Jarrad Waite is facing a one game ban for striking Fremantle’s Chris Manye. While, Sam Mitchell will play for your fantasy team this week, but his Brownlow hopes might be gone – he has been offered 93.75. Nath Jones and Pavlich copped a fine. Not a heap happened on the injury front on the weekend. Symes and Ottens could be back this week.

I read through alot of forums and things that relate to SuperCoach and the amount of people that do pointless upgrades is amazing. Everyone wants the Shaw’s, Ablett’s and Franklin’s but sometimes we might have to settle for a Milburn, or a Swan, or a Chappy.

I can understand their thought process "Bloody [Gilbee, Kornes, Mattner, etc] I paid 550k for you and your only averaging 80" but then they show there rest of there team and they have Taylor on ground and then they still have Nathan Thompson and Tom Hawkins sitting in the forward line. They just want the best straight away.

Trading Burton could get you someone like Franklin, but really at the end of the season he only going to collect 10-15 more points per game (at most), if you then look at Nathan Thompson who will probably score about 70 all year and upgrade him to someone cheap like Chappy who might average 100. Sure you still don’t have Franklin’s big 180 points, but you have a much better improvement to your team and it cosh you about the same amount of greenbacks. Now what looks better: Franklin and Thompson or Burton and Chapman?  I just had to let this out, cause I’m just about have had enough of pointless so called upgrades.

If you need any advices on how you could improve your team, simply post here and I’ll give you my advice on what would be best. And, keep an eye out for DOG’S BEST BUYS – some rippers this week, and coming up. 

Another round has gone, and
if you didn’t score too well I wouldn’t worry about it because it was an awful
week for any real massive scores. Here’s a bit of wrap up of the week and I
took away the “ABOVE PAR” because it’s easier to just sort them in two simple
groups. I haven’t got my stat of the week yet, need to do some more research
but it’s a good one.

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Everyone was scoring about their average until Saturday night and Big Cox comes in a scores a 83 – that doesn’t surprise me cause he my captain. And, I have had a shocker year with captains. Then Birdman going from 178 to 4. Unbelievable. How’s your boys going?

FanFooty has a great live scores, but you have those tosser’s in the comments bar. Some of the dickhead examples…

"I have [insert lowest scoring player's name] as captain… bugger".
"[insert stars name] has done a knee" when, really he is only off for a spell.
"Oh, get me another 20 points [insert a player on 130 already here]".

If their was a way to close the box I would be telling ya to go there… But, instead have some fun with the DT Talk boys and there Live Scores. They have a comments box too but atleast it ain’t full with low life losers. Get on board.

• Carlton vs Fremantle – Telstra Dome – 2:10pm

• Port Adelaide vs Sydney – AAMI Stadium – 3:10pm

• West Coast vs Adelaide - Subiaco – 7:40pm

• Essendon vs Richmond - MCG – 7:45pm

Everyone loves FanFooty’s live scoring, well not as much as our DT Talk boys. But, it is a sensational site. This is breaking news and has been first reported on TooSerious. It even looks like FanFooty hasn’t even announced it but their live scoring has got some sweet new icons. Some I’m not even sure what they mean, but theres no doubt we will find out on the weekend.

But, have a look at the at a couple from last week: Carl Vs Bris, Cats Vs Tigers. And, just change the number in the URL around to look at more.

Love your work, Monty.

Two massive returns this week with Chad Cornes and Nick Riewoldt named on the ground. Will they play though? Josh Fraser and Stokes have both returned for the Friday Night clash. NLM, McPhee, Dyson and Watson are big ins for Essendon, but out goes Houli Douli with a virus (a must downgrade to Cotchin or Wellingham – both named), Laydick, Mal Micheal and Rama. Tigers go tall with Pattison and Schulz back. Out goes Nicoski, but still no Scott Selwood. Instead two new blokes in Tim Houlihan and Beau Wilkies and last weeks debutant Ryan Davis named again. Alot of fresh blood at West Coast. Geary might return for St. Kilda, he is named on the extended bench. So, does a bunch of other players for the Sunday games except a highly rated ruckman in John Messen who still hasn’t got a gig even though Jamar has been axed. Valenti holds his spot.

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New name, and new style. In the past I have just done my research on breakeven’s and chance of rising in price. But this week I’ve put a bit more effort in to see how they usually preform against the team that they are against and a couple of other fun facts. I realise it’s a massive week in selecting your upgrades, so this is must read.

Read here to find out how to afford these players.

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Sounds like the big boy is back this week. You got him? Or one of those that bailed?

Anyway, we will find out officially in about 1 hour. Stay tuned.

As written in the latest email from the Fantasy Freako:

In the pre-season, subscribers to my e-letter received exclusive DT stats on all players throughout the NAB Regional Challenge. It seems as though that information was highly valued by readers, so I have decided to offer up some more never-before-seen information that may help your DT player selections in the coming years. As a true fantasy freak, I am able to get my hands on weekly DT scores for this year’s potential draftees. Names such as Naitanui, Rich, Hurley and Yarran may mean nothing to you now but then again this time last year you probably hadn’t heard of Palmer, Rioli and Wonaeamirri, and they are 2008’s three biggest DT price-risers so far. If you knew like I did when picking your team that Palmer averaged 130 in last year’s U18 Champs then you wouldn’t be so surprised to see him rack up over 70 pts in six of his first seven AFL games. Division one of the 2008 NAB Under-18 Championships starts this weekend so in the coming weeks I’ll keep you posted with the players to keep an eye on for next year. I have had a quick look over the numbers from last year’s carnival and it paints an amazingly accurate picture of the players who turned out to be the steals of early 2008. Here are some of the more notable DT averages from the three games at last year’s NAB AFL Under-18 Champs:

• Player – DT Ave.
• Rhys Palmer – 130.3
• Cyril Rioli – 114.3
• Craig Bird – 110.7
• Cale Morton – 107.7
• Austin Wonaeamirri – 92.3
• Chris Masten – 92.3
• David Myers – 90.3
• Matthew Kreuzer – 86.7
• Brad Ebert – 86.7
• Scott Selwood – 85.7
• Steven Browne – 74.3
• Trent Cotchin – 52.3
• Jarrhan Jacky – 50.3
• Darcy Daniher – 38.3

This will be very exciting I reckon, in particular for Rising Star betting.

Seriously though, this kinda info will certainly give you something to weigh up against next year when looking at then then "pre-season" data.

Should be exciting to see how the kids go…