✂️ Round 12 ShortCuts

Last week, we were heroes. This week…humble pie.

FLB boomers flopped. Drinky downgraded. Everything hurts.

We’re not ones to look too far back, so let’s get into this week’s ShortCuts.

🍔 What’s on the menu?

📆 Bye Round: Who matters and who doesn’t

🏆 What are the Top 10% doing?

🤕 Injury Round-Up

🤵🏻‍♂️ Commissioner’s Chaos Corner

👨🏼‍✈️ VC/C Picks

🎙️ Final Word

📆 Fixtures

🔎 Spotlight - Bye Round Focus

ShortCut: Don’t trade away good players just for numbers

✅ You only need 13 scores
✅ Even 11–12 decent scorers = fine
✅ 3 trades available, but don’t force it

Helpful guys this week and beyond:

• Dylan Lucas ✅

• Scott Drinkwater ✅

• Joseph Tapine 🔒

• Nicho Hynes 🔒

• Fletcher Sharpe ⛽

• Ryan Papenhuyzen ⚡

🔎 Spotlight - Top 10% moves

 🔎 Spotlight - Physio Table

ShortCut: Dylan Egan out for the season, Kiraz a few weeks, Lucas is fine

• Bradman Best – Hamstring – 3–4 weeks

• Jacob Saifiti – Ankle – 3–4 weeks

• Dylan Lucas – Shoulder – ✅ STARTING

• Kiraz – Calf – 4–6 weeks

• Dylan Egan – ACL – Season done

• Naufahu Whyte – MCL – Back ~Round 15

• Stonestreet – Ankle – 6+ weeks

👨🏼‍✈️ Captain Obvious

ShortCut: Tedesco or Hynes

🤵🏻‍♂️ The Commissioner

Over the next couple of weeks, the Commissioner is looking at:

🔫 James Tedesco - bona fide gun - tough fixtures and a bye coming up. However, more or less fixture-proof.

🦈 KL Iro - Bye next week is annoying, but a number for round 15

🤔 Addin Founua-Blake - same as above

🔒 Joseph Tapine - safe and solid for the rest of the season. Expensive

📈 Keaon Koloamatangi - plays 12 of the next 13 after this week

He’ll wait till tomorrow night to pull the trigger on these, if he does at all.

Plenty of chat around about people trading Payne Haas, and he is the 4th most popular trade out. We don’t hate it. We also acknowledge that you will probably regret it in 3 weeks.

Why you shouldn’t: Only misses rounds 15 and 20. The Broncos need to win games.

Why you could: Injury niggle and he sat out of Origin training Wednesday. Will he back up? Frees up mega cash for someone who will play many more games than him.

If you don’t have other fires to put out (Egan, Kiraz) like the Commissioner, then it is an option. Probably to Addin Fonua-Blake or Joseph Tapine.

Keaon Koloamatangi is on the watchlist for next week, too. He may wait till then and jump on the Rabbits’ workhorse.

He says he will be holding Rob Toia. Negative breakeven and every chance to be back for the Roosters soon.

Jaxon Purdue is on the block. KL Iro would come in. However, Purdue’s run is good, and Iro is on the bye next week.

The Commissioner tends to err on the side of “not keen to take too many risks,” but the selling of Haas could be one.

14 players before trades (only 13 count), so nothing is essential here. He has no idea what to do, but has an eye on Haas to Keaon next week.

With no clear standouts, it may be a boring downgrade of someone like Hubner to Lipoi Hopoi to open up more cash going forward.

Loose PODs on the horizon: Euan Aitken, Jesse Ramien

Pre-trade team: 14 players. 13 scores count.

🔒 Not panicking. Not boosting.

C: Hynes

VC: Garrick

Have a question for the Commissioner? Send it through to [email protected] and he’ll get back to you next week

🎬 Final Play

🛫 Vegas Teams Announced – Dragons, Cowboys, Bulldogs, Knights

💬 We’re on X – @SCShortCuts - this is where we will update our teams if anything changes between now and lockout

🧨 Galvin could be on the way out

⏰ Next edition drops Thursday night (Friday game)

Until then, don’t worry, do less

✂️ SCSC

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