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.
CB AFL Dream Team and SuperCoach Podcast #98: Pre-Round 10, 2010
Tonight Molly and m0nty are joined by special guest Kung Fu - last year’s 11th placer in Dream Team - who is an expert on talking trades, Crows and SANFL form.
Collingwood vs Geelong: Heath Shaw, Luke Ball, Scott Pendlebury, Joel Selwood, Andrew Mackie
Sydney vs Fremantle: Tadhg Kennelly, Adam Goodes, Kieren Jack, Michael Barlow, Aaron Sandilands, Kepler Bradley
North Melbourne vs Western Bulldogs: Brian Lake, Ryan Hargrave, Adam Cooney, Matthew Boyd, Ryan Griffen
Melbourne vs Port Adelaide: Jack Trengove, Tom Scully, Jack Grimes, Cameron Hitchcock, Jackson Trengove, Matthew Lobbe
Essendon vs Richmond: Ben Howlett, David Hille, Patrick Ryder, Angus Graham, Nathan Foley
Adelaide vs Brisbane: Patrick Dangerfield, Kurt Tippett, Richard Douglas, Chris Schmidt, Matthew Jaensch, Phil Davis, Ashley McGrath
Carlton vs Hawthorn: Chris Judd, Eddie Betts, Chris Yarran, Shaun Burgoyne, Cyril Rioli, Grant Birchall
West Coast vs St Kilda: Ben McKinley, Lenny Hayes, Rhys Stanley, Nick Heyne, Sam Gilbert
May 26th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
What’s with the coughing!
May 26th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
Sorry, I did try to mute myself. To be honest I haven’t listened back but I believe that my recording program honours that muting. How much coughing was there? As sort of suggested, I do have a cold and was coughing.
May 27th, 2010 at 1:39 am
KungFu was good listen to. Nice work. But yeah, cough button wouldn’t go astray.
May 27th, 2010 at 1:41 am
Ah, Nup, they coughing wasn’t muted. Straight bam down the mic.
May 27th, 2010 at 10:13 am
Holly crap! So, it seems that the recording software records the raw input on my end. You would notice that the others didn’t care and no one mentioned it on the night as I was muting it for Skype, the phone software we use.
The good news is that I should be able to edit it out. Will do that now.
May 27th, 2010 at 10:30 am
Holy crap! Holy Crap! My humblest appologies! That was disgusting! I have just listened to just my side, and man that was disgusting! Absolutely I needed the coughs and to be honest in many ways tried to make them as strong as possible when I thought I was muted to try and get through to the next bit of the others talking and that made it much worst!!!!
Have hopefully taken them all out and will try swapping the versions!
May 27th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
haha, I was wondering why the others didn’t mention the coughing, get better Molly!
Kung Fu should definitely do another show this year.
May 27th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Thanks disco. I have fixed it up (well most of it) and republished it.
May 27th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
hehehe.. yeah it did seem like you were trying hard to cough. No worries.
May 27th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Thanks all for pointing the problem out. Seeing as we had this issue this week, we will give you next weeks show free of charge!
May 27th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Are Kung Fu and Footylover18 the same person?
May 28th, 2010 at 1:09 am
Thanks for the positive feedback guys.
I can assure Happy Gilmore that FL18 and I are very much different people. Very amusing suggestion though. Take our trading strategies for example.
May 28th, 2010 at 4:42 am
Molly, molly, that was some of the nastiest coughs i have ever heard. I particularly enjoyed the coughing up of the phlegm….
Good to see you guys slowly starting to embrace David Hille as the true champion DTer that he is. Pity though that you are all too proud to admit the all premium ruck structure is overrated and each year there is almost always a good cheap ruck option
May 29th, 2010 at 6:29 am
Aden, it was digusting and worst when it was just me on the audio track (as I was cleaning it up).
On Hille, I definitely made a mistake. I was thinking back as to why the injury stopped me picking him and it was probably as much I was worried about him splitting time with Ryder and if he was going to spend too much time up forward. As it has turned out I was wrong. It would have been better to have Hille then Hmac indeed. Others of the midpriced Rucks have been a bit streakier though (Seaby good early, Nik Nats quiet off, etc).
I guess the good news for me is that I haven’t used any trades in my rucks and haven’t copped any donuts.
Molly
June 7th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
… and this discussion on hille is pretty funny now
June 7th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
PS: Monty - reasons why you’re right on the high priced ruck strategy:
1) very rarely will you have cover for short term injuries in the ruck. Whereas a STI might cost you 30 points or even less per game in another line, it will cost you the full output of the ruck most times.
2) Rucks get injured a lot. it’s better to have high priced players get injured than low priced players because injury-forced double trades are bad because it can muck your cash cow timing up.
3) There aren’t very many rucks to choose from. This is bad for two reasons. One, if your midprice “improver” turns out to be a spud, you don’t have any downgrade options who are playing to free up cash like you might in another line. You pretty much HAVE to double trade up. And your trade up targets are going to be thinner, meaning it’s harder to catch a true premium at the bottom of the rollercoaster at the right time. You might have half a dozen forwards on your upgrade watch list but only one or two rucks, and getting them at the right price at the right time can be really tough (see people scrambling to get Sandi @about $600K during the upgrade period a few weeks ago when injuries and bad form started happening to guys like seaby, jamar, luenberger, nic nat.
This is why getting a midprice/speculative ruck is different to getting a similar type player in any other line imo. This opinion has been generally justified this year I think and you’re absolute right in your ruck strategy.