South Sydney centre Hymel Hunt is the Round 4 SuperCoach spoiler

THE writing was on the wall. 60-point average. Still cheap. Consistent CTW option with more money to be made. Of course I didn’t pick him!

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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.

And still others you’re just too daft to put in your team.

Hymel Hunt (South Sydney, CTW, $273,400)

For those who haven’t discovered it yet, there’s a nifty new feature inside SuperCoach this year.

When you view a popular player’s profile little snippets of information appear, updated throughout the season.

Not sure who writes ’em but when it comes to Rabbitohs centre Hymel Hunt never truer words were penned.

Mar 10 16:23 (before Round 2):Hunt’s Rabbitohs debut was one to remember. High base statistics, combined with a try made Hunt one of the best cheap options of the round. He is worth keeping tabs on heading into round two.

Right. Don’t know much about the bloke other than he’s Karmichael’s cousin, was a good junior, and played a couple of NRL matches before being picked up by the Bunnies.

But I liked the way he played in the first round and even the little voice of SuperCoach itself is telling me to keep an eye on him.

OK. I will.

I even did a bit of my own research.

He’s an 100-odd kg, 191cm Kiwi centre, and a gun ball-carrier.

He moved to Queensland as a youngster and was an outstanding union player, starring for the Nudgee College First XV when he was in Year 10.

He played for the Queensland under-20s and in 2013 he played one NRL game for the Titans, was named at centre in the 2013 NYC Team of the Year and played for the Junior Kangaroos.

The Storm picked him up and he played three games for them in 2015 but was released at the end of the year.

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He’s now on a one-year contract with the Rabbitohs.

There you go.

He’s certainly no slouch, he’s just over rookie price and it looks like he’s about to hit his straps.

He can’t be a worse cheap choice than Jamie Fisher-Harris right?

That still keeps me up at night.

Rabbitohs centre Hymel Hunt is a gun ball-carrier. Picture: Mark Evans

Mar 17, 20:18 (before Round 3): Rabbitohs centre Hymel Hunt starts round three as one of the best cash-cows available. Hunt has piled on 37-points in base statistics through the opening two rounds — numbers that rival the debut season of Dragons back Euan Aitken in 2015. Hunt should be on everyone’s watchlist over the coming weeks.

I’m starting to wish I had him from the outset now and I just can’t find a way to bring him in.

My forwards are melting like gelato in the hot sun.

Parker can’t kick a goal, Cartwright can’t make an effective offload. Nothing’s going to plan.

I’ve got bigger fish to fry.

Then SuperCoach throws this at me …

Mar 23, 11.10 (before Round 4):Despite big price rises last week, both Hymel Hunt and Cody Walker still have negative break-evens and are set for big prices rises again this week. Despite not scoring a try, Hunt still maintained his average of 62, setting up the Rabbitohs only try for Alex Johnston.

So Hunt has scored around 60 points in each of the first three rounds.

So-called premiums I paid over 400,000 hard-earned dollars for haven’t even done that.

The 22-year-old is also in about 15% of SuperCoach teams, so I’m bound to come up against him.

He’s already made more cash than I’ll earn in a year ($52.5k) and he’s about to make a shedload more.

I’m sure you’ve guessed by now what I did.

I bought in Pat Mata’utia. Of course.

Round four rolls around, Hunt scores 71 points and Pat Mat has a shocker.

Yes. I haven’t stopped kicking myself. Thanks for asking.

Hunt scores a try assist, nails 25 tackles, with a couple of line breaks and tackle busts thrown in.

Pat Mat has an off week — or maybe even the week off.

My opponent, naturally, has Hunt and I lose my first 20-player league match by 30-odd points to some gumby in accounting. (No offence Dave In Accounting if you’re reading this. Well played son and keep those pay cheques coming.)

I’m definitely buying Hunt this week ...

Although that Te Maire Martin looks pretty good.

Originally published as South Sydney centre Hymel Hunt is the Round 4 SuperCoach spoiler