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#64 2024 Ballon d'Or · Draft Offsides Podcast

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Let's. Go Dodgers.
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What the fuck is this guy? Roberto Bercique, Gomez Betum
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call. Look it sucking.
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Just throwing out teams bro. He is the first player in ETL
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history to score an on goal, give up the penalty and get a
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red carded. Imagine, imagine the shower
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after the game this way, what he's thinking about that shower.
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The most impressive thing about that play was like Nico Jackson
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didn't fuck up the highlight by scoring goal.
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Which is a bummer. I think he's such a good player.
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I think he starts on literally 95% of other teams in the world.
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Hello, welcome to episode 64 of Draft Offsides.
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And with Tico Nenza, my name is Keith.
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We are in the dead heat of the World Series.
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But we don't care about that, right guys?
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We don't care about the World Series.
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We care about week 10 of fantasy.
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Fully invested. EPL and SO is 100%.
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Focus is on the Week 8-9 and week 10 of fantasy.
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Shouldn't even be called the World Series, it's the North
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American series. Don't get me wrong, I agree with
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that or I agree with that. It's just the final.
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I say it's the final anyway. That's definitely something like
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very like, like American shit, like just calling shit the World
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Series. We are the cheat the world in
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all this sports it's fucking. Nuts.
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OK, I love it. But anyway, let's go EPL baby.
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EPL, it was a good week. A lot of a lot of last minute
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goes. A lot of it like upsets, huh?
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Yeah. Ruined a lot of matchups for a
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few people. I know that so.
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I did. We get a single game, right?
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And I bet. Me and you were both right about
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not being on Tottenham. That does not count.
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Yeah. No, that counts.
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We both. We both.
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Said that are. You sure?
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And I really listened to the episode and you said Are you
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sure? Going once, going twice and for
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some reason you said Tottenham for the win and this is a
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Tottenham fan saying that, I guess.
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You know, I will say it, I will say that I think if anyone, if
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there's like there's someone, we don't have to blame, it's myself
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because it was the last kick of the game that drew that that
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that that game got Drew right. He.
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Was he was so mad at the beginning?
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Villa's going to fuck us. Yeah, Villa's going.
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To fuck us. Oh, happens.
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Oh wow. Oh.
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Wow, we need disciplined. I think let's be more
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disciplined. This week, disciplined.
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When we made an outrageous bet, we won.
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While we're being disciplined and conservative, we lose.
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Oh, yeah. OK, let's let's see what we're
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feeling when we get there. All right, let's get into Studs.
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Let's kick off studs. Who's out?
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Chris Wood, 24 1/2 points projected, 13.17, first base of
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the season, and he's scored in three goals in a row and I think
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he's halfway to his season high from last year.
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So he's having a phenomenal year and it doesn't like it stopping.
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Would you guys sell high on them or would you just kind of keep
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him for the rest of the year? So I think he's just standing
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because like you're going to play him.
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Like I think he says strike with the iron's hot.
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However, if you need a piece. Honestly though, wood is not a
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sexy pick. Like I've, I've been trying to
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shop out a couple strikers that aren't sexy, you know, I mean,
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they're not top end, but what can you get?
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What would you, what would you get for wood?
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Would you get a Morgan gives wife right now?
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Would you trade a Morgan's wife for wood?
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You know, right. But I I can guarantee I I'm
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almost certain that they go around the same points.
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I think I would probably try to get like a high end defender for
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wood. Like how high end you wouldn't
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get Ben White, get Trent you wouldn't.
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Chris Wood. Ben White.
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Not right now on that Arsenal team, but they got so many
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injuries and suspensions. Maybe in Anthony Robinson.
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I wouldn't. Oh, he wouldn't he.
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Wouldn't. Yeah, he's had a few bad games.
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Oh, you would. I offered you freaking Welbeck,
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who's doing better than freaking would.
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Well, that's. More points.
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Scored again. Oh fuck you, fuck you.
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OK, fuck you. Let's move on to the next start.
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I'm already pissed off. I think it's interesting, Tikka
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I I'd like. As far as strikers go, you can't
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really ask for more than what Chris Wood is doing.
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He fucking just asked for like a better team and a better name.
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That's what he could. Better name, but like, a better
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name doesn't mean better points. Like a well, the Welbeck example
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is perfect. Yeah, like, look at how dominant
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he is. Well, like what is he ranked
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right now? Let's see.
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He's ranked 13th overall in points with 112, averaging 12.
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Yeah, 12.44 game Chris Woods. Chris Wood's. 14th So they're
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both literally they're right next to each other.
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Have Us has got 112. Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, they're right up there, I mean.
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It's crazy. I think these are the types of
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strikers that that are probably the most valuable thing in the
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in the game. You know, if you if you find
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this guy that's like pretty much undrafted, the Welbeck are going
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so late, the wild book, the Chris Wood and you're able to
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get him. It's like, Jeez, that changes.
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That was like Ivan Tony a few years ago, picking him up like,
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and then all of a sudden you're just like, you have an elite
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player. Yeah, well, the next one on the
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list is another one of those strikers, Wissa, 22.25 points
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projected, 16.12 I think. First game back and he had an
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assistant, a goal. What a way to come back.
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Yeah. The first game back.
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First game back. First start, yeah.
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First start, yeah. First, start back.
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I think if you pick them up, I think I think Sergey our
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producer pick them up as being solid firm.
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That's a great that's a great like what's the word here?
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Return. So great return from a pick up,
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especially only in the second game back.
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So it's like league winning type stuff, you know?
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And I like, which I like with someone last season, I think
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he's a little bit more. Bloody hell I'm drawing a blank
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sporadic point wise then in Buembo.
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Like you'd rather have him Buembo on that team than than
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whistle but wish is still. Yes, but I mean you'd rather
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have him Buembo, but in Buembo right now he's ranked like 5th
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overall of all the players. Is it he's like up there 1/2?
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Fuck. You know, yeah.
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So I'm just saying like, yeah, but like, whist off, whist off
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waivers, yeah. Oh my God.
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Well, he was supposed to be out until end of November.
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He came back very early. He only.
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Missed three games. So he caught some people by
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surprise in doing that. Yeah, Sergei was on it.
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Yeah. I mean, I Wissa, I really like
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the goals too. They were good goals.
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It wasn't just it wasn't fluky like.
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And Wimbo got two goals and scored 28 points, but you can't
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say that was like the most dominant performance by him.
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You know, like he like that he scored a penalty and that second
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goal was just ridiculous. It was a cross that yeah, that
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that, yeah, that was just problematic for the goalie and
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he let it in. So I think in that sense like
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that, that's the reason why I probably Whiss is on him and
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then was and Wimbo's not because of the actual performance is
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really encouraging for Wissa. And that's, that's the important
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part, you know. I agree.
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All right. So then OK, the question with
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Whista is like where does that? What would you would you trade?
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What would you trade for that? Would you go like would you take
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if someone offers you Whista and Anthony Robinson, would you
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trade it for Chris Wood? Whista and Anthony Robinson.
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Chris Wood. Yeah, for Chris Wood.
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Yeah, I probably would. That's nice pieces.
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Nice pieces. For a for a piece that's not, I
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think it's guaranteed forever. I like with with Samori just
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because I like their offense. I was gonna say straight,
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straight up. That's a bold one.
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Yeah, that's an interesting one. Take notes, Take notes.
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What? What's the next?
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What's the next start? Cunya 25 points versus projected
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10.46 headed Cole and he had four key passes.
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And why he's he not? Is he not on the Brazilian
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national team? Makes no sense.
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To me makes no sense. He's he's, he'll be the best
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striker on that team. Was he ever?
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On the Brazilian national team. He was, yeah.
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Right then he ever lost he's. He's had he's had fits and
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starts. Well, look, Richardson's just
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scored this week, so he just kept them out a little bit
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longer. It is funny with national teams
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how that works though, right? It's like you just kind of get
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in and it's like the coach likes you.
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You just keep getting played. Yeah, it's a weird, it's a weird
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thing. I I was involved in a pretty big
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trade where I had to let him go the other way.
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And it's it's definitely been regretting it.
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So definitely. Oh.
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Yeah, your position in the leagues really show that you
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were growing it. Yeah, I'm winning.
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But you know, I I don't love it. I mean, I got some other good
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pieces for it, but Cunya's Cunya looks great.
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I mean, on a bad team. So imagine when they start
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playing, if, if and when they start doing better.
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I think he's going to look even better.
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They still haven't fucking won yet.
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Wolves are the one. Nope, Wolves and Southampton and
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IS which are the last three teams in the league that haven't
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won. I feel like we should do a
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better who we think is going to be the last team he's got.
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The last yeah, there's three. There's 3 but honestly.
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I mean, it's so, it's so obvious that we would pick Southampton.
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Yeah, I was going to say Southampton's the only team that
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I feel like they could go fuck all.
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I think Ipswich wins before S Are you looking at that?
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Are you looking at the games? No, but I'll look at their
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schedule and see which one is more likely it's.
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Fucking nuts in it. They both play like beautiful
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teams this week too. Ipswich plays Leicester, Wolves
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plays Palace and Southampton plays Everton.
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God, these are all except for the ever evidence.
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Not sure, not been playing that bad so that's probably the the
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toughest one. But the other two, fuck me, they
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could. They could.
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Or I think it's Southampton. It has to be then.
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Have you watched yourself any Southampton games or it's yeah,
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anybody. I mean, I watched them play City
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and it was was I thought they did decently.
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Yeah, I think they look. You hate it, You think they're
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really bad. They're really bad like they've
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they've run out of ideas. It's like they will they they
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should just start doing the long ball.
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Often they have a better chance just doing long balls, but.
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They're never going to do that. It's the same thing with Bradley
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last year. The coach has like philosophy,
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quote UN quote. He's going to stick to his stick
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to his philosophy, even if it means they lose.
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Yeah. And it's proven that for that
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coach, like, yeah, you for sure want to do that because you're
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going to get a better job. Yeah, with people with
10:46
reasonable respect you, the second you start doing like
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weird shit like playing five in the back and doing all that, you
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just look like a goof. Wait, shit, that seems like
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another one that a lot of people wouldn't doing just five in the
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back, stick it out. That's that's a part of us Catch
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with the counter man, you know. Moving on though, who's the
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honorable mention for sets? Lewis Hall 20.75 point points,
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first double digit game of the year and he had he had the
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system four key passes. That Newcastle back line isn't
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what it was a couple years ago, but there's still players who
11:18
still performed there, so keep an eye on that.
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They might right the ship and be even more valuable later on in
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the year. Yeah, I was good.
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I was actually at Lewis Hall. So waivers this week, but he's
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rostered 51% of leaks. He doesn't quite qualify, but
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he's starting to kind of settle. You know, this month in October,
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he's played three games. He's played pretty much almost
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all 90 of each, like subbed off in the 80th minute.
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Two of them. He has a 9.75 and 8.5 and
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obviously this game with a 20.75 so he's really he's really
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locking in and like he they paid 30 million for him like they
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they they rate him highly they. Didn't buy him.
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They're not they're not a team to buy a player and they stick
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him on the bench. So they bought him for a reason.
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And be a star is one of those reasons, I think.
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Yeah, I think he's a a good 151%.
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He's going to get picked up by a lower.
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Player he's he's in all he's he's free in a lot of leagues,
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so. Yeah, he's going to get picked
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up. I think it's a good one,
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especially at Newcastle. I mean that one, the one rub at
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Newcastle is they've they've been pretty bad.
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They've been lost a lot of games.
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The only game that I think they've won in the last like 5
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or 6 is against the lower division team.
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And so then I have the excusive injuries that I did last year.
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Gordon's injured. She's kind of their Talisman.
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Sam Baldwin just came back. Danny didn't spend.
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Come back. Spam Baldwin.
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So recently, yeah. Yeah, it's actually been on and
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off, but it's not like last year where they were like half their
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team was down the GAR or down the physios, you know what I
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mean? Yeah, so.
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Hey, yeah, I like it. I think that's a really good,
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like, try and try and get them this week.
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All right, then we're moving on to Dodd's Womp, womp.
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What do we got here? Wait, what's this?
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The Dodgers just do something. Enzo minus on the delay.
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Can you not fucking ruin it? You get to home run.
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Just ready to get to home run. Suck a key, fuck a key, hold.
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On I'm going to pull it up too on my so we can all be watching
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let's. Go.
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Let's go, Dodgers, Let's go. My whole house is going nice
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right now. Have you guys been here in the
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fireworks every time they went? It's crazy.
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What? No, because Azo lives in a
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different county and. The technically Oakland Raiders
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fans up by Anza Oakland Oakland, You know what I meant.
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Yeah, I go no doubt about that one.
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All right, so Morgan Rogers zero points projected to a 14.741 key
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pass this possessed 4 times. Shitty, shitty game.
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Shitty. Shitty.
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Game he's honestly been very inconsistent and has been has
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been a lot of ups and downs, but he looks good.
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He is getting the minutes. So the only thing I would you
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would hope about it for him to be more consistent.
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I like Rogers, me keeper said before he passed the eye test
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and he had a good start to the season.
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This Zero I'm not really too worried about.
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Is he a star? Is he going to give you week in,
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week out? Maybe not, But I don't think
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this Zero is a big look at what his seasons look like.
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I don't think so. Here's my concern with Morgan
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Rogers is I Enzo, yes, I think he's a good player.
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He passed the eye test. This wasn't a great performance.
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He's so Tico's point, he hired, I forget who said it, but like
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there has been some inconsistency there that's been
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alarming. And now with that team, John
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Mcginn's healthy again, Jacob Ramsey's back, Leon Bailey got
14:40
an assist this week. So there's other players that
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are in that same role. So it's it's like there was a
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there was a few weeks earlier this season where he felt super
14:47
automatic and I just don't feel like he is feeling as automatic
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now for Villa. And as a fantasy person, you
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don't love that. No, and it was the earliest he
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got stopped off at 56 minutes. And McGinn hasn't been that good
15:02
this season. I have a confidence.
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But he was injured, yeah. He's been out for a majority of
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season, yeah. But yeah, I hear you.
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So I just, I'm just saying that like, I'm not saying that he
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isn't going to start games, but I'm just saying that there's
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more of a likelihood of him not starting and more of a
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likelihood of him getting subbed off.
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To Tiger's point, he got subbed off at the 60th minute.
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That's like, that's a lot of game in this.
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That's a lot of game is. Really relying on guys.
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So that's concerning. That's a concerning 1.
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So Next up we have our good old friend Leandro Toussar. 2.75
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points versus projected 4 point 14.88.
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He got to start last game as well and the last two games he's
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averaging 2.2 point one to five points, which it's pretty draft
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on a team that, you know, with the injuries you thought he
15:44
could kind of step up again and take advantage of it, but he
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hasn't really been producing. It's going to be interesting to
15:50
see what this team looks like when they're all healthy or so
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with Odegard back. If does Maria, does Marino even
15:56
start this team does or just as parte on take the bench?
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Like there's a lot of questions like I don't I think trust hard.
16:02
I think we're going to see trust hard be an option off the bench.
16:05
I think so. I think that's always the case
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though. Or maybe you could take
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Martinelli's spot. I mean, you could see him
16:10
playing off that left, yeah. Yeah, but wouldn't you?
16:13
Yeah, No, I hear you. And I and I said Chosen shows up
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a couple episodes ago, but you put Sterling maybe in there.
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Give him a shot. Before, that's a whole other
16:22
option. I think there's a reason why
16:24
chosen where he was going in drafts was later and it's
16:27
because of this. It's just like he doesn't
16:29
automatically have a role in the team, no.
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And I think his best use for the Arsenal team, not fantasy wise,
16:36
is for him to be super sub, which is not something you want
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as a fantasy owner on the player A. 100% yeah.
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I think that's, I mean, it's hard when he's when he started
16:47
the season scoring a lot of goals, right.
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And then, but when that cools off, it's pretty easy to to have
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him just drop to the bench, you know.
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So that's that's the concern there.
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Our next one. The lead 1.75 points versus
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expected 13.94. He gave up a penalty, got a
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yellow like completely unnecessary which resulted in
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like -3 or 4 points and return made me win my match up thanks
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to the little something from the commissioner a little under the
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table, some stat corrections. Oh, do not say that I did not do
17:19
anything. Why would you even?
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Why would you even put that out there?
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Conspiracy theorists are going to be.
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Going crazy, I heard, I heard they're.
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Winking right now and. Stat corrections come through,
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they has to get approved by the commissioner of the leak.
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That is, there is no connect, no corrections were made.
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Can you? Can you find that in writing?
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I I am not participating in this conversation and completing the
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5th. And also, this is something that
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happened after the notes he by his shitty performance he got
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then hack fired, which we could talk about later on if we want
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to. But so he's a hero in the dust.
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He should actually be in the studs, now that I think about
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it. This is a hero for you did.
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You. Think that was a penalty?
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That was a weird. That was a weird one.
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I didn't feel good about that. As a, as a, as like a card
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carrying United hater. I did not feel good about that
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one, no. I don't it's and you know what?
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I feel bad for delay. He's come to this Man United
18:21
team in the summer with his old manager and given the boot, you
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know, he's he's lining up against some little Midget to
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his left. Like what's he meant to freaking
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do? It's going to be really
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interesting now with the way that this with 10 hog gone, like
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what is what is this team going to look like?
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Like I feel like Nilsroy is going to make some changes.
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There's going to be some weird shit.
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And then like if Elmiran or whatever his name comes in, like
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whoever comes in, there's just going to be some players that
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are going to rise to the the cream is going to rise to the
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top of this team, I think. Can I be honest?
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Yeah, they should play 3 in the back.
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This team looks like they've got defenders that look like they
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could play 3 in the back, don't you think?
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Do you think they play 3 in the back with two holding
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midfielders and just be like starting and.
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Because if you look at the if you look at their left and right
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backs, they're more like wing backs anyway.
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They're really pushing up the field.
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You play Martinez on the left, play any one of the other centre
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backs they have in the middle and then play 3 and delete on
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the right side of that defence. OK, but then, But then you're
19:22
relying on so much attacking prowess from Dalo and Mazrawi or
19:26
Luke Shaw and like, are they really the guys you want to be
19:28
like? You want to give, You want to.
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Give your attack. On support to Rashford and
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friggin go on Nacho and then going up and down the wings
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because they cut in anyway so they need that overlap.
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So we we saw Dalo missed the goal wide open and also three
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center backs. 3 center backs is a good idea when you have 3 like
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center backs you could trust. Which one do you trust?
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I. I honestly don't care for any of
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their I. Should disagree.
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I think that's when you have 3 center backs.
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You can actually kind of hide some flaws of each one 'cause
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you have 3. If they get caught on the
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counter attack and none of them are like like quick as well.
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They're not fast. Martinez is kind of fast, I
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think. This is kind of.
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Fast. The other two are slow.
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McGuire He is in the slowest, though.
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Martinez is not a football, is not a football player, man, that
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guy, that guy should not be honest are.
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You I'm. I'm not a fan of Martinez
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whatsoever. And butcher?
20:21
You don't like the Butcher? Well, you think it's going to
20:23
take the main night job, Southgate?
20:26
Oh my God. No, Southgate says he's not
20:27
taking it. I think I, I really think it's
20:29
pointing towards that. The Sporting Lisbon coach.
20:31
I know. Oh, that's cool.
20:33
Yeah, I think they should go for Olegana Social.
20:40
OK, moving on, who's the honorable mentioned?
20:44
Anderson, Clark. Who the fuck is this guy?
20:46
Exactly -10.25 points. Wow, he is the first player in
20:51
EPL history to score an on goal, give up a penalty and get red
20:55
carded. Is he from Ipswich?
20:58
I I think so. The team that gave up four
21:01
goals? Hold up switch.
21:02
Against. Bradford yeah, yes, Switch.
21:06
God, he really did that. That sucks.
21:10
That's that's really rough. You know.
21:13
I took the shower after the game this way.
21:16
What he's thinking about that shower.
21:19
Guys, his second game of the year, the first game he came on
21:24
as a sub play for 26 minutes. He scored zero goals.
21:27
When you go on the fan tracks page, I try to search for his
21:30
name to see like his history. His name doesn't come up on the
21:33
first page which has 500 players.
21:35
You have to go on the second page because for the year is
21:37
-10.25 points. Wow.
21:41
Damn. Yeah, I certainly know what to
21:45
say. I don't know him.
21:46
We feel bad for this guy. He looks like AI don't know.
21:50
I don't even know how is. He young, he.
21:52
Looks so young. He has.
21:53
He doesn't. He doesn't really have much of A
21:55
neck. He's 23.
21:58
One of those like short necked. This is how irrelevant this
22:02
guys. Will you Google him?
22:04
He doesn't even come up. There's a website called
22:06
Harrison. Dot com say is he relevant bro?
22:09
And. You can Google any of us and
22:11
none of us are going to come up. I appreciate if any of.
22:13
US play. Yeah, appreciate if you.
22:16
Actually come up. I come up.
22:18
Linked to this again. Yeah, I'm all over the place.
22:21
Oh. Yeah.
22:23
I feel over the place. There's fellows to me.
22:27
There's a Clark on the other hand.
22:29
Nothing. Nothing.
22:30
There's a leading cloud data on the stack.
22:32
If you're on the second page, if you find anything on them.
22:36
God, yeah. So I I had to like, Google
22:39
Harrison Clark if switch to, you know, find them.
22:42
But yeah, it was a anomaly that we might never see again.
22:45
No worry, that is. That is really funny.
22:47
It's not a play I pick up anyway, so no.
22:49
It also should not have been an on goal.
22:52
No, OK, let's move on then. Let's talk about some of the
22:57
game week 9 stuff. And So what is this?
23:01
I don't really understand a lot of this.
23:03
So are you talking ghost points? Yeah, they're all.
23:06
All of them are ghost. Points.
23:07
I wanted to talk about this Savio.
23:09
Yeah, incredible. The fact that he got 21 point
23:12
what, 21 1/2 ghost points? Yeah.
23:14
In that team, when they scored one goal, I mean that.
23:17
That's the type of stuff you just love to see as a fantasy
23:20
owner. That's coolest numbers last
23:22
year. Yeah, no, seriously.
23:24
Yeah, it's curious number and he does that.
23:26
He does drill completions. I think he had like 4.
23:29
So that's four points. I think he passes.
23:31
He had a couple that's like. Yeah, the Acura corners.
23:35
Yeah, he was. Also he was also dispossessed 4
23:38
times which are negative points and he still had that many
23:40
points. Yeah, that's awesome.
23:42
Yeah, But the other one is there.
23:43
Is this Craig Dawson? Yes.
23:46
So he had 15.25, that's solid. And that's that's with that's at
23:51
West Ham. That's West Ham, yeah.
23:53
That's pretty good. Louis Potter, Brentford, 15
23:55
points. Four goals go in, people are
23:57
going to score points. Yeah, but he's not.
23:59
He didn't get an assist or go. He didn't get any of the goals,
24:02
so that's a freeze for you. Yeah, he's frozen.
24:06
That's a really funny frozen freeze.
24:09
OK, you're right. You didn't get an assistant or
24:11
goal, do you? Froze.
24:12
Are you back now? Yeah, I'm back.
24:16
Now you're really delayed. You're yeah, you're delayed.
24:20
Might say. Something I'm not back.
24:23
Yeah, you're good. You thought your.
24:24
Movements were delayed. That's why you're moving around
24:25
dancing. Yeah, Lewis Potter is an
24:31
interesting one, just where he fits into this attack for
24:33
Brentford. I think that's a, that's an
24:35
interesting call out here. Baleba, 14 points, that's pretty
24:39
solid. He's someone that I've like,
24:40
I've used a few times this year when like I'm really hurting for
24:43
a minute. I'd just like step someone in
24:45
and he's been hit or miss. Kill or miss Stephanie up and
24:49
down. He's Dolphin in, that's for damn
24:51
sure. Yeah.
24:54
He's not a consistent scorer. No, but he's not and he's not
24:58
again, is it match up? I don't think it's match up
25:00
because you look as on the teams he's played against and scored.
25:03
I mean, he's got one goal or one assist I believe, and the rest
25:07
of it is just all in the middle of the park.
25:10
So my guess would be so because Brighton presses so high, if he
25:14
can, if he's such a good ball winner, probably wins balls high
25:19
up the pitch. And then from there, if he's in
25:21
attacking positions, that's like that's how he got his goal.
25:25
I have a feeling that some of his key passes are from that as
25:27
well. So I think it's very I think it
25:28
is match up dependent, but it's match up dependent on who's
25:30
trying to play at the back and he's trying to do things where
25:32
he can capitalize on high up the field as a ball winner.
25:36
That would be that would be my like kind of guess as to why
25:38
that why he sometimes gets higher.
25:40
Points. That's a good.
25:42
Is that the? Wolves.
25:47
Wolves left. Back some some semeta E semeta
25:51
semeta. I like the.
25:53
I like Seminda I. Think he's another ones he'll
25:56
miss but him and Night Nori are the ones like you said, are
26:00
putting up a lot more attacking numbers than even that midfield.
26:03
It's just them two and Cunya. They do could, yeah.
26:08
Yeah. I mean, I mean Cunya and that
26:10
Nori got goals this week. I think that that I talked about
26:13
a team that really thrives with wingbacks.
26:15
It's that team like releasing annoying to get high up the
26:18
pitch is always a good thing. Again, I keep watch, I've
26:21
watched wolves, I keep watching them.
26:22
They don't look bad. It's just fucking not finishing
26:25
and not defending. Like it was a it was a Killman
26:28
that was from there was a killman because he, I think
26:32
you're right, I think he was key to that centre back position
26:35
because those two sandbags, they can't seem to frigging get
26:39
clearances out or pass the ball out.
26:41
I think that's the problems. Yeah, I think that's totally it.
26:45
I think it's a big part of it. Yeah.
26:47
Next one Ashley Young, 13. Dude, he's done it again.
26:50
He got up, he got an assist. Oh, he did.
26:53
Yeah, not ghost ones, but I think he's worthy.
26:54
You're talking about. Yeah, he's because of the fact
26:57
that he has been so freaking good.
26:59
He's still, I think 49% rostered.
27:01
I think even though he's fucking 58, you still got to pick him up
27:05
and just go with it at the moment.
27:06
Strive. What's what's what number is
27:08
higher his age or his percent rostered?
27:14
I think he's got 4-5 games, like just double figures.
27:19
Yeah, let's let's read them out. So it's wow.
27:22
So September 21st, 16 1/2 points September 28th, 14.25, October
27:28
5th, 11.75. October 19th, 17.5.
27:31
October 26th, 13. Dude, and you but yeah, it's
27:35
it's those games have been great.
27:36
But you look at the game before that, it was fucking doing
27:37
nothing. Oh yeah, now you're two negative
27:39
games, Yeah. He's doing nothing well.
27:42
Let's everything got off to a terrible start.
27:44
The last first two games they gave up three goals, which they
27:47
haven't since. And also like in that stretch,
27:50
Ashley Young has three assists and every game he has a key
27:53
pass. So I think we talked about it
27:55
last week. This guy has been definitely
27:57
putting up numbers. I I don't go ever.
28:03
And he go. Is he too hot though?
28:05
Is it? Is it going to all come
28:06
crashing? Down.
28:06
It should be this week. Everyone's going to pick him up
28:09
and he's going to go -5. I'll let you know works All
28:14
right then I think the other, the other main talking point was
28:16
just the amount of late goals that actually that changed,
28:19
changed results in games. That's true.
28:22
The. Way of the world.
28:24
Trajectory of the world. I mean that that Brentford and
28:26
Buemo goal 90 + 6 to make it from three three to four three,
28:30
that was a that was a fun game. That was, that was Hydra.
28:32
That was a fun game to watch. I was watching the wrong
28:34
freaking game. Everton with that that goal from
28:37
Beto in the ninety 94th minute, that was also a really
28:41
emotionally charged goal. He hasn't scored in six months
28:44
and I'm not sure if you guys saw that he he started crying the
28:47
second of the game. I did and just walked right off
28:48
the field to see that. It was really sweet.
28:50
And then they interviewed him after and he was like kind of
28:52
tearing up. It was like, it's been a lot.
28:54
Is he? Brazilian too.
28:57
I mean, was it like better? You think so, right?
28:59
Or is he? Yeah, without Portuguese tika.
29:04
No idea I could look at. Oh, if he's Brazilian, Tika, you
29:07
take, we're taking away your. Brazilian.
29:10
No, you're not. You're right, you never had one.
29:14
Portuguese. Look at that man.
29:17
I know my names bro, if I know my names.
29:20
But yeah, I mean, there's I, it's, it's weird for people to,
29:23
you know, not hate themselves or not feel bad about themselves.
29:26
So you know. Yeah.
29:28
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You want him to succeed, so that
29:30
was good. He doesn't play for Portugal, he
29:33
plays for I'll be the mispronounces.
29:36
Guinea Bissau. I don't know.
29:37
Oh, what are the African nations?
29:39
Yeah. Well, I just went battle because
29:41
battle was Portuguese or Brazilian then.
29:43
That's what I'm saying. It's Norberto Bercique Gomez
29:47
Betumcal. Wow.
29:50
That sounds like it could be Portuguese and Brazilian.
29:54
That's cool. Good for him.
29:57
That was a great goal. Cunya, the 93rd minute, Evan
30:00
Nielsen, my guy fucked him up. He did fuck up our bat and I
30:06
also didn't start him, so it really did.
30:07
It did nothing. Funny.
30:08
Did you have a couple of those that you didn't start and they
30:09
did well? Let's not talk about that.
30:12
I will go. Let's actually let's talk about
30:14
that so I can complain more about it because no one really
30:16
cares. This is one of those things that
30:17
no one cares. About to my notes.
30:20
I woke up in time for the Chelsea game.
30:22
I looked at the lineup. I saw Sancho wasn't playing.
30:25
I swapped in Netzo and I must have not hit submit and just
30:28
like exited the app and then like went about my morning and
30:31
then like I'm watching the game and Netzo scores and I'm like,
30:34
great, I'm going to check the fantasy out.
30:35
I bet you have a bunch of points and the the switch didn't like
30:39
happen. And so I'm looking at Netzo
30:41
with, you know, I ended up having 20 plus points on the
30:43
bench and. I was just.
30:45
Fuming. Did you win this week?
30:47
Still keep. I won and it's fine.
30:48
Oh my God. But if I didn't win, I'd think I
30:50
would have. Literally.
30:51
I might not be here right now. We might have, had we.
30:53
Went six and oh. We don't.
30:55
We all won. We all won all our games.
30:56
I'm two weeks in a row where I've won both my matchups.
30:59
Yeah, Enzo, you're you're storming back in one of the
31:01
leagues. Man, it's catching up man.
31:03
Just tell you one will be out of time.
31:05
Like Tico is doing really well in one league and he's shit in
31:07
the bed in another. You know?
31:08
I mean, I've. I'm sorry, I'm not shooting the
31:10
bed in the other. Your your idea of shooting the
31:14
bed in mind, it must be a little bit different.
31:19
OK, That guy Nielsen? I'm three points behind you.
31:23
You're shit in the bed. Literally a one game great.
31:26
Positions are you behind me? One are you?
31:30
Yes, you're shit in the fucking bed you bought me.
31:33
And I and I scored sixty more points than you, and I have the
31:37
highest points against at 918. OK, we, we, you're behind.
31:43
It Evan Nielsen came on and got a goal.
31:45
So that means in three of his last four games, Cesar scored
31:48
double digits, Yeah. Well.
31:51
Something to know, I think. I think he might be finally kind
31:54
of adjusted to the league. He has the pedigree to be a
31:56
really good striker so that's exciting.
31:59
Let's see. Jared Bowen, West Ham 92nd
32:02
minute goal for them to get the win.
32:05
He's like their own penalty. He's he's like their only
32:08
player. They're only attacking.
32:10
Player right? He's the only one showing up.
32:13
Maverick Harness dropped in real quick.
32:15
Oh wait, Wambassaka if. You don't play well who playing?
32:20
Right, playing better Most. I, I had to go to a furniture
32:26
swap meet on Sunday morning, so I had to leave at halftime and
32:29
I'd be on the game. I could watch the Chelsea game
32:31
because I was watching on my phone.
32:32
I was while I was walking around the swap meet.
32:34
So I didn't get to watch. I didn't get to watch the
32:36
second-half of the of that game. Oh.
32:39
Man, yeah, he just plays. He he seems more free of that
32:43
team than he did in my, you know, like less stress, you know
32:46
what I mean? Less pressure I feel.
32:48
Well, I think everyone probably feels less stressed than when
32:51
they leave Man United. Yeah, I think so.
32:54
Maybe not anymore, but with 10 hog there wolf.
32:57
Oh man, fucking 10 hog he left. He left that that club bowing
33:01
his head trying to like not be seen in the back of the car.
33:05
I. I really wish they would have
33:06
kept him for one more week though.
33:07
It's very annoying that Chelsea has to play him after with the
33:09
new manager belt. Well, we'll see.
33:11
Van Nishora's been there, so obviously he might establish
33:14
himself as a coach already. But to be as the as the top
33:17
gaffer? Don't know man, we'll see.
33:19
Like, great player doesn't mean you're a great manager.
33:23
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we're seeing that more
33:25
and more. It seems like it seems really
33:27
silly to think that you have to have been a great player to be a
33:30
great manager. And it seems like that was the
33:31
mentality for a long time for a lot of these coaches.
33:34
You have to be some sort of professional to be a great
33:36
manager. And it's I think the proof is in
33:38
the pudding that that's not necessarily the case.
33:41
But yeah, Bowen, Bowen got that, that penalty kick.
33:45
I don't know. Not much to say about that.
33:46
No, I know much to say about. That, I mean, it's United.
33:48
It's hard to even really judge yourself against United.
33:50
No, OK. And then Chris, the Palace with
33:54
the first win, that's very noteworthy.
33:55
And Sonam, we called it last week.
33:58
It just makes sense. They do so well against Sonam,
34:02
you know, I mean always. And it just, Oh my God, that
34:04
game was, I'm sure you guys didn't watch it.
34:06
It's good that you didn't. It was fucking one of the worst
34:08
games of football I've seen on one side.
34:13
Did you do you think that being a bit of a Derby play any role?
34:17
It always does. It's the London find, the London
34:19
derbies, but also I feel like like as they didn't even play
34:23
well that game. You know, I mean, he did get a
34:26
really amazing assist from Matata.
34:27
He. Did, but other than that didn't
34:30
replay well. Like no son, don't get wrong he
34:32
put in Mikey Moore which honestly I was happy for him to
34:36
do instead of putting Timo because as soon as Timo went in
34:38
there, bloody hell that guy's 100% effort. 0 out of 10 for
34:42
fucking execution. Yeah, that motherfucker not do
34:45
shit. But yeah, they're telling them
34:47
too. It just looked like luster like
34:49
taking off Madison ankle asseski at the same time, like, or are
34:52
we just crazy we just gave up. Yeah, you.
34:53
Just give up that that's that's just OK.
34:55
Let's just go home. Yeah, right.
34:56
That's why I felt So what good for crystal ballots they got
35:00
they they they won the the teams that didn't ever win, they got a
35:02
win. Now it's just Wolves Southampton
35:04
in switch left. Yeah, All right.
35:07
Netzo went off for 20.5 points. I think it's a little bit of a
35:09
job of the fact that I didn't start up like I talked about
35:11
earlier, which was really annoying.
35:13
And I'll be double checking that.
35:15
It's really tough when I set my alarm for 5:50 and then I'm
35:19
expected to make every single decision in like 4 minutes, 9
35:23
minutes. And I think that played a factor
35:25
as well that happened. It set my alarm a little
35:27
earlier. That happened to me last week.
35:29
I woke up, I stopped late obviously woke up like at 5:50.
35:32
I'm like why the fuck am I up? Like why did I set the alarm
35:35
when I just went back to sleep and we got to start a doku and I
35:39
lost the match? Because of that.
35:40
That's right. Yeah, man, I I want to talk
35:43
about did you guys see the pass I called Palmer made for the
35:45
1st? Chance I got.
35:47
So good. I think I have that in my notes
35:51
that OK, that didn't make it. Yeah, I, I it's the best hockey
35:55
assist ever. Yeah, I see. 12 seconds for me,
36:00
coming from the goalkeeper or whoever it was to Palmer, to
36:04
them scoring, 12 seconds. That's what it took from that
36:07
pass, yeah. Amazing.
36:08
Crazy. I think, I think I'm starting to
36:10
drink the kool-aid that he's really good.
36:12
Like I've been really subtly like, is he the best?
36:14
But I think he's he's, I mean, he, I think for me it's that he
36:17
can pass the ball, he can dribble and he can score.
36:20
Like how many players can do all three of those things at such a
36:22
high level, right At his age, at his yeah, his KDB.
36:26
OK. Yeah, but KDB, Jude, KDB.
36:30
Jude can't. Jude can't pass the ball like
36:32
that. He's not that much passing.
36:35
Jude can pass it, don't get wrong, but he to turn round in
36:38
your own half and cut that defence in half, No, I don't
36:42
think Jude. Not yet.
36:43
I think Jude does a lot of the basic qualities.
36:45
I don't think Jude's quite doing that, though.
36:47
Jude, that's not not going to. Happen.
36:50
Look, you want me to put room with your player in there?
36:52
No, no, no. Tony Cruz when he was playing.
36:55
Tony Cruz doesn't score goals. He can No.
36:56
But he can pass the ball the way he has.
36:59
Passed. Yes, he can pass it.
37:00
No, no. I honestly I just had a joke to
37:03
make. I missed the time.
37:04
I thought about going back to making it but decided against
37:07
it. What was?
37:08
Well. I'll make it now.
37:09
Yeah, OK. You have to.
37:10
The most impressive thing about that play was like, Nico Jackson
37:12
didn't fuck up the highlight. Dude, he's doing fucking
37:17
amazing. He's not my, he's not my best
37:19
player on my team. 21 goal involvement in his last 21 games
37:23
for Chelsea bro. He's the best player on your
37:24
team. I think so the most points.
37:28
Yeah, he's up there. I mean, it's crazy because he
37:31
had a really good season last year, but he was going so poorly
37:33
in drafts because everyone thought that Chelsea was going
37:35
to bring another striker. So like for to take the gamble
37:38
on him, that's one of those gambles that really pit off.
37:40
And Kunku hasn't redone. And that's, I mean, I've
37:43
officially dropped him. I talked about it last week.
37:45
He's officially on whatever's, which is a bummer.
37:48
I think he's such a good player. I think he starts on literally
37:51
95% of other teams in the world. What?
37:56
Yeah. Who and Kunku?
37:58
Like what most teams he's starting on most teams he was
38:01
like in the Premier League in the world.
38:02
He said 95% of teams in the world.
38:06
Yeah. He's not.
38:08
He's starting on almost every team really.
38:10
I think he's. Wait, wait, wait.
38:12
Wait, should we want to go? PSG, you know, does he stop the?
38:15
PSG. He might not Keith.
38:17
He might not even start for real for Manchester United.
38:21
What are you talking about? He would just.
38:22
Play him over. Who do you play him over?
38:25
Fucking Bruno Garnacho. Rasmus Hoyland Garnacho.
38:28
Yeah, absolutely. I'd start to remember.
38:30
Garnacho and and Cuckoo is a he's not a nine.
38:32
He he can absolutely play 9 anyways, it's really.
38:36
Not even starting on Chelsea. That's the point.
38:41
Very clear point. Thank you for saying I think
38:43
that I think it's cousin Cole Palmer.
38:45
All right, whatever, whatever. This, this is my this is my
38:48
delusional take of the of the year.
38:50
He's just trying to justify drafting.
38:51
In the Ronnie Keefe, I've been very impressed with you this
38:53
season. You haven't gone on too many
38:55
Chelsea runs. I guess I, I think, I think, I
38:58
think in Cuckoo's very, very good.
38:59
Cuckoo's the highest the highest goal scorer of Chelsea of the
39:03
season. Yeah, but mostly he doesn't get
39:04
shit teams like in Europe and. Stuff like, yeah, whatever.
39:10
Enzo just has a note that that just boils down to I'm just
39:12
going to like AI read it. It just says Southampton sucks.
39:16
It's longer, but that's pretty much what it says.
39:18
Southampton sucks actually that they played pretty well against.
39:22
You know, obviously they let in that really go the city, but
39:23
then they held them pretty good the rest of the game.
39:25
Holler did miss a few sitters. But they don't look threatening
39:31
in attack at all. No, no, you could.
39:34
Be good defensively, but if you give him one goal and you can't
39:36
score, you're going to fucking lose that game.
39:39
I also think too, if you're going to play in that way, like
39:42
you need to have players that can do that.
39:44
Like you have like a Cameron Archer who's really fast and
39:46
it's like, it's a very good, like counter attacking player.
39:48
Yeah. You're like trying to slow the
39:49
ball down and do all this stuff. And it feels weird to me.
39:52
It just feels like there's like his, his philosophy is so he's
39:57
so fixed in his philosophy that he's not accentuating his
40:00
players with his tactics. Yeah, I don't know what they're
40:03
going to do, man. I, I really they could.
40:05
If they go a whole season, we say they win three or less
40:09
games. Oh my God.
40:11
I mean, the lowest point total ever in the Premier League was
40:15
Darby County. Well, wasn't last year at
40:18
Sheffield United one of the worst sides ever?
40:20
16 points. Yeah, they're one of the worst
40:22
sides ever. Most people give in.
40:24
Harvey County got 11 in O seven O 8.
40:27
Sunderland 505-0615. Sheffield United 23/24/16.
40:33
Bloody Huddlesfield. Town 1819, not 16 as well.
40:37
I'm really getting worried about these teams from the
40:40
championship coming up and just. It's it's going to happen more
40:43
and more. It's just there's such, there's
40:44
such a gap. There's such a gap, bro.
40:47
Yeah. Well, wait until Rex MFC comes
40:50
up. Oh, they're going to move up
40:52
again and they're going to move up again, and I can't wait to
40:54
see them get spanked. In the friendship, do you guys
40:56
actually follow them? Like are they having a good
40:57
start to the season? I don't follow them, but ESPN
41:01
puts them on their headlines now because they're such a big
41:03
thing. But I don't know if you guys
41:04
watch the show. To me, it's such an amazing
41:07
story. I'm such a huge fan of them on
41:08
what they're doing. When you look at the community,
41:11
it's like they essentially save that town.
41:13
I, I, I, I want to watch the show more.
41:15
I just, it's sometimes it's hard for me to just get super
41:18
invested because they feel so basic.
41:20
Like the way that they're explaining stuff is so
41:22
simplified. It's what?
41:24
It's got better as a the first season you, you make fun of them
41:28
and they didn't, they didn't, they didn't win.
41:30
So the first season they didn't win.
41:31
Spoiler alert. Sorry.
41:33
Well, he's just, you know, you don't win anyway.
41:36
Just watch. He he doesn't watch.
41:38
Just watch and he gets better. OK, so they're in League One and
41:43
they're currently in 3rd Wrexham.
41:46
Mm hmm, that's pretty good. Good for them.
41:47
And Wrexham's in League One. I didn't realize that.
41:49
Oh, that sucks. Wow, Tom Brady effect, man.
41:54
So what's the It's League One and then Championship.
41:57
And championship. Wow.
41:59
League One actually defeated Wrexham.
42:02
What do you mean League One defeated Wrexham?
42:04
No, I'm sorry. Yeah, it's wild.
42:08
So these teams that are in League One that were in the
42:10
Premier League at some point, like Charlton, I remember
42:12
Charlton Athletic was in the Premier League, Bolton
42:14
Wanderers, Barnsley. Yeah, yeah.
42:17
I'm telling you, I was reading the book Fever Pitch.
42:20
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The teams that were talking
42:22
about that's in the premiership, Jesus Christ, some of the teams
42:25
don't even exist. Yeah.
42:25
Nick Wembley. Yeah.
42:28
Wembley County was there like, it's crazy ass.
42:30
Like, oh man. All right, moving on, let's get
42:34
on to waivers. I have a few names on here.
42:37
I think a name that I have right now that I'm very interested in
42:40
that I picked up and did well for me was Matthias Nunez.
42:42
Owned in 41% of the year, scored a goal midweek, got assists on
42:47
the weekend to Holland with his Grielich, got injured and with
42:51
KD BS injury. I think there's a lot more time
42:53
for him. There's a lot more.
42:56
There's going to be a lot more opportunity for him and when
42:58
they're out. So it might not be like a rest
43:00
of season thing, but I think like I don't think either of
43:02
them are going to be back by the weekend.
43:04
So I think Nunez is locked in for another start there.
43:07
I think Pep just says it's his full day.
43:09
He hasn't started him enough saying he is good enough to
43:11
play. So now, like you said, with
43:13
those injuries, he should get a little bit more and then it's up
43:16
to him to do something with it, man.
43:18
Absolutely. But he's done.
43:20
But like in his last two starts, which have been the last two
43:22
games they've played, he has contributed.
43:24
So I think that that only benefits him more and more, you
43:26
know? Yeah.
43:28
Well, with Pepe is what have you done for me lately?
43:30
Yeah, he's got to keep doing it. OK, my next name on here is more
43:34
of a question is Curtis Jones. We talked about it last week in
43:38
the sense that he had obviously had that monster week.
43:39
Then he started. I was really surprised to see
43:41
him start over Sloba Sly this week, but he didn't.
43:44
He didn't perform. But it's also against Arsenal.
43:46
Yeah. So is that the one?
43:47
I mean, has he made himself viable enough now?
43:50
I mean, like, or do you think this was like a big game
43:53
tactical thing where they wanted maybe Curtis Jones is probably a
43:56
little more defensively sound than Sloba Sly to come into that
43:59
midfield? Like do you think he gets
44:00
another start? Do you think he starts a good
44:03
game? But then.
44:04
Didn't Arnie take him off or did he play the whole game?
44:08
I thought Arnie took him off and so it's like came in.
44:11
He did take him out. He did definitely take him off.
44:13
Yeah, yeah. But solve the Sly has always
44:15
been usually coming off. He doesn't really play the full
44:18
90. I mean, let's look at that like
44:21
Liverpool when? It came in, that's when they
44:24
started. Playing better.
44:29
So do you think that, do you think that it's a little bit of
44:31
a trot? Questions.
44:34
It's it's, it's he'll like on his slot if if he likes coach
44:37
Jones, he likes coach Jones. But I don't know.
44:40
I didn't, I didn't watch the Arsenal game, Liverpool game
44:42
before. She had missed it.
44:44
But you know, you guys probably know better me if you watched
44:47
it. He played, played, played 88
44:50
minutes, so so beside didn't come in for him.
44:53
Yeah, Yeah. I don't know.
44:56
I think there's, I think it's interesting.
44:57
I think it's one of those ones where I was really surprised to
45:01
see the start and this that start makes him more interesting
45:03
for me even though the performance was bad.
45:05
I think that performance being bad might let you be able to
45:08
pick him up this week if you wanted as like a stash.
45:11
So let's look at just solve the slice someone.
45:13
I have him in both of our leagues.
45:16
The first three games he had 14.75, three, 14.5 against
45:20
Ipswich, Brentford in Manchester United, he had two assists.
45:23
He has your goal contribution sense and he only has four key
45:26
passes. That's 12345.
45:29
That's through six games. That's not good.
45:32
It's not and this was the game that he got benched and he's
45:35
been playing more up top so we thought coming in he would be
45:39
more involved in the goal scoring part.
45:40
Of the. Yeah.
45:41
So which he has not been. So this is something to keep an
45:44
eye out. And we talked about Credit Jones
45:45
last week as well. And yeah, it's something to keep
45:49
an eye out for this situation. Are you going to, are you going
45:52
to try and go for him at Lexi Co because of that, like say you a
45:55
little worried about? So there was a game on Friday,
45:59
so I think I had cuts Hudson to do it from Forest.
46:02
I dropped them in the hopes of picking up someone on the Sunday
46:05
game because, you know, once and my hope was I might be able to
46:08
get someone, you know, like a Curtis Jones.
46:10
But notice Thomas picked him up and there was no one available.
46:13
So I would have loved to have him to kind of handicap Sobel
46:16
Sly, but at this point I I think he's just.
46:19
Too late. I think that's you should have
46:21
acted on that on Friday. You know that the little that
46:24
little trick you tried to pull? How?
46:27
Many do you guys how? Many players have you handcuffed
46:29
on your bloody team. I don't have a lot of players
46:33
handcuffed. It's I'm sorry you talking.
46:36
About it every week. I just assumed that you could
46:38
like. I I would answer, I would
46:40
recommend Someone Like You to do it.
46:41
But when your team is stacked, I can't really handicap anyone.
46:45
Like, look at my bench, there would be starters on your team,
46:48
Carla Fiori, Fabian Shah, Shah Doku, Luke Shah, which I still
46:54
don't know why I'm holding on to Luke Shah, but at this point.
46:56
You can do this. Doku's the only one.
46:58
Doku's the only one that you mentioned that could actually be
47:01
on Martin, California. The other three, no.
47:04
Cala Fiori, No, he wouldn't be on your team, OK?
47:08
You would absolutely be on your team.
47:10
I'm going to pull up your defenders, right?
47:11
Now he wouldn't be on my team. The way the way you're talking,
47:14
Mario and I have Ashley Young. Fuck off.
47:21
You'd rather have. He's been playing.
47:22
You'd rather have. A healthy Cala Fiori over Maria
47:25
I think. Maybe not actually OK.
47:27
So you'd rather play Harvey Barnes over Cali Fiori who's
47:32
averaging 8.5 points? How many points is California
47:37
averaging? More.
47:41
Let me see. You guys we're we're we're
47:45
really getting off topic here. Let's let's let's try and
47:47
refocus. It's a.
47:48
Wasteaker, man. I'm sorry, let's go through
47:51
this. Another name on here I want to
47:52
talk about is Casamira. And he got a goalless game
47:55
that's two, that's two weeks in a row now where he's like in the
47:57
high teens and then 20s. I I mean we, you can't really
48:04
argue with results, right? No.
48:07
And he scored that goal like last minute.
48:10
I don't know if you guys decided it came to me, just headed.
48:12
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
48:13
So that's two weeks ago. I think he was the third or
48:16
fourth highest scoring player this week, which I also put it
48:19
in the notes that this was the the highest total total scoring
48:22
player was the lowest year to date for a new week.
48:26
Interesting. That's really, really
48:27
interesting. I think with him too is with 10
48:32
Hog leaving, we're going to see a little bit of a mix up of
48:35
players. It's just always happens with a
48:37
new manager coming in. It's to see who's going to be
48:40
the ones that have the most opportunity to contribute to
48:44
score, I think. I think Casimiro falls into that
48:46
category with the Ugarte and the other United midfielder that's
48:51
injured, what's his name? He's a really good kid, that of
48:54
my legs. Kobe Mani.
48:56
May Maynard, he's injured as well, isn't.
48:58
He Kobe Madnon. Yeah, so with both he's into
49:01
yeah with Ugarte and menu injured, I think Casamiro is
49:04
going to be starting games and I think I think without like Ken
49:06
Hogg there just trying to absolutely ridiculous things, he
49:09
won't be exposed. It will exped so and.
49:12
Ugarte hasn't really done much when he has done on his
49:15
opportunity. Yeah.
49:17
No. I, I kind of put him on the list
49:19
because I think there's, you know, you, you roll the dice
49:21
with someone like Xerxi, right? You put it just like he maybe he
49:24
starts, gets like gets some starts with a new manager just
49:27
to see what's going on there, you know, So I think there's,
49:29
that's an interesting one as well.
49:31
OK, another name on here, Evan Nielsen owned 36% of leagues.
49:34
I think there was high expectations for him and he kind
49:37
of underdeveloped early. But now I mentioned it through
49:40
his last four games, double digit points, had some massive,
49:44
had massive goal returns last year when he played for Porto.
49:48
I think he's, if he's starting to bring it all together in a
49:50
Bournemouth team that's starting to kind of piece it all
49:52
together, I think he could be a really good ad.
49:54
And I think now is the time to take that to dip back into that
49:58
Evan Nelson pool. Any thoughts there?
50:01
He's. Like you say, he's done a couple
50:06
good games. I've watched him a little bit.
50:09
I don't know if he is going to be that kind of striker.
50:13
I think he might need a few more games under his belt.
50:16
Premature's hard to come. He's a hard team to adapt to,
50:20
especially coming from the portal.
50:21
He is more physical, but he is. He does look like he's more on
50:24
cable scoring goals. We're not even just keep tapping
50:27
them in. I'm into that.
50:30
Another question I have, it's not so much of A it's like
50:33
Arsenal defenders. So Celiba Gabriel went down in
50:36
that last game. Well, Soliva's coming back.
50:38
So is is Kiwi or someone that you guys would be interested in?
50:41
Yep. Or do you think does even really
50:42
start? Is Kalfi Ori still injured, do
50:44
you think Kiwi or comes in? Ben White goes, Ben White plays
50:48
Timber like is I think I think there's I think there's
50:52
something interesting going on there.
50:54
Just if you can tell if you, you know, Yeah.
50:59
They get any more injuries by there, they're going to pull
51:01
freaking soccer by there. I mean, maybe so that's my other
51:06
one. And the last one is Enzo.
51:08
You you talked about him, Ashley Young only still owned and under
51:11
25%, under 50% of leagues. I mean, Jesus, he's talk about
51:15
hot. Are you too hot?
51:17
Is he going to? I feel like when we were joking
51:18
about it, but I feel like it's like he definitely feels like
51:21
tapping out of the second you're starting, he's going to get
51:22
negative points. At at this point, you ride it
51:28
until it goes cold and then you're, it's, it's one that
51:31
you're not worried about dropping, you know what I mean?
51:34
So I would ride it. So if you especially need a
51:37
defender, I'd ride it all the way to the fucking wheels fall
51:40
off. That's what is it and if you
51:42
look at it next to game, Southampton, West Ham, then
51:46
Branford United, we'll see how they look.
51:49
So they do have kind of defender friendly schedule.
51:52
Yeah, yeah, I like it. I think, I think that's a really
51:55
good one. All right, that's waivers.
51:57
Should we talk about next week briefly?
52:02
I know we're kind of running late.
52:03
Yeah, that's all running next week.
52:06
I think the big really noticeable games are that
52:08
Newcastle, Arsenal games. Newcastle's been bad though.
52:11
I don't see anything other than Arsenal in there.
52:15
So when Newcastle's been going. And.
52:18
Then obviously Chelsea, United's going to be interesting and I
52:21
think that's going to be really interesting because of the I
52:24
think before that game Chelsea would have been pretty heavily
52:27
favourites. Do you think that changes now
52:28
with new manager for United and you think Chelsea will still be
52:31
heavy favourites? Mm hmm.
52:34
To me, the interesting thing about this game, it would be
52:36
that how the players react to it.
52:38
If they come out and you can see they're fighting, they're more
52:40
passionate. That means like they Enzo, yeah,
52:43
stop ruining it. Dodger scored again.
52:47
It's like, yeah, we could also, we could also hear your
52:50
background. Yeah, yeah.
52:51
You want to mute that Enzo. Yeah, you're a Dodger game.
52:55
Sure. Yeah, sorry, my wife's loud.
52:59
I love her. That's OK.
53:00
She's I'd rather fan, I'd rather hear her yell than hear the
53:06
there's actually really good games next week.
53:07
Tottenham, Acevilla. That's another one.
53:11
Not touching that game. No, not touching that game.
53:14
I think at that point I wouldn't touch it, but it would be a good
53:17
game. I think if you're man, if you're
53:19
Manchester United against going up against Chelsea with a new
53:21
manager or like, not really a manager like Nel Van Nelson
53:25
coming in a interim manager, like benching defenders, Yeah.
53:30
What about what about Villa? Tottenham Are you?
53:32
I mean, I'm going to play Luka Digne pretty confidently.
53:36
But like, what about? Yeah.
53:40
And then Arsenal, Newcastle. I think Arsenal, Newcastle,
53:44
you're starting all your Arsenal defenders obviously, without a
53:46
doubt. Oh yeah, other one is Man City
53:49
and Bournemouth. I like.
53:50
How confident are you guys on that game like?
53:52
I'm very interested. I mean, all that, all my big
53:55
talk about Evan Nielsen, it's like, oh, maybe not against Man
53:58
City, but maybe. I mean, look at City though that
54:00
they, I mean last week was only a second game last season they
54:02
didn't consider goal. And they beat Southampton 10.
54:07
Yeah, it's interesting. They they, they're going to win.
54:13
Man City is going to win. I don't see.
54:15
I don't see any multiple universe where Man C doesn't win
54:20
that game. What if they tie?
54:25
They won't lose. I don't seem tied against
54:29
Bournemouth. I don't even seem tying against
54:32
Bournemouth. They spank them.
54:34
I think that I think there's actually a lot of really fun
54:36
games. I think Forest, West Ham is
54:37
going to be interesting. I think Liverpool Brighton is
54:39
going to be really interesting. I think there's a lot of
54:41
opportunity for some, I don't know about high scoring fantasy
54:46
points, but I think some really interesting notch ups and
54:49
interesting plays, players to really burst out.
54:51
All right. Should we go into bats?
54:55
Yeah. I think I know a game I want to
55:04
bet on, but I don't know if I don't know if you guys are going
55:06
to be happy with me for it. Go on, you first.
55:09
Should I just say it? I want to bet on Nottingham
55:12
Forest to beat West Ham. I like that.
55:16
I think I'm, I kind of do it because I think the odds, I want
55:19
to see the odds at first. If it's like more even money,
55:21
I'm not that interested. OK, what else?
55:23
My turn, I bet ever and to ever, and to be Southampton.
55:27
Yeah, I'm going to go with city because of those odds at
55:29
Brentford. Look, it's like it's throwing
55:32
out teams, bro. I'm going to pick Arsenal.
55:37
I'm going to switch. I'm going to switch now.
55:39
OK, OK, so risking for you it's plus the 2729.
55:45
So risking 40 to win 1090. This has been episode 64 of
55:50
Draft off Size. My name is Keith, I'm with Tico
55:52
Enzo and we will see you guys next week and pray for us on the
55:55
gambling front. Let's go Dodgers.
56:11
Let's go Dodgers. Let's go, Dodgers.
56:16
Let's go Dodgers. Bom BOM BOM.