The final week of the NRL Preseason Challenge is in the books and cheapie Tom Duffy has caught our attention. The Knights left edge attack of Sharpe, Lucas and Marzhew as has the Gold Coast Titans. Is three gun fullbacks still on the table?

2019 NRL Supercoach runner-up Walson Carlos, one of the sharpest minds in rugby league, recaps the SuperCoach talking points from the weekend of NRL trial action.

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Plenty are debating who is the best player to utilise in the brand new 'Flex' position in NRL Supercoach 2025, does dual position cheapie Sandon Smith hold the answer?

In our question and answer podcast, former NRL Supercoach runner-up Tim Williams gives his thoughts on all the major dilemmas heading into round 1.

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Draft experts Max Bryden and NRL Physio explain key strategies you can implement to win your draft and also answer your questions.

In the second of our two part NRL SuperCoach Draft special, we finalise the positional rankings for five-eighth, CTW and fullback and rank our Top 20 overall players.

The boys also touch on the major breaking injury news out of the NRL.

02:30 Injury Updates on Kiraz, Murray, Latrell

12:30 Five Draft Strategies to try

25:50 Positional Rankings

54:00 Top 20 Rankings Overall

01:06:30 Listener Q&A

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Early exits from games impacted Reuben Garrick last season, so is the Manly flyer set to explode with the Sea Eagles soft start in 2025?

Beers & Breakevens pits SC Playbook's 2020 runner-up Tim Williams and the Rugby League Guru together to help you nail your NRL Supercoach teams heading into the 2025 season.

They run through the entire centre-wing and second-row forward positions to find the best guns, mid-rangers and cheapies heading into round 1.

06:15 Vegas bound

06:30 CTW analysis: Garrick to explode? Roger's new role

49:00 Second-row analysis: Crichton v Fifita

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Terrell May is the fourth highest owned player to start the NRL Supercoach season, however former champion Dez Creek has no interest in the new Tiger in his 2025 starting squad.

In this week's edition of the SC Playbook podcast, 2020 NRL Supercoach runner-up Tim Williams, 2019 champion Dez Creek and Matty the Waterboy are on deck for the sixth episode of the 2025 pre-season.

The boys look at the second full team list Tuesday of the season, with the return of Cameron Munster and a new Eels cheapie emerging.

Dez also reveals his starting squad for NRL Supercoach 2025.

They also analyse the early fixtures for each club to determine who has the hardest and softest draws to start the season.

00:00 Launching into Vegas

04:20 Team list Tuesday: Munster returns, Eels cheapie emerges

19:50 Weekend trial recap: Warriors backline duo burst onto radar

36:00 Fixture analysis: Knights ease in, Panthers problem

44:10 Dez's team reveal: No room for Terrell or Iongi

56:20 Listener questions: Herbie the super POD?

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A new-look Warriors outfit starred in the pre-season challenge, with Luke Metcalf cementing himself as a value halves options and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck impressing on the wing.

2019 NRL Supercoach runner-up Walson Carlos, one of the sharpest minds in rugby league, recaps the Supercoach talking points from the weekend of NRL trial action.

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In the first of our two part NRL Supercoach Draft special, we explain the basics of playing the 'purists' version of the game to help you win your leagues, while also analysing the first four positions for Draft day.

Draft experts Max Bryden and NRL Physio explain key strategies and the first of our positional analysis deep dives, starting with hookers, front-row, second-row and halfbacks.

00:00 Supercoach Draft special

07:30 Key strategies

01:06:30 Positional analysis

01:54:17 Listener questions

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Australia proved too dominate for Sri Lanka on the sub-continent, but it may only have created further headaches as they try squeeze seven batters into four remaining spots for the World Test Championship final at Lords.

The Cricketer's Playbook podcast features SC Playbook's Tim Williams, Cricket Australia commentator Max Bryden and Random Stats Guy as they review the Australia v Sri Lanka Test series, looking at Alex Carey's historic century and the controversial decision to select debutant Cooper Connolly.

They look ahead to the Champions Trophy and the red-hot Indian squad, with Jasprit Bumrah ruled out and Rohit Sharma finding form, so should they be tournament favourites?

They also partake in cricket trivia and track all the major tournament's in world cricket to announce their World Team of the Week.

03:10 Australia v Sri Lanka: Should Connolly have been selected?

14:30 Who should Australia select in the World Test Championship final?

21:50 Champions trophy: Should India be favourites with Bumrah out?

27:30 Cricket trivia: Lyon matches greats

31:10 World team of the week voting

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There's a case to be made that the lowly selected Nicho Hynes is a better starting pick than Nathan Cleary, while the emergence of young Thomas Duffy has added another headache to the halfback position.

Beers & Breakevens pits SC Playbook's 2020 runner-up Tim Williams and the Rugby League Guru together to help you nail your NRL Supercoach teams heading into the 2025 season.

They run through the entire halfback and fullback positions to find the best guns, mid-rangers and cheapies heading into round 1.

00:00 Halfback analysis: Duffy creates conundrum

06:15 Cleary v Hynes

19:20 Other halfback contenders

27:20 Five-eighth analysis, safety first with Brown?

46:40 Mid-rangers: Walker and Metcalf catch the eye

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In this week's edition of the SC Playbook podcast, 2020 NRL Supercoach runner-up Tim Williams, former 91st placed finisher the SC Spy and Matty the Waterboy are on deck for the fifth episode of the 2025 pre-season.

The boys look at the first full team list Tuesday of the season, with mixed news for two Canberra Raiders cheapies and reveal the Spy's starting squad for NRL Supercoach 2025.

They continue their team previews, with the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Wests Tigers, Dolphins, Sydney Roosters and Gold Coast Titans.

00:00 Waterboy's growing obsession

06:00 Team list Tuesday: Mixed news for Raiders cheapies

21:15 Spy's team reveal: Sea Eagles to soar

47:00 Rabbitohs preview: Tantalising Murray

54:00 Tigers preview: Luai v Galvin

01:01:30 Roosters preview: Watson to shine at nine

01:05:30 Dolphins preview: Herbie the super POD

01:11:15 Titans preview: Are we overlooking Campbell?

01:15:20 Listener questions: Can we fade Cleary?

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