The Weekend Wash-Up – Lindsanity

Round 3 is over and taking a look at some of the premium and rookie scores this week is some genuine freaky friday type stuff. I don’t even know where to begin from this weekend but it’s time for your weekly fantasy therapy session, it’s time for the weekend wash-up…

Legends

Whitfield (120) – Life is just better when Lachie Whitfield is in your fantasy team. It’s a beautiful watch. No half arsed leads, it’s a full sprint to get into space to be next in the chain. Proper gut running to get that easy handball receive, you can tell he’s about to rack up 10 seconds before it happens. It doesn’t get harder than facing the Hok and he still dominated, and now he faces the Eagles next week. Have mercy. 

Garcia (110) – When we talk about getting kissed….. Following the Steele late out, Garcia was in the opening centre bounce and found himself on bloody 37 in 5 minutes! 23 disposals, 9 tackles and 5 marks in just 66% TOG. Great performance, but Steele back will hurt his scoring and the TOG is still concerning. He’s suddenly a great cash generator!

Davidson (125) – Freaky f**king Friday. The Doc!!! How good. That pennywise looking king was hawking everything. 31 disposals, 11 marks, and just an awesome watch. What a player.

Burgoyne (112) – I watched this game with chopsticks in my eyes, but from what I saw of Burgoyne he was looking very much across half back… Huge watch next week, that’s back to back tons now. Great draft pick.

Liberatore (142) – 30 disposals, 6 marks and 11 tackles with a goal. He was priced under 900k to start the year and those 5% of coaches absolutely nailed this pick. It was a genuine free hit without Treloar and Bont, and yet here I am with Finn Callaghan. Ridiculous.

TDK (130) – Another 28 disposals along with 8 marks and 28 hit outs. He was running out the front of stoppages and lacing out kicks inside 50, it’s scary stuff. The only concern is Carlton are so sh*t that they’re playing Lewis Young as a key forward. It’s ridiculous but Pittonet might come in. Tom is averaging 123 and is on track to be a top 2 ruck. Simply have to have him. 

Hewett (116) – Very similar to Libba, this was a free hit and none of us were interested. Georgey was 850k to start and is averaging 112. He ended last season very well too, now averaging 110 in his last 8. Freebie.

Rowell (129) – 36 Disposals, 36 blades of grass eaten, is there any grass he doesn’t love anymore? Seriously it’s getting scary now, he is looking every bit the best midfielder in the competition when he bursts out of the centre. I think he might finally be making that uber premium leap.

Anderson (117) – Which one of these two do you tag? The Suns are stacked. 35 Disposals away from home, it’s happening.

Humphrey (93) – Humpa is getting genuine midfield time with 12 CBAs, and even when he’s up forward he’s clunking contested marks. He should be an 80+ guy, and you’re telling me he’s a $520k forward?! Serious option.

Sinclair (134) – 40 disposals, 36 uncontested at 90%. Yes it was awesome, but that Richmond matchup is as green as it gets, and good teams will not let Jack Sinclair run around unopposed doing whatever he wants. The 7 kick ins are awesome and he will be great, but it won’t be this good. Or easy.

Marshall (123) – Must have. There’s nothing more to say. I’ve had enough of watching Gawn and Xerri mope around or decapitate blokes, just give me the ruck who has 20+ disposals every week and can take 12 marks! There is visible thirst in his gut running for +6’s, he’s coming in for me next week. R1.

Macrae (113) – Jackson Macrae is back, we’re all well and truly aware of that now. What’s most impressive is the time on ground in the midfield. He had the most centre bounces in the game (ahead of the rucks) with 28, from 87% TOG in the guts. Just huge. He could be the highest scorer of the year. 

NWM (112) – Saved this late, NWM always seems to find a way to get to the ton. With Sinclair back there it’s unlikely he will receive attention, but I don’t see huge upside either. Safe.

Homes (119) – Much more like it Homma… 29 disposals and 9 marks and a huge 44 point last term when he often fades out. It was a weird role, similar to Tom Stewart where he starts in the CBAs but isn’t around the stoppages, instead dropping loose to half back. The key is there’s visible thirst. Legend!

Zorko (119) – Averaging 119 and belting Sheezel out of the park. The better fantasy player…

Ashcroft (115) – Massive. Will was clearly underdone in Round 1, but Saturday was a return to normcroft. I think he is ready to launch, he will never get tagged with Neale in the side and has Richmond next week. Ashcroft is back!

Smith (112) – I think the calf is OK. Now he’s doing it with tackles (11) too! Must have, obviously. He will probably miss again soon and I’ll happily hold him.

Simpkin (117) – This is getting pretty real now. Averaging 107 and looking very good, I just know he’s the type of player I bring in and he averages 80. 

Rankine (116)  – This is full Stevie J spec from Rankine here. He looked unbelievably good in the guts with 30 disposals, 5 marks and 5 tackles. All around great performance. 

Daniel (115) – 31 disposals, 9 marks and no tackles. Full seagull performance but you won’t see anyone complaining here. 

Maric (101) – 29 Disposals, back to back decent weeks, forward status… Consider it, the role is beautiful. You just cannot watch the Eagles play football.

NOD (99) – Yes there’s some moments you have to close your eyes when he puts ball to boot, but O’Driscoll looks like a beast. It’s too late now but he was an awesome pick. Legend.

Losers

Callaghan (57) – Why do I pick pretty players? There’s nothing better than seeing Finn Calaghan burst through the middle of the ground and lace a bloke out, and that’s great for the 5 times it happens a game. But where is the hunger? The thirst? He runs away from tackles, hates uncontested marks and is damaging enough that he attracts a Finn Macginnes ruin your whole f**ken week tag. We need the Tom Powell’s of this world. Your George Hewett’s. Finn has the Eagles next week and a good run over the next month, but that effort was embarrassing.

JHF (74) – He was the second banana but the bag was just sh*t. Really bad. Unwatchable even. I don’t get it, I really don’t. How did he go from looking like prime Dangerfield in the pre-season, to the sh*ttest player I have ever seen take the field. Has anyone ever dropped so many uncontested marks in a two week period? I think that was a world record. There’s not much else for me to say here. He has been a shocking pick and anyone that went against picking him probably has a good rank. We got lucky he made it to 74.

Petracca (80) – As per standard he looks good in the first half predominantly in the middle, but during the second half as they are getting belted he puts the cue in the rack, takes his ass up forward and starts thinking about which 30 minute one pot meals he’s going to cook next week. Embarrassing stuff. Trac clearly just doesn’t want to be there, I can’t tell if it’s playing for Melbourne or if he’s over footy completely.

Rozee (84) – This was a whole team tag. As soon as Connor Rozee gets a hard hit in the first two minutes, you can pencil him in for a shocker. There are multiple tag concerns in the next few weeks, but he will still be awesome in the long run. 

N.Martin (73) – Forward status, tick. Scoring… Cross. Interesting one in draft.

Farrell (61) – 6 kick ins accounted for his a third of his score. Another shocking shout from me, it looks like Port defenders will take turns in having a day out. No good.

McGrath (35) – A classic Andy special.

Gawn (84) – I was sitting there on Saturday afternoon wondering how the hell I ever picked a 33 year old over the X man. And it turned out he was better. What a bizarre round. Geelong next week is his last chance for me. It needs to be a monster.

Taranto (84) – 27 CBAs and a monster contract to plod around and throw a few spirals onto the boot that bring down rain with them. The fact he is only 27 is scary, he hit his prime at 23!

SDK (66) – Yeah, there’s alarm bells going off in the cockpit left right and centre. He was subbed off in the fourth quarter, and I think it’s time to sub him out of my team. Thanks for the 120 though. 

Knevitt (17) – The Cats. You just had to see some nonsense like this coming. His CBAs did drop off in that second half last week but no one could have seen this coming. The vest is a disaster for his cash generation, however there’s no way you can justify picking Jhye Clark again. Surely. I’m not going to pretend I know more than master tactician Chris Scott, but it sucks for us fantasy coaches.

Xerri (77) – The scale never lies, and it’s telling us that the Spot cannot score unless he’s going up against a piss ant. The early hamstring awareness would have caused a few heart attacks and it’s something to watch, maybe he wasn’t 100%. It’s looking more and more like Rowan Marshall is the clear number one though. 

This Game Sh*ts Me

I tell you what can’t be taken for granted anymore… Knowing how your team is travelling during the weekend. This best 18 bullsh*t makes it ridiculous, you need to run some calculus just to figure out how you’re going in comparison to the competition. And yes I could just put my phone down and check on Sunday evening, but how does that help my mental health? For a start I’m looking forward to seeing the real men come out to play in best 22’s, but it will also be nice to not need a scientific calculator to figure out if I’m going to be recording the pod from on top of a washing machine. And don’t get me started on the draft site. Let’s sort it out please. This game sh*ts me. 

The Other Bits and Pieces

1906. I don’t really know where my team is sitting at to be honest, I’ve only got one red dot but it feels like that could increase in the near future and there’s so many rookies I should go chasing. Yet I have so many midpricers that need fixing. Do I bank $800k? Or do I chase points. My biggest regret was not paying up on my bench, but out of pure luck it has meant I got kissed and don’t have a Lindsay issue on top of everything else.

SDK and Sanders are on the block for me, they are genuinely worst than the rookies I don’t have on my ground. That’s where I draw the line. One down one up makes the most sense, it just means I will be missing a couple of cash generators and leaving a red dot or two. I guess we’ll find out in a few months how that turned out. I have never seen a man around the ball more than Freijah so I’m going to back him in for now, and Finn Callaghan is here for the long haul.

SDK -> Bice

Sanders -> Ashcroft (DPP)

390k in the bank

Yes it’s a war chest and hopefully allows me to get Rowan in next week, plus I can do a rookie fix-up and chase Langford who I thought was awesome.

Unfortunately this best 18 nonsense carries on for one more week, so enjoy the final free ride of the season and as always best of luck legends! Be sure to check out the podcast for some more laughs…

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