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Hey Lads, in a 10 man comp, what kind of order would you you blokes like to stick to when drafting in the snake style , given the shortage in some spots, im drafting at number 2 and have locked Jturbo as my number 1, i was looking at
Jurbo’s a great pick and you should definitely get him at numner 2. I’d prefer to take either Turbo or Teddy as the best fullbacks and the halves tend to go really quickly. Each to their own though really. As for what position to pick in each round, I think that strategy will go out the window the second your draft starts as it can be a little unpredictable. Good luck with it thoigh, post your team when you’re done.
I’m kind of along the same lines as AF. Draft is a lot about scarcity of positions. I’m picking 12th in a 12th man comp this year so I have no chance of a top 2 hooker or half, but if I was picking second I’d be picking one of Cook/Smith or SJ/Cleary. There is a decent drop off between Cook/Smith and the 3rd best hooker (Hodgson), and between SJ/Cleary and the 3rd best HFB (DCE – the drop to 4th best HFB is even more pronounced than the hooker position, so I’d be picking SJ/Cleary if I had second… Read more »
AF(@af)
Rookie
5 years ago
#769534
Just finish my fifth and final draft for the season. Pretty happy, the other guys must have been drunk while watching the All-Star game.
McCullough
Vaughan
NAS
Surgess
Cordner
Radley
SJ
Ponga
Aitken
Dugan
Gagai
Roberts
Munster
Solid team. A few question marks over ctw as Aitken supposedly on the outer at Dragons and Dugan will get injured at some point. But Bateman will most likely start for you I assume. Good FRF coverage and nice stacking of the HFB position too. Gives you plenty to trade with during the season. What round did Macca go in? I assume Ponga was your first pick, so SJ must have been round two?
CTW is my weakest area in all my drafts so far and all 5 of my teams have either Dugan or Aitken in them. I didn’t know about the Aitken issue which now has me worried but a Dugan injury is a given each season so it was on my radar. I picked 9th in our draft. I took Ponga with pick 9 and SJ with 11, surprised either were still available. Then took Munster at 29, Surgess with 31 and Macca in round 5 with pick 49. Had better options but alot of the better hookers were gone so… Read more »
M8(@pengus)
Rookie
5 years ago
#769885
A few spots still available in my super competitive draft league! 365458
Hey draft aficionados, apologies if this has been covered elsewhere but who is most likely to take DeBelins place in the dragons pack if things turn out bad for him? Laurie? Kerr?
I think the concensus is that Frizell will go to lock and Leilua will take his edge, but its looking like JDB will play
broncs95(@broncs95)
Rookie
5 years ago
#771093
On the chance that you miss out on the two premium fbs in teddy and turbo who is your next couple of fbs picked?
jfish(@jfish)
Borderline keeper
5 years ago
#771464
If anyone’s looking for a draft league and will play all season, you’re welcome to join mine. 5 spots left.
League name: The Bali 10
Teams: 10
Draft date: Tue 12 March 7:30pm
Code is 379168
Standard settings except that I’ve enabled rolling lockout. Cheers.
Where does kikau, turbo and pangai jr go in the draft now? Turbo probably still a top 3 pick but do you take kikau and pangai early as what they wouldve gone or hope to pick them up late waiting for when they return from injury
Business as usual if you want them, you just need to make sure you have cover and pop them on the bench. If others back off them I would take them if able. The game isn’t won in the first 5 weeks.
Hiphopopotamus(@hiphopopotamus)
5 years ago
#772965
Looking to fill a few spots in a competitive draft 191408
broncs95(@broncs95)
Rookie
5 years ago
#773654
Just finished my draft for the year very happy with the result. 12 man league. One of the weirder drafts ive been involved in, I had pick 8 snake draft. In order of rounds picked, let me know your thoughts.
Kikau falling to pick 80 is ridiculous, but Turbo falling to 17 is absurd. The guy averaged 76 at fullback ffs! haha Anyway, best of luck to you, a very formidable team for a 12-man league. With Drinkwater injured, Hughes is great coverage for hfb and flb positions. What were the unexpected picks in the top 16 prior to Turbo?
Picking turbo was maybe the fastest selection ive ever done haha
Hughes worked out very well for me, wouldve swapped drinkwater in had he been named luckily dont have too.
Some very strange picks, hlb and 5/8 got picked very fast munster was a first rounder over dce and johnson.
Pearce was early second as was hodgson and mccollough all before my turbo pick.
I’m starting to think this is a gee-up haha. Pearce before Turbo? Wow, these folks are geniuses if Pearce outscores Turbo minus two games.
adamrobertgray(@adamrobertgray)
5 years ago
#773924
Was just in a very weird draft. Pick 10 in a 10 team league. Huge run on 5/8 and HFB early. Ended up with:
Taupau
Munster
Surgess
Ma’u (CTW)
Widdop
Kaufusi
Tevaga
Friend
Joe O
Guerra
A. Johnston
Mclean
T Peachey
CHN
Vunivalu
Ash Taylor
Nikorima
Effectively punted the HFB position and took them the last two rounds (someone grabbed M Moses the pick before I took taylor). I have no idea if I actually like my team or not but I think i’m deep with lots of base across the positions.
dnobos(@dnobos)
Keeper
5 years ago
#774496
First time playing draft with a few guys on this site and ended up with this. 10 man league
Teddy
Issako,Sauce,GI,Peach
Widdop,Arey
Arrow,Brown(not Lewis),Tohu
TPJ,Wallace
Mahoney
Res Haas,CNK,Bird,Carty
Picked up the scraps with Mahoney and will need to trade if he doesn’t get decent mins but pretty happy everywhere else. What do you guys think?
bulldogs808(@bulldogs808)
Gun
5 years ago
#774862
After years of playing classic, did my first draft last night, 8 man draft with 5th selection came out with the below
Moylan
Hoppa, Jroberts, holland, bateman
milf
hughes
Tapau, Hess, Gallen
Fifita, Jo O
Cook
Res – Paulo, dfifita, ash taylor, ken maumalo
Managed to get Cook as my 1st selection (teddy, ponga, tturbo, Rts the first 4)
jfish(@jfish)
Borderline keeper
5 years ago
#774869
1 spot left in my draft if anyone’s keen and will play all year.
League name: The Bali 10
Teams: 10
Draft date: Tue 12 March 7:30pm
Code is 379168
Standard settings except that I’ve enabled rolling lockout.
Dos(@axr010)
Sleeper
5 years ago
#775156
Hey guys. New to the draft and we will have the draft on Friday.
10 team comp, i have 3 pick, if Turbo falls to me, am i crazy in letting him pass given he is out to round 3? Just trying to get my head around strategy. Assuming Cook and Teddy go first, I am thinking of going Ponga at Full back, am i crazy?
The guy averaged 76 at fullback last year, so if you adjust his average for missing two games, he would still average 70 at fullback. If you are worried that his hamstring will reoccur (valid), then no issues with picking up Ponga. If you do Ponga, I’d pick him at FE though as FE is shorter in numbers than FLB’s (slightly). If you are pick 3 though, would you consider Cleary? There will be another fullback that you can pick up with your second pick (the likes of RTS/Moylan which are less of the step down from Turbo/Teddy than the… Read more »
broncs95(@broncs95)
Rookie
5 years ago
#775732
JDB in free agents is he worth a pick up whilst waiting for court case result?
Depends what you are giving up I guess, but it’s a matter of when, not if, that JDB is suspended. I’d stick clear, but if you have nothing to lose then may as well.
keen to join a draft comp this year, but have never played draft before. anyone creating any leagues over the weekend, with a draft time in the evening next week ?
Have an NRL Supercoach Draft at 1930QLD/2030NSW time tomorrow evening with some spots to fill. Feel free to join but all I ask is that you participate in the draft live. I don’t want people who are going to auto pick Manase Fainu in the third round. The code is 594452.
Did our draft tonight. 12-man league, with snake draft. I was pick 12. Will post my team as follows. Round (Pick Number) Player (Position) 1 (12) A Crichton (2RF) 2 (13) G Widdop (FE) 3 (36) S Lane (FRF) 4 (37) D Edwards (FLB) 5 (60) J Croker (CTW) 6 (61) J Tevaga (HOK) 7 (84) P Gallen (2RF) 8 (85) RFM (2RF) 9 (108) J Bateman (CTW) 10 (109) B Croft (HFB) 11 (132) J Bromwich (FRF) 12 (133) T Glasby (FRF) 13 (156) B Burns (CTW) 14 (157) B Lee (CTW) Very happy with the first four picks,… Read more »
Top 24 picks from our draft tonight (pick 7 was a last minute auto-draft): 1. D Cook (HOK) 24. R James (FRF) 2. K Ponga (FE) 23. A Koroisau (HOK) 3. J Tedesco (FLB) 22. J Papalii (FRF) 4. A Fifita (FRF) 21. M Moylan (FE) 5. T Trbojevic (FLB) 20. C Walker (FE) 6. C Smith (HOK) 19. DCE (HFB) 7. J Trbojevic (2RF) 18. R Martin (2RF) 8. M Taupau (FRF) 17. A Milford (FE) 9. J Taumalolo (2RF) 16. C Munster (FE) 10. S Johnson (HFB) 15. J Hodgson (HOK) 11. N Cleary (HFB) 14. J Arrow… Read more »
Like the tevaga pick think hes in for a good season without mannering, should play more 2nd row. Pretty good team overall think you got a good mix of high ceiling players and solid base players
Whoever picked up DCE mid 2nd round must be cheering
I was keen for a lot of pre-season to take DCE at pick 13 instead of Widdop, but with how quick the FE pool dried up and having no faith in Elgey keeping Hodkinson out of the FE position at Manly, I’m not that huge on DCE if he is not goal kicking. Plus he will play origin. Still a good pick at 19, but I was happy to let him pass.
sidrwayne(@sidrwayne)
Rookie
5 years ago
#777180
Hey guys any competitive drafts going live later today? Keen to have a crack. Drop the digits below and i’ll jump in
Hey Lads, in a 10 man comp, what kind of order would you you blokes like to stick to when drafting in the snake style , given the shortage in some spots, im drafting at number 2 and have locked Jturbo as my number 1, i was looking at
2rf
5/8
hooker
half/fb
half/fb
FRF
CTW
2rf
2rf
FRF
CTW
CTW
CTW
and then a variation of whatever duals i can grab in CTW and 2rf for benchies
or is it really to hard to tell until the draft kicks off
Jurbo’s a great pick and you should definitely get him at numner 2. I’d prefer to take either Turbo or Teddy as the best fullbacks and the halves tend to go really quickly. Each to their own though really. As for what position to pick in each round, I think that strategy will go out the window the second your draft starts as it can be a little unpredictable. Good luck with it thoigh, post your team when you’re done.
I’m kind of along the same lines as AF. Draft is a lot about scarcity of positions. I’m picking 12th in a 12th man comp this year so I have no chance of a top 2 hooker or half, but if I was picking second I’d be picking one of Cook/Smith or SJ/Cleary. There is a decent drop off between Cook/Smith and the 3rd best hooker (Hodgson), and between SJ/Cleary and the 3rd best HFB (DCE – the drop to 4th best HFB is even more pronounced than the hooker position, so I’d be picking SJ/Cleary if I had second… Read more »
Just finish my fifth and final draft for the season. Pretty happy, the other guys must have been drunk while watching the All-Star game.
McCullough
Vaughan
NAS
Surgess
Cordner
Radley
SJ
Ponga
Aitken
Dugan
Gagai
Roberts
Munster
Mbye
Morgan
Bateman
Finucane
Solid team. A few question marks over ctw as Aitken supposedly on the outer at Dragons and Dugan will get injured at some point. But Bateman will most likely start for you I assume. Good FRF coverage and nice stacking of the HFB position too. Gives you plenty to trade with during the season. What round did Macca go in? I assume Ponga was your first pick, so SJ must have been round two?
CTW is my weakest area in all my drafts so far and all 5 of my teams have either Dugan or Aitken in them. I didn’t know about the Aitken issue which now has me worried but a Dugan injury is a given each season so it was on my radar. I picked 9th in our draft. I took Ponga with pick 9 and SJ with 11, surprised either were still available. Then took Munster at 29, Surgess with 31 and Macca in round 5 with pick 49. Had better options but alot of the better hookers were gone so… Read more »
A few spots still available in my super competitive draft league! 365458
Joined!
Hey draft aficionados, apologies if this has been covered elsewhere but who is most likely to take DeBelins place in the dragons pack if things turn out bad for him? Laurie? Kerr?
I think the concensus is that Frizell will go to lock and Leilua will take his edge, but its looking like JDB will play
On the chance that you miss out on the two premium fbs in teddy and turbo who is your next couple of fbs picked?
If anyone’s looking for a draft league and will play all season, you’re welcome to join mine. 5 spots left.
League name: The Bali 10
Teams: 10
Draft date: Tue 12 March 7:30pm
Code is 379168
Standard settings except that I’ve enabled rolling lockout. Cheers.
Joined – Faiders.
Where does kikau, turbo and pangai jr go in the draft now? Turbo probably still a top 3 pick but do you take kikau and pangai early as what they wouldve gone or hope to pick them up late waiting for when they return from injury
Business as usual if you want them, you just need to make sure you have cover and pop them on the bench. If others back off them I would take them if able. The game isn’t won in the first 5 weeks.
Looking to fill a few spots in a competitive draft 191408
Just finished my draft for the year very happy with the result. 12 man league. One of the weirder drafts ive been involved in, I had pick 8 snake draft. In order of rounds picked, let me know your thoughts.
Cleary
Tturbo
Papalii (frf)
Milford
Kaufusi
Croker
Kikau
Lodge
Issac Luke
Gagai
Bench of Gillett, Hughes, Paulo, Lafai Bench picks were based of upside and potential trade bait.
Injured guys were backed of heavily in this draft and top 6 hookers were taken by rd 3
Kikau falling to pick 80 is ridiculous, but Turbo falling to 17 is absurd. The guy averaged 76 at fullback ffs! haha Anyway, best of luck to you, a very formidable team for a 12-man league. With Drinkwater injured, Hughes is great coverage for hfb and flb positions. What were the unexpected picks in the top 16 prior to Turbo?
Picking turbo was maybe the fastest selection ive ever done haha
Hughes worked out very well for me, wouldve swapped drinkwater in had he been named luckily dont have too.
Some very strange picks, hlb and 5/8 got picked very fast munster was a first rounder over dce and johnson.
Pearce was early second as was hodgson and mccollough all before my turbo pick.
I’m starting to think this is a gee-up haha. Pearce before Turbo? Wow, these folks are geniuses if Pearce outscores Turbo minus two games.
Was just in a very weird draft. Pick 10 in a 10 team league. Huge run on 5/8 and HFB early. Ended up with:
Taupau
Munster
Surgess
Ma’u (CTW)
Widdop
Kaufusi
Tevaga
Friend
Joe O
Guerra
A. Johnston
Mclean
T Peachey
CHN
Vunivalu
Ash Taylor
Nikorima
Effectively punted the HFB position and took them the last two rounds (someone grabbed M Moses the pick before I took taylor). I have no idea if I actually like my team or not but I think i’m deep with lots of base across the positions.
First time playing draft with a few guys on this site and ended up with this. 10 man league
Teddy
Issako,Sauce,GI,Peach
Widdop,Arey
Arrow,Brown(not Lewis),Tohu
TPJ,Wallace
Mahoney
Res Haas,CNK,Bird,Carty
Picked up the scraps with Mahoney and will need to trade if he doesn’t get decent mins but pretty happy everywhere else. What do you guys think?
After years of playing classic, did my first draft last night, 8 man draft with 5th selection came out with the below
Moylan
Hoppa, Jroberts, holland, bateman
milf
hughes
Tapau, Hess, Gallen
Fifita, Jo O
Cook
Res – Paulo, dfifita, ash taylor, ken maumalo
Managed to get Cook as my 1st selection (teddy, ponga, tturbo, Rts the first 4)
1 spot left in my draft if anyone’s keen and will play all year.
League name: The Bali 10
Teams: 10
Draft date: Tue 12 March 7:30pm
Code is 379168
Standard settings except that I’ve enabled rolling lockout.
Hey guys. New to the draft and we will have the draft on Friday.
10 team comp, i have 3 pick, if Turbo falls to me, am i crazy in letting him pass given he is out to round 3? Just trying to get my head around strategy. Assuming Cook and Teddy go first, I am thinking of going Ponga at Full back, am i crazy?
I’d take his brother.
The guy averaged 76 at fullback last year, so if you adjust his average for missing two games, he would still average 70 at fullback. If you are worried that his hamstring will reoccur (valid), then no issues with picking up Ponga. If you do Ponga, I’d pick him at FE though as FE is shorter in numbers than FLB’s (slightly). If you are pick 3 though, would you consider Cleary? There will be another fullback that you can pick up with your second pick (the likes of RTS/Moylan which are less of the step down from Turbo/Teddy than the… Read more »
JDB in free agents is he worth a pick up whilst waiting for court case result?
Depends what you are giving up I guess, but it’s a matter of when, not if, that JDB is suspended. I’d stick clear, but if you have nothing to lose then may as well.
Yeah your probably right about his suspension probably have better pick ups/important issues with injuries atm
keen to join a draft comp this year, but have never played draft before. anyone creating any leagues over the weekend, with a draft time in the evening next week ?
Have an NRL Supercoach Draft at 1930QLD/2030NSW time tomorrow evening with some spots to fill. Feel free to join but all I ask is that you participate in the draft live. I don’t want people who are going to auto pick Manase Fainu in the third round. The code is 594452.
League is full, thank you
Any drafts leagues available tonight
Did our draft tonight. 12-man league, with snake draft. I was pick 12. Will post my team as follows. Round (Pick Number) Player (Position) 1 (12) A Crichton (2RF) 2 (13) G Widdop (FE) 3 (36) S Lane (FRF) 4 (37) D Edwards (FLB) 5 (60) J Croker (CTW) 6 (61) J Tevaga (HOK) 7 (84) P Gallen (2RF) 8 (85) RFM (2RF) 9 (108) J Bateman (CTW) 10 (109) B Croft (HFB) 11 (132) J Bromwich (FRF) 12 (133) T Glasby (FRF) 13 (156) B Burns (CTW) 14 (157) B Lee (CTW) Very happy with the first four picks,… Read more »
Top 24 picks from our draft tonight (pick 7 was a last minute auto-draft): 1. D Cook (HOK) 24. R James (FRF) 2. K Ponga (FE) 23. A Koroisau (HOK) 3. J Tedesco (FLB) 22. J Papalii (FRF) 4. A Fifita (FRF) 21. M Moylan (FE) 5. T Trbojevic (FLB) 20. C Walker (FE) 6. C Smith (HOK) 19. DCE (HFB) 7. J Trbojevic (2RF) 18. R Martin (2RF) 8. M Taupau (FRF) 17. A Milford (FE) 9. J Taumalolo (2RF) 16. C Munster (FE) 10. S Johnson (HFB) 15. J Hodgson (HOK) 11. N Cleary (HFB) 14. J Arrow… Read more »
Like the tevaga pick think hes in for a good season without mannering, should play more 2nd row. Pretty good team overall think you got a good mix of high ceiling players and solid base players
Whoever picked up DCE mid 2nd round must be cheering
I was keen for a lot of pre-season to take DCE at pick 13 instead of Widdop, but with how quick the FE pool dried up and having no faith in Elgey keeping Hodkinson out of the FE position at Manly, I’m not that huge on DCE if he is not goal kicking. Plus he will play origin. Still a good pick at 19, but I was happy to let him pass.
Hey guys any competitive drafts going live later today? Keen to have a crack. Drop the digits below and i’ll jump in
I’m keenif you want to start one