NRL Fantasy 2022 Part 20 - Tear your team apart for Cleary

Lismore flooding again, what a rough month.

Bethany_B wrote:

I don't think you can fit the Ming Dynasty in your 17 mate, it's pretty big

Yeah but it all collapses at one end for easy transport

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:So you’ve got Klemmer, Barnett, Fitzgibbon all out for at least 5-6 weeks. Surely those cheapies can prosper right

Not sure if on here or just FB but warned people off Croker

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:



How would you differentiate him from Thompson right now, apart from the 40k?

In ~ 50 NRL games he has a high score of 45, including a couple where he has scored tries. Thompson has matched that in his first 3 games. Will have a higher ceiling.

Musgrove has never been settled with a guaranteed spot, or significant minutes in the team. Thompson is a rookie with likely high potential upside as he grows into the team. If you were to pick a potential Uto from last season, he would be in the conversation. Musgrove never will be.

Knights are a team in form, Tigers aren't. I don't think anyone is deliberately going out of their way trying to add Tigers to their team at the moment.

Pookus McFly wrote:

Fasting just means Haas plays Hangry. Starts throwing 120kg props around like a cranky toddler with his toys. It's Ramadan, baby!

During the holy month of Ramadan, which occurs on the ninth month of the lunar-based Islamic calendar, all Muslims are required to abstain from food and drink from dawn to dusk for 30 days. https://www.eatright.org/health/lifestyle/culture-and-traditions/ramadan--the-practice-of-fasting

So he can still get all the KFC and Maccas he wants, they are open 24 hours.

But seriously, fasting can have health benefits, I am a practitioner of fasting, just not religiously.

So Haas should keep up his output.

Who misses out?

Ming- reduced minutes last week
Jing- Smith/Grant both back could see reduced minutes; plodder
Nanai- tough game against the Roosters on the bounceback, may not get the tries he needs

Very left field option would be to include all the above and leave out Tago/Burton. Surely Tago's attacking stats dry up at some point?- why not in the rain in a gritty GF rematch? No pure centre will ever average 50 let alone 55, so he has to regress and he's so popular it would be a pretty POD move to leave him out.

Current MIDs are Mann, Ming, Jing and Uto. I will trade Uto this week but can't see anyone too appealing as a MID unless I go for Haas. But I'd rather splash the cash on Cleary. Is Ming playable or not? I reckon 30 will be his average with some lower some higher. Or is there any other MIDs I'm missing?

Pookus McFly wrote:Who misses out?

Ming- reduced minutes last week
Jing- Smith/Grant both back could see reduced minutes; plodder
Nanai- tough game against the Roosters on the bounceback, may not get the tries he needs

Very left field option would be to include all the above and leave out Tago/Burton. Surely Tago's attacking stats dry up at some point?- why not in the rain in a gritty GF rematch? No pure centre will ever average 50 let alone 55, so he has to regress and he's so popular it would be a pretty POD move to leave him out.

If that's your field of guys to leave out, you're doing pretty well. I'm currently between Smith and Penisini for my last reserve, the other one would be in the loop with Leo Thompson

I would probably leave out Max, as those reduced minutes were from a niggling injury apparently. Josh will probably still play decent minutes (45-55), and I think Nanai's on for another big game, the Cowboys are playing well and I think they'll thrash the Roosters the way they're going.

PS: just call them MKing and JKing, Ming and Jing is almost as bad as people calling Fifita "Fafita"

Pookus McFly wrote:Who misses out?

Ming- reduced minutes last week
Jing- Smith/Grant both back could see reduced minutes; plodder
Nanai- tough game against the Roosters on the bounceback, may not get the tries he needs

Very left field option would be to include all the above and leave out Tago/Burton. Surely Tago's attacking stats dry up at some point?- why not in the rain in a gritty GF rematch? No pure centre will ever average 50 let alone 55, so he has to regress and he's so popular it would be a pretty POD move to leave him out.

I think Ming will reside to around a 30 point average. He have some games with a few offloads and knock out a 45 here and there but he'll also get 25's everynow and again.

FalconSloth wrote:
I think Ming will reside to around a 30 point average. He have some games with a few offloads and knock out a 45 here and there but he'll also get 25's everynow and again.

I disagree, he apparently had an injury niggle last week which is why he came off early, seems like his normal workload is 35ish minutes, and at his PPM he can easily average 40 if not more than that. If he ever started and got 50-55 mins a game, he would deadset rival Haas.

I'm hanging onto Lolo for the foreseeable future....not that I think that he will gun it just that he is a MID who will play at least 50 minutes every week he is fit and he doesn't start on the bench

Bethany_B wrote:

If that's your field of guys to leave out, you're doing pretty well. I'm currently between Smith and Penisini for my last reserve, the other one would be in the loop with Leo Thompson

I would probably leave out Max, as those reduced minutes were from a niggling injury apparently. Josh will probably still play decent minutes (45-55), and I think Nanai's on for another big game, the Cowboys are playing well and I think they'll thrash the Roosters the way they're going.

PS: just call them MKing and JKing, Ming and Jing is almost as bad as people calling Fifita "Fafita"

Thanks for the input. Im suspecting you will be vindicated on your great pre-season call of JK13 in the next week or so, it could not have happened better to stave people off buying him though- folks still seem confused by Bellamy’s set up this week.

No its still Ming and Jing for me, they come as a pair of twin henchmen and they flank their boss Captain Haas into battle. Its almost like you don’t read my blog to be up to date about this stuff!
Edit- this is a good point though, how do I drop Ming and play Jing. That’s like having Bebop but not Rocksteady

Bethany_B wrote:

If that's your field of guys to leave out, you're doing pretty well. I'm currently between Smith and Penisini for my last reserve, the other one would be in the loop with Leo Thompson

I would probably leave out Max, as those reduced minutes were from a niggling injury apparently. Josh will probably still play decent minutes (45-55), and I think Nanai's on for another big game, the Cowboys are playing well and I think they'll thrash the Roosters the way they're going.

PS: just call them MKing and JKing, Ming and Jing is almost as bad as people calling Fifita "Fafita"

What about MaKing and JoKing and Faffing about tho?

Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Crichton > Leo
Bully > Brody

That’s where my trades are sitting at the moment, not sure how I feel about putting this much trust in Knights forwards but here we are

Prefer
Crichton>Brody,
Bully>Leo
but otherwise looks good

Mahoney to Starling is locked in, had the first trade locked in but i have a very important league game this week so considering the second.

TU: Walters/Russell to Brody (have 250 -300k in the bank for Cleary)
TD: Burton to Murray (who is going 1 PPM and playing almost 80 the last 2 games)