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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Official Super Coach AFL podcast

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Speaker 1: and part two of our official track Watch series leading

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Speaker 1: into the twenty twenty six AFL season. We know that

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Speaker 1: a huge part of Super Coach planning is getting the

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Speaker 1: right intel from reliable sources on the ground to know

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Speaker 1: what's happening at clubland, at training, mat simulation, in the

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Speaker 1: rehab group, and we've got the best sources here at

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Speaker 1: Code Sports joining me today Eliza Riley from Perth. We

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Speaker 1: know if you need any info on the Doctors or

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Speaker 1: the Eagles, she is the one to listen to. So

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Speaker 1: we thought we'd go straight to the source and talk

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Speaker 1: to Eliza about Supercoach and particularly what's happening at the

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Speaker 1: two WA clubs as we built up to the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six season and a State of Origin game coming

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Speaker 1: up pretty soon as well. But Eliza, thanks for jumping

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Speaker 1: on and what's the vibe like our West at the moment?

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Speaker 2: Hot? I continue that much. Both teams have been put

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Speaker 2: through their paces in forty degree hate over the last

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Speaker 2: couple weeks out here, so they've really been testing them

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Speaker 2: and pushing them to their limits in some pretty severe

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Speaker 2: heat wave conditions. We've got going on. So it's made

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Speaker 2: match simulation and the sort of heating up our competition

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Speaker 2: for spots, but also heating up literally.

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Speaker 1: Interesting for the journal's going out covering as well. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure we'll get into the clubs in a second. Before

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Speaker 1: we do that quick bit of housekeeping. Jump on the

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Speaker 1: podcast League the Code there is four zero seven seven

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Speaker 1: five at six and go to Code Sports YouTube week

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Speaker 1: and watch all our great shows throughout the preseason and

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Speaker 1: throughout the year. Of course, hit like a subscribe, But

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Speaker 1: we want to know who is burning up the track.

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Speaker 1: Maybe if we start with the Dockers. Obviously an interesting

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Speaker 1: year last year with a disappointing end, but how how

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Speaker 1: do you think they're looking traveling into the season and

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Speaker 1: who are the players who are really standing out over preseason?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Premantle always looked pretty good this time

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Speaker 2: of the summer. I'm in match practice and match simulation,

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Speaker 2: and then you roll into the season proper and they

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Speaker 2: lose the game they shouldn't and the pressure goes on

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Speaker 2: and we continue this sort of cycle we've been seeing

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Speaker 2: the last few years. But I think this is going

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Speaker 2: to be the sort of make or break season for Freemantle.

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Speaker 2: They're coming into the right sort of age profile and

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Speaker 2: age bracket to have a real genuine until that finals

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Speaker 2: and getting into prelimbs and Grand Finals at this stage

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Speaker 2: with their sort of list development. So to be honest,

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Speaker 2: it's probably in terms of from a super coach perspective,

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Speaker 2: pretty bog standard and same old, same old when it

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Speaker 2: comes to some of the players to be keeping an

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Speaker 2: eye out for. I mean, Caleb Sarong has been in

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Speaker 2: sensational form in the last few years, winning doing medals,

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Speaker 2: finishing high up in the brown Low Medal, and he's

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Speaker 2: just picked up where he's left off in that midfield

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Speaker 2: had a very injury interrupted last year, he is absolutely

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Speaker 2: whereas this time last year he was coming off that

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Speaker 2: who's probably a little bit underpriced based on not playing

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Speaker 2: the interesting one is definitely going to be Luke Jackson

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Speaker 2: with all this talk about this inside midfield role and

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Speaker 2: the moment in Sarong, Brasier and young who they really

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Speaker 2: So obviously there's going to be a bit of rough

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Speaker 2: be fascinating to see how they actually manage it, how

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we have dual position plays in super coaching. There's

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Speaker 3: a chance. I don't think we've ever had a.

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Speaker 1: Dual Rock midfield player, but if he could be the first,

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Speaker 1: Ruck sort of shaping up? And then we've got new

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Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone said that Fremantle couldn't take two rucks into

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Speaker 2: Like you mentioned, with those new rules, he definitely has

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so what's the latest on Seawan. He hadn't actually

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Speaker 1: heard that one, so that's going to be very interesting

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Speaker 3: In the past.

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Speaker 1: Jackson's sort of taken over that rock role when Darcy's

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Speaker 1: maybe the role is a little bit different this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we'll waite and see once we had those

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Speaker 2: be the number one Rock and still leave Luke Jackson

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Speaker 1: As certainly grand We've been traveled before with Darcy obviously

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Speaker 1: one closely. You mentioned some of the same names that

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Speaker 1: the Doctors, Andrew Brayshaw, Jordan Clark's turned into a really

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And I mean in Jordan's case is now

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Speaker 2: think the Dockers definitely they do want to move the

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Speaker 2: That's what they've been telling us, that's what we've been

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Speaker 1: And where does that leave someone like a Luke Ryan

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Speaker 3: But where does he fit in?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it probably will be similar to last year,

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Speaker 2: I think Luke is now sort of you know, dropping

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Speaker 2: him we've seen him in past. But to be honest,

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Speaker 2: as well, his intercept marking, he just does that so well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we saw a little bit of a change in

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Speaker 1: game style last year maybe where the docors used to

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Speaker 1: that's the direction they're going in this year again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, that's the plan.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And the other one we obviously very interested in from

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Speaker 1: of Geelong VFL, which has been a pretty good scoring

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Speaker 2: He's probably the one further ahead than the other draft

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Speaker 2: d's so far. Freeman or do love to sort of

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Speaker 2: several years in a row now, with Murphy Reed being

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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be pretty tough for rookies

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Speaker 3: Very different picture obviously.

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Speaker 1: Over at West Coast we've got a heap of potential

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Speaker 1: rookies who could be good for us in super coaching,

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Speaker 1: you're really interested to get your thoughts and what the

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Speaker 1: best twenty three might look like when round one rolls around.

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Speaker 1: When they've you know, you've got a couple of very

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Speaker 1: very high draft picks, and they brought in a bunch

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Speaker 1: of mature ages from other clubs.

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Speaker 3: As well, so uh, you know, we could go through

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Speaker 3: them all. But who's who's catching your eye so far?

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Speaker 2: Obviously the two top five picks from last year and

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Speaker 2: William Durzma the number one pick, and Cooper duff Tyler,

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Speaker 2: who was number four. William's been training out on the

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Speaker 2: wing and was sort of rolling into the occasional sort

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Speaker 2: of center bounce and showing what he's capable of in there.

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Speaker 2: But he's sort of one that is really impressive, you know,

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Speaker 2: side steps, dances around the footy field, great skills, but

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Speaker 2: on that wing roll for West Coast, with the way

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Speaker 2: fast and overlaup and run and carry. I don't see

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Speaker 2: him being a massive super Coach scorer. I don't think

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Speaker 2: this year he'll still you know, put up reasonable numbers,

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Speaker 2: but there might be a bit better value in some

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Speaker 1: There are there any other names that we should put

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Speaker 1: There are some new names to add to our watch

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Speaker 1: this that's what we love to hear. Lots of great

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Speaker 3: But thanks for jumping on, Eliza.

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