2016 NRL.com Fantasy pre-thread

Bren wrote:Merry Christmas everyone. Except those of you who backed the Cowboys to win the GF. You are on my naughty list.

Remind me in the new year and I'll send you the pic of me in my Cowboys gear that made the paper

Merry xmas boys. Have a great day with family & friends.

Faark! Too... much.... food.!... Can't..... mooove.

Speedball Deluxe wrote:Faark! Too...  much....  food.!...  Can't.....  mooove.

Setting my new Barby up, I'll catch up to you soon.

Two moves today apparently, Tigers snagged Grant and Roosters snagged Brenton Lawrence.

Not sure if this will have any bearing on fantasy. Grant will probably be cheaper and may get more mins but after last year not sure there will be many takers.

Lawrence might be alright depending on his price. Might get lost though with all the talent they already have.

Nice read from Tigers forum by a bloke named 'Tiger Torch' http://www.weststigersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=203&t=25708&start=36:

"Based on training and fitness tests being completed this week the current top 17 in opposed teams training is:
Team #1
Tedesco
Addo-Carr
Naquima / was replaced by Rankin when he corked his thigh
Noffa
Moses
Brooks
Woods
Farah ( fittest in 5 seasons, both in skin fold and general speed/stamina)
Sue
Sironen
Lawrence
Edwards starts at 13, then considered part of prop rotation , when replaced by Halatau, Sironen moving from 2nd row to lock
Int:
Ava
Chee Kam
Halatau
Cherrington


The two first grade positions up for grabs in round 1 are 1 wing and 1 centre. Taylor not keen on returning Naquima to wing, Addo Carr much better under the high ball.
Chee Kam would be next in line for centre position at this stage even though he prefers to play 2nd row.
Rankin considered a play maker, will put genuine pressure on Brooks / Moses. Brooks fitness is way behind Moses at this stage.
The biggest bolters for first grade / top 25 are Tyler Cassell & Addo Carr whose sprint times match Korobete.
Woods and Lawrence to be appointed joint captains.
Taylor will start the season with 2 hookers, but ideally only wants to play 1.
Ballin unlikely to be fit to be considered for 1st grade until round 3-4, will likely start off in State Cup.
Only informal discussions with Ivan Cleary at this stage, he wants $500k and a 3 yr deal.
Taylor will be given to round 12 then a contract performance trigger would allow for his termination / however if Tigers don't win at least 50% of games prior to round 12 then negotiations could start as early as round 6.
Harry is already active in TPSs for Woods; Teddy; Brooks ; Moses. He stands ready for Klemmer
Tigers will go all out for Klemmer in 2017. They are prepared to pay both Woods & him $750k per season rising to $900k in 3rd year of contract + attractive TPAs . I'm still not confident we will get him, but whoever does they will have to pay top dollar.
We remain active in player market albeit our offers for Brenton Lawrence; Tim Grant; Tim Lafai were way below what other clubs were able to offer. I'm not worried, provided we can snare someone like Klemmer.
Lawrence will be offered $400k per season to remain with club in 2017-2018.
Final scoop - Farah will 90% leave the club at the end of 2016 for ESL. This will be a definite if NSW wins origin. Tigers will give him a golden handshake of approx $750k! Likely to return down the track as club ambassador / marketing role. He has made no secret that with his economics degree he believes he could handle CEO role down the track either at the Tigers or NRL."

Just seen that Bluetige had rightly put this into the tigers thread a week ago. Interesting potential fantasy repercussions none the less.

What happened to big diesels positional threads? was looking fwd to his insights on the forwards

Anyone want to guess the makeup of Manly's forwards. Was keen on Lawrence but now he's off who will replace him. Myles shifting to prop and Symonds guaranteed starter?

Beast From The Big East wrote:Anyone want to guess the makeup of Manly's forwards. Was keen on Lawrence but now he's off who will replace him. Myles shifting to prop and Symonds guaranteed starter?

G'day Beast. This pack is from nrl.com & tba is Lawrence.

Myles, Koroisau, Trbojevic
Buhrer, L. Brown
Taupau

Mateo, tba, Lussick, Symonds

They could run a 2nd hooker (Parcell)
Idk how Leary fits in but I'd pick him over Mateo any day.
Who are the prop reserves?

They would be silly not to play Parcell off the bench.

White Lightning wrote:

G'day Beast. This pack is from nrl.com & tba is Lawrence.

Myles, Koroisau, Trbojevic
Buhrer, L. Brown
Taupau

Mateo, tba, Lussick, Symonds

They could run a 2nd hooker (Parcell)
Idk how Leary fits in but I'd pick him over Mateo any day.
Who are the prop reserves?

Ah Lewy Brown that's who I was forgetting. Doesn!t really look like a good pack fantasy wise. No one looks underpriced and the only one who I see making a decent chance of increased minutes/scoring potential is Myles

Depending on price Trbojevic could be in my team. I like his attitude & he rips in.

Will Mateos price be so low people will yet again make the mistake in selecting him?

I'll be interested to see how Myles will be priced. The problem is I want too many people and I know i'll be over cap and have a completely different team from what ive got written down.

White Lightning wrote:Depending on price Trbojevic could be in my team. I like his attitude & he rips in.

I'd be surprised if I don't have both brothers in my team at one stage. Tom will be playing fullback at some stage you would think

If we settle on a design I may be purchasing one of these for next years Fantasy Winner (At least from this websites perspective.)

Link 1

Link 2

(I may also get one for myself so I can pretend I am good at the game..)

Also these for Honeysett when he takes home the spoon.

Link3

Link 4

or one of the ones NRL provide if they run them this year.

heres a link to last years stats
https://fantasy.nrl.com/off-season/index.html#/fantasy-stats

On them fighting words!

You've made a powerful, powerful enemy today.