NRL SuperCoach: Trade rage sucks, schadenfreude is just super

SUPERCOACH scores were down over the weekend with few getting an Easter miracle score on Monday. But before you go hating on yourself, check these out.

HINDSIGHT is a wonderful thing, schadenfreude is even better.

So if you, like many, are waking up this morning and logging into SuperCoach in the desperate hope that the SuperCoach ‘gods’ have delivered you an Easter miracle in terms of a score upgrade — only to be disappointed — then boost your ego by laughing at these guys.

BYE BYE MBYE

It’s official — Moses Mbye is the greatest NRL player on the planet. Well maybe not, but the Bulldogs playmaker is tearing it up right now. Mbye pumped out 112 SuperCoach points on Friday as the Bulldogs savaged Souths. He had an average of 90.7 going into the match and was predicted to make owners $40K if he scored just 59 (on top of the $70K after round 3). He’ll jump by a hell of a lot more than that now. So what on earth were these guys doing dumping the biggest cash cow we’ve seen in 2016 for TeMaire Martin (16 trades), Ashley Taylor (8), Ben Hunt (8) and wait for it ... Daly Cherry-Evans (2). What, you’d had enough of owning the game’s best scoring half, you didn’t want the extra cash he was sure to make? There are no words.

WHO DOESN’T LIKE A MILF?

Sure Anthony Milford started a little slow with ‘just’ 51 in the first round against the Eels, but his 90, 136 and 90 since then have been outstanding. He’s the best scoring half in the game not called Mbye and if he’d scored 76 this round he would have made owners $43K — it will be a bit more now. So what on earth were two very remorseful owners thinking when they ditched Milf for TeMaire Martin? Sure Martin had a great debut game but you got a free look at him this round, and while his 29 was not horrible it hardly screamed out ‘buy me’. Add to that the job security issue of Wallace returning to the halves when Segeyaro comes back from injury and those trades are very regrettable.

SURELY CHERRY WILL END UP ON TOP?

These guys are either died in the wool Manly fans or people with no idea about the game of rugby league — I will leave it to you to argue the merits of whether there is any distinction between those two groups ...

And before I get inundated with misspelt death threats from those of you who reside on the insular peninsula, let me say Daly Cherry-Evans is a very good player, he’s just not playing very well at the moment. A three-round average of 46 heading into the game against the Roosters is horrible for a bloke that costs north of $360K — but hey since he’ll only be worth $330K after he loses another wad of cash he’s value for money now right? Wrong. Those of you who traded DCE in for Cody Walker (64 points) and Shaun Johnson (86 points) probably feel pretty bad right now. The two of you who traded out Moses Mbye for DCE — there are still no words.

YOU WENT TOO HARD ON SEMI

Semi Radradra had a breakout game scoring 136 points against the Bulldogs so it’s obviously time to get on-board the big Semi right? Well, maybe but it looks like it’s going to be a bumpy ride in 2016. Semi was held to 43 points against the Tigers and is sure to shed cash over the next few rounds so those 146 of you who forfeited James Roberts’ 97 points in order to pay over the odds for Radradra may not be seeing the glory in this morning.

SOLIOLA’S A KEEPER ... RIGHT?

Canberra’s Iosia Solioloa is a hard working edge second-rower who makes an admirable POD. He is not a ‘keeper’ and he will not bag a try every week like he did in rounds two and three. So those of you who sold Corey ‘God’ Parker and Trent ‘Upgrade’ Merrin for Soliola cost yourselves 40-50 points this week. And a trade. Bummer eh?

MANSOUR’S NOT A KEEPER?

Toot toot, all aboard the Mansour hype train! Josh Mansour is the hardest working man in show business. He’s a winger that makes more metres and does more hit-ups than your average starting front rower. He’s the rarest of all creatures, a base stat CTW beast. He’d exceeded 60 in two of the three first rounds — he scored 89 this week. Until he breaks, he’s a CTW you will start every week. So, erm, why did four of you trade him out for Cory Denniss a rookie winger with job security issues?

AND LASTLY ... CHRIS FREAKING LAWRENCE?

Ben Matulino is a lock and load. With no Origin duties he’s a base stats machine capable of throwing numerous offloads and bagging tries and he’s dual-position ... KEEPER. A three-round average of 64 with his first home game of the season looming so of course the man screams trade ... for Chris Lawrence ... who is not playing. Matulino, of course bagged some meat and produced 86 valuable SuperCoach points for his owners. Chris freaking Lawrence people!

Originally published as NRL SuperCoach: Trade rage sucks, schadenfreude is just super