Rosas Is Averaging 24 With a $271k Price Tag. He Just Scored 66, 35 Clear of BE. The Registry Says Buy — Again.

Two buy calls already this season on a 24-average forward. Both paid off. Here's the third.

Scroll past Malcolm Rosas at $271.4k-ish with a 24 average and you're doing exactly what the spreadsheet tells you to do. That instinct has been wrong twice already this season for Rosas specifically — and the registry just made the same call a third time.

Why is Malcolm Rosas's SuperCoach average only 24?

The average is a crime scene, not a verdict. Rosas opened the year locked out of Sydney's forward six — avoid, avoid, avoid, avoid through R0–R3 (68, 50, 43, DNP). Then R5: 84, and the registry flipped to buy. R6 and R7 he backed it up, 74 and 69, both clear of BE — hold, hold. R8 he kicked seven goals for 127, the most dominant forward performance of the round, captain viable, buy again.

Then it fell off a cliff. R9: 36. R10: 24. R11: 2. Three sub-BE scores in a row — the JS question that had been settled since R5 was suddenly back on the table. That stretch is what dragged the average down to 24. R13 didn't do this — R9 through R11 did.

What did he actually do in R13?

66. Two goals, three marks, four tackles, five inside-50s, in a tight one against St Kilda. Breakeven was 31 — he cleared it by 35. Cash gen flips back to +$2,346/wk on a $271.4k price that's already $69k below where he peaked after R9.

Same shape as R5 and R8: a score that doesn't fit the average, landing right after the average has digested the worst of the down weeks.

Is Malcolm Rosas worth buying at $271k?

Twice this season the registry called buy on Rosas off a single big number against a depressed average — R5's 84 and R8's 127. Both times the price ran from there. He's $271k-ish now, $69k below his R9 peak, and ownership is back to 0% after the 36-24-2 stretch scared the early adopters out.

Confidence is 6 — not a lock, and the three-week slump was real. If R13's 66 is another false dawn, the average keeps sliding and the price follows. But the season pattern has been volatility around a genuinely high ceiling, not a slow fade. Wait and see for me if you're after certainty — but a $271k forward who can put up 66s and 127s in his good weeks, with the cash gen math working again, is exactly the kind of pod this registry exists to flag before the price catches up.

The verdict

Buy — captain viable, confidence 6/10. Average says 24, breakeven says 31, R13 scoreline says 66 with two majors and four tackles. Role's alive. If you've got a forward spot and you're chasing a price that hasn't caught up to a player's third big week of the season, this is the one.

For coaches still holding from the R8 peak: this is the round that stops the bleeding, not the one that gets you out. Hold.

Updated: June 2026. Data sourced from RookieBible intel registry.

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