2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 7

my tv broke wrote:

I thought this but didn't sezer start at hooker or something in the trial? the raiders have been doing some weird stuff.

Any time a coach starts messing about with combinations and positions mid game it always goes sour.

EDIT sorry havili started. not sure how many mins. apparently Williams played 60 mins of the game at half. Sezer played 13 mins at hooker later in the game. sidenote: the raiders forumers are really down on their hopes for this season..

Starting team was Havili at hooker with Williams and Sezer in the halves, Austin bench. Just before half time (maybe 2min?) Sezer pushed to hooker, Austin came on into the halves. Then like the last 30min of the game had Garvey at hooker i believe, who granted was against a weaker team, looked the best out of the three options IMO. Sezer looked ok with some downside and probably was equal to Havili with both being better/worse in certain areas. Williams looked pretty good, Austin got a lot of praise but i saw a lot of the same mistakes he was making last year.

Personally after watching the trials I think I'd be happy to see
6. Sezer
7. Williams
9. Garvey
14. Austin

With Austin coming on and Sezer pushing to Hooker 10min either side of the halves. After that you play it by ear.

my tv broke wrote:

I thought this but didn't sezer start at hooker or something in the trial? the raiders have been doing some weird stuff.

Any time a coach starts messing about with combinations and positions mid game it always goes sour.

EDIT sorry havili started. not sure how many mins. apparently Williams played 60 mins of the game at half. Sezer played 13 mins at hooker later in the game. sidenote: the raiders forumers are really down on their hopes for this season..

I didn't watch the game, but from what I've read etc I would've thought all this messing about would only affect a part of the game (maybe 20 minutes either side of half-time).

TBH I can understand the lack of enthusiasm. I love watching the raiders play so am hopeful, but with relatively the same squad for the last 2-3 years there's no new cause for excitement.

Archer wrote:
Starting team was Havili at hooker with Williams and Sezer in the halves, Austin bench. Just before half time (maybe 2min?) Sezer pushed to hooker, Austin came on into the halves. Then like the last 30min of the game had Garvey at hooker i believe, who granted was against a weaker team, looked the best out of the three options IMO. Sezer looked ok with some downside and probably was equal to Havili with both being better/worse in certain areas. Williams looked pretty good, Austin got a lot of praise but i saw a lot of the same mistakes he was making last year.

Personally after watching the trials I think I'd be happy to see
6. Sezer
7. Williams
9. Garvey
14. Austin

With Austin coming on and Sezer pushing to Hooker 10min either side of the halves. After that you play it by ear.

Would you say Williams might be worth consideration? Was he doing the field kicking?

Milchcow wrote:
Ryan James also used to be a negative points machine. Missed tackles, penalties and dropped balls galore.

Don't know if the move to prop was responsible for cleaning up his act or if it was just coincidence, but the negatives dropped right away the year he went to gun level.

It was when he cut his hair.. Sort of opposite to Samson

Moose wrote:To all those in L1 I will send out the codes in the next 24 hours.

Thanks for the update Moose

“I’m in the great game now. And the great game is terrifying.”

Gee, the season opener has a chance to be a real let down with possibly Lodge my only player.

All signed up and ready to roll for L4 - thanks Wolfking!

I read an article recently about the cutoff date for each nrl club listing their 29 man squad but I can't find it again.

Does anyone know the date?

Orso wrote:

Thanks for the update Moose

“I’m in the great game now. And the great game is terrifying.”

Good luck. I had my chance last year and blew it! But to quote from every second preseason article: "It's good we can all push each other and learn off each other, it's good to have that competition for spots and hopefully I get my chance again soon"

mulvy wrote:Thoughts on my team please?

Cook
Fifita Lodge
Merrin Murray RFM
Thurston Croft
Maubbs Kennar
Ted Ponga Mitchell

Lichaa  Cartwright  Nichols  Croker

McKendry  Katoa  228k x2    73k

Thanks

Nice looking team. However, am not sold on Fifita, feel that the “cows” know how to stop him, so may not score well. Good luck with the Maubbs pick too - been burnt before. Can you move Mitchell to ctr and bring in Dufty?

Thinking back just to the world cup, Fifita was good and racked up really good stats, better stats than he was producing for the second half of the year iirc for fantasy anyway.

Orso wrote:

Nice looking team. However, am not sold on Fifita, feel that the “cows” know how to stop him, so may not score well. Good luck with the Maubbs pick too - been burnt before. Can you move Mitchell to ctr and bring in Dufty?

Cheers mate. I'm happy enough with Fifita and I need a captain choice other than Cook, Merrin or Ted. Have thought about Mitchell to centre but then I have no centre coverage. Also not sold on Dufty or Inglis but I think both are probably going to be good picks.

@Milchcow How do you see the Tigers' backline going in terms of if/when changes are made, for example how long does Cleary keep Lolohea and Milne out before giving them a go. I mean is Cleary a pick and stick kinda guy, or a chop and change kinda guy?? Did that make any sense?

Weird to think that Twal and Gavin Cooper have more ownership than Whitehead

My current rendition* (32k ITB):

CS9
Alvaro Lodge
Murray Whitehead RFM
Croft Watson
Hayne Taka
Teddy Ponga GI

Cook Garvilii Cartwright Arrow
LLeilua Hiku Croker Cthompson (or whatever other cheapie is the flavour of the month)

Plenty of midrange downgrade options to get smokies in...

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