Biggest Fantasy questions for the AAMI Community Series
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The transcription is a segment from an AFL Fantasy podcast where the hosts discuss what to watch for in the upcoming AFL Community Series pre-season games. The primary focus is on evaluating players for fantasy team selection ahead of the regular season. They emphasize that these games serve as a "dress rehearsal" where teams implement more serious structures, allowing observers to assess player roles, midfield combinations, ruck setups, and overall team pecking orders. Key players highlighted include Sam Walsh to confirm his midfield involvement, Sean Managh as a potential elite scorer, and Harry Rowston as a mid-priced option. The hosts also stress the importance of monitoring rookies and role players like Caleb Windsor and Matt Roberts, noting that while top-tier players may not exert full effort, confirming their expected roles and fitness is vital. The summary covers insights across multiple pre-season matchups, with the overarching goal being to gather actionable intelligence for locking in fantasy squads before round one.
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Especially when I'm saying you're on the same team. You're on the same team. Oh, yeah, okay. It got good feedback, dog. It's not out yet, is it? No, when is there? I'll just say all right. She ain't going to be good feedback. I think you will. You've got time to change. It'll be things. Coming off, do you? Like, the pressure is on you, because I reckon this is the first year. I didn't get bad feedback. It was like, oh, I can't believe I'm rolling that bad boy out. Well, I showed you a minute ago and you said it was okay. It was like, hey. You said it was okay. It's okay, because. It's misleading, but it's not directed at me. But anyway, it is the Amy Community Series. What are we looking for? What are the key things that we're looking at over these nine games, when they threw it a Sunday? We see the teams play. well, proper football now. It's not match-sim stuff. They're not stopping at the end of the game and going, all right. Let's have a scenario where we're down. We'll talk about points or anything like that. This is. well, Fair Dinkham, some things are still different. Of course. Of course, you've got extended squads. You're going to have players that will play half a game and things like that. But. What are we trying to watch? The next game is a real deal. So it's going to be. We're going to get a fair idea from most clubs. Okay. So we're looking at, like, role is probably the biggest thing, like, who's making up midfield mix. What rucks are actually going to start? I don't think we've ever had so many question marks about what rucks are going to. Start in the middle or stay in the middle, all those types of things. What ruckis are going to put their hand up to the point where they say, "You don't have a choice." Like you have to lock me in. And are they accumulating in that role? Yeah. We've got to remember, though, what Dane Swan says. Right? There is that. Yes. Yes. Good players don't try. Even in this one, he didn't pump 100 in these games. No. So we're going to go over a little 50, 60 and you shouldn't be too alarmed when you see the. No, it's not about the premiums. However, we want to see the premiums playing their roles. Yeah. Especially if there are question marks over some roles and what they might do because we're talking about some splits for some players. We probably want to see it more on the positive side of what we're expecting as well. That's the thing. Yeah. So, going back to what you said there about Swanee, we would still see him go and line up in the middle. If this wouldn't try in there. So we just need to see players of that caliber. Is there role? Yeah. What we expect it to be. And pecking orders the other thing. I think this gives us a better idea of where we've got players in the pecking order or clubs do, especially for these kids. Yes. That's probably what it's all about. Anyway, we're going to look at every game that we've got coming up and we're just going to give a point each. Yeah. Now, we've had our six clubs each to deal with over these abs. To deal with over these six pre-season. Yeah. We've started back in December boys with our club previews and all that sort of stuff. So we're going to look at our clubs that we've got in your question or what you're looking for or the thing that is most important for the game that they're playing. We'll go through in the games in order. So we're starting with the Wednesday night game, which is Carlton and Jelong. All right. I think you've got both of these teams right now. What do you have for it? What are the things that you are keeping your eye out for? We're starting on a high M. Which is all down here from there. Okay. So Sam Walsh is in the middle. Like, we know Sam Walsh is a midfielder but Carlton over the last few years, they're happy to push him to wings and flanks and things like that. He's had an uninterrupted pre-season. Sam Walsh with an uninterrupted pre-season and bulk CBAs is 110. And a headband? And a head. Yeah. 112. Yes. And Sam Walsh, and basically if he's in for bulk, he's in our teams. Okay. I also want to see when humans are if he's named, if he plays. Because I had him not playing opening round because I thought he was coming from a bit too far back. I'd be interested in that as well. Playing that way. That is where Phil Prackie is. Yes. So yeah. So it's about that underpriced pre-season. It is pretty much. Yes. While you're looking at it. What do you got for the cats then? Well, the cats, they're pretty irrelevant at the moment, to be honest, especially. From where I'm coming from, with my team makeup. But I am always interested in Sean Manard. Now he showed last year through a significant patch that he can score elite numbers. So I saw Miser's out injured at the moment. So in draft, if you want to quick start, Manard might even get a little boost. He could. He's one that honestly, if he comes out with a great role and then pumps out a good one opening round. He's one you would automatically start to consider. I think so. And Tana Bruins, and he's a very famous start other game with the illness. So hopefully we get to see what he could look like, because he would be, well, a nice cheap option. This morning. Sydney Swans and GWS play at 410 on Thursday afternoon. Sydney Cow, you are the Swans man. Expert. Sydney expert is what I'm labelled as now. Yep. Obviously Gordon's got the early boy. But we've all got him. Do you have him Roy? He's come in. Yeah, he has to. He just looks too good. He does. So he had 110 odd, half points. He's in the, in the max sim. So he's flying. Yeah. And you want that. So if you're taking on the early boy with a guy like him, you want him humming. Yeah. So I think he's proven that the other one I have a keep an eye on from the GWS is Harry Roaster and Harry. He's either one. He's either real deal for him. So he scored 90 odd in the max sim. And he's priced at about 52. So does he get a bump with all the outs that they've got? He could be that mid-priced player that he could be looking at. Like his price and average from last year is down because of all the. Well, this. So. And now they've got, we've already had a cheat code on him haven't we? Is a part of this worry though that like when Finn Callahan is back as well? Well, yes. Because we're not going to see him. It's got to be a slight concern, but I think Harry can do enough in that game. It's eyes on for sure. He could. he's my boy right. - You're still playing with this one. I'm out. - Now I'm out as well. - I'm out. - I'm out as well because it kicks four goals in the match him. Sitting deep forward. - It's amazing. I know I thought I'd bring him over to the list. But the day of the dawn of the lake they're extinct I think. - Yeah, I think he's right. - Well you didn't believe me and you didn't like it when. - I wouldn't love it. - I love it. I like it. - I like it. - I like it. - I'm, yeah. - So yeah, Brighese. - I think he could be gone. - I didn't win a hit out when he wasn't forward in the forward. - That's a problem. - They saved him. - Anyone, wonder watch. - All right, Brisbane against Gold Coast. Another opening round pair of teams here. As we sort of been seeing so far through this, except for the Blues Roy. But we've got Brisbane. - Yeah. - Okay, how you've been the expert there. What are you looking at here? - Hedy Coleman. - Mm. - He played. - Yeah. - Great. - Yeah. - That's a lot good stuff. - Yeah. - Good to have you out there again. But sitting as a forward isn't the role that we want him to have. Now, we still scored 70 on. In the match, see him, he took eight months. - Yes, right. - That looks great. - He's great. - He's good. - He looks great. But we need him back. We can't have him forward. So hopefully, whatever that was doing on that match. - Was that just a bit of running? - Yeah. - He likes to do that. - Yeah, I think it's, that's a worry. - There's a lot of mouse to feed in the back half. - He's only priced at 50 and he's playing for the Globe Trotters. - I know. So 70's enough. - And he is. 70's enough. - Gosh, he's a close watch here. - That'll be very much an opening round score. - I think that's still role. - I know. - If he gets those points. - Oh man. - Well, the role was not there. He scored well. He took eight months. He ticked a lot of boxes. But the role wasn't there. - You're right. - Go, so I finally got a team to look at that I looked at. So Zik Yuleen, probably the key there. We're just seeing if he's going to be an on field player. - That's it. - You know, because we're going to have him out. - Not a ranked number one on the rookie rankings in defense. But yeah, he's not necessarily a lock lock. - No. - And Petracker. What do we need to see? - Yeah, so that's another one. I hopefully will see the full list. - Yeah. - And we need to see, nice to be 50% plus. Now Matt Rouse out for a bit to start with. So I think he becomes behind Naur Anderson. That's where the mid clocks there. They've got that easy run to start the season. So you've got to remember that after Goulker, after sorry, Jolong in the first opening round game, they do go the Eagles, then the Tigers. - So Gwack. - It's just a, it's making that peak now. But I'll find the camera around. - Oh, as the right one. - Yeah, I think that's it too. - Yeah, that's going to be the watch on what that mid field looks like. - All right, let's look at Friday, Fuddy, and it is Melbourne and Richmond from, last day in that one, is this. - That's a double whammy for destroy. So Caleb Windsor, he's, so. - Socks down. - Oh, I know. - Well, that was a bit brutal. - That was brutal. - Yeah, a bit of clickbait. Yeah, that was a bit of a clickbait. You know, I'll take a bit of a whack here just to get people reading up it. Part of it was serious. - Yeah. - We say it's all about role. All about role for guys that you know can accumulate. - Okay. - Like, I need to see from him that he can actually rack up a bit. So I was watching thinking role first, and I liked what I saw in match scene. But then I was like watching these passages of play, like Link Up Chains, and I could see him there, and I'm like, what are you doing there? Like. - Which is completely opposite of the intro club game. - Yeah, exactly right. So which one is he? Is he an overreacting ideas of where he's at? Is he maximum impact or is he able to accumulate any impact? - Yeah. - I just want to see him in the middle again, except getting involved. Just rack up a few chapies. If he does, he'd be in for me, I reckon. - Okay. - Now, Laura, is the other one that I'm watching because at the moment I've got him locked into my forward line, and I've got high hopes because I've seen that number four on the bat that gets me excited. But I also, like he's style of play, the fact that he's got runs on the board as a kid. He's built to dominate. Now, is he going to be unleashed in the midfield? What are he splits like? Obviously, we didn't see much from him in match scene, but that was nothing to worry about. But now I will start to worry if I seem sitting in the goal square or not getting busy in the middle. - Yeah. - They're going to be interesting because there's actually some bodies there. You're throwing hot in as well. And then, he's the other part of these guys, just all those kids, how many can fit? - Yeah. - How many will be there for opening round one? Sorry for those guys. - Like I mean, surely, he bumps all of them. - Yes. - Oh, 100%. - If they want him in there, - Yeah, definitely. - The stage of his development, though. - And there's even guys like coming and gruel. Can we play those guys on field? So I'll be watching all of them, but Lawler, because he's more of an investment, he's the one that I'm watching the closest. - Yeah, I like that. - All right, Western Bulldogs play against Hawthorne. We know of all on the Friday night. Bulldogs, they've been my team. They're looking at them a lot. Enjoyed watching them the other day. Lucky Jacks, just 'cause he's come up, and Jacks, maybe if you wanted to get your friend Sean to California. - Oh, wee wee. - Hey, in the back line. We just want to see if that's real, and if he can have a spot there, because there are some spots open. - There is. - Off the back of things, but him, and I want to throw Buddha Rikki in there, is that sort of thing as well. Like, is that cheap before that some people have gone for? I don't think I'm going to play in those areas at the moment, but it's almost a bit of a combo with those two to see what's going on. Conjacks, get that game. Do we see Dale after hurting his knee last week? What that looks like? But Bulldogs are an opening round team, so there's a bit going to be learnt from that first game, so of the season. So yeah, that's going to be my Bulldogs watch. Otherwise, you sort of kind of know what's going on with those guys. - I think so. - They're pretty pretty. - We're looking at Frazier coming up. So if you've got your drafts and where that might put him on, you're rankings for the forwards, because I think he's going to get mid-clock, and I think he could actually be a little bit of a sleeper as such, just someone that's moving up your draft. - Yeah, good point. - Who looked at Hawthorne? - Me. - That was destroyed. - C-Mac, so obviously was a buzz name through all of pre-season, even from what December when spots kept opening up week by week in the Hawthorne midfield, and he was someone that we know has been able to do it in the past and everyone's been speculating that he'd do it to start the season. In the match, he was in there enough. He actually played quite well in that. And thing I like about him as well, he does accumulate marks around the ground. So he did both of those to be the top scorer in that match. Now, if he's playing more than 50% in the midfield, and you know, do anything with that five plus marks, rack 'n' up 20 plus touches, he's got to be well and truly in the mix. That gets near close to a lock, I reckon, I need 50%. - Yep. - Because he's not going to be in the top three. - Midfielders for them. - Yeah, okay. Who is? - Oh, well, you'd have to be going nuke. - Yes. - Ward, I reckon. - Yeah, Ward's there. - And then it's going to be like your Nash type, I think he actually becomes that third guy. - Man, that's a weak midfield, isn't it? - Oh yeah, they know that Zach Merritt. - I do. - I don't want to go there. - So he's not a 50% guy. - I think he can still be. I think even as the fourth banana, he can be. - Yeah. - The fourth. - Is he more on the ball? - On the ball realistic. 40. - Yeah, is that what he did in that other game? - It was about a ball. - It would have been a ball in the hand. - Yeah. - And still scored a time. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And he's got only shots of doing. - And he certainly won't be watching that. - Are you guys concerned that we've gone halfway through these games and nearly all the players were looking at the mid process? - Well, that's what this is about. - I know, but we're not looking at it. - You know what I'm saying? - This is why we end up with bad status. - I'm just saying, we're all looking at these mid-price guys that well, very rarely actually pay off. - We know what we're gonna get from the top guys. - Yeah. - The rookies obviously, a little bit out of our hands, but we're watching there. - He really wants to get in the look at Cal. - He really wants to get to see the error good or not. (laughing) - Thanks for putting that one in the right account. - He's error. - I'm just saying. - I can't. - Just a little alarm went off in my head. - It's content Cal. - Yeah, no, I get it. (laughing) - Who we got there? - Kielder and Esset and Play. - They both teams. - I've got an on looking forward to seeing you. I'm watching this one from Marst Daniel at 310 B.M. All right, some Kielder. There's a fair bit there because they're gonna be one of the more relevant teams. I think most of us have got three, four, very much on the radar in our squads. We've got our lock there in Flanders and that doesn't change. I don't think, actually, I don't think anything that happens in that game changes. - No. - If he plays in the midfield deck, he'll be then flows back tick. But he's made in the midfield, it's the poo. I reckon he, he unlocks a fair bit in our four ones, if you can whack him in there. So he did tick boxes as a midfielder in the match team. So scored well. Let's hope that he gets that and gets through as well. 'Cause he's probably being part of an issue with that. So that's there. And then, yeah, I think we're just, we're picking him if he is getting some midfield clock and that's part of his role. - Great. - It's a unlocking gift at the moment. It is really back to the drawing board if we lose someone like him that we're so confident. - Yes, big time. - Another one that unlocks things is where I reckon in the midfield is Carol as one of those mature age as such. Cash cows that we can be looking at that we talked about in that last episode. But how that looks, we've seen Claire, what that looks like. Easy gonna be there for opening round. But probably more importantly round one. 'Cause he could be there for opening round and suck and then be dropped for that next game. So yeah, we'll be watching that one fairly closely and then flicking to the bombers. It's gonna be, I guess the rookie watch. 'Cause they've got some that we wanna have. Think Farrow, Sharp, they're the ones that are probably the borderline guys. And can they play in this game to give themselves a chance to be there for round one against Hawthorne? And then it's just Blackistan just to go, yep, we're doing that. There's no issues. - Pretty much your opportunity to get to know Blackie. - Yeah, 'cause she probably don't know what he looks like. - And you see what he looks like running around. - Yes. - Leaping everywhere because he's good. - Who's that? - Gotta get to know him. - If you wanna get in on a relationship with him. - This is the Tomter's work. - Yep. - All right, we are gonna then look on Saturday night and that is at Free Manel and Adelaide. So, Free-O. - Free-O Roy. I need to see what's happening with LJ. - Well, he is, isn't it? - We's trained up as a midfielder, yada, yada, yada. I watch Match-Sim where I think, well, you might as well give him the run as the midfielder that he's training, but he played rock. - They just did a normal rock share of him in Cox. - Now, they said it was about getting run into his legs, like playing, it was about actual conditioning that they like to say. - Which, I mean, I thought you'd get a bit of that as a midfielder. - As a midfielder, you would. - You would, so. - Maybe that's probably how much they didn't respect Coxy to be the rock midfielder. - Well, they-- - They were jacks and in the midfielder. - Well, yeah, possibly. So, anyway, that role that he had, I loved that. - Yep. - If that looks like being, you know, round one, I could not say no to that, especially like-- - Sounds like Darcy's gonna be there for this week, though. Sounds like they're gonna-- - That's really, so it's a massive watch for me. - It's a big J. - Because I'm interested in LJ if he's playing midfielder. I'm interested in LJ if he's playing rock. I'm not interested if he's getting shifted. - He feels like that safe rock that we should go with when there are all these unknowns in this. - Yeah, yeah. - That's where we are. - Look at that, you're a crow's cow. We're talking rocks here as well. - Rocking against them. - This could be our one and our two. - I'll tell you what, not as silly as it sounds. - Well, that being the team reveal. - Lucky McAndrew. - Leaping lucky. - Leaping lucky. - 211 centimeters of him. - Yeah. - We'll be Adelaide's number one man. - Yes. - With Dona saw Riley out of the picture. - We'll-- - He's gone. - We'll probably get to play in this game. - No. - I don't think he doesn't play. Then this is where the R2s go. - Look, you are saying now, you could have him at R2. Next to Exeri, next to Speaking O English, next to Jackson. You could really look, there is so much uncertainty around these rocks. So we're not gonna pay up for it. We've got a guy here who could be the number one rookie, prize rookie in the game, as a rock. You do not get more access to the ball than the very first hit, right? - That's true. - Especially when he can jump, too. - No, he can, he doesn't need to. He's 211 centimeters. So this is gonna be a big one because this will change the structure of everybody's time. - Yeah, true. - Structure. - Yeah. - Rookie's ticked out, he's structured. - He's right, too. - This team reveal. - Yeah, well, you've got to say that. - And I don't-- - I can't wait for people to say this. - That's gonna be a handy one. - As if you're gonna do that. - I will be doing it. - Sunday, we've got our last day of the Amy Fuddy with North Melbourne against Colin Wood. Kale, you're the North Melbourne man. You're not gonna see your boy, Kale, be though, because of that thumb figure, whatever it was. - It's a thing, but you'll be fine. - Are you guys still got him in? - Yes, he's fine. - I do. - Do you? - Yeah, but should we be concerned? - No. - Well, I've got a bit of a rule that I've started to bring in the last few years about having a good run at it. - Yeah. - But the finger doesn't count. - No, he can still-- - He's still run, he's still-- - Yeah, he's fine. - He's still gonna find it. - Still zippy. - He's still zippy, drop the grotto. - All right, you know what I'm watching in this? - What are you watching, Kale? - So after I watched the match, Sim, - Yeah. - Hard watch X-erie. - Oh. - Okay, that's what I'm calling it, right? - It was. - He got absolutely flogged. - Who's he? - What, Max Heath? - Your man. - Leaping Max, that's called-- - Oh, is he your man? - Which one? - Why was he your man? - He's my man as well. - Just any st-- - Any ruckus my man, right? - He's picking up third string out. - So he got beat. So X-erie, only scored 62 out in that match, Sim, right? - 35% ownership. - I'm calling out free-roll. - Oh, he's a free-roll. - Right? I just don't know. After watching it, I was like, I don't think we can have him. - No, what about his run to start the year again? - His gray run, and there could be some big scores in that. But-- - He's got Flinny, he's got Blacky. - But we often fall, yeah, but we often find that games are really fast at the start of the year, and it slows down as the year goes on. - Yeah. - This is not the time. - The thing is, and we've said this probably even last year, or probably, you know, the tackles aren't sustainable. - No. - Where they weren't last year. - No. - But then it just makes it harder for him now, doesn't it? - It does. - You think about, they want this big, you know, spectacle of a hit out at the start. - Yep. - Think about when X and Pidot face off. (laughing) - Well, that footage look like. - Yep. - Oh my god. - So I'm just saying, he sits in, you know, high percentage of teams. - Yeah. - And I'm starting to go cool. - Hey. - Who he been in your team reveal? - Hey, tune in, young. - Oh, tune in. - Where is it? It's coming out later this morning. - It's coming. I don't know when it was. - Look, he's, I think he's going to be fine, but how it, fine's not okay for that price. - No. - It comes Friday for those asking, no, is it? - Yeah, it's Friday. - Yeah. - I'm not jumping. - I'm jumping for something else. - DJ's is showing. - DJ wants to jump. - Bump is a little rolling blog. - Yep. - Just that's good just quietly. - He had to be clicking on that. - Yeah. - I was prefer to read that. - Anyway, so hard watch exerries. - All right. - The one I'm watching. - The pies. - The pies haven't been a super relevant team for us this year, either, but my watch is going to see them as hopefully a more complete team to see what it might look like for that midfielder. It's probably, like for example, Josh Daykos. Does he play that midfielder role? Does that, and then does that, you know, open up Houston, I don't know. - Oh, maybe it's like a traffic. - He's sort of draft thinking there with that one, but it's probably that midfielder's world. DeGoey was the sort of permanent number one banana midfielder. Obviously Nick comes in after his origin, Tom offers that last game, but DeGoey is one that I keep picking up late in mock drafts, but also in real drafts, because I think he's one of those guys. - That's a good one. - This should be pretty right with that midfielder time, and you know, does that mean angry Anderson? - Oh, that's a bad for glory. - Yes, yes. - Anyway, all right, let's go into the last game, which is West Coast and Port Adelaide. West Coast, I've got them, because I really enjoyed them. - Of course you did. - No, they're a good team. They are relevant for us to be looking at. - Well, the SportsBet AFL same-game multi, combined multiple legs for bigger odds. How about Smith, 28 plus disposals? Gorn, 40 plus hit outs, and Cameron, two plus goals. Lock it in with SportsBet, conditions apply. - Chances are you're about to lose. - I'll bounce off a couple. - There's plenty of on the calf. - Tom McCarthy in the midfield, that's real. What that means for his scoring is probably my question, though. I think that he can, because he has now had a preseason. - Yeah, agree. - We've an AFL club, because he was that midseason draft D. Yes, we like the half-back row, but can he do that in the guzz? It sounds like he's there. It's him and Harley, other two first two. Then the question is, who's next? Like that's the stacked midfield. But, you know, are we getting a roll through there of Dev? - I think so. - That's what we want to see. Tim Kelly, where is he at in this high-pecking order of a team? - Yeah, we'll be straight in there. - Yeah, we've sort of been at half-fourton to the mid. I think they'll talk on a schmucky too, like they'll probably rest him a little bit with that easy-mean. But he was great. - The first throw-up of the season. - Oh. - The top. Sorry. (laughing) - Yo, he's got to be in there. - Yes. - Yeah. - Gonna have some intimidation. - You do. - You do. - Yeah, so yeah, Wesco's gonna be a big watch and then see, can we see enough of a score even from your Dersmer or CDT to go? Yeah, I'm comfortable having those guys in the side despite their sort of elevated, a rookie price and the thing. So there is a bit there to watch for Wesco's turn. Finish this off, Cal. What are you looking at for port? - Adelaide. - Look, Miles Bergman. - In your team at the moment, or out? - Out. - Out? - Dog? - I don't think I've really edited it. - Of course. - So he's there. - Cool, hot, cool, hot, back and forth. So he just needs 50% mid-time is the number I'm looking for. - So the role was there. - Yes. - But he didn't score, man. - No, that's okay. - He didn't score many hefs. - But did he care? - No, he didn't care. - Is he like? - He'd be like, "Needs do?" - But he's maybe not in his head. Maybe he's got swag. - He's arrogant. - Yeah, I don't know. - He could grow beef. - So he gets to eat percent, he's the father of the effector. - Yeah. - I'm coming back in. - That is. - Yeah. - I'm Isberg at the moment. - Are you? - I want him to change my opinion. - Well, that's the thing he could use. He only got West Coast. And he gets 50%, he could go one ten in this. And everyone just goes, "Right, I'm back hot again." - He looked in good spots and the things he did were good in there. - Yep. - I just didn't do it very often. - No, well, 45 hefs is all he got. - That's not enough. - No. - So I think in this one, I think he puts his hat back in the ring. - Do you? - Yes, he does. - Okay. - Yep. - You'll be hot after this one. - All right. - Not ice. - No. - Well, that's our little preview. We thought we'd just whack something out there because we're looking at these. We probably could have had a lot more names as well. - Oh, cool. - So go through your list. Have your little favorite stars on who you're looking at. But remembering these games that we do get to see live stats, also then things like the time on ground and our official CBAs and things like that will actually help us make some decisions here. Again, you still gotta be aware of who's there and who's not there. The time on ground will help you understand that as well, but seeing how much of a game some players play, such and such as a big second half. But it's because of rested. That's the key man in the middle in that time and those sorts of things. That's the stuff that we're looking at. But we'll be back on Monday with a wrap up. With all of these games and that will be a must listen. - A humding. - Just like all of these podcasts, our ITs, what we are. - Lying boys. - But this is some good info. - There's not that much is left, but no. - The summary of that. - The noble four lot. - That'll turn up to 11. - It will, that will. - It will, without a doubt. - It'll be good. Anyway, you can catch all of that on afl.com.au or the afl live app. Make sure you're checking out the match reports 'cause there will be the fantasy temp to section in there with a couple of names that will be worth keeping you on with a little bit of a fantasy take on those things and stay on across social media 'cause there'll be plenty of info there at afl.com, fantasy on x and Instagram. And then you'll be able to find it on Facebook as well. But boys, buckle up. - We've got some nosy. - We're starting to do over these next few days and good luck to everyone else with their things and we'll see you on the other side of this and see what we might've learned. And in the brain, we've got drafts and stuff. - Oh, we've got a big way. - Big way. - Exciting. All right, thanks for tuning in. - You're so, you're so. - You've been listening to the official afl fantasy podcast for more expert advice from the traders head to afl.com.au/fanski. (crowd cheering)
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The AFL Community Series (pre-season games) is a key opportunity to assess player roles, team structures, and pecking orders before the regular season.
Focus is on observing specific players for fantasy team selection, particularly their midfield roles, scoring potential, and whether they are "locks" for round one.
Key player watches include Sam Walsh (Carlton) for midfield time, Sean Managh (Geelong) for elite scoring potential, Harry Rowston (GWS) as a value pick, and Lachie Neale (Brisbane) to confirm his role.
Other notable mentions involve rookies and mid-priced players like Caleb Windsor (Melbourne), Finn Callaghan (GWS), and Matt Roberts (Hawthorn), whose performances could dictate their fantasy relevance.
The discussion emphasizes that while star players may not try for high scores in pre-season, confirming their expected roles and fitness is crucial for fantasy drafting.
Summary:
The transcription is a segment from an AFL Fantasy podcast where the hosts discuss what to watch for in the upcoming AFL Community Series pre-season games. The primary focus is on evaluating players for fantasy team selection ahead of the regular season. They emphasize that these games serve as a "dress rehearsal" where teams implement more serious structures, allowing observers to assess player roles, midfield combinations, ruck setups, and overall team pecking orders.
Key players highlighted include Sam Walsh to confirm his midfield involvement, Sean Managh as a potential elite scorer, and Harry Rowston as a mid-priced option. The hosts also stress the importance of monitoring rookies and role players like Caleb Windsor and Matt Roberts, noting that while top-tier players may not exert full effort, confirming their expected roles and fitness is vital. The summary covers insights across multiple pre-season matchups, with the overarching goal being to gather actionable intelligence for locking in fantasy squads before round one.
FAQs
A same-game multi allows you to combine multiple betting legs, like player disposals or goals, into one bet for higher odds.
Focus on player roles, especially midfield mixes and ruck setups, to see if premiums are playing expected roles and to gauge pecking orders for rookies.
With an uninterrupted pre-season and bulk center bounce attendances, Sam Walsh has strong fantasy scoring potential, making him a lock if his role is confirmed.
Rowell is underpriced due to last year's average, and with team outs, he could see increased midfield time, making him a potential mid-priced option.
Coleman is priced low but played as a forward in pre-season; fantasy players need him in a defensive role to maximize his scoring potential.
Windsor's role is crucial; fantasy players need to see if he can accumulate possessions in the midfield rather than just having impact moments.
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