Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome to a very special, live panic edition
Speaker 1: of Breaking Even with Al Peyton honor to the Supercoach
Speaker 1: AFL podcast feed. At time of recording, there is about
Speaker 1: trying to do the mess on my head. About thirty
Speaker 1: thirty one hours until the first lockout of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five AFL Supercoach season. There's plenty happening, and the
Speaker 1: big point of this show is to get your questions answered,
Speaker 1: so we'll get through as many as we can. I've
Speaker 1: got a bunch of socials already and you can leave
Speaker 1: them below because we are going live and I'm el
Speaker 1: Peyton of course and joining me patch. How you're feeling,
Speaker 1: I mean, how would you rate your Supercoach team at
Speaker 1: the moment on a scale of zero? Everything set, just
Speaker 1: totally come and zen ready for the season to start
Speaker 1: through to ten, changing it every five minutes, total disarray,
Speaker 1: unrecognizable looking squad.
Speaker 2: Of fifty thousand, which is the amount of money I'm
Speaker 2: going to win at the end of the season.
Speaker 3: It's actually feeling far more settled.
Speaker 2: Than it was forty eight hours ago. It's feeling good.
Speaker 2: It's feeling settled. How are you well? How are you
Speaker 2: feeling less than forty eight hours before we start locking
Speaker 2: in players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it probably a day ago. I was
Speaker 1: a bit all over the shop, but I feel like
Speaker 1: I've found my spot in the last overnight and just
Speaker 1: down to maybe one or two that I'm shopping and
Speaker 1: changing just to seeing it looks good like that. Then
Speaker 1: I flipped the other way and that looks good too,
Speaker 1: and just need to make a decision. But I suppose
Speaker 1: one thing we know is that you know, things can
Speaker 1: get thrown into disarray bit when the teams come out
Speaker 1: Thursday night, But were really the focus is on Thursday
Speaker 1: night you need to have your Richmond and Carlton players
Speaker 1: locked in. Then we get a little bit more time
Speaker 1: with a rolling lockout to maybe just take a deep
Speaker 1: breath and make sure the rest of the team looks good.
Speaker 1: But I suppose you know, we want to have our
Speaker 1: structures and things ready to go, and I guess you
Speaker 1: know you need Plan A and Plan B and Plan C,
Speaker 1: because yeah, funny things can happen around teams.
Speaker 3: Done they can, they can?
Speaker 2: I think, I think holistically before we start getting into questions,
Speaker 2: and there are heaps of them. We've got plenty flooding
Speaker 2: in already, yeah. I think generally the thing you want
Speaker 2: to be changing last minute as rookies, and that's about it.
Speaker 2: You don't want to be making big structure changes. You
Speaker 2: don't want to be suddenly leaping, you know, fitting two
Speaker 2: extra mid prices in or changing your primos around.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: Generally we're just kind of looking at the rookies and
Speaker 2: that's hopefully everything is relatively settled before that, and that's
Speaker 2: why we're here today. We're hopefully going to help people
Speaker 2: get a bit settled. But we've got something. We've got
Speaker 2: the injuries first.
Speaker 1: Yes, well I will mention first you mentioned rookies, and
Speaker 1: people will have noticed, i'm sure on the podcast and
Speaker 1: Code Sports YouTube feeds just so much content pumping out
Speaker 1: in the last week or so leading into the first
Speaker 1: look out of the season that includes a special rookie
Speaker 1: Bible from our experts the feeds, and then Dan Batton
Speaker 1: got on last night, so make sure we go back
Speaker 1: and watch and listen to that if you haven't already
Speaker 1: to get the loadown on their picks for the cheapies
Speaker 1: this year, but I'm sure we'll touch on those a
Speaker 1: bit today, So like subscribe all those great things, but
Speaker 1: As you said before we get into questions, we do
Speaker 1: have a regular segment every week on this show. Every
Speaker 1: stupid coach needs to manage injuries like a pro. This
Speaker 1: is the HbF injury report. Let's get into it. Perhaps
Speaker 1: plenty of interesting names as we count down to Round one.
Speaker 1: I've got plenty on here, try and get through them quickly.
Speaker 1: Bo Allen interesting from the West Coast, obviously potentially popular
Speaker 1: rookie pick in the back line. Illness may miss round one,
Speaker 1: but it does throw up some interesting looping possibilities for
Speaker 1: people who want to try that. Elijah Hewitt. They're saying
Speaker 1: he is available despite being out of their last preseason
Speaker 1: match with some soreness, so he should be available for us.
Speaker 1: The Saints say rowand Marshall and Jack Sinclair will play
Speaker 1: in round one, so keep it close out on the teams,
Speaker 1: especially with some popular rookies that that might impact Gold Coast.
Speaker 1: Sam Flanders not going to play round one. He'll be
Speaker 1: back in round three, so if you got him in
Speaker 1: your team to take him out, I think he' still
Speaker 1: in about twenty percent a team, so make some late
Speaker 1: adjustments there. The Bulldogs put out an injury report which
Speaker 1: had five or six weeks down for Marcus bonson Peli
Speaker 1: with his calf injury, so obviously you can't start him,
Speaker 1: but we'll be.
Speaker 2: Sarching complex calf injury, which is my least favorite type
Speaker 2: of calf injury.
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound good. So yeah, we'll keep an eye
Speaker 1: on him when he returns, obviously, but tests for Ed
Speaker 1: Richards and Bailey Dale at the Dogs for this week's
Speaker 1: game against the Kangaroos. Connor Rosie did some kind of
Speaker 1: weird toe thing in a match tim the other day
Speaker 1: which was going around on social platforms, but he's okay
Speaker 1: according to the power, so feel free to pick him
Speaker 1: in your team. Tom Lynch out of concussion protocols, doesn't
Speaker 1: there any other injuries at time of recording. Can't guarantee
Speaker 1: nothing will happen before the game starts on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: but he's okay. One week for Kieran Briggs though with concussion,
Speaker 1: they said there were some you know, they tested to
Speaker 1: see if he had any neck issues, a pretty horrible
Speaker 1: incident in the game on Sunday. He was okay from
Speaker 1: that point of view, but will be in the concussion
Speaker 1: protocols for a week. So that means that Lockie Keith
Speaker 1: will be rocking I think for the Giants, and Tom
Speaker 1: Green is down as a test which is one we
Speaker 1: will be watching closely. I mean I had him in
Speaker 1: my team for a while early in the preseason. Won't
Speaker 1: be bringing back, but it might impact one of the rookies
Speaker 1: that the fewers have got in the back line in
Speaker 1: James Leaks. So yes, keeping a close eye on the
Speaker 1: GWS teams and of course all the teams when they
Speaker 1: drop on Thursday night. All right, do you want to
Speaker 1: get into some questions that's what they did all about.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes we do.
Speaker 2: We've had questions go out, We've had some come in
Speaker 2: earlier this week from Twitter or x and we'll start
Speaker 2: tackling some of them and then we'll go into the
Speaker 2: comments that have come in live. So should we should
Speaker 2: we get started?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, let's get into it because as you said,
Speaker 1: it's plenty to get through. We don't want to keep
Speaker 1: everybody here all day. But frog A kicking yourself saying
Speaker 1: Chera or Perim and viable or mirages. They just something
Speaker 1: that's teasing us and super Coach that will blow up
Speaker 1: in our faces like plenty A mid Price has in
Speaker 1: the past, I mean, it seems like the mid prices
Speaker 1: this year are a bit more reliable than in the past.
Speaker 1: Or is that just do we fall for that every year?
Speaker 2: I think we fall for that every year. But you know,
Speaker 2: do you look back and you're like, you know, did
Speaker 2: picking mid prices ever work for those people in the past,
Speaker 2: and there is no But it could just work for us.
Speaker 2: It could just work for us this year. I think
Speaker 2: Perrami's in my side. I certainly think he's definitely value.
Speaker 2: Adam Cherer I've never been sold on, but everyone who
Speaker 2: I know who follows Carlton thinks that he's ready to go.
Speaker 2: I think the preseason showed what he's capable of. I
Speaker 2: think they're both viable. I'm not convinced either is a mirage,
Speaker 2: so happy.
Speaker 1: I think Perryman very safe yea, I don't think actually
Speaker 1: had a heap of tackles the other day, but still
Speaker 1: scored in the nineties and I think he's going to
Speaker 1: be safe for around that most weeks. Chair is a
Speaker 1: bit more of a risk, obviously given his injury history,
Speaker 1: but I've certainly been sucked in by his preseason in
Speaker 1: the early fixture of the Blues. Hopefully he can put
Speaker 1: up some good scores early and then if something happens
Speaker 1: we deal with it then. So yeah, I've got both
Speaker 1: of them at the moment, Fraser saying Matt Flynn R too,
Speaker 1: Yes or no. Yeah.
Speaker 2: We've had a lot of questions about Matt Flynn and
Speaker 2: I've been toying between starting him at R two or
Speaker 2: starting at the flex. I think think I think if
Speaker 2: he's close to a must pick at the value he's providing,
Speaker 2: I don't quite like going with him at R two
Speaker 2: yet because you don't necessarily have the backup, and you know,
Speaker 2: having him in the flex means it if it goes wrong,
Speaker 2: you can downgrade him, upgrade him.
Speaker 3: If you've got some cash.
Speaker 2: You've got a lot more flexibility from the flex, which
Speaker 2: is really nice. But at R two your options are
Speaker 2: far more limited. So that's the reason I haven't gone there.
Speaker 2: But I do think.
Speaker 3: There's the big risk possibly big reward there.
Speaker 2: The flip side as well is if you want Tom
Speaker 2: d Koning and one of Cherry are gone, then it
Speaker 2: gets very hard to then pick Flynn.
Speaker 3: You can't have him on the bench.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean it depends on the rest of
Speaker 2: your team, but I don't think I think it's viable.
Speaker 2: There's every chance the person that wins Super Coach this
Speaker 2: year starts Flint at R two and he becomes what
Speaker 2: Cherry did last year. So I certainly don't think it's
Speaker 2: a bad decision to start him at R two, but
Speaker 2: proceed with caution, maybe have an exit plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I mentioned the Lair and Dossie there
Speaker 1: had a very intricate setup of picking Luke Jackson in
Speaker 1: the forward line so he could click him into the
Speaker 1: ruck if something happens to Flynn. So he's obviously put
Speaker 1: a lot of thought into that. And yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I agree with you that if you're brave enough to
Speaker 1: do it and it pays off, that could be a
Speaker 1: winning move. But it is it is fraught with danger,
Speaker 1: but yeah, sometimes you have to have to take risks
Speaker 1: to it. He's in my flex at the moment, you know.
Speaker 1: I think you're right that we have to pick him.
Speaker 1: Just haven't quite got the the bravery to go with
Speaker 1: that too. And it's so hard when you want, like
Speaker 1: you say, you've got Gorne, you got Cherry, you got
Speaker 1: t DK. You want to try and fit them all
Speaker 1: in there. So it does get tricky. But yeah, it could.
Speaker 1: It could definitely pay off. Nick says, with so much
Speaker 1: good value, how many primos are we starting with? So
Speaker 1: I mean, I suppose it comes down to your definition
Speaker 1: of primos. I mean I've got I think two players
Speaker 1: over six hundred k. But then if a sort of
Speaker 1: squint and say I reckon he could be a keeper,
Speaker 1: then you know, the total goes up a lot, a
Speaker 1: lot higher. But when you know how many do you
Speaker 1: think from the the very top end of the shelf.
Speaker 2: From the six six hundred k plus, I have three
Speaker 2: at this stage. I've got Cheesel Neil and Max Gorn
Speaker 2: who just oscillates between him and Cherry over and over.
Speaker 2: But in terms of primos, I think like a guy
Speaker 2: like Andy Brayshaw counts to promo. I think Clayton Oliver
Speaker 2: counts to primo. This year, I've got a Zaiwangen in
Speaker 2: D two. Jack McCrae, I think he is a primo.
Speaker 2: We had a question as well about Jason Hill Francis
Speaker 2: and Isaac Rankin. I think both of them are primos.
Speaker 2: I have both of them. I think he can lock
Speaker 2: those guys in pretty quickly, So yeah, I think they
Speaker 2: certainly scope to start more of those four hundred k guys,
Speaker 2: we've seen Will Day and Finn Callahango nuts early. I
Speaker 2: think there's certainly scope to start them. Whether or not
Speaker 2: we finish with them is a different question. And you know,
Speaker 2: we've had Joven on several shows so far this year,
Speaker 2: the winner from last year, Jove in May, and he's
Speaker 2: said that he, you know, last plays like Olli Wines
Speaker 2: certainly weren't you know, top class uber primos, but they
Speaker 2: got the job done for him. So yeah, I think
Speaker 2: it very much depends on what your definition of primo
Speaker 2: is and what you know what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a very difficult question to answer.
Speaker 2: But I'm still trying to make sure I've got guys
Speaker 2: that are in that top echelon that are just save
Speaker 2: captaincy options through the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's a good point. You want to at
Speaker 1: least have a couple of those guys that you can
Speaker 1: put the C in the VC on each week. And
Speaker 1: Nathan has asked who is your D two And this
Speaker 1: plays into exactly what you were just talking about, And
Speaker 1: really my premo account, I guess, is really oscillated because
Speaker 1: do I go with someone like Dane zorco at D
Speaker 1: two who came in about a week ago, and I
Speaker 1: really love that idea. And then now I'm sort of
Speaker 1: wavering and could I save a bit of cash by
Speaker 1: picking at Jordan Clark or an Asia Wangling Manganina Miller
Speaker 1: there and that gives me some more money to get
Speaker 1: a Finn Calahan type in the midfield. So I'm really
Speaker 1: i'ming an ring between those two. But if I look
Speaker 1: at my team at this moment, it is n at
Speaker 1: WM at D two for me. And I mean Jordan
Speaker 1: Clarke's been there too, that those two are most interchangeable.
Speaker 1: But what are you, well, does your say look.
Speaker 2: At the moment, Yeah, Nazza wagon and Malera is there
Speaker 2: for me at the moment as well. Jordan Clark has
Speaker 2: floated as well, but that he's been one of the
Speaker 2: most consistent guys that have just been in my team
Speaker 2: through the whole preseason.
Speaker 3: And I'm not in a rush to jump off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, happy, then you're not attempted to go with Azco
Speaker 1: or one of those other no sort of guys. And
Speaker 1: I think you know she's that we all love.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Zorko is very old and it's going to
Speaker 2: fall apart. And I said that all of last year
Speaker 2: and it didn't happen. But it's just like he's thirty six.
Speaker 2: They'll have to rest him. Kiddy Coleman will come back
Speaker 2: at some stage during the season. How that affects him
Speaker 2: remains to be seen. That there's a lot of value
Speaker 2: back there with guys like Perryman and Frasier and Roberts,
Speaker 2: who I think is certainly someone we need to jump
Speaker 2: on board. I think Roberts is very much a Locke
Speaker 2: agree with the phantom on the lair there, So I
Speaker 2: think there's enough other value around that I don't feel
Speaker 2: like Coats and Master by any means.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that. I think just got very
Speaker 1: seduced by the early fixture where they play Richmond and
Speaker 1: West Coast, I think in the first four games, so
Speaker 1: you could get some really big numbers out of him.
Speaker 1: But then, as you say you are, you know we're
Speaker 1: going to be making lots of trades as the season
Speaker 1: goes on, and do you really want to be worrying
Speaker 1: about thirty six year old guys doing and that you've paid,
Speaker 1: you know, six hundred grand for in the back line.
Speaker 1: So that's sort of I've moved away from him a
Speaker 1: little bit just in the last probably twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you can certainly put some big scores on
Speaker 1: the board earlier. I mean, this is we won't get
Speaker 1: go to fight down the rabbit hole. But the Phantoms
Speaker 1: team is up on all the Coach Sports and on
Speaker 1: the Super Coach chap click on the news tab. There
Speaker 1: is final teams in and he's definitely going down the
Speaker 1: road of going for just the guys who can put
Speaker 1: up some huge scores early on which last year turned
Speaker 1: out to be, you know, gave people a big head start.
Speaker 1: But the other way of looking at it is that
Speaker 1: you know it is a long season. Those best ada
Speaker 1: there's only three best ating rounds early and yeah, you're
Speaker 1: picking guys for the first three or four rounds or
Speaker 1: for the whole year. But it's one of those ones
Speaker 1: that we probably won't know which is the right approach
Speaker 1: until around twenty four and then we look back and think, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was obviously we should have all done it that way.
Speaker 2: We should have all done it that way. All right,
Speaker 2: let's do some quick fire ones. We've had a lot
Speaker 2: of guys where they just want a rating. Do they
Speaker 2: want yes or no? Maybe on these guys I'm going
Speaker 2: to just hit you with a bunch of them. Tom Stewart, no,
Speaker 2: might get tagged. Yeah, Max Holmes, uh, Paul these.
Speaker 1: Last game was I don't know what happened there, but
Speaker 1: apart from that, I really like him, So yeah we
Speaker 1: say yes, yep.
Speaker 3: Jeremy McGovern, I did.
Speaker 1: Think about this, but then when I was just because
Speaker 1: that D two has been hard. But I mean, if
Speaker 1: we're talking about Zorka, you can't pick, can you again?
Speaker 1: They're just they're very expensive. If there was some value there,
Speaker 1: maybe you could take a risk.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Elijah Hewittt we've spoken about if named, I
Speaker 2: assume you're you pick him.
Speaker 1: I think so, yeah, just at the price end bit
Speaker 1: of DPP as well. Yeah, I think he's just handy
Speaker 1: to stash there at maybe M eleven yep. Trent Rivers, No,
Speaker 1: not for me. I think Melbourne has like that Midfield
Speaker 1: experiment is it was we'll get a bit of time
Speaker 1: in there, but now for tracks back they want to
Speaker 1: play ed Langdon in there now as well. Harvey Langcot's
Speaker 1: going to try and get some some center bounces. So
Speaker 1: I don't think there's enough there to get his scoring
Speaker 1: up to what we'd need.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Simeons are from the lair. His boy Jakesonaligo
Speaker 2: been a question on whether you rate him.
Speaker 1: Well, I think he's a good player. I'm just sort
Speaker 1: of steering clear of Adelaide midfielders really because there's just
Speaker 1: so many of them that it's hard to know any
Speaker 1: given week he'll get the scores and you know, the
Speaker 1: most most cbas and all that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then the last one was a toss up,
Speaker 2: would you rather Bailely Smith or Riley Sanders from DESI.
Speaker 1: I've got Bailey Smith. But yeah, this is an interesting
Speaker 1: one because I mean he basically was picked, you know,
Speaker 1: when Team Picker first opened, and he hasn't moved out
Speaker 1: of my team ever since then, because you know, all
Speaker 1: the obvious reasons that we thought this guy's going to
Speaker 1: be one of the best picks in Super Coaches year.
Speaker 1: We'll go to Geelong playing in the midfield. He's cheap.
Speaker 1: But I mean we've hardly seen him since then, so
Speaker 1: I can understand why people are a little bit nervous
Speaker 1: that canceling or you know, postponing opening round game. That
Speaker 1: was the one thing that would have been useful to
Speaker 1: actually get a look at him hopefully playing a full
Speaker 1: game and see what his role is and knowing that
Speaker 1: he's fully fit. So yeah, I don't. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: not as locked in as I was. He's still there.
Speaker 1: I still think at the price, you know, he's going
Speaker 1: to deliver great value, but he's probably not. You know,
Speaker 1: I think McCrae and Daniel I could definitely see being
Speaker 1: top six forwards and they'll be there for the entire season. Bears.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, I'm just not really sure what we're going
Speaker 1: to get from him. He could average hundred wouldn't stop me,
Speaker 1: but if he averaged ninety three that probably wouldn't be
Speaker 1: a big shock either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got impaied for that nine hit to ninety
Speaker 2: five range. And I think he certainly value. I think
Speaker 2: he's a he won't let you down too much as
Speaker 2: a pick, but he's one that I'm just I'm fading.
Speaker 2: He's not in my team at the moment, not because
Speaker 2: I think he's a terrible pick. I just prefer to
Speaker 2: spend the money elsewhere. It's just like I've gone up
Speaker 2: to Isaac Rankin and I would rather ranking than barely Smith.
Speaker 2: Just with the way my team shuffled round, so I yeah,
Speaker 2: I still don't really trust Bevo, and I'm not entirely
Speaker 2: sure how Sanders will play out long term, but I
Speaker 2: certainly think to start the season he'll be quite good.
Speaker 2: There've been a lot of questions on rookies, and we're
Speaker 2: obviously very keen for teams to drop tomorrow night. But
Speaker 2: instead of going through that, we'll direct you once this
Speaker 2: episode finishes. Go listen, Go check the official Super Coach
Speaker 2: feed and the Code Sports YouTube. There is an official
Speaker 2: rookie just everything you need to know last minute rookie
Speaker 2: guide there from the Phantom and Dan Batton, who have
Speaker 2: answered all of the rookie questions far better than we
Speaker 2: can or will be able to. So I'll point a
Speaker 2: lot of the questions.
Speaker 1: Hold you up for a Second's going to just ask you,
Speaker 1: how many rookies have you got on the field in
Speaker 1: fens and the forward line.
Speaker 2: Two and two in defense and the forward line, one
Speaker 2: of them being Jackson Pryor down back and then Sam
Speaker 2: poul Pepper at the moment is in my forward line.
Speaker 3: This is a bit more security.
Speaker 2: I think we've got slightly more than we were panicking about.
Speaker 2: I just feel slightly better about them than a lot
Speaker 2: of other people do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah, I mean I've got one in one.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's something I've been doing and throwing on
Speaker 1: and again. As you say, when teams come out, that'll
Speaker 1: help a bit, But especially in those early best dating rounds,
Speaker 1: those sort of lower scores are going to drop out anyway.
Speaker 1: So if that gives you cash to spend up elsewhere,
Speaker 1: maybe that's the way to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and across the board, my rookies are just a
Speaker 2: little bit more expensive as well. I listened to the
Speaker 2: lair they're talking about having more expensive guys on the bench.
Speaker 2: I've got nath Thradriscoll and leave By Ashcroft on my
Speaker 2: midfield bench and Isaac Kacka on the forward bench. So
Speaker 2: I would rather be paying up for rookies that will
Speaker 2: be there the whole way through the season, or the
Speaker 2: whole way through the early part, rather than possibly going
Speaker 2: for like a hy Boxhel or a Lucas Campa Rally
Speaker 2: who maybe might not be there for as long we
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: Yep, No, that's fair and that's up. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: you get someone summed off as we saw with children
Speaker 1: the other day, and it just just kills them in
Speaker 1: terms of cash generation and points obviously, So if you
Speaker 1: can find guys that we think will be safer, yeah,
Speaker 1: probably he's worth paying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: The only other questions there was a few on the
Speaker 2: younger Essendon guys a LAS artists covered in that rookie podcast,
Speaker 2: but I assume you're starting him, and then Ben is
Speaker 2: also asking about Ben Hobbes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean it should defer to you as
Speaker 1: as the bombs man, I mean, he got plenty of
Speaker 1: CBA's in the practice match. Was that the aiming series
Speaker 1: or the other one? And he is cheap. I think
Speaker 1: he's in the two hundreds.
Speaker 3: Isn't he. I'm just getting that two sixty.
Speaker 1: Two and he's a forward, so that sort of similar price.
Speaker 1: I've got Hugo Garcia down there, who's I think two
Speaker 1: forty five, so it's around the same mark. I mean,
Speaker 1: if he's getting, you know, set of bounces, that's kind
Speaker 1: of his go and can score okay, But where do
Speaker 1: you see him fitting in in when this actually names
Speaker 1: their best site?
Speaker 3: Who knows?
Speaker 2: I really couldn't, like I struggled to name the best
Speaker 2: twenty three now at the moment, and I think Ben
Speaker 2: Hobbs is very much on the periphery of it. There's
Speaker 2: a chance that if he has a bad game and
Speaker 2: then he's out, will set a field comes in. He
Speaker 2: might be the sub they used him ass a sub
Speaker 2: a little bit last year, could be subbed off as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Just we've got, you know, guys like Garcia and Caleb
Speaker 2: Daniel around. I think they're probably options i'd be going
Speaker 2: for instead. The only other question before we can move
Speaker 2: on for live questions to come in Nick Dekos, what
Speaker 2: did he make of that opening round Debarcle from the Pies?
Speaker 2: Do do you jump up him? Off him if you've
Speaker 2: got him.
Speaker 1: I was initially in the camp of note because you
Speaker 1: know you're picking him for the whole season. If he
Speaker 1: drops a little bit in price doesn't really matter. But
Speaker 1: I have actually taken him out now, just thinking like
Speaker 1: it is a money game, and if you pick him
Speaker 1: and play over six hundred and whatever K is now
Speaker 1: and other people can get him for fifty k cheaper
Speaker 1: than that, that is an advantage that everybody gets on
Speaker 1: you because you know that's fifty k that they've been
Speaker 1: able to spend somewhere else. So the timing of it
Speaker 1: can get tricky like it's you know, we were talking
Speaker 1: earlier today on off are about to Finn Callahan and
Speaker 1: the idea that you know, do you wait until after
Speaker 1: his buy and then try and get him in because
Speaker 1: they have the early buy and his price won't move
Speaker 1: until round three and all that sort of thing. But
Speaker 1: then you still have to have the trades and the
Speaker 1: money at the right time to make it happen. So
Speaker 1: it's easy to say, I'll just get to take us
Speaker 1: after his buy, but then you'll still be close to
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand dollars and you know that early in
Speaker 1: the season, I don't know that that's going to be
Speaker 1: such a simple maneuver. But if you get points on
Speaker 1: the field somewhere else through you know, it's spreading that
Speaker 1: money around now and then maybe it's around six or
Speaker 1: seven when the planet's aligned and you can you know,
Speaker 1: I'd certainly be targeting him to try and get him in,
Speaker 1: and he's going to be a finished team for certain
Speaker 1: But I think that is what I'm going to try
Speaker 1: and do. Whe whether I can actually you know, make
Speaker 1: it happen, We'll wait and see, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: heaps of things are going to come up and you
Speaker 1: know we'll be trying to get Bontempelli and around the
Speaker 1: same time and all these kinds of things. But at
Speaker 1: the moment he's not in for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fair enough. Should we go to some live questions now?
Speaker 3: Do you want me to read him outor do you
Speaker 3: want to read him out?
Speaker 1: Or how we how we we can drop it Jane
Speaker 1: if you like. But Haru wants to know about Jordan Dawson.
Speaker 1: I was already mentioned my sort of philosophy on Crow's midfield.
Speaker 1: I think he is probably under price, but still just
Speaker 1: the nervous about probably going to be highly fluctuating scores.
Speaker 1: I think he can put up some really big ones,
Speaker 1: but he might have some some ones on the other
Speaker 1: side as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the scaling king where he does a lot in
Speaker 3: last quarters.
Speaker 2: But also if he gets thrown forward then he might
Speaker 2: disappear for half a foot year. So there's He's certainly
Speaker 2: a brilliant footballer, very much a MISDI fix it kind
Speaker 2: of situation. I think his value, but I think as well,
Speaker 2: we've seen a lot of guys come through. You know,
Speaker 2: you look at Callahan or Callahan day, sorry, share a
Speaker 2: few of these other options and kind of if you're
Speaker 2: going to them, you probably can't afford as well the
Speaker 2: Dawson types. So I think he's very easy to fall
Speaker 2: out of your side on that front.
Speaker 3: I like him.
Speaker 2: I think he's been an out of my team. I
Speaker 2: hope he has a very good year, should bounce back.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that fluctuation you mentioned means that he's probably
Speaker 2: going to be cheap at some point when he has
Speaker 2: one odd game, so certainly that a must start.
Speaker 3: I don't think I.
Speaker 1: Like this like this from Wayne Jayden short is like
Speaker 1: finding an old magazine under the car seat. I know
Speaker 1: I shouldn't thought, I want to talk me out of it.
Speaker 3: You're the Richmond man. Are they going to play and
Speaker 3: kick Chip Mark? And he'd well, she gulled up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean at a mouse went on the Club
Speaker 1: podcast a week or so ago and did say that,
Speaker 1: you know, he's trying to teach the players to you know,
Speaker 1: really the Richmond way with the under dimmer was to
Speaker 1: just get it and get it forward at all costs.
Speaker 1: And now maybe we need to learn we're not that
Speaker 1: same team anymore. Slow it down, sometimes have different gears,
Speaker 1: and maybe that is a style that they can try
Speaker 1: and to pull it a little bit more. I mean,
Speaker 1: it looked like in the preseason they did attempt that
Speaker 1: a little bit, but I wouldn't say it was a
Speaker 1: hundred percent successful. So I think he's again he's one
Speaker 1: of these guys that will be value. He's priced at
Speaker 1: eighty two I think from last year. I'm sure he
Speaker 1: will do better than that, But I'm not sure that
Speaker 1: he's a He's never been a He's never scored over
Speaker 1: one hundred and a season, never everaged over a hundred,
Speaker 1: had a couple of ninety eights, And he could potentially
Speaker 1: get back up there. And if he does, then he's
Speaker 1: you know, you could have him as your last defender
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. It'd probably be okay.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm just I don't know. I mean, Richmond
Speaker 1: just makes me very nervous. I don't know how big
Speaker 1: you know, how many points Richmond players are going to
Speaker 1: score as a rule this year. So yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't have him at the moment. But yeah, I can see.
Speaker 2: Why people are thinking, Yeah, I agree, he's just a
Speaker 2: background noisy here that we've just got some questions coming
Speaker 2: in live from your house. Yeah, kind of in the
Speaker 2: same boat where you know, you mentioned he could be
Speaker 2: that last defender, but also Periman could be that last defender.
Speaker 2: And there's a world where Roberts is that last defender
Speaker 2: as well, and you like, you know Frasier's same mold.
Speaker 2: How many of them do you start? How many of
Speaker 2: them do you keep? I don't have him in I
Speaker 2: also like, don't have the mental afforditude to watch his
Speaker 2: score fluctuate every week. I just can't do it to myself.
Speaker 1: So that pre season game was a classic, wasn't We
Speaker 1: had about one hundred a half time and then barely
Speaker 1: touched it after that, So I think there'll probably be
Speaker 1: a bit of that over the course of the season.
Speaker 3: I will not be doing that to myself this season.
Speaker 1: So yeah, who else have we got?
Speaker 3: On?
Speaker 1: Thoughts on ed Richards? So we did well. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it came through because there was some ticket
Speaker 1: shues early, but I think he's down as a test
Speaker 1: was mentioned in the HbF injury report. But if he
Speaker 1: plays do we like Ed Richards? It would have been
Speaker 1: nice to see him through the preseason, especially no bond
Speaker 1: for Law. Obviously, we saw a little bit of him
Speaker 1: in the midfield last year and it was great, So
Speaker 1: is there enough there to go on?
Speaker 3: I think there there is certainly the role it'd shown.
Speaker 2: You know, Bevo loves him and thinks he's a really
Speaker 2: good footballer, and that's kind of enough to you know,
Speaker 2: get him, get him a decent look. He's two came
Speaker 2: more expensive than kind of Rosie though, And I don't
Speaker 2: know if you're picking a guy who hasn't really had
Speaker 2: a clean run at over someone like Rosie and if
Speaker 2: we're looking at the Balldold. So there was a question
Speaker 2: that came through before that I saw about Libertore who
Speaker 2: I think I'd rather if you're picking someone from that
Speaker 2: dog's midfield's you know, Sander's up forward or I think
Speaker 2: maybe liber has slightly more runs on the board and
Speaker 2: has also not been interrupted this preseason, so I think
Speaker 2: that's yeah, I wouldn't be picking Richard's but he's not.
Speaker 3: I like him. He's a good footballer. He will be fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that. In a comment here from
Speaker 1: a good friend, Abdul is, well he's got no money
Speaker 1: left to the bag. Sorry, I don't if we can
Speaker 1: really help with that one.
Speaker 2: This is one that if you if you can just
Speaker 2: transfer me just one hundred thousand dollars in real money.
Speaker 3: Then I'll sort you out.
Speaker 1: Benjamin asking here when I know a few people wrestling
Speaker 1: with his Cherry v Gorne. So the Phantom has brought
Speaker 1: Gorn in. I think you might be a Gorn man.
Speaker 1: I've got Cherry there. I have looked closely at that fixture.
Speaker 1: And obviously we know what happened the other day with
Speaker 1: Kieran Briggs going down. He's going to miss this week
Speaker 1: the Giants played Melbourne mexicourn you think. I think the
Speaker 1: Phantom said might eat Lucky Keith alive, which could happen.
Speaker 1: But is that enough to pick him for the whole season?
Speaker 1: He's a little bit more expensive. We know how good
Speaker 1: Cherry was last year. Actually, I think Fanto might have
Speaker 1: found a way to fit him both. So that is
Speaker 1: that the answer? You just picked the two?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, if you don't pick them, then you've
Speaker 2: got to watch Tom de Cooning score three million points
Speaker 2: over for the first four games of the season. So
Speaker 2: I'm still a bit up in the air. I've currently
Speaker 2: got gone. I've had Cherry for a long period of time.
Speaker 2: I had Gorne and Cherry and was fading Deconing for
Speaker 2: a little bit and then that made me feel physically ill.
Speaker 2: So I think I think Gorne scores more in the
Speaker 2: opening five weeks. He's got GWS with no Briggs North
Speaker 2: Melbourne's so Cherry will be a tough match up an
Speaker 2: aging Jared Wits Sam da cooning against Geelong and again
Speaker 2: could feast an ungodly amount and then Essendon, who a
Speaker 2: difficult to score against from a perspectives.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think Gown's got He's got a very good opening run,
Speaker 2: but I think both of them will be top three
Speaker 2: rucks by the season's end.
Speaker 1: I think you can't really go wrong with either, to
Speaker 1: be honest. But yeah, as you say, Gorne, you know,
Speaker 1: expects some pretty big numbers early on. He has a
Speaker 1: weird history of not scoring very well around one, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if that all continue this weekend this
Speaker 1: he might.
Speaker 3: Be a lu Cryan, is he?
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Yeah, I've got Cherry. But yeah, either either
Speaker 1: are good and they probably are going to be the
Speaker 1: top two rucks at the end of the year. We
Speaker 1: see what happens with TDK. But then yet, like he's
Speaker 1: gonna have some big numbers earlier, So pick your poison now.
Speaker 1: The question here about Roberts being a trap. I don't
Speaker 1: think he is. Feels like Coxsville experiment a bit and
Speaker 1: move stuff around, But I mean, I think the good
Speaker 1: thing from roberts point view the other day was that
Speaker 1: he actually did he have one kick in for the game,
Speaker 1: so he wasn't relying on getting all the kick ins
Speaker 1: to score. He positioned himself nicely in the back pockets
Speaker 1: so him when Blake he took the kickings, he generally
Speaker 1: kicked them to Roberts who could then get a mark
Speaker 1: and get some points for that, and then sixty meters
Speaker 1: up the field where he pretty much hit a target
Speaker 1: every time. So yeah, it actually showed that he's got
Speaker 1: a few different ways to score. He gets a few
Speaker 1: more pick inscts might make it even a bit easy
Speaker 1: for yep.
Speaker 2: And if he plays in the midfield, he's got pedigree
Speaker 2: from like a junior level that he scored points for
Speaker 2: fun and the Sam flonderrade ends, so shout out to Phantom.
Speaker 1: This is an interesting question from Zach. Should I get
Speaker 1: Petraker or is it too risky. He's just a little
Speaker 1: sneak peak reveal and when I put my team reveal out,
Speaker 1: he is currently my m two. Is that crazy? I
Speaker 1: just feel like he's been forgotten by everybody. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously his preseason hasn't been ideal, but it didn't look
Speaker 1: like he mister beat when he came back for their
Speaker 1: Amy Series game. And if I can't quite afford Gone,
Speaker 1: I'll get the next best thing when he gets a
Speaker 1: thousand hitouts this weekend and pick Clary and Petraka in
Speaker 1: my midfield.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: I think if he works for you by structures, then yeah,
Speaker 2: he's a good pick. I think he looks back, He
Speaker 2: looks back, he looks fit. Lock him in.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that confirmation. I like that question about
Speaker 1: Cherit if Walsh plays, so we think Welsh will come back.
Speaker 1: We'll find out that seems probably in a few hours.
Speaker 1: But does that ruin Chera as a pick, do you think?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they all still work pretty well
Speaker 1: in there, and I mean especially against Richmond.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't see that being a massive issue for Chair.
Speaker 2: I think the issue with Chair is the competition between
Speaker 2: him and Day and Callahan and Oliver. You can't have
Speaker 2: all of them. There was a question before about how
Speaker 2: many is too many? And I think two is a
Speaker 2: good amount and three. I don't know how I feel
Speaker 2: about three. Chair is at the bottom of my rankings
Speaker 2: of the four of them.
Speaker 1: So does Clary count see one of the three?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I think if you've got Clary, Day and Callahan,
Speaker 2: you're starting to stretch it depending on, you know, not
Speaker 2: having enough rookies or not having enough firepower from from
Speaker 2: guys who will be top eight mids. I think these
Speaker 2: guys are kind of in the fifteen ish range. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just I don't like the idea of going in
Speaker 2: with a lot of them, and Nature is at the
Speaker 2: bottom of that list for mine, just because I see
Speaker 2: more upside in the others. But I don't think he's
Speaker 2: a bad by any means his value. He will score well,
Speaker 2: he'll you know, should play vague. Injury concerns also play
Speaker 2: into that he's got a history of him Yeah, history
Speaker 2: of injuries. So a little bit worried on that front.
Speaker 1: A couple more quick ones here, Marshall. He agrees with
Speaker 1: you help Pepper saying better than Lynch. They're both around
Speaker 1: the same price in the forward line. And I don't
Speaker 1: mind that just as a you know, just absolutely rock solid.
Speaker 1: You can't imagine you've ever been the sub or anything
Speaker 1: like that. So she'll put up you know, sixty seventies
Speaker 1: every week and that's enough to make some money.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Tom Lynch will have Game three scores twenty one because
Speaker 2: he's playing as full forward in a Richmond side.
Speaker 3: And I love Tom Lynch.
Speaker 2: I think he's a you know, if he was in
Speaker 2: a better team, he would be an absolute lock. But
Speaker 2: I just think Richmond will be sorry, I'll so woeful
Speaker 2: this year that I don't really want a bar of
Speaker 2: anything other than rookies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, full forward for Richmond this year is
Speaker 1: probably the worst scoring role you can think of in
Speaker 1: super coach. Maybe you know, small forward or forward pocket
Speaker 1: for Richmond would be worse. So what does that make you?
Speaker 1: What do you think of Sam Laylor now that he's
Speaker 1: going to play. Obviously, he looked really good in that
Speaker 1: practice match against the Eagles, was probably Richmond's best player,
Speaker 1: and then he got injured right at the end. But
Speaker 1: now they're saying he's back over two hundred k. I
Speaker 1: don't think I could walk out for that, you know,
Speaker 1: having seen so little of him. But I think he
Speaker 1: actually will go pretty well. But with all those other
Speaker 1: expensive rookieses. We probably don't need him. I don't think no.
Speaker 2: And the fact that he's mid only he means he's
Speaker 2: competing against a bunch of other guys and that, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's just further down the list. If someone you know
Speaker 2: looks really good will be a great player, just if
Speaker 2: he's playing splitting his time up forward. For Richmond, he
Speaker 2: will have games where he kind of disappears and doesn't score,
Speaker 2: and that's really bad for cash generation. He want guys
Speaker 2: that he's consistently scoring. Yeah, you could do worse, but
Speaker 2: I yeah, not for me, not over the likes of
Speaker 2: you know, looking at Nathan drisk Or, Levi Ashcroft, Lajah Statis,
Speaker 2: Fino Sulomon, ed Allen All at the same price point,
Speaker 2: said dre pro if he's not the sub, yeah, I
Speaker 2: just think all of those guys are ahead of him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we had a couple of games to look
Speaker 1: at him, and if he turns out his scores, yeah,
Speaker 1: two chances to start the year. We can make a
Speaker 1: switch after round two. This is an interesting question, Dodgie
Speaker 1: Malacca asking why is Harry Boyd still in sixty percent
Speaker 1: of teams when Marshall is coming back. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the answer is because he's ninety nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I definitely wouldn't have him anywhere near the field on
Speaker 1: two or on the flex, which a few people were
Speaker 1: playing around with earlier on in the preseason and we
Speaker 1: thought Marshall might miss the start of the year. He's
Speaker 1: probably fine for the rock bench, given that's not many
Speaker 1: other options there, But I'm not sure how many games
Speaker 1: he's actually going to play. I mean, you're probably just
Speaker 1: sticking him there. I think he's a loophole for now,
Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully he comes in at some point,
Speaker 1: maybe Ross tries to mix things up at some point
Speaker 1: and with all some Killers' injuries he gets a run.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm not sure he's going to play too
Speaker 1: many games alongside Rowan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, agreed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the fact there aren't any other standout
Speaker 2: options is probably part of it. But yeah, I think
Speaker 2: when teams are released tomorrow night at that number will
Speaker 2: go down a fair bit, especially if someone like Archer
Speaker 2: Readers named, then I think we'll see a pretty big
Speaker 2: fix over. But yeah, there's there's no real other options
Speaker 2: at this stage, so that's that's probably why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't reach probably the name I'm looking for
Speaker 1: on the teams. If he is name for the Eagles
Speaker 1: did a bit of a sort of backup rocking in
Speaker 1: the preseason and he's got ruck forward, So yeah, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be the worst yet to check on the bench
Speaker 1: there if you have a few extra dollars. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the nine y nine k is is very appealing. What
Speaker 1: about a quick draft A latter question. We know you're
Speaker 1: a big supercoach. Draft men, which of these rucks would
Speaker 1: you pick Boyd, Soldo or Stanley some match.
Speaker 2: We are scraping in the bottom of the barrel in
Speaker 2: the draft, I would hope, So you hope you don't
Speaker 2: have pick three? Jeez, that's maybe Stanley if you can
Speaker 2: handcuff a ruck. If you've got Raley O'Brien, then take
Speaker 2: someone like McAndrew I think would be better. But I
Speaker 2: think Soldo is probably the best chance to get a run.
Speaker 2: Him or Stanley would be the two I'd be looking
Speaker 2: at for draft.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, not a lot of great often there. I've
Speaker 1: got a few more questions quickly to try and get through.
Speaker 1: Question from Martin here SDK or assuming means a frasiers
Speaker 1: in Joel Fraser from the Dogs, so both in that
Speaker 1: sort of three hundred thousand dollars range in the back line.
Speaker 1: There was a bit of a rush to SDK when
Speaker 1: we heard the news he was going to play ruck
Speaker 1: for Youlong, and then he did in a practice Mansion
Speaker 1: was not that good, scored pretty horribly. They sort of
Speaker 1: shared the ruck between him and Blitzers and he's been
Speaker 1: the rest of the game at full back and didn't
Speaker 1: seem like a great super coach move. But he did
Speaker 1: actually play in the rock last year a few times
Speaker 1: and scored all right, sort of in the nineties. I
Speaker 1: think even that game when his brother completely dominated, he's
Speaker 1: still actually scored okay. So if that's something you know,
Speaker 1: if he's named in the ruck tomorrow night, is there
Speaker 1: some value there or What do you think of JOELH. Frasier,
Speaker 1: who has looked pretty good for the Dogs in the preseason,
Speaker 1: but he's only ten games into his AFL career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'd be I'd rather Frasier of the
Speaker 2: pair of them. I just think he's got more upside
Speaker 2: and he's got a role that's just more more set
Speaker 2: and more reliable to get him some points decooning depending
Speaker 2: on who's rucking against might have a mayor or might
Speaker 2: be able to do what his brother does, and you
Speaker 2: get some tackles, we get some possessions. My main worry
Speaker 2: with deconning is just having watched Geelong mess around in
Speaker 2: the Rocks for ten years, I just have no faith
Speaker 2: that Chris Scott is going to not bring Ree Stanley
Speaker 2: back in round three and then you know, ditch Ree
Speaker 2: Stanley again in round you know five, and bring in
Speaker 2: what's the young Edwards? Whoever the young ruck is like
Speaker 2: they're just Conway.
Speaker 1: Or somewhere down there on the Injurviet. Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 3: A mess and I don't want to bar off it.
Speaker 2: And you know, if if you take the puntner comes off,
Speaker 2: then incredible. But I think it's just too big of
Speaker 2: a risk for my liking as well. We've had some
Speaker 2: questions come through from Instagram as well, Max Murray asking
Speaker 2: if Bailey Humphrey is one to watch. He had twenty
Speaker 2: touches against Sydney and lots of cbas, have you got
Speaker 2: any interest in Bailey Humphrey as a cheapish forward option.
Speaker 1: I mean not as a starting pick. I like him
Speaker 1: as a player and I'll in this one we can
Speaker 1: keep an eye on. He's shown in the past that
Speaker 1: he can score pretty well with some sort of high
Speaker 1: impact board type. But I remember I actually didn't have
Speaker 1: him that year when he came in the year and
Speaker 1: he put up some really good scores. And it seems
Speaker 1: like three or four games in a row he like
Speaker 1: kick the winning goal or did something crazy at the
Speaker 1: end of it. You know, all this extra scaling. So
Speaker 1: maybe that's just you know, his superpower. But yeah, just
Speaker 1: just to watch for me at this statue.
Speaker 3: Yep, agreed.
Speaker 1: Any others there someone asking about Luke Ryan Craig saying
Speaker 1: if he's worth it at DE two, and I mean
Speaker 1: I think my short answer is no, just because he's
Speaker 1: so expensive, but I think he was still scoring, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's probably the ownership is quite low considering he'd probably
Speaker 1: be your top six defender at the end of the year.
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, we're all trying to get the
Speaker 1: best value we can out of every pick. And I
Speaker 1: mean even we're paying up for Cheesel because we think
Speaker 1: he can match or a potentially even go better than
Speaker 1: last year Ryan averaged. I think in the end it
Speaker 1: was aout one hundred and fifteen after being insane in
Speaker 1: the first half of the year and then tailing off
Speaker 1: a bit towards the end. And that's the worry that
Speaker 1: you know, if you pay that much money for him
Speaker 1: for one fifteen average and he averages one of six
Speaker 1: or something, that's still fine, but yeah, there's more sort
Speaker 1: of points for dollar doesn't look so great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: I think that's the crux of it, where you know,
Speaker 2: most people only have space for one release and Guy
Speaker 2: and Harry, She's all looks like he'll be that guy Ryan,
Speaker 2: we'll score one hundred and sixty in round one because
Speaker 2: he always does.
Speaker 3: Just every year he just pops off. Some people will
Speaker 3: flock to him.
Speaker 2: But I think if your old fan will get him
Speaker 2: for we'll get him for much cheaper throughout the year.
Speaker 2: And that's that's the reason I'm not starting him. I
Speaker 2: think he's a very solid pick.
Speaker 1: Yep, I agree with that. So I think we should
Speaker 1: wrap up here with this question that there's a few
Speaker 1: people buy something similar, and it is the first year
Speaker 1: we've ever had to deal with this, so to be honest,
Speaker 1: we don't know the answer. We're guessing a bit. But
Speaker 1: Herman asking who is the best flex option, another ruck
Speaker 1: or a mid And my kind of answer is that
Speaker 1: I think in an ideal world, I'd have him like
Speaker 1: a mid forward sitting there. But just the way that
Speaker 1: it's panned out, we've got all these rucks that we
Speaker 1: want to pick. You know, I want to get t
Speaker 1: Dk in with that run with him solo rucking. I'd
Speaker 1: love to pick Gorn and Cherry, but can only fit
Speaker 1: one of them in. And then you've got Flynn, who
Speaker 1: we know in the past. Cheap rucks can be the
Speaker 1: best cash cows in super coach because you've got access
Speaker 1: to all those points. You're at every center bounds just about.
Speaker 1: You're getting hit outs, you're getting tackles and stoppages, clearances
Speaker 1: and all these sorts of things that just you know,
Speaker 1: it's not that hard for I mean not hard. You
Speaker 1: know it's got to be in April football. But do you
Speaker 1: see these backup racks coming and they can quite often
Speaker 1: score seventies and eighties. You know that much easier than
Speaker 1: you know, I se Hm Laylo, who's got to do
Speaker 1: it playing in the midfield or in the half forward
Speaker 1: or other players who are getting subbed on or off.
Speaker 1: You know, they're not so much subbing ruckman out of
Speaker 1: the game. So I think I have to find a
Speaker 1: spot for Clint. If it looks like he's going to
Speaker 1: be the number one ruck at West Coast, which we
Speaker 1: think he will be, I guess we'll see the teams
Speaker 1: hopefully that pans out. So for me, flexes the spot
Speaker 1: for him. So I'm a little bit, you know, I
Speaker 1: kind of don't love the fact that by doing that
Speaker 1: year sort of he has to be there. You have
Speaker 1: to pick him in your best twenty three every week
Speaker 1: because there's no way to move him unless he's swapping
Speaker 1: him with a BOYD or someone at three, whereas if
Speaker 1: you've got to a DPP there you can move players
Speaker 1: around to try and get your best players on field
Speaker 1: each week. But having said that, you know your rock ruckman,
Speaker 1: who starting ruck is going to be probably in your
Speaker 1: best team every week anyway, and then hopefully he can
Speaker 1: just make a heap of money in the first sort
Speaker 1: of seven or eight rounds and then we can use it.
Speaker 1: You see how the flex plays out for the rest
Speaker 1: of the year in terms of you know who the
Speaker 1: best players are to roll through there. But it's a
Speaker 1: bit of a sort of a confusing answer but at
Speaker 1: the moment, yeah, it's many Flinn for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd also have Flynn in there, But throughout most
Speaker 2: of the preseason, I've tried to have a forward mid
Speaker 2: like a Lajah Few.
Speaker 3: It's been sitting there for a long while.
Speaker 2: Isaac Kaco, who's the third most popular flex player, as
Speaker 2: revealed on the Lair this week. You know, those guys
Speaker 2: I think give you the most flexibility, and I think
Speaker 2: they're you know, by seasons, and.
Speaker 3: I'll look to have a mid forward in that position.
Speaker 2: Someone like a you know, someone with a massive ceiling ideal,
Speaker 2: like a Shay Bolton type possibly would I think be
Speaker 2: the ideal person to sit in that flock spot.
Speaker 3: That the type of player.
Speaker 2: But yeah, as as you said, just the value from
Speaker 2: Matt Flynn is just like not something that we can ignore.
Speaker 2: He's not somebod who can sit on the bench. He's
Speaker 2: not someone I trusted r too, So he's in the
Speaker 2: flax and that's just kind of you know, what the
Speaker 2: new position lets us do.
Speaker 3: But I think long.
Speaker 2: Term, you know, in any other year, someone like Hugo
Speaker 2: Garcia maybe could have been the perfect option there, But
Speaker 2: I think Flynn is just undeniable from where I see it.
Speaker 2: But if it was the choice of giving Matt Flynn
Speaker 2: any position, I'd be giving him mid forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah that flex, Yeah, ideally exactly. So everybody, thank you
Speaker 1: for tuning in. Thanks, we got through a heap of
Speaker 1: questions here. There's more there. We didn't have time for everybody,
Speaker 1: but we will be back tomorrow. Well, I will be
Speaker 1: back tomorrow night for the live teams show here. I
Speaker 1: think the Phantom is going to jump on for a
Speaker 1: special Round one sort of panic addition, we'll get the
Speaker 1: teams tonight, I guess from the Richmond Carlton game, and
Speaker 1: then we'll have all the teams tomorrow for the full
Speaker 1: Round one. And it's just crazy that it's so close
Speaker 1: after you know, weeks and weeks and weeks. I remember
Speaker 1: when team pick are opened and no, this team looks
Speaker 1: pretty good. Now we're sort about a point where we
Speaker 1: have to lock in some choices and actually stick by them.
Speaker 2: But yeah, enjoy those unlimited trades where they last, because
Speaker 2: there's not long left now before you have to lock
Speaker 2: it in and those trades become worth their weight in gold.
Speaker 3: So nervous, excited, keen for just lockout the start.
Speaker 1: Yep, Thanks everybody for listening, Thanks Patch for jumping HbF,
Speaker 1: and yeah, plenty more content to come. As I said,
Speaker 1: live show tomorrow, heats and content on the site. Team
Speaker 1: reveals a consensus, team, cheat sheets, all kinds of things.
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