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Speaker 1: There are big days on the AFL calendar, but they're none bigger than Code Sports top fifty AFL players, and I have the man right here with me, J Clark, the chief big.

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Speaker 2: Morningside Grand Final day in March. To be honest, I got my first text message at about six thirty am and they've been coming in thick and fast all day. I'll tell you what you'd love to have weeks to pour over it all and just finesse and really analyze. But I'm happy with the list. I love Robbo's and Mike's when they did it. And what's your feedback?

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Speaker 1: Mate?

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Speaker 2: How do you feel.

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Speaker 1: About streams of feedback here? You've done an outstanding John. I was just going to dive into.

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Speaker 2: A few little yeah something where you think I haven't. First, let's get straight into that.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk first number one. Yeah, we've got to start that Nick Daykos for Bond.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't think many would argue how much did you have to weigh that one up?

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Speaker 2: There wasn't much in it, to be honest, I mean the Bonds. He's just turned thirty. He could still win the Brownlow this year. Watched him o a preseason. He's been brillant, but I had to go Nick. I mean, what is he twenty three years of age? We have such a high bar, the expectations are so high. There's a world where he has three Brown Law medals. Yeah, couple of years, so second, third and second or whatever it was. And then even with the state of origin and he was magnificent, didn't get the votes from the coaches. So I've gone Nick.

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Speaker 1: One.

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Speaker 2: He knows the attention he's coming though, doesn't it they're going to hammer him. Could have come from Marcus Windeger. In the first game against Saint Kilda, he spins and turns out of traffic. I reckon he's going to have a monster year, Nick, But can he do it on his owner? They are one man band in there in Collingwood.

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Speaker 1: But I've got a number one male? Is you were contemplating? Yes, a complete yes, outside it to be number one. Can you reveal to our viewers?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? The left field one will there's two probably so I hadn't Oneont and Pelli two three m Darcy freakish talent, incredible. I saw him Killburku Gamas almost in a match game, kicked four and goals and six squad He's just not quite there yet.

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Speaker 1: We're projecting fiend of season, aren't we.

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Speaker 2: I seriously considered Noah Anderson. I think he could by the end of the year have that good year. He could be the number one player in the competition. He's inside outside, He's got balance to his game. He goes two ways, so he has a real balance in his footy. And the one I'm probably most nervous about is Nasia wangannin Malira.

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Speaker 1: Some people have him one or two straight away.

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Speaker 2: Your man camping down ken Inckley. He says he's up there with Nick and yeah. I mean he is a phenomenal talent and he could end up at the end of the year as the as the number one player. His ceiling is that high. But Noah Anderson, I did consider him, right, it's got him at four.

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Speaker 1: Okay. A couple of observations go on before we get to those who aren't him. I've got my phones going banana. Yeah, the thrill seeker. I mean, we've seen what he can do Riley Fields wrong. We can see it. You think it's going to happen? Eleven pretty high.

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Speaker 2: Sixty hours last year I think thirty behind The question is that adelaide midfield to be honest, if he can get decent supply be isolated enough. The thrill seeker for me is someone who can have an eighty goal season. I rate him that high. He's got the size and the confidence, I think to bully his defenders, and from what we saw last year, I'm still buying the Crow's stock. But I die I've been picking up. You're putting down a few quick ones.

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Speaker 1: You've given the Swan's a bit of love, and I'm predicting that Nick Blakey's a nice halfback flank who runs a lot.

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Speaker 2: Twenty four, you know, like the Lizard.

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Speaker 1: I like him, but twenty four, can I say that again?

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Speaker 2: Twenty four Charlie Curno likes the Lizard and he's going to have him under twenty four Charlie Kerno is going to love his line breaking run and that's delivery inside fifty year old. I mean it is, it is. Probably he's ceiling more so than his floor, and he has been inconsistent times. I just think the way the Swan's got it together in the back half of the season, I mean nine his day. I think Nick Blake's arguably the most damaging rebounding Bachman in the game. You know, Lucky ashes right up there. He can cut apart the field, and you think with the addition of the stand rule, they are going to be looking for him in that express lane at the shopping line up the middle of the ground. I think you have a huge impact on this season, Nick Blakey, I.

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Speaker 1: Can work with that. Now, ross line, you're very close. He's a great man. Was he the six thirty one phone call because he spent a small fortune on a certain ruckman. Yes, you've just scraped him in in that lucrative number fifty.

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Speaker 2: Spot got in Number Fifty's a bit of a wild card there. Look, he started last year in unbelievable fashion. You remember his first five or six rounds, and then he started to get a bit harder, he got a bit injured, and then his impact really waned. He ended up playing the second half of the season largely forward. Look, he has to rise up these charts for the Saints to get their money's worth, aren't they one.

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Speaker 1: Points heavily out early fifty.

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Speaker 2: Well, well, on last year's form, he's got work to do.

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Speaker 1: He didn't try for half a year.

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Speaker 2: We know that he's got work to do so. I thought, I thought we had to had to sneak him in. You're right, I mean I think security would hope that he's a top twenty five, top thirty player in the competition. You've got to pay a bit of a premium to get him in, I think with a new rock rule and from what I saw in Roots you do or when I watched him climbed high above Roland Marshall put it straight in his eye, wing and emually a bank through the middle let a big impact.

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Speaker 1: Now I've got some messages and then we've got some reader feedback. That's hot.

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Speaker 2: Hot.

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Speaker 1: I've got a text message from an S. Kernahan Park apparently Patrick Crips and Jacob Wiedering feature in your Top fift.

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Speaker 2: No, that does Sammy Walsh to be honest, no no blues.

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Speaker 1: And that your anti Carlton sentiment in this Top fifty.

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Speaker 2: Well that were garbage last year. It's got to be to be honest. I mean, Patty Cripps, I watched his first ten minutes of the State of Origin. I thought, oh, hang on a second, maybe he does need to go in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think Carlton have the individuals and that absolute pointy and anything. Sam Walsh can maybe get there, and you know we love weidering. However he is more of a lockdown, one on one defender rather than that modern day intercepting Bachman. So no, a bit harsh on Carlton.

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Speaker 1: You're probably Patrick from Mogg's Creek says, did you see my prelimitry? Did you see Patrick Dangers.

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Speaker 2: Well, he can't stay at that level forever. Kenny. No, he on his days a match winner, Paddy Dangerfield, but we've got to look after the old boy. And Tom from nor Grian Mys is the other unlucky one to John. Tom Stewart, I thought a lot about.

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Speaker 1: There's a few of the strains in this list. Jack Sinkly, I means been hanging off poor old Jack because they've been rubbish. They're going to be good this year. Jack, a year out of the gun is elevated in the leadership role. You've said no, no, no more Jack.

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Speaker 2: Two of the one are most nervous about exclusions at Jack Sinclair and I think he had about one thousand meters gained on the weekend, which didn't help me. That was crossing my mind at about four am this morning. Josh Battle and Jack Sinclair are two of the ones who I feel uncomfortable about. I feel most uncomfortable about Sinclair's again. Rossie Line calls in the magic potion Nigan just put him anywhere and he weaves his magic.

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Speaker 1: Top fifty. I want to get to these things Gold Michael. Josh Dunkley not in the top fifteen. Well, just a little secret. Every coach of the competition would have him in a heartbeat before most of their current players.

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Speaker 2: I got him thirty. I thought that was reasonably favorable. He's the team man, Josh Dunkley, him holding down or him doing all the defensive work Bulloking that allows locking Ill and Humorcluggage and Zach Bailey to run off and do Will Ashcroft hasn't seen his man since about twenty twenty three. Just kidding Will, but Josh is important. I think thirtieth is the right spot for him.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a few one's ry cross that from Simon so Bailey. Smith came third in the Brown though with twenty nine votes. He made all the strain wrapped up seven and twenty touches start in the prelim, but couldn't make the top twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, harsh On Bailey. Yeah, harsh On Bailey. Six hundred and forty eight meters gain too.

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Speaker 1: Under the air is going to come out of the tires a bit for our men, which drives.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, he's gone. He's got a licensing issue, Bailey. I think some of that ball use can waiver a little bit. I think he's still going to be a very important playout for the Cats. I just don't have him at the top top end. There's a bit of trust. There's some trust issues there with Bailey, but I think there's some more efficient ball users, including his teammate Big Maxie Holmes.

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Speaker 1: Okay from Peter, I'm happy Jay isn't doing the racing tips. There's quite a few who would have been marked on potential, not on form. Charlie Kerno would struggle to make the top one thousand.

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Speaker 2: Well, he was number one in Robbo's list three years ago off his eighty goal season, so he's fallen a long way from one. You're right now, this is where you're predicting. Yeah, you're buying some shares on this one. But I think Charlie Curno in that Sydney midfield the bit of a chip on his shoulder is another one who can have a seventy goal season. He could kick six on Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: Okay from well actually interesting. Cheesel misses out on everyone's top fifty, yet he's ranked number two in super Coach Top fifty. Ye the only top fifty where club biases are excluded.

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Speaker 2: Harsh on the list.

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Speaker 1: Yeah so Cheesels, Diesels, whatever the Volcano called him. He keeps doing what he does out of club. That's no good.

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Speaker 2: But that's not not we want to see him. I think it's a fair point. The criticism is right to it. Agree we want to see him breaking through the fun half the storage, having impact in the front half of the ground. I think he was inconsistent. He's impact waned last year. He is more more than capable, don't get me wrong, and I think by the end of the year he's every chance to be in here. North need a good season. He needs to be right in the middle and impacting the forty half of the ground. Siston Cherry is the other one. I'm probably not going to get a Christmas card off this year. He was a top ten player last year. Just for these new rock rules, it was a bit of a bit of a fall through the rankings, this one.

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Speaker 1: From Jerry McGuire. It might be the Jerry McGuire sure we're bringing home premierships would have a big factor in ranking players, obviously not. Brisbane Lions have two players in the top twenty five. What a joke? Will Ashcroft at thirty seven Melbourne Bis lives on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I got Sack Bailey in here as ro Josh Bailey's twenty eight, Dunkley's thirty. I got Harris Andrews in the top ten. I got Will Ashcroft, I got lucky nearly how many I can't fit the whole.

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Speaker 1: Brilliance one two norms. Yes, and he's young and getting better by the second. Yes, he don't think.

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Speaker 2: He's rising fast sometimes when when him and his brother the hand a bit of waxing, a bit of Nick and I'm joking, I'm joking, I'm joking. Now, look, he's a superstar, Will, and he could lead the competition for disposals this year. I think he's right and that sort of that sort of spot in the thirties at the moment. But he he is rising.

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Speaker 1: That said Nick lost and says Lobe, but he's a defender and actually I did my sums on your defenders. You had three defenders in the top fifty four key.

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Speaker 2: Forwards only three one Ruckman, maxi Gorn and Tom Dakaney.

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Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't care.

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Speaker 2: Now Nick was stiff. It's been something that's sort of probably been the case his whole career. He hasn't got the accolade individual recognition probably that he's deserved, just had him just outside of fifty. It's got just a bit unlucky.

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Speaker 1: Before we go, please reveal maybe not the name, but I'm sure some players have texted.

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Speaker 2: There had been some texts and they came through swat did Scotty say he I can't remord. I'm not I can't give up that sort of faback. He said he loved the list. He's a big on He's big on Josh Dunkley. He's he loves the teamsmanship of that midfielder and the players who have the inside outside two a game, just like he always very team oriented.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations, Thank you score gig in sport.

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Speaker 2: Glad.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the fact you've put it on the line again. Congratulations. I wish you are the best getting through the next week of your life.

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Speaker 2: I remember you did a top fifty one school. We should get that back.

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Speaker 1: You're not going there of J. Clark, get on board. Coach Sports