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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the official Supercoach AFL podcast. Footy

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Speaker 1: is almost here, opening around just hours away. Of course,

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Speaker 1: we have a little bit more time to get our

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Speaker 1: Super Coach team's set. First Bounce of Richmond v. Carlton

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Speaker 1: is the first lockout of the Super Coach season. A

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Speaker 1: huge episode today because I am talking to the man

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Speaker 1: who won Super Coach in twenty twenty five, Blake Moscript.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations again on your victory, Thanks for jumping on the show,

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Speaker 1: and how are you feeling heading into a new season

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Speaker 1: as the reigning champion?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me l Yeah, it's pretty exciting

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Speaker 2: obviously to get back into footy and feels a lot

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Speaker 2: different this year, a bit of my expectations and yeah,

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Speaker 2: a bit of a target on my back the song

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Speaker 2: our mates, So yeah, it's a lot different. But I

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Speaker 2: can't like to get started.

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Speaker 1: Before we get into some more maybe pointed questions on

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Speaker 1: some players who we like and don't like in some

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Speaker 1: of the strategy. Just how do you approach the preseason?

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Speaker 1: How did you approach it last year which led to

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Speaker 1: some very good things and you're trying to replicate that

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Speaker 1: again or is it a bit different with that as

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Speaker 1: you say, with their target on your back.

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Speaker 2: I think I'm just trying to sort of replicate most

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Speaker 2: of what I did last year. I sort of had

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Speaker 2: a bit of a look back at my starting team,

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Speaker 2: which I think Dossi and Phantom had to look back,

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Speaker 2: and they weren't sort of overly impressed, and I think

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Speaker 2: I wasn't too impressed with it either, to be asked,

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Speaker 2: But there was a few things I really noticed, and

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Speaker 2: I guess one of them was the lack of Opening

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Speaker 2: Round players I had in there. So I've sort of

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Speaker 2: gone back to my team this year and trying to

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Speaker 2: cut back on some of those some of those players

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Speaker 2: and avoid the early buy So yeah, there's just trying

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Speaker 2: to sort of replicate what worked for me last year

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Speaker 2: and some of the things that didn't work, some of

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Speaker 2: the probably a few too many mid prices that didn't

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Speaker 3: On those buyers. I mean, there's a little bit of

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Speaker 3: a different situation this year.

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Speaker 1: I think roughly this time twelve months ago, we eat

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Speaker 1: a hurricane in Queensland which cancer one of the games,

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Speaker 1: so there was only I think two opening round games,

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Speaker 1: so there were only four teams with the early boy

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Speaker 1: this year we've got ten. How hard is that to

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Speaker 1: try and dodge around?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty tough, especially like some of the players

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Speaker 2: So just trying to figure out who really are the

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's sort of been It's been a bit tricky,

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Speaker 2: especially the I think it's around three. We have sort

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Speaker 2: So yeah, just trying to trying to work my way

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Speaker 1: And how closely have you watched the We've had some

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Speaker 1: practice games and then the Amy series is now done.

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Speaker 1: How many of those games is you're watching? How much

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Speaker 1: does that formulate your go into your your planning. I

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Speaker 1: know Jayan Shaw put up another Big Score is a

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Speaker 2: I might skip that one this time. Yeah, there was

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Speaker 2: It always is.

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Speaker 1: One of the big topics that is certainly occupying my

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Speaker 3: Is one of my rucks?

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Speaker 2: I think I'm struggling just as much as you are,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Cherry obviously was a bit of a hero if

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Speaker 1: So do you have a bit of loyalty there or

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Speaker 1: he's the one that I am pretty nervous about some

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Speaker 1: of those practice games. He didn't look crashot especially in

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Speaker 3: His overall score.

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Speaker 1: There's obviously still plenty of other stuff he can do

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Speaker 2: Think, so. Yeah, the schedule that he has, especially that

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Speaker 1: And of course no early buy, which is handy for

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Speaker 1: the Kangaroos obviously as well. Just looking at some of

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Speaker 1: I did take Naars out of my team for a

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Speaker 3: I mean, we think he's going.

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Speaker 1: To play midfield, maybe go more forward this year, so

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Speaker 1: But he's very expensive. He does have a buy. You

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Speaker 2: sort of thinking that those mid forward goal kicking mids,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think the ceilings sort of too good

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, as you say, wherever he plays, the

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Speaker 1: know there's a couple Hayden Young, Darcy Parrish. You're in

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Speaker 1: which other ones are you considering in that? Yeah, sort

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I sort of I had them both locked in

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Speaker 2: but I'm generally trying to steer steer clear from those.

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Speaker 2: There's one guy I've sort of been looking at it

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Speaker 2: there's certainly a lot of value in some of those players.

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Speaker 2: It just depends what your what your risk tyrant is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what's your what what's the reasoning for avoiding them?

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Speaker 3: Just because.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if they don't work out, it's sort of hard

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Speaker 1: of that situation. Or you just don't have too many

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Speaker 1: injury prone guys. What's the what's the thinking there.

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Speaker 2: With the alien parish or some of the windsor.

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Speaker 1: Or avoiding all the rest.

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Speaker 1: And Blackiston doesn't tempt you, Rock seems a little bit

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Speaker 1: Is Kitty Coleman You count him as one of those.

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Speaker 1: He's almost an expensive rookie at just two hundred and

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Speaker 3: But you did hint there that.

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Speaker 1: There's a Richmond player you're considering, so that definitely piqued

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean I was actually encouraged a bit by

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Speaker 1: certainly any other Richmond player, but I didn't think he

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Speaker 1: do you have any hard and fast rule on starting,

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Speaker 1: cheap you guys if they're if they're available, which was

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I tend to look for the cheaper rookies. There's

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Speaker 1: Little bit as a as a Tiger fan. Do you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, ideally would be a little bit cheaper, But he

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely think the defenders and the forwards. I

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Speaker 2: think there's a bit more, a bit more to choose

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Speaker 2: once we get sort of teams announced for round one stage,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always a fun hour or so every year

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Speaker 1: always fun to try and glean exactly who's in and

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Speaker 1: in a Shecheesel and Flanders. Can we can we tick

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Speaker 2: I've got cozy Pickett just shut out again like I've

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough, and what do you have you did

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Speaker 1: you check the couple of these new ninety nine k

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Speaker 1: in round one. But it always helps to just save

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Speaker 1: ninety nine k is on the bench Wayne Dirks and

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Speaker 1: as well potentially for Carton. But yeah, we have to

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Speaker 3: I guess it is the thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he looked really good. I thought Dirkson looks look good,

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Speaker 1: And we talked about opening around what does the next

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Speaker 2: I think the main thing I'll be looking at is

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Speaker 2: those who will be interesting to watch, But yeah, definitely

439
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Speaker 2: definitely having a look at the ruckman and just sort

440
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Speaker 2: of what the scoring looks like and how they're sort

441
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Speaker 2: of moving around the ground.

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Speaker 1: Is there any rucks in particular, or more how the

443
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Speaker 1: rules actually affect, you know, are there fewer stoppages and

444
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Speaker 1: these sorts of things, because obviously we don't get to

445
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Speaker 1: see a cherry or a gorn.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, hopefully we'll have some actual, sort of real.

447
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Speaker 1: Games, real data to go off that might help us

448
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Speaker 1: make those decisions with some of those guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably just more just more in general seeing how

450
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Speaker 2: they're scoring and where most of their scoring is coming from.

451
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Speaker 2: English plays, So I wouldn't mind sort of at his price,

452
00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:47,280
Speaker 2: and he's got a pretty good scoring history, and he

453
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Speaker 2: could be one that is really suited to a more

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Speaker 2: sort of open, free flying game. So he's definitely one

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Speaker 2: that I'm looking at. He's probably one that I would

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Speaker 2: start if if he didn't have that buy. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's a few there, but I think mainly just getting

458
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Speaker 2: a feel for the how best scoring is actually coming,

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Speaker 2: what sort of areas of the game they are scoring in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, English, you look fantastic the other day, but again,

461
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Speaker 1: yeah that round three boys a bit of a killer

462
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Speaker 1: with the Dogs and I think Gold Coast and Sydney

463
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Speaker 1: all on the same week, So yeah, it is a

464
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Speaker 1: bit of a juggling act to trying to fit them

465
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Speaker 1: all in his tenor Bruin someone who's been in your

466
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Speaker 1: thoughts at all during the year. During the preseason, I

467
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Speaker 1: guess we hardly saw him until last week, but the

468
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,639
Speaker 1: role did look good, but going off one game, but

469
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Speaker 1: we do get another look at him this week if

470
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Speaker 1: that's a way he could maybe zig and zig in

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Speaker 1: the midfield.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's sort of another one of those in that

473
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Speaker 2: awkward price if you can keep that sort of half

474
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 2: back roll, and certainly probably probably will pay off. But yeah,

475
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Speaker 2: I'm not too sure at the moment. I don't really

476
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Speaker 2: have any of those sort of three hundred thousand guys

477
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Speaker 2: at this stage. But yeah, getting a look at him

478
00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,280
Speaker 2: hoping around will certainly help. If he looks to be

479
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 2: sort of picking out in the back line, then I

480
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 2: might have to move some things around. Maybe it's a

481
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:12,040
Speaker 2: safer pick than Coleman just for Coleman's injury history. So yeah,

482
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Speaker 2: they're too I'll certainly be looking out for.

483
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Speaker 1: And with the final question on the Rocks, we've talked

484
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Speaker 1: about them a bit obviously, but at the moment you

485
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Speaker 1: said you've got McAndrew in it, sorry at flex, I

486
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Speaker 1: think is that right? And have you entertained him to

487
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,119
Speaker 1: it all sort of opens up another world of possibilities

488
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Speaker 1: if you've suddenly got another five hundred k haspin.

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Speaker 3: But is that too risky for you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just just not really sure. It looks good

491
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 2: when you've got to kind of stack you midfield, But

492
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Speaker 2: I'm just not sure if the you know, if he's

493
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Speaker 2: going to be sort of staying in the team long term,

494
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Speaker 2: or if they just wanted to have a bit of

495
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Speaker 2: a look at him. So the flex, it's a lot

496
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Speaker 2: easier to move around, and yeah, it's certainly a lot

497
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Speaker 2: more comfortable just sort of sideways into another rookie that

498
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Speaker 2: you might have missed. So yeah, I think that's that's

499
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 2: the safer pick. But at the same time, if you

500
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Speaker 2: feel confident that he's going to play all year, having

501
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,120
Speaker 2: him in that R. Two spot, if you can score

502
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Speaker 2: in eighty five or ninety, he's sort of really set

503
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:18,880
Speaker 2: up there, and you can look to maybe go pretty

504
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 2: heavy in the midfield where there aren't as many rookies.

505
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Speaker 2: So yeah, it does open up quite a bit if

506
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Speaker 2: you are feeling a bit a bit risky.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like what you said earlier that it's good that. Yeah,

508
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 1: some people will go down that road, some people will

509
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Speaker 1: go the flex, some people, I guess, some people want

510
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Speaker 1: to pick a bit all But yeah, it does create

511
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 1: a bit of variation. There'll be some different looking teams,

512
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Speaker 1: which is which is always fun. The one question I

513
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Speaker 1: wanted to ask to finish off with is we, you know,

514
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Speaker 1: we spent this whole interview and we you know, spend

515
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Speaker 1: the whole summer panicking and trying to get every single

516
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,399
Speaker 1: pick right in that starting team. But as you pointed

517
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Speaker 1: out last year your starting team included Jayden Short for example,

518
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: and a couple of picks that you probably had to

519
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 1: get out of there pretty quick. I mean, how important

520
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 1: is getting the starting team right to actually, you know,

521
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Speaker 1: finishing at the top. And what's your strategy for you know,

522
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 1: especially those opening few rounds. You know, do you trade

523
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 1: really hard early, use some boost to try and get

524
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Speaker 1: rookies that you might have missed, or correct some of

525
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,880
Speaker 1: these issues that might happen in your starting team. And yeah,

526
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 1: how stress should we be about, you know, maybe taking

527
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 1: one or two risks or what the that team looks

528
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Speaker 1: like at Thursday night next week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I think I was twenty thousands after maybe

530
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Speaker 2: two rounds, So yeah, it sort of goes to show

531
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Speaker 2: that you're starting teams. It's not everything, but I definitely

532
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 2: did trade pretty aggressively, getting the rookies off that they

533
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 2: might have only played a game or two, and moving

534
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Speaker 2: on to some of the guys that I'd missed. So

535
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Speaker 2: I was certainly using all my trades and boosts early.

536
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Speaker 2: So then by the time it got two rounds of

537
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 2: five or six, I sort of had the cash flow

538
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 2: coming in pretty pretty quickly. But yeah, it's certainly not

539
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 2: like panning stations if you miss a few picks Earlier,

540
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 2: as I said, I had trade and short I think

541
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Speaker 2: it was Oliver will Day, like, there was a number

542
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 2: of those sort of kind of awkwardly priced guys that

543
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Speaker 2: just didn't work out. So yeah, if you can, if

544
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 2: you can sort of pivot off those quickly and especially

545
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 2: move on from you rookies that that might not be

546
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 2: getting a game, yeah you can. You can turn your

547
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Speaker 2: season around really quite quickly.

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Speaker 3: That's always good to know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, in terms of the broader trade strategy for

550
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Speaker 1: the season, I think having one in your back pocket

551
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Speaker 1: late last year turned out to be extremely valuable. Is

552
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Speaker 1: that something you'll try and do again, or you're happy

553
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Speaker 1: to just burn through them and set up your season early.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of you kind of got to pick

555
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Speaker 2: and choose, but I think early sort of early season,

556
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Speaker 2: that's when you can sort of really go pretty aggressively

557
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Speaker 2: and then yeah, you can you can sort of taper

558
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Speaker 2: off throughout the middle stages of the season. You really

559
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 2: just maybe doing one up, one down, or yeah, just

560
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 2: waiting waiting for that fall and premium. So yeah, you

561
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 2: just got you do have to pace yourself, but certainly

562
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,639
Speaker 2: having those five you can sort of be really aggressive

563
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:06,199
Speaker 2: in those first three rounds and especially getting all the

564
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Speaker 2: rookies that you were that you weren't starting with. Yeah,

565
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Speaker 2: if you can get your your cash generation up sort

566
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Speaker 2: of pretty early, you're ahead of the pack. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: All excellent advice.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much Blake for joining us. Congratulations again,

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Speaker 1: it's been awesome to chat and we'll be definitely tracking

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Speaker 1: your progress very close to this year. Touch base again,

571
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Speaker 1: I'm sure during the year to see how you're going.

572
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:31,880
Speaker 1: Good luck playing against you mate in those private leagues.

573
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Speaker 1: We know that's where the real competition is in Supercoach.

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Speaker 1: Thanks everybody for watching. Get those teams in, but of course, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we have a little bit more time to tink unlimited

576
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Speaker 1: trades through to round one and then a rolling lockout

577
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Speaker 1: of course through the week and until the last game

578
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Speaker 1: of round one when everything will be locked in. But

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Speaker 1: we've got plenty to play it until then. Lots more

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Speaker 1: content coming your way. Reminder you can jump in and

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Speaker 1: picking you up team. Thanks again, Blake, and good luck

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Speaker 1: for you as well. See if we can go back

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Speaker 1: to back.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, us juers. Thanks