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Wow! Just wow. After months of planning it's come down to this. We've lost a key pillar of our defence on AFL Fantasy Eve. Elliot Yeo has been officially ruled out for round 1. Dos, Holmesy, Statesman, and Lewy discuss the impact on our defensive structure, potential replacements, reshuffles, and everything in between!
Then, not wanting to be outshone, Ross the Boss dropped some hints that popular number one ruck selection, Rowan Marshall, may be working in a ruck tandem alongside Tom Campbell. How much weight do we put into a throwaway comment the night before partial lockout? Is it time to panic or do we stay strong? The lads talk through the potential impacts and hit some positive news — with plenty of debutants having already been named for round 1!
Then, it's finally time for the listener league draft! Who will be representing Stato, Lewy, Holmesy, and Dos for ultimate bragging rights?
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Transcript
Elliot Yeo Injury Crisis
00:00:02
Speaker
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00:00:19
Speaker
Welcome to the Pod Pod. It's ya boi, Dossie, back for another episode and what a day to have an episode of the Pod Pod. Some huge breaking news on this Wednesday night. March 15th, the AFL of Fantasy Apocalypse is here. Our hopes and dreams have been chewed up and spit out, ironically, just like Elliot Yeo's front teeth. If you haven't heard,
00:00:42
Speaker
Huge news drop from Footy Rhino this afternoon that our popular mid-price defender, that's right, Elliot Yeo, has been ruled out for round one.
Strategic Decisions in AFL Fantasy
00:00:51
Speaker
Not only that, but we had some murmurs about some comments from Ross the Boss about Roland Marshall's role. You know, we're gonna dip into all this news, dissect that, where to go next with our defensive line, answer a bunch of your questions. Plus, we have our long-awaited listener league draft.
00:01:11
Speaker
And to help us dissect all this news in the AFL Fantasy Apocalypse, it's the usual crew. I welcome first two-time top 10 finisher, Holmesy. Mate, how are you dealing with all this, this carnage? Well, I mean, it's the main thing. It's Elliot Yeo.
00:01:26
Speaker
Gossi mate, great to be here and I'll tell you what, what a day to be recording on a Wednesday rather than our normal Monday. All the news come out today. I've been at school so my phone's been pinging left, right and centre and yeah, really excited to dissect it all. So nervous times ahead, but we have some great coaches here to get us all through it. Yeah, keen to dive in. Louis, have you already started the Mad Shuffle and moving Elliot Yeo out of your side?
Adjusting Team Structure Without Yeo
00:01:52
Speaker
I've done a bit of tinkering. I didn't get much work done today. Actually, I was talking to a mate and I literally had just said that I think my team's good to go. Just wait for team announcements now and put my phone away. And about a minute later, it started blowing up as Elliot Yoke half news came out and the phones pretty much been picking off since. So I think a lot of coaches out there are either panicking or seriously looking for ways to pivot off of the injured defender.
00:02:24
Speaker
And as always, we have our five-time top 100 finisher, former, the great former man of the Stado. Stado, how's the shuffle going for you, mate? And this sort of thing, it always happens on our AFL Fantasy Eve, doesn't it?
Defensive Line Adjustments
00:02:38
Speaker
It certainly does. And look, my mantra for the whole preseason is make Stado great again. And I was feeling pretty comfortable with the structure I had this morning when I departed for work and then come home and the boys just share all the news. So a restructure happening tonight, no doubt.
00:02:57
Speaker
Yep. So as I said, this episode, we're going to be talking a bunch of your questions. You've been submitting them throughout the week. We got some more up to date ones today regarding all the latest situations. But first of all, let's just kick it off and start a round table discussion. Homsey, where are you going to go with this, this defensive line? Are you thinking of going down, up? Obviously, I'm thinking Jo was in all our teams to start with. Where do we go from here, mate?
00:03:22
Speaker
Yeah, Dusty, look, mate, I will be completely honest with you. I haven't had time to play around with my team at all yet, so I don't know what it looks like to go down or to go up, really. But one thing I'm really sort of comfortable with is I don't just want to plug a mid-pricer in there just for the sake of plugging a mid-pricer in. I'm not really one to really be set on a structure and have to pick a player at that price just because I've been sold on that structural pre-season. So if I don't really like a mid-pricer, then I'll have to figure out what to do. But that's just where I'm sitting at the moment.
00:03:52
Speaker
Stado, what about yourself mate? Have you looked at any options? I mean, I can rattle a few off the top of the dome and maybe see if you find any exciting. Cause I've certainly already had a little bit of a tinker this afternoon. I know some popular options going, you can go down to like a will day if you're not like homes and you do want to keep that similar structure. There's guys in the going slightly up bracket as well, like your Andy McGraw has been a popular guy this pre-season, don't know if I agree there.
00:04:19
Speaker
I've thrown the Liam Duggan train around a little bit there and also a favourite of the pod, Ed Richards, is not too far away from Elliot Yeo and I've seen his name around. Stado, any interest in any of these guys or are you, same with Holmes, are you keen to get way up to another premium?
Impact of Rookies on Defense
00:04:36
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I was actually going to go reasonably deep into fence because I was a little bit worried about where those rookie options are. And let's face it, most of them that we had on the agenda were going to be reasonably light scorers. And I'm talking that the wheel wants the chessers and co.
00:04:52
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So I was probably looking at having Jimby as my D6, but with Yo out and the announcement already that we've got Jimby, we've got Chesa, we've got Cowan, we've got Judd from Melbourne, that I'm actually going to put one of the rookies on the field. And maybe I start with Cowan, so we know he's a decent scorer of junior age.
00:05:21
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and playing against a team that is give a little bit of points to defenders. So I'm sitting here right now like we were with the team reveal originally with 400k in the bank and I've just got to decide where to spend it. So that'll happen
00:05:42
Speaker
I think my midfield's a little bit thin with Dom's sheet at M4, Walpole M5. So it's possibly a bit of a spin there to get sort of one more primo in that model. Talk about scrambling. You've still got that much cash in the bank. We've heard a bunch of rookies that have been... Only because Joe's out.
00:06:03
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So I've taken Jo out and put a 200K in because they're confirmed. So that just created the cash. It wouldn't be there if Jo was playing. You would have been able to just take Jo up the dock with you, wouldn't you?
00:06:17
Speaker
I already have Docody there, so he was actually part of my defence. It's the line I've been worried about the most through pre-season. So taking Yo out is just giving me a fair bit of cash. And I'm spending four of the big boys in the forward line. So it's probably just reinvesting the Yo money in the midfield. I just got to see where it best fits.
00:06:43
Speaker
All right, well apart from going those rookies or we've spoken about the mid prices and stuff I'm sure some more questions will touch on this but Louie is there any validity in going way down to someone like a Liam Jones who we've heard lots of discussion about in the past few days Obviously having the big practice match last week but pretty gross pick is how about people in that price range if you didn't have a Constable maybe or even my pick which I've only been thrown around in the group chat But why not bring him out to the front Tommy Cole one of my favorite
00:07:14
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looser 300k-ish options, which I spoke to you about about two months ago at the pub and now he's coming back into the frame. On everyone's lips, mate. Tomico. Absolutely. Lew, thoughts? Look, it depends on your structure, Dos, and there's no right answer for what to do to yo, and I think what we should be focusing on is...
00:07:33
Speaker
Look, it's not complicated. You're either going up or you're going down. And I think where good coaches are going to separate from the bad ones is what you actually do with the rest of your squad. So I think there's going to be some coaches who chop change, make three or four changes, and then all of a sudden, even though they've changed the yo pick, they've changed a thousand other things. So I just think it's extremely unlikely that the bloke you trade in is going to win or lose you the comp.
00:08:00
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But the way in which you do it absolutely will. So I think coaches need to approach this with caution. They need to be wise. They need to assess their options and and not tear their team apart one day out from round one here.
00:08:12
Speaker
Louis, they are all fantastic points and I agree 100% apart from the fact where you said there's no right or wrong answer and it depends on your structure, Dossie. There is no world where you trade in Tom Cole. And if you do, I'm not coming back next week. I'm putting that on the quad right now. Hey, Holmesy, don't worry mate. You got the chance. You got the chance, Doss. Get rid of him. Get rid of him. It's actually fine. I don't have to trade him in, Holmesy. He's already in.
00:08:39
Speaker
He was there before. He's solid as a rock there, mate. Don't worry about it. Liam Jones is someone we've got data on. We've got data on everybody here. So at least coaches now can make an informed decision. They're not just spitballing. Every coach should have a train on squad, so to speak, where they can pivot off of. And it's just time to assess your options and make sure you're not getting silly with things. Don't be afraid to get creative.
00:09:06
Speaker
You really need to look at things as black and white and find wise ways to either find the cash to go up or go down to somebody you're comfortable with and use that cash elsewhere. It's not really about early at YO, it's about the rest of your side and what you do with it.
00:09:21
Speaker
Alright, well plenty of panic stations for us but we're trying to be calm and navigate ourselves through this. I'm sure there's going to be plenty of other questions about which options to choose from the listeners as I mentioned before we're going to go through those soon. I mean Hunter Clark's another name that we haven't thrown out there could be a nice option.
00:09:38
Speaker
Okay, let's get on to the other news, the other breaking news that sort of hit our Twitter spheres later this afternoon on this Wednesday evening.
Clarifying Ross Lyon's Comments
00:09:48
Speaker
And it was to do with Ross the boss. Now, our first impressions, I saw the same sort of tweets that I'm guessing everyone else has seen.
00:09:56
Speaker
to do with Rowan Marshall quotes from Ross Lyon, you know, something to do with Tom Campbell being in the mix to come in and I immediately panicked and I'm sure many of other coaches did. I quickly checked to just see what my lineup would look like with a Shawnee Darcy at R2 for me being a proud Tim English owner.
00:10:16
Speaker
But look guys, I've done God's work here. I've gone and actually listened to the quote because I think it's very misleading for starters. So I'm just going to actually play the audio for the listeners so that they can hear exactly what Ross Lyon said. Now, noting that this was a 13 plus minute press conference, I think it was around 13 minutes, 40 seconds, something like that.
00:10:41
Speaker
First of all, there was discussion about the injury list. What's the short-term fix for your key forwards? Honestly, he actually mentioned Filippo quite prominently, as well as Kamadity, who's another rookie option for us. He says he's come from the clouds, mentioned about 10 other names, all this stuff about how it's going to be a big ruck challenge. Lots of stuff was said. Marcus Windhager. Then finally at the end, at 12 minutes 42 out of this 13 minute 40 interview, this question was thrown at Ross.
00:11:10
Speaker
So one last one, nerdy big man one, he's Tommy Campbell in the frame, the great survivor. Yeah, it's a good point. Look, he's had a really good discussion with Tom because there's a little bit, everyone gets a bit, you know, Tom's here, the great survivor, but
00:11:25
Speaker
Yeah, he's got, he played the last game where he played well and I thought he felt like I'm just here back up. I said, mate, you can't give up on your dream here. So he dropped five kilos. He's training really well. He had the birth of his first child, Julian. So he's excited and I expect him to play senior footy and it's not outside of the realms of possibility when you think of Jackson and Darcy. But yeah, I'm thrilled for him that he's actually, I said, mate, don't die wondering. Put some challenge up. So he's responded.
00:11:55
Speaker
When people say, you know, you're challenging, sometimes you've got to see possibility in people before they've said it in their selves. And I think maybe he kept his possibility. So we just opened that up, but he got into action. So yeah, that's exciting. Okay, guys. So now, Stado, I know you've had to listen back to the audio. We don't have to panic too much about this, do we?
00:12:17
Speaker
No, no, we don't. Look, I think at the end of the day, selection's the key thing for us. That's what we need to see. He's just ensuring he's supporting a player and making sure that they're quite aware
00:12:32
Speaker
that there's going to be opportunities somewhere along the way and don't give up because if Raul Marshall has an injury, he needs that player right and ready to go and he needs to have them in the right mindset. He's on the list. That's why he's on the list for is to be an option for the club when they need it. So his line was don't give up the dream and nor should he.
00:12:55
Speaker
Exactly. It's a great point. And yeah, probably just one of those things that you have to go listen to the quote. Obviously, I was just drained listening to 13 minutes of it all and managed to stick by because I knew it was coming right at the end. Didn't expect it to be the last question, courtesy to Saints Media for that one as well. Holmes, what do you got to say, mate?
Debutants and Rookie Strategies
00:13:15
Speaker
Yeah, Dos, I just want to point out, like, we always talk about the eye test being the biggest thing in footy, and this, in fantasy footy, and this is an example of the ear test, right? So, there's gonna be lots of talk over the next two weeks, over rounds one and two, about how well players are going, this and that, copied and pasted on Twitter, but the main thing you really just need to do is actually listen to these bites yourself, or watch the footy yourself, because
00:13:39
Speaker
So many people have opinions and bias about what they're hearing and you really just need to listen to it yourself. So seeing that on Twitter today, thinking that that's firsthand information, I was someone that started to sort of freak out and have a little bit of a listen as well. But once you actually listen to that press conference, you're right. There's absolutely nothing to listen to. So it just really hammers home needing to listen and look for yourself.
00:14:02
Speaker
Absolutely, mate. Now, Louis, I'll just throw it at you, mate. Let's talk about some of the debutants that we've heard about so far. We don't claim to be rookie experts here. We're just going off the same data that everyone else has gone and the same eye test that we've seen this preseason, but we have had some named. Louis, I want to just talk through a few and maybe if you're keen on some. Cowan obviously has been named already.
00:14:26
Speaker
We've already got, if you check your AFL apps, our AFL fantasy apps, we're starting to get those green dots, boys. It's starting to feel real. Docodee on mine has his green dot. We've got people in our teams now looking ready to go. So Cowan's one that's already been named, and also Oliver Hollins on our Thursday night game, Louis. So any interest in either of those two at 282k, I think, and 280k.
00:14:50
Speaker
Major interest in them, DOS, they've both got good junior scoring and the most important part of this is that they actually play on the Thursday night. So we're not going to have all the team sheets for the Sunday games. There's a potential that
00:15:06
Speaker
With every coach sort of scraping the bottom of the barrel for rookies that maybe one or two don't get up. So sometimes I feel like I'm inclined to pick some of these guys from the early game. And it just so happens that these two have the capacity to score and be good cash cows for us this year. So it's great to see that they've been named and those are two that I'll be selecting this year. Holmes, you got your hand up there, mate.
00:15:31
Speaker
Yeah, just on the Ollie Hollands. So he looked really good in the practice game, had that wing roll from all reports. He's got an elite tank, which allows him to run up and down the ground all day and really get involved. Being a 280k rookie, I suppose it is good to pay up and then have the option to go down if he gets, you know, managed or dropped later on. But do we not think that he's just a replacement for Sam Walsh right now and that in a week's time or two weeks time when Walsh comes back, he'll be the sub or he'll be straight out?
00:16:01
Speaker
It's impossible to say at the moment, mate. A lot of the chatter that's been coming out is that that last spot was between Lockio Bryan and Ollie Hollins. I'm not sure what the timeframe on Sam Walsh is. Last time I checked it was around four, but that could obviously come in.
00:16:17
Speaker
But like I said, I think we may have to take what we can get. We do know that he's got a capacity to score. He's extremely fit. 84% time on ground in the preseason game. And it looks like he's got the spot ahead of Lockio Brian. But the one thing I will say on that, come round one, obviously the sub comes from that emergency list and Lockio Brian is on that. So if we do see that Lockio Brian is the sub,
00:16:44
Speaker
then I think it's a bit of an abort mission on Ollie Holland's on field. I think you can still have him on your bench mostly due to the lack of rookies. I'd be interested to see what somebody like Stado feels about that.
00:17:00
Speaker
Yeah, I'm starting him on the bench and it just gives you a little bit of security. I will say being named round one, it's his spot to lose. And that's the key thing. So when Walsh comes back into that team, I don't think it's Ollie Hollands. I think it becomes the person that is not performing their role.
00:17:24
Speaker
And I think that's where the squeeze will come. So we'll see what happens. And we know people like Kennedy can play multiple different roles and they can move to a half forward. So you might lose someone from the forward line. Kennedy move into that to fit in Walsh. So look, at the end of the day, we know he's a decent scorer. He's named on the ground. So both of them named on the ground. And that's the key thing for me. This is not interchange from. This is on the ground.
00:17:54
Speaker
I'll be backing him in, even though the 280 and 242 is actually the price, Dossie. Yeah, you're spot on, Stater. We can speculate how long he's going to be in that side all we like. We don't really have the answer. I prefer to look at the positives and think, well, what if he comes out round one, plays a blinder, and then sort of cements his spot for the next four, five, six weeks, which is what we need as a cash cow. So impossible to answer right now. I lean towards picking him.
00:18:23
Speaker
Look, I'm just going to very quickly roll through a couple more. Fergus Green has got named that he'll be playing his first game for Hawthorn, 200k, basement price. Rookie looks like he's got a solid roll in the forward line, kind of that Jack Gunston replacement, I guess, if you will, 187 centimetres. Looks good to go either on your bench or maybe even F6 if you think he'll score right round one. Cam McKenzie at 200, what was that, Louis, on your F6?
00:18:49
Speaker
Yep, for you. There you go. Cam McKenzie as well, 288k got named for a debut. And the other ones are just one sort of surprising one that came out of nowhere, which may throw a spanner in the works. I want to talk with Holmsey just very briefly on this one.
00:19:05
Speaker
Could you maybe go a Noah Long instead of paying up for an Oliver Hollands? We've also heard a lot of chatter that Noah Long's going to be pretty, you know, he's been pretty impressive for the Eagles. Probably not going to play the as fantasy friendly role as a small forward for the Eagles, but could you, you know, save a bit of cash from that 80K spend that you're going up to an Oliver Hollands if you do have a bit of worry about Sam Walsh returning?
00:19:30
Speaker
Look, Dos, he's someone that I'm not willing to rule in yet and I'm not willing to rule out either. So, over the years, I've definitely been burnt by trading in or, sorry, starting a basement rookie who we haven't seen in the practice game blind just to save a bit of coin. So, because he hasn't played the practice game,
00:19:48
Speaker
It's very risky to know exactly what role he's going to play, what his scoring ability is like and how he's going to fit in the team. But one of the positives at the moment is that the Eagles have a relatively healthy list outside of Yo today and a few other players. It kind of seems like, you know, all of the forwards are sort of fit and available for selection, but they've decided to go with Long anyway. So it would suggest that he's got relatively good job security out of these rookies come round one.
00:20:16
Speaker
But at the same time, he's got a sub risk written all over him. If he's not up to AFL standard in his first game, it's very easy to get dropped. So I'm leaning towards not starting him at the moment, purely because I haven't seen him in the practice game. But I'm not willing to rule him out just yet, Louis.
00:20:32
Speaker
Yeah, we do have the positive that you mentioned last week as well, Holmsey, that the waffle doesn't actually start till round three of the AFL. So one might believe that it's no a long spot to lose based on his own performance and that there's nobody really coming through, sort of bashing the door down in the state league there. So potentially we've got three to four weeks of him, especially if he performs, we could have the rest of the season. So here's one that's interesting, but I tend to agree with you.
00:21:02
Speaker
it's pretty difficult to select somebody like that based off no practice game.
00:21:07
Speaker
Yeah, so just, and I've kind of deep dived a little bit here. So from what it sounds like, he broke his collarbone, I think, very early in the nab league. So he wasn't inside midfielder and he's broken his collarbone and he's come back throughout the back end of the season as an actual forward. So the Eagles have kind of drafted him to play that role in mind, kind of like a, kind of reminds me of a grind Myers. He was drafted by Geelong as a forward to play a role rather than, you know, drafting an inside midfielder who's trying to learn to play forward craft.
00:21:37
Speaker
on the fly just to fit in the best 22, so that's kind of a positive as well. But yeah, just not seeing him in the practice game just means he's not guaranteed for me at the moment. I need to see what other rookies we get.
00:21:48
Speaker
All right, well, aside from that, just keep an eye out on team sheets in the next couple of days and we will finally get our rookies and get our answers and good luck
Choosing Premium Players
00:21:57
Speaker
with it all. We're going to get to our listener questions now and we've got plenty to get through. This one from Damien Marr, how many of us are starting with Laird? He's 50-50 on it.
00:22:09
Speaker
Well should we just have the lead discussion I don't know if you guys want to reveal whether or not you're starting with lead but what do you think of lead as a starting option maybe Stado you've been a bit quite over there mate let's get you involved. Yeah I haven't got lead I generally don't go for the most expensive players only because I'm looking for value.
00:22:30
Speaker
I think there's one or possibly two exceptions this year in my squads. I didn't want to pick Docody but I've taken him because I've been worried about that defensive line. I just didn't have any comfort whatsoever so I just want to bank some
00:22:48
Speaker
points and I've got value underneath him. And I've got Dunkley as well, but I actually see that Dunkley has got value. I think he averages well above what he's priced at. So really at 120 was his average last year. Fantastic year. And I'm not saying he can't back it up, but it's unusual for them to back up a 120. I think Tom Mitchell and Brody Grundy are the two that have done it before.
00:23:17
Speaker
in recent times, but it's not regular. So, I mean, there is that discussion point that you can say that people starting with him if he, because he has got a reasonably soft draw, that if he's pumping out an average of 125 over the first five rounds and people have him as captain and I've got, you know, an averaging of 110 captain during that time that I'm falling behind the game. I accept that, understand that and take that on.
00:23:46
Speaker
28% ownership at the moment. I think he was over 30 this time yesterday. So I think there was a bit of concern obviously that Kingsley came out said they're going to put a bit of attention into him and a few other things going his way. But Louis, I think you've been pretty strong just like one last bit on lead because I mean, that is a pretty high ownership for a player that averaged 120.
00:24:06
Speaker
And like we all, I guess a lot of the content creators out there do preach to kind of look for that value. And a lot of the past winners have looked at value. And I think even Selby says, you know, only a few coaches over the past few years. I don't know the exact numbers, but start with, you know, more than one player priced over 115 or something like that. So what are your thoughts, mate, on Laird's high ownership here?
00:24:29
Speaker
Well I did see a stat somewhere that lads ownership's grown 11 or 12 percent in the last week which you would have to think is coaches who are signing up a little bit later than some of the more devoted ones and just simply picking the best player. So I think you do have to take it with a grain of salt. I do agree with state on what he said in that.
00:24:49
Speaker
We've got Sam Docherty who's probably, we probably haven't seen a bloke who's far and away the best in that line touch wood that we're selecting and then you go to the forward line. Most coaches will have Josh Dunkley and most coaches are also spending up in the forward line where we haven't previously done so. So I find it really difficult to pay that 1.07 mil price tag especially when we do need to keep in mind that we do need to find value to
00:25:15
Speaker
not only generate cash, but to complete our teams so that we're doing some luxury trades outside of the buy. The last couple of rounds outside of that. So I'm not going to knock someone picking lead. I think he is a perma-captain.
00:25:28
Speaker
I do also think that Doherty might be a perma VC and Dunkley might be a perma C as well. So it's hard to select all three of those guys and not feel like you're hamstringing yourself elsewhere in your side. Yeah, I love that point, Lou. This one comes from David Bubb.
00:25:46
Speaker
Very, very topical discussion.
Downgrading Marshall vs. Adjusting for Yeo
00:25:49
Speaker
Holmsey, do we downgrade Marshall to upgrade YO or downgrade YO to upgrade Marshall? So as we mentioned, we're probably not as concerned as some people about the Marshall comments. Hopefully you've had a listen and you can make your own decision about that. But Holmsey, if you if you had to do one or the other, what do you think?
00:26:07
Speaker
To be honest mate, if I had to do one or the other I'd be downgrading. Sorry, I'd be keeping Marshall and doing what you have to do with Yo. I think jumping at shadows, Marshall has been our either R1 or R2 for the entire pre-season and after listening to that
00:26:22
Speaker
Audio, I'm not too concerned. I think you're back in the work that you've done for the pre-season and you find somewhere else to go to fix Yo, because the rucks are a nightmare as it is. And I don't think you want to be touching the one ruck that, yeah, there's a little bit more doubt than there was yesterday, but there's not too much more doubt and we're still trying to find that R2.
00:26:43
Speaker
Caleb says yo at d3. Is it a straight-ish swap today? Is a straight-ish swap today a good option? I mentioned Will Day might be a popular pick. Given Constable and two rookies in the rest of the line, or do you think a slight restructure and go up to not leave himself too light in defence from Caleb Stado? What do you think there?
00:27:07
Speaker
Do you think Will Day could be a nice replacement for Yo getting a bit more mid-time at the Hawthorne Hawks and also a little bit of a Price, you know, you get a bit of cash in the bank going down to him as well
00:27:19
Speaker
I'm not saying he's not going to work, but I wouldn't go there. I think that's just way too risky. So we talk about these mid prices. They really are the win or lose of your season. I mean, you can recover quickly if you can pull the trigger, but you know what it's like if you start getting a few injuries to your primos.
00:27:41
Speaker
and you can be stuck with underperforming mid prices, which really start to sting you. So I think of value, I try to get a little bit more keeper style players by using the value option. So trying to find players that I think are borderline keepers, but at a discounted price, and then that can be breakout, that can be injury. That's why people like a dom machine,
00:28:08
Speaker
maybe someone we can keep to the buy because he's underpriced. Will Day for mind, I don't know if this was a pre-season test and starting to look what he can do and how he can develop his game. I honestly think Hawthorne will be up and down like a yo-yo developing players.
00:28:32
Speaker
Yeah, look, this Will Day thing, I think they do have a midfield role peg for him this season, but I'm not sure it's going to be that 50-60% CBA role that he got in the pre-season. I think if we look at Josh Ward, Josh Ward only had 29% CBA's in that practice game.
00:28:48
Speaker
The word was that he was coming in off a little bit of a limited pre-season. He was dealing with a little bit of soreness and was taking his time to warm up. So it wouldn't surprise me if come round one, round two, those roles have kind of reversed and Josh Ward is sitting more that 50 to 60 percent and Will Day is sitting around that 30 percent instead because they know a little bit more about what they're going to get with Josh Ward. And I think if they do plan on having Will Day at 30 percent,
00:29:12
Speaker
you may as well give him that run in the pre-season so he can wrap his head around, you know, playing in the midfield. So that's where I'm kind of sitting it at, sitting with it at the moment. And if he's only getting 30% CBAs and he's spending the rest of his time in the half back line, I think you might be looking at a 70 to 75 average, which isn't enough from his price
Will Day's Role in Hawthorn Midfield
00:29:30
Speaker
point. And with Elliott Yoe, although he was priced at 70, we were banking on him being a 90 to 94 almost keeper, whereas you're not going to get that from Will Day.
00:29:40
Speaker
I love the point on Josh Ward having a bit more midfield time as well and even looking at someone like a Walpole which is our next question talking about some mid prices kind of moves nicely into that. Does that also concern us? Does he take a little bit of a haircut with some of the other movements? Obviously everyone was playing such low time on ground especially in that Hawthorn game that's so hard to tell
00:30:03
Speaker
Where things lie homes, I'll just throw to you one more time for this one I'm gonna go to each of you for a different mid price here that that Lauren has suggested we stuck on the mid prices She's listed for let's go first of all war pull homes of your thoughts here
00:30:22
Speaker
I don't want to overthink this one. I think his high CBA rotation and the way he played in the midfield in that game, yes, he wasn't the cleanest with his ball use, but his history of scoring, what he's done in the past.
00:30:35
Speaker
his role in the pre-season. I think we kind of, you know, we take that for what it is and if you were hot on Warpool, I don't see an issue for starting him. What I will say now though is with losing Elliott Yeo, I know a lot of people were looking at a Warpool, a sheet, a Callahan and maybe even trying to fit all three of them in, but with the rookies we've got now, I think you probably need to only pick two of those and play an extra rookie in the midfield to have cash to use elsewhere to fix up Yeo or whatever. So I think maybe now our hands have been forced with
00:31:05
Speaker
the rookies we've been given there to try and play them on field I think. Which one of the two would you take, sheet or whirlpool, if you could only take one?
00:31:16
Speaker
I'm taking Sheed, Phos, I think. He, yes he looked slow, yes he looked like someone that had missed a lot of football, but I think the news with Elliot Yeo today only strengthened Sheed's case. That's going to increase his CBAs at least for the first round, and we know Carves are generally not a one-week injury, so if Yeo's missing, you know, two, three rounds at the start, yes you might get more of a price rise out of Warple, but I think Sheed's going to be closer to being a keeper, stay to it.
00:31:43
Speaker
And only 37k the difference. Yes. Sorry. Yes. No, it's a little bit more than that. 57k the difference. No, no, no, no, no. It's only 57k the difference between Walpole and Callahan. Which one of those two you're backing in?
00:32:01
Speaker
To be honest mate, for me it's Warple. Just old school fantasy me, I'm going to back in the inside mid-roll rather than the outside wing roll for a kid developing who's only played five games. That's how I see it. I think consistency of scoring is going to get it done for Warple. However, I have been wrong in the past, but that's generally how I play it. Stado. And if you go, if you go Sheed and he doesn't work out, but the other two are killing it, it's an easy drop down, isn't it? Stado, just... Absolutely.
00:32:31
Speaker
Just to say, I thought you were going to go the other way, an extra $19k from Sheed and you can get yourself a setterfield, mate. And you still won't do it. Oh, no, don't worry. He's on the down low. He's on the down low. Oh, you keep it. An extra $600k you can just jump up to lead, mate. You're laughing. Yeah.
00:32:48
Speaker
1.2 ownership per cent ownership for Sederfield. My goodness, that is bodily juiceness. I'm all about it, Stado. I'm on board with you, mate. I think he's going to have an amazing season. Let's actually go back to Lauren's. They're not in all pre-season Dossie book. I know, you've done well. I ignored Hewitt last year, but I'm not ignoring this one, Seder's, on my radar. Lauren, let's get back to her question, though. Tanner Bruin, or we've talked about the other three. She mentioned Sheed, Warple and Callahan, but what about Tanner Bruin, Louis?
00:33:20
Speaker
I couldn't be colder to be honest, Dossie. It's Geelong or a team that are going to try different things in the pre-season. They know they're good. They know what they're doing. They've got a game style. They've almost been pioneers of where the AFL is headed with heavy rotations through the mids and resting your players to peak during the finals.
00:33:39
Speaker
I think he's in there in the pre-season to get some minutes. He might be in there early on in the season, which is probably maybe what you need, but I just don't see the scoring ability there. I think the big dogs will take over and he will lose part of that spot, which makes him a good scorer. And to be honest with you, I'm not totally convinced he's best 22. Still, even though we played both practice games, I think it only takes a handful of players to be putting up good numbers.
00:34:08
Speaker
Good form in the BFL there to take his spot, more senior players. And I just think that's a headache that I'd rather avoid. I can see why coaches are going towards it. The data does suggest that it might be a play. So you can't totally rule a player out like that, but I just think it's fraught with danger. There's too many variables and I'd rather just pass on that and just watch it happen.
00:34:36
Speaker
We've got a lot of mid-price questions coming through, but we might as well rack this one through as well from the Nuffington Post. Is Jason Horn-Francis an option? The biggest player since Wayne Carey to have left the Kangaroos, according to Colonzi.
00:34:51
Speaker
Look, it's such an interesting one. I don't think so. Not for me at least. You know, Rosie is one of the main guys in there now. Wines, yes, coming off a limited pre-season. Maybe impacted a little bit early, but his minutes are only going to increase. Butters was impacted pre-season as well, so his numbers are only going to increase.
00:35:13
Speaker
As an M4 in a Port Adelaide side, which I'm not terribly sure about how they're going to perform early in the season, like their pre-season form wasn't great and they weren't great last year either, I just think there's too many unknowns there.
Jason Horn-Francis's Potential
00:35:25
Speaker
And I've made it known that I think he's more of an impact player and he'll do some pretty special things at times, but he's not going to be an accumulator consistently enough to average 80, 85, which we would need him to. So I think I'm going to look elsewhere. Well, Louis was giddy with excitement when I mentioned his name. Mate, have you got a different opinion?
00:35:43
Speaker
I can't fit him in. I actually do like him. I think he will get enough opportunity through the midfield. He passed the eye test. I reckon you can pencil him in for five tackles and hopefully not six frees against as well which would have taken up his practice game score up to 100. He's a nice little punt in the forward line. It's a super awkward price and you kind of want to be right with it but you do have parachute options down to
00:36:08
Speaker
you know you could go a Bruin if he performs or a McLean or somebody after that sort of round one two three and even somebody else depending on your DPP. I think he's a player who's going to get fans through the gate and I think Port are going to play into that so he's a sneaky one for me that might be able to push that top six forward status.
00:36:32
Speaker
It's not a bad point you make, Louie, about the parachute option. But then again, if you started Jason Horn Francis, you started Warpool, you started Callahan, all of these guys that you say, oh, well, they're, you know, they're a little bit more expensive and you can go down. But then round two, round three rolls around and you're trying to find a parachute plan to get all of them out, but also fix the rookies that you've missed plus fix injuries. That's when coaches have got themselves into trouble in the past and your cash gen is halted. So it is still risky.
00:36:59
Speaker
Absolutely. Can I just say, mate, when you're leaning forward, your beard is luscious at the moment. That's a real luscious. Right there. That's beautiful. Lou, yours is looking pretty good too, mate. But geez, Kyle, that is some sort of beard.
00:37:13
Speaker
Thanks mate, I appreciate that. Stato ripped the shit out of it last week, so, you know, it's not... No, it's been trimmed up a bit since. It's not as disheveled this week. I have not touched it, Louis. Stato, if you're as old as me, you would have called you cut weasel. If you're as old as me, that's how bad you were looking last week.
00:37:33
Speaker
Stado, is Liam Duggan an option? This is from Toddy. Look, you know my thoughts about this. I think in West Coast system at the moment, they chip market. If there's any danger of them getting smashed in a blowout, they are going back to their slow play that we saw, even in the practice game and in the last six or so games last year. Liam Duggan finished the year with 107 in his last five.
00:37:57
Speaker
Stado, any thoughts here having to pay a little bit up? You have to go about a hundred and a bit K up from Elliot Yeo. What do you think of Liam Duggan? Sounds like a DOS pick or a draft pick. Was that your question, DOS? It was Toddy's at Toddman84. There you go. Bit of a shout out.
00:38:19
Speaker
Gossage, can I just take over hosting here for a second? Because I just want to ask Stado a question. Stado's the keeper man, so we know he's put a lot more time and effort into some of the lower players that us classic coaches might not have thought about. But just looking at the team sheets, Tom DeConing, solo rock Stado, what do you think his scoring ability is like?
00:38:39
Speaker
Look, it's interesting because we really haven't seen a lot of it, to be fair. So that's when the big question mark happens. But God damn it, he's athletic. He's up against the tank, who's actually solo as well, which ironically puts them both in a bit of a frame for a sneaky R2 while we're trying to figure everything out. I wouldn't mind, Louis.
00:39:02
Speaker
actually finding the costs while we're chatting through it. But look, I think there's a 70 and an 80 available for DDK. And I think he can comfortably do that. I don't know what his ceiling could be this early. One thing we do know, he can take a grab. So once he's got license to be roaming around the ground, he could actually get a lot of plus sixes for us. Do you know the prices, Louis?
00:39:31
Speaker
Yeah, so you get 552K for Tom De Koning, so it's a really awkward class. A little bit too exit. Yeah. You're almost looking at Scott Lissette territory there, and even though all that was said, I'd almost prefer that. And can we just not forget as well, Sylvani's still on the side, right, as well? Because they've often gone with Sylvani as that small
00:39:54
Speaker
that smaller backup rock type of player. I just want to make sure, yeah, he's at half forward. I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, for your draft legs as well, stream the, uh, Jack Sylvani, I think that'll be more of a split than we think. Cause they still have, um, a pretty competent rock there, but just saying, I've also looked up the with without stats on a DFS Australia shout out to them as well. Um, so last season, uh, Tom DeConning was 10 points better.
00:40:18
Speaker
without Mark Pitnett than with him. So, but he only averaged 65 without versus 55 with, but, you know, obviously he's a year, another preseason under the belt, big contract in the works apparently. So yeah, good, good shout. Thanks for that, uh, homesy. We'll get through a few more questions, I think. And then we're going to get to our listener league draft, which has been touting for a long time. Is Ed Richards the perfect yo swap talking about a dossy question from Jason?
00:40:47
Speaker
Uh, Lou thoughts. Now he's had an interrupted pre-season as of about two weeks ago. So I think you have to pass on that now from was the 86 cogs and Jaden hunt or Liam Jones. Oh, sorry. Cogs and Jaden hunt or Liam Jones or day costs and Bruin homesy.
00:41:10
Speaker
Or I think probably Cogs and your pick of Hunt and Jones, purely because the midfield role for Cogs is going to be a keeper, whereas I'm not sure you're going to get that from Daikos and Broon. I think you banked the keeper there. Love this one from Junktime here, excluding Doc Stado.
Choosing the D1 Defender
00:41:33
Speaker
Who would you pick at D1?
00:41:39
Speaker
Yeah, it's like that. You have to talk on a podcast, Ado. Dawson. And by the way, Dawson's got eight home games before the buy too. So it's a nice little duty fixture. They're not sure on how tough those match ups are, but it doesn't have to travel too much. Sticking with you, Lou. Kelly, Josh Kelly versus Bont.
00:42:05
Speaker
Oh, geez, that's tough. So tough. I need to... That's like asking Louis to pick his favorite child out of his two children. It really is. Look, I'm going to go with Bont just because we've had the messaging throughout the preseason that he's going to be playing more midfield. He's been a guy who's consistently been over 100. He's captain of the club, whereas even though Josh Kelly appears to have the role, there's still
00:42:31
Speaker
a little bit of uncertainty about that and we don't know how Kingsley is going to sort of deploy his men. So I'll just I'll go on what we've seen previously under a consistent coach and game style and I'll favor Bont there. So then I raise that and say cogs or Bont.
00:42:54
Speaker
Well for... I'm pretty cold on Cogs. Maybe 5-7 points better than Cogs and a keeper in the mids. But Cogs is not going to be a bad pick by any means. I think he's still a 98-103 type midfielder. I do think he's going to be the guy who makes way in that giant's midfield to have a bit of a forward split though, which is going to hamstring him a little bit.
00:43:23
Speaker
Yeah, I'm Bont as well and I think what gets it done for me is that although signs have been positive, we still haven't seen how GWS are going to line up and play under this new Kingsley system. So although it's looking good, it was looking good for Collingwood this time in the preseason last year and they all dropped significantly. So there still is that added flag of not really knowing how GWS are going to line up.
00:43:47
Speaker
One more question for you then, Holmsey, because you mentioned another bit of a looser ruck option, cheaper ruck option before in TDK. How about Peter Laddoms? Is he our savior, asks Tim? Laddoms has always been a scorer, and I'd be a liar if I said I hadn't looked into it, just to see what his scores were like as a solo ruck in his time at Port and his time at Sydney. Is he out of contract status, just quickly? Yeah, good question, don't know.
00:44:16
Speaker
Yeah, fair. I just think he's probably playing for his career a little bit. He's kind of at the crossroads and he's 24, 25, so he's coming into that prime rock age. The thing that kind of just makes me a little bit weary is that you're not picking him to be a keeper, you're picking him to generate cash early, and he has wits, and then he has the Gorn Grundy combo in round three, so that's two really tough matchups in his first three. And if he drops those scores and then hit his back round four, you are in absolute no-man's land, so it's quite risky, Lew.
00:44:46
Speaker
Yeah, just on that contract status comes out of contract 2025. So, he's got three seasons. Thanks, Louis. All right. Can we slide to Jack Bose if selected, Stado? No, he's been rolled out around one. Okay. There you go. So, no, no, no, you can't. What about Andy McGraw, Stado? I'll throw that one instead.
00:45:08
Speaker
I'm intrigued by Essendon and they've got Hawthorne round one. I think obviously a tag's going to come obviously and we saw during the preseason there were two tags. So there's potentially Zach Merritt.
00:45:24
Speaker
and someone in defence. I can't imagine them going the tools because it'll be one player that does the defensive line. So I presume it'll be McGraw and Redman. So I'm wary for that. But I want to see if this game style of chip, chip, chip is real, because if it is, there's some gold in that team.
00:45:47
Speaker
All right, I think that's pretty much all the questions unless, is there any other burning questions we haven't touched on? I think we've covered plenty. Oh, here we go.
Ideal F1 Forward Line Players
00:45:57
Speaker
Last one from Nathan here. Hi guys, with a few laid outs, I think you should spend your time on the important line. Who is your F1? He asks, thanks as always to, to Nathan.
Listener League Draft and Fan Engagement
00:46:10
Speaker
All right, let's get to our questions from the, no, no question, sorry, we are moving into our listener league draft. So you've been hearing us harp on about these four weeks now. Everyone's got their nominations in, we're running a listener league draft this year.
00:46:26
Speaker
where we are drafting you and we're going to be doing that right now. There's five picks each. We're going to run a 20 man or women or people league with listeners that have submitted their reviews on Apple podcasts as to why they want to represent us. So five picks each.
00:46:45
Speaker
You're going to represent us. We'll have some sort of prize at the end, some sort of punishment surely for the loser as well. And I can't wait to draft some people. We had plenty of reviews. Thanks so much for everyone that submitted them. Didn't think this was going to take off as much as it did. We had a great start from Stado just raking in reviews to start with. Then Holmes, he came home strong. Lou got some patches here and there.
00:47:09
Speaker
and Big Dossy with good numbers as well, but can't wait to get into this lads. How are we gonna pick the order though as to, cause we did say we could snake other people's reviews, which I don't know if anyone wants, I kind of want to stay loyal to my people, but.
00:47:24
Speaker
Let's just get a random number generator up real quick and we'll decide who's going to pick first. Pick one of four. All right, Holmsey, you're number one, Stado two, Louie three, me four. It's pick number three. Who was that? That was Louie. Louie, pick one.
00:47:48
Speaker
Pick one. All right. No worries. Off the top. Let's go. I'm going to draft. Oh, no, a goat. I like the the use of my name with leading with the letters. So getting a little bit creative there. So that'll be my first pick. Well, now I've forgotten who was the next pick anyway, but this was number two. Who was number two?
00:48:09
Speaker
That was me, that was Stado. Stado, let's do the rest of it first. Hang on, let's do the rest of it first. Number four, that was me. So I'm third and then home is your last battle at night. Stado, pick two. OK, pick number two. I'm going to go in detail with my first pick and just do some highlights for my future picks. But look, to be fair, there was a lot of people that went on there that thought I would go the sympathy when they called me an old prick.
00:48:34
Speaker
No offense, it's not true. I wanted to go with someone that only talked about the facts, that was real, that hit the hard strings. So year of the FOS 69, nice. So that is the listener, year of the FOS 69 and the pitch. Headline by Make Stato Great Again. Dear Stato, the best coach on the pod pod. So you can see the facts coming out already.
00:49:03
Speaker
You by far are the most handsome. Factual. It could only be you, Stado. If my name is read out on draft night, my year, nay, my life will be fulfilled. There's just one problem. I fear I cannot help you. It's not that I can't play the game. Well, actually, I'm a fellow five-time top 100 coach myself.
00:49:29
Speaker
But how can one possibly make Stado great again when Stado is already and always will be a true goat? So this is facts. Hashtag 2023 year of the FOSS. Yours truly Brett. I won't release your full name Brett, but this was the clincher and this is what makes you the number two pick overall and the number one for Stado, the goatee of the goat.
00:49:59
Speaker
What's the secret to your rock hard abs and chiseled bod? Is it the salads? Is it the American psycho level morning workout and skincare routine? Any info will be appreciated. Well done Brett. That's number one draft pick for you. I think this might just have to prove how well I know you mate.
00:50:25
Speaker
I've thrown in one bogus review from Big Dossy, and Dossy's representing Stato. Oh brilliant. As soon as I heard that workout thing, I was like, oh, this is suspicious here. Please go ahead, release the last name and read it backwards. Read it backwards right there. Oh, you're dope. Switched around the O and A. Dossy, go. Read it out, mate.
00:50:55
Speaker
His name is Brett Tokes. Well, you know how to press my buttons. The American Psycho workout. That was the most traumatizing picture I've ever seen.
00:51:13
Speaker
Oh my god. I feel bad. You're going to have to pick another listener though I think to represent. Oh no, I want it. I want you to represent me. But there's a few lies in there then. At least we can. I'm actually a fellow five time top hundred coach myself.
00:51:31
Speaker
I just knew what you'd get, what would get you going there. I'm going to pick my first pick. I can't believe you fell for that. All right. My first pick is, it's got to be Richo, 1-3-3. My pitch to HK Doss for the Pod Pod League, 2023.
00:51:52
Speaker
Thanks Basil, I just want to give you a bit of insight into the team, Get On The Beers, that will be representing the great man HK Dos in 2023. This team is a bunch of unique individuals, Dow, Feorini, Zuthri, Ed Richards and led by myself, the 130th ranked coach in 2022, with the highest overall rank of 5th after round 8.
00:52:18
Speaker
We're going to engage with our minds and our hearts. We're going to exchange ideas, thoughts, and even our energy in our quest for the lux. And to speak from our heart and win the lux, you need to have courage. You need to be honest and authentic.
00:52:35
Speaker
We're not always going to get it right, in brackets, Jaden Stevenson, Bytale, countless others. And sometimes you're not going to agree with us, in brackets, and kick us out of the Pod Pod group chat. But that's okay. Because just like you, we care. Just like you, we're passionate about the game.
00:52:51
Speaker
So if you want to come along for the ride in 2023, draft us at pick number one in the pod pod draft, because we love AFL fantasy. That's from Richo, coach of get on the beers. Welcome aboard at pick number one. Loved the confidence, wanting to be drafted number one. You're in Richo. Number one pick.
00:53:09
Speaker
That was me, Tossi. Get stuffed. No chance. Not an articulate. Alright, homsey. homsey. Take away, mate, your first pick.
00:53:23
Speaker
All right, boys. I'm glad that we, you know, said we're going to wrap this up really quick. Cheers, Dossi and Stado. Yes. My first one from Zach, my boy, who created the Discord with me. So he wants to be on Kirill Herms' draft team, my team, because if a man can do an AFL fantasy draft while delivering a baby, he can't wait to be in my corner.
00:53:45
Speaker
Unbelievable. That story is always going to go down as one of the greats, Kyle. You're a father of the year, I think. Okay. Next pick. First, your second pick, Lou. Who you got? Yeah. Look, it'd be remiss of me not to pick this guy. His name is Daz Rayd or Dazrud. Pretty quickly, Louis is the man on the pod pod. Most life source never takes a wrong step.
00:54:07
Speaker
but I like this point next. Most importantly, he waffles on the least. So during the draft, no waffling around, select a man who has come the top 1003 years in a row. So I'll be drafting you and let's get on to the next pick. Stado, you're up next, mate. Don't draft me this time.
00:54:24
Speaker
No, Levi from Adelaide has got a fair bit in here, but overall, in his years, listening to the pod pod, there is one man who is unmatched. Records mere dos could only dream of, and of course, that's the stato. So Levi, number pick two for me.
00:54:47
Speaker
My second pick is going to have to be MS91. He writes, or they write, great podcast. Such an entertaining and informative chat between these four great blokes. I can't wait to represent DOS in this year's comp. They all laughed at us, mate, when you said you would come back to beat Stado. But the result was never in doubt.
00:55:07
Speaker
And after your triumph in 2021, thanks to Wingard, I look forward to helping you beat Stado three years in a row. Shout out to the OG listener, 2021, when I did not win the yearly prize against Stado, but happened to win a late year round, picked up Wingard for like 150. So great shout out. And yeah, you're in the squad. Holmsey, your next pick.
00:55:32
Speaker
Yep, so if I didn't actually know who this bloke was, Doss, I think this has a lot of you about it, but Eggsy's Eagles, after a few years meandering in the top 5K without really trying, I'm rolling up the sleeves and putting in the hard yards this year, looking at my squad. I've already run the Hilux, won the Hilux, so it's only fair for the perennial number two hat, the Prince of Perth, the cheese grater, Holmsey, to choose me as his champion.
00:55:56
Speaker
Very nice. Very nice. He's great. I like that. Shout out there. Uh, Louie. Oh, is it? Wait. Yeah. It's Louie now. All right. Uh, let's go to, I will draft.
00:56:09
Speaker
Where was it? Locky Mounts. I'll read this one out. Louis Luscious Luxe has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Well, I think Locky locking in Louis Luscious Luxe has an even nicer ring to it. I've done it right to just spit that out. You did very well. Just quietly. I've been a huge Louis fan since his lane kicking days with the Torp King and would be honored to represent the great man of draft, the team that drives home the Luxe. I've got to draft him going back to the old lane kicking days. I love that. So Locky Mounts, third pick.
00:56:39
Speaker
Unreal stato.
00:56:59
Speaker
Beautiful. Number three. Love that. My third pick is from a name that I can't pronounce. It's like H S J H blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Um, for the Lux chases, a 10 out of 10 pod for all serious and slightly less than serious AFL fantasy players. I'd like to represent Dospy Lestere because I will get a tattoo, another reference to this, uh, saying here, I will get a tattoo with the full text of the hay basil monologue. If I, or any of my teammates win the Lux in 2023. So.
00:57:27
Speaker
Promising to head to the tattoo parlour, get it tattooed, jump on board. He's also mentioned hospitalist here there, couldn't go past it. Holmsey, your next pick. Yeah, quick one here. Shuckers last year who came second. Cracking Pod. Holmsey, you have to draft me. We share the sacred number two cap. Let's make amends and win the league. Beautiful. Lou, we're up to the last two picks each year.
00:57:53
Speaker
Last two picks. I'll go with Luca29. Gives us a nice rap on the podcast, which is nice to see and nominates me. He's the only member that I can trust with Stato Washed Up, Holmesy Grumpy and Dossa Voidy Marshall.
00:58:09
Speaker
Like Louie, and this is partly why I've drafted him because he's a bit like me and looks far too far ahead into the future. Like Louie, I started my 2023 research early by getting Yo and Day a year early for their concussions back to back, ruining my seasons. I do have fantasy credentials as I finished 29 in 2018 and top 1000 in 2020 and 2022. I want him on my team. That sounds pretty good to me.
00:58:36
Speaker
Notice how generally my reviews don't have too many credentials attached to them, unlike you guys. All right, Stado, take us through your second last pick, mate.
00:58:47
Speaker
Yes, this is from Matt in Cairns, now very long post, God bless him. But I'll just end it with, just like Shed 16's slogan, don't think, just do. So he's doubled down on the Draft Doctor's Shed 16, so God bless him and of course,
00:59:11
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finished off with make Stato great again, so he's in. Fair bit of bagging on you, Dossie, on that one. God bless him. Yeah, there's been a bit of that in the reviews. Oh, when the stripes go marching in is my fourth pick. Also gives us a little bit of a
00:59:26
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A buzz there, thanks very much. And then goes through to say, he wants to be drafted by the ultimate salesman, Dossie. Always pitching, shocking players. I don't know about the payout here, to be honest, but somehow getting people on the bandwagon. He reminds me of the Monorail guy from the Simpsons. I've sold Patty Dow, Pat Lipinski, and Ed Richards, and by gum, it put them on the map. I liked that one from him. Who's next? Holmsey, second last pick.
00:59:55
Speaker
Yep, so this one's from Warmo underscore five. Love the pod lads. A little bit longer, but I'm going to read this one. I'm going for the credibility vote here with Holmesy. With a couple of top 100 finishes up my sleeve to go with your record, I think we can align for ultimate glory. I know Stado rocks the Peaky Blinders style fantasy hat he won back in the 1930s, but you can't select your team with a feather quill anymore.
01:00:17
Speaker
Louis gives the odd good nugget of advice but it's a result driven industry so he can have a spell in the twos till he gets some more runs on the board and the only way Dos is getting anywhere near our highlights is if he takes one for a test drive down at the Toyota dealership or makes a video about one. I added that one. Cheers fellas and good luck this year. Oh what a great review. That's the perfect grumpy homesy review right there. Yeah you are a perfect match I reckon there mate. Alright Louis last round let's get it done.
01:00:46
Speaker
Yeah, and I apologize to everyone I haven't drafted. I wish I could draft you all. This has been a great laugh. And thanks for putting in the reviews,
Reflections and Future Plans
01:00:54
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guys. They're absolutely unreal. Finally, I'm going to draft Wilson Bindi. A bit like Kyle. I'll read this one out. It's quite a nice one. Firstly, I have to praise the pod. You guys always offer unique takes and insights compared to the other content creators out there. So it's a must use.
01:01:11
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Use resource to be a step ahead in fantasy. Also the banter and entertainment is top quality I want to represent Louie in the listening league with a strong preseason under his belt I feel I push well into hat territory is coming and I want to be part of his team for it As for myself been playing fantasy seriously for three years focusing on overall rank and in that time I've gone to I've gone from a finish just outside the top 2k to finishing 135th last year. Well done
01:01:39
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I may have missed out on an illustrious hat, but that's fine because I know I'll be rocking up to the Traders 2024 live show at the highway in the Lux and before you ask, Dos, I'll be happy to give you a lift home. Dos can walk home, first of all. He lives close enough to that, but thank you very much for the review and that's going to be my fifth pick.
01:01:58
Speaker
Yeah, awesome shout out Lou to all the people that didn't get drafted. We do appreciate them and plenty of them provided chuckles. So it was a hard, hard cut, especially for Stado who had about 15,000 just for him. Stado, you want to take us away with your last pick, mate? You've been a harsh, harsh having to cut all your fans out here, but good luck.
01:02:16
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Yeah, there's a shitload of them and thank you so much for the support. Nathan, Team Moose Season takes my last spot. Love the Pod Pod. I'm nominating to be drafted by Stado. This is despite no doubt crashing my chances of being involved since Stado has never lost a pole. So long-term listener and no doubt listener to Draft Doctor's a fair bit.
01:02:40
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I've done my Stado apprenticeship rule number F-ing 1, plan for the buyers crazy 8 rule and most importantly I hate we love big cocks. Don't we all pick me Stado? Nathan.
01:02:57
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Beautiful. My final pick is Michael. He's got his Twitter handle here, which is going to be helpful, by the way. I think the only way we're really going to get everyone involved in time is if you reach out ASAP. So we're assuming you are the top of the top fans. So hopefully you listen to this quite quickly after release and can reach out to us individually, maybe just reach out to me or whoever you've been wanting to be drafted by.
01:03:24
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Slide in the DMS if you can and we'll get you in this league ASAP on Twitter is the preferred method if possible Otherwise find hopefully find another way to get involved But yeah, thanks so much again for everyone for reviewing my final one the boss with the goss
01:03:40
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He thanks Louis Stadeau and Holmsey as well for contributing, which I wasn't a big fan of doing that in the review, but there's only one pod god. He's the boss with the goss, the man with the plan, the 2023 Lux winner. Two times rated best looking podcast hoof and striving for a third consecutive year, it's the mighty dos. And he's given his credentials. He's actually only a second year player, which I respect. I'm feeling a second year breakout here.
01:04:05
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Best round rank of 370 and best overall rank at 120 at round 9 specifically. So, dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped out to... Dropped
01:04:26
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But the hunger and confidence doesn't end there. If Doss drafts me in this god pog league, I'll raise the stakes and challenge the rest of the pod boys. If I finish with a lower overall score at the end of the 2023 season, he'll donate a hundred bucks to any charity of Doss's choice. So Michael putting it all on the line in his second year. Love that from him. Holmsey, who's your final pick?
01:04:51
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Yeah, look, thanks to everyone that did their review, but I'm actually going to go a bit controversial. I'm going to snake someone for my last pick because I feel this one is too good not to have in. So this one, bit long, but it goes. I love that one. Now, Stado, that's Morse code and this listener thought that might be a little bit easier for you to understand. So can you let us know what he said?
01:05:18
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Yeah, I actually do know. I do know. He's basically saying he's verging on 40 years of age. So yeah, he was basically saying that I would understand Morse code. And sadly, I actually do. Yeah, I was going to say, mate, don't pretend like you don't know, but that's from Moo83. Wants to be one of status five, but nah, come on, come on board with homesy, mate. You won't be upset.
01:05:45
Speaker
I love that. I love Snake in the final one. And there was, yeah, there was a couple of pitches to no one in particular. That was one there. And we also had one come through for Hami as well, our super sub. I reckon if we put the nominations out earlier, he might've had plenty more. Yeah, he would have. Dossie, Dossie, I reckon draft, draft someone for Hami right now. Just pick one off the cuff and that can be the one that you, you were the burner for Stado, I reckon. Perfect. All right, let's go. Let's read it out. Up the Wiggles, he says, draft me Hami.
01:06:12
Speaker
I would love to get drafted by Hami because I have been a top 100K finisher. The four years I've played AFL fantasy. I was coming 119 in round three last year. Hami is the perfect person to draft me because he's the best person on the pod pod. There you go. And you're not wrong. Hami is the best person on the pod pod, I'd say. He's a great boy. He is the best.
01:06:32
Speaker
All right, well, that's the draft. Again, thanks everyone for getting involved. Make sure you reach out ASAP and we'll get this league set up. Now that I'm out, someone will have to set it up. So we'll reach out, we'll get that all sorted for you.
01:06:48
Speaker
Look, we've had a mountain of work in the pre-season. Thanks to everyone that's been listening so far. And we're going to be continuing, of course, just to remind you that we are free to wear this season. So stay on board with us. Subscribe to your usual channels on Apple.
01:07:04
Speaker
We ain't going nowhere. Get around us on Spotify. Keep leaving those ratings and reviews to leave us rising up the ranks. And we appreciate each and every one of you can't wait for round one. We might even jump on. There's been some murmurs. We might even jump on a Twitter spaces in the coming days, maybe even on Friday. Just just keep an eye out on that ahead of lockout on the Friday night. We're probably going to jump on there. So follow at Pod Pod AFL and we'll jump on Twitter there and do something.
01:07:34
Speaker
All right, lads, any final comments before we say farewell and good luck in round one? Enjoy.
01:07:43
Speaker
Yeah, don't do anything drastic to your teams. We've got the data. We've been able to form our sides over a number of months now, so don't go tearing it apart. Back yourself. Pick players that you enjoy watching as well if you can, and good luck to everybody out there. It should be a good year, and how good to finally get started. It feels like we've been podcasting for months, which we have.
01:08:07
Speaker
And it should be good to start talking about our weeks and what's going on in a bit of trade strategy which is where. Which is where a lot of the coaches really are able to make those jumps up the ranks so very exciting times. Gump a car, final thoughts, we've gone around the circle mate. Yeah no, Louis summed it well, don't do something stupid and can't wait to put Wayne Miller in my team tomorrow.
01:08:32
Speaker
Alright, signing off. Farewell everyone, and good luck.