Broncos five-eighth Anthony Milford is the Round 5 NRL SuperCoach spoiler

AFTER bombing in all five NRL rounds, surely this odds of picking the right SuperCoach captain must be shortening?

• Round 4: Hunt or be hunted
• Round 3: Pass the Parcell
• Round 2: The Sam slam
• Round 1: Bird is the word

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.

Then there’s those who have been carving it up but as soon as you make them captain they go missing.

Anthony Milford (Broncos, 5/8, $509,800)

I must have run over Corey Parker’s puppy.

It’s the only explanation for why the SuperCoach gods are treating me like a Cockroach on Caxton Street.

C’mon gods, help me out.

I’ve done the hard yards. Pre-season research, podcasts, chat rooms, blogs.

For Fensom’s sake, I even watched the Auckland Nines.

I’ve picked good players, I’ve got a sound structure, I haven’t even made a rage trade … well, maybe one.

But my captaincy scores have looked like Sam Kasiano at an all-you-can-eat buffet. A flurry of activity but not very pretty.

Like many, I had Parker in Round 1. Who would have thought he’d forgotten how to kick?

Anthony Milford runs the ball against the Titans. Picture: Getty Images

I kept the faith for Round 2 — and was let down again.

I switched to Sam Burgess in Round 3. He got knocked out.

I tried Tedesco in Round 4. He may as well have been knocked out.

Desperate now, I tried the captain loophole in Round 5.

I returned to Burgess at VC, who scored 43.

Not happy with that I was one of the 11 per cent of SuperCoaches who captained Anthony Milford against the Titans.

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I really thought all my ducks were in a row.

Milford had been in sublime early season touch.

In the previous four rounds he’d scored four tries, four try assists and 24 tackle busts.

Added to that, the season before he’d terrorised the Titans on the Gold Coast.

Sweet, right? Wrong.

He scored 37 measly points (which admittedly was a big improvement on 18 before the recounts) and almost cost me wins in two of my leagues.

With Jack Reed and Corey Oates both returning from injury on the left-hand side, the Broncos directed much of their play down the right. Halfback Ben Hunt shouldered most of the work in attack and Milford missed out.

The upshot? I’m a hindsight hero and it’s back to the captaincy drawing board.

Originally published as Broncos five-eighth Anthony Milford is the Round 5 NRL SuperCoach spoiler