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Top-12 trade targets, Tun Middies, and Windhager or Matt Johnson — Porque no los Dossy? | Round 12 AFL Fantasy #PODPOD
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One week down and now our trade targets are clear — get the players coming off their bye! A duo of two-time top ten finishers (Holmesy and Harmey), along with Lewy and Buzz, go through each of the four teams coming off the round 12 bye (Brisbane, Fremantle, Sydney, and Saint Kilda) and reveal their top THREE targets from each team!
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Transcript
00:00:02
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Introduction and Podcast Panel
00:00:17
Speaker
G'day and welcome to the pod part. It's your boy Dossie talking all things AFL fantasy on this Wednesday night, June 7th, 2023. We are doing the Wednesday night recordings for a little while as we get through some of those public holidays going around at the moment. Obviously, the King's birthday clash next week for your fantasy teams as well. And we've got some Thursday night games. So we're going to have that nice little window on the Wednesday night across the biser for at least the next couple of weeks.
00:00:42
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Keep an eye out for those ones. We've also got no fossil for a little bit the statesman He's having a little bit of a well-earned break after a tough slog at work But we are here again with a duo of two-time top ten finishes in Kyle Holmes and John Harvey as well as Louie who returns Let's start with you Lou. How was your weekend mate on the fantasy front and also what'd you get up to?
Fantasy Scores and Weekend Performance
00:01:05
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Oh, I didn't get up too much, mate. Actually, probably the first weekend in a couple of weeks where I managed to watch just about every single game, which was nice. In terms of fantasy, though, I scored the 1869. I'm not sure where that, what that sort of did for my rank, but 5588.
00:01:25
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I'm in a bit of no man's land at the moment hoping to jump up a couple of thousand ranks over the next couple of weeks but the buyers can be pretty unpredictable so we'll see how we go. Now we've got Holmesy on board as per usual. I think you yourself had a nice little public holiday over in Perth this Monday. You guys get the back to back do you?
00:01:46
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No, we don't get the King's birthday, we get that at another time. So, I'll be at work on Monday, so it'll be good. I won't be watching the scores tick over, which will be nice. But I had a relatively good round for someone at my rank, 1901, which was
00:02:01
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Was pretty positive, had some good trade-ins, had some not so good trade-ins, which we'll get to, but yeah, managed to slide up about 1500 spots into just inside 12K, so moving in the right direction and fingers crossed I can keep going that way throughout the buyers and keep putting more of a gap on you, Dossy boy.
Fantasy Bets and Strategies
00:02:20
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Yep, I've already been scoping out my local bottle-o to see what sort of cartons of trash I can get you, because we didn't exactly define what sort of carton we're going to have to get each other, so I might just have to find the most rancid type of thing I can find. The old ton middies. Yeah, the ton middies won't get a crack, but it's not looking too good for me. Hami, how are you, mate? Are you enjoying a few ton middies on the weekend?
00:02:42
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Yeah, I'm well, thanks Buzz. No, no, no ton middies, but I did actually put away a few, went in Melbourne and saw a couple of footy and lived it up before catching the 6am flight home for my daughter's birthday. So that was a bit rough on Sunday, but I had a good weekend and well, what's my score? Let's have a look. Oh, I put up a
00:03:05
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one nine four three so i'm hoping this is going to be close to putting another hundred points on you mate um and that brought my must have been okay because it brought my rank in a bit to um five four nine four so just came in a bit over a thousand spots on the weekend
00:03:21
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Now, we heard from the group chat, of course, that you missed one of the games that you'd planned to get due to a bit of a delayed flight over. But what games did you catch? And what was a couple of observations you had from the weekend? We'll talk about it more maybe perhaps in the show, but anything you want to talk about from the games you did get to see.
00:03:38
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Well, probably not the best choice. I was a bit of a passenger on this one. I didn't organize it, but they picked a bit of an ordinary one going over on the by. We watched the Saturday game, the rot of Port Adelaide versus Hawthorne at the pub. Then we went and watched the Cats and Western Bulldogs, which is a really good game, actually. That was nice to be watching
00:03:59
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how they went about it but I was walking to the game in amongst the crowd and I was still tossing up who to VC Dawson or Tom Stewart or English and I sort of and I was like ah geez anyway ended up going with Dawson and would he get 128 I think so I was pretty happy with that but yeah I thought I'd go into the game I should really VC one of the guys that I'm watching but anyway if I went English I would have been laughing but it all worked out okay with Dawson in the end
00:04:27
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Love that for you. And for my just a little bit of an update, I think I was doing okay this week. Another one of those weeks where you think you're going all right and you're just about par, but 18.38 for me. Par, I mean, of course, for the people where I'm ranked about that 20K. So went from rank 24,453 into a respectable 23,119 following that. But let's get to the positives of the round with our Lux.
00:04:59
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Start with you, Louis, who earned your lucks this week.
Standout Fantasy Performers
00:05:03
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I'll have to give it to Zach Merritt on Debut with the 155 to bring it home on the Sunday afternoon. And it was made even better by chucking the sea on him as well. So shout out to Rory Laird for the 81 because probably wouldn't have taken that on had he gone 110 plus. So, 155 brings my two-week captaincy average to about 159. So that's a nice little get over the last fortnight. Yeah, that's going to help you rise the ranks. Holmsey, what about you? Your Lux?
00:05:33
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Yeah, Dossie and I was nervous with this one. I never really liked to bring in players that you're bringing in as well because we know the Dossie curse is absolutely real. So I have penciled him out for a trade in the next couple of weeks when it no doubt goes to shit. But Kieran Briggs, 117 as a bit of a cash grab from Sean Dossie. I was a little bit annoyed because I had Dossie Cameron penciled in for most of the most of the round and he went 109. So I thought,
00:05:58
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Yeah, maybe missed that one there, but yeah, Kieran Briggs 117 and he is absolutely just taking that number one rock mantle at JWS by storm and fingers crossed a couple of weeks he can get up over 700k and I can find a way to get him to English, but yeah, can't be upset with that on debut.
00:06:15
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Kick the winning goal just looks to have taken the man towards that number one big dog at GWS Yeah, a bit of unknowns about Prousey. We think he's still out for a long time, but I mean he just looks yeah amazing in that role So he's been a great pickup and still a bargain price and we'll talk about him more during the show. Harmy your luck
00:06:33
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Look, I might as well go with the trend and give it to somebody that I traded in. That's Ben Keyes. He killed it for me. So I've sort of been picking the people that I've been nominating in the Fossils Five and I was pretty happy with what he did. So welcome to the team.
00:06:52
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Now you've stitched me up here because I had both one of Briggsie or Keys as my number one. I'm going to have a look at who else performed well for old Dossie here, which wasn't too many. Let's have a look. I mean, I could just give it to... Let's give it to Cherra again. 111 unfortunately didn't take that as my VC score, which then also leads us to our sucks.
00:07:23
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I think just that segue mate, I think I'll have to kick it off. I think I'll have to kick it off. So long pause, mate. Look, I could have always, I could have always almost gone to that our favorite segment of who said this for this, this bit, but I don't have the records on me off the top of the noggin.
00:07:40
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Look, we went to the group chat to find out who thought I should take my 111 VC and there was only one man that really came in with the wise words and that was Hami. You said I should take that 111. Would you have done that yourself? Do you think if you had Rory Laird as your backup? Yeah, I would have taken the 111.
00:08:00
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OK, well hindsight is key. That's what I said to you. Take the 1-11. Yup. OK, well, anyway, pretty disappointed and Rory Laird's my sucks for the week. 81 in what I thought was going to be an awesome matchup. Obviously there has been some down scores at Darwin, but I thought
00:08:17
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in the sort of soppy, gross, humid conditions that he, as a tackling beast, would at least be able to lay his standard 8 to 10 plus. So the last month before that, he'd gone 14 tackles, 9, 10 and 16. He's come in and laid 5 tackles.
00:08:36
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in Darwin low time on ground surprisingly for lead and just did not look um did not look up to it for the day so 81 points and he's my sucks along with plenty of other coaches but unfortunately he was wearing the C for me yes Louie take it away mate yeah my sucks has got to go to Jack Siebel he's been a super good player since bringing him in in round four or five or whatever it was but um 73 through the buys hurts and he jumped very late to get that probably looking at sort of mid 50s before he
00:09:06
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did a bit of late stuff so yeah, Jack Zebel thoroughly deserved and might even get the trade out this week with the heavy round 15 borrow. Just on that, Louis, you said you watched most of the games. Did you see him in that last quarter? Those two out on the fulls that he kicked and he just had an absolute nightmare of a game and yeah, definitely should be on the trade block I think.
00:09:28
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, how to shock. I don't think he'll ever be dropped. And I think, you know, he can bounce back next week and continue on his sort of 90, 95 way. But, um, I don't think he's going to be top six. And I think there's some other players that you can sort of get a big 10 point upgrade on him. So time to go.
00:09:48
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Yeah, I was going to give mine to Rory Ladd as well. Dos after feeling sick for most of the season with coaches getting some pretty big scores from Ladd. But I'll go Will Day. 70, not really what we needed from him at this point of the year.
00:10:04
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You know, he's had a few of these and he's backed them up with a tonne, so I'm not necessarily worried, but if he goes another couple of low scores, maybe he's someone that we need to look at to get up to a genuine premium at some point, because yeah, as a player
Round 12 Buy Strategies
00:10:18
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in our backline, 70's not really gonna cut it at this time of the year. Hamid, you have a different player to discuss? Yeah, I can throw a different one out there for you, mate. Louis' unhappy with a 73-point scoring North Melbourne Backbone, and I'll
00:10:34
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I'll go one-up on you there with a 64-point scoring backman who is behind two 36-year-olds at the moment as a first-year player, and that's Harry Sheasel, so he's watching what he's doing. I'm a bit concerned, and with a few, around 15, bi-players, I'm tempted to offload him this week.
00:10:58
Speaker
Yeah, I think we're going to have to chat about that a little bit more because it's a complex discussion, but seemingly a role change for Shizal, obviously a rookie. He's performed amazingly for us. But yeah, at this time of year, we really need them to be pumping out scores. So we'll get to that a little bit later. Let's first recap a little bit of the leagues around. And that's the Content Creators Cup to start with. Just a quick recap here. Let's look at some of the matchups for the week. Dossi went down to Mitchman.
00:11:25
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over at ball boys. There was another ball boys match up with Holmsey, unfortunately also going down to the Ox shorts there by 20 points, so even with the 1900 couldn't quite get the dubs. Louis on the other hand also went down to Gesty there who's still pumping out some massive scores, so not a great week for the Pod Pod and Stado.
00:11:44
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going down to Nate at Hat Chat. So really poor week from the Pod Pod in terms of getting the dubs in that league. We're gonna have to bounce back strongly in the second week of the buyers. Speaking of buyers, Harmony of course, not in the Content Creators Cup yet again.
00:12:00
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I didn't lose that. Didn't lose. Would have gone all right this week too with that score of yours. Now look, we had some more listener league results, of course, listeners representing members of the podcast this year as part of our Pod Pod listener league.
00:12:15
Speaker
the lucky entrance there representing Team Louis, Team Holmes, East Ato, Hami and Dossi there. Now, thanks to Matty Sterling, although I don't know if I want to thank him too much for posting this particular stat out this week, but he's got a Pod Pod listener league number of teams currently sitting in the top eight of the ladder as of the end of round 12. Now Team Louis has got four teams.
00:12:41
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in the top eight at the moment. Homzy, he's got three teams in there, so it doesn't leave too many left for the rest of us. Stado the one, and of course, Hami and Dossi with the zero teams there. So thanks very much, Matty, for posting out those on Twitter and letting us know. The trouble's ahead that we have for the boys. Now in the Pod Pod Challenge, which Stado, obviously being away, I'll just keep you up to date with that, we've got
00:13:08
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three coaches inside the top 10 in the pod pod challenge, which is our open listener league. Look, you can still jump in there. It's open all season long. You just go to that league, enter a league code, and then it's basically just type in the pod pod challenge and you'll find it in there. I think Stado's got some messaging around beating DOS as well.
00:13:27
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So, leading the charge there is the Dumpling Eaters. Jared, he's ranked sixth overall. Let's go, Jared. And you've got Love at First Lance. Yeah, sixth overall. Love at First Lance. Jonno, seventh.
00:13:40
Speaker
And Bindi's blues, Matt, he is rounding out the top 10. Now there's plenty of other coaches. In fact, the top 10 in that league are all inside the top 50. So far out, there's some bloody good coaches listening along despite some of the coaches on here not doing so good this year, but you guys are killing it. So keep up the awesome work. Hot topics.
00:14:01
Speaker
Hot, hot, hot topics this week. Now there's not a heat, but I probably just thought I'd mention inside our hot topics that we're going to be chatting about the round 12 buys and we're going to be giving our top three targets from each of those teams and talking about all the guys coming off that round 12 buy. But just in terms of what you need to know, this is obviously for
00:14:22
Speaker
overall rank. So, if you've got your buys during this time and you're actually, you know, going along with the league buyers and your league doesn't play, you're only caring about your league wins and stuff, then strategy's a bit different. Would you agree with that, lads, in terms of you might be able to jump on some of these players on their round, 14 buyers and stuff like that, if you're just playing for league pride there, Holmsey.
Trading and Player Roles Discussion
00:14:44
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely, Dos, that's a fantastic point. The strategies that we talk about for the buy-arounds in terms of only bringing in players coming off their buy, as a general rule of thumb, that's purely just for overall rank and trying to maximise your players on field throughout the buy-arounds, but if you're playing for league and potentially you don't even have match-ups during the buy-arounds, then yeah, absolutely, just get the best players at the best prices and try and set your team up as best you can for
00:15:11
Speaker
coming out of the bias at round 16 when you'll be getting to the pointy end of your league matchups.
00:15:18
Speaker
Yeah, and for the rest of us, if we are just pushing for overall rank, even if you're like us, heading down in those 10K, wherever you are, 20K, and you still want to just push over the bias, yeah, maximize your points on field by getting those round 12 guys that we're going to look at in the show today. I also want to talk about another hot, hot topic, new coaches. We probably failed to mention the last couple of weeks just in terms of the impact or any role changes that have happened. I might just throw it firstly to you, Hami, to discuss
00:15:47
Speaker
North Melbourne and, you know, they've got the interim situation there with Brett Ratton, but they've also had a couple of injuries to deal with. And we've seen, you know, a few magnets kind of thrown around, including like you just mentioned before, Harry Shiesel playing a bit more of a forward midfield role that's kind of affecting his fantasy game.
00:16:03
Speaker
Yeah, a little bit hard to judge rats at the moment because they've been a little bit all over the place and those injuries, what have we had? Greenwood, Simpkin, LDUs being out.
00:16:21
Speaker
Yeah, battled away on the weekend, didn't they? So it'd be interesting to see what he does. I mean, bringing in Greenwood and plugging him in the middle, having both Aaron Hall and Zebel down back, I just kind of feel like he is trying to get them to have some success rather than just playing the kids flat stick.
00:16:40
Speaker
Yeah, maybe they'll be trying to be more competitive and you know, you might get a Carrington coming this week over, say, playing a George Wardle or 90% CBAs or something like that, but that's my only observation so far, Buzz.
00:16:57
Speaker
And Lou, just speaking, because this was something just completely missed off the kind of show dock and that's my bad boys. But on the Richmond front last week, they changed their coach. I think the very first week that he came in, people were sort of buzzing about, you know, Marlon Pickett, obviously not from a fantasy perspective, but he went straight into the inside and was playing quite a bit on that inside role, maybe even putting on some pressure.
00:17:20
Speaker
Lew, do you reckon there's anything kind of from a fantasy perspective that can really excite us from Richmond in terms of role changes or is that just one we have to keep our eye on as well?
00:17:29
Speaker
Early days Doss, so we do have to keep our eye on it, but I did see Jaden Short not attend a center bounce on the weekend. He was back in his defensive role and we saw Liam Baker who's probably been floating a little bit of everywhere this year play a little bit more offensive too. So that would be the main one at the moment. We do seem to think that Baker sort of holds the key to
00:17:54
Speaker
the scoring potential, but yeah, we'll just have to see how that lays with Jaden Short. Yeah. And obviously this time of year, just role change is so critical. We see them happen year in year out around this time when things are going differently or a coaching change happens or something weird's happening. These are often just the boom or bust picks that we say, you know, can really get you across the line in fantasy. But last hot topic, we've already touched on it.
00:18:21
Speaker
When is the right time to go for these fattened rookies or even these mid prices? We've touched on a couple, Sizel and Day. I just want a bit of a discussion here on maybe some other names if we can think of them. But when's the right time to go, Holmsey? And have you got a thought in your mind on some of these players here?
00:18:40
Speaker
Yeah, I think she's was the interesting one because he is that round 15 by player and we know that we're all pretty much struggling for getting players, especially in our forward line on field in round 15. So if you can go on him early this week and jump ahead there and try and fix your structure leading into round 15, then I think that's genuinely a play.
00:19:03
Speaker
It's such a tough one because this is the type of move that burnt me last year trading out of Nick Daikos early and he managed to, you know, put up numbers close enough to the top six in defence for the rest of the year and he was a player that we really could hold but with Shizu I...
00:19:37
Speaker
You know, say he goes back to back 80s, he's still going to drop 50 to 60K with that 60 in his price. So it makes it tough trying to get him up from 700K rather than the 770 that he's at now. But Hami, you're waving your hand at me. You've got different thoughts.
00:19:38
Speaker
I'm a little bit worried with this forward mid split.
00:19:53
Speaker
Oh look, I was just going to agree with you mate, and I'm doing it. I think I sort of said last week I was into mines about how to approach the trade period, but what I did last week was I went Ashcroft up to Neil. So took the upgrade when I could, and I think this week I'm likely to do a similar thing where I'll go Shiesel up to say a Jack Sinclair type because
00:20:18
Speaker
I can get the upgrade now and I'm just going to take it while I can and I feel that they are both upgrades and I feel that they're not going to be 100 point players going forward and they're both priced over 90 so yeah that's what I've decided to do mate.
00:20:36
Speaker
All right, well, I think that's pretty much the hot topics that I had to cover off here, but I do want to go to one of our more popular segments there, the observation round table. That's not based on any data as well. That's just my popular segment. I like it. So we'll keep it going. Who's got an observation or discussion that they want to bring home? So you've got something to kick us off.
00:20:58
Speaker
Yeah and we were talking pre-pod so the big strategy and we touched on it just before is that we really want to bring in round 12 by players so players coming off their by this week so we can maximise how many players we have on field this week and next week and then going into round 15 but I kind of want to throw this one to Hami.
00:21:17
Speaker
I know you got him last week, so you don't have to worry about this, but someone like a Ben Keys, who we've seen this role as being real now, we know he's a gun fantasy scorer in the past in this role, knowing that he could be a top six forward if he continues in this role moving forward. Even if he has a buy next week, is he someone that we can jump to this week, knowing that if we do wait and he goes up another 60K, yes, it's not the end of the world.
00:21:42
Speaker
but we're paying an extra 60K in a year when cash-gen is tight. So if your buy structure allows it, will you tick off going to a Ben Keys this week?
00:21:52
Speaker
Holmes, you need to pay a bit more attention to the Fossils 5, my friend, because he was definitely in there. I'd do it. Like, if your, if your buy structure is going to allow you bringing in a round 14 mid or forward, probably a forward, because I think we're all a little bit short on him, which is one of the reasons why I went for him. I'm okay with it. 620,000 he is, but he's still 240,000 down on his starting price.
00:22:20
Speaker
There's two weeks in a row, over 70% CBAs. Like, I think the roll is there. We know the guy has a high scoring potential and ceiling. And I'm probably fairly comfortable if you said to me that you were going to go for it this week. I probably wouldn't wait. Yeah.
00:22:39
Speaker
Yeah, and it is definitely a strategy that I'm trying to go with this year. I know in the past, we've been trying to get as many players on field as we possibly can to try and get up to that 20, 21, 22. But a lot of it's been these rookie scores that just ended up dropping off anyway. So I've been trying to get like a really solid 18, 19 full of scores and not necessarily worrying about these lower rookies that are probably going to drop off anyway. So it's definitely something I'm looking at.
00:23:07
Speaker
you know, maybe just getting a 19 next week with Keys, you know, being on his buy and not necessarily worrying too much. I don't know. Do you see it the same way, Louis?
00:23:19
Speaker
Yeah, I'm big on Keys, mate. I think he's a massive play through the buys if you're heavy on round 15. And in being the round 14 buy, if you're able to accommodate that, then I think it's a massive play. You got West Coast this week with a 25 break even. I'm thinking that the mid-roll is going to continue irregardless of whether or not there's a tagging roll to be done, just because
00:23:42
Speaker
Adelaide would want to be making the finals this year and they're gonna have to put their mature players and some of the bigger dogs that can get it down into the midfield and Over the next couple of weeks just to see if they can solidify that final spot so I won't be surprised if Keys is in there for the rest of the year as a mature head and if that's the case then potentially we've got a top six forward on our hands and
00:24:06
Speaker
And I just want to say our homes as well. That was pretty much, this probably shows where we're at, mate. That was pretty much what I was going to bring to the round table discussion as well. So, you know, we're on the same wavelength, you and I. All right, boys, abandon it. If Dossie's thinking it, we can't do it. So we have to find a new strategy.
00:24:24
Speaker
I will just say one thing though, during the buy period and like coming out of the buys, I'm really trying to chase the higher priced players, the discounted premiums and the top end guys. So it's not the sort of player I typically go for, but I just think he presents a lot of value. And yeah, I'd tick it off if you did go there. But I think now the way I've set up my team, I'm sort of trying to chase the guys I think are going to be top eight.
00:24:52
Speaker
Um, I just want to extend that cause it was a question from the listeners, uh, as well, just on the, on that same, you know, front, let's talk about just the rock situation. Now it's, it's probably just for a few handful of coaches out there, but say you say you're rolling with a Jared wits cause he is 10% owned there by coaches. Would the same apply for a guy who we've only seen it from a small sample size, but Kieran Briggs, we've mentioned him at the top of the show or even maybe a Darcy Cameron, if you don't have him, but you know, Briggs.
00:25:19
Speaker
from a wits or someone else potentially that's like a hundred and sixty K. Holmes, does this play the same sort of thing? Could you, you know, is Briggsi still worth jumping on, even though he's got the round 15 ball as well here.
00:25:31
Speaker
Yeah, look, I would absolutely tick that off. And that's mainly because it's very clear that the two ruckmen that coaches want to have in their sides at the end of the buyers or just after the buyers is English and Marshall. OK, so in a year that we need to be making cash Jan in different kind of ways with the rookies not really getting it done.
00:25:53
Speaker
Knowing that we don't want wits towards the end of the buys, if your buy structure can hold it, I would absolutely tick off going wits down to Briggs and hope that, you know, that 160K that you're making can also be made on the other end with Briggs potentially getting up over 700, 750K. And there's some money that you've made to hopefully be able to get up to English or Marshall, whichever one you've missed. So I would look at it.
00:26:15
Speaker
However, I would definitely not be looking at trading one of those guys out to go down to Briggs It's only if you've got one of those ruckmen that you don't see as being the top two for the remainder of the year
00:26:29
Speaker
Yeah, and with the lack of rookies that we've got, that's the sort of creative things that we need to be coming up with just to generate that cash, not only to use it, but to keep it sort of ticking along across the next couple of weeks. And I was just going to add into that their Holmzy for the same reason, I think, two blokes that we discussed before, a Zebel and a Shezel can be done with the same thing. So whether or not you take them down to a Darcy Cameron or, you know, a Ben Keys,
00:26:55
Speaker
Hugh Greenwood, I know we got injured, but last week would have been a good example. It's just ways of finding, you know, 200, 250K where you can use it elsewhere in your team and get on one hand sort of comparable points, but on the other hand, trying to find that upgrade on somebody else like a, a Rory Atkins or a Feoreni or somebody that you can get up to that Uber premium.
Ruck Strategy and Player Targets
00:27:16
Speaker
I think it's only going to be a play if you don't have
00:27:20
Speaker
Marshall and English, right? Because you're not going to trade Marshall to him. He's coming off his by. He's going to help you over the next few weeks. And Team English just scored over 150. I mean, you can't ditch him really, can you? So it's only really if you've got one of those second rate ruckmen that you would look like doing the downgrade. So, so Hama, you'd say someone that maybe had a gorn might consider doing that?
00:27:52
Speaker
I think you could look at it. When's he's by? Around 15 as well. Same as English and same as Greeks. Just there might be one listener out there that's keen to know your thoughts on that one for me. All right. Well, he didn't get DPP, did he? No, he didn't. Did you guys hear that if the DPPs were one round later, Gorn would have got it. Did you hear that? Like if the DPPs were coming out this round. That's just, we love you Stado. Please come back soon.
00:28:22
Speaker
Thank God it didn't. Yeah, we do need Stado back. Wishing him all the well on his travels. So, any other roundtable discussions or are we going to move on boys? Time to move on. Let's get into our round 12 targets. So the way that we're going to do this, and we see how this goes and whether it's a thing we continue to do throughout the buyers, but we're just going to give our top three targets for each of the buyer rounds and then we'll just discuss any others as well.
00:28:48
Speaker
Basically, it's our little fossils three for each of the by rounds. As we said off the top, this is if you're chasing overall ranks. So you want to be bringing in players coming off that by. There's only four teams this round coming off their round 12 by. That's Fremantle, St Kilda, Sydney and Brisbane. Put myself last because I feel like Brisbane's a bit of a boring one. So we'll start with Fremantle and Holmsey. You're going to take us through your top three targets and then we'll discuss any other options.
00:29:14
Speaker
Yeah, so the first one and I just had a look on the fantasy Twitter just gone and he currently is I think the number one or the number two most traded in player and for very good reason. So Andy Brayshaw, 983K, so he's definitely not cheap. But as Hami mentioned before, this is the time of year where you really want to be going up to the Uber big dogs to have the maximum scorers that you can have for the rest of the year.
00:29:39
Speaker
there's no doubt in that role that if all things go right and he stays healthy Andy Brayshaw should be a top four midfielder so priced at 117 comes up against Richmond at home this week so there's a ceiling game there to be had so he's an absolute ripper of a target to consider this week so we don't really need to go into that one in too much detail but the one I really want to talk about is Hayden Young so Hayden Young
00:30:04
Speaker
Started the season not like we thought he would and then he's come good recently I think he's had three or four tons in his last five games don't quote me on that, but it's something similar So he's priced at 95 at a price tag of 798 K. So harm you my question to you is Do we see him as basically is what he is? He's a 95 averaging player and if he is he's probably not going to be a top six defender But do you see him as value and someone who could you know? maybe slide into that six defender and someone we could hold for the rest of the year and
00:30:35
Speaker
No, I don't think he's valued. So he's priced 800 grand. He's had a pretty good run coming into the buys, but he's also played some weeks where he hasn't been a standout as well. I'd be a little bit concerned. I don't think you're really going to get an extra 10 points out of him or anything like that. I'm actually looking at people in this price bracket at the moment and I'm preferring to look at somebody who's
00:30:59
Speaker
done it more often and over a longer period and that's either Jack Sinclair or Jack Lloyd at this point. Yeah, my thoughts exactly. He has been good, he's come into form and we thought he might have potential to be that 100 averaging player but you're right I think with Luke Ryan back there as well there might always be that competition for ball and for him to have a ton it's going to take a really good game for him. So one to monitor coming off his bye but
00:31:26
Speaker
by no means a guaranteed top six defender. The other one I'll throw in is Caleb Sarong, 922k priced at 110. I think that definitely is what he is. I think it's going to take something pretty special for him to average 110 plus from here, knowing what Brayshore can potentially do as well. And there was talk today that Sarong is battling a bit of an ankle injury as well. So probably not someone I'd be looking to target this week, I think.
00:31:52
Speaker
you know you're not really going to get too much value from him and there's questions about whether he's going to be in the top eight mids but I can't really knock what he's done this season he's been an absolute smash starting pick so well done to any coaches that got on him early throughout the season.
00:32:08
Speaker
One more, I know it's only three, but Nat Fife priced at 450-ish K. I think it's a price tag of 53. We haven't seen it for a full game yet, so we've still got a breakeven of 79, so there's no need to jump just yet, but with that midfield rotation, him building his game loads up and what we know Fife's done in the past, there's every chance that he could maybe average 80 to 85 once he's fully fit and healthy.
00:32:34
Speaker
And that's another forward line player that we can play on ground in round 15 when we're struggling for options. So Nat5's just one to monitor as well.
00:32:42
Speaker
I'll just throw it to the group in a second of any other kind of players. But one I do want to touch on is, look, Luke Jackson with the absence of Sean Darcy. I don't know if there's too much clarity around how quickly he's going to return. I don't think it was too serious a hamstring. So he might be, you'd probably know more of the Perth newspapers over there, mate. Yeah. So it came out today that they're hoping that it'll be back for round 14, which is next week. So I think that's probably not someone we look to do, knowing that Sean Darcy is on the horizon.
00:33:11
Speaker
Coaches have done it before, we know he can score in that role, so it wouldn't surprise me if there's a bit of a sugar hit this week, but he is coming up against Nancurva, so he's not the easiest ruck to score against, although Briggs went pretty big on the weekend.
00:33:23
Speaker
Yeah, I don't even know if I said his name. Luke, did I say? Yeah, Luke Jackson anyway was who we were talking about. I don't know if I actually mentioned him. I just went straight on to Sean Darcy. So yeah, Luke Jackson coming off that big ton against a really tough matchup too. So he was when I was looking at it around that 700 K to be a sort of stepping stone. And I don't know, maybe a really unique, awesome pick, but Holmes, he's not keen. Anyway, anyone else you've got your own harmi?
00:33:45
Speaker
Yeah. Um, can we just go back a step to Nat 5? So having a look at it, I reckon he's going to make money over the next few weeks. But what are you guys thoughts on that? Um, yeah, what do you reckon, Lou? Have you looked at him? Like I've looked at him because he's affordable. You can go a rookie down to him, make 50 grand, um, which could help you on the upside on something else. But your thoughts, like I've, I've actually thought about it and I've reached a position now, but what do you reckon?
00:34:14
Speaker
So the thing is, what are we bringing in? Is he playing pure forward? Is he playing a mix of both? I doubt he's going to be pure midfield. Could he be subbed? Could he be subbed out? Could he get injured? History suggests probably will.
00:34:29
Speaker
Is that a great price? But I think this is one that I'd be happy to just let go through to the keeper and those that pick him and if it is a good pick Good on them and honestly if he does end up popping I think he's at a price cheap enough where if it is real you can afford to jump on over the next couple of weeks to with his by having Been playing and the other thing about that Lou is that it could be a little bit of false economy this week with Jay Gromira being out with suspension so he might have a
00:34:58
Speaker
a greater role in the midfield this week with that out and who knows how that plays moving forward. So maybe it's a buy play, maybe in round 15 you do a downgrade and an upgrade and you've just got a little bit of cash left over that maybe on that third trade you can get one of your bench rookies to Nat Fife and he's someone that you can make a little bit of cash off. But yeah, I still want to see it for a full game first to know that he's 100% back fit and firing.
00:35:25
Speaker
And that's where I got to as well, guys. I think there's too many risks associated with bringing him in, and we're better off going down to somebody at a cheaper price who will get a similar output and somebody like Matt Johnson, I reckon. Yeah, sorry. That's one I did forget to mention. So Matt Johnson, I think, is a fantastic option this week, is that inflated rookie with good job security that Louis has been harping on it about, that the Dylan Williams type that
00:35:50
Speaker
has a good role in the team and he's not really at a risk of getting dropped at the moment anyway. So yeah, Matt Johnson's a fantastic target this week, if you can still use the money on the other end to get up to a good upgrade. 349K with a 14 break, Evan. Yeah, he's certainly on my watch list as one to trade in this week. Let's get on to the next team on the round, coming off the round 12 by Saint Kilda, Hami, who have you got for us as your top three?
00:36:19
Speaker
OK, thanks, mate. Yeah, the I'll just say that the two security players that I have got are Rah Marshall and Max Heath. Heath hasn't lined up just yet, but he's looking dangerous in the NFL. Let's look at I tell you that I am looking at a couple this week, so I'll talk about them. But the number one that I am keen to trade in is still Jack Still. I feel like there is quite a bit of upside with him.
00:36:49
Speaker
He's priced at 851,000 at the moment, so he's 127,000 down for the year so far. You're paying 15 points, averaging points below what you did at the start of the year.
00:37:06
Speaker
So he's priced at 101 and I think that he's better than that. He's had a lot of injury risks so far. He's just had two weeks rest so what I'm planning on doing at the moment is waiting this week and having a look at him and then looking at bringing him in next week. But anyway, he's my number one Saints player.
00:37:27
Speaker
Number two is Jack Sinclair. So I mentioned earlier, I just feel like he's in a decent enough price bracket that you're going to get at least what you pay for with him. And he has the potential to pump out some big scores. I think it was two weeks ago, he got like a 140 or something. So he knows how to score when he's in the right role. I'm certainly having a look at him at the moment in my trade plans, but that could change. And then number three, I think is just because
00:37:57
Speaker
Everybody should be aiming for English and Marshall. So if you don't have Marshall, he is who you should be trying to get to. The reason I've got him at number three, however, is that he's now priced at 112. So everybody that started with him has got a fair price increase over the course of the season so far. And look, he may be 115 from here on in and it's not a lot of points. So it depends on how you want to use your money. And that's that's why I have him at number three on the list.
00:38:29
Speaker
Just on Jack Sinclair as well, given Hunter Clark now out for, I think it's upwards of, it's like six weeks. It's a long-term injury for Hunter Clark. Unfortunately, another injury for him to add to the list. But Jack Sinclair moving inside. I just want to flag, like, not a flag, but I just want to discuss. Are you guys less excited with the fact that he probably plays more inside? Because we often just see, like, I feel like he plays better on a half back, but. Yeah, I'm a bit willy. You look at it.
00:38:59
Speaker
Sorry, I'm just I'm not a sold on this one. I think last year was one of those years where everything seemed to go through him in the back line. And there's Wangalee, sorry, Wanganeen Miller, who's now taking a distributing role off half back. So there's no need to go through him as much as they were last year.
00:39:19
Speaker
him going inside, you're still competing football with Steele, who should hopefully come back a little bit more fit and healthy, Brad Crouch, those type of players. So I think Sinclair might just be around what he is. I'm not sure. I know you're quite big on in harmony. It's just my sort of personal opinion. He had that big stealing score two weeks ago, but other than that, there's been a lot of 80s and 90s and low hundreds.
00:39:45
Speaker
Yeah, he's a decent target and he has been in my plans as well, but I'm not sure we're gonna get a heap of value from him.
00:39:53
Speaker
We won't get a heap, but I mean, right of reply mate, you're not paying top dollar for him, are you? Because he's already gone down 80 odd grand for the year. So he's probably had his price drop. This is what I'm saying. You're probably going to be, he's at least what he is now, I reckon. Yeah, he is priced at 100, is he not? Or is it a little bit less than that? 98 maybe. So yeah, you're probably, you're paying a fair price for him. Plus the 99, yeah. Yeah, 99. So yeah, if you think he's a top six defender, which let's be honest, it's pretty hard to pick that sort of fifth and sixth defender then,
00:40:22
Speaker
Yeah, definitely could be a play and he's got a few good matchups coming up in his next three. So, yeah, decent pick. I'm just, yeah, a little bit reserved at the moment. That's all. Well, mate, OK, if you're going to cut out my number two pick, Holmes, I'll put him on number four pick just to make up for that. Brad Crouch, ever heard of him?
00:40:42
Speaker
Christ at 96. Love having you on the pod, mate. Thank you. Who knows? Maybe he was carrying something. Maybe he'll be the Brad Crouch of old coming off his bike. Who knows? He did come flying home last year. That's when he made his bread was those last bloody five rounds of the year. He was like one of the best players in the comp. So yeah, maybe he's a second half specialist. No, I'm holding him now. I'm holding him now.
00:41:06
Speaker
I actually want to talk about the other play you've got written down here and we might as well talk about him now because he's named on ball. Given we are recording on the Wednesday night, we're lucky enough to have the Saint Kilda Sydney matchup, but Marcus Windhager, I know he's in a similar sort of price bracket to a Nat 5, but as I mentioned before, you know, there's not, well, he's actually cheaper. He's 348 K. Could he be a guy we consider again, given that the Hunter Clark injury who was spending quite a bit of time in that midfield as well?
00:41:37
Speaker
Yeah and he's a mid forward too so he's got some versatility. He's priced at $348,000 and in the last three games in the VFL he's got like a 120 and then a 90 and 150 so if he's playing on ball there's potential that he does pump out a good score.
00:41:56
Speaker
He's got the 73 break even. Yeah, so it's Johnson. It's Johnson this week, right? And then we wait to see Windhager. And then if he looks good, then there's definitely the option to go there next week. Porque no los dossi.
00:42:13
Speaker
Paul Kane or Los Dossi? That's what I've got to say. Why not both? Maybe we'll move on to the next team, unless there's any other St Kilda players to look at. Let's get on to Sydney with you, Lou.
00:42:29
Speaker
top three. So Sydney's pretty grim actually. In fact, the highest averaging player for Sydney is Jake Lloyd with 95. So previously a team that for the last 15 years has been quite relevant for us, has probably fallen out of relevance slightly. But Jake Lloyd's my number one target. He's at 806k, still only 29 years old. I thought he was a little bit older than that. But last three, 95. Last five, 99.
00:42:59
Speaker
This guy's ultra consistent. He's the sort of guy that'll give you, you know, 23-95s rather than the massive ceiling scores that we saw a couple of years ago. I think he is coming into his prime from a fantasy perspective for this year and I think at that price tag he presents a lot of value in a line where there's probably 10 to 12 blokes who could put up decent cases to be in that top sort of defender list
00:43:29
Speaker
has St Kilda this week too, Louis, so ultimate sugar here. I had that in my notes. Yeah, that could be a big one. And also he also on the run coming up, he has West Coast and the Bulldogs and Richmond.
00:43:43
Speaker
Yeah, and he's got three or four to finish the year, which are pretty impressive as well. So, Jack Lloyd, I don't think he's going to be one to burn you. If he helps you off your buy around, then he's got to be a good pick. Another one who has helped us off our buy around before is Isaac Haney. In fact, I think it was last year he was about
00:44:03
Speaker
400, 500K and some coaches traded him in. He popped for a little bit. He ended up being a little bit disappointing, but this is why it's a buy-around play. He's 680K, which is unders for Isaac Heaney. He's only averaging 77 for the year. Previous scores. He's starting to find a little bit of form. He got a 91 and 86.
00:44:25
Speaker
another 96 but then probably going back too far into the past. I just think he's too good of a player to be ignored at a 77 average and if that helps your buy structure as a little bit of a pivot buy play then I'm all for Isaac Heaney. Holmsey you got your hand up mate. Yeah just on Isaac Heaney. Not someone I'm advocating to bring in but at the same time I did watch the Sydney Carlton game that they played before their buy and he actually had a far more predominant midfield role.
00:44:54
Speaker
So with Luke Parker out this week, maybe once again, a little bit of a sugar hit, maybe he has more of a midfield role, knowing that they don't have Parker or Mills, and maybe he does have a bit more of a midfield role until Mills comes back, and maybe even a little bit through that while Mills finds his feet. So yeah, if he's all he can get up to, I don't actually hate the play, but just know full well that you will need a plan to get off him, because we know that he can have a 40 or a 50 game when he plays as a forward.
00:45:22
Speaker
Surely they're not. Surely who's going to play in the midfield for him as Robodham, Warner and Gordon, is it? Yeah, well, yeah, Gordon's name. And they've brought in Sheldrick this week, which you would assume is just a replacement for Luke Parker.
00:45:39
Speaker
Yeah, Sheldrick, as again, team sheets mean not a lot, but he's named on a wing to start the game. But yeah, if we do, we don't look at team sheets too seriously. But Haney, seven clearances from seven center-bouncer tendencies, equal most clearances in that Carlton game alongside Luke Parker, to your point.
00:45:54
Speaker
Their homes here. I wonder what his splits were for the game So he actually looks like he sort of had an even split across the game playing a little bit of midfield Across yeah, pretty much every quarter looks like he attended a center bounce particularly in the second half those when he had five of his seven, so definitely Maybe maybe it's Heaney and Papley just chopping out for one spot.
Player Analysis and Potentials
00:46:19
Speaker
All right. Well, I guess we'll move on to Brisbane unless there's any other glaring pliers. I mean, he showed Rick you mentioned. I just want to say, can I just bring up one thing just as a bit of a selfish non-owner? Just tell me that I can't bring in Errol Goulden this week priced at 1.15.
00:46:23
Speaker
Oh
00:46:35
Speaker
Tell me, tell me I can't do it. I think, I think you can. I think you can. I think we've seen this year that Gordon can go 115 pretty comfortably. It's going to be a top six forward. Majority of the competition probably own him. Certainly started him. I think he's.
00:46:52
Speaker
VCing him and that's another thing as well, isn't it? He's getting those VCs and Cs where he might be able to pop one for you. So, no, I think Gilton's got to be a massive target. Interestingly enough though, just on that, Windhagen named, he has done tagging roles in the past. Could that be something if, you know, if Holmes, he's, you know, he's a butthurt non-owner, do you really want to bring him in if there's that ever so slight chance that he gets a tag this week?
00:47:17
Speaker
Chad Warner's in great form. He's last three, 108, last five, 108, probably one of their more influential players as well alongside Goulden, so maybe flip a coin for the tag target, but he's another Sydney swan that might be relevant for us.
00:47:33
Speaker
All right, I'll go through Brisbane now. I don't think there's a stack. I mean, there's a few here that people are interested in. So I honestly think number one, who I'm going to exclude because he's 70% owned, I still think Josh Dunkley, obviously, if you don't own him, if you are one of those 30%, you know, he's a guy who's gone 170 this year. He's just an absolute beast. I'm going to exclude him. He's still my number one. But as the official number one here, I'm just going to put Locky Neil.
00:47:59
Speaker
look he's done it in the past we've actually seen a bit of an uptick in Brisbane's fantasy game in the last few so they've shifted their way up to 13th overall for fantasy points I know for a long time there I was talking about them right down near the bottom near 18th for fantasy scoring so they've at least sort of upped their output again a little bit more recently and Locky Neal was kind of
00:48:20
Speaker
been one of the beneficiaries in that system, done it in the past, playing a predominant midfield role. They've got a massive matchup this week against the Hawks, I think, coming straight off the by. So, he's definitely a guy that you can look at. I think, personally, there's probably, I mean, look, honestly, Jack Steele versus Locky Neal is probably what maybe a few people are looking at and I'd say you're going to go Jack Steele. Would you guys all agree there?
00:48:46
Speaker
Yeah, it's Jack still over locking Neil for me. Yeah, that's that's probably the tough thing that some people have. Yeah, I mean, he's he's cheaper. Nice run to.
00:48:55
Speaker
they do. So that's another thing to look at. But Locky Neil in my list. Look, I've selfishly gone a human cluggage at number two. Harmony thoughts on thoughts on thoughts on. Look, you said it yourself. Nice run. 747,000. He's only got the 94 break. Even he had a stinker against the crows, but
00:49:18
Speaker
If the Brisbane line's upticks real, I feel like Hugh's a fair bit down on his potential form. Hawthorne, Sydney, Saints and Richmond and then West Coast. That's a nice run of five. So look, I'm just saying if you strap for cash, I got stuck with having to do Brisbane. I don't think there's a stack of stuff to like here, but. The problem with McClugage is that Dunkley, Neil and now Ashcroft are taking his points. Correct.
00:49:43
Speaker
I'll throw one at you, Dossie, and it's loose. I will admit it is loose, but in a year that we are having to find under-priced premiums because we don't have the cash. Daniel Rich priced at 80. Yes, he's had the soft tissue injury, but in his last three games, 97, 88, 91. We know that he's generally a 90 guy in that role, and they still do like
00:50:07
Speaker
all of the ball going through there, especially when Kitty Coleman is not playing. So it is loose, it is loose, but I can definitely see a little bit of value in Daniel Rich as a bit of a bi-play, considering they have Hawthorne, Sydney, St Kilda. Were you going to say that? Is it on the run sheet? I didn't actually...
00:50:22
Speaker
You know, let's get to my number three here, Daniel Rich. Thanks for laying out the case though, Holmesy. I hadn't done as much research as that. I love that from you. So as you heard from Holmesy, that's from number three is Daniel Rich. No, honestly, there was one trade scenario that I already threw up, you know, early in the week and he was basically the only player I could get to. I was trying to fill a defensive spot and you're a hundred percent right, all those points. And having still that Saint killed a matchup on deck coming up,
00:50:52
Speaker
Look, while they haven't been as prominent back there with their defensive, that they're clearly playing sort of a more attacking game style and almost in that Gold Coast mode of just get it forward, I still think there is potential benefit there. So, has anyone else got any interest in Daniel Rich and then we'll just probably move on? Because Kadean Coleman's the other one that's super cheap at the moment, but I just don't think you can go there.
00:51:12
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, probably right. Yeah, look, if I was spelling for cash, then Richard would be the one I'd go for too. He's a good price and he's, you know, he could go big too.
00:51:23
Speaker
All right, awesome. Well, that's our top targets for the week. Let's just get to some really quick listener requests and we'll go through any of the players that haven't been discussed. All right, the first one here, Elliot Yeo, kind of mentioned Ben Keyes at the top of the show as one of those targets. Elliot Yeo looked bloody fantastic. Jeez, the mighty Weagles were up and about. I actually headed down to the footy club after for this game. And look, I wore the Weagles jumper underneath because it wasn't that third quarter, but I had to keep the jumper on.
00:51:52
Speaker
for the rest of the night. Hami, Elliott Yeoh though. Look, keen pre or post buy on big Yeohy. Yeah, he's definitely got my attention. I probably won't be going there this week with his buy coming up, but I'll be having a look to see what he does.
00:52:07
Speaker
Jake Lloyd, we've mentioned, so the listeners were keen to there. Ben Kays, I think the final verdict, so everyone here is keen for that as well. I want to talk about Harry Himmelberg. So JWS, we kind of flagged last week. It was a friend of the show that kind of brought it up to our attention, Liam. But Himmelberg, look, he's playing in that defensive role. Holmes E, any interest there? And round 15 buys a tough one, but are you just going to keep an eye on him?
00:52:33
Speaker
Definitely keeping an eye on it, Dos. The round 15 buy is definitely a turnoff and also no Nick Haynes in that side as well who's been playing a very good intercept role this year for GWS. So once again, I think Louis mentioned it. It was the first game this year that Himmelberg's just played purely in defence. He hasn't been flung around up and down the ground but I still would like to see how he lines up in that side when they do get
00:52:59
Speaker
Haynes back in that side. And if he does still have that 100% defensive role, then he's cheap. And we've seen what he can do in that role. No Locky Keef in the team at the moment either, Darcy. Yeah, all coming. Yeah, tough one. Tough one for Locky Keef. I mean, Cummings, you know, neither here nor there, but Locky Keef, a key cog in that offensive game style there. All right. The next player that we have here, Tom wants to know from Twitter, is it too late for Darcy Cameron, Louis?
00:53:28
Speaker
No, shouldn't be. I'm not sure what he went up this week, but you'd love to see a 109 on debut. I think that should give you more confidence in selecting him. All right. How about Alex Witherton? Look, West Coast has already come out and said that there's another bunch of injuries come through again. We've got Liam Duggan suspended for a week and also apparently hospitalized with some sort of illness, so hopefully he's all right.
00:53:51
Speaker
Alex Witherden, Hami, Annie, Canis, Hurney going down with the pop in the string. We've seen him have a big impact without Hurn in sight. Yeah, I'm just not sure, mate. It's a little bit too up and down. I don't think I could do it myself. And again, it's around 14 players, so it's not the right week to have a look at him. As in not to bring him in, sorry.
00:54:13
Speaker
Interestingly enough, we've had a request for a player that I wouldn't have thought. Yeah, so Joel Jeffrey, 444K, but he's had a role change. Is there any interest in him playing in that back line, Holmsey? I don't want any part of it, Dos. We've seen Gold Coast this year. They're not afraid to switch the magnets up. You get it for a couple of weeks. But he could just end up being a raw reactants type that you're stuck with that starts bleeding cash. So no, not for me.
00:54:43
Speaker
especially with the way the Gold Coast are playing as well. And yeah, as Lou is about say Ellis coming back in to the side. Yeah. Yeah. Judson Clark, somebody here, Paul wants to know five versus Judson Clark, Louie. What do you think there? So I guess that's probably one we did mention on the new coach, Judson Clark having a bit more of a role. I'd actually favor Judson Clark. He's at about 350 K, isn't he? He's got 60 on the weekend.
00:55:11
Speaker
Yeah, about 100k cheaper. He's been good on that wing. Great ball user. And I think the Tigers are going to want to get games into him. I think it's a testament to him actually playing under the new coach that there is some level of job security there. So he's probably a player that over the next couple of rounds might be pretty useful for us, though he does have the buys at round 14 for the Tigers or 15. They've got the 14, I reckon.
00:55:40
Speaker
Maybe that will be helpful because I think he's got the forward status So if you're a bit heavy on the round 15 forwards that might work for you. Okay, we've just got a couple more here Tarrant Thomas came back got a bit of a roll due to the fact that Simpkin went down early in that game with concussion Hugh Greenwood as well going down So he did play a bit more of the midfield role that we saw him explode onto the scene on a couple of years back but Tarrant Thomas round 15 boy harm me any interest
00:56:11
Speaker
some interest i'm not sure um he'll probably get a good run in the midfield this week out of necessity because they're going to be light on but uh i just i'm not sure mate to be honest i i couldn't i don't think i'll be trading him in we'll put it that way
00:56:26
Speaker
All right. And for our final one here, Louis. So a lot of the listeners want an opinion. I probably gave a really basic summary and probably a bit of unders as to how keen people are on locky kneels. So a lot of people wanting to compare say a sarong or a brayshore and a locky kneel and the sort of money that you're going to be having without having to pay up for brayshore versus going a locky kneel. So do you want to just dive into your
00:56:51
Speaker
opinion of Locky Neil a bit more because I did probably just skip over I just said you know he's done it in the past etc but let's look into Locky Neil a little bit more and if you could analyze him as well.
00:57:02
Speaker
I mean, that's why everyone's looking at Locky Neil, isn't it? It's because of what he's been able to do in the past. I'm all for Locky Neil. When you ask me the question steel or Neil, I have to lean towards steel, but it seems that Locky Neil's found a bit of form. Last three, 106. Last five, 101.
00:57:22
Speaker
He had that one out the box a couple of years ago where he went 115 plus. Generally he's a good 105 guy and I don't see any reason why he can't come home doing that with Brisbane being a top four side.
00:57:35
Speaker
obviously should get a few wins and he's going to be the former Brownlow medalist in that mix of the midfield to get the points at 830k he presents fantastic value so I think he's someone that we should be looking at and going into the fixture he's got St Kilda twice to finish the year which really appeals to me as well as quite a few soft matchups in there like Richmond, Eagles, Suns
00:58:07
Speaker
Yeah well I had this choice to make last week and it may prove to be the wrong move but as I said I went Ashcroft to Neil last week and I said earlier in the podcast that I just want to see Steel for a week. There's just a little bit of uncertainty about his knee and his body so if he comes out and hits 100 and looks really good I'll be more keen and probably bring him in the following week but
00:58:26
Speaker
I'm sure a couple of those will move as the season goes on.
00:58:33
Speaker
Yep I had that choice and that's who I went for. I just think that Neil is quite a consistent player. He has the potential to score big if he's in the right role. Yep haven't loved what Brisbane have done so far but they want to keep winning. He's their main man in the middle. I think it's a solid pick.
00:58:52
Speaker
All right, well that wraps up plenty of listener requests as well as always. Thanks for throwing them to at pod pod AFL on Twitter. We really appreciate all your input every week from the listeners out there. And look, there's a fair few questions or comments at least here. Just, you know, where's Stado? Where is he? Hope the great man's all right. Look, he's fine. And we send our love to Stado as well, but look, everyone out there, he's all good. He's just working really, really hard and he's had to
00:59:21
Speaker
You know, he's now having a little bit of time off, I think, because of how flat chat he was. So, Stado's all good. He'll hopefully be back soon, but in the meantime, we wish the FOS all the best and relaxing time. Hopefully, he is nailing his trades, though, because he has ghosted us on the group chat due to his busy schedule. He's cut the pod pod lads out of his life for the meantime. We do wish all the listeners the best as well and all the best for the rest of the buyers. Good luck in round 13. We'll see you next week.
00:59:51
Speaker
Bye!