55% Said Curnow Was Doing His Job at Sydney. The SC Registry Had Been Calling Sell For Weeks.
The community was split 55/25/20 on whether Curnow was earning his spot at Sydney. The SC registry had been calling avoid and sell since Round 2.
55% Said Curnow Was Doing His Job at Sydney. The SC Registry Had Been Calling Sell For Weeks.
The AFL footprint believers had logic on their side. The SC data did not.
By Round 6, Charlie Curnow had the SuperCoach community split. 55% argued he was a legitimate role player — attracting double coverage, averaging 6 score involvements per game, helping Sydney win. 20% had genuine concerns about his accuracy and shutdown risk. The remaining 25% were somewhere in between: mediocre individually, fine in a winning team, wait and see.
The SC registry had been calling AVOID since Round 2.
Is Curnow Doing His Job? What 55% of Coaches Were Seeing
The "role player doing his job" argument had real AFL merit. Curnow genuinely shifts the contest. Multiple commenters at the time compared his impact to Buddy Franklin's slow start at Sydney — a key forward who doesn't need to catch the ball to unlock the corridor. Coach Dean Cox backed him publicly. The community data pointed to 6 score involvements per game and a team winning easily.
That's a reasonable AFL read. As an SC read, it missed the number that matters: his SC score.
What the SC Registry Was Calling at Round 6
Here's the ledger going into the community debate:
- R2: Avoid — crashed to 33, well below his 55 BE at $377.3k
- R3: Avoid — didn't take the field, avg dropped to 38.5 at $343.6k
- R5: Sell — 55 at $313.2k, cash gen bleeding at -$4,579/wk
- R6: Watch — scored 70, first above-BE score since R1. The registry softened from sell but did not flip to hold.
His $377k entry price had become a $313k asset generating negative cash. That's the difference between "doing his job for the team" and "doing your SC team damage."
The R7 Spike — and Why It Was a Trap
Round 7 was everything Curnow's backers had been waiting for. He scored 128 — 7 goals, 6 contested marks, the highest individual forward score of the round. The registry called BUY. Cox doubled down on his public support.
He posted 19 in Round 8.
That's not context — that's the pattern. His season average sat at 44.5 after ten rounds. The one-game flash was real; the sustained output wasn't. Registry went straight back to SELL.
Then Round 12 Happened
He scored 156 in a 114-point demolition of Richmond. Highest forward score of any player that week. The up-the-ground role trial the registry had flagged in R11 paid off in a big way. WATCH verdict.
Then 70 in Round 13. HOLD.
The 55% who argued "wait and see" at Round 6 weren't wrong to be patient. They were wrong to confuse AFL contribution with SC output. The two metrics run on different clocks.
Where This Leaves SC Owners in Round 18
The registry is on HOLD for Curnow heading into Round 18. His price is $327.9k — $49k below where you started the season with him if you bought in early. His average has been a rollercoaster: 128 one week, 19 the next, 156 three rounds later.
'Wait and see for me' was the right SC call at Round 6. It just wasn't the call 55% of the community made — because they were answering a different question.
The registry was answering the right one.
Updated: 6 July 2026. Data sourced from RookieBible intel registry.
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