2016 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 13

Archer wrote:
GM you in London. By chance?
Might have to catch up for a game one time if we ever play later than 4am

ForanAgainst wrote:Thoughts on my potential trades for this week and my thinking behind them.
OUT Lichaa IN JNiko
OUT Leiluai IN Mau

I didn't begin the season with JNiko because I wasn't too sure about him. Seemed to
do well enough his first game, hence why I went him over Garvey, Randell, or whoever.

As far as bringing in Manu Mau. I like him as a better option to Carter. I strongly believe
this is his year where he "brings it" week after week and consistently score 45-50/game. Yes, my beliefs could be wrong but I'm more confident in him doing that than I am with Carter keeping his discipline in check.

Your thoughts?

Mearcats wrote:@ForanAgainst, I'd b happy with both trades.

Welshy is right, Ma'u is usually a low to mid 40 scorer so that doesn't leave you a lot of room to make a lot of money as you would with a cow, and he's not really an out and out gun either. That being said, he has great byes and after watching him last week I think that he could be on the cusp of having a breakout season.

It goes against most fantasy rules, I know, but my gut feeling says that this could be a good year for him. And we've seen from Mannering in the past that it's not impossible for a second rower to grab a meat pie every couple of weeks.

If he keeps running as hard as he did last Thursday and putting in that much effort then he could potentially make his way up to a 50pt a week man.

Finch wrote:

Taylor will probably come on for Merrin... Or maybe Taylor will play hooker for Wallace

Their bench has 3 props on it and Taylor..so Maybe Merrin will get the extra minutes after all.

Archer wrote:Meercats if nobody else answers I'll shoot you a PM when I knock off. Only got time to sneak a peak here and there atm

jstands wrote:Which one from each lot do I bring in? I am so stuck and there's only been one round played.

Peats, Macca, Garvey, Walker

Carter, Rochow, W. Graham(can only afford with Garvey/Walker)

SI wrote:

I think you need to make a decision as to whether you want to chase points right now to get ahead of the pack or think longer term with cows.

I an struggling as well and thinking I might just bring in 2 guns now and try to get the jump on the field.

jstands wrote:

Ideally I'd like to find the right balance of earning a profit while still scoring solid points. Based on Carter's stats I'd like to think he falls into this category but he really needs to get the negative scoring out of his game.
And I've always been one to have big scorers in my hooking positions so I'm leaning more towards Peats/Macca

Mearcats wrote:TBH lads @White Lightning and @Revraiser, I don't think I've had a weekend quite that large in a long time! Started for Thursday night footy when I was posting on here and ended up not closing the bar til 8am Friday morning so just went across the road to the grocery store, bought all the fixings for a big fry-up and went back there and cooked it. Opened the shop two hours later.

The rest of the weekend was a blur but the misso reckons I was home for a total of 20 hours between Thursday morning and the following Monday night. Myeh, whaddaya do? My mate from Scotland has bee calling me a ned (I'm sure Welshy can explain further) as I apparently drank his whole collection of Buckie (4 bottles) in the space of a day. Guess that may explain why I didn't need any sleep in 5 days.

I have spent most of the day speed reading through 150 pages that I missed and I must say, there is some pure rubbish in there! Dafuq would people be trading the likes of Bromwich out to get Carter in?

Someone commented that Barret is making changes faster than a first year fantasy coach... I lolled at this! I'd go one further and say the changes he has made make about as much sense as a cock flavoured lollypop or a dick for a door knob. Bloke may be feeling the pressure already.

Some other gold from the last three threads (stupid trade ideas aside) included a mentioned of flogging off Koro followed by a reply of "sounds like he's in for a good time" the consistent shit slinging between Random and KFP, Your Name well and truly putting one of our newbies into place (although all newbies are welcome, you'll learn fast enough who's who as I did last year) Welshy copping a few verbals for Whiteheads performance and the responses from coaches following a whole plethora of injuries over the weekend! Absolute gold.

lukeaye wrote:Guys in other news, check out this link....wtf...

http://www.unilad.co.uk/video/women-are-paying-strangers-to-stroke-their-vaginas-because-2016/