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.
#36: Round 9 2008, live on Talkshow
This week the catchphrase is “unsociable podcasting”, and we play the man as we do every episode!
First target is Sharrod Wellingham, the slayer of the Son Of God. Then it’s Alan Didak, Paul Chapman, Ryan Gamble, Andrew Mackie and Darren Milburn. Molly gives his opinion on the down weeks of Chris Judd and Marc Murphy, and despite m0nty’s better judgement the name of Adam Bentick is mentioned. Rhys Palmer and Garrick Ibbotson are assessed for their potential as keepers.
Scott Lucas coming off a LTI is examined, as is the disappointing David Myers. Matthew Richardson, Kayne Pettifer, Nathan G. Brown, Andrew Embley, Graham Johncock and Brad Symes are discussed. Andrew McLeod, Brett Burton and Kurt Tippett let down a lot of fantasy coaches on the weekend, and their prospects are mixed for the future.
Josh Drummond, Jonathan Brown, Nick Riewoldt and Matthew Bate are covered, as well as the on-the-bubble rookie options Shane Valenti, Jarryd Morton and Josh P. Kennedy. Finally, the Bulldogs forward troops are inspected, with Daniel Giansiracusa, Jason Akermanis, Robert Murphy and Brad Johnson all marched up and down the square.
After a little technical difficulty, Molly opines on who the second best scoring ruck will be by the end of the year, with Aaron Sandilands coming from the clouds to be his pick. M0nty’s not so hot on 211, but he was picked at #4 in the live draft held by the Dream Team Talk boys on Sunday night - full draft list here. M0nty makes comparisons with the draft he was involved in last week, which was very much more midfielder-heavy in round 1 than the DT Talk draft. Various players were taken at very different positions in both drafts, which the boys discuss at length.
On our weekly captain choices segment, we start with Dean Cox, who was disappointing last week when a lot of people were relying on him. Scott Thompson of Adelaide up agaisnt Essendon on Friday night is probably a better option. The possible battle between Sam Mitchell and Daniel Cross could produce fireworks, while Jonathan Brown at home against North Melbourne is almost guaranteed to be a goalfest. Surprisingly, the Geelong midfield vs Carlton may very well turn out not to be such a happy hunting ground based on 2008 statistics, while the Melbourne mids vs St Kilda may be more lucrative. The Cornes brothers are always worth considering, particularly against Freo, while Matthew Pavlich may have been letting his team down lately with fourth-quarter posters but he hasn’t been letting down his fantasy coaches.
After all that, m0nty talks about all the new icons on the FanFooty live scoring, and there’s some general chat. Molly is going to put the after-show up as this week’s edition of his Molly’s Monday Machinations podcast, where there is a lot more general football chat, as well as a lot more Hawk Talk!
May 30th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Molly you big twit, If you pick Brad Miller with ur last pick as your seventh back I dont think its a bad pick, seeing as he avg 67 this yr and around 80 last 3 weeks since Melbs have turned it around a bit and he is always going to be playing for Melbs every week in key position with great TOG. Better than some of the other duds on offer who will drop in and out of tems and play limited minutes when they are in, who wouldnt take 65-80 from their seventh back in the PDT league where a player can be only picked once hence cutting out the availability of players???? Do you actually watch a game of footy and know much about the actual ‘game’ of football or just computer screen dt scores haha.
May 30th, 2008 at 2:31 am
Agreed Fist Smashfight, I was pondering him myself.
May 30th, 2008 at 3:02 am
MMM - Coaches Box after show - Robo, Blocking, Fight for Sydney, Relocation…
Hi Guys,
Don’t forget you can leave audio comments below.
Show notes later. This was taken from the AFter show of the Coaches Box AFL Dream Team and SuperCoach Podcast. My audio is hugely quite but here is what we talked about:
Intro
Mik…
May 30th, 2008 at 3:04 am
I thought I said that on the show or possibly in the after show! No I don’t watch the games, why would I!
You have a less biased commentary if you aren’t influenced by what they are doing on the field!
Molly
May 30th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Ah crap sorry Molly, u were supporting me!! That was meant to be MONTY!!! Not you, sorry dud I get you guys all mixed up….. You seem to have a bit of a real footy brain, he doesn’t.
May 30th, 2008 at 3:43 am
sorry ‘dude’ that was meant to be not ‘dud’. My keyboard is rooted mate, I cant stop sledging you and I dont even mean to!! Haha.
May 30th, 2008 at 3:58 am
My point is that no self-respecting fantasy coach should have Brad Miller in his team, just on principle.
May 30th, 2008 at 4:19 am
we all know how well your dream team is going m0nty. Didn’t think you would be too critical of other DT coaches with where you are
Thanks to Molly for props for my Aaron Davey at 165
Looks to be getting some good midfield time, and hoping for a 70ish from him.
May 30th, 2008 at 4:29 am
I believe Aaron Davey picked up an injury at training this week, Chadwick.
May 30th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Draft was before training this week. Source to the injury? I noticed you didn’t want to reply to me bagging your DT side at the moment
Got a source on Davey? Not listed in the injury list from tuesday (http://afl.com.au/News/NewsArticle/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=60352)
May 30th, 2008 at 5:36 am
Hey ChAdWiCk,
Firstly I don’t want to defend m0nty but to be fair I think the biggest bagger of m0nty’s DT side is monty!
On Davey, here is the link: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,23770090-19769,00.html
I have a soft spot for Aaron as I picked him up last year at about around 5-7 at his lowest point and he put some great numbers up for me through the year!
Molly
May 30th, 2008 at 5:49 am
[...] only other pre-bubble forward rookie who played in round 9 was Jarryd Morton, and as Molly said on the Coaches Box podcast this week, there’s no guarantees on Morton getting a decent run of games with the Hawks’ [...]