AFL Supercoach 2026: Round 7 Wrap - 4 Things We Learnt


<p>Oh boy I’m flying, and so are our star-studded rookies.</p>



<p>Not that this article is, in anyway, about me — but my boys pumped out a 2334, taking my overall rank from 41k to 14k in the blink of an eye (two weeks).</p>



<p>My meteoric rise should, at the very least, give you hope that this game can change in an instant.</p>



<p>Keep sticking to your structure, picking the right rookies and pouncing on value premiums, and you’ll soon enough see some green arrows too.</p>



<p>Here’s what we learnt in Round 7.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Josh Lindsay might not be a rookie — he could be a keeper</strong></h2>



<p>What a performance that was from the first year Eagle, pumping out a 132 from 31 touches.</p>



<p>What’s even more encouraging is that he was on 81 at half time…</p>



<p>I, like a fair few other coaches, assumed that Lindsay would lose his kick-in duties with Ryan Maric back in the team — and so I stupidly left him on the bench.</p>



<p>But that wasn’t the case. He had 70% of the Eagles’ kick-ins, and played on at every opportunity.</p>



<p>Lindsay isn’t just knocking on our SuperCoach defence doors, he’s smashing down the entire wall.&nbsp;</p>



<p>If he keeps this role, I may keep him all year long.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Keep faith in the cheapies </strong></h2>



<p>Round 7 was a prime example of why it’s important to sometimes just have a bit of faith.</p>



<p>Prime trade-out candidates Mattaes Phillipou (98), Jack Carroll (106), Tanner Bruhn (92), Hugh Bond (88), Caleb Windsor (102), and Jai Serong (92) all proved their scoring potential.</p>



<p>In doing so, they also kickstarted some much-needed cash gen for their owners.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Archie Roberts should not still be a POD</strong></h2>



<p>I know that, at the time of writing, Roberts doesn’t quite fit the bill as a POD with an ownership of 15%.</p>



<p>But that is still insanely low for a guy seemingly getting whatever footy he wants off half back.</p>



<p>In the last four weeks alone, the Bombers ball magnet has three scores over 136.</p>



<p>It places him as the fourth highest averaging defender in the game — by some way, mind you, with fifth coming in at six points lower than him.</p>



<p>If you take out his evidently uncharacteristic Round 1 score of 53, he’s averaging 121.5… making him not only the highest averaging defender, but the 12th highest averaging PLAYER.</p>



<p>Third year breakouts are legit after all.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>It’s upgrade SZN</strong></h2>



<p>Congratulations, we’ve hit underpriced premos galore.</p>



<p>Nas is $54k down in price, Dawson $63k, Bont $103k, and Whitfield $40k.</p>



<p>Take your pick of the bunch. All are unbeliable options, and all have surely bottomed out in price.</p>


AFL Supercoach 2026: Round 7 Wrap – 4 Things We Learnt

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