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Who Does Number 2 Work For? I Ep: 131 · Draft Offsides Podcast

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Do you guys see you wearing the Man City New Jersey?
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Is that in support of the US, the bottlers?
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Yeah, you know, I got this through, didn't buy this.
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It was those mystery boxes. So I still have the tag gun so I
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could maybe gift it to someone or we'll see, but I felt it's
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not proper to wear this today. It really, truly who?
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Who would you gift it to? Your brother.
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Yes. I literally don't know anyone
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who's a Mad City fan. Because there are no real, there
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are no Mad City fans. Well, there's there's the
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Gallagher brothers from Oasis. Yeah, and I I also remember like
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a few years ago where I forget what, what World Cup it was or
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Olympics were like North Korea was there and that people they
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had like paid actors in the stands.
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Yes. Oh really?
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It was like a whole thing. They had paid actors pretending
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to be fans in the stands. And I, I, I kind of feel like
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that's how the whole Man City Stadium is like they just have
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paid actors to fill out all the seats and share.
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Could be I think I agree with you.
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I don't know any man seat offense.
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But it's also one of those things where, like, someone
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tells you, like, even if they're like a fan, they're like, oh, we
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want like, I don't know how many pills in the row.
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We want this many trophies. Yeah, you're still Man City.
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Like, who cares? Literally no one cares.
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It's it's funny. And all especially with all
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those like fines and everything they have, all investigations
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are like, hey, like put up a huge asterisk next to it you.
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Saw. I mean, I careless about that.
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I just feel like anyone who's a Man City fan that I see in the
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United States, it's like, oh cool, you started watching
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soccer in the last like 2 years or like three.
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You don't even it's like you're like Nuda, you're new, you're
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new, you know, but a lot that's that's which is fun.
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It's something wrong with that? I remember that's.
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How I feel about Chelsea fans. Yeah, but they're, I've been a
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fan for 25 years. Have you been a fan for 25
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years? So when we how old are you?
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When you. Go so you're well, I think this
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I got AI got injury. So I think I told you the other
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story, but my mom was yeah, massage and the guy came and so
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I look, I'll count that. So that was like probably like
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10 and I'm like 36. So yeah, do the math.
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Yeah, yeah, I've been a Tottenham fan my whole life,
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born into it. That's why you're so many Gray
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hairs in your beard. This pain, this anguish, these
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eye bags, top of the fan. I thought you were celebrating
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420. Happy 420 guys.
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Happy 420. Oh, wow, didn't even think about
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it. Yeah.
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How's Sergei? Is Sergeant bad spirits?
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Where is she? I saw him yesterday but I didn't
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get a chance to speak with him. But I mean, it can't be.
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It's never a good feeling when your team is no longer in
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control of their own destiny. Without a doubt.
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But I just wonder if, like, because he's kind of been there
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before, if he's like, Oh, yeah, I like, I kind of like you
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always knew this was going to happen, just, you know.
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Just going through the emotions. Yeah, exactly.
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It's it's kind of crazy how like the it's frozen on me lads going
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to move and see all right. It's kind of crazy how like it
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keeps happening the same way and the core of the team is the
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same. And I don't think those players
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could help but think about all the times before.
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Yeah. Because it's not like it's the
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first time for everyone. They've this core of the team
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literally has gone to this year over year.
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Yes, you are correct. And I was also wondering like
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what happens if no trophies this year?
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Does Arteta get fired? That's what people are saying is
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like that's the discussion, but I feel like it's I mean it's
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like he's in the he's in the semi final, very second year.
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The world of the Champions League.
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They'll be a little gotten second in the Premier League
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Four Seasons in a row potentially.
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I mean they could still win. I mean, at the end of the day, I
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I feel like there's, there's still more likely to win it than
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they aren't. But I think the odds went from
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like 90% to down. Now it's like 6040, you know
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what I mean? There was a huge drop in like 2
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games. It's it's also kind of tricky
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because if when you look at a manager, I think every manager
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has a limit where they could take up to if maybe his
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potential is his peak is getting him so close to it.
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Like he could take a crap team and bring him so close to like a
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Diego Simeon who brings them so close but always comes up short.
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But he doesn't always come up short, though.
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He's won the he's won the, the La Liga.
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I mean him winning La Liga twice and winning a few like Copas and
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stuff is, is amazing for their where they where they are in La
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Liga, you know, in the ecosystem of La Liga.
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We can't hear you answer. Maybe you're muted.
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Diego Simeon has one, but I'm talking about like when you look
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at overall, he's more coming up second and I know it's coming
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like started in La Liga as a saying she like coming up second
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because but maybe that was a bad example.
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But you know, there are managers like that that kind of get you
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to like right at the line, but that you need someone else to
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kind of push them through. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And so you're on mute. I'm not trying to say.
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Something they're like the the Liverpool La Liga.
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Yeah. But I think the difference is,
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is that they don't have that. Like they are severely have
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severely less budget than than in comparison to Barcelona, Real
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Madrid and I mean in especially when Simeoni started, you know,
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not now, I think they've kind of pulled a little.
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They've obviously like increased revenue, you know, and
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everything, but comparatively like Liverpool has had money,
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you know, so. So here are the odds on
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DraftKings sports book for the EPL.
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Arsenal is plus 120. Man City is -155.
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Yeah. So I think that's just sounds
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about right. I mean, I think that there's a
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momentum thing and I think in in like sports commentary, it's
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really easy to like get swept up in momentum, But when you really
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like look at the games that they have left, everything was in a
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vacuum. You'd say Arsenal, but like, I
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don't know if how you much you can equate for like the
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emotional element. You know, that's what you're
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speaking to were like they've literally like they've lost this
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over and over. Like it's they're not just
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function at once. They function up like multiple
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times. So that's where that's where
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just psychologically and then it's then you wonder like, you
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know, do they just need to get like a like a like, who would
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you like a like a Luka Madrich or something like someone like
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that who's won a lot, who's older, isn't expected to play
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every single game, but just comes in and it's like a leader,
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you know, like a Tiago Silva at the time, like, you know what I
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mean? Like in his era where he could
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just come in and like be a leader and not not expect him to
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play every game. I think that's a.
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Customer. Yeah, I mean, actually.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think, I think that's
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what that's what that team lacks though, right?
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Like, and when you really think about it, like, that's kind of
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what they lack. You know, they got a superstar.
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They don't have a superstar. I mean, Sock is supposed to be
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the superstar, right? Yeah.
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She don't have a superstar. Yeah, but they, Nah, they don't.
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I'm just saying. I don't think the superstar's
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the problem, I think it's the the like the the veteran leader.
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Ironically, I think that's what Real Madrid are missing right
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now as well. Really.
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Yeah. Yeah, so on the Champions
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League, before the previous round, Arsenal were the
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favorites. Now they're Munich's the
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favorite and they're playing PhD, obviously much tougher, so
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Arsenal second at 2, close to 25.
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I think it's it's also really easy to forget how good are
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still looked at the beginning of the season, like they are still
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crushed by in in the group stage, you know, like absolutely
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outplayed them, play them off the pitch.
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And so like somethings going on there, but it's these things are
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like ebbs and flows and there's still enough time for them to
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reverse. Like, you know, it's it's fun to
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the banter and it's fun to give Sergey shit and everything.
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But like, at the end of the day, I'm probably still leaning
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towards Arsenal. Well, like Bayern Munich had the
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same sort of thing PhD did have what last year where PhD was
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like horrible at beginning to start the yeah, yeah.
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And then they just got better and better.
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So. But yeah, we'll see, man.
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That's for sure, yeah. Definitely saying I'm, you know,
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good luck. I feel for Sergei.
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I really do like his every week, you know, sending notes on all
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our teams of their reactions to their games have been, you know,
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quite motivational. Yeah, I feel like there's a lot
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of like, karmatic justice going on for that type of those type
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of shenanigans. But I was also waiting for when
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you guys to do the Arsenal fan reaction video and send it into
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the group chat. No one did.
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And I was a little disappointed that no one was willing to stoop
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as low as I I thought that you would, you know?
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I've done it before. Yeah, yeah.
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I've done it a couple times. I, I, I I was upset I forgot to
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send the reverse gochar as me. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, I did send a few nice comments.
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You know 200 and 4848 days on top of the league is the longest
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ever, you know. Yeah, so it's like the
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underhanded nice comments. So after the Real Madrid were
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eliminated from Champions League, I went to his house like
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the same deal. Or the day after we're watching
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something on how to see TV. He kept going on his phone and
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like casting on through Apple, whatever, play Real Madrid,
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Munich highlights. So guess what's going to happen
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when I go to the living room? We're going to watch, I'm sure.
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Please, you'd be awesome. Should we get into the should we
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get into the actual episode? Yeah, let's hand it out for 15
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minutes. This this one should be easy
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man. Just zoom.
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Through just a reminder to plug the socialist Keef.
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All right. Hello and welcome to episode 132
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of Draft Offsides. I'm with Tico Enzo.
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My name is Keith, and you should follow us at Draft Offsides.
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You should go to our website www.draftoffsides.com where you
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can check out our new heat tracker tool where you can check
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out a player's heat and consistency as far as pretty
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much like it's like a form tool to help you figure out who's
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who's on form and who's like coming into form and coming out
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of form. So.
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Which that sounded really great, but only on episode 131. 131
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yeah 131. Hey should we add like a bio
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section to our website and just take pictures?
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I could take a picture of my mustache and then like I want
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you want banger go head or keep goal.
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You want your mustache to live on in some way.
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Like it's like you know it's not going to be on your ID and this
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exists somewhere forever. This isn't the place.
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On my previous. Site it might be the place I
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mean if all the places I'd rather I'd rather tiko do it
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here than do it at to his his girlfriend's dad when he meets
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over the first time like he was telling us he might or on his
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like his ID. You know your dad's already
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listened to the podcast before you seen the YouTube, so he's
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going to see it. The girlfriend's dad.
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Oh, maybe I. Could do this.
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Oh, I don't like that. I really don't like the way you
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do that. It makes me feel weird.
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You do look like a pervy Frenchman.
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Someone called me Luigi today at work.
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That was it. Did it they got a good laugh out
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of you, or did it stand a little?
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No, not surprising. I'm the one who you know.
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The boolean works too I guess. So as I get a little tasty on
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medicine, is that what I'm saying?
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OK, let's let's say let's focus up here guys, news and notes.
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I think obviously the biggest thing city beating Arsenal
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pretty emotionally draining for any Arsenal fans pretty pretty
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hilarious for everyone else. I don't know how else to how
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else to put it. And so I think the biggest thing
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with this is that now the title's out of Arsenal's hands
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in the sense that if City went out and Arsenal went out, City
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will win. Goal differentials and which
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they're playing Burnley this Wednesday, so I'm I'm expecting
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them to pack it on, you know what I mean?
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You think the Holland hat trick incoming?
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Have you guys seen that one mean we're like a guy's like licking
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his fingers in front of the microwave and there's food in
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there, No. No.
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That's that's going to be Holland, like Burnley.
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Yeah, as far as fantasy impact, it feels like City is surging
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like they always do. The end of the season.
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It's happening right now, right? And and also doing the same
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thing they do at the end of the season.
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Yeah. I think Enzo, to your point that
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that a few weeks ago when you pulled up those stats of like,
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you know, how many games are still win at the end of the
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season versus it's like that was pretty, pretty prescient of you.
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Like you were very you like kind of predict, you were kind of
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implying that this was a very possible.
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That it was very possible you could open and it's happening
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and it's honestly, I don't think, but don't go wrong.
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They're going to make excuses like soccer is injured and blah,
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blah, blah. I don't I can't believe they
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didn't stop your career as like shows you they you know, they
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didn't really want to win the game in my opinion, because Kyle
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Abbott should have been there. I know he scored.
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I think your career should have started.
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I think against, I think Yokaras, I mean, I think we
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talked about this, but Yokas is probably better against bad
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teams or Kai Habits is probably better against good teams.
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And so and like and like, obviously that's really
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simplified, but I actually feel like that Kai habits makes more
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sense against the city than Yokers does.
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But I mean, who's to say? I mean, yeah, yeah, city not
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playing next week because they're in a double game with
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this week. But just no worry that
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Krussonov, who's on waivers last week had a pretty monster game.
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I think it was like a 17 pointer.
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So obviously you know you're not going to be able to pick him up
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off Flavors next week, for next week, but we're just keeping a
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note on him coming out of like a double game week.
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It'd be a nice pickup if you've got space and you've got enough
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players to put on the field. Yeah, exactly.
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That's going to be the tricky part.
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Yep. Spurs draw but gets saved by
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Palace draw with Hammers. There's still hope.
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Yeah, I think that was I was starting to feel like if Spurs
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if if West Ham won today. We were recording on Monday.
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West Ham won today. It was feeling pretty bleak, but
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now there's. 4 points. Now there's a little a little
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sliver of hope. I think there's a little light
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in tone. I think I go ahead, Chico.
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Oh no. I was going to say it's probably
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Tottenham's most important game for the year.
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I think that I think we were obviously like bearing the lead
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here a little bit with the fact that Spurs were up, Xavi Simmons
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had a great game and then just to concede at the end like that
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was pretty devastating though. That was one of the most even as
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even as somebody's not a Tottenham fan, I I actually felt
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pretty. I literally watching the game,
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watching game, my father-in-law, and literally as soon as I saw
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Danzo touch the ball and I saw him not clear it out, I was
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like, oh, here we go. Yeah.
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And fucking boom, call. Fucking easy.
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Too easy back defense. Yeah.
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But I think it's interesting to know just the fact that from
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fantasy standpoint, Spurs players, there are some scores,
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Yeah. Am I wrong?
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Am I right? First first time the seats 2
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Spurs players in the top 20, let alone one.
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Yeah. And then I don't know if you
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guys saw Deserbe came out with quotes saying he feels a special
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connection with Simmons. I love that.
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I love to hear that. Yeah.
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I mean, Simmons had 21 points, Pedro Pora 23, Bird, Ball,
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Gallagher, both had not like 995.
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All very, all very reasonable. Yeah.
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That social connection thing says to me that hopefully he'll
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be getting some starts. Yeah, because it's about his
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first last six games. Yeah, and he played.
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He played well enough to deserve a start of the next game.
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Too. I believe so.
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I mean. Yeah, even without the goal, I
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thought he was looking pretty lively.
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He was getting fouled a lot. They were.
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They were taking him down every chance they could.
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So which is good. That's a good sign.
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Yeah, right. In.
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Had some good performance. Mintzesk seems like he's back.
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Yeah. Minister after that monster game
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did not do much. No, what did Henschel would?
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No, but the double game week might save some of their scores
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for this week which will be interesting to see.
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Maternal omers will be mad as helps.
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They probably took them off. But if you were like, you know,
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Chris in one of our leagues who obviously slept through his
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alarm, kept Maternal on and he scored the goal.
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Hey, whatever works, Yeah. Are you guys seeing these rumors
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that for Brugen, might is being linked to big teams?
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The goalie. No.
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Yeah. I've I have heard about, have
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you heard about Sanesi coming to Tottenham from Bournemouth?
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As long as they stay up. If they stay up.
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I heard that. And Robertson too.
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Wish I've done. Yeah, we'll see there.
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Moving on. Wolves officially relegated?
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Yep. Do you think that players will
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still play hard because they now they're trying not for new,
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essentially they're trying for new jobs.
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I mean, they kind of happen. I don't think they change that
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much. Because they're playing you.
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You got to think some of those players are playing for new
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contracts and new teams. This is basically the interview.
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So like they've been doing all season.
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So now, like the Hugo Buenos, the Joao Gomez's the, what's his
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name, money Mark. Yeah.
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All those Akaderi, they're all going to be fine for someone to
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pick him up, whether it be a newly promoted team like
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Coventry or, you know, or Wrexham maybe.
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It's interesting that Hugo Bueno call up is he's been in his last
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four, has scored an 8 and three like ones.
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So he's and he went from being like a monster to suddenly, I
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don't know if something's changed or maybe he's kind of
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taking his foot off the gas a little bit knowing that, you
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know, there's not much to play for.
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But yeah, so that's one where it not not good.
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But yeah, there's not much. I mean, there's not much in the
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way of points. No one scored over 10 points in
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their game this week. I mean, they didn't they didn't
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lose 3. Yeah, and you say, OK, next one,
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Watkins, seven goals as last nine games.
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I'm assuming that's between Champions League, not chat, but
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it was Europa League and Premier League and everything.
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So he's kind of scoring well, Villa fighting for a Champions
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League spot. Yeah.
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I mean, you're asking if there's if there's a trade for Watkins
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on the table. I've always we've always kind of
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wondered that with Emery because it doesn't seem like Emery's
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ever really trusted him even when he was doing great.
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But but it'll be interesting. I wonder if this is enough.
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I've wondered if this form is enough to get Watkins on the
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plane for your for. For England, I don't think so.
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You know, they think he's, they think he's out of the picture.
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Yeah, I think two goals already. Fucking chose this guy.
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Chose Interesting. Yeah.
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Yeah, Kane and Byron win title. Four games to go.
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Not that important, but just something to know.
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Good for them Beto. Potential head injury.
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Yeah, he came off at the end of the game.
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I missed that the Senate minute or something and looks to to
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bury the plane instead I think. But he's been playing well since
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he's getting started in the last few games.
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Yeah, I mean he's scored what, 3 double digit games in a row,
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35.512 point 518.5 He is. I mean, I think he if we go to
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the three-game week, 3 game week tracker on the heat tracker, he
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is heat score number, great number.
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Second, he's elite. Yeah, that's the number two
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highest player, right behind Constantine Mavropanos, who is
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continued just be a monster. He went off today too for like
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and she got 19. Points today, 19.25 and he's
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still only 30 percent, 7% rostered, which is crazy.
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Yeah. So I think look to play Barry or
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maybe just looked elsewhere too, because I don't think Barry's
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been super great. And yeah, yeah, Cunya came off
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with a Grant injury, but should be fit for Brentford.
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That's what they're saying. Yeah, that's what you're saying.
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He. Managed to get a goal.
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He's been, it's been, it's so funny 'cause there was a period
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of time where Emblemo was the one I was scoring while and
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Cunha was pretty absent. And now it's totally flipped and
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Emblemo can't, can't score points to save his life.
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And Cunha seems like he's been firing on all cylinders.
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Yeah, so interesting. I think Emblemo fading at this
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time. It's really tough though too
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'cause if you're in Buena, you're not going to bench him,
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right? You can't really afford to bench
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him. So it's a, it's a really tricky
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situation. Maybe, I mean, maybe you got to
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get brave and just do it. I think it's you're getting
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close to the point where you can't really afford to play him
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either, you know, but. It also if you think about it
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like the previous years, Kunya was the player that had more
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ways of getting points than MO MO.
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Yeah. So you say that this you feel
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like this was inevitable, that this was going to be the
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situation. Yeah, I I thought it was going
20:03
to take longer for Kunya to like get adapted in Mayu because
20:07
Bruno Fernandez is going to have so much of the ball, so he has
20:09
to learn to play with Bruno. But like even last year with the
20:13
Wolves with the goals, assists, dribbles, passes, like Cunha
20:16
would get a shit load of ghost points.
20:18
Yeah. But Cunha used to get all those
20:19
points even when Neta was on Wolves.
20:22
No, no. But that's what I mean.
20:24
You can't compare NATO to. I'm not comparing if I'm saying
20:27
that two players that like have the ball a lot, but like and I
20:31
feel like in Buenbo he did really well in Bradford for
20:33
points. Also he was one of those ones
20:35
that would everything went through.
20:37
But would he get a lot of ghost points?
20:39
No, he wasn't as great on the Gush 1, so he was scoring enough
20:42
to make it worth it, but he's not.
20:44
He's not just not doing that. It's interesting, though.
20:46
I feel like he was fine. He was serviceable when he was
20:49
playing striker under Carrick because I think what the goals
20:52
were in there, But now he's playing out wide on the right.
20:55
I don't like they haven't really been able to unlock him the way
20:57
that like when he played out right right on the right for
20:59
Thomas Frank under he was able to.
21:02
He was doing things that were generating enough points.
21:04
But no, it's just not not the same.
21:06
Diallo has also been struggling for a while to the last time he
21:09
had a double digit game was in February 7 against Tottenham.
21:13
Yeah, it feels like that's that right side.
21:15
They're just really struggling, struggling to generate much on
21:17
that right side no matter who's who's in there.
21:19
But yeah, it's a little alarming.
21:22
Anything else? Top English scorers in the prime
21:25
this week? Morgan Gibbs White, right?
21:28
Is that what you're saying here? No top goal scorer, sort of the
21:30
well I remember how I used to always became Morgan get White
21:33
12 goals, wall back. Twelve goals.
21:34
I think it's Olly. Watkins got 11, Rogers got 9.
21:39
Or something like English players.
21:40
Not very. I just bring in.
21:41
There. Oh, I see.
21:42
You're saying yes, Yeah. What?
21:45
How's that relevant? It's just interesting.
21:47
It's just interesting. Point he started.
21:49
He's starting to think world. Cup Welbeck career and goal
21:52
scored. Is it Yeah for Brian?
21:56
Yes, Daniel. No, no, no.
21:58
No, Ever. In in his like in his country
22:00
year. He's now he's, he's never been a
22:02
big goal scorer, Yeah. Really.
22:04
Yeah. Last year he will.
22:06
He broke his records from last year, which was 10.
22:08
This year, yes, 12. He's like a fine wine.
22:10
I That's why I was really surprised that he went to the
22:14
England camp ahead of the OR he didn't go.
22:16
And like, I'm surprised that like Dominic Calvary, Lewin went
22:20
and not well back because I thought well back was a much
22:22
better player and like much more well-rounded.
22:24
DCL has been scoring goal but most of them been penalties and
22:27
he ain't going to get that in the England team.
22:28
Yeah, exactly. I think if I was a throw on a
22:32
guy that I think could like make something happen, I feel like
22:34
well backs more likely to make something.
22:35
Happen then would you do Welbeck over Watkins?
22:39
Have you had the choice? No, I mean, if OK, probably not,
22:44
but if I was, if I was told Thomas Chukel decided she didn't
22:48
want to take Watkins and she was deciding between Welbeck and
22:51
DCL, I'll take. You to go.
22:52
Welbeck So would you guys agree that Watkins and Kane play
22:56
somewhat similarly? Yeah, 100.
23:00
Times better, yeah. Yeah.
23:01
But like the style, like coming back, Welbeck's different.
23:04
So I would take Welbeck just to kind of take him out, put in a
23:07
different change of pace. Yeah, I think that's fair.
23:09
Yeah. But I think the are they are.
23:11
The other argument is, is that if you bring both Watkins and
23:15
Kane and Kane goes down, they don't have to change that much.
23:18
Yeah, Watkins are solid play. So I, I see both sides.
23:22
OK, Should we do waivers next? Talk to you, Alright.
23:26
It is a short week, so be careful because there's three
23:29
more games in this game week. Everything's locked for game
23:31
Week 33, but there are three more games.
23:33
So just be careful with pickups that you're not picking up guys
23:36
that are on teams that aren't playing.
23:38
Those teams are what, Brighton. Chelsea.
23:41
Man City. Leeds, Bournemouth currently,
23:46
yeah. So that's a lot of teams.
23:48
It's going to be that. I think last week was a
23:50
bloodbath in the sense that everyone was shopping and
23:53
changing to to like beef up the teams.
23:56
This this is going to be about back.
23:57
There's going to be so few names and so many players to drop.
24:01
Shout out to Nate again, all those leads players.
24:05
So is it basically the players you have for next week?
24:07
It's locked, you can't drop them.
24:10
No, no, no. You can drop those players for
24:12
next week. You can't add more players, no,
24:14
But yeah, so you can just because the more there are some
24:16
games, right? Yeah, but you.
24:18
Yeah, but the waiver wire for next week doesn't start until
24:23
it's tomorrow, right. But so, so say you want to pick
24:26
up those players. No, it can't be, you're right.
24:30
So the wave wire must be as. Where?
24:33
Yeah, because it's. Let me let's figure this out so
24:39
I'll. Tell you on there.
24:40
Yeah, I'm not the lolly guards. I I I'm not sure you probably
24:43
I've pretty sent key for a couple of I don't think.
24:45
Did I send you a trade, Chico? I was trying to trade away at
24:48
least one player from my team that had a double game week this
24:51
week to try get a player that wasn't was going to play.
24:54
This week you are. You did it there successfully,
24:56
right? No, no.
24:57
I. I did it with.
25:01
Kucarella, Kyle. Kyle Claim will be effective
25:04
game week 34 from Friday April 24th to Thursday, April 30th.
25:09
So that's when it will happen. So you can pick up players and
25:12
drop them on the Friday just. Before their games, the 34 game
25:15
week starts. Yeah.
25:18
Oh yeah, so it's tricky. OK, so getting into it, first
25:21
one on here is Osula from Newcastle, 12% owned.
25:24
He's had a goal in each of his last two games.
25:26
He's finally getting starts, which he hasn't really all
25:29
season. He's he's kind of been off the
25:30
bench kind of I think at the very least worth keeping an eye
25:34
on even for draft next year, just depending on what they do.
25:36
But it's clearly that clearly the run in is that like what
25:40
Newcastle has lost like 8 of their last twelve.
25:43
Yeah, and they were just trying something new and as Sula seems
25:46
to be, you know, getting making something happen.
25:49
So we're keeping an eye on, I don't know what the how's their
25:52
schedule rest? This season, that's what I'm
25:54
looking at right now. Strikers are such a tricky
25:57
position. So if you if you play, that's
25:59
kind of in a good run of form, yeah.
26:01
They play off next and and they're collapsing, so it might
26:04
be the time. Oof, but Newcastle isn't great
26:07
either so they play Arsenal, Brighton, Forest, West Ham,
26:10
Fulham. Yeah, interesting.
26:14
The next one on here is actually one.
26:17
What'd? You say, Oh, and Gordon had that
26:19
hip flexor, so he might get, he definitely might get more game
26:22
time. Yeah, Gordon, Yeah, we'll see.
26:25
I I wouldn't be shocked if Gordon doesn't play again this
26:26
season, but we'll see. We'll see what happens there.
26:29
Yeah. I just think that they're
26:31
getting to a stage where they're going to lock down players
26:34
because they don't really need to win or lose.
26:35
So it's like the season's kind of over for, for.
26:37
For Newcastle, yeah, they they're, they're not going to
26:40
get really good dank general Europe so.
26:43
Especially if they are, which the rumors are saying that
26:46
they're potentially thinking about selling Gordon.
26:49
Like there's no reason to get him back out there.
26:52
Real Madrid. Pretty cool I heard so we'll
26:57
see. OK another a name on here that
27:00
actually the only reason I even thought of him or saw him was
27:04
because of the heat tracker. Three-game wiki tracker is
27:06
Timothy Castagna from Fulham. He's an old guy, but he still
27:11
has it. He's had three solid games in a
27:12
row. I think all double digits are
27:14
pretty close to it. And it's just not a name that I
27:17
would like look at twice, you know?
27:19
But when you see that he's had A147513 and then a 12 and his
27:23
last three, he's only 4% rostered, I think it's, I think
27:28
it's noteworthy. It's noteworthy enough to pay
27:29
attention. To it on a on a short game we
27:31
grew up for them playing. They're playing Villa, Arsenal,
27:35
Bourmot, Wolves and Newcastle, yeah.
27:39
I was thinking more of just the short game week so to play.
27:41
Yeah, I mean, short game week, but even, but even but against.
27:44
Villa is just going to be tough. Yeah, but I mean, who did they
27:48
play in the three games before? Liverpool, Burnley, Forest,
27:55
Southampton. OK.
27:56
Yeah, yeah. But the Liverpool score?
27:58
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah.
28:01
But anyways, yeah. So I think that's one of that's
28:03
that's like a perfect example of why I like the heat tracker,
28:05
because it's like a name like that pops up and you're like,
28:07
oh, wow. Like I would literally just
28:08
scroll past this guy because in my mind he's like old and not
28:13
good. But then you're like, oh wow,
28:14
he's he's on a really good round of fun right now.
28:16
So we're thinking about. And I think the other thing to
28:19
note is in that in that run, there were some games where he
28:22
had clean sheets and something that he didn't.
28:25
So he was doing it with Ghost Points and without.
28:27
So OK, next one on the list is Ayo Tanaka from Leeds.
28:31
So whenever stash is out with stash is like the stud there.
28:34
But when he whenever he's injured, there's always one guy
28:36
that seems to pick up his points.
28:38
And right now it's Ayo Tanaka. He's been taking a lot of the
28:40
set pieces and so. He's.
28:44
He's what? He looks good.
28:46
Puffy artist. I agree.
28:48
I think he's I think he's looked nice and he's like his service
28:51
has been good in and you know, it's definitely like a rental
28:54
until Stash comes back, if Stash comes back.
28:56
If he comes back, yeah. But I think leads are like one
28:59
win away from pretty much being much safe, safe, safe.
29:03
So so in which case then I wouldn't be shocked if they
29:06
don't rush Dash back. Yeah, I think, I think, you
29:09
know, I think they obviously want their best players, but if
29:11
they if they can be safe, there's no point rushing back.
29:15
But yeah, so it's not a short term rental, but it seems like
29:18
worth it. I think it's like 2 WJ games a
29:20
row. So pretty pretty much since Dash
29:22
has been out and since he's been taking set pieces.
29:25
So yeah, I'm very interested. OK, next one, Tase Jensen,
29:29
here's on your last last waivers 2.
29:32
I don't want to, like repeat too much, but he's just been really
29:34
consistent. And now that consistency of like
29:36
sevens and eights, the last two games have been dumped digit.
29:39
So worth noting. Worth probably playing.
29:42
I don't know what their rest of schedule is like.
29:44
Chico, can you pull it up really quick?
29:47
Yes, so rest of schedule they play United, West Ham City
29:52
Palace, Liverpool. So not a friendly schedule.
29:55
I mean, I'm not that we're nervous about United at this
29:58
point or West Ham's good and he's he's not good and he's a
30:02
midfielder. He was, yeah.
30:05
So he'll get points. Yeah, he'll get points on both
30:07
and he's he's like a true midfielder where he gets tackles
30:11
and assists, you know, tackles and 10 exceptions.
30:13
You know, he's getting points on both sides.
30:14
So yeah. Yeah, I'm not as he's busy.
30:16
That's what I'm saying. He's not like a winger.
30:18
That place, you know, that's classified as a midfielder.
30:21
All right, next one Jaden Bogle 55% owned leads clean sheets
30:26
mass the last performance a bit. I think he had around 10 points,
30:29
but with a clean sheet it really wasn't that great.
30:31
But three solid in a row, you gotta disrespect only game only
30:34
issues the double game week absence.
30:37
So I didn't include most people that just wanted to give him a
30:41
shout. I think there's a few other ones
30:42
we talked about the Kusanov and we talked there's a few other
30:45
double game week guys, but like, unless you have the room for it,
30:49
you know it's not worth it. Yeah, next on here, Louis Potter
30:52
from Brentford, 23% owned. He's looked really good.
30:55
I think he was one of the best players for Brentford in the
30:57
last game. I thought he looked really,
30:58
really strong. He's had a few really games in a
31:00
row. We're talking double digit games
31:04
and he's still only 23% owned. Then I feel like, I think it's
31:06
because he's been kind of up and down and pretty lukewarm for a
31:11
few years now, but he's also been super young.
31:13
He's like a very young player. So I think if he started to like
31:15
grow into his own now it might be a good time to to snag him
31:19
and see what happens. And he thought so.
31:22
Now you got 9.25 the last game, you'd be pretty solid again.
31:27
A lot of key passes, clearances, so again, he's going on both
31:30
sides. Yeah, he's one of those guys
31:32
that plays like you kind of plays out of position.
31:34
So as he plays as an offender, he's classified as a mid, I'm
31:36
fairly certain. So this is an interesting thing,
31:39
but it's it's fine. It's like with that's proven
31:42
that's that's very OK Next on here is Van Botnen 31%
31:46
Newcastle. I thought his face exploded and
31:49
he was time for the season, but it turns out that I that I was
31:52
wrong. And he is.
31:54
He's fine. And he played.
31:56
He played and he scored like I saw like 8 1/2.
31:59
So Well, it's worth. I mean, he should be added if
32:03
you can, right? Yeah.
32:05
Defender. To defend you keep it looks like
32:07
70% of other people dropped him also before Pep trying to pick
32:11
him back up so everyone thought he was done for the rest of the
32:14
season. I'm fairly certain that on fan
32:17
shocks had said he's out for the rest of the season.
32:20
Yeah. So thank you.
32:23
Yeah, I think fan tracks fucked us.
32:24
All do better fan tracks I think.
32:27
No, no, we love fan tracks. We're trying to get sponsored.
32:29
Oh. Yeah.
32:30
Oh, yeah. Oh, sorry, sorry.
32:31
We have a. Couple of yeah.
32:35
OK, Anyways, worth he's worth he's worth worth rostering.
32:40
Yeah, if if he's available. Last one.
32:43
Igor Jesus. Marcel de Cruz.
32:45
Igor Jesus for short, he's a forward a couple.
32:48
He's, I think he's had two goals in his last two games.
32:52
Am I right there? Or maybe there's a gap of one in
32:54
between what he did? But just like he's a little bit
32:57
hot. And if you, it's kind of one of
32:58
those things where if you think they're going to stay up, then
33:02
he's kind of worth worth rostering.
33:06
I think as a specialist, forwards are pretty light.
33:10
Yeah. What do you guys think?
33:12
35% owned you guys, What you guys, what you guys have on your
33:15
team? I have on my feet.
33:17
Well, I love Jesus. I I love Jesus.
33:20
I drafted him last year when he didn't play.
33:23
But their schedules kind of friendly if finishing the year.
33:26
It's Sunderland, Chelsea, Villa, Castle and United and yeah, in
33:33
United and Bournemouth. Yeah, that seems pretty, pretty
33:37
doable. Yeah, pretty pretty doable.
33:41
Yeah. So that's waivers for the week.
33:43
Just be really careful with a double S game with guys.
33:45
It's really easy to accidentally pick up the wrong one.
33:47
She just talked through some just big stuff.
33:50
Like what? Like holy hell, Morgan, his wife
33:52
finally showed up, huh? Yeah, he's been like hot the
33:55
last few weeks. Did you see his goals too?
33:57
They're all pretty good. No, pretty good, but I said that
34:01
it's don't be wrong. He scored twelve goals this
34:03
season, which actually really good from midfielder in my
34:04
opinion. But it was so spread out and
34:07
it's like not enough of everything else that usually
34:09
does so. Yeah, he's been.
34:12
I mean, I think there's a fantasy asset.
34:14
He's been underwhelming for the last few years.
34:16
And I think if anything, what this does is makes people
34:20
remember how good he was. Yeah, at the end of the season.
34:23
And then they'll probably paper over the fact that he was pretty
34:25
inconsistent. Didn't he do this last season 2
34:28
and seen before that where he had a free whatever season at
34:31
the end of a he showed up nowhere I.
34:34
Remember, maybe I just think that I think there's been
34:37
there's like one or two years where he really impressed and
34:40
then he started getting drafted really high.
34:42
And then since then he hasn't really impressed.
34:44
But like OK, in our in one of our leagues, in our ten men
34:47
league, he was picked round three, pick 10, which is.
34:53
To be fair, some people thought he was going to be Tottenham
34:55
player at the time. That is true.
34:57
So that, yeah, not have been the best thing that happened to him,
35:01
did not do that. What do you mean he could have
35:05
pulled us out? He.
35:06
Could he could have pulled you out?
35:07
I guess you're right. Forest on, you know, Forest
35:11
isn't the end of relegation, Tottenham is.
35:14
Same thing for EDZ. We could be winning.
35:16
We could come second this year for work on Thursday, you know,
35:19
if it came to us. I, I think as a man, I do you
35:26
think he regrets going to Arsenal?
35:27
Probably not. I think if, if they don't win
35:29
the title, maybe. But if they win the title it's
35:30
worth it. I don't.
35:31
Think he regrets it coming 2nd and playing Champions League.
35:34
I don't think he regrets it. Like, yeah.
35:36
OK, but what? What was he going to play for?
35:38
A palace and. That's what I'm saying.
35:40
Like he wouldn't. He's going to play every game,
35:41
that's for sure. He wasn't going to play the game
35:43
half the time, but you got to think about look at all the the
35:45
players that we feel flopped this year like matter matter.
35:48
Weki as a what has been playing better, but he was a flop of the
35:51
game this season. Simmons, who else?
35:55
There's so many, there's so many.
35:57
Garnacho. Garnacho, Baltimore, you know.
36:02
With. Isaac.
36:04
Isa injury anymore but yeah yeah it's been rough it's been rough
36:08
season that's I mean there's anything else we really want to
36:13
talk about we kind of spoke about a lot of these guys we
36:14
talked about Watkins Okafor has been surprisingly good and he's
36:18
I mean what's his own percentage of 58% yeah James Justin was
36:23
that a bicycle kick he's going you guys see that for leads I.
36:27
Didn't see it, no. Yeah, it's pretty.
36:29
It's pretty impressive from Justin.
36:31
Pedro Poro now has had a few good games on like on the
36:34
bounce. If if Tottenham managed a great
36:36
escape and stay up Pedro Poro I think will next year under Art
36:42
Deserby. Can we talk a little about Nico
36:46
O'Reilly? Oh, I can't.
36:48
I can't think of Nico Riley without thinking of that Beatles
36:50
song like. I can't think of Nico Riley now
36:54
without thinking of that nutmeg. Oh my God, on the byline, just
36:58
hanging out on the byline. Bro.
37:00
Yeah, two people, two defenders. He he's been playing well the
37:04
second-half of the season. He's been phenomenal.
37:06
I've watched a lot of man see game.
37:07
He's been phenomenal. Is atory done?
37:11
Yeah, I think I'm, I think I might be dropping annoying.
37:14
I think that Nico Riley's is way too hot.
37:16
I think there was a period of time where Nico Riley's playing
37:18
in the midfield and not Nori was getting starts and that's I
37:21
think the only conceivable way that he would be playing.
37:24
Kenny, if Rodri is certain, can he play Rodri's position?
37:28
That might be the that might be the quality Co is that that
37:31
might be the for. Nico Riley play the Rodri
37:33
position. Yeah, that's where he played in
37:36
the center of midfield because that's where he there was a few
37:38
games earlier in the season where he did play inside
37:40
midfield. And that's right.
37:42
Yeah, I'm just saying I'm, I'm not, I'm not saying it's a good
37:45
idea about it. Yeah, I'm just saying that
37:46
that's that's the only way conceivable way I see out no way
37:48
getting point getting. Confidence could work wonders.
37:52
If they go around. Playing there with confidence
37:54
now he could do whatever man they.
37:57
I also have my sister. Oh my God, I I can't believe
38:01
you're just wait, you're waiting and like 45 minutes in to show
38:04
us that you have that I'm. Thinking love that thing.
38:07
That's amazing, that's awesome. Did.
38:08
You buy that separately. Does it just come with every Man
38:11
City jersey? It's just like it's like out in
38:12
it. It's actually just then why
38:16
always me Mario Bella telly man, that's a, that's a throwback.
38:19
That's like a 10 year old throwback.
38:22
I love that. OK, but is there anything else?
38:25
Just I was looking up a stat while we were talking about
38:29
Arsenal bottling the league again.
38:31
So courtesy of Taiji PTI wanted to see what the last five games
38:37
or so or no, I'm sorry, last 10 games of the results were for
38:40
the Arsenal and Man City from the last five years, So from
38:45
2021-2022 all the way to now. So their records in the last 10
38:49
games of the season is Manchester City 31 wins, 8 draws
38:54
and one loss. Arsenal 24 wins, 6 draws, 10
38:59
losses. Granted, one of the losses came
39:02
the 2122 five of those losses, but it seems like they don't
39:06
close out the year strong in the last five years, four years
39:09
which we already knew. So we talked about the trend.
39:13
You know how things go. So this is I I don't know.
39:16
Even though I feel like Arsenal has a ski easier schedule, I'm
39:19
favoring Met City. You you got to remember also in
39:22
Champions League also, so playing Athletico, so say they
39:24
do go through and then they've got to play pay off for that.
39:31
I mean, Byron or PSG in the final, but if they go through,
39:34
they go through. I mean there's there's two more
39:36
games that then then the the finals after the season.
39:39
I think it's more like, I think it's more a question of like if
39:43
they lose, it's almost if they lose, it's been worse if they
39:48
lose it, they were just psychologically because if they
39:50
win, if they win, it's almost like this pressure's off.
39:52
Like we made it to the chains that final and there's a
39:54
pressure off. Or if they lose, it's like we
39:56
failed again. But they're playing three London
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derbies the last four of their games. 3 they're playing Fulham,
40:04
who historically do pretty well against freaking Arsenal, that
40:08
we are playing West Ham, who are going to be fine for their
40:10
lives. And they get played ballet.
40:12
They still win that one. But then they go play Palace
40:14
too. Who?
40:16
It's a it's a Derby. I think they drop points against
40:20
Newcastle. That's what you think this week,
40:22
as early as this week, they drop ones.
40:24
Do you think, do you think it's just like crumble?
40:26
Do you think it's just, it's a, it's a mental?
40:30
I think, I think it, there's no way it's not a mental aspect of
40:32
it now, but I I think it would be kind of funny if both of them
40:39
went out their games and it comes out came comes down to who
40:42
scored more goals against Brinley.
40:46
Yeah, I don't know man. I just think, I think they're
40:50
going to drop points against Fulham.
40:52
That's so often they're going to go points against.
40:54
So as soon as Manchester Sea goes back on top, I'd say they
40:59
don't relinquish that position. It's tough, OK, And a question
41:04
for you this next game week that's coming up.
41:06
Short week, not a ton of games. Yeah, Wolves, Tottenham.
41:12
Are you? I mean, I feel like after you, I
41:14
feel you have to feel encouraged, even though that was
41:16
obviously devastating. So you have to feel fairly
41:18
encouraged by that. And I feel like if as someone
41:21
who's like scrambling for players, like I'm picking up top
41:25
players. Yeah, me too.
41:27
I think I think like I I was really encouraged by that and
41:30
what I saw from them to think that they can they can A win
41:32
this game and B score some points against, against.
41:37
We'll assume that just found out that they're relegated.
41:40
Yeah, they're not much to play for.
41:42
Jumping up top players if I can. It's not because I'm a total
41:44
fan, just because, again, like I said, what I saw from that last
41:47
game and it's against Wolves and it's a short game.
41:52
How confident are you that they will win against the Wolves?
41:55
I'm not confident at all. Like on a scale of 1 to 10.
42:00
Like a like a six wavering. Well, look at this cocky guy.
42:05
How about a? But you'll get a point.
42:08
But we don't need a point we. Need every point.
42:11
We need a win, right? Tottenham needs to win.
42:15
Like Zoby said, he seems like winning on next five games or
42:17
lost by games first. I don't see us.
42:20
This has the potential to be the for you guys to win the first
42:23
game of 2026 and the only game of 2026.
42:29
Wow. Well, for the year, you win.
42:32
This is me. That's what I mean.
42:33
You all friends. It's.
42:35
It's a difficult schedule. Villa, Leeds, Chelsea, Everton.
42:40
Wolves. Yeah, Wolves.
42:42
And then all those games. Yeah, after Wolves, it's yeah.
42:47
Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's it's a tough time, tough time to be a
42:49
Tottenham fan. Anything else?
42:51
We want to talk about some of the games next week.
42:53
We talked about that game. I'm kind of feels like like that
42:56
Arsenal, Newcastle game. We chatted about that.
42:58
There's something meaningful there.
43:00
Other than that, we're just getting to that point of the
43:02
season where, you know, meaningful teams are the fantasy
43:05
elements. Man United, Brentford is kind of
43:08
interesting. So I think Brentford is not that
43:09
far away from Champions League spots, am I?
43:13
Am I wrong? Brentford is in 7th right now on
43:15
48, Liverpool's at 55. So there is a gap.
43:19
No, I think champion. Now we're talking.
43:21
Champions League is 6. Spots.
43:24
Yeah, Europa. Europa is the one you go look
43:26
at. I think 125 is set.
43:28
I don't think that's going to change.
43:30
That's changing. Yeah, I think that's pretty
43:33
settled. I agree with that.
43:35
Like you're hoping what's there to fight for next goes a little
43:38
way up to 12. So it's still quiet for Europe
43:41
and they're in 12th. They're in 12th.
43:43
Yeah, yeah, you're totally right.
43:45
I mean, I, I think Leeds is probably one win away from from
43:49
being safe and I think Forest, Forest, yeah.
43:57
I mean, I it's really good looking like he's coming down to
43:59
West Ham, Tottenham the other day.
44:02
Lease these two points to be out of it.
44:05
You think 2 points. That's it.
44:06
No, I'm looking at it, Yeah, they just need 2 points.
44:08
So like, no, no tiebreaker, nothing.
44:10
They're secure if they get 2 points.
44:12
No, because Tottenham could win five games if Tottenham would
44:15
get 2 points, five games they. Can.
44:18
Oh yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah.
44:19
That's. Right.
44:20
Yeah. But I think realistically,
44:23
that's pretty realistic, you know?
44:25
Right, Enzo's gun. I think that's a sign.
44:27
I think that's a sign this has been episode 131 dropped off
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44:51
Keith, how did you not say as I got relegated and that got
44:55
relegated, yeah, instead of saying yeah?
44:59
Cheesy. You're right.
45:00
All right, that was a missed opportunity.
45:02
All right, later. See you, Keith.