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It’s a shorter show this week - only an hour or so instead of the two hours we had been letting it run to - mainly because nobody has any trades left so nobody needs any advice! Except Molly, who’s still hanging onto his two trades despite playing m0nty in a league prelim this week. Oh, it’s ON!

The Finals Dream Team competition is back for 2008, complete with the eagerly-awaited player positional changes which are often a precursor to changes in the “real” Dream Team comp the following year. The full list is at the bottom.

Instead of a regular round review this week we tried something different: a look at a younger player from each team with a view to 2009 prospects. Travis Boak kicks us off, followed by Scott Pendlebury, Patrick Ryder, Nick Gill, Ricky Petterd, Scott Selwood, Bradd Dalziell, Andrejs Everitt, Patrick Veszpremi, Harry Taylor, Shane Tuck, Travis Tuck, Matthew Kreuzer, Lindsay Thomas, Matt Campbell, Robert Warnock and Clinton Jones.

We spend a bit more time this week on the captain choices, seeing as it’s probably the only choice you’ve got left to make this week with trades gone and bench options scarcer than Aussie gold medals. Those under the microscope include Daniel Cross, Adam Cooney, Brent Stanton, Matthew Richardson, Matthew Pavlich, Kane Cornes, Cameron Bruce, Brad Green, Nick Stevens, Jonathan Brown, Joel Corey, Jimmy Bartel, Gary Ablett jnr, Brent Harvey, Nick Riewoldt, Matt Priddis, Jordan Lewis and Lance Franklin.

PLAYER POSITION CHANGES FROM 2008 DT to 2008 FINALS DT
Richard Douglas: CTR/FWD to FWD
James Sellar: FWD to RUC/FWD
Scott Stevens: BAC to BAC/FWD
Brad Symes: BAC to BAC/CTR
Kurt Tippett: FWD to RUC/FWD
Bernie Vince: FWD to CTR
Jared Brennan: BAC/FWD to CTR
Mitch Clark: FWD to FWD/RUC
Robert Copeland: CTR/FWD to FWD
Daniel Bradshaw: BAC/FWD to FWD
Joel Macdonald: BAC/CTR to BAC
Wayde Mills: BAC/FWD to BAC
Joel Patfull: BAC/FWD to BAC
Albert Proud: BAC to CTR
Cheynee Stiller: CTR to BAC/CTR
John Anthony: BAC to FWD
Nathan J. Brown: BAC/FWD to BAC
Leon Davis: FWD to CTR/FWD
Alan Didak: FWD to CTR/FWD
Tarkyn Lockyer: CTR to CTR/FWD
Corey Enright: CTR to BAC
Tom Lonergan: BAC to FWD
Mathew Stokes: FWD to CTR/FWD
Harry Taylor: BAC/CTR to BAC
David Wojcinski: CTR to BAC/CTR
Stuart Dew: FWD to CTR/FWD
Xavier Ellis: BAC to BAC/CTR
Luke Hodge: CTR to BAC/CTR
Rick Ladson: BAC/CTR to BAC
Jarryd Morton: FWD to CTR
Michael Osborne: BAC/CTR to CTR
Jarryd Roughead: BAC/FWD to FWD
David Hale: FWD to RUC/FWD
Leigh Harding: FWD to BAC
Scott McMahon: BAC/FWD to FWD
Drew Petrie: FWD to RUC/FWD
Jess Sinclair: CTR to BAC
Brett Deledio: CTR/FWD to CTR
Shane Edwards: CTR to CTR/FWD
Jake King: BAC/CTR to BAC
Matthew Ferguson: BAC to BAC/FWD
Leigh Fisher: BAC/CTR to BAC
Ed Barlow: BAC/CTR to CTR/FWD
Andrew McDougall: BAC/FWD to BAC
Stephen Tiller: FWD to BAC/FWD
Callan Ward: BAC/CTR to CTR