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.
#40: Round 13 2008, live on Talkshoe
Kevin Sheedy may have won the Australian Thinker of the Year award during the week, but m0nty and Molly are back with their non-award-winning thoughts on Aussie fantasy footy!
We start the round review by sharing the pain felt by Lenny Hayes owners after his pulled hammy ruined what could have been a record-breaking night last Friday. Robert Eddy, Byron Schammer and Brett Peake are then discussed from the same game.
In Hawk Talk, we cover Brent Guerra, Luke Hodge, Jarryd Morton, Cyril Rioli and Clinton Young, with some extra talk about how Young and players of his ilk (Pearce, Dal Santo etc) are unfairly maligned by fans for their lack of toughness.
David Hale’s strong performance for the McIntoshless North side is canvassed, then it’s onto the walking wounded down at Port with Chad Cornes, Peter Burgoyne and Steven Salopek all assessed for signs of life, and survivors Kane Cornes, Shaun Burgoyne and Domenic Cassisi checked for flesh wounds.
Joel Bowden, Trent Cotchin, Albert Proud, Andrew McLeod, Brad Symes, Mark Nicoski, Dean Cox and Travis Varcoe are discussed. Jeff White and Darren Jolly are reviewed as contenders for the #2 ruck spot behind 211, while the Swans’ halfback rebounding cadre of Martin Mattner, Tadhg Kennelly and Nick Malceski are once again under the spotlight.
The CHF/ruck rotation at the Blues is examined with Matthew Kreuzer and Cameron Cloke, while the rookie replacement candidates Steven Browne, Dennis Armfield, David Myers and Kyle Reimers are all given the once over.
Then it’s back to the Collingwood ruck/forward situation, with Rocca and Reid both going down with major injuries this week, leaving the futures of this week’s star Cameron Wood up in the air along with Josh Fraser, Travis Cloke, Chris Dawes, John Anthony and Nathan J. Brown. Finally, Andrejs Everitt is looked at as a sneaky late back trade.
In our captain segment, we consider Lance Franklin, Sam Mitchell, Matthew Richardson, Nick Stevens, Adam Cooney, the aforementioned Shaun Burgoyne, Jonathan Brown, Brad Green, Matthew Pavlich and or course Gary Ablett Jnr.