Episode 9 for Round 12 [79:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (99)

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After a week off during the split round we come back with our first guest on the show, RaCKingEmUp a.k.a. Nebula1971 a.k.a. Chris, whose Dream Team Racking Em Up @EDT is sitting pretty at 16th in the competition. After the required drooling, slobbering and sucking up to this DT god are completed, Molly and m0nty get down to critiquing his team… and surprisingly, we manage to find some issues! RaCKingEmUp’s analysis of his own team is required listening for anyone who wants to learn about fantasy footy.

After that we get on to reviewing both weeks of the split round: Luke Hodge, Jarryd Roughead, Scott Thompson, Adam Cooney, David Mundy, Josh Drummond, Jonathan Brown, Warren Tredrea, Domenic Cassisi, Jay Nash, Nathan G. Brown, Colin Sylvia, Brock McLean, Nathan Jones, Dale Thomas, Martin Clarke, Barry Hall, Matt Priddis, Matt Rosa and Darren Jolly are all discussed.

In the Boys In The Bubble segment, m0nty runs through Joel Macdonald, Ken McGregor, Edward Sansbury, Jay Nash, Ed Lower and Danny Stanley, and doesn’t end up liking any of them… so he picks Martin Clarke instead.

In the Crack The Ton segment all three of us give our predictions for:
Matthew Pavlich: we all say yes
Daniel Kerr: Molly and Rac say no, m0nty says yes
Travis Cloke: we all say no
Matthew Bate: we all say no
Jason Winderlich: m0nty says no, Molly and Rac say yes
Kayne Pettifer: we all say no
Adam Cooney: Molly and Rac say no, m0nty says yes
Leigh Montagna: Molly says no, Rac and m0nty say yes
Jimmy Bartel: Molly and m0nty say no, Rac says yes

Finally, we mention the Bialik/Scopus thread on BigFooty and discuss the parlous state of Victorian secondary school education, followed by some self-promotion including a big hint about an exciting new Internet project for live AFL match data that will be unveiled later in the week. Watch this space!

 

 #8: Round 11 episode [71:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (104)

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We rip straight into talk of round 10, including focus on Brent Stanton, Scott Lucas, Jordan Lewis, Peter Everitt, Barry Hall, Josh Drummond, Mitchell Clark, Daniel Cross, Jarrad Waite, Chad Cornes, Warren Tredrea, Luke Jericho, Ken McGregor, Steve Johnson, Leigh Montagna, Paul Hasleby, Aaron Sandilands, Matthew Bate, Jeff White and Heath Shaw.

Team of the Week is a bit more of a basket case than last week - The Bruce & Sandys is ranked outside the top 50,000. Then we go through a new feature on the FanFooty blog: the FanFooty Fifty.

In the Boys On The Bubble segment we discuss Mark Ricciuto, Raphael Clarke, Rhan Hooper, Chris Schmidt, Jordon Bannister, Tom Williams… and after some discussion m0nty chooses Robert Gray over Justin Westhoff as Bubble Boy of the Week despite Molly’s preference for the bigger player.

We take some time to discuss the difference between aiming for a league win or overall score. Finally, in the Crack the Ton segment we cover:
Dane Swan
Luke Hodge
James McDonald
Daniel Giansiracusa
Luke Ball
Jarrad Waite
Peter Everitt
Cameron Ling
Scott Thompson

 

 #7: Round 10 episode [64:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (100)

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Is this a fantasy advice podcast or a comedy duo? Our rather poor scores this week leave you to be the judge. Monty starts off by whinging about Jordan Lewis and Heath Shaw. We go through the round 10 games one by one and target individual players: Brett Peake, Chris Tarrant, the Jonathan Griffin/Ben Hudson combo, Nathan Bock (yes, again), Clint Bizzell, Russell Robertson, Aaron Davey, Matt Priddis, Dean Cox versus Hamish McIntosh, Mitch Morton, Adam Selwood, Chad Fletcher, Andrew Raines, Josh Drummond, Tim Schmidt, Ben McGlynn, Xavier Ellis, Michael Osborne, Jordan Lewis again, Kane Cornes, Simon Taylor/Robert Campbell versus Brendon Lade/Fabian Deluca, Warren Tredrea, Brendan Fevola, Bryce Gibbs, Andrew Carrazzo, Luke Darcy, Peter Street, Jason Akermanis, Sam Fisher, Leigh Fisher, Nick Dal Santo versus Cameron Ling and everyone’s favourite captain Jimmy Bartel.

This week’s Team Of The Week is The Accumulators. While discussing this team we concentrate on Lance Franklin and David Rodan. After disposing with that segment, we talk a little about the suspiciously similar “Simpsons AFL” league, then go through the Boys On The Bubble and the Crack The Ton segment.

 

 Show 6 for Round 9, 2007: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (100)

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We’re a bit late this week due to a Windy Hill flu, as m0nty explains. We rip straight into talk of Saints and Port selection, including the chances that Xavier Clarke, Chad Cornes and Travis Boak will play. We discuss some of the round 9 sob stories, including Jonathan Griffin and Beau McDonald. We discuss the situation on the Demons’ half forward line after both Brad Miller and Lynden Dunn were dropped, with Matthew Bate mentioned as one possible beneficiary. The Roos rucks also get a working over, with David Hale and Hamish McIntosh under the microscope. We talk about whether Mark Ricciuto will take the park this week, and what his return means for Crow forwards Nathan Bock, Ian Perrie and Scott Stevens. Looking at the Hawthorn game, we marvel at the game of Stephen Gilham. We also wonder what has happened to Richard Hadley. Both of us thank the stars that Michael Johnson didn’t get suspended since we both picked him up for our own teams this week, and we also talk about how lucky Chris Judd was. On the injury front, m0nty says “I told you so” about Ashley Hansen (not Lachlan!).

Moving away from last week, Molly goes through the ruck article in Tom N’s excellent upgrade analysis series, including discussion on Ivan Maric, John Meesen, Matthew Leuenberger, Jamie Charman, Aaron Sandilands and David Hille. Then comes the ever-popular Boys on the Bubble segment, with Mitch Morton taking out the chocolates this week over Clint Bizzell, and honourable mentions to Chad Fletcher and Troy Selwood. (We also mention a rumour about Lance Franklin being injured.)

We continue the Crack The Ton segment, where we predict whether players will score 100 in the upcoming round. Last week (which Molly won 6-4) only one of the nine players we talked about managed to crack the ton, so we shall see if we’ve started up a new curse or not!
Dean Cox vs Kangaroos: Molly says no, m0nty says no.
James Hird vs Sydney: Molly says no, m0nty says no.
Joel Corey vs St Kilda: Molly says yes, m0nty says no.
Matthew Pavlich vs Collingwood: Molly says yes, m0nty says yes.
Brock McLean vs Adelaide: Molly says no, m0nty says no.
Chad Cornes vs Hawthorn: Molly says yes, m0nty says no.
Adam Goodes vs Essendon: Molly says no, m0nty says yes.
Jordan Lewis vs Port Adelaide: Molly says yes, m0nty says yes.
Scott Lucas vs Sydney: Molly says no, m0nty says no.

We answer a few requests for trade advice from the FanFooty blog, including discussion on Jake King, Xavier Ellis, Mitchell Clark, Darren Glass, Shaun Burgoyne and Mitchell Thorp. Then we chat about the Geelong bench with talk about Tom Harley, Joel Selwood, Tom Hawkins and Travis Varcoe. Finally, we finish up with a bit of general footy talk, including the KB v Finey stoush and the Clarko v Hutchie stand-off.