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SuperCoach AFL 2026! First picked rookies, premiums, and mid pricers! | 2026 Team Picker Special

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Jagger Smith is the number one owned player this early—coming back from ACL at rookie prices.

SuperCoach is back. Dossie opens on the eve of Christmas Eve with the 2026 team picker live for SuperCoach Plus subscribers, and Simeon Thomas-Wilson plus Patch in the room as the first prices, positions, and fresh draftees hit the table. The tone is familiar. It feels like a crowded fantasy-footy group chat, with jokes, interruptions, and quick self-corrections, but the conversation keeps returning to what matters for a starting squad. Butters lands early. The panel treats him as a lock, points to his off-season surgery as a groin-discomfort fix rather than a major concern, and leans into the idea that a healthier body could make him huge. Serong is next. He gets framed as a left-field premium who still belongs in the top tier, because his price, contested work, and ball-winning profile suggest a player who can rack it up fast. The numbers get real. The panel checks contested-possession rankings, compares Serong with Tom Green, Matt Rau, Tristan Sherry, Max Gorn, and George Hewett, and uses that cluster to argue that volume still wins fantasy arguments. Todd Marshall appears late. He is flagged at 147,000 as a forward option, which gives the episode one more practical name to file away while preseason selection pressure is still low. The show stays practical. Even when the banter stretches, the talk keeps circling back to what actually changes a team sheet: role, price, early value, and whether a player belongs in your first draft. Nothing drifts far. The panel knows when to joke and when to land the plane, so the episode keeps its pace without losing the useful fantasy-footy edge that makes these first team-picker sessions worth hearing. It is very early. That early-season uncertainty is the point, and this episode works best as a first pass for coaches who want to sort premiums, rookies, and mid-pricers before the real panic begins.

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Fast preseason footy talk that still lands on real squad decisions.

SuperCoach AFL 2026 opens with the kind of first-pick session that actually helps. The crew is working through new prices, position changes, and fresh draftees, and the talk has enough shape to stay useful even when the energy is loose.

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Need a quick 2026 SuperCoach AFL shortlist now that team pick is live and the new prices, positions, and fresh draftees are in play?

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