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Fremantle Dockers AFL Fantasy 2024 team preview | #PODPOD
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The Fremantle Dockers had a down year going by the lofty standards they set in 2022, but as the second-youngest team in the competition — there were bound to be growing pains.
Will Justin Longmuir shake things up in year three at the helm? With Hayden Young already pegged for bulk midfield minutes and plenty of names (including new arrival Jeremy Sharp) vying to fill the holes left by Lachie Shultz and Liam Henry out the door, it's almost a certainty.
Dos, Lewy, Stato, and Harmey break down all the juiciest options in the Purple and White for season 2024 (except Neil Erasmus who we kind of forgot but are all fans of)!
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Introduction to AFL Fantasy 2024 and Fremantle Dockers
00:00:16
Speaker
G'day and welcome to another Pod Pod. Talking our teen previews for AFL fantasy season 2024. We're talking the Frio Dockers clearly on this episode and back again with the Statesman five-time top 100 finisher in the fantasy format. We've got two-time top 10 finisher Hami
00:00:37
Speaker
And regular man in the triple figures louie and not too far away from a hat dare i say potentially twenty twenty four could be his year let's start straight into freeman or and get into some of the team numbers before we jump further into some players that you want to hear about team numbers for freo fourteenth on the ladder in twenty twenty three.
Fremantle's 2023 Performance Review
00:00:58
Speaker
That's seventh for i fell fantasy scoring pretty fantasy friendly especially a couple of guys up the top end they were seventh the disposals sixth the marks. For the handballs though so they were fifteenth the kick so they like utilizing the hand get the mark and then the quick give off to the handball.
00:01:15
Speaker
They're only better than west coast and north melbourne for meters gain so that's a bit of a damning stat there in terms of how they're moving the footy. And it sounds like there's a fair bit of moving pieces at Fremantle already, they can't stay the same this year if they're going to want to move up the ladder Louie.
00:01:36
Speaker
Now they can't mate, but those are some interesting numbers for sure. We often see Fremantle as this kick mark team, but to be so low on meters gained actually surprises me a bit.
00:01:47
Speaker
They definitely need to change something up. They made finals in 2022 and pretty much disappointed most pundits last year. I'm not sure how much difference we are going to see as Longmuir goes into his last year of coaching.
Can Fremantle Adapt Under Coach Longmuir?
00:02:03
Speaker
I think he's going to be betting on a little bit of, what are we laughing at?
00:02:09
Speaker
But he's going into his last year of coaching. You just damn... He said they can ink the last year. Potentially, didn't I?
00:02:19
Speaker
But this isn't going to be a guy who's going to be trying new things. He's going to be backing his system over the last few years to bounce back to what was a disappointing 2023. And I think they've got the cattle to do it. I think maybe it was a bit of an anomaly. So I think we will see a little bit of a similar game. So you'd think that maybe those meters gained goes up a little bit as teams transition to quicker, faster,
00:02:46
Speaker
more ground gained football, but freeman's are super relevant this year, more so than I can remember in previous years. I wonder how much of it was the actual change of the fixed ring model.
Youth, Trades, and Injuries Impact
00:03:01
Speaker
So you perform poorly one year, you get an easier fixture because they rotate the six, six and six. So I wonder if the year they made the finals 22, they rolled out in 23 with a much harder fixture model.
00:03:15
Speaker
the only joy they would have automatically got was obviously playing West Coast twice of course but all of a sudden they had harder opponents more often did that actually just expose the weaknesses they had and people were paying more attention to their game style so I wonder if it was a circumstances thing rather than they really just dropped off. And one more thing
00:03:38
Speaker
Sorry, they had an injury as well. They had lost Sean Darcy for periods of the year. Nat Fife didn't play much and when he did, he looked banged up anyway. There's a few other things disadvantaging them as well, I reckon. Lost lob as well. I don't think Tabner played much footy. Scoreboard impact, clearly a bit of a problem there.
00:04:01
Speaker
One other thing that I see Selby often tweets about and backs up the numbers, obviously as Selby always does. The second youngest team in the AFL last year as well behind. So Hawthorn was the youngest. So, look, inexperience as well as there. You know, they came out like you said, Stado, but backing it up is always tougher, especially when people know your game plan.
00:04:22
Speaker
Look that there's still a team on the up i think there's no doubt about that but let's say how this year goes on and let's look at the trade period to say what they really changed and and to be honest not much on their ends bunch of draft picks some rookies etc but they brought in jeremy sharp who's a hot topic who will talk about.
00:04:40
Speaker
from the Suns, but I wouldn't say a marquee name in free agency there. And then Oscar McDonald as well coming across their notable outs.
Strategizing for Fremantle's Round 13 Bye
00:04:49
Speaker
Unfortunately, losing some more players this off season as well, which is going to be tough to cover. Lockie Schultz up forward, heading off to the pies. And then Liam Henry off to the Saints as well, who really kind of broke out last year as well. So that got him to a point that he'd already said he'd had enough of the Freo Dockers and off he went. And then Joel Hamling as well headed off.
00:05:10
Speaker
Let's talk about their by round i'm thankfully unlike the sun so we covered on the last show i don't have to deal with the opening around so we don't have to talk about that as much as not a concern they have the round thirteen by stato talk us through what the round thirteen by means for you and your planning.
00:05:29
Speaker
Yeah, so there's only two teams on round 13. So it takes a little bit of pressure off. The reality is if you load up Frio players and you load up Port players that you want to keep for the season, you're actually going to bottom out a little bit in round 13. So although some people say it's a good buy, it's a good buy to give you an easy 18 players to fill. But the reality is you still should be looking to get the balance right.
00:05:58
Speaker
If you bring in a lot of Freo players, think of the ones that you're gonna actually bring in that you can sell at round 12. So I'm talking the Heath Chapman types that have got a fair bit of value. If you're selecting a heap of those, that's fine as long as you've got the plans before round 13. I would say with Port and Freo, don't go any further than three or four.
00:06:25
Speaker
of these premiums, otherwise you'll have a bit of a dip that round. Great, great buy around coverage. Love having our buy around expert Stado deliver those nuggets of gold. Buy around is probably not something that some of the more casual coaches are thinking about, including myself. But look, it's important to start thinking about that stuff this early. That's why the man's got five time.
00:06:47
Speaker
times in the top 100. So great insight, Stado, as always.
Is Jeremy Sharp a Fantasy Bargain?
00:06:51
Speaker
The popular picks, 10 plus percent ownership for Freo. There's three players. Let's talk about the first one. Popular for fantasy coaches at the moment. Haven't seen too much from the Fremantle media about how this guy's going, though. But I have seen a few pipe shots of him out on the track. It is Jeremy Sharp, 33 percent owned, coming in heavily, heavily discounted due to not barely playing at the Suns the last couple of years. Harmony, Jeremy Sharp.
00:07:16
Speaker
Do you think he can replace Liam Henry in that wing role and does he have a spot at the dockers? Yes, and yes. Look, there's competition for the spot like, you know, you know, Driscoll, but there are others that have been here. James Ash, not really sure where he's at. So he's not exactly the walk up starter, but
00:07:38
Speaker
He's in a lot of media reports. They were keen to get him. Should have got him a year ago. The Suns were just playing a bit of a game there, I think. So I think they want him to be there. He's from WA. I think he's in for a good season and he should be lining up on that wing. And if he can get his disposal efficiency, it's win-win for the Dockers and for Sharpe for this season.
00:08:02
Speaker
priced at $284, so he's rookie priced and I think that he will be in a lot of fantasy teams.
00:08:11
Speaker
Yeah, I love it. He's been one waiting in the wings for quite some time. Big junior numbers, as we always look at, but has never really come to fruition. Hopefully, Fremantle is the place where he can finally take
Hayden Young's Midfield Move: A Fantasy Asset?
00:08:22
Speaker
off. Hayden Young at 31%, probably one of the biggest names this preseason, just given his defensive status and given the on-ball move. There was some media today that has matched him. Obviously, it's January and we've had a few people poke fun at
00:08:37
Speaker
you know making these big calls in January and you know it's very early in the pre-season but Louis Haden Young, massive talking point and looks like he's set for a full-time midfield role in 2024.
00:08:50
Speaker
Yeah, he's been the hype guy probably towards the end of last year and certainly this year so far. In terms of match practice, yes, he is there in the midfield and you are right. We sometimes put more weight in these things than what we should, but what's important to me is the messaging from the club and the people in the know was consistently that Hayden Young's going to be running through that midfield. They see him as a full-time midfielder and
00:09:14
Speaker
They clearly really value what he brings to the table so that combined with his defensive status in AF and his ability to score which we saw from
00:09:24
Speaker
Look a little bit of a limited sample size, those last five or six games last year, but what he sort of impressed me with is that he was able to get the extra tackles as well as still take his marks, which we were used to off that halfback flank. So yeah, no surprises that he's at 31%. In fact, I would have thought it'd be a little bit higher given all the hype out there.
00:09:47
Speaker
Just I mean obviously keen defender available as a defender and priced at 89 but guys any concern about having the three brace horse or
Analyzing Fremantle's Midfield Dynamics
00:10:00
Speaker
wrong young I mean they're all slightly different players but can we see them all going over a hundred? Is there a world where that happens?
00:10:10
Speaker
It doesn't happen often. I can only think of GWS would have gone close, of course, a long way back in the day. Dogs maybe did it. I'm struggling to think of any others. That being said, a 95 from a defender is still pretty good for a pass mark and you'd be able to probably slip him down to D5, D6 come the end of the season at that average.
00:10:36
Speaker
Yeah, I think potentially we can see two 110s and maybe a 95 there. Just Dossie did some rare research on Hayden Young a couple of weeks ago. I was looking at some points per minute stuff and Hayden Young was sixth at Freo at 0.87 points per minute for the season. But in the final five rounds when he was playing as an inside mid, his points per minute was over one.
00:11:02
Speaker
I permit which is really like it's it's massive it's it's with the top elite players of the comp so i'm not fantasy in terms of fantasy scoring so yeah that's some big numbers there for him young and i'm on board i think i think all of us are probably on board had young at the moment skin interesting to see him if he does take that big step up let's talk about andrew brayshaw though army to your point of the place that you know.
00:11:26
Speaker
Are gonna consistent scores in that premium bracket twelve percent on very popular pick and a guy that's gone one eighty already in his career.
00:11:37
Speaker
Oh look, yeah, I've sort of been interested and they're not interested. They're not interested and I'm just a little bit undecided on Brayshore. But as Stado said earlier, I liked the buy. I like that you'll get him throughout all of these early buy periods. He's priced at $110. I can't remember what the stat was. He went for $114 after the buy or something like that last year. Was hampered a little bit earlier in the season with a knee injury. But I just think that
00:12:07
Speaker
One team is about where he's going to be. I just think that as I said, there's a little bit of different versatility in the midfield there with Sorong and Young and whoever else chimes in, be it a Johnson, five Erasmus, something like that. But I can't really see him going up.
00:12:28
Speaker
because he's not going to be the number one player for everything. And there is a chance that he plays outside at times too, I think, with Young being a fairly large, solid guy, defensive player. So, yeah, it's a bit of a watch, but I'm not completely sold at this point, Dossie.
00:12:49
Speaker
Because they're already talking about Fife going in there full-time. So Rong is pretty much a pure centre-bounce midfielder, clearance beast. Hayden Young, they're talking big minutes. So it starts to thin out a little bit towards that 4-5-6. I'm not saying Brescia was going to be sitting there in that rotation at that point, but he does seem like the player that has the most ability to go onto the outside and still have an impact on the game.
00:13:16
Speaker
Well let's talk about the big dogs who were the top three averaging players from last year. We've already clearly covered off Andrew Brayshaw there at number one for Freo, but number two, only just behind him at 108 points for his average for the year, priced at 976,000 coming into this year. Caleb Sorong, Stado, he was a big part of your team last year and a really solid pick to start the year, but as we've just discussed, you know, mouths to feed are now becoming a factor.
00:13:44
Speaker
Yeah he was the one that dropped off when Young went in so he finished off the last five in the high 90s and last three 97 on a season average of 108 so he was fantastic to own from the start of the year I got him on the right year
Will Luke Ryan Retain Fantasy Value?
00:14:02
Speaker
there's no doubt
00:14:02
Speaker
about that but he looked like he was going to finish around 111, 112 average but he really dropped off soon as young went in so I think he's the one that gets hurt he's also the one that's the prime
00:14:18
Speaker
tag target. So when we're talking about, can the three of them get 100 plus? I think Brayshore is the top. I predict that he can go to 115. He's in my team. I think Sorong is probably the low 100, so 102 to 106. And I think Young is 97 to 102. So
00:14:41
Speaker
110 to 115 is probably my bracial range. So, look, I think they're all really good options, to be honest, and probably Sorong is the only one that is overpriced in my eyes. All right, let's talk about another guy who had a career year, Luke Ryan, 99 average, $897,000. That brings his price in for this year.
00:15:07
Speaker
Oh, for me, it would be just a scary own to start with him. He's got this massive ceiling, but when he has to lock down Louie, you've always got to be panicking about the matchup based stuff with Luke Ryan. But I just want to throw in that caveat as well. Hayden Young is moving out of there. Could we see a kicking boost on the other side and actually see that average maintained?
00:15:27
Speaker
Well, I don't think you'd see a kick in boost. I think from memory, Luke Ryan pretty much took up the lion's share of that anyway. But see, this is a guy that wouldn't surprise me if he's comfortably top six defense at the end of the year. But he's one of those guys that's hard to start now because he had such a good year last year. He pretty much comes in fully priced. So to make an argument that there's more upside there is a lot more difficult than what it is to say that he might lose, you know,
00:15:56
Speaker
One or two or you know up to ten points. I'm not sure but yeah, I'm not a whole lot of interest in Luke rind any of you boys Have any interest there? I was just gonna make a point The one that actually got a bump when Hayden young went out was Jordan Clark He actually finished the season in defense last three 101 average and he's priced at 77
00:16:20
Speaker
Yeah I love that and I think I brought him out the other way I'm actually a big fan of him but I think. What we've been saying on the last few shows as well is that price bracket that Jordan Clarkson as well is just the most awkward sort of price bracket to back in. To start a year and you know you can probably have a look and say if he's looking like a premium defender because.
Kick-ins: Ryan vs. Clark's Fantasy Implications
00:16:40
Speaker
Otherwise, you just pay down a bit for a Jack Bose price range and enjoy price rise there rather than paying up the 750K or whatever it is. I'll have to look at what Jordan Clark is, but I think he's in that 700 to 800 bracket.
00:16:55
Speaker
It's tough. I'll be really keen to own Luke Ryan if you played sick Kilda every week. Yeah. 18% of kick ins, by the way, for Hayden Young last year, taking these from the Kepa League website, Luke Ryan took 55%.
00:17:11
Speaker
Maybe that upside for Jordan Clark is that I'm taking a few of those 18% that had young had he only took. Just under 10% last year so I like some of those numbers he was one of the players that we're gonna look at in the other players to discuss now the other guys we've got Heath Chapman are popular among I'd say sort of the
Heath Chapman: A Sleeper Fantasy Pick?
00:17:32
Speaker
more.
00:17:32
Speaker
Niche fantasy circles that we talk in he's definitely a popular player one thing that i like to say he went from number twenty seven to number five took lucky shoots number i was like looking at that you know big promising stuff taking a lucky she was number five there as he took the part of the club louie i know you've been a big talker about heath chapman this year what do you like about him.
00:17:56
Speaker
I just think he's someone who's shown fantasy prospect before even at AFL level. There's a role there for him with Hayden Young moving into the midfield. Chapman's already been talked about playing off of half back and we know that's pretty conducive to fantasy points. So a bit of an injury interrupted last year and to be honest with you probably a couple of years so he hasn't reached his full potential yet.
00:18:20
Speaker
But at the price point, what is he, about 490K? I'm not sure what that equates to in points, but I think there's potentially 25 points upside if all things go well, which is a smash play in defense. So being a part of the Fremantle system, as we know, they're pretty high fantasy scoring team. So it's all set up for him to take that role and potentially up his fantasy scoring from that. Are you boys keen on him as well?
00:18:51
Speaker
Yes. Yeah, I'm pretty keen. There's a few around that price bracket that are worth a look, but he comes in into discount and I think there's a lot of upside. And, you know, he's training, fully training, you know, no issues with his shoulder and stuff, so it should be good.
00:19:08
Speaker
Another guy that could also maybe play some wing, defend a wing, whatever you put in. He's definitely got a role in that best 22. That's the plain simple facts. He's definitely best 22, what he can do out in the footy field. It's just a matter of, yeah, if he can start racking him up a bit, which we've seen, he can do at times just needs to get that consistency. And especially just in that young body, keep
00:19:27
Speaker
Those injuries away and those soft tissue injuries away from a Chapman this year are me let's look at some of the the rock duo of Luke Jackson and Sean Darcy.
Ruck Options: Luke Jackson vs. Sean Darcy
00:19:37
Speaker
Obviously the Luke Jackson factor he does have that forward status which is the temptation either one of those interest you in starting could we say a Sean Darcy be a number one rock in twenty twenty four is there a scenario you say that happening.
00:19:52
Speaker
I'm pretty happy to just not talk about either, to be honest, Dossie, because we've got so many available rucks at a good value. I don't think that Darcy's anywhere near it. And Jackson's probably overpriced because he played a lot of time in that ruck position filling in for Darcy, which if they're both fit, I wouldn't expect to occur. And the only way it becomes relevant is if Sean Darcy's engine, Luke Jackson's got the number one gig.
00:20:19
Speaker
That's the big thing. Just keep an eye on that. Grab Luke Jackson, you don't even have to see one game for him to grab him if that ever does eventuate this year. I reckon just jump on board. Okay, finally, probably the biggest name that I've seen out there in terms of other than Hayden Young, in terms of hype recently, and he is getting up towards that fossil status, dare I say, Nat 5.
Nat Fyfe's Comeback Potential in Fantasy
00:20:42
Speaker
He's come back into calculations this year. I reckon Harmey might have been the first one of this crew that I heard talking about him. You know, he's becoming a bit prominent in the group chat now, though, Nat 5. In a year where forwards are dire, he comes in under 500K, the superstar Nat 5 Harmey.
00:21:03
Speaker
Yeah, I think you guys laughed at me when I said floated the idea, but look, it depends on the body, doesn't it? The body in the role and I guess both are both are a watch at this stage of the season. Have you seen the one handed grabs today posted actually by this Fremantle social team? Have you seen the grabs? Stay there. Three points.
00:21:28
Speaker
Doesn't matter how it looks, good it looks, it's three points. Those intercups though, he's playing in the midfield and I don't see any Jago Mira in there, so he's got to be in the mix.
00:21:41
Speaker
We've seen three years of the five forward experiment and it's failed every single year. I think they've finally seen the light there and they're just going to have a crack with him in the midfield. By all accounts, he's finally fit for this time of the year. It's a long way to go yet. I wouldn't be putting my eggs in that basket just yet, but in a line where there's a lot of uncertainty, that five price at 54 as well, plenty of value there.
00:22:09
Speaker
It provides an option for you to jump off to that point. All right, before we wrap up, let's talk about the must have for 2024. Will Brody coming in. My God, the fall off forever.
00:22:29
Speaker
No, I don't have to wrap up this time. Forgot the socials
Conclusion and Next Episode Teaser
00:22:32
Speaker
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00:22:59
Speaker
It's gonna be Richmond. Let's go.