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.
#44: Round 16 2008… secret show!
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!