SuperCoach Champions

We have RUGBA LEEG to watch tonight!!! This is finally happening! Catfish flies solo in this episode due to internet + audio difficulties with Bear and Wacko Jacko respectively. Apologies for that - technology huh! In any case, we go through Wackos late mail (with his blessing of course), Catfish confirms his five trades (pending any last minute DCEs before kickoff tonight) and talks through his s...

Catfish and Bear are joined by 2017 champion Sam 'BanyoBoy' Rohlf for a massive episode. We recorded this just as teamlists dropped at 4pm today, and we went through team by team and reacted as we went along. We talk the winners, the losers and the surprises in each teamlist and cover SO many different players that I couldn't keep track.  After going through all the team, we briefly run through ou...

It feels like the start of the year, we've just finished the preseason and we're about to set our Round 1 teams. With so long without footy, and with five trades on offer, it almost feels like a chance to 'reset' teams for the start of the 2020 season. Except Catfish is already ranked far behind and stuck with a number of duds in his team. All good though, plenty of time to catch up!  We start an...

In what is hopefully our last self isolation episode, Bear and Catfish spend a long time unpacking the ins and outs of the NRL, and NRL SuperCoach, season restart. We talk through the potential SuperCoach impacts of the:- shortened season; immediate 'super trade week'; non-reduction of overall trades; one-ref system and the '6 again' rule (sorry Raiders fans); lack of byes; setup of the home/away...

First, an apology for our prolonged absence (it's been a month!) but we're finally back - even though this episode is a week old and recorded *just* before the big announcement of the new NRL SuperCoach trade set-up - so we don't talk about any of that, and we only discuss broadly the start date of 28 May, the shortened season and what that means for the actual NRL competition and whether this is...

Ha, ha, ha, ha staying inside, staying inside. What, not a Bee Gees fan? What a time to be alive these days as we bring you the second "Self Isolation" episode during this little hiatus. No comments on COVID-19 this week, it's other depressing chat - with some positive - as Catfish and Bear break down our Round 1 teams and what has gone right, wrong and in-between after two weeks of the season.  W...

And just like that, the season is... on hold? We're still here and we're going to keep coming at you all with (semi) regular episodes even during this 'hiatus'. Giving the people what they want while they're self-isolating (hopefully!!!) or if you're a frontline worker, thank you for your continued hard work and sacrifice in this difficult time!  We talk a few key points from Round 2, and then we...

As mentioned earlier, our first edition of the 'pre-lockout' episode but unfortunately due to audio dramas (and unrelated work-related dramas thanks to COVID-19!), we weren't able to get Wacko Jacko's late mail segment this week - it'll be sorted by next round though!  The Champions answer your Twitter questions, featuring plenty on Williams (both of them), Flegler, Katoa, Yeo, Simonsson, Isaako a...

The preseason was long but in a flash, Round 1 has already come and gone! It was a crazy round with a lot going on, but SuperCoaches, let's not overreact. Catfish and Bear are here to tell you all to calm your farm and discuss what your focus should really be in the first two weeks (spoiler: rage trading is NOT one of the things you should be doing), so that you can use your trades as effectively...

... all about their 2020 Round 1 team (until we get another urge to tinker with the team again!) Like last year, we go through each selection and explain/clarify our thought process behind it. There's a few interesting picks from both teams including some discussion on starting with at least one non-playing reserve (NPR) this year. We also discuss some potential strategies on maximising points at...

Time is running out to finalise preparations for the start of the NRL SuperCoach season! SuperCoach Christmas (a.k.a. the first proper TLT of the year) is almost upon us and there are still SO many question marks this year! Catfish and Bear try make sense of the halves position though - reflecting firstly on how both of us used the halfback and five eighth position so differently yet to great effe...

Catfish and Bear are back (although this was recorded prior to this weekend's round of trial games) and chat more about the strategy of 2020. We breakdown where we think the most critical position for SuperCoach will be this year, what're the easiest and hardest positions to handle this season and go through our thoughts on some of the key players in those various positions. So if you want to hear...

So this is a bit of a special treat - it's a snapshot into the Champs Only preseason podcast series that is available for our Patreon supporters, the Champs, only. So this is an excerpt from the episode on the Hooker position, and it's almost a month old so keep that in mind if you're wondering about why some injuries aren't being mentioned. If you like what you hear, there's more of that exclusiv...

The 2020 preseason continues and we're stoked to have the 2019 overall champion, Declan Creek (follow him on Twitter @DezHassler) join us. Yes that's right, us - Bear is back and he joins Catfish to chat with Dez this week. We review Dez's winning season, including some key takeaways on strategies to consider for 2020, where the season was won (and almost lost) and we couldn't help ourselves, but...

The third 2020 preseason episode features another special guest, the premier Late Mail Man, Wacko Jacko himself of 'Wackos Whispers' fame. Make sure you follow him on Twitter - @wackoswhispers to stay on top of any final team list changes and other mail as it becomes available.  Catfish and Wacko talk rookies, from preseason fancies to potential mid-season rookies, and we go through a few players...

The second 2020 preseason episode focuses on all the injuries, surgeries and recoveries spanning from the late 2019 season, the 2019 post-season, the offseason and the 2020 preseason; and what better person to have on to discuss this than the man himself, Mr Brien Seeney a.k.a. the genius behind the NRLPhysio account (follow him if you're not already doing so on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc....

The Champions are back for the first time in 2020 and the first thing we're doing is looking back at 2019! We take a bit of a look back at how 2019 finished up and also how the Champs did in their first season working with Bear and Catfish too. Then, the main event! We're here to hand out the most prestigious*** of NRL SuperCoach awards, the Champies!  *** may not actually be all that prestigious,...

This is it! We're finally here, the last round and we're eight games from crowning a new overall champion and Bear will become "somebody that we used to know" as well. Unfortunately no Bear again this week as he is effectively on standby for the coming of his new bub, so Catfish goes solo for a while to talk about how to best prepare for Round 25 and dealing with the teamlist dramas, and he answer...

It's serious business for NRL SuperCoach, with preliminary finals for head-to-head players and of course, the overall race is looking like another close finish just like last year with a new overall leader. No Bear this week but Catfish is joined by Sam "BanyoBoy" Rohlf (@BanyoBoy), the 2017 overall champion, who shares his experience in the last two rounds and offers some wise words of wisdom to...

There are three weeks left in the overall race, while head-to-head games hit sudden death mode! It's truly business time right now.  This week's episode features a chat between Catfish and David "VK" Von Kotze, the 2014 overall champion and we get to hear from his experiences in the last three rounds of his year, plus he offers some valuable advice to those teams at the pointy end.  Bear and Catfi...

Just four rounds until the season is over, and head-to-head finals are kicking off this week too. It's all happening and even though plenty of us are low/out of trades, well, it's even more important how we finish using them isn't it!  It's an extra long episode this week as we preview all eight games and look in depth at each time, considering which teams are "done" for the season and could offer...

Another week down and just five more rounds before we crown a brand new overall champion, and Bear becomes somebody that we used to know, a has-been, just like Catfish. Still plenty of footy, and NRL SuperCoach to get through before then though! This week we both share our experiences in navigating the final weeks of the competition, both as a long-time leader who was almost run down, and as a cha...

Round 20 is here and plenty of SuperCoaches are thinking, "to POD or not to POD?" and discuss how to best go about chasing down those critical last few points to score that top 1/100/500/1000/etc. overall finish! That includes sifting through the popular trade-ins and trade-outs, and we then spend a good amount of time answering all your questions off Twitter!  Thank you as always for your kind re...

Another week, another round of NRL SuperCoach, another few trades... wait, what? Out of trades? We're officially at that point in the season where some people have gone all out and used all their trades. So we're still here to ride the Hype Train and also looking at what you should do with Andrew Fifita (if you still have trades left), but we also discuss start/sit decisions and the general proces...

Round 18 is upon us and Catfish and Bear are here to help you navigate the Hype Train - including why you shouldn't trade in the most popular trade-in target this week - and talk about final squads, how many trades you need left for the season and we also go through a bunch of your Twitter questions. We also discuss "that line break" ;)  Thank you as always for your kind reviews and ratings, we re...