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Mon dieu, allez allez to Cadel Evans and bonjour to the Coaches Box this week. We’ve got Tour de France fever on the night of the Alpe d’Huez stage but there’s plenty of fantasy footy to talk about… assuming you’ve got any trades left to act on our advice! (We had a few technical troubles so we had no live audio this week and no advance warning about the show, sorry about that.)

After Molly gives his opinion on Drew Petrie’s qualifications for the Shinboner captaincy, we settle down to the round review with Corey Jones, Michael Firrito, Lachie Hansen, Heath Shaw, Darren Milburn, Andrew Mackie discussed as well as the entire Bulldogs team, who were all down against the might of Gerolsteiner… oops I mean Geelong.

Nathan G. Brown, Shane Tuck, Scott Lucas, Leroy Jetta, Bradd Dalziell (henceforth known as Triple D), Josh Drummond, Eric MacKenzie and David Wirrpanda get the time trial treatment.

Despite our many misgivings we have to talk about some Saint players, so it’s three-goal hero Jason Blake and Adam Schneider who we grudgingly mention. Then in Hawk Talk we bemoan the poor recent performances of Brent Guerra and Jordan Lewis.

For the second week running m0nty wants to ride “his boy” Bryce Gibbs up the mountain, so Molly indulges him by talking up his prospects of being the next Kane Cornes.

After gauging Ryan O’Keefe’s credential as a Birdman replacement, Molly pontificates on the relative fantasy worth of Power midfielders Domenic Cassisi, Steven Salopek, Danyle Pearce and Shaun Burgoyne.

Finally, Jason Porplyzia, Brad Symes, Kris Massie, Josh Head, Colin Sylvia and Austin Wonaeamirri are all covered.

M0nty talks up his concept for a top 9 finals system for the AFL when it expands to 18 teams… Molly is skeptical but not immediately dismissive!

In the captain segment the obvious choices are Dean Cox, Nick Riewoldt and Matthew Pavlich, but there are also some yellow jersey prospects in the Port vs Freo game as well as Pies vs Dons.

Finally, the boys discuss the phenomenon of those who are fighting for league spots in the peloton making defensive trades to align their teams with their next opponents, a technique mentioned by last year’s Dream Team winner Steve Morfesse as one of his successful strategies.

Good luck for the bunch sprint to fantasy finals in the next couple of weeks! And go Cadel!

 

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We’re all awake and ready to go from the off this week, eight full games to chew over and it’s a long show!

Before we start on the players, we talk about lead changes in the major competitions, including the demotion of media darling Jonathan and his Collingwood team off the #1 spot in Dream Team down to fourth, the ascension of chookadelic to the top of the Yahoo comp with his squad All Guns Blazing EDT, and the narrowing lead enjoyed by Lewis Nguyen with his Lewis EDT team over at Fox Sports. (M0nty forgets to mention that Lewis’ brother is leading the LG competition and stands to win a nice plasma TV!)

In the round review, first off we discuss the changing fantasy fortunes of Bryce Gibbs, Nick Stevens and Marc Murphy in the Blues midfield. Lenny Hayes is a media favourite this week, and we also discuss Jason Gram, Robert Eddy, David Armitage and Rhyce Shaw.

The injuries to Brett Burton and Jason Porplyzia mean that we have to discuss the Adelaide forward structure, so that means covering Nathan Bock, Simon Goodwin, Kurt Tippett, Scott Thompson, Nick Gill, Trent Hentschel, James Sellar and Taylor Walker.

Andrew McLeod, Darren Milburn, Tom Lonergan, Rhys Palmer, Garrick Ibbotson, Brent Stanton, Mark McVeigh, Scott Lucas, Daniel Bradshaw, Nathan Lonie and Ben Ross are all canvassed.

In a slightly longer Hawk Talk this week, we fawn over Jarryd Morton, Cyril Rioli, Cameron Stokes, Mitch Thorp and Lance Franklin.

Back to the other teams, and it’s Adam Goodes, Robert Murphy, Josh Hill, Brad Green, Stefan Martin, Brett Jones, Adam Hunter, Scott Selwood and Trent Cotchin on the dissection table.

After the captain choice segment, we take an extremely hard look at the Super Coach team of Herald-Sun football writer Mike Sheahan, Sheahan’s stars, which came 56th this week. Not a very pretty backline, that one!

Finally, we go through the Dream Team of Coaches Box chat regular happy_eagle, who ran out of trades this week. happy_eagle is also a big name at the BigFooty forum due to his membership of the No Passengers group who pontificate on fantasy matters in special threads on the DT sub-forum. We discuss his trades and his final team, and try not to go too hard on the boy!

 

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Wake up! Yes, it has been awfully boring this week with only two games of AFL to watch, but m0nty and Molly are back to talk fantasy footy.

In a curtailed round review, the boys discuss Chris Knights, Scott Thompson, Brad Symes, Jason Porplyzia, Gary Ablett jnr (with a tangential look at the chances of GAJ and Lance Franklin being first-half wonders), Brett Kirk, the Barry Hall situation, Patrick Veszpremi, Cameron Wood and Chris Bryan.

After a request from the Talkshoe chat, we go through a podcast version of the Boys on the Bubble segment: John Anthony, Tom Collier, Joshua Head, Jarryd Allen, Lachie Hansen, Robert Eddy and Fabian Deluca are all covered.

Given the lack of games to talk about, we do a special segment looking at the projected top scorers in each position. For the backs at the moment it’s Nathan Bock, Joel Bowden, Paul Wheatley, Andrew Mackie, Heath Shaw, Brent Guerra and Sam Fisher. In the centres as at round 14 the champs are Gary Ablett jnr, Dane Swan, Jimmy Bartel, Joel Corey, Scott Thompson and Daniel Cross. In the rucks Dean Cox is unassailed leader but Jeff White’s sudden fall out of favour at Demonland has Aaron Sandilands as almost unassailable #2. Finally in the forwards, it’s Matthew Richardson, Alan Didak, Matthew Pavlich, Robert Murphy, Daniel Giansiracusa, Lance Franklin and then Paul Chapman.

Finally in the captain segment, the two Nicks are looking good - Stevens and Riewoldt. The usual suspects from Collingwood and Geelong are in the frame on Saturday arvo, while, Molly is off the Scott Thompson bandwagon. Jonathan Brown is an awesome start at the Dome against Essendon, while Kane Cornes‘ performance after 41 possies last week in Darwin will be interesting. Hard to see any value in the Hawks game at the SCG, but the Bulldogs vs Melbourne clash should be fat with big points. Finally, Matt Priddis could top his 45 touches last game in the matchup against Richmond’s poor tagging corps.

 

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This week we’re broadcasting directly after the end of rugby league’s State of Origin decider, and m0nty starts the show a little confused in his Blue-hating fervour!

Once we’ve decided which sport it is we’re talking about, we start with Hawk Talk on Luke Hodge and Cyril Rioli. m0nty asks Molly to make the official Coaches Box case against Ashley Hansen. The boys discuss the sad situation of Graham Polak and its possible impact on the Richmond structure.

Brendan Fevola and Jake Edwards are assessed, and the broom is out at the Kangaroos so Corey Jones, Nathan Thompson, Leigh Harding, Lindsay Thomas and Lachie Hansen are all looked at.

Nick Riewoldt, Sam Fisher, Brendon Goddard, Justin Koschitzke, Dale Morris, Robert Murphy, Josh Hill and Kane Cornes are discussed.

Then there’s a huge Demons section: the Brock McLean injury and its impact on Shane Valenti and Nathan Jones; Brad Green’s adventures as loose man in defence; Paul Wheatley and Matthew Whelan as possible back premiums; and finally m0nty gets really really REALLY angry about Jeff White and how coach Dean Bailey seems to want to destroy his career in favour of the ruck committee of Mark Jamar and Paul Johnson.

Once m0nty hyperventilates and settles back to the round review, it’s Daniel Bradshaw, Josh Drummond, Joel Macdonald, Simon Black, Josh Head, Ryan Crowley, David Hille and Adam McPhee under the microscope.

Finally, Molly gives his opinion on the relative values of Jobe Watson, Mark McVeigh and Brent Stanton in what looks to be a very juicy run home for the Bombers.

No captain choices to make this week, so instead the boys chat about an exchange on BigFooty this week centring on KouDogg, an 18-year-old lad who is ranked 126th in Dream Team after being inside the top 50 earlier in the year. Molly and m0nty discuss the psychology of older coaches ganging up on teenagers, the little green man effect of experienced participants getting outdone by fresh-faced noobs, and the perils of knowing too much.