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S7 Ep31: FPL Pod: Double Gameweek time · FPL Pod

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Speaker 1: The excitement is real for the first double of the season.
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Speaker 1: We're trebled up on Liverpool and looking at Everton's defense.
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Speaker 1: Our differentials are also Merseyside heavy and Sam Spieling nervy
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Speaker 1: not to have a triple captain. Okay, guys, it's here.
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Speaker 1: Double Game Week twenty four is upon us. It's a
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Speaker 1: big week. This is a big podcast. So unfortunately we've
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Speaker 1: only got twillion wrong, but we have got Sam bondfield
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Speaker 1: as well. I've kind of been excited for this game week,
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Speaker 1: but also dreading it because it feels like there is
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Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on it. Good morning, Juels. How
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Speaker 1: are you feeling about the upcoming game week?
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Speaker 2: Hi Kelly, Hi everyone, that's super cool. I've made my
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Speaker 2: transfer already. I don't know what's going on this week,
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Speaker 2: like you, nice solready, I know. I guess it's the
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Speaker 2: all that Champions League excitement from Wednesday night that got
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Speaker 2: to me and I thought, as we may as well
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Speaker 2: be ready for the first double game week of the season,
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Speaker 2: you know, so I went early.
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Speaker 1: I watched you on UK television last night. You were
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Speaker 1: on highlights on the Champions League Match of the Day
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Speaker 1: night and you did what no one should ever do
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Speaker 1: on a highlights show and gave away one of the
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Speaker 1: biggest stories in the opening link. And I thought you
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Speaker 1: were about to do the same there, because you know
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Speaker 1: we do transfers in the year. I thought you were
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Speaker 1: going to do the same and give away your transfer.
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Speaker 2: It was all set up on television to make people
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Speaker 2: laugh and everything. You know, it was perfect, of course.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever, Sam, how are you feeling?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, I I might have some goalkeeper headaches to
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Speaker 3: deal with this week.
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Speaker 2: We could.
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Speaker 1: I was going to say, I feel like that's just
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Speaker 1: a clip that we could just clan into every pod
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Speaker 1: much every week, just and I thought it was over this,
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Speaker 1: like premium goalkeepers. That's fine.
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Speaker 3: I'm over the goalkeeper dramas. No, it still got some
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Speaker 3: goalkeeper dramas.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Otherwise, I'm feeling all right. Obviously, I'm troubled up on
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Speaker 3: Liverpool more importantly, Cals, How upset were you that you
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Speaker 3: didn't go early on gackpo.
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Speaker 2: Ah.
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Speaker 1: But I'm just so scared of doing transfers in this
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Speaker 1: Champions League. Yeah, I'm just so scared of it because
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Speaker 1: the way my luck's been this season. He'd have gone
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Speaker 1: and broken his leg last night if I'd put him
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Speaker 1: in aute the weekend.
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Speaker 3: No, but I meant, did you not because you were
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Speaker 3: talking about doing that last week?
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Speaker 1: Weren't you ahead of it?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: So I was so desperate to come into this game
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Speaker 1: week having two transfers. Yeah so no, Yeah, obviously in hindsight,
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Speaker 1: I am. But I know why I did it. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of things this season which I don't know
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Speaker 1: why I've done them, at least with that. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but this this is one where I go, Oh, that's annoying.
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Speaker 1: What's more annoying is I had exact funds to go
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Speaker 1: from Chris Wood and David Reya to Gakpo and Pickford
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Speaker 1: and I didn't do it, and now I can't do it.
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Speaker 1: That's annoying. That is annoying.
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Speaker 2: That's really annoying.
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Speaker 1: Because now, no, but I planned it. But again it's
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Speaker 1: the Champions League. I was really well planned with it,
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Speaker 1: and I just I knew his price is going to
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Speaker 1: go up. And I laid there in bed and was like,
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Speaker 1: he's going to break his leg on Wednesday night, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: I just was so convinced. So I didn't do it,
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Speaker 1: and he didn't break his leg. He scored again. He
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Speaker 1: was brilliant last weekend. Yeah cool, I'm glad we started
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Speaker 1: on such a positive note before we go into game
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Speaker 1: week twenty three and how we all did and to findly,
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Speaker 1: I'm annoyed about that as well, Jules. As I mentioned
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Speaker 1: recross all the European matches, this is the point where
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Speaker 1: you can say everything we need to know about it
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Speaker 1: and you don't have to worry about giving no way
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Speaker 1: spoilers because.
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Speaker 2: Probably that's true. Yeah for English clubs obviously in the
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Speaker 2: Champions League as always a lot of rotation. When it
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Speaker 2: comes down to Liverpool and the game, Aware appears behind
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Speaker 2: OHM with like nine starters I think not then no Sala,
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Speaker 2: no van Dyk, no Trent Robertson has center by that
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Speaker 2: kind of stuff. A lot of kids on the page
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Speaker 2: who did well, by the way, despite the defeat, so
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Speaker 2: you know that if you are doubling up traveling up
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Speaker 2: on Liverpool place for this double game week, then you
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Speaker 2: know at least some of them would be really fresh.
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Speaker 2: It was pretty much just then for Arsenal Aware as Girona,
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Speaker 2: except that they won't. But again loads of rotation from
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Speaker 2: Mikaela Teta, no Haveds, no Martinelli who so lovely Gold
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Speaker 2: by Ethan Juanieri. No Saliba who's on the bench. No
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Speaker 2: Rayah Neto started in Gold, so again loads of rotation.
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Speaker 2: Aston Villa with the strongest team and mat City with
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Speaker 2: the strongest team in the other two young Morgan Rodgers.
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Speaker 2: The start of the show really is first hat trick
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Speaker 2: for aston Villa, pretty pretty amazing despite another injury with
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Speaker 2: Matty Cash taken off after just half an hour. For
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Speaker 2: Villas we want to keep an eye on and for
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Speaker 2: City they had to go for it. They had to win.
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Speaker 2: It was really the only team they had to win.
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Speaker 2: They did win, although it was a bit tens a
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Speaker 2: half time when they were going down. We saw a
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Speaker 2: really good entrance from Savigno who scored and forth the
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Speaker 2: second goal which was an on goal from Brush and
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Speaker 2: could go back cover Chitch as well.
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Speaker 1: That was a brilliant roundup. I don't know why. I'm
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Speaker 1: always shocked when you do that, but it's always very concise.
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Speaker 1: It's like you do this broadcasting. Yes, so that's where
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Speaker 1: we are after the Champions League, so a few takeaway
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Speaker 1: points for us in FPL. David Rayer is a headache
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Speaker 1: that both myself and Sam have in a way though, Sam,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure we'll talk about it in a
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Speaker 1: bit more detail. I didn't want a headache, as you didn't,
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Speaker 1: and we'd rather do it more exciting things. A goalkeeper transfers.
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Speaker 1: But I wonder if we needed that to shock us
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Speaker 1: into selling him.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, maybe I did think that last night when
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Speaker 3: I saw that he wasn't playing, I was like, okay,
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Speaker 3: does that now, because I like, you've been holding that
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Speaker 3: transfer thinking about what I'm going to do, and I
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Speaker 3: had a plan, and now that plan maybe has gone
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Speaker 3: out the window, so it might just be the thing
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Speaker 3: I need to just go right. I'm done with you.
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Speaker 1: Here comes a new goalkeeper. Okay, we'll talk about that
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Speaker 1: in more detail shortly, I am sure.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Just to check in with our mini league and how
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Speaker 1: the three of us plus Ian got on last week.
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Speaker 1: Sam got fifty seven points, Jewel's got forty six points.
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Speaker 1: Somehow I outscored both of you with sixty four points. Ian,
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Speaker 1: though he's not on this podcast, we need to mention this.
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Speaker 1: He got seventy one. He's doing pretty well, isn't He's
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Speaker 1: only two points behind me now cows. Yeah, he's massively
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Speaker 1: on social and tagging. Yeah, so Sam's on one thousand,
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Speaker 1: four hundred and nineteen points. Ian is on one thousand,
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Speaker 1: four hundred and seventeen points. I'm not too far behind.
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Speaker 1: I'm fifteen points behind Sam. But every time I get
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Speaker 1: to around ten fifteen points, I have a disasters game week,
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Speaker 1: So cute a disaster stuff again. Week twenty four year,
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Speaker 1: I'm on one thousand, four hundred and four and jewels.
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Speaker 2: Hold on from Lord are you?
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Speaker 1: Where are you just scrolling? Just scrolling one thousand, three
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty seven.
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Speaker 2: It's a marathon, No I sprint. We all to know
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Speaker 2: that I'd beat you by the end of the season.
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Speaker 1: He probably will to be fair fighting talk. Yeah, clip
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Speaker 1: that up and we'll play you on May. The way,
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Speaker 1: I don't know when the season is, but May at
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Speaker 1: some point and game week. Then, in terms of my
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Speaker 1: game week, I'm fuming because I was playing a back
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Speaker 1: for the whole time. At the last minute, I benched Kirkez.
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Speaker 1: I knew that it was the week to go big
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Speaker 1: at the back. We've been talking about it on the pod.
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Speaker 1: And what did I do the exact oppositey, I benched
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Speaker 1: Kirkz and Grieves' points so sixty four wasn't bad, but
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Speaker 1: it could have been even better. Sam, how was your
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Speaker 1: game week? Well?
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Speaker 3: Again, I was annoyed at Arsenal team sheets because when
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Speaker 3: I saw Saliba was paying, I was like, now, wish
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Speaker 3: I play Timber and gone four at the back. But
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Speaker 3: then obviously it was too late to change it by then,
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Speaker 3: so it was okay. I benched Timber, was really annoyed
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Speaker 3: with Lewis das in a for one win that he
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Speaker 3: didn't get something, and Trent losing the clean sheet angered me.
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Speaker 3: So basically the Liverpool game frustrated me. Let's not talk
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Speaker 3: about what happened to Spurs on Sunday please, I.
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Speaker 1: Wasn't going to, but that might now teures. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: was gonna say, you just reminded him now.
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Speaker 2: That you could not lose to Leicester at home. I'm
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Speaker 2: surely that's not lek about. You know what. I was
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Speaker 2: really proud of me last weekend because I played himself,
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Speaker 2: because I played it fair. I knew Saliba was going
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Speaker 2: to play and I and I thought it was unfair
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Speaker 2: to start to put him in my team because I
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Speaker 2: was probably a very not many people knew that he
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Speaker 2: would start because he was still very much uncertain, and yeah,
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Speaker 2: so I was just like, I just thought it's fair,
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Speaker 2: not it's fair to bench him. So I benched him,
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Speaker 2: and that cost me nine points to be fair. But
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Speaker 2: it's okay, but it was it was the right thing
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Speaker 2: to do because most of the managers don't have access
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Speaker 2: to some of the news that we have, for example,
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Speaker 2: so I thought, I just I thought you'd be more
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Speaker 2: like more happy with me do that. Okay.
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Speaker 1: It just feels like a really bad excuse for leaving point.
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Speaker 2: No, because anyway, it wouldn't have been a much better week. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: even with the nine point from Saliba, it would have
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Speaker 2: taken me to fifty five, which it's true true, but
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Speaker 2: I would.
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Speaker 1: You're in the in the kind of area where any
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Speaker 1: point helps.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm sorry, I know what you're saying, but
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Speaker 2: I felt good by not playing Saliba to be fair,
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Speaker 2: because I just felt it was unfound people who who
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Speaker 2: thought he was out basically when I knew he wasn't.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on to the FPL Board Mini League then.
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Speaker 1: Max Little Proud made two transfers last week, and he's
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Speaker 1: extended his league at the top even further. He sold
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Speaker 1: Sanchez for Pickford as well as Watkins for Gagbro. They're
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Speaker 1: good transfers. Wish I'd done those. Those transfers got him
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Speaker 1: an extra fourteen points. He's still first in the world.
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Speaker 1: Charlie is second. Still, he's still second in the world
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Speaker 1: overall as well, he's just nine points by Max. A
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Speaker 1: really interesting.
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Speaker 2: Charlie by the way, You mean he does television?
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Speaker 1: Oh yes, yeah, I love that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. If you want to come on, Charlie drops a message,
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Speaker 1: don't really know if I've got the authorities to do that. No,
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Speaker 1: I don't, and you're probably not going to be allowed
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Speaker 1: to come on. But hello. All the same, Jake Poplowski
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Speaker 1: remains third of our league. He's forty seven points Binie.
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Speaker 1: But Jake has all of his chips left, whereas Charlie
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Speaker 1: just has the bench boost and assistant manager Max has
9:05
Speaker 1: already used his triple captain. So yeah, advantage Jake in
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Speaker 1: terms of chips at least. Yeah. Remind if you haven't
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Speaker 1: joined that league and you think you could do well,
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Speaker 1: or you just want to play against fellow listeners, the
9:15
Speaker 1: code is cute seven white C zero double game Week
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Speaker 1: twenty four. Then for like here we should put in
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Speaker 1: like a big sound effect, like a dramatic sound effect,
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Speaker 1: and I have Jesse can do that. If not imagine
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Speaker 1: there's one here.
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Speaker 2: In fact.
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Speaker 1: That was me accidentally sapping my giant water bottle.
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Speaker 2: Indo on purpose.
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Speaker 1: Jewels. It was an excellent beefling around my pen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So Liverpool last week we talked about them loads, didn't
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Speaker 1: we We won't go in too much detail. If you
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Speaker 1: want to go back and listen, there's a big section
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Speaker 1: on Arno Slot's men. How are we feeling? What are
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Speaker 1: our Liverpools that's going to be going into the game week?
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Speaker 2: Jewels?
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Speaker 1: Who are your two or three or one? Maybe?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? So I had Virgin that brought in last week
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Speaker 2: for the clean sheet obviously against ifuture Home. That worked
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Speaker 2: for a ninety one minute and then somehow they're conceded
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Speaker 2: and I was like, are you for real? Are you
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Speaker 2: kidding me? Plus Salah obviously I was.
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Speaker 1: I was angry, but then also I thought it was
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Speaker 1: quite funny. So you've done that, Lea see at least
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Speaker 1: Cannae and Trent got an assesss.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah exactly. I was going to my body Karnat
10:15
Speaker 2: pars Born and Bread as well, and I just thought
10:17
Speaker 2: with Virgil. You know, virgin is going to play every
10:19
Speaker 2: single game with Karnates is not completely fully fit, as
10:22
Speaker 2: we explained last week, so there was a little bit
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Speaker 2: of a risk with Kannates. So I just thought Virgil
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Speaker 2: is safe. I've got the money, let's go for Virgil
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Speaker 2: and Indian. I should have gone for Kannati, my boy.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, but my transfer is called gakput in for
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Speaker 2: Chris Wood, So I've.
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Speaker 1: Got It's quite boy, isn't it, Because I feel like
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Speaker 1: we're all everyone's going to have the same three And
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Speaker 1: that's what's almost annoying about the gag Poy transfer. Now,
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Speaker 1: I feel like I have to do it just to
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Speaker 1: keep up.
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Speaker 2: It's on by eighteen point five percent of the match,
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Speaker 2: so it's not too too bad. It's not too much.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's way to be higher than that.
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Speaker 1: Everyone that we're kind of competing that if you want
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Speaker 1: to go up in the world, you need to have
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Speaker 1: because if he returns, you're just going to get left behind. Equally,
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Speaker 1: the flip side of that is if you go for
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Speaker 1: someone different, you're going to be I presume Gakpo sala Trent.
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Speaker 1: I've got Dash of course, So it's me talking about
11:06
Speaker 1: people getting left behind. Jules Sam's gonna get We'll see
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Speaker 1: what happened. I'm not going to no.
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Speaker 3: It could easily happen after last weekend, couldn't it, Like
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Speaker 3: I think it is Jewel Hall though, isn't he JAUSI better? Honestly,
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Speaker 3: me and him are going to have massive falling out
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Speaker 3: if he doesn't return across this double game week. I
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Speaker 3: don't know, like we'll see. I'm already troubled up, so
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Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just going with what I have now.
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Speaker 3: I think it's too late to start taking. I'd have
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Speaker 3: to take a hit as well to change it, and
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Speaker 3: I'd have to take a hit now to get Gackpo. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and I'd have to take and I'd have to take
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Speaker 3: out a player that I actually I actually think Chris
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Speaker 3: Wo can be really good this week, so I do
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Speaker 3: wouldn't really want to get rid of him. I've only
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Speaker 3: just bought him Meschester, so I don't want to lose
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Speaker 3: him like I like my front three. So finding a
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Speaker 3: space with Gappo is quite tough, particularly at a point where
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Speaker 3: it depending on what happens in the League Cup in
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Speaker 3: the midweek, we could end up with a situation where
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Speaker 3: we know that they're Liverpool blanking and if I've taken
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Speaker 3: a hit to bring in gap Po to take out
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Speaker 3: asked to then have to take them all back out again,
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Speaker 3: it doesn't make any logical sense. So I'm just gonna
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Speaker 3: stick with what I've got. I've got Sala and Trent
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Speaker 3: and then it's just hope that DEAs does enough.
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Speaker 1: And of course the other thing to mention when you
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Speaker 1: talk there about the long term plan and we say
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Speaker 1: it a lot, don't we don't rip up your team
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Speaker 1: for one double game week. As you mentioned, Liverpool could
12:19
Speaker 1: be blanking in a few weeks, and another team that
12:21
Speaker 1: a lot of people are heavily invested in, Newcastle, they
12:23
Speaker 1: too could be blanking in a few weeks. So you
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Speaker 1: could have is it game week twenty nine twenty nine? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so I know that feels ages away, but it's really not.
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Speaker 1: It's only five transfers, right, so if you've got three
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Speaker 1: of Liverpool two of Newcastle, some people will have more
12:37
Speaker 1: than that. Even then you could, yeah, you could have
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Speaker 1: headaches and as we've seen, as you've seen sickly Sam recently,
12:43
Speaker 1: you can plan your five transfers, but then you get
12:45
Speaker 1: headaches elsewhere in your team as well, So yeah, just
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Speaker 1: do be slightly mindful of that this game weeky, let's
12:50
Speaker 1: talk about Everston then it feels like it's a bit
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Speaker 1: more of a conversation to be had and it's been
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Speaker 1: quite a good time, hasn't it. Jewels for them in
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Speaker 1: terms of coming into form, back to back wins under
12:58
Speaker 1: David Moyes right in time for this time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. I mean two different wins really and
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Speaker 2: to be fair, one was at home and the other
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Speaker 2: one was aware at Brighton. So the first one at
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Speaker 2: home to Spurs. Everybody beat Spurs right now. This is
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Speaker 2: the team you want to be playing when you're not
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Speaker 2: doing well or you know, scoring. That was a great
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Speaker 2: performance overall by Everton. The one against Brighton they had
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Speaker 2: three shots, they scored on a penalty. They considered sixteen shots,
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Speaker 2: albeit just one on target from Brighton. But they were
13:24
Speaker 2: a bit more under pressure. But to be fair, I
13:26
Speaker 2: thought they managed that pressure really really well. So well
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Speaker 2: done in the kind of two different performances, one really
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Speaker 2: good attacking wise, the other one much more solid defensively,
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Speaker 2: which that's what they needed. And a bit of luck,
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Speaker 2: I guess two. So yeah, from an Everton point of view,
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Speaker 2: and David most point of view. I think you definitely
13:42
Speaker 2: take that before the two games coming up, especially the
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Speaker 2: Liverpool one in the derby.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so are we looking at Sam? It does feel
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Speaker 1: like defensive assets are the ways to go with Everton.
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Speaker 1: And we've said it before. Jordan Pickford is a brilliant
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Speaker 1: option in terms of goalkeeper, isn't it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, second highest goalkeeper in the game in terms of
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Speaker 3: points scored the season of ninety five, he's four behind Cells.
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Speaker 3: He's quept eight clean sheets. Only Sales has done more
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Speaker 3: than that. He's the only keeper to have saved a
14:05
Speaker 3: couple of penalties this season. He's made sixty four saves,
14:08
Speaker 3: picks up fourteen save points.
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Speaker 1: So he's a really good.
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Speaker 3: Option, I think, and continues to look okay because the
14:14
Speaker 3: one thing we do know about Everton is that they
14:16
Speaker 3: are going to play regardless of what happens in game
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Speaker 3: week twenty nine. So if you do invest in Everton,
14:21
Speaker 3: at least you know you've got a fixture for them,
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Speaker 3: whereas you don't have that certainty of Liverpool at the moment.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I think I wasn't planning to move for Pickford. I
14:30
Speaker 3: was planning to leave it and invest in a defender instead,
14:34
Speaker 3: but with my goalkeeper potential headache because obviously Fabianski didn't
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Speaker 3: play last week, Heather, I probably now need to do
14:41
Speaker 3: something in the goalkeeper slot, and Pickford feels like a
14:44
Speaker 3: good opportunity. He's got potential to pick up the additional points. Obviously,
14:48
Speaker 3: the opening fixture is against Leicester, so there's definitely a
14:50
Speaker 3: potential for a clean sheet there. They can be tight
14:53
Speaker 3: when they want to be, and it's two home fixtures
14:55
Speaker 3: in the double. So I do think Pickford is a
14:58
Speaker 3: nice option. Other options outside of their jewels.
15:02
Speaker 2: Pick for this without that the main one, you could
15:05
Speaker 2: go for a defender like your friend Mikolenko, Branthway, those
15:09
Speaker 2: kind of guys. I think Ilimanendia is interesting because he's
15:12
Speaker 2: called two and two now and again he was very
15:14
Speaker 2: good against Spurs attacking wise against Brighton with more difficulty,
15:20
Speaker 2: they got a pen and he took the pen. So
15:21
Speaker 2: if he's on penalty, that makes him even more interesting.
15:24
Speaker 2: So but outside of Pickford and NJ, I really or
15:27
Speaker 2: maybe a defender, but even a defender, I'm not too sure.
15:30
Speaker 2: I don't think so well.
15:33
Speaker 3: I was Originally, my original plan was to upgrade vanden
15:36
Speaker 3: Berg to an Everton defender and have a fifth so
15:40
Speaker 3: that I could cover out my issues when we get
15:42
Speaker 3: to game week twenty nine, because obviously, if it's if
15:46
Speaker 3: it's Newcastle, I've got a defender there. If it's Arsenal,
15:48
Speaker 3: got defender there. If it's Liverpool, got defender there. So
15:50
Speaker 3: it's kind of constant chaos unless I've got innocent Spurs.
15:53
Speaker 3: And then that told me a load of drama on
15:57
Speaker 3: multiple fronts. Yeah, exactly, But look at the defender stats
16:01
Speaker 3: because that was the plan, that move that I was
16:03
Speaker 3: planning to make, but it's really hard to know where
16:04
Speaker 3: you'd go. I think Mikkelenko's probably my preferred. Ash Young's
16:08
Speaker 3: got the most assisted of the Everton defenders. He's got three,
16:11
Speaker 3: Michael Kean scored the most goals he's got to, Miklenko
16:13
Speaker 3: is the most attempts on goal he's had eleven. Ash
16:16
Speaker 3: Young's created the most chances he's created eighteen, and Tarkowski's
16:19
Speaker 3: top for chances from set pieces with eleven. So it's
16:21
Speaker 3: like every stat you look at suggest you would get
16:24
Speaker 3: a different Everton defender. So for me, I think I'd
16:29
Speaker 3: probably look at Miklenko. He's that much cheaper as well
16:32
Speaker 3: than the likes of Branthwaite and Tarkovski, so I think
16:35
Speaker 3: in terms of budget, he's probably the way that I
16:38
Speaker 3: would go. That was my plan to move this week,
16:40
Speaker 3: was to go Vandenburg to Mikolenko. Now it might be
16:44
Speaker 3: rare to pick fin instead.
16:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, attacking wise, you we're not going to be bringing
16:48
Speaker 1: anyone in all just a frown from Jewels and a
16:51
Speaker 1: shake of the head from Sam.
16:52
Speaker 3: I just think that the attackers are too difficult, aren't they,
16:54
Speaker 3: Because if you're going to go there, you double up
16:56
Speaker 3: on the Liverpool attack. Plus you've still got the likes
16:58
Speaker 3: of Usak and all those plays that don't become bad
17:01
Speaker 3: players just because they've only got a single game week.
17:03
Speaker 1: How do you use this double game week for both
17:05
Speaker 1: Liverpool and Everton, Because on paper it looks really good
17:09
Speaker 1: for Liverpool, but actually it was a resurgent Everton or
17:12
Speaker 1: more resilient Everton, should I say, and Bournemouth or they've
17:15
Speaker 1: shown there can be anyone on their day, So it's
17:18
Speaker 1: perhaps not the easiest double game week.
17:21
Speaker 2: No, it's not. And what's quite interesting about it is
17:24
Speaker 2: it's a double game. Usually double game week are three
17:26
Speaker 2: days apart, right, this one is obviously the week after,
17:30
Speaker 2: because we said they would be the leak ups on
17:32
Speaker 2: the final second leg next week and it's only after that,
17:35
Speaker 2: so there's actually quite a long time between Liverpool and
17:37
Speaker 2: Bournemouth in the first half of their double game week
17:40
Speaker 2: and before they play Everton. So you could have said,
17:42
Speaker 2: imagine they lose away at Bournemouth and then they have
17:44
Speaker 2: to go away straight after three days later away a goodisent.
17:49
Speaker 2: It's not going to happen like that, So I guess
17:52
Speaker 2: in a way that's probably a little bit better from
17:54
Speaker 2: a Liverpool point of view, because there are two difficult
17:55
Speaker 2: fixtures for different reason. Bournemouth because they are probably the
17:59
Speaker 2: best team right now in the league, even better than
18:01
Speaker 2: Liverpool in the way they play, and the last two
18:03
Speaker 2: resourts outstanding really both against Forests and Newcastle away, and
18:08
Speaker 2: then the Everton one purely by rather re reasons, and
18:11
Speaker 2: to go away a good decent, especially with David Moyes
18:14
Speaker 2: who could easily play for an ind draw which would
18:17
Speaker 2: make let Everton and Everton finds super happy. It's tricky
18:20
Speaker 2: as well to navigate for slot I think so. Yeah,
18:23
Speaker 2: it's it's not easy, but the fact that you've got
18:26
Speaker 2: quite a bit of time in between, I think we'll have.
18:30
Speaker 1: And for Everton, I actually think it's quite It's not
18:33
Speaker 1: as nice a double as they could have because obviously
18:35
Speaker 1: they could not be playing Liverpool. But it's actually really
18:37
Speaker 1: nice that they've got that Lester fixture, isn't it.
18:39
Speaker 3: So yeah, and they're two home games and they don't
18:41
Speaker 3: have the League Cup in the middle, so they they
18:43
Speaker 3: will have a little bit more rest time and preparation
18:45
Speaker 3: time for that Liverpool game than Liverpool will because obviously
18:48
Speaker 3: they've got both of the cup matches in between. So
18:52
Speaker 3: I quite like it for you know.
18:54
Speaker 1: Actually, when we.
18:54
Speaker 3: Look at Everton over the last couple of seasons, in
18:56
Speaker 3: those Merseyside Derby's, Everton have been fairly resilient.
19:00
Speaker 1: They keep them quite tight, don't they. They're not like
19:02
Speaker 1: runaway wins for Liverpool.
19:04
Speaker 3: No, which worries me a little bit about, you know,
19:06
Speaker 3: because I think a couple of weeks ago we'd have
19:08
Speaker 3: all been like, yeah, okay, Bournemouth and Everton, let's fully
19:11
Speaker 3: invest in Liverpool. And I still think that's the right
19:12
Speaker 3: thing to do. But Everton will Bournemouth have proved over
19:15
Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks that they're you know, they're
19:18
Speaker 3: performing incredibly well right now, so I don't think they'll
19:21
Speaker 3: be quite the pushover that well. Maybe would have expected
19:24
Speaker 3: them to be earlier on in the season, but and
19:26
Speaker 3: the same can be said about Everton. Those Merseyside dubies
19:28
Speaker 3: historically are quite tight. So I think it's a reasonable
19:33
Speaker 3: double game week if you want to go for a
19:34
Speaker 3: defensive option at Everton.
19:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, it feels quite intriguing and quite an
19:38
Speaker 1: exciting double game week, even if I probably wish Bournemouth
19:41
Speaker 1: and Liverpool weren't playing that week. I wish Liverpool playing
19:44
Speaker 1: someone else other than Bournemouth. I definitely think because Borne
19:46
Speaker 1: was brilliant at the moment. As Jews said, it leads
19:48
Speaker 1: us on quite nicely to chips for the next game
19:51
Speaker 1: week because double game weeks are prime for us to
19:54
Speaker 1: use our chips and we've almost got to plan a
19:56
Speaker 1: little bit more than we would have in previous seasons.
19:59
Speaker 1: Jewels because but of course got the system managers. Yeah,
20:02
Speaker 1: the sistant managers were technically you can have three assistant managers,
20:05
Speaker 1: couldn't you, because you could change it across the three
20:06
Speaker 1: game weeks. That's right, is triple captain the obvious one.
20:09
Speaker 1: I was just going to ask you an easy triple captain,
20:11
Speaker 1: but I was trying to make it a wider conversation.
20:13
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I think the triple captain could be tempted
20:15
Speaker 2: for Mosala. But like you said that, there are two
20:17
Speaker 2: difficult games and there would be a lot for you know,
20:20
Speaker 2: the Liverpool will also play in between those two fixtures,
20:24
Speaker 2: as we said against against Spurs in the leak ups
20:27
Speaker 2: on the final second leg. So when you were talking
20:30
Speaker 2: earlier about not jinxing anybody and not getting that put
20:33
Speaker 2: in your team before he played that game in the
20:35
Speaker 2: Champions League on Wednesday night, it could be the same.
20:37
Speaker 2: We could lose one of our Liverpool assets through injury
20:39
Speaker 2: halfway through this double game with two for example, so
20:42
Speaker 2: we had before with Maney right exactly, absolutely, So you
20:46
Speaker 2: can go for Salah and I think some people will.
20:48
Speaker 2: And if you're maybe a bit behind and you want
20:50
Speaker 2: you playing catch up with people in your mini leagues
20:52
Speaker 2: or above you, it might not be a bad idea.
20:54
Speaker 2: So I think that chip would be played quite a
20:58
Speaker 2: lot with Mosala. We also know that it should be
21:02
Speaker 2: more double game week down the line, even for Liverpool
21:05
Speaker 2: if they make it to the Leakup Final for example.
21:07
Speaker 2: As simple as that, So I'd be tempted to wait
21:11
Speaker 2: for maybe better fixtures from a Liverpool point of view,
21:13
Speaker 2: if they've got more double game work coming up.
21:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you think, SALMONA, You don't have your
21:17
Speaker 1: triple captain.
21:18
Speaker 3: If you did, I think i'd play it. I just
21:22
Speaker 3: think that the way that the doubles are likely to
21:24
Speaker 3: pan out by the time the assistant manager takes three
21:28
Speaker 3: game weeks out of your schedule where you can't play
21:31
Speaker 3: another CHIP. So obviously we know that the other blanks
21:35
Speaker 3: and doubles, unless something very unusual happens, the other blanks
21:38
Speaker 3: and doubles will all come after game week thirty. So
21:41
Speaker 3: if you think up from between game week thirty eight
21:43
Speaker 3: and game week thirty you're going to need to fit
21:45
Speaker 3: in potentially a wild card, three weeks of assistant manager Chip,
21:51
Speaker 3: a bench boost and a free hit. And if you
21:54
Speaker 3: then want to put in a triple captain as well,
21:58
Speaker 3: then you are pretty much playing a CHIP every single
22:01
Speaker 3: week for those last eight game weeks you'd have seven
22:05
Speaker 3: weeks have taken up with chips, and I just think
22:07
Speaker 3: that this is probably the assistant manager. You're probably going
22:11
Speaker 3: to want to play on a double game week as well.
22:13
Speaker 3: So if you play that thirty one through thirty three
22:15
Speaker 3: or thirty six through thirty eight to hit one of
22:17
Speaker 3: those doubles, then where's the Maybe you could play the
22:20
Speaker 3: bench boost in a single game week, but the triple
22:23
Speaker 3: captain then becomes a bit of a where do you
22:25
Speaker 3: put it? So I guess the question is do you
22:27
Speaker 3: do what I did and try and exploit a single
22:29
Speaker 3: game week and wait for say Liverpool versus Southampton or
22:35
Speaker 3: man City versus whoever, and play it on Harlan or
22:38
Speaker 3: Salo in a single or do you go, all right, well,
22:41
Speaker 3: it's not the best double game week in the world,
22:45
Speaker 3: but nonetheless it's a double game week and Salad's going
22:49
Speaker 3: to play in both of them, so I'll play it there,
22:51
Speaker 3: which is why I think if I still had it,
22:53
Speaker 3: I would I'd play it now because I can't see
22:55
Speaker 3: a better opportunity later in a double I think the
22:59
Speaker 3: other doubles you're going to have other chips active in.
23:01
Speaker 3: It's Salah the only one you consider the trible captain
23:04
Speaker 3: for Liverpool at the moment, Chowles, I.
23:06
Speaker 2: Don't think so. I think Gakpoy is a great shot
23:08
Speaker 2: of Gag boys in better from than Luisdias, for example.
23:10
Speaker 2: But if you had sal let's not for I. Gues
23:12
Speaker 2: Sala scored one goal in his last three Premier League games,
23:15
Speaker 2: so it's not like if he scored six in three
23:17
Speaker 2: or four in two and he was really really on
23:20
Speaker 2: fire and unstopperboard. Obviously he's been through the season, so
23:24
Speaker 2: he could definitely be back and score two against Bournemouth
23:26
Speaker 2: and then a hat trick against Everton. That's not what
23:28
Speaker 2: I'm saying, but right now it's one in three in
23:31
Speaker 2: the Premier League for him. But at least he was
23:33
Speaker 2: rested in midweek in the Champions League before the Bournemouth game,
23:37
Speaker 2: he would play against Kerkiz who, as we've been saying,
23:40
Speaker 2: is in great form, like the whole Bournemouth defense because A.
23:44
Speaker 2: Barnie and Houston have done so well, even Cooker right
23:46
Speaker 2: back and cape I in goal. Great So really interesting
23:50
Speaker 2: to see Salah against that kind of team and Liverpool
23:54
Speaker 2: overall against the team that is almost as intent, well
23:56
Speaker 2: even more intense than them right now, which is rare
23:58
Speaker 2: enough to say so it'd be good. But I think
24:02
Speaker 2: Gakpoo would be a good shot too, if you think
24:04
Speaker 2: that all the attention from a born with defensive point
24:06
Speaker 2: of view will be on Salah and rightly so that
24:09
Speaker 2: would maybe leave a bit more freedom for Dias who
24:11
Speaker 2: would play as a nine or force nine because Darwin
24:14
Speaker 2: New Zealand didn't play on Wednesday night either and Gackpo
24:17
Speaker 2: on the left land side.
24:18
Speaker 1: You're getting some excited there by the prospects of plenty
24:20
Speaker 1: of Das points.
24:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, she could play a triple captain on Diaz. Oh no, sorry, use.
24:26
Speaker 1: That assistant manager wise, just a reminder, I think we've
24:30
Speaker 1: mentioned it quite a few times. It does become available
24:33
Speaker 1: in game week twenty four, and it's really interesting that
24:35
Speaker 1: had it been available in the last game week twenty three,
24:37
Speaker 1: David Moyes would have registered nineteen points. I'm wondering if,
24:41
Speaker 1: given the fact that Everton had two positive results, people
24:44
Speaker 1: are tempted to use it on Moys at this point, Sam,
24:48
Speaker 1: because obviously they won't get the table bonus against Leicester,
24:50
Speaker 1: but they would if they were to get anything against Liverpool.
24:53
Speaker 2: Yeah.
24:53
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I think that's the thing, isn't it. With
24:55
Speaker 3: the assistant manager Chip is that you have to exploit.
24:58
Speaker 3: I think anyway you have to try and exploit the
25:00
Speaker 3: table bonus. Now the other thing you could think about doing,
25:03
Speaker 3: and it obviously is going to be very very team
25:05
Speaker 3: dependent and whether how your team is set after the
25:08
Speaker 3: League Cup semifinals play out, but you could feasibly play
25:12
Speaker 3: it on Moy's this week and then move it for
25:15
Speaker 3: game weeks twenty five and twenty six and to another
25:19
Speaker 3: manager who could benefit from the table bonus. I think
25:23
Speaker 3: it's really interesting to me how popular it's been because
25:26
Speaker 3: I didn't see I didn't necessarily think it would be
25:30
Speaker 3: as popular as it is this week. I thought people
25:32
Speaker 3: would hold it for a little bit longer. I didn't
25:35
Speaker 3: expect so many people to play it on slot either,
25:37
Speaker 3: And I think that's interesting because obviously going to get
25:39
Speaker 3: no bonus from him across any of these matches.
25:41
Speaker 1: So have we got figures of how many people have
25:43
Speaker 1: activated it at the moment.
25:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's currently active in five hundred and five
25:47
Speaker 3: thousand teams, just over five hundred and five teams, So
25:51
Speaker 3: it's like that's quite a substantial amount of managers. Yeah,
25:55
Speaker 3: it's only bettered by the Triple captain, which is nearly
25:59
Speaker 3: six hundred thousand have got that active right now. It's
26:01
Speaker 3: going to be one of the highest chip weeks ever
26:04
Speaker 3: in FPL this week, and obviously we kind of expect
26:07
Speaker 3: that because we've got a new chip added into the
26:09
Speaker 3: game which can be played this week, so I'm not
26:11
Speaker 3: surprised to see it up there. But it has been
26:15
Speaker 3: a big, a big play this week that people are
26:18
Speaker 3: thinking about doing. It's tough because I just think that
26:22
Speaker 3: later on you're going to have opportunities where that table
26:25
Speaker 3: bonus can really come into its own. So if you
26:28
Speaker 3: do want to go now go, I would still go
26:31
Speaker 3: on Moois overslot. The other thing to remember is whichever
26:34
Speaker 3: manager you activate the chip on, they have to be
26:37
Speaker 3: your manager for the first game week if they if
26:39
Speaker 3: they're not, you then have to take a minus four
26:41
Speaker 3: to change them. It's like making a transfer. So I
26:45
Speaker 3: think you know, there's a lot of managers that have
26:48
Speaker 3: bought in a manager and already made a change to
26:51
Speaker 3: another manager, so that's either used up a free transfer
26:53
Speaker 3: or cost them four points.
26:55
Speaker 1: Oh wow. So it's like if I bought in Cody
26:57
Speaker 1: Yacpo and then decided I actually wanted Chris World. Yeah,
27:00
Speaker 1: someone else in my team. It's like, okay, Yeah.
27:03
Speaker 3: So it's not like the wild card or the free
27:05
Speaker 3: hit where you can just move around until you're settled
27:08
Speaker 3: and you're happy with this one you do. You have
27:12
Speaker 3: to make it decisione the player.
27:14
Speaker 1: Isn't it like having a play? Yeah? Exactly.
27:16
Speaker 3: And I think that's caught a few managers out. I
27:18
Speaker 3: think people were expecting to be able to potentially just
27:21
Speaker 3: you move around until it locks in for the game week.
27:24
Speaker 1: I wish we could do that with normal players. One
27:27
Speaker 1: that would be good, wouldn't it If I would have
27:29
Speaker 1: Gagpo and Pickford at the weekend, and then I would
27:31
Speaker 1: have been fine, but I had the safety there.
27:33
Speaker 2: Yeah.
27:34
Speaker 1: It gets rid of jeopardy a little bit, doesn't it. Yeah. Okay.
27:37
Speaker 1: Also a reminder that we will know by the end
27:39
Speaker 1: of game week twenty four which teams blank in game
27:41
Speaker 1: week twenty nine for the League Cup finals. That will
27:43
Speaker 1: help that long term planning a little bit more as well. Again,
27:46
Speaker 1: the single game week players, I think we could cut
27:50
Speaker 1: and paste the same thing I say every season ahead
27:52
Speaker 1: of every single double game week. Don't forget the single
27:55
Speaker 1: game week players. They can outscore them. They probably will
27:57
Speaker 1: outscore them, and all of that chat will have just
27:59
Speaker 1: had their well look a bit silly because we'll have
28:01
Speaker 1: got excited, and then Chris Wood will go and out
28:03
Speaker 1: aul all of them or someone I don't know. I'm
28:06
Speaker 1: just using Chris works. I'm probably going to sell him,
28:07
Speaker 1: so he probably will outhoul all of them. Who stands
28:11
Speaker 1: out here from the single game weeks this week, Jos.
28:14
Speaker 2: The usual suspects. Really, there's no reason for us to
28:17
Speaker 2: not keep faith in alex And the Eastside for example,
28:20
Speaker 2: or Morgan Rogers. We said Rogers was on fire in
28:22
Speaker 2: the Champions League in midweek with with Villain celticscoring a
28:25
Speaker 2: hat trick looking great again and especially with Villa and
28:29
Speaker 2: all the transfer rumors of Mary go around around around
28:34
Speaker 2: John Duran and only Watkins. Is great to see Rogers
28:37
Speaker 2: in that kind of form. That's the first thing. Cort
28:39
Speaker 2: Palmer didn't really happen for him in Chelsea's last game
28:43
Speaker 2: against Wolves on Monday night against the City sorry on
28:46
Speaker 2: Sunday last weekend, but it's still called Palmer and you're
28:50
Speaker 2: not You're not going to not have cor Palmer in
28:52
Speaker 2: your team either. So really, from from the players that
28:54
Speaker 2: we have, we just have one game. It's only really
28:58
Speaker 2: just Everton and you know, and and Liverpool that you
29:00
Speaker 2: focus on in terms of double game week and mostly
29:04
Speaker 2: and for the others it's just a I think normal service.
29:07
Speaker 2: Really do you agree?
29:09
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean I think normally we would look
29:12
Speaker 3: and go, okay, where is Southampton where a Leicester were
29:16
Speaker 3: an ipswitch. But of course this week Ipswich and Southampton
29:19
Speaker 3: play each other, so that makes it a little bit
29:21
Speaker 3: more complex. And Leicester have that game against Everton, who
29:24
Speaker 3: are already probably investing in anyway because they've got a
29:26
Speaker 3: double game week. Outside of that, I think George is right.
29:30
Speaker 3: I think the usual suspects absolutely remain regardless of the
29:33
Speaker 3: fixtures that they have. I think there's another couple that
29:35
Speaker 3: you could go with. I quite like Chaaliber if you
29:38
Speaker 3: want to Chelsea defender. Obviously, he's got four attacking returns,
29:41
Speaker 3: three goals and assist so far this season. Chelsea fixtures
29:44
Speaker 3: look nice up until game week twenty nine, so could
29:47
Speaker 3: be a decent enough hold. Obviously it's west Ham, Brighton, Villa,
29:50
Speaker 3: Southampton and Leicester that he's got over the next few
29:52
Speaker 3: weeks attacking throughout. Potential for some clean sheets there. I
29:55
Speaker 3: think Brumford are really good buyers this week. You know,
29:58
Speaker 3: if you want to go for an.
30:01
Speaker 1: Jeels, Yeah you're crying.
30:03
Speaker 2: I can see you're crying.
30:04
Speaker 3: Genuinely random ends back in training there. It's made me
30:06
Speaker 3: so happy. Enbomo and Whista, both of them, I think
30:10
Speaker 3: nice options like and and Again they are the sort
30:13
Speaker 3: of players that most managers would be looking at this week,
30:16
Speaker 3: but because there's a double game week, they probably won't,
30:18
Speaker 3: so could easily be the ones that actually really return
30:23
Speaker 3: quite well. They normally do that. The Brentford's Birds game
30:26
Speaker 3: is usually quite high scoring, and I suspect that might
30:29
Speaker 3: be the case again, So both of those two really
30:32
Speaker 3: nice options, really nice holds for a relatively long term
30:35
Speaker 3: as well. So bracket them in with single game weeks.
30:38
Speaker 1: Not to ignore. Okay, yeah, don't don't forget the single
30:41
Speaker 1: game week is differential of the week. Then I reminded
30:45
Speaker 1: us his players under ten percent buy it.
30:48
Speaker 3: Why did you not follow your own But it's a
30:52
Speaker 3: week two though, Jewels, you were buying a little bool.
30:55
Speaker 2: I just thought, I just thought he's dodging. I didn't even.
30:58
Speaker 1: Finish my intest. I got completely ruled because you started
31:03
Speaker 1: to celebrating, celebrated it. Different shows are under ten percent
31:07
Speaker 1: owned each week Sam and Jews if you don't listen
31:09
Speaker 1: to this podcast readily, they pick a player that they
31:12
Speaker 1: think is going to score big. Last week, Jewl's got
31:15
Speaker 1: it right. He went with Nat got five points, yet
31:17
Speaker 1: he bought in Van Dyke. Sam went from a testa
31:21
Speaker 1: who are and Jewles did both bring in but he
31:23
Speaker 1: just got two points. Jews, that's three returns, well returns
31:27
Speaker 1: even from your last three different shows.
31:29
Speaker 2: What kind of That's why I do, That's why I do.
31:31
Speaker 2: You know, there's luck all that Linton disaster Bolton. I
31:36
Speaker 2: should never picked Brazilians anyway. So yeah, Conati great pick.
31:41
Speaker 2: I should have brought him in my team. I said
31:43
Speaker 2: to him that I would. It would be my differential
31:45
Speaker 2: this week. I don't think he's so that I didn't
31:47
Speaker 2: into my team, but it doesn't matter so much. I
31:50
Speaker 2: still love him. Uh and to be fair, I hope
31:52
Speaker 2: his knee gets much much much better straight away because
31:56
Speaker 2: he you know, he deserves to be fit. So yeah,
31:59
Speaker 2: that was really good.
32:00
Speaker 1: Okay, here's the difference with this week's Sorry sorry, so
32:03
Speaker 1: you get to go first because you wont yeah, of.
32:05
Speaker 2: Course, of course. Sorry I've mentioned him already, but I
32:07
Speaker 2: went for illman Aji the double game with helping obviously,
32:10
Speaker 2: but also the good form. We said, two goals in
32:12
Speaker 2: his last two Promi League games. He's four in his
32:14
Speaker 2: last seven in all competitions, which is pretty good. He
32:19
Speaker 2: would cost you five from five million. He's owned by
32:21
Speaker 2: only three point six percent of the managers. It's not
32:24
Speaker 2: from Paris. It's a bit of a problem.
32:26
Speaker 1: How dare he.
32:29
Speaker 2: And especially being from Marseille and a Marseille fan, I
32:32
Speaker 2: was a bit reluctant, but still I would flag the
32:36
Speaker 2: flag of Ilimanendi because I think it's interesting and against
32:42
Speaker 2: Leicester I expect him to really do well return and
32:44
Speaker 2: for Liverpool it might be a more of a defensive
32:47
Speaker 2: performance from him, but I still think he could get
32:49
Speaker 2: something on the counter even against Liverpool.
32:51
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I quite like that pick. You gonna
32:53
Speaker 1: bring him in?
32:55
Speaker 2: No, because I did got for instead of him, I
32:57
Speaker 2: can't like. I don't have that many free transfers anymore.
33:00
Speaker 1: It's quite fun though, when you do it, Yeah it is.
33:02
Speaker 2: I love doing it because you know, it's that's the
33:05
Speaker 2: idea of the game too.
33:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, Sam, here you going with su bos life like Geors,
33:10
Speaker 3: I kind of thought that I would follow the double
33:12
Speaker 3: game weekers, and again probably not the right decision. Single
33:15
Speaker 3: game week I was gonna say, there's us just in
33:17
Speaker 3: this whole don't forget the single game week is Oh.
33:20
Speaker 1: Scrap that we're going to pick differently.
33:21
Speaker 2: You didn't even have to.
33:23
Speaker 1: I'd just like to point out I didn't tell you
33:24
Speaker 1: had to pick a differential from Liverpool everthing. You could
33:26
Speaker 1: have fixed differential for any Premier League team.
33:28
Speaker 3: I know, and I thought that last night as I
33:31
Speaker 3: was making my notes and I was thinking, oh do
33:33
Speaker 3: I go for a single game weeker, and then I
33:35
Speaker 3: just thought, oh, well, it's an opportunity, isn't it to
33:37
Speaker 3: go for a Liverpool double game weeker. So Subosli is
33:41
Speaker 3: six point three million, he is only onn by two
33:44
Speaker 3: point three percent of the game, so a nice differentialal there.
33:47
Speaker 3: He's got two double digitals in his last five matches,
33:49
Speaker 3: although one of those matches he got injured in he
33:51
Speaker 3: played for like twelve minutes, So two double digitals in
33:53
Speaker 3: four really, And in the last three game weeks he's
33:56
Speaker 3: had fourteen attempts on goal, which is more than any
33:58
Speaker 3: other midfielder in the game, including Salah who's had twelve,
34:02
Speaker 3: he's in second. He's also created five chances for his
34:04
Speaker 3: teammates in those two matches, and in those last three
34:08
Speaker 3: games he hasn't expected to go a tally of one
34:10
Speaker 3: point four that's bigger than both Salah and Dias. So
34:13
Speaker 3: Salah's was one point sorry, was zero point eight to
34:16
Speaker 3: eight and Dias is zero point eighty six. So he
34:20
Speaker 3: is actually, you know, doing quite well and his attacking
34:23
Speaker 3: numbers have looked decent. Now we have said that it's
34:25
Speaker 3: two defenses that have been secure of late, and you
34:28
Speaker 3: know it's two difficult fixtures, but does have the underlying
34:31
Speaker 3: numbers there and also was one of those that got
34:33
Speaker 3: the full rest for the Champions League, so was an
34:36
Speaker 3: opportunity to go for doubler and so we went there.
34:39
Speaker 1: Is he an option? Do you think if you are
34:41
Speaker 1: looking for another Liverpool attacker and maybe you don't want
34:44
Speaker 1: to go with Gagpol you don't quite have faith and
34:46
Speaker 1: do as this form.
34:47
Speaker 3: I think he's a budget option. I think if you've
34:49
Speaker 3: got a midfielder slot free, then he's a budget option.
34:52
Speaker 3: I think my issue with him, which probably I shouldn't say,
34:55
Speaker 3: given I just picked him as my differential for.
34:57
Speaker 1: This, sorry undo all the good way.
34:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, but my issue with him is
35:01
Speaker 3: probably that he is He's definitely going to be a
35:03
Speaker 3: one week maybe keeping for Wolves, but after that he's
35:07
Speaker 3: definitely then going to be a cell again because potentially
35:09
Speaker 3: the blank in twenty nine you're going to want to
35:11
Speaker 3: use that midfielder slot somewhere else whereas I think if
35:13
Speaker 3: you've got a Das or a Gagpo then maybe they
35:16
Speaker 3: are slightly more longer term holds. Just the form right
35:19
Speaker 3: now for Sabosla has been has been excellent, so picking him,
35:23
Speaker 3: but I think if it's a punt, if I was
35:26
Speaker 3: free hitting this week, I might be tempted.
35:29
Speaker 1: Yeah that's good, but do you think people will free hit?
35:30
Speaker 1: So we didn't mention that in the chips. Is is
35:32
Speaker 1: it a good week to free hit? Um?
35:34
Speaker 3: There's sixty nine thousand three hits active at the moment.
35:38
Speaker 1: So probably not.
35:39
Speaker 3: I think you're better off to wait for one of
35:42
Speaker 3: the latter blank game weeks around the FA Cup would
35:45
Speaker 3: be my advice. But if you want to try and
35:48
Speaker 3: exploit a double then you can. It's just not necessarily
35:53
Speaker 3: I think all that's going to happen is you're free
35:54
Speaker 3: hitting players that people have already got, So you've probably
35:57
Speaker 3: already got at least one or two Liverpool assets.
36:00
Speaker 1: Then you're only adding one.
36:01
Speaker 3: Are you really going to get three Everton players if
36:05
Speaker 3: you're free hitting? Probably not, So I think you can
36:08
Speaker 3: wait for a better game. We can exploit the free
36:10
Speaker 3: hit better then.
36:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Then and just taking a look at the
36:14
Speaker 1: exhale spreadsheet that Sam makes with the differentials because I
36:18
Speaker 1: just big jewels up. Then saying he's got his last
36:20
Speaker 1: three although I just know I can't. I don't do
36:22
Speaker 1: maths correctly. So he's had more successful picks than I've
36:24
Speaker 1: given him, thank you, okay, Wante, he's had ten five, seven, eight,
36:30
Speaker 1: Yes he has okay, see you. No, No, it's ten all.
36:34
Speaker 1: It's ten for successful picks, successful picks.
36:37
Speaker 2: It makes me feel good.
36:38
Speaker 1: But Sam is ahead in terms of points. He's got
36:40
Speaker 1: one hundred and eleven points from her differentials. You've only
36:43
Speaker 1: got eighty nine. But you needed the last three game weeks,
36:46
Speaker 1: is all I'm saying, because you were struggling before the
36:49
Speaker 1: four wins from five.
36:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly.
36:52
Speaker 1: There's the first few weeks though, guys, where both of
36:54
Speaker 1: you have got no point.
36:55
Speaker 3: We actually I need to really up my games, so
36:57
Speaker 3: I need to really do There's one too.
37:00
Speaker 2: Lillm an anger is going to win this week again
37:02
Speaker 2: the six.
37:03
Speaker 1: Game Okay, it's six game weeks where not either of
37:05
Speaker 1: you picked a successful one, all right, but that hasn't
37:09
Speaker 1: been for five game weeks now, so you are improving
37:12
Speaker 1: between you gradually. Let's end on transfers and captains then,
37:16
Speaker 1: I mean captain most Salah Mos.
37:21
Speaker 2: Salah and possible triple captain. Yeah, definitely, So Joe was
37:25
Speaker 2: what are you going to do captain Salah? I'm not
37:28
Speaker 2: sure about the triple captain, I said, but Sam made
37:30
Speaker 2: a really good case for it, so I just wait
37:33
Speaker 2: and then see.
37:34
Speaker 1: How You're worried about his lack of goals though in
37:35
Speaker 1: recent week a little.
37:36
Speaker 2: Bit and Sam just read his egg on the last
37:40
Speaker 2: three games, was it? Yeah, which is not much really
37:43
Speaker 2: when you think when you're Mosalla and when you're when
37:46
Speaker 2: you're Liverpool. So I'll see. But yeah, I might be
37:49
Speaker 2: still tempted by by Sam's case to to play just
37:52
Speaker 2: I'm playing catch up as well as you know, because
37:54
Speaker 2: it hasn't been great, So why not? Yeah? Definitely, Sam.
37:57
Speaker 1: Can you you can see how many people have axed
37:59
Speaker 1: faith Triple Cup and can you see who they're back
38:01
Speaker 1: based it on?
38:02
Speaker 3: No, no, I can't see that, but I can. I
38:06
Speaker 3: imagine that nearly all of them are on Salah.
38:11
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, pick fist, Yeah imagine, I see I was injured.
38:16
Speaker 1: Gag poy might have a few. I have a few.
38:20
Speaker 2: Yeah.
38:20
Speaker 3: I mean I was actually really worried that you were
38:23
Speaker 3: both going to ship a captain Salad this week because
38:25
Speaker 3: it could easily just I am, yeah, well you I
38:28
Speaker 3: think you'll be ahead of me by the time next week.
38:32
Speaker 2: I mean, you have to do it. I don't think my.
38:38
Speaker 1: Little girl doesn't. She gets excited and get my legs
38:41
Speaker 1: are going like that. I thought of being ahead of
38:42
Speaker 1: saved for one game week. What a loser. Way too
38:45
Speaker 1: excited about that. Oh so you're just trying to look
38:47
Speaker 1: me in. You just want me to have used my
38:48
Speaker 1: trouble captain to get it out.
38:49
Speaker 2: Of the way.
38:49
Speaker 1: I need to calm down. I need to realize this
38:53
Speaker 1: is all mine games now. I'm not I's doing I
38:55
Speaker 1: might become we might become teeny and over here.
38:58
Speaker 3: He will definitely be ahead of me, he be top
39:00
Speaker 3: of them.
39:00
Speaker 2: And do you regret having played your.
39:05
Speaker 1: Say, do you regret putting in the Do I regret
39:10
Speaker 1: playing it?
39:10
Speaker 3: Yeah?
39:11
Speaker 2: Sure, be honest.
39:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've said that you would play this game week
39:16
Speaker 1: if you had it, so you must regret it. Well,
39:18
Speaker 1: I mean yes, but.
39:21
Speaker 3: Yes clearly because he because I had it on Harlan
39:24
Speaker 3: and he just got a goal. But equally, like I
39:27
Speaker 3: just I don't think you can, Like you can't really
39:30
Speaker 3: regret them, isn't it? It was back in October, Like
39:36
Speaker 3: I'm waiting for it by now, like I don't know.
39:38
Speaker 2: We're bringing up against me and case we play, we
39:43
Speaker 2: play silent triple captain this week, this game, this double
39:46
Speaker 2: game week, and then if he does well, this is
39:49
Speaker 2: coming back to haunt you.
39:50
Speaker 1: Also, it's part of me that wants to so why
39:52
Speaker 1: doesn't it just one of us triple captain and then
39:54
Speaker 1: we can can tip we can have the triple captain
39:55
Speaker 1: chat again later in the season and keeping through and.
39:58
Speaker 2: Keep haunting you. Yeah, that's a good idea.
40:00
Speaker 1: I hate you both. If I'm honest, I think both
40:03
Speaker 1: me angels will get the fear and triple caps. It'll
40:05
Speaker 1: be over with if projectings for.
40:08
Speaker 3: It's going to be a horrendous game week if you
40:09
Speaker 3: don't play a chip like I'm not planning to pay
40:11
Speaker 3: any chips, and with that many triple captains and assistant
40:14
Speaker 3: manager chips active my arrow, whatever happens will be read.
40:18
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure of that. I don't know if it's
40:21
Speaker 1: mind games. Okay, then let's talk about transfers, because you've
40:25
Speaker 1: both gone early, is that right?
40:27
Speaker 2: No?
40:27
Speaker 1: Oh, no, Sam hasn't because she's got the goalkeepet. So
40:29
Speaker 1: you've gone Gakpo for who Jules.
40:32
Speaker 2: No Wood for Gakpo oh be bought in Gap.
40:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, I said that way around.
40:36
Speaker 2: In Yeah, I saw would then brought in Gap.
40:39
Speaker 1: That's the most popular transfer this week by some distance.
40:42
Speaker 1: Over one hundred and forty one thousand managers have done that. Interestingly,
40:46
Speaker 1: in terms of the popular transfer combinations, Gakpo features in
40:49
Speaker 1: all six of the top six. He's been sold most
40:52
Speaker 1: popularly for Wood as I mentioned, then for Raw him
40:54
Speaker 1: and is, then Joel Pedro, then Nicholas Jackson and then
40:57
Speaker 1: Kunya then and dies in after that with people bringing
41:01
Speaker 1: him in for Raoul, and then people already are selling
41:03
Speaker 1: Mateta and bringing Gapo as well. There's some real double
41:06
Speaker 1: game week fear there. I can I can smell it.
41:09
Speaker 3: Sam, What are you going to do? Take a big
41:16
Speaker 3: So I wanted to do Vandenberg out for Mikkelenko. That
41:21
Speaker 3: was the transfer I've been planning a week, but.
41:25
Speaker 2: Raya.
41:26
Speaker 3: It might now be Raya to Pickford, which is actually
41:28
Speaker 3: one of the most popular transfer combinations anyway. So whatever happens,
41:32
Speaker 3: some kind of Everton defensive person will be arriving in
41:35
Speaker 3: my team. It would either be person yeah, it will
41:38
Speaker 3: either be the goalkeeper, it will be a defender. Like
41:40
Speaker 3: I'm I'm not entirely sure which one. I'd rather do
41:44
Speaker 3: Mikeelenko and keep Raya. I think I annoyingly don't have
41:47
Speaker 3: the money in the bank to do Fabianski to Pickford.
41:50
Speaker 3: If I had the money to do Fabianski to pick
41:52
Speaker 3: with That's what I would do, But I don't have
41:54
Speaker 3: the budget for that, So it's going to have to
41:56
Speaker 3: be the I've got one transfer again, Yeah, because I've
41:58
Speaker 3: had to do with Slankey last week, didn't I remember,
42:01
Speaker 3: like these constant injuries, I'm bound to get an injury
42:03
Speaker 3: as well this double game week, so I think probably
42:06
Speaker 3: I'll end up playing it safe. I do not want
42:08
Speaker 3: to be going into this double game week already down
42:10
Speaker 3: because I'm not playing a chip and then not have
42:12
Speaker 3: a goalkeeper, because that would.
42:15
Speaker 1: Be a disaster.
42:16
Speaker 2: Why you are not flagged on the game.
42:19
Speaker 3: I don't know, Probably will be because I don't believe Arteta.
42:23
Speaker 3: Probably probably just because we're recording this a little bit
42:25
Speaker 3: too early and they've not done that day after last night.
42:27
Speaker 1: Okay, well, have you got Bryer as well?
42:30
Speaker 2: No?
42:30
Speaker 3: No, no, no.
42:31
Speaker 2: I was just wondering because, like, obviously we know why
42:33
Speaker 2: he didn't play against the Champion League in mid week,
42:36
Speaker 2: But is it just is he really an injury and
42:39
Speaker 2: is he really I wish I mean, since I've revealed
42:44
Speaker 2: that as like I admitted that left Salivan the bench
42:46
Speaker 2: would be fair to the game. I'm not going to
42:48
Speaker 2: tell you anything anyway, brilliant, Thanks right.
42:51
Speaker 1: It's the point of having you here. Get a new
42:54
Speaker 1: julianaar On next week, someone less annoying, someone that actually
42:59
Speaker 1: gives him fo that they know. Yeah, let's get someone
43:01
Speaker 1: that's a bit better. Fbl.
43:03
Speaker 2: You criticized me for being fair. That never happened to me.
43:06
Speaker 2: I'm never fair when I never do that. No, I'm
43:09
Speaker 2: never fair usually this time, Jees, is that the.
43:12
Speaker 1: One transfer you're making?
43:13
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, how many do you have? That's that's
43:16
Speaker 2: that was the only one I had this week. Then
43:18
Speaker 2: I'm expecting to have week I will have for next week.
43:21
Speaker 3: But yeah, because he's just gonna get given three well
43:24
Speaker 3: apparently because he's handsome according to him the other week here,
43:30
Speaker 3: there is.
43:30
Speaker 1: No dodgy dealing. Jewels just forgets he has.
43:33
Speaker 2: So yeah, that was my only one free transfer, So
43:35
Speaker 2: I spend it on very good, very well spent.
43:38
Speaker 1: Well. We'll decide that after the game. I think right
43:43
Speaker 1: on that night, I think it's time for us to
43:45
Speaker 1: go very best of luck, Sam, I look forward to
43:48
Speaker 1: hopefully looking down on you in our minion. Hold on
43:52
Speaker 1: a se I think Jewels is almost team Kelly on this,
43:54
Speaker 1: which is right. But then if I overtake you, he'll
43:58
Speaker 1: switch over to your side, So I know how it's
44:01
Speaker 1: mine worked brilliant. He's just I was about to swear.
44:04
Speaker 1: Then he's just what you call it. I can't think
44:08
Speaker 1: of a non He's just a troublemaker. Troublemaker, that's what
44:12
Speaker 1: we'll go with. Yes, just a trouble maker. Yeah, and
44:17
Speaker 1: you were about to be by me until That's why
44:18
Speaker 1: we were talking. A reminder. I hope we can get
44:21
Speaker 1: rid of that. A reminder me. Then your deadline was
44:23
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock on Saturday, back to the slightly earlier time.
44:25
Speaker 1: That's nineteen minutes ahead of notsing for us against Brighton,
44:28
Speaker 1: which is the twelve thirty kickoff off the bench. We'll
44:30
Speaker 1: be back on Tuesdays. Leonas talking through the key talking
44:33
Speaker 1: points from game week twenty four so far. Course midway
44:36
Speaker 1: through it. Are we back with the Fancy Show on
44:39
Speaker 1: Friday once again. I haven't checked who's in the studio
44:41
Speaker 1: with me. I know it's not you, Sam. That's about
44:43
Speaker 1: it's and we'll be back as always next Thursday ahead
44:46
Speaker 1: of the f A Cup weekend. Still bringing you plenty
44:49
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