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.
#51: Finals week 2 2008, live on Talkshoe
We’re the only fantasy footy show in town this week, and with more than 50,000 entrants in the Finals Dream Team competition there is plenty to get stuck into. M0nty is suffering through a flu, which surprisingly he did not get barracking at the footy on Friday, but he and Molly were both there and they quickly put a lid on Hawk Talk.
The boys go through each position in order: defenders, midfielders, ruck and forwards. Particular time is spent on Nick Maxwell, Andrew Gilbee, Jason Gram, Jason Blake, Shane O’Bree, Amon Buchanon, Jarrad McVeigh, Daniel Cross, Darren Jolly, Justin Koschitzke, Will Minson, Paul Medhurst, Leon Davis, Dale Thomas, Tarkyn Lockyer, Barry Hall, Ryan O’Keefe, Nick Riewoldt, Stephen Milne, Robert Murphy and Jason Akermanis.
As an aside, m0nty asks Molly about some Melbourne players: Nathan Jones, who disappointed everyone with his drop-off on what had promised to be a breakout year; and the half-back rebounders Paul Wheatley and Brad Green, who might have delighted their fantasy owners with their unaccountable Joel Bowden-like stat-whoring antics but didn’t really do much for the Demons’ chances of winning matches.
Finally, all the captaincy candidates are in the Saturday game so that means Dane Swan, Lenny Hayes, Sam Fisher and Brendon Goddard.