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To Infinity and Beyond! | Round 14 #PODPOD
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Buzz Dosyear and Holmesy are joined by two-time top-10 finisher Jon Harmey (@jonharmey) to give you the insights to stay light years ahead of the comp on the run home.
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Transcript
Podcast Introduction and Team Updates
00:00:03
Speaker
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00:00:17
Speaker
G'day, welcome back to the Pod Pod. It's a Wednesday edition this week. It's your boy Buzz Doss here with Holmzy and I'm also here with our special guest, Hami. No Louis or Stata on the show this week. Hami, great to have you back on the show, mate.
Hami's Performance Review
00:00:33
Speaker
How are you going? Thanks, Cockroach. Glad to be here. I'm not going too bad. Good, mate. You roaching a bit yourself this year. How's the season been going? We haven't caught up with you for a while.
00:00:44
Speaker
I've sort of been floating in and out. I think the highest I've been was about 630, but I've sort of been floating between there and about 1500 for about two months now. Beautiful. We'll find out a bit more about your round this weekend and where you're sitting now. But, Holmsey, how are you, mate? You've called me up late into the show. I'm Crook as a dog, but you've forced me out of the couch onto the mic last minute because you said you were going to shit talk me if I didn't.
00:01:09
Speaker
Yeah,
Q&A Session and 'Nailed It, Failed It' Segment
00:01:10
Speaker
well, to be honest, mate, I just really didn't want to host. So I just had to get you in here and it's good to say you can't call yourself a roach and then not roach. So here we are. Have a crack and see how you go.
00:01:24
Speaker
Yeah, no, it's a great point. And we're going to try and get through a big Q&A sesh on this one just to get through a lot of questions. And we've also got some targets for you coming up as well. Yeah, Stado and Louis are away this week, so that's why they can't be here.
00:01:40
Speaker
But let's, we've, by popular, backed by popular demand, we've got our nailed at failed, it's back straight away. So we'll have to get into that in a minute. I don't have an update on the Pod Pod Challenge. I might get to that later, but that's Stado's domain. So maybe we just give it a rest for a week and come back to it when the great man's back.
Trade Strategies and Player Insights
00:01:58
Speaker
But Harmony, do you want to, as our guest, do you want to kick us off? You've got your nailed at failed and maybe a bit about your week, your trades and that sort of thing from last week.
00:02:07
Speaker
Yep, yep. Well, I didn't have a very good round actually. I think that this was probably my weakest of the three by-rounds. Well, I say that because I didn't get a very good score. So my score for the round was 1,682, which is quite low. I think last week I was about 250th for the round. So I had a really good week, sort of last week, but then I dropped away again this week.
00:02:34
Speaker
Well, I sort of stuck with the two down, one up in my trades. Sorry, I wanted to have three down and two and one upgrade. And the upgrade that I brought in was Lockie Whitfield, which
00:02:52
Speaker
quite handy for the 130 points that he brought in and I also brought in where from GWS2 I sort of think that those two coming in against North Melbourne were going to school quite well and they did so I was happy with that and failed it well
00:03:08
Speaker
She's a cop. I did cop a few injuries. I heard Zorko and Butters and Gorn, that sort of thing. But my father was probably just missing, um, Justin Clark in that first game. I sort of got a bit busy at work for a couple of days and missed him. But, um, uh, well under those that got him.
00:03:25
Speaker
Yeah, it's always frustrating when a rookie, a high-priced rookie like that as well, does well, because then it's always a bit harder paying up a little bit more to get in. Do you think it's still worth jumping on, Judson Clark?
00:03:41
Speaker
I feel like there may be better players at Richmond than him in that role. So I don't think he's got much longevity in the team. So look, if we don't get any other rookies named and that sort of suits your by structure and you're not relying on him being on the field after this round, then yeah, that'd be okay.
00:04:05
Speaker
Yeah, fair enough. Alright, Holmsey, how's your round mate? Geez, we've got another guest on the show that hasn't had their greatest round, but how do you go this week though, Holmsey? Yeah, look, unfortunately for myself, it was around what could have been, and unfortunately I only really have myself to blame.
00:04:24
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1781, which was probably a little bit above par, which is not shocking by any means. I think I managed to still go up about 25 ranks into 446, so that's positive in a way. And that's off the back of my two nailedits, which Andy Brayshaw and Clayton Oliver, 141 and 146, I think, just absolutely unbelievable and keeping me in the hunt. But unfortunately, that brings it to my failed it, which
00:04:51
Speaker
I'm just going to have to give it to myself, unfortunately, and the round of overthinking, overthinking too much. So a little bit of backstory. I had the VC on Andy Brayshore and the captaincy on Clary Oliver for the entire week. And then leading up to the Freo Hawthorne game, just overthinking things a little bit, took the VC off Brayshore thinking that if he does go big, that there's a Nash tag coming just like they did to Lucky Neil a few weeks back.
00:05:20
Speaker
I thought Josh Kelly was a safe option, North hadn't been tagging all year and he has massive history against them and we saw what all the GWS players did so that was going to be a safe VC option for me and Brayshaw then goes and does a 141 and Josh Kelly gets tagged to an inch of his life and only puts up a 95 which clearly wasn't a good enough VC option which left the Melbourne boys on the Monday and
00:05:46
Speaker
After toying and throwing between Clary and Gorn, I ended up throwing the captaincy on Gorn thinking that it was in for a monster against Collingwood. So 90 points left on the table which would have set me up very well leading into the last buy round but I still can't be too unhappy still moving up the ranks and still being in the top 500.
Tagging Strategy and Game Analysis
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Hey Homsley, do you reckon that other teams will look at that Josh Kelly tag and think that might be a good way to slow them down a bit? Potentially, yes. But, I mean, you look, Cogs had 30 and kicked, what, three. You had Tanner Bruin go off in there as well, early days, and it was only against North. So, potentially, yes. But I've been saying all year that teams need to go to Lucky Neil more, they need to go to Brayshore more.
00:06:30
Speaker
Um, we've seen it Clary a few times and teams just seem to back in their system. Um, generally more over, over a tagger, which is why I was just absolutely gobsmacked that they kept Kane Turner of all people on him for the entire game. I could understand if they, if they.
00:06:47
Speaker
Jason Horn Francis run with him for the game to educate the kid or Tom Powell or someone like that or releasing the tag after halftime to try and win the game. But they were never in the game after the first quarter. And the fact they kept that hard tag is just North Melbourne. They're a joke.
00:07:08
Speaker
It's not good there. I had the pure captaincy on him as well and it was tough to watch and they did a half time interview with David Noble. I think you might have missed that one. Kyle, you were asking like, are they keeping with the tag? They actually asked him at half time. It's like, oh, what do you think of the tag? And you know, how's it going? And he's like, yeah, no, we'll stick with that. And I was just immediately like, oh, this is not going to be a good day.
00:07:31
Speaker
He did manage to, he actually managed to fly home strong and so weird sometimes. It's like, they don't pay any freeze for off the ball stuff sometimes with those tags. It's going to be interesting if they ever do police that because, you know, there's so much holding and stuff going on in those roles that, you know, why not use it when you can? Because they're not calling them. All right, I'll get on to my round.
00:07:56
Speaker
So I scored 1757 and the Roach moved up 1400 spots, 9795 into 8332. Buzzdos year, looking ahead, as always, his trades were terrible this week.
00:08:15
Speaker
Um, definitely not light years ahead this week. I brought in Kelly as mentioned
Buzzdos' Trade Reflections and Challenges
00:08:21
Speaker
before. So that was for Bailey Smith, who was out and seems to be out for a while now brought in Josh Kelly. I'm really hoping that, um, harm me. That tag does not come to fruition week to week.
00:08:31
Speaker
I brought in Caleb Marchbank who recent news that this was from Patty McCartan so recent news that Marchbank's now out for a couple of months after being out for what was it like a thousand days before that so all the best to him really shocking for me to get that trade and
00:08:48
Speaker
I was telling you boys pre-show, I was so up and about and I'm sure a few coaches were. 22 in the first quarter, 35 at halftime. You look like you're laughing. He actually was looking, he was getting that cheap pill like I kind of imagined him to do and then didn't get a touch after halftime. So 0.2nd half and now he's in for surgery and out for a long time. So that was a great trade by me.
00:09:11
Speaker
Peatling though came in kicked another three goals. I was that was where buzz was in full effect lads So another good score from him, but I missed the other gws player, which would have really been buzzing for that sugar hit that state always talks about with a guy that we'll be talking about a couple of times in this podcast No doubt who went absolutely off
00:09:32
Speaker
I'm going a bit different because you know this when we were talking in our group chat. I was really frustrated with the Melbourne game on the weekend, hoping for some huge scores. Obviously we had Gorn not going great. I had Petrarch and not living up to it again. But Gasprey Shaw was doing not well at all.
00:09:54
Speaker
I chucked the rocket in the group chat and he had a 69.3rd quarter. Yeah, that's nice. That's gotta be the best.
Impactful Game Moments and Future Strategies
00:10:02
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That's gotta be the best rocket I've ever thrown though. Like he was just, that was one of the best quarters I've ever seen. Like that was unreal. So shout out to Gussie. That was my nailed it. My failed it though.
00:10:15
Speaker
was finding out that he was also in Stado's team. He stole my boy Gus. Stado's had him and Stado had a ripping round. I think he got in the 1800s and that just doesn't make my weekend nice. You know, I was really upset after that, finding out Stado had a good week. So that's my failed it.
00:10:31
Speaker
All right lads, let's get on to the hot topics and you already mentioned him, he had a poor game. Was he your captain? Yeah, you said Gorn was your captain this week, Holmesy. We talked about him, he is injured though, so a lot of the podcasts would have already been recorded this week. We're lucky to be going on the Wednesday just due to circumstance.
00:10:51
Speaker
Do you want to maybe take it away? It's obviously time to think about trading Gawney. Three to five weeks. Yeah. I mean, first off, I just want to give a shout out to the big man. I still love him. And the fact that he's had the syndesmosis injury, it's come out and he still battled away to play the second half and get to 67.
00:11:11
Speaker
couldn't have asked for any more from the big fella from that information but yeah you're right unfortunately they're they're reporting that it's there's not real accurate information at the moment some reports are saying that it's four to eight weeks some are saying that it's only three to five game three to five weeks some are saying three to five games after the buy but
00:11:30
Speaker
Either way, you look at an AFL fantasy. Unfortunately, it's a trade. So it's going to be very interesting this week. Who to go to? I know. So, Hami, you've already got a Tim English and a Darcy Cameron. So what are you looking to do with Max Gorn this week to help the coaches out there that might already have those two ruckmen and are not sure where to go?
00:11:53
Speaker
Yeah, I think you're going to have to trade. It was interesting though, I watched an interview as he was walking to the hospital and I sort of said, oh, yep, you know, how are you feeling? And he goes, oh yeah, yeah, it's not too bad. Oh, but I'm in a moon boot and I'm going in for scans. So it's not real good. So it's a bit hard to know how long he's going to pee out for, but yeah, you're going to have to trade, particularly the teams that are competing. I mean, you're not going to hold him if he's, even if it's three weeks, you still got to trade him.
00:12:19
Speaker
So, yeah, I've got, I've traded in Tim English a couple of weeks ago when Proust was remembering that he wasn't coming back in a hurry. So, I've got English there. I've got Darcy Cameron in my Ford line. So, I'll be trading at Gorn move Cameron into my Ford line.
00:12:38
Speaker
and then I'll bring in a big forward, I expect. It's a bit difficult because it's not exactly what I wanted to do, but you just got to roll with it. I feel like this week I'm going to have a couple of sideways trades because I've got Danes Orko as well, which isn't really what I wanted to do. I've still got guys on my bench that I wanted to cash out, cash them out, and then do upgrades, but I'll have a couple of sideways trades by the sounds of it.
00:13:04
Speaker
What's, what's the plan from your perspective, Holmsey? Like if you've got any choice of, of Ruckman at all, like just imagine you just start from like, what are your options? If you don't have any of those names or like, you know, what's the hierarchy of who you think we should be getting first and foremost as a replacement?
00:13:21
Speaker
Yes I suppose it's a real tricky round because you know you've got Sean Darcy for example who yes hasn't been setting the world on fire but I still peg him to to be close to the top two rucks in the back half of the year but he's on his buy so it's not an option for you to trade him in this week whether you
00:13:41
Speaker
Whether you hold Gorn this week and upgrade around him to still get as many players on the field as you can for this buy around and then you look to trade him next week, that could be a play I guess because that way you've then got access to every single ruckman in the comp and you can make an informed decision.
00:13:59
Speaker
I'm personally looking at a Tim English but that comes with risk as well because he's pretty over, well not overpriced, but he's probably fairly priced. I think he's priced at $107 and it's a pretty big ask for a ruckman to go at $107 for the rest of the year.
00:14:15
Speaker
he's clearly going to be a top two ruck if not a top six forward so he's probably the option to go but the reason I wouldn't do that is if you're having to use all of your cash to do that and then you don't have enough to upgrade next week to get a rookie off then it becomes a bit tricky you've got wits and wits oh sorry honey yep just just on that yeah just on the english thing I um
00:14:39
Speaker
I don't like paying full price for people and I reckon that English is at the sort of higher end of you know what he's worth you're paying as you said 107 points for him but the risk of that is sort of a bit lower this time of year because you're chasing value in the early stages of the season you're pushing hard now if you start to bring in some of these guys that are you're paying a bit more for I think that the risk is lower so you know I think that you're gonna have to start paying more for these guys because you want the top
00:15:09
Speaker
you know, the best 22 players in your team for the last five, 10 rounds. Yep, you've absolutely nailed that. And I suppose the other good thing about English is his forward eligibility as well. So if you bring him into the ruck line and then say in a week or two, if you're upgrading a Zach Budders or a Will Brody or someone else around, then you can swing him forward and you're not having to sideways trade in the ruck, which I like as well. If you think, you know, if Max comes back and he looks like he's a must have or
00:15:39
Speaker
or you do end up liking your Sean Darcy. The other options, I suppose, you have Riley O'Brien and Jared Wits, who are the sort of tier below. I wouldn't really advocate bringing either of those in, considering that they are versing each other this week, but, you know, you look at all the options. The other one, I suppose, is if you're like you, Harmony, and you've already got English, and you've got Cameron maybe in your ruck line already, and you're not sure really what to do, and you don't want to go to a ruckman,
00:16:08
Speaker
maybe you throw that position and you go gone all the way down to a Bryn Teagle who's going to be sitting at yah three after the buyers and then you use that cash elsewhere to upgrade. That's sort of a a break glass for emergency situation but you might have your hands tied if you already have the the players that everyone will look to bring in this week.
00:16:29
Speaker
What do you reckon about if Spike McVay comes out tomorrow and says, Prus is our man for the rest of the season. He's a great player. He was just a bit crook. Would you consider that? Yeah, I would, to be honest. And it's really ironic because I've probably been one of the only coaches in Australia, rather than Dost, that hasn't owned Prus for the whole season. But I probably would look at it. He just comes with so much risk. Like we've mentioned on previous pods, he's never played more than five games in a row.
00:16:58
Speaker
So he might do it, he might not, but you just never know. But I do like the brand of footy that GWS are playing at the moment, so he'll definitely be an option if he is named. And Flynn looked to struggle too, that last game.
00:17:13
Speaker
Yeah, he really did in that game. I guess the other thing is, like, just, yeah, it's become more urgent as well that we probably don't look like we're going to have that heartbeat of Sam Hayes playing the ruck, given the coach's comments as well. We've just thrown that around. I think it came out. Who was it that came out and said that? I think you linked that to us, Holmsey. Like, one of the coaches said that they really liked how Jeremy Finlayson, what he provided in the ruck for them, I think he had 21 touch, but he had like 15 touches or something around the ground, so.
00:17:43
Speaker
Yeah, the assistants just came out and basically said that they liked the structure of that better and they essentially aren't going to be going with Hazy anymore, which is very, like, I don't know why they didn't come out last week and just say that straight up. They kind of fluffed around with the illness rumor and this and that when he's just been dropped. So it is what it is. He's just money to cash out at some point.
00:18:05
Speaker
Now our next hot topic is to do with buy round advice. We don't have the Stado, the Fossil on here for this one, who is our buy round expert. We're obviously wishing him all the very worst in his last buy next week. But Kyle, you had a question you wanted to pose to Hammy here for the last round of the buys.
00:18:23
Speaker
Yeah, I just wanted to get Hami's advice a little bit on how to sort of attack this last buy round because it can be very easy to go sideways this round and to really use DPP to fling your players all around the field.
00:18:40
Speaker
And it looks good and you get a good score and you get a lot of players on field this week. But then by the time you get back to round 15, when all of a sudden you have your full team on the field and you realize you've put players in the wrong position and you've got seven forwards instead of six. And it can get quite messy. So I just wanted to get some advice from Hami on how he plans to attack this by and just really help the listeners and not screwing up their teams like I have in the past and like I'm sure many people have.
00:19:11
Speaker
Yeah, look, the aim through the buys is obviously to finish all those buy arounds with a better team than when you went into it. And that's where I said my nail that was sticking with the method of getting rid of the rookies that you've had, that you've been carrying a bit of cash for.
00:19:31
Speaker
Cashing them out and putting them on your mid prices or your underperforming premiums to get to the top end guys So that and that still is the case. You should be trying to improve your side each week I give you an example this week. I was keen to get rid of good in common and
00:19:47
Speaker
get him up to a top flight defender. But now with Zorko and Gorn out, I'm probably going to have to go a bit sideways, which is a bit disappointing. I'd say, yeah, you've got to have a clear idea of what your team is going to look like after next week. And also don't rely on having two trades to do your final patch up next week because
00:20:08
Speaker
Um, there may be another injury, maybe two more injuries next weekend. Um, you can't sort of rely on that. So yeah, I mean, ideally you're still going with your upgrades and you're going to finish with a completed team at the end of the buy rounds where you don't have any rookies on field. And I say that, and I got rid of Nick day costs, uh, some time ago, but you'd be probably pretty happy if he was your last rookie and you just hold him. Yep.
00:20:33
Speaker
absolutely spot on us. I suppose the biggest advice we could give would be make your three trades this week and then actually put your rookies on the bench that will be there in round 15 and just have a look at how your team structure's up just so you know how it's going to look for the next week.
00:20:50
Speaker
and make sure that everyone's in the right position and you're not going to be in any trouble out of the buyers. But you are right, it is probably the week that we're going to go sideways a little bit, just to really make sure we've got more than 18 on the field and whatnot, but just make sure that by going sideways, you're not going to burn all of your cash and you've still got some there to fix up what you need to next week. Because you're right, if you're banking on getting that rookie off and you get a few injuries and you've got no cash to deal with, then you might be in a little bit of strife.
00:21:22
Speaker
All right, it's time to get to, Kays has done another edition of a rookie roulette.
00:21:35
Speaker
Welcome back to a special Bi edition of Rookie Roulette. Let's look at four different players this week who could make an instant impact come round 14. First up, it looks like a likely AFL debut for Massimo D'Ambrosio. After his 33 disposal outing for the Bombers on Saturday, the classy ball user is exactly what the Bombers need at AFL level and he showed he is a natural at fantasy, accumulating 101 points on the weekend.
00:22:03
Speaker
Massimo averaged 96 points in his four NAB league games this season, and to me, looks like an absolute moral to play on Friday night. There's strong rumours circulating that Cherra out will Hayes in this weekend. The former dog has been on fire in the VFL for Colton this season and scored 93 on the weekend. Hayes had plenty of the footy, collecting 24 touches and looks ready to make his second chance count at AFL level.
00:22:28
Speaker
3rd up. Porcini ruck forward Bryn Teagle put up 77 points on Saturday and looked very very dangerous kicking 3 goals. The big man chopped out Sam Hayes in the ruck and had 10 hit outs of his own as well as 13 disposals.
00:22:43
Speaker
The Port hierarchy have already come out this week and said that Tikka will play at some stage this year. But will it be this week? That's the big question. And lastly, Caleb Marchbank confirmed as an out this week. Does that mean it's an AFL recall for Sam Durden? He had 57 points in the VFL on the weekend, 14 touches and 6 marks.
00:23:02
Speaker
He looks like an absolute light for light replacement down back for March Bank. He's going to be one who looks to be playing this week too. There's four guys to get in your side this week. I've been Kaze and this is Riffy Rool there. And lads, if we do get some Massimo D'Ambrosio this week, harm me. Plenty of interest there for that 190k defender. Went off in the VFL this week.
00:23:27
Speaker
Be nice, wouldn't it? Isn't it funny? The Bombers, they brought him in saying, oh, he's got a shoulder injury and he might not play for the next six weeks. Comes out and brains it in the VFL. How awesome is that? As a Bombers fan, I love it. As a fantasy coach who's got a full back line and just brought in two rookie backs, it's probably not as appealing.
00:23:47
Speaker
Got that utility spot to make it work. Well, just just on that homie then, if he is named and obviously we're talking about hypotheticals, are you picking him or are you picking Sam Durden who is now confirmed to be in?
00:24:02
Speaker
Well, if you if you got confirmation, it is coming in is probably that attacking back flanker rather than Durden being more of a key post. So you'd probably prefer the bombers. Yeah. Yeah. 100% Massimo D'Ambrosio. You're still only 190,000, isn't he? So you could even give it a week and have a look at it if you don't, you know, need that downgrade option this week.
00:24:29
Speaker
Absolutely. All right. We're going to get in some questions soon. I reckon we shoot through some, some targets for this week. Kyle, you've got Adelaide, Geelong for us and Gold Coast. Do you want to just go through quickly these targets that you've got in line for us this week? The best options out of these players coming off their buy.
00:24:47
Speaker
Yep so we'll start with Adelaide and we're looking pretty much in the midfield here so we've got Rory Laird coming off his buy so priced at 113 and I think he's the second most expensive player in the game which makes it hard to pay up for but harm is right at this time of the year you're trying to get the best players so
00:25:05
Speaker
He could be anything in the back after the season. He's as consistent as they come and he's the number one man in there and I would not be surprised if he's a top two or three averaging player from here on out. So I'm more than happy to pay up for Rory Ladd, especially with the run that Adelaide have coming.
00:25:22
Speaker
Ben Keyes, so probably not too much of an option anymore but he did start the year going at 130 for the first four rounds I think and it coincided with Rory Laird being out with that injury so I'm not sure he's going to be that top eight mid that we need him to be but I think there's worse options out there and if you do see over the next couple of weeks that he starts to put together some more of those ceiling scores he could be an option on the run home.
00:25:46
Speaker
The other two that we have here I'm just going to throw in there is Crouch and Haightley. Now they're not options priced at 83 and 77 but there could be worse if you know that's all you can get up to on that final upgrade to get the rookies off the field. We know what Crouch has done in the past and Haightley's he's been going well but I think the last game he was on 83 at three-quarter time and then didn't score in the last quarter because he got pretty much essentially knocked out and
00:26:14
Speaker
He's not in the CBAs, he was out, he was on the wing which we know the wing roll can be up and down and for that reason I personally wouldn't be targeting him this week but I just thought I'd throw it up there just as he's been a bit of a flavour of the month for fantasy coaches. Harmony, do you have any thoughts on those players?
00:26:32
Speaker
I'll tell you, just with Haightly, I don't reckon it's the worst. If that's all you could get to and he's going to end up being the last, you know, your M8 and your worst player on the field. For the next couple of games, as you say, they've got a great run coming up. If that's all you could get to, then I wouldn't be that against bringing him in. You could be considered.
00:26:54
Speaker
Yep, fair enough. Moving on, so Geelong. Now I've got three names here. So the first one's Tom Stewart. He's priced at 106 and I don't think he's going to go at 106 for the rest of the year but all it's going to take is one ceiling game like we've seen him put up this year and he could do that. So playing the Eagles this week, you would think that that's a sugar hit but we've also seen defenders against the Eagles put up some low scores considering the ball doesn't go down there as much.
00:27:22
Speaker
You never know, but he's a great option and I think relatively unique in the top thousand. In the forward line, we have Mitch Duncan. Now, I've had Mitch Duncan for a fair chunk of the season and he's been very underwhelming to say the least, but off the back of 115 and you think now that he's had the buy and the break that he should come back refreshed and ready to go.
00:27:45
Speaker
If he can, if he can put up any sort of form like we know he has in the past, then he could be, he could potentially be the number one forward on the run home. We just don't know. But there's a lot more risk attached with Mitch Duncan this season, considering role and age. So just buyer beware. And the last name I want to throw up. Just on that one, 735,000 a year is Duncan.
00:28:08
Speaker
Yeah. That's so cheap. I mean, they're heading to Perth, plenty of space at Optus for a guy that likes, you know, running into space and getting those mark kicks. I reckon he's... Well, I think I've had him as long as you, Homsi, but it's been a bit of a struggle to have him, but I reckon he's a good trade-in option.
00:28:26
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I just wanted to highlight that there's a little bit more risk attached to it this season, but they do have the last five games of the season at home at GMHBA, which means they have an awesome run. What I don't kind of like though is the fact that they have Eagles in round 23, and if they're going into finals and Eagles are nowhere,
00:28:48
Speaker
And that could be a Ross Lyon type situation where they just rest a whole bunch of players to get ready for finals, even though they have the buy around. So just buy beware there. But yeah, like you said, he is a good option. The last one in the midfield, so Cam Guthrie priced at 99. Now he's come back to form. I don't have the numbers off the top of my head, but he
00:29:08
Speaker
He was a bit slow to start with Geelong and their new game plan and him building, but I think he's off the back of three tonnes now and he's got himself over 800k. So priced at 99, still no danger field. He is a serious option in the midfield. If he can go back to what he was doing last year, where he was that sort of 108 guy priced at 99, he's a chance to put up some numbers close to the top eight and be at a bit of a discount. Dos, what do you think?
00:29:35
Speaker
I think those three options are awesome. I think Guthrie's the fun one. If your team's probably in, you know, a bit more going a bit more of that pod route, he's probably the perfect kind of guy to take a punt on, especially what? So you said they're playing West coast this week and then they've got them in round 23 as well. Yeah. And I think they've got North somewhere there along the line as well. And like I said, they haven't played many games at GMHBA, which means they've got them all on the back half. So he could be anything.
00:30:04
Speaker
And then for the other two, I think, yeah, Duncan, as you said, risky, but he's also tempting me. And then Stuart has seemed to be incredibly consistent this year. So nice targets, mate. Who have you got for Gold Coast? Beautiful. Now, Gold Coast, I'm not going to spend too much time here. Took Miller's the obvious one down 130K on his starting price.
00:30:25
Speaker
Price at an average of 108 and we know what took Miller can do Back after the season last year. I think he went at about 127 which is absolutely unreal and and you would think this season being a little bit different Gold Coast sort of charging and hopefully playing finals for the first time that
00:30:41
Speaker
that he's going to be the mainstay in there and the big body in the midfield. So I personally would have loved to have got up to Tookmiller this week, especially against Adelaide, and I think he's a prime target ready to go. I'll throw one more name in there just because I know you love him, Doss, as a bit of a madie, but Noah Anderson, so priced at 93.
00:31:01
Speaker
I personally, I don't think he's going to go over 100 and be that top eight sort of mid that we need him to. But like you said, a bit of a maddie, a bit of a fun option. You never know. He does seem to get a lot of ball in there and he has his ceiling games, but he also has his floor game. So if you can get rid of those, you just never know. But yeah, those are my Gold Coast options.
00:31:21
Speaker
I'm just interested as well, because we haven't obviously seen who or what their new kind of wing rotation is going to look like without Lockie Weller. So I'd maybe just monitor, yeah, what happens this week, because we might just have an out of the box kind of player that comes in or like a rotation where Brandon Ellis goes back to a flank or, you know, something happens where things change and we actually have the next
00:31:46
Speaker
roll change equivalent to, you know, potentially one of the Darcy Cameron picks that's just the next kind of thing. So I just keep an eye out on who takes that well uphill.
00:31:56
Speaker
Brandon Ellis is an interesting one because he's down a bit on his starting price. He had a hundred a couple of weeks to go and then his last game was only about a mid 60s or something. If he hit another hundred, I reckon a lot of people would be looking at him because it would have been two hundreds in a row at a pretty cheap price and you can get him his back. But I reckon he's the one who'll probably go to the wing there, Doss.
00:32:17
Speaker
Yeah. And that's, and remember how good he was. I reckon for the first half of last year, he was like the ultimate pod as well. He started out ripping form last year, averaging like 110, I reckon for quite a while there. So he's a guy that can rack up when he's on the pill. So, uh, when, when he's around the pill up in that wing. So yeah, I'd, um, I'd be tempted by whoever gets that role. And yeah, that's probably a good shout. Yep. Beautiful. All right. Harmony roll us throughout our other three teams.
00:32:46
Speaker
Well I'll start with the heavy hitters, the West Coast. Dossie, you probably could have helped me out with this one because I struggled a bit surprisingly. But look, I think that Luke Shuey, he could be a bit of a shout there, priced at $696. He's pretty cheap really. I think he hit $112 before the buy there, so he should be all right.
00:33:10
Speaker
But as we spoke earlier, we really want to be targeting those top-end players and I don't think he's going to score as well as those guys. He's not going to be 110 guys, so he never has been.
00:33:26
Speaker
Repazzo on the horizon. I mean I guess through this period we want to be looking at downgrades and then cashing out that money and putting it on and spending up getting those upgrades and for a guy that's a defender forward 218 he could be a look if he comes in I reckon he's worth a look anyway depending on whether we get any other good rookies named.
00:33:49
Speaker
I'll move on to Sydney because I got one name for you. Is Alex Witherden ever going to be an option or you just put a line through him now after a few or a couple of, you know, floor games?
00:34:03
Speaker
It's funny, I had a look at him. I always feel with him that his position in the team is sort of under question. His disposal efficiency isn't sort of where it needs to be, which is kind of the knock that he gets. I just don't think you could bring him in. I think there's quite a few good options down back at the moment, and I don't think we'd really need to take the risk.
00:34:26
Speaker
I think the thing that I'll be looking for for that home Z would be do West Coast for this back half of the year. What's their goal? Because if their goal is to continue to do what they're doing now, which is looking like to me, get that number one pick, play the kids and get that number one pick, then I'd be totally looking at with it and as an awesome option in that sort of similar vein to we saw, you know, Aaron Hall last year, obviously different types of players, but someone that just racks up in the back half.
00:34:55
Speaker
with it and is that type of guy for sure. So I'd be very keen if that's their goal, but if their goal is to come back and, you know, show the fans some, some love and get a few wins or something in the back off the year and they start playing chewy, yo, everyone comes back in and they try and get a couple of wins. Perhaps it's not as fantasy friendly for with it and in the back off.
00:35:16
Speaker
Yep. So, Hami, all I got from that was Dost thinks Witherden could be an option, which means he's not an option. So, we'll move on. Sweet. Yep. That's okay, mate. Look, Sydney, this is what we do when we call out who the best players in the game are. We go straight to the top 959,000 Callum meals. Pretty hefty price tag to pay for a full back, but
00:35:40
Speaker
I've loved having him in my team. I had him since about round three and he's put out some monster scores. So look, depending on where your team sits, he is an option, probably not the number one midfielder target that I'd be chasing, but he's a great player. And if you don't have him, I think you'd be cringing when you watch Sydney play.
00:36:04
Speaker
One that I reckon is going to be pretty close if not in the top six forwards and that's Luke Parker. With those forwards I mean I really like the guys that are playing in the midfield and I think Parker had about two or three rounds early on where he was sitting forward quite a lot of the time but in the last probably six weeks.
00:36:25
Speaker
He's been in that midfield rotation and and looking every bit a midfielder and a top-end one at that He's still actually just under his starting price for the year. So it's not as if he's you're paying a too much for him I don't think at this point
00:36:41
Speaker
One at Sydney that I wouldn't look at though which may be tempting to some people is Jake Lloyd. Just watching them play the last few games. I mean he's down on what his starting price was but there's just too much competition and he's not the guy taking the kick-ins. Nick Blake seems to be taking a fair chunk of them and
00:37:03
Speaker
and doing a pretty good job of it. So I don't think that you could be chasing him at this point in time, not unless he comes out and hits sort of two or three hundred and tens and then I've got to eat my words, but I don't think he's an option. Yeah, he's lost that role. Shorts there, guys. You agree with that, Holmsey?
00:37:21
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely spot on mate. I love Luke Parker. I've had him in my team for a while, but you're right. He had that time where he spent a bit more time forward and then Sydney actually lost a game or two and they've realised that they probably need to just keep having their best midfield mix. He's right in there and you're absolutely right. Jake Lloyd's not the Jake Lloyd of old that we know. Nick Blakey's back there. Mills gets back and gets that kick on the 45 and he sort of just doesn't get as much ball. So you're right. You just have to wait.
00:37:48
Speaker
And if he goes back to back tons, you can have a look at it, but there's better options back there at the moment. Yeah, I think that Luke Parker got a knock or something early on in the season about round two, and that's why he was sitting forward a bit, that and Pappley being out. So that's the sort of reason why if people are discounted, as in if we think they're good value and we can put it down to something that's occurred rather than just poor form, that kind of helps our argument, bringing them in.
00:38:14
Speaker
Now, we'll go to the Bulldogs, so you actually finally gave me a decent team, which I was happy about. We spoke about Timmy English a bit earlier, and look, at 878,000, I sort of made a couple of comments that I do think it is quite a bit to pay, but that said, I paid for it two weeks ago and brought him in in my ruck line.
00:38:37
Speaker
So I think that he is either going to be a top two ruck or he's going to be a top six forward for you, good versatility. So I think that a lot of people that have gone and don't have English will be going that way this week, which.
00:38:53
Speaker
Maybe a good reason not to go that way if you're a top coach, but anyway, you'll make those decisions yourself. I really like Bont. I really like Bont. Still, you got to look at it. He's priced at $799,000, but he's
00:39:11
Speaker
he's discounted on his starting price. He's $100,000 down and he started in a midfielder and we thought he was going to be close to top 10 midfielder at the start of the year and we can get him as a forward. Yeah, I heard there's a couple of comments from the coaching staff about a bit of a shoulder niggle, but
00:39:29
Speaker
Geez, I just think that with Bailey Smith out of that midfield, if they can get a forward line, kick in a few goals, Jamara might come in and kick a couple, and he doesn't need to be there as much, he could really have a good back half of the year.
00:39:46
Speaker
Yeah. I think Bont for me last year was one of the best players to own. I think he averaged like 115 for the first half of the year in a much more predominant midfield role. So if he, if he, that's what I wanted to ask. Like, yeah, do you think Bailey Smith out just means a bit more love for those big dogs in the, in the actual inside mid? I mean, where Bailey Smith more was that forward that ran up into the midfield, but
00:40:10
Speaker
Do you think it kind of changes that? Like you said, they just bring in a more traditional forward and they sort of go heavier with the big dogs in the midfield.
00:40:19
Speaker
Bailey Smith's on the wing. He started on the wing most of the time. That's where he was and running sort of forward. He played a lot of time on ground too. Bailey Smith is through the roof. I can't remember what the stats are, but it's massive. So it does mean minutes to somebody. And I don't think it's lucky Hunter at this point in time. He might have to prove himself in the VFL for a few weeks and get a bit of fitness back before he comes in. So yeah, I'm not sure at home. See any ideas?
00:40:44
Speaker
Nah, I just think it'll be, you know, they've been sharing that midfield forward rotation between, you know, six or seven blokes. I think they'll now share it between the six of them and they'll all continue to just keep rotating forward and through the midfield. You've had McCray typically throughout the years playing that sort of 70, 75, 80% midfield and he's been down around 60, 65 where a lot of them are. So I think you'll just find that
00:41:08
Speaker
They all just bump a little bit. I don't think you'll have someone specifically come in to play the role that Baylee Smith was. No, I actually thought it might benefit for Law a little bit because he still has been playing quite a bit of time up forward. And I thought maybe it may mean a bit more time in the midfield rather than forward for him. And he might lock himself in as a top six forward, but I'm not confident enough to go in a limb and say that that's definitely going to happen. But that's another option for him.
00:41:37
Speaker
And then the last one that I had for the Bulldogs is another midfielder and I just thought there's probably still quite a few teams out there that don't have McRae and he's priced at $8.80 but
00:41:52
Speaker
It's actually $90,000 down on his starting price and I reckon he's a good buy personally. And I sort of spoke about Keller Mills before at $960,000. Well, if you can pick up McCray at $80,000 less, I mean I can't confidently say that Mills is definitely going to be 10 points better than him over the rest of the season. So I reckon he's still a pretty good buy personally.
00:42:21
Speaker
I've got an interesting, it's very small sample size. I've just gone to that website, DFS Australia for the with without stats. So obviously I think he's only missed two games this year, Bailey Smith, but without Bailey Smith, Trelore and Dunkley both basically, Trelore have just 30 points more without Bailey Smith in the side and Dunkley 15 points more. So just an interesting little stat there boys.
00:42:50
Speaker
Yeah, I love all those options, Hami. McCray, I've had McCray for the entire year I started him and I've absolutely loved owning him over the years. And he has kind of been suffering a little bit of this Bulldog's midfield mix that shares the load a little bit. And after watching him closely, he doesn't sort of mark as much as he used to. They kind of use others and he hasn't been tackling as much either.
00:43:15
Speaker
Yeah, you just don't know with him. We've seen multiple times. I think Selby put up the interesting stat a few weeks ago that he's never, even though he's been averaging sort of 120 for the year over the last four years, he's never just consistently averaged 120. He's either, he's always been a tail of two halves. So he'll either come out hot, average 125, 130, and then the back half he goes 100 or vice versa.
00:43:41
Speaker
You never know, he could be that guy that explodes on the run home. I'm really hoping that he does, especially now that Bulldogs need to actually win games to get into finals. I think he's a big game player. So I do actually love the McCray trading if you don't have him. Love it, mate. All right, let's get to some questions now. Oh, Hami, you got something?
00:43:58
Speaker
Just before we do, Cockroach, I wasn't on the pod last week, so I've never got a crack at the round 12ers, but I'll just give you who I think are three really good options this week as well, who we didn't speak about then.
00:44:15
Speaker
I reckon in the midfield, Zach Merritt is still a good option. I know he only hit 88 last week, but he's a guy that's going to be 105 from here on, I reckon. In the midfield, he's somebody I'm looking at. In the forward line, if you foolishly traded out cogs and you don't have him at 748,000,
00:44:34
Speaker
He is a really good forward. The way that the GWS coaching staff have been talking about him in the last few weeks, I think that he's in there at least for a good run now. And then my man, Lachie Whitfield in the back line. Yes, he's injury prone. Yeah, he always finds strange ways to get injured and that sort of stuff.
00:44:58
Speaker
Man, that 130, he could do that every week I reckon if he wanted to. He just cruises around and he's so fit and quick, he just finds space, all those marks. Yeah, I reckon he'd be a great option for you down back. So there's three of those round 12 guys you could still be chasing this week if you're looking for a target.
00:45:16
Speaker
Well, as a first question to kick us off, I've got one for you, Hami. Now, if you're a buzz dossier and you're trying to go to infinity and beyond here for the rest of the season, would you look at bringing in a Tim Taranto to stay light years ahead of the comp here straight off the bat if he's named this week, given the fact that we saw Perriman go down with the broken ribs after being heavily involved in their center bounces under the new coaching system?
00:45:42
Speaker
Surely, if they're smart coaches, like they seem to be doing a really good job early days, Taranto goes straight back into the coal face and becomes this big mammoth scorer like he's traditionally been in there. I'd probably go and grab another blue lagoon and kick back and come up with a different option, Dospy, because I just don't think you can. I think you've got to see it. He's got this back injury. We don't know if that's right yet.
00:46:10
Speaker
There's a bit of a change in the coaching staff and we don't know if he's going to be that main man through the middle. But I tell you what, I do think he is a good option. I think he's still out of contract, isn't he? So he's going to want to get back and put his best foot forward and show everybody that he is worthy of a big dollar contract as well. So, yeah, he will be a good option for us, but I don't think it's the first game back.
00:46:35
Speaker
We'll see, mate, to infinity. All right, this one from someone calling themselves Brown Low. Excuse me. What do you do with the future Brown Low medal winner, Nick Daikos? I know he's a rookie, but scores of 109 and 114 with five relatively easy match-ups to come post-buy. Holmesy, can we keep running him at D6 and upgrade around him?
00:47:02
Speaker
Or do we say thank you for your efforts and see you for holding up Charlie in a few seasons time? Yeah, this one hurts. I mean, I traded him two weeks ago when it looked like he was starting to have a bit of a lull and he's come out and dropped back to back tons. And off the back of that, I think he's gone up 40K to about 640 with a break even of 40. So the advice that I'm going to give in this situation is that if you've got him sitting at D6,
00:47:29
Speaker
Then I would be upgrading elsewhere and still rolling with him knowing that his break evens low And he's still gonna make a bit more cash and and he's informed now, especially coming off a buy but if you are For some reason you have him in your midfield line and you don't have him in defense then I'd still would be upgrading him to a premium midfielder because that's where you're gonna get your points if you can get him up to a you know a top eight type guy, but I
00:47:53
Speaker
there's no point really upgrading him in defence as of yet because you know if he's going at 80 85 which we could probably see him doing in that role then you might only be getting a five to ten point upgrade if you're getting to a premium defender that's going to go at 95.
00:48:11
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. If you have him, you hold him in defense. I think you give him another couple of weeks, if he's hitting 110 for the next two weeks, you're laughing. But I wouldn't be trading into him either. Put it that way. Unreal junior scorer and just seems to be coming into his own at AFL level now.
00:48:28
Speaker
Yeah, wouldn't be surprised if he does keep going and get that Brown low in a couple of years time. This one from Lewis. Hami, is it time to move on Will Brody? Lewis is also unsure if it's time to move on Sean Darcy, if he can move Tim English to R2 in his situation. So first up, Will Brody, then Seany Darce.
00:48:52
Speaker
Well, it depends on who you're going to get to because you have to look at it and go. That's a clear upgrade. If I could go, if I had no other issues and I could go Will Brodie to Bont, say, then I'd probably be pretty happy with that. But if I'm sideways trading Will Brodie to, I don't have a lot of names written down, but
00:49:14
Speaker
If you're not hitting a definite top six forward, then I wouldn't be worrying about it just at the moment. I reckon you're probably going to have bigger issues. I mean, I know I do. Shawnee Dass is an interesting one because at the start of the season, I had him right up there. And if he had hit a couple of hundreds in these last few games, then I'd probably be feeling a bit more confident. But he's had a couple of downweeks.
00:49:45
Speaker
They were difficult match-ups and that sort of thing. I know that he was sick and that sort of thing, but you need to see him come out and hit a couple of decent scores before you're going to bring him in, which is probably not great timing for those people that would be keen on him with Gorn going out this week.
00:50:05
Speaker
Yeah, right. So Holmes, you were going to say he was crooked. Is that some news that came out? I actually want to get your opinion on Will Brody as well as a Dockers man. That was the first time we saw Fife involved in that midfield mix. And as a clearance player as well, when Brody's been kind of that big dog doing that, a lot of that clearance work, do you think it could affect Brody? Because that's where I'm looking at his scores kind of haven't been, you know, months to tons recently. It's not like you're losing out on those huge scores at the moment. And then you've got this extra big body to deal with in Fife mixed with that low time and ground.
00:50:36
Speaker
Yeah, I think Will Brody eventually is going to have to go, but like Hami mentioned, if you're just sidewaysing him to another one of these blanket forwards, so someone that you're not 100% sure is going to be that top six forward, then I think it is just a little bit of a wasted trade at this point in time, because I don't think Brody is going to put up those scores that are going to hurt you.
00:50:57
Speaker
But in saying that, it probably is getting almost to the point of where you trade him out. He's been that mid priced option that has put up magnificent scores for us and scored in line with the top six forwards. But at the end of the day, it was always the plan to get him up to that premium.
00:51:15
Speaker
As long as you are going up to a premium, I'm more than happy with that. I will just touch on Sean Darcy just quickly because I still love him. I think he's going to be a serious option and he's one of those players that does have the ability to get some confidence in the back half of the season and really roll home.
00:51:33
Speaker
So two weeks ago, he had that 45 and it did come out during the week. He was on the radio and he said that he was crook and that's why Lloyd Meek played. So, you know, a lesser player would have wouldn't have played that week, but he decided to get up and play. And he had that 45. So clearly it wasn't wasn't great. And then he backed it up with a 79. So unfortunately, it's been two, two rough scores. But having a bye coming back, he's got Carlton first up. So a Sander, not a Sander Koning, sorry, a Tom De Koning.
00:52:03
Speaker
and Jack Silvani rut combo so you'd think he'd be quite dominant there and and personally I think he can he can put numbers up in line with being your R2 for the back half of the season as as hard as it's been to stomach those last two scores. Just on Brody having a look at his score so yeah I think that there is going to be competition in that Freo midfield and he may lose out but it we're not seeing it just yet you got 86 on the weekend
00:52:30
Speaker
Week before that, he got 82. Week before that, he got 83. So that's far from my worst player in my team. So, I mean, I've got Zach Budders in the four line, far out.
00:52:45
Speaker
Alright, the next question, Mark, evening chaps, I own the Brayshore brothers. Well, good picks there. Do you think it will continue to be a smooth run like the Chemical Brothers or will it end in tears like the Menendez brothers? Jesus, going dark there for Mark.
00:53:02
Speaker
Surely they're both fantastic options for the rest of the way home. Harmy and I mean I was a bit worried about Gussie with Salem involved but like I said that third quarter on the weekend alleviated my doubts quite significantly.
00:53:18
Speaker
Yeah, lucky you, Mark. You've nailed it. Those two guys have been killing it. And every time I see Andrew Braeshaw putting up those monster scores, I'm pretty jealous of being a non-owner and somebody that was super keen on him in the pre-season and then didn't start with him. And then I haven't been able to get him in the whole time. So yeah, look, you're not trading those two guys out at the moment. With Andy Braeshaw, I feel like they're with Salem back now.
00:53:46
Speaker
His roll down that back line has been awesome and it may sort of not be there full time going forward, but until you see a change you've got to stick with it. Those two are going off.
00:53:58
Speaker
Now this is a player that has been mentioned a lot in our questions, but Himmelberg 160 odd. I can't believe it's taken us this long to talk about him in this, in this podcast. I mentioned him a little bit at the top, but absolutely killing it in that new defensive role. He's gone. I think it's 7,401 and 161 or whatever he scored on the weekend.
00:54:21
Speaker
Hami, do you like him as an option? We've got people asking here, is 90 average too little to expect of him? How high do you think he can go? And is he a guy that you're looking at to be that next Darcy Cameron that's going to really make some money for us and be a solid player for us?
00:54:38
Speaker
I wouldn't expect him to average over 90 from here on, but I still reckon he's a very good option to bring in because even if you had him for three weeks and then his role changes or whatever, he's probably going to make $100,000 for you. This week is a little bit less risk because we're still in the buy. He's an option, $600,000. I watched that game and I think he took every kick in. When he got it, they love it in his hands because he
00:55:05
Speaker
He's such a long kick, it's getting to the wing every time. He's an option still. It depends on where your team's at. For me, who is looking at bringing him in as my weakest player, it's not too bad. But if I already had a completed team and I'm in or near the top 100,
00:55:29
Speaker
then I'll probably be very reluctant to do it. But I'm sort of hoping that he's somebody that I can get on and be a point of difference from those top 500 guys and come up a little bit. So, yeah, he's an option. He's one that I'm looking at and he's sort of, I guess, at the moment in my trade plans, I wouldn't say he's definitely in there, but I'm certainly looking at it. We do like points of difference here. Holmes, are you on board Himmelberg as well?
00:55:55
Speaker
I think his price is a little bit too awkward now personally for myself I think if anyone was able to do it last week don't I mean forget the 160 like that was just out of the box but if you managed to do it last week that was probably the time to do it the fact that he's 600k now it
00:56:12
Speaker
It in my opinion makes it a little bit awkward, but I can I can definitely understand why you would why you would think about doing it. Personally, I think he's going to be an 80, 85 averaging player. It is just in the role for the first time and he's had some very soft match ups to begin. So harm is right. I don't think he's going to be 90 plus and
00:56:32
Speaker
If he does go 80, 85, then you're right. You're probably going to make probably close to 100k over the next two weeks. But then he's just another player that you have to trade out. And if you've already got a Zack Butters, a Jordan de Goey, a Heaney, any one of these players on your field that you've got plans to trade, all it takes is an injury or two to any of your premiums. And you end up stuck with these players longer than you need to. So that's where the risk is attached. Dossi, I'll just throw a couple of scores out. I haven't looked at his year.
00:57:02
Speaker
Round 4, 27. Round 3, 47. Round 5, 49. Now I would say that they were all in a forward line where he didn't kick many goals in those weeks but there's still a risk there.
00:57:19
Speaker
Yeah, so it's only in his last three games when McVey took over, they immediately put him in defence and it was a clear change. And he's actually taking kick-ins too. So he took more than Isaac coming on the weekend. So he's still there. He's their number one kick-in guy as well. And he runs out all the time and does those long bombs as well.
00:57:38
Speaker
Yeah, I think there's not a heap of risk of those incredibly low scores that we saw as him up in the forward line though, Hami, because he'll just stay at the sort of full back defensive line that he's at at the moment. Okay, let's move on to the next question. Brad, choose two to offload, Holmsey, Dagoi, Sarong, Brody, Daikos. Regardless here, all rookies are off the field.
00:58:05
Speaker
Uh, I would look, uh, did you say butters first? Was that the first? Oh, Dagoi. So yeah. Dagoi's the wrong bro. Yeah. I think Dagoi goes first. He's been very underwhelming. He has a fantastic role, that midfield role that we, we love from our fantasy players, but, uh, he, he's playing that dusty pure role where he starts in the center bounces and then pretty much roll straight forward. And with Collingwood playing that run and gun style that they are.
00:58:32
Speaker
this year and it's very reminiscent of the Richmond days and they weren't high fantasy scores so although he's playing some very very good football he's not putting up numbers anywhere near the top six so I'm more than happy for him to go.
00:58:45
Speaker
And then out of those, probably I would go Sorong purely because he's a midfield only and he, you're able to get him up to an absolute gun midfielder and, and really put some serious points on the board. And if we've got those issues for Bill Brody with the Frio midfield mix and, and more of a lion's share, then the same issues have to be said for Sorong as well. And if he starts doing some more jobs in the midfield to allow Fife to hunt the ball, then that could reduce his scoring a little bit.
00:59:15
Speaker
Yeah, I think Sarong's, he's done his job for you. He's that stepping stone who's, you know, 782,000 now and he's not much more to get to a, you know, well, the same price as Merritt and the same price as Bonk pretty well. You can get to a Walsh, you can get to a, you can get to even the top end guys like a Jelly, not too much money.
00:59:40
Speaker
Alright, now final question here from Robbo. Okay, he's talking about the Gorn Zorko injuries. He's got a bit of a different question though, he says here, 20 playing before trades. Far out, that's a good week for this week I'd say. Still rocking Sam Berry as M8 this week and his other rookies were at D6. So A,
01:00:06
Speaker
Does he upgrade Barry to an uber primo mid or be fined cash to upgrade? And approximately 300 K rookie to my d6 What do you reckon there? Homie? He says Barry's run looks all right. He's going at 82 in his last five So obviously he's a little bit happy with Barry, but what do you think? Homie?
01:00:30
Speaker
I reckon he's got to go. Sam Barry, I mean, you're coming out of the bias, you want to be having these big mints that are going to hit really ceiling scores. And I don't think he's won. He's a bit over 600,000. So yeah, I think that that's what I'd be looking to do.
01:00:45
Speaker
Yeah, if you can get to an uber primo, that's the way to go by the sounds. I mean, it's not that far off, is it? I mean, it's under 200,000. You could ditch out. Geez, I don't know. If you still have Sam Hayes, you could ditch him to Tikal, take 220,000, whatever, put it on Barry and you've got a really good midfielder.
01:01:06
Speaker
Perfect. All right, well, thanks for joining us, Hami. It's been a pleasure, mate. We've got through a lot of questions. And yeah, appreciate your thoughts. You got any final closing thoughts for the round 14? How's your actual team? Are you looking to get a fair few numbers on field this week? Because I think I'm in dire straights this week, to be honest.
01:01:23
Speaker
No, I'm the opposite, mate. I'm actually going to have quite a few on field this week, which will be good. And I sort of got I got like Mills, Miller, McCray, like I got quite a few coming back in. Dunkley English, as I sort of said. So I'm not too bad. It's a bit annoying that we had the Gorn and Zorko injuries.
01:01:41
Speaker
that have come through, which means that I sort of don't really get to get those upgrades that I was hoping for. But that's all right. I'll work through it and see who we got. Yeah, I'm sort of targeting Bond, I suppose. I do like him. And yeah, I still like Merritt. So still chasing around those Valley guys that we spoke about earlier. Beautiful. Where was your rank again? Do we do we mention that? I can't remember if we did. Yeah. Let's have a look.
01:02:10
Speaker
Oh, yeah, 1474. So I lost ground again last week. But yeah, I've only had sort of two really bad wakes. I think I lost a thousand spots each time. And then sort of in between, I've had to sort of try and creep creeping up. But the week before that, I'll see. Let's have a look.
01:02:28
Speaker
Yeah, the week before that, so the round 12 bias scored 1 9 5 9, which is 254 for the week. So yeah, that's not too bad. Hey, that's some, that's some roach like you're, you're an honorary roach. I'd say, uh, harmi. So congratulations. Welcome to the club, mate. Uh, homesy, any, any closing thoughts homesy? Uh, yeah, like I mentioned, just.
01:02:52
Speaker
with the main aim of get as many players on the field you can this week but don't ruin your team to do it so just a quick example for my team i have too many forwards this week in terms of i've got eight playing and only i can only get six on field so i'm likely going to do some dpp to get some players around but i just need to make sure that um my team is going to be all right next week and i don't put players in positions that will then make me have nine midfielders next week or an example like that so just make sure that you're
01:03:21
Speaker
you're carefully paying attention to where your players end up so that you're fully stocked to come out of the bias with your team in good shape and ready to attack the back half. Right mate, thanks for joining us lads. To infinity and beyond.