2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 52 - Fantasy talk in here

White Lightning wrote:Although McGuire is a great player who will & always does give 100% he still plays like a prop who is a lock. The one thing he lacks is an offload game even though he's capable of doing so. If I was the Q'land selectors I would start McGuire at prop & run Gillett at lock.

wolfking wrote:

That's a really tough one.  I'd want Slater for the ride home as opposed to Walker though.  Walker has been shit but is definitely gold for those two rounds. Are they the only two options for Edwards?

See how Slater pulls up after tonight first.  I have him and am pretty committed to holding him unless an injury strikes.  If he's fine and plays this week, that's only one extra game Slater misses over Walker which could be enough to swing to hold Slater perhaps.

White Lightning wrote:

Cheers. Yeah I think I'll sell Walker because he's playing shit atm & I can't really see that changing. Fantasy wise after Rapana on recent form I rate Slater as the 2nd best f/b in fantasy & I'd rather have him over Walker by a country mile.

danseels1985 wrote:


Thank you for your opinion kind sir, yes I was tossing up between A and B myself. My trades this week (unless I change my mind again) are Semi to Edwards and Kelly to Tedesco via Hayne. I have 108k left but only 4 trades left after this week. I am hoping to not have to use any more trades until round 19 where if cash allows me to go with option B I will have this as my final team hopefully(but with only 1 trade remaining yikes)

Smith McInnes
Fifita Taupau Eisenhuth Fai
Taumalolo JDB Surgess Gallen Crichton JTurbo
SJ Munster Hampton NuBrown
BJ Hayne Fuimaono Scott
RTS Tedesco Edwards 138k Phythian


How does this sound?

my tv broke wrote:

Don't mind that. I think that either way, we need to get Gillett more involved. Only took 3 hit ups in game one, and ran 57 metres overall which included a line break.

I think QLD will need to play down both edges a bit more tonight.

Rippin and Tearin wrote:

I agree hes been shit, but I'd hold off for one more game. He still scored ~50 last week didnt he? It feels like he will go ok so long as Souths go ok as a team. Despite him playing like rubbish he still gets lots of touches in the backline. If the team starts to fire (like last week) you'd think he scores ok.

I'm just gonna leave this here...:

wolfking wrote:

No one else you could use besides those two to get Edwards?

White Lightning wrote:

But most of his points were from 1 play when he scored his try & the problem with Souths is that you don't know which team will turn up. #jeckylandhyde

White Lightning wrote:I still can't decide who to sell to get Edwards - Slater or C. Walker. Atm I'm on Slater because he misses rounds 18 & 19 & C. Walker misses round 16 but plays rounds 18 & 19. But when you look at games Slater is into everything & is in top form whereas C. Walker looks lost & out of form. He did score 51 against the Titans but most of those points were from 1 play when he scored that try & that Titans team was severely under strength. I thought though that after C. Walker scored that try he seemed to get more confident & actually put in more effort. So who goes:
(a) Slater or
(b) C. Walker

Cheers boys.

Honey Badger wrote:

I can understand why people are trading out slater because of the games he is going to miss but would you rather have slater or walker for the last 7 rounds?
If you take out walkers score against a weakened titans team then there are some concerns there!

White Lightning wrote:

I agree mate. Walkers last 7 scores if you exclude his 51 = 30, 41, 27, 70, 34, 25, 28 which is an average of 36.43%. His season average is 45 so he's dropped nearly 10 points of his season average. His next 4 games after his bye in round 16 are Panthers, Roosters, Cowboys & Sharks so these are difficult games for him to score well in based on Souths poor form. I feel Walker to Edwards is the way to go.