The Craig Fitzgibbon
Balanced. Modern. Efficient.
Balance Between Data and Instinct
You coach in the middle ground. You respect the numbers — minutes, roles, price curves, ownership — but you don’t outsource every decision to data alone. When the stats align with what you’re seeing on the field, you move with confidence. When they don’t, you’re comfortable applying judgement.
Avoiding Extremes
You’re rarely all-in on one approach. You don’t blindly chase upside, and you don’t play so safely that you cap your ceiling. Instead, you balance risk and control, ensuring your team stays competitive without exposing
itself to unnecessary volatility.
Consistency as a Weapon
This balance keeps your season stable. You don’t spike wildly, but you also don’t crater.
While others oscillate between big wins and big losses, you accumulate gains steadily, remaining relevant
across every phase of the year.
Adaptability Without Overreaction
Because you aren’t locked into extremes, you adjust smoothly.
Small pivots, timely upgrades, and measured risks allow you to respond to changing conditions
without destabilising your structure.
The Key Insight
Your strength is equilibrium.
In short: You blend data with feel, avoid extremes, and stay consistently competitive from Round 1 through the run home.
Strengths
VS
Risk management
Squad balance
Reliably consistent performance
Weakness
Lacking decisive aggression on trades
Low chance of finishing in top ranks consistently
More concerned with saving rank than gaining it
Season Strategy
Phase 1 - Pre-Season - Lead Up to Round 1
Build your squad based on positional coverage, a good mix of cheapies, mid-rangers, premium tier and risk on a 1-3 PODs
Phase 2 - Early Season - Rounds 1–11:
Solid foundations in trade usage and coverage. Here’s where you build value in cheapies and burn trades. Protect for Origin from Round 7.
Phase 3 - Origin Period - Rounds 12–19:
Small calculated pivots. To maintain alignment with your typical style, you must use this period to use trades sparingly.
Phase 4 - The Run-Home - Rounds 20–27:
Target high-floor PODs. Break through your glass ceiling, take bold risks. In the back end of the season, it’s about going all in, not staying steady.
Blindside Faithful Coaching Fit
Jye brings 17 years of NRL Fantasy experience and a proven record of high-level performance, highlighted by consistent Top 500 finishes. His coaching style mirrors The Craig Bellamy &
Ivan Cleary approach — disciplined, process-driven, and built on long-term structural advantage with enough punch to push hard late in the season — demonstrating the ability to identify and overcome limitations of these styles to push into the elite tier of Fantasy coaches.
With an intense focus on pre-season team construction, relentless analytical review, and deliberate season-long strategy, Jye offers more than just weekly advice. He provides a
full-year coaching relationship designed to educate, challenge, and elevate your decision-making — helping you genuinely level up your NRL Fantasy game.
Browny brings 17 years of NRL Fantasy experience with a proven track record of high-level performance. His coaching style blends the philosophies of Craig Bellamy and Michael Maguire — disciplined, process-driven, yet flexible enough to break structure when the situation demands it. “Trust your gut” and “calculated aggression” are tools, deployed selectively and only when the game state calls for them.
Through analytical deep dives on emerging prospects and a season-long strategy that always leaves room to manoeuvre, Browny offers a coaching relationship built to challenge and elevate your decision-making. The result is a style that maintains structural integrity while embracing the upside of intelligent risk-taking — keeping every round engaging, and purposeful.
Kenty brings a nuanced understanding of NRL Fantasy, driven by a sharp instinct for identifying POD value before the wider market reacts. He excels during the Origin period — managing byes with precision, staying flexible, and pivoting quickly when the data demands it. Across the 2024 and 2025 seasons, Kenty finished inside the top 5,000 by consistently leveraging low-ownership selections to gain an edge over conventional builds. His coaching style mirrors an Ivan Cleary–Trent Robinson hybrid: composed, adaptable, and built for sustained success.
Kenty uses trades with intent, targeting early value only when it’s genuine while ensuring he’s well positioned for a late-season surge. From pre-season planning through to the run-home, he prioritises long-term growth and results — leaving you a better Fantasy coach next season.