Round 6 Dream Teams
Looking at the best performances each week to determine the Team of the Week and using the player’s season totals to determine the overall Dream Team for 2016 on a week by week basis.
Round 6 Team of the Week:
Interestingly, Scott (who does a brilliant job putting together the Dream Team graphics for me each week and I can’t thank him enough) pointed out that this is the first time this year that all 13 players in the Team of the Week are different to last week. “It’s a funny game sometimes”, he quipped.
Last week it was Cameron McInnes who was the surprise Player of the Week. This week we have another surprise with Dylan Napa having the game of his career. He equalled his most ever tackles (39) and had his third most metres to record a try, double workhorse and metre eater for 14 NRLCEO points.
All with a quality dozen NRLCEO points were Jordan Rankin, Corey Norman and Issac Luke.
Jordan Rankin is an interesting cat. He hadn’t played in the NRL since 2013 – that’s before we were even playing this game on TheBench platform! After a few seasons in the Super League he’s not playing his role on the Tigers sting nicely.
Known as “Gandalf” by the popular This Week in League Podcast because he “shall not pass!”, Corey Norman is having a career year at the Eels as well. He returned his first even double digits score on NRLCEO through four try assists, one line break, one line break assist and a metre eater.
Lastly, Issac Luke returned his first double digits NRLCEO score since Round 17 last year and just his fifth of all time. A true all round performance, his 12 points came from a try, try assist, line break, line break assist and a workhorse. He was just 20 metres (which is a lot for hooker I know…) short of a metre eater too!
The full team is listed below:
1. James Tedesco (8)
2. Jordan Rankin (12)
3. Steve Matai (11)
4. Justin O’Neil (10)
5. Dallin Watene-Zelezniak (11)
6. Corey Norman (12)
7. Kieran Foran (8)
8. Dylan Napa (14)
9. Issac Luke (12)
10. James Graham (10)
11. Aidan Guerra (11)
12. Tohu Harris (9)
13. Jake Trbojevic (7)
Note: points are based on tries (4), workhorses (4), double workhorses (8), try assists (2), line breaks (1), line break assists (1), metre eaters (2), double metre eaters (4), field goals (1), 40/20’s (1), sin bins (-2) and send offs (-4)
Overall Dream Team:
Each week we will accumulate the points for each player to come up with the Overall Dream Team for 2016.
Are you sick of us writing about James Tedesco yet? Because we’re not sick of writing about him! All this talk of him playing State of Origin disgusts us! Not because he’s not good enough. Far from it. He should be first picked. No, we don’t want him to be picked because if he keeps up this rate of ten points per game he’ll go on to score the first ever NRLCEO double hundred for a season!
We have five new entries into the Dream Team this round.
The first of which we are really excited about as the Trbojevic brothers both make the team! After the Tantasy Podcast boys got Tom Trbojevic excited about being the fourth highest ranked NRLCEO winger when they spoke to him on their latest podcast. Well I wonder how pumped he’d be about being in the Dream Team! He’s very evenly spread in scoring – two tries, four try assists, two line breaks, two line break assists and six metre eaters for 32 points.
Brother Jake Trbojevic also joins the Dream Team after his positional upgrade to the back row. His 33 points (one more than Tom for those playing along at home) comes from five workhorses in five appearances, as well as a try, two try assists, line break and two line break assists.
Always a gun, Andrew Fifita had been dominating in Paul Gallen’s absence and now climbs back to the top of the props. He has four workhorses in six games and an incredible nine metre eaters (including three doubles). The king of the forward metre eaters sits behind only RTS (11) on the overall metre eater tally.
Will Hopoate and Cam Smith find their way back into the Dream Team for the second time this year.
Here is the full Dream Team after six rounds:
1. James Tedesco (61)
2. Kevin Naiqama (36)
3. Solomone Kata (34)
4. Will Hopoate (35) – NEW
5. Tom Trbojevic (32) – NEW
6. Anthony Milford (53)
7. Moses Mbye (36)
8. James Graham (48)
9. Cameron Smith (35) – NEW
10. Andrew Fifita (39) – NEW
11. Ethan Lowe (44)
12. Ryan James (30)
13. Jake Trbojevic (33) – NEW
Note: points are based on tries (4), workhorses (4), double workhorses (8), try assists (2), line breaks (1), line break assists (1), metre eaters (2), double metre eaters (4), field goals (1), 40/20’s (1), sin bins (-2) and send offs (-4)
JB
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