The Coaches Box - AFL Fantasy Footy Podcast : A weekly AFL fantasy football podcast
with news and views on Dream Team, Super Coach and other comps

Monty AvatarPaul Montgomery, a.k.a. m0nty, is a co-founder of FanFooty, the fastest-growing fantasy football site for Australian Rules (AFL) football. He lives in Geelong, and barracks for the mighty Hawks.


Mollyfud AvatarPhillip "Molly" Malone is one of the most prolific Web pundits on Aussie Rules footy with his blog Mollyzine and podcast Molly's Monday Machination. He's an engineer and a Hawk fan, and you'll see his name everywhere.


Archive for February, 2008


#24: NAB Cup QFs 2008 with Harro

 
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This week we’re joined by Harro of Football Salvation, a new fantasy AFL Web site where you can read detailed fantasy-flavoured profiles of every AFL-listed player.

Four games in the NAB Cup to cover this week: Daniel Cross, Josh Hill, Ben Hudson, Peter Street, Ricky Dyson, Leroy Jetta, Bachar Houli, Jobe Watson, Angus Monfries, Sam Lonergan, David Myers, David Armitage, Tom Hawkins, Harry Taylor, Nick Stevens, Marc Murphy, Bryce Gibbs, Chris Judd, Michael Jamison, Zac Dawson, Andrew McLeod, Jason Porplyzia, Dean Solomon, Des Headland, Roger Hayden, Michael Johnson, David Mundy and Rhys Palmer are all discussed.

Outside of the televised stuff we talk about Mitchell Brown’s season-ending knee injury, and speculate as to his replacement from the shortlist of Adam Hunter, Jaymie Graham and Matthew Spangher. We also discuss the Swans’ voodoo magic which is allegedly going to resurrect Nick Malceski’s 2008 as early as round 9, and mention Albert Proud’s DT ton in a NAB Challenge game.

We find out that Harro is a Kangaroos supporter and proceed to grill him about Levi Greenwood, Nathan Thompson, Aaron Edwards, Lachie Hansen, Shannon Grant and Daniel Wells. Then we give Harro the chance to spruik Football Salvation for a while.

Finally, Molly tries a new segment we’re calling Two Up, where he asks us to choose between two players for the 2008 fantasy AFL season.

#23: NAB Cup Round 1 2008

 
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This week it’s back to traditional values on the Coaches Box with just Molly and m0nty on the mic. We start out with reviewing the remaining seven games of NAB Cup round 1 2008: players discussed include Charlie Gardiner, Xavier Clarke, Jarryn Geary, Brett Deledio, Troy Simmonds, Lachie Hansen, Hamish McIntosh, David Hale, Nathan Thompson, Steve Johnson, Mathew Stokes, Brent Prismall, Tom Lonergan, Tom Hawkins, Simon Buckley, Nathan Jones, Steven Salopek, Travis Boak, Darren Pfeiffer, Nick Stevens, Shaun Hampson, Angus Monfries, Bachar Houli, Heath Hocking, Courtenay Dempsey, Lachie Henderson, Albert Proud, Beau Muston, Jarryd Morton, Travis Tuck, Thomas Murphy, Josh P. Kennedy, Craig Bird, Martin Mattner, Tadhg Kennelly, Daniel Gilmore, David Mundy, Des Headland, Byron Schammer, Brett Peake, Brent Staker, Jamie McNamara, Ben McKinley, Eric McKenzie, Matt Priddis, Daniel Kerr, Matt Rosa, Tyson Stenglein, Chad Fletcher and Shannon Hurn.

We introduce a new feature on the Coaches Box, called Take Two, where we discuss half a dozen controversial predictions and give our opinion on the percentage chance of them coming true. If you hear some similarity with the Odds Makers segment on Pardon The Interruption… don’t sue us! ;)

m0nty discusses his FanFooty blog post this week about fantasy team structure, and also references a BigFooty thread about Nick Stevens.

After that we talk a bit about the forthcoming live head-to-head scoring feature for Dream Team, as revealed on this week’s episode of Dream Team Talk.

Next week, Harro from new fantasy AFL site Football Salvation!

#22: Lethal, Warnie and Roy!

 
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Welcome to the First episode in 2008. Hoping you all are having a happy new year and know you are all hanging for some Dream Team and Fantasy footy action. On this show we welcome Warnie and Roy from Dream Team Talk to the show where we discuss a number of matters and players (will try to fill out the topics later):

A big thanks to Roy and Warnie who were great guests. Don’t forget to check out their site at http://dreamteamtalk.com. The next episode of their video show will be out on the 20th February and will include an interview with Hawks young gun Josh "Joey" Kennedy.

Enjoy!

Molly