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The Mid-Season Byes Are Here! | Strategy Round Table | AFL Fantasy Q&A #PODPOD
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The PODPOD boys are flying. Lewy is on the verge of the top 100, Sam keeps climbing and Holmesy is fresh off a top 50 round rank. On the eve of the mid-season byes, the competition is heating up and cash gen is becoming as important as ever. It’s all about discipline and attack now as we find out which coaches have been planning and which coaches will come unstuck.
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Transcript
Introduction and AFL Fantasy Focus
00:00:19
Holmesy
G'day welcome to the Pod Pod. It's Holmesy here talking all things AFL Fantasy Classic for you on this Monday 26th of May. The best 22 rounds are behind us. We're about to embark into the mid-season buy period with best 18 for five five rounds and we're about to see which coaches have prepared themselves, structured up well for the buyers and and which teams are going to be struggling a little bit.
Guest Appearance and Rank Improvements
00:00:43
Holmesy
But not We don't have a full panel tonight.
00:00:46
Holmesy
Sam's unfortunately not with us, despite having ah a weekly rank rise. So that's a bit of a shock held up at work. But we do have two-time top 10 finisher and runner-up in 2019, as always, John Harmy, who just quietly is ah flying up the rankings, which we we will get to.
00:01:04
Holmesy
But Harmy, thanks for jumping on, mate. How are you going?
00:01:07
Jon Harmey
Yeah, going well, thanks. Host Holmesy. Yeah, no, put up an all right score. Nothing compared to the top 100 coaches that we have on the podcast these days. so
00:01:19
Holmesy
Yeah, that's ah that's a very good segue. And we do have perennial top 1K finisher, but very, very close to the top 100. Was there for most of the weekend.
00:01:30
Holmesy
Louis, thanks for joining us. How are you?
00:01:33
Lew
Yeah, not too bad. It's been a um pretty good week for fantasy and now it's ah yeah we've really got to knuckle down as we go into the buy rounds. There's ah so many different ways you can head now, so excited.
00:01:44
Lew
Excited.
00:01:46
Holmesy
Yeah, mate, I am itching
Rookie Scores and Buy Round Preparation
00:01:48
Holmesy
for the buy rounds. I don't know about you, but there's been some pretty putrid rookie scores that have been popping up for myself and other coaches over the last couple of months. And it's it's awful almost a breath of fresh air knowing that we're going to be able to drop some of them, hopefully.
00:02:02
Holmesy
um over the next five rounds if we can get 19, 20, 21, 22 players playing. But let's review the round that was first and we'll go through our scores and our ranks. So Harmi, you're first off. Why don't you give us your score and and where your ranks kind of come into over the last couple of weeks? Because you are just quietly flying and and getting that team value on field now, which is good.
Score Sharing and Rank Discussion
00:02:23
Jon Harmey
ah Well, the ethook the lowest score for the podcast this week, but I still put up a 2373, which I was fairly happy um with. A couple of things could have gone my way, it could have been higher as well, but that puts my rank at 5720. Well, i don't if I'm necessarily flying, Hamesy, but I did come from a long way back. So, yeah, I've been coming in. That's another 2,500 ranking increase this week, which was nice.
00:02:54
Holmesy
Yeah, just from where were, Harmi, but we have been saying for a while now your your team value hasn't necessarily reflected the scores that you've been getting on field. So a couple of consistent weeks now and fingers crossed you can keep building. Lou, how did you go on the weekend?
00:03:08
Lew
Yeah, not too bad. I scored the 24-15. So, um yeah, bit of a larger score there, which was nice.
00:03:18
Holmesy
Very, very good from you, Lou. And...
Apology and Rank Celebration
00:03:21
Holmesy
Just before I give ah give my score for the week, first off, I i think I have some apologies to to give out. um this I tried to find some apology music, but I couldn't get anything on short notice. But this apology goes out to every single person that's involved in any fantasy group chat that I'm involved in at the moment, um which is a lot.
00:03:42
Holmesy
ah Vams put up a post the other day about all of the different types of characters that you get in the group chat. ah you know We've got the person that you know is the bull post that comes in early and and tries to moz when players that he doesn't have are flying.
00:03:57
Holmesy
You've got the person that whines all week when you know then they don't say they're going very well, but they end up with a top 1,000 finish. You've got the premature praising other players and all that kind of stuff. And then this weekend, I was all of those all of those combined only to come out with a 25-30, which was ah a 46th overall round rank, um which has taken my rank up all the way into 236. So Louis, Harmy, I apologize to you guys. Not so much to Sam because he's ah he's a pest in the group as well, but I apologize for my behavior.
00:04:31
Lew
ah Apology accepted, mate. I thought you were nuts when you were sort of thinking that you were having a bit of a poorer week. Just looking at that team, it's ah it's in a really nice position. So I'm excited to see what you can do over the next couple of weeks because I think you can keep charging up those ranks.
00:04:47
Jon Harmey
I'm sure you learn from your mistakes, Holmesy. you think anything will change?
00:04:51
Holmesy
No, well, Dossie used to play into it the old humble homesy where I'd i'd always just you know keep it cool and all weekend no matter how well my players were going. But it's it's one I just don't want to jinx anything. and you know So many times I've been you know flying until Saturday night and then Sunday rolls around and your
Weekly Picks and Player Highlights
00:05:11
Holmesy
players fall over. It just happened that this week, Sunday was even better than the the rest of the week and yeah had a had a thumper. Yeah.
00:05:18
Holmesy
I'll work on it, boys. But yeah, no, I can't see myself changing too much. But Harmi, why don't you go into your Stato and Dossie picks for the week?
00:05:27
Jon Harmey
Well, yes, I can do that. I would like to give my Stato pick to Riley Hardiman, who put up 106 points. Sadly, that was on my bench, as seems to have been the case this year with the number of players. So I'm going to throw it to Sam Davidson for his 94.
00:05:46
Jon Harmey
He got the memo that Hugo Garcia had been dropped and that I um had a loop option, needed at a decent emergency, and he came through with a good. So his Mustado pick of the week, that was a good one. And then probably my Dossie pick of the week, even though I know he went to the sidelines and got his leg rubbed for a bit and all that sort of stuff, but Shea Bolton, 67, on debut, that was a hard one. I know he's prone to some low scoring, but...
00:06:15
Jon Harmey
I was a bit disappointed with that. Sitting on the sidelines in the second quarter when he was on eight points, I was very worried, but still wasn't what I was looking for, so he can have it.
00:06:25
Holmesy
Yeah, look, to be honest, it was ah it was a wet day in Perth on Saturday. It rained all day and and rained very heavily at the game. I was there. Wasn't exactly shy Bolton conditions, and maybe if you had have known that, maybe it would have altered your train plans a bit, being the risk. But I think he will come good, especially against the Gold Coast this week,
Shea Bolton's Performance in Wet Conditions
00:06:44
Holmesy
hopefully. Harmi, you didn't consider benching Colby McKercher for your boy, Riley Hardiman?
00:06:49
Jon Harmey
ah Well, they're the same team. This is the thing. So I can't even use them as a loop. but No, no, look, I wouldn't do that. I've got to stick fat with Colby. Look good early, but his four-point second half that dip wasn't really what I was after either.
00:07:06
Holmesy
Surely, surely it's his buy and you're trading him out, Harmy.
00:07:10
Holmesy
Put yourself out of that misery. yeah
00:07:10
Jon Harmey
Ah, no, no, you'll come good.
00:07:14
Jon Harmey
People will be trading him in, Holmesy, but the other way around.
00:07:18
Holmesy
I don't think so. Louis, how about your dossier and stator picks for the week?
00:07:23
Lew
Yeah, where are we here? Nick Martin with the 166. He has been an absolute gem of a pick since I picked him up back in round five or six. So he's ah really started to pay dividends and I know he was popularly traded in this week, but it was nice to be a little bit ahead of the pack with that.
00:07:42
Lew
And then I also stuck the VC on him too. So Very nice to get a large ceiling BC score after a couple of poorer captain choices in the last few weeks.
00:07:55
Lew
And ah my dossie pick, I'll give it to Ryan Marich. It was a bit of a rough game from him. Certainly the opposition didn't help. They've got a real tall forward line, the Adelaide Crows. But yeah, 51 is pretty stiff. I'm hoping that he can bounce back.
00:08:10
Lew
end quickly because he's probably one that I was hoping to get to the buyer but if he's going to start to bleed cash he might be one that needs to be brought forward
00:08:20
Holmesy
Lou, do you feel a little bit unlucky? i mean, some people still would have traded him and in any way, but with the forced bullets of JHF and McRae, do you feel like people were kind of forced to go into Nick Martin, which meant he wasn't as unique this week for his 166 as he could have been?
00:08:36
Lew
I'd say so. Yeah, I think if we didn't have those forced trades in the forward line, that it wouldn't have even been a blip on the radar. ah In terms of sort of coaches trading them in, I think it would have looked more like sort of 2% or 3% instead of the 15% plus percent it ended up being.
00:08:53
Holmesy
Yep. Yeah, fair enough. um My Dossie Pick of the Week. Now, I had some monster scores this round, but I just wanted to give a little bit of credit to Adam Chera. Priced at 108. ah Sorry, scored 108.
00:09:06
Holmesy
He was priced at 72 to start the year. um he's He's been the pick of the season for those mid-70s guys to start. Outside of a 70-odd that he had when he needed to move back when they had those injuries, he just keeps getting it done.
00:09:21
Holmesy
um The plan was always to get him through to the bye and then reassess. But with his run coming up and just seeming like he's just getting better and better, I just wanted to pay credit. I think he's been a very good pick. And For some reason each week, i'm I'm a bit nervous thinking what he's going to get to, but while he keeps doing this, I'm more than happy to to keep playing him there at M7 or M8 as we get deeper in the buys.
00:09:43
Holmesy
My dossie pick of the week, just going to give it to Andy Brayshaw, 88. eighty eight As you can imagine, didn't have too many poor scores this week. A Riley bias, but not going to give it to a rookie. So 88, got tagged a bit by Bergman, but not really. It's just a...
00:09:59
Holmesy
a head-to-head matchup and move forward a bit and and didn't quite get it done. So, yeah, Andy Brayshaw hoping for a bounce back this week against Gold Coast.
00:10:08
Jon Harmey
Are we going to mention Sam? Even though, you know, he's deserted us. But, I mean, the guy's sitting in 196 overall. So i hope it's not as if he's going no good either isn it
00:10:22
Holmesy
Yeah, mate, sam so Sam's flying. A lot of it to do with the fact that he got top four defender Lockie Ash priced in the low 70s. That's been an an unreal pick. Lou, did you tell the listeners where you're sitting at the moment?
00:10:37
Lew
Yeah, I'm at 103 at the moment, so I've come in about 30 spots off of the back of last week, really close to that 100. It was was taunting me on the Sunday night, actually. I was dead set on the 100, and then there was some late changes, which just knocked me out a bit. So that would have been nice, but certainly no complaints here.
00:10:57
Lew
Onwards and upwards, hopefully.
00:11:00
Holmesy
So, yeah, we've got, what, two two coaches inside the top 200 and then myself at 236 just outside. So the boys are the boys are going well um under no illusions that we're still very early in the season and there's still heaps to play out.
00:11:16
Holmesy
ah But yeah, really excited to see where Harmi can get to you as well with his team value, but where me, Sam and Louis find ourselves over this buy period, as we know some of the coaches above are starting to lose cash and might not have planned as well during the buys, which is our segue into our first hot topic,
Trade Strategy for Buy Rounds
00:11:35
Holmesy
Harmi. So can you just give the listeners a little bit of a rundown in the strategy of what you're looking to do this week with your trades in terms of really setting yourself up and getting your bi stra buy structure nice and sound as we move into this five-week period of best 18.
00:11:52
Jon Harmey
Yeah, look, I'm not sure if there are many coaches like me that copped a heap of bullets on the weekend. So had McCray and Horn Francis that I traded out, but then I picked up um Zach Reid, Sam Lawler, yeah Luke Treanor, Garcia getting dropped.
00:12:07
Lew
Luke Traynor.
00:12:11
Jon Harmey
So few bullets starting to come through. a good thing I prepared fairly well in trading out, ah well, I'm going be talking to you.
00:12:24
Jon Harmey
of' i've been sitting all right look this week i'm looking at two down one up basically cashing out two guys that ah um that sort of five hundred to six hundred thousand cross bracket and then upgrading one on the end of it i guess trying to carry over a little bit of cash to next week, but not making it that my number one priority. I'm still going to try and get the upgrade while I can and making the most of those three trades um that we've got on offer. ah
00:12:54
Holmesy
So before we get into it a little bit more, why don't we just have a chat about how our teams are sitting and how many... ah want to look at premiums that we have currently pre-trades playing this week and then how many green dots we have in total because we do know it's important to have green dots. Dato always preached it and you want as many players playing in the buy rounds as you can to make sure that those lower scores are dropping off.
00:13:18
Holmesy
But if we have ah ah and enough premiums, it doesn't really matter. Like if you've got 18 premiums, but maybe only one rookie for 19, that could almost be better than having 14 premiums and eight rookies playing.
00:13:29
Holmesy
So Louis, why don't you start us off at the moment pre-trades? How many premiums do you have in your side and how many green dots are you looking to field ah even before trades?
00:13:42
Lew
ah Before trades, you'd be testing me because i've I've sort of been running off the numbers of after trades. But I'm looking at, um like what are we going to say? Maybe players that were confident can score 80.
00:13:55
Lew
eighty Are we going to say that is like the premium? I think that's what the traders sort of ran with earlier today. um so So let's go with that. I've got probably 17 players that I'm relatively confident in can go 80 plus this week, um as well as two rookies. So I've got 19 players available.
00:14:15
Lew
That could be 20 if I change, make a little tweak to my trade plans. But yeah, I'm i'm probably looking okay in terms of scoring, even though those rookies on the back end like a Caden Cleary and a yeah Angus Clark make me a little bit nervous and to some respect, Riley Fice too. But um that's where I'm at. How about you?
00:14:39
Holmesy
Yeah, so um I'm similar. So ah pre-trades, I've got 14 players that I consider to be premiums, ah three mid-prices, although Zach Reed was one of those um and he's now not there. So the idea will be to take him up to a premium, so to hopefully have 15 premiums. And then I've got, i think, four or five rookies. So at the moment, I'm i'm looking at 21 green dots I've got the two Ruckman, but with the way my team's structured up at the moment, I can't get both of the rookies in the forward line onto the ground as I don't have the DPP. But that's something for coaches to kind of look at in their teams as well is just because you have the green dots um doesn't mean that you can actually get them all onto your field inside the 22 if you don't have the DPP required. So make sure you explore those avenues there.
00:15:28
Holmesy
um I think mine's probably maybe on par or maybe a little bit stronger than most just because I don't have Tristan Cherry. I do have Sheezal, Chera, Caleb Daniel, and I think there might be one more. Oh, Connor Rosey. So I've got the four premiums missing um and and then replacing them with three rookies. so you really only hopefully looking to to get one rookie score on field out of maybe four rookies.
00:15:53
Holmesy
Harmi, how are you looking?
00:15:56
Jon Harmey
Not looking too bad. i I guess I started with a few mid-prices in my team, but outside of Ned Long, um recently I've just been trying to get premium players. So I haven't been bringing in a bunch of those mid-prices, if you think of it like that.
00:16:13
Jon Harmey
So I'm not sitting too bad. I think I've got 20 green dots. um Well, that'll be after trades, so probably a bit less before trades. And I've got about 12 players that I'm confident will put up 80 plus. So probably a touch less than what you said, I think, Homesy. But look, with 20 green dots on field, I'm feeling pretty good about it because, ah you know, there's two dropping off. And I think most of the players that I've got available should score quite well.
00:16:44
Holmesy
Yeah, so I suppose the next talking point is there's there's been the you know the rookie crisis that's been sort of sprouted over the last few weeks in terms of we have been getting rookies, but they've been in and out. They've been vested.
00:16:56
Holmesy
Some of them aren't scoring very well. Like you just have to look to the weekend outside of and Angus Clark. None of the rookies scored overly well. A lot of them were either the sub or you've got, is it Hayes from Collingwood that you know played, but they they rested three blokes. So what's his job security like?
00:17:15
Holmesy
Lou, I suppose what I wanted to talk to you about, the the strategy that Harmi just said ah in terms of the two down one ups, obviously the the gold standard if you can, as long as the rookies are there to pick.
00:17:26
Holmesy
We're going to get into specific players now, but I'm seeing a lot of early trade thoughts that are considering a lot of these cheaper players, whether it be a ah Tom Stewart, whether it be, ah we'll we'll say Toby Green, who may be a little bit different, but looking at these players that they they're taking a punt on,
00:17:42
Holmesy
Do you think we need to be targeting underpriced best 22 players knowing that best 18 for five weeks, we
Balancing Premiums and Best 22 Players
00:17:49
Holmesy
need ceiling scores? Or do you think there's a place to target these underpriced guys? Because we did say oh all throughout the early buy rounds that coaches that were too mid-priced heavy found themselves behind with the the ceiling scores and the rookies dropping off. So yeah, I gave you a lot there, but what do you think?
00:18:06
Lew
it's Yeah, it's certainly about finding that balance, I think. yeah You're always going to be taking a premium to the bank each week, which is good in terms of scoring. But some of these underpriced guys, if you can nail the right one and get that cash generation, as well as knowing that they're going to get you through the buyers, um you can provide a really nice pivot because you're not actually wedded to that pick.
00:18:30
Lew
um Whereas if you're picking a premium, that's not coming back out of your side. Whereas let's say you bring in a Toby Green and he scores, let's say he goes 90 across the next three weeks during his buys.
00:18:42
Lew
You can quite comfortably trade out of that once his buy comes and then you can get your premium there as well as generating that cash and you've got the points on field. So yeah. ah It's a nuance, but if you can nail the right pick, it's certainly um ah play. And it might even be play that actually sets better off moving forward, I think.
00:19:04
Lew
But I tend to default back to getting that bona fide premium because you can sort of hide behind that and move on to the next guy because you can never predict injuries.
00:19:10
Jon Harmey
So let your brain
00:19:14
Lew
And if some of these underpriced premiums that you're picking uh, a forced trade a little bit later down the line. That's when things can get a little bit hairy.
00:19:24
Holmesy
Yeah, yeah. And I haven't put this in the run sheet, so it's a bit of question without notice, Harmi. So I'm going to sort of throw to you. Let's talk a little bit about creative cash gen.
00:19:35
Holmesy
So um teams that might be carrying, you know, sort of five, six red dots, their cash is really drying up and they don't have the ability at the moment to get up to to these guns and they're just trying to survive.
00:19:49
Holmesy
Let's talk through some of the popular players now and whether you might consider trading them on their buyer. to to try to kind of get a bit creative. So I'll so i'll start first, Harmi. Harry Sheasel.
00:20:00
Holmesy
So the halfback role's gone, at least for now. And on the weekend, the midfield role was gone too. So only two CBAs. He was essentially a pure forward outside of a ah little patch in the second quarter where he went and floated back a little bit, really struggled to score at 1.04, 1.05 mil, whatever at price tag he is. Is he someone that...
00:20:23
Holmesy
a coach can look to kind of trade off down to someone to to free up a little bit of cash.
00:20:29
Jon Harmey
Yes, you could. um But history says that these sorts of moves don't are the best in the long run, I guess, and not the best use of your trades. But I guess it's probably a different year too because we've got an extra week trade because there's an extra week of buys.
00:20:46
Jon Harmey
Plus, we're rolling soon into round 13 where it's only Friot and Saints. So it is a bit of a different year. um It's not the sort of trading that I have set my team up to do or that I really like the idea of. I think you've got somebody in Harry Sheasel that should be top six or close enough to top six for the rest of the year and you should be trying to him. But it depends what the rest of your team looks like.
00:21:14
Lew
Yeah, I don't think Harry Sheasel spent longer than two or three weeks in a role this year. So I'm not going to trade him off the back of a bit of a different role on the weekend, which we hadn't seen. um I'm not sure he impacted the game very much like he has ah previously through the midfield and even across halfback where he's copped a bit of flack.
00:21:36
Lew
so i'm not sure i'd be confident in trading out of that knowing that the role is a chance to change back or revert back and you've got the west coast match up immediately after that buy so ah worst case scenario i think you
Debate on Trading Strategies
00:21:51
Lew
can hold wait and see what he goes there and if that role really does look like it stinks then maybe it's something that we can start to you know really seriously consider because Yeah, it's a creative way to generate cash, but he's at 1.03.
00:22:08
Lew
I think you'd be going a fair way down to actually find the cash that you'd want to to really make an upgrade on the other end.
00:22:16
Holmesy
Yep. well We'll stick with his teammate now, Lou. Now, you were hell-bent on trading this player out and you even had him traded out over JHF, but I'm pretty sure you changed. Caleb Daniel off the back of his 94 and with Sheezal now you know playing midfield and forward. Is Caleb Daniel someone that coaches should still be looking to trade off this week? Or do you think now with the popular bullets of Zach Reed and some other things that maybe Caleb Daniel survives for a bit longer?
00:22:42
Lew
Yeah, it's a bit of a line ball, this one, because um obviously he's been disappointing up until this point, and ah the role has pretty much stuck that whole time. But what we saw on the weekend was obviously Sheasel moved forward, but North, I think, tweaked their game plan to to really sort of facilitate a lot of uncontested marking in the back half, and ah Caleb Daniel got involved with that and so did Rolly Hardiman and I think um you know that could be a positive moving forward. Like I said, they've got West Coast off the bye. So if you were looking to hold, I don't mind this as a play, but I think you still have to be concerned about Caleb Daniel. like He had a nine point last quarter ah really sort of filled up in those first three, but I think it's been a trend this season where Caleb Daniel goes missing for large periods of time. So
00:23:32
Lew
um if If you're asking for an answer from me now, would probably say he's still a trade ah just because there's no guarantee that the scoring is going to turn around because the role hasn't really improved that much. It's just that there's maybe a few less mounts to feed around him.
00:23:51
Jon Harmey
Look, Lou, being a top 100 coach, just another question for you. Just with that Eagles match-up, um ah North coming off the bye, would you say hold a Colby McEacher in your back line if you had him?
00:24:06
Lew
Nah, think sometimes you just need to just cut them loose, mate.
00:24:12
Lew
have you Have you made money on Colby? No.
00:24:16
Holmesy
Absolutely not. Absolutely not. um Okay, Lou, you wanted to just quickly talk to us about, you know, a bit of trading strategy from here in terms of bringing in premiums and looking to target players in the later buy round.
00:24:30
Holmesy
So why don't you talk us through that?
00:24:32
Jon Harmey
Well, can I just, before we before like we move off the strategy for this week, I do have a question for you guys, and it's around the rookies that we're looking at. so I think we mentioned Clark from the Bombers a little bit earlier, but...
00:24:48
Jon Harmey
Is there, because we want green dots too, and some of these guys just pop in and out and it's a bit concerning. Is there a space for these people in the 400,000 to 500,000 price bracket? And I'll throw um Sam Berry at you. There's others though, like, don't know, Toby Trevalier,
00:25:12
Jon Harmey
the McAuliffe, is it, from Tigers?
00:25:14
Lew
McCullough, Sam Banks, yep.
00:25:14
Holmesy
McAuliffe, Sheldrick, yep.
00:25:15
Jon Harmey
Yeah.
00:25:17
Jon Harmey
Sheldrick, yeah, well Sheldrick's almost 500, he's probably at the top end of these, but is these the sort of guys that you are considering yourselves or are you just thinking, you know, do a real cash out and grab the cheapest person available?
00:25:21
Lew
O'Halloran.
00:25:33
Holmesy
I suppose the question we need to ask, Kami, is you know have any of these guys really done anything out of the ordinary to cement their spot? Maybe you'd say Sam Berry as he's he's just had a 120-odd in a smashing win, but that's not sugar-coated. He's been the sub and he hasn't been playing for most of the year.
00:25:50
Holmesy
They've got three tough games coming up. I think they've got... ah Sydney coming up, they've got Brisbane and maybe Hawthorne, something along those lines. So what's not to say that he's not subbed out again and and then you've you haven't been able to get all the way to the top because you've gone in the middle.
00:26:07
Holmesy
Trevalier, Ross is really erratic with his subs as well. You'd think he's going to want to get senior bodies back into the team um to to get a bit of stability there. Sheldrick, Sydney aren't going very well at all.
00:26:19
Holmesy
um Is he going well enough to hold his spot? Probably, but he's always a risk. that's That's my concern with these players is that every single one of them so far hasn't been in their best 23 plans. They might be at this point in time, but what's to say they'll be there in two, three weeks? Lou, what do you think?
00:26:37
Lew
i I think if you can nail those picks, they're they're so valuable. they're it's you know that They can generate the cash and they can score you know at the heels of ah one of the premiums or even you know an upper priced mid-pricer. So you were going to take a risk on these guys, now's probably the time to do it. You've got 15 trades over the next five weeks. you can You can hide behind that. And if it does go wrong, ah you can trade out of it pretty quickly. Whereas...
00:27:06
Lew
if it goes right the the reward is is so high if you can nail it and you just have to ask people that we're probably looking at trading in a McAuliffe or did trade in a McAuliffe you know 94 from player priced in that range is is massive through that buy period so if you can create yourself a nice narrative as to why they're going to not only stay in the side but actually continue that scoring then ah I'm all for bringing in these sorts of guys and It's probably, you know, backs on to what I was speaking about a couple of weeks ago where maybe coaches need to approach downgrades a little bit differently. Like we can all sort of sit there and complain about the sub rule and rightfully so, but maybe we need to look, you know within ourself a little bit and just adjust the people that we're actually targeting.
00:27:53
Holmesy
So, yeah, Harmi, to answer your question, I've been thinking about this a lot. um And I think where I've landed at the moment is if I'm not confident that they're best 22 and that you know it's a bit risky, I want them to be as cheap as possible to at least make some cash before they go out. So I think that's where an Angus Clark is perfect this week.
00:28:14
Holmesy
He's not going to score 90 each week. Hell, he could probably even have a 20 or a 30 this week really against Brisbane, but we'll know that he's not the sub if he's playing. If he does pop another score, at least he's going to be 350K. And if he gets dropped or whatever from that, at least he's got cash on his head.
00:28:31
Holmesy
The other one I'm sort of toying with is is like a lowman, right? So a Kyle Lowman's 350K. He's super, super cheap because he's been vested a lot this year. But when he's fit and healthy, he is a clear best 22 player. Now, he's not going to shoot the lights out. But if I had to say who's most likely to still be there in round 16 at his buy to trade off and and might have made 100K, I think Lohman would probably be up there, whereas all the other rookies at this point in time,
00:29:00
Holmesy
I couldn't say for certain. Now, Sam Berry, McAuliffe, all those guys, yes, they might have you know an opportunity, but you're paying an extra, what, 100, 150K more than a lowman, which is one hundred and fifty k that you can't use on the other end to get up to your Zach Merritts or your Tom Greens or these underpriced premiums who are going to do the ceiling scores for us throughout the buy
Cash Generation and Rookie Management
00:29:20
Holmesy
rounds and really launch. So,
00:29:22
Holmesy
That's where I sit at the moment. I think there needs to be a mixture of going down to free up the cash and going all the way down, but also making sure that we're not cashing out all of these rookies like a Lindsay, a trainer, a Cleary, all down to guys that might not be there. And then we're struggling for 18 players come the end of the buy rounds loop.
00:29:41
Lew
Yeah, know that makes total sense, mate. I'm a big fan of what you've just said there. I think it's yeahs so it's all that team dependency, isn't it?
00:29:51
Holmesy
Beautiful. Luke, quickly talk us through your trading strategy for the buy-around players this week, and then we'll get into some players of interest and some questions.
00:29:59
Lew
Yeah, just wondering for coaches that are maybe fielding 18, 19 players where it can get a little bit nervous towards the back end and what could sneak into that top 18, whether or not waiting and sort of targeting players that are playing late in the round um this week could be an option. You sort of get a little bit of a...
00:30:20
Lew
a lay of the land you can see the landscape where the rookies are actually you know falling like an Angus Clark on on Thursday night let's let's say it goes another 98 immediately you know that that's getting into your best 18 and you can maybe find some avenues to adjust your strategy from there maybe it means trading a a different player later on so I'll give you an example. What I'm looking at is I've got ah Ryan Marich and Caleb Daniel that potentially I want to trade. But if I trade the playing player and Marich, it takes me down to 19 players on field, including a couple of different rookies.
00:30:56
Lew
ah But because my target would be a Holmes who plays the last game in the round, I can make that call on the Sunday and decide whether or not the rookies have sort of done their job.
00:31:07
Lew
And I can hold a Caleb Daniel who then comes back for me post the buyer to, you know, score within my best 18. Have you guys given any thought into sort of, obviously we do it on any given week, but during the buyer period when best 18 can, you know, you can sort of live or bit ah die by it based on what your rookies are scoring. Is is that a strategy there that you guys would look to follow?
00:31:31
Holmesy
playing the rolling lockout, Lou, that's a, that's a dirty word in the fantasy community at the moment. ah Look, yeah, look, I think any avenues that you can have for a little bit more strategy, I think that's a ah good way to put it. And to be honest, I hadn't really thought about it too much at the moment for my team. I've got the players that I know I need to trade out for one reason or another. And,
00:31:50
Holmesy
and they're going, it's not like I'd hold a trainer or something just because i'd I'd got a rookie score or anything like that. But I think in your specific team, I think that makes a lot of sense. If you don't need Marek's score and and you know that um he's potentially going drop in cash after a tag this week, then I suppose, um yeah, go for it.
00:32:12
Holmesy
I think I like that strategy a lot.
00:32:13
Lew
I suppose ah a good way to just approach it, I guess, would be to do your trades, your three trades, in a specific order that maybe you give yourself a bit of leniency if something goes wrong during the weekend.
00:32:24
Lew
You can actually find a way to pivot, whereas in another case, maybe you've locked out your first trade and you can't actually make a change at all.
00:32:35
Holmesy
Beautiful. and And just a reminder for any new listeners and and new players playing this year, your buy round players are locked at the start of the very last game. So you've got them all the way up until that last game, um which means you've got a lot of flexibility for your trades and your captains throughout. All right, let's play a little bit of like or dislike. Let's go through some players of interest before we get into the listener questions.
00:32:58
Holmesy
Lou, I'll start with you just because I know you don't have this player. Nick Dacos has dropped in cash now, priced at 103, has the round 14 buy. When are you looking to target Nick Dacos and is this the week?
00:33:12
Lew
ah For me, it's not this week. I'm a little bit worried about Hawthorne. I think that while it might not be a hard tag that Sam Mitchell and the Hawks aren't going to get beaten by what they know. So I'm expecting a bit of attention towards Dacos.
00:33:27
Lew
How that looks, we don't know. It's a bit of a mixed bag with the tag with Nick Dacos this year. So if I'm missing this week, I don't think I could launch before the buy. I think there's going to be players that are coming off that round 12 buyer that are going to be better off being targeted just because they don't have a buyer to follow so i think it's a post-buyer play now that being said priced at 103 similar areas to what coaches paid probably six or seven weeks ago and And even though they maybe haven't been rewarded with some of that ceiling scores, it's certainly um you know a value price to buy him at because we know
Targeting Nick Dacos: A Strategic Decision
00:34:05
Lew
what he's capable of. And I think to finish this year, he's probably closer to that 110 average than than the 103 he's currently priced at.
00:34:14
Holmesy
Yep, that's a great point, Lou. And I suppose that's important to remember as well that for any premium, around 14, 15, 16 premium, even around 13 premium,
00:34:25
Holmesy
This is the last week to get them before they no longer become targets. And then you have to wait until after their buyers. We don't like to say you have to do things, but generally the rule is that you trade players coming in off their buyers so that you're maximizing your scores on field throughout the best 18. So say yeah you are wanting a Nick Dacos, you'd get him this week, knowing that if you got him in the week after or the week after that, you'd only have him for a game or two before he has his buy. And then that trade's wasted. Harmony,
00:34:53
Holmesy
His midfield counterpart, Tom Green, another low score. I think that's an 80 and a 70 in the last two weeks, dropping in cash now priced at 102. Has the good round 16 buy.
00:35:06
Holmesy
Are you interested in Tom Green or do you think these up and down scores mean that he might be a little bit of ah a step back from the real top eight mids?
00:35:14
Jon Harmey
Yeah, look, I haven't um looked at their upcoming run to see whether um there's any tags coming his way, but I guess, in my opinion, the ah the simple way to shut down the GWS midfielder at the moment is to have somebody stand next to him because who else are they tapping the ball to? He's somebody who thrives on having high-possession games, lot of handballs, but that's that's his goal. If he's going to get ceiling games, he needs a lot of touches, and I just don't feel as though with the way that GWS are performing, it's going to happen for him in the short term.
00:35:49
Holmesy
does have does have Richmond this week, which you'd assume would be a bit of a sugar hit, although the outside midfielders have been the ones dining out against against Richmond. But yeah, I like Tom Green. He's someone I've been looking to target for a while, haven't been able to get it done. But the longer the season goes, the more we do see the 120 and then the 80, the 80 and the 110. So yeah, Lou, you've got him.
00:36:12
Holmesy
What do you think of Tom Green?
00:36:15
Lew
Oh, he's a pretty tough watch at the moment. He's he's very inside and he's probably a player that's it's better when he's got better players around him to to be able to feed the ball out to and get the ball off of.
00:36:24
Jon Harmey
Mm-hmm.
00:36:27
Lew
So priced at what he's priced at, what is it, $100 and... 102. There's value there. i think I think he's closer to sort of 106.
00:36:38
Lew
We know that he's got a massive ceiling as well. He's gone 160 a couple of different times in previous seasons. So ah I'd be happy to still make this purchase. And the Richmond matchup this week is probably a pretty juicy one. So he might be able to snag some ceiling there.
00:36:55
Holmesy
Lou, I'll throw you three midfielders in a row now. Zach Merritt, Jack Steele, Noah Anderson. So all priced within that 103 to 98 mark with Anderson being the cheapest.
00:37:08
Holmesy
Zach Merritt, coaches have missed the ceiling score. His price hasn't moved though. Out of these three players, just talk me through what you're thinking and whether or not there are options for us this week.
00:37:19
Lew
I really like Zach Merritt. ah No surprises there. He's pretty much been 110 averaging player for for the best part of 10 years, to be honest. So ah I'm expecting um some form of that to continue, even though we've missed the Pops score. I think, yeah like you said, the price hasn't moved.
00:37:37
Lew
It's just an example of what he's capable of doing. And he has Richmond again, I think, in about six weeks' time. So For me, I'm big fan of Zach Merritt. Bit of halfback time last game as well. If that continues, things could get really interesting there. So, big watch. um And that's to say, I think he'll do really well at halfback. So, um hoping for that. Jack still is an interesting one. He's...
00:38:04
Jon Harmey
Mm-hmm.
00:38:04
Lew
Probably not reflecting as much value as what he was a couple of weeks ago. And ah wasn't massively keen on him then, ah but no one could predict that Jack McRae was going to get injured. And I think he's picked up the slack a little bit there. He's finding more of the pill, which McRae was probably eating into previous to that.
00:38:24
Lew
um Only problem is McRae is sort of slighted to be back ah in round ah this week, potentially, but more likely after the buy. So it feels like there's a bit of an expiry date on Jack's deal and priced at 102. I'm just not sure that he's got the...
00:38:42
Lew
the previous sort of ah even 105 average that we'd really want from Jack Steel and what we've come to expect over the years. As far as Noah Anderson goes, I'm not sure how to read this one. is He's put up two pop scores in a row now, which is good to see, but the start of his season was just atrocious. And I sort of look at Richmond Tigers over the last sort of five, six years and outside of just an absolute um perennial fantasy beast in, oh, sorry, i just absolute all-time season in Dustin Martin, maybe it was 2017 where he went 110.
00:39:22
Lew
Outside of that, it was like Basher Hooley ah that was averaging a lot in that side. I just don't think it's conducive to mids really finding like a consistently higher average. So, yeah.
00:39:35
Lew
That would be my asterisk, but what we've seen Nanders in previous years under another coach is that he does have a massive ceiling. and I wouldn't call him a downhill skier, but when the Suns are going well, generally Noah Anderson is going just as well too.
00:39:51
Lew
If you had to put a gun to my head and choose between those three, I think I'd be firmly Zach Merritt and then take a punt on Noah Anderson and then Jack Steele in third
00:40:02
Holmesy
Yep, think I agree with that more just because Zach Merritt has the round 16 buy, you get him for longer.
00:40:07
Holmesy
He's the proven premium. Jack Steele has the buy-in in two weeks, um so you're only getting one game before you miss him, and then McRae coming back, who knows how that looks. Noah Anderson's a bit unknown. I went on him last week when there's a bit more value. um Yeah, you can go back to those 70s and 80s, and you're in a bit of strife, so...
00:40:08
Jon Harmey
Thank
00:40:26
Holmesy
Don't mind that, Lou. Harmy, talk to me about Max Holmes. As I'm biased here, is he firming as an option?
00:40:34
Jon Harmey
He is. I think he's got a good price point. I mean, the role is still the same, so it's potentially a little bit of fluctuation, um you know, from here on in. But I think that he's, well, let's have a quick quick quick look because pretty sure he's still down on his starting price and...
00:40:51
Holmesy
priced Priced at 93, averaging 95. I think he's gone 117, 80-odd, and then 117-ish in his last three. So he's up and down.
00:41:03
Holmesy
He's up and down. i don't mind it as a punt. He's just gone through a bit of a tough run and he scored pretty well. But is he one of those players to lift in the tougher games and and to coast against a West Coast?
00:41:14
Holmesy
I'm not too sure. Lou, I know you're looking at him. Talk to me about Holmes. time
00:41:19
Jon Harmey
It's a fair price. It is a fair price for Holmes. I mean, he's $50,000 down on his starting price. I think that if you if you're buying him at that price, you'd be pretty happy, really, for the rest of the season.
00:41:32
Lew
Yeah, that's what I think too, Harmi. And he's one as well that's got Richmond twice ah to finish the season, which you can you know sort of hide behind that a little bit, I suppose. West Coast matchup this week is nice.
00:41:45
Lew
But I just like his ability to to play a couple of different roles.
00:41:49
Jon Harmey
I don't want to say.
00:41:49
Lew
Obviously, he's a CBA midfielder, but he pops back into defense and gets those sort of uncontested marks as well. So being able to do both of those things is what I like to see from a fantasy player because – ah that chip chip sort of easier stuff is sometimes what sort of um elevates them into that fantasy high scoring echelon so for me I'm massive fan of Max Holmes and I think just yeah looking at this top six defenders he's probably near enough close enough and the fixtures all line up there so I'm more than comfortable targeting ah Max Holmes and the round 16 buyer just sort of solidifies that
00:42:28
Holmesy
Beautiful. All right. A few more players to get through. We'll go real quick now. So give me a like, dislike, and then just a a couple of words. We'll go nice and quick. Lou, Chad Warner priced at 95. Like or dislike?
00:42:41
Lew
Yeah, I like it. ah The forward line's looking a little bit thin. I think he's probably towards the back end of top six, but Richmond next week, which is nice to see, and just a good player in general. I think that he's not going to burn coaches too much at 95, even though it's probably reflective of closer to what he'll average. I think he's he's maybe 98 at best.
00:43:03
Lew
at best
00:43:05
Holmesy
Harmy, Sam Banks, priced at 72, has moved into defense for Richmond, picking up defensive status. Gone 110, 87, 93 in his last three. like or dislike
00:43:16
Jon Harmey
I really like what he's been doing, but I don't like him as a trading option. I think $710,000 is probably too much for a player that you're really just having a punt on.
00:43:27
Holmesy
Agree with that. um Anyone that picked him up in the last couple of weeks, though, will be laughing to the bank. Lou, Kane McAuliffe already touched on him. Elevated rookie price at 53 pop score on the weekend.
00:43:39
Holmesy
Like or dislike?
00:43:41
Lew
I like it. Yeah, I liked it last week. I didn't back it in. i like it this week as well. He looks fantastic. And Lawler and Thompson dowler Dow are injured now as well. So the opportunity is certainly there.
00:43:53
Jon Harmey
Just someone who just racks up, like he racked it up as a junior, racks it up in the VFL. Hopefully he holds his spot in that midfield and turns out to be a good trading option. Still, he's over 500,000 though now, so you are paying a bit for him.
00:44:08
Holmesy
No, dislike for me, priced at 53. um Really need him to go above 80 to get the price moving enough. And I just think there was going to be some floor scores in there playing for Richmond, meaning that you're not going to make the cash either. And he scores like a glorified rookie.
00:44:24
Holmesy
ah Harmy, Xavier O'Halloran, off the back of a 90 on the weekend. No Finn Callaghan, meaning a roll's opened up there. Priced at 49, sorry. like Like or dislike?
00:44:35
Jon Harmey
No, dislike. Look, O'Halloran, if you look at what he averaged last year in the VFL, it was really high playing as that CBA mid, but he hasn't done it for any period of time. He's been the sub. He missed a game couple of weeks ago for some reason. I think he was a late out, like really late. But look, I just don't think you can have any faith in what he's going to do, um you know, for the next month or two. So I'm going to say dislike.
00:45:04
Holmesy
Louis, your boy Toby Green priced at 76. Had a spike game on the weekend i in his 250th. Has had the role now for you know three to four weeks. is Is this a play? has Has the Tigers, we know they're midfield struggling. Is it too late for Toby Green?
00:45:22
Lew
I was frighteningly close to bringing in Toby Green over Shia Bolton on the weekend.
00:45:26
Jon Harmey
Yeah.
00:45:28
Lew
so That one hurts. He was in my team and I thought, no, I better not. I'll ah'll hide behind the Shia Bolton break even. ah um'm I'm not sure Toby Green can be jumped on now. I think you'll get the pop score against Richmond, but the troops will come back to that GWS midfield group, and I'm not expecting him to to necessarily hold that role. So yeah for me, I think I would say dislike, but I can absolutely see a world where where he's a ripper by play up until round 16, and you can move him on from there.
00:46:02
Holmesy
John Harmy, pick this one specially for you. Tom Stewart priced at 73. Like or dislike?
00:46:11
Jon Harmey
I like the price. um Yeah, Tom Stewart. Well, look... If you took the person out of it um and you just looked at the figures, you'd say he should be one of the top trade targets for the week. We should all be looking to jump on board.
00:46:28
Jon Harmey
However, the injury and the role this season, I'm not sure if it's the layup play that we think that it is. So I'm just going to wait, given I've been burnt quite a bit by Tom Stewart this season.
00:46:44
Holmesy
Does have the Eagles matchup, which surprisingly is actually dark red for general defenders and rebounding backs because the Eagles just get smashed in the midfield. So, yeah, I wouldn't be looking to go Tom Stewart.
00:46:57
Holmesy
ah They're just going to try and get him cherry right for finals, which means there could be a rest at some point soon, could get vested or something like that. We've seen it so many times this year. There'll be a coach that does it and maybe he gets back to his mid-90s ways. But outside of that midfied midfield run last year, he's been a low 80s defender for the better part of a year and a half now. So it's a dislike on Tom Stewart for me.
00:47:20
Holmesy
Last one, Lou, Sam Berry priced at 47, touched on him earlier. Could you do it?
00:47:26
Lew
No, I don't love it. I think the Crows have been more than happy to move their midfield mix around quite a bit. And Sid Draper sitting in the twos. Everyone in Adelaide over here is screaming to get him into that side.
00:47:38
Lew
Matt Crouch is is getting closer and closer as well.
00:47:38
Jon Harmey
Thank you.
00:47:41
Lew
I just think that that's one i'd I'd rather just let go.
00:47:45
Jon Harmey
Look, not that I want to question the knowledge of um a top 100 coach. However, Sid Draper played on the weekend. um So sat on the bench as usual. Don't really think you can count him.
00:48:00
Jon Harmey
ah And Matt Crouch, they extended out by a couple of weeks on last week's injury list. So he's actually got further away rather than closer in.
00:48:12
Jon Harmey
So let's have a quick look. um Okay, on the back of 25 CBAs in that game, Berry was in there for 13. So he was in half the CBAs on the weekend and put up 120-something, 123, so nine tackles too. But that's his go, kick to goal.
00:48:34
Jon Harmey
So i just think if you're tossing out McAuliffe and Berry, i don't think it's as an easy decision for to go McAuliffe.
00:48:41
Lew
oh
00:48:42
Holmesy
Army, Army, Army, Army.
00:48:43
Lew
ah guess i guess my my concern would...
00:48:45
Holmesy
Hold on.
00:48:46
Lew
Yeah.
00:48:47
Holmesy
Four green vests this year for a 10, 34, 33, 28.
00:48:49
Lew
Yeah.
00:48:51
Holmesy
Tex was a laid out. Tex is an automatic comeback in. Now, I'm not saying they're like for like, but that's a ah player that's going to have to come out of the best 22.
00:49:03
Holmesy
Barry's been the sub for so long. It is a disaster if he subbed again and it's a wasted trade and history would suggest
00:49:10
Lew
And the the subs have been consistent too. Like it's it's been Sid Draper, Sam Berry and Tex Walker's been subbed out a couple of different times too.
00:49:13
Holmesy
yeah
00:49:19
Lew
So yeah, oh yeah I don't like it. I think you're picking and hoping with that one.
00:49:27
Holmesy
Yeah. Just add the Eagles matchup as well. And they're coming into some tough games. All right, let's get into some questions quickly before we wrap up. Louis, first one's from Alex. Hey, lads, in a quandary, after this week's trades, he wants 150 to 200K so that he can trade out two red rooks and get to Bont.
00:49:46
Holmesy
To keep this cash for the third trade, should he go Garcia down to a McAuliffe or Sheldrick type or upgrade peatling to a steel? Which option do you like there the most?
00:49:58
Lew
I think you'd go Peatling to Steele. Peatling seems to be like his sore, that's what's come out during the week and his time on ground probably reflects that for the last um three, four weeks since he's moved into that midfield a little bit more. So I think that's an issue down the line. So I'd be going Peatling to Steele and he does have a nice buy around too.
00:50:22
Holmesy
Agree there. Get the premium when you can. Harmy, this one's from Riley Noble. Lockie Ash, D1 target, question mark. So can you go Lockie Ash knowing that Whitfield on the weekend played forward and Lockie Ash's role wasn't affected?
00:50:38
Holmesy
There's enough data such to suggest now that he's pretty close to a top six. We hate trading in players knowing that we've missed them, but could you go Lockie Ash?
00:50:47
Jon Harmey
Just give me one sec. Lockie Ash, $1.01 million.
00:50:57
Jon Harmey
I'd be pretty hesitant to take him at that price point over some of the other guys that are available. I mean, you mentioned Mac Homes before. I think I'd prefer to take Holmes rather than Ash and bank the $100,000. Yeah.
00:51:14
Lew
and lowest Outside of that round one, his lowest score has been 89 since then. And he's got the Richmond Tigers matchup this week, which he could go just incredible in. It looks like he got the kick-ins on the weekend over Lockie Whitfield, whose role seemed to shift a little bit. and In fact, he didn't even take a single kick-in. So if if that's the case and Lockie Ash is is the man back there, could be really interesting and potentially that $1 million dollar mark is is still reflective of some value.
00:51:49
Holmesy
Louis, I'll stay with you.
00:51:50
Holmesy
This question...
00:51:50
Jon Harmey
Well, hold on, Holmesy, before we move off, Lockie Ash, did you guys know that Sam had Lockie Ash in that round one and caught that really bad score and it ruined his season?
00:52:01
Jon Harmey
Did you know that?
00:52:04
Holmesy
i I did know that. Yeah. Actually, yeah. Unbelievable.
00:52:04
Lew
I can recall a couple of messages.
00:52:09
Holmesy
That guy.
00:52:09
Lew
Imagine how many messages we'd be copying if he traded them out though like he wanted to.
00:52:14
Holmesy
He wouldn't be here, Lou, because he wouldn't his rank wouldn't be rising each week, which means he wouldn't be on the podcast. All right, Lou, Ryan Sharp, could we trade Sheezle to Merritt?
00:52:25
Holmesy
So I'm guessing he wants Merritt and maybe his only avenue with cash available is to jump across with Sheezle. Could you tick that off?
00:52:33
Lew
Oh, look, I will tick it off without being able to see what the team actually looks like. Maybe that's a creative little move over to a premium throughout the buyers. So could be heavy on round 12. I'll say yes. I think from here on in, I think Merrick could potentially be 5-10 points better than Cheezle.
00:52:51
Holmesy
Yeah, i know i I know we spoke about trading out Sheezle at the start of the podcast, but I think your team has to be in a pretty luxurious position to to look at that. I think he's still at a minimum going to be ah a 95 guy in that forward role.
00:53:04
Holmesy
And if he's getting CBAs or he gets to shift into the back line for a quarter or two, um He's going to be 100, 105 and still be close enough to top six defender. So yeah, I'm i'm not trading Sheezle.
00:53:16
Holmesy
I wouldn't tick that off. I'd try and find another way to get to merit unless you're in a really luxurious spot. Harmi, this one's for you from Tony Denim. And this is an interesting conundrum because I'm in the sort of same spot as I know a lot of people are.
00:53:30
Holmesy
is it worth trading out a green dot rookie who is falling in cash? So let's say a Cleary over the red dot rookie that you could trade next week knowing that his value will be the same. So a Simpson.
00:53:41
Holmesy
So do we need to trade the green dot guy that's losing cash and and not have the extra body on field or is it a priority to do the red dot first?
00:53:52
Jon Harmey
If you have enough players on field and you and you don't necessarily need the green dot dropping in cash to clear your example, I'm fine with trading them. If you're going to trade them anyway, you may as well avoid losing your $20,000 or what have you and trading them out while you have the opportunity to.
00:54:11
Holmesy
Yeah, and that's the thing, right? So trading Simpson instead of Cleary this week, yes, you get the extra green dot for Cleary, but if Cleary is just going to drop a 30 or 40, it's not going to make your best 18.
00:54:23
Holmesy
And then from there, yeah you're cooked, right? You're just going to lose the 30, 40K. However, the caveat would be If you're struggling to get 18 or 19 players, then you do need to go the red dot because then you you do give yourself the chance of hopefully getting a pop score from Cleary or whoever that rookie is. um And you're not, you know, yeah, you're not risking that.
00:54:44
Holmesy
But Louis, last question, then we'll wrap up. This one's from Ben. Is it time to move on Marik and Layla? Can you give a Stato stamp of approval? He wants to move to Myers and Chad Warner.
00:54:57
Lew
Yep. Yeah, I'll tick that off for sure.
00:55:01
Holmesy
Yeah, I'm not sure about Myers, but yeah, I think he is what he is.
00:55:03
Jon Harmey
So, hmm.
00:55:05
Holmesy
but he But to be fair, played very well on the weekend in a tough matchup against the Bulldogs and has the Eagles this week and has a good bye with ah a relatively good run. So it's,
00:55:15
Lew
And the same fixture is what we spoke about with Holmes. So with that top six forward line looking a little bit iffy towards the back end, I ah think you could do worse than to take a punt on someone like Grian Myers.
00:55:28
Holmesy
What I will say, it was the same as the Shai Bolton move last week. I could see a world where it pays off with Myers and he goes on a run until he's by, but I could also see a world where he drops in 50s and 60s and doesn't go so well. So as long as you're willing to wear it, if it doesn't work,
00:55:46
Holmesy
then it's a punt that you could take. But if it doesn't pay off, just know that it's it's happened and you you do need to wear it. But we'll wrap up there. Thanks for a ripping episode, guys. Harmi, I know you need to get out of here, but just give our listeners a quick sign-off and what you're looking forward to for the weekend outside of a McKercher 40 score again.
00:56:05
Holmesy
Oh, he's got the bye. He's safe. He's safe.
00:56:06
Jon Harmey
yeah thank
00:56:09
Jon Harmey
Yeah, no well, I'm holding McHugh, holding Garcia, my boys, and I'm um probably going to trade out Harry Sheasel down to Sam Berry as my trade targets for the sounds of things. So thanks. to That's just a summary of the episode in that conversation there.
00:56:23
Holmesy
Beautiful. and And Louis, thanks for jumping on. Guys, make sure you're following us at PodPod on X or make sure you're subscribed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever you listen to your content.
00:56:34
Holmesy
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