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S7 Ep28: FPL Pod: Is this the week not to captain Salah? · FPL Pod

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Speaker 1: A bonus FPL pod For a bonus midweek round, we
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Speaker 1: dissect the FA Cup fallout preview the week's big matches.
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Speaker 1: Sam continues her love of Pallace and none of us
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Speaker 1: are captain in Salah. Well, good morning everyone, Happy Monday.
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Speaker 1: It's the thirteenth of January. And I'm going to say
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Speaker 1: it because I feel like we are the real heroes
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Speaker 1: of this week. It's seven am and we are bringing
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Speaker 1: the FBL Ford to you. When I say we, I
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Speaker 1: do of course mean Kelly Summers alongside Sam Bonfield and
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Speaker 1: Julian Larron. We are here because, of course there is
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Speaker 1: another game week, game Week twenty one, which is a
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Speaker 1: midweek deadline this week six pm on Tuesday, the fourteenth January,
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Speaker 1: a full round of Premier League actions, so plenty for
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Speaker 1: us to get into. And actually, I think I'll come
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Speaker 1: to you first on this sum because we were both
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Speaker 1: a bit annoyed with our teams last week. It's actually
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Speaker 1: quite nice, isn't it to have had a weekend to
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Speaker 1: kind of simmer down, think about what we're going to
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Speaker 1: do and not be quite so angry going into a
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Speaker 1: new game week. Yeah, but I did find that I
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Speaker 1: was watching the FA Cup matches, thinking please don't get injured,
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Speaker 1: Please don't get injured, because I don't want to deal
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Speaker 1: with my FPL team with them mill in and one injury.
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Speaker 1: So there was a lot of that going on as
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Speaker 1: I was watching the FA Cup this weekend. But it
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Speaker 1: was nice not to be stressing about how many points
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Speaker 1: has everyone got in this game and just be able
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Speaker 1: to watch the games. Does it not make you angry though,
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Speaker 1: when one of your players in FPL or something like
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Speaker 1: that score when Gabrielle scored, I was like, why not
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Speaker 1: do that in midweek? Mate? Come on? Yeah? I did
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Speaker 1: exactly the same when my players were scoring. I was like, man,
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Speaker 1: come on, what are you doing? Save that? Trent? I
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Speaker 1: was like, saved up for the Premier League? Please?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just think about momentum though. They carry that momentum
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Speaker 2: into the league in midweek, so it's good for their
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Speaker 2: confidence and then they're going to do well for you
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Speaker 2: in midweek.
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Speaker 1: That's what we needed, mister positive on this Monday morning. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it is a very good point. It is a very
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Speaker 1: good point. Indeed, I'm not sure how much momentum Arsenal
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Speaker 1: will have after going wat and penalties, but you never know. Jews.
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Speaker 1: Let's touch upon what happened in the FA Cup then
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Speaker 1: our resident mister I watch everything. What of the main
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Speaker 1: takeaways from the weekend to go into the week.
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Speaker 2: Well, I was side Brandford. If you're a Brandthon fans,
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Speaker 2: we were very sorry because that was the the only
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Speaker 2: really big upset them. Losing at home to Plymouth at
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Speaker 2: home would have been so so good. And even if
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Speaker 2: he was a beat him initially from Thomas Frank, some
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Speaker 2: better players came on late and that even could not
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Speaker 2: couldn't serve them. Sam just mentioned Liverpool and Trent that
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Speaker 2: was a really good win for them called trends called
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Speaker 2: a lovely, lovely goal Arsenal against Manchester United where you
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Speaker 2: were Kelly, where we were Kelly not a good depth
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Speaker 2: for ka I have it so the Gabrielle scored as
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Speaker 2: you said, good, I guess for Amom and Marster United
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Speaker 2: Brunos called a lovely gold. The left was very good
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Speaker 2: at the back as well, if you have them in
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Speaker 2: you FPL team Ases scored again for Crystal Palace, which
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Speaker 2: is good. We had a win for Spurs. It took
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Speaker 2: a long time, Sam Kuluzevski, Bran Johnson on the Scoreshitt,
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Speaker 2: which again is good for the confidence going into the
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Speaker 2: Arsenal game in midweek. Big win for City Jack Greenish
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Speaker 2: family scoring after almost a year without scoring, so it
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Speaker 2: was pretty good, I guess from a from a liak
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Speaker 2: point of your Newcastle with the win after a little
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Speaker 2: scar at the beginning against Bromley go than scoring, he's
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Speaker 2: not involved in the game.
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Speaker 1: What about the injuries so Sam, because you mentioned did
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Speaker 1: they spend the whole weekend worrying? For me? The one
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Speaker 1: that's it was kind of before the FA Cup game
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Speaker 1: is Juil Pedro, though he did provide a positive update
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Speaker 1: on social media after brightenswint Norwich, didn't he But yeah,
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Speaker 1: what about the other injuries? Yeah, there were a few,
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Speaker 1: weren't there And we saw a minisc off at halftime
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Speaker 1: and apparently that was to do with his back. So
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Speaker 1: maybe that makes Raw Jim and Az a little bit
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Speaker 1: more interesting to us in Flo. I've been backwards and
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Speaker 1: forward since our last podcast on who to replace Evanilson with,
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Speaker 1: and Raw Jiminez is one of my big contenders for
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Speaker 1: that position, so that made me feel a little bit
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Speaker 1: better about potentially going there. Obviously, Gabby Jasus went off
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Speaker 1: injured in the Arsenal game. That's going to be frustrating
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Speaker 1: for a lot of managers because there were a lot
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Speaker 1: of managers a couple of game weeks ago who went
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Speaker 1: for him as a bit of a differential route into
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Speaker 1: that Arsenal attack, and so to see him stretched off
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Speaker 1: will be a worry to those managers. As you said, Jell,
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Speaker 1: Pedro looking like he's probably okay on the back of
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Speaker 1: that that tweek that we had and Esac, I think
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Speaker 1: it's just a rest because we did seem to get
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Speaker 1: some positive updates already how at the back end of
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Speaker 1: last week. But we'll just have to see how he is.
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Speaker 1: Obviously it's not an injury that picked up in the Cup,
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Speaker 1: but nonetheless it's there. And then fall Krook I felt
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Speaker 1: like really really sorry, I know, but I felt really
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Speaker 1: really sorry for Potter because they were actually playing quite
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Speaker 1: well and then all of a sudden there's just injuries left,
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Speaker 1: right and center across that west Ham team. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: it'd be interesting to see who plays up top for
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Speaker 1: west Ham moving forward over the next few weeks, because
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Speaker 1: now without Bowen and Antonio Folkrook as well, there is
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Speaker 1: a few injuries to contend with heading into this midway ground. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the news about grim Potter was announced after we recorded
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Speaker 1: the podcast on Thursday. It had been mutia for a while,
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Speaker 1: hadn't it, But it was confirmed. We did get to
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Speaker 1: see very early signs of his side in action against
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Speaker 1: aston Villa and as Sam mentioned, their jewels, they did
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Speaker 1: play really well, didn't They obviously took the lead in
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Speaker 1: that one. Has that given us any food for thought
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Speaker 1: in FPL? Obviously we know Jared Bowen is still out injured.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I thought it was good for certainly for
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Speaker 2: the first half and then there were under pressure and
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Speaker 2: it's just I think normal when you've gone your manager
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Speaker 2: that the whole there's not just that consistency over the
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Speaker 2: whole nineteen minutes for example, especially with the injuries that
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Speaker 2: we've mentioned already. They will have two home games for
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Speaker 2: him to start or to restart his promeric career if
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Speaker 2: you want, against Fulham and Crystal Palace. So not the
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Speaker 2: easiest of games, but you would expect that home west
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Speaker 2: Ham to be able to do to do well at
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Speaker 2: least for him. Let's see what he changes and what
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Speaker 2: he doesn't change, and if we see a very different
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Speaker 2: west time to what we saw Undelopti, which was a
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Speaker 2: big chaotic At times some really good things, others they
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Speaker 2: were shambolic and Potter will will have to bring that
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Speaker 2: consistency and be more maybe normality in what they want
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Speaker 2: to do as a team. It won't be easy with
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Speaker 2: the injuries just mentioned, but at least to have two
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Speaker 2: home games to start with, which is the same for
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Speaker 2: most By the way Everton is really Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Moys as well was an interesting one because Sam we've
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Speaker 1: spoken or we spoke in December, didn't we about every
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Speaker 1: since fixtures being good and whether we wanted to invest
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Speaker 1: particularly defensively. And he is another not the same type
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Speaker 1: of coach as Dish, but he is also going to
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Speaker 1: make them quite solid defensively, isn't he.
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I think you know that's one of his key
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Speaker 1: strengths as a managers, so I'd expect them to be
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Speaker 1: fairly solid. Pickford and Branthwaite probably be quite important in
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Speaker 1: his system. And you know we know that when Brandthway
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Speaker 1: plays that he makes Everton's defense so much better as
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Speaker 1: it is. It'll be interesting to see how he gets
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Speaker 1: the best out of those attacking players though, because that's
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Speaker 1: been their real struggle this season is that they haven't
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Speaker 1: really got going in the attacking areas of the pitch.
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Speaker 1: Dwight McNeill has been good when he's not been injured,
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Speaker 1: but other than that, there's been a real lack of
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Speaker 1: not just goal scoring, but goal scoring opportunities. I think
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Speaker 1: for Everton, so a couple of nice home fixtures. Well
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Speaker 1: one of them's against Spurs, but that's Burs defense is
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Speaker 1: gettable at but yeah, good home fixtures to start and
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Speaker 1: I think when you're a new manager, starting at home
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Speaker 1: is always always a positive because it gets you kind
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Speaker 1: of going in front of the home crowd. So I'm
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Speaker 1: quite intrigued by both of these managers and I think
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Speaker 1: both of them have potential to do well at these
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Speaker 1: two clubs. And they're both managers that are now on
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Speaker 1: my assistant manager Chip radar moving forward because both will
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Speaker 1: have the benefit of being lower down in the league
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Speaker 1: and the potential for those additional points for wins against
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Speaker 1: teams five places above them. Yeah, we do need to
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Speaker 1: talk about the assistant manager Chip because the prices have
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Speaker 1: been revealed, but just before we do that, a reminder
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Speaker 1: of the fixtures that both these new managers are going
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Speaker 1: to have at the start of their tenure at their
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Speaker 1: respective clubs. For west Ham and Graham Potter it's Fulham
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Speaker 1: at home this midweek, then Crystal Palace at home on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: Then it's Villa away, Chelsea away, Brentford at home, Arsenal way,
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Speaker 1: then Lester home. I could go the rest of the season,
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Speaker 1: I'm not, but you get you get the fieling with them.
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Speaker 1: It's it's a little bit mixed for Everton, as you mentioned, Sam,
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Speaker 1: two home fixers to start with, Villa at home on Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: then Tottenham at home. Then it's Brighton away, Leicester home,
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Speaker 1: Palace away, Manchester United at home. So yeah, mixed as well,
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Speaker 1: but some nice fixtures in there that potentially we could
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Speaker 1: make the most of as FPR managers. Okay, then the assistant.
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Speaker 1: We actually spoke about this on the pod on Thursday
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Speaker 1: and this was prior to knowing the manager prices. You
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Speaker 1: already mentioned a couple on your radar, Sam, so I'll
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Speaker 1: come to your first duels. Any particular price points that
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Speaker 1: caught your eye.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean for the people who haven't seen it yet.
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Speaker 2: There's four categories, which is kind of what we expected
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Speaker 2: to divide the league into. Into four, you've got the
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Speaker 2: five big clubs, let's put it that way, or five
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Speaker 2: of the biggest if you want that, those managers will
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Speaker 2: go to one point five million, So Slot and Arteta
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Speaker 2: and Guardiola, Maresca and Eddie how those are the five
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Speaker 2: most expensive and I guess it's probably fair. Then you've
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Speaker 2: got the one point one million one, which is the
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Speaker 2: rest of the top ten basically, so the other five
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Speaker 2: after that in the table, so Born with Iraola, No
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Speaker 2: and Notingham Forest for example, those kind of managers. Then
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Speaker 2: you've got the zero point eight and the zero point five,
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Speaker 2: which is basically the rest of the league, so from
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Speaker 2: eleven to twenty. So in there you could find an
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Speaker 2: Imor for example zero and aid, which I think is
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Speaker 2: a is a very interesting price for him. You can
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Speaker 2: find a Ruben I'm more Ina Zeropon eight million as well,
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Speaker 2: Postoco glu I believe it's probably zero point eight some
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Speaker 2: or maybe he's in the one point one. And then
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Speaker 2: Potter and more is, as sum already mentioned, a zero
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Speaker 2: point five. So the more cost you much and potentially
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Speaker 2: if they turn things around with west Ham and Everton,
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Speaker 2: there might be something interesting that for you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I was Actually I'm not just saying
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Speaker 1: this to copy of Sam so now I often get
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Speaker 1: used to copying on this podcast, but when poster came
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Speaker 1: out at zero point five particularly, that did stand out
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Speaker 1: to me because, as we've said before, if you get
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Speaker 1: the right block of fixtures, if you find some form there,
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Speaker 1: it's really interesting. Yeah, the point five's that he's like
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Speaker 1: competing with if you've only got point five. So the
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Speaker 1: cheapest managers Ivan You'rerich at Southampton, Vanista Roy at Leicester,
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Speaker 1: McKenna at Ipswich and Moy's as you mentioned at Everton,
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Speaker 1: so yeah, I don't know, Moys might be an option
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Speaker 1: as well, but basically it's the newly promoted clubs West
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Speaker 1: ham and Everton. Yeah, and I think for me, when
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Speaker 1: I saw the list, I was like, I am definitely
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Speaker 1: going to go budget with this because the budget managers
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Speaker 1: feel like they've got the most potential upside. Yeah, they're
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Speaker 1: the ones that have got the places to rise above them,
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Speaker 1: so you've got the potential for those additional points. So
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Speaker 1: when I was looking at it, Potter massively stood out
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Speaker 1: to me because this is a West Hampton that we
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Speaker 1: know can score goals and obviously you get additional points
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Speaker 1: for the goal scoring and more goals you score. It's
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Speaker 1: a west Ham team that has the potential to massively
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Speaker 1: turn their season around under Potter and Rise, So I
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Speaker 1: like those. I also think there's quite a few in
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Speaker 1: the no. Point eight category that I really like. You
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Speaker 1: just have to make sure that how you pick them,
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Speaker 1: you really think careful about what does that block of
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Speaker 1: three fixtures does look like? How do I make sure
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Speaker 1: that I, as far as possible exploit the potential for
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Speaker 1: wins with multiple goals an clean sheets, and how do
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Speaker 1: I take as little budget as I can out of
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Speaker 1: the rest of my team, because I kind of feel
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Speaker 1: like at the moment we're starting to have a tightening
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Speaker 1: up of budgets, particularly if Harlan or one of the
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Speaker 1: man City players comes back into our conversation about having
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Speaker 1: to own them, then finding the budget and the assistant
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Speaker 1: manager is going to be really important. So there are
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Speaker 1: a couple in the one point one category that I
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Speaker 1: think are interesting, like Postacoglo being there is is interesting
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Speaker 1: because Spurs are struggling a little bit at the moment,
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Speaker 1: and so if we can get a run together, then
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Speaker 1: maybe you can exploit that five position thing again but
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Speaker 1: I think it's the noe point eights and the nzero
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Speaker 1: point five's that are really interesting.
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Speaker 2: Can the manager price has got this?
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Speaker 1: I was just thinking that, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Because obviously if Pottterton things are run very quickly, I
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Speaker 2: might go from zero point five to what The.
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Speaker 1: Other problem with that is for the lights of us
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Speaker 1: who are leaving it till the end of the season.
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Speaker 1: Are we going to get penalized by leaving until the
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Speaker 1: end of manager prices go up? I think I think
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Speaker 1: they're stark. I think they're static. I don't think that
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Speaker 1: they're changing them at the assistant manager prices. I think
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Speaker 1: it's it's a case of this is what they are
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Speaker 1: and that's where they Otherwise it would be an incentive
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Speaker 1: to use it earlier, wouldn't it if Yeah, that was
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Speaker 1: the case. Yeah. So Sam's mentioned a few of the
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Speaker 1: teams at the various point price points I wanted to go.
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Speaker 1: I mentioned the specific ones at the cheapest price point,
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Speaker 1: and now let's go to the most expensive ones. Because
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Speaker 1: we spoke out last week on the pod about which way,
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Speaker 1: and Sam said it will divide a lot of people
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Speaker 1: whether you go cheaper and you gamble a little bit,
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Speaker 1: or if you go for the managers that are most
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Speaker 1: likely to get wins. You've got in the one point
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Speaker 1: five category as you'd expect honest Slot at Liverpool. You
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Speaker 1: probably also expect mikel Arteta at Arsenal, Enzo Maresca at Chelsea,
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Speaker 1: Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and anyhow Newcastle as well.
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Speaker 1: Would you still be tempted to pay a little bit
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Speaker 1: more to go for one of those rules or are
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Speaker 1: you still thinking it's better to kind of gamble and
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Speaker 1: save a bit of money.
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Speaker 2: No, I mean we said it last week. I think
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Speaker 2: it depends if you want to protect your rank and
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Speaker 2: then play it safe, which is which is absolutely fine
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Speaker 2: if you feel like you need to get as many
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Speaker 2: points as you can and you're ready to take a
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Speaker 2: few more risks because you know that Arnest Slot who's
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Speaker 2: lost one one league game all season, if you go
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Speaker 2: with him for three games in a row, especially if
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Speaker 2: those three games are you know, a decent game. So
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Speaker 2: if you don't play Arsenal, I think there's a there's
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Speaker 2: three games in a row for Liverpool where it's quite tough.
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Speaker 2: But if you find three games in a row for
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Speaker 2: Liverpool that are decent fixtures for them, you know, this
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Speaker 2: could be three wins and it might not get you
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Speaker 2: maximum points with this chip, but at least you're safe.
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Speaker 2: It will be secure. It'd be more points and that
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Speaker 2: probably be enough to protect your rank. If you're in
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Speaker 2: a position where you're chasing, it's very different, and as
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Speaker 2: we said, it would be probably more fun to take
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Speaker 2: a few more risks with this chip and go for
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Speaker 2: something different. I mean, to be fair, right, I mean,
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Speaker 2: if you were right now Guardiola six with City potentially
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Speaker 2: if they beat teams above them, and if they have
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Speaker 2: you know, when you face us on again, that might
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Speaker 2: be something interesting that you could do, especially if City,
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Speaker 2: you're feeling, are getting back close to their best. So
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Speaker 2: it's up to you. And let's remember again that you can.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to keep the same manager for the
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Speaker 2: three games in a row. You can if you have
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Speaker 2: enough free transfers or ready to take a minugs for
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Speaker 2: then you can. You can change your manager each time. Really,
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Speaker 2: so you don't have to always look at this book
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Speaker 2: of three fixtures for one manager. It could be one
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Speaker 2: is Slot, the next one is Potter, and the next
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Speaker 2: one is Mos and then you maximize as much as
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Speaker 2: possible the chip.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, of course a reminder again you don't have
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Speaker 1: to stick with the same manager for the three game weeks,
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Speaker 1: but the same rules as if you're transferring out players
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Speaker 1: to apply, you just use up a transfer. Okay, then
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Speaker 1: that comes in in game week twenty four. Before then,
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Speaker 1: we've got a few game weeks to contend with. So
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Speaker 1: let's take a look at game week twenty one. I'm
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Speaker 1: just going to read you the fixture list because if
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Speaker 1: you're anything like me at this time of year, you've
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Speaker 1: kind of got particularly working on the FA Cup like
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Speaker 1: I've been. And when I did Match to the Day
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Speaker 1: on Saturday and we were across thirty odd games, it's
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Speaker 1: just absolutely bonkers. So let's was it thirty games? I
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Speaker 1: don't know how many, No, it was about twenty whatever.
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Speaker 1: It felt like a lot of games. It just might
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Speaker 1: mean that you don't exactly know who's playing this week,
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Speaker 1: so I'll run through it very quickly for you. On Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: Brentford versus Manchester City, Chelsea, Bournemouth, west Ham, Fulham, Forest Liverpool.
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Speaker 1: On Wednesday, it's Everton, Aston Villa, Leicester Palace, Newcastle against Wolves,
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Speaker 1: Arsenal against Spurs in the North London. Are we then
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Speaker 1: two games on Thursday, Ipswich taking on Brighton and Manchester
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Speaker 1: United welcoming Southampton. That last fixture that I said, given
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Speaker 1: how Manchester United performed yesterday, is really standing out to me.
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Speaker 1: Sam United versus Southampton. Some people tentatively invested in in
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Speaker 1: ruben amor inside. I'm wondering if that's going to change,
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Speaker 1: given their last few performances and given the fixture they've
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Speaker 1: got this week. I was about to say weekend this week, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I am. I've sold both of my Manchester United assets
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Speaker 1: over the last few weeks because I was had Bruna
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Speaker 1: Fernandez who then got suspended and I sold him going
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Speaker 1: into that one, and then last week I sold Diego Dallo,
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Speaker 1: which actually, now given he's now suspended for midweek, actually
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem that terrible. So that's one thing to be
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Speaker 1: mindful of if you do have Dallo. He will be
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Speaker 1: missing from Thursday's game because of his his red cards
15:51
Speaker 1: in the FA Cup. But yeah, I think so. I
15:54
Speaker 1: think Bruno Fernandez worked incredibly hard in that game against
15:58
Speaker 1: Arsenal in the FA Cup. He played probably one of
16:01
Speaker 1: his better performances that I've seen so far this season,
16:04
Speaker 1: really really nice goal in there for United as well.
16:07
Speaker 1: I think it's really the opposition, isn't it that you'd
16:11
Speaker 1: be investing in for that Southampton game when you're looking
16:13
Speaker 1: at how well the teams are playing. This is an
16:16
Speaker 1: opportunity for Manage United to build on the winning the
16:19
Speaker 1: FA Cup and to target a team that have been
16:21
Speaker 1: really struggling in the league. So this should be a
16:24
Speaker 1: moment where when you're looking at the players to invest
16:28
Speaker 1: in four game week twenty one, that you look at
16:30
Speaker 1: Manti United quite carefully. Now, Bruno Fernandez is maybe harder
16:34
Speaker 1: for some people to get to because of the price
16:35
Speaker 1: point and the fact that you've got free up a
16:37
Speaker 1: little bit of money, but players like Amad should be
16:40
Speaker 1: fairly fairly easy to target if you want to. But
16:44
Speaker 1: I still think i'd steer clear of that defense. And
16:46
Speaker 1: it's just really those two that I'd be focusing in
16:49
Speaker 1: on if I was going to go through a United
16:51
Speaker 1: player in midweek. George, regular listeners will know you are
16:53
Speaker 1: the hardest man in the world persuade if you want
16:56
Speaker 1: to buy any Manchester United players. Has anything changed yet?
16:59
Speaker 2: I'm not sure sure. I mean, I think they will
17:01
Speaker 2: win against Southampton. I don't know how well, they're going
17:04
Speaker 2: to play defensively. They were good against Liverpool and Arsenal
17:07
Speaker 2: and we've always said it's probably easier to put a
17:09
Speaker 2: good defensive structure together if you're a manager than anything
17:13
Speaker 2: with the board going forwards. But we'll see. The thing
17:17
Speaker 2: is they play Brighton at home, so they've got back
17:19
Speaker 2: to back home games, which is good. I guess usually
17:23
Speaker 2: Old Trafford, although lately we've seen obviously Wolves going there
17:27
Speaker 2: and win. I think born With went then win too,
17:29
Speaker 2: so it's not given. And then they play Brighton at
17:33
Speaker 2: the weekends, so Satum done and Brighton at home and
17:36
Speaker 2: then away Fulham. I'm so I think I'll wait. I'm
17:39
Speaker 2: still not too convinced yet this is the right team
17:42
Speaker 2: to invest in, considering all the options that we have
17:44
Speaker 2: to be fair.
17:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also Sam, it's actually interesting because when Jels
17:47
Speaker 1: mentioned United's next fixture as well, it kind of you
17:50
Speaker 1: do have to bear in mind, don't you that there's
17:52
Speaker 1: such a short turn around from midweek to the weekend.
17:55
Speaker 1: It's not a double game week, but I imagine there's
17:57
Speaker 1: an element of almost considering both fixtures or I mean,
18:01
Speaker 1: we should never bring a player in you for just
18:02
Speaker 1: one fixture, I know, but particularly when it's a mid
18:04
Speaker 1: week and then weekend around. Yeah, I tend to look
18:08
Speaker 1: at midweek rounds as a double game week. And you
18:11
Speaker 1: won't get the double game week points obviously because they're
18:13
Speaker 1: two separate weeks. But when you're thinking about how you
18:16
Speaker 1: set up your team moving forward, I always think that
18:19
Speaker 1: it's a useful strategy because it means, barring injuries and
18:23
Speaker 1: suspensions and all of that stuff which we know can happen,
18:26
Speaker 1: you're setting your team up then for the two games
18:28
Speaker 1: in that week. And given we've just had the FA
18:31
Speaker 1: Cup as well, I think that's increasingly important to make
18:34
Speaker 1: sure that you do that. So for me, I really
18:37
Speaker 1: like this midweek fixture. I worry a little bit about
18:40
Speaker 1: the extra time and penalties that we've just had, like
18:44
Speaker 1: that can take a lot out of players. They're going
18:45
Speaker 1: to have to have a sightly new system with Dallo missing,
18:48
Speaker 1: who fits in at the back in that slot? Do
18:51
Speaker 1: we see a sight change of position for our ad
18:53
Speaker 1: who starts up top? Is it Zexy, is it Hoylan?
18:56
Speaker 1: Like there's a lot of kind of unknowns heading into
18:58
Speaker 1: the midweek, and we maybe see a little bit of
19:00
Speaker 1: rotation around that squad, so it's definitely something to be
19:03
Speaker 1: mindfulow of. It's definitely something that puts me off this
19:06
Speaker 1: team because we haven't got two really nice fixtures, but
19:09
Speaker 1: we have got one great one in midweek. Okay, which
19:12
Speaker 1: other fixtures stand out to you? Choose them?
19:14
Speaker 2: Forest Liverpool Obviously that's the main one, considering the team
19:19
Speaker 2: first and third facing each other, the only team has
19:21
Speaker 2: bet in Liverpool in the league so far this season.
19:24
Speaker 2: It's going to be great. I mean great. I think
19:27
Speaker 2: we know exactly what kind of game we're going to
19:29
Speaker 2: see because Forrest, probably even more than ever we play with,
19:34
Speaker 2: they're very strong defense and how compact they've been and
19:38
Speaker 2: play on the counter, and Liverpool will have a lot
19:39
Speaker 2: of the ball and I yeah, I good luck to
19:43
Speaker 2: Liverpool to break down that defense. They might well do it,
19:46
Speaker 2: but it won't be easy for them, I guess. The
19:49
Speaker 2: other one is the Chelsea one with game again like
19:52
Speaker 2: a Top seven clash facing each other, and which I
19:57
Speaker 2: think will be interesting, not easy for my own going
20:00
Speaker 2: this Chelsea boys.
20:01
Speaker 1: Okay, let's dive into those fixtures a little bit more.
20:04
Speaker 1: Forest versus Liverpool. Samma's both of us are doubly treble
20:08
Speaker 1: invested in Liverpool. I kind of don't really count the
20:10
Speaker 1: Salad because everyone's got him. It's kind of like salar
20:13
Speaker 1: and then maybe you've got another player. We went with
20:16
Speaker 1: Trent and Diaz and we were a little bit worried
20:18
Speaker 1: about probably both of those, weren't we really After the
20:20
Speaker 1: game against Manchester United, they obviously got the big win
20:23
Speaker 1: against a Crington Stanley, but like I said, I was
20:26
Speaker 1: working on the games on Saturday and someone did say
20:28
Speaker 1: off camera it's great for Liverpool, but we do have
20:31
Speaker 1: to bear in mind they're not going to play at
20:32
Speaker 1: Crington Stanley each week. Particularly when we look at Trent
20:35
Speaker 1: Alexander Arnold. I was concerned when I saw that Alexander
20:39
Speaker 1: Ronold was starting because it felt like there was a
20:40
Speaker 1: lot of changes for Liverpool and not a second string
20:44
Speaker 1: but almost a second string, and he was starting. How
20:47
Speaker 1: did you feel come full time? Yeah, I must admit
20:50
Speaker 1: it worried me a little bit. Looking at that team sheet.
20:53
Speaker 1: I was expecting mass rotation from Liverpool, but I was
20:57
Speaker 1: also potentially expecting Connor Bradley to see Connordley's name there
21:00
Speaker 1: instead of Trends and maybe Trent comes on if needed.
21:04
Speaker 1: But then equally, maybe I'm not surprised because Connor Bradley
21:06
Speaker 1: got the start in midweek and he is just coming
21:08
Speaker 1: back from injury, so maybe two starts in such quick succession.
21:11
Speaker 1: At his comments kind of suggested that and that made
21:13
Speaker 1: me feel a little bit better exactly. Yea, And I
21:15
Speaker 1: think looking at the team sheet, if you just look
21:17
Speaker 1: at the team sheet, you go, oh, gosh, does that
21:18
Speaker 1: means going to not start him? Do you notice that
21:20
Speaker 1: every FPR manager on social media had an absolute meltdown
21:23
Speaker 1: when he started and already planning their replacements. Yeah, I
21:26
Speaker 1: was having an absolute meltdown and I was thinking, is
21:28
Speaker 1: this the worst transfer of my season so far? You
21:31
Speaker 1: bring in a player he gets naught points in the
21:33
Speaker 1: game week and then plays in the FA Cup against
21:35
Speaker 1: at Criinton Standley and then doesn't start in midweek in
21:38
Speaker 1: the in the league, that would have been a disaster.
21:40
Speaker 1: Now that still could happen, but I think slots of
21:43
Speaker 1: comments made me feel slightly better about the fact that
21:45
Speaker 1: you know he doesn't want to rush Connor Bradley back
21:48
Speaker 1: in and race his performance as well, didn't you think?
21:51
Speaker 1: And again I know it wasn't against the Premier League opposition.
21:54
Speaker 1: But he played well and I mean he scored an
21:56
Speaker 1: incredible goal, but aside from that he played pretty well. Yeah. Absolutely,
21:59
Speaker 1: And I think think you know Trent. It's funny, isn't it,
22:02
Speaker 1: because a few weeks ago everyone was waxing lyrical about
22:05
Speaker 1: Trent and how good he'd been playing in terms of
22:08
Speaker 1: attacking threat not necessarily defensive there. And we said on
22:11
Speaker 1: this podcast last week that when Trent came on against
22:14
Speaker 1: Birds in the League Cup, the attacking threat that Liverpool
22:18
Speaker 1: possessed was so much greater. And we did see that
22:19
Speaker 1: against a Quenton Stanley as well. Like they they perform
22:23
Speaker 1: really well in attack and defensively or right, they were
22:25
Speaker 1: against that Quentin Stanley. So they keep a clean sheet
22:28
Speaker 1: and it's nice but and maybe they don't do that
22:30
Speaker 1: against Nottingham Forest. But this game has got trouble written
22:34
Speaker 1: all over it in my mind, like I can't work
22:36
Speaker 1: out what I think is going to happen. It's part
22:38
Speaker 1: of the reason I still haven't made a transfer. I
22:39
Speaker 1: spent all week watching the price Wises because, as I
22:42
Speaker 1: think I said on Thursday, I'm exactly on budget for
22:46
Speaker 1: going out and Nilsen to Wood, but I can't decide
22:48
Speaker 1: whether I want to invest even more heavily in a
22:50
Speaker 1: game that I can't quite work out what I think
22:52
Speaker 1: it's going to happen in and it's always annoying. It's
22:54
Speaker 1: that fixture this week, isn't it massively? Because I think
22:57
Speaker 1: if nothing for us, were playing anyone else and it
22:59
Speaker 1: just gone right, I'll get wood and that's the end
23:02
Speaker 1: of it. But actually I find it difficult with this fixture,
23:06
Speaker 1: and partly I'm still tempted to do it because, as
23:08
Speaker 1: I said before, I like to look at these two
23:10
Speaker 1: next games in succession and together, so I think that
23:15
Speaker 1: that makes me more likely to do it. But then equally,
23:17
Speaker 1: Rau Jim Andez is there in the background, and I'm
23:20
Speaker 1: kind of thinking it might be quite nice to take
23:21
Speaker 1: a punt on him for the next two weeks and
23:23
Speaker 1: then maybe go to it after that. So yeah, I'm not.
23:28
Speaker 1: I think Dias will get the start that it made
23:30
Speaker 1: me happy that he sat on the bench and didn't
23:32
Speaker 1: come on. Obviously, Salah, Virgil, Alison all got complete rest.
23:35
Speaker 1: I didn't go to that game at all, so that
23:38
Speaker 1: was nice. I think Dias will be fine. I think
23:41
Speaker 1: if you've got Jotta, you might have an issue. I
23:43
Speaker 1: don't see him starting in midweek after starting in the
23:46
Speaker 1: League Cup and then in the FA Cup. So for
23:48
Speaker 1: the managers who took a bit of a punt on
23:49
Speaker 1: Jotta a couple of weeks ago, I think that might
23:51
Speaker 1: be problematic. But as a trend and Lewis das owner,
23:55
Speaker 1: I'll be holding both of them for this one. I
23:57
Speaker 1: wanted to pick up a bit more on Chelsea versus
23:59
Speaker 1: Bornman because you mentioned it there. It's quite a hard
24:03
Speaker 1: one to call Chelsea needed a win. Again, We've got
24:05
Speaker 1: to bear in mind the level of opposition Jeels Bournemouth.
24:08
Speaker 1: Though they've got injuries Evanilson and who now both out,
24:12
Speaker 1: but the players that came in with Tara Brooks all
24:14
Speaker 1: looked really good for them as well, didn't they. So's
24:17
Speaker 1: it's almost like a case if I know that Sam
24:19
Speaker 1: and others will be deinvesting in the Bournemouth attack, but
24:21
Speaker 1: it might be quite a good game to see if
24:22
Speaker 1: there's going to be any Bournmouth attackers that we can
24:25
Speaker 1: invest in. Also, I think this is a real for me.
24:27
Speaker 1: It feels like we're getting to a point with Chelsea
24:29
Speaker 1: now where they have to start delivering. Otherwise people are
24:32
Speaker 1: just going to do invest and probably just have Palmer,
24:34
Speaker 1: aren't they.
24:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, And the Formers dip quite missively in the
24:38
Speaker 2: league really the last few games. They've really struggled both
24:41
Speaker 2: end of the pitch. And this is a tricky game,
24:44
Speaker 2: really tricky game because you could easily see born With
24:47
Speaker 2: going there even without a proper number nine, because I
24:49
Speaker 2: suspect they would play either and Menu or somebody like
24:54
Speaker 2: that as a kind of a fourth nine if you
24:55
Speaker 2: want a Brooks with somebody like that, which actually might
24:59
Speaker 2: not be for Chelsea because it's probably harder to defend
25:02
Speaker 2: sometimes against so far as nine, you center backs never
25:04
Speaker 2: know if you have to follow him or not. There's
25:06
Speaker 2: a little bit more freedom for the for for whoever
25:08
Speaker 2: is the first number nine, then maybe a traditional number nine.
25:11
Speaker 2: So it be very interesting to see one how boomb
25:13
Speaker 2: was set up and to how Chelsea deal with with
25:17
Speaker 2: for Final being being injured and probably for a long time.
25:20
Speaker 2: It's I think it's massive for Chelsea. So this Gems
25:23
Speaker 2: coming back in the Cup time which was good but
25:25
Speaker 2: again against not very good teams, So we'll have to
25:30
Speaker 2: see how his progress is before even rech Gems being
25:33
Speaker 2: back in the conversation. But I think that there's so
25:36
Speaker 2: much more pressure on Chelsea in his game than on Boonemouth,
25:39
Speaker 2: and I think some usually this season so far, Chelsea
25:43
Speaker 2: haven't done well. Those young players, this young team hasn't
25:45
Speaker 2: done well under pressure.
25:46
Speaker 1: Are you going to keep hold of Jackson? You've had
25:48
Speaker 1: him for come time? You are you just gonna wait?
25:50
Speaker 1: And they've got Wolves after this as well.
25:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why Again if you look at the you
25:55
Speaker 2: know the more than justice midwik picture, because I think
25:57
Speaker 2: this is tricky. But again I also think that both
26:00
Speaker 2: will we give them a bit of space. I think
26:03
Speaker 2: we've said that Palmer is often one of the reasons
26:08
Speaker 2: why Nico does well. If if there's the service from
26:10
Speaker 2: from Palmer and if Nico is not too clumsy in
26:12
Speaker 2: front of Golds usually does well, which was the case
26:15
Speaker 2: to be found the last two games where Nicol should
26:17
Speaker 2: ask goed at least maybe two or three goals on
26:20
Speaker 2: good service from Palmer, didn't do it and and that's
26:23
Speaker 2: bad Nico coming back. But yeah, I'll stick with him
26:26
Speaker 2: for now. He's expensive, so it's if he doesn't do
26:30
Speaker 2: anything this midweek is probably something that we'll talk about
26:33
Speaker 2: on Thursday show. For the following weekend, and.
26:36
Speaker 1: Neither of you are going to bring up the Jews
26:38
Speaker 1: and say I'm North London Derby. Now I'm avoiding it
26:41
Speaker 1: at all costs.
26:42
Speaker 2: Good for you. You're going to win this one.
26:46
Speaker 1: Why we said that, that's not like it's not like
26:49
Speaker 1: you Jews.
26:50
Speaker 2: No, So okay, there's a few things. And as I
26:52
Speaker 2: said before, I mean this. This first team is an
26:55
Speaker 2: await tea more than a home team by far, as
26:57
Speaker 2: we saw against City for example. And I think they're
27:00
Speaker 2: gonna they're going to play really well away. I live
27:02
Speaker 2: pooling the leak ups on the final second leg. I
27:05
Speaker 2: think they're going to do really well on Wednesday, because
27:07
Speaker 2: this is as much as we like or not range ball,
27:11
Speaker 2: I think they're very good in those situations. We saw
27:14
Speaker 2: a United similar kind of pattern and similar kind of
27:17
Speaker 2: game plan, and it'll be the same on Wednesday. And
27:19
Speaker 2: this is an Arsal team that is low on confidence.
27:23
Speaker 2: That he is struggling and struggling to score goals, even defensively,
27:27
Speaker 2: it would be easy at times for not just not
27:30
Speaker 2: just United, but also at the weekend last weekend for
27:34
Speaker 2: the opposition to get something there. So I'm convinced that
27:38
Speaker 2: SUPs are going to do really well on Wednesay. I
27:39
Speaker 2: don't know. They might just draw, they might not win
27:42
Speaker 2: for it like their city, But I think this is
27:44
Speaker 2: a game that is panning out really well for them.
27:46
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's what is going to be I thinks
27:48
Speaker 1: is going to be the outcome of the game. We
27:50
Speaker 1: don't have to talk about that. Let's talk about it
27:51
Speaker 1: from an FPL perspective, Sam, in terms of the stuff
27:55
Speaker 1: is next. A lot of us heavily invested in the
27:58
Speaker 1: arsenal defense, particularly now, it doesn't feel like there's actually
28:01
Speaker 1: too many areas of investment elsewhere. Maybe people do still
28:04
Speaker 1: have Spurs attackers. I suppose, yeah, I do. We still
28:07
Speaker 1: got Slank. I think Brennan Johnson's still fairly popular in
28:11
Speaker 1: the game as well. So I've obviously got Timber who
28:14
Speaker 1: went off into Ish looking during the extra time I'm
28:18
Speaker 1: planning I was planning to spend him anyway. I just
28:20
Speaker 1: I didn't fancy the double arsenal defense against Spurs because
28:23
Speaker 1: those North Front and Derbies do tend to be high scored,
28:25
Speaker 1: and we do tend to like going to tim Where's
28:27
Speaker 1: we do score goals there usually when we go, So
28:30
Speaker 1: I was planning to just play Rayer and leave it
28:32
Speaker 1: at that anyway, particularly as I have Selanky up top.
28:36
Speaker 1: But I think Gabrielle is a different conversation. If you've
28:39
Speaker 1: got double up of Rayer and Gabrielle, think it's much
28:41
Speaker 1: harder to bench to bench Gabrielle, particularly with our vulnerability
28:46
Speaker 1: from set pieces, although under the new goalkeeper we haven't
28:49
Speaker 1: been so vulnerable so far from set pieces. We've actually
28:52
Speaker 1: defended them. Okay, so it will be it'll be an
28:55
Speaker 1: interesting game. I'm not as confident that Spurs's performances as
28:59
Speaker 1: Jews is, but the one thing I would say is
29:00
Speaker 1: that although spurs game went to extra time in the
29:03
Speaker 1: FA Cup against Tamworth, we didn't have many of our
29:06
Speaker 1: superstar players on the pitch, so the back line was
29:08
Speaker 1: pretty much what you will expect going into into the
29:12
Speaker 1: game against Arsenal, with the exception of Reggion and Spence.
29:16
Speaker 1: But from the attacking players we did see a lot
29:18
Speaker 1: of rotations. So obviously Brennan played played the whole game,
29:22
Speaker 1: but outside of that, I'll be surprised, you know, to
29:25
Speaker 1: see We'll obviously see Kiloseski, slanky Son come back in
29:29
Speaker 1: and for most of those we only saw well minimal
29:33
Speaker 1: game time that they had to play, so that will
29:35
Speaker 1: bode well given the Arsenal had their full strength team
29:38
Speaker 1: out for most most of the game. Aas Manchester United,
29:42
Speaker 1: I think you play your attacking players and I think
29:45
Speaker 1: you consider if you've got a defender, and you won't
29:48
Speaker 1: have a defender from Spurs so that's out of the
29:50
Speaker 1: question anyway. But if you do have a defender from Arsenal,
29:54
Speaker 1: then I think you play them. If you have two,
29:56
Speaker 1: I think you probably consider just benching one of them. George,
30:00
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do. It's a million dollar question.
30:02
Speaker 1: I know the answer is probably go out and sign
30:03
Speaker 1: a striker, but they can't do that. What they could
30:05
Speaker 1: do before Wednesday, but I doubt they got into what
30:08
Speaker 1: do you think is going to be the solution for
30:10
Speaker 1: Arsenal in attack in the short term if they don't invest,
30:12
Speaker 1: And just from an FPL point of view as well,
30:14
Speaker 1: where we could maybe start to look at who's going
30:17
Speaker 1: to play? Does it have it?
30:18
Speaker 2: Is it just have A is going to come come
30:22
Speaker 2: back in the team as a starter now and the
30:23
Speaker 2: front three will be has Martinelli and Trossa. On on
30:28
Speaker 2: Wednesday night, that there's just no other options since Gabridge
30:31
Speaker 2: Jesus is injured and one year he is injured, Sarka
30:33
Speaker 2: is injured, and I just don't think there's anything else
30:38
Speaker 2: really the artic I can do. In terms of the
30:40
Speaker 2: transfer window, I think they'll probably be looking not too
30:45
Speaker 2: optimistic on them making a signing, and certainly not a
30:47
Speaker 2: big signing, because right now it's all good to say,
30:50
Speaker 2: let's sign a striker, but you need to sign a
30:52
Speaker 2: world class striker. You can't just sign Bobby from down
30:55
Speaker 2: the road. It's just that it doesn't make any sense.
30:57
Speaker 2: So and that's very expense and right now I don't
31:01
Speaker 2: think they can do expensive players, expensive signing. So I
31:06
Speaker 2: just don't know how you bring back the confidence to
31:08
Speaker 2: a car has who looked who looked so down on
31:11
Speaker 2: on Sunday and rightly so it's normally miss chances in
31:14
Speaker 2: mister Pendants in the shootout, it's not it's not good.
31:17
Speaker 2: So that's what that's what I'm saying. It's going to
31:20
Speaker 2: be a really tricky game for Arsenal, even if it's
31:23
Speaker 2: at the Emirates in a in the homegun where you've
31:25
Speaker 2: lost two in a row. Now with Newcastle in the
31:27
Speaker 2: lead Cup and then United albeit you can count it
31:31
Speaker 2: as a droid.
31:31
Speaker 1: Felt nervier there yesterday chose it felt Yeah, it did
31:34
Speaker 1: feel a little bit like because I guess, like you said,
31:37
Speaker 1: I kind of was forgetting that going into it. The
31:39
Speaker 1: Newcastle game had happened as well. It just felt a
31:41
Speaker 1: little bit flatter. I guess that shows the expectations reason.
31:44
Speaker 2: Yeah. Also the Newcastle I felt the crowd for the
31:46
Speaker 2: Newcastle game was much flatter, and to be fair, Newcastle
31:49
Speaker 2: scored early in stuff and then very early in the
31:53
Speaker 2: second half and that killed the game pretty much, even
31:55
Speaker 2: if I was not enough chances to score at least
31:58
Speaker 2: one maybe two. Yes, they felt different because there was
32:00
Speaker 2: a lot of good things from Arsenal. I know it's
32:03
Speaker 2: a defeat, and I know it's a bitter one, but
32:05
Speaker 2: there was a lot of good things. When you expected
32:08
Speaker 2: goals over three in a game against Monster United would
32:11
Speaker 2: be when they had ten men for an hour, but
32:12
Speaker 2: still even even eleven against eleven, then then it's not
32:17
Speaker 2: all negative. But if you if you don't take your
32:21
Speaker 2: chances for two games in Arona, in big games like that,
32:24
Speaker 2: then for the third one in a row, it doesn't
32:27
Speaker 2: look good.
32:29
Speaker 1: Sam. What else from these games do you want to
32:32
Speaker 1: talk about? I'm wondering if we need to talk about
32:33
Speaker 1: Manchester City. Yeah, I was gonna go Crystal Palace, but
32:37
Speaker 1: let's go for man City.
32:38
Speaker 2: I think Palace.
32:42
Speaker 1: We are both desperate for him to return again.
32:45
Speaker 2: If he doesn't return in midwek.
32:46
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go Palace first. I'm going Palace if he
32:50
Speaker 1: doesn't return against Leicester. Then I looked at my tayment.
32:54
Speaker 1: I had to consider benching him. I'm not going to
32:56
Speaker 1: bench because because well, I'm going to bench one probably
32:59
Speaker 1: gonna bench. I don't know to be how many times
33:02
Speaker 1: am I going to say the word bench in this sentence.
33:06
Speaker 1: I'm not going to bench him, but I'm just I'm
33:09
Speaker 1: not going to bench boost because I've got Schuel Pedro
33:12
Speaker 1: and I would probably bench Kun. You're away at Newcastle
33:14
Speaker 1: over Benchinglissar is what I decided. But I've been so
33:17
Speaker 1: frustrated with Ishmelassar as a sorrow and I regret the
33:21
Speaker 1: transfer in and I want him to not make me
33:23
Speaker 1: regret it by going and playing really well against Leicester.
33:26
Speaker 1: And that feels like Sam away at Leicester, a team
33:30
Speaker 1: that defensively aren't brilliant with the way that Sara plays
33:33
Speaker 1: and the pace he has. Surely if you can't get
33:36
Speaker 1: the points there, then we have to sell him. Yeah. Yeah,
33:41
Speaker 1: that's how I feel like. I feel like this was
33:43
Speaker 1: a really, really really it was an experiment that so
33:47
Speaker 1: far has been really terrible, Like and I look at
33:50
Speaker 1: it and every week I'm like, but the underlying numbers
33:52
Speaker 1: are there, and then the underlying numbers don't.
33:55
Speaker 2: Produce returns on Wednesday nights because well, you don't say
34:02
Speaker 2: is going to be so much fun.
34:07
Speaker 1: Particularly fars it happens, I think I'll have already transferred
34:11
Speaker 1: him out by Thursday morning. I think I just won't
34:12
Speaker 1: come on this podcast on Thursday if both of those
34:14
Speaker 1: two things have happened. Yeah, I mean, look, you played
34:16
Speaker 1: sixty four minutes in the FA Cup. It was a
34:19
Speaker 1: a again, not with the goal, So I definitely feel like,
34:22
Speaker 1: hells we went the wrong way. Yeah, but we did
34:26
Speaker 1: it for the right reasons and all of that stuff.
34:29
Speaker 1: So we just have to see what happens in midweek. Matteta,
34:32
Speaker 1: if you are looking for a Gabby jay z Each
34:34
Speaker 1: replacement and you've already got wood, Mateta got off full
34:37
Speaker 1: rest in the FA Cup obviously just sat on the
34:39
Speaker 1: bench for the whole game. I do think he is
34:42
Speaker 1: a really nice differential option heading into the next few
34:45
Speaker 1: fixtures that Pallas have. So if you don't have a
34:48
Speaker 1: palace investment so far and you don't want to go
34:53
Speaker 1: for A or you can't go for s A because
34:55
Speaker 1: you're midfield five is you don't want to change them,
34:59
Speaker 1: then having a look at Matta, I don't think it's
35:01
Speaker 1: a bad idea at all. He's got really nice underlying
35:03
Speaker 1: numbers as well. And I think it's those three, isn't it.
35:07
Speaker 1: It's going for who is the obvious choice. He's the
35:11
Speaker 1: one that's informed stars, the one with the great numbers
35:14
Speaker 1: but not doing anything on it. And then Mateta, who
35:17
Speaker 1: I think has been overlooked a little bit in the
35:19
Speaker 1: forward line because obviously Iak is taking up a spot
35:22
Speaker 1: and you're not going anywhere else. Wood is just ridiculous
35:26
Speaker 1: at the moment. And then it's been that other slot
35:28
Speaker 1: and it's been kind of like, well, do you want
35:29
Speaker 1: to go for a Jo Pedro? Do you want to
35:31
Speaker 1: go for a cheaper option? But Mateta, I think is
35:35
Speaker 1: somebody that we should be considering if you're not already
35:37
Speaker 1: invested in Paris.
35:38
Speaker 2: Is because you haven't mentioned today, which is surely a
35:42
Speaker 2: mistake because it was a great report from our Chrystal
35:48
Speaker 2: Palace correspondence you just did.
35:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, still get him. I still love him and
36:00
Speaker 1: still think you know his underlying threat is he's got
36:02
Speaker 1: attacking returns in his locker. He's got there should be
36:05
Speaker 1: a clean sheet in this one against Leicester as well,
36:08
Speaker 1: So double digit hole and coming.
36:11
Speaker 2: I mean, I really hope for you that Palace win five.
36:14
Speaker 1: Oh my god, if they don't.
36:18
Speaker 2: Boom boom, boom boom two goals and then who knows
36:21
Speaker 2: we're fabacists.
36:23
Speaker 1: Look you know that I'm going to text you if
36:24
Speaker 1: any of these things come off, so you'll hear from me.
36:27
Speaker 1: If Pallace lose, you will not hear from me at
36:29
Speaker 1: all on Wednesday. And it's touching if she's going to
36:32
Speaker 1: sign up on first. Of course, I want to talk
36:35
Speaker 1: about man City, but I actually wonder if we should
36:37
Speaker 1: talk about Brentford and man City. As you mentioned Jules,
36:40
Speaker 1: Brentford one of the shocks of the f A Cup
36:41
Speaker 1: third round, losing to Plymouth. Everything about that game was uncharacteristic.
36:45
Speaker 1: They didn't make changes as well. They lost at home.
36:46
Speaker 1: They never lose at home. This one again is at
36:49
Speaker 1: home against Manchester City. Firstly, from a Brimford point of view,
36:53
Speaker 1: I feel like after this game a lot of people
36:55
Speaker 1: might be re looking at bemo. Yeah he's keeping on returning,
37:00
Speaker 1: doesn't it.
37:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, we said, and this is City at home. Then
37:03
Speaker 2: they have Liverpool at home. But we've been saying ready
37:06
Speaker 2: those back to back home games, as good as they've
37:08
Speaker 2: been at home, they were also that good because they
37:10
Speaker 2: hadn't faced anybody really from the top tier teams. Let's
37:14
Speaker 2: put it that way. They lost to Arsenal on Tuesday,
37:17
Speaker 2: which was the first really big team to come over.
37:20
Speaker 2: Even if I'm bomb was scoring that in that game
37:22
Speaker 2: as well, So this is huge for them, especially on
37:26
Speaker 2: the back of that. Humiliation has to be called what
37:29
Speaker 2: it is. Play with the bottom of the championship. There's
37:32
Speaker 2: no way they should come to Branford and win in
37:34
Speaker 2: the FA Cup, which is a competition that I think
37:36
Speaker 2: as a Branford fan or owner, if you took us
37:39
Speaker 2: or the players, you would have felt like, let's let's
37:41
Speaker 2: have a really good run at it, because especially as
37:44
Speaker 2: good as you've been at home, this is where you
37:46
Speaker 2: can upset a lot of teams and maybe go find
37:48
Speaker 2: the competition and instead this is your like the only
37:52
Speaker 2: team from the Premier League that has been knocked out
37:54
Speaker 2: by a lower legal position. So it's not good at all,
37:57
Speaker 2: so we can expect a reaction for sure. The problem
38:00
Speaker 2: for Brentford is that City are looking better. It's still
38:03
Speaker 2: not great and there's nothing to take away from the
38:06
Speaker 2: Softford game on Saturday apart from I guess maybe the
38:09
Speaker 2: goal for Dag really is the two for Doku, but
38:11
Speaker 2: they were Sulford just not good enough really, so let's
38:15
Speaker 2: see what City do. But I yeah, there's a feeling
38:18
Speaker 2: that City are getting better and they would get better
38:20
Speaker 2: and they're signing new players so they would get better
38:22
Speaker 2: just because of that.
38:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's worrying me that all of a sudden these
38:25
Speaker 1: players are going to come back and make Earling Holland
38:28
Speaker 1: start scoring multiple goals and we're all going to have
38:30
Speaker 1: to find fifteen million pounds against the Yeah, that is
38:33
Speaker 1: a worry definitely, I think from a Brentford perspective though
38:36
Speaker 1: as well. Manchester City just I know they did against Sulford,
38:39
Speaker 1: but they just don't keep clean sheets. There's always this
38:41
Speaker 1: goal here or there in the way that Brentford usually attack.
38:44
Speaker 1: And I do think that this was an unusual result
38:47
Speaker 1: from a Brentford perspective because they weren't playing their most attacking,
38:51
Speaker 1: their best their best players. So bring them back in
38:53
Speaker 1: against Manchester City and I'd expect them to score goals.
38:56
Speaker 1: So if you've got em bombing your team, if you've
38:58
Speaker 1: got in your team, then definitely I wouldn't have any
39:01
Speaker 1: qualms about starting them against Manchester City. And if you've
39:04
Speaker 1: got like a Rico Lewis or in particularly Rico Lewis Cavadia,
39:08
Speaker 1: I think is a bit different because of the attacking threat.
39:10
Speaker 1: But if you've got a Rico Lewis, then I'd probably
39:12
Speaker 1: still bench in this weekend because Brentford at home despite
39:15
Speaker 1: that performance, still in the league have been really good
39:17
Speaker 1: this season, particularly in an attack, so I'd have no
39:20
Speaker 1: qualms about starting them. Man City is difficult, isn't it,
39:25
Speaker 1: Because I continue to look at them and think we're
39:29
Speaker 1: seeing recovery from them. We're seeing better performances. We're still
39:32
Speaker 1: not seeing clean sheets, but from perspective we're seeing better performances.
39:36
Speaker 1: But I still really find it difficult to know how
39:39
Speaker 1: you would invest in Manchester City because fourteen point eight
39:41
Speaker 1: million for Harlan is a lot, and trying to find
39:46
Speaker 1: that at the moment where budget's already tied up, I'd
39:50
Speaker 1: have to make some quite big sacrifices across the rest
39:52
Speaker 1: of my team, Like you'd have to take Trent out,
39:54
Speaker 1: and maybe that's something coming in the future anyway, but
39:57
Speaker 1: you'd have to be massively downgraded. I'd have to put
40:00
Speaker 1: look at changing out Raa for a different goalkeeper. Now,
40:03
Speaker 1: all of these things are achievable, but they're also probably
40:07
Speaker 1: mean that I have to wildcard in.
40:08
Speaker 2: Order to do. Yeah, if you want to is a
40:12
Speaker 2: worldout job.
40:13
Speaker 1: For sure, it feels like it unless you've managed to
40:15
Speaker 1: save five transfers, which you might have geors because you've
40:18
Speaker 1: seem to have about eight thousand transfers every week, you know.
40:21
Speaker 1: So I think if you, I know, if you've got
40:27
Speaker 1: if you've got lots of transfers, you can possibly do it.
40:30
Speaker 1: But for me, it would be a wild card thing,
40:32
Speaker 1: and I don't want a wild card anytime soon. So
40:34
Speaker 1: what I'm really hoping over the next couple of weeks
40:36
Speaker 1: is that we see a man City asset, whoever that
40:39
Speaker 1: may be, whether it's a Saviodoku, whether it's a phone
40:42
Speaker 1: or a KDB, whether it whoever it might be, whether
40:45
Speaker 1: it's a new signing that comes in that can, if
40:49
Speaker 1: not match the level of Harlan that can return points
40:52
Speaker 1: from a Manchester City perspective, because this is the time
40:55
Speaker 1: where Manchester City usually pick it up and kick up
40:58
Speaker 1: of gear towards the back end of the season, and
41:00
Speaker 1: so I find it really hard. I don't like not
41:04
Speaker 1: having Harlan in my team. Even over the last few
41:06
Speaker 1: weeks when they haven't really been performing, I've not enjoyed
41:09
Speaker 1: not having Harlan and it's not a pleasant experience. Every
41:11
Speaker 1: week I find myself kind of being like, Okay, how
41:13
Speaker 1: much is it going to is he going to return
41:16
Speaker 1: this week? And at the moment his own ship levels
41:18
Speaker 1: are relatively low and so it's not actually hurting rank
41:21
Speaker 1: that much every time he returns. But if he starts
41:24
Speaker 1: returning on a regular again, if we see a return
41:26
Speaker 1: against Brentford, you know that as now managers have that
41:29
Speaker 1: second world card available, that people will start to weldcard
41:33
Speaker 1: him in. I think the only positive that we have
41:36
Speaker 1: as non Harlan owners is that there are plenty of
41:39
Speaker 1: other assets in that front line that are performing, so
41:42
Speaker 1: you can kind of maybe outweigh what Harlan's doing with
41:46
Speaker 1: one of those guys, particularly with Esak because he's been
41:48
Speaker 1: so brilliant. But yeah, Man City firmly on the radar.
41:53
Speaker 1: I'm going to be watching this one quite carefully to
41:55
Speaker 1: see if there's anybody that continues to be an attractive
41:59
Speaker 1: asset to us in FBL outside of PARTLM, because that
42:02
Speaker 1: feels like the only way I'm going to be able
42:03
Speaker 1: to do it without hitting the world carver on. Okay, Tom,
42:06
Speaker 1: Then to move on to Differential of the Week under
42:09
Speaker 1: ten percent owned as always, last week's differential Sorry Jeles
42:13
Speaker 1: yours got one point, Sam's Leon Bailey got nine points
42:16
Speaker 1: of the goal And to bonus, if you need reminding,
42:18
Speaker 1: Jewels went for Joel intern at Newcastle and you're not
42:21
Speaker 1: fair place because you actually brot him into your team,
42:22
Speaker 1: didn't you.
42:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got in good positions as well.
42:25
Speaker 1: Great, how many points did you have for that one?
42:28
Speaker 2: But to watch the games, I.
42:31
Speaker 1: Wanted him sent off for elbow and Berglan and the head.
42:36
Speaker 1: Let's not really, let's not reignite that debate. Let's just
42:39
Speaker 1: go with this week's differential, Sam, you get to go
42:42
Speaker 1: first because you won. Ah, So I'm going to also
42:45
Speaker 1: follow George's lead with Newcastle from last week because I
42:48
Speaker 1: just think that they're in such good form and it's
42:51
Speaker 1: browning away at you.
42:53
Speaker 2: I know you're going to say Murphy, but you know
42:54
Speaker 2: I am going to say Murphy. I said a couple
42:57
Speaker 2: of shows ago, how good he's been, Yeah.
42:59
Speaker 1: And five one million, And I think that's the thing,
43:01
Speaker 1: isn't it. Like had I not had Evan Nilsen not
43:04
Speaker 1: fractured his foot, then I would absolutely have gone for
43:06
Speaker 1: Murphy this week because for me it would be much
43:08
Speaker 1: much more difficult to afford Anthony Gordon. But Jacob Murphy's
43:12
Speaker 1: really affordable and he's only owned by five point nine
43:14
Speaker 1: percent of the game, so a massive differential returns in
43:17
Speaker 1: five of his last six and two thirteen point hauls
43:21
Speaker 1: in that time, and even in the game where he
43:23
Speaker 1: didn't get a return, he's still got that clean sheet point,
43:25
Speaker 1: which you know is important. Forty seven points in those
43:28
Speaker 1: six matches between game weeks fifteen and twenty. Only Salah
43:31
Speaker 1: has more attacking returns than Murphy's nine, and he's got
43:35
Speaker 1: the same number as Esak, who were obviously all waxing
43:37
Speaker 1: livercor about and rightly so. In that period. He's also
43:40
Speaker 1: had twelve attempts on goal created fourteen chances, which only
43:43
Speaker 1: Esac and Gordon have more of, but they've only had
43:45
Speaker 1: one more than he has and it's against a wolf side.
43:48
Speaker 1: They have conceded forty five goals this season, which is
43:50
Speaker 1: more than any other team. So surely Jacob Murphy returns.
43:53
Speaker 1: I think even Jews agrees. Jews. Who's the differential?
43:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I agree with I mean, I feel
43:58
Speaker 2: like I gave that one to somebody anyway. Mine was. Yeah,
44:02
Speaker 2: it's the one I wanted to. I mean I mentioned
44:04
Speaker 2: him last week if you remember well, because I took
44:06
Speaker 2: about Savio or Savino if you want to call him
44:08
Speaker 2: the little Savio is up to you. So I'm going
44:10
Speaker 2: to go for him this week because I think he's
44:13
Speaker 2: in probably back to his best form, which was last
44:16
Speaker 2: season when he was at Girona in Spain, owned by
44:19
Speaker 2: only three seven percent of the game six point five minutes.
44:22
Speaker 2: So he is a bit more expensive than than the
44:24
Speaker 2: Jacob Murphy, for example, but returned back to back games
44:26
Speaker 2: now thirteen point fourteen points hold in the last two
44:29
Speaker 2: game weeks. He didn't play in the FA Cup because
44:32
Speaker 2: that was the B team, so the lacks of Gradish
44:34
Speaker 2: and Docu can have fun against amateurs and then he's
44:37
Speaker 2: going to be back. I like the relationship that's striking
44:40
Speaker 2: with Holland, and we've seen a couple of assists in
44:43
Speaker 2: those two games from him to Holan on top of
44:46
Speaker 2: him scoring finally scoring his first goals for the club too,
44:48
Speaker 2: So a very good time. I think to bring in
44:51
Speaker 2: Savio and yourntwin.
44:52
Speaker 1: Okay, transfers and captains transfer wise, the most popular transfer
44:56
Speaker 1: combinations this week applies on surprisingly that we've mentioned the
45:00
Speaker 1: top transfers in I'm federal, just do the combinations. Jackson
45:04
Speaker 1: for esak Night the other way around it. Issach for
45:06
Speaker 1: Jackson is the most popular transfer by by fair distance actually,
45:11
Speaker 1: and then Gordon for Madison and Gordon for Lewis Diaz.
45:14
Speaker 1: Lewis Diaz is two of the foremost popular transfer combinations
45:18
Speaker 1: out but I also being brought in for the Liverpool
45:21
Speaker 1: attacker as well. What he plans, guys, Jos, I'm guessing
45:24
Speaker 1: you're going to hold Yell.
45:26
Speaker 2: I think so because I like Joel intern at home
45:28
Speaker 2: to Wolves. I think he's good and Newcastle have been
45:30
Speaker 2: so good at home this season. The only the other
45:32
Speaker 2: one is Martinelli. Really, but we've said I think the
45:35
Speaker 2: game again suppose will be open and now Martinelli seems
45:39
Speaker 2: to be the focus point for this Arsenal attack, and
45:42
Speaker 2: I expect the ball to go a lot to him.
45:44
Speaker 2: Whether he plays on the left on the right. I
45:46
Speaker 2: think it's better for him to play on the left
45:47
Speaker 2: and side, and he's more efficient and influential there, so
45:50
Speaker 2: I expect him to play on them on the left,
45:53
Speaker 2: and I think there will be chances again for Arsenal.
45:56
Speaker 2: So I think the team looks looks okay like this.
45:59
Speaker 1: How many trans as if you've got in your bank.
46:02
Speaker 2: I can do? Sorry, let me let me double check.
46:05
Speaker 1: I'm more trying to work out how many you're going
46:07
Speaker 1: to have.
46:07
Speaker 2: I've got to yeah, be three for the weekend. I
46:10
Speaker 2: did join.
46:13
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, of course in my head you've always got five. Yeah,
46:17
Speaker 1: I know, Sam, what are you going to be doing?
46:20
Speaker 1: So the safe, most sensible thing to do here would
46:24
Speaker 1: be to get Evan Nelson to Wold. But I do
46:27
Speaker 1: really like the raw humanist pictures for the next two
46:30
Speaker 1: so I am really attempted to just continue my pain
46:34
Speaker 1: of not having wood it kills me every week, and
46:37
Speaker 1: just go try and play the upside of our hymnis
46:39
Speaker 1: in the next two fixtures. I don't know what I'm
46:42
Speaker 1: going to do, is the honest answer. I don't. If
46:45
Speaker 1: Forrest had anyone else in midweek, I'd just go word
46:48
Speaker 1: and be done with it. But the fact that it's
46:49
Speaker 1: Liverpool and I'm traveled up on Liverpool is putting me off.
46:52
Speaker 1: So if I decide to be really sensible, then I'll
46:56
Speaker 1: just get word. If I decide to have a little
46:57
Speaker 1: bit of fun for the next two and it will
47:00
Speaker 1: be him and okay captaincy Wise, it feels a bit
47:03
Speaker 1: trickier this week, doesn't it, because we've been kind of
47:06
Speaker 1: mysala masalah mosala? Are we still mo salah toos.
47:09
Speaker 2: I don't fancy him away Forest, I won't lie. I
47:12
Speaker 2: just think they're gonna they have the potential. I'm not.
47:15
Speaker 2: I think Forests have the potential to shut the game
47:18
Speaker 2: down really and have this super defensive master class what
47:21
Speaker 2: we saw in the reverse fixture. I think they're going
47:23
Speaker 2: to play exactly the same way than what we saw
47:25
Speaker 2: on field when they went there and won one. L
47:28
Speaker 2: and as we've been saying that only Liverpool defeating the
47:30
Speaker 2: leaks of far this season, so I'm not sure. I
47:33
Speaker 2: was disappointed by him against Spurs in the League up
47:35
Speaker 2: game too, and then obviously there playing the FA Cup.
47:37
Speaker 2: But I thought it was very very neutral in that
47:39
Speaker 2: Spurs game in a game that was that felt quite
47:42
Speaker 2: open still, and yeah, the fact that Bradly started behind
47:45
Speaker 2: him didn't feel the same for him then trend, which
47:49
Speaker 2: is a fair point. I think it's also better with
47:51
Speaker 2: Darwin at times, and he said to himself that Darwin
47:54
Speaker 2: was the best teammate that he would have to get
47:56
Speaker 2: the best out of himself. So I yeah, I'm not
47:59
Speaker 2: sure he's going to score a hat trigner that we've
48:01
Speaker 2: said that, but I don't really offends him, so I'll
48:04
Speaker 2: probably go for coll Palmer as a captain.
48:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my armbands on him at the moment, but
48:09
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced by that born of fixture. It's still
48:12
Speaker 1: very much up in the air for me. Who are
48:13
Speaker 1: you going to captain? Samak hm hmm, yeah, it feels
48:16
Speaker 1: a bit more sensible than Cold Palmer. I've yeah, yeah,
48:20
Speaker 1: I'm on a sec I've been on each a week.
48:22
Speaker 1: The only thing that would put me off is that, Yeah,
48:27
Speaker 1: that's the only thing that puts me off. So but equally,
48:31
Speaker 1: I just I really like that fixture at home against Wolves.
48:35
Speaker 1: I mean, I have plenty of options. Everyone seems to
48:36
Speaker 1: have a nice fixture this week by my Liverpool boys.
48:39
Speaker 1: It's definitely not going to be salad, though I am gonna.
48:41
Speaker 1: I think this is a week, like we've been saying
48:43
Speaker 1: over the last few weeks that you have to go
48:45
Speaker 1: salah and it's been killing you every week if you haven't.
48:47
Speaker 1: But this is an opportunity I think to roll the
48:49
Speaker 1: dice with the captain c like this is the week
48:51
Speaker 1: where Palmer's got a nice fixture. If you've still got Harlan,
48:55
Speaker 1: he's got a good fixture where he could return. Well,
48:58
Speaker 1: ESA's got a good fixture. If you've got Anthony Gordon,
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Speaker 1: he's got a good fixture. Like I think there's plenty
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Speaker 1: of potential over the net over the midweek round to
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Speaker 1: get a differential captain to come off in your favor.
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Speaker 1: So I am going to play it a bit different
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Speaker 1: and I'm almost certain I'm going to leave it with
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Speaker 1: Esak Okay, that is where we will leave it as
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Speaker 1: well reminder of their game. Week twenty one is actually
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Speaker 1: also the start of the Second Chance League. If you
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Speaker 1: aren't having the best season, hello me, here's a chance
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Speaker 1: to still win some great prizes. And there's so many
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Speaker 1: good prizes. Check out on the Premier League website. There's
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Speaker 1: kind of first Prize. I'm not going to read it
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Speaker 1: all because we're running out of time and producer Jess
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Speaker 1: he has already sent me his warning emojis, but First
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Speaker 1: Prize does include things like hospitality tickets at a Premier
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Speaker 1: League game, includes accommodation in that an Easports FC game,
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Speaker 1: a laptop or a sympree smartphone, a Bluetooth speaker, I
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Speaker 1: actually really want to win this now, and then a
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Speaker 1: personalized FBL bundle, and a Nike jacket as well. There's
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Speaker 1: a runner up prize, third, fourth, and fifth place prizes
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Speaker 1: as well, so plenty of prizes on offer. If your
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Speaker 1: season feels like it's over, it doesn't have to be
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Speaker 1: in the Second Chance League is back up and running,
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Speaker 1: and Sam, everyone's just we entered into that, aren't they.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to do anything. Yeah, yeah, you're automatically
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Speaker 1: entered into it. And I must admit that season to
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Speaker 1: remember that I was having a terrible start.
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Speaker 2: Yeah year, sure it was.
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Speaker 1: It was. Yeah, it was the World Cup year, so
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Speaker 1: and I was having a terrible start of the season,
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Speaker 1: and I did really well in Second Chance League. And
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Speaker 1: there's something really nice about that league kicking off because
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Speaker 1: it makes you. It gives you something when your overal
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Speaker 1: rank is not where you want it to be. Seeing
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Speaker 1: climbs in the Second Chance of course also means climbs
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Speaker 1: in the main league, but something psychologically nice about that.
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Speaker 1: So I really like the Second Chance League. Yes, that's
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Speaker 1: what I'm going to try and be the second second
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Speaker 1: Chance League. It's the only chance I've got of winning anything.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, your deadline then is Tuesday, the fourteenth of
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Speaker 1: January at six pm. We're going to be back on
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Speaker 1: Thursday talking through what we have seen in Game Week
50:46
Speaker 1: twenty one so far. Of course there'll still be a
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Speaker 1: couple of games to go, but we'll have seen most
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Speaker 1: of it so that won't be too bad, and then
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Speaker 1: the Fantasy Show will be back on Friday to review
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Speaker 1: it all as well. So yeah, make sure you join
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Speaker 1: me for both of those us for this on Thursday,
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Speaker 1: and as always, love it if you can rate and review.
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Speaker 1: Very best of luck this game. Weet se you on Thursday. Guys,
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Speaker 2: M hmm