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Top 5 AFL Fantasy Classic Tips with The Statesman | #PODPOD
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In a new-look PODPOD for season 2022, The Statesman joins us as a weekly co-host to talk all things AFL Fantasy Classic!
A five-time top 100 finisher in fantasy footy, The Statesman's best finish came in 2018, where he finished 3rd overall.
He's here to reveal his secrets for success, revealing his top 5 tips for AFL Fantasy Classic coaches using a formula he's crafted over his many, many, many, many, many years (Get it? Because he's old).
Dossy then reveals 2 PODs from Adelaide and Brisbane to round out the show.
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Updates
00:00:00
Speaker
G'day, it's your boy Dossie here. Welcome to another episode of the Point of Difference AFL fantasy podcast, aka the Pod Pod for 2022, the very first episode. Now, if you haven't heard already through the grapevine, there'll be a bit of a change up this year.
00:00:16
Speaker
I've joined the Keeperleg podcast as a regular co-host alongside Heph and Kaze for throughout the season. Now, if you love Keeperlegs or if you just love your fantasy footy content, jump over and give them a listen. Well, give us a listen now if you don't already. Good news as well, though. I'll also be continuing to host a new look Pod Pod in 2022. Due to work commitments, our good friend Louis will be unable to join us on a weekly basis. Louis promised to jump on a show or two, but you can still hear him.
00:00:45
Speaker
Here's the mighty Lou Dogg on the coaches panel as a regular contributor this year. Taking Louis co-hosting chair this season will be a beloved fantasy fossil. My old draft doctor's buddy who just happens to be a gun AFL fantasy classic coach. Just don't tell him I said that.
00:01:02
Speaker
Joining me this year will be five time top 100 AFL fantasy classic finisher and third placed finisher in 2018. That's right. It's the
AFL Fantasy Tips with Statesman
00:01:12
Speaker
Statesman. In this very first episode of 2022, we'll be going through Stado's top five tips and I'll reveal a point of difference or two. Let's get into the pod pod.
00:01:39
Speaker
G'day Stado, thanks for joining me and bloody keen to do another show with your mate. Always a pleasure working with you. And always a pleasure working with you, Dossie Boy. I do apologise to the listeners. Got a little issue with a fire alarm, which I couldn't turn off. Started about five minutes before we were recording. So when you hear that little beep, that's just a little test system to ensure that I'm safe and sound.
00:02:02
Speaker
Mate, it's just because you're spitting hot fire on this episode. That's why we've got the fire alarm going in the background. All Stado is going to be shooting some hot fire because we are going to be going through Statesman's, the Statesman's top five tips for AFL fantasy classic coaches. And Stado, I think you like to frame them as rules yourself because these are the rules that you stick by throughout your illustrious fantasy career.
00:02:27
Speaker
Yes, I will say I wish I stuck by 100% of the time because this is part of learning. So I've been involved with fantasy for a long, long, long, long time. And it took me a while to start getting success. But once I started going pretty well, I'd learnt the lessons from all the failings. I put these rules together and ever since then, I've generally had pretty good success.
00:02:54
Speaker
I want to ask you a very important question before we get underway with these rules as well. Have you seen the plethora of training photos that came out today and how excited do you get? Do you see some pipes out there that were quite extraordinary that were getting your attention?
00:03:11
Speaker
No, not really, mate. I'm not into that same. Besides the poster of Isaac Heaney behind me. No, no, not at all. I've only got eyes for one man. Oh, Isaac Heaney. Good, good, good one. I've been, yeah, there's certainly some keen AFL fantasy coaches out there checking out all these training photos that are flurrying out on the socials and God bless you.
00:03:33
Speaker
Definitely got my eye on a few just to just to monitor their progress this pre-season but I'm really interested in these top five tips or let's go through the statesman's rules starting with number one and I've got a feeling I know what this one's going to be. You are spot on because it can be nothing but number one can be nothing but rule fucking number one. Rule fucking one.
00:03:57
Speaker
it is it's always there you've heard it before if you've ever listened to me i'm big on this you've heard it heard me say it it's green dots are so important in fact and this is the thing we need to remember we're going into a season
00:04:12
Speaker
where we're told as a community to get ready to live with COVID. So this becomes even more important now, as we can expect late changes to teams and sometimes maybe even groups of players being pulled out of squads to isolate.
00:04:32
Speaker
because they've been close contact or whether they've got COVID themselves. And we've seen this already in the BBL. Melbourne stars at one point, a squad of 18 I think they have in total, 13 of their players were actually isolating.
00:04:47
Speaker
the more red dots you have, the more likelihood you are going to end up with donuts. And when we're talking, when we're talking COVID, that could be many donuts on any given week. So the more green dots you have, the less chance you are of getting a donut. And Dossie, this is the important bit for you.
00:05:10
Speaker
It's really important who the green dots are. It's just not willy-nilly, anyone off the list. Oh, they've got a green dot. I'll pick them. Make sure you do your research. Try and get the ones that are likely to stay green in three weeks time, not only this round. Got it. So Thompson Dow this year.
00:05:30
Speaker
Stado is the answer. Yeah, gun, gun, gun. Yeah, you're on board too, aren't you? Yeah, I'm bored, Thompson. Oh, not Patty Thompson. Get her out of here. Alright, so 30 green dots is the rule fucking one. So with that, just quickly on the on the COVID side of things. Yeah.
00:05:49
Speaker
Are you getting you think you'll get tricky with any avoiding players you know stacking too many players from one team or you just not going to bother like not even pay attention to that and just you know see how it plays out or do you know what I mean are you going to spread your premiums across teams that sort of thing is it is it worth thinking about this it seems like it is worth thinking about this.
00:06:11
Speaker
Absolutely it is, and I'll explain in one of my five rules part of the reason why I do that, but I think COVID actually gives us more reason to ensure that we're diversifying our team, to ensure that we're spreading ourselves around the 18 clubs.
00:06:29
Speaker
The reality is, it's just keeping your ear to the ground and make sure you're listening. So if you've got three Bulldogs and you start seeing Bulldogs players being left, right and centre, then maybe be creative. Maybe use one of your
00:06:47
Speaker
what I would call your extra trades to try and manage that situation and minimise your risk. But the reality is, it's such a unknown with everything that's happening, I wouldn't react until you actually know. You've got to be really careful.
Balancing Team Structure
00:07:09
Speaker
Yeah, rule two's all about structure and it's about getting the balance right. So there's no point having eight premium mids to start with and mid prices and rookies on every other line. Although your mids might be scoring well, we know how quickly our mid prices and our rookies can fail and sometimes be non-selected.
00:07:32
Speaker
So you will miss out on the chance of generating enough cash to complete your team. So get your balance right. I try to go 3513, giving me 12 premiums to start the season with, with the expectation that as long as they don't get long-term injury, that I'm retaining those players for the season. So that's why I buy it. They can still be
00:07:56
Speaker
A value premium, but I'm expecting them to start and end the year in my team. There's three defenders, five midfielders, one ruck and three forwards.
00:08:09
Speaker
Three five one three so maths correct their state of that's twelve premiums you're going with and oh yeah and that's so that has that been pretty much how you've rolled with you know in the years where you've succeeded it's been that sort of structure and when you say premiums do you mean the top top end premiums or is that sort of those I guess under priced cars you know what was the price bracket we're talking about here is it varied.
00:08:37
Speaker
It's very much varied. So I'm very lucky, I'm involved in a draft show with a draft doctor. So what we do is rankings. So we do a lot of research on rankings, trends, finding out who's changing roles, et cetera. So a George Hewitt that's coming from a defensive role that may be leaning into a midfield role, and that affects the rankings, so we expect them to be. So when I'm deciding the five midfielders,
00:09:05
Speaker
I'm trying to get five out of what I believe to be the top 12 midfielders. Now there's always variants, so we work on a thing called tiers. There's a tier one, tier two, tier three. I'm trying to pick players out of tier one and tier two and not going on the speculative picks. I'll let other people go speculative. If I've missed out on someone that's really burning out, I can correct that and fix that quickly because I can see it happening.
00:09:35
Speaker
But nine times out of 10, your actual big risky option does not pay off. So why do that? Play the straight back, get it right. And I remember you and I, because just for the listeners, what Dossy does, he sends me a copy of his team four times a week, with 15 different changes. And one of the things I asked for you, how many of these guys you're keeping, Dossy?
00:10:03
Speaker
It's usually below one.
00:10:06
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. And that's my point. Yeah, you've got to have those numbers. And I think I have learned that lesson finally, Stata. I think I'm finally getting there. And this year will be the year. I mean, the Hilux, there's room in the garage already. Don't you worry about that. Good. So I'm going to follow these rules, Stata. I'm writing them down as we speak. So I will be following that rule. But what's number three? So we've got 30 green dots, and we've got a balanced squad. What if we got to add rule three? And there's no swearing with rule
00:10:36
Speaker
rule three though is there?
Crazy 8 Rule for Trades
00:10:37
Speaker
No swearing at all. It's the 888 rule or what I call the crazy eight. And I've actually never heard of this rule before. This is breaking news on the podcast. This is how we use our traits. So we've got 47 traits in classic.
00:10:54
Speaker
So we need to be smart. So we've got to remember our aim is to have the best 22 players on the field. So remember we've got our structure right, we've balanced throughout, we've got 12 premiums starting with, hopefully they all play 22 games, we're all sweet. So we've got 10 positions to fill.
00:11:14
Speaker
But to fill those 10 positions, we've got to make a shitload of cash. So we've got 47 trades. So the crazy eight is eight trades for corrections. Now we all make errors. We see Jordan Clark at 135 in a preseason game out of just three quarters of playing, highest scorer for Geelong.
00:11:35
Speaker
The majority of the competition jumped on board. We're on the Clark train. Unfortunately, the Clark train was parked at the station. There was no coal put into the engine. It went nowhere. That's a correction. We also listen to your song, Dossie Boy. We all pick Patti Dow.
00:11:54
Speaker
That's a correction. Gets to the buy with less money than what we actually paid for. The reality is the quicker you correct that and you say, no, Dossie was wrong. Yeah. The better off we all are. William Drew was another one that I actually made last year. So they were the only three mid prices. And this is why forever in a day I'm a guns and rookie man. I try to avoid
00:12:24
Speaker
the three mid prices, I went three last year, they were all failures. I was going to ask quickly, can we bump that number up to about a 15 on the first of the Crazy Eights? I might need a few more than eight there. No, you can't have any more corrections otherwise you won't be able to fix what you need to.
00:12:42
Speaker
Eight trades for injury suspensions and non-selection. So as much as I love the man, this is why you don't get Toby Green, because he's going to take three of your eight trades straight away. Of course, we can't avoid injuries.
00:12:58
Speaker
They actually happen Nathan, you pick someone up, best midfielder in the competition, get you an eight, Mitch Duncan, sorry Nathan for reminding you, and bang there's another trade gone. So eight goes very very quickly. I've never had a season where it's been perfect. I've had a season where I've avoided carnage more than anyone else.
00:13:20
Speaker
but the reality is carnage always comes. And we've had two years of absolute carnage. So I'll leave eight trades for that. And then a key thing here is eight trades for early downgrades. So we're talking rookie to rookie. So if you've got a full price rookie, you're paying say 270K, you find out that look at the end of the day, the role is not fantastic.
00:13:45
Speaker
They're gaining a little bit of coin, but not so much. In round three comes a young midfielder that's 190k. He blows them away. So, Luke Valente from Fremantle gets his chance, gets his role, burns up in the midfield. Well, an early downgrade can take you 310k from three weeks rookie who's just not scoring well.
00:14:11
Speaker
down to Lukey Boy to help you make cash. So you make an immediate ejection of a hundred grand, and then you're gonna quickly make another 150 grand off you.
00:14:22
Speaker
So that's the early downgrades before you can do your one up, one down model. I also keep three trades for buy round moves. So you get the extra trade for the buys. I keep them there so I can actually use them to make sure I score as much as I possibly can in the buys. So this leaves you 20 trades.
00:14:47
Speaker
for a one up, one down, and that's a total of 10 ins, so 10 premiums. So what you want is a fully priced rookie down to bottom priced rookie, and then another fully priced or a, should I say that they've generated as much money as they can. And then you actually trade up from the other rookie
00:15:11
Speaker
up to a premium that you keep. So that fits that extra 10 spots. So you start with 12, use 20 trades for your one up, one down. You've got your completed 22. That's a full 22, Stato. That is a full 22 premium. That's a full 22. So this is how we do it. This is what you've done in the past. And this is actually how
00:15:31
Speaker
We can do it. The crazy eight though, that's a, it's a unique. Yeah, it's the crazy eight. You just, you're trying and what I do, I have a spreadsheet allocating where I'm spending my trends and where I'm spending my trade. And I look at the trends to find out whether I'm starting to make errors and what I need to correct in my ways. Is this like on Microsoft XL 1945 or something or? Yeah, no, I come out with a windows 35.
00:16:01
Speaker
No, I love it. You're way more on top of it than I am and that's probably why you're so good at your craft there. Is that your, like, is that your trademarked Crazy 8 theory? I think it's Tarantino who has the Crazy 88. That's where I've stolen it from.
00:16:20
Speaker
But I will say, so therefore you should always select your 12 players at the start of the season that you hope to keep. So who will be in the best 22 for the whole year? So you look at a Brody Grundy rather than a Paddy Dow. That's quite obvious, you would have thought. Yeah, but you know what I mean. When you're looking at your rucks, you don't go two mid-price rucks. You don't go two rookie rucks.
00:16:43
Speaker
I guess the thing that troubles me though is when you think about it in the pre-season, every player you think, yeah, I'm going to be keeping that guy. This guy is going to perform. But at what point do you draw the line? We're looking at our stats. The stats look pretty good. They look like they got the role. They might get it in the Amy community series, like a Jordan Clark, like we said. What's the point?
00:17:08
Speaker
When you like, what, at what point do you draw the line of somebody's not a keeper or not? Because you could think you've got 12 capers and then, you know, your corrections are going to be way over that eight. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Um, and that's why you just need to be smart. Um, safe, safe picks. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's always importantly, I try to find value premiums. That's the way I look at it. So I look at a lucky Whitfield for a defender is a value premium. Hmm.
00:17:38
Speaker
Does that make sense? So I'm not picking Aaron Hall because I think there's risks there and we're talking top dollar, but I'll definitely be picking Jake Lloyd and Lachie Whitfield. Yeah, gotcha. I'll be picking Aaron Hall. There are some slight risks. So a Taron Thomas, I'll probably look at to say, well, I reckon he's going to be around that market being a top six forward.
00:18:05
Speaker
Yeah. Aaron Thomas. So you just go whack. There you go. Got him. Um, I'll be definitely going Grundy. I'm even thinking you're going Grundy and gone, which is probably against what a lot of people were thinking, but how many trades have we wasted in the ruck dos? Yeah, no, it's not happening. How many trades? It's not happening for us this year, Stade. Are you and I both, you and I both, thank you. Don't sit on that high heel.
00:18:32
Speaker
I mean, I've been guilty of it in the past, but this is why I've got these very strong models to ensure that we've got some sort of security in that group that you've actually got. I love it. I'm going to try and I'll do my best. I might keep you up to date throughout the season how my crazy eights are going and see if I can actually follow that because that'd be an interesting one to keep track of. What's your rule number four we've got through our three. We've got two left stato. What's rule number four?
Generating Cash Through Trades
00:19:00
Speaker
Yeah, this is a really simple one, doesn't need a lot of explanation, but cash generation is king.
00:19:06
Speaker
Money is everything in this game and you've got to ensure that you're always generating cash. Now, the green red dots is part of that. Your selection of guns and rookies is actually part of that. But actually taking the time, whether it's a mid price or whether it's a rookie that's just about bloated, is taking that time to ensure that you're finding the next person that's going to generate you the next 150 grand.
00:19:35
Speaker
because when you get to that final run home and you should have a completed team by the end of the buys, preferably you've actually already got it structured just before the buys, but you're rolling out of the buys with 22 premiums on your team, and you're looking at going, well, Caleb Sarong, he's plodded along at 105. Yeah, he's a premium. Yeah, he's great.
00:20:00
Speaker
But I've got 100 points to catch up to win a cap or catch up to win the car. And you look and see that the person you're trying to catch up hasn't got Jack still and he's pumped along at 118. Then having that extra 150 grand that you can call upon because you've spent the whole year generating cash.
00:20:23
Speaker
That's when you go Caleb Sarong to Jack Steele, 15 more points a game, nine more rounds to go, Waymo Ka.
00:20:33
Speaker
And this kind of setup is probably going to be easier for us this year even to get those rookies that are high in job security to generate the cash. We've seen, you know, Nathan from HatChat, Selby, like people out there have done the math already, the mathematical minds. And the rookies this year, given the salary cap jump, have actually
00:20:56
Speaker
Scaled slightly down compared to the rest everyone else scaled super high up and that that's how the salary capcon worked and then the rookies the higher priced rookies have sort of only scaled at a smaller smaller scale meaning they're gonna be better value for us this year as well as high priced rookies that actually have job security is
00:21:15
Speaker
Is paying up for rookies going to be something you're going to be looking at statesman or I'm interested to say with cash generation are you one that typically goes a lot of the well we're at one ninety K now are you typically a person that's going to be looking for the one ninety guys as many of those you can or are you just willing to pay up when it comes to a good job security Rook.
00:21:35
Speaker
I look at the end of the day, it's all about how well they can score. So there's no point getting a player that's a number two draft pick, absolutely gonna be a superb player, but he's not gonna be a superb player until five years. I'll invest whatever amount of cash for a rookie, if they're gonna be putting the score on the board and making it a bank.
00:21:59
Speaker
And that's what it boils down to. Now, Dacos and Horned Francis look like the two that are going to actually generate you some money. Maybe Josh Ward does the same thing. So maybe those guys are worth paying up the cash. But I'll always err on the
00:22:18
Speaker
at the cash generation model, because you've got someone that's only 190, so we're talking, you know, an extra 80 grand less that could score as much or higher, I'll definitely go then. All right. And let's rule out this, let's round out this bunch of rules here, Stater, with your rule number five.
Strategic Planning for Bye Rounds
00:22:38
Speaker
Mate, I've said this to you many times before, it's all about buy structure planning. Some say don't worry about it until you get a few rounds out from the buys. Stado don't. Stado plans from the start. Even part of my premium selection, when I'm talking about my 12, I'm getting a mixture between the buys. I'm not hard, so I don't need to get the structure 100%, but I need to have a model to know what I'm working with.
00:23:06
Speaker
So what I want to do is have the ability to react. So an Aaron Hall comes to life around five, around six last year. I want the ability to jump and grab Aaron Hall without exposing myself to have 15 players in the first by round.
00:23:26
Speaker
I want to have the ability to say, oh, he's only putting me out by one because I can fix that with a rookie somewhere along the line. But if you've got this big explosion of amount of bio players, that's when you burn. So to me is up to the buys is setting up. You want to be in a competitive position. You're setting up and you're concentrating for the run home. So you're trying to finish your squad.
00:23:52
Speaker
I hit the buys going this is where I'm going to make between 600 and 800 points and every other player in the competition because I'm so well structured for the buys and then if I've got that completed team I'm just on the march and off I go.
00:24:09
Speaker
Yeah, I got to say it's something that I definitely haven't ever focused on pre-season. And now that I've got your Crazy 8 system, it kind of makes much more sense to me why you'd like to plan earlier and get that in check so that you don't have, like, you know, so you're not breaking these rules. Sato's absolutely coughing his guts up here. Sorry, mate. I drank some water and went down the wrong pipe.
00:24:38
Speaker
No, you're good mate. Hope you're all right. Started coughing at your own rules there. But yeah, that's something that I just think I'll focus on this year and getting those getting that biostructure right nice and early. I think things will be thrown all around the place this year with, you know, what's the structure I'm after, Dossie? Let's see how well you've listened over these. What's the biostructure I'm after?
00:24:59
Speaker
Oh, you said it to me last year. This is my memory in test. Nah, it's gone. It's five.
00:25:09
Speaker
No, it's 8, 10, 12. That was it, that was what I was going to say. So 8 and the first buy. 8 players that have buy round number 12, 10 players that have buy round 13 and 12 players that have buy 14. So that means I use my trades to get to that point right at the start of round 12, then I use
00:25:36
Speaker
three trades to get to eight for the second round and down to 11 for the next, and use the three to get to eight. So what I'm actually saying is I'm getting 22 players playing each and every round of the buys, which is more than most people. This is why I've been, for the whole season, been managing my green dots.
00:26:00
Speaker
love it Stado let's recap the rules we had 30 green dots was rule number one rule fucking one number two was balance and you've got three five one three for your 12 premiums that's what you want in there you've got the crazy eight eight eight eight trade rule that Stado's brought to the table number four is cash Jennings King and then number five plan for your buys that is Stado's five tips for fantasy classic coaches or the statesman's five
Unique Player Picks and Strategies
00:26:28
Speaker
Rules now I'm gonna rant out this show stato with a couple of pods. I just wanted to quickly go through from we're gonna do a couple each week During the preseason. So I want to go through my Adelaide and Brisbane ones just to start with I'm gonna give you a Bargaining type one and then a premium one and I know you'll probably not like the bargain ones But we will get to these so these guys are all point of differences. I've gone pretty I think these ones are all like under 5% just about so
00:26:56
Speaker
You will love this data. First one from Adelaide I've got is a man that, a man from the keeper league is quite on board with this guy. A bit expensive for my taste, but he is a point of difference. And he's a guy with, yeah, he's got like a lot of upside. So 69 average, $582,000. Midfielder only, which really hinders his case of being selected.
00:27:20
Speaker
84 in his last three and he was a guy that went straight into the center bounces late in the year, started really getting some. The thing is he actually scored when he went into the center bounces, his time on ground wasn't crazy as well, like he's still got a lot of upside there. So let's look at his last few rounds. He went 83, 113, 96, 70, 90, a 55 in there, but that was from 62% time on ground and then a 108 to finish off the year. So
00:27:47
Speaker
This is a guy with huge upside, and if he gets some more time on ground, so if he gets, if he's looking fit in these pre-season photo stato, it might get me tempted, but 580K, you know, it's a bit awkward, isn't it, stato? You're not interested in that sort of a play.
00:28:03
Speaker
Would you keep him, would you start the season and say I'm keeping him for the whole season? It's a point of difference. I'm not, this is definitely not one that I'd be going for. I'm just, I'm just going to give one for me, a couple from each team, but I love the point upside and you know, for drafts, I'm very keen. It's just that risk.
00:28:21
Speaker
that you were talking about the risk I'm trying to avoid these type of this is this is a dossie of 2021 this is 2022 dossie he's a different man all right so my other player and this is a pretty easy one I didn't want to go too off board with this this is just another play with a lot of points upside and I don't like watching him play and I had him in my team late last year it wasn't pretty but he gets the job done
00:28:44
Speaker
Riley O'Brien in your Ruck department, 3.36% owned at the moment. So he's at $723,000. I think there's a bit too much value if you're looking at someone like a Proust or if you're obviously going what we've suggested statesman probably set and forget for me is the way this year. But Riley O'Brien sort of fits that mold. 103 in his last three of the season and he was really average for a lot of last year. I think he was hampered by injuries.
00:29:14
Speaker
You've got the fitness guru coming in. He's under price, isn't he? Yeah, possibly. But have you ever watched him play? I know, it's not pretty. Can you own him? No, I don't want to go there again. I'm providing him as an option again. As an owner last year, I don't think I could put myself through that again. Especially when he's got Freo Collingwood-Paw over the first three, I don't think that's a great... You've got three quality ruckmen there to come up against.
00:29:43
Speaker
I mean, there is a world that he's in the top three rung. Definitely. Well, he's been there, you know, he's been there in the past or close to it. Is he in the best 22 you can put together? And the answer is probably no.
00:29:59
Speaker
Oh, it was an interesting selection of statesmen. This is another player. I'm picking, as you can see, there's a lot of players that I'm gonna go for. I do wanna go for some premiums that don't necessarily have, it's more of a gut feel, but these are all based on stats that I'm bringing up today for sure. And this is Zach Bailey I'm talking about from Brisbane. We're moving on to their 3.88% owned, a mid forward. His average sort of surprised me, 72.7 stato for his average last year. So he's only 610,000.
00:30:28
Speaker
87 in his last three has those center bounce attendances, like he averaged about 30% for the year or something like that. Pretty impressive and he's got some nice match ups. Essendon are north in his first, two of his first three. Collingwood Gold Coast as well in his first six. So he's got a nice little schedule early as well. Probably a player that I see just playing too much forward for me to get too excited about.
00:30:52
Speaker
Yeah, look, he's a really interesting player, to be honest. I look at him and say he is probably one of the top two or three classiest players at his club and he's got such big upside. My problem is that midfield is so powerful right now.
00:31:16
Speaker
So post-Lions career, potentially post-Robo career and potentially Niels career. I can just see him being one of the main guys in this. So there is a time where he explodes in fantasy scoring wise.
00:31:34
Speaker
The one thing I dislike about him a little bit is he's so clever around goals, which makes me think that where does the coach get, you can probably get another midfielder that can play that sort of task, that role, but how many can you find that is that smart around goals?
00:31:55
Speaker
And look, Stader, I think you'll like this. My comparison for him, and I'm actually going to be going and talking a bit about him because we're doing Brisbane on the Cape League tonight, but he's a guy I compare to Toby Green in that sense. I think he's so crafty and so good around goals. How do you take him away from there when you've got, like you're saying, the depth that Brisbane have? I think he's got one in front of goals for a lot of his career. Yeah, he's got one floor against Toby Green, to be honest. He doesn't have the aerial.
00:32:24
Speaker
Well no he doesn't have the kick in the head ability. That's true. A lot of different things on the temper front. My premium that I'm going to go with as a point of difference from Brisbane
00:32:38
Speaker
You know him, you love him. I couldn't go beyond Huey McCluggage. Already reports coming out stato that he's taken his training up a gear. He's like running with bloody Harry Sharp, keeping up with him at training. He's gone to the next level and Chris Fagan's come out and said that. He only averaged the 100 flat last year. I'd definitely see him as a bigger scorer and you saw that and his junior numbers were massive.
00:33:02
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the Lions midfield is stacked, I just think he's got some upside if he actually moves from less of a wing roll and more of an inside roll. So he's a guy, if I see him going into center bounces, you know, that's a guy that I'd be tempted. But I don't think I can, 839K, that's more of a gut feel and I'm not going to do that this year statesman, not going to be doing that.
00:33:24
Speaker
Yeah, when you can get Locky Neil for cheaper, that's where I'll go. Yeah, there's a point of difference, though. This is a point of difference. Yeah, well, Locky Neil might be a point of difference. What do you mean? He's 50% owned or something? Is he really? OK. Oh, he's very highly owned. Yeah, hang on. He is. I can give you the exact start. He's 35% owned. Yeah, and so is he. Including, I might say, I'm pretty sure he's in my team at the moment, so. Fair enough.
00:33:51
Speaker
Anyway, there you go. That's my Pod Pod. They are my point of difference podcast point of differences. The Pod Pod Pods. I'm going to be giving you, we'll get one couple for each team as we go.
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00:34:02
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But Stado, that's the new Pod Pod end of the first episode. And I'll just be quickly saying that the new Pod Pod is going to be coming to you in two parts. So our entire slate of pre-season shows, Stado is going to be available.
00:34:14
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on our usual podcast feed on Spotify, Apple, Google pods or wherever you get your podcasts. Our in season content is going to be available exclusively for silver and gold members of the caper league. So a silver and a gold member.
00:34:28
Speaker
silver or gold membership sorry gives you access to our weekly in-season pod pod that's you and I haven't talking shit we'll probably do a lot of a Q&A type ones I think Stado throughout the season really you know getting those questions in and answering them but also stacks of premium resources you also get from the Cape League website so you get advanced center bounce attendance numbers which I'm always using state league fantasy scores to check who's going to be the next guy coming in
00:34:52
Speaker
Draft day fantasy analysis guides for your pre-season kick-ins projections and more. So, Stado, there's a lot there, but we're excited to be working together again for season 2022. Absolutely. And we'll make sure we keep as much fire as possible. Hopefully just a little less fire alarm-ish. That's a bit too much fire there, Stado. I'm looking forward to more next week. We're going to be talking Defenders and our defensive line in AFL Fantasy Classic. We'll see you there.