I am guessing Yarran is still sore. Is he likely to be in round 2?

why is Walker the big news?

going to be interesting when carazzo and nick stevens come back.

How long do you think the browne experiment will last??? Hes very skinny young ruckmen.. Doubt he’ll will play heaps this year.

JB, Yarran is apparently not fit enough yet.
read that in some article on afl.com i think.

said yarren will play first few rounds in VFL.

Browne only really has to do better than Graham at the moment with Pattison injured.

no angus graham?

what do people think would be a better choice for bench forwards: Garlett or Hogan?

mmm thought hampson would play over jacobs, ah well saves me 10 grand.

Hey monty… how long do you think garlett can stay in the blues 22 for?? There isnt much point putting him in if he get replaced a couple of weeks in to the season. Am i correct in saying that yarren will be fighting for garlett’s spot over the next few weeks?

what is wrong with cotchin? any tips for a middie around $300,000 to start in my 22 week 1?

so do the rest of the lineups come out at 5pm tomorrow?

Hey, Aaron Joseph will get the run with role. Do you see that happening all year?

That’s right Garreth, and so begins the 160 minutes of malestrom….

so fev is named: who should i pick as no 3 forward between the fev and s.johnson???
my thinking is johnson can get his own touches in a game giving consistancy and fev relys on the midfield but can score big ones when carlton are firing…

No Rance is disappointing too. Is anyone looking at making a change to ensure a benched point scorer for rd1?

fishtaylor: brent rielly in SC. i have him!

err… waite is half forward… not half back… interesting. Does anyone know if waite played up forward anytime last season, and if he did, was his performance good?

how close were you monty?

gerry01: pretty close! The Browne/Graham decision was changed in the last week or two due to training form, otherwise I had Richmond down pat. Carlton was a bit harder to pick and I didn’t think they’d go with so many youngsters, plus I hadn’t heard Walker wouldn’t come up.

good job. i was using those drafts heaps and you getting that close makes me stress less for the rest of my decisions

looks dicey gents I think Dan Browne is writing a best seller cracking this code, Robinson and perhaps Jacobs for me. the rest are so unpredictable

Re: fishtaylor - Cotchin has achilles tendonitis and won’t make the seniors until Round 5 or 6 at the earliest.

no walker? what’s wrong with him.

No Brad Fisher named either…

does cash not spent before rd 1 carry over into the main season??? this is for SC…

Walker as an emergency? I don’t need this crap from Ratten. He’s fit or he isn’t.

Cousins in forward pocket????

thats really awkward if i have him in midfield and doesnt get much on ball time

aaron joseph brought in to play on cuz - good luck son

why play Graham through all pre season and now slot in Browne after they both had similar games last week???

I thought Graham was a 3-4 week lock in

walker is very very suspicious

Fev was always gonna play

I’m a carlton supporter and he never misses a big game

monty, who do u see going out of the carlton team once walker, stevens, carrazzo an probably grigg are back in the team?

how many people are swapping yarran for garlett ?????

Good question pnut. Joseph would be out for Grigg, if not sooner. Russell would be out for Carrazzo. Wiggins out for Walker. As for Stevens, he would replace Hadley or Robinson I think, depending on form.

i need some more SC and DT leagues to join

Hmm.. i’m starting a rookie.

Walker and Brown are locked in and the third spot i’m not sure about. Garlett or Hogan are favourites now.

Monty, who do you see as playing more games?

monty - based on your last comment, Jacobs seems to be the only rookie worth having.

I have to say that I’m sick and tired of looking at my squad; re-jigging it and the re-jigging it again! I just had a final look and barring any major changes it stays as it is…..

Gone with Ballantyne on my bench as I reckon he’ll come straight in when he is ready if he is not right for this week or next. Also gone with Broughton & L.Anthony on my bench and have taken a risk with L.Henderson.

Re: Sam

Im in the exact same position as you with the rookies, either Garlett or Hogan…

Would love to go Hogan coz the kid will do well but can he break into the cats side, i have my doubts…

Monty, any ideas?

@ Pete.
Yes it does mate.
You can keep savings in the bank for use when trading later if you wish.
No more than $50,000 tho. m0nty note: that is wrong, you keep all your cash.

Hogan is in my team at the moment. I want to sort it out tonight because i am at uni all day tomo and don’t want to risk a trade during the maelstrom!

Monty, PLEASE HELP!!

“james Says:
How long do you think the browne experiment will last??? Hes very skinny young ruckmen.. Doubt he’ll will play heaps this year.”

Skinny? Your kidding right!!

He’s 105kg and the heaviest player on Richmond’s list so I don’t know where you got your information from mate.

when is coughland expected to come in to the team?

it’s gonna be a hard one to tip, i rekon the tigers might have the edge at the moment

John.. i didnt know that.. I have just seen two pictures of him and was comparing him to graham.. Just found it strange why chose graham over him.. being younger and both delivering similar performances in the NAB matches.. guess it came down to Training form.

monty, when is cougland and rance expected to play, if at all??

Since when are you capped at having only $50,000 left in the bank? I can’t see that in any of the rules.

Sam Jacobs or Andrew Browne?

@ James

True, I thought Graham would play instead of him. I didn’t really know anything about Browne.

That $50k thing is wrong, you get all the cash you leave in your kitty at round 1.

Benii, I reckon he meant only having $50,000 leftover in the bank just as a recommendation. You can leave as much there as you please, but it’s probably best to spend as much as you can to improve your squad. Up to you of course, some people like to have money ready for their first trade.

no brad fisher?

Monty - whats the news at Hawthorn with the kids - thorp/whitecross/suckling & some others.

Is is a point that it doesnt really matter, because as the seniors trickle back in, they’ll drop one by one ?

Sucklings PS form looks to be the best of the bunch.

Thanks

does anyone think that grimes is worth puting on the bench for a few weeks. does anyone have new info on the injury? 2 weeks maximum????

@ Pete & Monty,

Sorry if you misunderstood what i was trying to say.
I was just recommending that if you leave more than $50K or so in the bank you may not have used your funds to their full potential.
I was not at anytime trying to suggest that it was s/c regualtion that you could keep $50K max.
I had a guy in my office put together his squad and had 4-5 million left bcoz he thought the game was about making a squad with as much money left over as possible.
Apologies if i lead you up the garden path.

@ DC
You were spot on mate, thanks for the support there.

Sweet thanks Brad.
yeah i have 37 k remaining in a squad i am pretty happy with and was unsure if it would go to waste.

Should i name Scarlett as my captain this week… because Hawthorn always kick it to Franklin so Matty wil surely get alot of kicks too. Or would it be better to name a midfielder, maybe Judd or Cousins??

Monty are you gunna be putting the teams on here as soon as they are availible tomorrow?? If not does anyone know the best place to see them??

Would be a gutsy move to make scarlet captain Rupert.. Midfielders are probly your best bet or look for gun players playing crap teams.. Im leaning towards port players this week cause i think they will smash essendon

I suggest keeping at least 200k in the bank for the start of the season to give you flexibility to jump on anyone who bursts out of the blocks early.

I used to keep 10%, ie 1 million in supercoach for upgrades early, especially if you haven’t seen many preseason matches. It allows you to hop on or off anyone for almost the entire year without having to forcibly trade down for money.

It dosent really affect your average that much, but your swings are bigger, you’ll prob do better in you league but worse with overall ranking with this system.

Just pointing out that keepin cash in the bank is a viable tactic.

“It dosent really affect your average that much”

Maths not your strong point?

If you keep $1m in the bank you’re average will be less as your scoring potential will be less. Even $200k will make a significant difference.

Not true Cam… If you find a $200000 player that averages the same as a $400000 your average is the same but youve got $200000 in the bank… Find a few of them and you have a tidy bank account. I started with $800000 in the bank last year and came 39th overall in supercoach.

cicjose, get johnson and fev. good prices both

Flash: yes, I will be posting teams here as soon as I can get them. I will also be doing a live video podcast starting around 4:30pm tomorrow which will take us through much of the 160 minutes of madness, at the least until all the teams are in (and until the VS servers melt).

Also I will be doing v8 of my teams projections this evening.

Also I will be doing v8 of my teams projections this evening……..

MONTY - its 2am in the morning there right?
When u say this evening, do you mean now as in early bloody morning, or are you talking about Thursday night mate ?

Tks…

Actually it might be in the morning because I have been fighting with the podcast MP3 and now I’m tired. :/

@ Pete,
Obviously there are mixed opinions about how much cash to leave in the bank.
I personally think $200k is way too much but if you are happy with your squad and you have $37k left over then there is no need to make any changes anyway.
Good luck.

For all those wondering on Hogan, this is from the AFL website…

As a sign of how fierce Friday night will be, Geelong will play no first-gamers.

“It’s our first game, we’re playing a team that’s a good team, that we really want to do well against, I don’t think throwing them in against a team like Hawthorn is necessarily a good thing,” Thompson said.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/73725/default.aspx

Love all the banter guys. Anyone looking to join in some more are welcome to join our DT league - 721032. The guys are keen footy fans - we’ll see if their DT passion meets the footy passion. Good luck to all this season!

I’m hoping we get some selection news through the day so we’re not all trying to swap rookies during the maelstrom.
Any spots left in SC leagues?

cousins or tarkyn lockyer

arrrg im in a situation, dont know which to pick as they are almost identical in price

All depends on cousins’ fitness ax. Lockyer will play 22 for OK scores but if the little cokehead gets his motor running - look out. I’m taking a risk on the crack whore.

“In brighter news for the Roos, draftees Liam Anthony and Jack Ziebell will debut in the side’s season opener against Melbourne at the MCG on Sunday.

‘It’s a real look to the future,’ coach Dean Laidley said. ‘I think [supporters] will be really excited to see those two take the field.’”

-AFL.com

No… way…

@ Nick

Don’t believe him! He is the father of lies!

He would have been lynched if Anthony and Ziebell didn’t play round 1, that’s not the point. WHAT ABOUT ROUND 2 DEAN? That’s his trick (see also Thompson, Scott).

Mark Harvey confirmed Hill will be in the 25 but refused to confirm he will be in the 22. Great mindgames there Harvs. For your next trick, confirm that Pavlich will be in the team but refuse to confirm what position he’ll play, that’ll learn ‘em.

662443 is e good league with some spots left if anyone wants to join…supercoach that is…cheers

[...] only team we have on Wednesday is the Tigers v Blues game. A huge crop of five fantasy rookies have been picked, including Andrew L. Browne for the [...]

VS server is looking very very shakey already and it is only 12:30pm.
Best of luck to anyone who decides to make a change after the team sheets come out.
You could be risking the biggest fattest krispy kreme doughnut of em all if you decide to make changes after 5:00pm today.
BEWARE.

Ok the afl server is now kaput at 1.01pm.

May god have mercy on our souls.

Good luck to all….

Wow DT is S. T. Ruggling already! SC has been fine and is usually always is though.

sorry guys but i cant handle too much work …… i know i am the official server for the dream team , please do not ring the switchboard as that is closed as well. good luck next year suckers

Is DT Talk workin for you guys??? Mine says account suspended” or something. The DT world is falling apart!!! Still got FanFooty though.

LMAO now thats seriously funny but when you consider the fact that it supposed to be for $50k !!

its 2009 and the AFL website still allows us all to access via their 56k server

AFL dreamteam is a shambles

gerry01: pretty close! The Browne/Graham decision was changed in the last week or two due to training form, otherwise I had Richmond down pat.

Monty - didn’t you have cousins missing a while ago!

Yes Michael, but I did change that in the most recent version.

Does anyone know if Wade thomson has been promoted off the rookie list yet?

Does anyone have any ideas who to go for out of Harry Taylor or Ryan Houlihan, having some second thoughts about having taylor in my team!!!!!

Anyone would think that we were just about to land at Omaha Beach 1944, such is the anxiety & fear in the room.
I can hear fantasy coaches vomiting all over their lounge rooms as they naviagte through the swells and getting ever so close to the shore line only to be greated by the deafening sounds of servers crashing.

Is Fevola playing?

Taylor/Houlihan…..Dew/Rioli

Monty… no version 8 of the teams?

Fevola is playing.

Good luck tonight, Monty. With the DT site crumbling, DT Talk KO’d, how do you think your site will cope? Every man and his dog will be using you Live Scores feature tonight.

Remember in the NAB Cup, there was a game where scores kept reverting back to the 17 minute mark in the 1st Quarter? And everyone kept hassling you? But it wasn’t your fault, it was GameDay/Champion Data, which you feed through. If they struggled with traffic in the NAB Cup, what’s it going to be like tonight in the sold out blockbuster, season opener?

pleasee tips hahah, im desperatee

Batesy: sorry, I didn’t find the time.

Spike: That is what has occupied me today, getting our ducks in line for tonight.

Monty - preseason over. Job well done. Thank-you. Your posts and speculation have helped me greatly and left me feeling very comfortable with my team.

Best of luck through the season, both with the site and your team.

Pump - Houlihan over Taylor - better bargain.

Then use the money you saved to upgrade Rioli/Dew to someone better if you can.

If not, take Rioli.

Awesome. Unfortunately I’ll be working when the game is on, so I’m going to miss all the fun.

I know some of us are going to be interested in your progress during the year too. Are you going to keep a round by round blog with your team, trades, overall rank and progress etc…? Any chance of an appearance on a DT Talk episode in the future? =)

Haha gold Brad, thats exactly the vibe im getting too

577960

2 places left in a serious league any1 can join

Anyone with spares league spots in SC?

Wade Thompson has definitely been elevated by Port Adelaide.

Spike: I will certainly blog throughout the year. As for a DT Talk appearance, you never know.

supercoach league 300484
Wade definetly upgraded

A warning: do not trust random commenters with injury news just before lockout.

Yeah we all remember the idiots last year

Footy’s here!!!!

I love the desperado’s begging for last minute help.

Monty, congrats on your efforts so far - awesome.

To the rest of you punters, while every DT site in the country is crashing (except FF), enjoy the next few minutes before mayhem.

Peace homes.

it wont matter with the last minute bogus injury news monty as you can’t even open the afl dream team site.

i copied my Dream Team from someone at work, went with jesse white in the ruck over simmonds.

S/C website is holding up pretty well at the moment.

Monty - Thank you so much for all your hard work over the last couple of months, without your help the summer period would of been very sad indeed. Keep up the great work and good luck for the season !!

collingwood team out beams emergency, no steele sidebottom

No Broughton either! Not even in the 25…

this is my first year doing SC, and i’ve seen posts saying that the heraldsun website gets pretty busy, but this is crazy can anyone make changes to their team at all? I think I’m going to be stuck with quite a few players who wont play this week.

Cheers Monty

These servers are an absolute joke!!!

Hey Monty.

I think you got the last laugh on the “Cousins for round 1″ saga after all!

Monty - from New York City - many thanks for your blogs/insight/humor over the last few months leading up to that crazy 160 minutes last night, followed by Cousins torn hammy….poor bastard.

As a newbie to this site, but not SC - I’m assuming that your around all season right to help us poor lost souls?

Certainly some surprises at the selection table last night - had many coaches punching their computer screens - and that was before they tried to log onto SC - which basically fizzled out like a lame duck.

No live SC scores this year it seems huh?
I guess the AFL does wield the power by only promoting live DT scores…..or is this a Champion Data decision?

Again thanks - could NEVER have put together an semi-decent without you.

Best, SimonOz