2018 NRL.com Fantasy Thread Part 5

With the NRL launching a season-long crackdown on players who make no genuine attempt to play the ball correctly and seeing all the penalties in the trials, Fifita may still drop in value given his play the ball history.

badbetter wrote:With the NRL launching a season-long crackdown on players who make no genuine attempt to play the ball correctly and seeing all the penalties in the trials, Fifita may still drop in value given his play the ball history.

I hope they follow through with this because guys like Fifita & Taupau make no effort to play the ball.

White Lightning wrote:

I hope they follow through with this because guys like Fifita & Taupau make no effort to play the ball.

Fifita will be rookie price next year at least!

Archer wrote:

SI wrote:



Typical Cairns hillbillies, they forgot to feed the hamster @Archer

I love that just after this comment, you said you couldn't get any of the streams to work this year

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Currently running Lodge JBrom and Evans as FRF. Don't like Evans and would love a better option to pop up on TLT.

First team without Tedesco and I quite like the balance. 3 good scorers in the back 5 and 2 cheapies without putting off the balance too much

liu is a good option at FR, bit more expensive though

Milchcow wrote:

my tv broke wrote:

If marsters plays it means milne doesnt and there will be a meltdown on TLT as everyone tries to find a centre

I think Milne + Marsters would be the preferred centre paiting of most Tigers fans.

Doesn't mean Cleary sees it that way

Marsters won't goalkick during the season if Lolohea is around

Suli gone, Fonua fucked himself, Kev very quiet last night and to be honest I got the feeling Kev either didn't want to be there or he wasn't Mr Popular with his team mates at the moment.

Updated stats from WCC games on the weekend

Name	T	G	Tck	RM	Off	LB	LBA	TA	TB	MT	KM	PC	Err	Score
Croft	1		22	98	0	1	3	2	5	1	121	1		76
C Smith		4	29	41	3	0	1	1	2	2	232	1		65
Kaufusi	1		33	67	0	1			4	1				61
Vunivalu	1		6	149	2	1		1	7	1		2		56
J Brom	1		16	109	1	2			4					56
Munster		1	11	138	1	1			9	1	16		1	55
Finucane	1		20	100	1	1			4			1		54
Asofa-Solomona	1		12	117	1	1			4	1				47
Hoffman			25	105	0	0				1			1	31
Glasby			24	83	0	0			2	1		2	1	30
Chambers	1		28	78	0	0				5			2	29
Welch			23	91	2	0				2		1	1	28
B Smith			13	51	0	0	1	1	1					28
Scott			10	134	0	0			2	2			2	21
Addo-Carr			5	137	0	0			1					21
K Brom			10	77	0	0			1					20
Slater			1	49	1	1			3	1				18

If Doueihi gets the Rabbitohs bench spot he'll be hard to ignore. Especially as with Reynolds being made of glass he could well get a run in the starting team during the season.

badbetter wrote:With the NRL launching a season-long crackdown on players who make no genuine attempt to play the ball correctly and seeing all the penalties in the trials, Fifita may still drop in value given his play the ball history.

I thinks it's kind of ridiculous to think that Fifita will drop in value as a result of this "crackdown". I'm sure he'll reform his play the ball by round 1.

is there anywhere you can find all the trial game fantasy stats togther?

Milchcow wrote:If Doueihi gets the Rabbitohs bench spot he'll be hard to ignore. Especially as with Reynolds being made of glass he could well get a run in the starting team during the season.

Yeah great point, Rabbitohs fans highly rate him and everybody knows that Reynolds will go down sometime and usually it's for more then a few weeks at a time. Had him as my no.21 for about a week now, so fingers crossed he is utilised well.

Speedball Deluxe wrote:

Being a Broncos fan, their game is the only game I am guaranteed to watch every week, so I like to have a Broncos half in my fantasy team so can enjoy the game a bit more following their plays etc. Have had a broncos half for last three years. Not too bothered if they aren't the absolute best pick, can't go too far wrong.

Makes sense then! Milf for me

SoylentGreen wrote:would it be crazy to not have either Havili or Garvey to begin the season? Just wait a couple of weeks and see how they go?

I’m a raiders fan and giving a miss now Garvey is not starting. It’s ridiculous but it’s Ricky. Wish he just stayed at the dogs after super league. He will piss around until he realizes we just need some stability there to replace our best player instead of shuffling halves in and out and all the inevitable nonsense he will do. Price doesn’t matter as much if they are rookie priced but not guaranteed mins or points

my tv broke wrote:What is everyones plan with frf, everyone going fairly mid range in both spots or trying to have one safe/solid pick. At the moment i have mcguire for dpp and because hes the cheapest of the "reliable" scorers.. can sort of expect 50s week in week out there..

Mid range starting pairing with strong FRF/2RF DPP on the bench. Ideally McGuire but probably Liu

Does anybody know how many minutes addin Fonua Blake averaged last year and his scores? Thinking of him as a cheaper and more valued alternative to NAS. Thanks in advance

Fonua Blake scored 30 points in 35 minutes last year

27 pouints in 28 minutes the year before

IMO he is another PPM king like Evans who promises you much but never quire delivers. It is not the first time he had tempted people in pre-season

New predicted Manly forward rotation:

AFB 45
Koroisau 60
Taupau 55
Thompson 80
Sironen 65
Trbojevic 70

Brown 20
Perrett 30
Winterstein 25
Tanginoa 30

I'll probably only go with AFB if Winterstein and Brown are on the bench