We're both going pretty bad. But you've got 5 players playing tomorrow. I've got two, and you've got them both, so all of my points tomorrow are essentially erased against you already. You've got 3 players to make up 97 points on me, your chances of a win are good.

Didn't realise we could see each others teams. I'm off tomorrow too, so i'm going to watch that game int' morning! This fantasy adds a bit of interest when the Dragons arn't playing.

Tonight's scores will be adjusted tomorrow, but with a 40 point buffer, I think i've won our matchup. Ended up with 3rd best score in our league actually, but our league is downright woeful. We are ranked 4,059 out of 4,261



I'm fairly happy though considering Dugan didn't play. Don't think i'll make any changes yet, but we'll see.

So does a player have to start to get points? Because Paea and Pritchard both have none and apart from an iffy start I thought Frank had a good game.

Bu99ered if I know what I'm doing

....gonna be a long season.

It's always best to wait about 24 hours after a game is played for player scores to be finalised. I suspect you'll have points for both players now.

Sorted



Im 2nd in our league and scored 515 all together... and that was after picking a winger that didnt play!



Who is Ryan's xvii btw? He's ranked 39th overall with 609 points. Not a bad weeks effort that.

Ryan Phelan, Fox Sports Host. You can invite two of the Fox team to join your league. But I don't know why you'd pick Phelan because he's got a clue. Better off picking the ones who you're likely to beat like Gordy or Whiz.

Picked him because his photo on the website makes me laugh.

Picked Tallis 'cos his dad played for Leigh.

Just made a couple of astute signings



How long Burgess out for? That was a forced one. Brought in a new winger, 2nd row and prop.

An experienced tip: Don't make any changes until Friday if possible. A number of players will get ruled out through the week, every week. You'll still get dudded every now and then with players pulled out after the lockout, but it's best to think of your changes through the week and make them on Friday if they're all in the clear.

Looks like i'll be making at least one change. Dugan doesn't look like he'll play, again. Yet to decide who will come in though.

Yeah, they were forced changes but 1 was a player I was going to bring in anyway. I have kept 1 just in case of a drop out and wouldn't normally change so early

For some reason I picked Winterstein last week so since he's not playing thats forced and same with Big Sam.

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What happened, Harrigan? I just looked at how we're all going with one game to go. Looks like you didn't confirm your transfers, still got Burgess and Winterstein playing.

I hope he hasn't made mistakes with his selection, it's been a tight tustle between us this weekend and it would be a hollow victory if I won and he's ballsed up.

Bloody Phelan. He crept up a lot over night when the scores were adjusted and he's still got 3 playing tonight. I've got two to play, and should hold out as this week's best score, but I won't catch his season total now.

I thought I had confirmed them and when I found out I hadnt it was locked out



Ah well, just a minor setback. That teams still pretty damn good even whit 2 out and I should have won that game. Im going to struggle around origin time with the amount of Doggies and Saints I have in though I reckon.

I always struggle big time around Origin time. I fall down the rankings quickly, everytime. It's not so much the rep players, but all the byes hover around Origin and I can never manage it properly. The wildcard will have to be used wisely, or basically when i'm just completely stuffed.

Jumped the gun a bit getting rid of Burgess yesterday (even though I should have 2 weeks back). Anyway I worked it out that if my transfers had gone through like I thought id be 3/3 now and have 161 points more than I do now



Ah well.

I wouldn't be too bothered by it. 161 points isn't going to count for much by the end.

For any hope of winning this league, I need to be top with a buffer going into the Origin/Bye period. But even if I top the points next round, I still might not catch Phelan.

I've had a good last couple of rounds. I'm probably due for a drop this round, so i'm going to gamble a bit more with my transfers. Waiting till tomorrow night or Friday to make them though.

Oh, and our league made a huge jump on the rankings, from over 4,000th to now 1,678th out of 4,951. Be good if we can crack the top 500.

you're welcome


Seriously...you lot at the top will battle for honours, but us ignorant grunts near the other end will get us to the top 500

It's me V thee this weekend Gutterfax! Relegation dogfight!

Don't worry, i'll come back to the field a bit this round.

On top of the most abysmal Raiders performance in a long, long time, I have done the same mistake as Harrigan and did not confirm changes this week.

you'll have ro explain that to me

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I'll give you that one!

For the second week in a row, i've played Aaron Woods after he was named on the bench both games, only to be pulled after lockout. That sucks, but with Nightingale to play tomorrow, I should get close to 600 points for the round, so that'll help down the line. It's a bit frustrating having the second most points overall, over a hundred points clear of third best, but am ranked 5th in the league.

I'm obviously cutting Woods next week, but I should've learnt my lesson already. Bloody Phelan is all but out of reach now. All anyone can hope for is to have a markedly better Origin/Bye period than him, otherwise he's got this league wrapped up already I reckon.