WEBVTT - Q&A before round 1! (LIVE) | Breaking Even with Al Paton 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:13.680 Hello, everybody, Welcome to a very special, live panic edition 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:16.720 of Breaking Even with Al Peyton honor to the Supercoach 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:21.000 AFL podcast feed. At time of recording, there is about 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:22.440 trying to do the mess on my head. About thirty 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.280 thirty one hours until the first lockout of the twenty 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:29.680 twenty five AFL Supercoach season. There's plenty happening, and the 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.120 big point of this show is to get your questions answered, 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:33.800 so we'll get through as many as we can. I've 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.080 got a bunch of socials already and you can leave 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.280 them below because we are going live and I'm el 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.640 Peyton of course and joining me patch. How you're feeling, 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.360 I mean, how would you rate your Supercoach team at 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.360 the moment on a scale of zero? Everything set, just 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.240 totally come and zen ready for the season to start 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.159 through to ten, changing it every five minutes, total disarray, 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.760 unrecognizable looking squad. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.639 Of fifty thousand, which is the amount of money I'm 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.600 going to win at the end of the season. 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.080 It's actually feeling far more settled. 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:08.560 Than it was forty eight hours ago. It's feeling good. 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.880 It's feeling settled. How are you well? How are you 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:15.039 feeling less than forty eight hours before we start locking 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:15.920 in players. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.920 Yeah, I mean it probably a day ago. I was 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:21.360 a bit all over the shop, but I feel like 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:25.720 I've found my spot in the last overnight and just 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:27.920 down to maybe one or two that I'm shopping and 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.759 changing just to seeing it looks good like that. Then 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:31.440 I flipped the other way and that looks good too, 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.360 and just need to make a decision. But I suppose 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.000 one thing we know is that you know, things can 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.000 get thrown into disarray bit when the teams come out 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.959 Thursday night, But were really the focus is on Thursday 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.000 night you need to have your Richmond and Carlton players 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:45.520 locked in. Then we get a little bit more time 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.240 with a rolling lockout to maybe just take a deep 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.120 breath and make sure the rest of the team looks good. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:51.320 But I suppose you know, we want to have our 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.600 structures and things ready to go, and I guess you 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.760 know you need Plan A and Plan B and Plan C, 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.120 because yeah, funny things can happen around teams. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.640 Done they can, they can? 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.880 I think, I think holistically before we start getting into questions, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:06.800 and there are heaps of them. We've got plenty flooding 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.440 in already, yeah. I think generally the thing you want 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.640 to be changing last minute as rookies, and that's about it. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:14.520 You don't want to be making big structure changes. You 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.040 don't want to be suddenly leaping, you know, fitting two 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.240 extra mid prices in or changing your primos around. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.880 Yes, yeah, I think. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:27.480 Generally we're just kind of looking at the rookies and 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.919 that's hopefully everything is relatively settled before that, and that's 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.560 why we're here today. We're hopefully going to help people 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.040 get a bit settled. But we've got something. We've got 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:36.880 the injuries first. 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.720 Yes, well I will mention first you mentioned rookies, and 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.760 people will have noticed, i'm sure on the podcast and 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.760 Code Sports YouTube feeds just so much content pumping out 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.399 in the last week or so leading into the first 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.560 look out of the season that includes a special rookie 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.200 Bible from our experts the feeds, and then Dan Batton 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.240 got on last night, so make sure we go back 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:57.680 and watch and listen to that if you haven't already 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.600 to get the loadown on their picks for the cheapies 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.280 this year, but I'm sure we'll touch on those a 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.080 bit today, So like subscribe all those great things, but 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:06.800 As you said before we get into questions, we do 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.800 have a regular segment every week on this show. Every 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.680 stupid coach needs to manage injuries like a pro. This 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:16.400 is the HbF injury report. Let's get into it. Perhaps 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.240 plenty of interesting names as we count down to Round one. 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.400 I've got plenty on here, try and get through them quickly. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:25.320 Bo Allen interesting from the West Coast, obviously potentially popular 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.160 rookie pick in the back line. Illness may miss round one, 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.440 but it does throw up some interesting looping possibilities for 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.359 people who want to try that. Elijah Hewitt. They're saying 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.000 he is available despite being out of their last preseason 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.280 match with some soreness, so he should be available for us. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.280 The Saints say rowand Marshall and Jack Sinclair will play 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.320 in round one, so keep it close out on the teams, 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.880 especially with some popular rookies that that might impact Gold Coast. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.240 Sam Flanders not going to play round one. He'll be 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:50.760 back in round three, so if you got him in 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:51.880 your team to take him out, I think he' still 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.920 in about twenty percent a team, so make some late 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.960 adjustments there. The Bulldogs put out an injury report which 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.560 had five or six weeks down for Marcus bonson Peli 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.160 with his calf injury, so obviously you can't start him, 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:02.760 but we'll be. 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.640 Sarching complex calf injury, which is my least favorite type 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:06.440 of calf injury. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.400 That doesn't sound good. So yeah, we'll keep an eye 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.280 on him when he returns, obviously, but tests for Ed 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.400 Richards and Bailey Dale at the Dogs for this week's 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.440 game against the Kangaroos. Connor Rosie did some kind of 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.280 weird toe thing in a match tim the other day 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:25.039 which was going around on social platforms, but he's okay 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.640 according to the power, so feel free to pick him 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.040 in your team. Tom Lynch out of concussion protocols, doesn't 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.880 there any other injuries at time of recording. Can't guarantee 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.840 nothing will happen before the game starts on Thursday night, 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:39.360 but he's okay. One week for Kieran Briggs though with concussion, 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.840 they said there were some you know, they tested to 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:43.839 see if he had any neck issues, a pretty horrible 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.560 incident in the game on Sunday. He was okay from 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.120 that point of view, but will be in the concussion 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.080 protocols for a week. So that means that Lockie Keith 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.560 will be rocking I think for the Giants, and Tom 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.160 Green is down as a test which is one we 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:56.839 will be watching closely. I mean I had him in 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.400 my team for a while early in the preseason. Won't 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.560 be bringing back, but it might impact one of the rookies 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:03.960 that the fewers have got in the back line in 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.520 James Leaks. So yes, keeping a close eye on the 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.440 GWS teams and of course all the teams when they 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.400 drop on Thursday night. All right, do you want to 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:12.880 get into some questions that's what they did all about. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:13.960 Yes, yes we do. 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.840 We've had questions go out, We've had some come in 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:21.400 earlier this week from Twitter or x and we'll start 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:23.880 tackling some of them and then we'll go into the 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:28.200 comments that have come in live. So should we should 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:28.880 we get started? 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.240 Yes, yes, let's get into it because as you said, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:32.520 it's plenty to get through. We don't want to keep 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.520 everybody here all day. But frog A kicking yourself saying 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:40.880 Chera or Perim and viable or mirages. They just something 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.599 that's teasing us and super Coach that will blow up 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.080 in our faces like plenty A mid Price has in 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:46.640 the past, I mean, it seems like the mid prices 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.200 this year are a bit more reliable than in the past. 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:51.760 Or is that just do we fall for that every year? 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.640 I think we fall for that every year. But you know, 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.479 do you look back and you're like, you know, did 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.359 picking mid prices ever work for those people in the past, 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.280 and there is no But it could just work for us. 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.320 It could just work for us this year. I think 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.880 Perrami's in my side. I certainly think he's definitely value. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.919 Adam Cherer I've never been sold on, but everyone who 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.480 I know who follows Carlton thinks that he's ready to go. 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.760 I think the preseason showed what he's capable of. I 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.839 think they're both viable. I'm not convinced either is a mirage, 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:24.279 so happy. 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.239 I think Perryman very safe yea, I don't think actually 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:28.680 had a heap of tackles the other day, but still 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:30.200 scored in the nineties and I think he's going to 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.000 be safe for around that most weeks. Chair is a 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.479 bit more of a risk, obviously given his injury history, 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.400 but I've certainly been sucked in by his preseason in 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.160 the early fixture of the Blues. Hopefully he can put 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.159 up some good scores early and then if something happens 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:43.880 we deal with it then. So yeah, I've got both 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.120 of them at the moment, Fraser saying Matt Flynn R too, 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.039 Yes or no. Yeah. 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:54.400 We've had a lot of questions about Matt Flynn and 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.440 I've been toying between starting him at R two or 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.880 starting at the flex. I think think I think if 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:06.160 he's close to a must pick at the value he's providing, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.640 I don't quite like going with him at R two 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.760 yet because you don't necessarily have the backup, and you know, 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:16.600 having him in the flex means it if it goes wrong, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.320 you can downgrade him, upgrade him. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:19.080 If you've got some cash. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.600 You've got a lot more flexibility from the flex, which 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.440 is really nice. But at R two your options are 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.840 far more limited. So that's the reason I haven't gone there. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:28.560 But I do think. 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:32.480 There's the big risk possibly big reward there. 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:34.920 The flip side as well is if you want Tom 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.960 d Koning and one of Cherry are gone, then it 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.559 gets very hard to then pick Flynn. 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:40.600 You can't have him on the bench. 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.320 So yeah, I mean it depends on the rest of 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.960 your team, but I don't think I think it's viable. 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.040 There's every chance the person that wins Super Coach this 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.920 year starts Flint at R two and he becomes what 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.560 Cherry did last year. So I certainly don't think it's 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.320 a bad decision to start him at R two, but 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.680 proceed with caution, maybe have an exit plan. 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.440 Yeah, I mean I mentioned the Lair and Dossie there 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.560 had a very intricate setup of picking Luke Jackson in 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.840 the forward line so he could click him into the 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.200 ruck if something happens to Flynn. So he's obviously put 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:15.800 a lot of thought into that. And yeah, I think 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:17.280 I agree with you that if you're brave enough to 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:18.920 do it and it pays off, that could be a 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.280 winning move. But it is it is fraught with danger, 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.760 but yeah, sometimes you have to have to take risks 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.040 to it. He's in my flex at the moment, you know. 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:27.400 I think you're right that we have to pick him. 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:31.840 Just haven't quite got the the bravery to go with 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:33.200 that too. And it's so hard when you want, like 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:34.719 you say, you've got Gorne, you got Cherry, you got 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.320 t DK. You want to try and fit them all 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:40.280 in there. So it does get tricky. But yeah, it could. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.360 It could definitely pay off. Nick says, with so much 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.360 good value, how many primos are we starting with? So 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.080 I mean, I suppose it comes down to your definition 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:48.720 of primos. I mean I've got I think two players 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.480 over six hundred k. But then if a sort of 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.120 squint and say I reckon he could be a keeper, 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.400 then you know, the total goes up a lot, a 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.599 lot higher. But when you know how many do you 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.240 think from the the very top end of the shelf. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:05.440 From the six six hundred k plus, I have three 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.360 at this stage. I've got Cheesel Neil and Max Gorn 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.040 who just oscillates between him and Cherry over and over. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.360 But in terms of primos, I think like a guy 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.600 like Andy Brayshaw counts to promo. I think Clayton Oliver 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.959 counts to primo. This year, I've got a Zaiwangen in 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:22.960 D two. Jack McCrae, I think he is a primo. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.959 We had a question as well about Jason Hill Francis 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.200 and Isaac Rankin. I think both of them are primos. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.160 I have both of them. I think he can lock 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:36.120 those guys in pretty quickly, So yeah, I think they 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.560 certainly scope to start more of those four hundred k guys, 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.839 we've seen Will Day and Finn Callahango nuts early. I 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.640 think there's certainly scope to start them. Whether or not 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.760 we finish with them is a different question. And you know, 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.520 we've had Joven on several shows so far this year, 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.520 the winner from last year, Jove in May, and he's 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.560 said that he, you know, last plays like Olli Wines 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:58.520 certainly weren't you know, top class uber primos, but they 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.640 got the job done for him. So yeah, I think 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.120 it very much depends on what your definition of primo 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:06.720 is and what you know what. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.600 Yeah, there's a very difficult question to answer. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.280 But I'm still trying to make sure I've got guys 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.600 that are in that top echelon that are just save 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.480 captaincy options through the season. 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:18.400 Yeah. 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:19.600 I think that's a good point. You want to at 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.120 least have a couple of those guys that you can 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:23.719 put the C in the VC on each week. And 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.400 Nathan has asked who is your D two And this 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.160 plays into exactly what you were just talking about, And 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:31.439 really my premo account, I guess, is really oscillated because 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.080 do I go with someone like Dane zorco at D 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.040 two who came in about a week ago, and I 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:37.720 really love that idea. And then now I'm sort of 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.439 wavering and could I save a bit of cash by 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.560 picking at Jordan Clark or an Asia Wangling Manganina Miller 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.480 there and that gives me some more money to get 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.720 a Finn Calahan type in the midfield. So I'm really 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.679 i'ming an ring between those two. But if I look 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.920 at my team at this moment, it is n at 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.400 WM at D two for me. And I mean Jordan 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.880 Clarke's been there too, that those two are most interchangeable. 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.360 But what are you, well, does your say look. 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.559 At the moment, Yeah, Nazza wagon and Malera is there 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.240 for me at the moment as well. Jordan Clark has 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.480 floated as well, but that he's been one of the 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.280 most consistent guys that have just been in my team 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:14.000 through the whole preseason. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.600 And I'm not in a rush to jump off. 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.840 Yeah, happy, then you're not attempted to go with Azco 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.000 or one of those other no sort of guys. And 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:24.560 I think you know she's that we all love. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:30.559 But yeah, Zorko is very old and it's going to 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.520 fall apart. And I said that all of last year 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.800 and it didn't happen. But it's just like he's thirty six. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:37.880 They'll have to rest him. Kiddy Coleman will come back 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.560 at some stage during the season. How that affects him 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.040 remains to be seen. That there's a lot of value 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:47.800 back there with guys like Perryman and Frasier and Roberts, 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.480 who I think is certainly someone we need to jump 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.440 on board. I think Roberts is very much a Locke 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.040 agree with the phantom on the lair there, So I 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:00.720 think there's enough other value around that I don't feel 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.960 like Coats and Master by any means. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.960 Yeah, I agree with that. I think just got very 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.320 seduced by the early fixture where they play Richmond and 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.040 West Coast, I think in the first four games, so 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:11.640 you could get some really big numbers out of him. 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.520 But then, as you say you are, you know we're 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:14.959 going to be making lots of trades as the season 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:16.440 goes on, and do you really want to be worrying 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:20.400 about thirty six year old guys doing and that you've paid, 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.120 you know, six hundred grand for in the back line. 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:24.959 So that's sort of I've moved away from him a 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.120 little bit just in the last probably twenty four hours, 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.640 but yeah, you can certainly put some big scores on 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.760 the board earlier. I mean, this is we won't get 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:33.440 go to fight down the rabbit hole. But the Phantoms 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.440 team is up on all the Coach Sports and on 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.920 the Super Coach chap click on the news tab. There 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.160 is final teams in and he's definitely going down the 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.040 road of going for just the guys who can put 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.400 up some huge scores early on which last year turned 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.840 out to be, you know, gave people a big head start. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.439 But the other way of looking at it is that 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.080 you know it is a long season. Those best ada 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.800 there's only three best ating rounds early and yeah, you're 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.400 picking guys for the first three or four rounds or 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.640 for the whole year. But it's one of those ones 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.000 that we probably won't know which is the right approach 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.680 until around twenty four and then we look back and think, oh, yeah, 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:04.200 that was obviously we should have all done it that way. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:05.600 We should have all done it that way. All right, 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.280 let's do some quick fire ones. We've had a lot 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.080 of guys where they just want a rating. Do they 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.679 want yes or no? Maybe on these guys I'm going 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:17.079 to just hit you with a bunch of them. Tom Stewart, no, 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:23.640 might get tagged. Yeah, Max Holmes, uh, Paul these. 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.120 Last game was I don't know what happened there, but 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:26.640 apart from that, I really like him, So yeah we 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:27.679 say yes, yep. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.440 Jeremy McGovern, I did. 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.320 Think about this, but then when I was just because 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:33.679 that D two has been hard. But I mean, if 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.360 we're talking about Zorka, you can't pick, can you again? 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.160 They're just they're very expensive. If there was some value there, 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:40.160 maybe you could take a risk. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:44.400 But yeah, Elijah Hewittt we've spoken about if named, I 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.719 assume you're you pick him. 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:48.640 I think so, yeah, just at the price end bit 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.640 of DPP as well. Yeah, I think he's just handy 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:56.160 to stash there at maybe M eleven yep. Trent Rivers, No, 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.360 not for me. I think Melbourne has like that Midfield 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.679 experiment is it was we'll get a bit of time 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.360 in there, but now for tracks back they want to 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.600 play ed Langdon in there now as well. Harvey Langcot's 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:06.200 going to try and get some some center bounces. So 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.800 I don't think there's enough there to get his scoring 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:09.839 up to what we'd need. 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.239 Yeah, the Simeons are from the lair. His boy Jakesonaligo 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.960 been a question on whether you rate him. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.600 Well, I think he's a good player. I'm just sort 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.880 of steering clear of Adelaide midfielders really because there's just 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.000 so many of them that it's hard to know any 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.800 given week he'll get the scores and you know, the 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.000 most most cbas and all that kind of thing. 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.480 Yeah, and then the last one was a toss up, 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.400 would you rather Bailely Smith or Riley Sanders from DESI. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.760 I've got Bailey Smith. But yeah, this is an interesting 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:41.880 one because I mean he basically was picked, you know, 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.120 when Team Picker first opened, and he hasn't moved out 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.080 of my team ever since then, because you know, all 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:47.760 the obvious reasons that we thought this guy's going to 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.280 be one of the best picks in Super Coaches year. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.120 We'll go to Geelong playing in the midfield. He's cheap. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.640 But I mean we've hardly seen him since then, so 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.600 I can understand why people are a little bit nervous 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.960 that canceling or you know, postponing opening round game. That 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.080 was the one thing that would have been useful to 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:05.640 actually get a look at him hopefully playing a full 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.320 game and see what his role is and knowing that 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.760 he's fully fit. So yeah, I don't. Yeah, I'm not 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.400 not as locked in as I was. He's still there. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:14.960 I still think at the price, you know, he's going 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.040 to deliver great value, but he's probably not. You know, 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.360 I think McCrae and Daniel I could definitely see being 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.960 top six forwards and they'll be there for the entire season. Bears. 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:24.720 Just yeah, I'm just not really sure what we're going 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:26.440 to get from him. He could average hundred wouldn't stop me, 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:28.800 but if he averaged ninety three that probably wouldn't be 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:29.560 a big shock either. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.160 Yeah, I've got impaied for that nine hit to ninety 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.440 five range. And I think he certainly value. I think 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.440 he's a he won't let you down too much as 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.040 a pick, but he's one that I'm just I'm fading. 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.040 He's not in my team at the moment, not because 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.560 I think he's a terrible pick. I just prefer to 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.520 spend the money elsewhere. It's just like I've gone up 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.440 to Isaac Rankin and I would rather ranking than barely Smith. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:55.040 Just with the way my team shuffled round, so I yeah, 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.600 I still don't really trust Bevo, and I'm not entirely 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.840 sure how Sanders will play out long term, but I 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.840 certainly think to start the season he'll be quite good. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:04.960 There've been a lot of questions on rookies, and we're 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.160 obviously very keen for teams to drop tomorrow night. But 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.160 instead of going through that, we'll direct you once this 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:15.440 episode finishes. Go listen, Go check the official Super Coach 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.960 feed and the Code Sports YouTube. There is an official 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.200 rookie just everything you need to know last minute rookie 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.720 guide there from the Phantom and Dan Batton, who have 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.360 answered all of the rookie questions far better than we 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.240 can or will be able to. So I'll point a 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.520 lot of the questions. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.560 Hold you up for a Second's going to just ask you, 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.280 how many rookies have you got on the field in 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:39.960 fens and the forward line. 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:45.080 Two and two in defense and the forward line, one 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.840 of them being Jackson Pryor down back and then Sam 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.920 poul Pepper at the moment is in my forward line. 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:52.080 This is a bit more security. 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:58.840 I think we've got slightly more than we were panicking about. 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.800 I just feel slightly better about them than a lot 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:03.520 of other people do. 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.040 Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah, I mean I've got one in one. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.600 But yeah, that's something I've been doing and throwing on 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.440 and again. As you say, when teams come out, that'll 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.000 help a bit, But especially in those early best dating rounds, 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:16.760 those sort of lower scores are going to drop out anyway. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.120 So if that gives you cash to spend up elsewhere, 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:19.920 maybe that's the way to go. 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.359 Yeah, and across the board, my rookies are just a 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.000 little bit more expensive as well. I listened to the 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.080 lair they're talking about having more expensive guys on the bench. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.240 I've got nath Thradriscoll and leave By Ashcroft on my 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.679