Canterbury winger Tyrone Phillips is the Round 11 NRL SuperCoach spoiler

BULLDOGS winger Tyrone Phillips left SuperCoaches scratching their heads and counting lost cash after a three-try triumph against the Roosters.

IN any given NRL round many players go large in terms of SuperCoach, scoring multiple tries, try assists and offloads.

Most of them are your standard SuperCoach superstars, owned by every team that’s not auto-selected. But others come out of nowhere or manage a huge jump in output.

These are our SuperCoach spoilers. The players whose success leads to the demise of countless SuperCoach teams.

Tyrone Phillips | Bulldogs | CTW | $201,300

Much like the Origin teams, this week’s spoiler picked himself.

And it’s a case of arse, meet foot for many SuperCoaches, with the bustling Bulldogs winger not even rating in the top ten players bought into teams last week.

I was scraping a carton of eggs off my face and throwing whatever was handy at the TV on Sunday (I maintain, however, that the baby started crying of her own accord) as Phillips gobbled three meat pies to ton up.

A conversation with a fairly astute bloke from one of my leagues last week went along these lines:

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Fairly Astute Bloke: Who are you bringing in?

Me: I think I might just trade Parker out and shore up my second row before the byes. Trust me mate, there are no good cheapies this week.

FAB: I really need to get one in. I’m thinking Phillips.

Me: Who?

FAB: You know the winger for the Bulldogs, who has a break-even of 6, pretty good job security and coverage for the Round 12 bye.

Me: Pfffft. You’re kidding aren’t you. My mum would get you more points. Phillips is a fringe player at best. You’re looking at 30 points max.

Tyrone Phillips breaks Daniel Tupou’s tackle to find the tryline. Picture: AAP

Well, my mum’s never given me $50,000 and much-needed cover for the awful Round 12.

Not that I can remember anyway.

It did prompt me to have a closer look at Phillips, who, as it turns out, played one match for the Bulldogs last year, scoring 30 SC points, and was named on the New South Wales Cup team of the year.

He put the writing on the wall with a solid 54 points against the Tigers in Round 10.

Besides a try in that match he made five tackle busts and 142 metres from 10 runs.

But, it just wasn’t my week for cheapies.

I also benched Suliasi Vunivalu thinking he couldn’t possibly go large again.

I mean, before this week’s haul he only had a three-round average of 55, only missing out on a try in one of the four matches played this season. Why would you start him?

And don’t even get me started on Ryan Matterson.

Really? Please.

Originally published as Canterbury winger Tyrone Phillips is the Round 11 NRL SuperCoach spoiler