NRL Supercoach Round 12 Wrap: 8 Things We Learnt


<p>Well, that was fun! </p>



<p>The first bye round came and went in a flash. </p>



<p>And if you didn’t own Lucas or Sharpe&#8230; things would not be good!</p>



<p>The pair lit up Round 12 with 2 monster scores, taking apart a bits and pieces team of Penrith whilst some popular targets didn’t get anywhere near what we needed (or wanted) from them.</p>



<p>The rain didn’t help, the upsets didn’t help and fielding only your best 13 means some pretty dour scores probably stayed and counted.</p>



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<p>Hopefully, you nailed a VC or C choice. </p>



<p>Nicho might be entering the never again captaincy bin. Just give us something when we need it! </p>



<p>The Reapers though avoided some of the trash, and picked up some treasure with another scintillating week, scoring 1,051 thanks to <strong>Sharpe</strong> and <strong>Lucas</strong>, but also getting a special mention is <strong>Hugo</strong> and <strong>Lehi</strong>, who turned it on right when it mattered. </p>



<p>That jumped me 7,269 spots into 16,991 overall.</p>



<p>If you thought Round 12 was tricky, bring on Round 13!</p>



<p>Anyway, here is what we learned from Round 12 of NRL Supercoach&#8230;</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>1. Sometimes the best bye planning is not to plan at all!</strong></h3>



<p>I don’t know if it happened on purpose, but my best players for the weekend were guys I got in for reasons other than the bye!</p>



<p><strong>Lehi</strong> came in because I saw how crippled poor <strong>Tom</strong> <strong>Trbojevic</strong> was and he crossed for 2 and was an arm away from 130. </p>



<p>He looks a solid option the CTW, gets through a heap of work, and was the beneficiary on Friday of a very inexperienced centre wing pairing for Parra.</p>



<p>He will play fullback at some stage, just not sure when or how.</p>



<p>The Smith pairing at hooker have been there since Round 2 and did their job admirably.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Herbie</strong> just scores tries but hasn’t hit triple figures all year! I’m salivating at a potential 140+ performance.</p>



<p>But my 3,2 and 1 points went to <strong>Hugo Savala</strong>! </p>



<p>What a time to knock out a 95! </p>



<p>Three try assists, all off his boot and grabbed one himself, I can’t recall when he came into my side, how he came into my side or who it was for, but there he was on Friday ready to rip and tear. </p>



<p>With all the <strong>DCE</strong>, <strong>Sandon</strong>, and <strong>Walker</strong> chatter, maybe he is the one to wear the 6 moving forward.</p>



<p>Triple position?</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>2. Lucas and Sharpe define the weekend</strong></h3>



<p>Didn’t seem like a matter of if these 2 lit it up in a single game, but when!</p>



<p>And didn’t they do just that in Bathurst! </p>



<p>The town hasn’t seen a duo like it take the weekend apart like Lowndes and Richards!</p>



<p>Hopefully you followed both Barry Toohey and the SC Playbook late mail, and not some rodent on Twitter who declared Lucas out, because that would have cost you a lazy 147 points!</p>



<p>What a half and what a time to kick into 6<sup>th</sup> gear for owners!</p>



<p>Knocked out a lazy hat-trick inside 30 minutes, and could (should) have had 4 had he have tucked it under and scored, but set the weekend up like nothing else. </p>



<p>These shortened rounds, when someone goes large it&#8217;s make or break. </p>



<p>Only has one score under 65 in an otherwise stellar 2025. </p>



<p>His everywhere man Fletcher Sharpe channelled Joey many with a weekend-defining performance. </p>



<p>Plenty owned, many VC’d, and if you ticked either one of those boxes, chances are your weekend looks a lot better than those who didn’t.</p>



<p>18 tackle breaks and 4 line breaks, if it wasn’t for some stout defence over the line, he could have had 3 tries! </p>



<p>The early try within the first few minutes settled any nerves and propelled him to a season-best 131.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>3. Turbo is back, don’t care what anyone else thinks!</strong></h3>



<p>Extra, extra read all about it!</p>



<p>Turbo is back, and my season is saved!</p>



<p>Reports of his demise and downfall were greatly exaggerated after knocking out a huge – get this 72 points on Friday night!</p>



<p>Ok, I might have delusions of grandeur when speaking about the Manly number 1, but signs were good on Friday, dare I say great?</p>



<p>Set up one, was unlucky not to have another and was awarded a TC for one of Hopoate’s tries. </p>



<p>Took the line on with a bit more vigour and swept to both sides of the field. </p>



<p>It may not be 2021 numbers, but priced at 552K and cheaper this week, it’s worth a punt.</p>



<p>Hey.. Can’t be as bad as bringing in Tracey, hey Timmy?</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>4. Play that Jazz again</strong></h3>



<p>I did start the year with him. I got all Jazz-ed up about it, and within one week, he was gone. </p>



<p>I had seen enough.</p>



<p>But that was the Jazz of Rounds 1-6. </p>



<p>The Jazz of rounds 7-12 is a new man! Shades of Warriors Jazz.</p>



<p>Updated brilliantly for owners who were brave enough to take the plunge. </p>



<p>He finished with 63, but was found 20 short, and ended up on 83, which was all base and offloads!</p>



<p>I don’t think there will be a lot of attack in him, but if there is 65 odd in base each week, thank you very much!</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>5. Wet weather cruel scoring</strong></h3>



<p>The smell of wet socks in footy bags is one that never really leaves the nostrils.</p>



<p>And this weekend it was wafting all over the NRL with the Dogs-Dolphins game about 5mm off being refereed by a lifeguard!</p>



<p>The Dolphins played the perfect wet weather football, but it didn’t allow a lot of ball movement, and they scored a lot of their tries back under in the ruck.</p>



<p>It made for a long, long night for <strong>Connor Tracey</strong> and his owners. </p>



<p>In his 2 weeks, he has played in 2 very atrocious conditions, and served up 45 points in 2 weeks. </p>



<p>It wasn’t much drier over in New Zealand which must be like living under a sprinkler. </p>



<p><strong>Zac Hosking</strong> forgot his boots and ran out in his runners, slipping around all over the place and unable to break the line or grab an attacking stat. </p>



<p>He and <strong>Clark</strong> were two hot commodities, and Clark won the points battle scoring 65, 22 more than Hosking, but priced at 160k more, I&#8217;d say the Hosking trade is the better of the two.</p>



<p>Time will tell though, especially when the FRF stocks after Origin get a little thin.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>6. Unknown halves deliver over guns  </strong></h3>



<p>I’ve already waxed lyrical about Hugo, but it was a weekend for the unknown halves, much to the dismay of the <strong>Hynes</strong>, <strong>Brown</strong> and <strong>Burton</strong> owners.</p>



<p>Footy Dean of the <strong>Hawkins</strong> variety was instrumental in guiding the Eels to a lucky win over Manly. </p>



<p>He set up 4 tries in his 91-point performance in his 4<sup>th</sup> game for the year.</p>



<p>Unfortunately, the higher-owned halves really couldn’t match that of their lesser-known peers.</p>



<p>Hynes was the second most popular captaincy choice and could only manage 68 in his side&#8217;s shock loss to an understrength Roosters outfit. </p>



<p>Set up an early try, but that’s about as good as it got. Probably should just pass the ball to Iro more, he can’t stop scoring</p>



<p>And just because Dylan Brown signed with the Knights, it didn’t mean he had to play like one of them.</p>



<p>Only scored 23, so hopefully enough for it to drop out.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>7. Teddy saves blushes for many a new owner</strong></h3>



<p>The fade on Teddy looked like an absolute genius move!</p>



<p>One of the most favoured buys this weekend and beyond, it was a late try that saved his large behind from many owners’ bad books.</p>



<p>He updated to 68 in the end, which is below par, but a lot better than what it was looking like at the 75<sup>th</sup> minute mark when he was sniffing around the 35 mark</p>



<p>Rolls into the Raiders next Sunday in Sydney then a bye and the Green Machine look hell bent on defending their little capital butts off so another sub 80 score and the non-owners will win that one. </p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>8. Minute Watch</strong></h3>



<p><strong>Bulldogs v Dolphins</strong><br>Kikau 80, Mahoney 68, Hopoi 36, Finefeuiaki 80, Stone 42</p>



<p><strong>Eels v Sea Eagles </strong><br>Williams 73, Kautoga 80, Hopgood 50, Smith 80, Tevaga 80, SST 27</p>



<p><strong>Panthers v Knights </strong><br>Henry 57, Smith 71, Lucas 80, KPP 80, Cant 32</p>



<p><strong>Roosters v Sharks</strong><br>Steep 53, Wong 80, AFB 59, Nikora 80, McInnes 51, Talakai 29</p>



<p><strong>Warriors v Raiders</strong><br>Egan 80, Clark 63, Vaimauga 15, Halasima 64, Horse 51, Starling 66, Taps 57, Hosking 75</p>


NRL Supercoach Round 12 Wrap: 8 Things We Learnt

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