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S8 Ep6: FPL Pod: Time to sell off Cole Palmer? · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: Two game weeks down, It's time for a death Con chat,
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  Speaker 1: mainly because Sam's desperate for a defender. We discussed downgrading
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Sacchar and Palmer debate a tricky captaincy, and we have
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  Speaker 1: our first Jewels Assist front of the season. Well this
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  Speaker 1: is the first FBL podcast I think ever that Sam
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Bonfield has just admitted she did not want to join. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the fblod Kelly Somemmers, Juliana On and
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  Speaker 1: Sam with escone. Sam, you can go first. I had
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  Speaker 1: an actual nightmare, guys. I'd love to say I didn't notice,
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  Speaker 1: but I was trying.
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  Speaker 2: To notice what happens.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it had jeels. Now, now come on, we didn't notice.
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  Speaker 3: I think you might have noticed. Yeah, it was just
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  Speaker 3: an absolute disaster. So on Friday night, obviously I only
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  Speaker 3: had cor Palmer in the Chelsea game, and I was
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  Speaker 3: already anxious about that anyway, because I was like, I
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  Speaker 3: don't have a Chelsea defender and west Ham haven't exactly
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  Speaker 3: looked like they're going to score loads of goals, so
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  Speaker 3: that's probably going to be problematic. And then I didn't
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  Speaker 3: have gel pedgo and obviously the highest stoned player in
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  Speaker 3: the game, so I was thinking, now he goes off,
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  Speaker 3: this is going to be a disaster. So thankfully I
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  Speaker 3: was on holiday and could just kind of try and
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  Speaker 3: ignore the fact that this was happening in the background.
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  Speaker 3: So when west Ham schoad, I was like, Okay, maybe
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  Speaker 3: it's not going to be quite so bad as I thought.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it'll be okay. No, no, it wasn't, and that
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  Speaker 3: was a bit of a premonition for the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the weekend, where everything that could go wrong kind of did.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing that really went well for me is
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  Speaker 3: that I'd benched. I'd benched Mickey Vandaven, so thankfully Cole
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  Speaker 3: Palmer was absent because Mickey then comes off the bench
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  Speaker 3: for his six pointers, so I was grateful of that,
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  Speaker 3: but everything else was pretty much a disaster. I had
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  Speaker 3: to bravecurring goal, so I was grateful to him. But
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  Speaker 3: eight nor we obviously went off injured to a one
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  Speaker 3: pointer for him to Kuper got a zero pointer even
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  Speaker 3: though we played in that one. Marilla lost his clean
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  Speaker 3: she got one. Judi behol did nothing and I'm clearly
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  Speaker 3: on the wrong Everton asset there, so that was a problem.
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  Speaker 3: Kudis nothing against Man City, even though Spurs won and
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  Speaker 3: thenverts nothing for him. Again, that's a bit frustrating Salah
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  Speaker 3: last minute. But Salah in the last minute with that
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  Speaker 3: assist was almost it was almost worse because I hadn't
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  Speaker 3: captained him, so the fact that he then did something
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  Speaker 3: had a negative impact on my rank. So that was fun.
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  Speaker 3: And then I'd captain Dolly Watkins and I have Motesta
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  Speaker 3: instead of Joe Pedro, so pretty much as bad as
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  Speaker 3: it could get.
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  Speaker 2: Helt how many points? Because you haven't said the most important.
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  Speaker 3: Yet thirty two thirty two Saturday?
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  Speaker 2: How many points did you get on Sunday and Monday?
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  Speaker 3: Jewels, Joe Pedro got pretty much half my half the
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  Speaker 3: points of my whole To.
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  Speaker 2: Refresh, refresh you out. Maybe there's some points that I've
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  Speaker 2: been lost somewhere. Just refresh it.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know what I cannot wait to download it.
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  Speaker 3: I cannot wait for Saturday at eleven thirty when the
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  Speaker 3: game goes past its reboot mode and I can just
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  Speaker 3: look at game week three and not have to look
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  Speaker 3: at game week two any I.
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  Speaker 4: Want to call you a magic Johnson now because I
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  Speaker 4: was wearing number thirty two when I was playing NBA,
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  Speaker 4: So now you're going to be magic Johnson, go on Magic.
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  Speaker 1: You know so many people had difficult weeks. Sam, It's
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  Speaker 1: not just you. I mean you just got really unlucky
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  Speaker 1: that you had every single player dad a disaster. The
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  Speaker 1: only thing is your goalkeeper outscored my goalkeeper. It makes
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  Speaker 1: you feel any better you picked the right one.
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  Speaker 3: I did pick the right goalkeeper. Yeah, I'm clutching for you, thanks,
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  Speaker 3: cals And to be fair, like I should have just
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  Speaker 3: played Ronaldo over to Kalper, but I just I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I thought playing a Sunderland defender versus my Bernie goalkeeper
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  Speaker 3: felt a little bit ridiculous, so I went with Calper instead.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it was just one of those weeks, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think a lot of managers, like I was
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  Speaker 3: saying before we came on here, like it was the
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  Speaker 3: first time ever doing these podcasts over the years that
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I really really don't want to go today.
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  Speaker 1: However, God, I've had many of those, Sam, Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: my wild Yeah that's true.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of if your managers will be in the
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  Speaker 3: same boat as me this week because it was a really,
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  Speaker 3: really difficult game, IELs they will. It was a really
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  Speaker 3: difficult game week.
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  Speaker 1: Jee's gone talk us through your game week then, because
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  Speaker 1: we were quite similar in that we got in the fifties.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, first one to say, I've got three tune and
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  Speaker 4: the only two in the house because the oldest one
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  Speaker 4: is going to Parish to with his girlfriend. But that's
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  Speaker 4: three and two like some. Basically, no, I got a few,
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  Speaker 4: got a few more points.
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  Speaker 2: No that it was not a great work.
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  Speaker 4: I'm only teasing something, really, but fifty four just above
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  Speaker 4: average the braftcard good in goal then had decent defense
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  Speaker 4: once Van Derven came in for Copama, of course with
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  Speaker 4: six points. Mosalla and Saka were the two that returning
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  Speaker 4: me faceing nothing for vi It Winders had a terrible game,
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  Speaker 4: I thought, with City and then a front like some
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  Speaker 4: my captain only Watkins thinking this could be good and
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  Speaker 4: despite the decent expected goals, is still blanked and this
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  Speaker 4: Villa team is despairing me.
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  Speaker 2: Really, so four points.
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  Speaker 4: For him and then jo Pedro saved the day like
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  Speaker 4: I think he saved the day of a love of manager.
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  Speaker 2: So I was only teasing some. Really, man is not
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  Speaker 2: much better.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that we should say at this point, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, you did sell as we didn't you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I did, And I apologized for last week's show
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  Speaker 4: because I really thought it was the three game bags.
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  Speaker 1: You know what we all do, because I should have
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  Speaker 1: noticed it. Sam should have noticed it, like we we all.
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  Speaker 1: It was just an oversight. We get too excited on
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  Speaker 1: this sometimes and we made a mistake, didn't we.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, completely, So it was just a one match band.
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  Speaker 4: So if you haven't sold them, I mean I was
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  Speaker 4: kind of happy to sell him because I don't I
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  Speaker 4: don't feel this Villa defense at all and this Villa
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  Speaker 4: team overall at the start of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Margie came and did really well for most.
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  Speaker 4: Of this game against Forest apart from the goal, but
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was that was going to be a
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  Speaker 4: goal without considering again without considered goal, but it was
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  Speaker 4: not to be.
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  Speaker 2: But still yeh, for Conci, it was just a one
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  Speaker 2: match man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a one match band. So his back
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  Speaker 1: for this game week. But of course, with how Villa
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  Speaker 1: a plan, as you said, probably wasn't the worst thing
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  Speaker 1: in the world to sell your assets. Okay, then let's
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  Speaker 1: in game week two and the best replacements. But before
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  Speaker 1: we do that, let's actually take a look at the
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  Speaker 1: defensive contributions, because Sam, it was something we spoke about
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  Speaker 1: a lot pre the season. It was something new to us,
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  Speaker 1: something that maybe altered our way of thinking a lot.
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  Speaker 1: But actually I've been quite surprised at the amount of
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  Speaker 1: deaf conpoints we've seen given already. It's changing the way
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  Speaker 1: I almost watched football in the Premier League.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. And I think we were all expecting
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  Speaker 3: some players to get defensive contribution points across the week,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't think we were expecting there to be
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  Speaker 3: quite so many in each game. Like you know, I
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  Speaker 3: look at Brentford this week. We've had six players get
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  Speaker 3: defensive contribution points in their game at the weekend. That's
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  Speaker 3: massive when you think that, you know, okay, it is
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  Speaker 3: two points, so it's not gonna, you know, change change
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  Speaker 3: everything about the way that you're playing, but it is
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  Speaker 3: important and I think, you know, particularly when you're talking
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  Speaker 3: about your cheaper assets, those additional two points here and
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  Speaker 3: there make the world of difference in terms of how
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  Speaker 3: a game we goes for you. So yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: we weren't probably expecting the impact that it's had so far,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe it calms down a little bit when we
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  Speaker 3: get into the more regular, maybe more normal weeks of
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  Speaker 3: the season, I guess where there's less goal threat and
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  Speaker 3: maybe there's a few more clean sheets around, But certainly
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  Speaker 3: at the moment it's having a massive impact.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so so far, we've had thirty three defenders get
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  Speaker 1: deaf con or hit the deaf con kind of threshold,
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  Speaker 1: shall we say, in game week one, eighteen in game
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  Speaker 1: week two, and there's a couple actually that have already
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  Speaker 1: hit twice already, Virgil van Dyke and top Cofski. We
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  Speaker 1: did probably expect that, given the fact that we knew
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  Speaker 1: last season they would have got it, but also lacrosse
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  Speaker 1: Anssi Vanderberg and Delitte have both got it in the
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  Speaker 1: opening weeks as well. Jules, when you were looking at
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  Speaker 1: your replacement for Conza and when you're looking at other
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  Speaker 1: defenders potentially, are you taking these kind of things into consideration.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you should be, really, And it also
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  Speaker 4: depends on the fixture coming. If it's a very dominant
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  Speaker 4: team or very good team and they have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of the ball, it's less likely that if the opposition
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  Speaker 4: team doesn't attack that merge that it would get to
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  Speaker 4: that number. But if you think about it for a defender,
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  Speaker 4: really it's not it should whatever defend and that's why
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  Speaker 4: I think there have been so many. It's not too
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  Speaker 4: hard really to get to the threshold that you mentioned
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  Speaker 4: to get those points. It's not like if they had
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  Speaker 4: to do I don't know, fifty interception titles or blogs
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  Speaker 4: or in one game. So if you think about it
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  Speaker 4: over nineteen minutes, because usually those guys played the whole
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  Speaker 4: nineteen minutes too, it's really rare that you have center
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  Speaker 4: bags being replaced after an hour or seventeen minutes unless
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  Speaker 4: there's an injury, but if there's not, the usually play
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  Speaker 4: the whole game, so in nineteen minutes. Really, this is
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  Speaker 4: something that a lot of them should be able to achieve.
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  Speaker 4: And like some said, Branford for example, on a really
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  Speaker 4: good game where the game.
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  Speaker 2: Is a lot about intensity, a lot of players get there.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's it's really interesting.
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  Speaker 4: There's still some things that are quite interesting in the
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  Speaker 4: sense that Virgil van Dyke, for example, has been terrible
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  Speaker 4: in the game, like the Liverpool defense so far this season,
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  Speaker 4: and what would save him just about it is those
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  Speaker 4: death com points. But apart from that, it's just not
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  Speaker 4: hasn't been good enough for somebody who's one of the
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  Speaker 4: most expensive defenders in the game. So it's not just
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  Speaker 4: looking at those numbers saying okay, yeah Van Dyke can
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  Speaker 4: hit those death con but the rest hasn't been good
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  Speaker 4: enough the dead that Liverpool would be better defensively, and Van
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  Speaker 4: Dyke keeps getting clean sheets, then it changes slightly the
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  Speaker 4: dynamic because from six points you go to eight at
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  Speaker 4: least without the bonus points, and that makes a big difference.
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  Speaker 4: But if Van Dyke gets one point or two points,
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  Speaker 4: I guess you get to four, but are still not
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  Speaker 4: maybe as good as somebody that would get a clean
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  Speaker 4: sheets like Tarkovskia the weekend plush the death con points.
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  Speaker 2: That makes a massive difference.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no clean sheets so far for Virgil, as you said,
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  Speaker 1: not been the best Liverpool defensively, but for death con Sam,
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  Speaker 1: are there any other names on there that kind of
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  Speaker 1: have jumped out to perhaps surprise you in the opening
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  Speaker 1: weeks or maybe change the way you think about them.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's been a few. I mean I think
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  Speaker 3: for me, the really interesting thing and when I've been
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  Speaker 3: looking at deaf Con, because obviously I've got ignor in
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  Speaker 3: my team who looks like I'm going to need a
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  Speaker 3: replacement for. So I've been looking at defenders a lot
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  Speaker 3: this week, whilst trying to ignore my team sitting there
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  Speaker 3: with its thirty two points. So I've been looking at
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  Speaker 3: that a lot, and I've kind of found it really
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  Speaker 3: fascinating because there's some teams like Spurs who have had
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  Speaker 3: very very little death conpoints so far this season. Only
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  Speaker 3: Romero's picked up to deaf conpoints, but yet they're doing
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  Speaker 3: incredibly well for points because they're keeping clean sheets. So
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  Speaker 3: Poros on eleven, vander Venn Spencer on twelve, and then
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  Speaker 3: Romero's on thirteen. So wh I'm trying to balance that
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  Speaker 3: and the fact that you've got some teams that are
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  Speaker 3: doing incredibly well defensively and have been really solid, but
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  Speaker 3: there's a been novill deaf Con and it's similar for
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  Speaker 3: Arsenal as well against the teams that aren't necessarily keeping
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  Speaker 3: clean sheets all the time, but we are seeing the
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  Speaker 3: deaf compoints. So like when I'm looking at replacements, because
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  Speaker 3: I've already got Spurs defender, I don't want another one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm pondering, therefore, do I go for Arsenal because Whilst
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  Speaker 3: I'm not really seeing the deaf con there, I am
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  Speaker 3: seeing plenty of good defensive security, as we always do
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  Speaker 3: with that Arsenal defense. But then there's also players like
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  Speaker 3: the Crystal Palace, ones like Lacoir who I'm kind of
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  Speaker 3: really interested in potentially going for. But then you have
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  Speaker 3: to weigh that up against the fact that Daniel Mynolds
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  Speaker 3: is also there, not getting as many deaf compoints, not
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  Speaker 3: necessarily stacking them, but has the attacking threat. So you
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  Speaker 3: have to kind of balance these two different factors because
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  Speaker 3: whilst the attacking threat is what we've always traditionally look
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  Speaker 3: for in a defender, you don't get them very often
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  Speaker 3: with the defensive players. So you might get the plus
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  Speaker 3: four once every three or four weeks maybe, but actually
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  Speaker 3: with the defensive contributions, if you get it right, you
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  Speaker 3: could be getting them every week and that would therefore
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  Speaker 3: equal more points over the course of a four game
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  Speaker 3: week period. So I'm looking at La Cub, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: also thinking about you yours. I'm looking at Tarkovski because
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  Speaker 3: I just think we can't really overlook that and that
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  Speaker 3: Everton fixtures now actually do look relatively decent. Over the
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  Speaker 3: next few weeks and maybe we see more clean sheets.
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of intrigued by Nathan Collins at Brentford as well.
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  Speaker 3: I prefer the fixtures for Brentford now, and I was
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  Speaker 3: encouraged by what I saw from them against Aston Villa
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  Speaker 3: at the weekend. I'm not completely certain that I'm not
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  Speaker 3: completely sold there either. And then there's the new cost
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  Speaker 3: or defense who Dan Byrne did well for dev Conn
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  Speaker 3: in game week two, but then we've got the Sharh
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  Speaker 3: injury and the concussion substitution for him, which maybe unsettlers
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  Speaker 3: the back line, the fact that they had injuries to
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  Speaker 3: Joe Linton, yeah to Nally so there were so many
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  Speaker 3: issues then, and obviously the Gordon red cards that maybe
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  Speaker 3: I want to avoid them all together. So it's that
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  Speaker 3: balancing act between the ones that I think we'll do
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  Speaker 3: well for death co versus the ones I think we'll
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  Speaker 3: keep clean sheets, and then the ones I want who
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  Speaker 3: I think might get attacking retens. And ideally you want
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  Speaker 3: the players that sit in the middle of that little
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  Speaker 3: group who maybe have all three of them, and it's
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  Speaker 3: working out who those players are in these early weeks.
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  Speaker 1: All it's done for me, I think is when I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at defenders, it's kind of just expanded the pool
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  Speaker 1: a tiny bit, whereas before it's just like just either
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  Speaker 1: you're either attacking fullbacks or your ones that I like
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  Speaker 1: to get clean sheets. It's just opened the pool, hasn't
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  Speaker 1: it for it for a few more. And it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of the same case with midfield because we've said it
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  Speaker 1: in earlier pods. It's just changed the way we think
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  Speaker 1: about defensive midfielders. I think really for the first time ever,
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at them and we're thinking, actually, they could
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  Speaker 1: be good value for money. With midfielders, that's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different because the death con have been different in
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  Speaker 1: game week one. In game week two is the only
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  Speaker 1: midfielder who's got four deaf cone points, And I think
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  Speaker 1: we all got a little bit excited. Like with Kai
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  Speaker 1: Saido scoring last weekend, for example, I was at work
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  Speaker 1: and someone there who'd never played Fantasy Port before picked
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  Speaker 1: and I like joke that it was a stroke of luck.
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  Speaker 1: But people people will have picked him because of death con.
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  Speaker 1: Are we considering it as much with midfielders though, Jeels.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think I think we should look at
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  Speaker 4: it as well. But what's interesting is that we thought earlier.
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  Speaker 4: Anderson are Forrest who would have done really well last
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  Speaker 4: season if we had counted those death com points, But
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  Speaker 4: this season so far, he's not there. I mean with
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  Speaker 4: her is there, but he plays right back, So it's
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  Speaker 4: the midfielder that plays right back for Brighton. I was
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  Speaker 4: at the game and so there Everton where he struggled
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  Speaker 4: against Jack realish. But yet because he's in that position,
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  Speaker 4: it's easier for him to get to those points than
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: maybe if he was playing in midfield properly, like Casid
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: or Anderson. Well, I find really interesting in them, and
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: that's why it kind of changed maybe your mindset about
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: it is that there's four attacking midfielders in those lists
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: of death complayers, because you would associate those points with
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: defensive midfielders like the ones we mentioned. But actually for
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: all the guard for Brentford, who actually played front.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what is a Yeah, that's an interesting way.
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: It's a fascinating because the guy played as a second.
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: They played with two of fronts with him and Antiago,
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: and then he's still got those defensive compoints, which is amazing.
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: Really Tavanni and Dam's guard at the other So Dam's
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: guard and Brentford.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: With some explained it very well earlier.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: But for all the guards I guess because of the activity,
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: and especially for Watara Ice it's quite remarkable. So if
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: you can have a forward or an attacking with Philder
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: that also brings you some defensive contribution points, then hello,
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: this is this is brilliant.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Maybe tells you a bit about how Brent for the plane,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah get death compoints. They were pretty impressive against Auston Villa,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: but maybe that was more on Villa as well. Fixture Sam,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: when you're looking at deaf Con, how important is that
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: because surely if they're playing a team that are going
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: to attack like, they're more likely to get death compoints.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm simplifying it there, but that's what it
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: comes down to, isn't it. Yeah, So weirdly the opposite simplify.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, no, but you're right, and I think
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: weirdly it's the opposite for clean sheets. So normally you
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: look at clean sheets and you look at the fixtures
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: and you go, right, the easier the fixture, the more chance.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: They're going to have of getting a clean sheet. With
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: dev Con, you almost want to go, okay, I want
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: a team that's going to attack a lot. So a
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: team that's really going to be focused in on attacking.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Now that in some ways can be often at the
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: beginning the newly promoted sides because they don't so much
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: rely on their defense and they will go out and
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: attack because the attack is the best form of defense
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: in some cases. But for a lot of teams it's
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: the ones that have got really good attacking threat that
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: means that you're more likely to see the dev conpoints
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: from the other teams that they're facing, because obviously they're
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: going to have to do more defensive work across the
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: course of that game. So yeah, there's a weird juxtaposition
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: there between the defensive contributions and the potential for clean sheets,
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: and you ideally want to find that middle ground that says, well,
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: I'm likely to get both, but it's difficult to find
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: that often because if you're going to get dev con,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: then you need the opposition to attack you, and therefore
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: that obviously opens up the opportunities for the opposition to score,
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: which is maybe what we've been seeing with Virgil. To
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: be honest, we've been seeing that he's been getting the
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: deaf con because the teams that he's faced in Bournemouth
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: and Newcastle have come and attacked, but they've also because
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: they've come and attack, scored goals and therefore he's lost
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: the clean sheets. So there is a bit of a
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: balance to be had there. But the fixture does seem
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: to be quite important for death Com for sure.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on, because deaf con is something that's
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: fascinating us and maybe we have to look into a
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: little bit more. One thing we don't have to look
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: into is when we look at our team, seeing the
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: red flags, seeing the lack of points for the popular
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: players as well. I'm looking at you, Olie Watkins. Actually
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I haven't hammer duty to one mind, you captain most
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Salah that didn't go That was the best captain of
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: the weekend though, pretty much unless she got.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: At the end.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Again though, say you right at the end like I
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: thought it was going to be. I thought it was
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: going to be very similar. But my point is when
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: we're looking at our teams at the moment, we're probably
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: all we're either tearing our hair out like Sam, or
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: all a little bit disappointed with some of the players
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: that we thought we were going to be goodbid. Let's
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: start with the injuries. Actually, no, Sam, I want to
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: ask a question first, what is the threshold for a
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: wild card? Because I'm hearing a lot of people were
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: you tempted? I half wondered if you'd come on here
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: and say you're world carding, But I'm probably thinking that
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the reason you're notice because it's international brain next week.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: I am very very, very very tempted because there's so
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: many players that I really don't.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Like in my team at the moment. You didn't mention it.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: I didn't haven't mentioned it, but I think and if
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: you'd have asked me, if we'd have recorded this podcast
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: on Monday, I'd have said, I think I'm quite likely
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: to hit the button. However, over the course of the week,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: I've kind of calmed down with it, and I look
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: at it, and I've got two free transfers because I
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: didn't make one coming out of game week one. So
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at it and I'm thinking, well, reacting now
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: is probably not the right thing to do. I'm probably
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: best to use my two free transfers to deal with
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: the flags that I have in my team. Give it
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: one more week, and then over the international break, I
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: can assess whether it's the right moment to hit the
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: world or not because it gets me past the Arsenal
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: versus Liverpool game, which I don't feel like I want
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: to be more heavily invested in than IOIDM, and then
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: it gives me the opportunity to look towards the fixtures
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: wing for both Arsenal and Manchester City and maybe invest
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: just a little bit earlier than I was planning too
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: with those two teams. So for me, if you're looking
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: at your team and there's like five or six players
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: that you think I definitely want rid, that's the number
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: where I then start to think about whether I should
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: worldcard or not. But with two free transfers and actually
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: the fact that I can, I'm looking at my team
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: and I quite I don't mind it. Again for this week,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: it looks okay for this week. Apart from that every
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: week and well yeah, I mean last week, to be fair,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I looked at my team for last week and I
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: was really happy with it. I was like, this is
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: going to be a really good week.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: And never goes well when you feel like that, doesn't know.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Whereas this week I look at it and I go, okay,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: there's a few things I don't like about it, but
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: I think I can play through this week and be
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: okay with a couple of transfers. So yeah, I think
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: if you're looking at it and you've got five or
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: six issues, and you've got multiple flags, and maybe you've
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: already used transfer and you only have one going into
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: this week, then's the moment. But if you can get
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: to next week an international break, that feels like a
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: more sensible play.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Jors, what about you if you consider it at all?
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know I looked at it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: There's a few people who also played the game that
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: I know who are in how many leagues who are
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: playing it. I think it's quite tempting, especially now that
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: we've got the second one coming on later. I agree
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: with everything Sam just said. It depends really where your
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: team is at, because they are, as we've been saying
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: last week, there still players that you could give a
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: bit of time to add, not too much, but like
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: a flower, and Veltz obviously needs a bit of time
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: still to adapt to Liverpool. We thought it would do
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: better by now, but it still hasn't really hasn't really
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: clicked for him, but he might well clicked on Sunday.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: How long do we give him though, Jews.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I know, but probably this weekend. I don't know. It's
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: a tough obviously tough game, super super tough game, but.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I think it's probably worth giving him
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: another week sent for Watkins who will be at home
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: to Crystal Palace.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: And again that's not going to be easy.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Oh my patients is.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: About a lot of the players, and.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: You can't change everybody unless you play your worldoud night case,
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: which is also a possibility. But I just think there's
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: still some some players that probably deserves just one more
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: week and then we see and there's an international break.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: By the way, Jules mentioned then he said, especially since
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: we've got the second World card, don't be lourding, guys.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: It's still the same number of World cards last season.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Of course, I don't think we're getting an extra one,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: but you've got four other chips, haven't we. That's why
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I just, you know, I just want to clarify people
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: thought we were getting another World cast. Yeah, maybe we
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: can call it the slight of Sam bomb Field World Card.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Imagine John, Okay, let's go back to let's go back
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: to some of the injuries then that are causing us
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: a few headaches to some of the common you owned players.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Cole Palmer got injured in the warm up of Chelsea's
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: victory against west Ham. The one saving grace from this
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: was at least you got injured in the warm up
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: and not a minute in or something like that. We
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: don't want to see any player get injured, but let's
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: be honest, loads of us had aspersed result. First defender,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: first self. Sorry, so it could have been a lot worse.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Maresca later said he felt something in his growing, wasn't it.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: But it doesn't sound like it's going to be incredibly
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: long term. But we just don't really know, do you.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: No, we don't. I mean his face on the bench
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: looked so think how many's he going of got? Yeah,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: and frustrated and angry like not to be able to play.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Growing grown can be very difficult too.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: It can take you a long time.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: This didn't didn't seem that serious either from Maresca, and
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: this is it is a big game. But the weekend,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: of course is the Southwest London derby against Fulham, so
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: I think they were probably want him back for that.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Although ro Pedro did really well in the kopama position,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: which is probably his best position too.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Let's be honest here behind behind Liam de Lap. So
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: I'll risk it personally and I would keep Hama and
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: I'll put him in the team because I think there's
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: a there's there's a chance that he would be ready
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: for Sam.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Are you going to risk it?
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think I'm going to sell
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: a lot of money, isn't it?
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: So not a player player?
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Because also it's international break next week, so does Moresca
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: just think, right, well, let's not risk him for the
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Fulham game at the weekend, and then he's got a
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: couple more weeks to recover fully ahead of game week four,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: depending upon whether, of course he goes away on international
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: duty with England or not. And if it's a risk,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: then I would assume that he wouldn't go, and therefore
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: maybe not playing him in three is a good opportunity
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: to give him a bit of a rest and make
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: sure that that Gin is okay. Because Moresca did also
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: say that he'd been feeling it before. I also haven't
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: been impressed with Palmer the opening two weeks, and I
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: think he's got one open play goal since January for Chelsea,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: so it's not like he's in really good form, and
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: the opening two weeks he's been okay, but quite frankly
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: a bit disappointing for ten point five million. So I'm
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: looking at it and I'm thinking okay, And to be honest,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: on Saturday morning, when we were talking about what had
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: happened the night before with the Chelsea game, I was like, oh,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: maybe I'll just go for soccer a bit early. Then
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: it's an easy sound And then of course we saw
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: an injury to soccer as well, so that kind of
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: throws it. And I think that for me is maybe
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: why some people will keep Palmer, because there isn't that
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: natural come down to soccer anymore. There are others, and
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I'm just thinking about going massively cheaper and having a
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: load of money in the bank which maybe I can
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: then use to upgrade somewhere else, because I just wasn't
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: feeling the love for Palmer anyway. But obviously it was
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: west Ham. Where's Chelsea against Fulham is going to be
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: a much more difficult game anyway.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Who are you thinking then that you're bringing from?
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Well, there's a couple of options. Manchester United high on
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: the potential radar because of the fixture that they have
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: this weekend. So I have been looking despite what happened
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: on Wednesday night. Well indeed, so I was like, well
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: maybe I So my original thought was I won't go
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: for Bruno Fernandez and instead I'll go for Cunya because
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: I was impressed by Kunya's performance at the weekend. However,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Kunya starting in the League Cup in midweek also put
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: me off. And the fact that he then has to
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: play the full ninety minutes and it goes to me
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: thankfully it's not extra time anymore where it goes to
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: a penalty shoot out and it takes a penalty that
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: either misses kind of puts me off. The fact that
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Mansester United just didn't look great and they had to play,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: you know, bring on all the superstars in order to
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: try and get through against Grimsby has kind of put
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: me off slightly. There are other players though that I
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: think in that like, I could drop right down to
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: another six point five and it frees up four million,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: and four million gets me very close to having Harlan
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: in my team without much change.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: That's something that we can think about with this. Isn't
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: it distributing the funds even if you're not going to
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: use them this week.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that's the thing is just because
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: it's very easy when you're selling a premium player to
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: go right, I've got ten point five million, I have
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: to spend it, whereas actually you don't have to spend it.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Not on that position. You could. I mean, you could
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: take four million out and just leave it in the
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: bank until the week after if you wanted to, Or
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: you can make that four million out and use your
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: other sub if you have one, or even if it's
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: a minus four, you can redistribute that money elsewhere. I've
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: got two free transfers. I am looking at my team
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: going could mini wild card here and deal with a
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: load of my issues and give myself some really really
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: good options up front. And whereas at the moment I
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: hate my forward line.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, so a lot of us, well, particularly myself, because
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: as you know, I wanted soccer earlier in pre season.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: My plan was at some point I expected Palmer to
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: go to soccer. When I saw the injuries Palmer on
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Friday night, I thought, perfect soccer will probably be brilliant
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: against Leeds. Get returns.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: He did that.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: What I didn't parking for was the injury to him.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Julian Laarron, you are an owner of soccer already, what
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: are you going to do?
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he won't be out for long and
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: there's international breakwhere he's not going to play for England
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: to rest, so I think he could well be back
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: after the national break. And I Palmer, I agree with
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: some like I said, like I would probably risk him
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: for this weekend, but.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Then he's not.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: It's not it's not really part of the long term
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: plan what with Socca is so I would be very
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: relictant to let Socaca go. And if I had to
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: sell and this weekend for example, it would be parmer
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: and keep Socca on the bench until he comes back
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: after the international break, maybe not straight after, but the
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: game after. So he might miss one game, maybe two.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: And I think that's that's okay if you have him,
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: and if you don't want to let him go, because
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: you will have to bring him back at some point
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: because I expect him to be good this season.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: So but you can look at exactly what some said.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: You know, Semnio is much cheaper obviously and has having
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: an amazing start of this season, for example, and you
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: could look at Blackpool, who we mentioned already in last
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: week's show, who did very well so far this season
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: with Liverpool. Even Dan Endoya Forest who started really well.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: I think he's got nine points and seven points in
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: the first two game weeks, very good. Brandon Johnson, the
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: king of Tappins. But he's always there at the right time,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: at the right place, so you know why not investing
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: in him too. And those players will save you a
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: lot of money compared to a Palmer or Socca. So
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: it's not like if you didn't have any options and
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: you thought, okay, well I have to keep them because
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: the rest I don't really fancy it. There's actually a
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: lot of really good options, whether you go to those
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: seven point two because so many already had two price
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: prises or black Boar seven six, Johnson seven and one,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: or Endo six or six point five in between somewhere
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: or like a like.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Like Sam said, Jack Grealish.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Jack g Realish, maybe, although Radar second assist, I mean
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: three weeks changed.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I thought you said some that the way the sun
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: doesn't make the rules decided to clify it has to be.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: It's going to be an assystem less. There's two defensive
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: touches between the ball being played.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: In and the rules, it doesn't pass.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: It doesn't nowhere near like an assist.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Really, So it's with Sokker just going back to him
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: from minute, even if he's out for two weeks, though
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: surely at some point in the next few weeks you're
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: planning to wild card, be it now or in ahead
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: of going week seven when like so, I guess for
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: a lot of people out there look at they'll look
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: at that and go, I just sell him now and
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: then I'll bring him back in again for for seven, Like,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: is there not a part of you that is keeping
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: you ten on the bench, don't.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: I think I looked at the fixtures.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: You missed two really good fixtures then for psycah, unless
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: you played the World card a bit earlier than as
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: you know, I like playing in the October have ten
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: and and but yeah, then it's just about just managing
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: why he misses and why he would play if you
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: kept him, what he would miss and what you know
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: when you can bring him back, and what kind of
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: games it would play if you bring him back on the.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Wild card, which is which is yeah, you're right, very possible.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: I just I'm just a bit reluctant.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Because it's so it's Liverpool next obviously at the weekend.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Then game week four is Nottingham Forest, who you know,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: that's not an easy game, and then after that it's
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Manchester City and Newcastle. So and then it changes in
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: seven and it's west Ham, Fulham Palace, Burnley Sunderland. So
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: in my head, if I had an Arsenal player, and
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: if I had Soccer right now, I'd be like, right, well,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: if he's out for the next two, say he misses
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Liverpool and Forest, and then he's back for man City
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: and Newcastle, I'm not that bothered about having you back
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: for man City and Newcastle, so I'll sell him. And
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: then when I hit the world card in and around
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: game week seven, which by the way is about is
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: just before the international break, then that, to me, that
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: feels like a sensible play. Now, I agree with what
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: you've said. If you've got Palmer and Soccer, you're probably
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: not going to sell them both this week unless you've
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: got two free transfers, and you only have one, right,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: so that makes sense. But I think if you've got
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: two free transfers and you've got Soccer, I would sell
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: because then you can wait until he's back, and also
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: by the time he's back, you can make a decision
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: as to whether it's him or your press that you
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: actually want in your team.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: It is considering it.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Sam.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Just so, you mentioned Grealish before Jewels went nuts again
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: about his assistant. Don't George, you're not allowed to speak
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: during the section.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Mute him.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I just wonder what your thoughts were on him, and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: he's kind of that felt like his announcement to the
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Everton fans.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: It did massively and it felt like the Jack Grealish
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: of Aston Villa, Like it felt like we had the
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: old Greenish back where he had this kind of free
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: flowing swagger about him and it was really nice to see.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: I think for me, I'm on jusi Behol from Everton
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: in and I was hoping he was going to play
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: in this really advanced number ten position and be on
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: set pieces and all of this stuff. And it's become
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: increasingly clear in game weeks one and two that that's
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: just not what's going to happen with jews Behol. And
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: he's also not picking up death compoints either, so ideally
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: he would go and one of the things I have
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: considered because I do like the Everton fixtures is swapping
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: him for Greenish because he's not that much more money.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: We have that attacking threat with him, and you know,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: if it's what I think, he's one of those players
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: where you will regularly get attacking returns out of him.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: How many you get across that Everton team remains to
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: be seen, because it was very nervy that first sort
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: of twenty minutes of that game, new stadium pressure. They
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: wanted to be the first team to score the goal
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: at the Hill, Dickinson and all of that jazz. But
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: after that I was really impressed by Everton.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: So Greedish is.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Definitely on my radar. I don't think I'll go there
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: right now, but in the future. He's a player that
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of thinking because with my team structure the
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: way that it is at the moment, I've got gee
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: You up top who I'm not going to play. Realistically,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: He's going to sit on the bench every week, which
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: means I have to play the rest of my front
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: The rest of them have to play every single week,
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: and jews Bey Hall isn't a player I want to
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: be playing every week. So if I take some money
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: out of cor Palmer that would give me the money
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I need to bring up jews Bey Hall to somebody
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: different and greedy. She is definitely on the radar for that.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: You've already mentioned briefly your defenders and so who are
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: you thinking of defensively, just to clarify that.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: So, I, very very nearly last night did eight Nori
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: too Minors And in the end I didn't because I
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: got a point when rise out of eight nor in
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: game week one when he performed incredibly well, so his
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: price truck was going to be in back to six.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: I wasn't going to lose anything, so I decided to wait.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Just to clarify for for people, if they don't fully
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: understand the prices, it has to rise by point two
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: for you to gain any money when selling. Sorry, that's
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: just for our newer listeners.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I know we know that.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, absolutely, So there was nothing for me to
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: gain or lose in his price shop last night. So
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: I was like, okay, well we'll let that one slide
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: because I value the press conference is a lot and
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: what the managers have got to say, don't love the
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: palace fixture for this weekend, but I really like the
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: palace fixtures that follow, so Minor's or Lacroix, one of
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: the two of them probably are going to come in.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: The sensible part of my brain just says, just go
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: for Tarkovski because you're to pick up death compoints every
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: single know what you get in. I know what I'm
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: going to get. There might be some clean sheets in there,
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: but I'm probably going to get four every week, and
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: four every week actually feels quite nice, So probably one
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: of them. I just wanted a bit more thinking time.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: The other option is I just go all in on Arsenal.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: But as I just said about those fixtures, they've been
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: so solid so far in the opening two weeks. But
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: do I really see clean sheets against Liverpool and Manchester City?
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Maybe not? So maybe I just wait a little bit
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: longer for one of those and get them in on
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: a wild card. But yeah, Palace or Everton probably feels
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: like the way I'm going to go.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: And just to confirm that, because we've got so many
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: other headaches on our team, we're not even really going
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: to talk about fowards. We're all just sticking with our
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: forwards for now, correct Joels.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: With Villa. Yeah, I don't know.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: What's going on with Auston Villa. But they were terrible
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: again on last weekend and on game week two.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: They were terrible.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, terrible.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: I mean only with Kins Sex g zero point three
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: to seven, so it was not that bad. He clearly
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: could have scored but didn't. He's clearly that there's something
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: wrong there in that team. They're back home this weekend
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: against Crystal Palace. We mentioned that already at Villa Park,
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: a Crystal Palace team that even if they drew their
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: first two games against Chelsea and then Forrest at home
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: last weekend, I've been great. They played the committee ship.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: They're super fit because they had to be very early. Yeah,
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure it's all about Villa, not just Watkins,
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: but also Rodgers, who you have the defense Martinez, he
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: was just everywhere. I think it's pretty messy.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: But like my actual FBO team Johnson exactly three and two.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Haven't you sad? Yeah? I am so yeah. You're just
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: reminded your forwards of Watkins, Matteta and you so right,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: that's right.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. And because I was on the continent the weekend,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: I had the pleasure of the continent.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: For twenty years.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: Holidays I could watch the three o'clock game on Saturday,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: so I sat and I watched Olli Watkins because he
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: was my captain. So I watched Spurs and I was like,
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: this is great. I'm having a great day. Vandervn's coming
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: off my bench. Spurs of one. I was very happy.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: And then comes into the next game and I'm like, Okay,
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Brentford and Villa Brentford were terrible last week, so surely,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: surely Oli Watkins going to do well. No, no, no,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: he did not. It was awful like his performance to
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: the point where I actually wanted to raige transfer him
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: out while I was watching the game. I was that annoyed.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: And in the end, the other flags in my team
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: are going to cause me more issues and he's going
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: to have to stay. So that's and I think a
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: lot of managers are going to say that.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I agree, yeah, yeah, he doesn't have an injury, doesn't
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: have a suspend, therefore another day, basically exactly exactly. Okay,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Then let's move on to differential of the week. A
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: reminder of Differential as a player.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: A good one one.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Last week. It really has been a bad week for Sam.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: You went with Gakpo to assist him and two bonus
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: ten points double digits. Lovely SAMs.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: This was another problem. It's about watching that game.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: It was a great pig Sam. I mean, I'm to
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: move on, Sam.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I'm really trying to move him on quickly.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: He's annoying me now and it wasn't even me that
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: a bad way.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: But I will go for I don't know which one
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: to pick day that the one.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's only got one on your please of papers,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: No way that.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: I'm a week.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: You get to go first.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: You picked two, I've got two, but I will pick.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Don't go with Tower. We mentioned him already.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Because of this incredible depth points that he got despite
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: playing as a as a forward, because they played with
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: two up front.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Branford in that game against aston Villa.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: Where he scored just arrived from Bournemouth for a lot
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: of money as well, so it was great for him.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Confidence is high and they.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: He goes away at Sunderland, which were good in the
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: first game at home, not very good in the second
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: game away Burnley. But I think that could be a
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: good game because Sunderland will will play and I think
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: for Branford this is this is good to.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Go again and go back to back wins.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: It's in interesting to see that he plays in that
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: front two and it will be the most mobile of
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: the of the front two as well. It costs you
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: six million, it is only owned by zero point seven
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: percent of them, so massive, massive differential in what tower
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: there And he got thirteen points at the weekend.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's my guy.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that one. He was my backup, so
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: that does get my first stress. It's my backup, so
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: that means I can have my first choice. Who is
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Morgan Gibbs White? To have Morgan Rodgers again, I was like,
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: oh gosh, no Morgan Rodgers. We've fallen out. So but
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: I'm sticking with the Morgan theme and going for Gibbs
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: White this week. So he'll cost you seven point five million,
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: and he's own by five point six percent of the game,
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: so a little bit more than Dan goes zero point seven,
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: but nonetheless still a differential. He faces west Ham this
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: week and that's part of the reason for picking him.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Obviously gets an assisting game Week one. So far this
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: season has had four attempts on goal, which is the
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: most at Nottingham Forest level with Chris Wood. He's also
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: top chances created there with four and he's supplied four crosses,
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: of which three of them have been successful. He's also
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: top for expected assists at Forest and he, apart from
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Chris Wood, is top four XG and XGI, so Chris
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Wood just beats him in those two. But I think
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Forrest are likely to score goals in this one because
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: we've seen that the West Ham are really struggling defensively
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: at the moment, so I can see a good performance
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: from Forrest in coming. And Gibbs White feels like somebody
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: that's going to be important as they're scoring goals, so
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: he'll be my death this week.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, then let's discuss captaincy because you two did so
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: well last week we thought you'd asked for your expert advice.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I'm only smug because I beat you on captaincy for once.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I should tell us who you're going to
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: captain because you're the expert.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: It's currently on Schuel Pedro. No, I'm not going on.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: It's currently on Schuel Pedro, but I don't think it
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: will stay there. I think it's tough because with Mosalah
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: having Arsenal at home, Mosala hasn't been in the best form.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: He's not He's left it late in both games. Can
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: he do it again?
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Well, he'd never write Salah off Pedro. I'm probably been
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: kind of influenced by the fact that he got that
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: big call last weekend. They're at home. As you said,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I like the position he's playing in the absence of
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Palmer as well. I think that benefits him. But also
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: I think it's also just I don't really have any
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: I don't trust my villa assets. I've got two villa attackers.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I don't want to go with Verts yet because he
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: hasn't done anything. Palmer's injured, I haven't done a so yeah,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: and I'm not going to go Rinders. So and I'm
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: not going to go for markue am I. So that's
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: all my attack. That's the situation I'm.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: In at the moment.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: What are you thinking, Sam?
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Some kudos at the minute. I mean, I'm in the
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: same position. So I look at my team and I
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: go I don't trust Watkins so, because he's the obvious captain,
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: is my most expensive bar Salomon Parmer, Matteta. I don't
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: have the Joo Pedgo option. I've got Matesta, who could
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: do really well against Villa to be fair, so he
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: is an option, but we haven't really seen that brilliant
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Mateta yet so far this season, so it puts me
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: off him. Then I look at the rest of my
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: midfield Salah and Verts against Arsenal, I don't know how
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: I feel about that. Obviously, Palmer's out, so whoever comes
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: in for Palmer is possibly a captaincy option. If I
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: bring in Bruno Fernandez, which might be the transfer that
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: I make this week, Palmer to Bruno, then I'll be
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: tempted to hand him the arm band at home against
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Bernley like that feels like a sensible Captaincy pick. I
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: suspect that Cuts will be a bit more attacking, which
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: is why in my team right now, I feel like
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: he is my best attacking asset because I'm also not
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: going to give it to Juds before, and I don't
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: really want to give it to a defender. But I
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: don't really love the fact that of all of my
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: attackers I'm going to captain my six point five million
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: one that seems bonkers.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Goes back to what we were saying before though, like
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: the likes of se Mena and that providing your points
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter about the christures are you think him?
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: It's on Jo Pedro for now.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't feel quite right though, I don't
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: know why you're right.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: And then but then Watkins at Home to Crystal Palace
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: could be a good pick, but not again exactly and
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: not in the form that he is and his team
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: is at the moment, So I think I leave it
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: on Joe pedroal unless I bring somebody in for Palmer.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: And then, like Sam just said, that could be you know,
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: whoever there is that could be an option as well.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, so just to confirm transfers, then Sam, you're likely
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: to do eight orry to a Palace defender?
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: I think? So, I think I'm going to do eight
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: moons and then it's where Palmer goes. It's either going
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: to be Parma to Bruno Fernandez or Kunya, or it
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: will be Bruno Fernandez to more than Gibbs White Jews.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: You're transfers or are you holding this thing?
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I really don't know.
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: I thought I thought, let's, you know, let's Putaka on
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: the bench and risk starting and then Sam just missed
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: my head completely. So that's why, Yeah, exactly, So maybe
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: Palma will go and then I keep Pacha for now
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: because I only have one.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: For transfer anyone.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: I don't want to start getting manus or even with
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: the MANUS four, I still have more point than some.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: So over here at the moment, I'm going to enjoy
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: that because it won't last. Yeah, don't worry, Sam, You've
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: got plenty of opportunities to get you arranged throughout the season.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: And the good news you can go now we've finished.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Are playing tonight. By the way, you've got friendly so quick.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: I remember it's a Friday deadline. Get your teams locked
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: in before that. Do not miss it. The Fancy Show
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: is back on Friday. I'll be in the studio with
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: someone haven't checked. Two off the Bench I think actually
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: it's Oscar and Harry this week. I'm pretty sure it's
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: both of them. Off the bench.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: You'll be back.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: Sorry to them.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: You're not forgettable. I'm just very forgetful off the bench.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: You'll be back on Monday as Jenny and Praze takes
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: through all the key talking points from game week three,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: and we'll be back as always next Thursday. Sam, You're free.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: Bye Yay.