Lucy Wales

But Willow, who have you nominated?

Yeah, I've put an honourable mention in for a player that I'm actually a little disappointed Jono hasn't gone for, which is Lucy Wales.

And the reason I put Lucy Wales was always going to be a premium.

We knew that.

But this year we kind of just dismissed Ruxx.

We were like, just pick a premium at the start of the year, and that'll do you.

And most of the talk was about Matilda Schultz, who, to be fair, did do very well, but Wales ended up quite clearly the best ruck, eight points ahead by average, only ruck to average over 100, and I think deserves a bit of a shout-out for just going about their business.

Can I add something very amusing? The two people on this podcast who didn't make a ruck trade are the two people that were involved in the draft team choice to actually pick Lucy Wales over Matilda Schultz.

So if you want to go someone a bit more unique there as a captain, if one of your options at the early games doesn't work on the Sunday, then I do like Tyler Hanks there as well.

Don't mind Lucy Wales against Hawthorne as well.

You could go Schultz as well in this game.

The fact that Grace Parsons has been dropped.

Yeah, I've got the same as well, row bottom VC into Marinoff, but obviously depending on how today goes and all the scores and everything and how it shakes out, I'll look at the popular players I don't have and the players I've got.

Might go unique VC in Emprez because I think she will be unique compared to row bottom and then might go into Bowers as well, just going for something a bit more unique if I need to chase points.

If I'm really, really behind, I could even go like Lucy Wales VC into Emprez as well just to go a little bit more a unique but i've got the good thing is with this captain i was playing on the sunday which they typically do actually in the last round of fantasy seasons um yeah i'll probably just adjust based on uh how everything is going so um that's the captain's done usually we go through top five in and out but i think we'll get into the questions and we'll answer those uh there um for anyone that did want to know um that the top five and most traded in out this week top five most tried out Daisy Darcy, obviously injured.

She's got to be traded, so she's number one.

Tick.

Wales.

I know she had a lot of possessions.

She

Yeah, I was watching that.

And – Lucy Wales, she was just, again, it's a testament to the year that she's putting together.

I think she's our number one rock.

And that's where she sits in our rankings this week, mate.

I expect her to be much better than what she was last week against the Cats.

I really didn't like that Cats matchup more so for...

I didn't like how restrictive Piper Dunlop had been to the eye when I saw Lucy Wales play down there.

And so I wanted to avoid that.

Waiting for Matilda Schultz for the final week.

I know that Jono is going to mention some very strong points about why Lucy Wales will be a fantastic ruck.

But I think that Schultz is well positioned as someone that you could either trade into or just hold.

Just avoid those ruck trades.

Yeah, I mean, avoiding ruck trades, we have all matured a lot on the podcast this year, but Mel saying avoid ruck trades is probably the biggest character improvement of all of us.

Impressive stuff.

Speaking for not character developing, we're going to throw to Jono now to talk about, lo and behold, Lucy Wales.

Who would have thought?

But I just want to draw two lines out of it.

There is no such thing as an easy game of elite level footy, and the score is 0-0 when Lucy Wales jumps against Yasmin Janček.

Second, we don't have a lot of margin for error, and if you're off the game in this competition, you can absolutely be punished.

I think we saw a really good reflection of both of those last Sunday.

Well, not inflammatory, just... more direct things.

But we'll start with Tentra's point, and it was a really disappointing loss.

And if Wales and McDonagh aren't the best two players, we can't win.

And,