NRL SuperCoach Champion’s Choice: Aidan Guerra

In the first of our Champion’s Choice series for 2019, reigning NRL SuperCoach winner Guy Feeney reveals a left-field POD that has taken his fancy.

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In the first of our Champion’s Choice series for 2019, reigning NRL SuperCoach winner Guy Feeney reveals a left-field POD that has taken his fancy.

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With the 2019 NRL season fast approaching it’s time look players who don’t always get looked at as guns in their position but deserve consideration.

The first player is from a side I think will finally crack back into the top eight.

AIDAN GUERRA ($544,300)

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NRL SuperCoach champion Guy Feeney has his eye on Aidan Guerra as a left-field POD.

Whilst Lachlan Fitzgibbon was all the rage at Newcastle for a period of time with his ability to find the line, Aiden Guerra quietly went about his business last year and at the end of the season finished as the eighth highest scoring 2RF with 1396 points.

The three per cent of teams who owned him would have been happy with that result.

Guerra finished the season with a 58 average. Broken down per game, 51 points came from base, four points from scoring, six points from evasive stats and he averaged two negative points a game.

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Guerra will be 31 years of age this season and whilst I generally like to select players on the right side of 30, the fact he never consistently saw large minutes at the Roosters means there should still be plenty of tread left on the tyres. His 58 average last year was better than his three previous seasons.

Guerra scored five tries and had two line breaks in the 2018 season. With Mitchell Pearce healthy and Kalyn Ponga at five-eighth I think Guerra will improve on both those statistics in the 2019 season.

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Outside of statistics I believe his enthusiasm and effort will be elevated this year with a legitimate chance of making the top eight this season.

I feel at a minimum he should maintain his current average of 58 with the potential to improve. A definite good choice as a consistent scorer whilst you try and make money to upgrade him to a top line gun.

Originally published as NRL SuperCoach Champion’s Choice: Aidan Guerra