The teams for the first game of the 2009 AFL home & away season include five fantasy rookies.
Richmond
B: Chris Newman, Kelvin Moore, Andrew Raines
HB: Joel Bowden, Luke McGuane, Jordan McMahon
C: Shane Edwards, Shane Tuck, Matthew White
HF: Nathan G. Brown, Matthew Richardson, Jack Riewoldt
F: Ben Cousins, Jay Schulz, Richard Tambling
Foll: Troy Simmonds, Brett Deledio, Nathan Foley
Int: Will Thursfield, Andrew L. Browne, Mitch Morton, Daniel Jackson
Emg: Andrew Collins, Dean Polo, Alex Rance
Carlton
B: Paul Bower, Michael Jamison, Aaron Joseph
HB: Jordan Russell, Bret Thornton, Heath Scotland
C: Kade Simpson, Marc Murphy, Chris Johnson
HF: Ryan Houlihan, Jarrad Waite, Jefferey Garlett
F: Cameron Cloke, Brendan Fevola, Eddie Betts
Foll: Matthew Kreuzer, Bryce Gibbs, Chris Judd
Int: Richard Hadley, Sam Jacobs, Mitch Robinson, Simon Wiggins
Emg: Dennis Armfield, Shaun Hampson, Andrew Walker
The five debutantes – Browne, Garlett, Joseph, Robinson and Jacobs – have all been foreshadowed in the press, but Walker’s omission is the big news here.
brody
March 26, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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2 places left in a serious league any1 can join
Chris
March 26, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Anyone with spares league spots in SC?
Brad
March 26, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Wade Thompson has definitely been elevated by Port Adelaide.
m0nty
March 26, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Spike: I will certainly blog throughout the year. As for a DT Talk appearance, you never know. 🙂
Flash
March 26, 2009 at 4:19 pm
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Wade definetly upgraded
m0nty
March 26, 2009 at 4:21 pm
A warning: do not trust random commenters with injury news just before lockout. 😉
Chris
March 26, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Yeah we all remember the idiots last year
Hugh
March 26, 2009 at 4:28 pm
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.
Brett
March 26, 2009 at 4:36 pm
it wont matter with the last minute bogus injury news monty as you can’t even open the afl dream team site.
m.webb
March 26, 2009 at 4:40 pm
i copied my Dream Team from someone at work, went with jesse white in the ruck over simmonds.
Brad
March 26, 2009 at 4:43 pm
S/C website is holding up pretty well at the moment.
Anton
March 26, 2009 at 4:58 pm
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 !!
Brett
March 26, 2009 at 4:59 pm
collingwood team out beams emergency, no steele sidebottom
Join in the Chorus
March 26, 2009 at 5:04 pm
No Broughton either! Not even in the 25…
brock
March 26, 2009 at 5:04 pm
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.
Michael
March 26, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Cheers Monty
Brad
March 26, 2009 at 5:57 pm
These servers are an absolute joke!!!
Raf
March 27, 2009 at 12:57 am
Hey Monty.
I think you got the last laugh on the “Cousins for round 1” saga after all!
Simonoz
March 27, 2009 at 2:47 am
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