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S7 Ep5: FPL Pod: Triple Captain in Gameweek 2?! · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: But once we have a pretty happy FPL pod crew.
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  Speaker 1: After Game week one, we discuss why we think Jotta
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  Speaker 1: is an FPL gift while all remaining patient with our transfers.
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  Speaker 1: But could we be tempted to use our triple captain already?
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  Speaker 1: So we are under a f FL for the season
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four has commenced. I hope you had a
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  Speaker 1: good game week, Kelly. Summer's back with you alongside my
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  Speaker 1: trusty pairing of Sam Bomfield and Julian and la Ron.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say it first and bottom of our
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  Speaker 1: league already, but of course one game week, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: not I'm going to get it in before you guys do. Jewels.
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  Speaker 1: I knew you were going to say it, weren't you.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, if you start at the bottom, the only ways up, Kenny.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, yeah, the only way is up. It's
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  Speaker 1: a steep climb to you, Jewels, A whole six points,
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  Speaker 1: a whole seven points if I wanted to catch our leader,
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  Speaker 1: Sam Bomfield. Sam, are you enjoying this rare moment at
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  Speaker 1: the top?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that was savage. Yeah, I'll enjoy it while I can. Thanks,
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  Speaker 1: I'm having to move from the top. Now that's it.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, how did your game week
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  Speaker 1: one go? Yeah? Actually, all right.
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  Speaker 3: I think normally I'm terrible in game week one, but
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  Speaker 3: this year it feels like everyone kind of did okay
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  Speaker 3: because most players actually did return what you were expecting.
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  Speaker 3: There was only a couple that I think were surprises.
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  Speaker 3: Game week one actually felt quite good. Yeah, I mean, overall,
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  Speaker 3: I got sixty seven. I think everyone that I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to did well. There's a couple of problems potentially that
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  Speaker 3: I've got now that I'm just waiting on press conferences
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  Speaker 3: to find out about. But yeah, otherwise a decent stop.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations, I only having a couple of problems. I've got
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  Speaker 1: a multitude after Game week one? Why did I think
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  Speaker 1: it was a good idea to go for Barco, who
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  Speaker 1: I knew probably was going to lose his place. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: expect it in game week one. I didn't also Expectkonda
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  Speaker 1: to come off at halftime in game week one, And
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  Speaker 1: now I'm left with I've got a million in the bank,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm left with a dodgy defense, no Momo sala
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  Speaker 1: Earling Harlot. At least we all got the captain wrong
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  Speaker 1: as well. Though, didn't we Jewels?
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  Speaker 2: We did. I mean I went for East sag thinking
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  Speaker 2: at home to Southampton, you know, the momentum, good preseason everything,
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  Speaker 2: and then nobody obviously could have for seen Shah being
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  Speaker 2: sent off so early and then Newcastle having to basically
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  Speaker 2: not play much for the first half and then be
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  Speaker 2: lucky in the second half to score that go. But
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  Speaker 2: at least East Side somehow got the assist for Joelington,
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  Speaker 2: so we got five points, which makes it tense. But
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  Speaker 2: obviously if you went for Salah, if you went for
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  Speaker 2: Saka Jota even or Petro Poro whoever else, who had
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  Speaker 2: a much better tally than Essig, then you were better off.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously the leaders overall are the ones who went
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  Speaker 2: for a mosalas captain, for example, because that gets you
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  Speaker 2: an extra fourteen points compared to others who picked the
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  Speaker 2: wrong captain like us.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna also be honest. When I saw Pedro Poro,
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  Speaker 1: I was on the phone at the time when I
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  Speaker 1: saw Pedro Poro had scored. Yes, I was on the
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  Speaker 1: phone too. Doesn't play fpo And I was like, oh sorry,
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  Speaker 1: Pedro Poro scored, and they're like, are you a Leicster?
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  Speaker 2: Fan.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, no, no, no, but I know that two
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  Speaker 1: people that I'm playing against in the mini league both
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  Speaker 1: have Pedro Poro. Are you worried about him now though, Sam,
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  Speaker 1: he's flagged, He's flagged.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, But it was the weirdest injury that I've ever seen,
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  Speaker 3: because he ran around the pitch stamping his foot for
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  Speaker 3: quite a while before he went off as if he
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  Speaker 3: had like, I don't know, like cramp of some kind.
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  Speaker 3: But then there was a moment where in a shock,
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  Speaker 3: gave away possession and he chased it back and got
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  Speaker 3: it back. So I'm not overly concerned. We'll see what Posta.
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  Speaker 3: Cogley says. He tends to be quite honest in his presses.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I only really had Pedro Poro for game
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  Speaker 3: with one and two. Anyway, that was the original plan.
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  Speaker 3: So if he's out of game week two, then I
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  Speaker 3: might think about selling him. But then equally, he was
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  Speaker 3: so attacking in that game against Leicester that even if
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  Speaker 3: there's no clean sheets there, there could easily be attacking
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  Speaker 3: returns for him over the next few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: So just one to wait for the press conferences on
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  Speaker 1: I think, Jill, Sorry, I only asked you about the
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  Speaker 1: wrong captaincy. Other than that you had some good picks
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  Speaker 1: in there. I've got to be honest. I was buzzing
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  Speaker 1: when I saw garnaccho benched and then Ron Jammy still
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  Speaker 1: get to return.
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  Speaker 2: I've said to you, I knew it was going to
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  Speaker 2: be on the bench because he had a short preseason
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  Speaker 2: because of Copa America. We saw him being on the
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  Speaker 2: bench in the community shold as well against cities, so
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  Speaker 2: it was very likely that he would be on the bench.
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  Speaker 2: I was not worried about him being on the bench
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  Speaker 2: because I knew he would play at some point, and
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  Speaker 2: like I've said to you in last week's show, he's
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  Speaker 2: really the only good thing going forward for this Manchester
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  Speaker 2: United team at the moment anyway, so I knew he
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  Speaker 2: would do something coming off the bench. He did. I
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  Speaker 2: was so cross that he missed that chance at the end,
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  Speaker 2: literally like even you U Kelly would have scored that.
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  Speaker 2: So I was just like, how how did he miss that?
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  Speaker 2: And I was shouting at Rushford passed the ball to
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  Speaker 2: Donaho convincing convinced that gun show was scored, so it
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  Speaker 2: could have been even better than four. And I expect
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  Speaker 2: him now to start at the weekend because fitness wise
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  Speaker 2: you'll be more ready. And I think he showed enough
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  Speaker 2: in the two games so far that that he deserves
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  Speaker 2: to play. So no, I was. I was happy with
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  Speaker 2: guannshow nothing jamming Ganachho and overall sixty six points, which
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  Speaker 2: is a decent start. A lot of people returned, and
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  Speaker 2: the one who didn't return, like Kudos and Solanky, who
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  Speaker 2: we talk about a bit later, I felt well unlucky
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  Speaker 2: not to return because they were both very good at
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  Speaker 2: what they did, just like a little bit the last
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  Speaker 2: in the last part or the finishing for Solanky and
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  Speaker 2: then for Kudus that the others finished the chancey they created.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I thought it was a good start.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sixty six points few then he also played the
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  Speaker 1: right goalkeeper with fleckin not getting a clean sheet but
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  Speaker 1: getting a couple of points for saves against Crystal Palace
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  Speaker 1: as well. A reminder, if you haven't yet joined the
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  Speaker 1: FPL POM Mini League, the code is Q seven y
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  Speaker 1: C O the letter O zero. That's annoying, Coke, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to say that every single time,
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  Speaker 1: clarifying which type of otter put. Thank you to everyone
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  Speaker 1: who has already joined. Great to see so many of
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  Speaker 1: you in there. Marjan is currently top. Like I've said, Sam,
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  Speaker 1: enjoy it while you can marchin only one game week down.
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  Speaker 1: He did have a remarkable week though, ninety eight points,
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  Speaker 1: so two points off getting one hundred, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: very red team. He had lots of Arsenal, Liverpool and
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  Speaker 1: Manchester United returning for him. He also put his faith
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  Speaker 1: in Garnatcho. But defense. I really liked his defense. He
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  Speaker 1: went from Martinez Saliba and Alexander Arnold, and he also
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  Speaker 1: had hats up front and an inspired captain Joyce mo Seller.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, samth there was any surprises
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  Speaker 1: in game week one for you, because we all try
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  Speaker 1: and predict from preseason, but we never really know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen until the first ball of that
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  Speaker 1: Premier League season has kicked. Do anything surprise you can
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  Speaker 1: gain week one? Yeah, I mean I think there were
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  Speaker 1: a couple.
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  Speaker 3: I think from an FPR perspective, the bonus points have
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  Speaker 3: been a bit of a surprise. I think we said
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  Speaker 3: in pre season that we were expecting to see defenders
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  Speaker 3: not get very many bonus points this time around because
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  Speaker 3: of the way that the changes have gone into the
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  Speaker 3: system and the fact that you know you're not getting
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  Speaker 3: points for being found and you're getting points for shots
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  Speaker 3: on target. So we were expecting to see a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a change up and who was getting the bonus points,
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  Speaker 3: and actually it hasn't been as big a change as
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was going to be. So no defender
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  Speaker 3: or goalkeeper got three bonus points last week, but we
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  Speaker 3: did see a number getting two and one. We had
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  Speaker 3: three defenders getting two bonus points and one goalkeeper and
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  Speaker 3: then four goalies and six defenders getting one. So plenty
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  Speaker 3: of bonus points still to get, I guess from the
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  Speaker 3: defensive players, which is nice because I think when we
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  Speaker 3: were all looking at spending, like I went really big
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  Speaker 3: at the back with Poro, with Saliba and with Ardiel,
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  Speaker 3: and I was a little bit concerned about having spent
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  Speaker 3: that much money in defense if they weren't likely to
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  Speaker 3: pick up bonus points. But the fact that they still
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  Speaker 3: got them this week is good. There were some surprises
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  Speaker 3: on the pitch as well. Danny Welbeck we spoke about
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  Speaker 3: him in preseason, but had an absolutely phenomenal game and
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  Speaker 3: I think you know a lot of the chat in
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  Speaker 3: preseason was about jal Pedro and whether he was the
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  Speaker 3: right budget Brighton player to go for. Actually, on looking
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  Speaker 3: back on game week one, I mean we have to
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  Speaker 3: take it with a little bit of a look at
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  Speaker 3: Everton as well, who were very poor. But yeah, five
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  Speaker 3: and a half million, he could actually be a really
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  Speaker 3: nice option. It's United up next, but it's their first
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  Speaker 3: home fixture of the season and then they've got Arsenal,
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  Speaker 3: so there are some difficult games to come for Brighton,
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  Speaker 3: but actually from getting we four onwards, if he's still
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  Speaker 3: getting the starts, he could be a lovely pick.
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  Speaker 1: We spoke about it on the pod last week, didn't we,
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  Speaker 1: how Jewels, Maybe we were all getting a little bit
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  Speaker 1: blinded by the fact that we all felt we had
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  Speaker 1: to have Harland Esack and then we got very excited
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  Speaker 1: about Dominic Silanki being Spurs is number nine going in
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  Speaker 1: at the price he was that we were perhaps risking
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  Speaker 1: ignoring players other forwards and he could well be one
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  Speaker 1: of those, couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Yeah, I mean I think it's amazing to see
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  Speaker 2: Danny Welbeck with the performance like that, Chris Wood with
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  Speaker 2: the performance that he had going for Forrest. Then Jimmy
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  Speaker 2: Vardy on Monday Night. Sorry, Sam, But because you're right,
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  Speaker 2: I think not that we don't think Jimmy Vardi or
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  Speaker 2: Wood or well Beg are not good players. It's just
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  Speaker 2: that you tend to go with either the bigger names
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  Speaker 2: or maybe the bigger teams even and if you went
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  Speaker 2: for the strategy, which is two let's say superstar strikers
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  Speaker 2: or forwards, and then your third one is more of
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  Speaker 2: a five five point five, it would well be Vardi's
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  Speaker 2: five on five as well. Then you were rewarded this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: He might not always be like that. I don't expect
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  Speaker 2: Danny well Beg to score fifty goals a season and
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  Speaker 2: have every game like he had at the weekend. But
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  Speaker 2: for that game on game week one, sorry, it worked
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  Speaker 2: really really well. And I have to say for Chris
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  Speaker 2: Wood especially, I think, considering how good he was at
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  Speaker 2: times last season, maybe even more than well Begg and
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  Speaker 2: Vardi in the championship, I think Woods was a very
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  Speaker 2: smart pick for whoever picked it. Again, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: it would last much longer, but for that game Week one,
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  Speaker 2: and for the game that Forest has, for the people
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  Speaker 2: who went for him and chose that strategy. It worked
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  Speaker 2: out really really well.
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  Speaker 1: We did, for a while have a third forward conundrum,
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  Speaker 1: didn't we Sam? Until Slanki went to Spurs. How did
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  Speaker 1: you feel, if you take your Spurs off a little
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  Speaker 1: bit for a minute, how did you feel that he
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  Speaker 1: did on his debut at the King Powell Stadium? Are
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  Speaker 1: you still pleased to have him in your team? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think, and i'm talking FPL your team well aboutth
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  Speaker 3: Actually I think I'm still pleased to have him there.
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  Speaker 3: It's an interesting one, isn't it. I think with Selanky
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  Speaker 3: because actually he had a good game. He had plenty
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  Speaker 3: of shots on target, had plenty of opportunities. Spurs were
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  Speaker 3: being very creative, particularly in that first half. Spurs did
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  Speaker 3: spurst things when they conceded and then you know, decided
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  Speaker 3: that they had forgotten how to play football for a
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  Speaker 3: good twenty five minutes. But actually I thought Selanki had
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  Speaker 3: a good debut. And you know, just because he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: score in the opening game doesn't mean that we still
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  Speaker 3: panic and get rid of him. I think there were
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  Speaker 3: plenty of good signs there from him. So if you've
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  Speaker 3: got Selanki, he could and should have returned in that game.
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  Speaker 3: There were a couple of opportunities where I was like,
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  Speaker 3: how is he not put that way? And partly that
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  Speaker 3: might be you know, he only arrived a week before
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  Speaker 3: the game and it's getting used to new teammates and
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  Speaker 3: all of that stuff. So with another week of training
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  Speaker 3: together and going into the game at home, which obviously
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  Speaker 3: you have the crowd behind you, then against in Everton's side,
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  Speaker 3: who conceded three. But my goodness, were unlucky not to
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  Speaker 3: conceive more than three in that one, or were lucky,
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  Speaker 3: I should say, not to conceive more than three in
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  Speaker 3: that one? But yeah, I think Selanky is definitely a
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  Speaker 3: hold for me. He played well enough to think that
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  Speaker 3: there's points coming.
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  Speaker 1: So don't panic with SLANKI and Jews if you've had
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  Speaker 1: a bad start overall. Not you personally, I'm meaning the
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  Speaker 1: listeners that maybe aren't too happy with how the game
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  Speaker 1: Week one went. What would your message be to them,
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  Speaker 1: because obviously this season as well, it's not a case
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  Speaker 1: that can only hold your transfers for a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a bit longer now with them. What would
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  Speaker 1: your message be to them in terms of if they're
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  Speaker 1: making plans to move players.
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  Speaker 2: On panic really, and then you've got a feel about
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  Speaker 2: your team. You know, you've watched games, even if it's
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  Speaker 2: just highlight. You know with the players that you have,
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  Speaker 2: if it feels like you have to keep them a
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  Speaker 2: bit longer and just the patient, like we've just said
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  Speaker 2: for Solnky, because Solanki, on the eye, had a good
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  Speaker 2: game on the starts, the shots that you had on target,
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  Speaker 2: his gy zero point three five, so there was a
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  Speaker 2: lot of good things that he did, even if in
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  Speaker 2: the end it's two points and he was quite frustrating watching.
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  Speaker 2: So you would feel with some of your players, some
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  Speaker 2: of your team, if you feel like it's not working
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  Speaker 2: out for you, for you that you don't feel it
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  Speaker 2: so you can change it. You can keep it and
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: roll your transfer like we said, and wait a little
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  Speaker 2: bit longer. Some go crazy straight away and play wild
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: cards and et cetera. Out take a minus four minus
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  Speaker 2: eight because they want to change more. You would think
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  Speaker 2: that you've planned for at least a few games at
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  Speaker 2: the start of the season before you're started, so that
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  Speaker 2: you'll be okay for game week two, game week three.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you should not be needed really to change too
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  Speaker 2: much of your team. If you've done it in the
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  Speaker 2: right way. So I know, Kenny, you've got a few issues,
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  Speaker 2: for example, but overall we said, don't panic. Usually your
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  Speaker 2: squad at the start of the season is okay for
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  Speaker 2: at least two or three games, so you should trust
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  Speaker 2: in what you picked and why you picked us players
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  Speaker 2: in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess the only managers that maybe might have
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  Speaker 1: real conundrum, Sam or if you've got a defense that
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  Speaker 1: consists of share conser far so, etcetera, etcetera. If you've
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  Speaker 1: got all of those players, then maybe you've got a problem.
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  Speaker 1: I've got two of the mentioned there, but I've managed
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  Speaker 1: to bench them and I look at the rest of
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  Speaker 1: my team again, we two and I like it, and
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  Speaker 1: I am conscious that if I wait a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: can make more changes to my team. And it's another
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  Speaker 1: week's worth of information. That's also what I think is
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  Speaker 1: quite important at this stage of the season, banking up
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  Speaker 1: the information from each game week. I think that's the
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  Speaker 1: most important thing actually at this point in the season
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  Speaker 1: is the game time. Looking at the team sheets, who
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  Speaker 1: plays were and whether they are in the right.
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  Speaker 3: Position to get you points. But it's very hard to
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  Speaker 3: judge that on one set of ninety minutes, and so
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  Speaker 3: being patient with your team is absolutely the right thing,
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  Speaker 3: and Jews is right. You make your team selections going
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  Speaker 3: into game week one for a reason, like you pick
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  Speaker 3: these players because you think that they are going to
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  Speaker 3: do well over the course of a period of weeks,
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  Speaker 3: not just over one game week, and so ripping up
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  Speaker 3: your team and starting again for me, anyway, unless you've
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  Speaker 3: got multiple problems like you were saying, like if you've
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  Speaker 3: got Barco who's gone out on loan, if you've got
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  Speaker 3: Kwonta who is now a big doubt in terms of
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  Speaker 3: whether he gets the starts or not. If you've got
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  Speaker 3: you know, Pedro Poro who's flagged, if you're worried about
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  Speaker 3: Enkunku because of the arrival of Joel Felix and the
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  Speaker 3: fact that he went off on fifty seven minutes, all
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  Speaker 3: of those problems, Yes, they're problems, but unless they're directly
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  Speaker 3: ruled out in the case of like Barco and we'll
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  Speaker 3: have to see on Poro, then it's probably worth just
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  Speaker 3: taking that extra bit of breathing space, particularly if your
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  Speaker 3: bench is strong enough to cover it. Like it sounds
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  Speaker 3: like yours is kel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that said, I did mean to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: Quansa before his price druped the other day. But I
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: don't feel like I can blame my nine month old
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  Speaker 1: or you care. I am going to blame her for
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: this one because I fell asleep early with her and
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: couldn't decide what to do. I was going to do
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Conza for Robinson, I was, I wasn't I or maybe
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: I should use the million to go up to Porow.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: I know Poro's flagged. Oh think about it when I'm
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: laying in bed with her next time and I've woken up.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: It's seven in the morning when the price is dropped.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: So I'm sure there's lots of people listening to this
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: podcast that have been there. A price droppers maybe caught
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: you out. Something to bear in mind this season. If
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: you can see, particularly early on, if you can see
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: that a player is being heavily transferred out or even in,
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: their price might rise or fall to just bear that
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: in mind to make sure you can still afford them
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: when you do go on to make that transfer. I've
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: also got to shout out someone that I know. Someone
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: I worked with this summer when I was away with
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: England sent me their FPL team and she said I'm
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: going to work really hard this year. I'm gonna I'm
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: going to try and really stick to it. Sent me
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: a team and I was like, that's a really nice team.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: You've done really well to get kind of some big
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: players in there. And she's got Jotter in there, and
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh great, Yeah, I think jost is
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: a great option. It turns out there's a player called
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Jotter Silver.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: And so when I saw jot a return for it, yeah,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know how she didn't notice after the game
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: weeks and I didn't get any points from Yotter because
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: it Jotta Silver. And I was like, so when she
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: sent me the screen wrap, i'd just seen the red
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: shirt and not zoomed in. I'm not going to name her,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: but the only way is up from here. Because of course,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Jott's UNDERDOGO, isn't he in the game?
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yes, anyway, that was probably my favorite. It made
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: me feel so much better when I was a little
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: bit disappointed about my game week. So I'm not going
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: to name her, but yeah, better like next time. Okay,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: On to price changes then I mentioned them.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Then.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: At this stage of the season, it is so important,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: particularly if you have no money in the bank, Sam,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: just explain why it is so important and how it
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: can completely disrupt any plans you have for your team.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so players, as you've seen this week Kelly, can
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: rise and fall. Now, this season has been a bit
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: of an anomaly really because there hasn't been very many
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: price changes so far. Usually after the Friday night first match,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: we've seen multiple price changes by Saturday morning and you're
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: kind of sitting there going, oh goodness. But if you
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: lose point one in a player, it can make your
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: life really difficult because suddenly getting from one player to
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: the next, unless you've kept some money in the bank,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: is almost impossible. You have to go down a price
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: point rather than being able to just go across from
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: a four point five to a another four point five,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: because your players now anywhere four point four. So that
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: makes it difficult. But you also have to watch it
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: the other way as well, because if you want to
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: sell a player that's not dropping in price, but the
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: player you want to buy is going to rise in
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: price again, you can find yourself point one short. And
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: that point one is the most frustrating thing an every
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: ol manager because you can't get the player that you
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: really want to have, and then you're making compromises. So
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: that's why in preseason we were talking quite a lot
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: about leaving, you know, somewhere around the point five or
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: a million in your case Calves in the bank because
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: it allows you that flexibility to not have to panic
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: and the fact that cons has dropped, you don't need
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: to panic on it because you do have that extra
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: budget in the in the bank.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a million though in the bank for me is
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: a bit wild, isn't it? Really? Never soon before Jeels,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I actually did it because you mentioned Rogers, and I
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: bought Rogers into my team. I basically downgraded Anthony Gordon
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: to be able to upgrade my defense to have Saliba
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: and Guardiol. And then I was like, do you know what,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I haven't gone to see Gordon. Now. I didn't love.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I can't be I put in a six point five.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: But then I was like, I'm happy with Sakka Jotter,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the right Jotter, Eza and then smith Row and I
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: was like, and if I have Rogers as well, I
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: know that I've got two cheaper midfielders in there, but
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: they're two cheaper midfielders in smith Round Rogers that I
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: think could well, and I'll see how those two do
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: over the opening weeks, and that million just means I
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: can upgrade them if I want to, or some of
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: my budget defenders, the likes of Conzer bar So moscare,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I can upgrade those if I want to. So it
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: was madness, but it was madness with a bit of
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: a plan. Sam's vaguely nodding at me, which makes me
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: feel that it's not the most crazy thing I've ever done.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: No, it's right, Yeah, it's good.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised I managed to do it, to be honest, Yeah,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: me too. It was literally just for the deadline. It
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: won't surprise you. And I was like, oh, it's making
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: me feel sick having a million in the bank. But
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I think this is quite smart.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Just for once, it seemed that you had a plan.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: So it's good because, as you know, it's all about talent,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: planning and vision obviously.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: So yeah, Jewels, for those of you that aren't watching
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: on YouTube, Jewels has just put his lovely notebook that
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: we gifted him when he won our leag lass. When
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: when when you won the league last year, you're not
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: winning it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: The I just forgot I won last year oh yeah,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: you know four thousand in the world.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: You've got a tattooed on your right arm, haven't you.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: It's coming because I can't have it, because then I
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: can't ten if I've got the tattoo too early, so
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: it comes later. The fact that.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: The price change is then rather than Jules's bodily tattoos
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: or whichever weird direction. So the price changes this week. Actually,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: having said all that about price changes, it's been quite
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: a quiet week in terms of price changes. By Monday morning,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: no players had risen or fallen in price. In fact,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: only one player had been transferred in by over one
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: hundred thousand managers, which is very low. Sam, do we
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: quickly do we think that's just because managers are maybe
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: listening to us, taking our advice and just waiting to
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: feel things out a little bit.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's a few potential things. I think
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: it could be that people are having more patients this
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: year generally. Actually, people's teams did quite well in game
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: week one. The average was high, so it might be
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: that people feeling quite positive about their teams. It's possible
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: that people are thinking about the five transfers and the
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: fact that they don't have to make them and that's
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: why they're doing it. Maybe therefore people are planning rather
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: than impost reacting. Maybe people are listening to us more,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: which is, you know, would be nice if that's the reason.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Maybe also people are starting to realize the importance of
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: press conferences at the back end of the week, and
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: maybe once to be here from the managers, we will
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: then see people get transferred out.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Like Poro.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: I would expect if he gets ruled out by Postocoggli
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: that he would get sold quite heavily because at five
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: and a half you're not likely to keep him because
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: of the matches post Everton.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think there's a few reasons.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: It could be kind of intrigued to see what happens
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: at the back end of the week and whether we
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: see more price rises and price falls than we have
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: so far.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no rises at the time of recording on
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Thursday morning, so we'll have to wait and see. Obviously
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: risers happen overnight UK time. In terms of the players
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: that have fallen, know not too many surprises here. I
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: don't think Ivan Tony after he missed out on the
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Brentford squad with lots of speculation around him, Darwin Nunez Jewels.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Bit of heartbreak for you when you saw Nune's not
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: start and now he's price is falling.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's not so much Darlin time at the
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: moment for him, which is.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Which is cheaper when you want to get him later
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: they yeah.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Exactly when. But yeah, it's just it doesn't look good though,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: because your time looked so good in Liverpool attack, especially
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: in the second half for us though, because we've got yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I know your friends so much before us. Yeah, it's good,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: You've got the right job.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: It's all right. And CON's are four point four million.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: He is now Rodriy at Man's City and Jaden Sancho
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: his price also thought. Oh and Cody Gakpo and Gabrielle
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Jesus are some of the later follers as well. If
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: we take a look at the transfer combinations on the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: big assets, no surprise really see Habits is being transferred
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: in a lot of people ready losing patients with Oli
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Watkins Jewels. Watkins has been transferred Fred out a lot
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: for Habits and Harland. I think I understand both of them. Yeah,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: it feels quite early to do that now.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I think it is really early, like we said, I mean,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: especially Odi Watkins. You know, if you if you've picked
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: somebody a bit random, let's say, but Odi Watkins, after
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: what happened last season and how good he was for
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: aston Villa in terms of gorge and even assist, as
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: we kept repeating last season, this surely deserves a bit
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: more of a chance and a bit more time. I mean,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Haveds was fantastic in that first game against Wards with
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: the goal and an assist that's not really an assist,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: but it was just a pass that became an assist
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: because of saka As brilliance. But it counts in the game.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: If you look at Arson's fixture list though, and like
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Sam was saying a little bit the same for Spurs,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: they will have City to play and Spurs to play
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: very soon now. So bringing habits I can understand. For Watkins,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I find out a little bit surprising. Really, I would
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: not if I if I had gone with what Kins first.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: It's because you believe that over the first four or
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: five games, like we said, it can bring you something.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: It's not because he blanked against a stamp away from
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: home in the tough first game that suddenly Watkins is
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: a bad player. So I always struggled a little bit
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: to see a big name like Watkins being sold quite heavily,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: really and transfer out quite heavily for someone like Havetz,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: who has very difficult games coming over.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Can perhaps understand it a little bit more. If maybe
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: you weren't too sure about going without Harland and then
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: you see him score early on against Chelsea and then
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: you check his fixtures and you realize you've made a
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: massive mistake. I can understand that one.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that one is more understandable.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Yet, Yeah, I can also understand looking at the transfer combination.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Sam over thirty thousand people have done both of these
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: transfers Cole Palmer to most Sala or Bocayo Saka. Again,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: though Chelsea didn't look too bad, there's a bit of
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: remember who they were playing against. They were playing against
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Manchester City. But it maybe goes back to the fact
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: that Cole Palmer is very expensive, is very high priced,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: and if you're going without Mosala and Baciosaka, who are
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: very high owned and they're going to keep returning, you
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: could end up falling behind early on. Do you understand
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: those transfer combinations?
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely, I think Cole Palmer is if you watch
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: the game as well, I agree with you. I thought
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Chelsea actually were quite good in that game, but he
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: was very wide And if you're watching Palmer as an
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: FBL owner of him, I can see why people would
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: be frustrated about that because he wasn't as involved in
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: the player as we would have wanted and as we
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: would have seen last season. I mean last season he
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: had three range to literally do whatever he wanted and
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: be wherever he wanted. This season, particularly game we won,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: not so much. It was a bit more of a
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: that's your place, that's where you'll be, and that's where
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: he was, and if that continues to be his place,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: then I would.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Have doubts about having him.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: But equally, the Chelsea fixtures are actually really nice. They've
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: got a really nice block of fixtures coming up. They
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: had a very difficult home game to start the season.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: I mean pretty much the only fixture they could have
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: had that would have been harder, and that was if
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: they had to go to Manchester City. It was a
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: difficult start to the season. I actually thought they played
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: quite well, but yeah, I can understand it for the
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: two players that people are going to because also if
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: you go from Palma to Soaca, you're saving a little
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: bit of money as well, and that little bit of
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: money might be able to help you with your cons
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: a issue if you didn't leave money in the bank. Obviously,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: if you're going up to Sala, then you've got to
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: find some money. So also maybe you're therefore selling Palmer
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: for a hit to get Salah, and that also feels
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: a little bit reactionary. It feels like you're not having
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: the patience with Palmer because you have picked him to
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: start season four a reason, knowing you have man City
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: at the beginning, and knowing that he missed all of
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: pre season pretty much with being out with England at
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: the Euros. So I think if you've got Palmer, I'd
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: be a little bit more patient. But I do understand
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: it if you want to get Salar in because his
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: fixtures are really lovely too.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Should we talk about my salary a little bit? Because
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: we all opted to go without the Egyptian king because
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: we couldn't fit him in. They've got a lovely run
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: of fixtures, As Jules you said, Jotta did look good
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: when he played, and we've all got him. But how nervy?
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Are you not to have Salah?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: It's always there's always that feeling, isn't it when you
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: watch him, especially when you're taking in consideration his own
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: fbl at heritage to start with, And then how good
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: it still is? I mean, I fed Jota could easily
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: have had a hat trick in that game and out
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: pointed is that word I would pointed more solid easily,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: And in the end it just didn't work out because
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: and like what he usually does, was to be wasteful
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: in front of God that heades, espcially before he scored
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: his goal. I have to say I was surprised how
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: good Mosala was in the second half and how good
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Liverpool of Road changed everything. I have time pretty much
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: to be that good. I didn't expect to be able
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: to compete for the whole ninety minute physically, especially like
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: they did in the first forty five minutes. But still
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I thought Salah was outstanding really and that made me think, wow, okay,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I can't. I tried to bring him in and have
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: a decent team around. As we explained last week, I
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I just justly didn't like it. I didn't like the team,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: I didn't like the draft that could have had, so
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: in the end I chose not to. But again it's
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: always the same and we repeat it every time. But
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: it's true. Salah is amazing. But if you replace him
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: with the right people, so Jota could be one and
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: then somebody else, even like a Solonki or someone like that.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: If you can make up the point that you would
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: not have by not having Salah, that's fine. If you
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: pick the wrong people, then that's going to hurt you heavily.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: And like we've said earlier, the people who captain Salah
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: for this game week one, obviously are all at the
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: top of the world ranking, every ranking, every mini league,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: everything you want, because that was the right guy to
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: not just have but also captain. So well done to them,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: But it's not the end of the world. If you
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: don't have him, you will find another way of getting
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: other players with big points and big points tally. It's
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: just that, please Mosala, don't do that every weekend.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, this is a notice from everyone here at
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the FPR Pod. We're having to go without you, so
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: please don't punish us, please please please, But I do
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: see Diego Jotter is a bit of a gift in
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: a way. Sam because I feel like at the moment
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: with Manchester City, yes, Phil Foden is going to get
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: better with more game time and maybe we'll be able
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: to look elsewhere with him, but I feel like it's
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: harder to cover Harland's points at Manchester City, so we've
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: kind of all had to go find that fifteen million
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: for Harland. Whereas with the way that Diego Jotter is
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: playing and the position that he's playing in that Liverpool
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: team at seven point five million, as Joe said, it's
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: kind of another way of getting into that Liverpool attack
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: and maybe softening the blow not having Salah.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: I think the narrative here would have been very, very
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: different if Jotta puts that other opportunity away and he
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: ends up so grace because we are looking at this
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: as FBR managers, going, well, Jotta got e but Salah
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: was epic and you know, was the highest scoring player
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: in the game week and all of that stuff. And
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: I was just listening to what Geors was saying then
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: and thinking, yeah, it's absolutely right, because I watched that
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Liverpool game and I was like, I've made a horrible mistake.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: But the thing I said to Lea at full time
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: was well, it's all on Arsenal now because in not
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: having Salah, I had Saliba and Soaka and then Poro.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: So I was like, if those three go and do
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: what I'm hoping that they do, then the decision not
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: to have Salah was still the correct one because I
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: had Jotta as well, and actually as the game we
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: played out, it was the right decision for me not
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: to have Salah. Now, going into this week, I don't
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: feel so confident because obviously Arsenal have a much more
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: difficult fixture. They've got to go to aston Villa and
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: spurs porros it out. So I'm kind of like now thinking, oh,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: the Salah not having him is difficult. But I am
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: looking at Jota and I'm thinking he's five million less,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: and that five million shouldn't be We can't just compare them.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: I mean we nearly could, to be honest, if Jotta
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: puts that chance away, then we can nearly compare them
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: like for like, but we shouldn't really do that because
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: it's five million difference in price point. I think Jota
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: is a gift to us at the moment, the way
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: that he played against Ipswich. Now I know that you've
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: got Darwin and Gagpo and these guys in the background,
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: but Darwin doesn't even get on the pitch in game
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: week one. He brings on Gagpo instead. I think that
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: front three of Das, who nobody's been talking about, because
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: he was the only one that didn't do anything, but
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: he was good in that game. The three of them, Das,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Jotter and Salah played so well together that moving forward,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: it does feel like you can have a little bit
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: more fun with your Liverpool pick, whereas your right kels.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: At the minute with man City, it's very hard to
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: look away from because you don't know who's going to
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: get the starts.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: So we all we're all happy. It sounds like we
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: all want Sala. Of course we want Sala. Who wouldn't
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: want Sala. You're not playing FPR right if you don't
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: want my salad quite frankly. But we're all pretty happy
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: with the way we based our team and the way
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: we set our team up, using Diogo Jottra as our
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Liverpool cover and going with Harland over him, and looking
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: at those fixtures now, Jewels and particularly starting with this week,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: if you haven't gone with Harland, if you've gone with
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the other one and just gone sala. You'd be pretty nervous,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: wouldn't you more nervous than we probably are not having
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: sala right now?
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I mean for City to win
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: the way they did that Chelsea with literally it looked
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: like they were in second gear the whole game. They
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: were just never panicking. They were in food control, even
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: when Chelsea were good, even when Nicol Jackson has that
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: chance one Niel in the second half. You know, all
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: of that City looked I just I don't know, they
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: look so imperioused I thought, and they were not even
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: fifty percent of what they could do, really, And now
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: the ad Gundoan back to the squads to have just
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: another option which is going to make it more difficult
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: for us, but another option for peb And and Foden
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: is going to ba to come back to full fitness walkers,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: so they're going to get even better and stronger. And
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: now we're just a bit more time. So I fear
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: for if switch. It's going to be a great day out.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: If you're a cheeran, go to Manchester. I mean I
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: was there yesterday. It was cloudy but it didn't rain.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Go have have fun. But you're going to get smashed,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: and if you get smashed, the Handling Highland is going
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: to probably have a bit of a feast. So this
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: is the way it is, you know. But yeah, I
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: think the whole game is going to keep talent.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Please. It's probably the most tricky fixture they'll have this season,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: but the wording.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Is going to be difficult for them. They get beaten heavily,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: That's what I meant. If they get beaten heavy.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: It's half against Liverpool in particular, I thought, I think
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: they can cause a few teams a few problems this year.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Do not agree sound totally.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: I actually was really impressed by which I'm not sure
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: whether they were playing on adrenaline in that.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: That'm so jealous of any that was there. Alict incredible den.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: I know right it was. It was a fantastic first
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: half of football. They were ips which were really impressive.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, hello, there are a few options
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: in this Ipswich team.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: You didn't go and.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Leave Davis in the end of you No, I didn't,
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: And actually, looking back on I was, I know I
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: should have done, but it'll be more fun if you had,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: I know, but maybe I might because remember.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe I will now I haven't got any defenders, so yeah.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: But my original one, no, my original plan was to
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: downgrade Poro at some stage anyway to a four point five,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: and I thought, by the time I want to do
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: that after game week two then leave Davis's fixtures.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Are really nice.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: But at points during pre season I had Hutchinson in
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: my team as well as a cheap option, and I
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: was quite impressed by him as well. I think there
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: are a number of options at Ipswich and we will
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: all be like, oh my goodness, it's the hardest picture
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: they're going to have this year in game we two
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: and it absolutely is. So I wouldn't recommend you do
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: it now. But from game week three onwards, they've got
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: a really nice block of fixtures where you could see
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: them getting some FBL points and maybe they're they're not
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: bad picks from that moment on, but I can't see
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: them getting much away at Manchester City.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: What is wrong? Something wrong?
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: But I was just offering some balance because it's a
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: pretty tricky start to the season for them, having Liverpool
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and then Manchester pretty much and I did think that
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: they I did think that they're really impressive at times
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: and there are team. As Sam said, in a few
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: game weeks, I'm sure we'll be talking about a little
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: bit more. Okay, I've digressed a lot and produced Jesse,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: I'm giving a bit of fame to quite a lot
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: on the podcast. Now hasn't next me yet, but at
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: some point we'll be like, this wasn't in the plan?
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Where are you going with this? Keep on, keep on
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: on target, well going talking of targets, top targets for
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: game week two. Interestingly, last season, twenty eight percent of
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: the overall managers signed up to FPL between game week
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: one and two. So if you have got a friend
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: or a family member or someone who's toying with starting
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: playing this season and they said, oh, I've already missed
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: a game week and what, it's not too late. It's
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: never too late, but particularly at this stage of the season,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: you're only going to be a few points behind. It'll
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: only take a few game weeks or one good captaincy
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: pick to catch up. So do do kind of encourage
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: people to join in top targets? So, Jules, who would
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: you be looking at this week if you were going
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: to go against Star Offce and maybe making early transfer.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: It's a tricky one. I think again after after game
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: week one, because you don't you don't have you don't
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: have this trend.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, we said, well begged did well, you had other
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: really good performers, but for they might blank in game
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: week two. It's just hard after just one game. I
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: guess if something didn't work in your team, so you've got,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: like you said, either somebody's flagged or injured or suspended
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: or has left the Premier League, has left the club
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: something like that, then you need to change. Depending on
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: if he's a defender, midfielder or forward. I think, as
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: we've been saying, a pick like then weall back, for
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: example at pone, if you're looking for that kind of
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: budget player, it's really good now that we know. For example,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: if you're looking for Liverpool defender and you can't afford
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: any Robertson or try Alexander Arnold and Virgin von Dyke,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: maybe Aconnactive would be a good pick because as we saw,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: he studied the ship in the second half. If switch
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: and you would start in game week two. So it's
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: just opportunities like that I think make it worth it
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: for people if really you want to change your squad,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I would again advise not to make too many changes
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: and not to go for too many different things for gamework. Two.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so we spent this whole podcast and don't
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: be too hasty with your transfers. Probably don't make one
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: this week. And then I've asked you which transfer you
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: would make, Sam, I'll make this a more pointed question.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: It seems like most people, if they are going to
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: make a transfer, it's because of those defensive issues that
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I spoke about. If you are looking for a cheap
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: defender to take the place of some of the players
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: that we've mentioned, your Barcoe Conzo, any of those maybe
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: even poorer if he's ruled out, who would you suggest
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: they look at? I mean, I think there's two ways
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: of looking at this.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: You either look at it by saying who's got the
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: best ficture this week? And if you're doing that, then
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: you're looking at a cheap asset from Spurs or Fulham,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: maybe even Southampton. So you've got you know, Van der Ven,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: You've got Robinson at Fulham. You've got maybe even Harvard
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Bellis at Southampton who's just four. So if you're looking
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: for a Barcoe replacement, you could go like for like
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: in terms of that position. But if you're building a
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: team from scratch, and if you are coming into it
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: ahead of game week two and that's going to be
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: your first week, then I think you have to look
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: at it slightly differently and you have to look slightly
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: more long term. If you're doing that, then the teams
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: that you're going to target are going to be different. Potentially,
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: you'd still got Fulham in there, so Robinson is looking
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: like a fantastic cheap option. But you've also got other
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: players from teams like Southampton who remain a nice pick
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: moving forward in terms of the fixtures anyway. But you
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: also get clubs like Crystal Palace and Chelsea who come
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: up with nice fixtures once we get a couple more
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: weeks down the lines. So looking at teams like them
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: and Aston Villa, who've got one of the most difficult
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: games coming up in game week two, but after that
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: really good fixtures, they're the kind of teams that I'd
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: be looking at. But for me right now, the standout
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: four point five is Anthony Robinson at for them.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: I totally agree that was the transfer I wish i'd done,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and I wish I had, but inadvertently I'm taking the
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: advice of this podcast, not through my actual own choice. Okay,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: time for Differential of the Week. Sam, Come on, then
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: you keep it tally of this. You've got your head
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: in your hands. Didn't start worlded it?
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Well, I blame you for this, cow Yeah, because last
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: week he went all strict and we're like, no, you
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: can't do this, and you can't.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Do a new season. You have to start a new
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: school term strict. That's what I'm doing. I'm doing hand
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: actions that demonstrate that I am cracking the whipth this season.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: To be fair, when I was back in my teaching days,
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: that was always my policy, start strict and then because
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: I'll be.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Like, do whatever you want. Yeah exactly.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: So you were like, we had two random differentials of
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: each last week. So Jaws ended up with how that happened, well,
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: because she randomly said we had to have two because
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: you weren't. We weren't supposed to have Jotta, but anyway,
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: we won't go back there. So you had Jotta and
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Mintas obviously got eight. Minta got four before going off,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: so eyes on him as well going into this week,
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: and I do I had Bowen and smith Row, both
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: of them great pis not great. Well, I still think
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: smith Row might be a great pick in fl moving forward.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: But wasn't a great difference.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: It was it was a bold It was a bold
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: pick for manu iced away on the opening day.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: It was Yeah, I mean he did go off before
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: the clean she went, so at least he got three
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: rather than two.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: But yeah, are we counting that as a return? Probably? No, No,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: we're not handing that as a return. So how many
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: get So I got five, I got twelve, So you
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: went this week?
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: But you know I'm leading in the mini league, so
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: we'll just do a role reversal for this time.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: We still got George just puffed his chest up, rubbed
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: his and it looks even worse because he's got like
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: a T shirt with some weird gold thing on. It
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: was like rubbing the gold bit as if if it
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: was like a trophy or something weird. So Jules has
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the upper hand there. Sam is just about leading.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Just very clever picks from George. That's what That's what
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, then which clever pick have you got for us
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: this week? When I can go first?
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, so this week I picked Jimmy Vardy obviously who's
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: having a party, a massive party.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Do you come for him because you look femie? No,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I haven't. I just thought it was random because Jamie VARDI.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Did you see?
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: There was a clip that the Premier League put out
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: of Jamie Vardy and they asked him the question that
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: they asked all Premier League players, why should people go
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: for you inn fpo And he went, don't waste your money?
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: And I loved it so much.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Did you enjoy his message to the Spurs fans as
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: he came now, I did enjoy his message to the
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Spurs fans and it literally was fueled by just Red
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Bull as he was drinking in the tunnel coming out
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: for the second half.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I wasn't happy with Jamie Vardy so but.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Vardy really scored one a good head that helped
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: by obviously the Spurs marking, as we know in our
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Spurs don't know how to mark people. But then he
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: could have scored a second one to referred to him
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: and I expected him to score that one even on
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: his left foot looked it looked good. He's thirty seven
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: years old. He can't play high intensity football for nineteen
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: minutes every single game of the season, so at some
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: point he would get raced, he would come off early,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: like we saw in the game on Monday night, but
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: aware Fulham where you would expect Fulham to have a
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: lot of the ball unless they can play on the
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: counter attack. I think this is perfect for Vardi five
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: point five million, owned by three point one percent of
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: the managers, eight points returning that first game against Spurs.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Could have been more, should have been more. So Yeah,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Jimmie party, to have another Jimmy party, Jimmy Vardy to
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: have another party at the weekend again.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Jamie party for Joe. What about you, Sam? So I
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: actually had two. One of them is completely out there,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: so I might just give.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: A just speak one that night, bring you some points.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Just okay.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: So this is a This is an absolute heart overhead
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: pick because you know, if in doubt Spurs and so
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: I've gone for Jane from Madison this week and so
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: he's only owned by four point eight percent of the
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: game and I spent all of pre season going don't
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: buy Madison. I don't think he's a great FPR pick.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: I think there are better picks at Spurs. All of
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: that stuff However, he actually impressed me against Leicester in
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: that first half. I thought he was really good. Spurs
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: called four times against game week two opponents Everton. Last
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: season he Madison missed the home game through injury, but
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: he did get an assist in the away fixture last
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: time around. He tends to base himself closer to the
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: left where Sun is and as a result of that,
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: I think that will be the side that Spurs identify
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: as Everton's weak point because that's where Ashley Young should
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: be and clearly he is suspended having got his red
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: card in game Week one, so I think there's most
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: likely to be more Spurs attacks down that side with
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Madison and Son. He also has the set piece threat.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Spurs had thirteen corners on Monday night. He took twelve
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: of them. Porridn't tech any, which was interesting to me.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: He only didn't take the thirteenth one because he wasn't
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: on the pitch when we got that one.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: The same with three kicks, he took three.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Of the four that we had and again I only
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: didn't take the last one because he wasn't on the
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: pitch at that point. And actually, when you look across
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: the Spurs team. Only Son had more touches in the
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: final third against Leicester on Monday than Madison did, so
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: it was very advanced on set uses. It's a nice
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: home fixture against an Everton defense that looked weaker. So
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: I've gone from Medisine.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: It's a really good pick after that. More seriously now,
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: because we talked earlier, I was as impressed as some
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: wise on Monday night buy medicine.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: To be fair, you to agree it's happened very often, to.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: The point that I thought about bringing him in into
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: my team for again week two and I would wait,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: I would wait here feel very yeah, no, no, no, no,
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: it's I agree it was. I thought it was really
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: really sharp physically too, and I was standing.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: I'm a bit said that you're going to go on
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: some I was going to say.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: Just just in case he does really well. My backup
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: pick was Flynn Downs from Southampton.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: He was yourself there though, because you've used it, because
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I don't like if you want to use Flint Downs again,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: just going to go no, no, no.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: You can't.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: But I just I'm just he's not my pick.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: I'm just making it out there because it's the fixture
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: that I'm I'm I'm kind of particularly like the first
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: home game of the season. Only three midfielders have more
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: creative more times.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, we're not going to be doing two
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: picks a week now a new podcast watch. It's just
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to get as many lessons
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: with let's transition just one podcast. You've agreed on that,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure you're going to agree on this
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: last bit Earling Harland captain. Do we need to have
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: a conversation? Probably not. Do we need to have a
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: conversation though, as they did on off the Bench about
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: a potential triple captain Julian.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Larron, Yeah, I think that's a better conversation to have.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: As we've said in the in our preview shows, we
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: know that because of the way that the FA Cup
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: will happen this season, we will have less double game
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: week for a team like City for example, will always
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: go very fine in the Cup, which means that they
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: might not be many, maybe not at all, double game
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: week for City and Harlan to play, and that's usually
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: where we play our a triple captain because you know,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: somebody like him with two games in the same week
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: that count for the same game week in the game,
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: then it's a lot of points that you can that
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: you can obviously travel. So if you forget about the
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: wole game week and just think about single game week.
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  Speaker 2: I mean if Switch at Home for City is a
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: game that you would expect him scored. The only thing
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: I would say, it's so early in the season that
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: I'm a bit skeptical about the triple Captain so early.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: This is if this game was in game week twelve,
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: I probably would play Triple Captain on Halands on game
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: week two. I'm not sure I will be just brave enough. Really,
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: that's that's all to do it. Because it's still so early.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's fully fully match fit. I think
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: if Shich have still a lot of energy and they
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: will fight a lot like they did against Liverpool in
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: that first half, So there might be a mistake and
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: he might score a hat trick and then the Triple
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Captain will be wise would have been wise. But I'm
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: not sure I'm brave.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Enough now if he blanks It's a long old season
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: to regret that decision for, isn't it. That's the way
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: I look at it. But you all know I like
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: leaving my Chips quite late. It's no surprise I've not
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: even considered it some of you.
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  Speaker 3: I considered it fleetingly, and my decision came down to
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: that I don't think Manchester City are yet Manchester City
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  Speaker 3: like you. They've got a lot of players still coming
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: back from the summer, and I just think in three
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: four five game weeks time that Manchester City team, their
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: performances will be significantly better to.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: What they might be now.
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  Speaker 3: And that's saying something because they've played well against Chelsea
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: and they dominated in terms of they controlled that game
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: really nicely, and I think that they'll do the same
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: this time. But I just think further into the season
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: we'll see it a better Manchester City side when you've
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: got the Roder's and the Fodens and everybody match of
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: it and back in the team and knowing what everybody
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: is doing. Whereas right now I have just a few
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: niggles about man City, not in terms of them winning,
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: but just in terms of are they fully up to
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: speed right now?
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  Speaker 1: And because of that.
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  Speaker 3: That makes me want to leave the Chip until I
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: know I've got a team in perfect form and a
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: player in perfect form, because that feels like the best
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: combination for playing that Shipple cut.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, if you don't have Harlan, so we're all going
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: to captain him. We're not going to triple captain him
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  Speaker 1: if you were one of those brave managers that didn't
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: go with Harland this season. By the way, over two
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty seven thousand managers have currently triple captain him.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: So's that triple captain on him. That's credit for numbers
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: for us. Yeah, that's just the active chips.
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  Speaker 3: But I would be very surprised if many of those
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: are going anywhere other than on Harlem.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: It's quite early for that many triple captains to be active,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah, it's a big week for triple captains.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of managers are looking at it
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: potentially with a view that you know, how often maybe
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: with the rolling of the transfers thing, people are thinking, well,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: maybe I won't always have Harlan in my team. Maybe
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: I'll be swapping around the premiums and saving transfers here
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: and there. So now I've got Harlan.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: He says he's in the best form ever going into
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: the season, and he's fully fit and all of that stuff,
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: and it's a really great fixture and it's a home fixture,
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  Speaker 3: so I can see why people are doing it, and
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  Speaker 3: it is a big number of people and it will
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  Speaker 3: undoubtedly go up as we get.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Closer to the deay line as well. Okay, so if
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: you aren't triple captaining Harland or if you can't, aren't
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: captain him. And what I'm starting to say before was
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: if you don't have him in your tea jels, who
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: would be the best other option. I'm thinking that if
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: you don't have Horland in your team, you're likely to
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: have Salad. You're probably captain him.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Do you think, yeah, Salah makes sense one of the
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: Liverpool one of Salah I think the most informed. Really,
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: if you want to go for an Arsenal player like
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: a Saka Harvard to wear a Villa on the late
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: game on Saturday, that will be brave really because again
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: this this is going to be a really tough game.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Remember Arsenal lost over there last season. Even if they
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: played really well and probably deserve more than that defeat.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: New Canst wear Bornmouth again to go back to our
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Issac pig. That's tricky. So yeah, I think it makes
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: sense if you don't have if you don't want if
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: you don't have Holland, or you don't want Harland, this
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: captain to go with one of the Liverpool boys.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Do you agree, Sam? And I'm wondering if, if, maybe,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: if you don't have Horland, a lot of people might
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: have Fodon or might be bringing Phoden in now that
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: he's kind of back. Could he be another option against Ipswich.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Phone will get the start against it
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: Switch in game week two. I would expect that he would.
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: So if you don't have Harlan, but you have Phone
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: and you could absolutely go there. I agree with Jews
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: on the Jotta and the salapis. I also think that
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: the Spurs attack is probably a decent differential punt for
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: the captaincy against Everton. I also think that Esak could
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: still be a good captaincy punt in game week two, though,
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: because in reality the reason that he doesn't get more
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: points probably falls at Fabian Shah's feet a little bit
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: for that red card, because the game fundamentally changed and
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: like Southampton conceded the fewest chances in game week one,
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: which is madness when you think about how we were
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: all like, oh, it could be an absolute hatful for Newcastle.
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: Games change on sendings off and it definitely changed the
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: way that Newcastle attacked, whereas going into game week two,
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: I would expect that they wouldn't be kind of so
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: chained up, I guess in terms of the attack. So yeah,
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: I think he could still be an option, but Liverpool
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: or another Manchester City attacker if it's foed and they
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: feel like the obvious ones.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah they do indeed. Okay, so I think we're all set.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: No transfers across the pod, is that correct. We're all
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: taking our own advice and being patient, and we're all
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: captaining not triple captaining Harland. We're quite original this week. Okay,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: So that's where we all leave it. Thanks as always, guys.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: Also I should say a quick thank you. I'm not
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: if you're watching on YouTube, you'll notice I'm not in
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: my usual place. I'm actually at a Premier League football club.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: I'm at let's get this.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Out working now.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: I'm hosting an event here later today, so big thank
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: you to them for lending me the space to do
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: the podcast this morning. I just feel a bit bad
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: now that we haven't spoken about any of their FPL players,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: but I'm sure we will at some point during the season, Sam,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: do you want me to pass on the thanks for
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: them giving you forward? Give them a big hug and
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: say thank you very much for me. It was a
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: I will do potentially though. Some exciting signings happening here
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: at Bournemouth. We didn't get time to speak about them
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: this week, but I get the feeling we will be
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: talking about them in the coming weeks. But that's why
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: we all leave at a reminder, your deadline is eleven
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: am on Saturday. That's ninety minutes ahead of Brighton versus
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: Manchester United. The Saturday morning Panic is back, especially if
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: you know is Kelly Summers. A reminder off the bench
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: is also back with you throughout this season. It was
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: with us on Monday, and this week it will be
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Johnny and Praz talking you through all the game week
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: to talking points. I also feel quite bad because obviously
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: I present the Fantasy Show, the TV show, and I
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: haven't mentioned once that that's been back. We've already done
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: two shows of that and we will be back on Friday.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: And I'm told there's going to be a familiar face
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: alongside me on the sofa. Sam, It's me already your
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: second appearance of the season as well, so if you
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: haven't had enough of Sam Kelly, make sure you tune
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: in in the UK that will be on Sky Sports
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: and TNT. It will also be on the Premier League
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: website app and if you're listening around the world check
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: out the listings. I don't know exactly where it goes
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: out in every country, but it does go out somewhere,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: so please do join us for that and myself, Sam
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: and George will be back together as always next Thursday
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: in your podcast feed. We do love it if he
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: rates and review, and also don't forget to join us
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: in that FPL pod Mini League. The very best of
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: luck and remember Captain Harland we might regret it. By bye.