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It’s a big round for all fantasy coaches as it’s the last time you can trade before the price changes kick in for VirtualSports competitions such as AFL Dream Team and Herald-Sun Super Coach. Many coaches are agonising over changing their team structure by shifting money from their forwards to their backs, which is the theme of this week’s podcast.

After the usual skiting over Hawthorn’s win, it’s straight into the round 2 review, with Albert Proud, Jed Adcock, Josh Drummond, Jonathan Brown, Nathan J. Brown, Cameron Wood, Travis Cloke, Nathan Jones, Cale Morton, Clint Bartram, Simon Buckley, Colin Garland, Josh Hill, Brad Johnson, Nathan Bock, Jason Porplyzia, Dean Cox, Mark Nicoski, Brad Ebert, Chris Masten, Quinten Lynch, Michael Gardiner, Justin Koschitzke, Bret Thornton, Marc Murphy, Brendan Fevola, Darren Pfeiffer and Des Headland under the microscope.

In our almost-official Hawk Talk segment we cover only seven players - Travis Tuck, Clinton Young, Michael Osborne, Stuart Dew, Xavier Ellis, Jarryd Roughead and Grant Birchall - though not before some wiseguy in the chat quips that we’re about to go through all 22!

Back to the rest of the comp: Barry Hall, Martin Mattner, Tadhg Kennelly, Heath Grundy, Alipate Carlile, Steve Johnson, Tom Hawkins, Brad Ottens, Trent West, Brent Stanton, Brett Deledio, Troy Simmonds, Nathan G. Brown, Jordan McMahon, Shannon Grant and Nathan Thompson get the once over.

After the official round review, we answer a few questions asked on the FanFooty blog, concerning Andrew Embley, Travis Boak, Ricky Petterd, Michael Johnson, Lachie Hansen, John Meesen and Leroy Jetta.

Finally we jawbone a bit about some potential problems with the Dream Team Eliminator, first discussed on BigFooty, and then try to choose a standout captain for round 3, with not much success.