NRL Late Mail Round 12: Koula, AFB & Walker All Ruled Out

There was some real magic in the air last week when we got through, by and large, without many game day changes with major SuperCoach implications. 



Incredible areas. 



We can only hope this carries through this week but things are starting to get a bit dicey early on.



The biggest name in doubt for the round was actually the SC Spy after his weekend heroics but thankfully the legend pulled through captain&#8217;s run and lined up for the poddy as named. 



3 Dally M points awarded.



As usual, all the&nbsp;updates across the round will come via <a href="https://x.com/scplaybook1" title="@scplaybook1">@scplaybook1</a> on X/Twitter and Instagram, as well as myself <a href="https://x.com/AStilesAuthor" title="@AStilesAuthor">@AStilesAuthor</a> (X/Twitter only).&nbsp;



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BULLDOGS



Kurt Mann&nbsp;dropped out Wednesday night, which sees&nbsp;Josh Curran&nbsp;move to lock and&nbsp;Jake Turpin&nbsp;join the interchange. 



There is some speculation that Turpin could start at lock and Curran retains his bench role but that is how they&#8217;re named for now.



24 hours cuts: Mann, Faamausili, Taaffe



DRAGONS



Fresh off a bye so players like&nbsp;Luciano Leilua&nbsp;shouldn&#8217;t be late outs, however as always a swap in the forwards &#8211; often involving most or all of&nbsp;Raymond Faitala-Mariner,&nbsp;Blake Lawrie,&nbsp;Tom Eisenhuth&nbsp;and&nbsp;Jack De Belin&nbsp;&#8211; is never out of the question.&nbsp;



24 hour cuts: Feagai, Couchman, Marschke



COWBOYS



Kyle Feldt has been named to return from injury forcing Braidon Burns out of the team. 



Outside of that, the Cowboys should run out 1-17.



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TIGERS



There&#8217;s some whispers going around that&nbsp;Lachlan Galvin&nbsp;will be a late out this round, with&nbsp;Api Koroisau&nbsp;moving into the halves and&nbsp;Jake Simpkin&nbsp;to hooker. 24 hour mail will be a big watch.



SEA EAGLES&nbsp;



Tolutau Koula&nbsp;will be a late out through injury with&nbsp;Lehi Hopoate&nbsp;to debut. 



I assume this also means&nbsp;Reuben Garrick&nbsp;shifts to fullback in the process.



Jason Saab&nbsp;should return from the shoulder injury that kept him out last week, with&nbsp;Jaxson Paulo&nbsp;on standby.



STORM



Jahrome Hughes&nbsp;will be fine to return from his calf injury and I&#8217;ll make the weekly observation of potential swaps involving any of&nbsp;Tui Kamikamica,&nbsp;Nelson Asofa-Solomona,&nbsp;Christian Welch&nbsp;and, looking at team lists and recent changes by position,&nbsp;Josh King.&nbsp;



Outside this potential forward shuffle, nothing major expected at this stage.&nbsp;



RAIDERS



Despite usual culprit&nbsp;Josh Papali&#8217;i&nbsp;being out, a prop swap wouldn&#8217;t surprise. 



However, anticipating&nbsp;1-17&nbsp;for now.&nbsp;



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ROOSTERS



Joseph Manu&nbsp;is fine to return from his head knock and I could see&nbsp;Egan Butcher&nbsp;starting on the edge with&nbsp;Victor Radley&nbsp;moving back to lock and&nbsp;Naufahu Whyte&nbsp;moving to the bench but that&#8217;s just speculation on my part.&nbsp;



Will expect&nbsp;1-17&nbsp;for now.



SHARKS



Braydon Trindall&nbsp;is again on the extended bench but given their form I imagine the Sharks still with what&#8217;s working and run out&nbsp;1-17.



PANTHERS



Daine Laurie&nbsp;often drops off the bench when named so that wouldn&#8217;t surprise, but&nbsp;1-17&nbsp;is also likely.&nbsp;



RABBITOHS



Cody Walker has been ruled out with a calf injury with Dion Teaupa likely to slot into halfback in his replacement.



I could see some form of musical chairs in the forward pack and bench based on history, but like the Roosters this is purely personal speculation. 



1-17&nbsp;wouldn&#8217;t surprise here either.



EELS



My phone will predict&nbsp;Ofahengaue&nbsp;prop,&nbsp;Paulo&nbsp;bench for years to come but given the coaching change, could we see them run out as named? 



What a time to be alive if true.&nbsp;



Hard to predict any other possible movements based on the new coach but nobody seems in doubt at least so the overall 17 shouldn&#8217;t change.



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BRONCOS



Reece Walsh is now confirmed to return to fullback on Sunday meaning Selwyn Cobbo will go back to centre. 



Billy Walters is also a confirmed starter coming back from a wrist injury.



Payne Haas looked gone for all money in Magic Round but nothing is indicating he&#8217;ll be a late out.



TITANS



Named according to last week&#8217;s late changes and after holding firm to&nbsp;David Fifita&nbsp;as a starter of late, I&#8217;m not expecting any game day changes at this stage.&nbsp;



WARRIORS



Addin Fonua-Blake has been stood down this week for breaching club standards.



As usual a late change on the bench is always an options for the Wahs, but whatever shakes out generally doesn&#8217;t impact SuperCoach too much.



DOLPHINS



It&#8217;s two weeks on the trot for the game day swap of&nbsp;Felise Kaufusi&nbsp;moving to prop,&nbsp;Connelly Lemuelu&nbsp;to the edge and&nbsp;Mark Nicholls&nbsp;to the bench so until proven otherwise I&#8217;ll expect it to happen again.&nbsp;

NRL Late Mail Round 12: Koula, AFB & Walker All Ruled Out

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