The Keeper League - AFL Fantasy Podcast

In this week's episode of The Keeper League Podcast, we're diving into all the developments from Round 6 of the AFL Fantasy season. Join host Heff as he teams up with guest Damon Adams to analyze each game's pivotal fantasy performances and their potential impacts on draft and keeper leagues. If you're seeking advice to optimize your fantasy team or searching for hidden gems in the player pool, Heff and Damon provide thorough analysis and valuable tips. Tune in to gain a competitive edge and make the most strategic decisions for your fantasy team. This episode is your essential guide to winning your league as the season progresses.

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Ryan 'Heff' Gerlach

Co-founder and host of The Keeper League Podcast

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An AFL Fantasy Podcast that doesn't focus on the superstars. We look at the up-and-comers and the lesser-known players to help you win your draft and keeper leagues.

[Music]

G'day and welcome back to another episode of the K-Poleek podcast

with the AFL Fantasy podcast that doesn't talk about the soap stars.

We only talk about the lesson ones and the players who will bring you value to your draft and K-Poleek,

Tames. My name is Heff and today I am joined by Damon Adams,

the Sheva Commissioner, how are you going?

I'm doing, um, do a mate, school holiday edition.

That is, it is like we should-

Two people that, uh, that Moonlighter's teachers and, uh, this is the time, this is great.

Should we actually be, should we actually be doing a podcast right now?

Should we be a pub somewhere?

Oh mate, the weather's beautiful here in South Australia today.

What, what are we doing inside with a blind shot?

Oh, I don't know, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's what I've chosen to do with my life.

So, uh, yeah, unfortunately I've committed this every Monday.

Yes.

For six months of the year, actually longer than that, probably about nine months of the year.

But whatever, he's looking at this.

Hey, you can move it into the afternoon, you reclaim your Monday evening, right?

That's true.

Except that'll probably just be the video editing that he's doing Tuesdays.

I know you do.

But I might get a Tuesday, although kid home tomorrow.

Damn.

It doesn't work.

Sorry mate.

No, that's alright, it's alright.

It's still, it's still, I know.

The weather's bringing out the good mood in here, so it's fine.

Um, but let's give us, uh, let's give the listeners a bit of a, a Sheva update.

So we haven't had you on since the start, before the start of the season.

Yeah.

So how did that all pan out?

What were the numbers looking like?

How many players you've got playing in the Sheva right now?

Yeah, it's cheeky because obviously, uh, yearly league, not Keepa League, but I know that

I've, I've roped you in.

Um, well, we are the, we are for draft and Keepa League.

That's true.

The Keepa League is just a name, you know, brand, you know what I mean?

Understood.

Uh, so we ended up with 790 coaches, doing Sheva, like both, uh, here in Australia and I think

there's about a dozen to a dozen or half international coaches.

Oh, yeah.

Actually, I got one in my league in international coach.

Yeah.

Um, stuff's there, waver.

Uh, just, uh, the ability to do that, but, uh, and drafting actually sometimes.

Yeah.

Oh, no kidding, but 65 leagues that equates to, um, which is insane.

Um, I think our, our, um, the most we've had previously was last year, which is 348 coaches

and 29 leagues.

Yeah.

And, you know, we just kind of put ourselves to marketing, you know, through you guys and through

the, the traders guys and just a lot of social media presence.

Yeah.

That's 220% increase.

Um, and yeah, like all things being equal, it's been smooth.

So that's good.

I was wondering about that.

So we're six rounds in and, um, you know, I think the minibies, I tricky for any competition.

They sucked.

Yeah.

Something like Sheva, um, it is very tricky because, you know, we limit our bench space.

Yeah.

You know, depending on what keep a league, you're in, you might have deep benches and your ability

to be able to rotate your players through, you know, two teams being out might be okay.

Yeah.

Um, that gets a lot more difficult in something like Sheva.

Yeah.

And we actually extended our benches by one this year just to accommodate that a little bit.

Yeah.

Um, now that that's over, we enter this new phase of competition where we're doing a fully, um, integrated

knockout competition for the first time, which will start this coming round.

Yeah.

Uh, me and another guy that I'm working with coach, Mike listener, um, I have got a lot of work to do over the next week to kind of put that together.

So it sounds like it, but no, no, congratulations hats off to, uh, what you've actually brought it to.

Um, I'm actually hating it right now.

That's more due to the state of my team.

Yeah.

Then, uh, then anything else?

I did.

Division 28.

26, uh, okay.

But yeah, I think more so like, I would always just get, I think I had a pretty even spread of players on the bar, which I thought like would be the best kind of strategy.

Even though it wasn't an intended strategy, but I think what's happened is like, I've just always come up against someone who's had no by players out.

And like, I've had a few and it's just, I don't know, my team is pretty rubbish as well and I'd chill out injuries as well.

Uh, for those that aren't in shiver, um, you know, this competition and feel free to just come and observe like we're on Facebook, DT, Shiver or DT, Shiver, Undescoron X.

Uh, we also put out a weekly podcast called the Shiver Blast.

Yep.

We've got, we've got this guy who did this coach, Mark, who, um, does our stats as well.

Yeah.

And he dives now that we've got so many coaches, he just dives into like the real intricate stuff.

Yep.

And a fixering and the luck of fixering place.

Ah, it's a big car.

Yeah, definitely.

You know, we've got some coaches that might be 150 out of 700, 80 and have one a game.

Yeah.

And yet someone who's ranked 650th overall is one four.

Yeah.

Like, it's just unfair.

Like, and there's, there's nothing you can do to cater for that.

Yeah.

Other than just hope that it kind of falls in your way because you, you got to get some luck

on your side.

Yeah.

Well, I've got, I think I went pick two with Jack McCray as well.

Oh.

Um, just because like flay, in first round like pick two.

No, sorry, sorry.

I ran to my second pick.

Sorry.

I really had an absolute amurism.

Oh, and Jack McCray was second round, but purely because like I was at the end of the second round.

And then like flanders was gone.

Jackson was gone.

It's like, I'm not going to get a top line for it if I don't grab him.

And then just he didn't play for the first three weeks as well.

So I've, you know, he finally put up a good score for me on the weekend.

Just players like that.

And I think I just neglected, um, neglected midfielders.

I've just kind of underestimated the importance.

I was thinking like, I'd get a few off the way, but why are you like it's?

No, it's, it's awful.

Yeah, is there's nothing there?

In fact, this year, even more than any now, and I know we're going to talk about the DPP's

landing, but I've never been in a situation where forwards getting midfield status actually

is helping some coaches, you know, like, you know, whenever these changes would occur, if it was

an ad mid position, you'd be like, Oh, who cares about them?

Doesn't, doesn't make a little bit of difference, but it really actually does to some coaches now in terms of having a little bit more flexibility.

Yeah.

And then, with the, with the DPP's, the, the whole ad mid thing, like people are scouring for, you know,

forwards and backs that could potentially get mid status, just so they've got someone extra that can use on their,

like, I just don't have anyone on my bench here, but I can use like, yeah, it's crazy.

I guess now that we're through the bars, it might get a little bit easier, but yeah, it was pretty crazy to, um, to say.

Anyways, um, we'll get into, we'll talk about the DPP's quickly.

So, I know, Damien, you've, I think you had them up in front of you.

They just want to run us through some of the, the ones that were more relevant in, uh, capabilities.

I think there wasn't a lot of surprises in terms of players who gained defensive status.

Um, you know, those who would be in the, it was always difficult to earmark in preseason, you know.

We tried to avoid that from a drafting perspective, but Nick Martin, James Aish, the two catchmits in Tom Ackon's and Max Holmes got it.

Alex Sexton, sorry.

Uh, Carl Aemon will be super handy for some coaches that picked that up. Zach Fisher, Bailey Scott, who was my preseason boy, uh, Riley Bonne, Matt Roberts, like a lot of.

Decent output midfielders that are actually, um, gonna bolster that line.

So there's no issues in defensive land in terms of, yeah, shooting that bear.

I think one of my legs, I had Tom Sparrow, Matt Roberts and Carl Aemon all get DPP, which just completely flips my season from like a, I think I was a top four team,

but probably puts my team up to another level now because I had so many of these bench midfielders, because like, like everyone, I lost all my four status players.

Yeah.

So I had lots of mids and it just allows me to put a couple around to actually get, uh, you know, those midfielders on the field and put some others in defense.

So I'm pretty happy with the changes.

For someone like Tom Sparrow, it actually makes it just a complete change to his relevance.

Yeah.

Because he's really on the border in terms of his output and getting fielded in a midfield position.

But then a couple of that though with, um, Clay and Oliver potentially being out Christian Salem just doing a hamstring like the timing is perfect for those owners as well.

Sparrow is still in put and out on the weekend, like he's got to improve.

In terms of forward status, um, a couple of really handy ones Ben Hobbs, I think is really interesting, uh, Sammy Draper.

Yeah.

Not that he's output's been good, but if he can get into that number one, Rukra, or Goldstein gets injured or they just finally realize that Goldstein is not part of their future, like that could be anything.

For keeper coaches, Ethan Reed, and game forward status, um, for keeper coaches, who am I talking to?

Tom Sparrow, Jai Simkin, another one whose output's been well down, but maybe that flexibility will help people out just a mac and any another interesting one.

And the high keeper draft pick of Riley Sanders, getting forward status.

Yeah.

So some pretty handy ones there for coaches as well.

So check out the full list.

I think they're on AFL.com.au.

Yeah.

I'm if you need to check those ones out.

But yeah, it can change kind of the landscape.

And it's something like again, going back to Shiva, I wish I kind of put more time into picking up players off the wave war early and stuff like that.

Because, um, yeah, but by the time I get there, they're all going anyway.

So I'm too slow.

Matthew Kennedy, the other one I didn't mention, who actually will be really handy as well.

I will talk about him later on in the show anyway.

A bit of a foresight there.

All right.

Each week, we spin a wheel to give away a game day squad pack.

Um, I'm just going to do it straight off the bat this week.

But yeah, there's an entry form in the description of this podcast.

Um, I spent a wheel.

I read out your team name that could read out the team name that wins.

The coach of that team needs to get in contact with me and I will send them the code.

So let's get stuck into it and see who wins this week.

I can attest that there is a wheel spinning.

I'm not just picking up my mates name to swear.

Although I've had one win or so.

Do I have to read out this one?

Yeah, definitely.

Congratulations to the limp dickies.

Uh, I swear that's not a real win in competition might do something for that.

Yeah, maybe.

Yeah, it might make it a bit, uh, no, we might go there.

Um, but yeah, well done.

What did I try to say?

The polishing the trophy, something about this week on their Patreon.

So, yeah, my monitor polished the trophy and you won't be one of the limp dickies anymore.

But anyway, yeah, you won yourself a game day squad pack.

So get in contact with me, confirm your name and your email.

And, uh, yeah, we'll, uh, dish the pack out to you.

Um, well, while we're talking about other platforms here,

I will do a super coach update this fascinating because I mean,

I've watched your TikTok update and all of a sudden you were in the first half dozen

of super good coaches in the country.

Yeah, I think I was 27th for something last week.

And the first ever time playing the game?

First ever time playing it, yeah, so pretty much just copying everything that Selby tells me to do,

uh, on his, on his, uh, his podcast and also me sliding into his DMs every Monday morning.

But, um, yeah, what's 27th overall?

Didn't have a gray wig.

I think it's called 1877 puts me down to about 160th overall.

Still good.

I mean, what went wrong?

I, all right.

So I was playing Luke Jackson and Max Gorn in my Ruck line.

Yeah.

And then, Sean Darcy's coming back.

Jackson's got to go back to my forward line because I reckon it'd be a top six for,

but he's nowhere near a top two, Ruck, you know what I mean?

Well, they've kind of worked out that one in the weekend.

I'll be a smart man.

I'll bring in Ron Marshall, um, put him in the, in the, in the Ruck department.

So this week, I've got him replacing Gorn.

So it doesn't matter.

I've got a Gorn doughnut.

I've got an extra number there that many people won't have.

And next week, I'll put Jackson back in the forward line.

Ron Marshall didn't even make my best 18.

Yeah.

It's like, it's like I've just blew a trade like it's long term it's going to be fine.

I 100% expect him to bounce back.

But when you really up the top tier, a lot of you've got to have those debut taunts.

Exactly.

It's like, yeah, it's like I didn't even make a trade and everyone else around me did.

That's effectively what happened.

So, and it was a bit of a different trade as well.

I'm not a lot of people renaw ocean.

That sort of stuff as well.

Especially, especially given a lot of that top tier would have already had Ron Marshall.

You bringing in a different play.

Yeah.

I'm not sure if they did to be honest.

Like, I think I was getting probably some of them did.

There's a lot looking through the things didn't.

But they were like, somewhat either the rolling grandi and Cheri and a Gorn and that sort of stuff as well.

Yeah.

But like, yeah, try to get ahead on the game and it be at backfire, it is, really.

Well, yeah, you're right, guys, sorted now.

You're going to look towards the future, right?

Yeah, that's it.

So, Mike, go, go, right, yeah, Mike, go right in the future.

But anyway, do they have some kind of hat system like the fantasy boys do?

Well, I think last week, last year, they had like, track suits.

Like, KFC tracksuits.

And because Jody won one because he finished the eleventh last year.

And I think the top 10 won cash.

Oh.

But I don't know if they have the KFC affiliation.

So, I think it's just a top 20 cash prize.

Now, I think it's like at least a thousand bucks for the top 20 or something like that.

So, Jody was eleventh last year.

You got a track suit.

Now, they're paying out to 20 and...

Yeah.

Oh, you got a heap of stuff as well.

Like, you got KFC, you know, the feeds and stuff like that.

And I think it was quite a, and he's sharing food.

You know, that sort of stuff.

Like that.

There was lots of stuff that he got.

It wasn't too hard done by him.

But, like, top 10 would have been good for him.

But anyway, I think I'm a way off now, but we'll see how that goes.

It's a silly day.

It's still a long season to go.

Mate.

We'll come in for much further out to win competition.

Correct.

All right.

Let's get stuck into the round review.

We'll start with the St. Kilda versus Western Bulldogs game on the Thursday night.

Just straight off the bat.

I think we've got to make Markswin Hager too good for the podcast.

Another hundred plus score.

This is an offender this year, owning every league.

Surely.

If he's playing the right role, yes, he's totally 2G for P.

But I don't think he has that role every week.

He seems to like some weeks he's down some weeks he's up, but he...

What is capable of is absolutely too good for the podcast.

Yeah, he's not going to...

He's not at that point where is his soup star type thing.

But it's just like he's just honoured everywhere.

Like everyone's aware of him, that kind of thing.

I think they're saying to a tricky fantasy team anyway.

Yeah, absolutely.

Some of their key players on score and wall this year, but he was the only player to go over a hundred this week.

Yeah, that's fair point.

Because they were pretty bloody awful.

So I guess that's a good sign there for Win Hager as well.

But I'm going to make a tour of the podcast.

He's just too well known at the moment.

Hugo Garcia is the other one.

So he's a very popular in the classic format just because he's so cheap at the moment.

He has 71 points and had quite a few CBAs as well.

What'd you take out of his game?

I really like his presence on the field.

Obviously, like he is in an under, which is great, but...

Yeah.

For a keeper pick that would have been late.

Yeah, definitely.

In terms of the new players, I think he's really shown some promise.

Like the fact that he...

I don't think he's at any risk of losing a spot in the squad.

He's like he said that in an under type.

His tackle numbers are a big feature in this game.

And I think he got seven or so in this game as well.

Nine was it?

Yeah.

So if you keep doing that, you're going to put up pretty reasonable scores.

Yeah.

It is a bit concerning that there's not a lot of avenue for scoring, but you can always chase bikes down and tackle.

I don't know.

I look at their squad and I think in terms of their bottom five players, I wouldn't put Garcy here in there for the last couple of weeks.

Did he affect still a little bit?

Maybe taking away some of those tackle numbers.

He was getting there first or something.

Yeah, potentially still five tackles for the game.

I don't know.

The mix of the Saints is all over the shop.

It was a shocking game as well.

I'm not lelst to talk about the Saints as he said, only one guy turned up.

But on the board oxide of things, barely do.

What a response.

So this is the guy that was subbed last week.

Yeah, response.

He was a starting sub.

Starting sub, sorry.

Yeah.

And came out with 160 points.

15 marks, I should say.

And wasn't like 29 kicks or something, like ridiculous.

39 disposal's 15 marks.

Well, wait.

But he's probably, does he get vested next week?

I mean, who knows?

Like the, the, the, the, the, the Bulldogs numbers as opposed to the Saints were incredible.

Yeah.

You know, they had five six players over 120.

Yeah.

I've heard of.

And it goes to their half back line.

So let's have a thing about this.

Like Jason Johanison was like 120, 20, 20 something.

Taylor DeRay was like 23 points.

Yeah.

Like he bribed 79 points off that half back.

Yeah.

You know, Ed Richard went worse because he went into the midfield.

You know what I mean?

27 points.

Exactly.

So that Bulldogs half back line, I guess, is it fact or fiction?

Like, can we rely on that?

Absolutely fiction.

Yeah, yeah, because like the playing of the Saints.

Yeah.

But there's just so many scores like, I think even last week, there was like every single one

of them went 80 plus type thing.

So, and that's when they got belted by the dawn.

So I really don't know what to make of it, but I feel like, you know, if you got players like

Taylor DeRay on the waivers, like you can, I think he went 79 last week, 93 points this

week.

Yeah.

I know Defenders aren't the most sought out players, but can be handy if you need one.

Oh, man, I love a player like Ed Richard too.

Yeah.

Would be too good for the pod reasonably, but like he, it's not been that good this season.

Yeah.

Like, there's just no consistency in any of the Bulldogs, you know, I'd say the same

for the Saints, but Bulldogs are absolutely that team as well.

Yeah.

I mean, look at someone like Jack McCray and the way that he's played him the year he's

had a few in Shoev.

Yeah.

You know, missed, missed 75 and then a sub 28.

Yep.

Then 78 and all of a sudden, 129.

You know, libers out.

And he's got some opportunity there.

We saw the old Jack McCray, you know, just that ball hungry magnet.

Yeah, 100%.

But, you know, if libers back, he's back out to a wing and see like it.

Okay.

So, what's the point here in my show, is are we trusting Jack McCray?

No, you couldn't.

No, absolutely not.

Yeah, especially with libers out is the big factor there.

So, yeah, like coaches like me, people that own him, like were rewarded last week, finally,

but yeah, it's just, it's too unpredictable at the Bulldogs at the moment.

Man, if you had someone interested and thought he was back, I'd trade him.

Yeah, I'd get him out of my squad.

100%.

I don't think you could convince anyone that that's an ongoing plan.

Yeah.

No one in our league would fall for that.

And I think that's half the stuff I got to remember, like with this podcast in general,

is like, I'm always speaking, I like all the coaches out there are experts as well.

Yeah.

And so, a lot of time, like you might be playing with people that don't follow it that closely

or, you know, aren't on top of things as much as well.

So, it's probably worth making some of those offers.

That's all.

You just don't know, but yeah, if you ever came to me for a trade discussion, I'll just,

you know, reflect what you said on the podcast.

Are you sure you think that about that?

For Kramer?

Yeah, exactly.

That's the thing.

Anyways, moving on to the Adelaide Cros versus S-Nune game.

I didn't see...

I like...

We had this on, but I wasn't really watching it, I had a record night on Friday night with

a mate and had a heap of beers.

So, this game is a bit slow for me.

It's super big and the swim music.

Yeah, it was actually in the backyard, front and front of a fire.

We had it on the laptop, but, yeah, that was a good night.

It was just a bit...

It was just a big song each?

Now, we put it...

We got a record.

So, you got to pick up, listen to the whole album and...

Yeah, and it takes me...

I don't know, I'm not sure, but it's not.

It's good night.

It's good holidays for you.

Jake Zaliga is the first player I want to talk about.

98 points.

Is he too good for the podcast now?

I hope so.

I mean, of anyone that Adelaide would be clinging their hopes to, Jake Zaliga should be playing

peak midfield time because they don't have good ball users in there.

So, putting someone that is willing to put their head over the ball to do the hard stuff,

he should stay in there all year and hopefully this output will hold.

Yeah, definitely.

But over the last few weeks though, Zaliga has sort of a huge uptick.

I think since the Melbourne game, it was.

I've seen Lear drop off the face of the plant and playing lower time on ground and that

sort of stuff too.

I think public sentiment also leans towards Jake Zaliga.

Anyone that's putting in the commentary into the crisis saying, "Get Lear out of there."

Matt Crouch should necessarily be in there, not that they can really play anywhere else.

But yeah, Jake Zaliga is the future.

Why wouldn't you be giving him...

Because he's playing better than most.

Exactly.

That's his position as well.

Yeah, I was just nice to see a player that in his initial year, we were all saying like,

we want to see this guy as a midfield, as I see it.

Like, taking the CBAs, all that sort of stuff.

And we finally seeing it now.

So, it's good to get that kind of gratification there too.

Well, it's three weeks, 102, 73, 98.

Yeah, it's awesome at the moment.

All right, Jasper Shelley had 82 points and scored a goal.

I turned on the radio.

On the radio, I got a message saying, put on 5 AA.

And this is to make sure that he's got to score up in his boys.

Because I haven't really taken much of the game.

But Jasper Shelley was just absolutely copying it in the media on Saturday about showboating

or thinking about the game.

What actually happened there?

So, a lot of the criticism for Rochelle has come with a couple of moments in the fourth quarter

where he just heard footsteps and like, booked from a guy and then he had an opportunity

to take a pretty easy mark late in the fourth.

Would have put him 15 meters out on a 45 degree angle.

And he's just squibbed and dropped them out.

And so, if you're willing to play it up and be the guy, but all of a sudden these moments

are coming and you're not the guy, well, then you're going to be put in a spotlight.

And I mean, even crow's fans were out for blood.

Yeah, yeah, the radio was telling me that on the weekend.

But anyway, that's a short.

He scored 82 points.

On the back of this, do you reckon we see a response next week from him?

It's really difficult to know.

That one is really, really tricky.

The crow's, who are they playing this way?

Good question.

I don't think it's a favourable...

Another playing North Melbourne, I think, down in Tazie.

I think Tazie.

Yes.

I mean, it's a great opportunity for him to bounce back.

I'd be, you know, if he was available, I'd doubt he would be, but like, you know, or if I

only might be making sure he's on the field this week, I reckon he could do something...

I think I would have never won on the field.

I'm just trying to...

Look, Nan Curvis, I just want to kind of touch on him.

71 points.

Pick them up, I think the very last pick about draft.

Yeah.

He's looking like a fantasy type.

And I don't think like the days of like Brody Smith being inside, like, too far.

Yeah, I think they might be over pretty soon.

So like, some of like him, especially with like Mjola injured, could be like the next one,

you know, half back flank.

So all these things on the wing a bit more of the ground as well, but they're still crying

out for outside types that they need anyway.

So they need a whole bunch of things.

Yeah.

And look, Nan Curvis certainly looks the part.

Yeah, definitely.

Yeah.

So he's one I've got at the moment and worth probably a wave of pick up if he's available.

Shame to see a boy, Mark Keane, just try it off in the last couple of weeks.

He was looking really good as a wave of pick up.

Yeah.

No, he's, he's salad.

Yeah.

Brody was actually the one who was like, he's a key to fed it, don't touch him.

I was getting seduced by people.

You know, like people telling me you've got to start thinking about it and start...

You can get around and play that Mark Keane game, but...

No, no, it's right.

Back to back 40s, I think, or since we've talked him up.

On to the essence side of things.

Now, do I call it well?

I've owned this guy since his first season.

Like, what is it?

Five or six years right now.

He's been on my side.

Yeah.

Are we finally seeing a breakout?

Man, I've gone early on this guy a couple of times as well.

So to see him play well is nice for him, but it's a little bit painful.

I just, like, let's go through his score because one thing that really...

Impressors me about his fantasy scoring.

Yeah.

It's gone up every way.

Yeah.

61, 64, 86, 103, 108, 117.

Yeah.

That's beautiful.

What's he going next week?

That's just tracking nicely.

120 is going up for joy.

Yeah, definitely.

My thing, like, are we just getting too far ahead of ourselves with Perkins instead of

field out of the side?

Like, when those guys come back in, do we see a change?

Because, like, Sam Durham is another player down the list here as well.

92 points.

Yeah.

He's really...

Well, the thing is that in 80 and 92, like, he's lifted his

scoring from that kind of 60s guy that usually is.

Like, I know he's last year, he was a winger and now he's playing inside, but it feels

like there's less of a spread in that midfield now.

They're relying on a, you know, four blocs instead of, you know, six type thing.

So what do you think happens, like, Perkins is apparently available this week, I think,

or pushing has to pass a fitness test, but will likely be available?

I know he rotates forward.

I think set of fields still a week or two away.

What's your gut feel when those guys come back?

Can he maintain this scoring?

He's often fascinated me because you looked at their result in round one when Perkins, I

think, got 120 or something like that in a career game.

Yeah, had a career game and they were like, you have to play Archie in the middle.

Yeah.

And then they didn't.

Yeah, they didn't.

And now he's obviously injured.

And so you look at the output of the called wells and the Durham types and you're like,

you got to play them in the middle.

You're winning it, like, you're seeing a net result.

Yeah.

But, you know, history would say that Essinan will go back to what they know.

I don't know.

Like, Jai is obviously tracking very well.

Is it a temporary thing?

I don't know, but I'd be riding the way of like, we've been waiting long enough for him.

Yeah.

I think so.

I don't know.

Like, as a forward, like he's a no-brainer, like you've got to have him.

Yeah.

And he should be good for like a round and 80 most weeks and that does kind of make him

a bit of a breakout contender as a forward.

But yeah, long term is a midfielder, which is what you're going to get after this year.

That's where like the kind of jury's still out, I think.

So for now, too good for the podcast because he's a forward.

We'll reassess next year and see where he's at.

I think Ben Hobbs is a really interesting one for me because this was the right, the first

proper good score that we've seen from him this year.

And it wasn't on the back of Bulk midfielder time either, was it?

No.

It was only two or three CBAs, wasn't it?

It's just on the back of great forward pressure game.

Good.

Like, you know, he had a couple of great rundown tackles, should have been rewarded one or

two more times throughout the game.

Yeah.

But we just found himself in good positions and it was just his want for the contest.

Yeah, definitely.

He now has that forward status.

I hope he can keep it up.

He's one that, you know, I drafted in sheath.

I hope in that this would happen.

Yeah.

But yeah, he certainly hasn't had the output to this point, but it was really good to see

him play a great game on Friday night.

Yeah, absolutely.

All right.

Let's move on to the next game, which was Conwood vs. Put up.

That's two Portman in the room.

Mate.

Talk me through this because you would have been nursing a hangover for this as well.

Yeah, it was a pretty gross day.

Come out of the blocks.

You know?

Absolutely smashing.

Mate, this is what I saw.

I couldn't have been less limp dickies at quarter time.

And then I see Conwood and it's a classic flamer cray.

Let's switch to a different style of play.

Yeah.

Like it's not working for us.

Let's change our game plan to cut off Port Adelaide's run.

We'll go more contested.

We'll hit the contest harder instead of being as open as free or whatever.

And it was just a classic case of what I've seen a million time with Port Adelaide having

absolutely no plan B.

Yeah, they just cannot change tack.

Now, we've got nothing.

It's so frustrating.

And then you get can-hinkly in the media and the press conference blaming the players for

not bringing the pressure.

But they're doing what they do week in week out and what they're told to do.

And they just, when it comes to a point where we just can't actually move the 40 or can't

do anything because we're so stagnant or whatever.

I just don't get it.

The hard thing was, the pressure did overrun us, but our pressure rating was still really

good even when we were getting grounds.

100%.

But you're right.

Yeah, we couldn't go, we couldn't zig when they zagged, unfortunately.

And what really gets me with these games is we make one of their role players look like

an absolute friggin genius.

We're Hoskin Elliott this week.

We're Hoskin Elliott.

Every fucking week, someone just had always one random player that you think's finished

or done or you've never heard of before in your life, just we make them look like insane.

When did you ever see we're Hoskin Elliott take pack marks?

Like any like he took two great hangers.

Yeah, kick some great goals.

He was absolutely unbelievable.

I had him on field in the shaver as well.

Like my M7.

I think we got some now.

Yeah, I got the win on the weekend as well.

It's not pulled me out of a relegation zone.

But yeah, like I don't know.

Like it's very, very frustrating, but I'm tipping the cap to who Hoskin Elliott.

I wouldn't actually got the Fender status, didn't he?

Yeah, as well.

So I don't know.

He plays on the wing.

He won't do this again.

No chance.

He won't.

Yeah, like this classic port I'd like.

All right, Jayce Bergoin scored 90 points.

Caught some shit on TikTok because like we mentioned that he scored 47 from 43% time on

ground at the SNN game.

I think he came on as a sub.

And we said, oh, I've bough injured, which he was.

This is a good sign because Jayce Bergoin is probably going to just fill that wing roll.

Should score, okay.

And then people said, well, you know, he's a, when he comes off the bench, he's a fitness

person in the ground.

What do you expect, Rarara?

71 last week, which I was happy with, but people were still criticizing because it wasn't

a good score.

I was happy with 90 now.

Or what?

It's got to be.

Hey, mate, if you want to put it to your fans, go for it.

No, it's not, I don't think it's fans.

I think a lot of people will dress some TikTok edits a bit later, but I think people come

across the pod, the, the shorts and stuff, not realizing we're a fancy podcast as well.

Not really.

You think you're just, yeah, they think we're a football podcast.

I swear, like, and I don't know anything about real football, then, if fantasy,

better than you.

Yeah, I mean, you've got to keep it in the salt of me, not Rarara.

Yeah.

But anyway, we flagged it, so soon as Bokeh got injured, is it sustainable?

Yeah, it's a big deal.

He'll probably score 40 next week.

Well, yeah, he'll probably score 40 next week.

Like, if he's there somewhere in your leg, but looking at the numbers, I know he does appear on the waiver list.

He is under 40 percent, so, yeah, he just might be wanting to think about now that he's back in the side.

What about the Port Rocks?

Yeah, that's the other thing.

Like, a lot of people talking up, sweet on the weekend, but I saw two Rockmen just get pretty beat.

Well, I saw a sweet get beaten pretty convincingly, and I saw Soldier just not be able to get his game going, spending so much time forward.

I don't think that will last, because I mean Colin would Rocks aren't going to be the best.

I mean, Colin would Rocks aren't well beaters, even though Mason Cox again, you know, bobbed up and looked good.

Yeah.

Sweet struggled in that rock contest.

Yeah, exactly.

And, you know, we've been actually doing so well with Soldiers just rucking it down to our mids.

Yeah.

That mixing that up did not seem to work at all.

Yeah.

Sweet obviously got subbed out late.

Yeah.

It completely destroyed Soldiers' fantasy output.

Yeah, yeah.

And I think, I know, like, the Dixon, the Dixon thing being out as well as probably the main catalyst for it just puts Soldiers forward to kind of be his game.

What was bloody annoying about it is just like, we have Georgiades and Marshall who are probably better lead up players.

Yeah.

And we still just play the bulk inside 50 bomb on head game playing like it's this is the stuff that infuriates me.

Let's not talk about put out late anymore.

Let's talk about Colton versus.

I want to see your whole count, mate.

Oh, God.

If it hasn't happened over the last three years, we're probably sorry, probably the last seven years, we've been canyling the helmets.

Never going to happen.

But anyway, um, I just put out a tweet before.

You see, we've got the easiest run out of any team out of the next five games.

Do we?

Yeah, we took like a like North Melbourne Hawthorne all the way up.

Well, four or two, I'll be happy to do that.

Yeah.

So, um, but like I said, like if this was last year, we'd be giving Ken Hinkley a 15-year contact extension on the back of this run that's coming up.

Right.

Because we've won that 12 and a row, 13 and a row, whatever it was, but look at how many actually good teams we've been.

We just don't, we don't play well against top eights.

But there's ten other sides that aren't the top eights.

Thank you very much.

Very much. Let's talk about this guy. Matthew Kennedy is probably the biggest talking point out of this game.

And a huge part of the weekend given he got four status when the DPP lists come out.

So scored a hundred points.

I think he started in the midfield, had a fair chunk of Sanabance tenences.

Then switched to the half-back line again when Williams got injured.

And this happened last week when side got injured as well.

My big question is like, what is his role?

What's his midfield?

Obviously they want to get him into the midfield, but Cheris also out of the moment as well.

So like, so many people are getting excited, like forward, back-to-back, good scores.

But like, they put him in the backline last week and then they brought in Lockheed Cowell.

And this week to kind of replace him in the backline, moved him into the midfield again.

And then, you know, Williams gets injured, they chuck him backline.

Cheris is going to come back.

Do we just see him forward after this week?

What are your thoughts?

Well, Cheris is only short term injury.

Like he was listed on the injury list as a one to two week.

Yeah, like he should be back.

He might be back this week.

So I think it's a real need to monitor because if you look at historically, you know, these

Carlton bit player mids, I'd like to call them like, you know, like he Kennedys, like your

George Hewitts, you know, they do go on runs, but then they'll just dip out and get your

70s and 80s again.

But if he's a forward now, 70 and 80, that's still tasty.

Yeah, I know.

That forward status gives him life.

And the other thing, like when he was actually playing as a forward, like what do you have scores

of 47, 58, 73, 63, right?

Pops up on a half back flank as a gap filler last week.

And scores are 91.

And like starting the midfield as well, sorry, midfield and then the gap filler.

And this is with Cheris.

I'll come inside and with Cheris out.

We haven't done that as well.

That's the thing.

Yeah, and starts.

So there's three out.

So I guess the thing is the coin toss is does he start on that half backline permanently next week,

given if Cheris comes back in that pushes him back there?

Or do they bring in like a chin coder to play that role and push him back forward?

And that could absolutely kill his scoring.

I mean, your guess is as good as anything.

People just love about this.

People like, oh, I made this call and I got it correct.

And I'm like, well, good on you.

Like, we don't have a crystal bowl.

You're just guessing as well.

Yeah.

Good on you for guessing.

I think where people really need to think they're like stars is that, you know,

the dual position is down to 35%.

Yeah.

And if he, if this came one week later,

I reckon that percentage will be out the window because he's playing the different portion of the game.

Yeah.

100% so I think take your forward status to the bank.

Yeah.

Enjoy playing on field because, you know, if he's kicking out your F4 or F5 or F6,

then really, for you, I just think with a full strength card and he's back to kind of putting up those 50s and 60s and 70s type thing.

But it's easy to take that on when it's not in midfield.

That's 100% correct.

And then the other one probably was a tip of the cap to Jack Buckley.

Actually, no, Brody Kemp, seven points.

Brody Kemp has become a very handy.

Yeah.

I just wanted to point this one out like every second week he goes around the 80 mark.

Yeah.

So like try to, try to get on the right wigs because like he does play that kind of other tall can lock down.

But it's his contested marking.

I said the timing time again that sets him apart.

You can actually take a grab back there as well.

It seems to play better away than at home.

Yeah.

Okay.

It reminds me of a reverse Lee Spur back in the day.

Yeah.

I know that's an old reference.

He would always play like 80 to 90 at home, do shit away.

Yeah.

Definitely.

Maybe the reverse Brody Kemp.

Maybe.

And then tip of the cap, yeah, to Jack Buckley for the Gido's Giants.

They weren't a lot to talk about from the Giants.

But 93 points.

He was all over Kuno early and I wish he did a better job because I lost my matchup basically.

I lost my matchup by 50 points and it came down to a coin flip basically between

fielding, fearini or Xavier Dersmer.

And I went with Dersmer.

Of course, Dersmer's run has been amazing but yeah, and in have it this far.

There was a 50 point difference between the two on the weekend and I lost by 47 points.

So yeah, it's just, and I was, I was top of a lot of playing number two on the line.

Yeah, it can't hold just a lot because you could have, yeah.

Yeah, it's the worst.

But anyway, what could have been if I just selected differently?

Just to go back on that, Xavier Dersmer, 53 though, like comparatively, what he's been doing.

Yeah, yeah.

No, terrible.

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Anyways, let's move on to the Brisbane Lions versus the Jolong Cats, Jared Berry, where

the hell has this guy come from?

So he's, he's been playing in the winger half-back flank.

I didn't see this game again because I was cheering on my boy, Andrew Brasiel, who had the

sea on, who popped out a nice 92 for me.

But I also had to give some time to the family, I'm set it in nice.

So it's a mystery to me.

Yeah.

Obviously it was done in the slop, like it was, it was, it was raining hard for the majority

of that game.

I want to point out, so Jared Berry is one of those players that's been around, so he

had his first year in 2017.

And at that point, like early, showed great signs of keeper potential, particularly like

fantasy game was there.

Yeah.

So coaches were like, you know, at some point this guy was going to kick.

In 2019, so his third season, he averaged 79.6.

Yeah.

That has been his best average since.

Yeah, jeez.

So like he's like, mostly in the 70s, but from nine games in 2021, average 50.

Yeah.

And so you just thought, this guy's never, ever going to get into it.

Yeah.

But like the last four games, 87, 79, 121, 17.

Yeah.

This has got to be his best four game run in his career.

The thing is, like he has, he has had good stretches in the past, but it's when he was

getting bulk inside minutes.

Yeah.

And now he's getting none.

So I don't know, like it's, yeah, like it's just, it's probably role dependent.

I need to analyze it closely.

Like I maybe make a point of watching Brisbane this week to see what's happening, but when

I do that, he probably goes back to scoring 70s.

No, as soon as you put any stock in him, he'll wilt.

Yeah.

Can't put my finger on it, but Joe Berry is on a nice little round at the moment.

So, yeah.

Well, I mean, just looking at the game, lucky, lucky Neil was tagged down to 28 disposal.

So like, I mean, his fantasy apple was down to 75.

Yeah.

You know, Cam Rainer went missing for the game.

Jared Lyons was a sub like, obviously there's midfield minutes being given out.

And so you mentioned, like, just players missing, like Lincoln McCarthy had 86 points as

well.

That's probably a tip of the cap given that like, Zack Bailey's out, Charlie Cameron doesn't

really do anything in this game.

There's got to be like one person that kind of bobs up and does something.

So, speaking of a bobbop over the last two weeks, no answer worth.

100%.

Like, back to back in the mid 80s.

Yeah.

So we talked about this last week and he was like the one we tip to replace, Cadane

Coleman.

I mentioned that Zorco potentially could go back and play that role and he's a little bit

kind of has you.

Yeah.

But like, they were still kind of a canner who was probably on the other half back flank as

well.

That's come out of the side as well.

And so we didn't mention Noah Endsworth was like the natural guy next guy to go back

there.

But he didn't put up good scores for the first couple weeks.

And we thinking like maybe just found his feet like you needed a couple weeks to adjust

it.

AFL level.

And now he's actually starting to put up some good scores because he got the Fandestas

to as well, didn't he?

Yeah.

So he's a defender forward now.

Yeah.

Oh, that's right.

He was a four which made him in handy.

Yeah.

So I think what is particularly interesting about him is that generally that kind of rebounding

half back wouldn't have a good game in the slop.

Yeah.

Like it's not great conditions for him, but he still managed to put together 85.

And he actually scored one 16 as super coach as well.

So it was pretty effective in a tricky game for Brisbane.

Yeah, definitely.

So I don't know.

I think he's like, like we had a mid season draft and I think he was one of the first

picked in the mid season draft this week.

Very deep, he played.

We had a mid season draft and round six.

Now, so we do two ad drops per year.

It's like a half third of the way and then a half way through the same.

Okay, just a half way through the way.

Quarter of the way, half way through and then a step in.

And the number one draft, it.

Yeah, in the mid season.

It's a very deep lay.

Like 40.

Yeah, 10 teams, scored 40 I think.

But yeah, he was left over.

Before we actually got picked up at the start of the year, so he wasn't up there?

No, I think close.

He was actually one and then he was two.

Sorry.

Okay.

But yeah, I just up there.

Yeah, so.

Interesting in him.

Yeah, definitely.

He's worth picking up.

He's a bit of a little less for you.

All right.

The thing I want to kind of talk about is the Oscar McAnonie concussion.

And it's a one week play and it really just revolves around my team.

So sorry, listen out there from you.

This is half specific.

So I've got, I've got Danah in my side who saw a huge uptick instead of about its tendences

because he was the main rock.

And got a 70 in the wet, which he's usually going completely missing in the wet.

So that was good to see.

But my other kind of question is, do you think D

C4 could be a one week play listed as a Ford?

Like if he's on your wave wise?

Cause I remember those one game last year.

I know this very well because I had Oscar McAnonie as my number one rock last year coming

at the finals.

Yeah.

He did a one week knee injury and I had a donut in the in the in the in the final which

ended up losing.

And Ford came in as called an 80 that week whom I opponent had.

So the memory is solid.

Yep.

Exactly.

So I think is yeah, maybe D

C4 comes in as number one rock and puts up a you know an 80 odd this week and could help

a few Ford.

It's a great stream option because I so Brisbane play the Giants Thursday night.

Yep.

So Anzac Day night which means loopable option.

Yeah.

There's four looping games this week so like playing it bench is going to be really important.

Yeah.

Cure and Briggs season also because he's the opposing rock.

Yeah.

So maybe D

C4.

Yeah.

So maybe a fruitful game from him to.

Yeah.

So that's the other thing either the data is going to get a big bump this week.

I think or Dga C4.

It's going to be a streamer option as a forward depending on team selection.

I'm going to loop him on the Thursday and see how it goes.

The thing is like there's just so many good loopable like especially us for the play sad day

lockout.

It's like there's more games before sad day.

Yeah.

It actually feels like a non like a lockout kind of round which is kind of an ask for our league

because I'm very pro rolling lockout.

But anyway, um, Tana Brune for the list move onto some cast.

Tana Brune's I think we've just got to give him not a 2G for the pay because like he

just gets that opportunity in there like it's so clear that they he's the midfield of

the developing at the moment so like he's going to get all the opportunity in the world.

I love him.

I'm in terms of I've got him in one or two keeper leagues.

He was probably like by last kept player in one league.

Yeah.

And he was like that was the tipping point but yeah kept him and yeah I'm excited for him.

The other one is like in terms of two of the podcasts and I'm less certain on this one

is Jack Bowes.

So like, it's a really good game apparently.

Is it bows or bows?

I hear so many.

Affinetically it has to be both surely.

But anyway so he had 86 points.

The interesting thing is he basically lost all his CBAs with danger food back on the side

which is what we flagged so I'm just not sure whether it was like just a game at

pseudonym or they I don't know just like half the half back line just trudging it out there.

I don't really know but I think it's just positive just to see the score even though

danger food was back I think he's just playing with a bit of confidence at the moment.

It was a higher super coach writing player on the cats.

There you go.

So yeah.

I'm on there.

Then the other like there's a few like random ones that I wouldn't really back in more

of a tip of the cap like Marco corner had 81 points like he does this sometimes when he's

like playing that tag and roll like he gets follows people around and get enough like you

know tackles and things like that and given he's a defender it could be handy but I'm

not buying in not but the one I do like is Toby Conway just putting up a 77 points like

game is he the guy like oh man the some of these teams with the developing rocks I think

he is the guy but you still two years away but if you see someone like him put up 77 points

now it's just positive for the future I think it's probably one year away really.

Yeah the cats need to move on I mean I don't think Reese Stanley played on the weekend.

No the fact that he played his 200th game the week before almost you could have knocked

me over with a feather like yeah and it could be a sign as well so all right you've played

the 200 let's yeah you done really start things as well so it's a time.

No but I think Conway just positive signs for the owners out there that are kind of

counting on him to be their main rock option in the future.

I'm excited to talk about this next game.

Yeah West Coast versus a free mantle Jeepers got I watched the whole thing from start to finish

and it was brutal.

Free mantle players like I can't really pick out anyone that was really a standout.

No and Caleb I mean I know he's two Jeep for P. Yeah but Caleb's the wrong only got to his

hundred late with a bit of late junk like that's love yeah he started like a house on fire

but they all just dropped their heads when she started happening but yeah anyways Jake

waterman so last week we put out a tick tock saying like he's got 164 last week or something

like that yeah put out a real or a tick tock or whatever platform you're on saying like

great score typically cap though because he's not going to do this every week.

I did the so I'd write on that so on the Sheva Blast podcast I put it out there that hey

some players played him last week good for you this will I think I said this will never

happen again I'm pretty sure I said so that I've got a couple of messages on that this

week yeah who knew that they would come out and paste free mantle yeah exactly.

He looks a great forward but he's keep position in a shit team yeah exactly like I got

so many like this age well or like I anyone can have a podcast cast now it takes like this

and all that sort of shit it's like it's Jake waterman but also as well like it's my case

in point like it did age well because he scored 164 last week yeah and then he kicked five

goals this week and I only scored 94 points like that's a 50 point reduction like yeah yeah it's

even like last week score was not going to last forever as evidenced by this week yeah but

then also like do you see him kicking five goals five plus goals every week just again just

again it's teams like Richmond and a free mantle that doesn't show up you know what I mean

they are playing goal coach this week that's possible again it's really good he got the three

in a row like Sam Collins yes there's probably I don't know well you think like Ron would be a

good match up for him as well but yeah yeah well I mean free mantle the only thing that really

dined out on this year is their defense yeah exactly so I don't know I was eat one piece actually

but it's even so like they yeah they knocked him he smashed him so one week before this is a tip

of the cat yeah what's a two week before but well no two weeks now he's on the bubble for two good

for the podcast to 80 plus scores well that's good if it doesn't again you never have to talk about

Jake waterman again you know like the thing is I like I am probably I have probably been a bit

harsh in him because like even going back on last year I know he had all those health issues with

this stomach or something that was going on yeah still average 70 last year so that's still probably

like an f five range f four range this season and before the 148 he actually got 79 against the

swan's yeah which for a forward is good this season yeah out of sense so he hasn't dipped below 58

and I don't think I had a forward in she ever got above 58 yeah well my original call was mainly

pertaining to his 160 they got the week before yes don't expect that like that's what I'm saying but

he is probably fieldable as a as one of your last fours currently averaging 84 we just gonna

remember that west coast aren't gonna win and he's not gonna kick five goals every week no that's

it he's getting eleven over the last two weeks that yeah you're not gonna have a two weeks going

through history like very rarely has he had an 80 plus score without kicking a bag Jake waterman will

not do this again period come at me that's the clip for the week um Harley Reid uh 80 points like

I guess it kind of typifies the type of player he is absolutely dominated this game yeah I know

he scored 80 points like and that's pretty much what we've expected what we've been saying all along

but boy doesn't it doesn't make him any less fun to watch you know so you mentioned any gold

members before the van dykes yes so I'm not sure if it is this van dyke but a gentleman called

Todd van dyke um in one of my keeper leagues I'm a team that has done very well in this league over

the years my team's on the on the down he's on the up he had number one pick of the draft took

Harley Reid um and it was trying to get Zach Merritt off me for him yeah with with some extras on his

side yeah and I just said at the time at the side of the old side no I don't think he's gonna be the

fantasy apple player I think he's more of a super coach player he got onto me last time so how good

was that Harley and again you're right like he is phenomenal to watch and will be an outstanding

player but is he the fantasy guy yeah on the flip side though um he was my higher scoring player

in super coach this week a sixth gamer out of the my star started team it was ranked 27th in the world

Harley Reid was my top scorer the 147 what's crazy about this is like and Jane Papowski put out a

tweet is like and it's still I don't have no idea how super coach scoring works because like the stupid

game the average the average the average it was something like the average score for this stat line

was 120 or something points whatever like because he didn't have a heap of it and somehow we just

they tacked on like an extra like 27 points or something like that so it's like we got Jane

Papowski math with super nerd trying to work out half the super coach scoring works and even he can't

not fail him it's just scaling on the win and in the game that's what boils my mind that at least

fantasy even though it's meaningless stats yeah it's trackable yeah it works there's no question about

it whereas I I can't deal with a competition where it's just like has some extra point this I'm not

gonna knock one of the other because I'm actually really enjoying both this season like I'm really

well and I'm really enjoying super coach but I'll say it again it's like it goes on gut feel you know

like oh he was good that game or he's gonna be good this week but it's and it's great for like people

that don't want to sit there and like track every stat and every you know mark and every kit it's

just for those people that like you know following the footy talking about it discussing it and kind

of picking a few players out here and there the one thing I'll give it is that I like a competition

where even your key defenders can do very well yeah unless you're playing a keeper league with

spoils and yeah things turned on that they won't have that impact here yeah exactly that I do like

there's like so many players yeah that like you know some like Sam Darcy this year like I've really

enjoyed following him and it's given me a different perspective on watching a play like him yeah you

know put up good super coach scores and things like that um Sydney versus goal cast on go coast onto

the Sunday here now Justin McIntyne again I didn't see this game either but he had 103 points he did

have a 30 30 percent rise in stand about to tenets as this week but on fan footy it said he was playing

half back so I'm not really sure what the go because he's usually out in the wing but he did get

four status always playing the half foot flank earlier in the season um I think purely like he's

I averaging 80 now as well so it's actually a pretty good forward option if he's out in the

available off check to check the year sheever wave a pull he's not there better but yeah so I

did I just one day kind of keep a keep an eye on I don't know like if you look at his CBAs like

you go 31 weeks six percent like 30 percent one week six percent the next week 26 percent the week after

that Sydney just rotate randomly through it Luke Parker looms and he's yeah back this week apparently

so yeah that's the other one too and then you got Calamills like I mean Calamills is still a couple

of months off so and I mean his season could get written off in an in-state true but Luke Parker's

the big one yeah even though like I tend to feel like he plays a bit more half forward

Luke Parker when he comes back yeah I just get that instinct that like okay Taylor Adams is out there

that the you know the young guys in in terms of you know yeah um I know Eros playing wing as well

but your Chad Warners your row bottoms are having quite a good effect in the middle yeah why mix that

up I don't know yeah well you mentioned Taylor Adams so 83 points still low time on ground I think

it was 67 percent yep um dead of 11 CBAs though so I think you don't think you had one in the in

the previous game scored around the same you know 79 I think points it was I think this is what he

goes that though but it's still very very handy like it I reckon it'd be an 80 average forward or 78

kind of average forward few teams and I think you'd be happy with that I've been pretty impressed with

this points per minute yeah um but I you know if if I was Sydney like the one thing Taylor Adams is not

getting any younger and his soft tissue injuries have happened you know repeatedly throughout his

career this is great management from them yeah yeah you're right so you know I would rather an 80

average Taylor Adams it's gonna play every game yeah then a guy that's gonna sit on my bench for

four five-week periods where he's not playing absolutely yep and yeah this maintains for the season

you'd be very happy as known of that's for sure um I'll brain-free or any do I have to talk about

this again and three points is scoring well I don't know how one of those down bar buttons too

I play the the dosi song every time I don't have I do have something in some way I always put the song

in the back of the tic-toc video what happens but I think I don't know I shouldn't mention this

podcast but dosi won't listen to this so it's fine don't tell it does but he says something about like

formats within furious scoring referring to a certain platform 30-day-old works for male man

not work for yes and so he's a bit worried about that one getting out but please don't mention it

to him I made our Twitter history more the soul yeah I had to present I mean I wanted to bring that

would take that one down off the off the YouTube anyway um yeah I fear any as of this week's now my

my m7 all right right yeah is that reliable I think so yeah I'd be happy to play with the the

for that last spot in a deep midfield yeah I mean not all the leagues are going to have seven midfielders

but in terms of the lack of depth of mids for a let's say a seven mid per team competition yep

absolutely for your range to be playing there well that's good to know because yeah I bet you

this week but anyway mate well but you look at how hard it is to how regularly fielderable midfields

like nah yeah absolutely all it means is avia does my now bragging to me you just want me to confirm

what you know no no all it means is now zavia does miles on my never again lists yeah fuck off

savior uh tom very tip of the captain 87 points don't really need to talk too much about that um

last game of the round which was north melton best of all started off with another tip of the cap

pull Curtis 86 points on the back of three goals great game but you're playing a Hawthorne who

you still got belted by but managed to you know kick three goals there when they're best kind of

locked down offenders playing in the forward line for some reason but anyway he is a tricky one to

track I really like watching Paul Curtis you know it's a nice thing very good footballer but you know

the hard thing with kangus is that they're often playing the meaningless Sunday games and he's had some

shit scores yeah exactly 18 a couple rounds ago yeah you can't loop him or you can't do anything

with him a lot of time so yeah so if you if you had to play him out in necessity and you've got that

school this week great don't feel them correct um the other one that does intrigue me a little bit is

Harry Morrison again mid only I'm pretty sure um had 104 points on the weekend comes back in the

side and goes straight to his wing puts up 100 plus score I know again playing against north melton

don't care but more like plays like massimo damn brosio I think is gone uh especially because he got

subbed out and this was my fear all year was Harry Morrison just reverting back yeah Harry Morrison

as you go on the way it's a whole thought of fascinating to me because massimo looked the goods for

a couple of rounds and like that experiment ended quickly yeah yeah definitely um but you know even

if you look further than Harry Morrison like the just the the inconsistency and output to anyone

in their squad yeah from game to game has been striking you know like it's they obviously like

developing their side so they'll give you know Mackenzie a big round of the midfield this week they'll

sub about last week to manage him or see that he's struggling and get him out type thing yeah and like

a game like this they wanted to get the scout they wanted the win for their fans that sort of stuff

so it makes sense to bring in like an experience campaign like Harry Morrison do I think this is

going to help massimo in any way shape form no like I think he probably will go back to the

twos and go for a have a bit of a run try get some confidence but I still think there's a world

later on the season where he comes back on the side like they'll give him another go to try to

develop him as well I think well I think one thing we realize is that Hawthorne get gonna get some

beltings this year absolutely and so that's gonna bring about changes regular changes throughout the

year so yeah people will be rotated through I don't I can't see Sam Mitchell sticking with the same

22 23 each week now that's true so yeah another one you know Harry Morrison's probably gonna play

for a while could be a good way to pick up for your m7 kind of range but yeah I wouldn't want to

rely on it though can I give a reverse shout out absolutely Henry Hustaway yes in preseason

he looked like just like a deep midfield option you know latent drafts take him and you know

he this guy might come on and score yet 80 to 100 just looked out about yeah he's obviously getting

sub affected but he's he's played the last four games played I'm using quotation marks 39 6 30

to 14 yeah Jason like see you later Henry like something's not happening there yeah I know it's a

role thing yeah it's not getting the role it was playing in preseason but give him time yeah still a young

player all right so and the rest of the game like there's just a heap of 80 plus performances I'm just

not really buying into any of them vs North Melbourne like Jack Gunston no uh Jack Screamshaw is

an interesting one like he does Bob up every second week but again North Melbourne for once

maybe a child yeah yeah 80 plus Jack Jenevin like his first 80 plus score of the season like yeah

I'm not but then on the reverse side of that you've got Warp with a 50 you've got you know

hard weeks down Sicily only got 66 Wettel 65 like yeah these other players it would expect to be on

the other side of the fence did not do well do you think Warp was in danger with Will Day returning so

I like I knew can play as the exact same role I'm pretty much only one of them pop start playing

each way yeah I don't know I think Warp is a better player than people give him credit for yeah I think

he does the inside stuff well he's best 22 it's just that midfield actually looks good when everyone's

like fit will semi good when everyone's fit yeah and Josh Walton's not even in the team at the moment

yeah well there you go so yeah anyways on to the next gold members read for the week before we

get into the questions thank you to Josh Kane Jack Walton Locklunch his home Sam Hay Jack sugars Jeremy

Bird Bradley Hawkins Drew Peacock Baudrick Boddington surely that's a that a real name that I

hope it is because it's Magnificent as a grub oh boy what a baud Michael Priest Scott De Chico I think

that's how you pronounce it apologies if not because I've actually met Scott three times now Scott

De Sico yeah De Sico maybe it's De Sico many met the Shoeva draft for the first time oh yeah then he

came to the live show and then saw him at the footy the other week so good Blake yeah you can teach me

how to say your name correctly on the weekend I'll see you here on Friday night sits in the same

bose me Daniel De Serny what are these Italian style names hard um Locklun Corbin Jamie

Bryant Bradley and Pete S not a simple Pete S just keep it simple for hell all right let's get

these questions done see if we can wrap this up around the hour mark Richard Eliadas wants to know

is Daikos still the number one keeper target or has he come back to reality and looks like a

hundred and 110 player furthermore is he a sell high or a buy low target what's your opinion from five

games this year averaging 97.6 obviously under on what owners were expecting this will uh do you

reckon he keeps defender status post this year I would have said no to start yeah but now I would

like I think it's up in the air now I think he does like their midfields doing well enough like without

him coming in there for every set of balance yeah um and like he's got a memory just 30 yeah yeah

like and the stuff we see him do like so far is just been freakish you know and look at every superstar

throughout history they often have down years you know yeah um so I'd 100% I'm still on board I guess

the question is like if you had to pick between Daikos and Sheezyl number one pick who you're taking

I'm a it would have to be Sheezyl at the moment I mean he used to think if Richard's question is

he's still the number one keeper target listen if he's not he's still top three yeah without

a question yeah you can't make a mistake like a ranch yeah so you know he's so young in this career

the scoring output is far from poor yeah yeah like maybe you would have expected more if you did

take him at pick one super because he was 133 and he was actually one of my points of difference

this week with the people that are in Stuart yeah yeah yeah so it was fine like he is at a low score

of 61 but other than round two against the Saints he hasn't gone under 95 yeah so no I'm yeah I'm

I'm still backing him over Sheezyl to be honest because like I don't see Sheezyl playing that

role forever no I think Sheezyl is busy racking up yeah having any impact on that kangaroo side yeah

exactly so now I'm taking Daikos just given what he used to that side and what we have seen him do in

the past um do you want you to send her yes okay now what do you think Ward Jake Warnerman can average

from here I think he's seen the tick tock comments and a bit of the feuds I've been getting into okay

so you take out the last two weeks they don't count yeah we're not from here on yeah yeah I think

can he get 80 I think 70 to 75 from 75 because there's just going to be too many games where the

ball just does not enter their Ford 50 great like where he's up but like you know on a good run but I'm

just sick of people trash me for saying essentially that I did do what on the back of the

game set it my way I don't know what I'll let you go and to bat me in the tick tock comments for me

anyway um at AFL draft tool I'm at Kenny's getting a great at midfield rock cahlen will it last but

you can't talk about this like Cheris got to come back in plus he keeps getting put on that

mr fix at half back roll yeah as well so I don't think I lost him honest when they're at full strength

all those defenders are in all the midfield like Cheris back in I still think he goes back to that

kind of half forward and without doing me yeah without dockety without so you know while those

players are out that's where he's going to go yeah um at didley docker um thoughts on a larger

holand's prospects for the future think you end up a really serviceable mid forward it picked up

forward status to swing yeah I'm less and so like I don't know I always say I'm like a winner like I put

gold coast yeah and stuff like that and not as much as a forward and I feel like he may end up

like in that kind of role eventually so I'm not like as part of that wing rotation anyway like acres

I think is only like 20s so he's still probably got a few years in him holand's junior numbers were

a really good one though I think so yeah well it was but it was in that weird covert year I think

where it was hard to actually get a get a gauge I think for status as handy I don't know he's

middle of the road for me right now like I don't seem like at the moment I'm not seeing more than I've

seen from like say a benaine's worth in that role or you know there's kind of half forward types um

I was like you know like a Brent Daniels even like that sort of stuff like yeah but are they thin

that's been unfair to Daniels Daniels Daniels output actually really good this year has been

but like but that's kind of like I see if everything goes his way him getting to you know what I mean

so like yeah fine like you keep legs knee droffles you need plate is like him but I just don't

think we're gonna see like a pre-mode out of him in the future and I think he'll miss games I think

he'll be on that like edge of 22 I think went through suspensions for post-curricular you know

extra curricular activities made to you'll put it out there few hamstring injuries

on that on the day off the win it's got some on the day off um yeah uh what's the next one

it's uh Svend 85 Svend 85 what's happening with Tom Atkins has him at the CBAs when they got some

us two weeks do you think he this is permanent um I see he says he only cares about his tackle numbers

in his competition so maybe a cat like yeah it must be um yeah he picked up defenders status obviously

been playing defense didn't get a single CBA on the weekend I injured field was back in that's

the thing so yeah now I reckon they've reverted back to defender Tommy Atkins was that player who

picks up like um DPP and then oh sorry picks up mid DPP he goes and plays in the midfield but you

still got him as a defender yeah and then when he's the mid only the following season he's useless

so he's kind of like the reverse is happening now and he's gonna hope that he can somehow work his

way into the midfield later on in the season few injuries or whatever but the thing is like with

Jolong flying I don't think they'll use him there as much like yeah I would have been more happy if

Jolong were down and out and they you know use some of their older players more sparingly the thing is

with the midfield that it's not old like they've got dangerous still in there but they're playing

Tana Burne they run jyke like through there yeah well as in previous years you would have said

that there'll be a little bit of management yeah and maybe they'll be resting but yeah that's

right that's not the part of the field where they've got a lot of plays to rest and they probably

will use Guthrie when he comes back as well like which might be it might be six months away but

like but I reckon that he does come back some of the stage during the season they might use him

in there as well Cam Guthrie on last week's injury list one to three weeks for his

game yeah yeah so he might come back as well interesting at some stage they might use him because that

was the preseason talk as well so might be a cheap classic pick up although you wouldn't want to

bet on that one but anyway um last one mat lead 1985 simkin do we need to stay strong and hold

or is it time to move on can't even field with forward status I mean it's a tricky one

because he was a garment couple years ago exactly and he's his fantasy scoring has just fallen off

an absolute clear scored 62 on the weekend yeah um you know 2020 2021 2022 average mid-90s yeah

last year average 60 75 he's got after five games this year averaging under 60 I'm still holding

because like his two best scores were in the past two weeks I think it was 62 and an 80 or something

like that so he's averaging kind of 71 you know in when he's been since he's been getting CBA numbers

yeah that's fieldable as a forward for me like if he can roll out a 70 average from now one which I

think is more than capable of from here you've got to be using that your forward line yeah okay like

he can't fielding with even four status I'm assuming that's on his average 60 average or whatever it is

listen you're not going to be excited seeing dry simbron today and come up no I find a bit of forward

on the waivers yeah exactly look you can't that's the thing so I still think it's worth holding just

because yeah like if he maintains his pace think what's happening with Wardlaw at the moment did he

plan the weekend if you did I didn't notice him I don't think so yeah yeah so um like you know

getting a few extra CBAs and things like that so I don't know right out for the time being I think

you can do worse stay strong with dry yeah and the four statuses is the gift like if he's

in bed only he'd be gone yeah without question like he's the thing that keeps him in your side I think

anyways I think that's a wrap but where can people listen to the the shiver blast and all that sort

of stuff it's on all your podcast platforms to search shiver blast of of course it's very niche

yeah podcast for the community it's because it's for the shiver community but if you want to dip

your toe into what shiver is all about or if you want to consider joining next year and

to have a listen to it yeah we would certainly welcome you welcome you and it does actually

broaden its horizons from time to time yeah hopefully is a good time for people to do listen in so

yeah shiver blast podcast otherwise you can search dt shiver.com.au or yet dt shiver on facebook

just said you know see what the community is all about if you're not involved get involved because

the community aspect of it is the best part of it like I genuinely think yeah it's it's one of the

best ways to play fantasy yeah like it's if you have wanted to and obviously a lot of listeners

for your podcast are going to be in keeper leagues and we all know that one of the hardest thing to do

is to put together a league with 10 people with 11 consistent people yeah we just take that out of the

mix and we say okay no we are going to put you with these people beat them and you win the amount

of times I get where can I find a draft league or you know where I find a key place but different

but that where I find a draft league or whatever or you know where I find a catch league I guess

where I can win some money type thing as well which you can do in the dt shiver as well so like

it just takes all that work out and I couldn't not recommend it to any of those people who can't

find 12 mates to start a league with the 10 mates to start a league with or whatever it just kind of

yeah it takes a little bit and the thing is like we've got a group chat for our league like I'm not

super active in it but I do chime in from time to time and you do get to know the people in it and

that sort of stuff plus like I went to the draft day because there's a we there's every year

that have a you have a draft around the country yeah that's it when I put events in different states

yeah British hotel and port at a like we guys up this year and there would have been 15 20

blocks there yeah sit around drafting it was good fun met few good people that have caught up

with a few times since as well so that is it's been awesome so yeah definitely highly recommend

those around the fence listen to the podcast now prepare for next year get a feel for what the

the things about and then go from there I'm gonna get bigger from here 100% all right get

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