Railway End

Sterling effort from my halfbacks and hooker this week. Cleary, Sandon Smith, Metcalfe, Brimson & Grant have clubbed together to score a grand total of 88 points! Where's the delete app button? Injuries to Tommy Turbo, Skelton, Cleary and potentially Brimson to deal with as well.

I'm risking the 2 cheapie option at HKR, Paix & Smith. Both should get good minutes and Smith is expected to be goal kicker as well. Could be a masterstroke or an absolute nightmare.

Only just starting to assemble my team. The first Team List Tuesday is always a scramble to rearrange your lineup to include those cheapies who appear from nowhere and look to be in place for the first few games at least. Time to catch up on a few podcasts and get a feel of what has been going on in the trial games.

I'm back baby!!

Thanks for the kind words Irish Saint, Graham and JimBronco much appreciated. It's tough at the moment watching a loved one struggling, just have to stay strong for them. Happy to contribute to the thread throughout the season and will post my rank if anyones interested (and if I'm doing well ). I'll be joining other leagues and will no doubt be as addicted as ever once the season kicks off. All the best Supercoaches!

Ahh, too late!!! Have a lot of family issues which have been occupying my mind and time at the mo and not been on the forum for a while. Sat down tonight thinking will still be a few places left as 3 weeks to go, how wrong can you be! Anyway good luck to all SC'ers for 2024. I'll continue to lurk around here and contribute if I can come up with anything of value to say.

Thanks once again to Graham for setting up the TRL SC competition. Been a goosd season for me with my highest ever finish. Wonder if the KFC prize pack for finishing in top 1k will arrive. The only other time I've managed it a plastic key ring arrived 8 months later and had snapped in half on the journey (unless it was snapped deliberately when they realised I was a Pom)!! See you all again in 2024!!!

SH it is a gamble for sure. Looking at the teams at the top they are all starting to look a bit generic. I just feel like I need to do something different to escape the pack. It'll probably come down to the toss of a coin, but I just have a sneaky feeling the Warriors are going to score big.

Cheers Graham. Good point about leaving it a week to see how Cleary goes. Trouble is they play the Bulldogs this week at home and Cleary might go beserk!! At this stage of the season I'm looking more at points than player value.

Anyone think I'm mad trading out Hynes for Cleary, leaving me Cleary/SJ at halfback for the run home? Johnson going well and Warriors have some easy games (on paper) and the Sharks seem to struggle against good opposition. Would probably make or break my season but worth a shot?

So do we think 102 is big enough to loop Turbo or not? Maybe a few updates will help me decide if his score is reviewed before Grant plays on Saturday. Or maybe just risk new recruit Kiraz going massive again v a poor looking Tigers? This game drives me mad....

Harry Grant with the C for me. Hoping with Munster sidelined that he has a more flexible role in attack, maybe switching it up a bit with Hughes and Wishart in the halves? Was almost tempted with HopGod. He definitely comes into the reckoning in future weeks!

Agree Spotty Herbert and Jim Bronco. Seem to have evaded any injuries or suspensions in round 1 so I'm holding off trading and giving everyone another run out to evaluate how they are going. I have a feeling with one team on a bye each week the trades will be more valuable this year.

Back for another season of SC. Good luck everyone!!

It's still a nice pub G. The late Graham Murray also lived in the village when he was Leeds coach. Had a few chats with him in the Chequers. A really knowledgeable bloke and a real gentleman.