2016 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 7

mango wrote:I'll still need to downgrade some forwards to upgrade Gordon to Teddy, thats the difficult bit because I have 6 genuine guns there as well as some good reserves which I'm fairly happy with.

i am similar. i have gordon/barba/feeney as my back three at the moment but upgrading to teddy means dropping a forward gun back. and im not sure the trade off is worth it. i'll rue the decision when he scores 85 in rnd 1...

Takes me so long to write a message on this damn phone. Having fingers like sausages, I'm constantly deleting because I keep hitting the wrong letters.

my tv broke wrote:

i am similar. i have gordon/barba/feeney as my back three at the moment but upgrading to teddy means dropping a forward gun back. and im not sure the trade off is worth it. i'll rue the decision when he scores 85 in rnd 1...

Same here.

I'm currently leaning with keeping my squad the way it is.

also, i'd place bets on flanagan keeping up the stupidity by naming bird at fullback on TLT, but then barba plays FB anyway

Inglis, Gallen, C.Smith, Woods, JT, genuine POD's this year?

Wooooooooooooooooow

On a side note, I just noticed that stupid me forgot to fill in the comments section when registering for the league, shouldn't have done it on my phone.

For those in charge, I do have a screenshot of my position last year if you need it, let me know.

my tv broke wrote:also, i'd place bets on flanagan keeping up the stupidity by naming bird at fullback on TLT, but then barba plays FB anyway

Watching the second half of their last trial would shock me if he doesn't know that bird outside centre and Barba fullback looks his best side.

They're away to the cows first up so let him pick bird and get spanked

Barba fullback by round 2

lukeaye wrote:Inglis, Gallen, C.Smith, Woods, JT, genuine POD's this year?

Wooooooooooooooooow

I wouldn't say Smith is a POD - he'd have to be in at least 50% of the teams I've seen listed here.

Croker and Eden (npr with Feeney starting) OR
Ferguson and Barba (Feeney NPR)
Rest of CTR/WFB
Auvaa Henry Gutherson
Tedesco Mansour Feeney Mitchell

SoylentGreen wrote:

I wouldn't say Smith is a POD - he'd have to be in at least 50% of the teams I've seen listed here.

Yeah Smith not a POD

Fifita is the POD. 6% ownership for one of the few genuine 100pt match threatening players. Definitely the most explosive player but I'm seeing most opt for the safer 50-60 in the likes of Woods and Graham

So can it be agreed that Barba is probably worth holding even if he doesn't play fullback Round 1 because he'll likely shift there when the coach realizes his error? I can only imagine JT being a nightmare for Bird at FB and exploiting the crap out of his inexperience at the back.

Goondalf wrote:Croker and Eden (npr with Feeney starting) OR
Ferguson and Barba (Feeney NPR)
Rest of CTR/WFB
Auvaa Henry Gutherson
Tedesco Mansour Feeney Mitchell

Comfortably second option

Lads. Is a punt on Joey Leilua madness? BE of 30 could back out without too much loss after a few weeks but is undervalued on old form

Johnny B Goode wrote:So can it be agreed that Barba is probably worth holding even if he doesn't play fullback Round 1 because he'll likely shift there when the coach realizes his error? I can only imagine JT being a nightmare for Bird at FB and exploiting the crap out of his inexperience at the back.

That's certainly my thinking. I have Barba an NPR for round 1

GreenMachine wrote:That's certainly my thinking. I have Barba an NPR for round 1

If Rankin can get the wing spot + goal kicking you can swap him and Barba between HLF/WFB

Just me with no love for Ash Taylor?

Loomer wrote:Just me with no love for Ash Taylor?

as an NPR?

imo he will score slowly. it will take him time to build cash but i still think he's a must have.

if TMM starts it could be interesting..

Mansour + Gutherson
OR
Copley + CLaw

Loomer wrote:Lads. Is a punt on Joey Leilua madness? BE of 30 could back out without too much loss after a few weeks but is undervalued on old form

Interesting. Don't know much about him for this season, remember him having a few massive games last season though

SoylentGreen wrote:Mansour + Gutherson
OR
Copley + CLaw

Why all the love of Claw all of a sudden?

Always been dud fantasy wise. He playing 2rf or something?