SuperCoach Champions

We're finally onto the home straight now that we've survived the final bye round and it's full team ahead for Round 17. Catfish and Bear are here as always to help you work through your final teams, looking at the 'template' players as we break down who are the premium, top-shelf options that you have to have for your final team, looking at some POD options in each position but also highlighting t...

Apologies for the late upload but both Catfish and Bear are sick and rundown this week - however we still wanted to get this out as we break down Round 16 in great detail - the "Must-Haves" (including the players who may make you pee your pants if you don't own them), the "Players of Difference" and finally, a nuff breakdown including the best nuffs to get for this round (if you really have to nuf...

Five trades... FIVE! With so many trades there's even more decisions to make than usual. Bear and Catfish try help sift through some of the drama with some reminders on how to prepare for your trade plans this week, whether Tommy Turbo is really worth it for this week, how much positional coverage you may need for the run home, and of course, those NUFFS for Round 16!  Of course we ride the Hype T...

It's the Representative Round and the NRL - and SuperCoach - competition takes a two week break to enjoy some international rugby league and of course, Game Two of the 2019 State of Origin series. So while there aren't any team lists and lockout is still over a week away, the Champions have decided to do introduce "the Champys" - our cheesy rip-off of the Logies and the Emmys and we're doing a Mid...

Round 14 is proving quite a conundrum for bye planning and trade purposes - we've got a huge episode this week to help with that though. Bear and Catfish both share their insight in their respective winning seasons; strategically, what were some of the best moves to make as well as what some of the potential traps and pitfalls were during this critical period of the season. We also look in-depth a...

As promised, a second episode this week post-Origin! Speaking of Origin... well, how about them Queenslanders, eh? To celebrate an awesome win for the good guys, we got another proud Queenslander on as a special guest this week to rub it in Bear's face, and who better than the 2017 SuperCoach Champion BanyoBoy a.k.a. Sam Rohlf! Sam is killing it this year after a bit of a rough season last year, a...

Well, what a round huh? The good news is that we survived, and really it's a good opportunity to regroup and reflect a little on the 2019 season. The Champions are here extra early this week to look back at the highs and lows of their respective seasons thus far, as well as looking at the one thing they have each learned about this SuperCoach season that has been different to previous years. We al...

Breathe in... breathe out... breathe in... breathe out... round 12 is finally here! The week we've planned and prepared for is finally here, and as always, half of our planning has been thrown out the window in the last 1-2 weeks due to injuries and Origin selections. At least we're all in the same boat, right!  The Hype Train is back and we talk Dylan Walker and Siliva Havili; we sort through the...

We're one week out from the dreaded first bye round and some SuperCoaches are on tilt! Relax though as the Champions are here to talk you through this week.  We cut through the hype surrounding this week's most popular trade-in targets; we sort through the Cheap Cheap options including Hiroti, Field, Arthurs and others; and of course we discuss at length the strategy surrounding the final preparat...

It's a bit late but Episode #13 is here and the Champions are sorting out Round 10 for you all.  We consider jumping on board this week's Hype Train featuring Jason Taumalolo, Damien Cook, Cameron Munster, RTS and Ryan Matterson; we sort through the Cheap Cheap options featuring Dearden, Papenhuyzen, Young and Martin; and of course we continue our chat on bye planning when trying to deal with all...

Round 9 is here and it seems to have plenty of SuperCoaches scratching their heads and tearing out their hair while trying to decide what to do! Never fear though, the Champions are here to:- cut through the hype in the Hype Train; rate the cheapies on the tip of everyone's tongue in Herbert, Aekins and Young; and talk in more detail about how we go about planning for Round 12 in the next few week...

We're up to Round 8 already and the Round 12 bye is close but not that close too! Catfish and Bear are here to help answer more Round 12/bye preparation questions including how we each prioritise trade-in targets over the coming weeks. We also unveil two new segments which sees us dig a bit deeper into player discussion for a few select players. And we finish as always with another round of "Champ...

Anzac Day is almost upon us and we have another cracking round of games awaiting us, and more SuperCoach points to be scoreD! Firstly, make sure you don't get caught out by the earlier-than-usual lockout tomorrow afternoon! 4pm, not the usual 8pm kickoff!  We discuss Round 12/bye preparation including our thoughts on how many players we need, how we look at forming our teams for that round and wor...

Round 6 is here and it's also the Easter long weekend! Firstly it's not a standard round so make sure you double-check when all the games are (including the Easter Monday game). We talk about the thought process behind evaluating whether you chase the cash (Xerri and CHT) vs chasing the points (jumping on a fallen gun, etc.) given the repeated questions we received on this topic!  We also trawl th...

We're here to look at Round 5 and we're here to help sort through all the drama and difficult decisions. We dissect one of Bear's mistakes on the weekend (didn't stop him having a big round though!) and how that can be avoided with some simple preparation. We also both talk through how we look at evaluating players to trade in, using the example of Crichton vs CHN, as well as how we plan out our t...

It's Round 4 and the Champions are here to help keep everyone calm despite all the injuries, players being dropped and all the other drama this week. With such a crazy 'TLT' this week, we've enlisted the services of Dave "VK" Von Kotze, the 2014 overall winner, to give us a hand. The three of us spend time chatting about the importance of Rounds 3-5 for setting up a successful overall season, look...

We are back to help you prepare for Round 3 this week. Guy and Wilfred talk the strategy behind how each of us are approaching this week's critical last two trades before price rises kick in for the rest of the season, depending on how we've gone with setting up our teams in Round 1. We share our trades this week and who we're prioritising, as well as taking on board a LOT of your Twitter and Face...

We are back with the fifth episode of the NRL SuperCoach Champions podcast, and we are officially into the 2019 NRL SuperCoach season! Catfish and Bear talk the wash-up from Round 1, we review the preseason calls that we got right, and that we got wrong, we talk the Team List highlights that interest us but the main topic of discussion this week is the trades for this week and next - what are we p...

We promised you an EPIC podcast this week - well, is having the 2018, 2017 and 2016 NRL SuperCoach Champions all in one podcast epic enough?! Guy and Wilfred are joined by Sam Rohlf a.k.a BanyoBoy to talk about a shocker of a TLT, a few tidbits strategy-wise re: cheapies and players missing from Round 1 but are back soon, contingency plans for potential late inclusions/swaps and outs... but most i...

Episode #3 of the NRL SuperCoach Champions is hot off the presses and you've got Guy and Wilfred to talk all things NRL SuperCoach for another week. We share some thoughts on the Centre/Wing position in SuperCoach, talk team structure including some consideration of the dual gun fullback and/or the three gun/POD half approach, share our respective approaches to 'draw analysis' and we also answer a...

We're back with the second episode of the NRL SuperCoach Champions and we're here again to offer our unique perspective on NRL SuperCoach. We love the reviews and feedback you've been offering us! Please continue to throw suggestions our way as it's giving us great ideas on what else we can discuss moving forward. This week we talk about the "Seibold Effect", the myth surrounding the SuperCoach, W...

Welcome to the first episode of the NRL SuperCoach Champions Podcast, the only NRL SuperCoach podcast where the hosts can actually say that they know firsthand what's required to take home the title of NRL SuperCoach overall champion. Wilfred a.k.a. Catfish (the 2016 overall winner) and Guy a.k.a. Bear (the reigning champ!) will hopefully share their thoughts once a week on everything footy or NRL...