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The End of the PODPOD??! | Stato’s “Retirement” | Players of Difference | #PODPOD
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Just like that, round 6 is over and the bye rounds have come to a conclusion. There were two types of coaches this week… Coaches lucky enough to be on the end of some monster premium scores from players like Dawson, Xerri and Grundy… And coaches who found their teams crumbling with sub par scores from Saints players, North players, Luke Jackson and basically any player that Holmesy had on field. With round 7 approaching and a return to a best 22 format, coaches who have planned well and kept their cash moving are sure to see a surge in the rankings as they charge towards hat territory!!!
Join Stato, Harmey and Holmesy and they digest a round of Fantasy footy that they would all much rather forget. From a Holmesy sob story team reveal, to Stato going old school and channeling his inner Dos and Harmey providing the level head he always does, this episode has everything you need in preparation for an early ANZAC day eve round beginning of football. They discuss a bunch of players, sit down and chat strategy and answer a bunch of listener questions that is sure to help you attack this upcoming round of footy. Enjoy!
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Transcript
Introduction to AFL Fantasy Classic
00:00:18
Speaker
G'day, and welcome to the Pod Pod. It's Holmsey here talking all things AFL fantasy classic for you this Monday night, 22nd of April. Bit of a smaller panel this week after we had six on last week, but we have two time top 10 finisher, John Harmie here. As always, been a stable of the Pod Pod community. Harmie, first, how are you going, mate?
00:00:45
Speaker
Hey, I'm going pretty well. Thanks, mate. As I said, although my fantasy team is terrible at the moment, and I've just been dropping in rank the last two or three weeks, that's been a bit of a shame. But anyway, the bombers are up and about, so I'm happy enough.
00:01:03
Speaker
Yeah, look, Army, not going to lie.
Fantasy Struggles and Retirement Considerations
00:01:05
Speaker
We thought the pod pod was actually ending Sunday night. Army, sorry, Stado had come into the group chat. I was talking about retirement. I was wondering whether I was actually going to see Monday. I was actually considering jumping off the grandstand at the Derby on Saturday night with the, with the performance that Freya put up. But we are here, no Louie, but we do have five time real dream team top 100 finisher Stado with us.
00:01:30
Speaker
How are you going, mate? I'm well. Yes, I didn't have a great weekend, but I was the highest scorer for us, which probably shows you how bad things were going. But if you really want to judge a bad weekend when Dossie beats all of us by over 50 points,
00:01:51
Speaker
And some of us, by 200 points, it is not a good weekend for fantasy. So look, at the end of the day, we need to sit down and acknowledge it was our first try of the the best model for a block of four games with a lot of rookies on there. So we're learning. And some of us had some bad luck. Holmes the unfortunate had more bad luck than
00:02:21
Speaker
than the rest of us combined. But yeah, not great scoring and I think everyone but Dossie's ranks went
Life Changes and Fantasy Focus
00:02:30
Speaker
the wrong way. But we're here to play the long game. But I will say, the reason why I talked about retirement, I'll be fair to the listeners, but you're sort of new last week.
00:02:41
Speaker
I'm going through a bit of a major change, which is fun and exciting. There's nothing negative about it, but unsure how long I'll be away. It could be as little as three weeks. It could be six to seven, but
00:02:58
Speaker
I can tell you while I was overseas, my weekends were filled with joy, relaxation. I've been back for two weeks and best 18 and it's been nothing but feeling like I'm homesy in the second tier at Optus Stadium. It hasn't been great fun. So when I'm reflecting on Sunday going, I haven't got this to do for eight weeks and I won't see hardly any footy. I won't be stressing about my team for the weeks on end.
00:03:28
Speaker
I don't think this is going to be a bad thing so that's why the retirement come underway but Steve Fizz and I had a good chat yesterday and I certainly don't want to let him down so hopefully when everything gets sorted and I'm back up and running that I can share my presence, my wisdom and my stupid sense of humor that makes me giggle all the time.
00:03:51
Speaker
I believe the exact words used in the group chat were, I cannot wait to not watch footy for the next five weeks. Yeah, I think it was something like that. Well, you had a shit Sunday. I was having a shit Sunday. It was only Louis that wasn't feeling the sympathy
Support and Success Stories
00:04:10
Speaker
and love.
00:04:11
Speaker
And, uh, I'm glad that Stevie Fizz helped you out, Stado, because he helped me out as well. Matt's school this morning, bit of a tough morning with the kids. And I, I get a little message come through on the Twitter from Stevie Fizz. It'll be all right, mate. Get off the ledge.
00:04:29
Speaker
God bless him. God bless him. Ah, yeah. But while we're on Dossy Watch then, because with the way he was acting in the group chat on Saturday or Friday, whenever it was, he comes in as Dossy does, just a screenshot of him vice-captaining English.
00:04:45
Speaker
with the buzz emoji saying he's never wrong. Buzz, buzz, buzz. I'm on for the Hilux. You would have thought that he would have had a rank higher than 13K, but I suppose when that's your personal best, you got to be excited about something. So, Gossi did have what, 18, 13 for the week, 18, 19, sorry. As you mentioned, Stado, he did get me by 200 points, but that sees him as a all-time PB rank of 13, 9, 2, 7.
00:05:12
Speaker
And, uh, I can't wait to have him on the pot at some point soon under an alias so he can talk about his rise towards the highlights. That's where it's going.
Score Reflections and Strategies
00:05:20
Speaker
But let's, let's get into our rounds. You've, you've touched it at it off the top. I've had an absolute nightmare. Everything that could have gone wrong did, which we'll get to in a little bit, but a 16 12 for myself, which actually saw me go from a rank of 182 out to two, four, four, four.
00:05:37
Speaker
which is miserable. Just a few fun facts about the year 1612 Bermuda officially became a part of the English colony of Virginia. The Pendle Witch Trials began which had 10 people accused of witchcraft in Lancaster and it was actually the last public burning at the stake in England.
00:05:59
Speaker
But more importantly, Stato, it was the year that you started high school, so I'm sure you remember it quite well. Army, how'd you go? Well, slightly better than you, Holmesy, but still not very good. 1-7-0-6 for the round. That puts my rank at 6-4-4-6, so I dropped about 2,000 ranks.
00:06:22
Speaker
on top of dropping 2000 ranks last week. So yeah, as Stado said, the best AD hasn't been too fruitful last couple of weeks here, mate. Yeah, nah, I agree with you there. I was going all well and good up until this round, which conveniently all I had was max gone out. So you'd think we'd go, all right, we'll get to mine in a minute. Stado, how'd you go?
00:06:46
Speaker
Yeah, had a score of 1767, which some highlights for that year. It was the year I purchased my first property, and I'm still having another crack at another one right now as we speak. Rank is 5,442. That's down exactly 1,110 positions. So an absolute miserable week for me. But as I see the scores,
00:07:14
Speaker
Uh, not as bad as some, so maybe a little bit lucky. Beautiful. Let's, let's start positive before one of us gets really, really negative. Harmony, what's your plus three from the weekend? Oh, my plus three.
00:07:29
Speaker
I think I might throw up to Sam Flanders. I brought him in last week and he got like a 125 on debut, backed it up with a 126, so he set it for a 127 this weekend. So now it's all been going pretty well with Flanders, so I'll chuck it his way. Yeah, don't mind there, Hami, no worries, but Stato, how about you?
00:07:52
Speaker
Cherry for his 126. I needed something good to happen on Saturday and him outscoring. My great nemesis, who I didn't start with, Shesil, certainly brightened my day slightly, but didn't avoid the retirement talk. That's right. I do remember you coming into the group chat almost on Suicide Watch with Shesil on 44 at quarter time. That was an all-time loss from you.
00:08:22
Speaker
Oh yeah, I just, uh, yeah, it was not a good, uh, just thought, come
Rants and Frustrations
00:08:27
Speaker
on. All I wanted was a Fin tag. To be fair. No, I didn't start him in the comp.
00:08:38
Speaker
yeah no absolutely but it's it's it's funny the um all the preseason i was wary because the mid forward talk which apparently is going to start this week so um it might be a genius move but no it cost me an absolute fortune right so
00:08:55
Speaker
The people I started in front of him and there were plenty that went through that back line. They, you know, 130 points I've lost to Schuzel no matter which other option I went.
00:09:12
Speaker
Yeah, look, it's going to be interesting. We might actually talk shizil maybe next week if this midfield role does eventuate because I can't see him maintaining this current average in that midfield for the Kangaroos, but definitely a talking point for later on. Mine, I just have to take the low hanging fruit because I had four tonnes and they are all by players that are highly owned. Isaac Heaney, 113, we all thought it was going to be a bit of a tougher matchup for Gold Coast, but he just kept on keeping on.
00:09:40
Speaker
bit of regret there for not putting the captaincy on a safe 110 plus at the moment, but that is just fantasy. Hami, let's get negative. What is your negative three? So many options. So many. I think I'm going to throw it to Luke Jackson because I brought him in to cover my rucks in this round. I thought, how good is that? Maxi Gorn will be out.
00:10:09
Speaker
But don't worry, because I've got Jackson, my back up rut coming in. I'm going to have another rookie on field, full component of players. How good is that? I look at his score, 61. I don't even think he scored for me. So what was the point of having him in bloody team? Hang on, did you bring him in or did you start him? No, I had him from the start. Yeah.
00:10:31
Speaker
I'll tell you what, Hami, he saved that with a marked goal very late in the last quarter. It was looking like a 49, which...
00:10:41
Speaker
I was really thankful for Luke Jackson. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have got Zach Fisher's 60 on the field. So that one extra point just made a huge amount of difference for me. Look, pretty broad here, but I've got eight players from St Kilda and Fremantle.
00:11:02
Speaker
expecting West Coast and Western Bulldogs match-ups to have some really big scores and they were just basically woeful across the board all well under par and really disappointing but in a bad week for for captaincy options and we ended up getting some
Captaincy Critiques and Adjustments
00:11:24
Speaker
probably I mean I wouldn't have gone cherry I probably wouldn't have gone Flanders but both 126 so they ended up having good options right but you have a VC jack still give you 87 on the weekend you're sweating all weekend of whether your captain's gonna get subbed off or injured or tagged so it was a bit of a nightmare so thanks very much and Kilda for you I know it's been a busy schedule for you but that was really tough to go through
00:11:55
Speaker
Yep, agree with you there, Stado. All right, here we go. It's time for my little negative rant here. This one's deserved. Yeah, before we get positive. So let's have a look at this. Hayden Young, highly owned, but top scorer at three-quarter time on the ground and then doesn't play the last quarter due to Hammy awareness. Masaya Wangani-Miller, 63, well under par. Tom Stewart.
00:12:19
Speaker
On 47, halfway through the second quarter. Cops of concussion just before half time, doesn't play out the rest of the game. Zach Williams, 28. Injury prone, whatever, that's fine. Connor Rosie, good matchup against Collingwood. They've been giving up points. Captain C, put the C on him. LDU, shit pick, 78. Soft matchup against Hawthorne, you'd think he'd score. Nah, no good. Listen, if he's too much.
00:12:46
Speaker
Roland Marshall, good way to attract Cherry own as well. Cherry doubled him, thanks for the VC score of 62. Luke Jackson, good way to... Luke Jackson, soft matchup against the Eagles, good way to cover Max Gorn on his rise. It's all scored tight against him. It's a Richmond running blow team.
00:13:08
Speaker
Amos goes down halfway through the first quarter, plays full forward for a team that can't move the ball, 61. And yeah, thanks for listening to my Ted Talk lads, 16-12. Let's fucking go. Gonna have to put the expletives on this podcast, I think. So you're not a top 100 anymore then, Hamsi? Not even in the top 2,000 anymore.
00:13:33
Speaker
I think the thing that hurts the most is Tom Stewart because he's a force trade now. He lost me 50K. Everyone else is going to get a rookie off field this week and I have to fix that. But we go again is what it is. We'll keep building. We'll see if we can pull it back a little bit. But it's just a little bit unfortunate with the good stuff that I had had.
00:13:52
Speaker
I don't want to dwell on the negatives too much, but could you just quickly go from your D1 to your D8, just the name, and I'll make a quick comment for what's happening for the future. Harry Shiesel? Moving to the forward line, averaging 54. Hayden Young? Has a hamstring is out for three weeks. Messiah Wang and Emila up.
00:14:21
Speaker
He might do okay, but he's got Port Adelaide this week, so he'll get 60. Tom Stewart? He's injured concussion force trade. Zach Williams? He's injured and out, and a failed pick, let's face it, none of us should have gone there. Sam Closie? He looks good, so you've got one good defender so far. Can I cover Stewart this week with Nick Coffield?
00:14:48
Speaker
No, he's injured and out for another six weeks. Blackhouse? Oh, well, he's the gun. So D2 Blackhouse.
00:14:57
Speaker
I'm so glad you're going away for eight weeks though. It turned so quickly, right. You're sitting at 182 last week. Like all of us, you've still got a lot of upgrades to make. A bit of bad luck. Now, Wang and Emile Melira might bounce back and give you 120 this week. But three injury concerns, but we're hearing that Young's going to be good, mate. So I think it's only Stuart and Williams you need to move on.
00:15:26
Speaker
it stops you being creative, right? But you've picked the right week to do it. You've got three or four DPPs to come in straight from the midfield. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Don't you have, well, you'll have Roberts, Bonner, Martin. Martin. Yeah, I've got some options. I do actually have Elliot Yeo in the midfield as well. So I do have options.
00:15:50
Speaker
looking for a rest. But at the same time. Sorry, sorry. We've got that already. Again, yeah, like what happens here. I've got Lazaro, but he was sub on the weekend. Maybe Wilson needs a rest. Maybe Hugo Garcia, who I brought in, doesn't get up. The options are starting to get thin, but we're not here to talk. He doesn't get up. What, sorry, is this breaking news? Who? Who, sorry. Hugo Garcia, I just mean, they got belted. He wasn't there worse, but who really knows its selection?
00:16:19
Speaker
Some under-priced players that I'd love to maybe look at, some of the Richmond boys or Collingwood or Essendon, they play before we even know team. So it's going to be a brave coach to jump early on that. Let's do that then. Let's go into some of our hot topics.
Trade Strategies and Planning
00:16:36
Speaker
Those games on Wednesday and Thursday, not knowing team's stato, is it going to be too risky for coaches this week to take a gamble and burn their trades before they've even seen full teams on Thursday and Friday?
00:16:50
Speaker
Yeah, it's a risky one. I'm certainly not doing anything for Wednesday. I'm just going to put the VC on Gorn and the Aeon House and leave it at that. The problem is, on Thursday being a public holiday, we should be interested in what the profile is going to be with regards to the announcement of games, but you would assume the Anzac Day clash happens prior. My challenge is, and maybe I did it the wrong way round, but my challenge is
00:17:20
Speaker
is that my target is playing on Anzac Day and prior to the teams being announced, and with Hayden Young I'm just going to have to keep the news. But my thoughts are, quite honestly, your push is to get rookies off the field and let's face facts, they are the ones that are at the greater risk of not making the teams. The genuine guns, unless they've got an injury, concerns are fine, they're going to be in their squad.
00:17:50
Speaker
So as long as you've got that backup and support, and I have right across every line, you should be fine if that's the plan and it keeps to that phase of moving off rookies. I would back it in, but I'll get as much intel as you possibly can not to really burn yourself. Yeah, I mean, it's going to be tough with a Hayden Young though, right? Like, Freo can come out during the week and say that he's fine.
00:18:20
Speaker
If he's a laid out, makes it very, very tricky. You know, Essendon came out and said, I don't know what Zach read, but they said it was just Hammy awareness in round zero, round one, whatever it was. And that's turned into a five or six week hammy. So the clubs aren't always honest.
00:18:38
Speaker
What you actually have though, I mean, the injury early in the game is a bigger issue, right? So your Tom Stewart this week is a bigger issue. So that becomes a risk if you have had the Hammy awareness. But what I would say there is you have knowledge of what your E is.
00:18:56
Speaker
and if you've got another defender available and we've all got the DPP option. So I've got Will Graham sitting there in the background, up against West Coast Eagles, ready to go have someone to lay down. Yep. Yeah, no, I don't mind that. And they have the Eagles this week, don't they, Gold Coast? Yep. Correct. This means the wonderful Zach Reed is sitting in my utility spot.
00:19:21
Speaker
because he's such a great utility, he can go anywhere. Essendon legend, Zach Reed. What a player. Can I ask a stupid question? So I'm looking at him going, we're just going to start collecting red dots. This is what happens this time of year, right? So some of your rookies get dropped. So Sanders might be one. I'm certainly trading him out this week.
00:19:47
Speaker
But the right, so Cincilda rookie, is it show maker, Launceston boy? If he gets selected, do you just make your 44K off Zach Reed and move him to a green dollar? You're not gonna know, Stado. Zach Reed's playing what his team is playing in the Anzac game. Oh no, I'm talking down the track. Not this week. I'm just talking down the track. Or are we just waiting for him to come back?
00:20:16
Speaker
Yeah. Um, yeah, it's one you've got to look at. And just on that, you probably don't want to have Zach Reed as your utility considering he'll be locked out on Thursday, mate. Yeah. This is why I got coverage on every line. So I've got, uh, two player coverage on every line, except for Ruck. I've only got, uh, uh, I've only got that beautiful red dot in Harry Barnett.
00:20:38
Speaker
What a man. So glad I was able to loop him last week for my giant VC score. But I do have the most unique, remarkable person I can bring in in Luke Jackson that's just been pumping out big scores week after week after week. Stado, you said to get positive after the negative coming. I did. That was very positive. I was saying how good he is. To be fair, he is averaging 87.
00:21:05
Speaker
You wouldn't know. I'll throw to you then with all these these red dots that are starting to pile up and, you know, get into this time of year with our rookies starting to tire and potentially getting dropped. Do we essentially need to hold these red dot rookies to the buyers now, knowing that it's upgrade season or do we try to look to jump off? What are you thinking there? It depends what other issues that you have during the week, I reckon. So, yeah, you can swap out those red dots if you don't have much faith that they're coming back.
00:21:34
Speaker
Zach Reed, I still think he's best 22 of the bombers. So I think that he will be coming back into the team at some point, but I'll give you another example for myself. I've got Chris Burgess that I foolishly, Louis talked me into a few weeks ago.
00:21:50
Speaker
I think he's less likely to come back in. So I'll be looking to try and trade him out at some point. But the only other thing I wanted to say about the red dots on the bench is as long as you've got coverage, I'm probably not going to stress too much because I have players on my field like Massimo who's losing cash on field and scoring poorly. And I reckon that's a far higher priority trade out.
00:22:13
Speaker
Well, then would you put Luke Jackson in that mould harmony because he is now bleeding cash as well when he, the last two games has been scoring as a rookie too? Yes, I would. I've got Massimo, I've got Zach Williams, depending on whether he gets up or not, and I've got Jackson. I have concerns about all three of those guys. So then me getting selfish then, just talking about my team, I've got Stewart that I definitely need to fix.
00:22:38
Speaker
Yes. Do I play it safe and just go a rookie down, get Stewart up to a midfielder and leave Luke Jackson? Or do I try and get creative and get, so I've got the money to go, uh, Stewart and Jackson out for a McCray and a Daycos. So can I just, can I steer it a different way? Stewart's gonna only be out for one week, right? I know we get it confirmed tomorrow. He wasn't the one with the cheek.
00:23:07
Speaker
Why are you saying two weeks, Hami? Have you heard something else? No, I think it's two weeks. Where is he? He's 12 days, pretty well. Yeah, so he misses one week. Fair chance he's a top six defender, right? You reckon? Well, it's a chance, right? But he's going to score better than Williams.
00:23:33
Speaker
He's going to score better than Jackson, the way you're both talking about him. I'm happy to punt him a little bit longer. But he's going to score better than Massimo. Aren't you actually better off getting the double upgrade the following week like I've done with Crouch? So I bring in two players this week effectively because I held Crouch.
00:23:57
Speaker
This gets the key aim, the key strategy right now. And this is a marathon, remember? And you've had one hiccup, you actually picked up the wrong drink and you took some alcohol rather than some sports fluid. Um, um, homesy is let's set back up, get your diet back right again. Um,
00:24:21
Speaker
Drink the right fluids and get back running and the way to do that is suck it up a little bit and roll back with a steward and a dawson next week I'm just saying dawson off the top of my head could be any other primo and all of a sudden you got a double upgrade next week.
00:24:40
Speaker
Yeah, it's just tough. Stuart's playing some very good football, but he's not scoring very well. Has Holmsey, yeah, is Holmsey hurting? Yeah, I'd say so. It looks that way. So maybe it's a blessing in disguise, right? Like when Wines got injured for me. Yeah, yep. Anyway, Stuart, yeah, interesting. It was just a different thought. Yep, no, that thought has gone through my head as well, Stata, but
00:25:10
Speaker
I kind of just want to cut tires and have a bit of a circuit breaker this week. But in saying that, if I do go to a McRae, which scored very well on the weekends, still only had 30% CBAs, still has Liber to come back in. If I go to Jackson to McRae and McRae goes back to scoring his seventies, then am I any better off? I don't know. That's where the bit of the gamble comes in. Sanders is outright. He's gone. It'd be pretty tough to bring him back in after that win, right?
00:25:37
Speaker
Yeah, and you've got Libba to come back in so Libba sort of takes him and someone that was on the field goes to
00:25:45
Speaker
goes to the sub. That sounds like the right mix to me. So the only regret I had is I actually traded out McCurcher this week. So McCurcher and Clark. So Clark's definitely the right decision. So spot on, took the opportunity off I went. I should have gone as soon as Sanders was sub, I should have swapped that, kept McCurcher. So although McCurcher had a high break even, it looks like his job security is fine.
00:26:14
Speaker
So on that then, is McCurcher a must trade or can coaches who potentially held him, do they hold one more week hoping that potentially this talk of a sheasel going into the midfield forward line holds true and McCurcher just slides back into that sheasel role in defence because he can score in that role. Yeah, and so can Fisher. So this might be the saviour of Fisher as well. Yeah, I don't think you
00:26:41
Speaker
I don't think you're giving him one more. If you've got McCurcher, you probably still need to hold for another three weeks now to get to his cash heading in the right direction. I think his rolls fine enough. So you should probably really be planning to hold him a bit longer than a week. I traded.
00:26:58
Speaker
Yeah, I think you want to be getting off all North Melbourne players, Bar Shizu at this point against Hawthorne, who got shown up by the Gold Coast the week before. They're in all sorts that club.
Player Evaluations and Prospects
00:27:11
Speaker
I don't know what they're going to do, but they just reek of a club that's in no man's land and they don't know what they're.
00:27:17
Speaker
what they're doing, and I think it's only gonna get worse from here. So my strategy here is to get the rookies off the- And Cherry, Cherry, don't trade Cherry, he's good. Yep, yep, very true. So my plan is to get the rookies off, and the way to do this, the up and down, you're not getting to your Uber premium, that's where you move to your mid prices, that's what starts bringing in the premiums. So I just wanna raise two players, which not many people are talking about.
00:27:47
Speaker
And it's potentially three, but I don't want to go too much in dossy areas. But Jake Saligo first. What's your thoughts, gents? We're talking $638K. You can go to two of the rookies straight to him. Yep. Don't mind it. I've looked at him. Let's have a quick look at him then. $638,000 over the last three. Yep. Break even a 46.
00:28:16
Speaker
What he's been doing would be at the top end of his ability, I would expect. So it's probably the best in the game. North Melbourne this week. Yeah, potential sugar hit this week. Crouch back also this week. Yeah, so I think the midfield mix at Adelaide, it doesn't seem very settled. So I'm not too sure whether you can rely on him for the next, what, four to six weeks to get your money's worth out of him.
00:28:45
Speaker
So the next one, Marcus Windhager. Inside midfield role is 631K, 105 last week. He's only really had one bad score, which was I think the 63, which is actually better than a Rowan Marshall.
00:29:06
Speaker
Sorry, I'll move on quickly. But his roles definitely there. I think it's going to be a little bit up and down, but someone that's defended me to that price range and also got a ceiling and a break even a 46. Again, I think that's an interesting option.
00:29:28
Speaker
Yeah, it's good stato. Are we worried about St Kilda or can we chalk it up to the three games in 13 days? I think that's the way you've got to do it. I really do. Okay, the next one, now this is getting left field a little bit more. Jared Berry, 120, then 117, 105 over his last three rounds. And sorry, this is Dossi territory, I understand that. Well, yeah, it is.
00:29:57
Speaker
7.11 is his price tag and a break even of 33. So you want to make cash, you're going to one rookie that's going to make your cash, and then you're going to a mid price that's going to make your cash. Because I'll tell you who I went last week. I went Brad Hill.
00:30:17
Speaker
The other thing about Barry is he has done this before for stints. So he sort of seems to have these scoring bursts and then he drops away again. But I'll tell you something else about Barry that I found interesting.
00:30:31
Speaker
This week, the Giants, then there goes the Suns, Crows, Tigers, Hawks, Bulldogs. They've got just about the best run coming up for any team. And it's another reason why I was sort of interested in locking Neil as a premium target also.
00:30:49
Speaker
And I'll give you one more, Liam Baker. So Defender forward, so giving you great flexibility. 725K, he's got a breakeven of 53. He's averaging 103 in his last three games. The only bad game he had was the start when they had Hopper.
00:31:10
Speaker
and Toronto. I know Hopper's likely to come back this week, but injury depleted midfield, some rookies getting game time in there. Even Adele's getting game time in there. Baker's better than a lot of them. What's your thoughts on him? Yeah, I'm pretty interested in Baker.
00:31:31
Speaker
I did say that a couple of weeks ago, but the issue is that early game. And for me, it would take two trades to get to him. So I'd be locking out both trades if I went for Baker. So, hmm. I reckon Dempsey and a rookie is going to Baker next week. Not too late next week. I wouldn't have thought so. What about Bolton instead? Cost you another 70 grand.
00:32:01
Speaker
Yeah, and I like the job security just a little bit more with the role security, sorry. Well, whose role is more likely to change when they start to get their troops back? So it sounds like Hopper will be back soon, Presti will be in and out again, but he'll come back in at some stage over the next couple of weeks. Bolton will move forward. Bolton will move forward? Yeah, it's interesting.
00:32:29
Speaker
Yeah, having to lock both trades out on Wednesday night would terrify me with some of the injury concerns that we have. I've targeted him for next week, but he is an option. Yeah. Yeah, he has to be. He has to be if he can maintain that in contract year, right? He's trying to get as much money as he can, whether it's to come home to WA or order to jack up his price for Richmond. It sounds like they're desperate to keep him.
00:32:55
Speaker
We do like these players that have a bit of added motivation week in, week out. And Richmond haven't been playing the worst football yet. They got belted a bit by the Eagles, but beating Sydney, they'll probably push Melbourne on Wednesday night, I think, in a big blockbuster game coming off a break. So yeah, don't hate the idea there, Stater. Good, glad. All right, let's have a look at some of the premium targets then, because I know some coaches are going to look to go up towards the top end.
00:33:22
Speaker
Let's start with a few under-priced guys, because there's a few here that are essentially fully priced. So let's, I'll throw to you, Hami, I'm going to give you three names, all potentially under-priced for what they can do. So we've got a Sam Walsh priced at 9.11. We've got Errol Goulden, who saved his score late on the weekend at 9.32. And then you've got Nick Daikos that I'll throw in there at 8.86. Who out of these three players are interesting you the most and why?
00:33:51
Speaker
I had a few different trades scenarios last week, and these three are all three players that I was interested in. And last week, the one that I was pretty keen to jump on board was Errol Gordon. But watching him on the weekend, I'm not so sure now. I think he scored 40 points in the last quarter, a bit over.
00:34:12
Speaker
to save his score a bit because he wasn't really seem to be getting used much out on that wing prior to that. So yeah, I was a little bit concerned. If I was going to bring one in right now, I think it would actually be Nick Daikos. I reckon he has had a slower start to the year. He's got a lot of the difficult match ups.
00:34:30
Speaker
out of the way, and I reckon he's pretty well primed. So out of the three you mentioned there, Sam Walsh 911, it's not exactly the 868, I think he was priced at two weeks ago. So you're paying a bit more for him now and Carlton's run isn't that amazing, I don't think, from memory. So yeah, I think day cost out of those three for me.
00:34:57
Speaker
Yeah, I tend to agree. I think Sam Walsh had a pretty typical Sam Walsh game on the weekend where he was very good. He had 35 touches, but the tackles weren't there like the week prior and the marks. He's more inside. So you're going to get games where Walsh doesn't have these ceiling scores. A hundred's good, but you are paying a pretty high price tag for him now. So you'd want to be pretty sure that he can push that 110 mark. Who knows how the body's going to hold up over the next month or so.
00:35:25
Speaker
Yeah, it probably was last week to go, Stado. Yeah, my thinking is Daikos isn't in for round nine when he plays West Coast Eagles. He's got a break even of 1.24. He's got Essendon this week on Anzac Day, which we know is a fantastic game, but I reckon Sandurum, who's been doing some really good jobs,
00:35:46
Speaker
He's either going to pay him or Jordan to go II. It's got to be to go here. I'm sure that that's where the options are and then you've got Hewitt the following week for for Carlton, which is another tough Midfielder matchup it frees up after that. He's 886 K with a break even a 124 a couple of low scores
00:36:13
Speaker
not massively low, but underperforming scores in his five game history that will keep that break even up a little bit. I'm hoping I can pick him up for about 8.60 in two rounds time, bursting on against West Coast Eagles, then Adelaide, then Freo, then Western Bulldogs, then Melbourne and North Melbourne before the buy.
00:36:37
Speaker
So that's mine. You mentioned just there, Stado, and we are the Pod Pod. We do like to still go into dossy areas. Hewitt. Is there any interest in Jordan de Goey at 701k?
00:36:55
Speaker
You know those players that are just better footballers than they are fantasy footballers? He's that to me. To me, he's a hashtag off brand, dossie brand type of player because when he has those big impact games, yeah, his fantasy looks good, but his super coach looks sensational.
00:37:17
Speaker
Um, so, and, and part of this to me is he's burnt me so many times. Um, Holmes, are you actually part of that journey when Jordan to go was just the biggest disappointment while he was a forward player. Now he's a mid only. So sort of no thanks.
00:37:35
Speaker
Yeah, look, my season was over before it even begun that year, at least I got to round six this time. And the reality is, footies change so much, and it's just the last two or three years where that defender role, the quarterback role, has become potentially the highest scoring role.
00:37:56
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. D'Goli, like he's, he's, he's cheap for what he can do, but he's, he seems to beat up on these lower sides and then he'll have games against the top sides where he has, doesn't have the high disposal gains, he's more impacted.
00:38:10
Speaker
I don't know if that's what I think she's all becomes that he won't, he won't have that brutal effect early, but that's the type of player that North Melbourne need to create she's all to be. So be in the center, but then pushing forward and creating scoring opportunities. And he'll turn into be a low eighties high eighties averaging midfielder.
00:38:40
Speaker
You desperately hope that, Stado, although you won't be watching any footy anyway, so it doesn't matter. Yeah. No, I, I think, I think we all agree. Um, there's certain players that read the play well, have magnificent skill for them to actually start winning games. They need their forwards to be hit up and currently they don't have the type of players and he's one that could. If Stado is right here, Holmesy.
00:39:09
Speaker
The timing is right to cash out on Chisel, go down to Nick Daikos and bank yourself $150,000. No, go further. She's around to Windhager. Oh, yes, even better. No, but Daikos, it's almost 200K you make. That's crazy, isn't it? So what you can do, you can go Chisel to Daikos and Dempsey to Cornwall.
00:39:38
Speaker
I'm so glad Dossie's back on the pod. Far out. That's a Dossie movie if I've ever seen one. What about Sheezel to Buzz? And then, hang on, hang on, Harvey. And then what will happen is Sheezel will play in the back line for the whole year. Yes. And then next year, Sheezel will start in the midfield and then Stata will come into the group chat with the Buzz. Buzz never wrong. Buzz went early.
00:40:06
Speaker
Paddy Dow finally get a game for St Kilda as well. I will say, I will say, I got told by the great Steve Fizz, he goes, I love the pub pod, I listen to it all the time. I feel for Holmes he putting up with your shit. That's what he actually said. But he said the one thing it's lost since Doss left is some pods. So I said, mate, I'll give him some pods.
00:40:31
Speaker
Yeah, good statter. Got it. We have to stay on brand. Let's keep going through here. So I'm going to talk about the two big forward boys that a lot of coaches have got on now. Sam Flanders and Zorko clearly looking like F1 and F2 at this point in time. Or throw Henny in there as well. Definitely two of the top three.
Premium Player Targets
00:40:49
Speaker
Do we have to jump on now or are they fully priced? Are they under priced? What are you thinking here, Hami?
00:40:57
Speaker
I still like Flanders. I think he may be a touch under Zorka. I'm not that keen on. He's 35 years old, isn't he? So I think it's only a matter of time until something that train derails. And what was the third you mentioned there, mate? Sorry. Heaney. No, I was just saying, I said that they were F1 and F2, but I forgot about Heaney. So I was just saying that they were two of the top three. I just feel like they're, yeah, it's not the right time of year to be
00:41:27
Speaker
paying top dollar for players and I feel as though that's what you would be doing with those two. It's a good call.
00:41:33
Speaker
Yeah, fair enough there. All right, I want to have a little bit of a quick discussion now on some of our underperforming premiums, because some of our top end guys haven't been scoring the way that we thought they would. Dawson bounce back on the weekend, so I might not throw him in this category because I think he's a pretty good buy coming off what he did on the weekend. But let's talk Tom Green, Marcus Bontempelli and Andrew Brayshaw, all with massive break-evens, all being top eight midfielders in the past.
00:42:02
Speaker
Is it getting time to start to target these players or do we think that there's a potential that maybe, you know, maybe a brayshore, maybe a Bontempeli in this role that they're not actually going to be top eight midfielders? It's crazy to say, but, you know, Bontempeli outside of that 149 game against Geelong hasn't been a top eight mid so far. And even Tom Green had the two really soft match ups to start and then has been very underwhelming. So out of these players, are we looking to target now soon or not at all?
00:42:33
Speaker
So this would be trade-in options, wouldn't it? So if we're not owners, are we targeting these guys as trade-in options? Is that what you're saying, Himesy? It is, isn't it? Correct. Yeah.
00:42:50
Speaker
I don't feel as though they've dropped enough. I think that you probably give them another couple of weeks until you look at them as being trading options. I feel so there are others that have probably fallen a little bit further that you could be targeting. So once they get under 900,000, they certainly get my interest more.
00:43:12
Speaker
So what you're saying is, hang on, you're saying to avoid Bont, avoid Dawson, avoid Green and target Darcy Parrish. Is that what I'm picking up here, honey? Yeah, maybe. But I'll tell you what, I have been watching Darcy Parrish and I've watched him play as well.
00:43:31
Speaker
And that's when it turned me off, bringing him in, because he is definitely not having the impact that he did last year. Maybe it was because he was contracting last year, wasn't it? So he's not having a big impact. He's dropped a heap and he's still going down in Valley. What did he get on the weekend? 76? Wasn't good. Wasn't good. No, it was not good to watch either.
00:43:55
Speaker
Not just mentioned. Sorry, I was just going to say around that price though, there is players that I am more interested in. I did mention Neil earlier, I'm watching Oliver go down for another week or two as well.
00:44:10
Speaker
I'll just mention on green, he's got the round 12 by. He's had that sort of three games where he's dropped off. He's averaging 87 over his last three. So there's plenty of money to drop down unless he has a real massive ceiling score. So the likelihood is he'll continue to go down and get under the 900k mark. So he's one I've already penciled in, see how he's going, how his body is, how he's tracking.
00:44:40
Speaker
But round 13 is when I want to hit Tom Green into my team. Yeah. Yeah. Agree there, Stado. What about our two Melbourne boys? So good run coming up. Christian Petrarca under that 900K mark at 889 after two poor games in his last five. Still has a break even of 133, but can he turn it around? And Clayton Oliver,
00:45:07
Speaker
804K with a break even of 157. We would love to target him at some stage, but I'm not sure he could do it this week, right Stado? Yeah, I wouldn't touch Clayton Oliver until you see the form turn over. And the good thing is in doing that, you're going to give him in the 700Ks.
00:45:25
Speaker
And it could be low 700km the way he's tracking because he's got a bit to bounce back. So you get him in the bargain. But the run is good. But if you can square away the next three, which would be Richmond, yes, it's a good matchup. Geelong's a bit tough and then Colton a tougher one. All of a sudden you can get him in the run of West Coast, St Kilda, 3-0 and then Collingwood.
00:45:51
Speaker
Those four games are probably won a gun Melbourne player, whether it's Petrarca or Oliver, if he's fit enough by then and turned the corner. And if he's in the 700K, Oliver, and dropped $250,000 and he forms back, he's shown as a ceiling score, I'm on board.
00:46:12
Speaker
Yeah, one, I agree, but we've got to see it turn. The one really concerning thing about Melbourne is outside of a max gone, they are not scoring as a team. They've been playing some okay footy until they got belted in their last game, but they are just not scoring as a team, which is quite concerning. Round one and two, they did. Yeah. It's fallen the pieces ever since.
00:46:35
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know what's going on there because another one that I was interested in early in the season was Jack Varney. He's 806,000 now and he's dropped value as well.
00:46:47
Speaker
I started with him with his 127 round 0 and thought Oliver injured. Look what happened at the back end of the season. I'm going hellbent for him. For him to make me money to take me to an Uber when he hits his buy. Goes 100 round 1. I thought, yeah, that's OK. Just went bog after that. I think he gave me a 60 round 3.
00:47:08
Speaker
Yeah, yep. Melbourne scoring, definitely a concern. Hami, I want to throw to you now for some rookie targets because as of right now, we don't really have any debutantes. Well, they haven't been named up and who knows, we might get some at selection, but right now we don't.
00:47:27
Speaker
I'm thinking that with some of the Richmond ins that we're not going to get McAuliffe. So out of the rookie targets, are there any that we have any confidence in that are going to make much more cash outside of here? I'm going to assume that most of most of coaches have a Will Graham except me and a Sam Closie. So we'll ignore. Surely. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, we've got him. Yeah.
00:47:51
Speaker
But outside of that, you know, you've got Drury at 310K with a negative nine breakeven. You can't be very confident that he's going to make too much more coin there. That's got Harvey Thomas vibes all over, although we did get a bounce back from Thomas. You've got Biggie who is 290K with a negative six breakeven, but he has looked horrendous and they need to change that up. They lose his spot. They lose his spot.
00:48:13
Speaker
Hugo Garcia, probably the pick of the bunch there. Looked fantastic in terms of the way he moved and he's got that high tackle game, which means he has a pretty high floor. And then you've got LeFou from Richmond as well, 286K. I don't have his break even, but it seems like he's probably got the best job security out of a lot of them. I'll tell you now, yes, his break even is negative 19. I was looking at it earlier today and I reckon he's actually worth a bit of a look because
00:48:41
Speaker
with Lynch out and not much in that Richmond forward line. I think he may have some job security. So I wouldn't discount him.
Rookie Options and Decisions
00:48:49
Speaker
The other one that I can think of is Jake Rogers, but he didn't score enough. If he holds his spot and he scores well this week, I guess there's a chance next week that you would look at him.
00:49:01
Speaker
Just note Lefau, his scoring was 24 with 79% game time, 32 with 63% game time, 37 with 79% game time, and a 99 against West Coast Eagles. Yeah, and we'll get either Stephen May or Jake Lever this week, which
00:49:26
Speaker
Yeah, tough. Rookie options are starting to look bare. And I suppose the other thing, they're all elevated as well, which means if you're trying to milk some cash from a Williams, Mossimo, Fat and Rookie, you're only really going to make 200K, which limits where you can get up to on the other end, which is going to force you to have to shop in a range that you might not be comfortable with. So, yeah. That's why I'm looking at those mid price, high ceiling, low breakeven players that I mentioned before.
00:49:55
Speaker
Yeah, fair enough. We've touched most of these players data that you've got here for the time to go, but what are we doing? Not me personally, but what a coach is doing with a Zach Fisher.
00:50:06
Speaker
Until this weekend, at least he was getting close to 80s most week and he wasn't exactly going up. But after it, a 60 odd on the weekend, he's now on the way back down. So much uncertainty in that North Melbourne team. Is he in the mold of a Mossimo where you maybe potentially cull him and another mid-pricer to go up to an Uber premium? Or do you have to stick fat with Fisher at this point until the buy in round 12?
00:50:30
Speaker
I'm sticking fat, and I'm only sticking fat because I want to see what happens if and when Chisel goes up the ground, which they made the point, so Alistair Clarkson in his presser talked about, this has been our plan to move him forward of the ball, so midfield and forward. We're just going to have to accelerate that move. So that was his call, so it's a reflection piece, he might look back.
00:50:59
Speaker
Now this should create greater opportunity for Fisher and McCurcher. It's probably partly why I'm a little bit disappointed I went McCurcher instead of Sanders last week, but it gives him the opportunity to reset. Now
00:51:15
Speaker
how much more he can get out of that. I'm a little bit unsure, but everyone scoring for North Melbourne was down last week. So I think we just put a little bit of a line through, have another look, but his time might be near. Okay, Stado, hold on, Hami. So this rolls into our Twitter questions then for Anthony. Who goes first out of Fisher and Dempsey?
00:51:41
Speaker
Well, to me, Dempsey is a rookie. He hasn't got that half-back role. He's good going up the ground, but the reality is it's a more volatile position. And looking at Dempsey's matchups, they're pretty tough. So he's got Carlton, Melbourne, Port Adelaide, Suns, GWS. Then a little reprieve in Richmond and then Sydney before he's by.
00:52:09
Speaker
Um, it's a tougher run. So my plan is, uh, Dempsey's out next week. Yep. Don't mind that at all. I hadn't looked at the run, but yeah, that is, that is getting tough. And we do know these rookies start to tire at this point in the season. Yeah. He's, he's been on the list for a few years now, but he still is a rookie at the end of the day. So who knows how that's going to go. And I'll just quickly share Fisher round 12 by, so he needs to go before round 12, 12, because
00:52:36
Speaker
No one that's a keeper who's got around 12 buys should stay with you. This is Fisher's run, Adelaide's in Kilda, Sons, Essendon and then Port. So I'll be trying to remove him before the Port Adelaide matchup.
00:52:50
Speaker
Oh, Stayo, you've just reminded me. Sorry, Hami, before you go, you are going to be out for eight weeks, but we are getting you back on the pod for some buy around chat because nothing gets you more hot and sweaty than being able to get on the pod pod and talk about buy around strategy. I love the boys.
00:53:07
Speaker
Even if it has to be on Twitter spaces, I'm in, let's do it. Army, were you something to add there? Yeah, I was just going to say in that rookie chat before, one thing you may, that may influence that is if Hogan and Green do get suspended at GWS is potential for... Darcy. Yep, Darcy Jones and Grzewski, he was an emergency the other day too.
00:53:36
Speaker
Yeah, I guess there's a chance that those GWS guys get a shot at some point. Yeah. You wouldn't want to be bringing any of those players in though, right? One week in, one week out, and then you're stuck with a red dot. I reckon you go round their second game if they're still in the team. Yeah, correct. So you get to see him first, get past the eye test. So Jones is one, I think you remember in the preseason, I was really keen to have him on. He just hasn't had his chance yet. They're talking about it.
00:54:06
Speaker
They want to give him the opportunity. So if this ends up being the perfect time, we get to see while we've still got a couple of decent rookie options, and he might be one to shoot for the following week. And I'll have a look at GWS's run. So Brisbane, Sydney, Essendon, Bulldogs, Geelong. God, that's not great either, is it? Yeah.
00:54:31
Speaker
And Brian George is probably going to have to get a game for North at some point. They're terrible. True.
00:54:39
Speaker
Beautiful. Hami, I'll stick with you. This one's from Tazer. Priorities to get off. So who's the biggest priority to get off here? He's got Luke Jackson, Zach Williams, Mossimo, and Tom Stewart. Oh, Tazer, I'm sorry, mate. You must have had a week like me. He's got 380K in the bank. So do you look to go one down, one up with Williams and Mossimo, or do you look to potentially try and go double up from Stewart and Jackson?
Injury Management and Strategies
00:55:02
Speaker
What's the go there?
00:55:03
Speaker
Well the two out of those that I'll be looking to move on would be Massimo and Williams if he is injured.
00:55:13
Speaker
They're both about 550,600,000. How much did he say? He had about 350 grand, didn't he? 380, yeah. You can probably get one of them up to Bailey Dale. That's about 150,000. And you've probably still got about 200,000 to put on top of Williams, getting to a 750 pyre. 750 mid would probably be looking pretty good, or you could even get him to McRae if you've got enough DPP.
00:55:39
Speaker
I reckon it probably would work. You're going to get too many decent upgrades there if you can. You can get a Selego and a pretty high level defender. Yeah, not a bad shout there, Stado. Sorry, not a bad shout, Dossi.
00:56:03
Speaker
We're really, we're really returning to our Pod Pod roots here. Stado, this one's from Tom Kennedy. He can get up to any mid. So would you go straight to the top like a merit or would you find value in a golden?
00:56:16
Speaker
or someone around that price range instead? I'm still looking for value. So the more you spend this week, the less you can spend next week. So my aim is to get basically rid of those rookies off the field, then work through the underperforming mid prices. So I'd prefer to find the value and try to look, it's not what they've scored now, it's what they're going to score for the remainder of the year.
00:56:43
Speaker
So we talked about that run. He's not probably the highest on my list, I'll be honest, but Petrarca has got a magnificent run coming up. So he's one that I'll certainly look at. But I think Nick Daikos for his price, I know his break evens a little bit high, but 886, locked that away.
00:57:08
Speaker
Yeah, fair enough there. Hami, this one's from Lee Woodbridge. He's top 500. Well done. I missed that feeling. He missed the Sanders to Garcia trade due to work. Unfortunately. Does he hold Sanders now? And has he missed Garcia? Cheers. Love the pod. No. And I think that Sanders to Garcia would be a very good move this week.
00:57:33
Speaker
That's what I'm doing this week. Yep. I think it might be made easier too if Sanders doesn't make the team, but just have a look at the team sheets. But regardless, I think you pull that trade. I think that's a fantastic way to make, what, 200-ish K around that mark. What Sanders' break even, it's pretty high, right?
00:57:53
Speaker
Yeah, I don't have it off the top of my head, but I think he had a break even a 50 before and scored a 20 odd. So yeah, it's getting up there now. This one is for me from Berkey. Is Kyle okay? No, Berkey, I'm not. And if you are looking to potentially host the podcast, because a few of us are retiring, message, harm me directly because there's the only one left.
00:58:20
Speaker
Yeah, he's it. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm all right. I'm all right, Becky. We'll, we'll see. Sorry. Is legally another podcast allowed to be host out of lawn system? Is there a privacy control act? Yeah.
00:58:37
Speaker
That's all right. Hami could probably just cancel the pod pod and become a full-time member of the traders if he wanted to, I guess. He's got those connections. Let's go. This one for you, Stado, Sean. So he's going Massimo to Garcia for both trades. Does he go Jackson to Heaney, which keeps Williams in 151K? Or does he go Williams to Dacos, keeping Jackson, but having only 8K in the bank? I would go Williams to Dacos.
00:59:07
Speaker
Yeah, I think I agree there. As much as it would suck to hold Jackson, I think Daikos is getting pretty close. And Heaney, I think, is probably at the top of his price at the moment. I think you can wait to get him at some point over the next four to five weeks. He does have the early buy, so maybe you target after or you get on relatively soon. But yeah, you're not going to get hurt too much cashwise waiting on him, whereas Daikos can start to shoot up very soon.
00:59:34
Speaker
Ah, Hami, is there any interest from you for Tim Kelly? That's from Brisbane AFL fantasy. Tim Kelly. Ah, yeah. I can't remember what he's priced at. It's just over. Anyway, I don't have it with me. Perhaps we can look it up.
00:59:51
Speaker
I just don't like he can have the best game and he still only hits 90. I mean, it's pretty unusual that he's regularly scoring over a hundred and I'm not that keen on him. We've seen this in other seasons. He's never really proven himself to be a top eight mid and I don't, I can't see him in the team that he's in punching to be a top eight this season.
01:00:19
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I agree those thoughts there. He does have some games where he he goes missing. He's still the tag target at Eagles, even though Harley reads the next coming of Ben
Player Potential and Future Moves
01:00:28
Speaker
Cousins. But yeah, I don't think he's going to be a top eight mid and he has those four games which would scare me. Hami, this one's for you from Lucas's Lemons.
01:00:37
Speaker
Can we trade Bonner out early if it allows him to get day costs and a forward upgrade such as Caldwell Baker or McCray? It's going to allow him a better buy-around structure. So can you go early on Bonner? Absolutely, Ken. Yep, $717,000. He's done a really good job for you. He's not going to be a keeper for the rest of the season, I wouldn't have thought. So yeah, as long as it's an upgrade, yeah, bank it and
01:01:03
Speaker
and get the play you really want that you can see holding through to around 24. Why not? And they've got Port Adelaide so tough matchup. They do have a better run after that. But there's one we've missed out on. So we're talking under priced premiums.
01:01:19
Speaker
Um, uh, fella named Dom Sheed. He's got a breakeven of a hundred and 56. Um, his average is sensational. Two. Two. Yeah, I saw that. How cheap is he actually going to be if he's subbed for another two or three weeks come after the buys?
01:01:38
Speaker
This is the same reason why I was keeping an eye on Locky Ash. He got subbed on $18,000 and he dropped a bunch of cash. Bailey Dale was subbed on $14,000. This is the reason why I'm still interested in Dale. That's the only reason why his prices dropped quite a lot.
01:02:02
Speaker
Man, it's not like he just stunk for two months. Yeah, absolutely. Stado, quick fire here. Dawson versus Walsh. Going off their run to the bye. Who are you going to target out of Dawson and Walsh? They've both got problems. So Dawson, unsure of his role when everyone's there, but elite scorer. Walsh, fantastic football player. I don't trust back injuries. I have a real concern, so I'm going Dawson.
01:02:30
Speaker
Yep, I'll agree there, Stado. And I'm going to stick with you because we just, we know Hami has a blind love for this man. Talk Jack McRae. And we do it this week.
01:02:42
Speaker
No, you can't. I won't let other people go with that punt. I don't trust Bevo with people that he has an issue with. He's a yard slower. It was a magnificent game by that whole football club. But 29% CBAs with Liber to come back in, he's back out in the wing. And what do the traders say the head will start to?
01:03:09
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I tend to agree. Got to say it with Liber first. Unfortunately, if he does pop another big score, he's going to shoot up in value. But I think it's just worth waiting on that one, even though I am sort of considering it this week because of where my team is at. Yeah. Holmes, I was going to bring him in last week instead of Tom Powell. And I wish I did. I really regret that. I really regret that decision.
01:03:35
Speaker
Oh, Tom Power repaid the faith late, but yeah, 40 points is 40 points, right?
01:03:43
Speaker
I mean, that's because you were so worried about our match-up in the Content Creators Cup that you thought, I'll bring in Tom Powell to mitigate it. Little did you know. 1612, mate. You had me covered. You had me covered. No, I didn't play you. Yeah, you did in the Content Creators Cup, didn't you? Or that might have been uncapped, I think, actually. That might have been my league. Yeah. All right. I got one more question that I want us to finish on because it's actually an important question.
01:04:10
Speaker
We had 82 coaches, I think, when Popowski did his stats early days of the three rock owners. It might have been a little bit more.
01:04:19
Speaker
What do the three ruck owners do now, Hami? Now that they've got Cherry, Grundy and Marshall, it would have been the plan this week to trade Grundy on it now that Gorn's had his buy.
Ruck Position Strategies
01:04:31
Speaker
But off the back of a 142, do they still go Grundy and hold Cherry? Do they still, do they trade Cherry and hold Grundy? Do they hold fat until they've all made as much cash as possible? What's the go there? What do you think?
01:04:44
Speaker
I'll tell you what they will be doing bloody smiling because they'd be very happy with how that's panned out for them.
01:04:55
Speaker
Geez, I'd be a bit torn after Grundy put up that 140. I mean, before, you know, a couple of weeks ago, I would have said that he's the one to go for sure. But having a look at it, where are we? Round seven. You're probably still looking to make money, aren't you? So I wouldn't be trading. Well, sorry, I wouldn't be trading Grundy and Cherry because they're still going up in value.
01:05:18
Speaker
and Maxi Gawne's been one of the best scorers for the season. So I think, who would you go down to anyway? Conway, who would probably be out again for Reece Stanley this week. So, geez.
01:05:37
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. Well, sucked into them if they've got a difficult decision because they've been bloody kissed so far. I think you just have to burn it down to the 200K rookie might and bank the fact that you've made 250K extra than all of us that have started the R3.
01:05:54
Speaker
It's a tough call who? That's the drama. So you got Grundy, who finally pumped out a really good score. So he's had round zero in this. That's all he's actually had. So he's actually flat out averaged 100, and he's had two massive scores. But his break even is 52. So he's going to make coin this week and for a few weeks to come.
01:06:20
Speaker
but Cherry is averaging 107. So seven points more than him. Gave 126 on the weekend and 67. You can't be letting go of the best VC option this week, right? And making that trade with all the other things going on on Wednesday night and getting rid of either the second or third highest averaging player in the competition.
01:06:45
Speaker
Yeah, it's an interesting dilemma and I don't have that dilemma. So let's stop talking about it. Those guys are absolutely fine. Good luck there. I think that the main thing is though, if they do go down to a basement rookie, they're not going to be able to get all of that cash on field this week, but then they're going to be able to make a significant upgrade the week after and the week after. So they're definitely going to be able to start to steamroll some serious points onto their field.
01:07:12
Speaker
If he plays, Conway is the best option because Conway has got a break even of six. But you think the way they're playing is Reece Stanley comes straight back in. Yeah. But at least you know that Conway is going to get some games throughout the year when they manage Stanley. And if he can, if he can sort of edge his way up to 400, 450K, then that's more cash you're going to be able to get on field over R3 donuts throughout the year anyway. Do you do a buy trick?
01:07:42
Speaker
What's the buy trick? Grab someone that's going to be playing for the buy, so you've got two rucks going all the way through and you just bank a little less cash, right?
Rookie Performances and Future Contributions
01:07:52
Speaker
Who's that though? Who are the R3 playing options out of a Conway?
01:07:57
Speaker
I would have to, obviously Conway's probably the best, but Max Gorn's got around 14, Tristan's got around 12, and Grundy's got around 12. So you're gonna pick one of them, it's not Max, because you got two on the same bite. So you get rid of Max Gorn, you're running around 12, you haven't got a Cherry or a Brody Grundy in round 12. So it's either Cherry or Grundy Goats, but you could downplay to,
01:08:26
Speaker
A Miller, I don't know how cheap Miller is, but he's playing good footy in the back line. So he's 466. So your pocket 400K, he's got a break even of 30, an average of 62. So he's gonna be making cash as well. And you lock away a 22nd player for your buys.
01:08:53
Speaker
Yeah, I know Holmes here is keen on Nathan Krueger in the pre-season, so he might be back from injury by then as well, Stado. Yeah, but then, Hami, you're going to be in the same dilemma in seven weeks' time when Krueger's 800k and you don't know whether to play. Well played. Well played. All right, lads, we've been going over an hour now. Let's wrap up, Stado.
01:09:16
Speaker
You're not going to be off the pod too long. We can't have it. We've enjoyed having you back. I know you want to retire. So it's not, it's not farewell for eight weeks, but just give the listeners a bit of a send off knowing full well that I'll be dragging you back here as soon as I can. Yeah, absolutely. I'll be back for the buys. Definitely. Hopefully sooner.
01:09:35
Speaker
Awesome. Hami, good luck this week, mate. Hopefully our fortunes can turn around afterwards. It's only got to be up from here, right? It was probably one of the worst weeks I've had in fantasy in my entire life. So it can only go up from here.
01:09:50
Speaker
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