Speaker 1: Good day everyone, and welcome back to Drafted, the official
Speaker 1: Super Coach Draft show right here on the official Super
Speaker 1: Coach podcast feed. It is your boy Dossie here alongside
Speaker 1: super Coach Draft enthusiast Patch. Welcome back, Patch.
Speaker 2: Gooday, happy to be back. Very keen for some more
Speaker 2: draft chat.
Speaker 1: Episode two. We are going to be talking all things
Speaker 1: midfielders and we're getting into ranking season and to help
Speaker 1: us with our ranks, we have draft expert and former
Speaker 1: member of the world famous Jock Reynolds community. It is Lecdog.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Lecdog.
Speaker 3: Thank you mate, self proclaimed draft expert. Happy to be here,
Speaker 3: happy to deliver the official Super Coach Draft rankings, and
Speaker 3: everything we see in this podcast will stand and is
Speaker 3: not to be argued with. These are factual rankings.
Speaker 1: We are giving you correct, absolutely no challenges between now
Speaker 1: and whenever you're draft.
Speaker 2: If you pick a player that is suddenly injured, that
Speaker 2: is on you.
Speaker 1: It's on you now. If you do want to read
Speaker 1: Lekdog's entire top one hundred ranks, including positional tiers, that's
Speaker 1: available right now on Code Sports. You can go check
Speaker 1: out the entire list there. But at the moment we're
Speaker 1: going to go through the top thirty midfield rankings. And
Speaker 1: just to be clear, this is for Super Coach Draft.
Speaker 1: If you want to check out our thoughts on midfielders
Speaker 1: in Super Coach Classic the salary cap format, you can
Speaker 1: check that out on this very feed. Our previous episode
Speaker 1: yesterday we recorded on the lair. We're going to go
Speaker 1: in conjunction with them talking midfielders in Classic, then jumping
Speaker 1: on the Drafted podcast to talk all things draft. Let's
Speaker 1: get started. Let's go through your top ten Lefdog and
Speaker 1: we'll discuss this glorious top ten that you've got.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well do you want to go from first to
Speaker 3: tenth or tenth to first?
Speaker 1: We start win number one, number one, I.
Speaker 4: Mean number one.
Speaker 3: He's not just number one in the midfield, he's number
Speaker 3: one in the comp he was last year as well.
Speaker 3: It's Marcus BoNT and Pelli. He's the best player in
Speaker 3: Super Coach. He might be the best player in the AFL.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's roll through one through ten and then I
Speaker 1: think we'll discuss each sort of little pick there.
Speaker 3: So after the bond, we've got a young gun and
Speaker 3: Nick dekos in at number two.
Speaker 4: Zachi Butters falls at.
Speaker 3: Number three, Zach Mister consistent number four, Caleb Sarong fifth,
Speaker 3: Lockie Neil still a top ten player, number six, Andrew
Speaker 3: bray Shaw is seventh, Josh Dunky is eighth, Luca Davies
Speaker 3: a Uniac is ninth, and sitting at tenth.
Speaker 4: I have Isaac Keeney.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I think now we'll just discuss a few
Speaker 1: of the individual players BoNT and Dekos top two, even
Speaker 1: Butters third. I think there's no real arguments there. All
Speaker 1: guys that could potentially go one twenty. Butters already did
Speaker 1: go one twenty last year. Dekos, I think it was
Speaker 1: a one seventeen. Maybe talk us through your tiers as
Speaker 1: well at this point, Lekdog, and then we can discuss
Speaker 1: sort of further. That's just briefly outline what tiers are. Again.
Speaker 1: We did our draft one oh one episode the other week,
Speaker 1: so we are going to be talking more at at
Speaker 1: an in depth level now that we're into the official podcast.
Speaker 1: But walk us through your tiers in that top ten.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. There's a couple of things to note.
Speaker 3: If your defense or mid or rock eligible, you'll be
Speaker 3: found in those rankings, not in the midfield ranking. We're
Speaker 3: just talking pure mids right the way I do my tiers.
Speaker 3: So last year this was highlighted a lot where I'd like,
Speaker 3: for instance, Zach Merritt ahead of Caleb Sarong, and everyone.
Speaker 4: Lost their mind. Calub's wrong better than Zach Merritt.
Speaker 3: I just have him slightly ahead, but they're both Tier
Speaker 3: three players. So to me, the number one on his
Speaker 3: own stand out Tier one player is Marcus BoNT and
Speaker 3: Pelli and you do everything you can to get him.
Speaker 3: Then at your next pick, if you had a Nick
Speaker 3: Dekos or a Zach Butter's who I have in Tier
Speaker 3: two available, I essentially have them on equal footing, so
Speaker 3: you want to grab one of them if they're available
Speaker 3: with your second pick, or with your first pick, if
Speaker 3: bonds On available. And then Tier three is a bit bigger.
Speaker 3: It's got Merits, a wrong Neil and Brayshaw in it,
Speaker 3: and basically it's just I do have to put these
Speaker 3: guys in an order, but I'm basically saying these guys
Speaker 3: are all pretty much in the same spot. You'd be
Speaker 3: happy with getting these guys anywhere around your selection, so.
Speaker 2: It's not just mt of saying this guy's first, these
Speaker 2: two guys are equal second, and these guys are all
Speaker 2: like equal third.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so that when you're talking about mid specific Yes,
Speaker 3: and then I use those positional tiers when I'm putting
Speaker 3: together the top one hundred, because I might bump ay
Speaker 3: Tier one Ford above a like a Tier five midfielder,
Speaker 3: even though he going to score lower, just because he's
Speaker 3: got a rareer position. So they made him more in
Speaker 3: the top one hundred. But yeah, as you said, Patch,
Speaker 3: when we're talking midfielders, if they were if there's two
Speaker 3: guys at a tier three and you're upset that ones
Speaker 3: ahead of the other, they're basically in the same span.
Speaker 2: Like, I'm incredibly mad at you disrespecting my boy Zach
Speaker 2: Merritt like that disrespecting.
Speaker 1: I think he's way higher then he actually averaged last
Speaker 1: year versus some of these guys. Maybe walk us through
Speaker 1: why you're so keen honor Zach Merritt this season. I
Speaker 1: think you know Sarong was slightly above him. Locky Neil
Speaker 1: was certainly averaged higher than him last season. But I'm
Speaker 1: not arguing against Zach Merritt. He's an absolute gun, we
Speaker 1: know that. But he's very high in your ranks.
Speaker 3: He elect He is so one of the key factors
Speaker 3: I put into these rankings instant just their average, it's
Speaker 3: the total points they produce across the season. So Zaki Barrett,
Speaker 3: he was fifth last year for total points in the
Speaker 3: midfield and he's basically sits there every single year. And
Speaker 3: for me, that consistency and that availability is really important.
Speaker 3: Azak Nick Dakoss is above him just for upside and
Speaker 3: he's just a beast. And then if you're gonna split
Speaker 3: hairs in this tier three section, which is merits wrong
Speaker 3: Neil and Brayshaw, I just feel like Merit for both
Speaker 3: consistency and availability, he's probably a hair ahead of those
Speaker 3: other guys. But you're right, Locke, Neil did average more
Speaker 3: than him last year, and he played one less game
Speaker 3: than him, and it basically comes out at they scored
Speaker 3: the same amount of points.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of other players I want to discuss.
Speaker 1: I know I'm high on this guy. I think I
Speaker 1: have him. I have him a touch lower in my ranks.
Speaker 1: I think I have him at tenth, but still very high.
Speaker 1: But Andrew Brayshaw at seven as well. From a memory,
Speaker 1: I think one hundred and nine average last year. So
Speaker 1: putting him top ten, especially at seventh, just below the
Speaker 1: likes of Locke Neil who averaged one twenty and just
Speaker 1: slightly below Kalb's the wrong with average one fifteen. You're
Speaker 1: expecting big things from Andrew Brayshaw in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's another one where I just think there's some
Speaker 3: upside built into his game. I think there's some extra
Speaker 3: points maybe available in that Freemantle midfield and you know
Speaker 3: through where I'm hoping that five stops going anywhere near it.
Speaker 3: I'm interested to see what Hayden Young Hayden Young's roles
Speaker 3: in the new year. But I just think there's a
Speaker 3: slight bit of upside in him. And again he's consistent,
Speaker 3: he plays every game. He scored slightly less total points
Speaker 3: than a Josh Dunkley, but I do think he's got
Speaker 3: a bit of bit upside built into him. So, like
Speaker 3: I'm pretty happy with anyone in these spots. Yeah, Brayshaw, Neil, Calebs, Rob,
Speaker 3: they're all bloody good. But Brayshaw, for me, he's kind
Speaker 3: of He's very similar to Zach Merritt, And you'll find
Speaker 3: as we go through these ranks. I prefer a higher
Speaker 3: floor than a higher ceiling. I just I mean, you'd
Speaker 3: like both, but I prefer consistency, particularly in draft, particularly
Speaker 3: because i'd recommend if you're running draft, you're not having
Speaker 3: captains turned on. I just want guys who've going to
Speaker 3: play every week and score points every week. I think
Speaker 3: Bray sure merit. They fit the bill in that respect,
Speaker 3: and they just get a little bump that as a result.
Speaker 2: So Isaac Heeney was all the rage last year being
Speaker 2: a forward and classic people frothed over him, and rightfully
Speaker 2: so he was playing as a midfielder. Has lost that
Speaker 2: forward eligibility and you've still got him in the top ten.
Speaker 2: You think he's still a top ten midfielder standalone. Once
Speaker 2: you take the forward the forward situation out, you know
Speaker 2: we've got Mills coming back. This one has lost the
Speaker 2: Grand Final. Having new coach, you're not worried about his role,
Speaker 2: changing him maybe going forward to fix their forward line problems.
Speaker 2: Well taught me through the hen Dog.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an interesting question. My assumption perats would be
Speaker 3: that his role remains pretty similar to last year, So
Speaker 3: a lot of midfield but also able to push forward
Speaker 3: and kick goals. Yes, Callum Mills will be back, and
Speaker 3: he may be back for two three whole games next
Speaker 3: year or this year. It's going to be really impressive
Speaker 3: when he does. But I just don't see there being
Speaker 3: too much scope for Heene's role to change. Yes, he
Speaker 3: lacks forward eligibility, so he won't be a Classic option,
Speaker 3: but I still there's no reason why he can't score points.
Speaker 3: I could see argument, so I got him in at
Speaker 3: Tier five ahead of Tom Green, Patrick Cripps and then
Speaker 3: No Anderson Christian Petrarca at tier six. You can argue
Speaker 3: that maybe Tom Green out performs him. Maybe unbiased because
Speaker 3: the first time I've ever owned Tom Green and Classic
Speaker 3: last year he scored five points. Maybe I'm biased because
Speaker 3: I'm not sure in Christian Petrarca's health. But I really
Speaker 3: think there's no reason why Isaac Heeney can't outscore Errol Gordon,
Speaker 3: Tom Green, and Patrick Cripps in total points in the
Speaker 3: year twenty twenty five. I was really tossing up and
Speaker 3: again this is splitting hairs between Erl Goulden and Isaac Heeney.
Speaker 3: I think Errol Gordon's scope to play outside at times
Speaker 3: can potentially hinder the hap on he's scoring, even though
Speaker 3: we know he's got a massive ceiling, but Isaaciny, like
Speaker 3: the Swans, are serious. He needs to continue playing in
Speaker 3: their midfield and pushing forward and kicking goals in clutch moments,
Speaker 3: which is what provides really good super coach scoring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you mentioned some of those names from eleven
Speaker 2: to twenty. Do you want to run through the full
Speaker 2: list of eleven to twenty four us, let's do that.
Speaker 3: So eleven to twenty we've got. So it was Isaacini
Speaker 3: at ten, Eryl Goulden at eleven, Tom Green at twelve.
Speaker 3: They're both Tier five, Paddy Cripps at Tier five as
Speaker 3: well at thirteen. Tier six is made up of two players,
Speaker 3: Noah Anderson and Kristen Petrarca. That tier is really sort
Speaker 3: of guys with upside compared work to where I've ranked them,
Speaker 3: either upside because of age or upside because they missed
Speaker 3: last year with a lot of injuries. Tier seven, which
Speaker 3: is sixteenth and seventeenth, I've got Jack Steel and Rory
Speaker 3: Lead they're your older inside mint and then closing out
Speaker 3: the top twenty and Tier eight, i've got Sam Walsh
Speaker 3: Adam Trelaw, which we may need to talk about Clayton
Speaker 3: Oliver and then Chad Warner at twenty one, and that's
Speaker 3: my top eight tied players.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm keen to jump in here and discuss
Speaker 1: a few players. I mean I personally, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I'm on board with Patrick. Did you have Tom Green
Speaker 1: quite a bit higher like I did have him? I've
Speaker 1: got him fifth actually my latest rankings. So I just
Speaker 1: don't see many players at GWS able to play inside
Speaker 1: mid and if he just I know, the disposal is
Speaker 1: an issue, but you know, they do have an additional
Speaker 1: package up forward this year for him to deliver to
Speaker 1: as well, so hoping that he can sort of clean
Speaker 1: up a few of those inefficiencies and really make a
Speaker 1: massive jump this season. So I'm I'm kind of on board,
Speaker 1: although I also copped that nasty classic hit last year
Speaker 1: of the five. But we move on, and I've got
Speaker 1: him pretty high in my rankings. Yeah, interested. Also just
Speaker 1: before we quickly moved on there also got LDU really high.
Speaker 1: I think you had him ninth. So but moving on
Speaker 1: to the next bracket and yeah, player's let's discuss a
Speaker 1: couple in there. Obviously, Adam Trelaw at nineteen you haven't
Speaker 1: you said pre show and we now discuss it, but
Speaker 1: you haven't adjusted these yet. Four injuries we've seen. Adam
Speaker 1: Trelaw is going to be out for an extended stretch
Speaker 1: of the preseason and likely the start of the season
Speaker 1: as well. You're going to adjust him down, But how
Speaker 1: far do you think and what do you do with
Speaker 1: these injuries in the preseason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a tough one. I actually felt like I
Speaker 3: had him low to begin with because of potential injury risks.
Speaker 3: So he was the ninth ranked midfielder last year for
Speaker 3: total points, had a mammoth year, and I just didn't
Speaker 3: even when I had him sitting here at what did
Speaker 3: I have him meant nineteenth? I didn't even think. I
Speaker 3: thought that was a risk, to be honest, but it
Speaker 3: was hard to ignore the numbers. But because I was
Speaker 3: worried about his health, he has proven that his health
Speaker 3: is already questionable. So you have to bump him down,
Speaker 3: But I'm not sure how far do you bump him down.
Speaker 3: Is if he's on the board and you're choosing between him,
Speaker 3: Tuck Miller and James Petling, who I have you know
Speaker 3: in the thirties, Are you going to take any of
Speaker 3: those two over him?
Speaker 4: It would be.
Speaker 3: It'd be tough too when you look at the season
Speaker 3: on the whole, because you need Adam trelaw on park
Speaker 3: towards the end of the year when you're pushing for finals,
Speaker 3: and he is probably going to outscore those guys when
Speaker 3: he's on the field. The question is can you trust
Speaker 3: his health and so far notes So he probably drops
Speaker 3: from nineteen down to twenty nine for me just off
Speaker 3: the back of that preseason injury, but he is going
Speaker 3: to outperform that on an average basis. It's just how
Speaker 3: often is he going to be on the park.
Speaker 2: I had him that far down even before the injury,
Speaker 2: basically just because I was pre empty an injury because
Speaker 2: he you know, last year was just a massive outlier
Speaker 2: in his career that I didn't think that it was
Speaker 2: something that Wood or could really continue because it's just,
Speaker 2: you know, it's an outlier and maybe maybe shouldn't be
Speaker 2: counted before him.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, Patchricon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like there's no doubt that these scuse points
Speaker 2: when he's fit, But how many years has he been
Speaker 2: fit and played that full season? No, especially his age
Speaker 2: and the club that he's at, who knows. The Bevo
Speaker 2: factor also scares me. Sorry, Dussie, you were saying.
Speaker 1: No, I was just saying, on the back of that,
Speaker 1: what are you thinking?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Adjustment wise, we can talk about forwards in the Forward Pod.
Speaker 1: There's probably a few relevant names there, but a name
Speaker 1: like Ed Richards, you know, starting to become a name
Speaker 1: in classic circles, even as a potential option. But I
Speaker 1: really like him as a player that could maybe go
Speaker 1: one hundred and five plus. Where do you see him
Speaker 1: now that with this injury? Like I thought he could
Speaker 1: perform pretty well regardless of the trilaw factor. But does
Speaker 1: this impact him quite a bit? Or is it just
Speaker 1: kind of like he's going to do what he did
Speaker 1: regardless and those possessions might go to some other player
Speaker 1: that will probably be talking about the Forward podcast, I'd.
Speaker 2: Imagine depends on how Luke Beverage is feeling that particular
Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon Maravel, Like, it's I hate predicting the dog
Speaker 2: so much because Bebo does throw guys around. Richard's proved
Speaker 2: that he was a good center abounds midfielder and a
Speaker 2: good midfielder. But does he get moved to half back?
Speaker 2: Does he move kind of forward? He's versatile enough that
Speaker 2: that worries me a little bit, so I probably wouldn't
Speaker 2: be jumping on him before twenty maybe a little bit
Speaker 2: further up. But he's a good player, good football, should
Speaker 2: be a good scorer. But I just I've got trust
Speaker 2: issues with Luke Beveridge and he's going to have to
Speaker 2: do a lot of work to come to the table
Speaker 2: for us to resolve those issues, and we'll need to
Speaker 2: go through some counseling before that can really I can
Speaker 2: really trust him fully.
Speaker 3: I think Libb is another one that is Probably he's
Speaker 3: a guy that I struggled to fit in because I
Speaker 3: was like, is he gonna keep doing what he did
Speaker 3: last year? Was very good last year when he was
Speaker 3: playing and scored a lot of points. Maybe he gets
Speaker 3: a bit of a bump. You'd hope it's Riley Sanders
Speaker 3: is the one that gets the bump. But literally, as
Speaker 3: you said, Patch, who knows.
Speaker 2: Who knows where?
Speaker 1: You can talk about them in the Fords Pod. Looking
Speaker 1: forward to that. But there's a couple of other injury
Speaker 1: guys here. Sam Walsh of your Blues you're a big
Speaker 1: Blues man. Was this factoring in before his hamstring setback
Speaker 1: or was this including no, this.
Speaker 3: Was assuming he would have a preseason injury. When I
Speaker 3: made this, I'm mentally prepared as a Carton supporter to
Speaker 3: get the Samwash notification every year. It's a hamstring, it's
Speaker 3: not his backs broken, so it's a step up from
Speaker 3: last year. Again, I think on an average basis he'll
Speaker 3: outperform that, but at some point he's going to miss
Speaker 3: time during the regular season and as a result he
Speaker 3: gets bumped down to eighteen.
Speaker 4: I think he.
Speaker 3: Is he going to be our I was going to
Speaker 3: say Carton's highest averaging midfielder when he plays, I might
Speaker 3: say that. I think he'll be Carton's highest averaging midfield
Speaker 3: where he plays. I think he'll perform crips and error.
Speaker 3: I just don't know how many games he's going to play.
Speaker 3: He's going to miss time at some point. You just
Speaker 3: don't want it to be during your Super Coach Finals.
Speaker 2: The Jaggers Smith slander from you is outrage.
Speaker 4: JACKA.
Speaker 3: Smith's going to be playing off half back, so he'll
Speaker 3: probably have a decent eighty five to ninety average year.
Speaker 2: One the latest on Petraca today from Melbourne was that
Speaker 2: he's getting towards full contact trainings. We're still not there yet.
Speaker 2: For those wondering what the update is, there's the full
Speaker 2: yarn up on Code Sports and Harold Son if you're
Speaker 2: intrigued for more. But basically, he's still not in full contact,
Speaker 2: still wearing the no contact hat. So, yeah, do you
Speaker 2: feel like you might move him up if you see
Speaker 2: him in preseason games? You know, if you've got a
Speaker 2: draft after some of those preseason games or you're pretty
Speaker 2: you're still a bit worried, and he's still likely to
Speaker 2: keep him around that mark, even if he's proved to
Speaker 2: be fully fit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd need to say see him in the preseason
Speaker 3: games because who's he might jump? Noah Anderson, who I've
Speaker 3: got in the same tier. But is he going to
Speaker 3: outperform a Paddy Cripps to Tom Green or an Errol Goulden. Maybe,
Speaker 3: but probably not. I'm pretty comfortable with where he sits
Speaker 3: given the question marks over him, and he's not the
Speaker 3: same type of midfielder that a lot of these guys
Speaker 3: are ahead of him. He's more of an impact guy
Speaker 3: than a massive, massive accumulator. I know he can get
Speaker 3: big numbers, but most of these other guys are like
Speaker 3: they're going to get thirty touches every single game no
Speaker 3: matter what, Whereas I feel like he's slightly more impactful,
Speaker 3: so his scoring might be a bit more up and
Speaker 3: down in twenty twenty five than these other guys. So
Speaker 3: I'm pretty comfortable with him. He's ahead of Jack Steele.
Speaker 3: I think we know what Jack Steel is going to
Speaker 3: give us. My question mark over Saint Kilda is Saint
Speaker 3: Kilda and the various additions they've had in Jack McCrae
Speaker 3: and I mean Jack Carroll's not going to come in
Speaker 3: and take midfield minutes, but they've added quite a lot
Speaker 3: of depth to that midfield from other clubs, So I
Speaker 3: think he'll just perform how he did last year and
Speaker 3: Rory lad at seventeen. For me, it was the biggest
Speaker 3: question mark because obviously dropped off last year in terms
Speaker 3: of his scoring, but he's always available and there's an
Speaker 3: opportunity that perhaps he goes back to his old half
Speaker 3: back sort of role and allows more midfield time for
Speaker 3: a James Peetling or a Dorson or whatever. So he's
Speaker 3: a bit of an enigma for me because he could
Speaker 3: be anywhere between one hundred and one hundred and fifteen
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just on Lair the journo's working over here and
Speaker 1: you can hear them on the Phantoms Lair podcast. But
Speaker 1: Sime and Thomas Wilson mentioned just on the show in
Speaker 1: the Midfielder is classic show that, Yeah, he sees Laird
Speaker 1: as he has literally not been training midfield at all
Speaker 1: this preseason, that he's expecting to just be playing as
Speaker 1: a pure defender. So is your ranks kind of yeah,
Speaker 1: him at seventeen, he just scores wherever he plays, is
Speaker 1: my guest. But getting that DPP of defender would just
Speaker 1: been added bonus, I suppose from that perspective electog.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a little bit of that sort of planning
Speaker 3: ahead if you get him, and as the seventeenth midfielder
Speaker 3: taken in the in the draft, meaning you've probably got
Speaker 3: one or two ahead of him, you're gonna end up
Speaker 3: with it. And he does play defense a defensive role,
Speaker 3: you're gonna end up with the best defender available, so
Speaker 3: or maybe not including a couple other guys. But if
Speaker 3: you look back at his years in past, he was
Speaker 3: sort of averaging you know, one hundred to one twenty
Speaker 3: in that defensive role and then he moved pure midfield
Speaker 3: and really exploded.
Speaker 4: But he's just going to score. He's just going to score.
Speaker 3: They want the ball in his hands wherever he is,
Speaker 3: and he's done it before, which is a big factor
Speaker 3: for me. So yeah, he might not average what he
Speaker 3: has averaged in terms of those high midfield ceiling numbers again,
Speaker 3: but he could go one hundred and five as a
Speaker 3: defender and that'd be a real win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably one of the big ones for me
Speaker 1: that I've differentiated quite a bit. Like I've got him.
Speaker 1: I think he'll average in the nineties still, he always
Speaker 1: seems to do that, but I've kind of factored in
Speaker 1: him playing defense. I still think he'll be a valuable
Speaker 1: pick given that he will get likely defensive status, but
Speaker 1: I sort of dropped him down a fair bit because
Speaker 1: I think there's just a lot more mouths to feed
Speaker 1: at Adelaide this year and it's kind of a different
Speaker 1: setup that we're going to see. But that's what that's
Speaker 1: why we're in ranking season. It's all about those projecting
Speaker 1: those scores. One last guy that's been a massive talking
Speaker 1: point in classic. I'll throw to you Patch for this one.
Speaker 1: So Lecdog's got Clayton Oliver at twenty. Where do you
Speaker 1: have him, and where do you see that? Because talk
Speaker 1: about risk, I mean, this guy is probably the biggest
Speaker 1: risk out there, but he could also provide great reward
Speaker 1: if you're getting him as your twentieth best midfielder.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean you look at his history and you
Speaker 2: know that couple of years run of averages for the
Speaker 2: season of one O nine, twenty three, one, twenty seven,
Speaker 2: one twenty before his eighty four last year, Like he
Speaker 2: I've got him ranked nine, and I was worried that
Speaker 2: was a little bit low. Like if he's back to
Speaker 2: his best, then he's a top five supercatch midfielder in
Speaker 2: the competition. And from from everything that we've seen, it
Speaker 2: appears that he's back from you know, the over the
Speaker 2: personal troubles, having a preseason that you know, the preseason
Speaker 2: we dreamed he would have last year. There's I think
Speaker 2: all the signs point to him being back. Whether or
Speaker 2: not that translates to scoring, to him still doing the
Speaker 2: same stuff he did in the midfield is the risk
Speaker 2: we take, and I'm more inclined to take that risk
Speaker 2: this year. If you can get him at pick twenty, incredible,
Speaker 2: But I can't fathom him being there in most drafts
Speaker 2: I'm I'm really Bullis shot him and I've got him
Speaker 2: one spot ahead of Tom Green just based on that.
Speaker 2: He So, yeah, what do you think, Dossie.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be one of the great
Speaker 1: talking points because he's locked into everyone's classic team or
Speaker 1: most you know, he's in fifty percent of classic teams.
Speaker 1: But in draft, where does he go is a great question.
Speaker 1: I feel like in some drafts he'll be a really
Speaker 1: valuable pick if he does deliver you know what we
Speaker 1: think he will, And I'm probably on the board of thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, he's going to push that one ten sort
Speaker 1: of mark. But yeah, he could be completely wrong and
Speaker 1: he could go you know, you could just do what
Speaker 1: he did last year or nineties and you're burning an
Speaker 1: early pick. So I don't know. I'm fascinated. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I had him at thirteen. Le's got him twenty, You've
Speaker 1: got him nine. I feel like some people were have
Speaker 1: him fifty, some people will have him third. So he's
Speaker 1: it's going to be a fascinating watch and I'll be
Speaker 1: checking out what his ADP is as the closer we
Speaker 1: get to draft season as well, to just see where
Speaker 1: he is going in some mock drafts. But honestly the
Speaker 1: easiest answer for that is I have no idea where
Speaker 1: where he going to go and also where I'd be
Speaker 1: happy taking him. So despite having him at thirteen, like
Speaker 1: it's always like, am I really can I do it?
Speaker 1: Is the other thing as well, because that's what I
Speaker 1: think he'll do. But come draft night, do I have
Speaker 1: the guts to follow through? And I know I should be,
Speaker 1: but it's going to be a I'll be second guessing myself,
Speaker 1: I think as well.
Speaker 2: So if yeah, I mean part of it is as well,
Speaker 2: if you're taking him on the turn, if you're pick ten,
Speaker 2: you can get you know, Clayton Olive a ten and
Speaker 2: then get someone really reliable next to him. If you've
Speaker 2: got like a you know, you want to lean in
Speaker 2: and go with it. You say, elder U's there or
Speaker 2: he Ne's there, or you know, someone said Dunky slip
Speaker 2: a little bit. You can take someone really reliable on
Speaker 2: the turn. You probably wouldn't be looking at him, and
Speaker 2: you know pick five or pick six, and then you've
Speaker 2: got to come back and you're like, oh, Jack Steel
Speaker 2: alongside him doesn't feel particularly comfortable. But yeah, I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it'll be very fascinating to see where he and.
Speaker 3: All of these questions of why got him sitting in
Speaker 3: Tier eight next to Sam Walsh who question mark over
Speaker 3: his body, Adam Trelaw who before we mate, before I
Speaker 3: made this list, question mark over his body, and then
Speaker 3: Chad Warner, and my question mark over Warner is like,
Speaker 3: I don't know are you are you playing for Freeman
Speaker 3: or are you really good?
Speaker 4: Are you inconsistent? I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: So Claytonova very squarely falls in my I don't know
Speaker 3: tier and I think all the players ahead of him
Speaker 3: in the tiers above him are a little bit safer
Speaker 3: for various reasons. But he's locked into my classic team.
Speaker 3: I hope he scores one hundred and twenty points every
Speaker 3: every single week, and I wouldn't be totally surprised if
Speaker 3: he did.
Speaker 4: But it is a risk.
Speaker 1: Let's go through the twenty one, sorry, patch.
Speaker 2: Were Oh, I was gonna say the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get through the twenty one to thirty in
Speaker 1: your midfield ranks here, so we know Chad Warner is
Speaker 1: at twenty one, who's at twenty two?
Speaker 3: So twenty two kicks off Tier nine, which consists of
Speaker 3: Darcy Parish, Matt Rowel, Hayden Young, Jian Newcombe, Hugh mcluggage,
Speaker 3: Jordan Dawson and Connor Rosie. And then Tier ten begins.
Speaker 3: It starts with Tuck Miller and James Peeling to close
Speaker 3: out the top thirty. Tier ten goes on for a
Speaker 3: little while longer. But so to read those names again, Warner, Parish, Raw, Hayden, Young, Newcombe, McCluggage, Dawson, Rosie,
Speaker 3: Miller and Peteling.
Speaker 1: All right, where to start with this? I reckon Jordan
Speaker 1: Dawson and Connor Rose. Potentially we could start there, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think I'd probably have Jordan Dawson in my ranks
Speaker 1: quite a bit higher. Came off the one P thirteen
Speaker 1: average the year before, dropped off last year, had a
Speaker 1: bit of a stinker for his standards. I think the
Speaker 1: Crows skipper talk us through the twenty seven rank for
Speaker 1: Jordan Dawson.
Speaker 2: Is that just because he traded me to him, traded
Speaker 2: him to me in a in a keeper league? Is that?
Speaker 2: Is that what this is?
Speaker 3: I mean that that might be part of it. I
Speaker 3: did predict the drop off last year slightly again, Jordan Dawson,
Speaker 3: It's that whole Crows midfield setup. Is Jordan Dawson more
Speaker 3: outside than he is inside? Are they using him as
Speaker 3: a link up player? Is he the guy winning the ball.
Speaker 3: There's just enough question marks for me that I was
Speaker 3: I dropped him down again. If you had him as
Speaker 3: your third midfielder in your team, you're going to be
Speaker 3: really happy if you'd probably be happy if you had
Speaker 3: to miss your second midfinidon team. But there was enough
Speaker 3: question marks raised last year with that one oh two
Speaker 3: average that I just wasn't totally sure, Like in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, the one to ten average, twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: the one sixteen, were.
Speaker 4: They the outliers or were the one oh one.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty one and one o two and twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four the outliers? I'm not sure I have the
Speaker 3: answers to that in the Crows midfield and as a result,
Speaker 3: he just drops a little bit lower.
Speaker 1: Guessing that Connor ROSEI borderline disrespect is due to the
Speaker 1: injury risk as well, given you do factor that in
Speaker 1: quite heavily.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's part of it.
Speaker 3: Rosie was one of my first picked, not last year,
Speaker 3: but the year before and that real breakout year where
Speaker 3: he played consistent midfield minutes and scored. I'm just pulling
Speaker 3: up his average. He averaged eight in that year, then
Speaker 3: last year dropped to ninety eight across twenty games. Again,
Speaker 3: he's a very versatile player for the for the port
Speaker 3: Adelaide Power. I don't know why I called him the
Speaker 3: port Adelaide Power, but he's very versatile. So all the
Speaker 3: guys in that midfield Olie Wines had a bounce back
Speaker 3: year last year as well. I feel like that maybe
Speaker 3: he's the one that gets moved around a bit, and.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't want to knock him. He's slight.
Speaker 3: He's a bit more slight quite a few midfields I
Speaker 3: seem to be beefing up and bulking up a bit
Speaker 3: the last year or two. So yeah, there's just enough
Speaker 3: question marks over him for him to drop down there. Also, like,
Speaker 3: I really like him and he's good, but I don't
Speaker 3: want him in my M one or M two. I
Speaker 3: could probably deal with him as an M three in
Speaker 3: my draft.
Speaker 2: Lake You're always trying to give me potato, trying to
Speaker 2: give me Darty Parish. What is it with you? Why?
Speaker 2: Why is Darcy Parish so high? What is Lake? You
Speaker 2: get him at twenty two, which is extraordinarily high for
Speaker 2: a guy that's also under an injury cloud in his preseason.
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 3: I just think he's really neat a Dusty Parish, He's
Speaker 3: to me, he's very He's in that. I look at
Speaker 3: him in a Clayton Oliver in a similar way, and
Speaker 3: it probably helps it. I've got them both in my
Speaker 3: classic team. Darcy Parish's ceiling games are so high. He's
Speaker 3: averaged one eight and twenty twenty three across eighteen games.
Speaker 3: The asterisk is obviously in his availability one hundred and
Speaker 3: eleven and twenty twenty two, one hundred and fourteen and
Speaker 3: twenty in twenty twenty one, so he has a scoring ceiling.
Speaker 3: Struggled last year, never got fit.
Speaker 4: This is it up.
Speaker 3: I'd play for me, and I'm happy to argue that
Speaker 3: he should be lower. But I really like him, and
Speaker 3: I just think I do think he's got another year
Speaker 3: of going one ten in him.
Speaker 4: I just don't know when it is. I hope it's
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Working through a back issue at the moment, Darcy
Speaker 1: Parish is not going to be playing in the practice
Speaker 1: match next week, but they are hopeful that he's going
Speaker 1: to be able to play.
Speaker 3: Who else plays in the midfield for Essendon Zach Merritt, who.
Speaker 1: Else Sammy Durham. The larger sadis.
Speaker 2: Moving moving right along.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's the thing right about a larger status and
Speaker 3: guys like Ben Hobbs and stuff, is that if Parish
Speaker 3: is available and those guys are available, the coaches are
Speaker 3: always going to back in the senior guy to play
Speaker 3: that important midfield roles.
Speaker 4: It's just what coaches do.
Speaker 3: So when I went through Essendon's sort of midfield depths, yeah,
Speaker 3: the assumption is for this the Parish is available, he's
Speaker 3: the one who has to score points because Zach Merrick
Speaker 3: can't score any more points than he does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a world where Parish does go back
Speaker 2: to being one ten. I just I just lost total
Speaker 2: faith in Essendon as a football club in an organization,
Speaker 2: and that's spilled over into fantasy football.
Speaker 3: If he was a Carton player, he'd probably be fortieth.
Speaker 3: Because I can't be objective on Carlton.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll agree to be non unable to be objective.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about a few other players now,
Speaker 1: and one I think he's your highest ranked player from Hawthorn,
Speaker 1: I believe, and he comes in at twenty five Giant Nucombe.
Speaker 1: I've gone bullish on him this year. I've got him
Speaker 1: super high in my rankings. I've got him eleventh, so
Speaker 1: I'm going really hard. I've brought this stat out on
Speaker 1: a couple of different podcasts, one hundred and fifteen super
Speaker 1: coach average when the Hawks won last season, I just
Speaker 1: think they'll win more game and I think he's generally
Speaker 1: a driving force in that. In that so, I know
Speaker 1: that will Day missed a few of his bigger games
Speaker 1: last year when he did pop off. But yeah, just
Speaker 1: I don't really that's just kind of I want to
Speaker 1: just mention that I'm pretty high on him. But I
Speaker 1: also wanted to talk about Will Day, who's circling some
Speaker 1: fantasy super coach discussion at the moment, and will Day's
Speaker 1: fair bit. I don't even know he's way down in
Speaker 1: your rankings. I had him a little bit higher, but
Speaker 1: maybe talk about because I can see here he's forty
Speaker 1: ninth in your rankings, which maybe catches people off guard.
Speaker 4: It does so dry Nukham.
Speaker 3: I think he's going to be really good as well.
Speaker 3: I don't necessarily agree that Hawthorne A is going to
Speaker 3: win a lot more games. I think he'll be the
Speaker 3: highest averaging midfielder for Hawthorne this year. I just don't know.
Speaker 3: I think he's a bit up and down right, So
Speaker 3: he'll score games in the sixties, he'll score games in
Speaker 3: the one sixties, and I'm not sure that his game
Speaker 3: has a really consistent base within it with how he plays,
Speaker 3: so I'm happy to have that inconsistency a bit lower.
Speaker 3: I don't mind if you personally have have Jian yucomhah.
Speaker 3: I think that's fantastic. Thank you Will Day is an
Speaker 3: interesting one where he kind of reminds me, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: whatever you can clip this. He kind of reminds me
Speaker 3: of Bailey Smith in that we all think he's good,
Speaker 3: and we all think he's good at super Coach, but
Speaker 3: actually he's only had a little bit where he was
Speaker 3: actually decent at super coach, Like he's had one season
Speaker 3: where he was actually super coach relevant.
Speaker 4: Twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: I traded him in and used him as a loophole
Speaker 3: and a game he had to buy, and then he
Speaker 3: averaged one hundred and ten or whatever after that. But anyway,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, he averaged ninety seven. Last year across
Speaker 3: six ams he averaged the ninety one. I just I
Speaker 3: think he's a very nice looking player. I just don't
Speaker 3: know that he's actually that good in terms of super coach.
Speaker 3: Very similar to Bailey Smith when he's mid only he's
Speaker 3: actually never done anything worth a note.
Speaker 1: Huge huge call there by Lecdog might have to clip that,
Speaker 1: as you say, left.
Speaker 3: You just clip me saying he's never done anything of note.
Speaker 3: That'll get him listening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand he's had a few elite patches though,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I suppose it's probably the more promise that
Speaker 1: he can keep delivering on that and avoid injury concerns
Speaker 1: which have sort of hampered that consistency as well. Any
Speaker 1: final players you want to discuss, Patch, and then I
Speaker 1: think we'll each pick a sleeper and then we'll round
Speaker 1: out this pod. Of course, as I've said, you can
Speaker 1: check out the full top one hundred of Leftdog, including
Speaker 1: positional tiers on Code Sports. Go check that out. We'll
Speaker 1: put some links out there as well for that. But Patch,
Speaker 1: any final thoughts on the ranks.
Speaker 2: My final question is about the I'm going to sneak
Speaker 2: outside the thirty we're only talking about the thirty on
Speaker 2: this pod, but I do want to question that we've
Speaker 2: got access to legs top fifty here. Tim Taranto at
Speaker 2: thirty one intrigues me lack as a little little teaser
Speaker 2: for the audience to give. You give him an extra pick?
Speaker 2: Can you talk me through Toronto? Obviously? You know you've
Speaker 2: got the kind of his body being held together with
Speaker 2: gaffer tape and the pro of him playing for possibly
Speaker 2: the worst team to ever play Australians football, Like how
Speaker 2: taught me through how that's all all come together well.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three he was the sixteenth best player
Speaker 3: in Super Coach and last year was the two hundred
Speaker 3: and thirteenth best player in Super Coach.
Speaker 2: The duality you tell me where to put him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's if he's on the park and he's playing,
Speaker 3: he's going to be good because someone has to score
Speaker 3: points at Richmond. Is there going to be any incentive
Speaker 3: towards the end of the year if he does have
Speaker 3: a niggle to play him again? Him in this tier
Speaker 3: of guys, that's kind of like high ceiling. How many
Speaker 3: games are they going to play? It's your Matt Crouch's
Speaker 3: your Tim Taranto's and I've got James Peetling and Tuck
Speaker 3: Miller at the top of that tier ten, just above
Speaker 3: Tim Taranto. And while they might score less per game
Speaker 3: than him, I believe that they will play significantly more
Speaker 3: football than him in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Do you want to do your Petling spiel? I know
Speaker 2: you love James Peteling. Do you want to go on?
Speaker 1: Just give I'm keen to hear it.
Speaker 2: Get the soapbox out, Give us a minute of James
Speaker 2: Petling love.
Speaker 4: Look, everyone who.
Speaker 3: Is a draft player has been watching Peteling flounder in
Speaker 3: the doldrons of GWS, playing a sub, coming on for
Speaker 3: minutes at a time, getting subbed off. But at the
Speaker 3: games when he did get unleashed, and in the VFL
Speaker 3: or the equivalent, I don't know. I'm pretty sure it's
Speaker 3: been the VFL the whole time he's been at GWS.
Speaker 3: He just dominated as just a midfield beast. He's been
Speaker 3: sent to Adelaide. He's going to be unlocked. He's pushed
Speaker 3: Rory Laird out of the midfield. Laird one of the
Speaker 3: greatest midfield as Adelaide's ever seen. From a super coach perspective,
Speaker 3: has been pushed out for this guy. Look, I think
Speaker 3: his floor is like a ninety five and he plays
Speaker 3: twenty three games, but I actually think I think he can.
Speaker 4: Crack triple digits.
Speaker 3: And I'll let the mathematicians tell you how he did
Speaker 3: when he wasn't subbed, but I can tell you as
Speaker 3: an owner in several super coach draft leagues last year,
Speaker 3: he was really bloody good.
Speaker 1: WELLI that was a good take. Love that from James Petling.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to having him in, having a lot
Speaker 1: of stock in him around the place, so it'd be
Speaker 1: interesting to see where he does land in draft. Another
Speaker 1: player that's got a lot of buzz in classic circles.
Speaker 1: So will that mean that he goes higher in draft
Speaker 1: than you'd be willing to take him. It'll be interesting
Speaker 1: to see where that lands on draft day. Let's go
Speaker 1: through each pick. We're going to pick a sleeper, so
Speaker 1: a player that we think we can pick quite late
Speaker 1: in drafts that's really not being discussed too much at
Speaker 1: the moment, and a player that we think will be
Speaker 1: great value your sleeper first lek dog if you will.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was struggling to split them. I'm going to
Speaker 3: do a sneaky and give you two, but I'll give
Speaker 3: you my really. So these are two Carton players. I
Speaker 3: have him in my top fifty. Midfield. One's Adam Cherer,
Speaker 3: who I think is going to have his best season
Speaker 3: for Carlton, but I do think there's going to be
Speaker 3: hype about him with Sam Walsh's injury and stuff, so
Speaker 3: I actually think he'll go earlier. But Blake Acres, for me,
Speaker 3: is a guy that I think is going to be
Speaker 3: really underrepresented in draft and I think he's going to
Speaker 3: provide bad value. So he's not just a winger at Carlton.
Speaker 3: He also spent a hell of a lot of time
Speaker 3: behind the ball, being sort of a defensive relief and
Speaker 3: delivering the ball sort of further up the ground. With
Speaker 3: Nick Newman going down, his question marks over who's going
Speaker 3: to be that sort of supportive can't and play in
Speaker 3: midfielder that goes back and supports.
Speaker 4: I think it just.
Speaker 3: Enhances his opportunity to do that, takes an intercept, marks
Speaker 3: distribute from the back line, and last year you wouldn't
Speaker 3: know it, but he averaged ninety three points a game
Speaker 3: last year eighty eight the year before. I think he's
Speaker 3: just going to be a really solid back end sort
Speaker 3: of guy that gives you value in your midfield.
Speaker 1: That is a big old sleeper. Blake Cakes loved Thatchy.
Speaker 1: Who have you got for us?
Speaker 2: I'm struggling. I'm also struggling to split because I like
Speaker 2: talking about lots of different players, and sleepers are where
Speaker 2: it's really fun to talk about. These players you can
Speaker 2: talk about, you know, your Tom Greens and he Isaac Handy.
Speaker 2: Still the cows come home. But geez, I love sinking
Speaker 2: my teeth into guys that are just completely irrelevant to
Speaker 2: ninety percent of the people that play fantasy football. And
Speaker 2: it's three guys. We've spoken a bit about Ruy Laird
Speaker 2: where they can go back and they you know, might
Speaker 2: pick up defense eligibility. So I've got three of them.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of keen on being Jase Bergoy and Ollie
Speaker 2: Hollins And I hate that I'm saying this, But Dylan
Speaker 2: Shiel come on down.
Speaker 4: Oh and you flamed me for Darcy Parrish.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not paying. I'm not taking Dylan Shield at
Speaker 2: twenty two. I'm taking him at two hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: two in the draft. Yeah, all of these guys are
Speaker 2: kind of playing in the back line. Jays Bergoing, I
Speaker 2: think is a really really good player, and you know
Speaker 2: they should look at dragging him back and using him
Speaker 2: a fair bit out of the back line. Dylan Shield,
Speaker 2: for some ungodly reason, has been given the keys to
Speaker 2: the half back line and I hate it. But it'll
Speaker 2: score points. It'll in the same way that Nick Martin
Speaker 2: frustrated me last year but still scored points still, and
Speaker 2: Shield will do it. And Ollie Hollins, well, I don't know, maybe.
Speaker 3: Maybe he's just need he's currently as of right now,
Speaker 3: if your start of the season, he's currently Nick Newman's replacement.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I suspect that might shift one time the
Speaker 3: season stars, but right now and Jays Bergan is a
Speaker 3: great shout. I actually thought he was going to be
Speaker 3: I was looking for him in the rankings when I
Speaker 3: was making this, I was actually looking him for him
Speaker 3: in the defense. Didn't realize he was going to be
Speaker 3: mid only he was a favorite of the Waiver Wire
Speaker 3: article last year. I expect a big year from young Jays.
Speaker 3: I think that's a great chout.
Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting, you're gonna, yeah, you're willing to sort of,
Speaker 1: I guess it's not draft capital. We're talking about sleepers,
Speaker 1: but guys that don't actually have the status that you
Speaker 1: probably want to play them in though that you're.
Speaker 2: Willing to as bench of pickers they get.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I loved by the way. I do
Speaker 1: love jays Berger and I think even if he plays
Speaker 1: just midfield as a wing, he could put up some
Speaker 1: big numbers as a wingman. He's just class. I've got
Speaker 1: a player that is midfield only but was actually a
Speaker 1: forward eligible player last year. Certainly under the radar from
Speaker 1: what I've seen, but there's been a bit of buzz
Speaker 1: coming from the club socials. If anything, Tom Powell at
Speaker 1: North Melbourne, George Wardlow has gone down with that Hammy.
Speaker 1: I personally don't think Luke Parker is going to have
Speaker 1: as big as say in the midfield as people maybe
Speaker 1: are thinking at all. You know, what's what's the purpose
Speaker 1: of putting a thirty three year old player into the
Speaker 1: midfield when you're rebuilding and you're trying to develop the
Speaker 1: core young group. Tom Power coming in last year when
Speaker 1: he had fifty percent plus cbas he averaged ninety three,
Speaker 1: I think he's own His average last year was a
Speaker 1: flat eighty. I think maybe we just see a bit
Speaker 1: more midfield exposure this year and him taking the next step.
Speaker 1: We saw him have some massive games last year when
Speaker 1: he was given the opportunity. So like again, we're talking
Speaker 1: about a guy that I think you'll be able to
Speaker 1: get pretty late in drafts and a guy that could
Speaker 1: start the season, especially being part of the core midfield
Speaker 1: unit at North Melbourne. So that is my sleep at
Speaker 1: tom Power.
Speaker 3: I think I think you'd hope if you're running North
Speaker 3: Melbourne that Luke Parker is playing twenty eighty percent forward
Speaker 3: and Tom Powell's playing the inverse of that. I would
Speaker 3: hope as a North Melbourne fan that they those are
Speaker 3: the two that are sort of flipping with each other.
Speaker 3: But then again, coaches like to play their veterans in
Speaker 3: the positions of value. But yes, I think that's a
Speaker 3: decent shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're right. But as someone that's invested
Speaker 2: significant draft capital in keeper leagues and in redraft leagues
Speaker 2: into Tom Powell and being burnt flat fifty is how
Speaker 2: I describe me checking his score most weeks whenever I
Speaker 2: had him as opposed to his midfield split, it's I
Speaker 2: want him to be good. I love him. He's got
Speaker 2: great Union numbers. He'll be a good midfielder if they
Speaker 2: let him loose. But it just have been burnt so
Speaker 2: many times before by Tom Powell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a midfield that has a lot of depth now,
Speaker 1: which I'll concede as well. He could he could simply
Speaker 1: just not you know, be in the midfield and be
Speaker 1: playing bit part roles around the ground, which would certainly
Speaker 1: not make me interested. But he's a preseason watch He
Speaker 1: might rise, he might fall on my on my watch list.
Speaker 1: But if I'm taking him with a very late pick
Speaker 1: in the draft, I'd be happy snaffling him up and
Speaker 1: hoping and seeing if he does pop, especially early in
Speaker 1: the season when you know there isn't going to be
Speaker 1: that George Wardlaw in the lineup. All right, Well, that
Speaker 1: was the top thirty midfield ranks. Thank you very much
Speaker 1: Lekdog for sharing those with us. You can see the
Speaker 1: full list on Code Sports. As we have said a
Speaker 1: few times, so go check that out. I will put
Speaker 1: it in the show notes as well linked to that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, just go check it out on Code Sports
Speaker 1: and we will see you for the next rankings. We're
Speaker 1: going to be talking rucks, so probably a little bit
Speaker 1: of a shorter episode for the rucks you'd imagine, but
Speaker 1: thanks for listening to Drafted. We will see that