2016 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 21

770 with Whitehead & Graham to go. Aubbs sitting on the bench as a NPR.

Remember what I said about only trading out dud cows and injuries and avoiding trade rage.

Hands up who traded out Carty after last weeks score and missed him going large ?

Need a Raiders bloodbath to stand any hope this week
641 with Vaughan, Whitehead, Leilua and Croker to play. Still pissed with the 2 TB's for TMM, every time I look at Taylor and Bowen in my NPR's its just going to piss me off further. Oh well, that's fantasy I guess.

40 points in updates takes me to 834 with Whitehead to come
Into around ~1800, big game from Whitehead should see me in a position to start making some moves

I just realised I'm inside the top 1000 for the first time . @826th

Haha I had Carty in my NPRs had no idea he was going to play. Oh well at least he's there.

AUBBS!!!!!

Does trading Guerra out count as trade rage?

I'm expecting about 40 from Whitehead if he plays second row. But who knows he might play in the Centres?

the funny thing is i very close to trading in cartright this week (after everyone was rage-trading him out). would of been a great move.

the funny thing is i very close to trading in cartright this week (after everyone was rage-trading him out). would of been a great move.

Your Name wrote:770 with Whitehead & Graham to go. Aubbs sitting on the bench as a NPR.

Remember what I said about only trading out dud cows and injuries and avoiding trade rage.

Hands up who traded out Carty after last weeks score and missed him going large ?

Yeah one of my mates dropped Carty and brought in Graham... can't wait to see him later today

He's my main h2h rival

If Cartwright didn't have so much attacking potential I wouldn't go near him with a 20ft barge pole, his defence is so, so poor! Will take 834 with JTurbo dropping out early doors...2 of Fensom, JDB, Friz, Tolman and maybe Mau'u In tomorrow then and will be happy to sit until origin then

Welshy wrote:If Cartwright didn't have so much attacking potential I wouldn't go near him with a 20ft barge pole, his defence is so, so poor! Will take 834 with JTurbo dropping out early doors...2 of Fensom, JDB, Friz, Tolman and maybe Mau'u In tomorrow then and will be happy to sit until origin then

Is Whitehead in your team yet?

if whitehead and hodgson could combine for 130 points, that would be nice.

Chewie wrote:

Is Whitehead in your team yet?

not yet mate, undecided if Rochow - Whitehead is high middie to gun or sideways

SI wrote:

Depending on the MN#, Milchy 's BE spreadsheet has RTS as pretty much levelling out this week.  Has a pretty tough draw-Manly/Dogs/Storm- so I'm almost tempted to use him as a reverse POD and NOT bring him in for a few more weeks.

As a RTS owner and official dumb cunt who captained him the last 2 weeks thinking he would go big against A)the knights and B)his old team and winless roosters if i didnt own him i wouldnt be rushing to get him. I was tempted by the 200 run metres in base stats and thinking hes about to explode at a discounted price for a gun wfb. He only ran 130 metres yesterday before that extra time play and was on a score of 31. He just doesnt seem to be getting those big numbers of tackle breaks either?

Can't believe Maubs gets to live another day. I can't trade him out now he's going to make up for the money he lost with the next few price rises.

Another interesting fact is that now that Maubs is on the way to clearing his debt, the only other player on my team in the red is Surgess. He's lucky that he has a proven fantasy record otherwise...

Welshy wrote:
not yet mate, undecided if Rochow - Whitehead is high middie to gun or sideways

Yeah this one has crossed my mind a couple of times as a potential future trade. Happy with Rochow so far, and I believe he started FR last game? Interesting if he holds D Saifiti out (heard he was available somewhere this week) and whatever's going on with Snowden.. If Rochow falls back to the bench though, he's probably gotta go.

Bullbender wrote:
As a RTS owner and official dumb cunt who captained him the last 2 weeks thinking he would go big against A)the knights and B)his old team and winless roosters if i didnt own him i wouldnt be rushing to get him. I was tempted by the 200 run metres in base stats and thinking hes about to explode at a discounted price for a gun wfb. He only ran 130 metres yesterday before that extra time play and was on a score of 31. He just doesnt seem to be getting those big numbers of tackle breaks either?

hasn't scored under 45 in last 3 games mate and only scored 1 try? I'd say his form is returning and starting to get accustomed to new team

Bullbender wrote:He only ran 130 metres yesterday before that extra time play and was on a score of 31. He just doesnt seem to be getting those big numbers of tackle breaks either?

i got caught up in the hype of trading him in at a 'low' price, but watching him closely (for the first time this season), i was regretting the decision. he seems to have a bit of the same problem as barba does, in that he just doesn't suit their style of play nor does he how to get himself involved more in their attack. the ball just doesnt seem to come his way and he's not supporting up the middle looking for offloads as much as you'd hope.

he should improve as the season goes but it may take a while for it all to "click"

Sir William T. Winfield wrote:

Yeah this one has crossed my mind a couple of times as a potential future trade. Happy with Rochow so far, and I believe he started FR last game? Interesting if he holds D Saifiti out (heard he was available somewhere this week) and whatever's going on with Snowden.. If Rochow falls back to the bench though, he's probably gotta go.

Rochow has played 80 mins almost his entire career mate, only way he gets benched is if Brown decides to play Saifiti over him because Rochow is off contract isn't he? He got shifted to the ctrs very early and still made a shed load of tackles, might of talked my way out of upgrading him yet haha

Welshy wrote:only way he gets benched is if Brown decides to play Saifiti over him

i think saifiti will be benched - but probably still play some decent mins (maybe come on in the back row with rochow moving to prop 20 mins in or something). saifiti is a really good young player but the quality of his footy really dropped off on the weekend late in the game. thats just age and experience.