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Nick Daicos OUT, Observable Thirst Power Rankings, and The Statesman Returns! | Round 21 AFL Fantasy #PODPOD
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The Statesman is back! Our favourite fossil returns in a great time of need as Nick Daicos is ruled OUT for the remainder of the AFL Fantasy season.
Stateo, Lewy, Harmey, and Dos discuss all your possible options to replace him, then touch on all the other hot topics for the week, including Luke Jackson on fire, Jack Ziebell's retirement/seagull tour, Finn Maginness the clamp god, and the round 24 fixture!
PLUS: Dossy reveals his top 5 Observable Thirst power rankings and number one on his 'Quenched' list.
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Transcript
00:00:03
Speaker
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Introduction and Season Excitement
00:00:18
Speaker
And welcome to the Pod Pod, it's your boy Darcy talking all things AFL fantasy on this Monday night, August 7th, 2023. We've only got the three weeks to go. But there's just about more to talk about than ever here with an injury to a young goat.
00:00:36
Speaker
fracturing the fantasy community, if you will, boys.
Finn McGinnis' Tagging Impact
00:00:40
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Plus, we've got to talk about the Finn McGinnis tag. Is he the new Ryan Crowley? And we'll delve into some observable thirst power rankings. This and much more to discuss on tonight's Pod Pod.
Meet the Crew
00:00:51
Speaker
We've got the usual crew. Two-time top 10 finisher, John Harmy. Got Louis, as always. Unfortunately, no homsey tonight. But in his place, we welcome back the Fossil. Welcome back, Stado. How are you, mate?
00:01:07
Speaker
It's a pleasure to be here and thankfully you all listened to my new contract rules. I'll be on the pod whenever Holmes is not. Absolutely. Well, it's great to have you back on board, Stado. Plenty to discuss as I've mentioned off the top. Lots to talk about, but maybe we'll just go around the room and reveal our scores and a rank up date.
Fantasy Score Updates
00:01:28
Speaker
We will start with our two-time top 10 finisher in the past. Don't think it's going to be that this year, Hami, but how are you going this year and what was your score for the weekend?
00:01:38
Speaker
Yeah, thanks. Dospy doesn't look like it's going to be, unfortunately. I think last year I was about three fiftieth at the moment, thinking I was still a chance at a hat, but I'm far, far away from that this year. This week's score, a 2-4-3-1. So respectable enough, I think. And that brought my rank into 3-3-0-4. So went up a couple of hundred spots again.
00:02:03
Speaker
What a bad result from you. 2400, pretty solid score for this weekend. What about you, Louis? How'd you go and where's your rank up? Yeah, not too bad. Considering a couple of lower scores that I didn't really want, but I got the 2416. That brought my rank up just slightly. I think about 30 spots into 1648.
00:02:26
Speaker
Very solid. So you reckon you, so what you've said at last couple of weeks, your, your record, you're going for about seven straight, excluding the COVID year, um, top 1000 finishes. You reckon you're going to get there, Lou faith in the last three weeks? Um, I'm losing confidence, mate, but I think I can get close enough. If I can get that just outside a thousand, maybe inside 1100, then I'll do a bit of dodgy maths and still claim it.
00:02:56
Speaker
All right, a quick update from me because I'm leaving Stado to last because all the people want to know, I'm just giving that teaser. Just teasing it out a little bit for the Stado's rank update. Dossi with the 21, 27. So pretty ugly week from me. Fell from 17,211. We did mention last week the Lux was still in sight, especially with the team value looking strong, but we've fallen
00:03:18
Speaker
down to 19,364. So, I mean the battle up in the top 20K region, she's still going strong. There's a couple of competitive coaches up there still putting up some big scores, but Stado, we've been waiting. We really want to know where you're at, where you're up to, how's your season been going?
00:03:37
Speaker
Well, I haven't watched a full game of footy for two months. I hadn't even listened to a podcast. So sorry, boys, I haven't even listened to you guys. But good parody of mine when this happens. Yeah, yeah, you're spot on, Louis. But I actually just, I actually just went through the list with Louis and we picked up five since the beginning of the
00:04:03
Speaker
of the buys of players I've brought in and were forced trades the following week. So that's a really good run to get the Uber premiums in, including Sam Walsh the other week, which was just shattering. I thought I was being outsmarting everyone. But 23.47 this week, my rankings dropped slowly each week with those forced trades. 4.718 is where I'm sitting.
00:04:30
Speaker
So I can't imagine getting any pretty because I just haven't been able to bring in the Uber premiums. And there's a long list of sucks this week that kept me below a 2,500. So we'll wait till we get there.
00:04:44
Speaker
Absolutely Stata, you're learning how the show structure works and you've been away, you're coming back fresh as ever. I'd love to see that from you.
Top Performers and Lux Picks
00:04:52
Speaker
Well, let's get into our first segment then and our Lux for the week. You know the Lux is mine from the start. Hand me back to you, who was a strong performer for you this week and earns your Lux for the week.
00:05:06
Speaker
Oh yeah, quite a few good performers this week. But I think I might throw a vote of confidence to Zach Butters, somebody who Louis didn't believe was in the top six forwards, but I've stuck with him, stayed true, and 130 points. Thank you, Zach. Might not be. Given what we saw on the weekend, perhaps, but no, no, that was a good performance by Butters and it was his first turn in a couple of weeks, wasn't it, Hami?
00:05:34
Speaker
I'd have to check that. I think you can go around a couple of weeks ago. Isn't it funny how it always comes against the matchup? You probably least expect it to be. So Geelong at GMHBA.
00:05:45
Speaker
Yep. Right when you're willing to part ways and then it's back to get that ton for it. And yeah, he was looking electric. That was what Jack McCray did a couple of months ago. He's done it all season. He's done it just before he went blocks all season as Jack McCray. Shocking. Um, Louie, who was your luck for the week?
00:06:04
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to give mine to Brad Crouch just because it was probably a couple of weeks there where there were some question marks over his head. Is Jack still starting to affect him? But I think the last probably three weeks turned a bit of a corner showing some frightening ceiling and
00:06:21
Speaker
He kept on with that game in that second half. Honestly it looked like he was on for 160 plus but still take a 126 and he's probably looking like someone we can take to the end of the season whereas maybe a fortnight ago we were just sort of raising our eyebrows seeing if that could be a luxury trade in a few weeks time.
00:06:41
Speaker
Yeah, he's been killing it. I know Honezy, a proud owner, and it's been a topsy-turvy ride for him as well,
Disappointing Performances
00:06:46
Speaker
but I think the highs have been certainly outweighed the lows at this point of the season. Sado, luck for the week.
00:06:54
Speaker
Yeah, so wrong, it's so right. He's just been a ripper all year, 125. But the main reason I wanted to give him the likes this week is he's had a season where he's 22 points up above the previous year. And that's just a remarkable and what a great pick he was.
00:07:14
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And one of the quite a few reasons why I had such a hot start to the season. Caleb Sarong has just been a superstar. Of course, like all cases, he had to burn me at some point, miss the week and ended up keeping him and put a, who I thought was going to be a good cover for him for the week who got me a 45. So he did disappoint me in one way. But anyway, that's life.
00:07:40
Speaker
you take that from sarong for sure and yeah one of your great starting picks of the year that you would be
00:07:45
Speaker
Happy to be an owner all season long. My lucks for the week, I'm surprised nobody went with this one. I don't know if you guys are owners or not, but yeah, James Sicily for me with the 160. God, I wish he was my VC or C, but after seeing him the week before, not look that interested in getting the pill himself. I mean, we were probably going to talk a bit about observable thirst a bit later, but wasn't exhibiting any signs the week prior, but yeah, getting a 160 in a,
00:08:12
Speaker
surprising Hawks win, where he absolutely dominated. So 160 in the back line for still only getting that 2100. Pretty poor signs for me, which brings us to our sucks. As usual, getting plenty of mentions in the sucks of the week is my players in my team, but let's go around the circle and see how many feature this way. Kami, sucks of the week.
00:08:37
Speaker
Look, I wouldn't want an injury to overshadow this sucks performance from Nick Daikos. 37 points. I mean, I know he sat out most of that last quarter, but still he sucked for the first three. And I think we need to recognize that as well as fantasy coaches.
00:08:57
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, a big topic this week, I guess, was the role Finn McGinnis played on him. And, you know, typically I think Finn McGinnis is more suited to those outside players. You know, Daikos can get a mixture of both. But what are your thoughts, Hami, on Finn McGinnis being a worrying player for coaches to come up against in the final three weeks? Yeah, well, the non-worrying thing for me is that I don't have Bont. So I'm kind of hoping that he goes to Bont this week and holds him to a 37 point score.
00:09:27
Speaker
All right. Well, you heard it here first. Um, well, it was probably
Content Creators Cup Update
00:09:30
Speaker
one of our hot topics. So we'll touch on a little bit more in a few minutes, but Louis sucks for the week.
00:09:36
Speaker
Yeah, so I'll give my sucks to probably Josh Kelly. I gave him a bit of a rap last week, but I did mention despite getting my likes that the role was still a little bit of a concern and he dished up a 71 this week. So that was a little bit disappointing. Probably remains in my team though. And just a little mention to JJ, Jason Johannesen. I actually brought him in during the week.
00:10:01
Speaker
Based on lack of harmony advice didn't want to respond to my question that I sent into the podcast and decided to run with it and look probably got a little bit and unlucky in the end he spent quite a bit of time in the rooms with a bit of a calf and.
00:10:17
Speaker
Look, I thought I was going to get stitched up with a 27 when he went down, looked injured and came back and gave me up a 65. So it didn't work, but one of those trades that sometimes you just have to have a crack at, didn't have much funds to work with. And that was someone with the matchup that I thought, you know what, I'll have a go and if it doesn't work out, I'll move him on next week. You should have gone to Jack's Evil. Why didn't you do that? Well, I mean, I went and checked and I thought, can I bash myself up?
00:10:46
Speaker
even more by having a look at Z-ball and would I have gone him but yeah clearly those sub games I don't think I would have even considered it but this week might be a different story. Stado, a few options for you this week or you got a standout for the week? Yeah yeah I've got three of them. Daikos we've already covered and look we knew that was coming and
00:11:13
Speaker
Maybe we should have listened to Louis at the beginning of the year. No, look, he's been a great pick. Just unfortunate. She's all 53. We know that's impacted by Zebul, which is fair enough. We just accept that. And he's probably one that would have disappeared off my list if I hadn't had all those forced trades anyway. And this is where it bites you a little bit.
00:11:38
Speaker
But the real sucks is Jack Steele, 59. Just so disappointing. I haven't looked at the data. I reckon there'll be a few people that didn't get the right VC that might have rolled into Jack Steele because his form had gone
00:11:54
Speaker
pretty good. I certainly did that in Supercoach, where he pumped out a nice 53. It was beautiful. Lovely. Yep. Enjoyed it immensely. Well, as expected, apart from JJ, which was a pretty loose pick from you, Louis, I think we didn't give you a proper answer. We thought you might have been joking on that Jason Johansson loose.
00:12:12
Speaker
lose pick last week. So we didn't answer seriously, but where are we? Um, not good on you. A bit of a, bit of a dossy play to, to finish your year this year. Um, but yes, I was a proud owner of, um, Nick Daikos, Jack Steele and Harry Sheasel as well that were mentioned. I also brought in Jeremy Kammen for 69 and I captained Josh Dunkley. So that was lovely with his 81 to come home against the Dockers. Um,
00:12:38
Speaker
Yeah I don't know how to explain that I didn't actually get to see the game on that one but Louie you just said he didn't get out of first gear Josh Dunkley paying up the big bucks for a premium and he pumps me out an 80. He just looked a bit lackluster made so nothing to be too concerned about but.
00:12:54
Speaker
Yeah, when he's just entered a lot of coaches' teams and you're watching him play and you're just seeing him not that interested, without that observable thirst, which I'm not sure if we're going to go over that list today, Dossi, of the top 10. Yeah, I'll do a little one at the end, I think. I'll do a little one at the end. Yeah, it wasn't nice to see, but I wouldn't be too concerned. I think there's going to be a level of management from some of these top clubs over the next couple of weeks. And most coaches are going to cop it, I think, some stage.
00:13:22
Speaker
Yeah. All right. Well, I think that is it for our Lux or Sucks of the Week. But we're moving on now to a little bit of a recap, as we do every single week of the season of our Content Creators Cup. And I'm just going to mention it as well, because we had two Pod Pod members make it to the semifinals.
00:13:43
Speaker
And of course, this is for guesty doing this for charity. There's going to be handing out a prize at the end of this to the charity of choice to the winner. But looking like one of our one of our pod, pod stars, he's joining us for the first time in a little bit this episode, but Stado falling just short. Well, nearly 100 point short of Nathan from Hat Chat. You two seem to always meet.
00:14:10
Speaker
at various times throughout your fantasy careers, Stado, but any words of advice for Nathan, who is now moving on in your place?
00:14:19
Speaker
Yes, I wish him all the best, of course, but when he had Jackson and Newman smashing out scores and myself still and Sheezel, I was a little bit bitter, to be honest, but well done to the handsome one in Nathan. I wish him all the best for the continuation of the finals. He's got a few risky players on his list, so if he's got the opportunity to probably consolidate them to Uber premiums,
00:14:42
Speaker
might be a smart move, but no, well done him 24-39, a decent score. Yep, and he moves on to the prelims, I reckon that is next week or this coming week. And then also in the fourth versus fifth matchup in the Content Creators Cup, we had junk time janitors up against Louis and Lou. You got the chocolates there, mate.
00:15:07
Speaker
Yeah I did. I did. I was a little bit nervous for that one because they had some interesting players there as uniques. But when I saw that Sicily 160 roll in I did start feeling pretty good about it. So as a unique that was a nice one to have. But
00:15:25
Speaker
Uh, yeah, onwards and upwards and we'll see how we go against. I think it's, um, I think it's Mitch from ball boys who's been having a pretty good season. So we'll have to wrestle it out next week. All right, Louis, you're our only hope in the content creators cup. Now we've got to cheer you on from here. So no more Jason Johannesons, please, man, if that's possible. But, um,
00:15:44
Speaker
In the consolidation finals, I do just want to mention as well Sanchez snags from hat-chat getting a Convincing 104 point win over our very own homesies heroes. So in the consolidation finals didn't quite get the chocolates there Hope you're listening at home there homesy and I'll I'll still have to send you through those come of ton mid strengths and
00:16:08
Speaker
Now, Stado, you've been away for a little bit, but you're going to give us a Pod Pod Challenge update.
Pod Challenge Update
00:16:13
Speaker
This is your baby of the Pod Pod. You created this league. It's an open league that anyone can join. You've, of course, named it the Pod Pod Challenge where everyone can beat DOS. So thanks for that one. But how's it going? Pretty well. How are they going? Because they're absolutely killing it.
00:16:31
Speaker
They are. We've actually got 31 in hat territory at the moment, so 31 in the top 100, which is fantastic. We've got three inside the top five, boys. So this is really good news. We've got some big prizes going out to pop pod listeners.
00:16:48
Speaker
We do appreciate and we thank you for your support. But we have a new leader, Love at First Lance, which is Jono's team, 25-21 this week, taking him up to third position overall. So he's in a bit of a sniff.
00:17:04
Speaker
need to be smart on your trades now. Don't mind if you send a little message to any of us, we'll give you our thoughts. Can't make any promises that work 100% well. But if Louis promotes JJ or Dos promotes Feorene, just give him a miss. So maybe go to Dahomey, Holmesey or myself. Now fuck, fuck Holmesey. That's right. Not on here. No, no, God bless you. He's a good man.
00:17:31
Speaker
You're going to have to put the explicit tag on this episode. Sorry, mate. You can put a little beep over that. He's a good bloke. No Haynes, no Gaines, which is Michael's team, is sitting second on our list, but fourth overall, which is absolutely fantastic. But he has slipped one position down.
00:17:51
Speaker
but he's still in the hunt there. And 10s Titans, which is Kevin's team, is fifth position overall, all within about 100 points of each other this week. So hopefully they can all push on and have a real hard crack at it. But love it, first lance, just get your positions right. Look at you at the premiums who are on a good run and you've got a chance to grab the car.
00:18:17
Speaker
And there is a tussle up in that top two positions at the moment, and I see a third not far behind as well. But yeah, I remember Jono was second in the Pod Pod Challenge last week, and he made it known that he was more concerned about his position in the Pod Pod Challenge than he was about his position on the Luxe chase. Well, if he goes for the Luxe chase, the Pod Pod position will actually sort itself out as well. That's right.
00:18:43
Speaker
Okay, let's get into the hot topics for the week and we've already touched on the biggest
Nick Daikos Injury Impact
00:18:52
Speaker
one there. It is Nick Daikos. He's owned by just about every coach in the competition. I know some
00:18:58
Speaker
Very astute coaches out there, even looped him on, waiting for that tag, anticipating it. So that was pretty ingenuity of stuff there, if that's even a word. But look, Nick Daikos, he's now got to go. He scored the 37. He's out for, I think the latest I saw was six weeks.
00:19:14
Speaker
you know, hopefully he can somehow make it back miraculously for Collingwood's finals hopes, but yeah, that's looking even touch and go for there. So lads, it's obviously a trade, but let's just talk about some of our options. Now, I know we've mentioned a few already, but which way do you think we should be going here? Harmy to start with. We've got a fair few bargain options out there. There's plenty of pod options as well that could score some juicy scores on the way home. And then of course there's the tried and true premiums available as well.
00:19:45
Speaker
Yeah, well, that's right. It's a funny time of year, isn't it? Because they're not really chasing those value peaks. So I'd be looking at the top end. And I think that that's probably what I'm going to do because I sort of cashed up last week. So the money isn't really an issue for me. And I think I'll be looking at the top of the line. But I've also got still got a number of DPPs. I've got a forward and a defender in my midfield. So yeah, I'm going shopping, Dossie boy.
00:20:11
Speaker
anywhere, any line really. So, but yeah, there were some interesting scores weren't there? Some, some primos didn't really fire and then some of those cheap ones, you know, you like your Zebles really did. So, look, yeah, I'd be chasing the top of the line. If I didn't have dock or Sicily, I'd probably be going there, but oh, it's heaps of options for me.
00:20:35
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I'm just looking at our, so we did our pod pod draft, best 22 draft last week, where we just, if you didn't catch that one, we drafted our best 22 for the final month of the season. And just looking at that, obviously Daikos did make the cut there. The other defenders we had were Dawson, Sicily, Sinclair, Doherty, and Whitfield even made it in there. So if you don't have any of those, that's potentially somewhere where you could look at.
00:21:01
Speaker
On our bench, which we also selected a few, we had Dan Houston and Harry Shiesel. I mean, Shiesel's probably a bit out of it at the moment, but is there any other options there? And I think probably the one that a lot of listeners are mentioning this week, Louis is Jack Zabel, who apparently on his retirement parade for this last month has got his old fantasy friendly rollback again, where he could just do what he wants in the back line and steal it off Shiesel as well.
00:21:27
Speaker
Yeah and comes in at just over 600k due to a couple of sub-affected games and probably a couple of poor ones in there too under a different coach but what we saw on the weekend was firstly the return of Alistair Clarkson and secondly we saw the return of Jack Zebel in that absolute seagull roll off of halfback. He didn't miss a step there, he knows how to play it extremely well
00:21:53
Speaker
And I would have to think, given the context of the selection and the coaching, that perhaps this is something that we might see over the next couple of weeks. I think it's a move that I'd encourage in terms of actually targeting Jack Zebel. I'd encourage that for teams that are trying to have a crack and maybe claw back some spaces. If you're really competing, then I'd be a little bit hesitant because there is that slight concern that perhaps he does get subbed at some point or he gets managed or
00:22:23
Speaker
or what have you because that farewell game will be in a couple of weeks and I'm not sure how they're going to get him there but that could certainly be a flag but just in terms of the day cost question mate I don't think there's a right answer I think it's going to be totally team dependent what you can do with him these types of injuries are sometimes a blessing I think it's going to be a good thing he's got cash on his head he's owned by pretty much everybody in the competition and it just allows a little bit
00:22:49
Speaker
more room to move. That picks essentially going to be split across the competition to a range of different players, 10 to 15 different players. I would be saying with the Daikos trade that what you can do on the other end of that, so your second trade, maybe dictates what you do with Daikos. I know Haime said that he's got a bit of cash in the bank, he can do a bit and just shop at that upper echelon.
00:23:17
Speaker
If you don't have much cash, maybe you're rolled in with 1k, you know, you can look at perhaps a day cost down as evil and suddenly find yourself with 300k to work with and if that can get you an uber premium on the other end, then that's probably what I'm looking at as well.
00:23:33
Speaker
Yeah. It's, it's an interesting as one, uh, interesting one as well with, with the Essendon matchup this week. And we have seen, um, some defenders really pop against Essendon in, in the last couple of weeks as well. I mean, Alex with them toned up. Duggan got 96 and Tommy Cole. Harmony had 92 last week as well.
00:23:54
Speaker
Hey, let's just throw a few names. I'll throw a few names at you. If I was looking at a defender, these are the sorts of people that I'd be having to be able to look at. So a lot of people have jumped off will day. They don't have too bad a run. Jaden Short, low ownership. Richmond have got the Saints this week. So he could be a pretty decent trade in 755,000. You make a heap of money on that.
00:24:20
Speaker
Jake Lloyd possibly. Angus Brayshore probably wouldn't be as keen particularly with Clary Oliver coming back in but and then you could even look at like a Heydon Young or a... Heydon Young in the Guts by the way. In the Guts now as they... And they got West Coast this week so anyway there's a few names.
00:24:40
Speaker
But it's interesting that last week we sort of mentioned that D6 and F6 position being quite volatile. Since we've mentioned both those players Zebel and Dacos, there's certainly a play there where perhaps you take down a Dacos to a Zebel who's got that forward defensive status. All of a sudden it means that on the other end of your trade, it's not necessarily another defender you have to bring in. You can start looking at some forwards.
00:25:05
Speaker
If you didn't have a Josh Dunkley for example, it just adds that extra versatility to your trades and you're not just shoehorning yourself into a pure defender, you can also grab a forward.
00:25:20
Speaker
I've worked out who Hayden Young will be tagging against West Coast, it'll be Tommy Cole. Gonna have to sit up forward. Yeah, all right, let's get on to another hot topic because I think we'll have a few more questions regarding some of those players later, Hami. But were you kind of done? You just wanted to throw a few options in the air? Because I do think those are probably some of the more popular ones as well, for sure.
00:25:42
Speaker
Yeah, well, as I said, I've got Will Day, so in my midfield, I'll probably flick him back and I'm looking at some midfielders. And again, same sort of principle, like I'm just trying to see somebody who's a bit lower ownership, who I think, you know, could be good for the run home, somebody like Adam Treloar or Libba or Darcy Parrish or, yeah, those are the sorts of people I'm looking at.
00:26:05
Speaker
All right, let's get on to another hot topic, which as you mentioned at the top, Hami probably shouldn't be overshadowed by the unfortunate day-cost injuries that McGinnis did clamp him for those three quarters prior to
Finn McGinnis' Future Targets
00:26:18
Speaker
injury. And Stado, is that something that you're worried about this week? If you're say a Bont owner,
00:26:25
Speaker
Is there any concern to be had bond bit of a different body type and sort of a ability to break that tag? I would have thought then it then a young second year day costs without the sort of heavier frame, you know Bont's a big strong bodied inside mid I mean that could also tag someone else as well, but
00:26:42
Speaker
What are your thoughts on the Guinness, even just for the next few weeks? So they've also got, after they've had the dogs this week, they've then got Melbourne. So that's maybe a, you know, potentially an inside mid or maybe they go for one of the outside players. And then in the last round, they've got Fremantle. So you're probably looking at a brochure or so on as well.
00:27:01
Speaker
Yeah, well, one thing we've noticed with McGinnis' tag is generally gone to the outside and the best ball user. So that's what Daikos is for Collingwood. So that's what I expect to happen. Now Bont's inside, but he's also probably their best ball user. So I'm expecting him to go to Bont and having so many forced trades. That's the luxury. I haven't had the luxury trades and haven't got the luxury of having Bont. So that's a good thing for me for this one-off week, but it's no,
00:27:31
Speaker
guarantee either. So if you own him, don't panic and don't trade him out. He's absolutely killing it.
00:27:40
Speaker
So I'll be keeping bonds. I'd just be mindful of Probably not going a captain on him. I don't know which game in the week that they actually play. They've generally been playing early of late. So VC is worthwhile, but I wouldn't go captain. Yeah, they've got a Sunday. Surprise, surprise. Here we go, the Sunday game. So I'd just be avoiding that as your captain option just because of the tags likely there.
00:28:08
Speaker
look you just need to be mindful but like anything there's only a few players which you can guarantee he's going to tag and we knew Daikos from the pre-season game that he was going to be the one that they target and it played out exactly like Sam Mitchell would have liked.
00:28:26
Speaker
I feel like that Finn McGinnis tag throughout the year has been a little bit inconsistent too. He has tagged players most rounds, but also the tag has been released most rounds at some point too. Yes, it's been the outside players, but I think that
00:28:43
Speaker
Being a young team with Hawthorn, I think part of it is stemming that bleeding and trying to just Stop a bit of the damage and I think maybe within the context of that game Collingwood look they've been seriously reliant on Nick Daikos and I think Sam Mitchell as he did in the preseason circled his name and and realized that he's a massive cog in their system to stopping that and
00:29:05
Speaker
Whereas the dogs I think they've got a few different weapons, a few different players that can step up and do some different things. I don't think, as good as Bont is, I don't think he's necessarily like a cog like a Nick Daikos is in that pyre side where you can totally shut down the whole system. So it'll be one to watch for sure, but I don't want, I don't think it's wise to start massively overreacting to this Finn McGinnis matchup and the Hawthorne matchup because
00:29:33
Speaker
I'm not convinced that it's going to happen every single week. I don't know if you guys caught that Friday night game, though, the Bulldogs in Richmond, and I was just watching it thinking, when are Richmond going to show him some attention and try and shut him out? He was just absolutely dominated. They did. They did. Three different players, apparently, in the post-match conference, as Andrew McQuelter said, three different players that tried to send to him, but it just didn't work.
00:30:04
Speaker
Well, they don't know how to man up because he took uncontested marks in the forward, like kicking girls. Like they were nowhere to be seen. Yeah. Um, I guess the other thing I had like was, you know, with the Zebel, we've talked about it already, but the fact that, you know, he announced his retirement and he goes bonkers in a beautiful role. Do we think we're going to see similar things from other players in the weeks to come state or your close to retirement? Um, what sort of,
00:30:30
Speaker
What sort of roles do you think these guys might have in the coming weeks? Do you think we could, you know, if Hearn comes back for one last game at the Opta Stadium, would you bring him in for 110? You are so. They've got a really good history of this. Matty Boyd, I reckon, smacked out 140 in his last game. I think Goddard did a very similar thing.
00:30:56
Speaker
Look, it's nothing I'd do if I'm actually in hat territory. You wouldn't know what that's like, Doss. But for someone in your position and trying to get a league win when you probably haven't got as many uber premiums as your opposition, they're the type of things I'd be happy to take a fly at. So I'm certainly looking at Zebel and talking about that sort of defender stuff with Nick Daikos. I've probably got the double whammy. I've got Chisel and Daikos.
00:31:26
Speaker
which the reality is is almost two forced traits. So if Zebel's named and on the half back line, we know that Schiezel's ball will be sort of reduced or ability to get the ball to be reduced. So
00:31:44
Speaker
I certainly fly at that. I think Hearn's a good option. We know he can go big. I've checked that he's got a good matchup for the last game. I think Zebel. Look out for Aaron Hall too, seeing he's made his... I think his is effective immediately. He's done. Yeah, no, he's done. Right. Yeah.
00:32:02
Speaker
He's done. So I'll just have a look, but just make sure that they're naturally good ball winners. But there's the, they're the type that I'll be looking at. Yes. Just a question without notice boys. Um, well, do we think that necessarily Shesile is going to be affected by this because we saw Jack see, we'll play the majority of the first half of the season, uh, and pretty much went at that 100 Mark or the wild, um, Harry Shesile was doing the exact same thing.
00:32:33
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, Sizel had two centre-bouncer tendencies on the weekend, which doesn't really tell you much, but it just showed you he wasn't really getting as involved in the play. I also think Zebel was potentially told to do this, but he was just, every kick-in was bombing it down the line. There wasn't that easy one to the corner to chip it around, like Sizel's got quite a few of those short.
00:32:54
Speaker
15 meter kicks into the pocket, which is when she's all and Zebel were kind of operating really well together But I don't know like it could go either way. I think on that one I think the reason I last week state Oh, I know you haven't listened to the shows But last week we had our draft and I'd actually drafted she's all in our best 22 for the run home And then I vetoed my own pick to bring in your man for you idiots
Harry Sheezel's Role Analysis
00:33:17
Speaker
to bring in your man Flanders, but it was because I wasn't sure with Clarko returning, whether on the stretch home in the next three weeks, they want to try him forward where he started the season. They want to try him through the midfield. So to be honest on the run home and we've seen one poor score, it's at the end of the day, he's a rookie. I'm happy to jump off him. It's tough when you've also got Daikos in the team, but
00:33:39
Speaker
From my perspective, especially in the top end, do you really want to be relying on a rookie in these last three weeks when the Roos are going to presumably experiment with this team when you've got these reliable guys out there? I don't know, there's plenty of options out there I think that you'd potentially be more confident with and you can do some damage with that coin that you mentioned at the top of the show that Daikos has on his head? Army. Are you on that frame of mind as well?
00:34:05
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. I think his role was always a bit of a risk and that sort of came through on the weekend. So there's a lot more players I'd feel comfortable having in my team than Chisel.
00:34:17
Speaker
Yep. Speaking of a guy who, if you are playing she's a lot forward, Stado, this guy was in red hot form on the weekend and he's looking the goods without with, with that number one rock roll. Um, the final hot topic, Luke Jackson, any thoughts on bringing in Jackson for these last three weeks, Stado, as he caught fire on the weekend in, I dunno, was, I don't think it was the easiest matchup against the big guy. He still smashed him. Oh, sorry. It was Darcy Ford actually.
00:34:47
Speaker
149 points against Darcy Fort as Stado shakes his head at me, but 149, what are your thoughts on Luke Jackson for the next three weeks?
00:34:56
Speaker
Yeah, nice and the good looking man had him against me. So my thoughts aren't too great about him at the moment, but obviously he's scoring power. We know, um, especially when he gets the number one rock roll, but it depends on opposition. So I'll be looking at the run and who the run is pretty crazy on the run home for Rockman. So they've got West coast who give up points to
Luke Jackson as Fantasy Option
00:35:21
Speaker
rocks. They've got, did Bailey Williams accept that ban?
00:35:24
Speaker
that's true no he's going to the tribunal but imagine so yeah if they don't have Bailey Williams as well that's even bigger then they've got Port Adelaide the next one and then they've got Hawthorne to finish the year so that to me just off the top of the noggin I'd have to check the DFS Australia for the matchup data but that looks pretty good off the off the top of the noggin for so you're looking at what Jack Jack Williams in the rock there against the Eagles
00:35:52
Speaker
Davis and teeny support and Hawthorne. It was Ned Reeves, but he's been subbed at certain stages as well. So it could be, you know, dream fixture here. All right. So I'm just looking at the matchup data now. So in the last five, obviously this is factoring in his massive score on Brisbane on the weekend, but.
00:36:11
Speaker
Brisbane is the number one in the last five giving up points to rocks. Um, the number two is Port Adelaide and the number three is West coast. So two of his next three, huge, uh, for the matchup data, then Hawthorn in the final round, not too, not too great for giving up points to rock. So they, they only give up, um, they give a little bit less than their kind of average. Um, so then they're not one of the top teams, but they're still, you know, those two big match ups are pretty well, that's when you're bringing in big techs anyway. Yeah, that's right.
00:36:41
Speaker
Yeah. Far out. That's some pretty good, pretty good matchup. So Luke Jackson on the radar. Okay. That is our hot topics. Does anyone have an observation to bring in on our observation round table discussion for the week? Just a little bit of a chat here. Anyone got any, anything they want to bring up on this final three weeks of the season?
00:37:00
Speaker
Oh look I've got my observation there just backing over last week that F6 and D6 are very volatile and I think that's where you can potentially find some of the most points against other coaches. Same with the midfield, I think the midfield as a group has more volatility than what
00:37:17
Speaker
coaches have selected in defence and forwards it's very similar types of teams as well as tags like I said last week as well the context of the game matters we've seen it this round and as teams jostle for that top eight spot it's tighter than ever I've never seen it like this you're gonna see some things that maybe you don't expect and some some plans put into certain players so just be aware of that and
00:37:44
Speaker
You know, the coaches that did bench and Nick Daikos this week and looped him came out on top and that was very intelligent thing to do. So you just got to think ahead and see where you can sort of win your battles with that.
00:37:57
Speaker
All right, love that from Lou. I think we'll move on to our questions segment from the listeners and then we'll get into our observable thirst power rankings
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00:39:15
Speaker
Now we'll get to all our Twitter requests. At pod pod AFL is where you can follow us on. I keep calling it Twitter. Now it's called X. Whatever the hell you want to call it. Just follow us on there. At pod pod AFL. What's X? What's that setup? Yeah. Don't worry, mate. It's a new technology. You wouldn't be familiar with it.
00:39:35
Speaker
We'll just get through some questions. We put out our tweet. We do it weekly. This time we kind of open it up to a few questions as well, because some people need their players ranked, et cetera, for the last few weeks.
Ranking Bontempelli, Dunkley, and Dawson
00:39:45
Speaker
So we've got Baz's Bolognese has asked us to rank Bont, Dunkley, and Dawson. Who scores more for the rest of the year? Who do you reckon, Hami, Bont, Dunkley, or Dawson? Bont, then Dawson, then Dunkley, maybe. I don't know. I haven't looked at the run. That's off the top of my head.
00:40:04
Speaker
Okay. Uh, to you, Stado, um, from AFL fantasy land, you rank Libba, Treloar and Sorong for the run home. Geez, that's a Libba, Treloar and Sorong. Libba, Stado. Libba made it into our, um, our draft last week as a midfielder for the run home in the final month.
00:40:27
Speaker
started strong this week. Well, that's amazing. They vetoed LDU to make that happen by the moment. Rightfully so. See the scores on the weekend, justified that. It was just that we missed Mason Wood. That was the only thing. Sorry, Stan. So, Libba and Treloar have Hawthorne West Coast Geelong. And I'm going to rank Libba ahead of Treloar because he could do a hammy at any stage or a calf at any stage.
00:40:55
Speaker
And Sorong has West Coast, which is a good start, Port Adelaide, which is Tarth. And then Hawthorne. So both of them got West Coast and Hawthorne. Don't know who the tag's gonna go to from McGinnis. A little bit unsure whether that one might be interesting. If Hayden Young is probably the best outside and best
00:41:22
Speaker
best by foot so wouldn't it be interesting if Hayden Young's tagging but McGinnis is tagging Hayden Young? Well I was just about to say on SEN today they did mention that um Sam Mitchell threw Tom Liberatore's name out there too so that would be interesting that would be the um
00:41:41
Speaker
We just said that McGinnis doesn't tag inside players if that happens and we might have to. Yeah. Yeah, that'll be the guy. Yeah. Cause he does copper tag every once in a while from the astute coach, I reckon. And then I dunno, Mitchell does think a bit outside the box. That happens, make adjustments.
00:41:59
Speaker
But why would you leave Bont free? Because he can't be tagged, can he? Like really? Of course he can. Yes. Last week he hadn't, well the week before he had an 87 and a half time and only finished with that. You need a very specific body, like player to do it though. They need to be huge and big enough to go with him. That's the problem. He's not taking Bont up forward because Bont will kick six goals. Yeah. He's got 10 kegs on a beginners like.
00:42:25
Speaker
And 10 centimeters too, yeah. Okay, let's get to our next one. We overruled you there, Stado. This one's from Shay. You all went to law. Now, I'll take you the photo of the scent. This one's a good one. We talked about a few of these names for replacements for Daikos. So from Shay, wants to know, what's our verdict, Louie? Hayden Young, Jayden Short, or Duggan as a pod replacement for Daikos.
00:42:53
Speaker
I'm Jaden Short, comfortably. That Saint killed a match up. I think he's been phenomenal all year. He's just injury that's really held him back. And even that game where he did his hamstring, he was on 25, about 15 minutes into the first quarter. Dan Rioli, a little bit of a question mark over him. He's supposedly going to play this week, but he did tweak his ankle. Looked right after halftime, but if that's the case, then there might be a little bit more ball for him too.
00:43:20
Speaker
We throw out Bailey Dale doing that mix. I reckon he's probably not a bad shout. Hawks this week on a pretty big oval down at Utah. Then they got their Eagles. It's just that cat's game in the last round, maybe a bit questionable. A bit of JJ about that, I reckon, Army.
00:43:37
Speaker
No, wait, Bailey Dale, he's been killing it, mate. I'm just kidding, mate. Same role, but you should have gone for. Yeah, well, I was I was only dealing with about six hundred and forty six K. I've only had one K left at the end of the week. But I like that. And he's one that's gone under the radar quite a bit.
00:43:55
Speaker
What about speaking about a player that burned you on the weekend, Stado, but we haven't really mentioned him as an option.
Nick Newman as Fantasy Option
00:44:02
Speaker
I know he's just come off a great matchup, but Nick Newman in his last five, Docherty moving on to the inside mid more just due to necessity at the moment. Could he come home strong? He's got Melbourne this week, pretty good matchup, then Gold Coast and the Giants to finish the year. Nick Newman at 838K.
00:44:20
Speaker
Yeah, it's a good matchup. Got good matchups and good scoring power. But we also know at times he can be given a role which does hurt him. So there's a bit of risk with it. And sorry, just backing on that, he's got the Giants in around 24 where he held Toby Green to five touches. So if you do have Nick Newman, maybe if you are thinking of jumping off, 24 would be it.
00:44:46
Speaker
All right. Uh, now final verdict here, lads. Lots of questions coming through. Jack's Abel. Harmony. Final verdict. Pass. Wow. Imagine if you get subbed out half way through the game, you'd be spewing. I'm going to pass. It's a legitimate concern. I think it needs to be raised more that, you know, this is a guy who's been subbed for the last
00:45:08
Speaker
all weeks. It's, it's only that Clarko was, uh, coaching his first game back that you can read a little bit into it, but, um, that's why I said coach was competing. Maybe just hold off for that around 24, because there's going to be players that can score on par with Zebel. He's not going to go 150 every week. That's two passes. Stay to round him out. Are you also a pass for Zebel if you're in the mix and you're one of our, you know, hat territory coaches in those top 31 coaches that we've got in the pod pod challenge? Um,
00:45:39
Speaker
No, I wouldn't rule him out, but I'd wait to see what team sheets look like. Looking at their run is Essendon, Richmond and Gold Coast. I like that if he's actually going to be given a farewell three game tour.
00:45:56
Speaker
which you just got to be smart about this I reckon he's worth a punt he could make a difference you remember I'm pretty sure someone not you Dossie someone actually went Jeremy Cameron to in the for the last round to win a car
00:46:12
Speaker
No, I don't know about that one, but I do know. Wasn't you. I've got another one. Wasn't you, Dawson? I'll tell you what I did look at today. The only option that I was thinking of with Zebel is upgrading one of my bench players to him and looping.
00:46:27
Speaker
So as in using him as a 23rd player and then looking at his score and looping, well doing a loop with him in mind. Yep, just on that point too. For the next three weeks they've got the first Saturday game, so the very first Saturday game North Melbourne twice in a row for around 22 and 23.
00:46:48
Speaker
And then round 24, actually, that's probably another hot topic we missed. You can now go at your leisure to check out the round 24 schedule as well. And Louie's big about planning trades as well. So yeah, look ahead, see what you can do with those loopholes and stuff in the last round, because the fixture got released today. But I'm North Melbourne, the equal first game on Saturday in the final round. So that's probably a great call by Yuhami there to just maybe loop and see. It wouldn't take too much to get a larger here up to him.
00:47:19
Speaker
Yeah.
Revisiting Luke Jackson's Potential
00:47:20
Speaker
Um, I think that's pretty much it. I think I want to get your final verdict on, um, on Luke Jackson, those data, cause you were the biggest data before. So you're not going to go there. You think it was a bit of a matchup thing or you're just a bit, but hurt by the, uh, the one 40 on your head, a bit, but hurt. Yeah. Yeah. I'm, but hurt. Um, I look, it was a worthwhile, um, um, fly when, uh, we found out that Darcy was out.
00:47:47
Speaker
um and proven to be decent so far obviously very good on the weekend and as you say has a decent run but we know just because people have a run doesn't mean it's perfect um he used maxi gaughan i think it was the second game i had him this year was up against port adelaide and i thought you beauty everyone's smashing tons against him
00:48:12
Speaker
Scott Lysette come back in and in the wet and he I think it was about 80 percent ruck time Max Gaughan was and kept into a 66.
00:48:21
Speaker
So we need to be mindful that, especially if he's playing clubs that potentially need to win to confirm final spots, which is going to be the case with Port Adelaide, even though it's meant to be an easy matchup, doesn't mean that's the way it's going to happen. And Hawthorne is tough. Now, depending on whether they have two, Reeves and Meek together are decent stoppers of ruck scoring.
00:48:50
Speaker
All right, let's move on to the final bit of the show. And we're gonna talk about Observable Thirst power rankings now. I want you guys to chime in. I of course being the steward of the Observable Thirst, the originator to bring it to the public sphere, talking about Observable Thirst. Now, if you don't know what Observable Thirst is, can anyone give us a definition here, Louis? You did a pretty good job last week as well. I think maybe you could provide the listeners with an alternative view of Observable Thirst here.
00:49:19
Speaker
Yeah, a good description would be when a football has got the ball and you're in a position that may not be in the best spot to progress the play and you're there jumping up and down, throwing your arms up and down like ridiculous like you're a one of those bloody blow up dolls that you see out the front of car dealerships. Just absolutely demanding the football and to finish off
00:49:44
Speaker
You throw your arms down, use the momentum to jump up and scream and expletive if they don't give you the footy.
00:49:53
Speaker
That's observable thirst. That's a perfect description. And when I talk about some observable thirst operators, I think that's probably why they're not necessarily the names you'd probably think of that are racking up the touches. Because when you get into a position when you're a well-known kind of operator in the AFL, you don't necessarily need to do that. You know, Bont's going to be giving the ball. He doesn't need to be screaming for it. His name's Bont. The kids see him there. The players see him there. He's getting the ball. He doesn't need to scream for it.
00:50:21
Speaker
Few of these players qualify but there is a few big names as well who even though they're at the top of the game they still want to scream and get the pill and I think one of those names was brought up on the traders the other week and I'm having him as my number one at the moment because he displays both still observable thirst despite getting 35 to 40 touches a week sometimes and that's Errol Goulden Errol Goulden number one
Players with 'Observable Thirst' for the Ball
00:50:44
Speaker
Now, I know Stata, you've been a big fan. You're a big fan of the mighty swans out there as well, but Errol Goulden this year, he's been showing some serious thirst, hasn't he?
00:50:55
Speaker
No, he absolutely has and it doesn't change no matter what role they put him in. That's the key thing. He just wants the footy and to be fair he uses the footy so well that they want him to have the the footy in his hands as well. They've got a few players like that, Sydney too, so it's not just going to be a lay down, that he becomes a trade target either because there's actually quite a few of them that are very important to him.
00:51:21
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely wrap with him. Thank you to the superstar. All right. I am giving one the next player who it's less about the waving the arms. It's more about the running patterns and the fact that he is just always the moment he kicks the ball, the moment he handles the ball.
00:51:36
Speaker
It's always looking for that next disposal. That's also a sign of thirst and very observable on this play. The moment he came to the AFL, you knew he was a thirsty, thirsty man. And that's Nick Daikos. I think it's been floated out there. He's injured now, but every single possession he's kicking, he's handballing. He's looking to get the next one. You see him pass to his brother. He's right back to his side to get the next one. He's always looking for that next disposal. I think a favorite and a typical another player like that, who I think was more
00:52:05
Speaker
aggressive early in his career with the waving of the arms. Now he's a club captain. He's probably toned that back quite a bit, but Zach Merritt has to be up there if you ever watch a game. You're an Essendon man. Zach Merritt, the man wants pill.
00:52:20
Speaker
Yeah, love that given receive, doesn't he? The man wants pill. The man wants pill. Now, I know everyone asked for a top 10. I think this needs to be an exclusive list. I've got another list of exhibitors of thirst, but I don't think it's really, they haven't qualified for the full thirst. So I've got to round out a top five here and then I'm just going to throw it to you guys and see if you've got any other nominations.
00:52:45
Speaker
At four, this is a interesting one because he's probably not the name you're thinking of. He's not killing it just yet, but I think in the near future we're going to see this guy thrive given his thirst that he's shown already. Locky Ash.
00:53:01
Speaker
is a seriously thirsty operator. If you ever want to see a man that wants the pill, this is a guy that waves his arm around, screams for it, waves constantly, and he's probably the reason why a few of the other GWS defenders are struggling to get the ball at the moment because Locky Whitfield can't maybe project himself up to that ton anymore due to Locky Ash's desire for Sharon. Locky Ash comes in at four and at five.
00:53:26
Speaker
I've got two guys who are operating in a stealthy manner. Stealth thirst is what I'm classifying these two as. They're utilizing their position, both as club captains in a way that I've never seen thirst be utilized before. They're position as captains, they just wander around.
00:53:47
Speaker
They even, some of them have even changed their position late in game just to get the pill a bit more to change the game. I'm talking about Jordan Dawson and now James Sicily. Two guys, thirsty as can come, but very stealthy. It's more of an authoritative thirst that they're using to get their Sharon. So I want to throw it to the floor.
00:54:08
Speaker
I've got a number of guys who are exhibitors of thirst. I've got Jade Gresham I mentioned the other week. Loves to scream at teammates for the pill. Sam Flanders, your man, Stado, who I think we need to throw to you now just for your, we haven't got the wrap up from Sam Flanders, Stado, just a few words on the victory lap. Your man, Sam Flanders coming through.
00:54:29
Speaker
I think Stevie Fizz needs to claim his man, but I was all on board Flanders and we've seen it through the VFL and previously the Niffel that he was going to be an absolute superstar and we're just starting to see it and it was all about getting the right role and opportunity.
00:54:49
Speaker
The man is very good. He's a gun. A few other special mentions, Jake Bowery, Ben Hobbs as well, another Essendon player, Hami, showing signs and... Good mother bomber. I know he's always injured at the moment and he's looking pretty out of shape but he hates it when he gets burned and if he takes the mark and even near the 50, he's never going to pass it off.
Players Lacking Thirst for the Ball
00:55:13
Speaker
That's Jake Stringer.
00:55:15
Speaker
Yeah, okay, that's fair. I feel like- Is that thirst or selfish? Yeah, there's probably a fine line sometimes with the thirst and selfishness. And yeah, you've probably also got to, I don't know, be able to thrive in a role where you can actually get more mid-time, I think as well at times to be able to be classified. Now, some people said, Jack Zebel, a lot of people said that. I'd completely disagree, I've got to say. This is an entirely role-based
00:55:43
Speaker
thing for me in his entire career. No, no, no. Yes, it is. It is. No, it's not. Like, I've never seen a man less worthy of a 170, less worthy of a 150 than Jackson. He's given away. He's the only guy back there. He is a bend at the hips, throw the arms up, complainer. And that is observable thirst, mate. I've seen it. The feet are past shoulder width and he is demanding the football. So, no, he's in that list, mate. Jack Segal. Can I give you a few more?
00:56:13
Speaker
Yeah, go on. I think Tim Taranto is going to be in there. He's always demanding the football in the contest for some dinging little handball just for him to soccer off the ground. Jack Sinclair is up there and I think he's getting tagged. He just, you know, it's like he's.
00:56:31
Speaker
He's taken it to another level once he gets a bit of attention. He just goes to those one twos constantly. Connor Rosie's got a lot of observable thirst too. That's a great one, actually. That's one I missed. Definitely demands the pill. Probably doesn't get the credit for that because he is so classy with it. But he demands that football. And one more I want to mention who was brought up to me by a mate of mine who's competing for the top 100. I have to agree as well. And that's Luke Ryan.
00:56:58
Speaker
For such an unimpressive player, I've never seen somebody demand the football so much. Absolutely sprints down to get kick-ins and as well as the pointless cross across that Optus Stadium, defensive 50, I think he's got to be in there too. He's probably exhibited that because I'd be surprised if he wasn't one of the players that's been in the comp this year with, you know, 5 plus 130s, I reckon.
00:57:25
Speaker
Well, if we've listed off Freo's run for the run home, then maybe I'll have to look at him. Trust the listeners or your mate chucking in Luke Ryan as an observable thirst. Maybe I just haven't seen enough of him operating down back. Maybe he's one to bring in as well for Daikos if he's going to show those beautiful signs. And then just finally, it was mentioned last week, the people who are quenched.
00:57:47
Speaker
Not thirsty for the pill at all. Do not want Sharon. And this is the way I describe this is if you see them and on the TV, you're like, call for it. You're open. You're open. And they do this old thing where they point to the next player, kick it to him and yell, oh, next kick, next kick. That's not the sort of player that you want in your squad.
00:58:08
Speaker
and I'll give you my number one and you probably don't need to talk about anyone else other than this guy I've talked about it for so long Andy McGraw is my number one so a couple of dons on the thirst scale but that's weighed down by a man who's completely quenched in Andy McGraw if you ever watch it man's got the he's had
00:58:28
Speaker
Many quality roles in the guts, half back, everywhere you want. It's always pointing to the next player. Does not want the Sharon. So that's my quenched list. Any other nominations here for quenched, Louis? Yeah, I'll put two Camilla on notice. Don't like seeing club captain put his hand up to tag. Mate, you need to hunt the pill.
00:58:52
Speaker
All right. Well, Stado, I think just the listeners, they've been crying out for you. Maybe just some advice for the last few weeks that they've just waited for your sage advice and we really want to hear some advice
Strategic Advice for Fantasy Players
00:59:05
Speaker
from the Stado. They've been missing those smooth dulcet tones. What have you got for us, mate, to close out the show?
00:59:11
Speaker
Well, if you're in the running for a car or a car and you're obviously fully in the mode of luxury, make sure you look at all the matchups. Smart players would have removed day costs last week. They're the type of moves you want to make when you know what's happening. And Louis is just patting himself on the back. Is that correct, Louis? No, no, I did a silly face too, because it didn't even occur to me, mate.
00:59:38
Speaker
oh okay yeah fair enough um so they're the type of moves you you actually want to make this time of year if you want to make a real big difference um if you like dossy and you're aiming to get into the the top 14 000 dosses at the end
00:59:54
Speaker
If you're trying to do that, then I'll be taking a little bit more punt and look at the ones we talked about before that might be ending their career. They can give you with a bit of a bang so you can get your league win and hopefully a premiership with a bit of fluking going on. And sometimes that happens. But if you're outside the top
01:00:18
Speaker
You're probably out of the running for a cap now, I haven't looked at the distance in between, but have a look. You can generally catch up about 120 a week from a main pack. You can catch up 300 on an individual if all things go well.
01:00:34
Speaker
Just keep playing your game, keep patient, don't get stressed over it too much. For some reason, Dossie's sending me messages for the coming through the recording. What are you doing, Dossie? I just want your comment of me cracking in the top 14,000. I've just sent a screenshot. So some people at the early stage of the season take a screenshot of them when they're in the top 10 or the number one or whatever for that brief moment.
01:01:02
Speaker
I've taken a screenshot this week when I've snuck inside the top 14K at 13,652. So I mean, that just shows you where my team's at. So I've taken the screenshot. I might even just post that out on the Twitter and claim that I've risen up the ranks this week, I think. Because that was about mid-round before everyone else's players caught me up and I dropped a couple of thousand.
01:01:28
Speaker
Oh well. I have got a pleasing one of myself late around 22, one year where I was sitting in first position. It was absolutely lovely, but it didn't end that way, Dossie. But we can all have dreams. So your dream is 13,660 second position. Best of luck, mate. I hope you get that. Thanks, guys. Let's uphill battle that, isn't it?
01:01:53
Speaker
All right, well on that note, 2100 with Sicily down back. Yep, good luck to everyone vying for a hat, vying for a car. You've got three weeks of stress remaining. Hopefully you can have a bit of fun in there as well. And yeah, good luck everyone on the run home. And we'll see you next week. Great to have you back, Stado.