Latest / Draft Offsides Podcast / GW3 Amorim's Seat Heating Up I Ep: 103
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- 0:00No topsy turvy this weekend, but doing good.
- 0:04Topsy turvy this weekend. Highs and lows.
- 0:07Highs and lows, man. Is that that fantasy if you
- 0:10later all or was there some personal?
- 0:13No, it's all fast. You related had a good weekend?
- 0:15Partially. But you know, I had a few
- 0:18disagreements here and there. Fancy wise.
- 0:20Oh yes. Do we need to clear the air with
- 0:23this right off the RIP? Are you?
- 0:24Are you good? No, I doesn't matter what I say,
- 0:29we don't live in a freaking democracy.
- 0:30It's takes one person to fuck it all up so.
- 0:34I mean, we don't live in a democracy because we're in the
- 0:36middle of a season. We're in the second.
- 0:38Game. We're in the second game of the
- 0:39season. Yeah, the.
- 0:40Season has started so we can't, we can't we can't change rules
- 0:44mid season. It's not mid season.
- 0:46We are mid like the season has started.
- 0:48OK, the season start, you can say that the season start, yeah,
- 0:51we're not mid season, we are. Mid season, don't be an.
- 0:53Idiot. We haven't.
- 0:54We haven't, are we? Going to start off, were you
- 0:55crying? We haven't gone 19 games into
- 0:57the season where our role needs to be changed.
- 0:59We know mid season isn't literally middle of the season
- 1:01right? It's just mid season means
- 1:02you're in the in the midst, the midst.
- 1:04Of the season. That's not what I mean.
- 1:05Mid season is mid middle middle no.
- 1:10You know what's of the season semantics is we're well, let's
- 1:12not get into the semantics of this.
- 1:13I think Tico don't, please don't aggravate them more.
- 1:18No, no, This is why I'm here. Middle of the season means
- 1:22somewhere from week 1 to 38 middle.
- 1:25That's. Look at me.
- 1:28Yeah, let me so the breakdown, what happened was that the Cole
- 1:31Palmer injury sub happened and I up until this point in like 3 or
- 1:374 years of being commissioner, I've had a very hands off
- 1:40approach. Like I don't, I don't a lot of
- 1:41people are going to change things.
- 1:43I don't like make changes like that.
- 1:44Like when trades happen, they go through like we're I'm very
- 1:47hands off. That's been my commissioners.
- 1:49Lazy. OK, call it lazy if you want,
- 1:51but for me it's that the second I start doing a little bit give
- 1:54give you mice a cookie and you guys, next thing you know, you
- 1:56want some milk, next thing you know you want to blanket, next
- 1:58thing you know you want to knock.
- 1:59It's just, it's just, it's this ever going thing.
- 2:01So my, my strategy is to be very hands off, let fan tracks do its
- 2:05thing and then we go from there. You know, Enzo was very upset by
- 2:09the Cole Palmer trade. I, I was like, hey, in the past,
- 2:12this is how we've done it. I have since done some research
- 2:15and talked to some people and I understand where you're coming
- 2:18from. And I think moving forward that
- 2:20is the right way to do it. But because a precedent has been
- 2:22set in previous seasons and we are mid season, we cannot change
- 2:27that because then it's not fair to Jock, it's not fair to the
- 2:29guy you're playing against. All of a sudden we make a rule.
- 2:32You guys don't even start in the right players, but it doesn't
- 2:34matter. But also someone had
- 2:36accidentally dropped the player by accident.
- 2:37We we fixed that for him real quick because he he fucked up
- 2:40and then we let him get his player back.
- 2:42Yeah, because he's brand. New we can't change, We can't.
- 2:45Change jocks. We can't change.
- 2:46Rules this season. He didn't understand.
- 2:49The rule changed, can't change. Rules mid season.
- 2:52No, you read the rules before you join the league.
- 2:54It's the it's that's changing the rule.
- 2:57That's not changing the rule. Well, that's OK.
- 2:59You're you're adjusting the rule.
- 3:00So you made you made you made it OK for him to do that.
- 3:04But it was I don't care. Let's move on.
- 3:06You're still you're still winning this week.
- 3:08I'm not I'm I'm still winning this week, but that's not the
- 3:12point. Points count at the end of the
- 3:14season. Points count.
- 3:15So let me be the voice of reason, you idiots.
- 3:18It's part of fantasy, man. It happens.
- 3:20You get out, it's it's happened in NBA where the game started
- 3:24and there's been like a last minute scratch.
- 3:25Something happened, whatever. And it is what it is.
- 3:28If you're on the other side, you're happy.
- 3:29If you're on the shitty set, hey, whatever.
- 3:32I mean, it's also, it's like, not only it happens all the
- 3:34time, it sucks that happened to you.
- 3:36Twice and you're 2. Seasons.
- 3:37It doesn't it? It's happened to me two seasons.
- 3:40In a row, Hey, you know what? I went in to sub in a set out
- 3:43who I drafted over Keith because Keith wanted to draft some trash
- 3:46S player I know. Don't why you bring it up again.
- 3:51And I went. I was too late.
- 3:52Hey, it is what it? Is.
- 3:54You don't see me crying. OK, are we?
- 3:56Are we Are we passed it now? Yeah, I've been passed it.
- 4:00I wasn't. I didn't even need to speak
- 4:01about it. I'm going to bring it up.
- 4:02You brought it up. You brought it up.
- 4:04You did. The first thing you said was
- 4:05like, oh, highs and lows this week.
- 4:07Yeah, exactly What's it? I didn't make it exactly what it
- 4:10was. We could have just moved on from
- 4:12that. All right, all right.
- 4:14Should we do the intro I? Guess should we change that too?
- 4:17Oh no, it's mid season, we can't do that.
- 4:21This is why I can't, This is why I keep my my hands clean of
- 4:25things because like any sort of little changes like such a such
- 4:29a drama Queens, everyone's such a drama.
- 4:31But you know, what really upset me was the fact that you did a
- 4:33vote, but it just takes takes one person to ruin the vote
- 4:37because. It's not a mid season.
- 4:38It's not a majority rule. It's not a majority.
- 4:40Rule offseason. If if you know, if we're
- 4:42offseason and you've been like, hey, this thing happened to me
- 4:45last year, I don't think was fair, let's vote on this.
- 4:47And then it would have been a majority rule because we're in
- 4:49the middle of the season. To change a rule in the middle
- 4:51of the season, the bar is significantly higher than to
- 4:53change a rule in the offseason. Sergey, just take notes so we
- 4:55can change this next year or just don't and let us.
- 4:59It's you and something happened to you because Sergey.
- 5:01Is writing the notes? No.
- 5:03Let's take notes, basically. You hit all of offseason.
- 5:06So hey, bring it up. Hey, Commissioner, you know what
- 5:08I want? I want, I want to better delete
- 5:09these changes, the changes I want.
- 5:11You were, you were, you were celebrating your Super Euro Play
- 5:14Championship. This is on you, Yeah.
- 5:17Thanks, Chico. Thanks, Chico.
- 5:19All right, we're ready. Is this episode one O 3?
- 5:21Are we ready? Hello, and welcome to episode
- 5:23one O 3 of Draft Offsides. I'm with Tiko Nenzo.
- 5:26My name is Keith, and I want to start the episode off by
- 5:28apologizing for the last 20 minutes of the last episode.
- 5:32We had some technical difficulties and talked about
- 5:34the Tottenham game three times. We didn't really understand that
- 5:39Sergey. Sergey was also in AY, So he was
- 5:42just his editing wasn't at the highest peak performance.
- 5:46So it's just a little bit of a messy situation, but just know
- 5:50that that's not the norm. If you're kind of newer, we're
- 5:53usually a little bit more put together, not much, but a little
- 5:55more put together than that. Fair.
- 5:58I agree. So yeah, let's get it going.
- 6:01We're game Week 2 is almost in the books.
- 6:04We have what, one game on Monday?
- 6:07We're recording on Sunday after the games.
- 6:10How you guys feeling after game Week 2?
- 6:13Good, Don. Is that even a question you
- 6:15should be asking me right now? That's right, we're not talking
- 6:18about that. OK, OK, all right.
- 6:20I'm OK. But The thing is I got a bunch
- 6:23of players going tomorrow, so I don't know if I'm gonna win or
- 6:25lose on both match weeks yet. I am playing Tico in another.
- 6:31I don't know who's going to win. We both had a couple of duds, so
- 6:36don't know. Yeah, man, I'll know.
- 6:37I'll be. I don't, I don't know how it's
- 6:38going because I don't know if I'm going to do a Tico for five
- 6:41days. Well.
- 6:42So. You're playing Tico in one
- 6:43league, I'm playing Tico in the other.
- 6:45Well, I guess Enzo in the main league, you got lucky.
- 6:48Soccer got injured and Keith refused to sub him out and put
- 6:51in more points that I have. No, it's I think you're going to
- 6:57win. I think it's pretty like obvious
- 6:58you're going to win. Don't.
- 6:59Don't do the reverse. Jinx.
- 7:00No, I'm not. He's doing the reverse.
- 7:01Jinx. I'm not he's.
- 7:02Doing the reverse jinx. Look at this face, not a
- 7:04reversing and then reverse Jinx against Keefe.
- 7:07I think I was projected to win, but my team like shot the bed.
- 7:10We, yeah, I mean, we were like for a while there, we were on
- 7:12record for like some some of the worst total scores.
- 7:15And I don't know if you've like looked at our matchup, guess
- 7:18what my highest scoring player, how many points they have. 18.
- 7:225.5. No way.
- 7:25Yeah. No it isn't.
- 7:26I have 21.25 points. The highest player is 5 1/2
- 7:29points you. Talk like that.
- 7:30You talk about team man. Yeah, the tall man.
- 7:32Yeah, I thought you talk about. Me, I was like, no.
- 7:35Yeah, I mean, I wasn't that far behind you until today, too.
- 7:38Saturday, it's like after Saturday it was like it was like
- 7:4012 to 15 or something. Like that?
- 7:42Well, yeah, grillish, kind of like.
- 7:44Yeah, he might have won me the week.
- 7:46Yeah, that's right. OK.
- 7:48Nothing about us. We're doing good and let's get
- 7:51into news and notes. I think the first thing you
- 7:54know, a little funeral song for a bridge as AI choose you
- 8:00Arsenal over Tottenham. Heartbreaking, Enzo.
- 8:05It was done again, man, but it's Levy just tweaking it, trying to
- 8:08say pennies, I say pennies, he's trying to say millions.
- 8:12But I heard he had put in his bid, he got accepted and all of
- 8:14a sudden he wanted to do a different deal where he wanted
- 8:17to switch Rich Allison out there and give them some money
- 8:20instead. That's why I heard.
- 8:22And then obviously Kai got injured and then they swooped in
- 8:26and did 60 million right off the bat with up to 87 million in
- 8:29add-ons total to make it. And then they he was always
- 8:32going to choose us more of something.
- 8:34I think, I think my take is if you know, the, the player is
- 8:37like exactly what you need and there's a potential for him to
- 8:40like for another team to come in, you don't nickel and dime.
- 8:43Like why, why do you nickel and dime mean when you don't like
- 8:45have that kind of exact thing? So it's like you don't have that
- 8:49luxury. You don't have the luxury to do
- 8:51that like like pay the extra 5 million, get him in a week
- 8:54before and that's not a problem, you know?
- 8:57And then also like Palace would have been happy because then
- 8:58Palace would have had more time to to find someone.
- 9:02Yep. But it is what it is.
- 9:04Yeah, and I, I like, what do you guys think fantasy wise for Eze?
- 9:07I kind of feel like it's going to be maybe he might not start
- 9:10as many games as they still thinks.
- 9:11He started a lot, a lot of games, but like doesn't start as
- 9:13many. But his points are maybe a
- 9:15little higher because he just has more more around him.
- 9:17He has the ability to create more and do that.
- 9:20Or do you think it's going to be problematic because he's
- 9:21playing, potentially playing on the out on the left, you know,
- 9:24like maybe next week, maybe. He's playing on the left but if
- 9:28but before the injuries happened that we don't know how bad they
- 9:31are. Obviously for Arsenal but before
- 9:32the injuries happened. Honestly from the stuff I was
- 9:34reading like Trusod got a race that although trying to get rid
- 9:38of him. Yeah, no, no new, no, no, no
- 9:40extension of his contractors are raised.
- 9:42Just the rings, which is very odd.
- 9:44And then that meant something must have been going on.
- 9:47More Nelly. I think he would have saw it on
- 9:48the left. I think might not have, might
- 9:51have left. It wasn't for these two
- 9:52injuries, the fact that he didn't get didn't get into the
- 9:54game on this weekend. But now with depending on these
- 9:59injuries and how they're going, he's probably gonna get minutes.
- 10:02Well, Arteta came out and said Saka's injury is a significant
- 10:06in the hamstring injury and it's on the other leg is last year.
- 10:09So he said significant. That's he said significant
- 10:12that's Arteta. So it's.
- 10:14I read a tweet from the Athletic saying that they're neither of
- 10:17them are long term injuries. So this is posting what Arteta
- 10:20said. It's just kind of maybe
- 10:21conversation he had. So it's not like the official,
- 10:23anything official, just kind of gut feeling, which you know,
- 10:26like the international break is coming up.
- 10:28So I think regardless that helps out a lot.
- 10:31But as far as Eze goes, I think if he plays on the wing on the
- 10:34left, I think that's when he will probably give have the
- 10:37highest fantasy potential. You think I think, see, that's I
- 10:40always feel like the opposite. I feel like he's he would have
- 10:42the highest potential playing in the 10 or behind the striker and
- 10:46on the left. Like it's just he's done it for
- 10:48England. He's done a little bit here and
- 10:49there, but like, that's not his natural, natural position.
- 10:51It's not, but if you look at the way Saka attacks from the left
- 10:55side, from the right side, if he does that from the left side, I
- 10:57think that would be the same thing.
- 10:58Even if you look at how Martinelli played even that one
- 11:00year yet like what was it 2 years ago when Martinelli had a
- 11:02great year fantasy wise? Yeah, everything was going from
- 11:05the left side. So I think the way that the team
- 11:07is, the team plays off the wings, I think that is like the
- 11:10dribbles, crosses, all of that potential.
- 11:12Yeah. I mean, I think, I think
- 11:13ultimately him playing in a team that's going to have a lot more
- 11:16possession or he's going to get a lot more touches on the ball,
- 11:19it's probably good. And I think that like, you know,
- 11:21ultimately it's good. Like it's a good thing,
- 11:24ultimately. They're less.
- 11:25They're less direct. That's that's the other thing
- 11:27you got to think about. He's more.
- 11:28Direct. But I think I think they're
- 11:30gonna be more direct with your correction and like the way that
- 11:33I think Arteta is trying to change so that they can play a
- 11:35little more direct. Because when you look at like
- 11:37when you look at like modern football now, it's less of like
- 11:40that old Pep Guardiola, like hold the ball.
- 11:42It's like the urine clop onto or, or areola.
- 11:46It's like that, like they want to be able to Conan or more and
- 11:49like yo crash. That's how he wants to play and
- 11:50that's how he scored his goal. It's like a transition to
- 11:52football. And so I think that that will I
- 11:55think Azay is good at that. He did that Chris Palace.
- 11:58So I don't. We're definitely gonna see it.
- 12:00Yeah, we'll see. I mean, I also think that I mean
- 12:02it could take a little bit of time for him.
- 12:04Yeah. OK, so we talked about Saka and
- 12:06Odegar going down. I think that I mean the last I
- 12:10heard they weren't long term injuries but you should
- 12:12definitely chat cuz I think. It's a national break.
- 12:15I think that's realistic. I wouldn't be shocked if either
- 12:17of them didn't play next week. They but then they they're fine
- 12:21international. Them bringing in as a has now
- 12:23given him him time to come back instead of rushing him back.
- 12:26Yeah. And I think that ultimately,
- 12:28like, if you this sort of, if these injuries would have
- 12:30happened last year, you're looking at like, holy shit, what
- 12:32do we do? And now it's like you have
- 12:34Madamecca, you have Martinelli, you have NYA.
- 12:37You got that drummer, kid? The diamond, yeah, that's
- 12:40really, I mean, he look good. He look good in the preseason
- 12:42game, too. I mean he can handle the.
- 12:44Well, he can he can fill up some minutes like they don't near
- 12:46rushing back like yeah, as they can play a a 7580 minutes and
- 12:51then bring diamond on for the last 15 so you don't tie him out
- 12:53you. Know and I think that's just
- 12:55modern football. You look at good teams, they
- 12:56have depth, they have depth. It's not just the best 11
- 13:00anymore, it's the best 1516 and you know, horses for courses on
- 13:04who you're playing while you're doing.
- 13:05OK. Next one moving on.
- 13:07Frimpong out until international break.
- 13:09So he was out this week, out one more week potentially.
- 13:14I mean, does it like did our we'll see how it affects the
- 13:18Liverpool tomorrow. I mean, I think they're out both
- 13:20of the right backs. So we're probably going to see
- 13:22Joe Gomez go in there. That might be an interesting
- 13:23spot start if you need someone desperate tomorrow.
- 13:25I mean, I guess it's not going to matter for anyone.
- 13:27It's obvious to come out. If but if Gordon plays on the
- 13:30left, he's going to have a field thing.
- 13:33Yeah, I mean, but the issue that I think it sounds like Gordon's
- 13:36going to be up top again. I mean, I I know it's hard.
- 13:39It's a hard pill to swallow. Just he does does not look as
- 13:41good. And the second he did drift out
- 13:42wide, when he did drift out wide in those games, he looked much
- 13:45better, much better. But we'll see.
- 13:47That's that's that's that game tomorrow.
- 13:49It'll happen before this comes out from the Fring Pong question
- 13:53is just like you. Just what do you do?
- 13:56You. I mean, that's Bradley's out
- 13:57too. You're kind of just in a rock
- 13:59between a rock and a hard spot. If you're if you're handcuffing
- 14:00them, yeah. But but you're fine.
- 14:03It's like hopefully he'll be back after the international
- 14:05break. Yeah.
- 14:06Cole Palmer the injury in the warmups.
- 14:10Was it serious? I don't know if it.
- 14:11I know it was like it's a hamstring right?
- 14:13So I think what actually what's interesting is that I guess he'd
- 14:16felt something in the first game in the Palace game and played
- 14:18through it and then it was like kind of limited all week.
- 14:20But we just the thing with soccer, with single, with EPL or
- 14:23just football in general is like, we don't really hear about
- 14:26these things like, you know, in, in the NFL, like they, they
- 14:28release like a like an injury report and you know, like a
- 14:31guy's questionable, you know, a guy's not playing, but like you
- 14:34just don't really know. And I guess he tried his best to
- 14:36be ready and he wasn't ready. And so I would love that for the
- 14:40EPL. Like, Oh no, of course.
- 14:42I mean, it would make like, training on Tuesday.
- 14:44Yeah, exactly. Make our lives so much just.
- 14:46Just little things. Just little, you know?
- 14:47Yeah. But part of that is that
- 14:49something that's mandatory by the NFL where the EPL was it?
- 14:52They just don't. They don't mandate that, Yeah.
- 14:54I didn't know that. That's cool.
- 14:55I think, I think I think what this game showed is that Chelsea
- 14:59as obviously you want Palmer to play, but like they can still do
- 15:02and create and that's about what's good enough.
- 15:04And like, like, maybe they rest in this.
- 15:06Like, I wouldn't be shocked if he doesn't play this game week 3
- 15:09just to rest, you know? Don't you dare wish that on me,
- 15:13fucking Ricky Bobby. But you know what I mean,
- 15:15though, I just think that there's a there's a possibility
- 15:17that that that happens. And then you're looking at some
- 15:20other players that for Chelsea that are going to slot into the
- 15:22team either, whether be it Esteval, be it Jamie, Kittens,
- 15:25be it, you know, whoever the lap and Jon Pedro playing together.
- 15:29Even though it's delivering, we'll get into it later.
- 15:31Yeah, You know, Espirito Santo, there's been some strange things
- 15:36going on there with some of his comments and then some rumors
- 15:39that they want to sack him now after his comments.
- 15:41So there's been a falling out with him and Edu, who's the
- 15:43sporting director. I think that's nothing but
- 15:47negative for nodding force players.
- 15:50I, I just gotta be careful, man. He's gonna end up in the ditch,
- 15:52bro. But yeah, Marinakis, did you see
- 15:55the the Crystal Palace tifo? That was amazing.
- 15:58I've literally never seen a tifo like that.
- 16:01No. No, I mean, I just OK, so it was
- 16:03like it was a, it was a, it was a like a caricature of
- 16:06Marinakis, the owner of Crystal of nodding force, holding a gun
- 16:10to Gibbs White's head. And then it gives White being
- 16:12like, oh, he's never done anything shady before, blah,
- 16:15blah, blah. It was kind of it was definitely
- 16:17shots fired. But I I got it with all the
- 16:19drama between the two of them. But I mean, fantasy wise,
- 16:22numeros beresento not there. I think that hurts any players
- 16:26for Forrest. Of course, it's kind of, I think
- 16:29he's a good change room. Yeah.
- 16:32Anything else there? I'm just I agree.
- 16:35I think at the moment Forrest is still, I've watched a couple,
- 16:38I've watched their first two games running off.
- 16:39They they still look good now. They're still the same team.
- 16:43Like Wood got the two goals early in the first game and then
- 16:46I know this game they only drew, but they still look good.
- 16:48Like they look like a good team. They're still going to be 4th.
- 16:51I don't think they gave you a top 4, but they'll they'll push.
- 16:54I think that 7-8 position I feel.
- 16:57I think it's interesting too. They brought in a lot of talent
- 17:00too. They brought in Mcatee, They
- 17:01brought in Ian Hutchinson or Omar Hutchinson.
- 17:03Sorry, Ian Hutchinson, This one of the guys we play.
- 17:05Yeah, in our league. And then they also had Douglas
- 17:08Solis. So I think even if like fantasy
- 17:10wise, I think Omar Hutchinson or Mcatee, one of them locks in a
- 17:14starting spot, they might be interesting.
- 17:15But now I don't really find them.
- 17:17I don't feel like there's enough there in the moment.
- 17:20But that's like some that's something good to bring up.
- 17:22Douglas Louise. I know if you're if you're a
- 17:25name guy and you think that he's going to do the same thing he
- 17:27did before. I don't think he gets free
- 17:29kicks. I don't think he gets penalties
- 17:31or set pieces. So that's.
- 17:32Gonna be, I think I think that's a concern with Douglas Wee.
- 17:35So he was really good at Villa when he was on set pieces and he
- 17:38was taking penalties. But yeah, Tiko, you have
- 17:40something saying you feel like you're gonna explode.
- 17:42Smiling. No, I was just kidding.
- 17:44No, I remember there was a certain person who drafted
- 17:45Douglas Louise and he was giving shit for and then he had a great
- 17:48year. Oh, you.
- 17:50I remember that. Yeah.
- 17:51Yeah. So are you, Are you tempted to
- 17:53get back into the Douglas Louise pool?
- 17:55You you should. No, I mean it all depends if he
- 17:59starts there is value there and depending if he plays like if he
- 18:02plays deep then not really but you know.
- 18:05Yeah, also, it's sometimes weird that you don't know, maybe,
- 18:07maybe they want him to take free kicks.
- 18:09Maybe they want like a Gibbs White to be a little closer.
- 18:12To the but Anderson, too. Anderson, Anderson, actually,
- 18:15Anderson is such a good delivery.
- 18:17So I think it's gonna be hard to beat, you know?
- 18:19But usually what happens when like a player leaves, goes to a
- 18:22different league and then they come back, They're just not the
- 18:24same. I don't know, man, Ronaldo came
- 18:26back. He's feeling fucking still
- 18:28balling out. He wasn't the same.
- 18:30He was so good. He was still.
- 18:31Balling, you're talking about arguably like the greatest
- 18:34player of all time. That's the example you brought
- 18:35up, Yeah. But you can you OK, go on.
- 18:39Next one, this I think it's an end zone now.
- 18:42Thomas the Tank Engine, Frank gets back-to-back wins.
- 18:46I think it's just the impressiveness of that, right?
- 18:47That's it's just noteworthy in that sense.
- 18:50Yeah, everyone's saying no, we beat Burnley and I, I didn't
- 18:53overreact to that. And then when we are Man City's
- 18:56bogey team. You are Man City's bogey.
- 18:58Team, they've lost back-to-back home games because Etsy hat, no
- 19:01easy hat. That's where that place is
- 19:03called. It's funny because there's
- 19:05multiple, it's now it's multiple coaches too.
- 19:07So it's like, it's not just like an ANG thing, it's like.
- 19:10It's a top, it's a top. It's an aura.
- 19:12It's an aura thing. Why?
- 19:13Why couldn't you have the same energy last week when I said
- 19:15hey, let's just bet on him because 400 something?
- 19:17Because I'm a realist. It's still Man City, but we
- 19:20actually I'm not gonna live and played well and I think Tom
- 19:22Thomas. I want us to bet on that.
- 19:24That high press he's got doing the press works because it's not
- 19:27overly done. It works.
- 19:29Yeah, he has like great. You like treat?
- 19:31Only we had a 10. Yeah, I mean there's so there's
- 19:35so like the windows still open for another like 6-7 days, so.
- 19:39Did you hear we put in a bid for Paz?
- 19:41Does that make? 70 million. 70 million.
- 19:44Yeah, rejected real quick, Nico Paz.
- 19:46Who? Nico Paz?
- 19:48Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, he plays for.
- 19:50Rejected real quick. And.
- 19:52Well. Even if it was accepted, real
- 19:54media was going to match it. Yeah, they'll match it.
- 19:55And they would have born back, Yeah.
- 19:56Pocket change OK, so we kind of started.
- 19:58We've been recapping a little bit.
- 20:00Let's just get into some of the games.
- 20:01We'll try and power through this first one.
- 20:02West Ham 1, Chelsea 5 Hammers scored early.
- 20:06Lucas Piquetta, who was like always someone that we kind of
- 20:08are talking trash on, had a pretty good goal.
- 20:11But maybe Sante should have done better.
- 20:14But he also had a lot of time. He had a lot of time, like he
- 20:16had a time to look. Up you should have had some
- 20:18time, you think there's? No way.
- 20:19No, no, no, no way. I don't think he was expecting
- 20:23because if you look at the replay, he's going to his right
- 20:25side as he takes the shot. I don't think he was expecting
- 20:27it. So it was like going on the
- 20:28right side and then it went to his left so he couldn't adjust.
- 20:31That was it was moving. Yeah, he.
- 20:32Moved and I. Was doing the mamba and that's
- 20:35for sure. It was, I mean, it was Kaiser,
- 20:37though, you know, like if he would play better at this, it
- 20:40was a better player, he would have closed that in a little
- 20:42shot. What?
- 20:43The hell are you talking about? No, it was a great goal.
- 20:46Just just change his name. Probably.
- 20:50OK dude, back-to-back weeks. Amazing, Amazing goals, yeah.
- 20:56There's been, hey man, you know what we were complaining about
- 20:58early in this? Like in the summer, we don't see
- 21:00that many long range like that many bangers.
- 21:02We've seen some fucking bangers already the first couple weeks
- 21:05of the season. So amazing performance by
- 21:08Chelsea after going down one goal.
- 21:11Esteval who again I got to learn how to pronounce his name.
- 21:14I don't think none of us thought the probably doing it, but but
- 21:17amaze. That guy is so good.
- 21:19Such an impressive performance. He would did you guys watch the
- 21:23game? Yeah.
- 21:24I he would drop back all the way to like by the center backs and
- 21:27get the ball and just kind of dribble up.
- 21:29He's not just like a winger. He I feel like he's very
- 21:31versatile to play multiple positions.
- 21:34Super impressed by him. The one player that I'm worried
- 21:37about fantasy why is it's Enzo. I know at the goal and the
- 21:40assist. Yeah, I know at the goal and the
- 21:42assist, but last week he didn't do much and this week besides,
- 21:48what did he finish? Besides the goal in this, he
- 21:50ended up with like 17.517. So that's, that's like 10,
- 21:53that's like, that's like 1.5 ghosts, you know what I mean?
- 21:55Like not. Not a lot of ghosts considering.
- 21:57But last week I think he still had like eight points, no?
- 22:003 1/2. No, he was bad the first week.
- 22:02I I think that's actually a really valid point to go.
- 22:04I think partially to what it he just looks a little tired.
- 22:08He looks like a little pooped. And I also think because I mean,
- 22:11obviously they addressed what they needed was more attacking
- 22:14reinforcements. So they got so much more
- 22:16attacking. So it feels like he's playing
- 22:17more back, which remember last year when the year started, he
- 22:21that's how he was playing and he was generating a lot of fancy.
- 22:23And the year before, remember under Potch, where he was
- 22:25playing as like a six and he was just, he was like irrelevant.
- 22:29But he's not playing at six. I do agree there's more
- 22:31attacking players there, but we got to, I hear you, I do hear
- 22:35you, but the first two games of the season.
- 22:38Way too early, way too early, but it's.
- 22:39Way too early, but it's. A warning light like I I think
- 22:42Chico's saying he's flagging that this is something that's a
- 22:44no. I agree.
- 22:45With you, I agree. It's fair.
- 22:46I just feel like he's gonna come good.
- 22:47Yeah OK, you gotta talk about Jon Pedro Goal and assists. 34
- 22:50points, 2 assists, one goal, 2 assists.
- 22:54Looked really good, just looked very he's just but it's funny
- 22:58because the game week 1 he looked non existent.
- 23:00So I don't know how much of that is Crystal Palace.
- 23:03I don't know how much of that is just W ending Dodd.
- 23:05So I think there's trace a lot a little.
- 23:06Bit I mean, it's Cole Palmer. Yeah, I've heard some places
- 23:08that Cole Palmer, Chelsea's better without Cole Palmer.
- 23:11Yeah. Wow, is that is this something
- 23:13that you guys planned? You want to is you want to talk
- 23:14about it more, I just. Want to put it in the group
- 23:16chat? It just looked like they scored
- 23:18five goals and Palmer wasn't there so.
- 23:20He did not look happy, by the way, sitting there, no.
- 23:22He's pissed. I mean, of course he's pissed.
- 23:23Course, he is the one player I am more worried about, but
- 23:28again, sewing a couple of games is the left.
- 23:30Like you're playing center forward, you win 51, you really
- 23:35didn't do anything. You didn't really get that many
- 23:36chances. Half be honest.
- 23:38It seemed that it was more coming from the wings.
- 23:40So I I get that and I think his points are obviously very low.
- 23:44I don't think he scored very high, but I think that he was
- 23:46doing a lot off the ball stuff. He was running around, he was
- 23:49barging into defenders. The Esteval assists with with
- 23:54Enzo Fernandez, he was very it was in an all he was no, he was
- 23:57very instrumental in creating that the space for Estaval and
- 24:00he did a little flick on. I think.
- 24:01I think there's enough there. I don't know if that formation
- 24:03is going to be the thing they do every week, you know, but I
- 24:05think there's enough there that like it's fine.
- 24:08I like I think you're fine. I mean, I think it's you didn't
- 24:11you're definitely not like wow deluxe going to be starting
- 24:13every week after that, But I think it's going to be like when
- 24:15he comes in, there's a good chance he's going to have
- 24:17opportunities. It didn't really.
- 24:19It didn't come off that game, you know?
- 24:21I will be very curious to see if Estaval starts because after a
- 24:23performance like that like. I think he does if you got to
- 24:26stop. I mean like if Palmer's not 100%
- 24:29like how do you not start it? No, no, if Palmer is playing
- 24:32like when Palmer comes back. It's because it's Palmer.
- 24:35It's Palmer. I feel like you got to find
- 24:37minutes for that kid, whether it's a superstar or something
- 24:39you. Like you call it too many, I
- 24:41think there's too many stars that are set in stone there for
- 24:44the most. Part I think, I think what you
- 24:45might see is if if like let's say this week, there's nothing
- 24:48settled with like Xabi Simmons or Garnacha or whatever, I
- 24:52wouldn't be shocked to see us Pedro, Pedro Natta out on the
- 24:54left again. And if Palmer's fit, him playing
- 24:57in the 10 and then S Val on the right, you know, there's some
- 25:00combination of that. Like that wouldn't shock me at
- 25:02all. Let's move on.
- 25:04You have 1 of this comment. No, I'll just say all know like
- 25:07W Chelsea scored five goals but we don't remember West Ham is
- 25:10having a fucking. Yeah, You know what's
- 25:11interesting is we talked about they were playing that 352 with
- 25:15Bowen up top and he like nonexistent.
- 25:17They switched to a four, they switched to a back 4.
- 25:19Bowen coming off the off the right side all of a sudden look
- 25:22so much better. He he, he had like, he had like
- 25:24no points and then like, and like there was like 15 minutes
- 25:27of garbage time where all of a sudden he got all his points
- 25:28because he was coming from his favorite position looked
- 25:30infinitely better. I hope, I hope grandpa can see
- 25:35that and be like, oh, wow, we need to get him out out wide
- 25:37like him. He's being wasted in that spot.
- 25:39So that's that's the hope with yeah, OK, next game, City 0,
- 25:44Tottenham two. I was saying don't like don't,
- 25:50don't start the ton of defenders you don't have to, but I was
- 25:53kind of wrong because I think most of them had a pretty good
- 25:55job. But Chico, you were saying play
- 25:56all of all defenders? I said play everyone on both
- 25:59sides. Play around both sides.
- 26:01Yeah, but which? That city on the City side, that
- 26:03was very wrong. Cuz ironically, right, But I did
- 26:07think it would be a high scoring game.
- 26:08I was surprised that he didn't like I didn't watch this game.
- 26:10It was at 4:30. I was surprised that I.
- 26:12Woke up. That sucked.
- 26:14Yeah, I woke up, went to the bathroom and was laying in bed
- 26:16and went, you know what? The game's on.
- 26:18Maybe I should. Maybe I should turn it on.
- 26:20It ruined my Saturday. Shit dude I fucking I woke up I
- 26:25was at oh hi at a hotel so I woke up early trying to be quiet
- 26:29till next to my wife and I was watching every time we scored.
- 26:32Very surprising, but. Was it on mute or low?
- 26:35Did you have your headphones? You were ever had it on
- 26:37headphones? No, it was, it was really low
- 26:38and I was on the edge of the bed.
- 26:41Just were you? Trying.
- 26:42Why don't you just do the right? Totally.
- 26:44It was an open concept room, so there was a there's a door on
- 26:46the toilet, but it's very, it's right next to the bed, so.
- 26:49You're damned if you do. Yeah.
- 26:51OK. Enzo's notes are they called the
- 26:53easy hat? And so at the at the hat for
- 26:55Tottenham. That's great.
- 26:56Rich. Richard Richardson with a an
- 26:59assist. Mm Hmm.
- 27:01Great for him. I don't.
- 27:02I think it's like a fantasy assist, right.
- 27:04I don't know if that counts in the officials.
- 27:05No, yeah, he's got a he's want to pass it.
- 27:07No, he pass it across the box to Johnson at the back post.
- 27:12Johnson continues to be a back post merchant.
- 27:14Just one thing, he just does it really well.
- 27:17But he was doing, he was doing nothing the whole game.
- 27:20Do you feel like, I think if if Tottenham doesn't get any more
- 27:26attacking players, Johnson suddenly becomes like such a.
- 27:29Viable. From drafts where he was going
- 27:31because he was kind of being written off, but I think I think
- 27:34he's definitely the odd man out if Tottenham gets like a Savio
- 27:38or something. Yeah, but even like last year,
- 27:40he when he started playing, he got off to a hot start and then
- 27:42he cooled off. Yeah, it was bad when he comes,
- 27:45but let's see, let's see. I agree.
- 27:48Paulina Fantasy asked that question mark.
- 27:51Maybe he scored. He had about 17 points.
- 27:53He scored a goal, so he's talking about like 7 ghost
- 27:55points. Yeah, I don't expect him to
- 27:57score all the time. I think that was a game he's
- 27:59pretty dominant in. I think he's one of those guys
- 28:01that is a is better than fantasy shows of him.
- 28:05You know, he's like he plays in that position.
- 28:06That's that's not the most fantasy friendly.
- 28:10But maybe, I mean, if if Tottenham were dominant in
- 28:12games, then I think there's a viability like they're like he
- 28:15could be a Rodri if Tottenham. The defense looks stronger
- 28:18because of him because he's got that second line.
- 28:20It's like when you have the. It's like when you have like a
- 28:22Rhodri or A1 Yarm or you have. A shield.
- 28:25You have a shield in front of the defense.
- 28:26Yeah, he's just doing the screen foto.
- 28:28Rodri both came off the bench. I think that's reassuring for
- 28:33owners of Fodington. Rodri, right?
- 28:35Yeah, I think Rodri probably starts the next game.
- 28:37I think so too, yeah. Foden then like he had a couple
- 28:41instances where you saw he's capable of but he also got
- 28:44ruined by VDV so he might have picked up a knock too.
- 28:47I think, I think you're going to see after a loss like that, I
- 28:51think you're going to see some big changes to a Pep squad.
- 28:54I think you see Foden probably start next week.
- 28:56Rynders had a fat 0 at this. Point Artenori his injury that
- 29:00it. Oh yeah.
- 29:02Yeah, it was really early in the game.
- 29:04Mm Hmm. 14th minute. So yeah, it was.
- 29:07Good. We'll see.
- 29:09I mean, I think, I think what that probably means is like Knit
- 29:12and Aki came on, which is interesting to me.
- 29:13That's not who I expected for the sub to be.
- 29:16And it kind of I feel like a kind of limited city.
- 29:18I think it limited their whole kind of game plan a little bit,
- 29:20yes. They couldn't get down that
- 29:22side. No, I think that the Rinders
- 29:25thing is very interesting. I think we're all pretty excited
- 29:28about him after the last week. And I also don't think that that
- 29:31means like that was a fluke. I think it's probably somewhere
- 29:34in the middle. Like maybe we were a little
- 29:35hyperbolic last week, but maybe this week it just kind of
- 29:38grounded us. Probably keep saying this it's.
- 29:40Gonna end up being somewhere in between.
- 29:42But take on my been right again. Very goal heavy, very goal
- 29:45dependent. Yeah, so the the thought is that
- 29:47he's gonna not be a great ghoster.
- 29:48And like, obviously this didn't he didn't beat the the no
- 29:52ghosting allegations this week, that's for sure.
- 29:53But in his defense, when you look at that City team, like who
- 29:57scored well, I think Marmouche had maybe 7 points yeah, he was
- 30:00probably the high scoring player on Citi.
- 30:03So one of those games I I'm I'm withholding judgement from like
- 30:07a total like runners is that was a false dawn, you know, yeah,
- 30:12OK, Arsenal 5 lead 0. Your crash proved himself.
- 30:17No, yes. No, he did it.
- 30:19He has. He scored.
- 30:20A gold open play. He scored a penalty.
- 30:23Do you do much else other than those things?
- 30:25He did one thing that we liked. What was it Tiko?
- 30:29That was great. So I think celebration.
- 30:31Celebration. I think, I think the amount of
- 30:33respect I gained for him just for for acknowledging the haters
- 30:36and spiting them was a lot. Again, you know what this
- 30:41proves? If he does, If he doesn't score
- 30:43against a big team again or he only scores against the low.
- 30:47Teams I know. Well, luckily we he's not gonna
- 30:49have to wait for it yet too long.
- 30:51He's they're playing Liverpool this game Week 3, so we'll see
- 30:53on. Sunday personal test.
- 30:56Sunday 8:30 Pacific Standard Time.
- 31:00Oh yeah. OK, Dalman came on, looked good.
- 31:03I think we already, we already talked about the soccer and
- 31:06Odegard injuries. Yeah, it sounds like.
- 31:08Just keep an eye on that. It sounds like I doubt Taco
- 31:11plays in game week 3. Sounds like Martin Odegard
- 31:14maybe, but I doubt Taco plays. Unless they got some magical
- 31:18fucking injection fix that shit, I don't think so.
- 31:21Timber 45 points, two goals. Assists.
- 31:25Clean sheet. Wow.
- 31:27For for this one, does it mean anything for Ben White or it's
- 31:32against Leeds cuz Ben White didn't get the start cuz he he's
- 31:35injured. I think Ben White's injuries are
- 31:38a concern. Yeah, cuz he's always injured.
- 31:40I think, I think ultimately you'll see throughout the whole
- 31:43season, you'll probably see some rotation, but right now, like
- 31:46you're like Ben White's kind of chopped liver.
- 31:48So I'll say this, Yeah, it's Leeds done me wrong.
- 31:51But he got 45 points. 33 of them was from goals, assists, which
- 31:56is goal contributions and a clean sheet.
- 31:57But he did have 12 ghosts. You still have to do stuff like
- 32:02crosses, tackles ones, clearances, aerials, all that to
- 32:05get those. Last week he played 19 minutes
- 32:08and he had negative points, 75 points.
- 32:11This week had 45 points. He's the number 2 ranked fantasy
- 32:14player. Used to be behind the next
- 32:17person we can talk about California Fiori that.
- 32:19Cal Fiori does it again. 27 points looked really good I mean
- 32:25Tika picked him up on waivers. Can we one thing of but I
- 32:29called. Him, I said he's going to be
- 32:30guardio for them. You did.
- 32:32Yeah. I think, I think the concern is,
- 32:34yeah, the concern is rotation. MLS came on.
- 32:36I didn't think he looked like that much better.
- 32:39I think I, I just think that our touch is going to be doing a lot
- 32:41of rotating. It is kind of interesting that
- 32:43Cal, Cal Fury, the first game he played 71 and the second game he
- 32:47played 63 minutes, so. It is.
- 32:48It's, it's definitely unexpected, yeah.
- 32:51Definitely met well also I think well, the second game's a little
- 32:54bit different. They're off.
- 32:55They're off like 4 nil when he came off.
- 32:57Yeah, so. Oh boy, guys, we're we're really
- 32:59not making a good time. I'm gonna we spoke about.
- 33:02Chelsea too long? I'm gonna power through.
- 33:03So Bournemouth beat Wolves 10, Brentford beat Villa.
- 33:06I think that's good for Brentford.
- 33:08Like I think we're all happy. There's just some parity in the
- 33:10league. Palace Forest 11 Everton.
- 33:13Everton beat Brighton 20. Great.
- 33:16I think Iverton kind of new stadium boost maybe instead of a
- 33:20new new manager boost, new stadium boost.
- 33:22What do you think? I think so.
- 33:24It's meant to be a new stadium curse, but it looks like they're
- 33:26doing all right, so yeah. United won full and won.
- 33:28That was today. That was fun to watch.
- 33:30Fernandez this a penalty. Absolutely lost his mind when
- 33:33the ref bumped into him. He got rattled by the ref.
- 33:35He. Got rattled by the ref Tico.
- 33:38I felt like they didn't look as good this game as they did the
- 33:41game before. Yeah, no, they look much better
- 33:44against Arsenal. Also like you're a professional
- 33:46man now. Like someone bumps into you like
- 33:47it ruins your routine like. Hell outta you.
- 33:49Yeah, stop, stop, stop into it. I think he, you know, in his
- 33:52defense, he mentioned in his post game, I listened to it.
- 33:55He was like, he's like, yeah, it disrupted me.
- 33:57But then of the day, like I miss the penalty.
- 33:58Like I just, yeah, it's not his. Fault.
- 34:00They would just miss it. You fucking?
- 34:01But like, do you guys remember seeing Bruno take a pedal for
- 34:05power just like trying to like? Pop in it.
- 34:08He usually just feels like technique.
- 34:10Look again, I'm going to say this again, Amrim is going to
- 34:13get himself fired if he doesn't play the right fucking system
- 34:17and the right players in the right time.
- 34:18Well, he played Diallo today. Well, I, I mean, Enzo, you
- 34:21mentioned it, but like my bat with Tico's looking better by
- 34:24the day, game after game week 1, I wasn't feeling great about it.
- 34:27But after game Week 2, it's just it's going to be tough for them
- 34:29to win 2 the next. Three, I think City, Chelsea.
- 34:33Brilly is winnable. Should.
- 34:35Brilly is winnable. So I could change your tone
- 34:37mate? What?
- 34:38Change your tone. Fulham was the one I was banking
- 34:40on. They got so one play from last
- 34:42week from the tag against Arsenal, which I'm assuming
- 34:43Keith had that as a loss. Oh no, that was lost, I'm sorry.
- 34:46So. That was a lost they.
- 34:47Lost one nil, but this one was one that they were supposed to
- 34:50win, you know? But yeah, this is one they were
- 34:52supposed to. Win.
- 34:52Yeah, they'll better win this one.
- 34:53The frustrating is like, like you get into like clearly you
- 34:56need a nine up top right? You get into this bidding war
- 34:59against Newcastle, you get your striker and you're putting them
- 35:01on the bench. We get game Week 1, but it's not
- 35:03like the person you're playing is someone who's like, like,
- 35:06what is Mason Mount bringing to the table?
- 35:08I thought he he looked good. He looked good.
- 35:10Yes, he looks good, but what for this team?
- 35:13What is he bringing to the? Table OK, but Enzo Artiko, how
- 35:16did what did Cesco do when he came on?
- 35:19He didn't do anything. He didn't do anything, but
- 35:21what's the point of not starting him?
- 35:23Like, what's the point of starting Mount?
- 35:25What do you think Mount's going to give to your team?
- 35:27A little more creativity, a little more guile.
- 35:29Because. Maybe, but I would rather have
- 35:31Cunha back there going wrong. Can you got his six points in
- 35:34the 1st 20 minutes Yeah and then after that he literally got no
- 35:39fantasy value whatsoever. He.
- 35:41Didn't did he touch the ball? He touched the ball, but he went
- 35:44to the corner flag. OK, let's let's move on, guys.
- 35:46That that we just did a lot of recaps.
- 35:49We're trying to not do as much recapping even though it's
- 35:51really fun. Yeah, but OK, let's go through
- 35:54waivers here I feel like. So this is what we want to do.
- 35:55I'm going to go through all the waivers and you guys tell me who
- 35:58your number one waiver is from this.
- 36:00And if it's not like any of these guys, we have your own
- 36:01guy, just tell me who that is. OK, first one, James Ward
- 36:06Prowse, 43% owned. I personally dropped him after
- 36:09game week 1, but he came on. I think he was actually fairly
- 36:11abysmal in real life performance with four key passes make makes
- 36:14him viable. They have fours next week
- 36:16potentially Nunos Fair. Just Santo is going to get fired
- 36:19before then. So a manager, a manager less
- 36:21Forest gives West Ham a chance to actually do something.
- 36:23We I hear you, maybe the second game off there.
- 36:27How many times we seen a magic, a sect and then the next game
- 36:31when they got no one there and it's like the assistant and they
- 36:34bang up the. But I think that's the case of
- 36:36the team's been doing bad. But I think when you know, it's
- 36:38like they've been, they've been like doing so good with him.
- 36:40And it's nothing to do with his performance.
- 36:41It has everything to do with like his like tiff with the the
- 36:45sporting director. OK, next one Josh Colin from
- 36:48Burnley 35% owns. He seems capable of generating
- 36:52points both both offensively and defensively.
- 36:55I think the only the big downside of him is that his
- 36:57fixtures aren't too friendly in the next few weeks with United
- 36:59City, Liverpool in the next 4. So 2 good weeks but I'm I'm
- 37:05concerned about that one. Yeah, I'd hold off.
- 37:08OK, next one Ethan Inwinieri 35% own mid Arsenal Odegard injury
- 37:15soccer injury as is coming in. Is it a trap?
- 37:19If you have to roster your room? It might might be worth a grab,
- 37:22especially because Martinelli didn't even see the field on
- 37:25Saturday. And I think part of the concern
- 37:27too is it's not like he's in and instantly as a boss like he has
- 37:32he he came in, he played a lot of games last year where he was
- 37:34kind of disappointing. But I mean, with these injuries,
- 37:39I don't know. I agree, I think he'd be a he
- 37:41might be a trap but he's a good risk to take, especially if ODA
- 37:45God is. In the space.
- 37:46Yeah, because if Eze does play on the left and he ends up
- 37:49playing like a 10 roll should be golden man.
- 37:54Next one, a little bit of a sneaky one.
- 37:55Tyrone Mings, Villa 11% owned, had solid showings in his last
- 38:00two games. I think it was like 8.5 and 13
- 38:04and I think what's nice is that his his run of games coming up
- 38:07is what makes him kind of interesting.
- 38:08It's Palace, Everton, Sunderland, full on Burnley.
- 38:12So I think, I think it's like he's a known quantity and he's
- 38:15solid and he's he's shown that he's kind of playing again.
- 38:18He's healthy and with a good run might be interesting.
- 38:21Yeah, his calf definitely looks a lot more the same as his right
- 38:25calf. Stable.
- 38:26Yeah, yeah, cuz it was. He had lost every all the muscle
- 38:28on me. OK.
- 38:30And the next one, I, I it's kind of a double.
- 38:31It's Justin, Justin Davini from Crystal Palace, 3% owned, didn't
- 38:35do much, but he did get a start in Eze's place.
- 38:39So the points are not there yet. But is it speculative,
- 38:42especially until they find like, it's more likely than not
- 38:45they're going to get someone, but until then, is he worth it?
- 38:47I don't know. I'm not even sure they get
- 38:49anybody because they got him and they got essay.
- 38:52I think, I think they have to get someone.
- 38:55I think they have to get a Yeah, I I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but
- 38:58he just feels like it. OK, another one we have AI have
- 39:00a bunch man. OK, another one James Garner 8%
- 39:03owned Everton scored a hell of a goal was a Jack real assist.
- 39:08I think that what's interesting is he's up until this point he's
- 39:10been playing midfield, but he actually had played left back in
- 39:13this game. Yeah.
- 39:15So I don't know what that means long term like playing center
- 39:18mid. He was averaging 5.6 points per
- 39:20game with 25 starts, which is not good.
- 39:22But maybe maybe a left back the role could be worth more points.
- 39:26Maybe, I don't know, maybe that goal is kind of a little.
- 39:30He had a streak. He had a streak last season,
- 39:32remember? It was.
- 39:33He had a few good games. Yeah, he had a few good games in
- 39:35the mid season, so it's one night he could be your sister.
- 39:38Yeah, after that set Vanderberg, Brentford 20% owned, scored
- 39:438.2513.5, Sunderland next. So I think it's more like a spot
- 39:47start type guy. You know enough Brentford
- 39:51defender, even even in a even in a bad loss, he scored 8.25.
- 39:54So that's to me is interesting in the first game and then
- 39:57getting 13.5 and this last game solid.
- 40:01Yeah, I'm not I'm not, I'm not like that's an all timer.
- 40:03But like if you just need that guy to throw in OK, next one
- 40:06Smith Row 41% owned Fulham continue to do what he does
- 40:10best, which is not really be present and then swirgle, right?
- 40:15But he doesn't do often enough. Yeah, I think that's a concern.
- 40:18He's he's so bad at. He's such a bad ghoster.
- 40:20He's such a bad ghoster. I I think the one thing that's
- 40:23interesting with him is with Josh King started the first two
- 40:27games and has done almost nothing.
- 40:29Yeah. So I think it might be time that
- 40:31they make a switch there. It might be Harry Wilson, but it
- 40:34also might be. It might be.
- 40:36Our boy Harry Wilson. Yes, sorry.
- 40:39OK. The last one, Tico's boy, Mason
- 40:41Mount, 35% owned United. He's starting to look like his
- 40:45former self. I think he actually had some
- 40:47really good moments. I think up until Cesco is up and
- 40:50running, he's the third guy in the attack.
- 40:53Yeah. And even after that it seems
- 40:55like he's the first guy up for the attack.
- 40:58So I think even after Cesco starts getting starts, I think
- 41:01Mountain is probably worth holding onto cuz if anyone drops
- 41:04off or needs a break, if anything happens, he's the next
- 41:07guy up. And I think as much as United
- 41:10has been a little bit frustrating on an attacking
- 41:11side, I think eventually they'll figure it out.
- 41:13They'll be pretty solid attacking wise and he will have
- 41:16value. I'm gonna go with Amarim.
- 41:19Isn't gonna put Cesco in again. And I think, I think, I think
- 41:23maybe next week. I wouldn't be shocked if it's
- 41:26not again. Yeah, it's he goes in the face.
- 41:29Amarim just seems like a stubborn guy that is gonna stick
- 41:33to his guns even though he wanted didn't he want Cesco?
- 41:36Oh yeah. So it's he doesn't make no sense
- 41:41to me. And then having to throw McGuire
- 41:43in just to try and save your ass every game.
- 41:46I don't. Think that's my favorite player.
- 41:48Just dude, just fucking Mcguire's up there somewhere.
- 41:52Just hit the ball up there. Mcguire's up there somewhere.
- 41:54Throwing long ball to the. Back to the ocean, The halfway
- 41:56McGuire. A really good header that was
- 41:58very close. First touch.
- 42:00Yeah, first touch spammered. Anywhere.
- 42:03I think he should play over the league.
- 42:06McGuire List looked like Duluth looked very good.
- 42:10I thought he's really good the last two games.
- 42:12I've been very impressed with him in both of them.
- 42:15What do you do? You disagree.
- 42:16I'm just not a Duluth fan. You got to be so being so
- 42:20powerful with it sometimes, mate, and it's your own team
- 42:22too. You're talking about personal.
- 42:25Are we going to go into this right now?
- 42:26OK, moving on, moving on. OK, so now from the list, who
- 42:29you guys you can also look at on our doc, who is your #1 waiver
- 42:33pickup and why? You know what I'm going to it's
- 42:37it's not really too much to go on.
- 42:38If you're going to go by start. I think James Garner would
- 42:41probably be the number one, especially at 8%, bring him a
- 42:43better chance of doing it. I know he just I know he scored
- 42:46a goal this game, but it looks like he's pushing up quite high.
- 42:50But was who did Devon play again?
- 42:52They played. Bryan.
- 42:55Bryan and Bryan's not a pushover rival.
- 42:58I think Bryan's a good team so. I mean, Garner had a goal, but
- 43:02he also had 19.25 points. So we're talking about almost
- 43:06like, yeah, almost 10 points, maybe 8 because he gets one
- 43:08point for the clean sheet. So eight points ghosting.
- 43:12Yeah, that's. Not bad, I'll choose Ghana.
- 43:15I have all those on the list because I feel like he'll get
- 43:19the most starts and looks like he's gonna get more bang for his
- 43:21buck attacking wise. What about you take up?
- 43:24I'm a go off the board Lenny Euro rostered 43%, no clean
- 43:29sheets and first game against Arsenal he had 9 1/2 points.
- 43:32This game he had a contracts assists 15.25 points again he.
- 43:37Didn't get the assist. Oh wait, did he owe?
- 43:39He got. This was the own.
- 43:40Goal. He got the assists, OK.
- 43:42Two games combined, he has 11 clearances, so he's getting a
- 43:44lot of ghost points, so. He's just whacking that ball out
- 43:47bro. That's all he's done, yeah.
- 43:49And especially like next week, they played Burnley assuming a
- 43:53clean sheet, so that's someone who could potentially have a big
- 43:55game. I like that one.
- 43:56That's a really good one. Yeah, I probably should have put
- 43:59that on there. Yeah.
- 44:00What's what's his own percentage?
- 44:02He's at 43 percent. Yeah, that's nice.
- 44:04That's a really good one. OK, I think I I didn't make a
- 44:08choice. I think I might go Mason out.
- 44:13You son of a bitch. I think it's I think it's
- 44:16between that or JWP. I think JWP is gonna have a
- 44:18really frustrating games and games like this where he just
- 44:20gets a few key passes. And I think JWP maybe, but I
- 44:23think long term Mason Mount has some ability just to be the 4th
- 44:28man and like and when he plays games you can start him.
- 44:31It's just close to starting JWP. Yeah, yeah.
- 44:35I dropped him. I dropped him on Friday.
- 44:41OK, Ready. Next section under
- 44:43overreactions. Under reactions.
- 44:44Ready. Yeah.
- 44:46Is West Ham cut? Do I go first?
- 44:50You go first. They're done.
- 44:51Burned. They mowed it.
- 44:53OK, they play. They play Forest next.
- 44:57Lost. OK then they play taught him
- 44:59after that. Last spanked.
- 45:01And then they played Christa Palace after that.
- 45:03It's not easy spanked, just just grandpa herself's job at that
- 45:07point. They they play Everton after
- 45:10that. If he wins the other game, he
- 45:12gets for another. Week so realistically speaking,
- 45:15like when is their first win gonna come?
- 45:17So let's it should have. Came one.
- 45:19It should have came in the first game.
- 45:20You should have given the that. That really burns them.
- 45:23Because Palace even without a use it palace they don't they
- 45:26don't win Everton that Arsenal. Brand Palace are hard to break
- 45:29down though. Yeah, they still got a good
- 45:31defense. And Ishmael Azar is fucking.
- 45:34When I look at it, the first game I think that's winnable for
- 45:37them is against Leeds October 24th.
- 45:39I think Everton's a win, I think Evans.
- 45:41Is that home or away? That's good question.
- 45:44That's home. Wait, he'll Dickens and state
- 45:46investors. Right.
- 45:47That that's no, that's the newest.
- 45:48Yeah, that's no, that's ever since defense is good man, who's
- 45:52going to break down their defense back at that from.
- 45:57They I I bet they score first again and lose it.
- 46:01Yeah, man. I think that I I think that if
- 46:04Graham Potter can change his lineup and do a few things and
- 46:08maybe they can be a little more competitive, but, but yeah, it
- 46:10doesn't feel good being a bone owner, I'll tell you that much.
- 46:13No, if no, I'm with you on that one mate all.
- 46:15Right next one, Otara. Is he the Nuemo replacement for
- 46:19Brentford? Came on first, first game, first
- 46:21goal, kind of flubbed the first opportunity and then scored the
- 46:25rebound. Did he do much else outside of
- 46:27that though? No.
- 46:29Did you feel like he had a good game outside of that?
- 46:31No, but he scored. That's what matters at the end
- 46:35of the day, isn't it? And there's a big, big gaping
- 46:41hole there for an attacking player that can score goals or
- 46:43create. And he did it for for
- 46:46Bournemouth whenever he came on. He never restarted.
- 46:48So he's going to start week in, week out.
- 46:50I think he's going to get better, and if not, who's going
- 46:53to take his place? What do you think, Chica?
- 46:56No, I don't think he's the Embombo replacement.
- 46:59That's hard to replace Embombo. That's a lot of goals, no?
- 47:03I'm not saying he's going to score that many goals, but he's
- 47:05he's the main attacking fret because Wes is not their rival,
- 47:08remember? What's that?
- 47:09Might still be. Might still be coming.
- 47:11Might still be coming. Back dude, he trained.
- 47:13He's like, he's like, he went back on his shit and he was
- 47:15training. Well, I think he realized the
- 47:16deal might not happen. At least he didn't release the
- 47:18statement like ESAC being like, my trust has been broken.
- 47:21So we didn't talk about that. That's just like, what do you
- 47:24who, who's advising you? Dude who's?
- 47:26Telling you that's a good idea. If if he doesn't get a move
- 47:29before the end of the transfer window, the first person he
- 47:32should look at is his fucking agent.
- 47:34His agent and be like you are fired.
- 47:36You are fired. You are fired.
- 47:38Now, you know, we've how many Newcastle fans I've seen say let
- 47:42him sit on the bench for three years, let him rock, see if he
- 47:45gets his. I was like.
- 47:47Damn, I know there. I mean you don't you don't mess
- 47:48with northern northern British people, dude.
- 47:53I just want to also, I feel like we said what did what did Django
- 47:56Arturo do outside of square angle?
- 47:58He did get 21 points, so he did get 11 goes so so he did.
- 48:03He did enough. Did enough more Enough actually.
- 48:06As a mid, yeah, that's pretty good.
- 48:09So, but yeah, in Wimo replacement, I don't think
- 48:12you're gonna replace him. Wimo.
- 48:14I think that it was a good signing from them.
- 48:15I think it's he's gonna be pretty usable.
- 48:17I think if you're, if you, if you drafted him, you're stoked
- 48:20that he's going to Brentford. He's gonna be, he's gonna be
- 48:22more of a main man there than he would have been at a.
- 48:25Oh yeah, I agree. OK.
- 48:27And next one, Grileish is he? Is Grileish back?
- 48:29Are we, are we gonna witness the greatness that is Grileish once
- 48:33again? He looks like he's lost a little
- 48:34bit of weight, means he hasn't been drinking as much.
- 48:36Got a nice little tank. He just came back from my PE.
- 48:38Fuck, he's looking fucking good. I like it.
- 48:43I like it. I also liked like Sergei brought
- 48:45it up how like the the second goal, Grileish got the assist
- 48:49because he kind of did a little layoff to Garner.
- 48:51But but before that, he had, there had been a play that was
- 48:55very similar and Reelish was yelling at Garner to get into
- 48:57that space quicker. And then then like about 20,
- 49:00about 15 minutes later, that same thing happens and Reelish
- 49:03dishes off for a goal. So I like.
- 49:05Those are the types of things you'd love to see from
- 49:06Zacharyelish. Being like and he's a but.
- 49:08He's he's, he's, he learned some things from Pat.
- 49:10He, you know, he's become a smarter player and now to have
- 49:13the keys to the castle at Everton, I think it's an
- 49:15exciting thing. I think so too.
- 49:17I like this when I picked them up late.
- 49:19You're you're, you're fucking, you're like ruling right now.
- 49:22I'm pretty excited, but I also feel like it would be way more
- 49:25exciting if I didn't drop Dwight McNeil, who looks like he's
- 49:27going to be an absolute dud. But he came on.
- 49:31He did play for, you know, 15 minutes.
- 49:33He he probably should have scored, to be honest with you.
- 49:35But yeah, I think the high would be a lot higher if I had like
- 49:38picked like Alex will be because obviously I was deciding between
- 49:41there and then got realish later, but is what it is.
- 49:45It is what it is. I think we're excited.
- 49:46I also feel like there's going to be games where it's Everton
- 49:48and Grillish is going to struggle.
- 49:49And I I don't, I'm not expecting like second round value, but I
- 49:53think, I think where he was going at drafts, you're very
- 49:55excited. Yeah, you're very excited.
- 49:56Yeah. I think today was obviously like
- 49:57you. Can get a very high point.
- 49:59You can get third round fucking on the upside.
- 50:02He's in the starting lineup. You're playing him for sure.
- 50:04I think yeah, he's definitely like one of my top mids.
- 50:07But like, like, OK, like right now, like Sergei was being like
- 50:10shit, is he trade? Is he a high trade high?
- 50:13Are you excited and holding? And I was trying to think about
- 50:15like, where would I trade Greelish?
- 50:17Like who would I trade him for? Like what?
- 50:19What value roughly you just? Said it won't be.
- 50:23I would take a wobbe over Giles. Yeah.
- 50:25In a season long term, yeah. But OK.
- 50:28Maybe it's like Savio. If Savio saves the city, would
- 50:32you take Giles or Savio? I'll think.
- 50:34I'll think Giles, just because I think.
- 50:36Giles Yeah, because, you know, it's every game.
- 50:38If Savio goes to Tottenham, then you take Savio.
- 50:41I can't wait. Is that like me and Tiko are
- 50:42both like please go to Tottenham because we both have been in one
- 50:45of our leagues, right? He's so nice.
- 50:48Keith, if he goes to Tottenham, are you also going to bend ends
- 50:53over backwards and. You're gonna try to trade bang
- 50:55me? Yeah.
- 50:56No, I'm trying. I I wouldn't do that.
- 51:00I'd rather do that to Sergei with Eze.
- 51:02That's what that's I'm I'm trying to quick up a trade to
- 51:04offer Sergei as a have you. Have you guys offered too many
- 51:08trades yet? No, I, I, I usually like to wait
- 51:11until that first international break.
- 51:12It's a little early. I feel like people that are due
- 51:14too much too early. It's like a little like
- 51:17dramatic. Yeah, Kyle, you've.
- 51:19Been a little extra, you know? Yeah.
- 51:21Kyle been often realized so much to me man.
- 51:23I think he realized that he really messed up in the draft.
- 51:25He. Didn't get kunya, Yeah.
- 51:28I think once he saw the situation gets settled, I'm just
- 51:31gonna trade E 2nd for Diallo. Good luck with that.
- 51:34Good luck with. That I just see one good day
- 51:36from Diallo, That's it. All right.
- 51:38I think the last note we already kind of talked about the new is
- 51:41the new Everton Stadium not cursed.
- 51:43You were saying that stadiums always are cursed.
- 51:45Yeah, new stadiums like you usually don't do well.
- 51:48Emirates top White Hart, like the new Tottenham Hotspur
- 51:51Stadium. I think that's why Real Madrid
- 51:54haven't moved yet, because you know.
- 51:56Because they don't. They don't want to be.
- 51:57They already have like four other curses on them that we
- 51:59really can't add they. Don't want to just add another
- 52:01whole. Croc somewhere, yeah, we're they
- 52:03have 7 of the 8 or whatever it is.
- 52:05We can't add that. You think Bruno's the whole
- 52:08Crocs? That would be fascinating.
- 52:11Wow, you think he leaves and all of a sudden they start winning?
- 52:13I think, I think because I heard a couple of main eyes fans say,
- 52:16does it look like he's throwing the game?
- 52:18And I could have stopped laughing.
- 52:19It's his teeth. You have to destroy his teeth.
- 52:22What what if it is like you know what if he is really the
- 52:24problem? That would be a really ironic
- 52:26thing, but OK, moving on game week 3.
- 52:32Oh, wait, I'll one thing I want to talk about the Everton thing
- 52:34real quick. I the announcer said this, I
- 52:36thought this was fascinating is that, you know, they Everton
- 52:38lost it's UNESCO heritage like trademark for because the dock
- 52:43that they built the stadium on was like a UNESCO heritage site.
- 52:46It's like an old British dock. And because they destroyed it to
- 52:50build the stadium, it like lost. It's you like UNESCO, like like
- 52:55heritage? Certification.
- 52:56Certification. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 52:58That kind of wild. Yeah, they got a new stadium.
- 53:02Have it. Yeah, it's a nice stadium.
- 53:04Maybe the trick to break. Maybe they needed to do that to
- 53:07you need. To destroy something old.
- 53:09So you're saying Tottenham needs to knock down Buckingham Palace
- 53:12and build a stadium right there and.
- 53:14Maybe something like that. Maybe.
- 53:16Maybe that's it. Like the building?
- 53:18Or just like burn, or just maybe like burn like the last trophy,
- 53:20Like burn like one of your old trophies and you can like win a
- 53:23new one or something. I mean, Keith, they only had
- 53:25like so many. They can't afford to know one.
- 53:26They can't. Afford.
- 53:27But we got a lot of trophies, OK, We used to win a lot.
- 53:29Hey, bring the Audi Cup, how about that?
- 53:31Yeah. We burn the Audi Cup, I'll bring
- 53:33that. One like that OK game week 3
- 53:35outlooks Tottenham versus Bournemouth riding the hot
- 53:39streak of Tottenham players. I think you have to.
- 53:42You have to. You have to.
- 53:43Simenio Tabernet Trufert Do we like Truffaut?
- 53:48Did he? He did well the last game,
- 53:49didn't he? Didn't he have like 14 points?
- 53:51Did I see that wrong? I thought he there's a few
- 53:53moments where I was like, this guy looks good.
- 53:55I remember thinking like, I don't, I don't, I don't have his
- 53:57points in front of yourself. What do you what do you have,
- 53:59Tico? For what?
- 54:01Truffaut, how many points did he have?
- 54:02The last gang mate, they, they won, didn't they won one nil.
- 54:08Bournemouth. 11.5. Yeah, not bad.
- 54:13Go king sheet. Yeah, points for King sheet five
- 54:16points, but. I think the interesting things
- 54:19here. Are.
- 54:21Evan Nielsen after scoring almost virtually zero, I think
- 54:25he scored .5 week 1. He actually had 7.5 ghost points
- 54:27in Week 2, which is really good for him.
- 54:30He had like a lot of key passes. He did a few good layoffs.
- 54:33He did a lot of really good things as like off, like not
- 54:36point scoring things, but things where you're like, you know, the
- 54:38manager loves this. He's doing things like the
- 54:40manager loves. He was getting involved.
- 54:42Getting involved, holding up the ball, like dribbling a little
- 54:45bit. So I like that.
- 54:48I like that shout, I think. I mean, I don't think there's
- 54:51any like, you know, it's like the Jed Spencers of the world.
- 54:54I feel like you could probably start.
- 54:56I think Tottenham looks pretty good.
- 54:57Like I'm, I'm not really like I'm not pulling any punches on
- 55:00my guys from Tottenham. Not so, I think, until they
- 55:02proved me otherwise, you know? Exactly.
- 55:04Do you think Tottenham might win this game?
- 55:06Maybe, but if they the worst I can see is a nil nil draw and
- 55:10then you just get the clean sheet points again.
- 55:11That'll be 3 clean sheets in a row.
- 55:13It'd be really Spurzzy to lose this game.
- 55:15This is very similar to the what just happened.
- 55:18I press something might just I was going to say this.
- 55:23Tottenham reminds me of like Tottenham of first year of Ange.
- 55:26They start off. Amazing.
- 55:27Yeah, they got like the London vibes or the vibes are up.
- 55:30The vibes are the same except for the the tactics are
- 55:32different. Remember, he played that gung ho
- 55:35football when no one expected it.
- 55:37I'm talking about results wise, yeah.
- 55:39Oh, OK, I. Got two weeks in, I think.
- 55:41I think what you're seeing too is like Thomas Frank has been a
- 55:44really good manager for a bunch of years, but in the past he
- 55:46just didn't have the so I like the quality of players.
- 55:48He had a few good players like the top to bottom of a team.
- 55:52And so you're seeing like, you're seeing him like, like do
- 55:55his ideas with like that much better players, you know, like
- 55:58top to bottom and you're like, oh, wow, this guy is a baller.
- 56:01We look less vulnerable on the camera Tech, yes, defensively
- 56:06was. That's what I like.
- 56:08If Kleibert comes back in because if he subbed in this
- 56:11game, are you all systems going Kleibert to starting him because
- 56:14he drafted him to be a starter? Yeah, but for, you know, that he
- 56:18got majority points from two games last season, so.
- 56:21That's yeah, He's very goal dependent.
- 56:22He's very goal dependent, but I think if you draft him you kind
- 56:25of have to start of it. You kind of have to start him,
- 56:27but if you got someone better. Yeah, OK.
- 56:31Next game, Chelsea, Bruce, Fulham, the 43 AM game for us
- 56:36West Coasters. I'll be up for it.
- 56:38I don't know if anyone else. Will is it on Saturday or
- 56:41Sunday? Saturday 4/3.
- 56:42AM I'll be up for it almost that day, I'll be up for it.
- 56:46Chelsea third straight London Derby, which is interesting.
- 56:49It's kind of nice when they haven't really had to travel
- 56:51that much, that's for sure. Yeah, that's true.
- 56:53I think it'll be interesting, like keeping an eye on who
- 56:55starts. It's Chelsea's starting to feel
- 56:56like a team where you you just don't know 100% who's going to
- 56:59be there, especially with this Palmer like hamstring issue.
- 57:02We'll see how it goes, but I think at the end of the day, you
- 57:05feel pretty comfortable with starting whoever is going to
- 57:08play. Wonderful, right?
- 57:10Yeah, even like, let's say like if Jamie Gittins gets a rogue
- 57:14start, like his first game, he didn't do much.
- 57:16He got 7 1/2 points. So like, I feel like you're
- 57:18pretty comfortable with whoever it is.
- 57:19Plug them in, man. Easy money, yeah.
- 57:22For Fulham, Robinson got a few minutes.
- 57:24You'd love to see that he's back.
- 57:26I was you. It was so uncertain that that
- 57:28injury was going to be worse or better.
- 57:29Yeah. So.
- 57:31They said it was fitness last week and it was just, you know,
- 57:34just in case. And it looked like he didn't.
- 57:35He looked fine. Yeah, he.
- 57:36Minutes. He got a few minutes, he looked
- 57:38fine. A wobby well, obviously we'll do
- 57:41a wobby things. You're you're very happy.
- 57:42You get all those ghost points that you could don't even
- 57:44understand how he's scoring them, but he collects them like
- 57:47they're daisies in the field. Don't expect ESR to do it again.
- 57:53So that's Enzo's note or Tigo's note I.
- 57:55Don't that's what Enzo's note, I don't think he, I don't think he
- 57:57goes. He's not consistent.
- 57:59He'll do it again in like 3-4 games.
- 58:01Do you think maybe do it? I think it's likely gets a start
- 58:03though. But you're saying you're saying
- 58:05don't expect? The same result.
- 58:07Why? I think, yeah.
- 58:08And we've talked about, we've talked about him about Nauseam
- 58:10in the past, but it feels like with him, it's like he doesn't
- 58:13do much other than pop up for the odd goal.
- 58:16Like it's like he's he's generating points in other ways,
- 58:19which is frustrating. He passes side to side
- 58:22backwards. Also, keep an eye on who's going
- 58:24to be the starting forward. Jimenez was benched.
- 58:27I mean, he's got to start and he scored a goal.
- 58:30He scored a goal on himself and he's so he's, so he's scored a
- 58:33goal each game is what you're telling me he's.
- 58:35Consistent. Yeah, it's a headache situation
- 58:38that me and Nate are dealing with in our in our league.
- 58:42Why are you bringing that off? Just bringing it up.
- 58:44Hey, how about you take Nate and, well, where?
- 58:48Did you go OK, next one, United versus Burnley.
- 58:54This has to be the game where United comes good, right?
- 58:57I think. I think if if they don't get a
- 58:59win here, I think the pitchforks are going to start coming out.
- 59:02Am I wrong on Tico? Yeah.
- 59:04Yeah, this is this is the one. You know what?
- 59:07I would, absolutely. Like.
- 59:09No that that's that's too much. I want it to look like main eye
- 59:13is dominating the whole game and at the AE 8th minute Burnley
- 59:18comes out with a set piece out of nowhere and scores.
- 59:21Enzo's running like fanfic fanfic like like pornographic
- 59:26fanfic for anti united fans right now.
- 59:32So Tico, you do you feel like Cesco gets a start or is it a
- 59:35question mark to you? Is there any sort of clarity I.
- 59:38Agree. I think he.
- 59:39Has nothing has been said? What he when they asked him
- 59:42after the game, he said, oh, you know, he's new.
- 59:44It's going to take time for him to adjust.
- 59:46Yeah, because you're using those like, fucking complex playing
- 59:49style. Put it my friend, I agree.
- 59:51Yeah, because you're saying that, right?
- 59:53You're saying that. But he came on what, a week
- 59:56after Gyokarez Eka TK started already.
- 1:00:01Like all these players are new on teams and new to the the
- 1:00:04teams have started. You bought this player for a
- 1:00:06good amount of money to score goals playing you know how you
- 1:00:10just. Buy a playing style by playing
- 1:00:12by playing. Yeah.
- 1:00:14Yeah, it is a little weird. Like you, I totally agree with
- 1:00:17you. Like it's Kunya's not that's not
- 1:00:19his best position. Like you're kind of doing
- 1:00:22yourself a disservice. And when he when he plays at
- 1:00:25that behind the striker and then veering off the left to the
- 1:00:28right like him and him, Brembo and Brembo's doing whatever he
- 1:00:31wants. And Brembo doesn't learn to do
- 1:00:33the 10 role. He's freaking going to the right
- 1:00:35and running down there like Konya's actually trying to play
- 1:00:37in that position. It's not working for him.
- 1:00:40I think the concern to me is that I didn't see anything from
- 1:00:43Seska when he came on. No, I know, I know.
- 1:00:45His limited role was at 15 minutes.
- 1:00:48Yeah. That's what I'm saying. 30
- 1:00:49minutes but. He's not impact player, he's a
- 1:00:52player that grows into the game, so give him game time, give him
- 1:00:57a start. That's what I'm saying.
- 1:00:58I think that's the only way, in my opinion that May and I wins
- 1:01:02this game with Sasko starts. They win regardless.
- 1:01:06No, I don't think so. I think they need a big guy to
- 1:01:08break down. I think they need a target man
- 1:01:10to break down a team also. A threat from the air 65 Yeah
- 1:01:13guy Exactly. Dance between the leg dance.
- 1:01:16Hey brother, keep your arms down this fucking.
- 1:01:20I think I think otherwise, I think otherwise like the the
- 1:01:22Lenny Euro call out's a really good shout.
- 1:01:25I think like the licked, I think all the defenders for United are
- 1:01:29all like all systems go. I mean, if you wanna be, if you
- 1:01:33wanna play the Bradley guys, I mean they both they both score
- 1:01:35and assisted. It's like Colin and what's the
- 1:01:38other guy's name? Colin and.
- 1:01:41Deveny. Jane and Anthony.
- 1:01:44Jan. So I mean, I mean, I think
- 1:01:46you're, I mean, I think United's defenses look better.
- 1:01:49So yeah. But I've like, if you have those
- 1:01:51guys like you're not gonna find, it's very unlikely to find
- 1:01:54someone better off your bench than Colin.
- 1:01:57He's put up what he's probably like the third ranked player
- 1:01:59overall right now. I've had a cast. 6. 6 still
- 1:02:03there yeah, he's like in that he like he's so I wouldn't I
- 1:02:07wouldn't I wouldn't be like venomously against it.
- 1:02:09OK next game, Leeds, Newcastle. Will there be a new attacking
- 1:02:13player in the lineup for new Leeds or for Newcastle by this
- 1:02:16time? I don't think so.
- 1:02:17I think it's going to be after the international break for any
- 1:02:19player to come in. So I think we're we're still
- 1:02:21going to be talking about, I mean, we'll see what happens in
- 1:02:23the game, in the game. It's hard to it's hard to
- 1:02:25comment on this until we see. I would like to see what it all
- 1:02:28depends on what I feel happens tomorrow too and against.
- 1:02:30Liverpool, yeah. I think for the Leeds, it'll be
- 1:02:33interesting just to see how they respond after a big win to start
- 1:02:37the season and then a pretty not embarrassing loss, but a lot
- 1:02:40like a game that they feel like they probably think they should
- 1:02:42have got points out of and they make changes.
- 1:02:45No, they lost some. Oh, you're right.
- 1:02:47I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- 1:02:47I was mixing UPS unrelated leads.
- 1:02:48So yeah. So I think they're just, they're
- 1:02:51just going to hang in there, huh?
- 1:02:53I think Newcastle is a big enough team with big enough
- 1:02:56players who have big moments to to be a Leeds team.
- 1:03:00Yeah OK. So if they lose against
- 1:03:02Liverpool, this is a good bounce back game for them to gain some
- 1:03:06confidence. Did anyone on Leeds like
- 1:03:08generate any sort of points? I don't think anyone in the top
- 1:03:1220. No, so that that stash guy was
- 1:03:17people are really excited by judging like 25 points in the
- 1:03:20first first game and he he had about three key passes in the
- 1:03:23first. He was very like Cunha.
- 1:03:24We had like about three key passes in the 1st 10 minutes of
- 1:03:27the of the game against Arsenal. Men like didn't score any other
- 1:03:30points the rest of the game. Yeah, Joe Roden was the highest
- 1:03:32scoring player 14.75 and that's actually not bad after losing 5
- 1:03:37nil. I don't even think that.
- 1:03:39I don't even see that. I see that sash was the highest
- 1:03:42of 6.56 point 2. 50 You know what I haven't, I haven't got
- 1:03:45all the players on there. My fault.
- 1:03:47I feel like I'm not like, yeah, I I like Sash, maybe, but
- 1:03:53against Newcastle, yeah, maybe. I think you're gonna maybe play
- 1:03:55him. I don't know if you really want
- 1:03:56to play anyone else. So yeah, in Leeds, in Newcastle,
- 1:04:00you're all systems go with everyone, right?
- 1:04:03Brighton versus City. I wouldn't want to be Brighton
- 1:04:05after City loses the Spurs. I have.
- 1:04:08I have that De Kuiper defender who's been a little
- 1:04:11underwhelming in both the games. I'm probably going to be
- 1:04:12benching him. Yeah, I definitely would bench
- 1:04:15him, mate. Yeah, see, he's going to try a
- 1:04:18teddy. But I also like, I'm not afraid,
- 1:04:20like I have a Riley and Minta and two of my 3 leagues, and I
- 1:04:24will probably be starting them against Citi, against like a
- 1:04:27Citi team that's proved that they're a little bit vulnerable,
- 1:04:30which they did against Tottenham.
- 1:04:32Yeah, but. I'm not expecting like home
- 1:04:36runs, but I also feel like I, it's not like I'm like the guys
- 1:04:38off my bench aren't going to be better than.
- 1:04:40But I completely agree with you what you said before.
- 1:04:43Perhaps going to make a few changes like 3 or 4.
- 1:04:45Yeah, he's gonna make some changes.
- 1:04:47All right. Next one, Forest, West Ham.
- 1:04:50It's not looking good for the Hammers.
- 1:04:52Forest have been playing decently well.
- 1:04:54They got a win in a draw, I think.
- 1:04:56I think if there's a game for West Ham to get points, it's
- 1:04:59going to be this game. Yeah.
- 1:05:02I think this is the last chance for them before it becomes like
- 1:05:05Potter. Like we're on Potter Watch.
- 1:05:07We're on Potter Sack Watch. You know, I think that I think
- 1:05:11we're going to we're going to put a little clock on the corner
- 1:05:14of our videos and all the account down.
- 1:05:16You know what's so bad is that we've got to this point where
- 1:05:18we're so used to in the EPL, soon as imagines just you can
- 1:05:22see it coming. Yeah.
- 1:05:25I think the issue with him is that he's not like he turned
- 1:05:27them around when he came in last year either.
- 1:05:29So it's like there's a lot, there's a lot of concern.
- 1:05:31I think the Boeing owners, Boeing owners we talked about
- 1:05:34earlier, but like I think they've changed formation mid
- 1:05:38after they were down by quite a bit.
- 1:05:39And I thought Boeing looked a lot better.
- 1:05:41So the hope is, is that they stick with more of that
- 1:05:43formation. I think it actually suits them
- 1:05:45better. It does.
- 1:05:47I think you'd. Be using the Harry Potter Jeff
- 1:05:49pretty soon, right? Soon, pretty liberally.
- 1:05:52The wave goodbye, Harry Potter. Jeff.
- 1:05:55Yeah, it's definitely. Do you have that queued up?
- 1:05:57I'm sure. Yep.
- 1:05:59What is this? KWP and Piketa might be the way
- 1:06:02to go here. Who's KWP?
- 1:06:05Shoot, I put the wrong initials. What is JWP?
- 1:06:09JWP sorry. JWP Well, I think the issue, as
- 1:06:13I said this in our group chat, is that I feel like West Ham are
- 1:06:16an athletic midfielder away from being totally fine this season.
- 1:06:20I feel like when you have Thomas Tuchek and James Ward Prowse in
- 1:06:23your midfield, like it's just, it's 2.
- 1:06:25Like gangly white guys, Like that's just, you can't have two.
- 1:06:28You can only have one gangly white guy in a midfield, you
- 1:06:31know what I mean? You can't have.
- 1:06:32You can't have two. I don't know, but I think I
- 1:06:36honestly, I in this game, I think JWP and Picaya could
- 1:06:39relish in that midfield because they'll push that forest
- 1:06:43midfield pushes up so much and I think they can try to take
- 1:06:47control. And if they do change formation,
- 1:06:49that would only make it easy for JWP and Picaya to create more.
- 1:06:53Yeah, All right. Next game, Liverpool, Arsenal.
- 1:06:55First real test for Arsenal, depending on the injury report,
- 1:06:58obviously if a key player is what happens.
- 1:07:00I think either way. I mean, This is why you get an
- 1:07:02out of Ek. This is why you get as a.
- 1:07:03It's so that when these injuries come, you can still be an elite
- 1:07:06team. I don't think there's any
- 1:07:09excuses for Arsenal. No, and they're not like, it's
- 1:07:12not like they're freaking second tier, third tier players.
- 1:07:15These are top. No, that's that's the idea is
- 1:07:17that you brought in elite players.
- 1:07:19I can you brought in a a starting 16 essentially.
- 1:07:22Yep. Exactly.
- 1:07:23I think that it'll be interesting just for Martinelli.
- 1:07:26I think like we talked about when Yuri, like I think he's I
- 1:07:29think for that reason, I kind of like him as a as a waiver pick
- 1:07:32up just to see if he gets to start.
- 1:07:34But I wouldn't be shocked at all if it's if it's Martinelli on
- 1:07:38the left, Mattoweke on the right, you'll crash up top and
- 1:07:41then as a in the middle that that to me seems like the safe
- 1:07:47move. But the fact that Martinelli
- 1:07:49didn't even feature in a game where they're up by 5:00, to me
- 1:07:52is a little concerning, you know?
- 1:07:56I I don't think it's concerning because like when you're up by
- 1:07:585, you don't really put like veterans in the games.
- 1:08:01What's the point? Like the other people.
- 1:08:03Yeah. You're gonna start all your
- 1:08:05Liverpool players. I probably.
- 1:08:06I mean, I think in the same way, like you don't, you're not
- 1:08:08benching any of your Arsenal players.
- 1:08:09Yeah, this is one of those games where you go for it.
- 1:08:11I also think it's interesting because you're looking at an
- 1:08:13Arsenal team that does not let in a lot of goals.
- 1:08:16You're like looking at a Liverpool team that scores a lot
- 1:08:18of goals and you're looking at Arsenal team that up until last
- 1:08:22week has struggled to struggle those and a livable team that
- 1:08:24has struggled to like has not kept a lot of clean sheets.
- 1:08:28The. Last I was going to say so it'll
- 1:08:30be interesting to see the game tomorrow and how Lilpool plays
- 1:08:34and then they lay in any goals with Newcastle who doesn't have
- 1:08:37a striker. Yeah, totally.
- 1:08:41OK, Those are the games. Now our final little segment,
- 1:08:45Parlay O'clock, is that what we're calling it?
- 1:08:47It goes. A couple teams of mine, it goes.
- 1:08:49Are you cooking this up? Well, I don't know how we're
- 1:08:52doing this. Are we doing one team each?
- 1:08:53Are we? Cuz I, I made a parlay.
- 1:08:55I could go over and see what we feel about this go.
- 1:08:57Over it. Sergei wanted us to each pick a
- 1:08:59team so that there's someone that we can blame.
- 1:09:02Stop, stop, stop losing. Sergei is trying to listen.
- 1:09:04Sergei is trying to pitch US against each other, guys.
- 1:09:06So I mean by the time this comes out we might be 1 parlay win
- 1:09:10already if Liverpool. Wins somewhere second week are.
- 1:09:12We so that we're all, we're a Liverpool win away from winning
- 1:09:15our parlay, correct? Yes.
- 1:09:17I I can't believe we haven't talked about that yet.
- 1:09:19So ends 11:00 Ends Keith, you owe me 20.
- 1:09:23Ends were square. I paid off my bet.
- 1:09:25You're, you're gonna, we're gonna be square though in like a
- 1:09:27week, though what United draws apparently, and we're gonna be
- 1:09:35square, essentially. So no, if they draw, there's
- 1:09:38still a chance. They're right.
- 1:09:39There's so that's true. So Forest over West Ham at -143
- 1:09:43which is amazing odds, Newcastle over Leeds -1 O3 that's also
- 1:09:48like pretty good Manchester United over Brindley -290 and
- 1:09:53then City over by Brighton -132 which puts us at plus 692.
- 1:09:59I like the first three. I like, I like, I don't like the
- 1:10:02forest over West Ham. I don't I I went hammers over
- 1:10:05forest. I think the I, I just feel like
- 1:10:08the Premier League has been so topsy turvy this year and I feel
- 1:10:11like this is like the moment for West Ham and like maybe I'm in,
- 1:10:14like maybe I'm in my own head, like my own head narrative wise,
- 1:10:17but that's like that's the narrative.
- 1:10:18That I will say this do we want to put our faith in the Hammers
- 1:10:23like we did the first week? I always would rather not bet on
- 1:10:26that game. I'd rather just skip that game.
- 1:10:28So I'm opening up Bavada right now.
- 1:10:32Hold up, let me. Did you see what?
- 1:10:35Just fucked up. Sergey just jumped in and his
- 1:10:37name is Joker as his agent. So like.
- 1:10:42Ever turn over wolves? What's that, tika?
- 1:10:45I'm pulling it up right now. Let's see.
- 1:10:50All right, I'm gonna My, my, my one, my game.
- 1:10:52I was thinking, is Palace over Villa, Palace over Villa because
- 1:10:55Palace hasn't been playing well and Villa hasn't.
- 1:10:58All right, so, all right, OK, let me.
- 1:11:01So what are we looking at? What?
- 1:11:02What did you guys want me to look at?
- 1:11:05Ever turn over Wolves and the Palace over Villa?
- 1:11:07Every 10 over wolves is +200. I like it.
- 1:11:09OK, that seems like a good bat. Palace over villa.
- 1:11:13Let's see, the worst palace, it's palace is plus 325.
- 1:11:18And then is that each of you guys picked a different one or
- 1:11:22am I picking one now? You pick one.
- 1:11:25All right, I'll go just pick. From what you have on this list
- 1:11:28right here, yeah. Don't don't some what to do?
- 1:11:33I'll go, I'll go, Tottenham. Over here, Bournemouth, I don't
- 1:11:41like that. Wait, Tico, I feel like you have
- 1:11:43like 3. You have four games here that
- 1:11:45you just pick one of the ones you have here.
- 1:11:47Do as he says, Tico. I'll pick, man.
- 1:11:49U I'll do man U. But I'll give the odds are shit
- 1:11:52in that game it's -290 not a fox, the Newcastle or the brass.
- 1:11:56It's. Going to be a full game, we've
- 1:11:57got to have at least one easy one in there, supposedly.
- 1:11:59All right, I'll do Newcastle over.
- 1:12:02Yes, it changed from one O 3 to one O 2.
- 1:12:05OK, no, although leads aren't that bad.
- 1:12:07Ah. You know what?
- 1:12:08Show me the city. No, just just sit with new cast
- 1:12:11over leads. Just stick towards sorry sorry
- 1:12:13topsy turvy. What's the 4th game are we doing
- 1:12:163 keef? Keef has the free game choose
- 1:12:18City over Benton. At least you're in C Overrun.
- 1:12:21Coward. Put those.
- 1:12:24Damn. Yeah, calculating, calculating.
- 1:12:29That gives us plus 4300. And 38 Oh, we're going to be
- 1:12:32rich. We're going to be rich, baby.
- 1:12:36Rich, we're buying the yacht $40.
- 1:12:40Would give us 1700. That would feed us.
- 1:12:44That would feed us for a while. Yeah, we wouldn't have to.
- 1:12:48We would have to send each other money, Yeah.
- 1:12:51Should I place it now or should should we wait until?
- 1:12:54It's close to let's wait, let's wait, let's wait until the new
- 1:12:56custody just because. Just because what happens if
- 1:12:59change? What happens if like 3 Newcastle
- 1:13:01players all get injured and then what?
- 1:13:03If there's, it's not going to change significantly where it's
- 1:13:06going to go from plus 4300 to like +100.
- 1:13:08But just as as the listeners just know, unless something
- 1:13:11significant changes for Newcastle, we're going to,
- 1:13:13that's our bet. It needs to be like Anthony
- 1:13:16Gordon gets a red and like like Shar injuries.
- 1:13:19It's growing and then we might change our mind.
- 1:13:21The language twists his ankle. Yeah, exactly.
- 1:13:23OK, this has been episode 103 of Draft off Sides.
- 1:13:28My name is Keith. I'm with Tiko Enzo.
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- 1:13:43Yeah, we like all the smoke. And I and I do.
- 1:13:45And I do like some comments too. Judgment too.
- 1:13:48Judgment is welcome. No one likes Tico's draft.
- 1:13:51They all like our draft. Yeah, they yeah, that's that's
- 1:13:54been a reoccurring comment actually me.
- 1:13:56Me and Keith have been cooking, supposedly in a positive way.
- 1:13:59Respectfully, Tico, respectfully.
- 1:14:00Respectfully. Respectfully.
- 1:14:03I don't understand why I'm disrespected as a champion.
- 1:14:06Because you've really fell off. I think you.
- 1:14:08I think you've been riding a little high, I think.
- 1:14:11It's literally the podcast has won champion in its history.
- 1:14:15And I won the first year. What are you talking about?
- 1:14:18Why are you doing this to me? What are?
- 1:14:19You talking about? Oh yeah, I think we're done.
- 1:14:22I. Think we're done?
- 1:14:23All right, that's me. Darth Vader, That's me beneath
- 1:14:27you, Luke Skywalker. Do you see?
- 1:14:29I changed my icon back to Aragorn because I am on top of
- 1:14:33the table. Yeah, that's all.
- 1:14:35Did you see the other new change the new name Thong Song by
- 1:14:39Cesco? I like it.
- 1:14:41Well, I don't get it. Sis, Cisco, Cesco, it's still
- 1:14:49but honestly, and I will always love you is still my favorite
- 1:14:53name. Best one?
- 1:14:55That's one I didn't get a chance to buy, didn't get a chance to
- 1:14:58talk about Real Madrid starting Rodrigo.
- 1:15:01OK, I'm done. Bye guys.
- 1:15:03Bye bye.