NRL Supercoach | Clem’s Captains, Round 3 Skippers


<p>Two from two to start the season…&nbsp;it’s just what we do.</p>



<p>And I’m not just talking about the Warriors, who have&nbsp;made me the happiest gal in the world every&nbsp;Friday&nbsp;night for&nbsp;the past two weeks – second on the ladder, and I’ve already&nbsp;built a shrine&nbsp;for&nbsp;new national hero&nbsp;<strong>Tanah Boyd</strong>.</p>



<p>Because friends…That Spy three-peat? Not on my watch.</p>



<p>“All bark, no bite,” as a wise man recently said.</p>



<p>At this point, Spy, you might want to put out a mayday call to your boy <strong>Royce Hunt</strong>… </p>



<p>Because I have officially taken you down two weeks in a row. Two. Weeks. In. A. Row. Only 25 more to go…</p>



<p>And to be fair to the Spy, the Friday Beers have started the season with a suspicious number of greens – literally the best start we’ve ever had in SuperCoach since 2021, when we finished 6<sup>th</sup>. </p>



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<p>Normally, at this stage, we’re lurking around the 50,000ths, convincing ourselves we’re ‘building nicely’ as we attempt to clamber into the 30,000ths.</p>



<p>Yet here we find ourselves in 9,219 place following a 1382 last week with a Captaincy on <strong>Herbie,</strong> who somehow offloaded his way to a 78 against the Titans.</p>



<p>I still don’t fully understand how he scored those&nbsp;points,&nbsp;but we’ll take them!</p>



<p>And speaking of the Titans, I’ve just landed&nbsp;on the GC for the Aussies, which regular readers will know, is code for:</p>



<p>‘The annual hunt to find the next&nbsp;<strong>Damien</strong>&nbsp;‘and did you know he was a beach sprinter’&nbsp;<strong>Cook</strong>.’</p>



<p>Next week, we’ll be coming in hot with scouting reports from the beach arena. </p>



<p>Beach flags are where it’s at &#8211; nothing says ‘future NRL prop’ like a bloke taking hit-ups and shoulder barging his way 50 meters up the beach before diving headfirst into the sand over and over again.</p>



<p>Watch this space. </p>



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<p>And this week’s&nbsp;Captaincy Congratulations goes to whoever Captained&nbsp;<strong>Sua&nbsp;</strong><strong>Fa’alogo</strong>&nbsp;for his ONE HUNDRED AND&nbsp;FIFTY-FIVE&nbsp;points vs the Dragons.</p>



<p>Watching that game with the Spy,&nbsp;who didn’t own&nbsp;him,&nbsp;was&nbsp;simply lovely&nbsp;(I’m so sorry Spy,&nbsp;haha&nbsp;I’ll stop sledging now,&nbsp;I promise – we’re friends).</p>



<p>Which leads us to this week’s pressing question:</p>



<p>WHO are the five people who have decided to trade him out&nbsp;this week,&nbsp;and&nbsp;WHAT do you know that the&nbsp;99.9% of&nbsp;the rest of&nbsp;us who will own him by Friday night don’t???</p>



<p>Now let’s move on to this week’s Captains in what is proving to be a week where the VCs are obvious and all play Friday night, but the Captains are hard to choose, so you may Captain the VCs instead…</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Nathan Cleary</strong></h3>



<p>Playing the&nbsp;6pm game that’s normally reserved for the Warriors on Friday night,&nbsp;the superstitious streak in me doesn’t really know how I feel&nbsp;about this&nbsp;life&nbsp;inconsistency, but here we are, and we find&nbsp;ourselves&nbsp;sitting at the pub at 6pm on Friday night (5pm up here in QLD)&nbsp;watching the Panthers take on the Chooks instead.</p>



<p>And Cleary showed us how he is always an option last round when he knocked out 109 points, including a try, 20 points in kicks, and 40 points in base in the 26 – 6 total domination of the Sharks.</p>



<p>His last three games vs the Roosters, he hasn’t gone under 80 points. </p>



<p>He looks good, the Panthers look good, the Chooks not quite as good; will Nathan follow in Tanah halfback of the year’ Boyd’s footsteps and whack out 131 points vs them too?</p>



<p>VC with confidence or even chuck on the Captaincy armband if you’re feeling extra spicy. </p>



<p>The Panthers are feasting on chicken Friday night.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Storm v Brisbane</strong></h2>



<p>Oh, how we love a grudge match. </p>



<p>And right after the Panthers v Chooks game, we have one of the best games of the weekend – Storm vs Brisbane, the Premiership rematch. </p>



<p>Do not miss this one.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Reece Walsh</strong></h3>



<p>“All bark no bite”</p>



<p>And how good is the sledging already &#8211; and honestly, if I didn’t own Reece I’d be pretty scared after he came out with that zinger in response to <strong>Stefano</strong> calling out the Broncos and telling them to put their balls on the line and say it before the game, not after.</p>



<p>Guess they’re going to be saying it before, during, and after then.</p>



<p>And after calling him the Vice Captain of the round last week, we weren’t far off, with Reece dishing out 99 points which included a couple of tries and moments of sheer brilliance and spark, which is why we own him and why I’m happy to VC him once again for the third week in a row.</p>



<p>You don’t want to not own Reece when he’s in that sort of mood.</p>



<p>The last two times he’s met the Storm, he’s put three tries on them. </p>



<p>He’s heading down to Melbourne with an agenda.</p>



<p>Consider him a VC.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Sua&nbsp;</strong><strong>Fa’alogo</strong></h3>



<p>155 points.&nbsp;ONE HUNDRED AND&nbsp;FIFTY-FIVE.</p>



<p>And we officially have the top score of SuperCoach 2026 so far, and boy, do the Storm know how to breed them. </p>



<p>In just 15 minutes, <strong>Sua</strong> broke the hearts of Dragons fans with three tries; breaking the hearts of non-owners at the same time, as he piled on the points and scored a ton for the second week in a row. </p>



<p>A three-round average of 135. Five tries in his last two games.&nbsp;Three-line breaks. &nbsp;Seven-line break&nbsp;assists.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Playing the Broncos in Melbourne in a game where the Storm will be out for revenge.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Playing the&nbsp;same&nbsp;Broncos who let the Eels run&nbsp;in seven tries last Thursday night…</p>



<p>Your hardest choice is going to be, do you VC or just straight Captain him?</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Your Safe Captain</strong></h3>



<p>Also playing in Friday night&#8217;s grudge match is the safest Captain to ever exist &#8211; <strong>Payne ‘Safe as Haases’ Haas.</strong></p>



<p>He who racked up 103 points vs the Eels last Thursday night, including 50 points in base, a try, and a bunch of offloads, even if he didn’t get the points for the try assist to Ryley Smith.</p>



<p>And he&nbsp;casually&nbsp;did it all in 57 minutes.</p>



<p>Honestly, enough said.&nbsp;</p>



<p>VC or Captain, as you please.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Your&nbsp;</strong><strong>Other&nbsp;</strong><strong>Captains</strong></h2>



<p>And let us quickly cast our eyes over another couple of options we can look to Captain this week, because I’m already late with this, and I’ve forgotten that I’m an hour behind up here in QLD:</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Nicho Hynes</strong></h3>



<p>And okay so last week there was only one halfback on the field scoring points&nbsp;in the Sharks game,&nbsp;and it wasn’t Nicho&nbsp;who still managed 41 points with no attacking opportunities.</p>



<p>But this week the Sharks are playing the Dolphins, and I’m sorry, but I think I’ve watched David Attenborough enough in my life to know that the Sharks are the apex predator here.</p>



<p>Carnivorous and opportunistic.</p>



<p>Especially if the Dolphins keep leaking points (54 points over their last two games and counting).</p>



<p>And Nicho showed us Round 1 what he can do given half the chance, and that was 131 points and some very happy Captainers who took a punt on the man with the glorious wet locks. </p>



<p>So if you own, you can once again take a punt on our Wet Haired Prince, on Sunday.</p>



<p>Especially with a 60% chance of rain in Cronulla.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Herbie Farnworth</strong></h3>



<p>78 points. Basically, all offloads. Six of them. </p>



<p>And that is enough for me to call <strong>Herbie</strong> a Captain this round, even if I’m going against everything David Attenborough taught me.</p>



<p>Because the Sharks proved last week that they can leak some points, and Casey McLean scored 76 points against them.</p>



<p>If my Friday night VC fails, watch me go full loyalty mode and keep the Captaincy on Herbie for the second week in a row – all he needs is an attacking stat and boom we’re tonning up fellow Herbie loyalists.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Verdict</strong></h2>



<p>This week is one of those weeks when the ‘safe’ Captains are all playing on Friday night, and three of them are all in the same game. </p>



<p>And&nbsp;one of those weeks&nbsp;where I am a complete glasshouse of indecision and will not be choosing my VC or Captain until around 5pm Friday night&nbsp;(watch me forget about the time difference then).</p>



<p>But for all intents and purposes of having some sort of verdict, let&#8217;s go a VC or Captaincy on Cleary, Reece, Haas, or Sua at least, with an eye to Herbie or Nicho. (So basically everyone…I just cannot decide).</p>



<p>But if you have a special feeling for a Captaincy on someone a bit rogue, do it. With the masses flocking to the Friday night games – if your pod goes off, this could be your ticket to a surge up the rankings.</p>



<p>And on that note, I hope you have the most beautiful weekend, and your Captain scores you a ton. </p>



<p>Until next week,</p>



<p>Clementine xx</p>


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