NRL Fantasy 2023 Part 15 - Cheese and Garlick Naan

rhinoceroo wrote:

Do Wests bring in that mini-Cheese Rua guy onto the bench (assuming Simpkin is out)?

mattnz wrote:Just re-watched the first 2 Bulldogs game, focusing on my man Kiraz.

- He takes a hit up every set
- Every hit up is run with purpose, hard and straight, with a late step often, to try to beat the tackle
- If you get in front of him, you get a fend
- If you tackle him, he tries to offload

I can't recall a player that hates getting tackled with the ball in hand so much, and fights so hard to stop it happening.

His season last year was in 2 parts, the last 5 games of the season he averaged low 20s, (probably playing injured, and brought his price down to start this season). The rest of the season he averaged 47. This year he has stepped up again.

MF wrote:My burner account is ranked 72nd….

I mean.. my new main is ranked 72nd

rhinoceroo wrote:Will probably captain Haas this week

mattnz wrote:

Any reason you are captaining Haas? Hopgood looks to be putting up similar base stats, but also has the upside of serious attacking stats, more offloads, try assists and tries. Looks like Super-Haas for fantasy.

MF wrote:My burner account is ranked 72nd….

I mean.. my new main is ranked 72nd

mattnz wrote:

Any reason you are captaining Haas? Hopgood looks to be putting up similar base stats, but also has the upside of serious attacking stats, more offloads, try assists and tries. Looks like Super-Haas for fantasy.

Moanaman wrote:

There is also the "Never play your Captain on Thursday" rule

mattnz wrote:

Moanaman wrote:

There is also the "Never play your Captain on Thursday" rule

Generally works the other way, if you can play a captain in the first game of a round, it's best to do so.

Contrastinghobby wrote:Trades for me this week pencilled in, not going to stress over things and just continue to choose players I enjoy watching
No real strategy other than that, will see how it works out

Ponga and Smith out for Walsh and Robson and 53k ITB

Could look at Koro,Mahoney,Liddle for savings but don't have any cowboys and he has nice byes
Gives me something like this but will see how it all looks tomorrow because plans never work out before 4pm tuesday

Robson
Carrigan Haas Hopgood
Cartwright Chee Kam
Cleary Moses
Bird Talakai
Walsh Miller Warbrick

Preston EKatoa Loiero Ford
IKatoa Alamoti Trindall HSS

Milchcow wrote:

Nothing useful on the Tigers forum. They've gone nuclear after the loss and are calling for half the team to be dropped or played out of position

Just realised Isaiah Papalii has a 1 match suspended. Hope Bateman is fit to go this week or it could start looking pretty dire

Loomer wrote:Arey looks interesting with upcoming matches

Shady2K wrote:Mention of SJ last thread before it closed

Also looked at him closely, want to see him string another game or two before bringing him in.

He had a perfect game in R2 with no demerits and a few bonus points like a TA, 2 TOs

But his base is improved from last year, now goal kicking (2 goals per game) and 100 extra km gives him +7 value right away. Warriors also play the first major bye, which helps I guess

Mulvy wrote:Okay, just re-watched the Dragons game. BMM looked fine. In another game he might break some tackles. Or might have to make some more tackles if play goes that way. Might get the odd try. Assuming he's still starting come TLT.