Note to all SuperCoaches. The Raiders have two players with the last name Bateman. One is a gun. The other, not so much.
This is the NRL SuperCoach sob story of the round.
The Raiders have two players with the last name Bateman in their squad.
Almost 2,000 accidently chose the wrong one in Luke Bateman, who missed the team for Round 1 and scored SuperCoaches a big fat ZERO.
His namesake John Bateman, the star Super League recruit, scored 65.
He was the only lock in the comp to play 80 mins in the middle on weekend, which shows how highly he’s rated.
John Bateman’s game time was a shock to SuperCoaches with Canberra playing four middle forwards on the bench.