Finchy wrote: ↑November 30, 2023, 9:36 pm
I'm stuffed figuring out who scored 4+ tries for the Tigers. I tried re-doing it and tried Tuqiri, Pat Richards, James Tedesco, Taniela Tuiaki, David Nofoluma, Chris Lawrence. All wrong. I'm sure they got hat tricks but no 4's apparently. No idea who else is a candidate for that off the top of my head. Apparently there's 7 options!
The correct answer I should have played occurred to me only a few hours ago
Korobete
No idea the other 6 but I’m SURE he’s one
Good to hear nofo was also a bust, he was my other name I considered.
Edit: ah ****… I missed the easy lay up… JAC! God dammit
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Finchy wrote: ↑November 30, 2023, 9:36 pm
I'm stuffed figuring out who scored 4+ tries for the Tigers. I tried re-doing it and tried Tuqiri, Pat Richards, James Tedesco, Taniela Tuiaki, David Nofoluma, Chris Lawrence. All wrong. I'm sure they got hat tricks but no 4's apparently. No idea who else is a candidate for that off the top of my head. Apparently there's 7 options!
The correct answer I should have played occurred to me only a few hours ago
Korobete
No idea the other 6 but I’m SURE he’s one
Good to hear nofo was also a bust, he was my other name I considered.
Edit: ah ****… I missed the easy lay up… JAC! God dammit
Charlie Staines was who I used there.
I didn’t rate the chances of actual WT players getting across the stripe 4 times so I started to think of players who came from/went to better programs
hurt badly picking a wrong brother scored 17, 13 on a guy i thought was a good get and a 6 score on a former raiders wunderkind I thought was a wizard score (probably same guy rickmando chose)
Busy day at work! Was ticking through it in the 20-30 minutes I had between a wall of meetings
Tough day. Jack and Cooper Johns teammates? Getda****outtahere
Busy day at work! Was ticking through it in the 20-30 minutes I had between a wall of meetings
Tough day. Jack and Cooper Johns teammates? Getda****outtahere
Got 2024 raiders recruit in there as a wizard
They’re really mining spuds aren’t they? Denan Kemp, Nigel Plum, the other Johns brothers.
This one was right in my wheelhouse so a bit disappointed with the score.
I got a bit confused with Phil and Julian Bailey, probably could've scored better there.
Played all my juniors with Sweeney so that was an easy play for me.
Managed the 300+/no bench one but really struggled with the MEL/STI player until going for a fairly obvious one. A lot of black holes in my knowledge of those clubs clearly.
300 games one wasn't too bad , had a couple and was fairly confident on 1 never been on the bench and got it.
But that took my option away for 300 and field goal. Which I bombed out on as I forgot about the games that were before 98 not counting.
Nice grid for me! Once the 300/no bench went down, the rest I found fairly easy
My approach to that was to eliminate forwards, they’ve all come off the bench at some point
No halves because most of them start their careers with an odd bench spot ala Thurston
Just wanted an outside back. Took my shot from there
Got my first zero too, for dragon no bench, a qld cup flyer who got exactly 1 game on the wing. Nick Campton wrote an awesome piece about him in the lead up to that game
Two great scores on bottom corners on raiders players. Including one all timer
NoMan wrote: ↑December 3, 2023, 4:13 pm
The not counting pre NRL sucks.
I agree. I thought so long as that player still played post 1998 you could use them as an option, but it pretty much doesn’t count anything they did pre-98 (points scored, teams played for, players played with, etc). Today for example, Dave Furner still played post 98 but didn’t score over 500 points post 98 so you can’t use him for that square even though he has like 1200 points in his career
The Raider with 5 finals tries had me reeeal nervous given it seemed to only have 7 options. Makes me think some of the obvious options in my head were losers
Went with a guy I vividly remember scoring two against us and at least 3 but I think probably it was 4 with us
Absolutely blitzed the middle row with SOO players and Raider/Cowboy
But took a lot of rough scores elsewhere
Roosters, Storm, Panthers, Rabbitohs, Sea Eagles probably played the most finals post 98. Couldn’t think of many ex Raiders in their ranks who scored lots of tries in finals.
Wighton was the top scorer of 26 points. I’m not sure who the others are. I went with Michael Robertson and got lucky.
Raider/Cowboy was interesting. I went with Brett Hetherington. Off the top of my head other options were Jason Smith, Shaun Fensom, Kurt Baptiste, Luke Bateman, Rod Jensen. Can’t recall many other post 98 options
Finchy wrote: ↑December 3, 2023, 11:13 pm
Raiders with 5 tries in finals had me stumped.
Roosters, Storm, Panthers, Rabbitohs, Sea Eagles probably played the most finals post 98. Couldn’t think of many ex Raiders in their ranks who scored lots of tries in finals.
Wighton was the top scorer of 26 points. I’m not sure who the others are. I went with Michael Robertson and got lucky.
Wighton and Rapana were in my back pocket and i was pretty sure they'd clear, but i went with Shaaaaaaaandor Earl
I know he got 2 against us playing for the Panthers. And there was finals run where he definitely got 3 but i think it was 4 playing outside PEAK Blake Ferguson
Finchy wrote: ↑December 3, 2023, 11:13 pm
Raiders with 5 tries in finals had me stumped.
Roosters, Storm, Panthers, Rabbitohs, Sea Eagles probably played the most finals post 98. Couldn’t think of many ex Raiders in their ranks who scored lots of tries in finals.
Wighton was the top scorer of 26 points. I’m not sure who the others are. I went with Michael Robertson and got lucky.
Wighton and Rapana were in my back pocket and i was pretty sure they'd clear, but i went with Shaaaaaaaandor Earl
I know he got 2 against us playing for the Panthers. And there was finals run where he definitely got 3 but i think it was 4 playing outside PEAK Blake Ferguson
Ha that's a good get - I even used Sandor a few days ago for another grid but didn't think of him for the 5 tries in finals option! Now that I think about it, Blake Ferguson himself is probably another option for that square.
Took big scores on middle row left and centre on names I expected to take big scores on
But also took a near 10 burger on top middle for a name I thought would be under 1
Late in the game now
But I’m still FURIOUS that Daniel Wagon scored 9+ for Eel who played for Queensland
Furious.
No way that’s a 9 point pull. I’m the first person that’s thought of Daniel **** Wagon outside of immediate friends and family for at least 5 years
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