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GW15 Is Salah the Problem for Liverpool? I Ep: 115 · Draft Offsides Podcast

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I'm going to leave studio. The podcast You want it Now?
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Talking about yeah, just just us 2, the funny guys, not the guy
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trying to mediate everything and fucking make it so narrow.
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So say this 6/7. Hello and welcome to episode 115
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of Draft Offsides. I'm with Tiko Enzo.
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My name is Keith. We are covering a few different
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rounds. We're covering.
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It's kind of like one of those weird midweeks.
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So we're looking at round 13. We're looking at round 14, which
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isn't quite complete. And we're going to talk a little
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bit about round 15. So it's one of those one of
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those everything episodes. And did we lose ends already?
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No. Oh, your video just cut off.
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Oh, there, you're back. OK, there we go.
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All right, boys, Liverpool won in round 13.
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Liverpool drew in round 14. No, no, no end insight for their
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pain, huh? No, but what could be assist?
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Yeah. Should have been a goal but it
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doesn't count as an actual assist.
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It counts like it's a fan tracks assist.
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It's a. Fan tracks assist, but he got a
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fan tracks assist. He did something.
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At least it's not fucking a running start.
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Or you know, how much, how much are the pitchy covered?
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Or any of that shit that doesn't really matter.
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But it's like, still not really. It's like a fan tracks assist.
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It's a fan tracks assist. Might as well be a running
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start. But but I like the fact I'm not
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gonna lie when I get a fan track assists or you know, I'm, I'm
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pretty happy about it. Of course, of course.
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It's like you feel like you cheated the system a little bit.
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Well, no, they gifted. They gifted me 6 points, yeah,
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essentially. And I at this point I need every
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point I can get. So I think the biggest thing
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about the the Liverpool and the worst thing was that Sala was
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left out and he's now, he's been two games now he's been left
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out. It's Liverpool better without
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Sala is the question. Is Liverpool better?
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That's all that that could be the question.
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That could be the question, but it's crazy where he's come from
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and where he is right now in this Liverpool team.
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So you said it won't point better.
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Did you guys see Carrie Guard criticizing him?
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He says the only time I hear Mosala talk is when he wants to
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talk about his contract. When the team does battle.
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Do you see his Roger Van Dyke? Oh my God, Tarragon's.
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Starting to turn on him is that, is that the vibe?
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Yeah, they're turning on him, man.
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Hey, man, you offered him a new contract.
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He's available for another for three years.
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He won't be there for three years.
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They offer him that contract. They they can sell him to Saudi
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next at the end of the year or maybe even in January.
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OK, question for you. Without looking, who's the top
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scoring fantasy player on Liverpool?
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Without looking to you, go show me your hands.
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I know this because I looked at it like a couple of weeks ago.
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That's the change and the sold the slide.
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Incorrect, and so you're changing.
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It changed all right. Gak gakpa.
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Gakpa, yeah, I mean, Cody Gack was there.
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It's Cody Gack, Vote, Dominic Slobeslive, Rich Van Dyke and
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then Muhammad Saleh sitting in fourth with 133.25 points, which
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is not bad. No, it's not bad, it's just not
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the some of the numbers he was putting up last season.
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Yeah, totally. And what pick was he?
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Like 4th overall. 5th. OK, So what are we like?
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Are you as a as a solid owner? Are you getting more and more
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nervous? Are these like lack of starts?
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Because he came on at halftime, He scored seven.
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He scored like 7 1/2 points and 45 minutes.
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If you're not worried by seeing him being kept out of the team,
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he should be. OK.
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Here's the question for you guys.
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Is my trade looking better, Gabrielle?
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That's not what trade was. Gabrielle Yeah.
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It is looking a lot better because Arsenal is looking more
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and more formidable and I hate fucking saying that, but they
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but they do. Yeah.
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How many games did they play for you?
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2. Oh, you got two games out of
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him, but how? Many points, but how many points
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did he get in those? Like 36 but the question is is
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solid might not be playing that many more games you know than
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before than Gabriel before it goes to F con So interesting.
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He's you're going to get more out of him, yeah.
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OK, next question. Just next topic, Manchester
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United, it'd be Crystal Palace this week.
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They're playing West Ham tomorrow.
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Do we think that any like a win and they're back on track, but
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anything other than a win, it's they're still that rocky, that
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rocky road. Have you guys seen their
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schedule? No.
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Tell us. They have a chance to get five
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in a row. OK, I guess.
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So that one. Right now.
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What's that? Yeah, they have one right now.
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What's that? When the Bullets 2, then they
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play wolves. I need wolves.
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So are I. Yeah.
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Tied for the worst start after 14 games in EPL.
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History. Yeah, that's the right.
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Yeah, Warmut. No, it's going to no.
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It's going to be difficult. One, it's an Ultra, it's an Old
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Trafford. You would have lost the
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Bournemouth's lost in the row. They're not.
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They're not as good as they were at the start of the season.
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But I don't think they can get a win that easily.
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Maybe a draw, but not a win that easily.
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You got to get five wins in a row to get that haircut, my man.
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I think they're a ways away from the haircut.
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Also, man, Man United for the first time and I don't know how
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many years, have a net positive and goal rating of one.
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Oh, wow, just one. Hey, man.
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And then game #5 which will be the most difficult game, is
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Aston Villa. Who have been very good.
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We'll we'll get to Aston Villa in a bit.
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Let's talk after Manchester United because, man, we were off
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on Villa. Umm, they started to perform and
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but they have you watched the games?
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United I. Didn't watch the last one, I
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watched the one before. Where they lost.
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You lost the one where they lost, Yeah.
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So I didn't watch the last game either.
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I watched the one before and it they didn't look good at all.
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But it's it's all results based thing.
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But they might not look good as long as they get the points.
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If they win, they're tied on points with Chelsea.
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That's pretty. Yeah.
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Crazy. That is pretty crazy.
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This is a Leicester kind of season, really.
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That's what it feels. Like, I think, yeah, it is kind
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of one of the seasons where everyone's kind of
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underperforming in a lot of ways.
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I think, you know, when you look at United, though, it's still
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like that game against Crystal Palace.
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What that required was Bruno Fernandez bailing them out and
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just taking the game over. And so it's not like I'm sitting
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here being like, wow, like the systems are working and
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everything's coming true for AMRA.
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And it's like, oh, like your quality players that you are
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worth a lot of money are like kind of doing performing.
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Yeah. So I don't know.
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I'm not I'm not sitting here like, oh, oh, you know, and I
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also feel like I wouldn't be shocked if A and, you know,
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Espirito Santos, West Ham team gives them a lot of problems
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tomorrow. I mean, they still come out.
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You you'll know. So I could look like an idiot,
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but I'm just I'm saying it, I'm saying it with the time stamp
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that I would not be shocked if that's a problematic game for
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for United. OK, Do you want to cover
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something else? Do you want to talk Villa?
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Because I mean, now we're looking at Villa.
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Well, I mean, where are they sitting in the standings?
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3rd. Yeah, third and only what came
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out. Of first.
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Yeah, I mean, they're they're kind of it.
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And what's crazy is that up until this game, their XG was
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pretty bad. And then when you even when you
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look at this game like both of the Ollie Watkins goals, Watkins
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goals, which are great, like good for him were so.
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Direct. They were like literally like
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balls over the top where he just had like bully three people,
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like rub people down. And it's like, I still think
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there's something systematically wrong with Phil even though they
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keep winning. Like I feel like there's
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something that's still not quite sitting right with me.
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I don't know if it's just me but but.
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You know, I already know I can say the same thing what Tigo
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just said. It's a result based, so doesn't
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matter how they're doing it, if they're doing it and getting the
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points, they look better than Man United.
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I can tell you that they look better than a a few teams in the
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last three or four games. OK, I'll I'll, I'll take the
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question too. What on who is the high scoring
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player faster without looking who has the most fantasy points
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for that? And I'll put it, let me just,
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I'll do it no. And I'll, I'll say this no.
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It's the midfield there. Is it Kumar?
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I think he scored today. No, Kumar didn't score today.
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He's he did score. He scored last week.
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The player thinking about score today.
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I mean I mean this might not help but he's only owning 80% of
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leagues and he's the highest scoring player for Villa.
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Malan. Malan no it's Maddie Cash is the
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highest scoring Villa player with 134.75 points.
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Do you want to hear the second high scoring player for Villas?
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Rodgers. Lucas de NIA Really.
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Defenders, huh? Yeah.
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So I mean, it's just, I'm, I'm not sitting here like, I don't
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know, it just feels like something's not quite right with
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that team to me. They're best defense.
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They're best defense. But defenders have been scoring
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all this season. We know.
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That yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. And doesn't have to be.
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And don't have the goal contribution right?
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And do you know who the second highest scoring player is in the
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league? Munoz, Yeah.
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Scoring Igor Tiago. I'm guessing no Muniz.
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Muniz is the second high scoring defender.
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Oh, player in the. Oh, yeah, Yeah.
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I think he meant golds. I think he meant golds.
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Yeah. I mean, he scored again today.
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I mean, yeah. What you got?
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Yeah, what you got him in drafts is very worth it.
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Amazing. Top 14 players has 1234 Crystal
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Palace defenders. In the Top 14.
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Top 14. One of the reasons why I won
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today part to be honest. If you didn't get one Chris
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Palace, Yeah, Like if you grabbed one or two Chris Palace
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offenders, all of a sudden you're even if the rest of your
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picks were terrible, you're probably sitting really pretty.
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But. That's you're, you're being
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competitive to a point as long as they get clean sheet.
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Yeah. Did you guys watch that?
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I watched that bright game. That was a pretty wild game.
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Quite a few goals. I think it was 3/4 at end of the
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day. 2 Van Hecke Van Hecke goals.
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Wasn't there an on goal in there too?
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Yeah, an on goal. It was just one of those weird
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games. I think there was a couple on
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goals this week already. Yeah, I think, Mukulele.
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Feels like they come in waves a little bit.
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Yeah, Mukulele going on goal for Sunderland at home, but he's
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been OK. But yeah, if you're talking
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about defenders, I think the defender I called out beginning
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the season isn't doing that good, Mr. Pedro Poro.
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I know that his teammates go to golf today.
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But Romero scored two goals. It was a a a lackluster
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basketball kick that fumbled into the corner.
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But I'll freaking take it. What?
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Do you think about the first? Penalty.
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Like to quickly run Romero. It was his first good score in a
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while though. Like he's he's under a bunch of
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very underperforming games for fantasy for a while.
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The first couple games of the season.
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He was really good, yeah. What do you think about the
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penalty? I think that was a penalty.
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I. Don't think that was a penalty
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and that's not even me being bought.
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Pennacore. Yeah, on he was.
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He had his all right. He didn't have his videos back
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time but it happens all day. He had no idea where the ball
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was, and he was just playing Dan Burn and the flat.
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And then I think the most damning thing was the fact that
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that ball was flicked on right into the space where Dan Burn
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was. Like, you know what I'm saying?
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But. But.
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But at that point, he was already in a headlock.
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Denver, that was. On a headlock he had, he put his
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head in the Danbury in the headlock body.
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Man, come on, that, that, that I think that's, I mean, it's it's
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kind of unfortunate, but that feels like a penalty to me.
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I mean, it's one of those ones where you don't feel great about
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it. I didn't feel, I didn't feel
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great about it. But I'm like, yeah, like when
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you really look at that, I think the I said it, but like the most
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damning thing is that ball got flicked right to where Danburn
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was and he was stuck kind of just like being dragged to the
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ground, you know? I think of that ball.
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Dragged to the ground. Yeah, I think if that ball gets.
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Back to the ground. Yeah, no, I think it's that it's
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that. OK, tell me where that ball got
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flicked to. Was it exactly where Dan Burn
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was standing before Benny? Kurt, I hear you took his body
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in. Benny Cool didn't even know that
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ball was flicked over. He had his freaking head.
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I yeah, but he doesn't know. It's flicked over because he has
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his back to it and he's has his head in Danbury.
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But he has his. Head.
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He has no control of his body at that point.
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What do you mean he has no control?
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OK, that's that means you're sound crazy held down.
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By Dan Burn. You're sounding crazy right now.
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You're sounding insane. Now you're going over my mental
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illness. OK.
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It just feels it. It feels that just isn't it.
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I don't know. Tico, can you?
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Weigh in. I was very, I'm just going to
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look it up right now, see what the what it is and let you guys
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know what I feel. I'll be the judge, the deciding
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factor. Yeah, be the side.
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Do you know how? Many.
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What the fuck is happening right now?
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Do you know how many shots on gold they had?
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Two on them two. 2. Oh yeah, RX GS fucking horrible
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at the moment does. This help I mean this.
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I mean in a weird way it helps Thomas Frank first half XG 0.01
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In a weird way it helps Thomas Frank though, because he got a
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result right? Like it would have been bad if
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you didn't get another result. But I think at the end of the
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day he's not like that this is a result no matter.
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Like at no point are you that pissed about tying a new a good
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Newcastle team. It's such.
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It's no, I'm not pissed about that.
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Yeah, especially given that that's the the state of play,
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you know, yeah, I think you guys are going to be judged on how
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you do against the lesser teams. You know, that's that's where
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that's where the pick up needs to be.
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And we're doing terrible against all teams, so yeah, it's gonna
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be fucking bad. Did you guys see that it went
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viral? Some guy said not a tweet about
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his mate having caught him season tickets.
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You guys haven't seen it? One of my best mates is a Spurs
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season ticket holder. It costs him £2300 per season.
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He's seen three home league wins this year and 21 games, which
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means 766 lbs per win. I.
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Mean. That's the sad truth.
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Yeah. OK.
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T, are you pulling the seven? Should we move on?
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It's I'm looking at it, it's pulling it up right now.
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OK, we can also talk about in this game.
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Kudus for an assist. Yeah, he, he's been on.
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He was kind of on such a little slow, slow burned there, but
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then he got a goal lost and over the weekend and assists now, so
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he's now all of a sudden he's backed up and into the favorable
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spots. Yeah, Simmons again not didn't
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get get to play until the AE 8th minute along with Richarlison.
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So there's there's again more rotation there in the forward
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area. So it's like you.
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You got to. You got to.
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Think. Yeah, I think, I think that's
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tough. I think Simmons is a job, no?
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Yeah, I think so. You got to get a job.
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Are you gonna drop him as or are you gonna try to like turn him
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for like? I'm, I'm gonna, I'm just gonna
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see, I'm gonna see if anything happens.
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I just don't think there's any reason.
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I mean, if you if you need to get rid of him, you should get
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rid of him. I understand the logic and hold
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on to him and just hope. Yeah.
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But I also want to call out the Newcastle United wingers.
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Like, so Barnes and Murphy started this game.
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They were fine. But then Murphy was good.
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But then like, Elenga came on, Gordon came on and they both
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looked great again. So I think we're talking about a
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situation where I think all four of them are in play.
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Yeah, but unless you got one point coming off the bench, I
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don't know what like. Gordon got a goal, so he got a
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goal. So he had like 14.
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But yeah, I thought Olenga Olenga came on and looked
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lively. I just think that I think that
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you're going to see a lot of rotation between those four
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players in those positions move forward because I think Gordon's
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lost a little bit and that, but that's that's even being said.
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Like I think Gordon, I'm actually excited for Gordon the
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rest of the season. I think he has a point to prove
15:29
with the World Cup coming up and I think he's healthy and but I
15:34
think he definitely is not that he's gone down in the packing
15:36
order, but I think that Barnes has made quite the case for
15:39
himself. So we especially over the last
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week, he, I think he got three goals, one goal in the Champions
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League and was the Champions League, Yeah, or, and then two
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goals in the league. So yeah, he's making himself
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available. Yeah, then we got to talk about
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Voltamad, who's got an assistance game in a goal last
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game. He's what got like around 1718
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points in the last two games each.
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Those are, I mean, that's what you're excited about.
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I mean, he's, I, I kind of, he kind of, he might be one of my
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favorite players in the, in the EPL now.
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Has how crucial has it been to your fantasy team, Keith?
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I mean, I've won the last two weeks and he's gotten a goal
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contribution both of those weeks, so.
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Yeah, I see you begging for that personally broken man.
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But, but do you have like a, a replacement for him as well or
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he's like crucial like without? I kind of need him, yeah, he's
16:29
kind of pretty crucial for me. But I also kind of talking about
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that too, is that you guys hear the news that Whista is not
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going to Afghan. No, I did not.
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Yeah, that's amazing news. It is it, but it also is not
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alarming news. You're not alarmed by that?
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Because he's still injured. But he's.
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That's why. You're weird.
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Yeah. I realize it.
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I realize that. So he's supposedly he's been
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doing some stuff on grass, which is good news, but I, I, it's
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hard for me to imagine that he was healthy enough to he's
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healthy enough to play, but not healthy enough to go to AFCON.
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It just seems like a weird. Maybe it's just, I mean, maybe
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he's just like, I need to get my career off to get started at the
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new club, but I don't know. Also like.
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What? What team does he play for in
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AFCON? He plays for Let's see.
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Yeah. You're going to disparage a
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whole country at all. You're going to disparage the
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whole country. Go ahead.
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No, no. I'm not.
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So he plays for Congo? Which?
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I don't know how to get there, but I'm assuming there your
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chance of winning Alf Khan is not that high.
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I don't think that that's the point though.
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He he, you want to play for your country.
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I agree. I think maybe he needs a little
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extra. Time to get back.
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I get that. He is 29 years old, meaning he
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has one contract left in him. He kind of weigh it in.
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Yeah, at the end of the money, he could do a lot more for Congo
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with the money he has than you know.
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He just, he didn't do the country, he did the player.
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Got it, Got it. Yeah, I mean, if what, what is
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he going to do? Like instead of them losing like
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30, they're going to lose 3-1. You're.
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Hoping you're hoping. So you're saying that he's
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playing the long game and he's going to use this to like propel
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his Newcastle career and then he's going to like 10 years,
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going to build a hospital in the Congo.
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That's what you're helping. Or like don't need a hospital
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bed. I don't know if he.
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Doesn't. Feel like making a little more
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money? On it is he.
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No, I don't think anyone's in my money.
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Is AI mean He he's gives a lot of his money away, doesn't he?
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Yeah, he gives a lot of his money away to his Yeah, so.
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Last half con. 2023 Kogo didn't make it out of the group stage.
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Seven games played, one game, 15 draws, one loss, and he was on
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that team. I also have to say, and I don't
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know if this is true like like fully, but like when you look at
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players coming back in half con, they they all are like kind of
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like there's not many that do better when they get back.
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I think it's really hard to like go to this other tournament and
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like get out of these routines. I think dietary, I think like
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the fitness coaches aren't aren't the same, like nothing's
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the same. And like at this high level, it
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throws everything off. I think.
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Yeah, you know. Maybe so, but that is.
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Yeah, that's my theory. I I there's not.
19:01
I don't have a lot to back it up, but that's my theory.
19:03
Also, it's going to be in Morocco, like what's the weather
19:05
like, the football condition? I mean their football, like
19:08
what's the weather like and all that stuff.
19:10
You know it's going to be hot. Also, that was a very soft
19:13
penalty. You didn't know soft.
19:16
Yeah. OK, yeah, fine.
19:20
So I looked at the replay if the Newcastle played.
19:24
And then Newcastle player flipped it back and it was a
19:26
pass. It wasn't.
19:27
The defender touched it, so it's not like it was part of the
19:29
plate. Yeah, I think that it was there.
19:31
I think it's one that he was there.
19:32
I don't know. I just feel like the second you
19:34
you're not looking at the ball and you're that engaged in
19:37
someone's body, I think it's like it's hard when that when
19:39
it's called. I think it's hard to not.
19:41
It's one of those things, Keith, you always point out if they go
19:43
to VAR, they're not going to return it.
19:44
It's a penalty. But.
19:45
They did overturn it. Oh, it wasn't the call
19:48
initially. No, it was always.
19:50
Yeah, yeah. I don't know.
19:51
He's got host. Only not a penalty when
19:54
Cuccarella does it, is it? But Sergei said, Oh yeah, I want
19:59
to, I want to. Chat briefly, but he does know
20:00
every game. I want to chat briefly about
20:03
Fulham. So they were coming off the back
20:05
of two wins and then they played Manchester City yesterday and
20:07
that was one of those games that just like went ballistic.
20:10
I think it ended up being four or five.
20:12
Lot of late drama. Chuck Wazy came on, scored two
20:16
kind of bangers and he had a chance for a third too.
20:21
City went up early too and it looked like they were just
20:23
cruising and it came back and was so dramatic.
20:25
Question about Fulham. They're sitting in 15th place
20:28
that I don't there's no chance of relegation really.
20:30
I think they're like there's a big enough gap, but they've been
20:33
on a little bit of a good streak recently.
20:35
Are you are there any assets there?
20:36
Like I feel like there's a lot of these guys now from Fulham
20:38
where all of a sudden you're of course, they're starting to play
20:40
better. They look good like Harry, the
20:42
Harry Wilson's, the Lucids, the throws, Chuckwezi, you know,
20:46
Luke, it's Kevin. Like are we, are you guys kind
20:49
of looking at some of those assets?
20:51
It's like nicer rotate. So this is the interesting
20:54
Kevin's. I have, yeah, Kevin.
20:58
And that's the guy I want to talk about.
20:59
That's the only asset I have for for Fulham.
21:01
And I think their only options are attacking players that you
21:04
want to play such an on and all of those like we'll have like a
21:07
good game here and there, but they're not consistent enough
21:09
for my liking. But let's go back until for
21:12
Kevin, right? I guess Newcastle, he gets
21:16
something at halftime, he plays, he had seven points.
21:19
Next game he starts they against the Wolves, they win 30, he
21:22
starts again, they lose like a 2 every 10 and then again he
21:25
starts the third game and they win 10.
21:29
The last two games he got benched, played 8 minutes to 7
21:31
minutes. I don't understand why would you
21:34
after playing him from three games, going two wins, one loss,
21:38
why would you bench him? And I guess it was Tottenham
21:40
City, bigger clubs, I get it. But.
21:42
I mean, I think that's your answer against bigger clubs or
21:45
maybe they're like, he needs someone that's a little more
21:47
defensive in that position that that would be my, you know, like
21:51
you're someone that's tactical. He's a little more like on it,
21:53
you know? And the crazy thing is, even in
21:55
those games, he had four points and 4 1/2 points and seven and
21:58
eight minutes, which is kind of crazy, but he's the future.
22:02
Who sent you. Why not throw him into the fire?
22:04
What about like, what about just $4.00 Chuck Quizzy?
22:08
I mean, he's the last three games, his last three games, he
22:11
scored 19 points, 13 points, 24 points.
22:14
Two of them were sub appearances.
22:16
Like, I, I think you can make these arguments.
22:18
I think the issue with full on is that there's like, like
22:21
Wilson's been scoring and assisting, like Chuck Wazee came
22:24
on and scored goals. Like Tico.
22:26
You've talked about how Kevin's not bad.
22:28
Like Wolby does his thing. Riley Manners continues to look
22:31
fine, you know, solid. Yeah, it's almost like.
22:33
Kevin doesn't get gold contributions.
22:35
He hasn't. Yeah, that's the thing.
22:37
He's getting ghost cops. He yeah, he's getting Ghost.
22:39
Points. He's calling the.
22:40
Ghost, so you if you think about it fantasy wise, he holds value
22:44
with ghost points. But if he doesn't even have an
22:46
assist or a goal every not every other game but in his in his
22:50
bag, Chukwaze from a football standpoint is going to get
22:54
started. Jimenez is going to get started
22:55
over him now ESR is now banged in the goal like is he going to
22:58
get another start? You know what I mean?
22:59
So you don't know. Man yeah, I think I think
23:02
there's something there though, and I feel like if you can find
23:05
the right piece, like I don't I've always really liked Terry
23:07
Wilson and I think he does a lot of stuff that's really good for
23:09
fantasy. He like sends those long balls
23:11
on. He's on set pieces.
23:13
He like you can pick out a pass. Like I think those are all
23:15
things that really like like benefit the like the fantasy
23:19
world, even then as a player, but like, but like, if if you
23:23
can gamble on him and get him, that'd be great, right?
23:26
Like like if he's all of a sudden locks in that position,
23:28
but Chuck Wey's there, Kevin's there.
23:30
You know, there's all these guys that are there.
23:32
So that's a it's a tricky one. What do you think about city?
23:36
The last guy gains goal is one loss.
23:38
What how long is 100 goal? Yep, yeah, City's.
23:43
Yep. So I got his hundredth goal.
23:45
They've scored a bunch of more. He got he got an assist too,
23:47
which is a rare. Which is rare.
23:49
Folding goal 2. No, he got his hundred on first
23:51
goal. No, I think it was 100 it.
23:54
Was 100. I think that whole idea was he
23:57
was holding a jersey that set a hundred goals, so then he got
24:00
his hundredth goal. He got his 100th.
24:01
Goal, hundredth Goal and a. 100th goal two, though, which
24:03
is. Good and 10 Tottenham, what'd
24:07
you say? Said Foden got two goals, Doku
24:10
got 2 assists. They're firing.
24:14
I mean, we have to kind of talk about Foden a little bit, right?
24:17
Got to talk about Foden. He's spent kind of storming in
24:20
the last few weeks, like last two weeks, He's what, 28 point
24:23
530.25, two goals in each of the last two games, which is, you
24:28
know, he had one goal prior to that this whole season.
24:32
Is he back? And he's starting to look that
24:35
way. And Dolk is also like ranked 4th
24:39
overall monster year and the only.
24:41
Monster Year. Do you feel like, I mean, and
24:46
also we've seen like Savio not playing, we've seen like Shirky
24:49
kind of in and out a little bit. We've seen Marmoush not playing
24:52
at all. Do you feel like who would you
24:54
trust more over Foden and Doku to have if you if you had to
24:57
choose one to start more game justices?
25:01
If you had to choose one of them attacking.
25:02
Players right? Just Foden and Doku, Yeah, if
25:04
you had to pick one some more games rest of the season.
25:07
I'll do doku. I think so too, but it's so
25:11
hard. It's so hard to predict, pal.
25:12
It's. So hard with pep, it's so hard.
25:14
But if I'm going to choose out of two right now, it's gobby
25:17
Doku. He's he's on fire.
25:19
Like he's who? Would you trade for who Would
25:20
you trade for Foden? Would you be willing to trade
25:23
like a like a Grealish someone? If you had first name the puppy
25:27
of. My Hailish.
25:29
That'd be an interesting one. Yeah, that'd be interesting.
25:32
So risk on both sides, but does Foden have the bigger upside?
25:37
I think I would keep Grealish because they're just going to
25:39
play less games. I think they're going to play
25:42
less games and you know, that he's going to start every game.
25:44
And with with City, there's always this concern that phone
25:48
gets a little bit cold and then gets dropped.
25:51
Yeah. So I I kind of, I get that.
25:53
But I think there's just more chance for scoring, you know?
25:56
Yeah. Do you do you guys see who broke
25:59
his assist drought? Oh, Saka.
26:03
One year later. One year later.
26:05
Right after, right after giving him shit for it, you got to hey,
26:08
got to got to give him credit. He hurt us and got fired up.
26:14
Do you? So lost two games.
26:16
That's just in the goal he's doing.
26:18
Such a thing. Yeah, he's been great.
26:21
I mean, Tico, you're, you were asking the other week if he's
26:23
been in a disappointment. I I feel like he's.
26:25
I think it's only going to get better and better, you know?
26:28
Yeah. OK, what about what about the
26:31
rest of Arsenal? Marino So if you go in.
26:35
Here, I mean, it's just it was, it was.
26:36
So what do you think though? OK, here's the question.
26:39
Do you Are you worried about dokers?
26:43
Oh. No gokers, dokers.
26:45
I feel like, OK, so I feel like this is a midweek thing.
26:47
There was a lot of rotation. No, as in this week, which was
26:49
interesting to me, which is concerning to me.
26:52
But also it's like Madwick. I started Madwick started like I
26:55
I like are you Ben White started like I said, like was this just
26:58
a rotation thing or like how do they fit in?
27:01
And do you think that as you think as they all start playing
27:03
off the left with when they incorporate order rightfully
27:05
into the team? I don't know if he'll do that.
27:09
I'll Tessa because what Tressa has been playing off the left
27:13
and he's been doing fine and he's had some goal
27:15
contributions. I think there'll be a little bit
27:18
more rotation, more Subs in. I think we mentioned that before
27:21
with Odegar, like maybe some in, some in them in like 75th
27:24
minute, 70th minute and bringing on essay, you know, I know that
27:28
Saga just popped in and he thinks Oligarch's going to get
27:31
dropped at some point. He's been saying that, but.
27:34
Yeah, he's been saying that, No. He says Oligarch comes later.
27:37
What? No, no, he's saying Oligarch
27:40
goes back to playing the six and I guess no, I'm sorry, Rice goes
27:44
back to playing the 6th. Or they guard the 8 and you keep
27:46
TRO started on the left maybe? Can can Odegard play the 8?
27:51
That's where he's playing mostly.
27:52
He plays as like an 8. Yeah, but can.
27:54
You play there. Is that his best position?
27:56
Probably as a plays 8, Oregaard plays 10, Rice goes back to six,
28:01
so Odegaard comes in for Zubi Mandi.
28:04
That sounds like a fantasy lineup.
28:05
I feel like you need that sounds like.
28:07
That's what they did. Last time, yeah, they did that.
28:10
They did that. Because Zubi Mandi's been
28:11
playing well too. So can you drop Zubi Mandi?
28:15
I'm not talking my fantasy. Yeah, put in rice or weather.
28:18
No, if you need, if you need A tag, that's what you do.
28:21
You take out Zubi Mandi. Yeah, I think against like a
28:23
leads or something, you know. How critical is it would be
28:26
Mandy for them to have an elite defense?
28:28
I think with Gabriel, Saliba, Timber and whoever's on the
28:31
left, Cal Cal, Fiore, I think that defense is good enough.
28:35
Even if you take out someone who's not going to do the
28:37
defensive workload, I think they could afford someone else
28:40
because but that scoring goals is still a problem for them.
28:43
I I don't think it's about yeah, I think it's about the I think
28:46
it's about the build that play with Super Mindy.
28:48
I think what he does is he allows, he allows that
28:50
transition from defense to attack is what?
28:53
I think, you know, I think Rice is such a versatile player right
28:57
now and he's on an amazing form where he, he, you could put him
29:00
there and he, he Rice could do everything was well, Mindy does.
29:03
Yeah, maybe. Yeah, Rice is bad.
29:05
And Roger? I'm going to say the team that
29:06
are so build, they have so many players that kind of do the same
29:09
things that other players, The way it's so easy to like plug
29:12
and play and move people around. And that they have, I think is
29:15
the reason why they're running away with the league even though
29:19
it's a Leicester City year. Yeah, I kind of agree with you.
29:22
I think that's just you're 100%. It's just the depth like the
29:24
fact that like, you know, losing soccer the beginning of the
29:27
year, 50 games and they had mad about game losing for so long.
29:30
But having as a like, you know, if if they lose Rice, like
29:32
Rice's Rice got injured in this game.
29:34
We don't know how serious it is yet.
29:35
So the Marina. Yeah, if they lose Rice and
29:38
Marino, they have Zubimindy, they have these other guys, they
29:40
have a what's it? What's his name?
29:42
The the guy that came from Brentford, Christian Norgard.
29:46
Like they have like all these players, they have Ethan and
29:50
they can all do different things.
29:52
I do want to chat briefly about Brentford.
29:54
They switched their line up a little bit.
29:56
No Damscard, but Otar has been quite the surprise as well, huh?
30:01
Yeah, he's, he's been having a good run, No.
30:04
Yeah, very good run. Do you spell his name?
30:06
He just attacks defenders. Yeah, he runs out on.
30:09
It that's all he does, yeah. Let me see it.
30:12
It was interesting, though. No Igor Tiago to start the game.
30:15
That was the other thing too. You think that was just a kind
30:18
of a tactical thing? You think it was a rest thing?
30:21
What do you think, Chico? Are you worried?
30:23
Not really. Not worried.
30:25
No, it's wanna fight. He probably arrest.
30:28
I mean honestly like playing Arsenal at this point if you
30:31
have an option to arrest players if you look at your schedule,
30:33
why would you want to try against Arsenal when you could
30:35
arrest against them? Like play against teams that you
30:38
could actually win the game. Uh huh.
30:40
I think that was the plan though.
30:42
Like if they're in it by the 60th minute, put them in.
30:46
Yeah, I wish they did. Right.
30:47
Not let them rest, yeah. Yeah, made sense.
30:51
All right, we've got to talk about Chelsea a little bit.
30:54
They had that really strong showing.
30:56
It's we have a 10 man against Arsenal and then they this then
30:59
today they go and they lose against Leeds.
31:02
Heavily rotated team for Chelsea.
31:05
I think it was, I don't know, it was like 6 changes or something
31:07
like that. But yeah, not, not an excuse.
31:11
You still got to win these games.
31:12
Well, let's start from like the first match against Arsenal,
31:16
which obviously the red card. Mm Hmm.
31:20
I mean, what a fucking terrible tackle.
31:23
Yeah, that kind of run the game. And what actually might have
31:26
worked in Chelsea's benefit because apparently Arteta, you
31:28
know, once he coaches his players to play against 10
31:31
people, 11 people, they cannot adjust with one less person.
31:35
Oh my God, what are we going to do with extra space?
31:36
Absolutely hilarious. Yeah, which?
31:38
Absolutely hilarious. Yeah, it kind of sucked to me as
31:41
like, you know, Keith, you and I are a huge stuff out stands.
31:44
We love the guy, but he was obviously sacrificed.
31:47
They suck them off this game too, right?
31:49
I think the second match against the Leeds, he was taking off
31:52
early as well, so well he had an interesting.
31:55
He got a yellow in like in the end of the first half for a
31:58
really bad foul that was very intentional, but he got
32:02
frustrated. A call didn't go his way.
32:04
He's trying to track back. He just kicked the back of a
32:07
guy's foot to bring him down to the point where they were that
32:10
they went to the AR check for a red.
32:12
So I think there was a level they.
32:14
Protected him. I think there was a level of
32:16
like, he's getting really frustrated, let's get him off
32:17
the pitch. So they took him off and brought
32:19
Pedro Nets on. Him, that's young player thing
32:22
to do so yeah, but I mean, he had his obviously like against
32:25
Marcel, my head was amazing. I was hoping the momentum would
32:28
carry over to the EPL, but seems like it hasn't, yeah.
32:33
I think it's, I mean, I think that's what you expect from a
32:35
young kid. Like you're, you're going to get
32:37
these like really amazing moments and you're going to get
32:38
these moments where they're just not, you know, they they kind of
32:41
lose it. I think it's interesting for me
32:44
looking at that left side right now, like what's going, what's
32:47
going on there? Like Cole Palmer's ready to come
32:48
back. Do you think that means that
32:49
Pedro Nutso might swing over the left side or you know, like, I
32:52
think there's a lot of question marks over there.
32:54
Like Jamie Gitsyn started this game.
32:56
You got an assist. You look good.
32:58
Garnacho's been starting games. He's looked good.
33:00
Like that's the biggest question mark.
33:02
And I think like a Garnacho Gitsons, like if you, if you can
33:06
afford to have both of them, it's kind of worked out like you
33:09
end up getting it's kind of been OK.
33:11
But like with Cole Palmer coming back and that might just all go
33:14
to shit pretty quickly, you know?
33:17
I think from the red, the biggest benefactor would be
33:20
Reese James. I think he might step into the,
33:22
I mean he's played the midfield defense before.
33:24
So you have a defenders playing midfield.
33:26
Obviously he still will get the clean sheet points and then on
33:29
the attacking he would be a little bit more involved.
33:31
Yeah. And with Reese James, the the
33:33
issue, and we've always known this, is that even in the best
33:37
of times, the best case scenario, he's going to need to
33:39
get rested. Like there's a reason he didn't
33:40
play this game, but it's because he played 90 minutes against
33:42
Arsenal on the weekend. He can't go 9090 back-to-back
33:46
like that. So.
33:48
What do we do of the lack? I've been very underwhelmed with
33:53
him and what he's been doing on the field and like, I just like
33:57
he came in for the Arsenal game. I thought the first 10 minutes
33:59
when he came in looked really bad and like, you know, almost
34:01
like a lot of Arsenal got back into the game a little bit.
34:04
And then in this game, like I like, he almost like forgot that
34:08
he was playing, you know what I mean?
34:10
I didn't watch both of these games so I'm not sure how he
34:14
looked, but fantasy wise he's being shit.
34:19
Like yeah butter shit. So give him more opportunity.
34:23
Maybe he gets better with Cole Palmer there.
34:27
Obviously he probably would get more opportunities, but doesn't
34:29
even start with Cole Palmer. Yeah, you'd think that at this
34:32
rate that Jon Pedro kind of plays a striker role and when
34:35
Palmer comes back in on that 10, but it's hard.
34:37
It's hard to say. I also think that he just he's
34:40
not like the game states haven't been great for him.
34:43
It's like you're playing against ten man against Arsenal, which
34:45
is obviously never fun, and then you're playing against a a lead
34:48
team that goes up early and then they're they're sitting back and
34:51
that that's like a really frustrating position to be for a
34:52
striker. So I think it's not like, it's
34:54
not like he's had the, the, the game states, the right game
34:57
states for him. Like where we look like with
34:58
Esteval, like that Barcelona was built for Esteval to do well.
35:01
Like the way the highline that Barcelona plays, Yeah, was meant
35:05
for Esteval, you know, like that's just where he thrives.
35:07
I don't think there's been a game where the the lap thrives
35:10
where he's played yet, you know? So.
35:14
So. Yeah.
35:15
Good, good. Players thrives with anything,
35:17
right? He he shouldn't start.
35:19
There's no way he should start for Chosen.
35:21
I I agree, but you also have to know that a lot of these guys
35:24
are young. So like I, I like that like to
35:26
an extent, yes, but you also need to put young players in
35:28
positions to succeed, but. Also keeps looking at the teams
35:32
he's played against. N8 obviously first came back
35:35
after a long time off. He came back out the red and was
35:39
they fake up, whatever. So he played against the Wolves,
35:42
63 minutes, no shots, not nothing.
35:44
He played against Britton Lee, which is easy opponent.
35:47
Arsenal's the tough one and then there's lead.
35:49
So it's one team that's going to get relegated and two teams that
35:52
just came up to the Premiership. So it's kind of.
35:55
Yeah, I think if you're looking at who who misses out to Co
35:59
Palmer coming back, it's hard not to pick him.
36:03
Yeah, I agree. OK, what about this?
36:06
So last, last thing I want to chat about is this Liverpool
36:08
Sunderland game. What did you guys think?
36:11
Did you like? Are we, are we fully just we
36:15
kind of talked about the the start, but like start of it's
36:18
kind of the real deal, huh? Yeah.
36:21
Angela Fee, now he had a he had a penalty last game.
36:23
He got an assist this game. So he's starting to get up there
36:26
in points as well and he's still available in a lot of places,
36:30
which is which is very interesting.
36:32
Enzo, how you doing over there? Fighting for your life, I think.
36:34
My phone, my phone, my phone's overheating.
36:39
They wasn't charged so I was charging at the same time.
36:41
So I just took overcharge. Well, now it's time to cool
36:44
down. Was nice and hot.
36:45
Got it. Yeah, we're talking.
36:47
We're just talking Sunderland. Oh, you're a little, you got not
36:51
a lot on you. We're talking Sunderland a
36:53
little bit and just how good they've been.
36:56
There's been interesting though. What do you like?
37:00
Like Trey Hume is interesting. He didn't play, he didn't start.
37:04
He got this, got the start against Liverpool and it was
37:06
decent. Enzo Lafitte, you were just
37:07
talking about had a goal, had a goal previously and an assist
37:11
this game. Are you like interested in
37:13
pieces that you can find there or is it kind of just, it's
37:16
already pretty clear who they got the score high scores are
37:18
there. He's the striker again for
37:21
Sunderland. Is it he was doing?
37:23
Well, I mean, he didn't play. Brobby played in this one and
37:27
Lafitte were the two checkers. They played like a 442.
37:30
But Zach, I mean, Zach has been good.
37:32
I mean Zach has been good. Zach has been the one that like
37:35
really has been the stand out. Zaka and Robin Roach's like the
37:38
keeper is like the keeper's our highest scoring player.
37:41
Get 18 points against Liverpool. 1820 SO.
37:46
He got a key pass. Get a key pass.
37:49
You got a key pass. Long ball of the top.
37:53
I know Mukulele, he's been on a downward stroke, but like Hugh's
37:57
been well. But yeah, I think you know where
37:59
the players and then everything else is going to be streaky,
38:01
don't you think? Everything else is going to be
38:03
streaky, I think. But like streaky, like I would
38:05
have said that, oh, if you're talking like a month or two, but
38:08
now we're talking, what, no third of the end of the season?
38:12
Let's look at their players. I'm I'm looking at points per
38:16
game, their goalie 12.14 Danny. Is it Ballard?
38:22
Ballard 12.12, Nordi Mukhali 11.73, Shaka 10.41, and then
38:30
Omar Alderetta 10.3 points per game.
38:33
That's so they're kind of like Crystal Palace, Foreman's
38:37
Crystal Palace. They're dealing with defense.
38:39
All of their defenders are scoring points.
38:41
Yeah, so including their goalkeeper, who's obviously a
38:44
top ten player is for the year. So I think if they have a
38:47
favorite matchup, you play everyone.
38:50
Yeah. Yeah, but what is the favorite
38:52
match up? Anyone in the bottom half of the
38:55
table? Maybe so.
38:57
Or is there a good team that's going to tackle your goal?
39:00
So bottom half teams, Everton, Tottenham, Newcastle.
39:03
I like Tottenham, Newcastle maybe not, but like Brentford,
39:06
Bourne, Forest, Fuller, Forest, Leeds, West Ham United.
39:10
Yeah. Even, I mean even, it seemed
39:12
like everything against Arsenal. Yeah, they scored good against
39:15
Arsenal, they scored good against Liverpool.
39:17
It's just I think they're not going to get a lot of goals in,
39:20
so it's not a bad start. Are Arsenal better with Marino's
39:25
are striker than guidepress? I think Marino scored more goals
39:29
in Guild crash. Am I wrong in that?
39:31
Has he? Sir, I made the last four games.
39:34
I made that. The last four games that Marino
39:35
started has three assists, two goals, 11 points, 13 points, 16
39:39
points, 25 points. Yeah.
39:41
That's elite guilt. Those are elite numbers.
39:44
Those are elite numbers. Love to see it.
39:46
What is Gilchrist his last five games?
39:49
Injured. Zero last.
39:53
Five, Yeah. Last five, sorry. 17 1/2 against
39:55
Bradley, .25 against Palace, 5.5 against Fulham, 3 you guys last
40:00
time, 8.25 against Newcastle against City he had a whopping
40:04
0. Give me Marino.
40:06
Give me Marino Day. Don't you think so, Sergey?
40:10
I think he's the highest scorer on Arsenal, isn't it Marino?
40:14
No, he's not. It's Rice is the high scorer.
40:17
Rice, Timber, Gabriel Calafiori, then Saka.
40:21
Sakam is time. Sakam is time.
40:23
Yeah. All right.
40:24
But I think that's going to aid as far as like kind of looking
40:27
back at some games and looking ahead, you want to talk waivers
40:29
a little bit. Wait, do we want to talk about
40:32
Manchester United's game tomorrow?
40:34
We kind of, we chatted about it on the on the top of the show.
40:36
I I feel like. I need eight points from Diallo.
40:40
You need eight points from Diallo.
40:41
I saw that, yeah. And that's how he doesn't stop
40:44
praying that he just doesn't start.
40:46
Yeah, I'm praying he doesn't start.
40:47
If he doesn't start, Tigo's going to bite the bullet and
40:50
hope that he comes on and gets these points.
40:51
That's what you have. Because you're not going to
40:53
drop. You're already checking.
40:55
Your bench is already locked. No, he's not going to drop.
40:57
Y'all, Your bench is locked. Keith, where are your roster
41:01
baiting today? I was a little bit.
41:03
I was. That's why you are my roster.
41:05
I was, I was, I was, I was going everywhere.
41:07
You know, I was just trying to think because if you lose and I,
41:11
if you lose and I jump ahead of you in the, in the standings.
41:13
So I was very curious what needed to happen for you to
41:16
lose. Man, my points.
41:18
I'm putting up numbers boys. I'm getting total points for it.
41:22
Yeah, you're doing. Yeah, you.
41:22
Are. All right.
41:24
Yeah, you are OK. All right, Should we talk about
41:27
the bad guys that have been performing well?
41:30
Yeah. Good job, Tico.
41:32
Fuck, yeah. What do you guys think about
41:34
Omari Hutchinson? His let me read his last four
41:37
games he came up, he's the last three before prior to the Wolves
41:41
game, he came off the bench and he was coming off the bench.
41:43
He scored. He had 30 minutes squared and a
41:45
half, 28 minutes squared, 1145 minutes squared, 13.
41:48
He finally gets a full start, plays the 90, scores 15.5 with
41:52
an assist, three key passes, one shot on target.
41:56
I kind of like Omar Hutchinson and I think like he's kind of
41:59
like here and it's been this slow, gradual thing which is
42:02
pretty interesting. What's like, you know?
42:03
I know who that bodes well. You know what?
42:04
That sounds like another play we spoke about before that's like
42:08
Wendy. So you think that there's a
42:10
there's room for collapse? Yeah.
42:13
Yeah. So who would you rather have,
42:17
Hutchinson or Igor? Jesus.
42:21
Igor, Jesus. I think that Igor Jesus, so he's
42:24
he got his first goal against Wolves.
42:26
So he he got the goal. I would probably go Hutchinson
42:31
because I think there's more chance for ghost points from
42:33
Hutchinson better. So we go hide this.
42:35
So he's just hey, Jesus is the strike here.
42:38
Let's look at his last few games when he became a starter. 14
42:42
points with a goal, 10 points without a goal, 5.75 points
42:46
against Leeds he had 1 1/2 points, which everyone struggles
42:49
and against United 8.5. So he's been coming on and he's
42:52
been starting lately and he's been putting up points.
42:54
I think he's Jesus is a viable option and.
42:58
Yeah, I think. I think I'm putting a.
43:00
Claim on him. I think their their next games
43:02
are solid. It's Everton, Tottenham, Fulham,
43:05
you know, I, I like, you know, not not to give ends a hard
43:09
time, but I feel like that's a very, those are very like
43:10
storable. All three of them are storable.
43:13
Mm hmm. It's because I'm sucks.
43:15
Am I wrong? No, I'm not.
43:17
Yeah. So I think, I think both of them
43:20
are worth. I think both of them are good.
43:21
And you're looking at like Sean Daish.
43:22
I yeah, I mean, I think he's doing a job over there so.
43:26
Forests have been after like the shitty start and their third
43:31
manager because I mean 3 managers.
43:34
You learn a lot. Yeah, I started the ship for
43:37
sure. OK.
43:39
I think I think a a very big, like not red flag.
43:42
I'm trying to think of the terms of this like false flag, like
43:45
false would be like not getting too over excited with his Ben
43:48
White performance. Like obviously it was great.
43:50
I think he got an assist and what did he get?
43:52
Yeah, he got an assist. But I just think that Timber
43:56
comes back. I think Timber is pretty clear
43:58
in that position. I think this was like a rest,
44:00
rest situation for Ben White. Do you guys think otherwise?
44:03
Well, the first game of the year, Ben White got the started
44:07
right back. Yes.
44:09
Are you shaking your head, Enzo? He did.
44:11
He did. No, I say he did, but I don't.
44:14
Think it's not, it's not an opinion, it's a fight, but it
44:18
doesn't matter. 70 minutes, wonky pass 15 points he got, he
44:22
got hurt, Timber took over and Timber's been amazing and he
44:25
plays again. 27.5 points. Remember I was telling you
44:28
Keith, I've been holding up to the one of the leagues and I
44:30
dropped him recently. You were giving me a hard time.
44:32
See and 27 1/2 I think any defender you put for Arsenal 3
44:38
to put up points. That would say is did you start
44:40
White? Yeah, I I, I fully agree that I
44:42
think if Ben White was a starter, he'd put up good
44:44
points. But I just think that Timber's
44:46
going to be starting a lot again.
44:47
But maybe not. I mean, maybe it's worth.
44:49
Maybe that's the type of gamble you can take.
44:50
What about Ben Hecki? I know Sergei was hot on him.
44:53
I actually picked him up back at the start of that run.
44:56
He's been solid. And then obviously two goals was
44:59
pretty darn good too today. Do you think he do you think
45:03
he's worth picking up like Brighton's been?
45:06
Brighton's looked better even this game and they play, they
45:09
play West Ham next. I think that's a pretty not a
45:11
bad one, you know? No.
45:14
You know what Brighton is to me. You know, like when you're
45:16
playing blackjack and it's a hot table, you just have to write
45:18
the table. I think that's how Brighton
45:20
players are on fantasy. Like even Welbeck, you just
45:24
gotta. Gotta ride.
45:25
Like him at the right time, ride it along and I just, you know
45:27
what to like. Step away.
45:28
I think the stepping away is the hardest part, though.
45:30
That's always the hardest part with any starting gamble, right?
45:32
Knowing when to walk away. Let me, let me get one more
45:35
rollback game. Let me get.
45:35
One more rollback. Game, I swear we're going to
45:37
turn it all around. Oh.
45:38
We're going to double down. We're going to make our money
45:40
back, Yeah. OK, another one I want to talk
45:43
about is Carlos Alcaraz. He actually got a start.
45:45
So he's been pretty out in the cold this season after a really
45:48
solid last last season, but he got the start in the 10 and
45:54
what's his name? KDH actually dropped lower and
45:56
played alongside, you know, played like in them in one of
45:59
the two sixes and Alcoros look good.
46:01
You got 11.25 points, like very solid, felt really good.
46:05
You had an assist. Are you are you kind of is
46:08
anyone kind of hopping on that? Are you kind of, is that a wait
46:11
and see for you guys? Wait and see.
46:14
Wait and see, because. KDH, you saw his goal last game?
46:18
Yeah, what a touch, Yeah. Yeah, I know.
46:22
I mean, yeah, I was like idiots. Former Chelsea man.
46:25
For for half a seat, like half a season on the bench.
46:28
Hey, that all count. It looks like also like the
46:31
Newcastle defenders the rotation has kind of got ever since the
46:36
has gotten in there feels like he's he's cemented as like the
46:40
starting position and Fabian sure is.
46:43
Do we drop him now? Yeah, I think Fabian sure is
46:46
droppable. He's also older, right?
46:48
He's on the older side. He's on the older side.
46:50
I think it's I think it's pretty jobbable.
46:53
I mean, it's also worth noting that Lewis Hall and Liver Mentor
46:55
are both healthy again and they're both playing well.
46:59
Look, I think I think Kieran Trippier is pretty jobbable too.
47:04
I think like maybe Trippier gets a start on the weekend.
47:07
But like, I think at this rate you're looking at, this is the
47:09
what the future is for this team, you know, like Burnley
47:11
every place with Botman at some points.
47:14
But like, you know, yeah, yeah, I think that's pretty it pretty
47:19
much it. So I mean, I doubt that those
47:21
guys are available, but I think like that.
47:23
I don't know. I've always liked the Newcastle
47:24
defense, but it's been a it hasn't been as dominant as it
47:27
has been in the past. Well, it's because of injuries
47:29
too, isn't it? Yeah, it's been a lot of
47:32
injuries all. Right.
47:33
Anyone else we want to talk about from a waiver perspective
47:35
or should we just call this thing?
47:37
Let's call this thing. All right.
47:40
Wait, do we want to make a a? A a bet.
47:44
Yeah, probably. I've been getting sunburns.
47:48
Let me, let me, let me just read out some of the matches.
47:54
I don't know about that. Just reading the matches City
47:56
versus Sunderland City. Have you ever?
48:00
Police United. I don't know about that either.
48:04
You're acting like these are Givens.
48:05
Manuel's Manuel. That one more so.
48:10
Newcastle Brantley, Newcastle. Brantford, Tottenham.
48:15
Brantford, Brantford. And have you realized how shit
48:22
your team is? Yes.
48:24
Can we, Can we? And by shitting at your team.
48:29
Last draw lost Lost draw was their last five.
48:33
Back I was. This weekend I was.
48:35
Ball right now. Oh my God, I watched both my
48:37
teams lose this weekend. I went watched the Tottenham
48:40
game, lost. Went to the Raider game on
48:42
Sunday, spanked. Horrible.
48:45
Why did you go to the Raider game?
48:47
I'm a Raider fan. I I get that, but you know
48:50
they're going to get humiliated. But.
48:52
OK, let me ask you a question. What jersey are you more
48:55
embarrassed to wear in public? The Raiders or Tottenham?
48:58
Neither, wearing both with pride.
49:00
Oh yeah, here. You know somethings already, you
49:02
know when we see someone wearing at Tottenham jersey what people
49:04
generally think, right? Enzo, Enzo, hold on.
49:06
Let's. I'm going to just.
49:07
This is going nowhere. OK, Enzo.
49:09
Here's Tottenham's next few games.
49:11
They play Brentford, they play Forest, they play Liverpool,
49:15
they play Palace, they play Brentford again, and then they
49:18
play Sunderland. How many of those?
49:22
I don't. Want the sound of any of those
49:23
games? How do you feel about them
49:25
playing against Lavia Praha midweek for champions?
49:29
Honestly, if we can get a draw out of that game, I'll be happy.
49:32
Honestly, in Champions League we haven't been playing that bad.
49:34
Can't be honest because they don't really know us, so they
49:38
give us too much respect. No one gives you shuts up.
49:43
January 17 I think is the first game you guys will win
49:45
convincingly. Yes, the worst time.
49:48
I think January 17th. Holy hell, that's a long ways
49:50
away. I think we can win some of these
49:53
games, honestly. Well, look at Brentford right
49:56
now. Like where they like, were they
49:59
on the table? They've been, they've been
50:00
winning games. Tighten points.
50:03
Tighten points with Tottenham, Yeah.
50:06
It's not looking good, guys. You know, I I something there's
50:09
enough there. I think Thomas Frank is a good
50:10
enough coach. I think you guys got to be a
50:12
little bit like, I don't know, I'm not not optimistic, but I
50:15
think. I'm going to say this, we're
50:16
going to finish better than we did last season.
50:19
I would hope so, because otherwise we'd be relegation.
50:22
But less trophies. You don't know we're still,
50:27
we're still in the, the cups we talk about, No.
50:30
But I mean, you are technically you could win.
50:33
You can't. You can't say that yet.
50:35
Well, you can't say. That mathematically you guys
50:36
could win the trouble. I'm saying in my opinion.
50:39
Yeah, mathematically we could win the trouble.
50:41
Mathematically, we could win Champions League.
50:45
Yeah, I just besides Chelsea. We're the last English team to
50:48
be in the final. Liverpool.
50:50
I win Liverpool. Liverpool is in the same final
50:56
as you, I know. You're so just trying to fucking
51:05
make, you know, silver lining here, mate, All right?
51:07
It hasn't been fun to watch. It's fucking horrible for what?
51:10
To watch. I don't like it.
51:12
I'd rather watch Wolves and they've been horrible too.
51:16
I do think you guys are going to go trophy list.
51:19
I think that's, I think that's not that.
51:21
That's a given. Not a given.
51:22
Yeah. I feel like that's like, I think
51:23
more they're trying to get, sorry, I think they're more
51:26
trying to get up the table a little bit, right?
51:29
It where? Where is the hot seat level at
51:32
most? Like the Tottenham fan base when
51:34
it comes to Frankie. They're not very happy right
51:38
now, most of the Tottenham fans, but that's mostly social media
51:42
Tottenham fans, honestly. Yeah.
51:44
You you talk like when I talk to my my family that are top and
51:47
fans, we all say the same thing. We we're building like you can't
51:50
expect in the in one season. It's tough.
51:52
You know what I mean to. Or in like 1/4 of a season, you
51:55
know, it's not even a whole. Season.
51:56
Exactly. Exactly.
51:57
And also you got to think about all the injuries that we've got.
52:00
And every team's got injuries, I get that.
52:02
But we got key attacking players.
52:04
We can't seem to get the ball. I know Kolo got a couple goals
52:06
in Champions League last week, but he's not getting, he's not
52:09
acclimated. And then you got Xavi Simmons,
52:12
who can't seem to get an assist off of that corner.
52:16
And then you go freaking Kudu Kudus, who got shut down every
52:19
other game, you know what I mean?
52:20
But the last two games he's been really good.
52:23
We are I. Mean it's.
52:24
And do you have any news on before we go?
52:26
Do you have any news on Salonki? It's still the same ankle, still
52:30
he's on grass. But he's on grass.
52:33
Yeah, that's good. But but Kulu's been on grass for
52:36
like a nearly a month and he's still not fucking playing.
52:39
Yep. That's going to be, I mean, are
52:41
you, are you, we at the point where you should people should,
52:44
if they have this waiver space, should start trying to think
52:45
about picking up Kulu or is that a not yet thing?
52:48
I I think you could still wait. I think you do it this.
52:50
Time, yeah. All right.
52:53
Is that it, boys? No say lads.
52:56
All right, this has been episode 115 of Draft Off Sides.
52:59
My name is Keith. I'm with Tico Enzo.
53:00
Follow us at Draft Off Sides and we will see you very soon.
53:06
Very soon. All righty.
53:09
I'm hoping we get our mystery books.
53:10
I'm hoping for something good, something unique, you know?
53:12
What what would be like do you want like the Nigerian Black
53:15
Stars or something like what? Like what do you like I?
53:17
Would love that shit. I would love that shit.
53:19
Or friggin one of the Egyptian teams.
53:23
Like I hope it's got a pyramid on it or something, I don't
53:25
know. Have you guys track yours to see
53:27
like when we're going to get it or no I.
53:28
Don't know, it just says 3 to 5 days and it's already been three
53:31
to five days. I'm assuming they don't.
53:32
Count, but you didn't check your change, you forgot.
53:35
To tell us what jersey you got What?
53:37
Do you mean That's right and you'll get out the 1817 seasons?
53:42
7878 season. I know it is you.
53:45
Freaking fucked up. I fucked up on the thing and
53:46
then and then Sergey made it short and then people are
53:49
guessing on that and I was like, Oh no, I totally fucked.
53:54
Up I was at the store on Fairfax.
53:58
Still, like the classic soccer dreams, they had those boxes.
54:02
They're too instructed to buy it.
54:03
So. So yeah, next time we can just
54:05
go there and get them and save us the the wait time.
54:08
Huh. Track order was shot.
54:10
I'm going to track track the order.
54:12
Honestly it sucks because scan. Your phone and then you have to
54:15
do a whole thing. There's like a process I have to
54:17
do, right? Now I'm I'm on there right now,
54:18
but the tracking using shop is like fucking terrible.
54:22
It is. It's horrible.
54:22
Hey, what is the jersey so I can go?
54:26
The one that I got, No. Don't you want to wait?
54:29
Yeah, yeah, just wait. Do you know when it's going to
54:31
get it? I mean, it said January 6th.
54:34
What the hell? So by next week I should get it.
54:37
But should I tell you? Because what if we got, oh wait,
54:39
January? 6th I've been wondering.
54:40
I mean, sorry, December 6th May Fuck did it say January?
54:42
No, no, no, no. Just just wear it on the next
54:45
part. OK, if I get it, I'm going to
54:47
wear it for sure.