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S7 Ep16: FPL Pod: Salah central to Wildcard special · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: We've got a wild Card special pod today as Sam
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  Speaker 1: has hit the button. Is Harland in all routes? Which
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  Speaker 1: other budget for was? Can we bank on? And who's
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  Speaker 1: the best keeper to own for those elusive clean sheets? Hello,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back to the FPL pod. Kelly, Summer's back with
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  Speaker 1: you being honest and I really want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: fl this week because I've had another stinker. But hopetually
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  Speaker 1: Joels and Sam are in a better mood when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to their SDL teams. Morning Joel's Morning Sam.
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  Speaker 2: First to you, Joels, you in a good mood about you?
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  Speaker 3: Tay? Hello, guys, Yeah, very good, fifty three points. I
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  Speaker 3: think the first time you seen that beat both of you.
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  Speaker 4: So hey, I'm happy. I'd ride through the whole episode.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't make any change normally. And what about you, Sam?
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  Speaker 1: How are you feeling quite smug? Big spurs win, big
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  Speaker 1: solanky Haul.
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  Speaker 2: I was very happy about that one on Sunday. I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't so happy on Saturday obviously another Harlan disappointment I think.
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  Speaker 2: And as you know, Carols, I was very very close
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  Speaker 2: to the back end of last week to completely changing
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  Speaker 2: it up my team and hit in the wild card button.
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  Speaker 2: And having Salom instead of Harlan, and in the end
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  Speaker 2: decided not to do it, and it was the right thing,
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  Speaker 2: I think just about because Solanki would have been sacrificed
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  Speaker 2: as part of that wild card. And of course he
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  Speaker 2: went on to be the top screen player of the week.
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  Speaker 2: So fifty points a green arrow, which is nice. I've
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  Speaker 2: not seen one of them for a little while, so
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  Speaker 2: it feels quite nice. And yeah, into a big week
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know who you've got to thank, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: for Solanki being the highest score of the game week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. It's you, isn't it. I'm laughing through
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  Speaker 2: the tears.
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  Speaker 4: You have, Kenny. Yeah, you kept she sold them wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Dominic, I told him because I sat with them. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I got quite a lot of abuse for being in
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  Speaker 1: the Dominic fan club last week. And then I was
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  Speaker 1: with Sam on the Fantasy Show on Friday, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: You can check that out on the Premier League's YouTube
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  Speaker 1: ban app if you haven't seen it. And Sam had
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  Speaker 1: this amazing, some really good status about Kunya one of
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  Speaker 1: the did I get this right?
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  Speaker 2: Of Sam?
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  Speaker 1: He was top for expected assists in the whole Premier League. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then when I got an assist, so I was right.
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  Speaker 1: So I was quite pleased. Come Saturday night, I was
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  Speaker 1: like great. I mean, I wasn't that enthralled by Wolves.
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  Speaker 1: His performance, to be honest is a doubled up Wolves
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  Speaker 1: owner now, but whatever, I was like an assist and
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  Speaker 1: Slanky scored one, and I was like, okay, I can
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  Speaker 1: deal with that. Slanky wasn't meant to go on and
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  Speaker 1: do what Slanky did. And then I get a text
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  Speaker 1: from Sam saying did you sell Slanky? And I just
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  Speaker 1: sent Hie and my g's back.
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  Speaker 2: Sam.
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  Speaker 1: That was a sly move because I know you checked
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  Speaker 1: Man and Jeels his teams after the dead, rubbing it in.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, if I didn't, I promise you. I had such
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  Speaker 2: a busy weekend last weeking because were on Sky as well,
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  Speaker 2: so I didn't check. And I honestly thought that you'd
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  Speaker 2: just sold Calvin Lewis couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't get to him. I was pointing to Off, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's really annoying.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because if you're going minus four with the sixteen
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  Speaker 3: from Slanky used to yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, I thought that after and also Dominic Carvert Lewin
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  Speaker 1: still hasn't returned Also, I've owned Slanky twice this season
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  Speaker 1: and I haven't got one return.
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  Speaker 3: From him, to be fair, until the seventieth mini or
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  Speaker 3: so on to the first goal, and he did nothing.
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  Speaker 3: So watching that game, you would feel like, Okay, this
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  Speaker 3: is fine, and then suddenly I'll not merch.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: So I know I wasn't alone, and I'm an idiot
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  Speaker 1: for doing it ahead of ipswitch at home. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm annoyed about. I should have waited another week, but
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  Speaker 1: I know why I did it. I also did it
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  Speaker 1: because I was at BBC on SASTA. I was presenting
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  Speaker 1: Football Focus and I always checked my team just before eleven,
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  Speaker 1: and I was so in the I go into rehearsals
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  Speaker 1: at eleven, I was so like in my head was
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  Speaker 1: in that I looked at my phone it said ten
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight and I just went on the app, panicked
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  Speaker 1: and did the transfer, almost if i'd have forgotten that deadline. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it's a silly it's a wonderful game. I'm a silly manner,
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  Speaker 1: and you're still a good pick moving forward. So it's
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  Speaker 1: not like I don't hate it, but I just I
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  Speaker 1: feel like that move. We can talk about Cole Palmer
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  Speaker 1: in fact, there's park Cole Parmer. Yeah, exactly correct answer.
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  Speaker 1: This is a lanky transfer completely sums up everything about
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  Speaker 1: my season, a move that makes total sense but totally
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  Speaker 1: goes against me. It's just bad luck, is it? But
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  Speaker 1: you have moments? No, I know you don't, but I
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  Speaker 1: know I think I.
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  Speaker 2: Genuinely did you rubbed in it all weekend geors? Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: when that first slanky girl went in, I was in
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  Speaker 2: the south so behind it and I almost cried. And
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  Speaker 2: the guys around me were like, are you actually okay?
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  Speaker 2: And I was like I don't think I am, and
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  Speaker 2: they were like, have you got him in your FBL team?
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  Speaker 2: Is that the problem here? Yeah? So I was like yeah,
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  Speaker 2: actually genuine Then when the second one went in, they
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  Speaker 2: all went absolutely bonkers, and I was just like Even
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  Speaker 2: my little one was like, I think you might get
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  Speaker 2: a green arrow now, mummy, and I was like, I
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  Speaker 2: might be, but yeah it was. And then I thought
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  Speaker 2: of you, and I was like, that's all right because
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  Speaker 2: Kel's got him as well, so the pair of us
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  Speaker 2: will have a nice week. And then you told him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, in solidarity with all of the fellow slanky sellers,
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  Speaker 1: I feel your pain, but the move did make sense
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  Speaker 1: as long as you brought it in for someone good.
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  Speaker 1: If you didn't bring someone good, it didn't make sense anyway. Sam,
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  Speaker 1: you ended your last answer by saying, to me, onto
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  Speaker 1: a big week for me, Do you want to tell
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  Speaker 1: everyone why it's a big week?
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  Speaker 2: I played my wild card on Saturday afternoon, so a
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  Speaker 2: week earlier then anticipated, and I know you. I immediately
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  Speaker 2: text you too as well, pretty much, and told you
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  Speaker 2: because I knew you'd give me grief in not telling
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  Speaker 2: you because it was earlier and then anticipated. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just felt like I was very close when I
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  Speaker 2: saw you on Friday, I was, I said to you.
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  Speaker 2: I think at the end of the show, I was
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  Speaker 2: fifty to fifty on whether I was doing it or not.
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  Speaker 2: And in the end, I just got myself in a
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  Speaker 2: right stress with it because I didn't want to be
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  Speaker 2: doing content on the Saturday morning and worrying about a
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  Speaker 2: wild card deadline and all of that stuff. So on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon, the results of the games made a massive
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  Speaker 2: difference in my thinking, and then there was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of pride. Wise, It's going to happen over the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought, I'm going to lose an awful lot
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  Speaker 2: of team value just in Saturday alone, and players that
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  Speaker 2: were rising were players that I wanted. So I thought,
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  Speaker 2: I just go early and then hope that I can
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  Speaker 2: manage game Week eleven because there's only really one game
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  Speaker 2: in Game Week eleven that I don't like. And I've
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  Speaker 2: got a little plan for how to manage Arsenal and
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  Speaker 2: Chelsea which involves not necessarily investing heavily now and having
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  Speaker 2: one chancefer for next week to bring one in. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: while come's active, okay, so.
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  Speaker 1: We'll come on to that very shortly. It's always quite
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  Speaker 1: exciting when the world cord active on this pod. I think, Jewels,
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  Speaker 1: anything to say Sam about the fact that she's told
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  Speaker 1: us the wrong week again for a World cord or
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  Speaker 1: should we just expect it?
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  Speaker 3: We expected completely, We know, we know how devilition she
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  Speaker 3: could be sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: So here we go, just before we do move on
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  Speaker 1: to kind of chat through the week, Jewels, it is
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  Speaker 1: a European week. You are not in England? Where are you?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, lel I was at Lead Juventus last night.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what use is that to us?
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  Speaker 2: In Why were you at one of the Liverpool or
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  Speaker 2: City games?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, yeah, but I still had screens. Although I
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  Speaker 3: was live during my game, I still had screens everywhere
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  Speaker 3: to watch everything. So I can tell you that obviously
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  Speaker 3: Luisia has got a hat twaak and maybe more importantly
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  Speaker 3: than the hat twak, he played central in from three
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  Speaker 3: with Sala and codigakpur gap post Scorde as well. Sala
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  Speaker 3: had to assist.
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  Speaker 4: He was a very good.
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  Speaker 3: Second half from Liverpool, not so good in the first
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  Speaker 3: half or not as great in the first half, let's
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  Speaker 3: put it that way. So maybe Luisias comes back into
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  Speaker 3: the conversation when we talk about the World card for
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  Speaker 3: Sam or whoever is playing the World card or thinking
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  Speaker 3: about a transfer.
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  Speaker 4: Because he looked amazing in that position.
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  Speaker 3: In Curtis Jones, who gave him a wonderful assist on
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  Speaker 3: his first goal, looked also great in midfield. No, Dominiq's
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  Speaker 3: was like another Dominique for UKs and then for much
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  Speaker 3: the city heavy defeats of we all know for then scored,
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  Speaker 3: which is good, but Hallent missed again a lot of
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  Speaker 3: chances and a penalty too, so not a good week
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  Speaker 3: at all for Ellen halland.
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  Speaker 1: No, I couldn't leave that when I saw mister penalty
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  Speaker 1: as well. Doesn't really vde very well does it for
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  Speaker 1: him at the moment as an owner. I'm sure we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about him when we come on to talk about
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  Speaker 1: Sam's wild card, because that is a big decision. But
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  Speaker 1: just a quick check in with the FPR Pod Mini League,
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  Speaker 1: it changed at the top. Actually the leader last week
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  Speaker 1: was James White.
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  Speaker 2: Get this.
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  Speaker 1: He took a minus sixteen one six heading into the
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  Speaker 1: game week, so he brought him Palmers, Saka, Visa, Kunya
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  Speaker 1: and Mikhlenko. But it only brought in fifteen points because
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  Speaker 1: only Kunya picked up a return.
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  Speaker 2: Towards your face.
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  Speaker 1: That would you with those players, but it was one
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  Speaker 1: of those game weeks where you kind of would actually,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest, I'm wondering if you sold Slanky as well.
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  Speaker 1: He's now six place. That means he's nine points. Find
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  Speaker 1: the new leader, who is Roushane Simpson, child of Prophecy,
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  Speaker 1: is Rushane's team and they got seventy points. All of
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  Speaker 1: their defenders returned, which is quite rare at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like with Aina, Virgil and Bardiol as well
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  Speaker 1: as cells in goal, they also had returns Rogers and
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  Speaker 1: like Jules did, they had Salah as captain. Plus I
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  Speaker 1: feel like this is lucky. Well, it's not lucky, he said.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the bench.
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  Speaker 1: But even had Hardwood Bellis who got six points, who
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  Speaker 1: would have seen that coming on the bench. Wayne Jensen
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  Speaker 1: and Charlie Shepherd are tied second. They returned sixty two
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  Speaker 1: and forty eight points respectively, so they're on course for
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  Speaker 1: a season that will get seven hundred and eight. That
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  Speaker 1: is five points behind the leader. Wayne did play his
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  Speaker 1: triple captain on Mosala in game week ten though, So yes,
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  Speaker 1: really strong performances so far in fpr PO Mini League.
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  Speaker 1: We're backing all of you. We would love the winner
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  Speaker 1: of FPL to be in our league, that's for sure. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: wild card time, we'll do a brief check in on
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  Speaker 1: how many chips are active. We don't need sound effects
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  Speaker 1: on the show, and we've got jewels making making.
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  Speaker 3: Bloom boom boom boom.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't Okay, Sexty wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm guessing he's not gonna be in Sam's wildcard,
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  Speaker 1: but who knows. So yeah, currently there are sixty one,
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  Speaker 1: nine hundred and eighty eight wild card chips active. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that's probably changed during the duration. We say in
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  Speaker 1: that number, almost thirty seven thousand three hits, over thirty
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  Speaker 1: thousand bench boosts, and over twenty thousand triple captains, So
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  Speaker 1: not too many chips active. Sam, I think you've kind
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  Speaker 1: of explained why did you get to a threshold of
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  Speaker 1: players as well that you didn't want anymore?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it was it was so weird, though tallous,
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  Speaker 2: because usually it's five five players I don't like, I'll
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  Speaker 2: play the chip this week. I was looking at my
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  Speaker 2: team on Saturday afternoon and and I had ten, ten
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  Speaker 2: players I didn't want to keep. And I was like, however,
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  Speaker 2: lot to a place with my jewels. There were five left.
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  Speaker 2: I've got five players left in my team that I
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  Speaker 2: had before five check.
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  Speaker 1: I think I would be the same. And I only
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  Speaker 1: world condo a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I just looked at them and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a couple in there that you could
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  Speaker 2: have stayed like they were. They're players in there that
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  Speaker 2: I could have gone, well, I could keep them. But
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  Speaker 2: in reality, like when you look at your team and
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  Speaker 2: you're deciding what the the world card, you have to
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  Speaker 2: kind of be a bit brutal with it and think well,
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  Speaker 2: if I was starting from scratch, if this was like
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  Speaker 2: I had to just change everybody at this point, would
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  Speaker 2: I keep you, Like normally there's a good ten, ten twelve,
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  Speaker 2: however many players you go, Yeah, I definitely would keep you.
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  Speaker 2: I had five that I was like, I would definitely hold. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday afternoon I had four because one of them
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  Speaker 2: I changed my mind. On Sunday afternoon, I wonder who
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  Speaker 2: that was. Who were the five?
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  Speaker 1: So I think we can probably both guess that while
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  Speaker 1: that you are keeping a dominic in your team.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I am keeping a dominiqu in my team can
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  Speaker 2: be calvot Lewin's definitely not going to be Catalun maybe
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  Speaker 2: only four one week. He might just get another week
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  Speaker 2: and then I might might do something different with him
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  Speaker 2: after that. But I do like him for the home
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  Speaker 2: game against Ipswich, so I've kept him. So Weirdly, Vardiol,
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  Speaker 2: who's only just come in for me, I've still got
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  Speaker 2: him there at the moment. Rogers I think might just
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  Speaker 2: be a permanent hold for the entire season, so I've
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  Speaker 2: kept him in Bomo, I've kept him, oh and Robinson currently,
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  Speaker 2: I've kept him alongside Fabianski as my second goalkeeper. So
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  Speaker 2: five of them, that's it. But Robinson is I'm into
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  Speaker 2: minds about him. He was going and then he got
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  Speaker 2: that assist on Monday evening and then I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what's to do about you now? So
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  Speaker 2: he's in there for now, but he could easily not be.
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  Speaker 1: Who are the first players that you brought him?
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  Speaker 2: Salah Saloh first, because at the end of the day
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  Speaker 2: that I played it because I wanted to go big
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  Speaker 2: in midfield. So Salah Palmasaka came in quite quickly. Ryan
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  Speaker 2: aint Nori, he was very quick. He was a player
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  Speaker 2: that I mean. I watched that game, the Wolves game
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday night. Max and I sat and watched it
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  Speaker 2: together and I was just like, does ain't Nori? No,
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  Speaker 2: He's supposed to be a defender, like he was so attacking,
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  Speaker 2: and I just thought, this is a player that longer
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  Speaker 2: term I do want to have, particularly for that fixture
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  Speaker 2: run that has coming up. And then I was keen
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  Speaker 2: to change that front line. I really like were Sir,
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  Speaker 2: I've got a bit of a thing about him. At
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  Speaker 2: the moment. I like Kunya. So there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: players that I was kind of like, well, these are
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  Speaker 2: the players that I want want to target. As I
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  Speaker 2: mentioned at the beginning, the one thing that put me
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  Speaker 2: off playing it this week was that Chelsea and Arsenal game,
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  Speaker 2: because ideally you don't want to have a team that's
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: got a load of players all playing against each other. Particularly,
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  Speaker 2: I find that game quite difficult to call at the minute.
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  Speaker 2: Like normally i'd have gone, oh, that's an Arsenal win.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll just keep my Arsenal players and I won't
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  Speaker 2: go so heavy on Chelsea. But at the moment, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure exactly how I feel that game will go.
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  Speaker 2: So my plan is to be a little bit rogue.
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  Speaker 2: I'm building it with both Sokka and Palma, and depending
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  Speaker 2: upon injury news on Palma, I will likely go into
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  Speaker 2: game week eleven without one of them and go for
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a Ponty pick in that slot, keep
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  Speaker 2: the money in the bank so that for game week
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  Speaker 2: twelve I can bring whichever one I don't have for
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  Speaker 2: eleven back in.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so you get rid of Horland?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I have indeed got rid of Harland. Oh sorry,
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  Speaker 2: well done. Joel's glad one of us is a wait
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  Speaker 2: this morning, that's.
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  Speaker 1: Quite big news.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: This is big?
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  Speaker 1: Would you do that? You you've been very against that
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  Speaker 1: actually on the podcast? Is it not changing week on
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  Speaker 1: week and or are you still in the Holland income?
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  Speaker 3: No? No, no, no, I mean I realize that you've got
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  Speaker 3: other great options when the other great options really are Salah.
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  Speaker 3: Although you can go with Salah and Highlands and still
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  Speaker 3: be fine, but that means no Palma or no Soaka.
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  Speaker 3: You can maybe squeeze a Sacka or Palmer with Salah
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  Speaker 3: and holand still I think some did that in one
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  Speaker 3: of the drives before. And Okay, the rest of the
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  Speaker 3: team is maybe not great, but it's still possible and doable.
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  Speaker 3: But do not go with Harland at all. I just
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  Speaker 3: think that yet it doesn't look it's starting so well.
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  Speaker 3: And now it looks a bit like his Man City team,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a bit jaded. Maybe just something is not right.
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's the Rodery absence, maybe the Brown absence, although
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: he's coming back.
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: Maybe it's just for them not being completely at his best.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know this something maybe, but I think Harland
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: would still score thirty gore this season in the league
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: and get a lot of points. So I think I
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: think it's a very brave move, but I'm all for
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: it if he works out for it.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: For some I thought someone was going to say something
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: about then because you were agree and I.
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: Don't know that.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: I do not disagree with anything George just said, Like,
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: I think he will get he probably win the Golden
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: Boat this season. But part of my justification for doing
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: this is that over the weekend that we've just had,
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: and in previous weekends I have had Harlan and Phogin
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: and so watching the Man City games, I've been like, Okay,
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: this feels comfortable. And I've had Valdi all as well,
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: so I feel comfortable. If there's a Man City girl,
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: I would expect to get some points out of it.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: But then the Arsenal games, the Liverpool games, the Chelsea games,
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: they've all felt incredibly uncomfortable. Like every time they say, right,
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: we're going to anfield or we're going to the Emirates,
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh no, like because it's gonna cause pain
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: because I can't have all of these guys in my team,
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: particularly salah Is. I know you've done it, Jewels and
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: it is doable, but you're still having to sacrifice other
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: big assets. So one of the decisions for doing this
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: is that there's only now one team that I'm going
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: to fear going to like it's just going to be
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: that City game. And yes, Harlan will go off, there
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: will be weeks where he gets a hatchet and I
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: haven't got him, but it will have Palmer and Socca
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: and Salah, So I would expect the three of them
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: to be able to counteract some of that suffering because
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: for most people, like for Jewels, who have got Salah
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: and Harlan, the pain if you don't, if it's a
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Soccer or a Palmer that returns. So I just think
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: it's about balancing how you're able to invest in all
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: of the teams, and with the way that Man City
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: are playing right now and the fifteen million that you
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: have to pay for Harlan, it's a lot of the budget,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: and Salah and Palmer and Soccer feels like the main
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: three that I really want to have right now given
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: their performances.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's go through the wildcard then by position. We'll
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: start with your favorite position on the pitch. We'll go
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: to the opposite end to the forwards. I think goalkeepers
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: is quite topical anyway, because there just isn't many clean sheets.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Once again, Newcastle got one against Arsenal. I don't think
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: too many people saw that one coming. Don't know really.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: I know Southampton were playing Everton, but I still didn't
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: really back them to get a clean sheet and forrested
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: against west Ham. Now Forest have been obviously brilliant. Maybe
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: that one was the most predictable of them all. I imagine, Sam,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: when you look at your goalkeeper, you're looking at the
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: fixture ticker for defense going forward. We know that Wolves
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: are really high there, but we're really low on clean
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: sheets this season. So it must make picking a keeper
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: really tough.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Girls, and it's you, I especially, I am not the
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: person to be picking goalkeepers. I'm finding it hard because,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: like you say, Wolvestop of the ticker, so ideally you'd
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: go for the Wolves Wolves keeper, But then is it Johnson,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: is it jose Sah, Who is it that's going to
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: be between the sticks? That's another mindfield that we have
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: to contend with.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Also, Wolves aren't keeping clean sheets.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: They're not, no, well nobody. The only real team that
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: consistently is keeping clean sheets this season is Nottingham Forest.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: But when you look at the fixtures that they have
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: coming up. It's Newcastle next where Isak has decided that,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: you know, he's finding his form again after injury. Then
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Arsenal then it's a nice game against Dips which their
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Man City, Man United, Villa, Brentford Spurs. Those teams look
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: like they'll score goals against Forest like they and when
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: you look at the games where Forrests have kept clean
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: sheets this season, with the exception of the Liverpool game,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: which is a bit of an anomalye they have, I've
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: come against the slightly you know, weaker teams in terms
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: of the attack. He would expect the teams that they've
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: got coming up to score goals. So I'm struggling with
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: investing in sales right now. I think I'm going to
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: go Raya. Arsenal haven't kept a clean sheets since the
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: North London derby, but after the Chelsea game in game
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: week eleven, the fixtures are really nice and that Arsenal defense,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: it doesn't become a bad defense overnight. Like Gabrielle and
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Sleeba have both been missing for bits and bobs, so
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I think once they're all back in the team, and
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: most importantly with Erdegarde now back in training. I would
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: expect Arsenal to be stronger coming back in through GAMEIK
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: eleven and then moving forward through the rest of the season.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: So I think I'm going to go for Raya, keep
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Fabianski in the second slot. The only thing that puts
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: me off Raya is that he's a million more than
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: most of the other goalkeepers that I would like to
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: go for, and you have to spend that extra money.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: But if I spend the extra money on Raya, it
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: does mean I don't have to find the money for
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: a Gabrielle or a Saliba in the defense, and they're
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: even more expensive again, and so in terms of budget,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: he feels like the best way into Arsenal. Does that
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: make sense to you, Joels? Would you be going for
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Rare on a wild card?
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if you can afford him.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: I still think that it's probably the best choice right now,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: though it's hard. It's hard to say that because they've
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: been they haven't been good defensively for the last six games,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: to be fair, so I think they will get stronger,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: they would get they would get good again defensively, but
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: it's tricky. I mean, I like sales and I like forests,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: but Sime is right. They the games coming up are tough.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: I think you can look at Flecking again because they
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: look quite good defensively Fulham until the last few seconds
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: of the game.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: There's probably almost as frustrating for me as the slanky thing,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: because it was we felt so unbelievably close to a
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: clean cheating. Not only that I can see too, it's
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: going to be to a point ho that was I know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I was going to think I was on course to
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: beat Jewels or at least beat one of.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: The definitely a few more points, and to be if
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: you look at Branford, they've got one with Evert and
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Leicster coming up. So those three games before Vella, so
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: those three games can be defensively, can be can be
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: signed too.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: So I don't think flick And is bad. I don't
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: think Henderson is bad.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: But Raya looks and if you can afford him, the
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: better goalkeeper of all that list.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, so we're going with Raya. Then defense, Sam, you've
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: already said eight nois in. You said you're keeping Vadio.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Did you mention any other names? I can't remember, so
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: my memory is really bad. I wrote some of them down,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: but I didn't run them all.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I'm potentially potentially keep Robinson potentially, Yeah, he's up for debate.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: He could easily be Lewis Hall for him Newcastle because
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: actually quite like the Newcastle fixtures coming up. I was
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: really impressed with him against Arsenal as well, and I
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: think you know they are starting to get players back
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: from injury now. I like the fixtures that they have
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: coming and he's point three cheaper. So again, if it's
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: about clearing the team, because in reality, Robinson is likely
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: to spend a lot of time on my bench anyway,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: he'd be my fourth and fender. So I'm kind of
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: at that point where I'm like, well, I would really
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: like Robinson, and if I've got the extra point three,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I'll keep him. But if I am struggling and I
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: need that point three, then he could easily be Lewis Hall.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: So at the moment, my starting front three would be
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Gvardio and eight Nori. And I've also taken a little
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: bit of a punt, but yeah, sorry on Dallo because
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: the Manchester Unite fixtures are looking quite nice now. The
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: new manager is known for loving his wingbacks and I
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: think that will only bode well for Dallo. In that position,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: I would expect him to play well there. The next
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: three especially, well, you don't for sure, but I would
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: hope that it would be. It certainly is going to
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: be in game week eleven under Vanistroy. So it's just
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: whether when the new manager comes in he keeps him.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: But in reality, Jews if he doesn't. He's the most
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: expensive of the Manses United defenders, so it's very easy
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: if it's not him to swap to one of the
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: others or if it's wrong. And actually Manaester United defensively
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: aren't good, but I don't see that happening because actually,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: of all the things that Manchester United have been this season,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: defensive solidity has been a thing. Like they've been all
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: right defensively, They've kept you know, clean sheets, and they've
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: looked okay defensively. So I think that the next three
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: in particular look promising for clean sheets. He's also created
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: nine chances so far this season. That's more than any
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: of the other United defenders, and of those three have
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: been big chances. So I think when you look at that,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: plus the fact that he's top for expected assists across
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: the United defenders, like he is the most attacking of
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: their defensive units. So I'm going to go with him,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: and if when the new manager actually arrives it's the
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: wrong thing, then I'll just move to one of the
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: others instead. Does that make sense to Jews? Now satisfied it?
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I think there's a conversation to have about United anyway
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: when Robin and Murim arrives, because I think not only
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: there could be a really nice sort of new manager
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: bounce if you want, but I think the way he plays,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: and if if he hits the ground running straight away
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: and the team just if he can implement his ideas
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: straight away and they're very much in it everybody, I
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: think you could see a big transformation and then suddenly
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: some of the assets become really interesting. So like a
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: hole and like a ganachual that defensively, whether it's dialogt
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: or mass RAWI whether the ganactual can play maybe left
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: wing back and then bring something.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: New to the game too.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: I think there could be a lot of interesting things
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: from a United point of view. Okay, maybe not now,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: and Sam is right, we wait until Amorim arrives. There's
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: an international break. After that we can give it a
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: few game weeks two or three, maybe after Amarim arrives.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: But there's also I think a good conversation to have them.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: But suddenly some of their players who we've ignored for
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: most of the season coming back into the conversation is like, Okay, do.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: You want Bruno? Could you get Harlean? Could you get him?
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Could you get that? Because I think it could be
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: very interesting.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure we'll be talking more about Manchester United
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: in the coming weeks. Let's go into is that all
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: your defense? Some I think it is all your defense,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: isn't it?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: And there's Vandenberg as well, because you need a four million,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: so he's there need a four million. He's been regularly
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: starting for Brentford. If Greeves was fit, I probably would
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: have been tempted to have gone there instead, but he
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: is point one more and given it to the final subslot,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Vandenberg feels like the best option. Okay in midfield then,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: so he've gone busy with a busy big could so
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: busy as well? You've gone big both, Yeah, with Salah Soccer, Parma,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Core and Rogers. You said, oh and Rogers.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: So it's just one slot basically, right, because you've got
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: them when they left.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Is the last one. Nice, You've wanted him for ages,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: haven't you. Well, I've had him for the last couple
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: of weeks. He's stayed. But my plants and my plan
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: here is because I ideally I don't want to go
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: into the Chelsea Arsenal game, as I mentioned, with Palmer
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: and Soccer and Rai ring goal like, it feels like
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: it's quite heavy in that game, and I'm not quite
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: sure how to read it. So my plan has always
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: been to budget for soccer, have the money there, and
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: then just before the deadline, I'm going to do Soccer
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: out for Bruno Fernandez and have Bruno for the game
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: against Leicester this weekend, and then further down the line,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I'll use that money to being sackering. If Palmer is
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: actually injured because he's flagged, we'll find out a little
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: bit more, I would hope before the deadline, although of
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: course he's not in Chelsea's European squad so we might
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: get less news on him. Then I'll do Palmer out
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: for Bruno and play Bruno this.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Week What's What's what's wrong with having both Palmer and
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Zacker for the game. Why if they finished two two
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: and they both scored two. There's nothing a defender and
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Palmer or like a Chelsea defender in Psycha, and that's defender.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: I would understand because Palmer's scoring will take away points
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: from the Arsenal defender and the other ruman.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: But if there's two attackers.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with it. I just think the Bruno
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Fernandez feels like he could do really well this. I
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: think like Bruno Brennan Johnson. There's a couple of midfielders
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: this week, and if I hadn't wild carded this week,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: had I waited till next week, that's what I'd have
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: been doing. I'd have been taking some punts on those
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: type of players. And so just because I'm wildcarding doesn't
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: mean I have to then lock my team in so
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: that over the international break, I don't do anything to it.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Like I'm happy to have a punt this week and
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: then move them to one of the more premium ones
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: for the week after. So yeah, that's why. Really, it's
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: just it's just a bit of fun, I think, and
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: he's got potential for a bigger hole.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Sorry, it sounded like because they were playing each
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: other you didn't think it was a good idea to
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: have them both in your team.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: That's how I think. That's why I asked the question.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: If you've got them both in your team already, you
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: would absolutely hold them both for this week. But given
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: that I have the flexibility to have whoever I want,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: it makes a lot of sense I think to kind
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: of to play that a little bit.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, then your front three is, I'm guessing from what
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: you said before, Kunya, Visa and Slanky. Well, oh so
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: it's not so at the moment, it's not, but that's
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: only because of budget, and this is where I need
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: to kind of make some big decisions at the moment.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: The three.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: No, so at the moment it's he's quite expensive, Selanki
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: seven and a half, so so Lanky Whista. And then
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I've got Strand Nelson at the moment in that third.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Good he did good.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Now ideally in Everything's Rosy and Sam's World day, No,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I know I would have Kunya absolutely and I would
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: still like to find the extra million to do that. However,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: that would mean losing either Cavardio, who I'm not sure
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I want to do that because that would be no
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Man City at all, and that feels really horrible. Given
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: that you know everyone else going to have hardor or
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: it would mean not having an arsenal defender, which I
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: kind of keep questioning whether I can make peace with that,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: but I'm not sure I can. Where the fixture is
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: the way that they look to come after game we
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: kill even or it would mean downgrading Robinson to another
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: four point oh because this team that i've bt does
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: have money in the bank. There's point five in the bank,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: might even be point six, so I could go Robinson
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: down that's the least big sacrifice thing. But the problem
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: is that's two four point oh's then on the bench,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: and that feels quite a lot to be you know,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: I would be happy for Robinson to come off the bench.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Would I be happy for multiple four point oh's to
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: come off the bench? I'm not sure. And then the
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: underlying stats actually look all right for Stran Larson. No,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: obviously he was the one that gets the guard at
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: the weekend. He's got the slightly higher expected goal numbers
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: over Kunya. Kunya's got the better expected assists tally, as
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: we mentioned, because he's top for expected assists across the forwards.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Kunya has had over double the final third touches to
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: stran Larson, but I don't know. They've both got the
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: same number of attacking returns this season, so I might
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: go there. The thing is that third forward slot is
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: going to be a Brighton one in a couple of
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: weeks time. Anyway, I will probably go for Brighton now.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: The plan was to go s Lankey down to a
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Wellbeck or a jel Pedro or whatever it is from
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Brighton eventually, or maybe even go to Hoyland if Manchester
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: United start playing really well, but that would mean stran
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Nelson stays. The other thing here is that this is
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: a proper front eight, like there's no one because Morgan
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Rodgers is my cheap midfielder and Stran Larson would be
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: my weakest forward. So every week I've got a bench
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: at least one of them. So is it worth having
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Cunya because then Cunya. But the conversation is then on
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: my benching Cunya, Whissa or Rogers And nobody really wants
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: to spend any of them, do they. Yeah, it's tough,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Jeors even what do you make of that? Would I
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: my gut definitely don't take my advice. Sam My gut
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: is I would go with the strand Larson. Because maybe
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: it's because last week, if I'd have.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Gone Dominic Calbert Lewins to Strand Larson, I'd Selanki and
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I'd have got a goal, and then Slanky's returns as
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: well in a team because it is a team like
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Wolves where they're not performing that well yet and Stran
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Lawson is still getting points. It's not like Kunya's playing
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: in a team where he's going to get loads of
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: assists and goals. Wolves are never going to go crazy.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: So if it's if it's meaning sacrifice elsewhere on your team,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: that would be my gud.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw stran lasson was I think my differential
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: two weeks ago, and the differential is not as we said,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: just for one week or for Christmas. So I'm glad
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: he returned because I told you it would anyway. Mostly
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: it's cheaper, some said than Kunya. The thing about Cunia,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: and I was pretty obvious watching the game at the weekend,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: is the board comes to him all the time, so
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: so much. Every time somebody's he's a half, yeah, they
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: look for Kunia and then Cunia make things happen, whether
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: he scores or assist and he could have had more
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: than just the one assist of the weekend too, So
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: if you can, I think Kunia maybe as much as
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: I like straining laston because I like strikers like him,
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: you know. I find he has a lot of qualities
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: and he would get better and better because he's still
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: new in the league and he's still a new him
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: for him. But Cunia is just the main guy in
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: that team. I think, the guy you give the ball
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: to all the time, like a Palmer or those kind
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: of players that other teams have. So I'll be tempted
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: for Counia more than trying to last And if you
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: can find the.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Money probably doesn't help, really, does it sound to be honest, No,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: it's but it's difficult because the part of my brain
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: is going just to have a cheaper one because you've
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: got to bench in many way some week so that
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: that makes a lot of sense rather than trying to retect.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: The only thing is it would you you're probably the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: one thing I would say is with whoever you go
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: for from Wolves with their fixture run, you're probably not
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: going to bench the Wolves player.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Well, so and this is another thing, so that you've
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: you've got to kind of look at who's got fixtures
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: and when, So like the Bournemouth game, for example, on
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: the fixture ticker that is rated quite easy for wolves,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: but I don't think it is given what we've seen
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: hi from Burnemouth that moln you isn't it it is? Yeah,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: but even then I still wouldn't be one hundred percent
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: sure that wolves will be Bornmouth. Then I guess you've
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: got to look at who Villa I've got. So then
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: then exactly so then you look at well, okay, who's
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Morgan Rodgers got, Well, Morgan got arsenal, so probably don't
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: want to play him, so I probably would still play
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: him anyway. But then in other weeks where like Morgan Rodgers.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: Has got not arsenal.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Still still yeah, like you know, it's the same, it's
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: the same principle. So I think that's the thing is
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: it's looking at how they rotate with each other. The
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: other thing is to not go with Wisser and to
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: go with somebody else. But actually he sits in that
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: quite nice price point. He's six so yeah, so like
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: even like Canya's like you've got to get another half
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: put more than half a million to get to him
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: from from there, and do I really want to have
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: two Wolves attackers and date Nori given how Wolves are
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: playing right now, Like I'm not, I'm.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Not gonna There's also a simpler theory here. Could you
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: not downgrade Dominic slank.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Not before Ipswich. I don't think you can. I think
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: you know when you look at the next three weeks
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: for Spurs, obviously it's Ipswich, then it's the game upper
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: in Manchester against City, and then after that it's Fulham
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: at home. So Spurs at home are really good, Like
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: we're really good that halftime. No, we still played well
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: in the first half. We just Dominic Sank was so
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Dominic Szankee wasn't going to stay. But actually the way
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: that we played in that second half is gone. I'll
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: give him. I'll give him Ipswich now. I am happy
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: to sell him after the Ipswich game. So yeah, I
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: could do that, And that was on the radar. You know, Well,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Beck's five point nine, he's a nice option. Jel Pedro
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: because of the injury, is now back at four point Sorry,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I'm back at five point four. So actually going for
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: him when he comes back if and it's a big if,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: if he comes straight back into that Brian team again,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: could be a nice option. The front three feel like
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: that's where I'm going to play this year. They feel
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: like the ones that are going to change. Like I
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: think when you get a midfield that's got Rogers is
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: going to be a perma hold, I think, and Lettie
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: gets injured and then Salah Palmer and Soccer, they're going
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: to be permanent holes. I can't see them going in
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: they're injured. So the front three is going to be
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: the where I target changes and it might be that
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: some weeks I want Jackson and I can go there.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Some weeks I want to come down and have I
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: don't know whoever it is, Chris Wood if he continues
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: to be absolutely peakue. So you know, I think the
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: front three are going to be the changeable slots, and
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: it's just working out how much money I want to
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: invest in that third forward, which is why at the
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: minute it's it's strand Arson.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Anything else that you would suggest to that Angels, Do
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: you think anything other than Arling Harland?
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Obviously no, I think.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Who seems to come back to some some sort formula
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: with Greg goldgrahead against against Arsenal. There's obviously Chris Wood
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: and Dannie Welberg who keep returning, whether it's goals, assist,
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: whatever you want, which, as we said last week, might stop,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: might not stop. I mean, Chris Wood just amazes me,
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: really incredible. But then if you bring him in and
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: he I guess in some position, you can always bring
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: one of them and a she says, you can swap
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: a you know, Strain Larssen and c. Yeah, and the
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: players of that kind of budget with Wood with well
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: beg that that should not be too difficult. As the
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: men striker, I think Slanke for the depite game makes sense.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I wonder where what Kins is going to go. It
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: was a bit disappointing at the weekend considering the position
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: that he had and where he had the ball and
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: stuff like that. But yeah, Nicol is a good shot
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: for some games too. I like the fluidity that some
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: can have. Really, if you don't have Harland that that's
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: also what you can bring to your team is because
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: you don't have that fifteen million tied up in him,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: you can play a bit with that front line, for example,
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: and have a super strong midfield like she will have,
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: and then with your front three you can look at
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: the fixtures over one game week, two, three game weeks.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Maybe you don't even have to look at you know,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: midterm or long term. Just short term is enough and
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: then you can you can choose and you would always
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: have every transfer maybe to be able to play with anyway.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: So you know, why not using the fluidity for the
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: three forward positions?
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's actually a really key word. Know, Harland might
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: be scary, but it does give you fluidity absolutely. So yeah,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: there's a lot more you can do with that team.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: I'm very envious samifonly I telled mine.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: You haven't played your world card yet because both of you.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Have now got a salas. This is just going to
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: get more and more powerful for me. I don't have Harlance,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: so every week that's going to be a stress for
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: me with you to him. So it's compromises and sacrifices,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: isn't it. So it's just making sure that if you
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: don't have Harlan, you build the biggest and the best
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: squad you can to compensate for that.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: You just can't get it wrong. That's the only thing
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: you can't get wrong. Who you're replace him with, Like
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: your three forwards.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: I know we talk about fluidity, but they have to
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: return at some point because you know inevitably he would
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: return a lot. And I know you still have Sala
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: and Palma and Sakka, so you less three best. No, No,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, you know, like he didn't score the weekend,
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: he had you upon eight expected goals. This is this
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: is just mental for him not to score with that
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: many chances and opportunities.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: So I'm just it's what we saw all the.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Time is who you replace your players with that is
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: the most important, not who you don't have.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you know, for the rest of
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: this season, all the money and my team has been
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: in the defense, in the forward line, and I've had
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: very very little of it in midfield. Like I had
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: one premium and it was Fodin and then otherwise it
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: was in Bomo and then down from there. So it's
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: just changing the way that I've invested in the team.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: So I just need my midfielders. As long as Soccer
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: and Salah and Palmer continue to perform as they have been,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: it will compensate for not having Harlan as long as
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: one of that front three also chips in. And it's
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: it's just who they are, and I think, you know,
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: having Slanky for the next week, having like Whissa, I
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: really like Partickely for the next three. But then after
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: that the fixtures do change a little bit for Brentford,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: so he could be Hoyland at that point because of
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: course then manager Bounce will have kicked in properly, will
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: have a bit more understanding of how Manchester is United
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: are playing. So I think it's just it's just making
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: sure that that front three work works as best as
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: it can without the budget restraints of Parliament.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, makes a lot of sense. Okay, then it is
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: time to move on to differential of the week. Now,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: last week's differentials, both of you returned. Kidovsky got five points,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: got an assist for Dom Silanky's one of Dom Slanky's goals.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Sam went for Bruno fer Nandez ten points, It's got
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: a penalty and got all three bonus points. Interestingly, this
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: week on the script, with Sam doing so well, George,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: she's put the current standing just to remind you, I
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: don't put.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: The total though. Notice I'm not that man. I counted them.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Don't worry.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: I thought you set me up. I thought you sent
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: me a little challenge no, I left that off. Just
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: my point was that actually doing quite well.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: She picked super stars though, I mean, I don't know
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: what to say well.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Out of the week. So Sam on this grid has
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: done it. Read if they do, it's read if they blank? Yeah,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: do you know what I've worked out? But I've worked
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: out wrong. Well, we're going to say, is Sam is winning?
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Sam is doing a lot better. I think that Sam
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: has won seven week.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: Sam?
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Is it seven of the ten.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Weeks you've got greens two for five year? Yeah, so
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: seven of the ten weeks. Jawles has got greens on
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: four of the ten weeks. Second guests myself.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: That is shared with you both, by the way, so
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: you can look at it any game.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Weeks four and five, both of you are disastrous and
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: both both of your picks, all of all four picks
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: between the two of you got a point to week four.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Five was a low point.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: But since then Sam's differentials have returned every single week,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: so she's on a bit of a hot streak. So
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: let's see who we're picking for game week eleven gone
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: and Sam Mika First.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go with Bowen this week, so he's
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: got a really good record against Everton two goals and
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: assists in the last three Premier League meetings between these
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: two teams. He had two attempts on goal in game
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: week ten orso, supplied five crosses and created a chance.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: And all of the midfielders this season only five have
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: been more creative than Bowen. He's made twenty three chances
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: for his teammates and he's also the seventh best across
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: the midfielders four crosses as well, so I think, you know,
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: it could be could be a decent option. He's also
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: on corners, taking thirty one of those and had four
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: attempttion set pieces. Comes up against an Everton team that
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: have conceded seventeen goals this season. On the road they've been,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: especially Paul. They conceded four against Birds, three against Villa.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: They even conceided one against Southampton, so you know, on
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: the road not being great and they're only clean shitt
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: on the road came against Gpswitch in game week eight.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: So I do think that west Ham need this, They
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: really need this win and Bowen will be the talisman
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: in that team if they get it. So jeles so.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: Impure sim styles can by less than but I mean
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: there's more players, they're just coming through really boiler.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Neither of them will turning fr this week.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: So instead, because I'm not Sam, I went for coudigap
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: because Codigagpo is only owned by two percent of the managers,
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: which I thought that was super low.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: That's that's to be the only reason I picked him.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: Also because he's scored in three games in a row
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: now in all competitions, four goals in his last three.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: It was very good in midweek.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: We said that against Bio lever Cuisine that in the
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: second half. It was very good last weekend too against
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Brighton in the second half as well. Because Liverpool is
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: still not fully consistent over nineteen minutes, but that doesn't matter.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: They have such a great form and that game against
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: Villa Villa SIDEA is not doing as well, had a
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: poor week before their Champions League outing against Bruges on Wednesday.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: So later today after we're recording the show, So I
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: think this could be another good weekend for Liverpool and
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: for Cody Gakpo. Yeah.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: I like the gagpipet.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: It feels like another one of the Liverpool players that
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: we've ever looked. Because we're also obsessed with my Salah
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: and a lot of people now probably look at Lewis
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: d As this weekend as well, and yeah, maybe overlook
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Cody Gakpo again. Okay, then let's go on to transfers
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: and captains. So, Sam, we don't need to run through
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: your transfers because you've made a lot of them. Jills,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: what about your transfers. It's Wednesday, by the way we're recording,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: so and this is very much not in FPO my
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: in terms of the beginning.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: I know you're right, so right, you know me? So
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: two three transfers. I have to be fair. Rogers is flagged,
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: but it should not be too bad, I think. And
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: I like Rogers. I like them.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: I like the midfield with salab Brnon Johnson because he
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: SIPs switch at home and Johnson could easily be my
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: captain as well. Rogers and Bomo, who's got Bonemouth at home.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: He's seen the defense. I can't find the defense right.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: To be fair, I don't think I've ever written defensively
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: out out of Robinson, who got really lucky to get
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: the assist at the week on Monday. Let's be honest,
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: it was a girl from a shoulder from Wilson, So.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: I think I might keep the same team and have
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: three free transfers the following weekend, where I'll have a
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: you know, I think you can start a block of
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: game weeks from next week, like when someon wanted to
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: play a World Card, and I think it's probably smarter
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: to just wait and I have the three free transfers
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: to just get fresh blood and new legs into my team.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, makes a lot of sense. I just wish I
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: had the patience to do that. So it was probably
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: not doing anything Sam. Your transfers pretty much set. What
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: about your capsin say.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Probably Salah do quite fancy a punt on Selankey at
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: home against Itswich, so but I'll probably be boring and
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: put it on salad. Given it's my first time in this.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, I feel like if you're
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: going to wind most Sally, you've got a captain and
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: you captain him as well.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Brennan Johnson because I like I like the idea
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: of Spurs against its which I think they could absolutely
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: batter them. And although a lot of Spurs players can score,
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: as we've seen the whole season, I think Johnson is
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: in great form too, so he would be one of
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: the two.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, some good options there, that's for sure. Gosh,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: I'm going to really struggle to owning my salo are I.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: Seem like the boy in our you know, in our league?
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: Do you know?
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I feel like I should and it would then
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: as well, couldn't you. I'm not going to do anything
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: this week. I'm just gonna be patient bench cavalry and
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: he's just going to stand my bench at the moment.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: That's the thing.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: I can play Morgan Rodgers over him and deal with
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: him at some point.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Anyway, enough about my team. No one wants to hear
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: about that, So let's end the podcast there, shall we.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: It's a one thirty pm deadline this week, you're and minded.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: This is the last weekend of action for the final
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: international break until March, so if you don't want to
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: hold your transfers, you've got a couple of weeks to
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: make them. But there is no eleven twelve thirty even kickoff,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: so it is a slightly later deadline. Give Sam a
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: little bit longer for her transfers. For her wild card,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: there's just three o'clock games, four of them. Brentford versus
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Born with Palace versus Full and west Ham versus Everton
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Wolves versus Southampton Because and then there's a later game
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: on Saturday Nights off the Bench. We'll be back on
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Monday for you. It'll be Sam and Harry talking you
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  Speaker 1: through all the game Week eleven talking points and you
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  Speaker 1: can also see how Sam's wildcard did then as well.
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  Speaker 1: The Fancy Show is back on Friday. Looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: that one. We'll be back next week with you on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday as usual, guys, Thank you for listening.
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  Speaker 2: Better luck for like