2017 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 29

I remember a time when forum wide Taumalolo was a bad pick. Always go with your gut.

Let's go Norman, need a big one

Granville broke his leg, right? Even if minor, when has that ever been a four week injury?

As a Gutherson owner & with him potentially playing f/b today how do we think he'll score. I heard people mention he scores better at f/b so hopefully he can hit out 40+ today.

rhinoceroo wrote:Granville broke his leg, right? Even if minor, when has that ever been a four week injury?

not the weight bearing bone, the nonweightbearingibula

still 4 weeks does seem very quick i agree

lewis9966 wrote:

not the weight bearing bone, the nonweightbearingibula

still 4 weeks does seem very quick i agree

Even if it is only 4 weeks it looks like Hampton will make atleast 90k while Granville is out(if you bought him this week) and will have a low enough B/e to scrape out a little more once he returns

403 with Captain CS9, Fifita, Mannering, Kaufusi, Gutherson, Johnson and RTS to go.

Hingano and Afoa lining up for the NSW cup side today.

Sipley also making his return in NSW cup today.

517 with Captain Smith, F.Kaufusi,SJ,RTS and Slater to play. Hoping to get close to 800 but not confident. Traded out Hess to CHN this week(gulp) hope it doesn't cost me in the long run

Thanks ks MS for the calcs.

I was one of the people who thought Hampton was going to be a dud. I thought he was going to score 20-25, so got double what I thought he was going to get. Probably too late to get on him now, but who knows with this JT injury now.

Talking of JT, who will they replace him with if he is out of course? Also surely if JT is out then that affects big JT, and probably Hess too?

Wasn't somebody talking about Ray Thompson earlier in the week but nobody knows where he is?

Boozecluez wrote:

If that's all you took from that post, then I'm not sure I should bother posting anymore

I think you just interpreted what he said wrong and he wasn't having a go at you at all lol

Last night Ben Hampton made 40 tackles in 52 minutes.

First 5 rounds he made 64 tackles in 149 minutes.

Does the starting role really boost his tackle count that much? His PPM was just so much higher last night than his season average that I have to wonder how sustainable it will be?

PS Booze, please don't read too much into the word "whinge"

I thought it was a good chance to do some analysis on scoring trends

544 with 6 to go, i think thats about par for the round. No graham or surgess. I missed uates injury so I'll probably pick up Elgeys pitiful score. Cannot wait to trade that fool out.

My only saving grace is captaining lolo

I knew Hampton was capable of scoring 50+. He's a very talented player with speed & a willingness to defend. I was going to sell Jacks for him but backed out because even when Munster comes back, Jacks will still get games over origin & I didn't want Hampton to become an a.e. nightmare. I already have Abbey for that haha.

Milchcow wrote:
Last night Ben Hampton made 40 tackles in 52 minutes.

First 5 rounds he made 64 tackles in 149 minutes.

Does the starting role really boost his tackle count that much? His PPM was just so much higher last night than his season average that I have to wonder how sustainable it will be?

I didnt watch past the 20 min mark bro so i was assuming tigers possession and traffic in the middle third was the cause. Thats is pretty significant though, i thort he was a great prospect at storm and unlucky to stay there.

I actually rate kostjaysn, munster, mann and hampton all very good players. Well we've seen how good munster can go, so i do hope mann can show some goods while dugan is out.

This is a bloody fun season, with names coming out of nowhere. Pretty awesome

Fuck the guy who is currently leading is on 945 with jacks rts and slater to come

Milchcow wrote:
Last night Ben Hampton made 40 tackles in 52 minutes.

First 5 rounds he made 64 tackles in 149 minutes.

Does the starting role really boost his tackle count that much? His PPM was just so much higher last night than his season average that I have to wonder how sustainable it will be?

I don't think its sustainable, although the Tigers forwards definitely targetted him in defense. I'm assuming he averages 30 for the next 3 weeks

Had some good things happen overnight, mainly Tigers winning but also Adam Scott in contention at Masters and getting 1 Lotto number instead of the usual 0 means things are looking up, I hope. 

Boozecluez wrote:

Milchcow wrote:
Thought I'd look into Booze's whinge about tackle breaks.

If that's all you took from that post, then I'm not sure I should bother posting anymore

Hey Booze, no way the cow mean it in that way mate, there are some around these parts who have him as nearly a big a soft cock as me.

And the bin dipper's comment about mediocrity was aimed at himself, not you.