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.
#31: Round 4, 2008 live on Talkshoe with footylover18
This week we welcome to our live show Vamsee, a.k.a. footylover18, who is one of the people behind the wildly successful EliteDre@mTe@mers league. EDT is the reigning champion of the league competitions in both Dream Team and Super Coach.
You can’t say we don’t go for the squirrel on this show, Robert Harvey style. Before Vamsee knows it, we’ve pinned him down and asked him the tough questions about the lack of EDT presence in the top 20 DT and SC leagues after round 4. He goes on the counter-offensive, as expected, and has a few choice words to say about some of the challengers to EDT supremacy, including Mt Scopus high school, Simpsons league and the "Fed" conspiracy.
Onto player news, and obviously we need to answer the biggest fantasy issue first: who to trade for Barry Hall? Many names are mulled over. M0nty brings up the radical possibility of trading down for a rookie-priced player in order to patch up a leaky defence with a second trade, which causes some heated discussion. Kyle Reimers and Ben McKinley are named as the most likely candidates for such a move, both of whom are on the bubble this week.
Then it’s onto the regular round review. Andrew Lovett, Scott Welsh, Robert Murphy, Daniel Giansiracusa, Hamish McIntosh, Scott D. Thompson, Lachie Hansen, Jesse W. Smith, Cameron Bruce, Nathan Jones, Aaron Davey, Austin Wonaeamirri, Brendon Goddard, Jarryn Geary, Clinton Jones, David Armitage, Ryan Gamble, Steve Johnson, Jimmy Bartel, Martin Mattner, Ryan O’Keefe, Kieren Jack, Craig Bird, Matt Rosa, Quinten Lynch, Brett Ebert, Kane Cornes and Travis Johnstone are all discussed.
In our regular Hawk Talk segment… we talk mainly about the Crows! Michael Osborne, Cameron Stokes and Travis Tuck get the treatment from the Hawthorn team, while Scott Thompson, Nathan Bock, Bernie Vince, Brett Burton and Kurt Tippett
After that, we sift through Bret Thornton, Heath Scotland, Scott Pendlebury, Cameron Wood, Matthew Kreuzer, Matthew Richardson, Jordan McMahon, Jake King and Joel Bowden.
Before m0nty forgets (again!) we go through captain choices for round 5: Nick Riewoldt, Joel Corey, Jimmy Bartel, Scott Thompson, Jonathan Brown, Chris Judd, Daniel Cross, Brad Johnson, Chad Cornes and Kane Cornes are all thrown up as possibles.
Finally, m0nty goads fl18 into ranting about the 70 minutes of madness before round 1. Then someone from Talkshoe tells us the servers are about to explode, so we run for our lives!