average carries of 43 per game with Foran at 5/8 will definitely increase, but we could all have guessed that, but interestingly he said he would need to improve his organisational play a bit without Foran there. Not fantasy relevant but thought was interesting.

I have coached DCE in touch football when he was 15. This was for the Capricornia team in the Qld State titles.

For those that know touch football, it has almost regimented plays of where people should be running. Every play in a set of 6 is designed and called by the coach and then captain on the field. Anyway, DCE, despite his football skills just couldn't get the gist of the plays, and kept being in the wrong place. We got bundled out in the Quarter finals, but had to play for a plate or some other nonsense trophy.

I couldn't be bothered having set plays and just said to the boys throw the ball around have some fun....... With no structure DCE just killed it, He was amazing, I have never seen somebody just dominate on a touch field. .maybe I should have recognised it earlier and we would have done better.

So the comment by Toovey doesn't surprise me at all
DCE hopeless when playing to a structure (think state of origin performances)
Awesome when given a license to do whatever he wants and play what is in front of him

bluetige wrote:Thats a great Avatar Your Name, Mango's is pretty good too

Finally my bet with Welshy is over and I can go back to having Laurie

SI wrote:
Exactly.  We've got Rankin and Sironen in the 13 but apparently Lawrence is next best to fit into the halves    .

As long as he doesn't do what he did last year and put Lovett in the centre's.

Just reading the "The Late Mail" there is talk that ET may play NSW Cup and James Fisher-Harris could debut, doesn't sound confirmed though.

Sashamaloo wrote:

I have coached DCE in touch football when he was 15. This was for the Capricornia team in the Qld State titles.

For those that know touch football, it has almost regimented plays of where people should be running. Every play in a set of 6 is designed and called by the coach and then captain on the field. Anyway, DCE, despite his football skills just couldn't get the gist of the plays, and kept being in the wrong place. We got bundled out in the Quarter finals, but had to play for a plate or some other nonsense trophy.

I couldn't be bothered having set plays and just said to the boys throw the ball around have some fun....... With no structure DCE just killed it, He was amazing, I have never seen somebody just dominate on a touch field. .maybe I should have recognised it earlier and we would have done better.

So the comment by Toovey doesn't surprise me at all
DCE hopeless when playing to a structure (think state of origin performances)
Awesome when given a license to do whatever he wants and play what is in front of him

Great insight mate, and a good read! Wonder how Barrett trys to manage DCE given this.

mango wrote:Just reading the "The Late Mail" there is talk that ET may play NSW Cup and James Fisher-Harris could debut, doesn't sound confirmed though.

Fisher Harris has posted on facebook that he will be making his debut tomorrow.

So either he is telling porkies or ET (or someone) will drop off the bench

Loomer wrote:Thinking about reversing JLJ>Hunt on rumour and also getting JFH instead of Bhana

If ET is dropped to reserve grade, how long will he stay there?

@ Sash: thanks for sharing. It makes the decision to play Walker alongside DCE even stranger to me. I could be wrong but I just can't see Walker succeeding in the halves.

That said it should all be good for DCE from a fantasy perspective.

my tv broke wrote:

barretts already stated that dce will be given free roam to go where he wants to go and play what he see's.

Walker doesn't strike me as an organiser. But Barrett doesn't strike me as much of a coach either!

Sashamaloo wrote:

I have coached DCE in touch football when he was 15. This was for the Capricornia team in the Qld State titles.

For those that know touch football, it has almost regimented plays of where people should be running. Every play in a set of 6 is designed and called by the coach and then captain on the field. Anyway, DCE, despite his football skills just couldn't get the gist of the plays, and kept being in the wrong place. We got bundled out in the Quarter finals, but had to play for a plate or some other nonsense trophy.

I couldn't be bothered having set plays and just said to the boys throw the ball around have some fun....... With no structure DCE just killed it, He was amazing, I have never seen somebody just dominate on a touch field. .maybe I should have recognised it earlier and we would have done better.

So the comment by Toovey doesn't surprise me at all
DCE hopeless when playing to a structure (think state of origin performances)
Awesome when given a license to do whatever he wants and play what is in front of him

Very interesting Sasha and a good first-hand insight into how DCE's football brain works. Thanks for sharing mate.

Random wrote:

SI wrote:
Yep.  Bloke can play anywhere and I've got a feeling he was originally a hooker wasn't he?

I thought he originally played Five-Eight. Either way Peachey can play anywhere on the field.

Yeah, definitely played at 5/8 in first grade.  I should have said when he was younger coming through.

Your Name wrote:WORD is that Issac Luke won’t be playing anywhere near the full 80 minutes for the Warriors against the Tigers tomorrow due to lack of match fitness.

Luke joined the Warriors after the summer break several kilos heavier than last year and still hasn’t quite shed all the extra weight.

That’s why coach Andrew McFadden named rookie Nathaniel Roache on the bench and he’s expected to get at least 20 minutes of action.

Had Luke locked in till TLT.  Will be interesting to see how long they carry the extra hooker on the bench.

Pacey's Best wrote:What a fricken stupid mistake. After all the swapping and changing today, finally settled on a side I liked. Had no one playing tonight, just Gutherson as a NPR. I've just logged on to check the stats and my side has got 11 points.

I've mistakenly put in Kodi Nikorima instead of Jayden Nikorima in the halves.

What a BONEHEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YIKES!!!

We have seen Pacey's BEST over the years and now we have seen Pacey's WORST. :O

Mr Fernando wrote:@ Sash:  thanks for sharing.  It makes the decision to play Walker alongside DCE even stranger to me.  I could be wrong but I just can't see Walker succeeding in the halves.  

That said it should all be good for DCE from a fantasy perspective.  

Completely agree.  Seems like a strange combination.  They have a few decent halves to fall back on so I guess they have a crack for a few weeks and then go to plan B if it fails.