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Aaron Woods now a SuperCoach special after missing out on NSW State of Origin side

AARON Woods has emerged as a must-have Nissan SuperCoach buy for round 13 after missing NSW selection.

SuperCoach: Round Eleven Buy, Hold or Sell

TIGERS prop Aaron Woods has emerged as a must-have Nissan SuperCoach buy for round 13 after missing NSW selection.

Blues coach Laurie Daley could find no room for Woods, instead moving Paul Gallen to the front row, recalling Trent Merrin and going for impact on the bench with Andrew Fifita.

Woods, the fourth best player in SuperCoach this year, breaks next week, but has a good bye schedule from then on and will be essential for the tough round 15 bye, provided he misses the NSW team for game II.

Origin SuperCoach is coming

In other SuperCoach news from NSW Origin selections:

•    HOOKER Robbie Farah is a definite hold because he will miss just three club games over the Origin period, has a good record of backing up and is in the form of his life;

•    MERRIN and Fifita only miss three games over Origin and are on fire SuperCoach-wise. Even so, they are sell candidates, particularly for those who also have Cameron Smith and Farah;

•    GALLEN will miss just three games over the Origin period and is therefore a hold. Also, given his injury-induced score of four a few weeks back, he can be picked up at a bargain $310,000 in rounds 13 or 14, which could be hard to refuse even though he misses rounds 15 and 18 through Origin;

•    JAMES Maloney will miss just the three games and is a hold candidate with the appropriate cover of Shaun Johnson, Adam Reynolds, Trent Hodkinson, Albert Kelly, John Sutton etc;

•    JOSH Morris will miss a massive five games over Origin due to an unfavourable bye schedule and is a definite sell;

•    JARRYD Hayne will miss four rounds and is a sell candidate given his sub-par attacking form this year. Ben Barba and Josh Dugan make great replacements at fullback, while John Sutton, Shaun Johnson and Feleti Mateo are options at five-eighth;

•    GREG Bird is a definite sell as he is not quite in the top bracket of SuperCoach players and will miss four games over Origin, including the next two weeks;

•    MITCHELL Pearce, James Tamou, Luke Lewis, Ryan Hoffman and Kurt Gidley are owned by minimal teams and are more or less SuperCoach irrelevant this year, but definite sells for those who have them.

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