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Is Sam Flanders the real deal? PLUS: Dodging tags, streaming key forwards, and making necessary adjustments as news comes to hand | Round 19 AFL Fantasy #PODPOD
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On the podcast this week, Lewy, Harmey, Holmesy, and TBD (Top Bloke Dossy) discuss all the latest AFL Fantasy rumblings as we head into the FINAL FIVE WEEKS of the season!
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Transcript
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Introduction and AFL Fantasy Insights
00:00:18
Speaker
And welcome to the Pod Pod, it's your boy Dossi here talking all things AFL fantasy on this Monday night, July 24th, 2023. And I'm here as always with my regular co-host, the Lou Dogg, Louis, as well as a duo of two-time top 10 AFL fantasy coaches. We've got Kyle Holmes and of course John Harvey back on deck today, and Dossi.
00:00:41
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He's back in the good books. A man of the people now, you might say, as he's helped release the number one AFL trivia game in the country. That's right. Footygrid.com. Go and check it out now. Just pause the show right now. Check it out right now. Footygrid.com. Now, what are your thoughts, Holmes, on this amazing redemption story after last week's shenanigans?
00:01:02
Speaker
Dossie, mate, if you think I've touched any one of your products to help promote anything you're doing at the moment, you'd be mistaken, mate. No, to be honest, I haven't actually had a chance to look at it. I've been very busy first week back at school, but I do plan to get into it. And I've been seeing it everywhere, Doss. Looks good. It's going fantastic, mate. Make sure you let the students know when you're back at school there, mate. Footygrid.com. Check
Fantasy Scores and Strategies Discussion
00:01:25
Speaker
it out. And Louis, I know you're a big fan, but obviously we're here to talk about fantasy today. But how are you, Lou?
00:01:30
Speaker
Yeah, it's good fun, mate. And yeah, maybe Holmes should have asked for some stock in the footygrid.com, and maybe not the Tun Middies. That would have been better off for him. Yeah, absolutely. It would have been a good choice. But alas, the Tun Middies still on the cards. He reckons I still owe him a carton, by the way, listeners. So we'll wait and see on that one to the end of the season. And back on deck this week after having a nice, relaxing week off last week, it's Hami. How are you, mate?
00:01:56
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Yeah, going well, thanks. Top bloke, Dossie. I'm glad to be back after my week off, week's holiday. That's what they call me, mate. TBD. Top bloke, Dossie. Get around me. Let's talk about fantasy now, lads. And we'll go around the circle. Talk about our fantasy score for the week. And, um, Holmsey, do you want to kick us off?
00:02:13
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Yeah, Dossi had a good week this week, managed to get 18 back on field or 22, whatever it is, which was nice. Had a 23.82, which was a nice bounce back, up about 600 or so ranks to just outside 7K, so another week moving in the right direction, and let's see where we can get to for the rest of the year.
00:02:33
Speaker
Yeah, big result for you. How about you, Lew? Are you still flying up the ranks? Oh, we're getting there, mate. I got a 23.97, which brings me up to 1865 for rank. So, yeah, slowly just making a bit of traction over the last couple of weeks. Now, I know you mentioned it.
00:02:53
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passing by in the last couple of weeks, but you've got a pretty impressive record that you're trying to keep going. Now, I think you've been what, top 1000 for how many years now? I think you've mentioned it a few times. Yeah, geez, it's going on nearly eight, nine years now. Besides COVID, I don't count the COVID year, but
00:03:12
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Yeah that's why you might have seen that I put the VC on Sicily for a 121 and kind of wanting to get into that top 1000 but knowing that there's not much of a difference between finishing you know 1300 and 1800 I thought
00:03:28
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Let's try and have a flyer at Dawson, see if he can do that 172 that he did at the MCG a couple of weeks ago. Didn't end up being the right choice, unfortunately, but it's those types of things that you just got to try to go down swinging, don't you? Because, you know, there's no point not trying anything and finishing outside the top 2000 or whatever your goal is. That's funny, Lou. I also don't count the Covid year either because that just takes away Miller Times hat. So that works for all of us.
00:03:59
Speaker
Geez, I'm homesy. I'll tell you what, talk about Doug Bloke, so we've discussed a few times here, but wanting to take away hats now, that's pretty rough. Hammy, how was your week, mate? A bit of a score on a rank update from you.
00:04:12
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Yes, look, probably not too bad, but there were some massive scores around, weren't there? So I got a 2-3-7-8, which I was fairly happy with, looking at the scores I got out of my players. And that puts my ranking at 3-8-6-7. So, you know, it was only today that I realized how badly I've done this season.
00:04:33
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I thought there's only five rounds to go and I'm 3,800. First time I've actually felt disappointed.
Preparing for Fantasy Finals
00:04:40
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But anyway, I just keep plugging away in it.
00:04:42
Speaker
Geez, Hami complaining about a ranking of inside the top 5,000, you know, people shouldn't be complaining when they're doing really well, especially when they're right up the top end, Hami, if you know what I'm saying. But I'll talk about my score and it's a 2284, a bit of a modest score for Dossi, but something where I guess could touch on a little bit later is the fact that I decided to hold.
00:05:08
Speaker
Rory Laird and Adam Chera heading into heading into the a do or die must win week I guess ahead of a lot of fantasy finals kicking off but I genuinely thought it was probably I didn't see any premiums I was dying to get with the cash that I was going to be able to have so yeah look the ranking still hovering 17,223 but still happy to have that shadow ban outside the top 20k lifted
00:05:34
Speaker
Moving nicely inside, so 3000 clear of the top 20k there now boys, but we'll move on to the positives and negatives of the round. Oh, Armie. Dusty Eye had a mate, he held Rory Lurd as well. Not the crab man. Not crab man, another mate, Casey.
00:05:54
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Sorry, he beat me in the home leg and I thought, geez, that's a pretty decent score. I sent him a message last night. Anyway, it was only today I realised he actually scored, he was 20th for the round. He had like a 2-4-50. 2-4-50 whilst holding lead. Yeah. That's huge. All right. On you, Casey. It's a shame you can't have a fun nickname like the crabman, but Casey's done well. Let's get on to it. 2-4-9-5. 2-4-9-5 you got. Far out.
00:06:21
Speaker
On your case. Yeah, but he didn't hold chair though, so that makes sense. Yeah, no, it doesn't count. Doesn't count. Let's get on to our Lux for the week. You know that Lux is mine from the start. Holmesy, kick it off, mate. Your Lux for the week.
00:06:37
Speaker
Yeah, I'll pick the low hanging fruit, which was Marcus
Fantasy Strategies and Player Spotlight
00:06:40
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Bontempelli on Friday night. I had the VC on him, which was nice. I told Louis about four weeks ago that he was only allowed to pick my captains for me for the rest of the year after he's been nailing all of his. And I came into his DMs about 10 minutes before the game on Friday and said, what are we doing? And we both had it on, well, I had it on Bont and he told me to go Bont. So there we go. That was a good way to start the round.
00:07:06
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Massive. All right. Moving on to your lucks for the week there, Louis.
00:07:11
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Yeah, I've probably got an obvious one, but Harmony's got that one at the moment, so I'll throw that to him in a little while. But Jack Steele for me, 133, I probably brought him in maybe a fortnight too early. He didn't really disappoint, but now he's really starting to hit his straps with a couple of 110s in a row. So if he can keep this up for the rest of the season, any coaches that jumped on have really found themselves a bit of a bargain there. How about you, Harmony?
00:07:41
Speaker
Look, usually I'm pretty terrible with looping, but this week I thought I'll give it a shot on the Sunday and I put Ben Keyes to the emergency in my Ford line. Yeah. And so, but I popped out for a beer with my brother.
00:07:57
Speaker
And so I had to make a call, it was like just half time and he was on 21 at half time and I thought stuff this. I'm chucking Marcus Windhager on the field and Ben Keyes can drop out of the 22 for this round. And he comes up with a 114, just a massive, like massive score from him, great game.
00:08:15
Speaker
Yeah, Windy's been unbelievable for the coaches that jumped on to get a bit of cash rise. And J.C.'s come good at the right time of the year, hasn't he? And being a fieldable option, it's kind of been an interesting one, old Windy, coming through with the goods late in the season. I'm going to go with a great pick by me. So I did mention that I held Lairdy
00:08:36
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And of course, he'll chair as well. So I went the value picks and I brought in George Hewitt, which was pretty solid 91, but the big one was Sammy Fland as 110. Got to give him a big shout out. We've got lots of questions about him later on, but he's looking fantastic. So I'll just give him a quick shout out. But my other, I got to give the Luxter just a couple of guys this week because
00:08:58
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Kitty Coleman and Alex Witherton combined for me for two hundred and eight, which, yes, Holmes, are you going to point out something that you want to point out here? This is pretty embarrassing, isn't it?
00:09:10
Speaker
So wait, you went 22.90 despite the fact that you got basically a 105 average out of Flanders, Witherden and Kitty Coleman. Do you have a donut? What's going on? No, Dolly,
Player Roles and Lineup Adjustments
00:09:25
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which probably brings us to our Sucks for the Week. Holmes, you can take it away. I think there's a man that's been in both of our teams this year that's been causing us both some headaches.
00:09:40
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Yeah, I suppose we have to give it to the coach but yeah, Jack McRae, I did want to trade him out at his buy. He was in a really hot run of form, made his way up to 900k and we probably knew that the scoring in the role wasn't sustainable but in the back of our minds it's still Jack McRae. We have seen some players go on these runs despite not getting the CBAs in that midfield rotation but
00:10:04
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yeah 69 and actually sitting down and watching that game quite closely on the weekend he's just so far back in the pecking order and it just takes an unbelievable game from him to score well so he's someone we need to move on to get up to a genuine top six but he's probably a little bit far back in that pecking order with some of the other players i've got at the moment but
00:10:23
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Yeah, I think coaches, if anyone still has him, you really need to look to move him on because he saved his score late to get to that too. You'd believe if he didn't catch forward status, he'd still be a mid and you'd almost be better off if he never picked up forward status because most coaches would have already traded him. It's just been super disappointing, hasn't he?
00:10:43
Speaker
Yeah, in saying that though, he definitely has been, but when he went on that hot run of form, there was a six week patch where he was averaging 110. So that was all right in the forward line. But you're right. If he had of just kept midfield status, we would have moved him on and we wouldn't have that headache right now. What do you see him doing for the rest of the year, Jack Mackay?
00:11:04
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You'd really hope that he has a couple of these random games where he goes back into the CBAs like he has been. But if he's permanent forward for the rest of the year, you'd think probably an 80-85 would be the max average that you're going to get over this five-week stretch. So come on Bevo, give Bonton and Libba a rest and Chuck McRae in it at some point.
00:11:26
Speaker
I just, I just always look back at the start of this year. We'll,
Planning and Strategic Plays
00:11:30
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we'll reflect on it at the end of the year, but there's just so many times for me in particular, and I'm sure lots of coaches out there with the Jack McRae dilemma where you had a flip of the coin at the start of the year and it just has gone the wrong way. Like any coach that went McRae over Bond
00:11:46
Speaker
myself included. I know some coaches went both, which good on you, but like that's just been an absolute killer. And I look back at my starting team, whichever one I'll laugh at, but I chose McCray over Bont, Josh Kelly over Tom Green, which to start the year was absolutely the wrong decision in terms of cash Jen. And then I chose Will Brody over Caleb's are wrong. So there's just three moments that ruin my say it's not just the starting team that people laugh at either, mate. It's also the round 19 team. Just go on.
00:12:22
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Jesus, it was a better burn than what I could have come up with. Who's up to this? Who sucks are we up to? Yeah, so I got Andrew Brayshaw there. He scored the 91. He was 60 at the half. And I thought, oh, hang on, might be able to get a bit of a ceiling out of him. He's probably been slightly underwhelming across the last month. But to finish that last half with a 31, it was pretty disappointing. So I've got to hand it to him. Louis, did you watch much of that game at all?
00:12:44
Speaker
Yeah, that's fair. I've been trying to inject bows twice.
00:12:53
Speaker
No, I didn't. I was watching the Port Adelaide Collingwood game, the doubleheader at the time, so I wasn't able to flick over.
00:13:00
Speaker
Yeah, I'll admit I didn't watch much of the second half either. I was out and about, but it would be lovely for someone to shed some light on just what's going on with him. You know, he seems to have these ceiling scores. Yes, he's had a fair run of just low tons with the occasional ceiling game, but he's just not the same player last year. Do you think it's coincided with Caleb Sorong really coming along in that midfield and the fact Freo aren't as good a side this year. There's just not as much ball going around. Do you think they can both
00:13:27
Speaker
B top eights for the last five rounds. I'm struggling to see it. Oh, look, it's hard to say. He's also got Jager O'Meara, which wouldn't be helping. But we do know that he started the season under a little bit of an injury cloud. It was I think it was a bit of a knee up until around four. So that obviously eats into his average for the season.
00:13:46
Speaker
I'd be interested to see if he's carrying something. I don't think he's the kind of player that just drops off for no reason. I think he's too good for that, and he's got too many weapons in his bag to deploy for that, but he's certainly been underwhelming, so maybe that's something we'll throw out to Twitter this week. What's going on with Andrew Brayshaw for some of the die-hard freeo fans?
00:14:07
Speaker
Well, I think a lot of people putting in their plans for 2024 as we like to already start planning and Sammy Walsh and Andrew Brayshaw are probably both heavily featuring in a lot of 2024 teams early days. Hami, I've just had two of the guys mentioned both in my team that sucked for the week. Is there going to be a third that's in my squad as well?
00:14:28
Speaker
I'm not sure if you've got this guy, but some of that I have just been backing in week after week thinking, oh yeah, no, he'll be right. He'll be right. He's got a good role. Will day. 80 points and probably lucky to get to 80 and his CBA's have now diminished a bit too. So I'm thinking maybe he's a trade out option for me, even though they've got the Saints this week.
00:14:48
Speaker
He's become missed to fix it, I think. He plays in the midfield and then once the other team gets a run on he sort of drops back and becomes that loose in defence and causes a bit of havoc.
00:15:00
Speaker
Yeah, he does, he does feast on good matchups though. So I'm thinking if you are an owner, I think it's one more unless, you know, there's something clear, unless it's a clear, clear upgrade. I think I might be holding one more. And yes, I do have him in my squad army. So three of three for me there. Plus a little shout out to Brizzy. I really wanted to get him out to go to Gorn. So he was my 73 points on field in the rock, getting, you know, 50 points on top of his head from the likes of your own marshals and your Gorn. So I couldn't get to Gorn because of the whole,
00:15:30
Speaker
holding a lead and chair thing. And then we also have Noah Anderson scoring an 89. So I think we even flagged it on the pod pod, maybe last week or the week before that just coaches, opposition coaches seem to be putting a
Optimizing Trades and League Dynamics
00:15:44
Speaker
lot of attention into the Noah Anderson's of the world. And, you know, letting, I guess, a guy like Sam Flanders run a bit more free and JT killed it on the weekend, as we said, but, yeah, Flanders, sorry, Anderson sort of just dropping off a little bit in the tail end of the season army.
00:16:00
Speaker
Oh yeah. Is Fland as a trade-in option? Like he was on 65 at halftime and I've just sort of been putting it off, putting it off, but man, he's still like a low 600s.
00:16:11
Speaker
I'm not sure. No, let's throw it to the other guys. I personally think the thirst is there. This was a tougher matchup for mids as well. He just had nine clearances, which is above Matt Ral, who's been their clearance beast for the year. He also led the center bounces for them. I honestly think it's just a smash play on the run home here, despite the tough match-ups. His thirst is just impeccable. Holmesy. He's 680k now, Hami, so not quite low 600s anymore.
00:16:39
Speaker
Are you picking him over? Well, let's go, Louis. You brought this to the group chat before in terms of the top six forwards. So you've got what, Toronto, Dunkley, Cogs, Rosie, Goulden. Is he the sixth? I think. Butters was back on the weekend, but Flanders still outscored him. You're really going to have to try and find that sixth forward. So, you know, can Flanders go close enough? We've seen it.
00:17:03
Speaker
I think that six spots open. I'm not seeing enough consistency out of a butters to be able to say that he's going to take that spot. I think Caleb Daniel was the clubhouse leader, but he's maybe just taken a little bit of a back step in the last couple of weeks. So that F6 position is seriously interesting.
00:17:22
Speaker
If let's say maybe you do have a butters or or someone who's around 900K that you're not totally sold on, it might even be a Ben Keys and you've got no bench. Some coaches don't have a bench or very little cash to use on that bench. Then it's a good way to get creative. Why not have a crack at a Sam Flanders at 680K and make yourself 150 to 200K to put elsewhere?
00:17:44
Speaker
Yeah, there's a few players that are putting their hand up. I'll throw somebody else out there that I noticed is 20,000 cheaper than Flanders and scored 114 on the weekend. Who you reckon that is? Winnega.
00:17:58
Speaker
Nah, Bailey Smith. I thought you were really rubbing that one in there, Armie. Did you say, is he cheaper, did you say? Oh, he is too. Six, six, six. Yeah, I think Louie went into the group chat and summed it up pretty well, though. Like, his role wasn't what we needed. He had to work so hard to get that 114 on the weekend. He's not going to have, I think he had three or four holding the ball, three kicks. Like, he looked like he was just on a mission to get back into some form and,
00:18:27
Speaker
Is that sustainable? I'm not terribly sure in that team. You've got your clear Bond, Libba, that are the two big dogs. But yes, Hami, he's clearly value and we know he's done it in the past. And the one that I actually have been looking as a trade in option, but he's a 777 and that's Schiezel. They've got a great run coming up.
00:18:47
Speaker
All right, now we've been jumping all over the shop to start the show already. We'll just get back into our regular structures. One last flag on Flanders for me, even though I'm a proud owner and I've just outlined the positive case for him. But on the negative side, we haven't really seen him have a big game yet where he's had
00:19:04
Speaker
tackles in that sort of score build. So he's really typically relying on those marks to build his score. So if he has a tough game, which, you know, coming up in the Q clash this week, Kenny lay a few tackles as well as get those marks. And if the marks aren't on offer, can he still do a big score? So that's probably something that you need to watch out for.
Rookie Updates and Closing Strategies
00:19:22
Speaker
17 tackles for the season in his nine games, or I think he's played around nine games, 17 tackles. So that's not even, it's just over one a game sort of thing. All right.
00:19:31
Speaker
Let's get on to the next thing, but first we're going to go through our Content Creators Cup. Final little update for the regular season. It was a fight for the last bit of finals there. And Hami, you're going to give us the update here.
00:19:46
Speaker
Yes, yep, the Content Creators' Cup. And I guess the biggest news coming out of that league is the promotion. It seemed my two, three, seven, eight from the weekend is just enough that I'm going to be making an appearance next week. So thanks for guesty, the confirmation of that over the weekend. Loving that.
00:20:08
Speaker
So, yep, the Content Creators Cup brought to us by Infinite Wealth. Louis2397 with an enormous win over Zave1917. So, almost doubled his score. And that's who you're replacing. Let's not beat around Zave the Buy. You stab and Zave your Ellis in the back to take the spot.
00:20:34
Speaker
No, I'm very complimentary of Zave's work. I do listen to him and CLB, your assistant coach, Doss Rarer. Yes, correct. So yeah, we got a win. Let's have a... Sorry, guys, I'm fumbling my way through this a bit. Dossy, oh, an agonizing 16 point loss to junk tying jam dinners. The... Which made me miss out on finals, by the way. Oh, you did hold lead in chair too, so.
00:21:03
Speaker
Does that mean that Homesy's got in? After all of that? Nah, it didn't harm me. No, you didn't. I would have got in, but I didn't. It would have been, it would have been Homesy vs. Louie this week. All time matchup. So we're all, we've been robbed. We're all getting behind, sorry. We're all getting behind Louie. Louie is our man for the finals. Am I the only one in there?
00:21:25
Speaker
Not for next year though. Stado is in as well, by the way. Looking forward to his eagerly anticipated return back to the pod in a couple of weeks. When's he back? Damn right. Couple of weeks.
00:21:41
Speaker
All right, well, thanks, Hami. That was an absolute shambles by you, mate. You've absolutely butchered that. But we'll move on to the next part of the show, which is the Pod Pod Challenge Update. Homsey, take us through this and try and not stumble like that, mate.
00:21:56
Speaker
All right, Dossie, you've stitched me up here. Hang on, let me just get this up. Let me do it. 25 in the top 100. There you go. No, no, I've got it. So, Jonno sitting fourth. Hang on. Fourth, fifth and sixth. Yep. The pod board boys are flying up. Massive. So, man, that's going to be an unreal finish. But, man, if you're not inside the top seven, I think your season's over. So, maybe only fourth, fifth and sixth are a chance.
00:22:21
Speaker
But yeah, 25 inside the top 100. Unbelievable. Let's see if we can get up to 30. That would be an unreal. Close to 30%. So keep going, guys. Five weeks to go and try and enjoy this last part of the season. There's nothing like being at the top.
00:22:38
Speaker
Alright we're getting on to our hot topics for the week and we have been just going all over the shop to start this show but look we've already talked about a couple of the hot topics including Sammy Flanders and maybe even a Basilenca there there's probably some more questions about that later but
00:22:55
Speaker
Look, injuries, we've already mentioned that too. Just led, you know, is he going to come back this week? You're going to have to make necessary adjustments as news comes to hand, as we always hear from our friend Pete from the Plus Six podcast. Adam Chera, there's lots of coaches out there wondering about his health status as well, including Sean Darcy out, confirmed out for the season.
00:23:17
Speaker
Just keep an eye on all these injury bullets coming our way because it seems to be, look, I don't know the data, but it just does seem to be like we've been hit pretty hard this year with a fair few injuries and suspensions. But look, it's probably going to be the same on the run home. So just like we said, and like Pete says, make those necessary adjustments as news comes to hand. Let's talk about some tags though, because they have been a little bit of a consistent theme in the past few weeks.
00:23:42
Speaker
Is there any we should be wary of this week, potentially Louis? Is there anyone you've got your eye on that you're a bit worried about if you're either targeting them or if they're in your team?
00:23:51
Speaker
Off the top of my head it's a bit tough mate but I think most fantasy coaches this time of year have a rough idea of what players are doing a little bit of a tagging role. We've seen Finn McInnis do it throughout the year, we've seen Windy do it at times, the other week we saw Eddie Ford apply a forward tag which was probably something out of the box which we haven't seen before but we've certainly you know seen it start of the year as well. Tom Stewart's had a turn as well and
00:24:18
Speaker
I think it's just about being shrewd, sort of looking at the matchups and realising that there's a potential for a player to be tagged there and the tighter the game or rather the tighter they are on the ladder, the more potential I think it has to be sort of taken. So yeah, for me, you just got to make a massive flag of the tag. I'm turning it to harm here. I've forgotten how to speak.
00:24:43
Speaker
Well I'll take over for you later. Thanks mate. I'll tell you what. I just don't think they've been as prevalent as they have been in prior years. But I'll give you one for this weekend. You've got the Saints and Hawthorne. So who do you reckon Finn McGinnis is going to in the Saints line up? Well he's been going at Sinclair. Sinclair's on the inside now though, isn't he? He sneaks away onto the inside. I'd be worried for Nassiah Wanganin-Malira. No Brad Hill.
00:25:14
Speaker
I think he's the obvious outside player at the Saints. Jeez, cool. I reckon it could be Sinclair outside of the CBAs. He won't go in for the CBAs, but maybe he runs in off the wing and tags. That's not a bad shout, Hami. I definitely came to mind as well, Louis. They've liked what he's been doing on the outside too.
00:25:34
Speaker
All right, just going back on the last hot topic, because I kind of skimmed over this with the injuries factor. I think we just saw last week how, you know, some potential news coming out and even after the game on the Saints factor, a different front. So just just to rehash, there was some late news about Bontum Pelly and a bit of a tight calf.
00:25:55
Speaker
ends up being the top scorer for the dogs. There was after the fact of the game of the Saints one that what Rowan Marshall nearly didn't even get up and he's going out there and pumping out a 1.23 and yet you know on the other side of things we don't hear much about Rory Led then he's out like how do we deal with obviously there's just a bit of obscurity when it comes to injury reporting if you're up the top end like a lot of our pod pod coaches are here 25 in the top hunch how do you deal with this sort of
00:26:23
Speaker
Like what's going on Lou? How would you deal with it if you're in that pressure situation up the top like reacting or not reacting to this news? Well, it's probably just have to be thankful that it's rolling lockout. To be honest, there's just no way to react to it. We've seen during the week that this is just brand new news that we're finding out after the game. Rowan Marshall did a fitness test.
00:26:45
Speaker
Monday last week Rory Ladd goes on radio says no no I'm fine boys there's nothing wrong with the shoulder despite somebody texting in saying hey I saw Rory Ladd at the Calvary hospital and later on the week he's ruled out for a week so it's like even the players are lying to us so I think
00:27:02
Speaker
There's a little bit of mischief going on and there is not much we can do about it. I think the teams that are in the eight are probably going to be more secretive than the teams that are in the bottom ten. But Jeez, you'd be worried if you own some Geelong players probably as well as we come into finals.
00:27:20
Speaker
I think, and I've only just thought of this, but the big issue is going to be in the rock line, right, where we don't have cover. So if a Rowan Marshall or a Tim English or any one of these rockmen are a laid out and it's a late game, coaches could be potentially looking at a donut. So maybe it is worth trading in one of your bench spots to a Jack Williams, who is playing for the Eagles, 250K.
00:27:43
Speaker
And just having having him sitting there at R3 with the emergency on just in case there is a laid out. So you're at least getting some points on the field. I'm not sure what you boys think about that. But man, this like that role, Marshall, that could be an absolute disaster for coaches. And I know a lot of coaches are in the same boat with it, but it could be a good way to have an edge in 50 points is 50 points, right?
00:28:03
Speaker
So if you've got a Max Heath or a Locky Andrew and a couple of the other basement rucks escape me, they've obviously got the forward status. You're suggesting maybe we should be trading somebody and using a bit of DVP and maybe bringing in a backup ruckman.
00:28:20
Speaker
Yeah, well, it feels a little bit dirty, but I'm pretty sure that a fair amount of coaches have like a Blake Drury or a Fleaton or one of these guys that are 230, 240K, maybe bite the bullet and spend 20K and swing Williams into the ruck line. So you've got some cover touch wood that you don't need it, but it's there just in case disaster strikes.
00:28:41
Speaker
I don't know if it's worth it for 30 points that you get out of them. Seems like a bit of a waste of a trade. I just wanted to say one thing about Bond. I actually heard on Saturday during, like I was listening to ABC, he was talking through one of the other games and he said that that was actually a knock from the previous week.
00:28:59
Speaker
and that he pulled up fine and he didn't expect it to be an issue. So if you're a Bonta, I know probably don't stress too much during the week, but I think we can all agree on the fact that the AFL's injury reporting is terrible and has been for years and they should really do something about it. Yeah, absolutely. Just on that, Hami, you say 30 points isn't much, but I lost a car by six points. So for the coaches that are at the top, it's pretty tight. So none of us are doing it then? Can I just come back to this point though?
00:29:29
Speaker
Max Gorn and back to the Royal Marshal factor, the thought that even the thought that Tom Campbell was a potential in and the fact that even if he saw or whatever that this, you know, sub or a half a game is an option. And to your point, Hami, these backup rocks are going to score you potentially 30 or 40, which could be the difference.
00:29:50
Speaker
But what if Gorn's not going to be that much different from Royal Marshall from here, right? Is that safe to say? What if, you know, I know it's a lot of ifs, buts, candies and nuts, but like, if you're trading to Max Gorn now, could that just be the smart play knowing that, you know, he's healthy and firing in the number one ruck right now?
00:30:09
Speaker
Yeah, but what's not to say that, like, you're right, but what's not to say that Gorn gets injured or has a laid out as well? Like, I'm just talking about cover in the worst case scenario, and I suppose the worst thing about the St Kilda games as well is that they play a lot of what they are this week and they did last week, they play some Sunday games where you might not even be able to trade down to him if he is a laid out. So, yeah, that's just my point, but Hami's right, it's not that much points, but you do need a plan.
00:30:36
Speaker
Yeah, if I'm a top coach, I'm watching Rowan Marshall in his role really closely. He's obviously really highly owned in the top 100, top 1000, and just amongst the competition in general. But Saints played better football when he was up forward on the weekend and they managed to get that win. So I wouldn't be surprised if, you know, it's hard to find a good forward. Obviously, Max King went down on the weekend, too, got a bit of an injury. So I think that
00:31:04
Speaker
He's going to be going forward because he's able to play that craft and somebody like a Campbell, Tom Campbell or a Jack Hayes could come in and just be that bash and crash rockman that provides a contest. Didn't Hayes got a hamstring injury? He's got something wrong with his hamstring. Oh, just Campbell then.
00:31:24
Speaker
All right, let's move on. Hopefully that was very much going around in circles there. But look, I think make your right decision as the news comes to hand. OK, moving on to the next subject at hand. And I think you mentioned it before, Louis. Geelong potentially resting players. Do you think any other teams might rest players, harmi heading into finals season? Is it just another wrinkle to the game that we need to keep an eye on?
00:31:48
Speaker
Was Paddy Cripps actually injured, or was he rested on the weekend? Seems like every team's resting their pliers come up against the pliers. Yeah, I thought he was rested. Now look, the worst one, Dossie boy, would be in-game resting. That would have really hurt us. Like, I see Tom Mitchell has been rested quite a lot last couple of weeks.
00:32:08
Speaker
The one thing I'm finding fascinating by, and it's practically happened both times in the Colton West Coast game, is that when teams are up heavily against West Coast, they start to really rotate and rest their players. So although we are looking for real ceiling games against West Coast, there could be times where gun premiums sit out large parts of the second half when the game's enhanced. So maybe that's something to look at in terms of captaincy options.
00:32:36
Speaker
Yeah, we've seen it plenty of times throughout the season, haven't we? Like getting late in the game, players like, I just think Jordan Dawson, I had the captaincy on him against, okay, I think it might've been West Coast, and he just sat the last 10 minutes on the bench. So that's what you wouldn't want to see. But look, yeah, I think that the teams that are really competing around that eighth position are worthwhile targeting on that basis. They need to win and they need to get percentage. So they're going to be playing their top end players as often as they can.
00:33:04
Speaker
And we might get lucky this year where the top eight is actually moving around quite a bit and so is the top four. So there might not actually be an opportunity to get any arrests in like what we've seen in previous years. OK, I'm going to talk about one thing on my observation roundtable. We've got one more from Lew and then we'll move on to some player requests as we always do from the beloved listeners.
00:33:26
Speaker
I think I'm just going to bring back my streaming idea from a little bit back. Now, obviously you guys are talking about resting stars on the run home, but I've just got my eye on a few players and looking at how well Charlie Kurnow just did against the Weagles on the weekend, kicking himself 10 snags. You've mentioned, you know, could Sam Flanders be the F6 we're looking for? What if that's just a rotation of key forwards versus West Coast? So we're just outperforming their average week in, week out.
00:33:55
Speaker
I'm looking at popping Nick Larky in the forward line this week for 115. The week after that, we'll go with a Peter Wright. Week after that, we'll pop ourselves a, who's the key forward for Freo, that's worth a punt there. There are. Dry Amos. Dry Amos. Look, I'm obviously being a little bit facetious, but like. Are we leading up to Tex in round 24 or? Yeah, absolutely. Is it the Tex-Hern parade of just fantasy points?
00:34:22
Speaker
With the C on last game of the round, absolutely. Look, I just think it's actually, I was heavily looking at, at Kerno this week. I think you only do it with the big dogs, but look, I think these match ups, I really think you're at a point, a lot of the teams in the top 100, their teams are so similar, so condensed. It's time to look at these streaming options in a bit more serious manner. Well, rank one, one this week off the back of a Kerno captain.
00:34:48
Speaker
Yeah there you go huge you've got one more point in this observation and then we'll move on. Yes I just backing over the point I made last week is just about your trades almost being dictated by the week following so I give you an example if you're going to bring in Sicily this week from
00:35:09
Speaker
versus the Saints and you don't have like a Josh Duncly then you need to be sort of figuring out how you're going to be able to achieve that the following week because this week is essentially easy so for example last week I went lead to Harris sorry I went lead and Harrison Himmelberg to Took and Jelly
00:35:27
Speaker
And I played Marcus Windhager on the field at F6, which ended up being calculated risks that worked. But what it did is it allowed me to get up to Dunkley with ease this week with about sort of 20K to spare. Whereas had I done it the other way around, then it just wouldn't have happened. So it's just about planning a couple of weeks out in advance and just realizing what your team's going to sort of look like then, especially as we come into luxury trading. I love that, Lou. It's always good to look ahead.
00:35:56
Speaker
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00:36:14
Speaker
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00:36:39
Speaker
First of all though, Louis is going to give us a quick snapshot on some rookies that we can look at, and then we're going to jump straight into those requests. Lou, take it away. Yep, so first on the list I've got Sam Banks. He's 270k now, minus six break even. He really took advantage of no Jaden Short on the weekend and actually looked really good past the eye test, but it's probably your last chance to jump on this guy just being around 20.
00:37:04
Speaker
I don't think you want to be investing too much in your rookies at this point. The next is Luke Nankovis made his debut on the weekend. He's been a few years in the system. He's probably my pick this week for the rookies if you're downgrading. He's still close to basement. He's got that negative four break even and with a few crows injuries and potentially it looks like they're out of finals. I think he will get significant development time in the seniors so he's my pick.
00:37:30
Speaker
Finally I've got Josh Fahey at 200k. He's still basement, he's still a heartbeat on the bench and we know that he does have a ceiling both in the twos and even in the ones just based off of his time on ground. And finally I've just got written down here Sunday basements
00:37:47
Speaker
We got a question about it last week and I think now is the time where we can start looking at potentially a couple of 200K players to throw away some spots and just maximise our cash for luxury trading and looping and just in general I think it's just time to sort of get rid of those guys.
00:38:13
Speaker
Was he more than the sort of 310k or whatever he was after round one? 273,000. Wow. He's gone down in value. What did he score on the weekend? 43. Was that at sub as well?
00:38:32
Speaker
Nah. Nah. I'm not sure. He played it out. I'm not sure Jack Bytel is best 22 every week so he's not one I'd be jumping on anyway. I think he's my M10 so I wasn't stressing too much but that's who I brought in.
00:38:45
Speaker
All right, these are our player requests from Twitter at Pod Pod AFL. Follow if you want. Here are the requests. Brad Crouch, can he and Steel both pop together, Holmes? You've been along both suffering and then proud Brad Crouch owner. What's the vibe at the moment in Brad Crouch Town?
00:39:04
Speaker
Three sub hundreds in a row, coinciding with Jack Steele coming back to some serious form. So if he's your worst player on field, I'll be looking to get Brad Crouch up to someone that has a more favorable run coming up, even though the Saints do have Hawks this week. But I think they played the Hawks earlier on in the year and Crouch only had an 80. So 60.5 faded late. So I'm not sure what's going on there. But like I said, if he's your worst player, look to get rid of him.
00:39:33
Speaker
Tom Stewart, now I think a few people are going to jump off. We even recommended potentially jumping off as well last week. And you've also mentioned the potential flag of Geelong players being rested on the run home as they tend to do. But with Tom Stewart, is he a midfielder now? Holmes, you've got your hand up. Yeah, I was just going to say, did anyone have Tom Stewart 53% CBAs on their bingo card for this week?
00:40:00
Speaker
Unreal. I had him for 40, but not 53. No, Tom Stewart probably was moved into that midfield because Geelong just could not get going. They were getting absolutely pants in the midfield versus the Lions. So I wouldn't expect that to be something that becomes a habit, but maybe it's something to watch for if the cats are sort of on the back foot a little bit. Jack Bowes, any CBAs, Dospy?
00:40:28
Speaker
I don't know, you'd have to tell me, actually. I didn't see too much of this game, if any. Holmesy? Yeah, I just wanted to say we've been harping on about playing the fixture in the matchups. Well, Geelong have Freo at GMHBA this week, and Tom Stewart had his 160 against them last year, so I wouldn't be looking to trade out of him this week. Let's put it that way.
00:40:49
Speaker
All right, no CBA's for Jack Bose just to let you know they harm me. Harry Shays although harm me, I think you've just already mentioned that you've got some interest in this young lad. Now, could you really trade back into a rookie at this time of the year? But gee, he's putting up not rookie numbers.
00:41:07
Speaker
Yeah, I reckon he could. I mean, what did I say? 777 was his price. He's not even like the top end of the forwards and backs, is he? So he's affordable, and they have got a great run. I was actually tempted to go with the Luke Davies Uniac and Harry Schiezel double trade in on the north against West Coast this week. And you say you got all your rookies off ground if you trade Schiezel back in?
00:41:30
Speaker
Is that a completed sign? Can we roll back the tape from two weeks ago when John Harvey said under no circumstances will he trade in a North Melbourne player because they're crap?
00:41:44
Speaker
It probably wasn't wrong. Now one flag though, I traded Chisel back in three weeks ago, but one flag is that Clarko is coming back to coach around 20 or 21. So once again, who knows how that's going to play out. But in saying that he was scoring massive in Clarko system earlier on in the year. So it shouldn't really deter you, but it's just one changing thing just to mention.
00:42:11
Speaker
Now, Bazlenka, cheap as chips. I've heard Louis and Holmsey kind of talking about this, but harm me, I want your opinion on Bazlenka. I think you seemed a little bit more keen than those two when we were talking about him before. Coming off 114, you know, splitting that stat line nicely, 25 disposals, seven marks and six tackles. That's a nice little spread there. But again, just no, not real any center bounce action there, just the two center bounces, playing as that little high half forward again.
00:42:38
Speaker
He'd be a massive risk, like really just hoping aren't you? He's the sort of player you'd just be bringing in with some hope that he's actually going to put up five good weeks. And like I only met the back end of last season, it was pretty hard to watch. Like he put up some pretty low scores in that period. So look, I don't think I'm going to do it, but usually in a draft league, if you could get a trade for him, it'd be good.
00:42:58
Speaker
Talking about that F6 spot before, he could be one of the guys that if he shows that form consistently over the next two weeks or maybe three weeks, then maybe we can drop down, find a little bit of cash there and sort of split it amongst a couple of different premiums and he might be able to come home strong. But I tend to agree with you there. I mean, I think maybe it's just one that we pick for 2024 probably.
00:43:23
Speaker
Now, clearly some listeners are planning on getting rid of that F6 or D6 slot here, but Himmelberg asking if he's a hold this week, seeing as he has the doggies and Essendon. Oh, sorry. He has the doggies on deck this week. And obviously the Essendon backline just went absolutely ham on the doggies last week. So would you be holding Himmelberg this week? Holmes, are you based on that fact? Yeah, absolutely. We have come off a big ton himself as well.
00:43:51
Speaker
Yep, big score on the weekend and we had, you know, fantasy household names such as Jaden Laverde and Jake Kelly go absolutely bonkers against the Bulldogs. So I wouldn't be trading out of Himmelberg this week, that's for sure. Now we've talked about two of the big names this week in Sam Flanders and Bazlenka, but one name, one of the biggest names on deck as well that the listeners are wondering about is one Rory Atkins. Could he come back into our squad?
00:44:20
Speaker
After some scintillating form in his last three, 108 points and looking like Stephen King's just got him tailor-made for that distributor roll off the halfback flank. Obviously, unfortunately, Lockie Weller going down again with the ACL, but what do you reckon, Lou? Rory Atkins, could he be an option on the run home as a unique player? No, move on.
00:44:44
Speaker
Look, I'm just throwing out what the listeners want, mate. I actually poured myself a glass of wine while you asked me that question. I already had enough of it. OK. How about a bit of gussy bracer action for you, Hami? I won't go through the spiel. What do you think of Gus?
00:45:00
Speaker
He's in the CBAs, and Melbourne's run's not too bad coming up. So look, yeah, it's worth a shout. I just don't think he's had that sort of top-end scoring in his repertoire this year at the Dees. I sort of brought in Jack Varney the other week for the same reason. Not a bad run inside mid at Melbourne, but hasn't worked out, and he's now carrying an injury. He was limping pretty badly in that last quarter, so I'm going to look to trade out Jack Varney. But yeah, look,
00:45:30
Speaker
I don't know. I think he could do better. I'll put it that way. I think it's only... Is that his first ton of the year? I have a feeling... I have a feeling that may be one of his first tons of the year, old Gussie B. But let's have a look. I'm interested to know because he has not been in fantastic form. That is his second ton.
00:45:50
Speaker
His second ton of the year. All right, I need Holmsey's final verdict on Sam Flanders. He's been mentioned so many times here and they want to know, is he the real deal? Holmsey, give us the final verdict on Sam Flanders from your opinion.
00:46:02
Speaker
He's not someone I would typically trade into. I'd want to get up to a more consistent safe ceiling type player. We mentioned it before, but in saying that, I'm not going very well this year and there's a lot of coaches that are playing this new age fantasy and taking a punt on these type of players. So, I think Louis summed it up quite well. If you're a coach that has no money on the bench and you need to upgrade elsewhere on your field,
00:46:24
Speaker
You could do worse than trading a keys or a McCray or one of these players that aren't guaranteed to be F6 down to him to get up on the other end. Louis. I mean, he's probably the equivalent to what keys was a couple of weeks ago, right? So it comes in in the 600 K's. He's got a bit of a roll there. He can pop a bit of a score. I don't mind it. I think it's an OK option if you can do something well on the other end as well.
00:46:54
Speaker
But this week, would you do it against Brisbane? You'd whack the VC on, wouldn't you? You'd have to. What's his price going up this week? You'd have to go this week, wouldn't you? Yeah, I think you'd probably have to go this week. I don't know if Brisbane are going to, you know, be the ultra hard scoring team that they're going to, that they have been previously, just because I'd expect them to run over the Suns pretty easily. But I suppose we'll see.
00:47:22
Speaker
All right, speaking about another big dog in the queue, Clash Harmony, Josh Dunkley. Could he be a little bit of a point of difference in that top 100 or even top 1000 on the run home here?
00:47:32
Speaker
Yes, low ownership and what did he get? 112, didn't he? So Ashcroft out, they're going to need him. I think there's a lot of things pointing in favor of trading him in. He's still 960,000. So you could sort of wait, hope that he goes down a bit. But if I was going to target a premium this week, I reckon it's probably him.
00:47:57
Speaker
Is there any chance that Brisbane smacked the Gold Coast and he's subbed it three-quarter time? Didn't happen last week. Yeah, Geelong were coming back though. Geelong pushed hard towards the end, but you are, right? Sorry, it actually went the other way. In the second half, he actually scored better, didn't he? He actually finished stronger. What's wrong with Jared Lyons?
00:48:28
Speaker
Does he come back in? He's not in the ones, he doesn't score. I see that grudge match of the Gold Coast Suns followed by Freo Adelaide, Collingwood and St Kilda for a bloke that has gone 115 plus in the past and he's only 550k. Maybe could be a bit of a shout. Is that something we could be potentially looking at if he's named? Well we didn't touch on that did we Ashcroft, ACL.
00:48:54
Speaker
But Ashcroft's a bit of a little different player though, in terms of you've got Neil and Dunkley in that side that play that same real inside role that Lions does. Are they going to look for a bit more pace through that midfield and on the outside than what a Lions presents? They might just use Bailey or someone like that too. It's going to be an interesting watch this week. Could Dorco run out the last six weeks and just play a bit of finals in the gut? So is he not going to be up for the army?
00:49:25
Speaker
I just reckon that having, I had a look at it and I thought the same thing, Lou, but then I thought, well, if you were coaching them, is that what you would do? Would you bring in Lions? Like, I think that they'd be better off just firming it up so that it would be Dunkley, Neil McClugage with a bit of a pinch hit, like don't have a fourth. Bit of Rainer and Bailey, maybe.
00:49:45
Speaker
Well, to Dossie's point though, last quarter on the weekend versus Geelong, it was when obviously Ashcroft went down early. It was Dorko, Dane Zorko, five centre bounces, Josh Dunclay, six, Lockie Neal, six. But yeah, it's a watch because obviously they don't want to be putting those miles on his legs heading into finals, you'd imagine. So they're going to find someone else.
00:50:06
Speaker
It's a watch and say, I think, definitely one of interest. But to your point, your first point there, Josh Dunkley, a nice point of difference if you're up hot, nice and high on the rankings, I think. Lockie Whitfield, we've got as our second or last option here. Holmes, any interest in Lockie Whitfield? He hasn't really done the, you know, his usual scoring of the past, and he's even got Harry Himmelberg back there now, stealing a bit of pill.
00:50:30
Speaker
Yeah, Locky Whitfield, he's always going to come with those weird injuries that he seems to get. I think he burns us every year and I can't wait to go back to the well next year as we always do. But in saying that, playing these streamer match-ups against the dogs this week, you would think that he is big. But I think probably a little bit risky at this time of year if you need him for the rest of the five games.
00:50:54
Speaker
I do like that though, we are, like we said, we're talking about these kind of streamable like draft style match ups. If you do back in that the dogs are going to give up that many points again, Locky Whitfield could be a nice shout. If you're looking for a point of difference anyway, if you're just looking for that nice little matchup play or you need to win a final, if you're not worried about your overall rank, Locky Whitfield could be a great play. George Hewitt.
00:51:15
Speaker
came in for the beloved Adam Chera as well as Cripsy there, Louie. Do you think he's still an option? Even maybe if you're looking for a bit of bench cover or what do you think on George Hewitt? No, no, he's not an option. I think Chera is under an injury cloud. He perhaps can be back, but Cripsy is certainly going to be back. That was just management and
00:51:36
Speaker
Can't guarantee that George Hewitt's going to be in that 22. He might be the sub. Can't even guarantee that he's going to be in the midfield. It's actually been a little bit of a fall from Grace, probably compared to the beginning of last year. But I think you've got to leave George Hewitt by the wayside. What do you think about that, Hami? Well, you know what? I was thinking there's another bargain down there and he plays against North Melbourne this week. Andrew Gaff. What are you going to say, Patti Dow?
00:52:04
Speaker
Darcy, did you bring in Hewitt in the end? I got Hewitt and Flanders, yeah. For Matt Johnson and... Who was the other one? For Matt Johnson and Sheldrick.
00:52:16
Speaker
What's gaffer? I was actually going to, sorry, I'll have a look in a sec. I was actually going to bring in Hewitt, right? And just putting him on the bench as another loop, like as in to try another loop. But it just means I didn't really get a genuine upgrade. And so in the end, I didn't worry about it. And I, I just went the full upgrade and went to Docketty. Gaff is 547,000 and Hewitt is...
00:52:42
Speaker
He is 464. He went down in value, I reckon. Yeah, gas on the way up too, I think, but I don't reckon I could recommend anybody to jump on him.
00:52:54
Speaker
And by the way, I think you guys in the group chat were going to pay me out big time about holding lead and chair. I haven't heard the argument. Like I literally traded two guys that, you know, Matt Johnson got a 20 and Sheldrick didn't play and was out for the season with an ankle surgery. I picked up Hewitt for a matchup against West coast and Sam Flanders who popped 110. And I think the other option I would have gone if I actually sold one of the big dogs with someone like a Sam Walsh. So where's, where's your, um,
00:53:21
Speaker
I don't know, I think Dossi made a smart call. The issue, Dossi, the issue is this week when you don't have Cherra coming back and you don't have Le coming back and you get another injury. Walsh was also on track for 130, Dossi. He had an injury. Walsh is on track to be in my side in 2024 is what he is.
00:53:42
Speaker
All right, look, we've got three questions. We might as well get to them before wrapping up Briggs. These are sort of traditional questions rather than players. Someone wants to know, Briggs to Gorn or English, or Liam Henry to Dunkley. Thoughts on which one you keep for another week? Holmesy, what do you reckon? Do you keep Liam Henry for another week, or Briggsy?
00:54:02
Speaker
Liam Henry has Geelong in Geelong. I would absolutely be going Liam Henry up to Dunkley and then keeping Briggs for the Bulldogs matchup. We know Tim English typically gives up points in the ruck. Which two go first here, Louis? Mills, Windy, Sheldrick or Wilmot can get Mills and Sheldrick to Dunks but play Windy. Do you reckon that's the play?
00:54:24
Speaker
Oh, I think Sheldrick and Wilmot are probably the go. Sheldrick's not coming back for the rest of the year. Wilmot popped a 90 on his way out. Brake even's probably not as attractive as what you'd want, just because he popped that a couple of weeks ago, whereas Windy, off the 1.40 with the 13 Brake even, has probably still got you about 50-60k to make you, depending how long you hold on to him for. Mills,
00:54:48
Speaker
Look, I think he's still a hold, at least until probably around 21 or 22. And then he becomes a luxury trade, just hoping that it's going to turn around. Had a bit of soreness on the weekend, didn't attend to CBA or attended one or two for the 98. I still think that's pretty encouraging if you can get the rollback. Sicily versus LDU, Hami, who you got?
00:55:13
Speaker
You had a choice, I'd take LDU. Really? This week against West Coast. Yeah, I reckon. Look at what Midfield has been doing against West Coast. Yeah, but in terms of for the rest of the year, we've only got six trades after this week. Hold on. Right. Just hold on there, Luke. Let's have a look. I know the run. My issue is with LDU.
00:55:33
Speaker
Yeah, and he's probably playing a lone hand too, so he could get the tag. That's what I meant. The coach literally came out and said, LDU won. Well, LDU was the reason we were in the game. We were literally carried by LDU, so...
00:55:47
Speaker
I think you're spot on in that he's a really good player and he's scoring well but I don't know if I want him for the rest of the year over at James Sicily. You've just mentioned though I think before the show I don't know if we've mentioned it on the show yet that Sicily is probably the prime target himself for a bit of a tag and a bit of attention this week in a matchup which he obliterated St Kilda last time he played against them.
00:56:09
Speaker
You'd have to expect that he gets it often when the commentary team goes nuts over a player which they did over the weekend with James Sicily and his intercept marks. I'm sure it'll be highlighted during the week. I won't be surprised to see somebody stand next to James Sicily, but like I said before the podcast, that might mean that his score goes from potentially a 150 to maybe a 90 to 100.
00:56:34
Speaker
Cowilky I reckon. He's a good defender. Takes a lot of intercept marks himself. Those two go on head to head to be pretty good matchup.
00:56:41
Speaker
Yeah, that's a good call. I like that. And finally, Flanders versus Hewitt, the final verdict. We'll go to you, Louis, on this one. It's got to be Flanders. I think you've got to take the punt on somebody that has shown a bit in the twos and might be able to become something, whereas Hewitt's probably a little bit of a known quantity and just that risk over being the sub again and maybe not even the best 22 is just too much this time of year.
00:57:08
Speaker
Land is for the forward status. You don't want Heward as a mid only. Get up to those top gun mids. All right. I need a closing thought from each of you heading into what is the last few weeks of our fantasy season. Home to you first.
00:57:24
Speaker
You put us on the spot here, Dossie. I'll just, I'll talk to those coaches that are, you know, really up there competing in sort of that top 30. Just enjoy it. It's going to be a stressful round. It's going to be a stressful five weeks, but just, just embrace being up there. Hamia will talk to this as well. You're not up there very often. So when you are, just try and ground yourself and really enjoy it. Cause who knows when you'll be back.
00:57:47
Speaker
Louis. Yeah, just on your trading, as I mentioned after this week, we've only got six trades left, so they carry a higher premium than they ever have. You don't want to be messing around on the bench and ideally you want to be minimizing bullets, although we can't always control that. So I think you got to be clever with your trades and you need to be trading in blokes that you're happy with actually holding for the rest of the year now. Hami.
00:58:12
Speaker
I guess just a message to Louis. I'm coming for you, mate. You might have got the jump the last three weeks, but I'm going to finish ahead of you. I love that. Huge, huge closing thoughts from Harvey. I love that. Good kick in the bum. And of course, my closing thoughts, footygrid.com. We'll see you next week.