{"id":61436,"date":"2025-08-12T02:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61436\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T02:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:25:11","slug":"last-minute-tips-burning-questions-ahead-of-lockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61436\/","title":{"rendered":"Last-minute tips, burning questions ahead of lockout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Fantasy\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Free Kick team go through all the big questions as AFLW Fantasy lockout approaches\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Georgie Prespakis in action during Geelong&#8217;s practice match against Gold Coast on August 2, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>AS THE first lockout of the 2025 AFLW Fantasy approaches, Liam and Mel run through a stack of things coaches need to think about before round one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They were also joined by Tom Hales, who finished second in men&#8217;s Fantasy last year.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/aflwfantasy.afl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Win a $70K Toyota in AFLW Fantasy! Sign up NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They go about trying to draft the &#8216;Free Kick Team&#8217;, where each host gets a chance to pick their favourite options under the salary cap.<\/p>\n<p>You can join Free Kick&#8217;s open league with this code: X4NB381I.<\/p>\n<p>Full episode guide and the drafted team can be found below.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the AFLW Fantasy Podcast with Free Kick at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-official-aflw-fantasy-podcast\/id1700189194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7HTXypdoaNZSWBrvKUESOP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Episode guide<\/p>\n<p>0:00-2:20: Intro<br \/>2:21-6:40: Highly picked injured players<br \/>6:41-8:59: Most unique players<br \/>9:00-10:11: Can we pick Piper Dunlop at R2?<br \/>10:12-13:29: Value defenders &#8211; how many should we pick?<br \/>13:30-16:07: Are there any good mid-priced forwards?\u00a0<br \/>16:08-18:05: Is Brooke Tonon going to break out in Adelaide&#8217;s defence?<br \/>18:06-19:54: Is Zippy Fish good enough to be on field?<br \/>19:55-22:19: Liam might pick Georgie Prespakis at M5<br \/>22:20-23:30: Who are the premiums mids that Liam and Mel are picking?<br \/>23:31-1:00:48: Drafting a team with Tom Hales<br \/>1:00:49-1:03:59: Pre-round one admin<br \/>1:04:00-1:05:00: Outro<\/p>\n<p>Get expert advice from Free Kick during the pre-season in the <a href=\"http:\/\/afl.com.au\/fantasy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fantasy Hub<\/a>. Follow AFL Fantasy on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AFLFantasy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/aflfantasy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> and &#8216;like&#8217; the <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/AFLFantasyOfficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> page to join in the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fantasy The Free Kick team go through all the big questions as AFLW Fantasy lockout approaches Georgie Prespakis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-61436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}