The Lads kick off the 2026 pre season with a big statistical breakdown of how each position performed in 2025. They dive into who has been the most consistently dominant players over the past 6 years and then the boys tinker with an early top 20 picks for the 2026 Draft. Enjoy your Rub.

All data and stats used throughout the pod are available for your reading pleasure on the Weekly Rub Down Patreon AKA The Rub Club.

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Our last pod of the year, the lads rip through the Dolphins, Dogs, Sharks and Storm and cover team lists, gains/losses, Finals strength of schedule and some players of interest. The last little tease before we get into a huge Pre-Season of NRL SuperCoach content and prep for the 2026 season.

In this preview you'll only hear the Dolphins preview, if you want to listen to the episode in its entirety head over to the Rub Club and sign up for one hell of a pre season.

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 Another little Pre Season tease, part 3 has the lads ripping through the Eels, Manly, Raiders and Cowboys to cover team lists, gains/losses, Finals strength of schedule and some players of interest. Get the cogs turning and start locking in on your 2026 Draft. Enjoy your Rub.

In this preview you'll only hear the Eels preview, if you want to listen to the episode in its entirety head over to the Rub Club and sign up for one hell of a pre season.

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The boys 2nd hit up of the "Pre" Pre Season, the lads rip through the Roosters, Titans, Dragons and Warriros and cover team lists, gains, losses, Finals strength of schedule and some players of interest. Its time to gease the wheels, warm the engines and start turning our attention to NRL SuperCoach in 2026. Enjoy your Rub!

In this preview you'll only here the Roosters preview, if you want to listen to the episode in its entirety head over to the Rub Club and sign up for one hell of a pre season.

https://www.patreon.com/rubberstats

Chapters

00:00 Introduction 

The boys are back!! In the first hit out of the Pre Season the lads rip through the Broncos, Bunnies, Panthers, Knights and Tigers and cover team lists, recruitments, Finals strength of schedule and some players of interest. Grease the wheels, warm the engines and start gearing up for NRL SuperCoach in 2026. Enjoy your Rub!

In this preview you'll only here the Broncos preview, if you want to listen to the episode in its entirety head over to the Rub Club and sign up for one hell of a pre season.

https://www.patreon.com/rubberstats

We join the Guru in the CBA Centre of Excellence to dive into how our draft seasons panned out and to revisit some of our 2025 pre season Boom, Bust, Sleeper calls. We also give out the very prestigious Wire awards. All in all its 2 hours of absolute unfiltered draft dribble, Enjoy.

The boys cover one of their biggest matchups to date breaking scoring records and going down to the last game of the round. Wuka Wobbles, Natty's dream for a 3rd championship and of course all the top statistical matchups of round 26 to help you with your start/sits, Cap/VC's, pickups and plug n plays. Enjoy your Rub.

Natty jumps in on his Karl Malone to cover all the top statistical games and matchups, start/sit suggestions, top streamers for low ownership players, captain and VC calls and plenty of dribble. 

All data and stats used throughout the pod are available for your reading pleasure on the Weekly Rub Down Patreon AKA The Rub Club.

https://www.patreon.com/rubberstats

A sneak peak into one of the exclusive Videos released each week in the Rub Club. Natty has a look at all the stats for the upcoming round for both try scorers and SuperCoach output and bundles up all his favourites to present a "best of" package for the week in the Club. Enjoy.

All data and stats used throughout the pod are available for your reading pleasure on the Weekly Rub Down Patreon AKA The Rub Club.

https://www.patreon.com/rubberstats

The lads dive into round 24 and throw up all you top statistical matchups, best VC/C selections and sexiest plug and play options. This week the boys gove you a sneak peak behind the velvet curtain into one of the Rub Club's exclusive Poddy's "The Pre Game Rub" where Natty and Wook dive into all their Classic and Draft teams and give an insight into their trades, waivers and moves for the upcoming week and alsop answer all the Questions that have flooded in fresh from the Rub Club. Enjoy your rub.

All data and stats used throughout the pod are available for your reading pleasure on the Weekly Rub Down Patreon AKA The Rub Club.

https://www.patreon.com/rubberstats