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Round 19 produced a lot of donuts for a lot of fantasy coaches, so in their honour m0nty consumes the full half dozen donuts that his team did. With sickly results…

While eating, the boys launch into the round review, starting with Brendan Fevola and whether the possible injection of Ashley Hansen into the Blues forward line might be the move that will turn Fev into a rolled gold fantasy premium.

Speaking of which, this year might be the last that coaches try to rebuild Geelong’s ABC midfield of Gary Ablett jnr, Jimmy Bartel and Joel Corey in their fantasy teams. Ryan Hargrave was a hot pick last week but turned in a shocker, while Andrew Embley keeps on racking up big scores.

The Hawks look like they may have lost Trent Croad indefinitely, which occasions a long Hawk Talk about the future Hawthorn back line structure. Meanwhile, David Armitage may end up being the most expensive fantasy player ever next season if he’s dropped this week.

Nathan Lovett-Murray joined the bandwagon of utility players suddenly turning in premium-worthy scores when thrown into the ruck, as team mate Patrick Ryder and Saturday opponents Mitch Clark and Jared Brennan have done this season.

Brad Symes is lurking in the Adelaide back line waiting for some old men to retire, while Cameron Wood may have to wait for a LTI to Josh Fraser to fulfill his fantasy potential.

Nathan Grima is just one example of mature-age rookies who are increasingly becoming almost guaranteed rookie fantasy sensations - though Rohan Bail will have to wait until next year for that accolade.

Richard Tambling is still putting up premium scores though he hasn’t felt much in the way of hard tagging yet. The media have anointed Adam Goodes as the future CHF of Sydney with Jesse White holding down FF, which could mean good things for Ed Barlow and Patrick Veszpremi… or not.

Finally, Chris Mayne has some small potential as a 2010 but only if he keeps it quiet in the last three games of this year, and Troy Chaplin has played loose man in defence in some games this year but there are big question marks over whether he will continue to be used that way.

There’s the regular captains segment, as m0nty finishes up his donut six-pack. He rides the sugar high long enough to go over the prize pack for the winner of this year’s AFL Finals Dream Team, which is just a little inferior to last year’s Toyota car. After that, he’s feeling less and less healthy…