The Champions are back together to help you all make final preparations for the first bye round of 2021 - the first bye round for almost two seasons in fact! On that note, what even is the point of bye planning?

No NRLPhysio this week but we provide a brief injury wrap; Joe Fitz almost nailed the perfect prediction of the highest scoring player of the round and the exact score, and we go again with this week's Swysh SuperCoach Star of the Round! 

Strategy-wise, we consider whether points on a bye round are worth more than normal rounds, and whether that should influence your trade target preferences for Origin guns or not; we go through the players that are important this round from 'must-have' to 'scary to watch as a non-owner' and the 'risky' options; we also consider numbers and then also work through whether the mega-trade round coming up should influence our trades this week or not. 

Timestamps if you want to jump ahead:

• Injury wrap - 4 min 55s

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