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This week we have a special treat: Warnie from the awesome DT Talk video podcast, the world’s only (and best!) YouTube show about Aussie rules fantasy footy. Warnie takes us through the history of the show, how it was conceived and how Uncle Chop Chop was recruited. We reminisce about favourite episodes, like the prank call Warnie put in to the Adelaide FC where he whinged to Rhett Bigland’s mum about Ben Hudson’s suspension. We go through Warnie’s Warne Dawgs team in the Finals DT competition, and we commiserate with him about the performances of Brent Harvey and Kane Cornes, and talk a bit about Scott Thompson.

Instead of a round review, we talk about which teams we want to minimise exposure to, and then go through each position for prospects for this week’s Finals DT competition.

Rucks
Dean Cox, Josh Fraser, Hamish McIntosh, Robert Campbell

Backs
Heath Shaw, James Clement, Nick Maxwell, Harry O’Brien, Tyson Goldsack, Grant Birchall, Brent Guerra, Joel Smith, Campbell Brown, Josh Gibson, Jess Sinclair, Jesse W. Smith, Drew Petrie, Daniel Pratt, Beau Waters, Adam Hunter, Shannon Hurn, Brett Jones, David Wirrpanda

Forwards
Nathan Buckley, Anthony Rocca, Travis Cloke, Sean Rusling, Alan Didak, Paul Medhurst, Dale Thomas, Leon Davis, Lance Franklin, Jarryd Roughead, Tim Boyle, Ben Dixon, Corey Jones, Aaron Edwards, Nathan Thompson, Quinten Lynch, Andrew Embley, Wirrpanda (again), Ashley Hansen, Mitch Morton

Centres
Tarkyn Lockyer, Dane Swan, Scott Pendlebury, Rhyce Shaw, Shane Crawford, Jordan Lewis, Sam Mitchell, Luke Hodge, Clinton Young, Brad Sewell, Harvey, Adam Simpson, Daniel Harris, Shannon Grant, Daniel Wells, Tyson Stenglein, Michael Braun, Matt Priddis, Matt Rosa

We move smoothly into general AFL talk, starting with discussion of the premiership chances of this week’s four combatants plus Port Adelaide (Geelong doesn’t count, they’re too good!). We discuss the squad of 40 for the All-Australian team, including the omission of Collingwood players.

Seeing as Warnie is a Bomber supporter, we get him to defend the future of Essendon, but he doesn’t have much hope left, dropping a bucket on Mark McVeigh, Mark Bolton and Kepler Bradley. M0nty unleashes a rant he had bottled up from round 22 about the deficiencies of Adam McPhee and how it screwed up the positioning of Scott Lucas until that fateful seven-goal last quarter of the season.

We segway from McPhee to talk of prospective 2007 AFL #1 draft picks Matthew Kreuzer and Cale Morton, which kickstarts a discussion on free agency and trades for 2008. Molly brings up an old suggestion of his that Essendon should trade Matthew Lloyd. That obviously begs the Brendan Fevola question, which Warnie gets stuck into.

Back on to fantasy matters, m0nty follows up on the DT Talk boys’ opposition to the possible changes to DT raised by the recent VirtualSports survey (also discussed in episode #17), particularly the prospect of unlimited trades. Molly brings up the concept of tariffs for popular players. M0nty rails against the stockbroking aspect of trading in cash cows, and says he would love to get feedback in the comments to this post about innovations that fantasy nuts would like to see in a new fantasy comp (as opposed to just being changes to DT). Warnie brings up the private draft league model, and m0nty talks about the FanFooty experience with supporting private leagues.

Finally, we pump up the DT Talk AFL Finals Dream Team league, and pump up the future of the DT Talk podcast!