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Spiteful Mistakes, Good Clean Sheet Lovin' and Take My Money Bro! · Draft Offsides Podcast

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Hello and welcome to episode 82 of Draft Offsides.
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We just had game week 30 happen. That was quite the exciting
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week, right Enzo? Go fuck yourself, Keith.
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Whoa, is that what you learned in Japan?
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Yeah, that that was a very polite of you.
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Seeing that you're bringing up a game I didn't put on my recap.
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What are you talking about? I just quit the exciting week.
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Yeah, I know. You're you're shut up, all
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right? Yeah.
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No, not a good week. Won.
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I lost and that's because of son who I traded for a couple weeks
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ago, so that'll hurt a little bit more.
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It then made Kyle and Sergey tie with me for 3rd.
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I'm only in 3rd because of points.
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Have you seen them? They caught up, they woke up so.
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But I was happy that Tico lost and Keith won because I don't
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care. I'm upset with you Keith, but
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it's fine wearing that crappy jersey.
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But you are now that much closer to being Tico.
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I think the biggest thing in the matchup is I'm a game behind
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Tico, but I was 100 points behind him.
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But this was such a good week for me that I'm now only 50
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points behind him too. So the the point total matchup
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is getting, it's getting. That little question that Tico
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had, yeah. It's getting a little lighter.
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Well, it's. To me, this is their own stretch
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because not only did I not was was I bamboos a lot of Luis Diaz
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fucking Cunya is still out and he's gonna be out against this
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week when I play against Keith, which is I mean sure, we all
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know like all of us love Cunya over here, but the following
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week he comes back against Tottenham, which he should score
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a goal or two. So that's the way I'm writing.
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But that that week is also a week where I'm playing Thomas
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and Newcastle has two game two games and he has E stock.
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Oh, it's, it's all coming together.
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It's really icky. Yeah, it gets really icky in
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these last weeks. I might just pull, I might just
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pull my game from Keith. I might just sub a few players
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off I. Don't do that.
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I might I might do a case. I would never, I would never say
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to do that. But yeah, there's some, there's
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some really interesting things and some interesting strategies
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to discuss. So I want to, I want to save a
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little time at the end to talk about some of that stuff.
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Yeah, but in the meantime, we just want to cover a few really
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quick, like, key moments from some key games.
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Not every game. First one Arsenal 2 full of one
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Pakaya. Osaka is back, baby.
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Back man, he's back. Looking good. 7 bench.
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Off the bench, scored after 7 minutes look good.
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Very alarming for Arsenal though.
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Was Gabrielle going down out rest of the season?
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He should be just dropped from every team.
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Oh, from the Champions League. Sorry, he's fucking.
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Cheering over there like Cal Fiori, Well, he had suffered an
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injury with Italy. I think he's a drop.
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I think you just get rid of him. I dropped him.
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I think he's gonna be out for three weeks, 3 weeks.
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When he comes back, who knows? It just feels like you're better
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off just dropping. In three weeks you can reassess.
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It's a little bit worrying for for Arsenal and.
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It's incredibly worrying. Well, one, one, to get clean
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sheet points and two, just who's going to do the job that both
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those two players have been doing?
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For us, do you remember last year Kiyor came in and looked
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really good and this year when he's coming, he hasn't looked
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good. So like, I don't know if that's
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like like, you know, the immediate thing when Gabriel
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goes down is oh, pick up Kiyor. But it's like there might be
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better options. I don't know.
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I'm like, still, I'm on the fence about that as like, is
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that the pickup, you know? I don't know, I'm not sure what
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what you're going to get now from this Arsenal team that
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because Gabrielle and Celibrium is such a good fucking
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partnership. It's going to be, I think the
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timber thing is more alarming and actually more problematic
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than almost more problematic than Gabriel.
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Yeah, they they haven't ruled them out though it says it says
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he's going to be a match day decision, but with Champions
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League coming around so they might arrest him this weekend.
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I think the biggest thing that I don't know if we're going to
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talk about later on or not is Arsenal this year have struggled
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to score goals at times and with the set pieces Gabriel was their
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main target. I think there's other targets.
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So I think like it's, it's kind of like an NFL team like that
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the X player, you know, it's like the only like I think
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there's like they put Saliba in that spot and they haven't make
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that run. And I think you know, or someone
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else will like Declan Rice or someone.
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Else. So he's taking a, he's taking
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the corners. Oh yeah, whoever it is.
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So he only takes quarters from one side, right?
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Yeah, yeah. But whoever, maybe it's Michael
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Marino's, becomes that ex player.
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He's actually done really well. Like we had those two goals
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beginning, then he got another. He had a game and then he had
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another two goals. He's actually been doing it.
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So Marino's actually, yeah. I knew you guys were making fun
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of me for spending 30 fab on him at the beginning of the year.
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Yeah, but then you dropped him. Well, cuz he broke his
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collarbone and like just 5 minutes after he got he's only
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got traded to the team and like just and slipped like while like
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walking off the plane and broke his collarbone.
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But look. He missed missed the context in
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it though, Keith, you know what I mean.
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That's all right. We made fun of you because he
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broke his collarbone and then you had to drop him straight
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away. So whoever you spend a lot of
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five on, they end up like having serious injuries.
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Yeah, seriously, I've I've just cursed.
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Yeah, you've spent money on Rodrigo Rodri too.
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Oh yeah. Real quickly though, with
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Arsenal, Martinelli scored 19.5 points.
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That was the best game I've ever seen him play.
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That was the I literally was like, if I didn't know any
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better, I'd be like, who is this guy like?
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He played really well. He got It wasn't just the, IT
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wasn't just this, I mean. That was amazing, but but even
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before that. Yeah, he was productive down
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that side. Dribble completions like he did
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well. It was against Timothy Castagna
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though. Like I don't know how much much
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more legs that has. That's exactly.
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What I was going to say, and I don't know if he's going to do
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it week in, week out, we haven't seen that kind of play like
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that. That seemed like the Morinelli
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from two years. Ago.
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Yeah, we're, we're two years removed from that.
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It's his highest scoring game in the last two years when he
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didn't score a goal. Really.
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Yeah, that's a good, that's a good.
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That's nice. OK, The last, last thing about
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the Arsenal status when? When Yari got 16.5 points,
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that's really great to see. I think Saka's back.
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I don't think Winieri's going to be starting games anymore.
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I think he's like auxiliary player.
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I think, you know, you might, you might want to still keep him
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on a bench in case one of those guys goes down or something.
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But because you know what, if second Martinelli or soccer
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reinjuries, then Winieri's automatically viable again.
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So I don't think he, I don't think you're dropping him
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necessarily. But yeah, I don't, I wouldn't
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get too excited, no. Miava OK, still a good player
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though. Fulham side Muniz got a goal.
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That means he's had three goals in his last four games, and
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they're all from substitutes. I don't know what you do with
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that information, though. Like, what are you going to do,
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pick them up and like, like, start, You know what I mean?
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That's just kind of something. That's a tough one.
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Other than that, what do we think about Fulham?
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Anything. Anything stand out?
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Andy Robinson got 10.5 points. Standard good for.
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Standard good for him. Iwobi was on the bench for some
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reason, I don't know the reason why.
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Again, he only got 3 points, so I'm not getting those Wobi
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points ever since. You know, Derek brought that up.
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Yeah, you fucking cast. Him Anthony Robinson's
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officially back in the highest scoring defender category too.
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He. Had a couple good games in a
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row. He had a he had a four or five
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game by little slump, but he's back.
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Yeah OK moving on next game Force One United 0 Anthony
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Elenga just literally charged down the whole field bullied
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like 3 minutes of standing players.
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The the craziest one to me was Mazzarowi.
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Like the way he was like he wasn't like stepping to him.
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That was wild. He was just backing up, backing
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up. I was mind boggling.
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That was like the easiest goal Lego ever scored from that
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position. Yeah, comes back to home, Man
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United. Man, you know you should really
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use a player like a Lego. You know what?
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Look how many of these Man United players have left are
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fucking killing it right now. It's so bad I feel.
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So Mctomeny and Napoli, he's fucking tearing it up right now.
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Brother Anthony, they haven't lost the game ever since.
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It's been there. They.
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Never won the they won the Sevilla Darby Yeah, they.
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Beat they beat Real Madrid. Yeah, who else is doing great
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from United? Alanga.
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Oh my God, you just scored there in what, third place?
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Who else? Daily Blend I'm sure is doing
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great. Marcus Rashford.
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Marcus Rashford. Wow, that was yeah, that's
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great. It's so true.
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It's sickening, but it's so true.
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So Forest just yeah, Forest looked good.
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They did. They did something a little
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different. I don't think they had did they
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have did won't even start this game.
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I don't think so. He did.
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He did say. OK, he started the game.
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It just they Forest has you know what Forest has the least
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possession in the like yeah, have all the teams like they
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just sit back and they that counter attack is just brutal.
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And you know, but it's they score first more than almost any
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team as well. They score 1st and they sit on
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leads and it's just so nasty. And look, Selves didn't have too
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much to do that game, but he made some great when he had to
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make a save. He made fucking some great
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saves. It it's so funny because I think
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so this isn't the exact stats, but like Force had like one shot
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on target and they scored and United had all these shots, but
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they're so like they're such like low percentage shots.
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It's like it's kind of like United's the type of team that
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you want, you want to be the keeper against, not so much
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because they can't score, but obviously that, but like also
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because they they create really bad chances.
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Yeah. So there's a lot of shots on
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target and they're all really bad shots on target.
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They're. Right at the keeper, yeah.
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Exactly. Do we care that Mason bounce
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back or we don't? Really, we could not care less.
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Could not care less. Maria 17 points, One of the best
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defenders. This might be one of the best
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defensive parent pairings in the league.
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No? I think so.
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I think so. They're definitely up there and
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I think again, it's going to be tough for Forests who get a big
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payday in the summer for a few of these players.
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I mean, they're going to get money for it being a Champions
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League. They're going to get more money
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than they would have for placing third or fourth.
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Maybe they sell one player, but I think they keep like maybe
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they sell Rio for 60 million to someone, right?
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I'm thinking that's what they might do and then and then
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they'll reinvest it and maybe another, obviously another
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defender, but maybe another midfielder because I think that
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might be the one thing to miss him.
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Maybe another striker or maybe a striker because I don't know if
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Chris Wood's going to do that again next season, especially
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not in Chelmsley. But also you gotta.
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Remember, Owoni was scored double digit goals last year or
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two years ago, right? Yeah, last year he was injured.
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So it's like, I mean, even if Chris Wood can't do it again,
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like they have another guy who's pretty freaking good too.
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And Owoni's 27. But in the Champions League, you
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notice they need. You need.
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They're gonna need, I mean, they're gonna need some pieces
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for sure. Yeah.
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Yeah. But like, the team doesn't need
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that much. They really don't need that much
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to be good. The one thing I did see though,
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and this is interesting, is that like I was listening to some
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nerds talk about like the XG and like X, like X performance, like
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X points, like, you know, like expected points.
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They've over performed their expected points by almost 12
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points, which is really interesting.
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Yeah. That doesn't even seem that like
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that much. Though I mean it, it does it,
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but it is. Yeah.
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Think about, think about where they would be 1212 fewer points.
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And like, of course, like you can't like you can't be like,
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oh, they don't deserve it. Like they obviously do.
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They won the games and they're yeah.
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But like, you know, they have what they have 57 points.
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So if they were at 45, they'd be in like 10.
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Oh, wow. OK, Yeah.
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Just interesting. But I'm not, I'm not saying that
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like they don't deserve it. I'm just saying that like it's
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just an interesting thing. They're doing better than what
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they're expected. Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, from from the chances. So they're scoring chances like
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like amazingly OK next. And like, is there anything to
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talk about United? Bruno does.
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Well, Bruno did. Well, actually a lot of their
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players scored well even though they lost one nil because they
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had so much possession, you know what I mean?
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And they they did create chances, even if they weren't
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even full chance or half chances, like I think Mazrawi
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still scored double figures. Their defenders did well, yeah,
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not the yeah, just their three defenders, Dorogo, Mazuri and
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Dalo all. Of them double digits.
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Yeah, and the lead 2 double digits.
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So all their hold, yeah, four of the five and and then that's.
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What you can see in the goal No clean sheet points.
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Yeah. Bruno.
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OK, next game Brighton 0, Villa 3.
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This is kind of a shocking, huh? But it didn't really start until
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the second-half. Didn't.
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Start until the second-half it. Really was like, yeah, yeah.
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So in my parlay on this one, Brighton were favorite.
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I had picked Villa, but Brighton were favored.
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They were, I think plus like 180 or 200 so.
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Kind of hot, but I'm surprised they were favored considering
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that they had played 120 minutes midweek, 120 minutes on the
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weekend in the FA Cup. Yeah, you know.
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Really tore them up a little bit.
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Yeah, totally. I mean, I think you think, I
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think they held pretty good in the first half.
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It was that second-half that crushed them and Villa.
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Villa had time off so. Who had a Rashford benching
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Watkins in their bingo card? God, you guys are both, I've
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kind of loved this like walk and see you guys have both been like
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been able to commiserate and suffer together, like you slick
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each other and just shake your heads.
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It's just like one of. The few things I just have
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nothing to do with and it's the one of the worst parts about it
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is I was pretty hot on Watford, yes, I wondered that was the
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ones I was telling you guys to get up.
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I didn't get him anywhere. You guys both got up.
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He's. Just going to be good the.
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Thing is, he didn't start off that bad and it just has slowly
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got worse and worse as the season's gone and then he got
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more sporadic. Like I think he got .5 points
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because he came off the bench this game but like.
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I I think Enzo and I were the happiest people when the run
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went to Saudi League, were like finally watching.
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Finally. Yeah, and then they bring
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Rashford, like, who cares? Rashford.
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He's watched and now this guy's like.
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Rashford a sense to and Mullen too, just like people that could
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sub in, you know, and then all kind of.
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This stuff, looking at the goal, yeah.
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All three of those guys scored. Those are the three January
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transfer windows, January transfers they had.
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And they all did a good fucking business and they're loans.
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Do you think they did good enough business to like beat
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like APSG? To look, I think I think they
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could because if they could if because one pick Dunga, Ron
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Pierce, she's been playing fucking amazing as the seasons
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go on. All right, Dem belly's on
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fucking fire, OK, But essential is coming back to that club and
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he's going to have some he's going to have some fucking, you
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know, I'm going to fucking fuck this team up for for loaning me
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out. Rashford's looking like a brand
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new player. He's got back to in the England
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squad looking better, you know what I mean?
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So there's there's definitely comments there.
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And then Rogers, I know you've got two assists game and you
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need more consistency, but he's got more targets to hit now.
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So he's, I mean, it's like good strikers are going to make all
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the midfielders better. Exactly.
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Yeah. But the Rogers thing is
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interesting is you said consistency.
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And in my mind I'm like, oh, he's been so good.
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And I looked it's like, yeah, like so it's obviously scored
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20.75 in this game, the game before 5.5, game before that 12
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game before that 4.5 and then 5.25 and then 12.75.
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So it's so it's and then a one and then a lessons one.
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Yeah, yeah. Then a zero playing the full 90.
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So yeah, there's definitely a little bit of just that young.
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I mean, how old is he? He's the same age as called
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Palmer, like 2223, yeah. I think he's the same age as
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Jude. I think he's the type of guy
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that next year, like I would think he'd be probably going to
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like the third or fourth round next year.
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Yeah, probably. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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OK. Since you off the bench
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contributes, we talked about it, scored a goal and assists.
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Is he the type of guy there's Sophie players like this where
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if you see him not starting you still put keep him in your
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lineup on fan tracks? If you look at, I'm not sure.
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You look at his, look at his minutes from in the last five
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games, I think he's only played one full 9 minutes.
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Everything else has been off the bench and.
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He scored two goals and he's. Chelsea.
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So the side like, but it's kind of like that joke I was making
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with you with James Madison where I'd like, so Tico was down
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28 points going into this game today and he all all he had is
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Madison playing. And I was like, your best bet is
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Madison doesn't start and comes on even back because every
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single time he starts games he does not score points.
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And I feel like I don't know if Ascentio's like that.
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But I think that's what I mean though.
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If Ascenio does come on, you have a chance of getting big
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points, no? So just going through his game
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logs, the only time he has good point is when he scores a goal
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or has a goal contribution. Because twice he came off.
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The three times he came off the bench.
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Last game he scored obviously 21 points and a five points.
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The time before, 1 1/2 points and then six points.
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That was his debut. And then he started two games 1,
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he played 66 minutes, only two points.
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The other one against Chelsea had two goals, 28 points.
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So very goal dependent. So I think I would just play
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them probably matchups. Like, you don't love it.
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You like, I know Sergei was kind of being like, oh, he scored so
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many goals. He's so good.
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But yeah, it's, it's just like it's, it puts you in an awkward
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situation. Like that's one of those ones.
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I'm not that sad that I didn't like get in.
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Yeah, I, I think the situation is if like, like my situation
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today, if I was down by like 20 points and if you have someone
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who's gonna like consistent score like 10 points or you
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could like hit a home run with Ascencio, you yeah, you're like,
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yeah, go with it. Speak for the fences type guy.
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Yeah, yeah, I think I'm more upset that I didn't get Rashford
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Popular and now, and that was the guy I wasn't going for.
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Right. He was never available.
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He never got drafted our league. I know, but I wanted him.
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That's a funny one. OK, anything else here?
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Brighton. Brighton Players.
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Duds. Duds are we concerned?
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I mean, they looked pretty good in like against forest midweek
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like that that attacking those attacking players like job,
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Pedro, Matomo, you're always starting a dingra.
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Nah, not really, not really not super excited about that.
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A stupid non you're probably going to start yeah.
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I mean, I just feel like they're one of those teams where I'm not
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like it's just so hard to know who's going to be the guy that's
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going to pop. Off they don't, they don't have
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a star player. It's it's this year a team that
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plays as a team and don't know who's going to provide that
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game. Matomo is a higher scorer with
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12 points. Jon Pedro 7.25 Yeah, just not
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not ideal, no. OK, next game.
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Newcastle 2 Brentford one he sacked back at it. 17.75 points
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a goal Does a grain strain took groin strain took off early.
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Yeah, I guess he's been digging over it for a little bit.
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So they just took him off as a precautionary.
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But you know, groin strains, it's not the best thing to have.
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Not the full. Player.
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Especially at this stage of the season, yeah, there's a there's
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a lot of pressure to perform and stuff too, so it's a little
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alarming. No, they already did their job
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there. He won the Karabakh Cup.
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So. Yeah, Tonali scored a goal that
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was. I don't think he was trying to
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do that. He.
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Wasn't trying to do that 18. Point 18.25 points owned in 50%
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of leagues. He's gonna be on waivers later,
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but not because I think he's a good player.
18:31
I'll explain. I'll explain when we get there.
18:34
A couple of good games. So I was actually gonna look
18:36
right now. So let's look at let's look at
18:37
10. All these scores last few games.
18:39
So the last two games he's had a good game, but then that Cup
18:41
final he had a great game too. So it's technically 3, but two
18:44
that really mounted. Yeah, the last two, obviously
18:46
the 18.25 and then he scored an 11.5.
18:49
That was all ghost points, so no goals, no assists, which is
18:52
great. You'd like to see that, Yeah.
18:55
For Newcastle, I don't know if you guys saw this Lewis Hole.
18:58
He's pretty much stumped for the year, yeah.
19:00
I think, yeah, that's a drop easy.
19:03
I think there's a few other players.
19:05
Newcastle is one of the teams that has a double game week
19:07
coming up, so if there are pieces there to pick up that are
19:10
free in your leagues, you should.
19:12
I have a few on waivers that we can talk about.
19:16
Barnes flourishing and Gordon's absence. 16.25 points, it's
19:21
good. I don't think it's enough to UPS
19:23
like I was gonna say up seat Gordon though.
19:25
Right, exactly. I look he's flourishing right
19:27
now. So if you way if he was on
19:29
waivers, you could pick him up great you.
19:31
Know hit it with Gordon's back next.
19:32
Gordon's back next game. And it's done.
19:34
Yeah, and there's some 00. Yeah, double.
19:37
He's gonna have some double games too.
19:39
Yep. Yeah, so.
19:40
And he's rested so. Yeah, and he's hungry.
19:42
Yeah. I mean, he missed the Carabao
19:44
Cup final too. You.
19:45
Fucking idiot. I know so done so so.
19:48
Done, Yeah. Brentford Bueno got a goal, just
19:52
a classic penalty. You know, that's ten straight
19:55
for him. Penalties, really.
19:57
Yeah. So he's he might break Cole
19:59
Palmer's record. Oh, look at that.
20:02
Is it Cole Palmer's record? I don't think it's his record,
20:04
yeah. In the primary league.
20:06
Yeah, I think he's tied. Or he.
20:07
Most consecutive penalties he beat.
20:11
Don't worry, don't worry. We've got a fact checker here.
20:13
He's gonna Fact Check you right now.
20:16
He's our guy in the chair. No, he's just he's.
20:19
An asshole. Chat TGP Kevin shot it, got
20:26
14.75 points. That's a good one.
20:29
He finally had a good game. He had a few he had, he had a
20:32
couple low games. He's also one of the young guys.
20:34
I kind of put him in the Morgan Rogers category where he doesn't
20:37
quite, he's not quite at the point where he has consistency,
20:39
but he's a he's a guy I think is only going to get better.
20:43
I'm kind of excited I put him in like the Morgan Rod like that,
20:45
that type of that type of player.
20:47
That's like one for the future. One for the future for sure.
20:50
I think Roger's going to be a lot better though.
20:52
No, yeah. I'm just saying that to me,
20:54
they're in that same kind of class.
20:55
Yeah, yeah, like category at least.
20:57
Take off. Hurry up.
20:58
Cole Palmer 12. Yayaturi 11.
21:01
Raul Jimenez, 10. OK.
21:03
And Bueno 9. But I guess you score one more.
21:05
So he's at 10 now. Chris Wood 8.
21:08
Look at that. Consecutively.
21:09
Let's go Chris Wood. Bueno and bueno.
21:11
I would reckon he could beat that this year.
21:16
Maybe this year, you know what Keith likes to do?
21:18
He likes to do the reverse jinx thing.
21:20
I. Love the reverse jinx.
21:21
He fucking loves. I love a good reverse jinx
21:24
mother fucker, but I do I mean I like 2 penalties in Buemmo.
21:28
He looks so comfortable when he goes up and takes 1 you like
21:31
there's never a doubt, but you know where he like he looks
21:33
really focused when he goes up there, like he's like thinking
21:36
about what he's going to do Cole Palmer, when he goes up there
21:38
just looks like like he's so it's like you're trying to guess
21:41
what a stonewall's going to do, you know?
21:43
Yeah, he just. He's not a thought.
21:45
No, no, there's no, there's nothing out there.
21:46
Yeah, yeah. At all.
21:48
It's just this. Last game we're going to talk
21:53
about. You know you know when.
21:56
They asked like football players, like athletes, like,
21:58
hey, if you were in a football player, what would you do?
22:00
I feel like if you asked that to call poverty, just stand there
22:02
for like hours trying to figure out what what else He's capable.
22:05
Of doing, I think, have you seen what you've been asked questions
22:07
like what do you mean? What do you mean?
22:10
I don't. Care what's up out.
22:12
Of context, he seems really dumb, but when you watch like
22:15
the full interviews, he's kind of just being like dry.
22:17
Like he's a pretty, he has a pretty dry.
22:19
Humor. No, I think he, I think he, I
22:21
think he didn't finish school mate.
22:23
He definitely didn't finish school.
22:24
Most of these guys didn't finish school.
22:28
But they called Palmer Star School.
22:32
But yeah, he would be. He would be working at the
22:34
comedian store probably. Yeah.
22:36
The Tesco What's the? Sainsbury's Tesco.
22:39
Tesco man, thank God he's a gifted individual.
22:48
OK, next game. Bournemouth 1 Ipswich 2.
22:50
This was a bit of an upset, but Bournemouth's been on a little
22:52
bit of a a little. Bit of thinker.
22:54
Yeah, a little and Ipswich has looked OK, like they're the only
22:58
team that's come up that's actually put up a fight.
23:00
Like they've lost some games. They like beat Chelsea, they've
23:02
had some good wins, they've had some good moments, they have
23:05
good players. The lap looks good like in Cesar
23:07
had a decent game. The lap looks really good.
23:11
He's got nine goals and he got nine goals now.
23:13
Sounds about right a. Shit team like this.
23:15
You know what? Do you know his they someone
23:17
broke what his release clause is if they get relegated?
23:20
What's his release? If Switch gets relegated,
23:22
supposedly the lapsed release cost is 40 mil.
23:25
Like sign him up. Every team.
23:26
Every team's going to try and sign him.
23:28
For probably 1 together. Does man C have a clause in
23:30
there too where he can where they can match it?
23:33
I don't know. I don't know that they.
23:35
Probably they must have. They must.
23:36
Have they might have a sell on, they might be getting
23:39
percentage. Man, 40 mil, that's fucking
23:40
good. He's he's a Premier, he's a
23:42
Premier League striker. Yeah, I don't know.
23:44
I mean maybe not, maybe not every starting every day
23:47
started, but I could see him going to like a Tottenham and
23:49
backing up Solanke or something. I don't see him going to
23:52
Tottenham, I don't see him as a backup.
23:54
I see. Him.
23:54
You don't see him as a backup, you see him.
23:55
Playing I see him sign a good semi like a mid table team that
23:59
could challenge for Europe. No, like a palace like.
24:02
Like a Crystal Palace, but he won't go there because they've
24:04
got Mattel and they've got Saw. They won't get him.
24:07
And they spend. Way too much money, Way too much
24:10
money. But maybe they're not enforced.
24:12
Oh, that would be a really, that's a really good shot
24:15
because what I'd be like, you see kind of an understudy for
24:18
Chris Wood. Yeah.
24:19
Understudy, but it's also one of those things where like.
24:23
What's wrong? Understudy.
24:27
You filthy mind you. What is that?
24:28
What is that? No, it's just because usually
24:30
it's appliance like understood. It's like theater, you know,
24:32
like, hey, that's understood. It's but it's also different.
24:36
Like, you know, like when people are on like shitty teams, they
24:38
don't take them serious. When you go like on the
24:40
competitive team where they're playing for something, then the
24:43
opponents kind of more like honing on the defensive game
24:45
plan. But you can make the, you can
24:48
make these opposite arguments to that with better players around
24:51
him, he's going to. I do think he he needs to be
24:53
like, even like let's say A-Team, like Arsenal who needs a
24:56
striker if he goes there were like.
24:58
That would be an interesting one too.
24:59
I don't think he what there though he wouldn't be doing what
25:02
I'll tell once he. Won't, I think yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:06
I mean, I think it would be about where Kai Haberts fits as
25:08
well. Could Kai Haberts and him play
25:09
on the same team? If Kai Haberts plays further
25:11
back in like the midfield, then maybe.
25:14
Maybe. But I know what you're saying.
25:16
OK, we're that's a lot of speculation.
25:17
So Christie came off of a groin injury, too.
25:20
That hurt for me personally. That's why I put it in there.
25:23
Yeah, other things I noticed Inciso had a very good assist
25:28
where he kind of dribbled through a lot of players.
25:29
I really like Inciso, yeah. You've been talking about him.
25:32
I know. Did you pick him up?
25:33
Yeah, I have him for sure. And then I also like that
25:37
Semenyo scored double digit points even though he didn't get
25:40
a goal contribution. Who else is there to think about
25:42
or talk about? Who's the striker?
25:44
Evan Nielsen got the goal, but you know, he's so funny because
25:47
he's actually been scoring pretty well.
25:49
I mean, this is his first, first year in the league.
25:53
Yep, he's had a decent amount of goals.
25:54
He had an injury that kept him out for quite a while.
25:57
I think like overall, you can't be like, the injury really
26:00
derailed it. But like, I think he's adjusted
26:02
pretty well. And I actually think next year
26:03
he's gonna like, he's gonna kick on.
26:07
Let's see, Can't wait. If Ariel stays, Ariel goes.
26:12
Who knows what's gonna? Happen.
26:12
You know the rumor is Tottenham. Yeah, yeah, he's a good coach.
26:17
I mean, he would make Tottenham better.
26:19
Yeah, but he's there's a good amount of players in there, but
26:22
are they the right caliber? You know what I mean?
26:25
Tottenham. Yeah, yeah.
26:27
But he seems to get a lot out of players too.
26:30
Well and Solanke, he's his old striker, so maybe we can make it
26:32
work for Solanke, so. The only shout, too, is Cliver
26:36
didn't start. And you know, he's been kind of
26:38
one of their Talisman this year. And so that's kind of alarming.
26:40
And it says it says that he might not start it next during
26:44
the weekend, too. He says like muscle.
26:45
He's like tired. Essentially, yeah.
26:47
Fatigue. I'm tired.
26:49
Mate, I'm. Tired.
26:52
That's so fucked up man. It's the Premier League.
26:53
I know it is. I literally I play for like I
26:56
play in over 30s leagues like once a week and I'm I can barely
27:00
walk the next bitch about this guy playing like 50 games a
27:05
year. Maybe more.
27:07
Yeah, but OK, after that, just the only other thing to talk
27:12
about would just be a good win for Chelsea against A against
27:15
Tottenham. I didn't put that on my notes.
27:18
I see it on the paper. I don't think clearly there.
27:22
I don't see there. Someone must have put slipped it
27:24
in while you weren't looking. The Jackson back, Madweke back,
27:29
Palmer back, healthy. All three of those.
27:31
Palmer did not. I did not think Palmer was gonna
27:33
play. I made some wacky moves,
27:35
anticipated that Palmer wasn't going to play, and yeah.
27:39
Hey man, that's great for Chelsea honestly.
27:42
They're back in the top 4 but it's not until another game gets
27:45
played and they might lose it so.
27:47
It's it's so tight in there, but I think I think this was really,
27:50
really reassuring in the sense that I actually think they
27:51
played pretty well. And like how much of that is
27:54
because of they played Tottenham or how much of that was that day
27:58
at Chelsea actually like found their farm?
27:59
I don't know. And I'm not trying to be like
28:00
no, no. I.
28:01
Agree, I think it's a little bit of both but if you're honest
28:03
because Chelsea did play well, just look flat.
28:07
They just they just lose all life thought once they into the
28:10
final third they don't know what to do with the ball.
28:13
That's what I feel. Like in Madison, one of the more
28:16
disappointing players got up. Such an amazing start.
28:18
Can I be honest with you, though, with Madison, he doesn't
28:21
get the ball. That whole First off, he didn't
28:23
get the ball so. But he has to go get the ball.
28:27
He, but he usually does so. Deep, like you can't do anything
28:30
and when you get in these, when you got Son and Odeber, whoever
28:34
we got on the wings just hugging the line and not making a run,
28:37
That's not what he works for him.
28:38
He needs to, he needs to see runs and declare the ball to
28:41
him. That's what he needs.
28:42
To do that whole team is just waiting for, I mean, let's see
28:44
what happens against Frankfurt, But I think, I mean, it's not
28:50
like again, knock on wood. I I would love to see Tottenham
28:52
win something like I really would as much as you know,
28:55
rivalry, whatever, But I, I don't think Andrew is gonna is
28:59
the right coach anymore. I think he's lost that little
29:00
magic that he had. He lost that first season Magic.
29:03
And so it'll be interesting to see because I think a lot of
29:06
these, there's enough quality there.
29:07
There's a good amount of quality there to get get it going.
29:10
You know, no, I agree. It's just mate, they all sing it
29:15
to him. He doesn't know what he's doing.
29:17
He's just he doesn't he's he's too stubborn and won't change
29:21
his tactics and it doesn't work for some of those players at
29:23
all. So.
29:25
Oh yeah, I think that's enough there.
29:27
Anything else? Any other words?
29:28
Nothing. No, fuck that.
29:31
Waivers is kind of icky. It's a icky time of year.
29:35
Waivers is kind of icky. Oh, he's pointing to the top
29:37
notes. Wait, wait, wait.
29:38
Wait, Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
29:40
Diaz chops the charge to 26 points.
29:43
Master class of a trade. Mounts the clocks of a trade.
29:47
By Tico sending me accidentally sending Diaz to me for.
29:53
Extra cuckoo. That's still so wild.
29:57
I still can't do. It.
29:59
I'm, you know, the thing that I'm realizing now too, is now
30:02
that I've set this precedent like I'm for sure gonna actually
30:04
do this at one point and there's nothing I can do about it, so.
30:08
All right, let me ask you guys a question.
30:10
Where we going? No, no, no.
30:11
For the rest of the year, would you rather have Luis Diaz or
30:15
Odegard? Even with Odegard like having a
30:17
disappointing year. Luis Diaz.
30:19
Luis Diaz. OK.
30:22
Both of you picked, oh, they got over Bruno Fernandez.
30:25
I'm just gonna like, like earlier in the year.
30:27
I'm just gonna like, put that out there.
30:28
Yeah, that was a mistake. No, no.
30:30
No, wait, wait, wait. I don't consider that mistake.
30:33
That's when Ted Hogg was there. And soccer got injured, so
30:36
that's a big part of Odegaard's game is having soccer there.
30:40
But he's back. So that's why Chico.
30:42
Yeah. So Chico's excited.
30:43
Yeah, he's back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:45
Good for you all. Right.
30:46
OK, but would you rather have so?
30:50
Let's move on. It's.
30:52
The fact that you, it's the fact that you gave up Morgan Rogers
30:56
and Luis Diaz for Christopher and Cuckoo in Odegard,
31:02
essentially. You know, that's what that's
31:04
what they feel like, yeah. Why are you doing the sea?
31:07
And you're trying to make it feel OK in your head, but it's
31:09
not OK. It's not.
31:12
Louisiana has drank 15 overall. I'm total.
31:14
Fine, it was, it was. I really shouldn't have accepted
31:16
it. If you, if you hear that thing,
31:18
if you were here that day, if you were, if you were here, if
31:21
you were to stay up that night, if you might have been able to
31:24
convince me to trade you back, you know a.
31:26
Lot of drugs if. You take drugs and drank a lot
31:28
of alcohol and then try to do a thing to piss you off.
31:32
True. I think that's the other thing
31:34
is that it wasn't, It was an honest mistake.
31:36
It was a dishonest mistake. It was a spiteful mistake.
31:39
It's a spiteful mistake. You know, I thought honestly,
31:42
honestly gets you somewhere, but I'm not over here.
31:46
OK. Moving on waivers.
31:48
Waivers is gross. Yeah, it's, it's really, it's
31:51
really nothing really out there. Man, so I, I kind of looked at
31:55
there's in the next few weeks, there's a couple of double game
31:57
weeks. So that's kind of where I wanted
31:59
to focus my waving attention on and I really honed in on.
32:01
I think Newcastle is the team you want to own because they
32:04
play next week, they play Leicester and the following week
32:07
is double game week. So that's that to me seems like
32:10
a good like the next two weeks. That seems like the good, good
32:13
way to go. So the name I picked up was Team
32:16
Teamo Livermento on the 50% of leagues you know.
32:20
They look really good on that left hand side.
32:22
They look good on the left hand side.
32:23
He I think he does enough like attacking wise to potentially
32:27
get you points and clean sheet points are there for the lesser
32:30
game. And yeah, I think that's I think
32:32
that's the one. Even under double game week, not
32:34
to jump too much ahead as they play United and Crystal Palace,
32:37
both of them have clean sheet potential.
32:39
Totally. Yeah, totally.
32:41
And then I yeah, So I think Teamo to me, Teamo the number
32:44
one we ever picked up last week. I agree.
32:47
I agree completely. He's actually playing really
32:49
well for new cars. I know he's playing on the left
32:51
hand side, but he's gonna take now Lewis hauls out.
32:54
He's like the. 1st, I mean, it's Hall and Trip here, Yeah,
32:58
obviously if Tripper is around, I would maybe lean there just
33:01
from the set piece potential. Yeah, but I don't think Trip
33:04
here is around. Yeah.
33:06
So then Next up, I I think it's like Sandra Tonali is is there.
33:10
They don't feel great about it. Yeah, you strike while the
33:12
iron's hot. That's it.
33:13
Strike while the iron's hot, the lesser game, the double game
33:16
week. You know, I, I, it is, it can be
33:20
problematic chasing double game week.
33:21
So there's been plenty of times where I've played a picked a guy
33:23
that's has double game week and he gets like 3 points and then
33:26
four points or something and then you're sitting there with
33:28
seven points not feeling great. But I think, I think the dolly's
33:31
like just kind of quite good enough where it might be worth
33:34
it. And here comes Keith's next peak
33:37
surprise surprise. Next on the list is Julio and
33:40
Cecil on the 47% of leaks. You can't sell them enough,
33:43
Keith. You've been trying to like.
33:45
I think he's good. I think he's good.
33:46
I've liked I've liked him since. I mean, he's obviously all now
33:48
alone at Ipswich and I but like I think it's more match up.
33:51
They play Wolves and Wolves. I mean, obviously Wolves had a
33:55
clean sheet against a very lackluster West Ham team.
33:57
So but I think in general, like Wolves have conceded a lot of
34:01
goals. So I'm interested in that and I
34:03
thought and see so had a pretty good assist against Bournemouth.
34:07
So yeah, I think I think that's a that's a sneaky little spot
34:10
start if you're really struggling and I know mid is a
34:12
tough position. So and then the last one I've
34:16
been banging this is the drum on this one too.
34:17
Chris Richards still only owned in 39% of these It's.
34:20
Amazing. He's been, he's been owned in
34:21
for a long time in our leagues. Yeah, he has not been available.
34:24
Well, you know why? Because they listen.
34:26
They listen to the podcast. That and I think we have some
34:29
Americans in our leagues. That's true.
34:31
Yeah. So but he's, well, he's been one
34:33
of the best defenders in the of the new year.
34:36
Like straight up, like point point totals, like he's been,
34:38
he's been unreal. And I mean, Chris Palace has
34:41
been super good. Yeah, Damon Bell.
34:43
Yeah. And I think the other one too is
34:44
like, here we are, we kind of talked about it.
34:46
I I'm not like 100% sold that that's your best option.
34:49
I think I'd rather go Livermento.
34:50
I think I'd rather go Chris Richards, obviously, yeah.
34:52
But if those guys aren't around and you're gonna get potentially
34:56
get a chance to get a piece of the Arsenal defense, like great.
34:59
It's it's not gonna be the same defense without, you know,
35:03
without Cal Fiori, without potentially Timber, without
35:06
Gabriel, but. It's not the most previous pick
35:09
just cuz of form, but yeah, I hear what you're saying, yeah.
35:12
Can I add one more on there? No.
35:14
Roster at 48% Gudogam. That's a good one.
35:17
Yeah, I thought about him. Yeah, the.
35:19
Last few games he started 8.7516 points and how long that down
35:25
for the next, what, four or five weeks?
35:26
So I don't know if he'll have more opportunity to move forward
35:30
or, you know, maybe. Yeah.
35:32
I mean, I, I think it'll probably be more like they'll
35:33
just, there's more of a chance that he starts, yeah, but I
35:36
think he'll probably still play in the same position.
35:38
But I think it just means that maybe like a Marmoush might play
35:41
in that striker position or KDB plays a little higher up or
35:45
something, you know? Would he be their penalty taker?
35:47
Who? Who would take their penalties
35:49
now? If KDB's not on Kuduland
35:51
probably would. Is not going to take it.
35:54
He started, he got a goal, but it's not going to be grillish,
35:56
it's not going to be savvy or toku.
35:58
No, it's going to be. If KDB is not on the field, it's
36:01
going to be good. Yeah, with the experience, all
36:03
that stuff. Yeah, yeah, totally.
36:04
That's a yeah. It's a really good shot too.
36:06
I think it's a really good one. OK.
36:08
I wanted to talk about end of season management.
36:10
There's a few things. The first one is the double game
36:12
week that we talked about. We talked about that with
36:14
Newcastle. So no double game weeks in week
36:17
31, but Week 32 it's Newcastle Palace and then week 3233 it's
36:23
I'm pretty sure it's Arsenal, City Villa.
36:27
I don't think it's Palace or actually I think the Arsenal
36:30
game might be cancelled. I'm a little confused at like
36:32
what it means. But there's I think 33 is going
36:35
to have game, which I definitely think it's City Villa, but it's
36:38
FA Cup with FA Cup and stuff. So just like keeping those in
36:41
mind and like like I have, I have like Adam Wharton on my
36:44
team and like he literally got like one point and normally I
36:46
would be dropping him, but I think I'm going to hold on to
36:49
them just for that potentially like double game week of 32.
36:52
But here's here's the thing for me for that, it's like the
36:54
age-old question happens in like basketball fantasy as well,
36:57
where you know different amount of games during the week.
36:59
Do you want to start like two players who could potentially
37:03
give you like 15 to 20 points? Or if you could, instead of
37:06
those two players who are average, if you have like a stud
37:08
that has one game that could give, which way do you go?
37:11
There's also the risk if the games are like within a few days
37:14
apart that. They might play one.
37:17
Yeah, which kind of like, you know, screws you over if it's a,
37:20
you know, average player unless like a team is fighting for
37:24
something like for example, Newcastle we mentioned as a
37:26
double game week coming up, they're fighting for top four,
37:28
top five, right. So they cannot afford to arrest
37:31
players they need to put on their best roster out.
37:33
So I. Think Anthony Gordon will play
37:34
both those games? You know what I mean?
37:36
More likely than not in my position, like I'm like thinking
37:39
like that's great for me. Well, Gordon.
37:41
Regardless, even if you get one game out of Gordon, he's good
37:44
enough that he'd like, hey, screw.
37:45
It you know one. But like I'm talking about let's
37:47
say Fabian Cher, for example, he's a defender that from U cast
37:50
that I own nothing special. If I could play you know someone
37:53
else on on this place? But you go a finger.
37:56
He's another good example too. Like I was just saying, yeah.
37:59
I was gonna say those Senate backs are pretty much like if
38:02
they're shooing to play double games.
38:04
That's the. That's the.
38:05
Advantage and if they can get at least one clean sheet and then
38:08
get another good game that's semi good game you're still
38:10
winning yeah. It's a risk you're taking.
38:12
You're looking at the upside. You're hoping that you know they
38:15
get 2 clean sheets or you're hoping that they might nick a go
38:17
on a set piece. You know what I mean yeah.
38:19
That's what you're looking for. It's, it's, it's, it's going to
38:21
be a gamble, but you go for the sure thing or you go for the
38:24
upside, I think. I think you go for the gamble
38:27
because you like to gamble. I think it's just whatever
38:29
you're it depends on your situation.
38:31
What do you need? Yeah, I think you should.
38:33
I think you should gamble so you can lose.
38:35
I think yeah, whatever, that's cool Gamble losing.
38:41
I think the biggest thing though is that you should start
38:43
thinking about it two weeks ahead because I think most
38:45
people are only looking one week ahead.
38:47
Yeah, and they don't. So if, like, all you really need
38:49
to do is be two weeks ahead, you're going to be pretty chill.
38:51
Yeah, yeah. Why?
38:53
Why do I feel like this section is essentially pretty much set
38:57
up for you to essentially subliminally make ends
39:00
understand to use all of his FAB on the players that are
39:03
available? Yeah.
39:04
So this next section is called. I just called the FAB section.
39:08
It's just I wanna talk about how FAB is pretty useless.
39:11
It is useless. Don't be afraid to splash it
39:13
around for marginal gains. You know what I think because
39:16
there's not that much left. And like when we talk about like
39:18
I don't think waivers is going to improve much.
39:20
Look, I didn't even realize how much fucking.
39:22
Fab, I had how much you have a. 110 / a. 100, you have over 100
39:26
Fab Yeah. I think, I think at the end of
39:29
the season, if you got that much, whatever fab you got
39:31
should amount to a certain amount of points.
39:33
You think this is like singular back in the day where you roll
39:35
over your minutes, you're not going to roll over your fab.
39:37
Till next year, roll over. Yeah, you can't take it with
39:39
you, homie. You can't take it with you.
39:41
Sure. I think we should be a rollover
39:42
fab. That's a good one.
39:44
I like that. That's a good idea.
39:45
Can we know one? This is what you could do, take
39:47
the offseason and fab yourself. How about that?
39:50
Go fab yourself. The reason that I started
39:52
thinking about fab though, I wasn't even thinking about it,
39:54
but Enzo sent me such a disrespectful trade today.
39:58
What was it was it wasn't. I mean it was.
40:00
He offered me 45 fab for Nico Jackson.
40:04
After the game today, I. Was so pissed off.
40:07
It's just like, what am I gonna do for you?
40:08
Do tiko, That's how you do it. You don't send and cuckoo for
40:12
Louis Diaz for you, said Fab. For the trade back to make up
40:16
for my mistake, I offered him like half of my fab, which I
40:19
think was like 60. Not that much, but we'll see.
40:23
You sound so upset. Should we just move on from the?
40:26
No, you know what's upsetting? The upsetting part is that you,
40:28
who I know is a piece of shit, and my brother convinced Keith
40:33
into not making the and like the way I found out about it is my
40:35
brother's like he was like, you know, Keith wanted to give you
40:37
the player back but we convinced him not to do it.
40:41
Buddy right here, you know. But also, I will say to you, all
40:45
I needed was just like, a little nudge should not do it.
40:47
Of course. Yeah, look, it's.
40:49
Because of these two losers colluding together.
40:52
Really, he felt really guilty and it was like A and we both
40:55
fucking got our way. So it's.
40:56
Fun. I thought 2 negatives equals a
40:58
positive. But you know, the problem is we
41:01
think Keith is a nice guy, but we also know he's the white
41:03
devil. So it's three devils.
41:07
OK, really Seriously though. So then the one thing with fab
41:10
is when is FAB the most valuable I have?
41:14
In my head I have two windows. That FAB is incredibly valuable.
41:17
Beginning after the first five games of the season.
41:20
I feel. You think earlier than that, I
41:23
think the first part games season, so you can actually see
41:25
what's happening. Transfer window 1st and then
41:28
January and then January transfer.
41:29
January, yeah, so. But I think after January it's
41:33
worthless. It's not.
41:34
I mean you. Keep a little bit.
41:36
It's not. Worthless I think.
41:37
I think if I have 10 FAB after the January transfer window, I'm
41:41
not bummed because like what, how much I you guys were making
41:43
fun of me. I had eight fab after the the
41:45
transfer window. I there's not there's maybe like
41:48
one point wait. But when did you get?
41:50
When did you? End up that's not.
41:52
What did you when did you end up?
41:53
That's not what we're talking about.
41:54
I think you said no, same I'm talking about yeah, OK, I might
41:59
have, but I'm just saying by the end of the January transfer
42:01
window, I had 10 FAB and like since then I haven't been that
42:04
like. Being compressed?
42:05
Can you remind? How much fab did you have before
42:07
this Faster Window 8? Yeah, yeah.
42:11
I take Can you remind me what key span is fab on the?
42:16
Company now Roger and Roger. That's the egregious 150 fab.
42:22
That was the egregious 150. I had no regrets.
42:25
What was the next one? Marina 3030 Fab on Marina, OK.
42:28
I think I picked them up for like 30 fab.
42:30
Yeah, but he had his collarbone was attacked when he picked him
42:33
up. Semantics.
42:34
OK, OK, so let's move on. Kind of to double back for the
42:39
double game week. So I picked up the Crystal
42:41
Palace goalkeeper because. They were playing.
42:43
Southampton, I figured they would get a clean sheet.
42:46
He did. And then they and then for the
42:49
double game week, I was like, you know, I could get two games
42:52
out of him, a bunch of saves. But then I looked at it.
42:54
They have Manchester City and Newcastle, but no Holland.
42:57
So now it's like is it? Should I switch him out or
43:01
should I keep him? It's like.
43:02
You should keep him. I mean, he's not gonna get
43:04
negative points. Right.
43:05
No, no, no. Way he's gonna get negative.
43:07
I'm not gonna, he's not gonna give me advice because, you
43:10
know, obviously you know, we're going for first place.
43:12
And Anzo's advice to me has been useless the whole year because
43:14
his team sucks and I do not value as a.
43:16
Thing are you saying my team sucks?
43:18
But I'm in 3rd place mate. My team doesn't suck, don't
43:21
bother me. Fool's gold.
43:23
Facts are facts. You're tied for third place.
43:26
At the moment and if. You could in a week you could be
43:29
6th place. Wow, that's true.
43:32
Wow, that's true. That's scary.
43:35
You go from top three to not even in the top half of the
43:39
league. I'm second in the other league
43:40
though. That's fine.
43:42
OK, let's. Move on.
43:43
Let's move on. That's when you know you're
43:44
losing an argument. When you make this other league,
43:46
I wanna talk, I want to talk about like roster management
43:51
going into like the the final stretch to just just strategy
43:54
wise. Like right now the rest of this
43:56
is I'm thinking pretty short term.
43:57
I'm thinking like 2 weeks ahead. Like I, I made a trade where I
44:01
got rid of Anthony Olinga for like nothing just because I
44:04
needed a midfielder and I'm like, fuck it, I do not care.
44:06
I need a win this week and you know, I need to make sure I'm a
44:09
midfielder next week. And it's like, as I think a lot,
44:12
a lot of that is instead of like in fantasy, in like fantasy we
44:17
usually think about like talent and long term value And like at
44:20
this point of the season, if it's time, short term form
44:23
matchups, make trades that are crazy, make people like trade
44:27
the big name player for someone that has a way better matchups
44:30
who's in form. You know what I mean?
44:31
I. Think it's the same thing when
44:32
you were saying about Riches on waivers.
44:34
Like take away the name value and pick up a player.
44:36
So you got say you had a stupion, who's a bigger name
44:40
than riches? Fucking drop him and pick up
44:41
fucking Richards. Or pick up or pick up Bed and
44:43
Rack, who's actually starting to play well, the game for
44:45
Southampton. You know what I mean?
44:46
You got Yeah, take away the name, go for the for the form
44:49
and the match. UPS, I think that's a really
44:51
good point and I think this would be a really great clip,
44:53
Sergey, just us talking strategy, just throwing it out
44:56
there. And then the other thing I want
44:58
to talk about is injuries. So I think that there's a lot of
45:02
players that are injured right now and I think they're sitting
45:04
on a lot of benches. So it's really hard to let go of
45:06
big name guys, but I think like 85% of those players you can
45:11
drop. I think at this point, it's just
45:13
not worth like Calfiori's, I think Dwight Mcneil's like
45:17
players like that that have been sitting on benches, like just
45:19
get someone that get someone that could actually help you.
45:22
I think maybe the two exceptions are Holland and Trent Alexander
45:25
Arnold. I don't think it's a world where
45:26
you can drop them, right? No.
45:29
And that's like, it's like it might be a net loss for you to
45:32
not do that. But I think the the risk that
45:35
they do come back is just not worth having, you know, because
45:38
they're the type of guys that can will come back and actually
45:40
perform right away. But most, most like human
45:43
beings, will take a little bit of time to get back and form,
45:46
you know, thoughts there, No. No, you're completely right.
45:49
No, there's there's ones that you can't drop, but there's
45:51
there's a few that you just just let go, let it go.
45:55
Let it go, Paul and Elsa. There you go.
45:58
OK, And then I just want to talk about next week real quick.
46:00
I know this is the longer episode than we wanted to do,
46:03
but we just we love, we love hanging out.
46:05
We love chat so I just wanted to ask you a few questions.
46:08
Everton, Arsenal Are we starting Everton defenders in that game?
46:11
Yes, yes. 100% you're feeling like totally good about it. 100%
46:17
I'm with you O'Brien fucking. What's his name?
46:22
Tarkowski. Mika Lanka.
46:24
Rathway. Rathway fucking stop them all.
46:27
I would. I think they would get a shit
46:29
load of clearance points. I think that's what you're
46:31
bagging on and. That's what they get, yeah.
46:34
Tackles and headers won all day. There's no.
46:38
Possible clean sheet? There's no one up there to
46:40
fucking make a header from them at all and they'll get set
46:44
pieces. Saka's back, though.
46:46
Yeah, but he'll get Crossy, Ingy and Eddo.
46:47
This is he. Marinos, marinos there.
46:51
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Devil's advocate.
46:53
I got it. Marina's such a tricky player to
46:56
start too. Yeah, it's not.
46:57
That's another uncomfortable one.
46:59
OK, so you guys, it sounds like we're in on that, though.
47:01
OK, next one. Crystal Palace, Brighton.
47:03
Crystal Palace, unbeaten in seven.
47:05
Do we trust right attackers? Like outside of Batoma?
47:08
Maybe Alpija? I I, I trust them.
47:12
They were on a six game-winning streak before they lost.
47:15
Yeah, before they lost. So they can do it against
47:17
Palace. Palace.
47:18
I know they've been playing well and they've got and they've been
47:20
really good, but this is the type of game where Brian can,
47:23
you know, ruin their but that ruin their pie.
47:27
You know what I mean? You never know, maybe Welbeck
47:29
starts as a goal or two. Man, we'll talk about a player
47:32
that was that was so funny where he was so hot and Enzo was
47:34
trying to train him and everyone was like, we just know this is
47:37
not going to last. Motherfuckers, we all watch
47:40
football. I get it.
47:41
Yeah. OK Villa.
47:44
Nottingham Forest is probably the most interesting game of the
47:47
week for me. I, I, I don't know who's going
47:50
to win that game. You.
47:51
Don't even know Villa can beat Forest.
47:53
I'm really going to start to believe that they can like,
47:55
actually make a round in the Champions League.
47:58
What do we how do you get that? How do you get it from them
48:01
being forest? Yeah, it's come.
48:04
It's such a difficult Forest is so difficult to play against.
48:08
I understand that, but the Champions League's a different
48:10
animal, Kevin, you should notice.
48:12
I'm not saying they're going to win it, I'm saying that they're
48:14
going to maybe like beat PSG in that'll lose them a trade.
48:17
Insinuate it. I don't know.
48:20
I mean, I there's enough there. I.
48:22
I no, no, he's going back and forth just like when he was
48:25
going back and forth by giving back your trade.
48:27
OK, but from a fantasy perspective, are we like?
48:32
You start only attacking players.
48:33
OK, well then you're starting all the defensive players too, I
48:36
think, of course. It could be easy.
48:38
A nil nil draw and you get fucking maximum points from
48:40
everybody. OK, next big question, Tottenham
48:43
Hotspur playing Southampton, are you starting attacking players
48:46
for Tottenham? I'm betting on Southampton that
48:48
game. No, you're not.
48:49
Yes, I am. No, you're.
48:50
Not we. We call that the emotional
48:52
hedge. No, no, seriously.
48:53
No. Look, they've scored first in
48:55
the last three games. Southampton.
48:59
I. Told them doesn't do well from
49:00
behind. Let's be honest here.
49:03
Don't don't call your bookie, just place about the I'll I'll
49:06
take whatever. I'll take that bet too.
49:07
Yeah, whatever bet you want, I'll take.
49:09
I'm going to call my bookie fuck you guys because I I still need
49:12
to do this pop with you. I'm going to.
49:14
I'm going to pull up the odds right now, no.
49:17
No, don't put up the odds. Don't want to do in a bet with
49:19
you guys I. Don't know.
49:19
We don't do the just out of curiosity.
49:23
So I was actually gonna start Tottenham defender because I
49:26
think Tottenham's gonna put in a couple of goals.
49:29
I mean, I've spent 2 scores. Oh.
49:31
It's that's different. Hasn't been doing the last few
49:33
weeks. I just he.
49:34
Had 8 1/2 points today. Yeah, did he?
49:37
Yeah, with no clean sheets. So Premier League.
49:41
Are they still in the Premier League?
49:42
Yeah. That's right, before he does
49:43
that, West Ham, Bournemouth. I was gonna bring this game up.
49:46
It's two like 2 teams that are kind of struggling.
49:48
Bournemouth's been struggling. West Ham.
49:50
Grant Potter hasn't quite been there, like he hasn't quite done
49:53
it for West Ham. I think that I think that whole
49:55
team's kind of just like it's one of those things that what
49:57
are they playing for? They're not really playing for.
49:59
Anything, they're not playing for anything and I don't think
50:01
Paul was there for this season. He's there for next season.
50:05
Yeah. So that means that I think
50:07
Bournemouth wins. Yeah, I don't know.
50:10
Yeah, sorry. Go ahead, Tika.
50:12
Sometimes it's plus 575 tyres plus Southampton plus 575.
50:17
No wait, Southampton to wind. Yeah, plus 575 dollars.
50:22
Oh, that's right. OK, I'm sorry.
50:23
Yeah. What's what's OK?
50:25
Tie is plus 425 and Tottenham is -250.
50:29
Bullshit. Something.
50:31
No, I'm just saying, I'm not saying your, I'm just saying
50:34
it's that's bullshit. Who do I wear?
50:37
Tottenham. Those odds are too good for
50:38
Tottenham. I think they're too good for
50:40
Tottenham too. Let's be honest, if.
50:42
I was gonna, if I was gonna pick a side in this, I think like
50:45
I've been knowing that like the likelihood is that Tottenham
50:47
does win or draws, but that the odds for Southampton are high
50:51
enough that it's like worth gambling on, You know what I
50:54
mean? Should we put a bet?
50:56
One game bet? Just a one game bet.
50:58
I can't do it. Put we just put $5 each.
51:01
Nope. OK I could put 5 bucks.
51:05
But what if I told you guys I cooked up A5 like parlay that's
51:10
plus 1608. God, we're back.
51:12
We're back on the smack. Because don't even tell me,
51:16
don't even tell me. Just take my money.
51:19
Just tell me. My money.
51:21
So we could take one or two of these out, just let's let the
51:26
room. So Arsenal over Everton, How do
51:28
we? Fill out Everton, obviously.
51:30
Arsenal. Yeah.
51:32
Wolves over Ipswich. Wolves.
51:36
Plus 155. Yeah, yeah.
51:37
Wolves, wolves, wolves. They're away, but you know who
51:40
cares? Yeah, Liverpool over Fulham.
51:44
OK, that one is a little tricky, but OK.
51:47
It's just because you know the Robin.
51:49
The Robin Hood, Yeah. Taught them over Southampton.
51:52
I'm already done with the bet. No, no, I'm not doing it.
51:54
Because of Tottenham. Yeah.
51:56
Is that is that four or five? That's five.
51:58
No, that's fine. Oh no, no, I'm sorry.
52:00
And then New Castle over Leicester City.
52:01
Change it to Southampton B and Tottenham and I'll do a bit.
52:05
The odds are gonna quadruple. So they go from plus 1600 to
52:10
plus 8139. We're not doing that bad.
52:14
Enzo, how about make this parlay with us and then make your
52:17
separate bed on Southampton, yeah?
52:21
All right. And then watch them tie and
52:23
screw both of us over. I.
52:25
Don't want to do any of it now. No, I don't want to do any.
52:28
Of it All right let's we'll figure it out offline.
52:30
I gotta go. All right, let's.
52:32
All right, so I sent this probably to you.
52:34
So it's just text it in the chat.
52:35
Yeah, you bash. Figure it out.
52:37
OK? This has been episode 82 of
52:39
Draft Offsides. My name is Keith, I'm with Tico
52:43
Enzo. Follow us at Draft Offsides on
52:45
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52:48
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52:51
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Let's Go FC Tokyo. I put on the Japanese scarf too.
52:58
Just since you're back, I should have put on my Portuguese one
53:01
too. Look at this guy.
53:02
Look at this guy. You know I'm like you fucking
53:05
assholes, I care. Damn, damn.
53:10
All right, that's fun.