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S7 Ep32: FPL Pod: Chips pay off after last minute twist · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: There's been a lot happened since our last pod. We
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: reflect on a Bonker's build up to Double Game Week
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: twenty four how that's affected our chip strategy going forwards,
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  Speaker 1: and Jules and Sam have a sort of heated argument
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  Speaker 1: about Brentford. Hello, it's Thursday, the sixth of February. It's
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: an FA Cup weekend ahead of us. But what a
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  Speaker 1: week it has been since we were last with you
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  Speaker 1: on the FBL pod. Juliender on Sam Bonfield and myself,
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: Kelly Summer's back with you, and it feels like a
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  Speaker 1: week ago when we sat here planning for the excitement
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  Speaker 1: of Double Game Week twenty four. Twenty four hours later, Sam,
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  Speaker 1: everything was kind of ripped up, not ripped up, but
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  Speaker 1: just turned on its head, completely ripped in my book,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, I sat here last week and said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to play.
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  Speaker 2: Any chips and I'm really worried about it, and they're no.
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  Speaker 2: Not twenty four hours day I had a chip active.
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  Speaker 2: And feels very different now, doesn't it. But good week
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  Speaker 2: so far, but yeah, it has thrown my chip strategy
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  Speaker 2: into complete disarray.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so myself and Sam ended up playing our assistant
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  Speaker 1: manager on different managers. Sam went for David Moyes. I
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: went for honest slot Jules for the first time every
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  Speaker 1: on this podcast, so I can say you did exactly
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  Speaker 1: what you said you were going to do last week.
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  Speaker 1: You went through with it. But that wasn't necessarily through choice.
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  Speaker 3: Don't really no, because as I said, I wanted to
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  Speaker 3: play the Triple Captain chip on Mosala, which I activated
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  Speaker 3: very early on in the week, which is n't like me.
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  Speaker 3: But I thought, imagine if I forget again or something
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  Speaker 3: like that, so I played it then. I didn't even
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  Speaker 3: know there's been an announcement. It's only when when we
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  Speaker 3: put in our WhatsApp group that's something happened.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, what what happened?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even know, so you you and Sam explained it.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, damn, I've pled the Triple Captain. I
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  Speaker 3: want to play the Assistant Manager chip now and I can't.
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  Speaker 3: And Sam taught me something new and every day it
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  Speaker 3: was cool there. I guess I didn't know that the
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  Speaker 3: Triple Captain and the bench Boost is the same. You
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  Speaker 3: could activate it and disactivated as long as it's before
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  Speaker 3: the deadline. So I was like, oh, brilliant, thank you. Sam,
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  Speaker 3: this is going news. Now I can play my assistant
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  Speaker 3: manager Chip, except that I couldn't because then I realized
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  Speaker 3: that had literally Zeroon finds zero million in the bank,
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  Speaker 3: leads all my money is gone. You know, Christmas had
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  Speaker 3: been there. I had one of the kid's birthday party.
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  Speaker 3: I had no money. I don't I could not even
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  Speaker 3: sign my dad if I wanted to, so Indian and
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  Speaker 3: I went back to Mosala. I'm my best friend triple
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  Speaker 3: captain him and actually he did really well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it did do really well.
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  Speaker 1: And as it stands, jewels on one hundred and one,
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  Speaker 1: but with a minus four, so I'm not putting you
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  Speaker 1: in the one hundred club.
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  Speaker 2: You're on ninety seven.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, I also am on ninety four, but I
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  Speaker 1: took a minus four, so I consider myself to be
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  Speaker 1: on ninety. Sam, on the other hand, one hundred points,
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  Speaker 1: no hits, So David Moy's assistant manager. That's gone pretty
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  Speaker 1: well for you. How's the rest of your game week gone?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, one hundred points tells us it's gone well.
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  Speaker 2: But just talk us through it, Okas it has gone
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  Speaker 2: well except for the benching of a langa which is
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  Speaker 2: haunting me and Will continue to haunt me until this
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  Speaker 2: game week ends, which I've got another week until that happens.
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  Speaker 2: So every time I logain to the app and I
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  Speaker 2: see him sat there on my bench, it's so point.
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  Speaker 2: How many joels please do we have to do? We
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  Speaker 2: have to do this and.
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  Speaker 3: More than fifty around fifteen, which.
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  Speaker 2: I know right it's my lucky number as well, which
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  Speaker 2: is really annoying. But yeah, I think I made the
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  Speaker 2: decision quite late because I just I had him playing
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  Speaker 2: all week and then thought I can't bench Morgan after
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  Speaker 2: his hat trick in the Champions League. But I should have
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  Speaker 2: remembered that Aston better normally not great in the league
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  Speaker 2: straight after the Champions League. But anyway, benched and Anger.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, it was a decent week. So
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  Speaker 2: returns for Trent and Salah, a nice monster hal for
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  Speaker 2: Chris Wood, who I know, did you sell him Jews?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: But the wig.
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  Speaker 3: For something for Gap I think, yeah, But I like
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  Speaker 3: there was nothing I could do yet I saw him
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  Speaker 3: scoring hadrick and I was like, oh, yeah, of course
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  Speaker 3: as soon as I said him it's because another hat
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  Speaker 3: trick or a hat trick or something like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, scored two go go penalties, so it
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  Speaker 3: was not too bad India and you could have been
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  Speaker 3: far away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I have I had Mateta and Wood
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  Speaker 2: and then and they're the two that have kind of
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  Speaker 2: really boosted my game week up this, so plenty of
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  Speaker 2: opportunities to steal go Obviously, I've got my three Liverpool
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  Speaker 2: assets if Trent makes it for the game against Everton
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  Speaker 2: next week and then David Moy's I decided in the
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  Speaker 2: end with the possibility that if Arsenal had turned it
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  Speaker 2: around in the league up, that I wouldn't swap Raya
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  Speaker 2: for Pickford just in case then Arsenal had a double
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  Speaker 2: n twenty five. Now, as it happens after last night,
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  Speaker 2: I should have done that switch. But it's fine Raya.
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  Speaker 2: At least you know he picked up three, which is
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  Speaker 2: not as many as Pickford were, particularly when he got
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  Speaker 2: that assist early on. I was like, oh, man, why
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  Speaker 2: didn't I do that? Was so annoying. But I also
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  Speaker 2: knew that I wanted to move my assistant managership off
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  Speaker 2: David Moyes at the end of this game week, so
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  Speaker 2: I needed to save a transfer in order to be
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  Speaker 2: able to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Sam come off the Raya hype train. Honestly, it's so
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  Speaker 1: much less stressful nine you've got just that little bit
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  Speaker 1: less invested in a goalkeeper. Don't get me wrong, In
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks I'm going to be cursing the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I've got Jordan Pickford.
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  Speaker 2: But it just feels best.
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  Speaker 1: To now I don't have a premium because when you've
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  Speaker 1: got a premium there's such press sure almost if they
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  Speaker 1: don't return, you're like, oh, why have I spent that money?
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  Speaker 1: That money could have gone on upgrading a midfielder. It's
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  Speaker 1: a nice feeling, do it? Are you're going to still have?
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  Speaker 1: You still got plans to well?
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  Speaker 2: The problem is, so I didn't make a transfer last
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  Speaker 2: week on the basis that I needed one to move
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  Speaker 2: Moise this week to whoever whichever manager is doubling. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping that Spares made the cut final and I
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  Speaker 2: can go to Pasta Cogley. That's the plan. But obviously
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  Speaker 2: if they don't then it will be Emery and Villa
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  Speaker 2: that I go to instead for their double game week
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  Speaker 2: if it's Liverpool in the final, so I needed to
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  Speaker 2: transfer for that. I'm so uninvested in Bournemouth that it's
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  Speaker 2: actually ridiculous given the fixtures they have coming on, so
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  Speaker 2: I have to prioritize some Bournemouth transfers. So Ray is
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  Speaker 2: just going to keep getting stays of execution, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. To be fair, I've kind of I've had Kirkis
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  Speaker 1: for a while and I bought in Cliver last week
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  Speaker 1: just as a bit of a makeweight for Anthony Gordon
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  Speaker 1: to kind of enable me to sort out the rest
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  Speaker 1: of my team or particularly the forward line, to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm pretty happy with my team and it
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  Speaker 1: feels like my team feels like it's quite nicely for
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  Speaker 1: the next few weeks, and I went with something it's
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  Speaker 1: interesting actually, just a quick word on the assistant manager
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  Speaker 1: you went with Moys. Is that literally because you were
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  Speaker 1: already trebled on Liverpool and the table bonus existed.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I was trebled on Liverpool and I didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to sell one of them. I just felt that
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  Speaker 2: that could easily backfire.
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  Speaker 1: And it was bond because there was a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of other content creators and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people saying that they were going to sell a Liverpool
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  Speaker 1: ass I saw people that were selling das I do
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  Speaker 1: understand with Dias a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I think Gakpo is a bit bolder.
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  Speaker 1: But it seemed it seemed mad to do it for
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  Speaker 1: a points here as well, which is what people were doing.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of people were and I think in part that
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  Speaker 2: was because I think most people are expecting, potentially that
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  Speaker 2: it's a Liverpool Newcastle final in the League Cup, and
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  Speaker 2: therefore you could get four games out of slot in
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  Speaker 2: two weeks without taking without making a change to your manager.
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  Speaker 2: Whereas for me, I was like, well, I'm trebled on Liverpool.
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  Speaker 2: If they end up with a double game week again
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  Speaker 2: in twenty five, then I've still got those three players
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  Speaker 2: doubling again in game week twenty five, so it's not
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  Speaker 2: like I'm at a disadvantage from that perspective. The only
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  Speaker 2: negative is that I'll have to move the assistant manager,
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  Speaker 2: Chip Off Moyse if I want to target the second double,
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  Speaker 2: and I just I knew if I sold a Liverpool
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  Speaker 2: asset it would massively backfire on me. It just felt
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  Speaker 2: like such a sideways thing to do, so it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: something I was ever going to do. Had I had
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  Speaker 2: the free slot, I think I would have still gone
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  Speaker 2: for Moys to be honest, because you've got that ability
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  Speaker 2: for huge upside, like it only takes a draw in
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  Speaker 2: the Merseyside Derby next week and moys is absolutely hauling.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I would have still gone with
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  Speaker 2: him anyway, to be honest, even knowing that I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to have to move it and I'm probably gonna end
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  Speaker 2: up owning three managers over the course of the next
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  Speaker 2: three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: For me was obviously, when we spoke on the pod
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  Speaker 1: last week, I hadn't brought in my third Liverpool planer
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  Speaker 1: and that actually paid off in a way because it
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  Speaker 1: gave me the flexibility to go with Slot or with
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  Speaker 1: Moyes the whole way through with this assistant manager, I've said,
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  Speaker 1: I want to play it for the table bonus. So
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  Speaker 1: I do look on a little bit enviously, and I
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  Speaker 1: am quite scared of you and Everton potentially getting a
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  Speaker 1: drawer in that Merseyside Derby. But for me, because I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't quite get to Gakpo or another Liverpool player that
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  Speaker 1: I wanted, it was go with Moy's and just two
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  Speaker 1: Liverpool players, or go with.
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  Speaker 3: We no go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, why can I not explain, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: But Jewels, I still would have gone with Moys. It
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  Speaker 1: would have been Mois and Liverpool players. I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: been tripped. Yeah, I confuse myself, but I understand why
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  Speaker 1: you were going. Yeah, I would have ended up with
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  Speaker 1: Moys and two liverpoolayers. I wouldn't have been trebled on Liverpool.
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  Speaker 1: This was the only way I could treble on Liverpool
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  Speaker 1: as such. And then I brought in and I knew
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to bring in Pickford, so I had some
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  Speaker 1: Everton cover. It just felt like if I went in
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  Speaker 1: with only two Liverpool plays in the double game and
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  Speaker 1: can potentially a back to back double, it would be
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  Speaker 1: a bit of an oversight. So yeah, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: gone all right so far, although Moys has outscored Slot,
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  Speaker 1: but then I've had picked I had Pickford as well,
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  Speaker 1: so and let's not.
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  Speaker 3: Forget as well that Moys is zero point five when
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  Speaker 3: one point five, so there's a million difference there.
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  Speaker 4: That is not easy really.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I know, I joked I had nothing in
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  Speaker 3: the bank obviously, which is never good.
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  Speaker 4: But some people might just have the zeropon five or one.
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  Speaker 2: Your talent and planning, John, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: No, give me that because we didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I would have if I'd known, if we'd
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: all known it was coming, I think we would have
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: all been over the last few weeks putting some money.
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  Speaker 1: We've all sat on this podcast for absolutely weeks, all
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  Speaker 1: three of us jews has been A particular sickly vocal
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: person said I'm going to leave it to the last
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  Speaker 1: few weeks. I'm going to leave it, and I love
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  Speaker 1: leaving a chip to the last few weeks. So I
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  Speaker 1: was going to do exactly the same. And I know
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  Speaker 1: it seems mad that I've managed to avoid slot on
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  Speaker 1: one point five million, but I was point one short
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  Speaker 1: of the other transfers involving Gagpo getting him in, So
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  Speaker 1: for me it made more sense. I couldn't get one
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  Speaker 1: point five if I if I'd had one point six,
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  Speaker 1: I would have gone gackpo. I know it sounds mental,
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: but it does make a lot of sense. I spent
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time doing it.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't have the Gapo transfer case, would you
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  Speaker 2: have still done this sistant manager or do you tiple
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  Speaker 2: Captain Seller? I would have.
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  Speaker 1: I was obsessed with doing the assistant manager. For me,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot see it was the right time. I could
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  Speaker 1: not see a better point in the assistant manager.
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  Speaker 4: I was that I didn't play, I could not play.
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  Speaker 1: To me, And also like we obviously don't know we're
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: recording on Thursday morning. We don't know what's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen between Liverpool and Spurs tonight. But if Liverpool do
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  Speaker 1: get through, then I'm really, really, really happy with it
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  Speaker 1: because i won't have to change, I won't have to
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  Speaker 1: use a transfer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, it was the right thing to do,
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  Speaker 3: to be fair, He's just I think he must have.
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  Speaker 4: Caught a lot of the managers by surprise.
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  Speaker 3: And then what do you do because if you'd already
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  Speaker 3: made your transfer, if you had already planned for something else,
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  Speaker 3: then it's hard to turn around and do something different
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  Speaker 3: just to play the asset of managership.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, if you are listening to this, guys, then
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: you're in a bit of a quandary and you think,
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: I wish I'd done this, I wish I've done that.
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  Speaker 1: You're not the only one. There was no perfect solution
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: last week. I don't know anyone that went into the
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: game week thinking I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Really happy with this.
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  Speaker 1: Jeles was wishing he'd got his assistant manager chip On
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  Speaker 1: couldn't I was wishing that I could have gone moys
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  Speaker 1: and trebled up on Liverpool and made my Liverpool transfers earlier.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: Sam probably didn't want the three Liverpool players that you.
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  Speaker 2: Ended up with. I don't know, and I wanted Pickford
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  Speaker 2: instead of and Lee didn't have any he liked Geors.
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  Speaker 2: He had no money in the bank and he'd already
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: made a transfer because when I was rising the day before,
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: and so he had literally nothing and was like, I'm
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: not taking a minus four to take out exact players
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  Speaker 2: I want. So he didn't play at all, and so
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: that's obviously, isn't it. Well, he'd already played his triple captain,
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  Speaker 2: so he couldn't. He played that on Salo against s
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: Athampton a few weeks ago, which actually went well for him.
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  Speaker 2: So he's gone into it with no chip and so
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  Speaker 2: he was like, I'm going to tank my rank this
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: week because everyone else has got a chip active. So
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody was in a position where they
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: were like, really like I'm one hundred percent on the
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: right strategy at the moment, because it was so quick
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: that decision making process.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and also we've still got game week twenty five
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  Speaker 1: to thirty eight to play. All of these chips to
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: do these things, and there's and there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: another double that you can capitalize on. So if you're
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  Speaker 1: likely and didn't play a chip, maybe look at game
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: week twenty five and it's the same for you. We'll
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: talk about chips in just a moment, but I just
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: wanted to check in on the FPL Pod Mini League.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: Max Little Prowd remains top ninety four points or just
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  Speaker 1: like me so far this game week, Max did activate
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: his assistant manager Chip like me as well on Slot
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: and like everyone else in the top ten, captained most Salad.
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: If you didn't captain Mosala, wow you are bold. Max
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  Speaker 1: did sell Gakpo to bring in Slot. He brought in Vissa.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: I didn't know Max diad this, but that's exactly what
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: I did. Maybe maybe I'm a better manager than I thought.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the same mugs. My partner's called Max Fi. I'm
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: not Max.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Shepherd holds his place in second. He took a
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  Speaker 1: minus four this week to bring in Cliver, something I
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: also did see. I'm a kindred spirit with all these
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  Speaker 1: top managers, just unfortunately don't always make these just a
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  Speaker 1: million Yeah, Charlie's also played the assistant manager Chip. He
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: gave it to Moy's Charlie Is eight points by Max.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: A real battle at the top of these chips could
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: make all of the difference. Jake Pilowski remains third, Michael
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: Williams and Aaron Quan climbing into tide fourth spots. So
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: tight at the top. Both Jake and Aaron have triple
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: captain most salah are reminder the code for that mini
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: league is Q seven y C zero. Okay, then one
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: double almost done, not completely done, because of course we've
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: got the most side derby and then there's another double
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  Speaker 1: ahead of us. That is, of course because of the
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: results of the League Cup semi finals, moving some of
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: the games that would have been played in game week
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: twenty nine, bringing them forward into double game week twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: If Spurs be Liverpool tonight, then they're fixture with Fulham
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  Speaker 1: will give those teams a game week twenty five double.
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Sound looks nervous. If Little All beat Spurs, then their
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: fixture with aston Villa would be rescheduled into game week
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: twenty five, giving both of those teams a double. They
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: also explained that Arsenal would have their fixture with Chelsea
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: rescheduled if they overturned the League Cup semi final in
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: the second leg that of course, was played on Wednesday night.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: And we now know that Newcastle and Palace will blank
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: in Game week twenty nine. There will not be a
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: double game week in twenty five out of this fixture.
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: We don't yet know when that fixture will be played.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: To keep an eye on Fantasy dot, Premier League dot com,
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: all of the Premier League channels for news on that one.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: We said it through our Game Week twenty four plans
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: into disarrangels. You've had a bit of time to digest it.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: Now what does this mean for you for Game week
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: twenty five? Are you tempted at all to maybe use
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: your assistant manager? Are you still going to wait till
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: the end of it's?
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: Got no money?
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: Still still have money to be fair?
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: So I need to wait and also I need, I
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: need I think I need to wait and free transfers
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: to pylon again.
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: You know my free transfer that I get.
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: Regularly from the Premier League.
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: Is there any chance Sam?
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: I can't really remember to be fair? So forgive me
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: for asking, could we have back to back double game
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: week again later in this season? Or could we have
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: at least two double game week in three game weeks
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: like I don't know thirty four, and then.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: You're trying to find the best three week block.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, because really, as we've said, the idea was
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: to do this one because we knew there was at
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: least two of the three.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: So I was just wondering, desperately, wondering.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, is there thirty four and thirty six or is
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: it thirty three and thirty six?
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Thirty three and thirty six, thirty yes and thirty four.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: It's going to be the blank, So it's not likely.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: I thought, like I don't think any of us were
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: necessarily thinking they bring these fixtures forward. But obviously the
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: way that Europe's gone and how well the English teams
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: have done qualifying for the next stages in European competitions
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: means that it actually does make sense for it to
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: be now, because you know, they didn't have to play
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: well the exception of City, and they didn't have to
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: play in the qualifiers. So yeah, I don't think it's
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: likely that we'll get another double but double double anyway,
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: but you never know. I think stranger things have happened,
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: and you know, the fact that that Newcastle and Palace
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: don't have European football might go in your favor. But
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: I suspect that we'll probably go into thirty three. So
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: it's not likely, but it's not completely impossible.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think I guess a lot of people
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: will be wondering that.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there might be more options if you wait for
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: a double gamewick where there's more teams doubling to play,
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: to play the assistant managership and have more options of
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: what manager you want to put it onto for the
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: ones who will have two games.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: For example, in some game week. So I think I'll wait,
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: I won't play it next.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: The other thing is, though, you know, we've seen that
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: even this week that the single game week managers have
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: done really well. Again, So wasn't it, Vita Pereira, if
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: you'd triple captain him, I think you would have got
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: like twenty points or something.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Not.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't, you can't travel captain manager.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I spent too much time talking about fancy my thoughts.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and so and we've had this before
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: with like Ariola earlier on in the season, and we
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: said last week, didn't we that had you been able
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: to play on Pickford the week before this, you'd have
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: got an absolute haul out of him as well, So
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I think it made sense to play it for the
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: double double. But it also isn't the end of the
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: world if you end up getting four games instead of
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: five games, because if it's on the right manager. Plus also,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: maybe unlike with me where I now have to realistically
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: have to move it if I want to target the
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: two double game weeks, you could pick a manager where
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: you could get the table bonus twice back to back
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: and not have to move it and therefore save the transfers.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: And we know you love to save a transfer, So it's.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: All about planning.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: You know, what are you thinking of doing some ships? Well,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: obviously obviously use my triple captain and now I've used
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: my assistant managership, so I haven't actually got that many
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: now to worry about wild card benchbuch free here. So gosh,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: we've got so many chips, haven't we. Yeah, you need
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: to hurry up and play them. You're turning into me.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: I suppose you have played your triple caps and actually, well,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: yeah this week, so he'll be all right because he's
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: got time. Like the fact that it's the fact that
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: this takes very much time. I was going to say,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: we're going to come out of this in game week.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Game week twenty seven will be the first time I
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: can play another chip, that's right. And then so I've
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: only got eleven game weeks to play three chips.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's your dream, isn't it. That's absolutely dream.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: You can chips give me anxiety tools.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: We know that. I think in answer to your question
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Cals twenty what happens tonight between Spurs and Liverpool is
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: going to be quite important in terms of Chip strategy
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: because game week twenty nine at the moment looks manageable
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: for me because I've got two Newcastle and planning to
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: sell one of them this week.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Anyway, Sam, just to reiterate in twenty nine as it's stands, Yeah,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the teams that will blank are Newcastle one of Spurs
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: or Liverpool, so it will be and Crystal So Crystal
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Palace and Newcastle will blank because Newcastle playing in the
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Big Cup final. And then it will be either Liverpool
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: and Aston Villa or Spurs and Fulham. So if it's
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Spurs and Fulham with Newcastle and Palace, then it's quite
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: easy to manage because I'm going to sell a Newcastle
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: player this week anyway, so i'll have two from Newcastle
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: and Crystal Palace, one from each team. I don't have
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: any Spurs players weirdly, and then i'll just have one Fulham,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: so i'll only have three that are blanking. So ideally
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: that's the same what I want like, not just from
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: a Spurs perspective, but from an FPL perspective. That's what
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I would like, because if it's Liverpool and Aston Villa,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: then I've got my three Liverpool assets plus Morgan Rogers,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: and then I got four from that game two from
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the other games, so then I'm at six. So that
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: might mean I start thinking about whether it's worth playing
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the free hit in twenty nine to keep those assets.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: But then in reality, I don't really want to pay
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the chip there because I'm expecting the blank later to
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: be bigger and so therefore I want to make sure
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: that I can cover that one out if possible, or
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: in an ideal world, i'd really now I've got a
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: free double game week. From a CHIP perspective, i'd ideally
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: like to move the free hit into that because then
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: you can maximize the double, which playing it aggressively is
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: ideally what you would want. I'm really surprised that Georgs
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: hasn't got his notepad out and isn't sitting there making
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: loads of notes on this.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Look, the part is there already, and this was already
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: written in there. You know.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: I thought you'd be taking notes on what Sam was.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Going to do.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: I've written everything, I'm preparing yesterday for that.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Sam just said you just listen to that later, Kelly.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I'm writing down then.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: So I'm guessing at this point, Georgy, you haven't quite
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: worked out your chip stretch.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: I'm completely lost anyway because in the final. But then no,
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: I'm like, it's just too complicated.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was almost quite a bad result for us
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: in terms of double game week win last night. Yeah,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: assistant manager then Sam stick or twist, I'll be twisting. Yeah,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I think you play it in a double. For the
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: double double, you have to then get a manager that's
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: got a double Like for me to go into it
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: with Moys against Palace doesn't make any sense.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: So you said, though you can have a single game, no.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: No, no table bonus. So I will be because both
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: teams won, didn't they that we have you kept some
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: money in your bank to be able to upgrade Moise. Yes,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: that's good, so planning.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: I spend all my money all the time anyway.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So the plan is either moved to Emory if
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: it's aston Villa doubling because I'll get the table bonus
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: against Liverpool again. Then I seem to like targeting table
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: bonuses against Liverpool, but you know that's where we are,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: or move it if it's Spurs to possa coglu and table.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: You are desperate for that in so many ways, so
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: many ways. I don't broke my dreams already if.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: You were on the assistant manager because a lot of
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: people actually will activate it potentially for this game, yes,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I agree, or they may be moving on to another
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: assistant manager. Firstly, Sam, quickly, would you recommend if you
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: haven't activated your asistant manager, is this a good week
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: to do it? Another double?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah?
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, Jules, if you were expecting your assistant manager, who
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: would be a good option outside? Would you agree with
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Sam on those ones?
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: I think so I would have.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: I would have done slot to play safe, not Moys
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: in this one like you like like RKS and for
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: twenty five I would hope that's first qualify. So I
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: could play on Posta Cooglo because I think Postacogloo makes
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: a lot of sense with his with his double in
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: twenty five, more really than anybody else I think. So
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: I think that's the right strategy if you can, if
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: you can afford the extra zero point five I guess
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: for Postal Coogloo, and then the transfer obviously.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, so we've talk about the double game week twenty five.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: We also talked about game week twenty nine and blank
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Game Week twenty nine is what we have to call it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: I hate it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: We have to call it that. It sounds so serious
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and so scary. There are three clubs, and I only
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: guarantees playing twenty nine have a good fixture, but also
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: have on paper good fixtures in the build up to
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: the blank game week. These are potentially the teams that
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: we should be investing in, but we may not now
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: as we're all obsessed with the double in twenty five.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: They are Bournemouth, Everton and Brentford. Now Bournemouth for me,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Jules feels an absolute no brain. I've had Kirkis for
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: a while, I've got Cliver. Would you recommend that managers
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: have to be going in with at least one Bournemouth player.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. I think it would be very smart.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Okay, they suppose there, which is a fixture.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: That you never really know exactly.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody beats them, but also they are capable of
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: beating anybody on their day. And there's Brighton before that,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: which again you could look at it and saying, Okay,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: they've been dreadful lately, but there is potential in that team.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: But the rest is so good for them, so Someton
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: or Wolves, they would have Branford.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: Ip switched West up. All of that is great.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: So considering the form that they're in, because they were
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: even I think unlucky to lose against Liverpool, you could
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: go for Watara, you could go for Clover like you
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: did kirkerz Zabani, a defender. Maybe I would personally go
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: for an attacking player Semeno, who was really everybody's favorite
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: at the start of the season and rightly so. But yeah,
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: what are Clover semenial for me? Are probably more than Brooks,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: or more than one of the two midfielders Adams or
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: or Christy. I would go for target one of those
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: three because I think there are there are points there
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: that would be picked up Bourmother?
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Are interesting, aren't they?
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Sam?
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Because there is so many good attackers. We know they've
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: got so many injuries in those foward positions. Who now
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: being out ever, Nielson, they're big money Sigmoning being out
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: as well. I went for Clive last week, but it
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: was a difficult decision and there's a few in there,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: really nice price points. Who would you say is the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: best option?
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think what you've just said is absolutely
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: on the money. Kenny is literally who could you afford? Like,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: if you've got unlimited budget and you can afford any them,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: then I'd pick Cliver because he's got penalty responsibilities and
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: obviously that he's only won five point eight million as well.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: So while we're talking about a lot of money, but what.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I think this highlights is there is a lot of
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: budget options, but it is only five point eight million
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: just to.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's five point nine. Now I think
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: he's yes, so extra little bit there, So yeah, you've
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: got him. Obviously he's a little bit more expensive than
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Semono who is five point six, and you've got Ataro
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: who's five, So you kind of can go in at
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: any price point. And I think, you know, if you're
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: like Jewels and you need to find a bit of
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: money for an assistant manager at some point, then this
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: is potentially the club where you can just strip point
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: nine out of it. You don't have to have go
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: gone for Cliver And that point nine obviously is like
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: that's two different bands of assistant manager pricing right, all
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: three really, so I think from a from a budget perspective,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: it's important. I think if you've got, if you've got
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: the money to spend, then I would go for Cliver
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: like I say he's got. He's got eleven attacking returns
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: since game week thirteen. That's only bettered by most Salah
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: of the midfielders. Now obviously a lot of them have
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: come from the penalty spot, but obviously some of Salders
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: have as well. He's had twenty nine attempts on goals
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: since game week thirteen. That gaming thirteen is when Bourne
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: has really started to pick up in terms of us
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: looking at them from investment perspective. That's one few of
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: them Altara, and it's significantly less than Semnio who's had
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: thirty nine of them. So in terms of goal threats,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: se Menu is up there as the most threatening of
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: them all. But yeah, I think for me, so I'd
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: kind of rule out Semnu on the basis that he's
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: the middle price. He's just the middle priced one. So
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I think if you've got the money to go point
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: three more, i'd go for Cliver. And if I haven't
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: got that money to get Cliver, I just go for
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: the cheaper option and go for Aatara instead.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: So do you think it's the best to have those ones?
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Because I was very tempted to go Watara when I
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: bought in Cliver because of that, And I said it
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: before Old Clover. It's only I mean, I think it
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: was five point six or five point seven when I
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: bought him, but I know he's not expensive. But I
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: was like, I could go for the five million what
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: but I didn't want to be blinded by the really
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: good performance in game Week twenty twenty three.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's that one guy by the way who
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: told put captain him on that Greg exactly what. Yeah,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: And I think Semnio is the best player of the
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: three as a footballer, I mean overall.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: But Sam makes a great point.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: It's like you could if you can go to Clover
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: simply on penalties and the form that he is on
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: right now, go for him. Otherwise it's probably wise to
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: just save more money, especially if you are thinking about
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: playing your assistant manager ship. At some point you go
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: for who really has a center forward.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: I know he's not.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: A center forward by but that's not his real position.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: He played there because everybody else is injured. But he's
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: the closest to goal of the three really because he's
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: the most forward. So what should be having the best
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: chances and should be the one always in the box
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: trying to finish those chances more than Clover and Semnual,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: who obviously start from deeper on the pitch. So yeah,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: I think it's a really interesting debate to have probably
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Clover still if you could afford him.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Otherwise it's definitely what.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: He's also created the most chances of those three, So
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: in terms of creativity and likelihood of assists, there is a.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Scenario where I, because I've already got Cliver and Kirkz,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: there is a scenario where I still watch mylasa. He's
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: currently benchwarming, he's not going to play in twenty nine.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I could potentially double up on that Bournemouth midfield. Yeah,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: and go with Dango because again that saves me a
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: little bit of money to go elsewhere. Some which players
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: are you actually looking to transfer in for Bournemouth for
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: that twenty nine? Which one your shopping list?
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to end up with the defender and
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: a midfielder, so I'll probably do I'll do a Lewis
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Hall this week out for well, it's either going to
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: be ideally Kirkaz because he's got the attacking threat. I
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: just need to just need to really firm up my
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: strategy for moving forward with the assistant manager Chip and
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: work out which manager I want, just to make sure
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: that I have the money in the bank for that.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: So what happens tonight is going to be quite important.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: But if I can afford him, then I'll go Curcause
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: at the back, and then the plan eventually would be
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: probably not annoyingly this week, even though they've got a
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: great fixture because also Morgan Rogers has a great fixture
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: and so does may Double, and so does Lewis Das
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: and may Double. But next week then I'll go for
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Cliver in that midfield in replacement of one of those two.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, it makes a lot of sense. The other team
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: that I mentioned one one of the two other teams
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: that I mentioned are Everton, and we've had a lot
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: of chat about.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Them recently, Jules.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: We saw a very good performance from them last weekend
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: as well. Are you feeling a bit more enthused outside
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: of just defensive assets or because and Die is another
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: one that people are now looking at and they're scoring goals.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I don't want to bribe, but obviously
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: I will so and I was my differential.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: We don't talk about that now because I won't again, you.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Haven't one yet, it hasn't finished yet.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: No, I'm just saying for that for now.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: You can't leave one yet.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: We're halfway through fifty percent.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: It's halftime.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know, But still am I a
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: bit more positive? I don't think better I could do
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: this again and again.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: Like you know, I think he's a good player. He's
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: a limited player. At some point.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people message me, by the way,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: after I'd jokingly said.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: It is better than this act for example, So I
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: don't know. I think the Pickford Mikaelenkle defensively, you can
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: go there. We've said that before. I think this day
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: they are safe. Bet they're sure to play. I think
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: will make this thing better defensively, even.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Better than the dish.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Attacking wise, it's a little bit more difficult, but the
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: core has been a bit of an FPL cult hero
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: and legend for many seasons for a lot of us,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: and his parents Bonn and Bread obviously, which helps. But Ni,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I think, of all the attacking possibilities that you can
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: have from an Everton point of view, is still your best.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: But Sam, where are you on Everton? I've only got
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Moy's at the moment, so obviously that a lot strong.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: No exactly, Mikkelenka, I think is still my preferred Everton
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: assa I think, or Pickford. And part of the reason
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I like Mikalenko is because he's very easy to bench
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: in the difficult fixtures and obviously plays in twenty nine,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: which is the important thing here, So you can have
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: him in for the west Ham game in game week
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: twenty nine, and then if you don't want to play
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: him against Brentford, say in twenty seven, because you think
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Brentford are going to score, it's very easy to move
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: him to the bench because he's so cheap that he
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: fits in that fourth or fifth defender slot, so he
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: looks like a really nice option. If you want to
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: go for an end ie and you want to change
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: up your strategy so that maybe he's your third forward
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: and therefore you can invest more money in midfield, then
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: I also don't hate that as a strategy. But I
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: think because because Bournemouth are so cheap in terms of
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: those midfield are sorts, you probably can afford to have
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: three slightly more expensive attackers and therefore that would be
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: the priority for me. So probably I'd still be Everton defense.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, we might have to review this conversation after the
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Merseyside dear being next weekend, because maybe ever single score
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: for and I'll get a hat trick or something.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Can well all I got to get him in would
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: be ridiculous.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Gosh, I hope that doesn't won the game.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and what about Brentford then, because their fixtures are
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: west Ham, Leicester, Everton Villa Bournemouth.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: They've had a slightly.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Tricky run, they've had horrendous injuries. We all sold Brian
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: and we're probably all now Joels wanting Brian and my
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: backs do we are not?
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: Do you know? I love Brian and Bomo.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Why not? Why would you not want him back?
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: I was very disappointed by the last game west Ham away.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's an easy picture. I mean Brentford
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: are not good away from one and they're true are
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: not very.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Good at home anymore either. We saw against they played
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: the well.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: To be fair against Spurs and Spurs we're very not
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: like Angeboard and we're not very good.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: But they still won't, which I.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Think is is a good indictment of when maybe where
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: this Branford team is because they used to play well
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: before and one at home and now they're playing well
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: at home against Liverpool and they lose against person, they
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: lose and then away from home is a struggle.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Okay. They were better against Palace the.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Week before, so okay, the Lester fixture and maybe Everton
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: that home is good. After that, they've got Villa Bourne
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: with newcast Or, Chelsea Arsenal, Brentford Forest United. No, I
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: don't think it's for me. If you fancy Brandon Bomo,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: go for him, Wesa all of it.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: You wouldn't go near any you wouldn't go near any breath.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: At the moment. No, wow, Okay, I do understand the logic,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Sam try and counter that for us.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: He's got seventeen attacking returns this season, eleven of them
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: have come in home matches. Fourteen goals is only better
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: buy Salas in the league so far. He's been very
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: clinical in front of goal. His goal conversion rates twenty
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: eight point six. That's better than any other regular starting
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: midfielder in the game. Sala's gold conversion rates at some
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: context is twenty three point three. Palmers is sixteen point five.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: So I think in terms of his ability to score goals,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: I don't think that there's a much better option than him,
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: and then alongside you've got Whisa as well. Also think
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: he's a good investment for this fixtures only. He's one
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: of only nine forwards in the game to have already
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: registered more than one hundred points so far this season.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: In the last four games he's had more shots than
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Earlan Harlan, Cody gakpro E Sak. He's got eleven goals
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: and two assists over the course of the season so far.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I think with the fixtures that they have coming up,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Brentford make absolute sense for investment. To me the fixture
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: into I know that the fixture in twenty nine isn't
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: the best fixture given that it's against Bournemouth and they're
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: playing incredibly well at the moment, and I wouldn't touch
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: the Brentford defense, but the attack is I would. I
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: don't think that. I mean, Jed Spence did an absolute
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: job on enbo mode last week and most teams won't
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: do that so.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: On going in these last five games in a competition,
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: I know, but.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: I still think when you look at the underlying numbers,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: he'll come good again. I would absolutely prioritize buying him.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Could you, But if maybe you couldn't get to him
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: or maybe with field slots, I feel at a premium,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: could you cover him? Would you be tempted to cover
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: him off with a visa or someone like that?
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you absolutely can do that, and he's
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: cheaper and he takes up a forward slot. But I
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: think the problem most managers are going to have is
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: that you're likely to want to hold a sak even
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: with a blank. I don't think anyone's going to want
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: to get rid of him. If you've got Chris Wood,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: you're clearly not going to sell him on the back
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: of the hat trick. That he's just scored. Even with
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: the fixtures that they have coming up. Mateta just brace
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: you're not going to get rid of him if you've
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: got him. So if you're if that's your front three,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: that's going to be quite difficult to sell. If you're
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: front three, isn't that's if you've bought in and die
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: for the Everton fixture this week, then you're probably also
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: unlikely to want to move him on quickly because the
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: fixtures remain nice for them. So I guess it depends
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: where you are. If you've got like a problem slot
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: like you're say, for example, you've got jar Pedro and
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: you read what I had and that's why I went
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: to Visa. I think that makes perfect sense, and it
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: means you don't have to change up the midfield you
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: can you can do that instead, so I like that.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: The thing I like about them also Whistle in particular,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: is that he's cheaper, so if you don't want to
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: play him every week, you don't have to. So in
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: those games that George is saying, I'm not sure I
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: have a fancy that like you cant bench him, It's
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: not the end of the world to have to do that.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: So maybe I'm a bit more hot on Brentford than.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: George's going in the last five games as well.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, I'm not saying no, I'm just saying,
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying that they are.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: They are also facts.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: I thought you said you said I swear.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: I thought, no, no, no, facts. I didn't like I
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: know all the other liing stars that I can't mention.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Did you know space, we both.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: I never swear anyway, we never swear, especially not on
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: shure that a lot of children listen to family show exactly.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying that, you know, we size as we
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: know Paris born and bred, so he's obviously very special.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: But one going in five and one going in five,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: I'm just not sure, even if the other and the
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: lining starts are good, how quickly this christchange.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. It's not like in the best
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: of forms.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's not of sense, and it's quite nice sometimes
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: well you to disagree a lot, but it's quite nice
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: when it happens, and it provides balance to every debate
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: we've got. But I'm seeing Brentford because I brought hivis. Okay,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: we're going to leave the pod there this week slightly
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: shorter from us because of course there's no FPL deadline
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: this weekend. It is FA Cup fourth round weekend. We've
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: still got the final double game Week twenty four fixture
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: to be played. Of course, the Merseyside Derby is next
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Wednesday night. Will be back on Thursday morning. Well, it'll
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: be in your ears by Thursday afternoon to look back
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: on that Merseyside Derby and properly preview double game Week
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: twenty five. We will also know by then who plays
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: twice in game week twenty five and who blanks in
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: game week twenty five, so we can continue that conversation
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: as well. Juels, you're off for an exciting weekend.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm going skiing in France or if any
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: of the listeners are in sham Money, then come and say.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Hello, yes, and don't break your leg or anything.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: As you know, it could have been.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: It could have been an Olympic.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Skier, but he chose to be broadcast next. And what
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: you do this weekend?
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not going skiing. Well, I don't even know
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: what I'm doing this week. Oh Lee's away, So I've
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: got a fun weekend with just my kiddies, which I'm
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: very excited about.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll have a brilliant weekend. I'll be here, there
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: and everywhere on the Fa Cup. Some of us guys
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: have got to work. Actually, though, Sam, I'm going to
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: say that sometimes looking after kids is harder than the
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: other work that So, yes, yeah, Jeels is just escaping
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: once again, and we'll have a great weekends. Jewels, Sam,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: whatever you're doing at home, enjoy the Fa Cup action,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: enjoy the Mersey Side derby next Wednesday, and we're back
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: on Thursday.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: See U.