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This week we feel we got the comparative volumes a lot better and so we haven’t edited the audio file (as that brings in other problems with hiss or voice distortion). Let us know if it is listenable.

We discuss the execrably poor week for our teams, the horror of the Swans/Port match and the ugliness of the Hawks/Saints game of catenacchio. For our team of the week, Puma Pants, we discuss Jared Brennan, Ricky Petterd, Michael Rischitelli, Adam Cooney, Matt Rosa, Daniel Kerr, Hamish MacIntosh, Dean Cox, Brett Ebert, Nathan Krakouer and Joel Selwood.

Moving on to discussion of Round 8, we cover Leigh Fisher’s marvellous score, plus Jed Adcock, Jonathan Griffin, Ben Hudson, Nathan Bock, Robert Campbell, Simon Taylor, Brett Burton and Luke Jericho. We use grimlock’s FFGenie program to try to identify players whose price has leveled out after a big change: Adam Goodes, Mark Johnson, Shaun Burgoyne, Peter Burgoyne, Matt Campbell, Daniel Kerr again plus Jesse W. Smith. Monty whinges about Xavier Clarke and Molly agrees with his new strategy of avoiding Saints players altogether! Following on from this week’s horrible scores, Monty lists a few more of the rules he’s going to impose on himself for next year, including changing his rookie strategy, and choosing players purely for fantasy reasons, no matter how cheap and useless they are as real AFL players. Molly brings up Campbell Brown as an example of someone who you wouldn’t pick up for fantasy despite his obvious quality. We also discuss the possible effects of any new anti-flooding rules for fantasy scoring.

After the Boys On The Bubble feature, we put Make Or Break on the backburner and introduce a new Crack The Ton segment, where we try to predict whether players who scored somewhere above 90 last week can break 100 this week, for the purposes of choosing a captain:
Jason Winderlich vs Richmond: Molly says yes, m0nty says yes.
Daniel Cross vs Sydney: Molly says no, m0nty says no.
Brad Johnson vs Sydney: Molly says no, m0nty says yes.
Jonathan Brown vs Collingwood: Molly says yes, m0nty says no.
Jobe Watson vs Richmond: Molly says no, m0nty says yes.
Shane Crawford vs West Coast: Molly says no, m0nty says yes.
Chris Judd vs Hawthorn: Molly says yes, m0nty says yes.
Andrew Carrazzo vs Adelaide: Molly says yes, m0nty says yes.
Leigh Fisher vs Fremantle: Molly says no, m0nty says no.

Don’t forget to send in your teams for analysis. If you can include your trade history, that really adds to the analysis (as I hope comes out in this show). Feedback is very much enjoyed (good or bad).

Molly & Monty