NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 5 - There was no party.

The other big one is Tohu named at 13 makes him very, very tempting. Surely he still plays 80 and moves to the edge at some point? Or just huge mins in the middle.

Other than Egan I can't see anyone else in that pack playing big minutes - AFB, JTB definitely won't, Curran never played more than 32 so far, looks like BMM will be used for impact, Sironen got a few 80 min games last year, but I reckon some of those were covering centre/half, and more often than not he got subbed. Even Katoa only played the full 80 four times last year.

As a very rough estimate I'd guess:

AFB: 50 mins (Evans 30)
Egan: 80 (not confident he's actually up to 80, but will take their word that's the plan)
JTB: 40 mins (ah Mau 40)
Curran: 25 (BMM 55)
Siro/Katoa: ~70 (Harris shifts to edge for a bit)
Harris: 80

Any thoughts?

The risk is even a slight break puts him overpriced. In 60-70 min games last year (which he had 4 of) his avg is 55, in 70+ minute games post rule change that jumps to 64.

my tv broke wrote:

i've seen around a few places that JTB is expected to start this year, ah mau seems destined for a bench role

I'm not sure it makes a lot of difference mins wise, JTB was pretty consistently playing 40 last year. I'd expect the prop split to be something like AFB 50/Evans 30, JTB 40/LaM 40.

mrbrownstone wrote:The other big one is Tohu named at 13 makes him very, very tempting. Surely he still plays 80 and moves to the edge at some point? Or just huge mins in the middle.

Other than Egan I can't see anyone else in that pack playing big minutes - AFB, JTB definitely won't, Curran never played more than 32 so far, looks like BMM will be used for impact, Sironen got a few 80 min games last year, but I reckon some of those were covering centre/half, and more often than not he got subbed. Even Katoa only played the full 80 four times last year.

As a very rough estimate I'd guess:

AFB: 50 mins (Evans 30)
Egan: 80 (not confident he's actually up to 80, but will take their word that's the plan)
JTB: 40 mins (ah Mau 40)
Curran: 25 (BMM 55)
Siro/Katoa: ~70 (Harris shifts to edge for a bit)
Harris: 80

Any thoughts?

The risk is even a slight break puts him overpriced. In 60-70 min games last year (which he had 4 of) his avg is 55, in 70+ minute games post rule change that jumps to 64.

Tohu has been tempting me all preseason

Roosters team for their trial:

1 James Tedesco
2 Daniel Tupou
3 Josh Morris
4 Joseph Manu
5 Brett Morris
6 Lachlan Lam
7 Drew Hutchison
8 Jared Waerea-Hargreaves
9 Jake Friend
10 Sio Siua Taukeiaho
11 Angus Crichton
12 Sitili Tupouniua
13 Isaac Liu
14 Nat Butcher
15 Adam Keighran
16 Daniel Suluka-Fifita
17 Lindsay Collins
18 Matt Ikuvalu
19 Egan Butcher
20 Sam Walker
21 Freddy Lussick

Not fantasy relevant but Suaalii, Walker and Volkman will all be playing for the north sydney bears

Ramitinmyhaaas wrote:Roosters team for their trial:

1 James Tedesco
2 Daniel Tupou
3 Josh Morris
4 Joseph Manu
5 Brett Morris
6 Lachlan Lam
7 Drew Hutchison
8 Jared Waerea-Hargreaves
9 Jake Friend
10 Sio Siua Taukeiaho
11 Angus Crichton
12 Sitili Tupouniua
13 Isaac Liu
14 Nat Butcher
15 Adam Keighran
16 Daniel Suluka-Fifita
17 Lindsay Collins
18 Matt Ikuvalu
19 Egan Butcher
20 Sam Walker
21 Freddy Lussick

Interesting that it's not Hutch 6 and Lam 7 if that's how Lam is going to be used this year... Kinda odd.

Snatchpato wrote:
Interesting that it's not Hutch 6 and Lam 7 if that's how Lam is going to be used this year... Kinda odd.

Keary will be wearing 7 this year but it's largely irrelevant what number is on his back

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Keary will be wearing 7 this year but it's largely irrelevant what number is on his back

Is there a potential impact on Lam's KM? Keary averages 234 KM at halfback vs 116 at five-eighth. Albeit most of those halfback games were in 2016/17 so not sure how relevant they are now.

Billy Mag's named at 13 for the Sharks in which I can only assume is a strong troll of our young Rabbits

(tolman and rudolf not playing the trial)

my tv broke wrote:Billy Mag's named at 13 for the Sharks in which I can only assume is a strong troll of our young Rabbits

(tolman and rudolf not playing the trial)

Where is the team. It says not released until Thursday

Snatchpato wrote:
Interesting that it's not Hutch 6 and Lam 7 if that's how Lam is going to be used this year... Kinda odd.

Keary is playing 7 this season

Sharks:

1 Will Kennedy

2 Sione Katoa

3 Josh Dugan

4 Jesse Ramien

5 Ronaldo Mulitalo

6 Matt Moylan

7 Chad Townsend

8 Braden Hamlin-Uele

9 Blayke Brailey

10 Aaron Woods

11 Briton Nikora

12 Wade Graham

13 Billy Magoulias

14 Connor Tracey

15 Jack Williams

16 Teig Wilton

17 Andrew Fifita

18 Luke Metcalf

19 Mawene Hiroti

20 Braydon Trindall

21 Nene Macdonald

Tolman and Rudolf out but expected for round 1, so probably not much to get excited about with Magoulias at 13. You'd think Rudolf gets that round 1.

There was talk of Connor Tracey playing fullback, but you'd assume based on this that Kennedy is favourite for round 1

mrbrownstone wrote:

Is there a potential impact on Lam's KM? Keary averages 234 KM at halfback vs 116 at five-eighth. Albeit most of those halfback games were in 2016/17 so not sure how relevant they are now.

Played next to players not known for kicking the ball in those games

Cody Walker from rounds 2-6, 15, 16 in 2016. Sutton round 19 2016. Round 12 and 13 2017 next to Connor Watson

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Played next to players not known for kicking the ball in those games

Cody Walker from rounds 2-6, 15, 16 in 2016. Sutton round 19 2016. Round 12 and 13 2017 next to Connor Watson

Yup fair. Even when he played there in 2019 for a couple of games it was next to Latrell. As you were.

mrbrownstone wrote:

Is there a potential impact on Lam's KM? Keary averages 234 KM at halfback vs 116 at five-eighth. Albeit most of those halfback games were in 2016/17 so not sure how relevant they are now.

Its possible.

In games Benji and Brooks played together last year sometimes Benji was 7 and sometimes Brooks was. Whoever wore the 7 tended to do more kicking.

Different players and different team to this situation, but it wouldn't surprise me if Keary did a bit more kicking this year

What are your guys thoughts on BMM? I haven’t really looked into him yet but he’s 405k DPP Mid/edge and should get a big minutes role in the second row. Do we think he’s a better option than Ford?

Is Radley due to be back R1? Would need match fitness so I imagine could come back through the bench. If he loses coin and has any indication of starting or playing 50+minutes he will be in my team with these new rules!

StormTrooper96 wrote:Is Radley due to be back R1? Would need match fitness so I imagine could come back through the bench. If he loses coin and has any indication of starting or playing 50+minutes he will be in my team with these new rules!

His current return date is 'early rounds'

StormTrooper96 wrote:Is Radley due to be back R1? Would need match fitness so I imagine could come back through the bench. If he loses coin and has any indication of starting or playing 50+minutes he will be in my team with these new rules!

He's already said he's gonna return via the bench