The Rugby Magazine Fantasy Game 2021/22

[switchskier]

Anyone know when the bath - LI teams are out? I'm overly reliant on irish players and tempted to pick up players from the games today as contingency

[Shiny]

Anyone know when the bath - LI teams are out? I'm overly reliant on irish players and tempted to pick up players from the games today as contingency

Dunno but it’s cutting it bloody fine now.

[Peej]

It's now off, and presumably they were waiting so long in the hope that test results would come back negative.

From a fantasy rugby perspective it's bloody annoying, as if this had been called a few hours earlier I wouldn't have picked so many benched players in my team

[Scrumhead]

Yeah. Annoying. Also affected my thinking from a transfer POV too.

[switchskier]

Was making my weekly subs, looking for a new flanker when I thought I'd take a look at Mike Williams. So far this season he's appeared in 8 games and has a net score of -4. He's had negative scores in 5 of his 8 games and has a high score of 9, in week 1. The most meters he has made in a game is 5. The most tackles he has made in a game is 8 (when he got red carded just after halftime), but he's missed 11 (he misses 27.5% of the time).He has two turnovers on the season, in 334 minutes of game time. He really has been quite awful.

So of course I recommend you all sign him as he's bound to have a great game now.

[Peej]

The values seem to be doing some slightly odd things. There have been huge drops with a couple of my squad.

Incredibly rotation has worked in my favour this week, and I've actually had choices - yes, choices! - about players in different positions. One assumes they will all be wrong, however.

[Puja]

The values seem to be doing some slightly odd things. There have been huge drops with a couple of my squad.

Incredibly rotation has worked in my favour this week, and I've actually had choices - yes, choices! - about players in different positions. One assumes they will all be wrong, however.

Yeah, choices are when I always have my worst weeks. When I'm forced into an XV by circumstance, that's when everything pays out.

Puja

[FKAS]

The values seem to be doing some slightly odd things. There have been huge drops with a couple of my squad.

Incredibly rotation has worked in my favour this week, and I've actually had choices - yes, choices! - about players in different positions. One assumes they will all be wrong, however.

Yeah, choices are when I always have my worst weeks. When I'm forced into an XV by circumstance, that's when everything pays out.

Puja

Don't say that, I'll start second guessing my selection. Had a few options in the forwards and I've gone out on a limb a bit. That and swapped both my flyhalfs over.

[Scrumhead]

Made some pretty big calls this week. I’m the same with choices though … I almost always end up regretting my 50:50 calls.

[Scrumhead]

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[Shiny]

Prem teams are out. Overall, its not too bad looking but I could have done without some of the teams resting their players while their internationals are away.

[Scrumhead]

Hands up if you put Care as captain

Not a good start to my week.

[Peej]

Prem teams are out. Overall, its not too bad looking but I could have done without some of the teams resting their players while their internationals are away.

I've had a shocker this week. Two greys on the bench and two gaps. Had to sell three, including Simmonds and Genge just to try and get a full team out. And typically the cup draw is based on this round, so I probably won't make that

[FKAS]

Hands up if you put Care as captain

Not a good start to my week.

Not as captain but he was at 9 and Green at 15. Finn Smith at 10 has scored me 1 point.

Half the starting XV have played for a combined 100 points so far this weekend. Hoping Radwan and McGuigan can start the turnaround.

[Scrumhead]

At least McGuigan and Radwan showed up for you.

I had Care starting at 9 over Mitchell. To make matters worse, whichever one started was getting the armband. Obviously Mitchell had a good game and came away with 39 points, so if I’d picked them the other way around, I’d have been 36pts better off …

I also had Green at 15 who had another stinker. His form has dropped off a cliff in the last 5 or 6 weeks.

Thankfully, most of the rest of my players have scored fairly well. I have 7 starters and 3 subs today so fingers crossed for a decent score.

[FKAS]

Sean Robinson helped me out a bit as well.

Got both the du Preez brothers and Montoya up front today as well as both Sarries centres in the backline so hoping they rack the points up.

[Puja]

I had a mixed week on the players I brought in. Signed Nick David and made him captain on the basis that Quins would thrash Bath - he got 30 points which wasn't bad, but not the cavalcade I was hoping for. Finn Smith was a waste of time, but Paul Hill made up for my other 5 Quins starters who let me down. Last signing of the week is Alex Lewington, who needs to score a good few tries to save me.

Puja

[Peej]

I couldn't get a full team out but for once some of my choices came off. Signed David and Porter, played Luke James, Montoya as captain all helping drive me to a pretty decent score all things considered

[FKAS]

Forwards turned up for me on Saturday. 470 points making it a damn good weekend performance.

[Shiny]

I have to say its looking very thin on the ground for next week with call ups and a bye week. I can do a starting 15 if the DOR's play ball but the bench will be a sea of red dots.

[FKAS]

Northampton with a bye week doesn't hit me to bad.

International call ups and releases do make it a lottery. Maybe it's best to follow the Prem DOR guide book here and just invest in big South Africans.

[Scrumhead]

Same here really. Currently I only have Mitchell.

Newcastle’s bye the following week will hurt me a bit more.

[FKAS]

Good point on Falcons. Doubly so now Radwan has been called up to cover with England. Might have to plan ahead for that weekend.

How much I have to change will depend on who gets released and who doesn't and whether DORs actually play them or not.

[Peej]

Bloody hell, I'm struggling even more to put out a side than I was last week. Another 20 point hit to start.

[Scrumhead]

Went bold and took a -20 to sign Radradra.