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This week all our audio problems have disappeared, and the live broadcast went off without a hitch with a big bunch of people in the live chat providing us with excellent feedback. We even had a live caller! Sometimes everything just comes up Milhouse.

We kick off with -the washup of the 70 minutes of madness, that witching hour (+10) between when the last teams were released on Thursday at 5pm and the 6.10pm start of the first game. VirtualSports’ servers were practically unreachable throughout, and we review all the news that came out of it, including some people getting their round 1 scores wiped and others getting the opportunity to remake their sides.

Then it’s onto the round review. We start with the Thursday games and mull over Chris Judd, Heath Scotland, Bryce Gibbs, Brett Deledio, Paul Stewart, Warren Tredrea, James Kelly, Jimmy Bartel and Ryan Gamble.

Moving onto Saturday we bring in Collingwood fan and FanFooty supporter turnofpower, a.k.a. Aaron, to talk about Anthony Rocca, Rhyce Shaw, Travis Cloke, Paul Medhurst, Chris Egan, Nathan J. Brown, John Anthony, Chris Dawes, Cameron Wood and Josh Fraser.

Onto other clubs: Daniel Gilmore, Matthew Pavlich, Luke McPharlin, David Mundy, Byron Schammer, Jarryn Geary, Kieran Jack, Jason Gram, Martin Mattner, Barry Hall, Adam Goodes, Craig Bird, Brett Jones, Mark Nicoski, Shannon Hurn, Daniel Bradshaw, Josh Hill, Brett Burton, Jason Porplyzia, Bernie Vince, Andrew McLeod and Brad Symes are all in the frame.

Then it’s Hawk Talk time! We know you all love it when we get impossibly excited about Hawthorn players! Clinton Young, Stuart Dew, Xavier Ellis, Travis Tuck, Cyril Rioli, Cameron Stokes, Tim Clarke and Zac Dawson are all giggled over.

The rest of the teams then follow, with Colin Garland, Cale Morton, Jeff White, Paul Johnson, Aaron Davey, Nathan Thompson, Scott D. Thompson (to be officially known in future as Scott DT!), Matthew Lloyd, Adam McPhee, Jobe Watson, Brent Stanton, Courtenay Dempsey, Sam Lonergan, Ricky Dyson and Bachar Houli all covered.

Finally, we gasbag about captain choices for the week, with Dean Cox the obvious standout. We compare Nick Riewoldt and Brad Johnson, warn you off the Cornes boys, and tell you to get on any Geelong midfielders if you’re lucky enough to own one of them.

Thanks to all who were in the chat, it was an awesome show and great fun to be a part of!

Hi Guys,

Just letting you know that their will be a live Coaches Box (all going well) tonight at 10:30pm. This is your chance to chat and possible call into the show and discuss your favourite players, teams, your Dream Team highs and lows.

To join, come to our Talkshoe site any time from 15mins before the show is due to start. If you want to call in, there is a US number you can call (with something like Skype at 3 cents a minute), you can call in from a VOIP (SIP) compatible client (your miles my vary) or by downloading talkshoes pro client here:  http://download.talkshoe.com/TalkShoeSetup_windows.exe. I believe you have to sign up for a membership of the site, but its pretty painless.

Hope to see you there and have a great show! Also don’t fear, if you are unable to make it to the live show, the podcast will be available after the show is finished.

Molly

 

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Fuller show notes to come later. This week we looked at the 4 sides already picked for the Thursday game, debate Dream Teams Lock out policy and other player talk.

The other good news is that after the show we sorted out the audio problem that causes echoing of my voice. We therefor plan to do another live show next week, most likely Wednesday at 10:30pm. Please follow the website for more details on this.

Remember you can follow your teams progress at Fan Footy(now with auto importer!)

Molly

 

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Once again we saddle up on Talkshoe to deliver a live podcast. There are plenty of competitions newly launched this week including three on Friday: Yahoo!7 AFL Football Fantasy, Sportal Fantasy AFL and of course the official AFL Dream Team. We go through the pros and cons of each, and jaw about the politics surrounding the reduced prize pool for AFL DT.

From the last full week of games in the pre-season, we discuss Brent Prismall, David Wocjinski, Ryan Gamble, Kayne Pettifer, Mark Coughlan, Kurt Tippett, Brett Burton, Adam Hartlett, Matthew Kreuzer, Heath Shaw, Travis Cloke, Brent Stanton (and a comparison between Stanton and Daniel Cross), Chance Bateman, Cameron Stokes, Grant Birchall, Thomas Murphy, Cale Morton, John Meesen, Andrew Swallow, Hamish McIntosh, Steven Salopek, Jarryn Geary, David Armitage, Clinton Jones, Craig Bird, Kieren Jack, Scott Selwood, Andrew Embley, Beau Wilkes, Dean Cox, Beau Waters, Shannon Hurn and Josh Hill. M0nty asks Molly to choose between Ryan Griffen, Bryce Gibbs and Travis Boak, then they discuss Andrew McDougall’s possible new role at centre half back.

Finally, we each pick top 8s for 08. Molly chooses the Cats, Saints, Eagles and Hawks for his top four, then squeezes in Collingwood, Port, Freo and either Adelaide or Sydney. M0nty chooses, in no particular order: St Kilda, Geelong, West Coast, Hawthorn, Fremantle, Western Bulldogs and Brisbane.

 

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This week we had no guest, but we tried out the live podcasting feature on Talkshoe. The results weren’t too bad. Maybe next week we will figure out how to do live talkback!

There were two games in the NAB Cup this week and plenty of players to discuss: Jason Laycock, David Hille, Steven King, Michael Gardiner, Angus Monfries, David Armitage, Clinton Jones, Nick Riewoldt, Charlie Gardiner, Luke Ball, Brad Symes, Jason Porplyzia, Kurt Tippett, James Sellar, Brent Guerra, Grant Birchall, Xavier Ellis, Cyril Rioli, Jarryd Morton, Tim Clarke, Lance Franklin and Stuart Dew all got a mention.

We also went through the Fantasy Freako e-newsletter (hosted by our friends over at DT Talk) with Dream Team scores from this week’s NAB Challenge games, and identified a fair few interesting scores: Jonathan Brown, Adam Hartlett, Lachie Hansen, Josh Hill, Gavin Urquhart, Cameron Wood, Shaun Rusling, Daniel Gilmore, Shane Valenti, Matthew Bate, Shaun Burgoyne, Brendon Lade, Kayne Pettifer, Nick Stevens, Barry Hall, Jessie White, Jamie McNamara, Scott Selwood, Matthew Spangher, Jaymie Graham, Matt Priddis, Mark Nicoski, Brad Ebert, Ben Hudson and Peter Street were all discussed.

Finally, we talked a bit about the ever-competitive league scene, with BigFooty setting up a huge league structure this week.