2019 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 1

Milchy wrote:
The prices I generated on the front page are using the same pricing structure as this year, where everyone managed to get themselves a decent team.

This season isn't even over yet, so of course there are no rookies/cheapies looking to

At this point last year noone would have had Havili, Kikau, Isaako, JFH in their teams. Plenty of time for team lineups to emerge.

Looking at the pricing there are definitely some low cost players under 300k that could go well - Kaide Ellis 228k, Salmon 228k, Moga 228k, Haas 228k, Lomax 228k, Flanagan 267k, C. Crichton 273k, Staggs 284k, Lawry 289k, Egan 290k, J. Bird 293k, Guler 293k.
In the 300-350k range - Opacic 310k, Segeyaro 315k, Elgey 317k, Doueihi 320k, TMM 322K, K. Mann 328k, Hetherington 336k.

Gee I hope Moga is 228k!

Mighty Fishes wrote:Gee I hope Moga is 228k!

You could start the year with Lomax & Moga in the ctrs & both 228k.

Cheers, lads. Had far too much to drink on Saturday night so I think I did that part right!

Geez getting old is tough on the body.

Anthony Milford will this week undergo his second shoulder reconstruction surgery in 12 months. Milford suffered a shoulder subluxation (minor dislocation) in Broncos Rd25 game, but was able to play on for 2 weeks. Usual recovery range of 4-6 months, should be fit for Rd1 2019
Via NRLphysio

Bird is the word

wow, this thread is so dead I may as well vent my current gripe from a 3 day old game. It is very unimportant and matters nothing in the scheme of things, so feel free to ignore this.
Nearly every "NRL expert" across all the magazine shows seem to be of the opinion that the McInnes pass into Murray was a howler of a ref call because he was really trying to pass to JDB who was in his line of sight. Am I the only person who thinks that this was blatant milking from McInnes? It's not very hard to look one way and pass another, and it is crazy to think he would not see Murray half a metre away- in fact, I have never seen such a focused act of NOT looking. The new ruling is about stopping that gamesmanship to try and get a fresh set, and to me McInnes' motives were pretty obvious. I would have been happy with a play on call had it happened, but I couldn't argue that the penalty wasn't justified.

Milchy wrote:
Pookus it just shows the short sightedness of the rugby league media.

Earlier this season they were tearing their hair out saying how ridiculous it was that such things were a penalty, and how it was common sense that he NRL had changed the rules mid-season,

Now as soon as they see it in action, almost everyone that was campaigning for that to be a penalty, now thinks it shouldn't be a penalty.

I think the only option for the NRL is to say it will no longer be a penalty, and leave the rule like that until there is an example of a dummy half taking advantage of it. then they can start penalising it again.

I'm missing something ? Aren't you contridicting yourself ?

Milchy wrote:Earlier this season they were tearing their hair out saying how ridiculous it was that such things were a penalty, and how it was common sense that he NRL had changed the rules mid-season.

To stop this sort of shit:

Milchy wrote:Now as soon as they see it in action, almost everyone that was campaigning for that to be a penalty, now thinks it shouldn't be a penalty.

See what in action ? He gave a penalty isn't that the old rule everyone campaigned against and why they are calling it a howler ?

Definately milked it. Look at how low he keeps his hands and the trajectory he passes the ball. It had to be that low to hit Murray, but if he wasn't there would have got to JDB at knee high. I thought they changed the rule to stop the dummy half picking up the ball and dropping it on the nearest opposition player to milk a penalty. Isn't that what happened ?

Milchy wrote:

According to the rules at the start of the year, McInnes would have received a penalty.
According to the rules now, (as campaigned for by most of the league media) McInnes would be penalized, which is what happened.

Every single panelist on Controversy Corner last night didn't think McInnes should have been penalized. The same people who disliked the old rule, dislike the new one.

In cases like this can't they just call the play back and re-play it, without penalizing either party???

Milchy wrote:

According to the rules at the start of the year, McInnes would have received a penalty.
According to the rules now, (as campaigned for by most of the league media) McInnes would be penalized, which is what happened.

Every single panelist on Controversy Corner last night didn't think McInnes should have been penalized. The same people who disliked the old rule, dislike the new one.

My bad, didn't see last night, read it as if they were arguing for the result.

Chewie wrote:

In cases like this can't they just call the play back and re-play it, without penalizing either party???

Your the fuckwit that threw it into him on purpose, the defender didn't play at it, no restart to the tackle count - play on. If the ball does go forward, knock on - scrum loose head and feed to the opposition.

Or just penalise them for being a fuckwit.

Isacc Luke close to signing with the Knights
Sharks and cowboys swap on the cards for Holmes and Barba
via The Mole

WT2K wrote:Isacc Luke close to signing with the Knights
Sharks and cowboys swap on the cards for Holmes and Barba
via The Mole

That's some tasty transfer news. If Luke goes the Knights will have quite a squad & Roache will probably inherit the starting hooker role (if this does happen he'll be in my team). Tevaga could also be gold but they seem to like his impact value off the bench. I hear you say why not both & who can argue with that.
The Holmes & Barba swap is interesting but if I was the Sharks I'd be doing everything I could to keep Holmes but from what I've read Holmes seems to want to go.

I'm going to end my embargo on Warriors players in 2019 mainly because I want LAM in my team.