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With two top-ten finishes in the past five years, Jon Harmey is the LeBron James to Selby Lee-Steere's Michael Jordan in the fantasy footy GOAT conversation. Harmey joins Dos & Lewy to finalise our bye planning by checking out a TON of players you should consider targeting following (or before depending on your structure) their bye. Follow @jonharmey on Twitter and chuck him your trade dilemmas, the man knows his fantasy footy!
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Transcript
Introduction with John Harmy
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to the Point of Difference AFL fantasy podcast, a fresh perspective on AFL fantasy classic brought to you by the Kepa League pod. Huge episode in bound. We're joined by Fantasy Footy Royalty, John Harmy to chat about navigating the buys and an absolute ton of players we should be targeting. Harmy's on the pod pod.
AFL Fantasy Scores Recap
00:00:36
Speaker
Welcome to the pod part of DOS here with Louie. Louie back in the ludio this week, mate. And it's very cozy in here. Beautiful. Yeah. Very cold as well. But how you going, mate? How'd you go this week in fantasy? Oh, absolute dog shit, Louie.
00:00:52
Speaker
Not good, Mater. We've got Bazlenko out the backyard, barking around, probably laying a few of my scores. Yeah, probably. Around the yard, I think. I got 1971 this week in round 11, but more importantly though, Louis, a bit of
00:01:08
Speaker
Bit of icing on top for me though. Beat the statesman in our head-to-head matchup. Only 1945 for the Fosse, the year he was born. So, pretty solid, pretty good win. Small wins, small wins, Dos. Nice. That's it. How about you, mate? You're still just firing up the top of the ladder there, aren't you?
00:01:23
Speaker
Yeah, notched up. Might be my third 2200 of the season. It's funny, it seems to happen every time Jordan de Goey gets on an end of a good score. So, I got 2201 and I've come up the ranks about 200 spots up to 576. So, in a nice little spot before the buys and I'll see how I navigate through them. I'm only 14,000 spots below, you're Louis too now. So, not doing too bad myself.
Jack Crisp's Midfield Surprise
00:01:50
Speaker
All right, Louis, onto nailed it, failed it. And for me this week, I'm just going the easy one for me. 110. Jack Chris, just been really consistent, rewarded me nicely lately. Moved back into the midfield as well with Bucks trying a few new things. And he's just been a pleasant surprise for me. I started with him, was hoping he would get the injection of score from the new rules on the half-pack line. Didn't really work out the way I was planning. But now, moving into the midfield, just the old way that we like to see our defenders score. And he's doing awesome.
00:02:19
Speaker
Yeah, I love it. Jack Crisp is fantasy favorite of mine. I usually start in most years actually, and it doesn't always work out for me until the end of the year. But no, I love Jack Crisp, and he's been in some wicked form.
Evaluating Player Performances
00:02:31
Speaker
Big day at the moment, too. I think he's about $740K. Yeah, he's up there now. What was your nailed it this week?
00:02:38
Speaker
Mine out it was Heaney so traded him last week luckily so I copped his 84 too and 135 a second week in my team is really nice to see I honestly didn't even expect a 110 from Heaney so 135 fantastic now 25 break evens I should make some cash as well Monster score I didn't say that coming But good on you Louie for saying ahead and bringing him in failed it though. What's your negative one here? And I think I might be yeah
00:03:04
Speaker
Yeah. A bit smug on this one myself. Look, I'm going to give it to Zach Bailey. Doss, you can be as smug as you like, mate. But sitting from way back where I am, I don't think I can. We spoke about it in the Harmony interview coming up, but when you can...
00:03:20
Speaker
identify a point of difference and you can actually draw conclusions to maybe that upside or that they're heading towards that upside. So, for example, Bailey was, I think it was 17%, 33%, 49% CBAs going into the week I chatted him in. So, sort of trying to predict that upside
00:03:41
Speaker
I haven't gotten it wrong because he's actually gone up in price. He's outperformed his average, which so upside that's always great. But I really wanted to be getting eighties to nineties out of Bailey, not seventies to eighties. So unfortunately he's my failed it and he's probably going to get the flick this week. But.
00:03:59
Speaker
He was always going to get the flick threat by. I understood your logic. Your logic was the Lockie Neal. There was an absence of centre bounce people in the team. We'd had Lockie Neal get injured. His centre bounces had risen. The logic was there. Unfortunately, he was just played too good forward. Unfortunately, I just didn't see Devon Robertson and Rhys Matheson playing such a large right in that midfield. The barometer. Yeah, the barometer. Anyway, I failed it though.
00:04:29
Speaker
And I can't talk Louie, mine's far worse than yours. I got very greedy with the VC loophole. Oh
VC Loophole Risks
00:04:36
Speaker
no. So this always, it hurts when this happens. Yeah. Chucked it on Gawney, had the 118, ready to be banked. I, you know, I've got enough red dots in my team to, to make use of them. Don't you worry about that. I've got plenty of red dots. Could have got, could have taken the 118, but no.
00:04:54
Speaker
Opted for a titch. What were you expecting from titch? Oh, 140. 140? Yeah, just a mild 140. He's been averaging 130 on the Suns. And yeah, just my greedy mind was looking at that matchup thinking, gee, the best in the Suns, he averages 130 on him. They haven't been tagging too much. I think he was even a...
00:05:16
Speaker
number one on our mate Calvin's captains and he's been doing an awesome job this year with his captains. Looked like a smash play and I was very happy to go with it. 73 just didn't look himself. To be honest, I was watching my West Coast get smashed by Essendon so it was really, it was a double blow. I was checking the scores on my phone.
00:05:37
Speaker
Looking at the weagles switching every now and then over and saying where's titch couldn't couldn't side him half the time mate So just just an absolute stinker and I want to ask you I think we do Touch on it with hammy as well a bit later But are you worried at all with titch if as if you were a non-owner put it this way if you're a non-owner Would you bring him in?
00:05:55
Speaker
Look, I probably wouldn't bring him in off the back of a 73, but, you know, ask me in a week when Titch is coming off the round 12 bye. Oh, he hasn't scored since then. I would. I mean, look at his career average. Look at what he's done this season. He's dipped under 100, I think two times, maybe three times, but they've been respectable 75 pluses.
00:06:19
Speaker
No, I'd still target Titch, Dossie, and just caught me off guard there. What I wanted to say on that VCC loophole is that I know you do try and chase that larger score, but when you've got both players already and you don't bank a 1.18, I go as low as 1.10, I take a 1.10. Because if I've got both those players and Gorn goes 1.10 and Titch goes 1.20, I only lose out on 10 points.
00:06:46
Speaker
Yeah, I think, to be honest with you, Lou, as well, I often don't do the loop because I don't trust myself. Oh, Dossie's ways. No, I'm the same. I check a hundred times on the loop. If I went the loop, I bet, yeah, my 73 doubled from Titch would have been a Finn McCray getting 24 for me. I just don't trust myself. So it comes down to that a little bit. I just always very wary of doing the loop hole, even though I know it's just so much smarter to do it. So from now on,
Strategies for Upcoming Buys
00:07:15
Speaker
Louis get my words I'm a loophole I'll be there I'll follow you in now Louis the bars are here it's time to get serious and we we're gonna be talking to harm me soon about all the bar structures and well to be honest we've talked mostly about the bar structures in the past few weeks we're gonna be talking a lot about players to be targeting with harm me.
00:07:34
Speaker
But also, we've got to talk about the DPPs, which have just dropped just in time. Yeah, it was a bit of a surprise, Doss. I messaged you that night saying, hey, Doss, DPPs tonight? Oh, shit, they actually might need to add it to the run sheet here. Let's just talk about all the options in classic and maybe just more of the, we'll touch on the more relevant ones here.
00:07:58
Speaker
through just who got it. Sam Barry added forward. Chase Jones added defender. They're draft guys and hopefully you're jumping off Sam Barry now. Schonberg from Adelaide as well adding mid. Chris Main is the first one that tempts my here. Getting defensive status. I've been flagging him for a few weeks here. Are you at all interested in Chris, mate?
00:08:19
Speaker
Ask Stado on Pod Pod Plus, Stossey. Alright, Scott Pendlebury adding forward. Scott Pendlebury adding forward. That one's interesting. Scott Pendlebury adding forward status. He's about 580K. He's very cheap. He's carrying something at the moment though. The pies have confirmed that he's playing source, so you wouldn't touch it now, but in four weeks time, if Scott Pendlebury dishes up a 90, you've got to sit up and take note.
00:08:44
Speaker
James Stewart adding defensive status purely for draft as a defender forward. Now Caleb Graham, defender Ruck, also not relevant really. Jai Farah, if you're still holding him at least you can now swing him into your defensive lines. He's a forward defender. Sean Higgins, that's a mid forward that does tempt us a little bit.
00:09:02
Speaker
Yeah, he's one of those guys that you get every year who can be a top six forward. They sort of sit between that four to eight to 12, depending on their day. And Sean Higgins, I think is that, but it takes a brave fantasy coach to pick a bloke that old.
00:09:19
Speaker
I think he's 32, 33 now, and his best ever career average was like 95. And that's his North. And on the bye this way, which is even harder. So many
Impact of New DPP Additions
00:09:31
Speaker
hard things to pick, but also in ripping form. So you might look at him as a pod on the Point of Difference podcast. Harry Perriman adds defensive status. Does that at all tend to, he does have a fantasy game. Do you know what it does for next year? Yeah.
00:09:45
Speaker
Not this year, but if he can hold on to that it will. How long is he out for? He's out for a while, hasn't he? I thought he was injured. Not sure on that one. I have to check that one out. Xavier O. Halloran adding forward status for GWS as well. So many GWS players in here. Obviously Leon throwing those magnets around.
00:10:01
Speaker
lucky whitfield just a bit more flexibility for us we're all looking to target him coming off his by uh he's a defender mid now which just a little bit added what did he add mid mid okay right yep yep uh james cousins that kind of interesting
00:10:16
Speaker
me a little bit with the fact Clarko with my fear around Titch in the Clarko magnet shuffle potential coming up going down the bottom of the ladder. James Cousins could be a guy that gets a fair bit of mid time and he's now mid forward. Just one to look at I wouldn't more of a draft player as well. James Harms just getting that added flexibility for owner defender mid. Taran Thomas mid forward he's been getting a stack of center bounces but obviously he's just adding midfielder so
00:10:41
Speaker
Again, flexibility, but great for draught and caper owners getting all those center bounces and playing really well lately. Artu Bosunovilagi, defender forward for anyone unlucky enough to be stuck with him still as a rookie, just a bit more flexibility for you to chuck him around. It actually could be handy for a few people holding him.
00:11:01
Speaker
Defender mid for Dan Houston so he's just added mid again flexibility we love him as a target you hear more about him later Liam Baker getting that mid status by the way Liam Baker was still getting center bounces on the weekend somehow I thought it may happen but very happy to see it happening unfortunately didn't score too great though on the weekend did Baker.
00:11:22
Speaker
Jack Graham adding forward status, Bradley Hill adding defender status, but really just completely irrelevant this year. Does he become relevant if he turns the corner? I don't know. I've sort of been looking at him at a low price every single week and it keeps getting lower. I keep going, oh, this is the week where it'll turn.
00:11:41
Speaker
Um, I wouldn't touch it. Uh, and Jason Johannes and another guy, you're not touching just one of the really falling off a cliff this year, unfortunately, getting a defender and now forward status. So he's completely changed his end of the ground as Bevo loves to do with a few players. Huge news though, was a Grundy confirmed out two to three weeks. And again, we're probably going to be touching on a lot of this stuff that you're going to be hearing will be touched on with harmony.
Brody Grundy's Injury Strategies
00:12:06
Speaker
We had a massive, massive chat with him. So.
00:12:09
Speaker
came to talk to him about Grundy but just quickly a very quick take on that Lou before we get to the main discussion. Yeah okay quick take is if you don't have Max Gorn trade Grundy to Max Gorn if you don't.
00:12:24
Speaker
I wouldn't hold, that's just my thoughts at this stage and I think Shauny Darcy is a really good option. Alright. Caught me off guard there Darcy. Make sure you tune into the chat with Jaime. It's coming up next where we go pretty in depth on that situation there.
00:12:40
Speaker
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00:13:08
Speaker
We also give you a shout out on this podcast if you join. So welcome to our latest members of the Pod Squad, Scott Neatfield, Flumsquid45, Brad Harrison, Jeremy McFeet, Rick Lee and Rhys Guernon. Welcome and a huge thanks to all our new members. Welcome aboard. And anyone else that wants to join up, head to keepaleagpod.com.au. Go to the Premium Resources tab and hit bonus episodes or just click the link in this episode and sign up today. Joining us now, though, Louis,
00:13:38
Speaker
We get to our chat. He is one of the goats of the fantasy world, finishing sixth overall in 2017 and second in 2019. Arguably, you might say the best fantasy coach this side of Moreira's magic and Selby Lestere. It's John Harvey. Let's go.
00:14:05
Speaker
Right, we're joined by John Harmie. Two top 10 finishes in the last five years, mate. You got your eye on another hat in 2021? Oh, I would love another one. Yeah, that's always the aim. I started the year sort of hoping for the top 100 and it's not happening in the minute, but it's always a chance.
00:14:23
Speaker
How's your season been? Like, where are you sitting at the moment? And do you see yourself making a big jump over the buyers? I know the statesman who's a big fan of your work often makes a big move over the buyers. Louis, he is the same. So are you looking to make a huge jump over the next few weeks? Oh, traditionally I have, Doss. But I guess you don't know. This season's sort of been a little bit different because of a couple of injuries, as a lot of other coaches have. But I guess we'll see.
00:14:51
Speaker
and have tried to make the right trade to see and improve my team every week and covering off my bench players as well, not just burning my bench off. So let's see if that comes through with the goods or not. I'm not sure.
00:15:06
Speaker
Yeah, so we've had a pretty interesting year altogether this year with the rule changes at the
Adapting to Rule Changes and Performances
00:15:11
Speaker
start of the year, not knowing how that was going to affect stuff and back to 20 minute quarters coming off the adjusted stats with Corona ball as well last year. What's been your biggest challenge, do you think, in 2021 so far?
00:15:22
Speaker
I think some things in that have come through as we thought they would, as in those inflated averages around your max score, I don't know, lock any of those sorts of players have come through. Right, but I think that the game style has adjusted now and
00:15:39
Speaker
The backman getting those big scores and that bump in the first few rounds was, I mean, it was really good because I actually loaded up on quite a few backs, but now it's sort of coming back to the pack, I think. So whether, you know, all of those things that we thought will happen will continue through the rest of the season, you know, time will tell. But yeah, I think, I mean, there's this
00:16:01
Speaker
If you were a footy fan, you would have predicted some of those inflate averages from last season, I think. I think most of the people that would be listening to this podcast would have been across that.
00:16:15
Speaker
Yeah, I think you're right on that. It's just about, it was about getting the balance right too. I think I backed in the defenders as well, but I just went too heavy and I went on guys that had already had a relatively high average thinking they might even jump another 10, 15 points say with these new rules. And I don't think that necessarily happened, but it was about just getting that balance right, I think.
00:16:34
Speaker
Yeah, we flagged at the start of the preseason, actually, that quite often new rules come in and and coaches adjust and they find the little nooks and crannies to exploit that. But then six weeks down the line, they're actually looking the other way and going, OK, this is starting to hurt us. How can we totally mitigate this risk? And basically, yeah, that's when you get back
00:16:54
Speaker
to square one and you and the coaches have to start thinking about what happens next. So it was like we hit that spot. Yeah, definitely a few weeks ago at least. And it's been sort of building from then. Things are back to relatively normal anyway, Luke.
00:17:07
Speaker
Yeah, probably Jaden's short scoring throughout the year, if you go from round 1 to round 11, probably really is a good example of how that rule has affected over the course of the season. Sorry, Hami, just to cut you off there. I know you are. I was just going to say, I don't think North Melbourne's got the message yet, though. That Jack's e-bill to Aaron Holt's chip around the back pocket seems to still be going strong.
00:17:31
Speaker
Yeah, it's like the old amateurs training when they give you the footy and tear you to just kick it around in the defensive 50 and play keepings off, isn't it? It's ridiculous what game style they're playing at the moment. It's almost gone the other way as well. I think Bucks has been looking over at David Noble and say, hey, Chrissie Mayne, look at what Zebel's doing, mate. I think we've got a role for you back there. What are you liking about Chrissie Mayne? Oh, don't stop.
00:17:54
Speaker
Have you got him, Doss? Did you really give him? Oh, mate, I nearly brought him in last week. I couldn't do it, but the defensive status this week, it's coming in. Yeah, nice. I reckon if I gave you the OK this week, you would have done that one, Dossie. But hey, Chris Mayne's someone who's surprised us this year. He's gone on bursts before. Hami, what are some of your biggest hits and misses for this season? Quite often we hear about players that ruin your season and players that set up your season, who are some
00:18:23
Speaker
those that you started with this year? I have a fairly vanilla team and most weeks for me I can sort of pick who the right person to bring in. I think there's a few weeks ago it was sort of Aaron Hall and the week after I think it may have been James Harms. So sometimes it's clear but I also like to try and pick players that have a lower percentage ownership
00:18:53
Speaker
Um, you know, to be a bit different from those top tier teams, especially when I'm trying to make up points here now. So some of the misses that I've had this year are sort of around that probably just trying to chase somebody a little bit different. Like I brought in Andrew Brayshaw and then he sort of got injured and I brought in Dan Houston and he got injured. But my biggest issue that I still have in my team stems from round two.
00:19:19
Speaker
I had James arms in round one and he started off really well and then he, I think he broke his hand. Yeah. And, um, I thought great opportunity. I'll get the biggest preseason hop guy out there, Zach Williams, and he's still hurting me at the minute. That was the right move too. Cause he was, he was so unique at that point after missing round one, I think.
00:19:41
Speaker
Yeah. So, but I mean, because you try and upgrade your rookies first, I've sort of held strong with him, even though there's probably opportunities to jump off. And another one in that boat was Caleb Soron, who I've had from the start of the suit. And he's, I mean, what did he get on the weekend? 46, 48? Oh, it was pure true. It was no good. He was on like 20 at halftime. It was really poor. I had, um, he had something on him. I think it's birthday party and
00:20:11
Speaker
So I jumped on just before half time and 16 points he's on. And I thought, oh, must have been injured. There must be a reason for all of this. And I've had a look, 16 points. Unbelievable. This is, I mean, the guy that scored 143 a few weeks ago. Yeah, that hurt me.
00:20:28
Speaker
But does sound does sound like you're on the right podcast. You're into a few point of differences by the sounds of things. Now, what's what sort of make it sounds like the point of differences. It's what Statesman has told us in the past as well. They can either make or break your season in a way. When when do you tend to lean towards that sort of a pod pick when you've got the obvious choice as well there? Is there just something
00:20:54
Speaker
It's got to be a bit of gut feel, of course, but is it like do you lean towards a pod more when there's just such an obvious clear role that you that you're liking, like a midfield role or a defensive role, like a Chris main type as a point
Using 'Pods' for Fantasy Advantage
00:21:06
Speaker
of difference. But what's what are you after when you're picking a pod? Well, I mean, there could be a pod for a number of reasons, though. So that could be a pod because they're coming off injury or suspension and
00:21:23
Speaker
with Williams because he was coming off suspension. I didn't think that there was the risk because let's say if somebody like Lockie Whitfield, I'm willing to wait a week or two to see how they come back before I'll jump on. But look, really it's just about roll. I mean, with the forwards and backs, ideally it's a midfielder that's coming in there. But yeah, sometimes
00:21:48
Speaker
You just got to go with the group though. That is the right call.
00:21:55
Speaker
Yeah, it's funny now that coaches are so astute and they've got all their news, their Twitter news, the popular pick quite often is the right pick and that's why so many coaches are jumping on and that's where you can find your point of differences going against it. Personally for me, Doss, if I'm picking a point of difference, I want to be able to see about 10 points upside or just upside in general so that I can tell myself that, all right, I'm picking this guy based on the fact that I think he can go at this
00:22:22
Speaker
And then at least, you know, if it goes wrong, which point of differences quite often can, then at least I know that, you know, there was a reason for me to pick them in the first place. Yeah. Just totally agree with that, Louis. With every player that I bring in, I want to see the upside. Okay. So with every player that I bring in, I still want to see some value in them. I can't think of an example at the moment, but
00:22:49
Speaker
Jack Mcrae, Jack Mcrae. So I'm not going to jump on Jack Mcrae unless there's a really good reason at the moment. And I won't do so with those sorts of guys who I feel are fully priced until about last five weeks of the year. But I mean, look, he might be a touch different because he's a captaincy option every week. And if I don't have another captaincy option, then that may be an argument to get him in. But with every player I bring in, I want to see some upside.
00:23:15
Speaker
Yeah. And that doesn't mean that there's a price tag you're not willing to go to, just that their points from then on have to outscore the price. So they might be priced that say, would you still, you know, say, I think a guy you're looking at, Louis, this week or in the future weeks is Christian Petrarca. He's still over 700K, but you see value and you'd be you'd be happy going there, Hami as well. It doesn't matter about the price, just that point scoring upside.
00:23:40
Speaker
I don't have his stuff right in front of me, but I've got a feeling he's about $70,000 down for the year. So that's an indication that there is upside with him. But I think that last year in that Melbourne midfield, there was a really solid four, and he was in that midfield all the time. I think that his role at the moment, he's floating a bit more forward, isn't he?
00:24:03
Speaker
Yeah, I reckon we'd have to check the centre bounce rotation, but you're probably spot on there, mate. I think that they're sort of looking to change it up a little bit and get him involved forward. And maybe that guy you're talking about before, harm Z, not quite harm you, but harm Z might be actually affecting him a little bit there with his move back in the midfield and even Vaini coming back soon. It might be more of a risky option than maybe we think would.
00:24:25
Speaker
And it's quite funny, Harmey mentioned that trading in a Jackson McRae now probably doesn't present upside and she's spot on. If you're not capturing Jackson McRae and he dishes up an 80 next week, the competition cops are 160. You've then actually created your own upside and point a difference by not having that player. And that's what we speak about. The other thing with the demons this year is they're going so well and they're not so reliant. So I think they can afford to run some of these guys like
00:24:55
Speaker
James Jordan or Charlie Spago whatever they can give them a few runs through the middle just for that experience and I tell you I actually believe that is why they lost that game against Adelaide a couple of weeks ago because they were complacent they just wouldn't put Maxi Gorn in the middle all the time because they were trying to give Luke Jackson a bit of education and it just came back to bottom so maybe that's a learning
00:25:20
Speaker
Yeah, maybe it's the right thing to do in an AFL sense as well. Just, you know, get those young kids a go. But for our fantasy teams, not the best. Not the best for knowing what's going to happen. A bit Bevo-esque there. Hey, I think we've got a massive talking point this week and we want your opinion on it. We've got you on the show. You're a fantasy legend, of course. So what do we do with Brody Grundy? He's ruled out for two to three weeks, according to reports this today.
00:25:47
Speaker
Yeah, I really like Brodie Grundy. I hate calling him. There's a bum of support up. He's always in the contest, Grundy. But I was still holding out hope that he would be right because I have structured my ruck around Grundy and Gorn being there for the rest of the season. So it's a bit of a difficult one because I don't really want to trade him out.
00:26:16
Speaker
And with a buy period, you could sort of have a look at the way that it suits your buy structure. So, I mean, there's a number of options you can do. You could hold, you might have a playing bench and like R3 that you could sort of help you through, or you could just sit this week out, see what happens, and then look jumping on a Reeves from Hawthorne and playing and still holding Grunty on your bench. But that's a lot of money sitting there on your bench. So with these sort of injuries, I'm generally a trade.
00:26:46
Speaker
However, I think there's quite a bit of risk that if you trade out and if I've looked at a few names here, I mean, you've got Darcy and Nick up there. From a price perspective, you've got Riley O'Brien, you've got some cheaper options, you've got Nank. But the risk that I can see is that people will cash out and they will use that money elsewhere and then not be able to bring him back whenever he's fit, which it might be around 15.
00:27:15
Speaker
And because he's one of those, something else I look for in a player is top end, like their ceiling. And he's one of those players that could really hurt you if he comes back, goes on a tear. He could be 140.
00:27:30
Speaker
Yeah, it's those players that you watch week to week and you, every time they get the ball, you're cringing and the fact that they just get the ball every second. It's, it's, it's the McCrae's of the world and the Grundy's that their scores just get up there. And this year for me, it's been guys like Zebel and Hall that have, I've just been watching painfully. It does make it hard, but yeah, Louie, what about you? What's your Grundy situation?
00:27:53
Speaker
Look, I was thinking about this today, Dossie at work, and for me, at least with my structure, and I'm sure I'll see the light later on in the week and have a bit of a clearer view, but I think you have to ask yourself, do I want Brody Grundy at the end of the year?
00:28:09
Speaker
Obviously, you do? Yes. So, I'm not going down to another Rockman. I'm not going to mess around with Riley O'Brien, Toby Nankovis, Zach Smith. You know, I'm not going to do it because I'm realizing that that's just going to be another trade later on down the track because I want Grandy and my team. So, what I'm saying is, I think that's when we have to start looking creatively.
00:28:31
Speaker
So either you hold, which I think you can throughout the buy as top 18, may be able to manage it. It's not as bad as if it was a regular season round, but I think you have to have a serious look at Sean Darcy and to a lesser extent, Tim English just because they've got that forward status and actually allows you to be able to throw them out.
00:28:50
Speaker
of your rockline and bring Grundy in whenever you can, assuming you've planned for that, but also bank a top six forward. So obviously Sean Darcy is the man for that, not so much team English, unless he goes on a tear. So you're using a trade you didn't want to use, but you're actually still banking a keeper player for the rest of the year. I think that's the way that I would want to play it. I actually quite like the fact that Brandy's gone down because it
00:29:15
Speaker
It's one of these twists and it's going to be a really defining moment for a lot of these teams that are up there because they can't hold. If you are in contention or if you're in the top 100 right now, you've got to trade. So who those guys go to could really make a big difference where they finish up in the season. Look, I think that because I've got Bourne and Grundy,
00:29:37
Speaker
You may use this as an opportunity to correct your buy structure a little bit and it might be Toby Nankervis on that basis. I think that Nui's got a, where's his buy? They're around 13 buys, so they're the same as Togg's.
00:29:57
Speaker
I did write those two off pretty quickly. I agree, I think, being that round 12 or round 13 buy, that's where it sets it apart a little bit because you're not stuck with those two big dogs, Grundy and Gorn, which we always are every year because of that Queen's birthday game. So, yeah, that's another reason you could do it. Hey, John, another couple of things. Do you have some post-buy uber premium targets or value targets that you want to maybe share with us on the show?
00:30:24
Speaker
Yeah, this is when you said earlier, Ados, about how I've made a bit of grand in the past. This is a sort of period where I make a list. So I make a list of my team as it looks, and I look at some players that I sort of feel I don't really want to be there at the end of the buy period and try and move them up.
Post-Buy Round Planning
00:30:45
Speaker
So you're looking at sort of two, three, or four upgrades through that period. So I've got a bit of a list I'm running at the minute.
00:30:54
Speaker
that like I've sort of gone through those those bars so you're 12, 13, 14 and I've identified players that I'll sort of think present value at the moment and we can talk through where they sit and then I've sort of got a bit of a list and but because my team's not going very well I sort of can make those really big jumps so I'm sort of making planning on some incremental stuff at the moment but if I have a look through and I'll reel off a few names for you guys and you can tell me what you think you might
00:31:24
Speaker
tell me I'm a fool, Louis, because your ranking's actually pretty good at the minute. Well, we'll see. We'll see. The balls are told to be telling you that. Yeah. So the round 12 by, um, there's a bit of a mixture of primos and, and, um, sort of mid prices as opposed here, because I guess I've got a list that I'm trying to target, but coming off that round 12 by, I think you should really be trying to get in either lucky wheat field, lower ownership, or,
00:31:53
Speaker
Josh Kelly, who's just come out in that last few weeks and smashed it, was a little bit disappointing. I couldn't get on him a few weeks ago, but I think those two, I mean, they should be who everybody's really targeting and preferably would feel it if you can do it.
00:32:11
Speaker
are locks, locks for me. Absolutely. And it would be Whitfield first for me, actually, just because coaches have been jumping on Kelly early because he is quite cheap. I think Whitfield still got a little bit to fall. So he's certainly the more unique one at the moment. So that's who I choose first. What about you, Hami? Oh, look, honestly, I was actually trying to get from Myles Bergman up to
00:32:34
Speaker
Um, to Josh Kelly over that period. And that's where it works. Yeah. Yeah. And both round 12 players. Um, you know, but it's not going to happen now because, because Bergman got dropped in an emergency, I had to move him on and, and I'll tell you who I'd moved him on to. I sort of had the choice of a Hunter and Isaac Heaney. And I went with who I thought was going to be the better scorer, which was Hunter.
00:33:00
Speaker
and then Heaney pops up with a massive 135, which again, not a kick in the guts, but I'll just reel off a few other names from that buy. I mean, Titch, Titch again, I mean, I don't know if he's got the value that we have. If you captained him last weekend, the one before he got 133, I think I was, then you'd be pretty happy and you'd disagree with me.
00:33:25
Speaker
I just not sure whether he's here 120 averaging midfielder at the minute. Well, if you captain him this week, like me, Hami, you'd be pretty, pretty disappointed with how he's gone. I actually am concerned. I got a bit concerned on the weekend watching. I think Clarko started maybe trying a few different things and in, in teaches years where he was the pig, the absolute dominant man and before the broken leg.
00:33:51
Speaker
He was getting 90% center bounces and 90% time on ground. He was just in there all the time and getting all the time on ground. He's down at probably 80% and maybe even slightly lower in the center bounces the last few weeks. It's just, he's not going to get up. I think it's kind of fool's gold to think he'll get to 120 for the rest of the year kind of thing. But that just might be a salty man coming off a 73. But anyway, continue there, Hami. Yeah. Well, I mean, but
00:34:18
Speaker
That's a fair argument. Hawthorn, yeah, they should be trying a few different things. I put Collingwood in his same boat. I quite like Steel Side Bottom as an option, but can you tell me that he's going to sit in those CBAs and pump out clearances and get his hands around the ball? Probably not, because he might go up forward. I don't know. What's going on with him and Dacos? Dacos might go back in the guts and
00:34:44
Speaker
side he's up forward and then he doesn't present the value I think he's 670 odd thousand at the moment which should be a no-brainer for your side bottom but I've got some reservations there.
00:34:54
Speaker
Yeah, and Hami on the pies we're actually seeing, we've seen McCray, Rantle, Bianco, Wilson, they're giving the kids a go, so still side bottom you'd think would be top of the list for them to go still, take a back seat for this game, we want to get some kilometres into the kids in this game and you're going to get parked up forward in the graveyard shift, so yeah, that's a pretty valid concern there, Hami. Well Louis, when you say they're giving them a go, if you look at my team, they're giving them one go in Rantle and McCray. Yeah, that's the problem.
00:35:25
Speaker
Just some other people, I'm looking off that buy. I mean, James Warpool, yeah, again, I'm not quite sure, but he's probably better than an 80-point averaging buy, which he priced at the moment. Josh Kelly, we spoke about. Stephen Kneigley, I'm just keeping a bit of an eye on that, because I think after he's played two games after he comes back, he could be some pretty good value. And, you know, we've got Colin Ward, who is probably a target there as well, but he's putting up hundreds.
00:35:53
Speaker
but I feel like Cogg is going to come back and sit in that middle and Ward will be pushed out again to his third man up in the Rucker position. Got Nick Haynes off the back line, very cheap at the minute, because I think he got hit. No, he got injured, didn't he? Yeah, the nine. And then wasn't playing his natural role down back. They were putting him on a wing and throwing him around the place. So I think they were trying to sort of slot him in with a few outs in the team. He was seeing Tyler coming going as well down back. So it seemed to be back there in his natural role as well.
00:36:23
Speaker
Taylor's gone, isn't he? And he's that key post normally. Yeah, he's just gone out. It's actually quite interesting, Harvey. I don't know if you've noticed, but it seems that Nick Haines role has reverted back to last year after all the GWS key defenders have gone down. It's really weird. They've decided, oh, we're going to turn Jake Ricciardi into a defender instead. Yeah, I'm not sure what goes on at GWS land. It's all a bit funny to me. So, kick guns from the list here. This is someone I'm pretty hot on.
00:36:51
Speaker
I reckon I'll be bringing in, and that's Dan Houston. I did bring him in, only for him to get into it, which is pretty painful. But I think that he put up that noise on the weekend. He's pretty cheap.
00:37:06
Speaker
Very cheap. He's up there with my, uh, up there with my, uh, favorite, favorite post-buy bring in Stan Houston. Great to watch too. He's had multiple, multiple injury games too. It's not just one. It's like he's had one incredibly low time on ground sub out game, and then a couple of others. And then he returned a bit early and getting the 60% time on ground. So his ceiling's just great and price. Perfect. Another, um, sub out on that, uh, ran to our boys, Mitch Duncan.
00:37:34
Speaker
I think he will drop a little bit of coin. He will be a good pick up if we can get him at the right time. And he's someone I can score big time. Yeah, so that's my round 12 people. I mean, but really, it's sort of who you can remove to get them in as well.
00:37:51
Speaker
I'd love to get rid of CJ and Tom Phillips and get them up to you. Josh Kelly, imagine that would be amazing trading, but it's not going to happen for me. Yeah, so then we'll talk about the round 13 players. I've got Dusty in my team, brought him in a couple of weeks ago. I still reckon he's going to be a good pick for people that are looking, coming off there. Again, I don't know, you want to be trading at around 14 player to around
00:38:18
Speaker
13 coming off that buy, so he might be, you know, one or two dusty and that's probably a pretty good move for people in that position. Deion pressed you, I think he could be a good pick, only put up 70 points on his return, but the more he yields, what you can have another game there this weekend, so just have a look at that. If he scores near 100, it could be a big pick. Zorko's probably pricing himself out of it now, but GC's been good since Neil went down, but Lockie, Neil,
00:38:46
Speaker
If he comes back, and I think that's sort of indicated that he may do, but if he comes back and plays this weekend, everybody should be eyeing that one.
00:38:55
Speaker
Yeah, he's up there with the top, him and Houston Whitfield. They're kind of my really big names that I definitely want in my team. And then any others that I can squeeze in there, if I can manage to bring in Neil as well. Previously, I had Neil the date. Yeah. I brought him in the week. He did his ankle. So that's fantastic. I was looking at him that week. 40 bottomed out, but yeah, that one.
00:39:20
Speaker
go Ridley I was looking at him I've been looking at him for a few weeks sort of just thinking oh yeah he'll be right he'll be right because he got like 120 120 at the start of the year but I'm thinking maybe it'll be a fight at this point and he won't worry about it. Lucky Hunter brought him in as I said last week I think that
00:39:40
Speaker
I mean, what's he down? 250,000 for the year. He was one of those guys that was overpriced because he just sat out on that wing last year and had good points per minute. But I think that he's a good target coming off that buy. Well, I think that one will come good for you, Hamia. I wouldn't be too worried about Hunter. I think, yeah, the roll's back. He's got that roll back now. And it definitely was an uptick in scoring. I think it was a pretty tough matchup, obviously, against Melbourne. So I think you'd be right there, mate.
00:40:05
Speaker
Got a couple more. Caleb Daniel, I put him in the same boat as Ridley. I mean, Caleb Daniel, I think he's priced at about mid 80s and I reckon that's about what he can finish at now. Crips, did we talk about that? I had him all last season and man, it was 130, 60, but he's just put 300s in a row and along the weekend at 120, I think you've got to look at it.
00:40:37
Speaker
What do you reckon, Lew? Oh, you got to look at it. He's priced lowly enough that you can actually go one up, one down, or two down, one up to get on the end of Patrick Cripps. Harm you spot on, though. It's a roller coaster. It's a 71 week and then a 140 the other. Still averages 100, but
00:40:57
Speaker
It's funny, it's almost like we see Patrick Cripps at this price every single season. So, he's always an option. I'd be interested to go back and look at the numbers on how that's burned people, how that's awarded people.
00:41:12
Speaker
I mean, purely numbers, you got to look at it. He is so under priced based on what he's done in the last couple of years. And certainly based on that, I think it was 2017 where he went 110. So now I think a player of that sort of ceiling jumping on at this price is it's not too far different from the Darcy Parishes of the world, where if they can pump you out a few 130s, you're ahead of the competition. Yeah, Louie, I've got a feeling that that 2017 year is probably going to be the outlier for him.
00:41:42
Speaker
And it was saying this with a few players, I don't think he's a 1.15. I can't remember the exact average he was in that year, but I don't think he's going to be a 1.15. I think that he's just going to, I think you're probably going to get more out of saying, well, she's got a more consistent score build. Like he sort of hits all of the scoring areas.
00:42:04
Speaker
Yeah, I agree with that. I think Cripp is almost, he's a little bit like Ben Cunnington, isn't he? He's obviously got a high ceiling, but he's such a contested ball. He doesn't actually have to do all the, not the little things, but he doesn't have to go spread out for marks to have a solid game. He just needs to be in the guts, extracting the ball to the blokes that can actually use the football because we know Cripp's can't keep it. And like we talk about Carlton now as well and how much
00:42:29
Speaker
They're supposed to be sort of not living up to expectations at the moment But their team's much more loaded than it was in the year that he absolutely carved up for us and average 110 so they've got a lot more mouths to feed now as we like to say and you like you guys like well She looks to be an absolute fantasy stud for years to come. He's going to be taking those points But it's still very tempting given his scoring output lately. You got any more there for us army?
00:42:52
Speaker
Yeah, mate, I got one that I think big Louie you brought in the weekend Bailey Smith I thought he was gonna hit a hundred a few times for you, but Was it mid 80s? So I think he's you'll be a pretty good pick because he's not even 600,000 at the moment. He's under 600,000 Yeah, so I think he could be a good one on that round 13 I'll just finish off these round 14 players if you like and
John Harmy's Insights on Strategy
00:43:18
Speaker
Can I jump in quickly just on your Baileysmith call there? I jump in with the Dossies picks, which often fail, but we like to throw them out there anyway. A guy for a hundred and a bit thousand dollars less surprisingly had similar center bouncer tendencies to Baileysmith, which absolutely shocked me from the bevo factor. We thought Baileysmith was going to get all the leftover center bouncers.
00:43:42
Speaker
Looked like a few went to Lapinski's way. Nearly split them almost the same amount with Bailey Smith. He's only 4.92k, actually outscored Smith with a 95. Could you go there, Hami? Or is that just the Dossie's way there and you're going to fail going that way? Well, so they should. Doss, she's a good player. Oh, I should always feel a bit sorry for him. He seems to be the one that gets, you know,
00:44:05
Speaker
chopped quite a bit too often. But no, you can't do it. Because the Bulldogs and fair enough, they love him. They love Ailey Smith. He's a great player. He had great junior fantasy numbers and he's translated that in coming in as you know. So they'll want to put him in because he's their man at the moment.
00:44:27
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, we're dunking going to the Bombers next year. They want to put a bit of time in. Lapinski, I reckon, would walk into any midfield in the comp bar, the dogs, and be a top three midfielder. He's so stiff. I think he was a dog supporter growing up, so he's probably not going to leave either. Well, if Hamid gets his way and dunks set sail, then, yeah, but good luck with that, mate. It sounds like he's best mates with Trelure, and they're both bunkering down at Hamid.
00:44:54
Speaker
So then we'll move on to round 14, a few players that I've been looking at, Jake Lloyd, but then I think maybe Jake Lloyd is actually about what he's going to do with, yeah, with the way that Swans Backline's working this year. If you don't have Max Gorn, the time might be, well, if you don't have Max Gorn and you've got Grundy, it's this week for you. That's an obvious one, yep.
00:45:19
Speaker
But if not, coming out of that round 14 by, he's his target. Look, I still like Sidey. I think he put up a 106 on the weekend and I think that he's still going to end the season better than what he has done his first half. I move past Adams because he's at knees just in pride, is it, Paul Guy? He's a great player when he's on. Yeah, I think he got ruled out today. Yeah, he's out now.
00:45:50
Speaker
But again, he's scoring mid 80s. He had that injured game, so his price is probably a little bit below. You might get $50,000, but you've still got to use another trade to get him up to an uber premium at the end of the season there. If you need a forward line player, I've done this at a few seasons before, you'd sort of take somebody off that early buy because you need them to carry you through that last buy round.
00:46:16
Speaker
Isaac Heaney, that is one that I missed on the weekend because I had to patch something else. So yeah, he's a given. I think I'm going to have to try and get him in this week. I think what I might do is get rid of CJ in my back line. I'm moving the kind to my back line just to cover this week, bringing in Heaney. And then next week I will
00:46:40
Speaker
probably trade out Warner, move Nicole and then bring in Houston, something like that. What's been with Haney? What's his scoring? Have you seen anything that you've liked from the spike perspective or is it just the scores that have been consistently the last couple of weeks that are just given him under priced or have you actually seen something with your eyes that you're like, man, Haney's actually got a better role now or something like that?
00:47:03
Speaker
Well, I have had a look into his history. He's got two injured games this year, I think, doesn't he? So he's got two games where he's been injured for half time. So the price that you're paying now isn't really reflective of the player that he is. But I mean, Compap is quite a good forward, but the swans want it in Haney's hands when they're coming in there. And if it, you know,
00:47:29
Speaker
Next week when Paddy gets injured, there's probably even more opportunity for him to get involved.
00:47:35
Speaker
And he's pushing high up the ground, he is playing forward but you see him at halfback flank and I was really impressed with his, I know he got 135 on the weekend but I was super impressed with his 84 the week before because it was super wet that night and he, that was probably my main concern, bringing him in that week that he would dish up a 50 or a 60 in the wet, back to he was able to go 84 and then back it up with a 135 plus historically we know what Haney can do, I think he's a super option.
00:48:02
Speaker
Well, for a mid-size forward, he takes a lot of marks, doesn't he? So it's a plus six because he's kicking it. Then it's delivering into the 50, so it's a six. It's a six point play for him. Yeah. Just a few more to finish here. I like Brad Crouch. I brought him in two weeks ago. Very nice. And I think he gave me not a very good score to start with, but I sort of saw that I thought the Saints had a pretty good run coming into their buy. And I think that he'll, I mean,
00:48:31
Speaker
He was at two years ago. He averaged well over 100. I think he could be like a 105 player from here on. Yeah, Clayton, all of a Christian Praterka, not so sure, but they're better players coming out of that if you want them. But then a couple of cheaper guys as well. You got Acos and as a back option Maynard, but I think that he played that accountable role on the weekend. So he's down on last year's price.
00:49:02
Speaker
And so you're saying Maine's, he's an option this way. You've got to get made this way. He's not a post-buyer. You've got to jump now. Isn't that right, honey?
00:49:10
Speaker
They'll have to go back through the feed there, but I think you said that, not me, Dost. If that's all you've got for us, Rabbi, I think we've just got a few questions and we'll let you go, because we've held you longer than we were planning on going here at Harmony. But I've got a question for you from Craig here. Sorry, just one more. Yeah, mate. Jordan de Goey, is he an optioned Louis in the forward line? Very cheap. We've got that injured game on three.
00:49:37
Speaker
I mean, he's an option for me because he's still actually sitting there at F6, which it's actually not as bad to look at Jordan de Goey at F6. It's bearable. He's got Adelaide and Melbourne in the next two. Look, I reckon at priced at 450, there's worse punts you could take. I think that Jordan de Goey, even though he's had such a poor season, is still a 75 averaging player. And he is priced below that right now.
00:50:05
Speaker
If they're ever going to try a few things like we've been saying as well, then surely just chucking to go in for the last 10 games, you know, at least 10 games straight and just chucking him in the guts. See if he can actually produce it and stop putting him forward whenever there's a chance you're going to win a game. If you just leave him in there and just see how he goes, if the season's lost, at least find out if he's actually worth, you know, playing in there going forward or if you just run with the kids. I think I think it's a it's a tempting option given he did get the center bounces, but
00:50:34
Speaker
Again, it's the same sort of side-bottom situation I think, Hami, but obviously a couple hundred K difference between those guys, but also the ceilings are completely different. Do you know where I'd do it, Dos? If I had a Miles Bergman still in my team or someone around that price and I've done my two other trades and I don't really have any money to do anything with my third, so I can flip a rookie off and bring in a premium, you know, quotation marks, that's going to play every single game until you decide to get rid of him. So that's probably where I prefer it, but
00:51:04
Speaker
Yeah, it's interesting. I've got to take my glasses off here because I hate Jordan to go so, so much for a very wide range of reasons. But yeah, you could do it. You tend to do it. I'm rambling now. Louis, you're the one who's shown the fight, though. You've had him the whole season. We haven't. We've jumped off. Everyone else has jumped off. That's just me being stubborn and moving rookies off first, which it's worked out all right for me so far. So we'll see how we go.
00:51:32
Speaker
paying off. Craig wants to ask you this question, John. What type of trading should we be doing in round 12 when most players have not had their buy? He's hoping to use one of his trades this week to bring in Kelly or Whitfield to help him through the round 13 and 14 buy. So is it okay to bring in someone with that buy this week just to sort your structures out? Well, yes, it is.
00:51:59
Speaker
I try to use this week to build cash in order to fund my upgrades going forward. We'll see what transpires over the course of the week because we might get some rookies named, but in past years, there has been rookie options to go to. I guess I didn't take Bianco last week because I thought I'll just have a look at him, but I think everyone should be looking to try and bring him in this week.
00:52:24
Speaker
And for me, it was quite straightforward at the minute because I've got Barry who got that head knock from Adelaide. So I'll take my 120,000 from him and bring in Bianco. So normally I try and get my money in this week in order to fund some of my upgrades in future weeks. But I've had, like what Craig's saying there, I've been looking at a similar thing.
00:52:47
Speaker
And if I could go Tom Phillips to Josh Kelly and be set for next week and focus on other trades next week, then I'd say that that's a good play. But the thing is, you've got to make sure it's a decent upgrade. There's no point sideways trading this week, Craig. And entering the buys as well, what sort of structure are you going with? That one's from Josh. Can you take us through some of your preferred buy strategies or do you just go with an 8, 10, 12 or a 9, 10, 11 sort of coming in in terms of non-playing players there?
00:53:17
Speaker
Yeah, look, ideally, you're going to have 20, 21 players every week. But that is going to be really reliant on you having no red dots on your bench. And I for one can put my hand up and say that that's not me. I think I've got three last round maybe. And that's really going to come back to hurt you. So that that is definitely a factor. I mean, it's fine to say, yeah, I'm 10, 10, 10. But really, I mean, is it really
00:53:45
Speaker
10-10-7 or 10-10-5. So that's probably the first and most important thing in that. My structure at the moment, it isn't very good. I mean, yeah, you'd probably have a 8-10-12 or more likely a 9-10-11 if you can work it. My structure at the moment, if I have a look at last week's, is 7-8-15. And what that means for me is I'm gonna have to probably hold some of my 12 and 13 players through
00:54:15
Speaker
So because I need to trade out some of my round 14 players and bring in those guys as they come off their buy. So like Craig said before, I mean, ideally for me, I'd be getting your 12 and 13 bookies coming through in the next couple of weeks. I can bring them in and correct and trade out some of those fourteens and I'll give you some names like Warner, Berry,
00:54:40
Speaker
maybe even Tom Haim or those sorts of guys would be nice to get out and get some new rookies in to fund my upgrade or say so wrong to Neil. That sort of thing would be awesome in the last round.
00:54:51
Speaker
And last one for you, John, we've held you so long. Sorry about that. This one from Mark. He just wants to know, how much time do you invest in fantasy footy per week to be one of the goats that we've seen you in the fantasy community? And also, does it dampen your passion for the footy when you have your C on an opposition player? So if you're putting the C on a bloke going up against your mighty dons there, mate? Yeah.
00:55:20
Speaker
But see, players are scoring well against the Bombers. I'm not as parochial about that sort of thing. I was a little bit dirty a few weeks ago, when one of my worst picks for the year, Caleb Sorong, was tagging one of my best picks, Zac Romero, and he had the captaincy band on. That was a bit hard to watch. So yeah, I don't... Look, it fluctuates. When I was in a position to win a couple of years ago, I was investing a lot of time into it, and it's actually quite stressful.
00:55:49
Speaker
But these days I can just take or leave it a little bit. I'm not as stressed out by it. I just enjoy watching footy. I'm a footy fan. I love watching a game of footy. I can sit down and watch it and take out of it what I will. Yeah, looking at the stats all the time. I went and watched a game of footy, Hawthorn versus North Melbourne a couple of weeks ago with my son.
00:56:18
Speaker
I was absolutely spewing when CJ got not laid out.
00:56:22
Speaker
because I didn't see the incident and so I was fuming sitting there in the stands. So yeah, you do take it personally. Particularly when I could see him sitting on the bench and he was doing his runs up the sideline but they wouldn't let him back on the field. But yeah, it is hard to take at times. But look, I just love the game. And I love fantasy and there's a lot of good people around. There's a lot of really good community too and people that, like you guys, have been really enjoying your content.
00:56:51
Speaker
I actually, I do listen to a lot of the podcasts and stuff because I drive to work a little bit every day. So do enjoy that. So, and so how many hours sort of like, you just sort of listened to a few pods here and there, do a bit of your own research, write a few notes as well. And that's how you get those hats, mate. Yeah, a bit, but look, I plan out the buyers like this, this time of year, probably a little bit more.
00:57:16
Speaker
And I was trying to work through my trades last week. That took a little bit, but I don't know. If you ask my partner, she probably saved about 20 hours or something. Really, it's only a few hours and we watch. I probably only watch about two games a week at the minute on my phone because there's always kids movies on the main TV in my house.
00:57:38
Speaker
Yep, standard. All right, Harmony. Well, thanks, mate. Thanks for giving us so much of your time as well. And we appreciate you. Appreciate you out on the Twittersphere as well. Do you want to give us your little handle there? It's just JohnHarmy, isn't it? J-O-N-Harmy. That's right. Yep. Maybe you've tagged me in something later on, Dawson. People can see it. But yeah, send me a message if you want to. I'll get it. Louie gives me some advice from time to time, which I appreciate. Thanks, Lou.
00:58:06
Speaker
Likewise, mate, it comes back both ways. We support each other in the fantasy community. And then when it goes wrong, we get to blame each other too. I'm glad I didn't take that. Zach Bailey typically gave me that.
00:58:19
Speaker
Yeah, I know, I think I'm going to get stuck into that after this, that Zack Bailey pick unfortunately. But hey, you know what? He's going this week, so onwards and upwards. See you later, Zack Bailey. Suits the biostructure. Well, thanks again, Harvey, and good luck with your trades. Bringing in Lipinski and Chris Mayne this week, mate. Thank you, and I will enjoy watching them. Legend Harvey, thanks, mate.
00:58:48
Speaker
Huge thanks to Harmony for coming on and joining us for a massive chat, Lou, and appreciate your time here as well. And good luck, everyone else, for navigating the buyers this week. To our listeners, we wish you all the best.
Final Words and Outro
00:58:59
Speaker
And if you've got any questions or anything like that, hit us up at Pod Pod AFL. We know a lot of questions floated through, but we had a massive chat with Harmony. We took up
00:59:07
Speaker
way too much of his time actually snuck in a few more minutes than we were supposed to so we'll try and get to some of your questions that you floated on the socials and anyway but Louie any final any final words of wisdom before heading into these buys
00:59:22
Speaker
look just be on top of your structure and actually I will just drop this quickly dos and it's something that I got caught out on a couple of days ago I had to make slight adjustment is that I had 21 players playing one week
00:59:38
Speaker
The problem was eight of those were defenders. Yeah. Couldn't feel two of them. So I had to do a little bit of adjustment. Luckily I had DPP and I'm able to get them in my midfield. But that's one thing that I can't remember mentioning yet is that when you're counting your players, make sure you're not stacked particularly in one line because you're not going to be able to feel them.
00:59:58
Speaker
That's like a little bit of a little bit of final word of wisdom, Lou, that we always love. But good luck to everyone. And again, yeah, just good luck navigating these buyers. We're going to need a bit of luck, I think, Lou, but we should get through. Good luck, everyone.