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Durham Goes Bang! | Players of Interest| Strategy Round Table #PODPOD
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Fantasy Football Reflections and Challenges
00:00:25
Holmesy
G'day and welcome to the Pod Pod brought to you by Moreira's Magic. I'm your host Holmesy, three-time top 10 finisher and twice runner-up in AFL Fantasy Classic. We have had the second of the buy rounds, another...
00:00:39
Holmesy
Underwhelming week for a lot of the members here on the podcast, but we are back again to hopefully continue working throughout the buyers. We've had another round of injury carnage.
00:00:49
Holmesy
Sam, good friend of the show who was on here last year, just decided to come into the group chat randomly and alert us, Geordie, to the 17 injuries that he's had to... Had to navigate this year, but yeah, coaches aren't, Sam's not alone. Coaches everywhere have just been dealing with this and hopefully it means that we can still complete our sides as we come out of the bars. But Jordy, mate, how are you? And fresh off running the the brizzy half-marrow on the weekend while Louis was out having a Louis-style bender, someone was you know looking after their fitness and and doing the right thing.
00:01:22
JORDAN DSENA
I did, mate. Got up to Brizzy on the weekend. It was great weather. Yeah, did the half marathon, which was a bit of a goal of mine. So happy to get that done. And I was able to check out the Q Clash as well. Went over to the Gold Coast and saw John Noble absolutely rack it up at halfback, which is crazy. But yeah, good little stadium they got out there. But yeah, it was good weekend. And yeah, looking at the fantasy scores, I was about...
00:01:46
JORDAN DSENA
I think we're talking in the group chat, as you said, i think my weekly rank was about 100,000 or 120,000 for the whole weekend until the last game. So it wasn't great seeing that all weekend, but um other than that, pretty decent weekend.
00:02:01
Holmesy
Yeah, was ah I was similar. And it's never good when you still have 14 players still to play in the final final two games. But yeah, it was it was nice on the Monday for that rank to finally start coming back in a little bit.
00:02:13
Holmesy
And Louis, I'm going to go straight to you now because... I'm just wondering, do you have anything you want to say to me? Any apologies? I do have, like I said, I've had the apology music lined up for three days ready for this moment. So should I just, should i just get it going here, mate?
00:02:32
Holmesy
you want to?
00:02:33
Lew
Yes, yeah. ah thought i would um I just wanted to wind you up on the weekend and just let you know you're not all that homesy sometimes. and I may have ah wound you up about the wrong player or at least fired off a rocket for you because um Sam Durham is a little bit better at fantasy than perhaps what I thought. The 132 the weekend is... ah nowhere near what I expected. And I thought um I might just yeah get one up on you a little bit there and it blew up in my face big time.
00:03:07
Holmesy
So for the listeners, just for a bit of context here, Louis has decided to come into the group chat on Sunday, maybe even Saturday. And he said, I can't believe you have Sam Durham.
00:03:19
Holmesy
that's That's worse than me picking Cam Zerha.
00:03:22
Lew
ah
00:03:22
JORDAN DSENA
Mm-hmm.
00:03:23
Holmesy
to which the group was very quick to shut that down. But then he follows it up with, what was it? I picked Zerha for a quick cash grab. Somebody fooled you into thinking Sam Durham was top six adjacent. Well, I don't know, Louis. I don't know whether he is top six adjacent or whether he's F1 after 132 on the weekend, mate. he was He was everywhere.
00:03:44
Lew
Oh no, I was going too hard on the bait there unfortunately It's it's made me look silly in hindsight But we'll see how he goes this week That's going to be a ah reoccurring score check I think throughout the year now
00:03:57
Holmesy
Oh, mate. All I was thinking during that game was clearly you don't pick him to put up those types of scores, but far
Essendon Strategy and Player Performance
00:04:04
Holmesy
out. He had 16 points in about three minutes against Richmond before he gets the concussion.
00:04:09
Holmesy
You know, what could have been? He was actually a ah pretty decent pick. Like, the role's there, so we'll we'll see how it plays out. But, yeah, I dare say some coaches will probably jump there after the bye, which means that I won't be quite on a Sam Durham island alone. Yeah.
00:04:23
Holmesy
Harmi, our two-time top 10 finisher and runner-up in 2019. I'm sure you would have been very excited on Sunday night. Bombers in front at halftime, looking like they might potentially get their second win just to fall short, mate. But how are you going?
00:04:39
Jon Harmey
Yeah, look, it was a very sad last quarter, it'd be fair to say, Holmesy, and um yeah, I was getting very irritable with almost everyone around me. But anyway, um we live to fight another day.
00:04:51
Holmesy
Do you have any comment on your football team and putting Zach Merritt, their best player, to halfback to, you know, just take ball away from Archie Roberts, who's been a shining light, and Jacob Farrow, just for him to get 30 of the cheapest touches back there and and really not set it up? What what are they thinking in there?
00:05:14
Jon Harmey
Well, you're wrong, Holmesy, aren't you? Because they realised with about three minutes to go in the game that they'd desperately needed to put him back into the midfield. So he went into the midfield for the last three minutes to try and win them the game.
00:05:27
Jon Harmey
i Honestly, how stupid are they? They'd finally realised, oh, we'll put our best on baller on the ball. Let's just not go there.
00:05:35
JORDAN DSENA
They got Cedarfield, Sardis, they're having high
Ruck Line Challenges and Strategies
00:05:38
JORDAN DSENA
CBAs now.
00:05:40
Jon Harmey
Oh, yeah, it's awesome.
00:05:42
Holmesy
Did you see the stat, Harmy, that Merritt was the... and it it Towards the end of the game, it finally switched over, but he was the second second lowest rated player on the ground for Essendon, even though he had 33 touches or whatever it was, just backwards and sideways and turning it over.
00:05:57
Jon Harmey
Oh, yeah, disposal efficiency.
00:06:00
Holmesy
But good for your fantasy team.
00:06:02
Jon Harmey
look And I had him as captain, so quite clearly I wasn't complaining too much about the kick-ins. But um ah it just, I mean, and it didn't work, did it? Like, anyway. You want name you want him delivering the ball inside 50 on those short kicks, not trying to bomb it out and then, oh, surprise, a turnover.
00:06:20
Holmesy
I would have thought, but we'll see we'll see whether that role sticks. um They played around with it a little bit last year as well and it didn't last too long. But yeah, in that role... Probably makes our Archie Roberts pick a little bit on edge, whether we need to sort of move him on at his bye. But I suppose we give it another week, especially against Melbourne, where Roberts had that 150 earlier on in the year to figure out what we do with that. But let's go through our round that was. And who we going to start with? Louis, your first off the bat this week.
00:06:53
Lew
Oh, beautiful. I've got the 1747, which yeah unfortunately the theme has been the last for pretty much the whole season is I just can't quite break out of these 20,000 ranks. I've got to put some respect on Dossie's name. it so It can be a little bit tough out here. So I've blown back out to 22K.
00:07:14
Lew
um As I said, it's one step forward, two steps back. So hopefully next week's ah another step forward. um the state i pick of the week though is dawson for the 131 on debut i don't often like paying up so much for um for premiums but also i was a little bit nervous that he might get some attention versus geelong but it just turned out to be the total opposite and um complete BOG game by him and it was probably looking even bigger at some stages in that game so that was really nice to see and get the week off to a good start on Thursday and then the dossie pick of the week is probably going to give it to Dan Houston he was certainly the right starting pick in hindsight and I did go into the season with him but He's just started to peter out a little bit.
00:07:54
Jon Harmey
Thank you.
00:08:04
Lew
That role's not necessarily what it was um a couple of months ago. And and he's just, yeah, he's he's dishing up some stinkers now. So I think that's one where admittedly the cash that we made off of him is probably gone now, but I think it's probably a ship that we need to jump off pretty quickly and and onto something that's a little bit more stable now.
00:08:25
Holmesy
Yep, we'll get to that in a little bit, but I'm pretty sure five round average of about 70. It's definitely not the same player as he was in the side when Jeremy Howe's in there. They clearly just bypass him a lot more. So definitely one to consider trading out. Harmi, you're up next.
00:08:43
Jon Harmey
Yep, and my week, so i scored 1-7-5-8, which was pretty poor because it dropped 2,000 ranks, so must have been some good scoring this round, not by me.
00:08:56
Jon Harmey
um I'll give my Stato, it's a bit of a story from the weekend, give my Stato pick of the week to Nick Newman, he scored 84 points. But the reason I'm going to give it to him is because the ball went into the crowd and this girl in the front row was pissing around with it, like wanting to get a photo and stuff. And he's standing there on the boundary and he goes, give me the ball. He's like getting real dirty. Anyway, he finally gets to him and he turns around and so another one of the Blues players got to go a spare ball and then goes take the kill and he throws the ball against the boundary and jogs off and real pissed off. So i love that from him.
00:09:33
Jon Harmey
because he didn't get the stat.
Player Performance Highlights and Lows
00:09:34
Jon Harmey
And um but but but toss my pick of the week, LDU, my my um upgrade in the midfield that didn't even count for me for the week anyway on 67 points.
00:09:37
Holmesy
Harmy, what is going on here? what
00:09:52
Jon Harmey
So, God, they must have been like terrible against Frio. Holmes, did you watch that?
00:09:58
Holmesy
I watched the second half and yeah, what was 20 goals in a row. I think at one stage it was four goals to five and then North just couldn't. Has anyone seen the footage of Luke Ryan running out from from fullback?
00:10:11
Holmesy
So Luke Ryan gets the ball at fullback and he goes to just jog outside of the 50 towards the boundary, realise no one's coming for him. And he just keeps jogging and jogging up the centre of the ground. He goes about 100 metres before he needs to handball it.
00:10:25
Holmesy
North were just, yeah, they were listless. It was embarrassing, really.
00:10:31
Jon Harmey
No good. Yeah, that's me done, mate.
00:10:34
Holmesy
Louis, no, Jordy must be next. Louis started us off.
00:10:39
JORDAN DSENA
Yeah, got the 1783. The rank is at 11,073. So similar to Harmi, I went back 1,000 spots, which wasn't amazing. You know, you're hoping that you're going to go up, but there is still three rounds to go, right? So hopefully at the end of But the Stato pick, I was going to do Dawson as well, but I'll give it to Max Gorn here. So 123 coming home as captain. So had Baz and he got a 108. So I rolled the dice with Gorn. And I've been happy with that pick so far. actually followed a lot of your advice, Holmesy, with the getting off Grundy to go to Gorn. And that's something I wouldn't have done last year while I didn't do it. I thought I might, you know, do that ruck merry-go-round.
00:11:24
JORDAN DSENA
and trading gone so happy so far, especially as showing us a photo of L.E.U.
00:11:32
Holmesy
Jordy, just on that, what do we do this week when Heath comes back in ah for my check?
00:11:36
JORDAN DSENA
Mm, because Maja Cech, yeah. and And there's a bit of talk. He was a bit sore. They got a five-day break as well. And he's a bit sore. He got a shoulder, I think, but he's trained fully.
00:11:48
JORDAN DSENA
um What's your thoughts? I guess we'll go into it ah in the trades, but Tristan Cherry got a great run, but he what did he do on the weekend? I don't know. you can't Can you really trade Gorn out straight away? I think just have – you've got to hold it. I'm hoping he – Does all right still. um But Cherry is there.
00:12:07
Lew
Back to Grandi, I reckon.
00:12:08
JORDAN DSENA
Back to Grundy, yeah. Nah, definitely no chance. I guess we'll talk about that in a bit and a couple of trade targets. Oh, the next one, the Dossie pick for me. This might be a bit harsh, but Justin McInerney.
00:12:24
JORDAN DSENA
I'm giving him Dossie pick. I know he got injured, but 65 at the half, absolutely killing it. He's just been one of those guys for me. I thought he was a good pick and now he's lost almost 200K. And unfortunately, he's got injured enough to trade him out. And i I just wanted to keep him for the rest of the year. So um yeah, I'll give him the Dossie pick. Hopefully that's not too harsh.
00:12:44
Lew
he's ah He must have a pretty nasty hammy. I saw he's out for 10 weeks. So ah know that um Errol Goulden's meant to be back in the next week or two.
00:12:48
JORDAN DSENA
Mm, full tear.
00:12:54
Lew
There's certainly going to be a spot for him there. That might be an interesting one to to discuss over the next couple of weeks if he hits the ground running.
00:13:02
Holmesy
All that means, Louis is guaranteed top six forward. Chad Warner is just going to continue on keeping on.
00:13:09
JORDAN DSENA
I can't believe that, eh?
00:13:12
Holmesy
What's wrong, Jordy? Did that trigger you a bit?
00:13:15
JORDAN DSENA
Oh, no, i just, I should have got, I probably should have gone Warner all those weeks ago. I just thought McInerney had the better role, but yeah, Warner's the man at the moment.
00:13:24
Holmesy
He's not. He's been very lucky the last two weeks.
00:13:26
Lew
Yeah, he e tons, he tons, and then he just drops a 60 on your head.
00:13:31
JORDAN DSENA
Well...
00:13:31
Holmesy
the rope The role has been better the last two weeks, admittedly, coinciding with McInerney going down early in those games. He's he's been back up at the 70% centre bounces, but... Yeah, he's ah he' the definition of a hard-own.
00:13:43
Holmesy
um I wouldn't necessarily recommend others going there at the moment. What did I have this week? I had the 18-11, so that slid me back about 300 spots to 3,680, so close enough to par, especially with having Whitfield and Callaghan on the bye. probably couldn't have expected to do much more there.
00:14:04
Holmesy
My Stato pick of the week, once again, Louis, inside only Sam Durham, 132, 10 marks to go with his five tackles.
00:14:09
Lew
Tch.
00:14:15
Holmesy
Yeah, that was that was unreal. But special shout out to Murphy Reid and Chad Warner, who both tonned in matchups. I thought they probably wouldn't. So that was definitely something that meant I had a more decent round than what I probably should have.
00:14:31
Holmesy
My Dossie Pick of the Week, Christian Petrarca has been the toughest non-own since I traded him out up after his injury in round three. Always seemed to just get to that 95 to 110 no matter where he was at in the game, but he just could not touch that ball pretty much since quarter of time, really. I think he got to about 40-odd relatively quickly and then just was shut out of the game. So that wasn't ideal.
00:14:55
Holmesy
Has a few tough
Midfielder Management and Injury Impacts
00:14:56
Holmesy
games to come now. So yeah, hopefully still a top six forward, but harmy I mean, didn't really like him. They haven't really played well yet when they've had Petrarca, Rao and Anderson all in that same midfield. Do you reckon Gold Coast might experiment a little bit knowing that you can't probably have three ball-winning midfielders all in there at the same time?
00:15:15
Jon Harmey
Well, it's not going well, though, is it? I mean, they've only been back together for a couple of weeks, but, yeah, they haven't really hit their straps. So something's got to change, you would think.
00:15:26
Holmesy
Yeah, I think, Jordy, we spoke about this all the way back in the preseason about like a Took Miller probably needing to be that sort of defensive-minded midfielder in there because, you know, there's not many midfields in the comp where they're all just A-graders that hunt the footy. You've always got your Tom Sparrow, Josh Dunkley, defensive-minded player, George Wardlaw in there that's doing the hard yards. So I'm not sure what that looks like for Petrarca moving forward.
00:15:51
JORDAN DSENA
Yeah, I guess Trak's that one, isn't he? That off-half forward is probably the obvious, but he's having an unreal year. He's probably not moving Noah out of there because he's a captain. He probably wants to be in around the ball. But obviously, he's played wing before. like Could you move into a wing? It just doesn't seem right.
00:16:06
JORDAN DSENA
Rouse the inside ball. So it is interesting. It probably is Petrarca that maybe plays more forward. But I think Harbwick likes what he's doing. But um anyway, we'll just have to see...
00:16:16
JORDAN DSENA
see what happens. Maybe Took, you know, Took had, it I think took top score, well, except for Noble, but out of the midfielders, I think he was actually scored the best out of those four that on the weekend. So, yeah, going to be interesting.
00:16:30
Holmesy
Yeah, it definitely was in that second half when I was when i was watching the game. ah The Pod Pod Challenge, we now have 11 coaches in the top 100, which is really good to see.
00:16:41
Holmesy
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00:16:55
Holmesy
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00:17:09
Holmesy
Let's get stuck straight into our hot topics for the week. And as Jordy mentioned off the top, I think, or maybe pre-pod, there's not a lot of hot topics. Moving into the buy rounds, it's pretty much going to be discussing players that are trade-out targets and trade-in targets. But we did mention Justin McInerney. So 10-week Hammy confirmed to today, which means, yeah, he's obviously needing to be a trade-out.
00:17:33
Holmesy
Jordy, just speak a little bit about that ah Swans article that you read about the moving magnets at at the Swans and what that could mean for for some of our fantasy players.
00:17:42
JORDAN DSENA
Yeah, there's an article out that came out today, AFL.com, and down back they've had a few injuries. So McCartan, I think, got concussion. think they said Rampy and Melican were out. So what the article said was Jai Sarong, who's been playing wing and obviously kicked that unreal goal and got 100 points. He might actually play a bit more defensive halfback this week, which can move Logan Morris, not Logan Morris, Logan McDonald to the wing. and play that wing role, which might open up a forward spot. So does that mean they bring in Al Adams?
00:18:13
JORDAN DSENA
There was a bit of talk about Grundy resting. So did they bring in another tool there? Obviously McInerney as well is is going to go out of the side. Goulden in the article as well. Well, Lowe McDonald said Goulden is pretty much at what I took it as a lock.
00:18:30
JORDAN DSENA
after the bias around 16. So he should come in, which means that maybe he could then play that wing role that Logan McDonald is probably going to fill for this week.
00:18:43
Jon Harmey
Pete Laddams in the VFL. He's just been doing this all season somehow. 141 points, 35 disposals. Peter Laddams, 35 disposals. 26 hit outs. If you go with it, eight marks.
00:18:57
Jon Harmey
far I reckon manage minutes, like that might be the answer.
00:18:58
Lew
Managed minutes as well.
00:18:58
JORDAN DSENA
Killing it.
00:19:02
JORDAN DSENA
Yeah, does he come in for just one week this week?
00:19:03
Holmesy
Yeah.
00:19:06
Holmesy
Well, they play? They got Port, don't they?
00:19:08
Holmesy
You don't need the double for for Jordan Sweet, do they? But, Matt, Laddams was pretty unlucky to get dropped. I mean, Grundy's been in great form, so you do understand it from that point of view, but can't ask much more for him and clearly too good at VFL level. So that's that's one to watch.
00:19:08
JORDAN DSENA
Yeah, poor...
00:19:25
Lew
reckon Grundy might fly being an SA boy.
00:19:25
Holmesy
Wreck.
00:19:28
Holmesy
Yeah, true. You won't get any ah airport journos out there in Sydney, though, to know, really. And we know the journos in Adelaide, unless it's Jack Ginevan, they're not paying attention at the airport, Louis.
00:19:41
Holmesy
Speaking of Adelaide, it sounds like Isaac Rankin's still another week away. Doesn't sound like he's going to get up for the Bulldogs game. So he'll be one to monitor when he comes back, if that midfield role continues.
00:19:56
Holmesy
Boys, what I want to do is just talk a little bit about what we're looking to do with our trading strategy this week as I think it is ah an interesting time of the year because a lot of coaches seem to have used most or pretty much all of their cash on the bench.
00:20:12
Holmesy
So now it's, you know, it'll be very tempting to go sideways on a Dan Houston, Sam Walsh, Josh Dacos, Murphy, Reid, those type of players this week.
00:20:23
Holmesy
But if we do use all of our upgrade money to get them up to some of the top guys, I feel like we might be a little bit short, which means we might not be able to complete our sides coming out of the buys as the rookies are starting to dry up.
00:20:33
JORDAN DSENA
Thank you.
00:20:35
Holmesy
But, Jordy, what are you looking to do this week, knowing that we still do have an eye on the the following rounds to make sure that we are completing our sides coming out of the buys?
Trading Strategies Post-Buy
00:20:46
JORDAN DSENA
Yeah, I think you're spot on with that. Like last week, so Flanders and McCluggage, we had to get rid of those guys. I went to Baz and Dawson. So I've gone to the Uber guys, but it is upgrading my team, but it's not getting rookies or these other players off field. And I'm conscious of doing that again this week. Like you said, if I'm getting rid of a Josh Dacos or something, I think he's okay to hold. So I'm probably going to hold someone like that.
00:21:12
JORDAN DSENA
I am looking, i really want to get Lockie Ash in. I think going to the halfback last week, he's traded in by the most at the moment. So my trades, I think I will be getting rid of a Houston or a Newman for Lockie Ash.
00:21:27
JORDAN DSENA
which is a bit sideways, but I think it's also sort of getting off that. Like Houston, we started with, he's done his job. I think I'm happy to get him up to Ash. The other trade, I've got McInerney, so i have to get rid of him. But I'm wondering if other teams, like can you get an Angry Anderson up, a Dersmer?
00:21:45
JORDAN DSENA
Dersmer's got his buy next week. Can you get him up? um Do you go to a Whitfield, Callaghan? you know Even Petrarca still or or Horn Francis. um I think the GWS guys are pretty tempting to pick off the buy. So for me, like i've I can trade McInerney, but I think I'd be looking to upgrade my team and making sure at the end of it, I i haven't just sort of sideways my whole side.
00:22:15
Holmesy
Yeah, because we are starting to run out of good rookies coming through. Like Hugo Hall, ah calm whatever his name is, was pretty good on the weekend, but still only scored a 50. So what does that look like long term? We hope he holds. We saw Banfield get dropped.
00:22:29
Holmesy
You wouldn't think Eisen has too much like like too much more cash to make with the the back-to-back thirty s So that it is starting to dry up. And I think some of the coaches would have benefited by, you know, holding Sarong a little bit longer, holding a Lindsay right to the top, even a Carroll.
00:22:46
Holmesy
um so Sarong's the big one, but if there's a move to halfback, you know, do you have to maybe look at that one if he's going to be playing more lockdown, getting off that? I still think we need to be careful in making sure that we are upgrading our side still because, ah like I said, it's very tempting to go a Houston up to an Ash this week, which is great.
00:23:05
Holmesy
But if that means you're going to be coming out of the buys with a rookie and we lose some of these better scoring, I mean, we just have to see Jagger Smith on the weekend, right? Like he's been really good for us, but he scores a 57. If you're getting those scores on field after the buys, that's when you're really going to fall behind. But Harmi, what are you looking to do this week?
00:23:25
Jon Harmey
Yeah, I've sort of been the same. yeah I guess to to do an upgrade, you've got to be able to do a downgrade and there isn't really any rookies presenting there. I'm kind of hoping like a Joel Fitzgerald will get named or something. like I kind of thought that Jai Murray might score pretty well, but he didn't. So I already brought in Holcun.
00:23:49
Jon Harmey
last weekend so um I really need to cash out some players on my bench but there's nobody to go to so anyway I am still going to try to downgrade a rookie and then um move Houston on and move Bruin on that's what I would like to do so we'll see if that can end up happening or not
00:24:15
Holmesy
Louis, Jordy's just put in here the chat, your boy Tommy Cochran. Do we see that role sticking long-term? he He played pretty well on the weekend, but obviously played the Eagles, so there's a bit of may on that score.
00:24:29
Holmesy
We might have still have the mature age Collingwood forward, who actually, you know, I didn't watch the game, but um scored pretty well and he's on the bye this week.
00:24:36
Jon Harmey
On the buy, aren't they?
00:24:38
Holmesy
So, yeah, I'm talking about you know after the bye when Collingwood come back.
00:24:39
Jon Harmey
Mm-hmm.
00:24:43
Holmesy
What are you looking to Louis? I mean, i I was initially had this round pegged as one that I'd be trying to get rid of Murphy Reid, potentially Jagger. But now I'm just, you know, I'm um'm conscious of, you know, getting rid of all of these players and then being a little bit stuck come the end of the Bias.
00:24:59
Lew
Yeah, i think we're all sort of reading the tea leaves the same way. I remember last week we sort of highlighted there's this group of players who are treading water a little bit like your Tanner Bruins and your Steels, your Houston types that have enough cash on their head to get somewhere significant.
00:25:16
Lew
um but yeah keeping in mind as you guys have identified that there's just not that much coming through in terms of rookies so you know i'm pretty mindful that we've got nine trades until the end of the buyers still so i think there is enough time to to maybe get a few more pre mid-season draftee picks in maybe a few more debutants come through but yeah certainly some alarm bells are starting to ring so yeah I'm um'm likely to start moving on some of these guys like a Steele and a Tanner Bruin.
00:25:48
Lew
and I'm i finally going to get rid of Dante Vicentini as well, guys. so Hip, hip, hooray for that.
00:25:54
Holmesy
Big moment, Louis.
00:25:54
Lew
but
00:25:54
JORDAN DSENA
Mm-hmm.
00:25:55
Holmesy
Well done.
00:25:57
Lew
but um yeah As you mentioned there, Jordy, I think Tommy Cochran's probably outside of that whole Kahan for Adelaide is probably the next best pick. He was... um He was a little bit underdone. He hasn't played AFL footy in in quite a while, but he's going to have a spot in that team for the rest of the year, provided he can stay fit. And yeah, he put up a really great showing, certainly in that first half too, with the um six score involvements from his eight touches. So they're clearly wanting to use him and go through him. So um yeah, that's probably where I'd be putting my chips in if I was looking for a rookie.
00:26:33
Holmesy
So, Louis, why now? what's What's his story? Because they went with Anastas Populus and then he got dropped. So, what's the...
00:26:41
Lew
He just wasn't fit. I can't remember.
00:26:44
JORDAN DSENA
You had a hamstring.
00:26:45
Lew
Yeah, I think it was a pretty significant hamstring and then had another setback and he played the two or three weeks in the sand full while Tommy A was sort of getting his go in the AFL. And um yeah, I think that magnet's switched now permanently most likely and he's extremely highly rated. I'd be pretty surprised if he doesn't play every game until the end of the season.
00:27:06
Jon Harmey
Jeez, that's big raps from Lou.
00:27:08
JORDAN DSENA
You
00:27:08
Jon Harmey
far right
00:27:10
JORDAN DSENA
I said, yeah.
00:27:10
Holmesy
He did have the same big raps on his boy Dante early as well, Will Brodie.
00:27:13
Jon Harmey
All right. Will Brodie. Oh, don't I?
00:27:15
Holmesy
So, you know, take it with a grain of salt.
00:27:21
JORDAN DSENA
He kicked five on his first game back.
00:27:22
Lew
I wasn't too bullish on Dante, was I?
00:27:25
JORDAN DSENA
Hmm.
00:27:28
Holmesy
All right. ah So let's i mean let's let's talk about some of these popular players that have their buy. um ah suppose before we do that, the ruck line once again is becoming a massive issue.
Ruck Management Dilemmas
00:27:39
Holmesy
right We're seeing Grundy you know getting managed and then the talks of potentially Aladims coming in at some stage. You know, Gorn, probably we're going to see Max Heath this week, so then that's going to drop his scoring. Luke Jackson has been down the last few games, and Sean Darcy, I dare say, probably comes back in after the bye as well.
00:27:59
Holmesy
You know, English hasn't been able to hit form just yet, and even then got to wait until after round 17 to get him in, and he has some tough matchups around that. Tristan Cherry puts up a 60 on the weekend. He's either a 60, 80 or 150 at the moment.
00:28:15
Holmesy
Harmi, I've got Darcy Cameron and I'm actually really worried that come round 15 when he comes back after the buy that they're going to change things up in the ruck. do we are we just Is it just holding in the ruck at the moment rather than burning too many trades like we already have or have you considered getting a little bit crafty in there?
00:28:34
Jon Harmey
Kyle, I have Darcy Cameron also and I share your concerns. So, ah I don't know, Cameron and Grundy for me at the moment and let's have a look. What that give me?
00:28:48
Jon Harmey
Last round. Whoops, not there.
00:28:52
Holmesy
148 or something.
00:28:53
Jon Harmey
A 76 and a 77. Well, at least the scores counted in my best 18, but only barely just like... Anyway, I think that we really need to hold. Things haven't necessarily settled yet. I still think English will be a good buy at some point, but it's probably not right now. Max, you already said earlier there's uncertainty around Heath and...
00:29:19
Jon Harmey
um I mean, nice move for those that did it, but I'm not confident that he's going to be the number one right coming into the season. So I'm really just sort of waiting and seeing, I think.
00:29:31
Holmesy
Yeah, i think English is going to be the one if he can get himself fit. um There's no danger of someone else coming into ruck once he's fit. They love what he does as solo ruck. Cherry, I mean, what's his... Jordy, what's the... Oh, Trembath. He's been getting about 10 CBAs a game, chopping out. You know, Cherry, we're very used to high time on ground, high ruck contests, and he's a bit like Cameron where he's just useless at the centre bounces at the moment.
00:29:57
Holmesy
You couldn't trade into Cherry with any confidence. I mean, I had Cameron to Cherry penciled in for this round a couple of weeks ago when I first went back to Darcy Cameron, but it would it would take a brave coach to do that with the form that we've seen, and he's just not really looking fit, but he did have 150 on the Eagles earlier in the year.
00:30:15
Lew
And the Tigers to follow, he's had some pretty good games against.
00:30:17
JORDAN DSENA
Yeah, I'm like you, Holmes. yeah I was going to look at that because it's something different that I don't think many coaches are going to do. And he's got he's capable of of a 150. And I was searching for Baz's 150 last week and I didn't get it.
00:30:33
JORDAN DSENA
So I'm searching for a Cherry 150
00:30:35
Holmesy
This week, this week, it's coming this week against Gold Coast, mate. Just trust the process.
00:30:38
JORDAN DSENA
Yes, VC as well. Trust the process. Yeah, I think he's spot on. it's It's a brave coach. I'm a ranked 11K, so maybe it's worth a punt if with your rank because if he can come out and do one fifty s in a buy round.
00:30:56
JORDAN DSENA
um Doug Deesey's on the buy. It's, yeah, it's that right merry-go-round. I think, look, it's probably safer to to go pick off a Callahan or definitely Whitford or Ash if you got the trades, but I don't know. do you take a punt if you're ranked 11K like where I am?
00:31:13
Holmesy
I think you could. I think you could. The other thing I suppose we'll mention is he had that 150 earlier on in the year, but that was against Matt Flynn. And I think Bailey Williams is actually a a tougher matchup compared to what Flynn is.
00:31:22
JORDAN DSENA
Hmm.
00:31:25
Holmesy
So I'm not sure that 150 will be there. But yeah, who knows? We've seen it from him before. Popular players on the buy. So as we mentioned, you you kind of need to decide whether um you move these players on or whether you sort of trade around them and and cop maybe a bit of a lower score this week.
Player Trade Considerations and Debates
00:31:42
Holmesy
Murphy Reid, 52% owned. ah This is in the top 1,000 numbers, by the way, courtesy of Moreira's Magic. Go check that out. um I mean, I think, oh, Harmi, you've got Murphy Reid, don't you? So I suppose you can speak to him. He's been fantastic and keeps getting it done, but is his time up now?
00:32:00
Jon Harmey
I thought it was going to be, but he's he's got another 100 on the weekend. So if there was if there was an abundance of forwards that I liked, I'd consider it. But, I mean, I already noted earlier in the pod that I've got Houston and Broon that I'm looking to move on. And I think those guys are a higher priority trade out than Murphy Reid for sure.
00:32:21
Holmesy
Yep, especially after the ton, that resets his break even a little bit. And I think he has two games at Optus post-buy, so Geelong and Gold Coast. So I think, yeah, can probably hold him a little bit longer.
00:32:35
Holmesy
Nick Newman, 43% owned. i don't think I don't think he's the worst option. Geordie, you're shaking your head to hold. um He's been a little bit disappointing, but he's actually put up some decent scores.
00:32:46
Holmesy
I think your Houston's are far bigger priorities than a Nick Newman, but if he fits your trading structure, i don't mind it. louisu Luke Jackson's the interesting one, 42% owned. I mean, we just spoke about how the rucks are a bit of an issue to trade into at the moment, but you'd have to be worried.
00:33:04
Holmesy
With Sean Darcy, um' I'm pretty confident if he gets through the waffle this weekend's fit, he'll come back in for Mason Cox post-buy. And we saw at the start of the year when Darcy was in the side that Jackson wasn't Luke Jackson.
00:33:17
Holmesy
Is now the time with still some money on his head to to get off him considering you know we see the Jacks deal and how much money he's lost. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and get off these guys.
00:33:28
Lew
Yeah, look, I see ah what you're sort of putting down there. But at the same time, I think that there's lots of holes you can poke in plenty of the Ruckman at the moment. So I'm not sure I would be jumping at that shadow just yet.
00:33:42
Lew
I think I would rather hold him him just for now and see what that actually looks like when Sean Darcy comes into that side.
00:33:42
Holmesy
Thank you.
00:33:50
Lew
um Just mostly due to a lack of confidence in some of these other options that we're actually looking at now.
00:33:57
Holmesy
Yeah, I think I'd probably agree with that. And Harmi, as he just types in the in the chat here, closer to the top of his line than Brune is. I think that's that's probably the argument with the Luke Jackson. If we've got so much uncertainty around who to trade into in the ruck line, then you probably just let that one let one let that one go. So I hope that he bounces back post-buy. And he does have Geelong, who he had that 125 on earlier in the year. So I'd probably be holding Luke Jackson.
00:34:25
Holmesy
Cameron, we've already spoken about. Josh Dacos, I think you hold. Geordie is disappointing as he has been. I still think he's close enough to the you know the top 10 defenders, which means he's just ah not a priority trade out.
00:34:38
Holmesy
Sam Walsh is the interesting one though. So he's 27% owned in the top 1,000. So he's more highly owned than that, which shows that you know the coaches that are in the top 1,000, they don't really have him because he's been quite disappointing.
00:34:52
Holmesy
His scores, I think one ton since the caretaker coach took over. Is it time to go on Sam Walsh, Geordie, or do you think the buyer will hopefully freshen him up and we could see some scores in the back half of the year?
00:35:05
JORDAN DSENA
Yeah, Sam Walsh is interesting because last week there's a lot of talk that he missed out on a few points and it was a bigger score coming in. But this week he had a bit of a shoulder concern. So he went off.
00:35:16
Jon Harmey
Mm-hmm.
00:35:16
JORDAN DSENA
He wasn't tackling. I saw him heaps of times just going sort of one hand for a tackle something was bothering him with the shoulder. Is the buyer going to fresh him up or is it something he needs to carry? Because I think that was the reason why he got the 74. Obviously well it probably was a bit of a lower scoring game in the end, like against the Bombers, like, you know, Jagger and these types sort of, you know, none of them really got off the chain. So it's sort of that middle ground. Do jump off now?
00:35:47
JORDAN DSENA
is he holding a shoulder you know, you know he does it freshen him up and he looks like he was the week before when he was meant to get that ceiling. So ah don't know where I would sit with Walshie. I think, again, as your argument before, what is he averaging 95? It's probably, what, five points off of a top eight mid. So...
00:36:09
JORDAN DSENA
he's He's probably not that far off. um So it's a tough one. I don't own him, but I know all you guys have him. So is he someone you're looking at or just going to hold him?
00:36:23
Holmesy
Personally, I'm not. And I probably should because, you know, I've had that same mindset with Jack Steele over the last six, seven weeks and it just hasn't turned that around.
00:36:30
JORDAN DSENA
Hmm.
00:36:32
Holmesy
I just think he's too good of a player to not turn it around at some stage. And I think the buyer will be good for him. But he does have GWS after the bye. Do they tag? Then into the Eagles. Does Hoff run with him?
00:36:42
Holmesy
i think Hoff will go to Cripps, but you just never know.
00:36:44
Jon Harmey
Thank you.
00:36:45
Holmesy
But yeah, ah for the same echoes that I said at the start of the pod with trying to trade around these guys to make sure I have a completed side, I don't think the best use of 100, is to take Walsh up to Dawson. I think I've got to try and do that um with other avenues.
00:37:02
Holmesy
Louis, I mean, Jagger is one that I think, I mean, it might just be me and Geordie that still have him, but he's done his job now. I think he can go, um especially if you've got DPP and you can get him up to, you know, someone in the midfield and and run a Roby or someone like that for a little bit longer in the forward line.
00:37:20
Holmesy
Houston, we kind of touched on it, but let's go through it one more time. I'll go to Harmi. Houston, does he have to go? Is he is he a priority?
00:37:29
Jon Harmey
I wanted to train him out last week and I didn't and I should have done because he's just is not doing what we he was at the start of the year. The game style is slightly different. He's not getting the disposals. So i think he really needs to go. And if I have look at this, yeah, in the ah top 5% of the coaches, he's still owned by 67%. So jump off while you can, I reckon.
00:37:54
Holmesy
The one thing I'm just struggling with, and I want to jump off him too, but he has Port Adelaide after the bye, which is revenge game, and Port have been given up scores to defenders.
00:37:56
Lew
Thank
00:38:05
Holmesy
Then he has Richmond. Then he has Gold Coast. Then North. Then Carlton. So it's a pretty good run. Is he tired? you know Maynard's just popped his shoulder out. Does does that mean he's out long-term?
00:38:20
Holmesy
That's what I'm just struggling with. you know Can he go back to his 95 plus ways post buy? But even then, he's He's undone a lot of the the hard work. And if you don't trade him now, Harmi, I don't think we we will.
00:38:33
Holmesy
You're not going to burn a trade on it later on.
00:38:35
Jon Harmey
if you want to If you want a Collingwood defender who going to score well, you need to jump over to Josh Dacos, mate. Get on board. He's ready to fire.
00:38:43
Holmesy
Yeah. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. All right, let's turn it into some targets now. So Jordan Dawson priced at 116. The only downside to Dawson is that he's so expensive now. And as we said, if you use all your money to get up to him, what's what's that doing to the rest of your side? So if you can manage that and you're still able to plan to complete your side, absolutely tick that off. We need these players at some point.
00:39:10
Holmesy
Harmi, John Noble's the one. So priced at 108, four scores above 130 in his last five. And the one down game that he had was against North where they actually tagged him a little bit.
00:39:22
Holmesy
Is this the new John Noble or is it Archie Roberts all over again where we pay up and then the role goes back to being the eighty five ninety guy that we see for a lot of our defenders in the comp?
00:39:34
Jon Harmey
well i guess more often than not it's the latter is in what he's been doing is the outlier he's had a far higher proportion the rest of the backs at gold coast it's Stands out and you shouldn't trade into him.
00:39:50
Jon Harmey
But I don't know. It's how it keeps getting it done. But not somebody that I've looked in as a trade option, to be fair, mate.
00:39:56
Holmesy
Yeah, and playing Geelong this week as well at GMHBA, really skinny ground. I'm not sure the outside ball will be there as much as what has been previously.
00:40:06
JORDAN DSENA
but if um What if Mullen goes to him over Nando's?
00:40:06
Holmesy
Can't knock what he's done. Geordie, I think
00:40:12
Holmesy
you can hope.
00:40:13
Holmesy
You can hope.
00:40:13
JORDAN DSENA
Mullen to Noble.
00:40:14
Jon Harmey
Mullington Noble.
00:40:15
JORDAN DSENA
And then Anderson gets 120.
00:40:15
Jon Harmey
Oof.
00:40:17
JORDAN DSENA
knows? na who knows
00:40:21
Holmesy
I think you've just got a hope that Noble comes back a little bit and and maybe we can get him for around 100 price tag. I think he's every chance to be a top six defender to finish the year with the form that he's in especially.
00:40:32
Holmesy
But, you know, how often, Harmi, do we see players go on these four or five game stretches a la Roberts and then they come back to the pack?
00:40:37
Jon Harmey
Yep.
00:40:39
Jon Harmey
Absolutely happens all the time. Hey, Jordy, sounds like you, so did you bring in Anderson on the weekend?
00:40:46
JORDAN DSENA
No, I didn't. And I was it obviously he was going to the game, so I was pretty keen to do it. But I just went Baz and Dawson. I ended up paying up. And that was because Klug and who else? Flanders injured. So allowed me to do it.
00:41:00
JORDAN DSENA
But I was keen on Anderson and watching him. Lucky because sort of saved it in in the end there. But didn't start very well.
00:41:06
Holmesy
Someone on this podcast, Harmy, Wyn Anderson, Louie.
00:41:11
JORDAN DSENA
Louis.
00:41:13
Jon Harmey
Ooh, look.
00:41:15
Holmesy
How do you feel about that one, Louis? Because he's still a target priced at 100, but surely with the Geelong matchup this week, you don't touch that. i could I could see the merit considering how bad Brisbane had been and the scores they were giving up. If you had have got a ceiling game out of Anderson last week, it would have sheltered ah a potential Mullentag this week, even though Geelong do weird things. But are staying away from the the Gold Coast boys now this week?
00:41:39
Lew
Yeah, look, ah I think Noah will bounce back. So I've certainly picked him for these last sort of 10 games. But yeah, hopefully Mullen doesn't go to him this week. But yeah, I do think there's some upside there based on the the price that I've paid.
00:41:53
Lew
It was also the, you know, that was the market I was shopping into. it was probably the best of a um a bit of an inconsistent bunch.
00:42:03
JORDAN DSENA
Also, say just on Mullen, Everyone's, I mean, with the tag, is he actually doing a decent job? Like we saw Dawson, he went to Dawson at times, but then Baz was on Dawson.
00:42:14
JORDAN DSENA
Dawson had a ceiling. He's tried to tag Butters and Butters got past him. Is Mullen actually that tagger that he was last year? I'm just, I'm wondering, I think he might've got one of the guys or a couple of the guys, but I just don't, I don't know whether he is doing a full-time job anymore. It's just something that I've sort of noticed.
00:42:34
Lew
I think he's just got more of a license now where he can damage on the other end a little bit more. It was more of one-trick pony previously, but he's playing with some nice confidence and does some nice things comparatively to to previous years. So I'm sure if they were to hand him the the absolute lockdown role once more, then you know he could definitely get it done. So there's always going to be that sort of thing hovering over their head, I think.
00:43:01
Holmesy
Yeah, I think, I mean, Bomp was the outlier game. I still think traditionally, Geordie, he's been the tagger that's done the jobs on, you know, Randerson types that are, you know, mostly the outside guns that just run all day and and he just follows them around, which limits the the marks and things like that. He just developed into a bit more of a contest player recently.
00:43:21
Holmesy
It'll just depend. I think Geelong have had more of a system-based approach recently to these players and they've been found out the last few. So i think they might go back to what they know this week, which would be Mullen taking a little bit more accountability for someone. But yeah, we'll wait and see how that is. And I dare say Mark O'Connor will do a bit of a run with Petrarca if he goes forward as well, Harmi.
00:43:43
Jon Harmey
Just talking about the Suns, Geordie, you said you went to the game. Jai Murray, is he just not, don't even bother looking at him? Because he's been going well in the BFL.
00:43:52
JORDAN DSENA
Yeah, I didn't even, to be honest, I didn't notice him out there. It wasn't, you know, a guy that took my, like, was like, oh, I've got to get Murray in.
00:43:55
Jon Harmey
Hmm.
00:44:00
JORDAN DSENA
So I think it was low target after to check. But um yeah, I mean, it's his first game in. So let's see if he holds his spot. But who knows? He he might be able to, he might be, you know, pop one.
00:44:10
Lew
Thank
00:44:12
JORDAN DSENA
But I think maybe, I think what you're saying before, maybe go for one of these mid-season guys if they get picked. Yeah.
00:44:19
Holmesy
Harmi, could you talk anyone into going JHF this week now that the run really is opening up?
Upcoming Fixtures and Trade Targets
00:44:24
Jon Harmey
That was annoying because that was who I was going to instead of bloody LDU anyway. um Well, look, we spoke about it last week on the pod, didn't we, Holmesy?
00:44:34
Holmesy
houghs Hoff's going to go with him. He doesn't like a tag.
00:44:36
Jon Harmey
And we both said you could go with him. I still think you could go with him.
00:44:41
Holmesy
Fair enough. I dare say he probably bounces back a little bit, but... Not sure I could trade into it this week with Hoff and it probably becomes a ah play after that. Louie, I'll throw you one, two, three, four GWS boys to talk through quickly and then we'll get into some questions. so Whitfield priced at 104, Ash priced at 103, Oliver priced at 101 and then Callaghan priced at 96.
00:45:07
Holmesy
I mean, clearly the defender boys are more ah more of an interest than the midfielders. But, you know, would you would you say anything to coaches that were looking to bring in any of those players this week?
00:45:17
Lew
ah I'd certainly be ticking off Whitfield and Ash just with the next couple of matchups. They've got the Saints and the Blues. Within that, I think they can get real busy. And then, it's it look, it might be a bit of a flip of the coin with Oliver and Callaghan. I think I still prefer Callaghan just in terms of maybe age profile and...
00:45:36
Lew
And just what he's been, what he's shown in the past, which is probably a bit disrespectful to Oliver, but think he's just more that in and under type and maybe, yeah yeah, just not the sort of player that I usually pick on. But we've been saying it for a couple of weeks now, the best part of a month, I think, that Clayton Oliver is probably the one that's gone the most under the radar in terms of a genuine sort of top eight to 10 midfielder pick.
00:46:03
Holmesy
Yeah, he's just been getting it done. Callaghan this week against St. Kilda, he's going to get a Windhager slash Garcia tag. So, I mean, we know what he's like with the tag. He puts up these 70s and 80s.
00:46:15
Holmesy
But yeah, he's been he's been good and has coincided with GWS hitting a bit of form too.
00:46:17
Jon Harmey
Mm-hmm.
00:46:21
Holmesy
Definitely helps with ah a Brent Daniels type running through there is a bit more explosive that other teams need to to look after. But yeah, I'd agree. Clary's probably the one, the safer one who's probably not value, but is probably going to end up around that sort of eight to 10 range as a midfielder. Callaghan's clearly got the upside, but has the attention. So Harmi.
00:46:45
Jon Harmey
Could I interest you in LDU against the Eagles, Holmesy?
00:46:51
Holmesy
um'm so con confused I'm so confused. We just spoke about him.
00:46:51
Jon Harmey
It's got a good run coming up That's why I've got even...
00:46:55
JORDAN DSENA
um
00:46:55
Holmesy
is it Does he listen?
00:46:57
Jon Harmey
Oh, sorry, mate.
00:46:57
Holmesy
go Go back to Harmy from last week. You're a new man last week.
00:47:02
Holmesy
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00:47:23
Holmesy
The link is in the show description below.
00:47:24
Holmesy
But Louis, first one is from our good friend Bontsville Wizard, a It's a bit irrelevant now, but we'll still cover it anyway. Hey, lads, hope all is going well.
00:47:24
Jon Harmey
Thank you.
00:47:35
Holmesy
Whitfield and Ash and hold J-Mac, or does he trade J-Mac to Track and then Newman to Ash? So J-Mac is out, sorry, and he has to trade there. But would you tick off Track and Ash coming in for Newman and J-Mac?
00:47:49
Lew
Yeah, no, absolutely. That's ah genuine upgrades there. And, you know, obviously, JMAC has to go now. So I think that's ah that's a tick now.
00:47:59
Holmesy
Jordy, this one's from Max Stoneman. Do we hold Darcy Cameron? The other ruck options aren't jumping out. For reference, I already have Gorn and I'm sitting 115 overall. I have 21 green dots for the round. So yeah, what are your thoughts here? No pressure.
00:48:17
JORDAN DSENA
DC to Cherry goes from 115 into the top 100. Nah, I don't know. That's risky, but that's like that risk reveal reward take. You probably hold him, it's safer, but if you want to take a punt, do you just go Cherry? I don't know. I never really, Holmes, you're probably the best one at at that sort of rank of of when you sort of do launch at these picks. It's probably not the time of year. Maybe it's the end of the year, or do you just go now
00:48:45
Holmesy
Amen. ay
00:48:45
Jon Harmey
Yeah, look, Darcy Cameron, I mean, yep, if he's your worst player, you could look to him, move him on. But the last two weeks before the weekend, where he just played against Max Gorn, right? Best ruck in the comp. So but the two games before that, 103-124. not like he's a complete spud is it
00:49:07
Holmesy
Yep, and we just have to look to McAndrew, who was getting tired and then comes back, admittedly in conditions that suited him to a tee, but has the week off and puts up a 128.
00:49:20
Holmesy
Cameron does have Port Adelaide after the bye, which is a relatively easy ruck matchup, and then into Richmond, so I'd be i'd be holding Darcy Cameron. Personally, I am. I'm not looking to trade him, but I am...
00:49:33
Holmesy
A little bit nervous that there might be a bit more of a dual ruck setup come after the bye. Louis, this one is from Henzart360.
00:49:43
Holmesy
Fellas, given this is the pod pod, how sung was Holmesy when his pod of Durham scored a 132?
00:49:48
Lew
ah
00:49:50
Holmesy
Gutted, I traded. In all seriousness, what do you see Durham averaging and can we consider him as a target in round 16?
00:49:50
Jon Harmey
Hehe.
00:49:59
Lew
I'll give us an average, Holmesy.
00:50:02
Holmesy
I think he's probably a safe 85 guy. So he'll be priced at 70-ish probably at the end of the buys.
00:50:13
Holmesy
I reckon he could do it.
00:50:13
Lew
Yeah.
00:50:14
Holmesy
Maybe, is it?
00:50:14
Lew
I'll give that to you. You know far more than me, mate.
00:50:17
Holmesy
Maybe as the F7 loop, potentially, as a cheaper cheaper guy to loop. I think that could be a play if you've got the rest of your side sorted. He's not going play like that every every week, clearly. But roll, tick, um it's the first time he's really been a full-time midfielder commanding it. I'd be more worried if Merritt goes back into the midfield. But as long as Merritt's out of there, I can't see why he's not an 85 to 90 averaging player.
00:50:43
Holmesy
and could be some value on the run home. Harmy, this one is from so Marcel Bunce. Shout out to Marcel. Hope he's all right. Former student of mine. Always not that great a fantasy, Harmy. So give him some good advice, please.
00:50:57
Holmesy
ah Rank these in trade priority. So Houston, Newman, Smith, Bolton, Walsh, and then Angus Anderson.
00:51:04
Jon Harmey
Oh, hold on. He's got a few there. Let's...
00:51:07
Holmesy
Well, you've got the show doc there to read off, mate.
00:51:09
Jon Harmey
and Yeah, I don't really pay much attention to it.
00:51:11
Lew
Can't read.
00:51:12
Jon Harmey
No.
00:51:13
JORDAN DSENA
Is that Bandsmith?
00:51:14
Jon Harmey
All right.
00:51:17
Jon Harmey
No, no, no.
00:51:17
Holmesy
Is there another Smith?
00:51:18
Jon Harmey
Jagger, Jagger.
00:51:19
Holmesy
Jagger.
00:51:19
JORDAN DSENA
Oh, Jagger.
00:51:20
Jon Harmey
Yeah, yeah. All right, Marcel. Let's have a look. Marcel. Right in these. Houston, Newman. Well, Houston ahead of Newman. Houston, Newman. Jagger, Smith. a jink Jagger, it's time to go.
00:51:32
Jon Harmey
You should have been eyeing this off for some time. He's got a 50 on the weekend. Bolton. Is that Shea Bolton? Yeah, would be. I haven't paid much attention to him.
00:51:39
JORDAN DSENA
Yep.
00:51:40
Holmesy
Yeah.
00:51:41
Jon Harmey
How's he been going?
00:51:43
Holmesy
Up and down, but close enough to the top six forwards. Roll still fantastic.
00:51:47
Jon Harmey
Alright, the priorities trade outs I think are Anderson, he's peaked, he's scored crap, he's on his buy, get rid of him. I think Houston ahead of Newman.
00:51:59
Jon Harmey
um So i'd say I'd say the rookies, so you're looking at Anderson and then Smith and then I would probably go Houston, geez I'm tempted by trading Walsh.
00:52:12
Jon Harmey
ahead of Newman as well. I actually don't mind Newman. I think I'm happy enough to hold him. So anyway, Anderson and Smith has been my first two trite trade-outs and Houston.
00:52:21
Lew
Thank you.
00:52:22
Jon Harmey
So that'd be the three-foot one, ma Marcel. Good luck. Hope you beat Holmesy.
00:52:27
Holmesy
a I think I got him on the weekend. Actually, I'm still in a league with all those boys. um Yeah, look, i I actually haven't got Anderson's price in front of me, but I think...
00:52:37
Jon Harmey
I traded him out the other day. It's like five team or something.
00:52:39
Holmesy
So if you can get him down to a basement, so say we get a Fitzgerald or an Artemis or someone like that, if you can, what's that, about 270, 280K, and then hopefully you've got a bit of money banked, I think then you try and get Jagger up to maybe ah a Horn Francis type and then whatever you can do there between Newman and Walsh. If Walsh gets the better upgrade, I think you look at you look at that as long as you're not going to be stuck with too many duds on field after that.
00:53:07
Holmesy
um We just spoke about, well, I mean, we'll throw Jack Steele into the mix there for Simon Snouts, Louis. So who is more of a trade-out priority between Jack Steele, Josh Dacos and Jagger? I mean, Jagger is the obvious one, but Jack Steele and Josh Dacos?
00:53:22
Lew
Yeah, I'm still out of those three. I think, as we mentioned earlier, Josh Dacos is close enough to the top defenders where I'm happy to let him run for a little while longer. um And the reason I'd trade steel over Jagger is just basically the skill gap in their respective lines. I think that...
00:53:39
Lew
You know, you can tuck away Jagger at F6 for a couple more weeks and probably get away with that just given what forwards are averaging. Whereas Jack Steele, he's lost the plot for the last two months now and he has lost all his cash, but he's he's close enough where he can get something you can get him up to somebody significant.
00:53:50
Jon Harmey
Mm-hmm.
00:53:57
Lew
So, um yeah, due to that gap, I'm going Jack Steele out of them.
00:54:02
Holmesy
Yeah, I don't know what it is about Jack Steele. In his last four games, he still had a couple of 60-point halves. He can put it together for a little bit, but he just goes missing. And especially when Melbourne get on these runs, the ball just goes too quick for him. But yeah, for me, I'm holding Jack Steele until he's by. I don't think he's going to lose too much money, especially after putting up the 92 on the weekend.
00:54:24
Holmesy
Hopefully, has a decent score against Essendon this week. So i think I'm going to Definitely say Jagger Smith out of those three. Jordy, last one here from Pax is Dan Curtin an option as a value play.
00:54:38
Holmesy
So this one's interesting.
00:54:39
Jon Harmey
Yep.
00:54:40
Holmesy
You talk about Dan Curtin. um I want to get up his stats from the weekend.
00:54:43
Jon Harmey
He scored 95 last game, but before that it's looking pretty ordinary. He's like a 40 in there. So he really has hit his only decent score um just before the bye. But he looked really good doing it.
00:54:57
Jon Harmey
They did have a good game and he played well in that last quarter. So, yeah, just yeah he's not going to be 95, which is what he scored, I think, is the issue.
00:55:01
Holmesy
Yeah.
00:55:06
Holmesy
Yeah, and there was no there was no considerate considerable role change for him. Time on ground was still 74%. Had the 17% centre bounces. Rankin's going to come back into that side.
00:55:18
Holmesy
You'd really want him as an inside midfield, I think, to be a real value play. So I like the thinking, but still wary of these players coming back from long-term injuries. They always seem like they're playing catch-up throughout the season.
00:55:29
Holmesy
And the fantasy scores definitely show that. But boys, that is going to wrap us up.
00:55:35
Jon Harmey
Thank
00:55:36
Holmesy
Geordie, as the 11K Dossie ranked coach, I can't say Louis because even Dossie wasn't ranked 22K back in the day. So we need a new term for that, Louis. But Geordie, can you just give us a ah sign off for the listeners and what they should be looking to do this weekend?
00:55:54
JORDAN DSENA
Yeah, I think you said it last week, Holmes. Try and have your rank over the buyers. So still have 15, not 15, nine trades. So keep chipping away. Try not to go too sideways. Get those guys. If you want to take a punt and get a trade DC, I tick it off, but it is risky.
00:56:11
Holmesy
risk it for the biscuit, hey Jordy.
00:56:14
JORDAN DSENA
Yeah.
00:56:15
Holmesy
Louis, thanks for jumping on. Harmi, to everyone else, make sure you're following us on Twitter at PodPod AFL. I'm at HolmesiesHeroes. Make sure you are subscribed to us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your content.
00:56:30
Holmesy
As always, I'll be back with Selby on Thursday night for the Mareros Magic in-season subscribers where we talk all the general questions and themes from the teams, and I go over what my trade thoughts will be, so make sure you are listening to that.
00:56:44
Holmesy
We will all, as always, be back next week to review round 14 as we another week through the buyers as we continue to plan for the rest of the year. Bye.