NRL Fantasy Amateurs

Fantasy coaches are in the weeds this week as the Amateurs discuss the poopers available at the CTR/WFB positions you may want to stain your fantasy squads with this week in search of a few ranks, or is it better to keep your shoes clean and fight another day?

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Origin 3 teams are announced and another week of fantasy is done, with disappointment falling in a number of areas including a surprise inclusion on the wing for the Blues ruining plenty of teams bye planning and concussions/injuries ruling key players out.

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The majority of the major and minor byes are now done, with only 1 of each remaining. Injury tolls are hitting teams with fantasy options popping up, and some early season fantasy guns are returning from injury, but do you need to take advantage this week?

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Austin and Bilent join together to look at the results from Round 16, with the boys feeling the pain of some bad start/sit decisions.

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Another week of 13 players as we sweat the Origin back ups with a few big names lurking the reserves this week. Ryan & the kiwi duo of Rob and Sammy run through the week.

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A challenging round 15 comes to an end, with a popular buy going down to a (potentially) season ending injury while a struggling fringe gun turned it on for those that have held the faith.

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Major bye #2 is here as coaches scramble for an acceptable option at the WFB or CTR positions. Will you be taking a player, or just running short this week?

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The halfway mark of the NRL fantasy season is done and the climb to the top of the mountain is upon us. Who succeeded and who failed? You already know, but we discuss it anyway

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Major and Minor byes 1/3 are over and teams now prepare to move into the round 15/16 bye round segment, with injuries and a last of inspiring buy options dominating the landscape.

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With quality over quantity usually the big issue in these rounds, some guns come in clutch while others not so much. Hey cool, that rhymed.

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With the first major bye on the books, we head into Origin 1 and the minor bye rounds as coaches pile into the Tigers players with their tremendous availability... is there anyone else they should be looking at though?

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A mixed bag of a round with Austo and Sammy breaking down the first major bye round

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With the first round of major bye rounds upon us, fantasy coaches scramble for options at the WFB and CTR positions as a (former?) fantasy gun returns from injury.

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Magic round AKA dad schoolies is over and the Origin period begins with Mark and Austin looking at the fantasy implications of the round 11 fantasy performances and origin team selections.

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One week out from origin, we discuss the delicate balance between schedule awareness and bye planning and our favourite magic tricks as we head into magic round.

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Mark jumps in for a random sunday summary with Sammy as the boys look at the round 10 results with a mixed bag of elite scoring mixed with some absolute trebuchet action from the Broncos MID players. Bring on magic round baby!

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The Warriors bye invites one of the more chill TLT's of the year, with coach Hannay offering fantasy coaches some delicious candy from the back of his van. Do we trust him?

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What goes up must come down, and that includes fantasy scores as Round 9 serves up a steaming bowl of bog average fantasy performances as we near the Origin period. 

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Apologies to the listeners, we had some sporadic audio issues that we tried to fix up through editing but some parts of the podcast are going to be tough carries out of our own end! In this episode, we cast our eye to round 12, specifically relating to how best to plan (or not plan) for the bye weeks, and whether that option you are thinking of this week is a good purchase or just suboptimal cover that you may want to avoid.

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Some absolute monster scores this week, with one Amateur cracking the 1200 barrier as he continues his rise to fantasy glory, while injuries and underperformances are still heavily featured for relevant options.

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Where everything is made up and the points don't matter... NRL Fantasy 2026! Another week of red dots and max trading to keep the cash flowing, it will settle down soon, right?

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The highest of highs as we get our first centurions of the 2026 season while the lows get lower as soft tissue injuries run rampant in round full for unfortunately timed late outs.

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Round 7 already... wow. Magic round and Origin are just around the corner as we unpack another TLT with some key injuries and fantasy relevant player returning. 

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A JC & Kini master class ends another rollercoaster round

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5 rounds down and 1 more week until we get access to 3 trades per week, has anyone not max traded every week?

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The boys ride the Twallercoaster after another wild round

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We have 17 green dots again and it's time to make progress. Ryan, Austin & Rob dive into all the Round 5 news.

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How much worse can it get? Sometimes when you think you've hit rock bottom, you've only stopped to change drill bits. Austo & Sammy wrap a red dot filled round 4.

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We didn't want those green dots anyway. 

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A chaotic end to Round 3 leaves the red dots piling up for what's going to be a tricky Round 4. Austo & Bilent break down all the carnage.

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Back again, with injuries to Brown and Ponga and other players underperforming, and the cheapies going gangbusters, it is more strategy, team composition and the right type of risk for the Amateurs in round 3. 

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SORRY WRONG FILE!! Round 2 is in the books with another high scoring round propped up by keeper level scoring from the cheapies. Ranks are volatile and cash is flowing in, can you get the strategy right and keep up?

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With cheapies Noah Martin, Moses Leo, Ryan Couchman, Ativalu Lisati and others firming as "must haves" and some preseason favourites slow out of the blocks, coaches are scrambling to get their start/sit and trades right for round 1 - have no fear, the Amateurs are here to point you in the right direction.

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The sunday crew of Austin and Bilent are back to discuss the mixed bag that was round 1, 2026 with some players and coaches going BOOM while others have... no shortage of options for players to sell. Turns out 940 in round 1 isn't even good enough for a top 10k rank, what have the game makers done?!

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With Round 1A in the books and Round 1B team lists out, the boys examine the (shorter but still extensive) list of players you might consider for your fantasy team in round 1, with half a mind to getting in some strong performers from the first two games and the risks you might take knowing you might pull the rip cord on 2 trades heading into round 2.

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We are finally out of the preseason and into the season, with tonnes of fantasy relevant players named including Ponga, Marzhew, Brown, Mooney, McEwen, Drinkwater, Chester, Dearden, Mahoney, Luki, Galvin, Hayward, Tu, Atkinson, Couchman x2 and Stewart - How many can you fit into your team?

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There are currently 38 players that are sitting at over 10% ownership in NRL fantasy 2026, but a whopping 21 of them fall into the DUD category for the Amateurs. Do you own one of them? You will have to listen to find out...

Players discussed: Haas, Fifita, Smith, Faalogo, Lisati, Mooney, Makasini, Fale, Sanders, Walsh, Moses, Brown, Cleary, Patston, Mclean, Luki, Mahoney, Grant, Farnworth, Chester, Hayward, Stewart, Yeo, Kiraz, Gray, McEwen, Halasima, Bai, Couchman, Fa'asuamaleaui, Cobbo, Kini, Colquhoun, Purdue, Katoa, Doueihi, Couchman and Pezet.

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Once again we find ourselves with a blend of serious and unserious coaches, with some coaches happy to park their Ethan S. ferraris and troll fantasy coaches with a third Ethan in the halves, while others trot out what is obviously a round 1 team list (or close to it). We unveil what we are looking for in these trial matches, and a surprise elite gun dual centre/wing fullback option we are looking at for round 1 if the chips fall his way. 

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Some serious and some unserious team lists for the first full round of trials, as coaches do their best to send the fantasy community into a panic. We try to work out whats relevant and whats not, and intern Sammy gives us the low down on the most important question on all our minds.. what exactly do sheep eat?

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Round 1 of the Trials sees the Bulldogs (reserve grade), Cowboys, Dragons and Knights face off, with the latter 3 teams deciding to use the opportunity to test out combinations, get some miles in the legs, and decide on some final roster spots. What has been revealed by the team lists, and what is yet to be answered? Tune in to find out...

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