AFL Supercoach 2026: Round 7 Wrap – 4 Things We Learnt

Oh boy I’m flying, and so are our star-studded rookies.

Not that this article is, in anyway, about me — but my boys pumped out a 2334, taking my overall rank from 41k to 14k in the blink of an eye (two weeks).

My meteoric rise should, at the very least, give you hope that this game can change in an instant.

Keep sticking to your structure, picking the right rookies and pouncing on value premiums, and you’ll soon enough see some green arrows too.

Here’s what we learnt in Round 7.

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Josh Lindsay might not be a rookie — he could be a keeper

What a performance that was from the first year Eagle, pumping out a 132 from 31 touches.

What’s even more encouraging is that he was on 81 at half time…

I, like a fair few other coaches, assumed that Lindsay would lose his kick-in duties with Ryan Maric back in the team — and so I stupidly left him on the bench.

But that wasn’t the case. He had 70% of the Eagles’ kick-ins, and played on at every opportunity.

Lindsay isn’t just knocking on our SuperCoach defence doors, he’s smashing down the entire wall. 

If he keeps this role, I may keep him all year long.

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Keep faith in the cheapies 

Round 7 was a prime example of why it’s important to sometimes just have a bit of faith.

Prime trade-out candidates Mattaes Phillipou (98), Jack Carroll (106), Tanner Bruhn (92), Hugh Bond (88), Caleb Windsor (102), and Jai Serong (92) all proved their scoring potential.

In doing so, they also kickstarted some much-needed cash gen for their owners.

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Archie Roberts should not still be a POD

I know that, at the time of writing, Roberts doesn’t quite fit the bill as a POD with an ownership of 15%.

But that is still insanely low for a guy seemingly getting whatever footy he wants off half back.

In the last four weeks alone, the Bombers ball magnet has three scores over 136.

It places him as the fourth highest averaging defender in the game — by some way, mind you, with fifth coming in at six points lower than him.

If you take out his evidently uncharacteristic Round 1 score of 53, he’s averaging 121.5… making him not only the highest averaging defender, but the 12th highest averaging PLAYER.

Third year breakouts are legit after all.

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It’s upgrade SZN

Congratulations, we’ve hit underpriced premos galore.

Nas is $54k down in price, Dawson $63k, Bont $103k, and Whitfield $40k.

Take your pick of the bunch. All are unbeliable options, and all have surely bottomed out in price.