Nothing but green arrows for the Champions (only because it's hard not to go up from our rankings hah!) but Catfish and Joe Fitz are here to catch up on all the key news around the NRL, decide on which direction to go to replace Kalyn Ponga in our teams, and review our crop of cheapies and of course we dissect the teamlists and match-ups for this w…

Our second episode for Round 7 with 2021 overall champion Tim Moodie joining Catfish to go deep into the numbers on how opposition fullbacks are scoring against all the teams in the NRL (highlighting the best and worst match-ups currently), we chat captaincy and there's lots of strategy chat on when to chase points vs money, why you could let Danny…

It's already Round 7 and Joe Fitz and Catfish's own teams are slightly less horrible than a few weeks ago, so it's all heading in the right direction! We're here to catch up on all the key news around the NRL, decide if we need to chase the cash, and review our crop of cheapies and of course we dissect the teamlists and match-ups for this week! Con…

It's Catfish flying solo again but we've got a detailed Number Crunchin' of which guys are the most efficient and effective with their time on ground, the usual captaincy chat, and for strategy chat, how to determine when a cheapie is ripe for the harvesting and Catfish tries to explain what he looks for in his POD-hunting process. And feel free to…

Last week was absolute carnage in more ways than one but we get to go around again! Round 6 is upon us and Joe Fitz and Catfish's own teams are slightly less horrible than a few weeks ago, and they're still here to catch up on the key happenings for Round 6 around the NRL, deliberate if we really need to rethink how we trade/boost for 2024, and rev…

It's a monster double episode for Round 5 this week (unintentionally) but Catfish is joined by 2022 overall champion Matt Wight to unpack Round 5 in about as much detail as we can get. All the usual chat from the week:- burning question about the 5/8 position - what do we do?! catching up on all the NRL news and injuries, suspensions; review the ch…

It's Catfish flying solo again but a detailed dive into the Numbers that's all about comparing the first 3 rounds of 2023 and 2024 and how it's differing, the usual captaincy chat, and for strategy chat, what our priority should be with our trades this week, how should we change our priorities in terms of targets and what to do with Nathan Cleary! …

Round 4 is upon us and prices have started shifting around, injuries are flying in left, right and centre, and it's frankly quite upsetting. Joe Fitz and Catfish's own teams are horrible but they're still here to catch up on the key happenings for Round 4 around the NRL, deliberate if Nicho Hynes is a trade out, and review our crop of cheapies and …

The reigning champ once removed (i.e. 2022 overall champion Matt Wight) joins Catfish for a detailed dive into the Numbers that's again, all about the base. We've got captaincy considerations, and then looking at the premium priced trade outs that we would hold, and trade out, and also other strategic decisions to make based on our team needs for t…

It's the all-important Round 3 when prices start rising and falling and things really start to ramp up! 2022 Champion Matt Wight joins Joe Fitz and Catfish to catch up on the key happenings for Round 3 around the NRL, deliberate if Kalyn Ponga is truly a trade out and review our crop of cheapies and of course we dissect the teamlists and match-ups …

It's Catfish flying solo again but a detailed dive into the Numbers that's all about the base, captaincy chat, and for strategy chat, what we should be doing with our trades this week and next, and also working out the FRF conundrum and other random topics as they pop into Catfish's head! Don't forget to join our unlimited league (league code: 3549…

Sheesh, how about that SuperCoach thing ay? Round 1 was a brutal return to reality for us SuperCoaches after the fun of Vegas and Round 0! Joe Fitz and Catfish deliberate whether Terrell May is legit or not, catch up on the key happenings for Round 2 around the NRL, review our crop of cheapies and of course we dissect the teamlists and match-ups fo…

It's Catfish flying solo but a detailed dive into the Numbers focused around whether it was worth paying up for the CTWs last year, captaincy chat, strategically working out the strengths and weaknesses of your team and Catfish then reveals his current Round 1 team! Don't forget to join our unlimited league (league code: 354964) by no later than Ro…

Happy SuperCoach Christmas Pt 2! The 'other' first official team lists have dropped for the 2024 season, so of course we have to (again) go through them with a fine tooth comb. Joe Fitz and Catfish catch up on the key news around the NRL too and deep dive into the 'bumper' crop of cheapies for 2024 that we need to fill out our Round 1 teams. And th…

Happy SuperCoach Christmas Pt 1! The first official team lists have dropped for the 2024 season, so of course we have to go through them with a fine tooth comb. We catch up on the key news around the NRL too and again speculate on the best strategy on how to manage Round 0/1. Don't forget to join our unlimited league (league code: 354964) by no lat…

Joe Fitz and Catfish catch-up on some key takeaways from the first week of trials, but as this is being released a bit late it's just snippets from our chat that remain. More importantly we spend a fair bit of time musing on the various ways to navigate this Vegas "Round 0" situation, and especially on balancing our salary caps with all the uncerta…

Catfish is joined by 2021 overall champion Tim Moodie to dissect the various positions in SuperCoach for 2024, and more particularly which positions to target to give us the best chance of winning SuperCoach this season. It's an episode full of heavy strategy discussion so check it out! Don't forget to join our unlimited league (league code: 354964…

After an unexpected mini-break we are back with our second preseason chat, with the OG Champion himself, Guy Feeney a.k.a. Bear the 2018 overall champ joining Catfish and Joe Fitz for a reflection on 2023 and what lessons we are bringing forward to 2024. Lots of strategy chat and insights on what worked well, what didn't and what we need to remembe…

Happy New SuperCoach Year! NRL SuperCoach 2024 is LIVE and we have 2022 overall champion Matt Wight joining 2016 overall champion Wilfred Zee a.k.a. Catfish to catch up on the changes to NRL SuperCoach for this season, the new NRL rule changes as well as some preliminary discussion on a few of the NRL offseason SuperCoach impacts of some new signin…

[recorded last Wednesday but we delayed the upload after what happened last week] The season is (finally) over and we have a new overall champion! Congrats to Wayne, the coach of Numbnuts on taking out the title in 2023! Joe Fitz and Catfish wrap-up all the bits and pieces from the 2023 SuperCoach season, including announcing our group competition …

Bit of a hybrid episode for our final episode of the 2023 regular season, combining "Crunchin' the Numbers", our captaincy review and then the usual questions from Twitter/X, all solo style with Catfish again (plus a special guest in the middle there! Plenty of chat on various PODs, some final trade considerations and of course the usual ramblings …

Our top ranked Champion podcaster in Joe Fitz joins Catfish to catch up on the key news items, major injury/suspension issues and SuperCoach implications for Round 27. We preview the games and teamlists and highlight key names, trade-ins and also provide an update on our group competition. There's also some words of wisdom at the end for those at t…

It's been a while but there's three champions on the pod this week, with 2021 overall champion Tim Moodie joining the reigning 2022 overall champion Matt Wight and ancient history overall champion from 2016 in Catfish to talk through the numbers, consider captaincy and strategise smartly! Make sure you join the SuperCoach Champions overall group (G…

It's Grand Final time for head-to-head leagues and also just two rounds until we crown a new overall champion too. Speaking of champions we have the still-reigning-for-two-more-weeks overall champion-turned H2H specialist Matt Wight joining Catfish to catch up on the key news items, major injury/suspension issues and SuperCoach implications for Rou…

Bit of a hybrid episode this week, combining "Crunchin' the Numbers", our captaincy review and then the usual questions from the Champs Discord and off Twitter/X, all solo style with Catfish again! Plenty of chat on various PODs, some final trade considerations and of course the usual ramblings and thoughts when Catfish rides solo haha Make sure yo…

It's Round 25 and there's just three more rounds of NRL SuperCoach, and for head-to-head focused players there's just two more that count! Joe Fitz chats with Catfish about all things NRL SuperCoach-related; we recap the news, the injuries and judiciary wrap, then work through the team lists to identify some hidden gems and other start/sit decision…

It's not a current or former champ or even Joe Fitz joining Catfish this week, but we are stoked to have a champion bloke in Lakey from NRL SuperCoach Talk to talk through the numbers, consider captaincy and strategise smartly! Lots of chat on trade in and out targets, as well as some "Hail Mary" POD suggestions. Make sure you join the SuperCoach C…

It's Round 24 and Joe Fitz chats with Catfish about all things NRL SuperCoach-related with just four rounds to go before we crown a new overall champion! We recap the news, the injuries and judiciary wrap, then work through the team lists to identify some hidden gems and other start/sit decisions. Make sure you join the SuperCoach Champions overall…

It's our other 'H2H specialist' 2021 overall champion Tim Moodie joining Catfish to talk through the numbers, consider captaincy and strategise smartly! Lots of discussion on the moves to make to differentiate our teams for this first week of H2H finals and the home stretch of overall grory! No Late Mail edition this week again, hopefully back to n…

It's... five weeks to go, so Joe Fitz chats with Catfish about all matters relating to Round 23, as it's really crunch time now. We recap the news, the injuries and judiciary wrap, then work through the team lists to identify some hidden gems and other start/sit decisions. Make sure you join the SuperCoach Champions overall group (GROUP code 473698…

The reigning champ Matt Wight joins Catfish again this week to crunch some numbers on the PODs that you could consider for the run-home; we review the captaincy for this round and then we discuss the extremely high pressure situation that is navigating the final six weeks of the SuperCoach season for those in the overall race! Hopefully as two Supe…

It's crunch time for both overall and H2H formats with just six rounds to go and H2H finals kicking off next week. We have the reigning overall champion-turned H2H specialist Matt Wight joining Catfish to catch up on the key news items, major injury/suspension issues and SuperCoach implications for Round 22, we preview the games and teamlists and h…

Catfish and Joe Fitz crunch some numbers about which players with high breakevens we would consider trading out, holding or bringing in; we review the captaincy for this round and then tackle the halfback conundrum of which two of Nicho, Nathan and Shaun to run home with, which of the highly rostered CTWs do we fade and what about some midrange bac…

We're on to the home straight and Catfish and Joe Fitz are here to chat all about Round 21 and catch up on the key news items, major injury/suspension issues and SuperCoach implications. We preview the games and teamlists and highlight key names, trade-ins and also provide an update on our group competition. Make sure you join the SuperCoach Champi…

Congrats to the Blues for avoiding the clean sweep and due to scheduling clashes it's another solo pod from Catfish. He still crunches some numbers, looks at the captaincy for an interesting week but then there's some real stream of consciousness type chat as Catfish ponders some questions like which Origin guns to prioritise, how to balance holdin…

Catfish and Joe Fitz are here to chat all about Round 20 and catch up on the key news items, major injury/suspension issues and SuperCoach implications. Obviously we have Origin 3 to watch before this round kicks off but we preview the games and teamlists and highlight key names, trade-ins and also provide an update on our group competition. Make s…

It's a rare solo pod from Catfish in our only podcast episode for this disrupted week. Catfish talks through all things Round 19 related and catches up on the key news items, major injury/suspension issues and SuperCoach implications. Captaincy considerations and potential 'one and dones' are all discussed in the matchup previews. There's also a de…

2022 overall champion Matt Wight joins Catfish again to crunch some numbers about which teams are scoring the most SuperCoach points as well as conceding the least and the most SuperCoach points, review captaincy for this round (hint: it's just Nicho, don't overthink it!) and contemplate how to approach Round 19's 'Best 13' scoring round coupled wi…

[Apologies for the late upload, real life getting in the way again etc. etc. The second episode for this week has been recorded already and is being edited, will be out later this morning - no Late Mail Edition this week due to scheduling dramas!] It's a somewhat normal round again with only one team on the bye, so we have 2022 overall champion Mat…

Queensland are Origin champions for 2023 so we have a slightly disappointed and salty Blues supporter in 2021 overall champion Tim Moodie joining Catfish to talk through the aftermath of another brutal game, as well as the fallout from the Turbo injury and what to do at fullback for the rest of the season. Also lots of decision-making on how to nav…

Catfish and Joe Fitz are here to chat all about Round 17 and catch up on the key news items, major injury/suspension issues and SuperCoach implications. It's been a brutal few days as injuries, suspensions and "interesting coaching decisions" have caused havoc with bye planning. We hope you have some boosts! We preview the games and teamlists and h…

The Late Mail edition is back this week! Catfish answers questions from the Champs Discord and Twitter, and there's plenty of chat on players like Tino, Cleary, SJ, Gutho, Olakau'atu, and plenty more! Make sure you join the SuperCoach Champions overall group (GROUP code 473698) to go into the running for our $500 cash prize (and an extra $500 if yo…

Joe Fitz takes a turn with reigning champion Matt Wight to crunch some numbers, discuss the only obvious captain choice for this week and some strategy chat all about the Round 16 bye and also Round 17 too. They also look at some season-long thoughts regarding fullbacks and other players too! Make sure you join the SuperCoach Champions overall grou…

It's the second of the big bye rounds and 2022 overall champion Matt Wight joins Catfish to catch up on the key news items, major injury/suspension issues and SuperCoach implications for Round 16, we preview the games and teamlists and highlight key names, trade-ins and also provide an update on our group competition. Plenty of in-depth chat on tra…

It's been a rollercoaster of a season but this week has been enough to make some throw up from the twists and turns. 2021 overall champion Tim Moodie joins Catfish to talk through what to do at five eighth with Dylan Brown's stand down, coupled with Cody Walker's injury scare, unpack the best way to navigate the Nathan Cleary injury and then also w…

Catfish and Joe Fitz are here to chat all the fallout and drama from the past week in rugby league, all about Round 15 and catch up on the key news items, major injury/suspension issues and SuperCoach implications. We preview the games and teamlists and highlight key names, trade-ins and also provide an update on our group competition. Make sure yo…

Catfish and Joe Fitz gronk about Queensland's Origin Game 1 victory, and discuss the likely backing-up scenarios and potential impacts including on whether some Origin stars are still captaincy options. They dive into some serious Crunchin' the Numbers about some bye coverage fullbacks (Edwards and Kennedy), look at the captaincy options and combos…

[Apologies for the delay in the release - this was recorded Tuesday night but only able to be released today, so a few things might not be as up-to-date] 2022 overall champion Matt Wight joins Catfish to catch up on the key news items, major injury/suspension issues and SuperCoach implications for Round 14, we preview the games and teamlists and hi…

The "Late and Still Raspy Mail" edition is here this week. Catfish answers your Twitter Questions and there's plenty of chat on players like Fifita, Hynes, Moses, Fainu, Isaako, Tohu and plenty more! Make sure you join the SuperCoach Champions overall group (GROUP code 473698) to go into the running for our $500 cash prize (and an extra $500 if you…

Joe Fitz backs up to join Catfish to dive into some serious Crunchin' the Numbers and strategy chat over the halfback position and break down the Best 13 rule scoring for Rounds 13/16/19 and how this might impact your captaincy and strategy depending on your numbers. We also look at the captaincy options and combos for this week! Make sure you join…