Round 7 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 7 Team of the Week:
Wow. Anthony Milford. Just wow. It’s hard to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, but just imagine my joy as a Canberra Raiders fan watching him dominate each week. Salty? You betchya! Jealousy? Yep. Admiration? Nothing but admiration. His 19 points consisted of a brilliant hat-trick (Jack Reed was very selfless passing him an easy ball with the try line clear… for once!), try assist, line break, line break assist, metre eater and field goal for good measure! It was his third double figures score for this year, but incredibly not his highest of all time. His best was back in Round 14 for the Raiders against the Titans where he scored a whopping 20 NRLCEO points. They couldn’t touch him that day.
Not far behind him this week was team mate Corey Oates. It was the first hat-trick of his career and helped him finish with 17 NRLCEO points and climb into the Dream Team for the first time ever.
You wouldn’t care for these accolades if you had him your team, but Michael Morgan scored the third highest points this round but couldn’t find a way into the Team of the Week! His 16 points equaledinc his highest ever NRLCEO score from Round 22 2014 and included a try and an incredible four try assists!
One of the all time great NRLCEO sleepers, Sam Perrett did what Sam Perrett occasionally does and scored his fourth double since the start of 2015. Can he get back to his best from 2013 where he scored two hat-tricks among 17 tries?
Lastly I should mention Ben Barba. It was his first double since Round 14 in 2013 for a 12 point return. Thrown to the scrap head in most drafts, he has been turning it on since Round 4 with six tries for the season so far. His 38 points total already eclipses his total 2015 score (28) and is more than he scored in the first 22 rounds of 2014. Now I’m not saying Dally M Barba is back, but that makes for very interesting reading and watching him first hand at Canberra Stadium, despite two drop balls his confidence is up!
The full team is listed below:
1. Ben Barba (12)
2. Corey Oates (17)
3. Michael Jennings (14)
4. Blake Ayshford (11)
5. Sam Perrett (16)
6. Anthony Milford (19)
7. Ben Hunt (13)
8. Jack De Belin (8)
9. Robbie Farah (10)
10. Jesse Bromwich (8)
11. Ryan James (10)
12. Tohu Harris (10)
>13. Paul Gallen (9)
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.
The “Milf” is going to break NRLCEO records this year! Anthony Milford is still averaging over ten points per game. Our graphic designer Scott has told me to tell him to take it easy or we won’t be able to fit all his stats on the image each week! Eight tries in seven games alongside seven try assists in just ridiculous. At this rate he will score the most ever points in one NRLCEO season.
His team mate at the Broncos, Corey Oates, is also making big leaps ahead on NRLCEO. His hat-trick takes him ahead of Tom Tbojevic and into second place on the wingers rankings with 42 points. He now has six tries for the season (from five games) and has already broken 800 metres for the year.
Continuing the Broncos dominance, Ben Hunt, is the other new member of the Dream Team. After a “quiet start to the season”, 20 points in the last two weeks has seen him jump up to 45 points and top of the half backs.
The last player to focus on this week is the fiery Pom, James Graham. Without fuss he has climbed to third overall point scorer – without scoring a try! His ten workhorses and six metre eaters are quality base stats that will not go away this year unless he gets injured or suspended.
Here is the full Dream Team after seven rounds:
1. James Tedesco (64)
2. Kevin Naiqama (43)
3. Solomone Kata (46)
4. Will Hopoate (38)
5. Corey Oates (42) – NEW
6. Anthony Milford (72)
7. Ben Hunt (45) – NEW
8. James Graham (52)
9. Cameron Smith (42)
10. Andrew Fifita (39)
11. Ethan Lowe (49)
12. Ryan James (40)
13. Jake Trbojevic (37)
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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