NRL Fantasy 2020 Part 4

Who is next in line if Bateman injury takes a while, Tapine to edge? He scores better there than at lock.

Has anyone thought about HAMPTON as the answer to our CTW/WFB cheapy dilemma?

Priced at $282k and moving to 5/8 position ,Morgan not a super dominant 1/2 partner.

Only problem may be job security and scoring if in your top 17

Teeth Eater wrote:Just confirming, no one particularly interesting benefits from Bateman’s “indefinite” outage from the game? Maybe Sutton? Or even Bateman of the Luke variety? Either way, not interesting.

It means a pivot for me to Taumalolo as my gun second rower. For the Raiders it probably means Tapine on the edge

thelastdodo wrote:Has anyone thought about HAMPTON as the answer to our CTW/WFB cheapy dilemma?

Priced at $282k and moving to 5/8 position ,Morgan not a super dominant 1/2 partner.

Only problem may be job security and scoring if in your top 17

Where did you see Hampton playing 5/8? Surely Drinkwater and Clifford are ahead of him in the pecking order

thelastdodo wrote:Has anyone thought about HAMPTON as the answer to our CTW/WFB cheapy dilemma?

Priced at $282k and moving to 5/8 position ,Morgan not a super dominant 1/2 partner.

Only problem may be job security and scoring if in your top 17

He's currently in my CTRs though by no means a lock. More the best thing I can afford at the moment. I don't mind him as a player and am happy to give him a run in the centres if he's on the field, fit and playing 80mins each week.

trubluwanksta wrote:I don’t say this lightly.

If the Tigers don’t play Harry Grant for 80 each week then they’ve wasted their time with him. Haven’t seen a bloke in QCup control a game like he does in a long, long time.

Speaking of fantasy relevant players dominating reserve grade... what happened to 2019 NSWRL Player of the Year and R12 special Billy Britain? Not in Souths top 30, no news at all about contracts that I’ve seen. Seems a fairly big fall from grace.

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Camo123 wrote:

Where did you see Hampton playing 5/8? Surely Drinkwater and Clifford are ahead of him in the pecking order

Shit sorry you are right but if playing is he okay cheap cover?

Overhyped player - Dfifita
Overhyped team - Broncos
Surprise team - Titans
Surprise player - Cartwright
Rising star - Greg Leleisiauo
Highest average - Moeaki Fotuaika
Disappointing gun - Mitchell Moses

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

It means a pivot for me to Taumalolo as my gun second rower. For the Raiders it probably means Tapine on the edge

Tapine 70+ minutes at 2RF average of 47 (in 22 games over 50 mins he played 21 at 76+ minutes, so is a locked in 80 minute player like Bateman)
Tapine 50+ minutes at lock average of 38

thelastdodo wrote:

Shit sorry you are right but if playing is he okay cheap cover?

Not the way he scored last season playing center and wing, average of 17 with a high of 32 over 7 games. in 2018 he scored well at Center and Fullback.

FalconSloth wrote:Overhyped player - Dfifita
Overhyped team - Broncos
Surprise team - Titans
Surprise player - Cartwright
Rising star - Greg Leleisiauo
Highest average - Moeaki Fotuaika
Disappointing gun - Mitchell Moses

This post alone wants me to lock MoFo in.

Overhyped player - Moeaki Fotuaika
Overhyped team - Cowboys
Surprise team - Knights
Surprise player - Luciano Leilua
Rising star - Dylan Brown
Highest average - Payne Haas
Disappointing gun - Andrew Fifita

trubluwanksta wrote:I don’t say this lightly.

If the Tigers don’t play Harry Grant for 80 each week then they’ve wasted their time with him. Haven’t seen a bloke in QCup control a game like he does in a long, long time.

I watch a lot of QCup on FOX, but not so much last season. Certainly has massive wraps and this very reassuring.

mattnz wrote:Who is next in line if Bateman injury takes a while, Tapine to edge? He scores better there than at lock.

When Bateman was injured/rested Hudson Young replaced him and Tapine was injured at the time but Young is obviously suspended until R6, so it's unknown but would expect Tapine to edge and Horsburgh/Sutton to lock

It probably wouldn't be a long term thing though, if he doesn't recover by the best case scenario timeframe it would still probably only be 1-2 rounds most likely as best case of 3-4 weeks still leaves 2-3 weeks before R1

robelgordo wrote:

Speaking of fantasy relevant players dominating reserve grade... what happened to 2019 NSWRL Player of the Year and R12 special Billy Britain? Not in Souths top 30, no news at all about contracts that I’ve seen. Seems a fairly big fall from grace.

Souths let him go at the end of the year but I haven’t seen him turn up anywhere. You’d think he could have been an option for Manly or the Tigers hunting for a hooker...

jelejasof wrote:

Souths let him go at the end of the year but I haven’t seen him turn up anywhere. You’d think he could have been an option for Manly or the Tigers hunting for a hooker...

There was an original rumour Billy Britain was going to sign with ththe dogs. Then, the tigers popped up. This was posted in Jan.

Overhyped player - Valentine Holmes
Overhyped team - Panthers
Surprise team - Tigers
Surprise player - BJ Leilua
Rising star - Harry Grant
Highest average - Payne Haas
Disappointing gun - Cameron Murray

Do people really think that Holmes at 600k is overhyped?