Phillip "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.
#23: NAB Cup Round 1 2008
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!
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:12 am
hahaha… are you saying we’re sellouts!!
good show guys!! great work… it’s getting very exciting!!
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:20 am
You know we love you Warnie! Thanks for mentioning us to Paul at dreamteamhero.com.au. I think this league will come together, just need to get off my arse and get everyone in line!
Molly
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:02 am
yeah - the league will be ace!! Warne Dawgs all the way!
February 25th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Hey guys. Nice edition of the podcast - with as usual some terrific insight into the upcoming AFL season and the obvious fantasy implications.
My only other comment would be regarding the audio quality of the podcast. This one inparticular was quite hard to understand - especially Molly for the first 15-20 minutes. It got better as it went on, and I understand the “budgetary limitations” of the whole thing also - but I was close to switching off just because it was very hard to listen to.
But audio quality aside - good job once again guys.
From a long time listener.
Luke.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:11 am
Hey
Great call, heard you trying to get people to get some elite guys to open up, I totally understand where they are coming from but opt for transparency. It really hurts when you lose to someone who looked up their team - rather than working it out for themselves.
However…Dream Team is a joy to be shared, and talked about. I usually come in the top 1000 (149th last year) so look me up if you want to bounce off some ideas. I have done a lot of thinking about structure, especially for last year.
All or nothing!
February 26th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Luke, This one was a toughy as I think (and will listen to it again) it was more the network that was the problem. I have in the past tried to play with the audio but it turned out worst.
Molly