One of the things I have been really happy with on FanFooty is how you fans out there have embraced commenting on this blog. It always pleases me when posts get 100+ comments. For a while I’ve been toying with the idea of “open threads” - where I just let you lot chat amongst yourselves. I have noticed how a lot of comments are just questions about player choices, and while I try to answer them when I can, there’s only so much of that I can do before my brains start dribbling out of my ears.

Okay, so with that in mind, last week Molly and I managed to get all the gremlins out of our systems on the Coaches Box podcast for the Round 1 episode, which was freakin’ awesome if I do say so myself, and Molly has posted all the info about tonight’s live show. As you may know, the format of the show is centred around a review of the previous week’s games with focus on a small group of players in each game, working from a list I compile based on who I think are the players that fantasy coaches are thinking about this week. So why not ask you directly?

What I would like you to do is ask all your burning fantasy questions in the comments on this thread, which will give me an idea of who we should be talking about on the show. I can’t promise to go through all the A vs B choices - especially not the A vs B vs C vs D ones! - but hopefully what we do say about individual players will give you some ideas. Also, if you think you want to call in directly on the show, let us know so we can test out the system before the show kicks off. Get commenting!

The new address for the Coaches Box podcast is now www.coachesbox.com.au. I think the blog theme might change a bit and we’ll add a few more features, but for now you’ll find the all-important Coaches Box RSS feed there to plug into your iPod, Zune or podcast reader.

Phillip Molly Malone and me, Paul Montgomery, are teaming up to produce an AFL fantasy football podcast called The Coaches Box. It will get its own site in due time but here’s a direct link to the pilot episode.

After yakking for a bit about the recent server issue on FanFooty and then remembering to introduce ourselves, Molly and I lay out our Dream Team lineups, muse about how many trades that DT/SC coaches should be burning right now, discuss whether the AFL will have to adopt NFL-style policies to force teams to give more injury information about their players and stop them making late teamsheet changes, mention grimlock’s excellent FFGenie program for calculating price fluctuations, chew over how to choose your captain, talk a bit about the horror that is AFL.com.au, go through the Boys On The Bubble for round 4 one by one, and disclose that we’re both Hawk supporters. Sprinkled in the discussion are opinions on over 50 AFL players, including Justin Koschitzke, Warren Tredrea, Luke Ball, Marc Murphy, Bryce Gibbs, Robert Campbell, Simon Taylor, Nigel Lappin and Richard Hadley.

We hope to get listeners involved and do live shows in future, as well as get some more guests involved… including some secrets from some EliteDre@mTe@mers!