NRL Supercoach | Clem’s Captains, Round 19 Skippers


<p>I was this-week-year’s old when I discovered where Campbelltown is.</p>



<p>After making plans to go to the Wahs v Tigers game a while back, I finally decided to look up how to get there from Manly and quickly realised that by the time I get there and back (not counting all the hours I’ll spend taking wrong turns so I can rack up tolls for fun), I could have literally flown to New Zealand.</p>



<p>But what is a little road trip when you get to watch your team <s>annihilate the home team</s>… ahem, play?</p>



<p>And in other news, how wild were the Captains last week? If you chucked the VC on Jenkins or conceded that 86 points was enough and looped Nicho, you’d be laughing.</p>



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<p>But if you went the Herbie, Tommy T or Terrell May route, I’d like to offer you some comfort in my run of SuperCoach Origin captains.</p>



<p>Because nothing was going to top my Game 1 captain of Ponga for his 15 points, until Sammy Walker got on the field for Game 3 and said, ‘hold my beer’.&nbsp;</p>



<p>And fair to say, I just don’t get SuperCoach Origin.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So back to Classic we go, where I fared a lot better, and found myself on the receiving end of 29 greens on Monday morning.</p>



<p>And I am now in 122-place overall – with the elusive top 100 doing its very best impression of a tease.</p>



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<p>Now I did have to sell my soul to get there, I’ll admit. But it was actually quite easy to do if you want to do the same. I simply took a quick trip to the Outworld, met up with a nice bloke called Shang Tsung, and voila!&nbsp;</p>



<p>Turbo, Tallis AND Dylan Lucas found their way into my team – and I didn’t have to beg for a SuperCoach loan to get there.</p>



<p>Anyway, if you’re thinking of doing the same, the Outworld is closer than Campbelltown and souls are overrated anyway.</p>



<p>… who am I kidding – Cleary you’re coming straight back into my team Round 20… it’s all part of the plan, I promise… </p>



<p>So onto the Captains we go, and this is a weird week for Captains, so we’ll dive straight into the last game of the round with:</p>



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



<p>Because in a week where the Captaincy is up in the air, one name stands out:</p>



<p><strong>Sua Fa’alogo</strong>.</p>



<p>The consistent one. The one with the 85-point average. The one with the 102-point 3-round average. The number one fullback so far this year.&nbsp;</p>



<p>And dare I call it early – my Fullback of the Year for 2026.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p>Every time Sua touches the ball, something happens &#8211; line breaks, try assists, tries… the man basically runs a marathon every single game – Sua has the ceiling that makes him this week’s Captain of the Round.</p>



<p>Playing the Titans in Melbourne in the final game, with the team all back together – my money’s on a Captain Sua.</p>



<p>And with 45.5% of the top 1% of SuperCoachers on him too – if he goes low, we all drop ranks together.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Tommy T</strong></h3>



<p>If you don’t own Sua (fix that now), or you’re lucky enough to have a loop option and a fast finger to action the loop in between the Manly and Storm game – you have to look at a VC or Captaincy play on <strong>Tommy T.</strong></p>



<p>While he didn’t quite hit the heights against the Eels that the one million SuperCoachers who traded him last week were hoping for, with just 68 points scored, this Sunday against the Cowboys at Brookie could be our payday.</p>



<p>Manly will be out for blood after losing to the Eels, and while the Cowboys are coming off a bye and a shock win over Penrith – last time Manly played them back in Round 7, they thumped them 38 – 6.</p>



<p>A Sunday arvo at Brookie &#8211; it just feels like the kind of game that’s going to have points in it with a bunch of those coming Turbo’s way.</p>



<p>The fact that he’s not <em>hugely</em> VC’d or Captained this week just adds to the thrill if he does put on that elusive Turbo performance we’re all waiting for.</p>



<p>I’m almost tempted to save a reserve and cop a Cheese AE just so I can VC him…</p>



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<p>P.S – Obviously, if you own <strong>Scotty D</strong>, you can take a punt on him as a super POD option. I owned him this season and could never pick when he’d pull out the game that keeps owners hooked apart from fluking him as a Captain in the first bye &#8211; so I continued on my merry Fullback Roulette way….but could this be this game? Your guess is as good as mine.</p>



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



<p>With basically the entire SuperCoach world VCing him last week, the decision of the round became – do you loop <strong>Nicho’s</strong> 86 points or run the Captaincy on Tommy T or Herbie?</p>



<p>And with both those sure-things putting up scores lower than Nicho’s – we’ll chalk that up as a win for the loopers. </p>



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<p>And where does Nicho’s points come from please? Because I was at some pub deep in Dragon’s territory Saturday night &#8211; because now the Couchies and Hamish Stewart are my official second team – and I swear I took what was a mere sip of my beer, looked back up at the screen, and in the space of 1 second Nicho had somehow gone from ‘well at least we tried’ to an actual loopable option.</p>



<p>And taking on the Dolphins up there in Redcliffe on Saturday arvo, this could honestly go either way. I have no idea which team wins this or if lots of points are scored or if no points are scored, because if I didn’t watch their games last week and you’d told me the scores &#8211; I wouldn’t have believed you.</p>



<p>But with the 4<sup>th</sup> highest average in SuperCoach for the season so far at 92-points, and 6 tons in his 12 games – Nicho is as good a VC as anyone this round.</p>



<p>Just don’t look at the weather. It’s a sun, and I used all my tubs of V05 Wet Look Gel getting him to 86 last week. Guess we’re pulling a group rain dance – brb while I dig out the instructions for the moves.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Te Maire Martin</strong></h3>



<p>If you’ve got the VC on Te Maire Martin, just know I’ll be in that crowd at Campbelltown Stadium – ready to manifest TMM and the Wahs to a total annihilation of a win.</p>



<p>I am so sorry, Tigers fans, especially Maxy Bryden.</p>



<p>The Wahs are coming off a resounding win over the Bye; the Tigers are coming off a resounding loss against the Dragons – I expect Wahs tries and I expect TMM to play a key role in lots of those tries.</p>



<p>16 try involvements in his 6 games, including 4 tries himself – if Hammer wasn’t so good at saving tries, TMMs average would be higher than 80.5 and the Wahs would be 2 points up on the ladder.</p>



<p>One for the pod-hunters at only 0.2% VC’d in the top 5% (and that could possibly be Spy), if you think the Tiger’s performance last weekend is going to be a regular thing – a VC on TMM could be the thing that soars you up the rankings.</p>



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



<p>At 12pm on Friday, I have absolutely no idea except that I’m going to follow the pack and take the tried-and-true consistency route and give Sua my armband.</p>



<p>I’d be keen on the Tommy T VC at home if I had a bona fide loop – but I don’t unless I take the reserve off Hosking and concede to whatever Cheese we get this weekend.</p>



<p>If I don’t do that, I’ll VC Nicho – because his unicorn points are real.</p>



<p>On that note, I must run as I need to start the journey to Campbelltown – I have to allow these extra hours for all the wrong turns I’ll take on the way…</p>



<p>As always, I hope you have a great weekend, and your Captain scores you a ton…</p>



<p>Up the Wahs!</p>



<p>Clementine xxx</p>


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