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#56 Red cards, Haaland Hatricks and United Stinkers · Draft Offsides Podcast

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OK, then I guess we got to talk about it the the Declan Rice red
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card. So now that we've had a little
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bit of time to cool off and think about it, where where do
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we all lie? I.
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I think if Rice didn't fall down, it should.
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It would have been anything. But because he fell down, he
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needed a whole scene. It kind of forced through our
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free sand. I was letting you go off keep
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because I fucking love it when you go off and it's fucking
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hilarious. Especially when you saw going
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off these little facts in my head.
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All I think was that ball was rolling.
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No, I completely I agree with both you guys it takes I think
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you're completely wrong. I think that I think it was a
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soft yellow, but I think by the letter of the law.
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There's no situation because the balls rolling the layer of the
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law. No, it does, because that's a
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free kick. Stopping the play, it's a free
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kick. That's that's to the refs
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discretion, though. That's not that's not Declan
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Rice's job. Do you you?
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No, that's the letter of the light.
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You cannot take a kick when the ball is rolling.
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Oh the letter Lord, you can't take a free kick when the ball's
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rolling. But Declan Rice isn't the one
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that decides that. The video decides that it's
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honestly. Rolling.
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Yeah, it's a bit like he made the wrong decision, but that's
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his job. It's not Declan's job to stop a
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ball from doing that. But the the so you, so you're,
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you're going to sign with the referee.
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You know he made the wrong. Decision, I think it was really
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soft and it was probably the wrong thing from like a common
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sense perspective. But by the letter of the law,
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yeah, you're going to get it off of.
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That if you keep saying the letter of the law and you you
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are choosing one layer of the law and forgetting the other,
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what happened first, the egg or the chicken?
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It's we're, it's we're talking about a game here.
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We don't, let's not get into philosophy, OK?
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Can't. OK.
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If I let you run off on your little rant, you let me talk.
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I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this,
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because then Heck was trying to kick the ball that Declan
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Reister just moved. No, Van Heck was being a vicious
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little cunt this way. He was being.
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Whoa all. Right.
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Hello and welcome to episode 56 of Draft Offsides.
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I'm with Tico Enzo, my name is Keith and we are done with game
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week 3. Guys, how we doing?
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How we feeling? It's mediocre, just like
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Tottenham for me. Feeling great?
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How about YouTube as a as a freshly minted United fan, how
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does the this level of hurt feel like you're this your first 3 of
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like the egg of the chicken smackdown.
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It's not only. Was it bad that we lost 30?
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The player that I was saying, Casamiro kind of shut the
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giveaway. Two goals.
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And then then he left the stadium 1/2 time.
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He's serious. I didn't know you're not.
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He loved the stadium at all you. Just need you think he just knew
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that was like game over for him. He's.
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Fucking over it. I'm surprised he didn't leave
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Manchester. You know what?
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You know what makes me laugh even more?
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Before the The Game 10, Hawk had said Liverpool has been in Man
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United shadow because he's had a better season the last couple
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years. Yeah, because they won like.
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A League Cup and a back, Yeah, and the FA Cup.
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Yeah, that he, he doubled down on that after the game too.
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And the the reporters were trying to kind of like needle
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for it. He really doubled down on that
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was like, no, it's true, it's true.
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To on on a slow, you can see on a slow's been there for what, a
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couple months? You can see Liberal has an
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identity already. Yeah, but I mean, I OK, you're
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right. But Liverpool had an identity
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before, so this. Isn't the same right now.
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It's not the same, but it's similar.
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Like he, he took he. It's like he took a thing and he
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just moved a few pieces around to make it more like him.
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United had nothing. Ted Hawk has continued to make
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nothing. OK, wait, wait.
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Manny and I had nothing. But then he continued to buy IX
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players, which he's still doing by the way, and still has
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nothing. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not.
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I'm not trying to defend 10. I think he's an idiot, but I'm
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just saying that. I'm saying that like it's like,
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I think that comparison already thoughts a little unfair because
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like they had such a good like structure going on.
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All right, let's get into let's get into game week 3.
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It sucks. Dozen dads.
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Tika, who do you got for us in the stud category?
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So before I get into it, I'm just making an official
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announcement. Holland is disqualified moving
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forward unless he scores like over 4050 points.
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Unless he has like a monster. OK.
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So he has to have north of 40 to be counted for stud.
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OK. Because him scoring 30 to 40
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points is a regular week. Pretty much he had the most
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points this week at 38 1/2, but we're not going to talk about
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it. We're going to move on.
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We're going to talk about Brian and Vuevo. 33 points versus
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projected 15.28, Two goals which accounted for the 18 points and
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he had another 15 points in ghost points.
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I mean, to me, I look at that and see the ghost points and
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love that. That to me is like the best part
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about that. The goals are, you know, goals
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are kind of hard to predict and what now they're playing
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Southampton, but it was, I think it was a lot of shit.
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Quite a few shots on target. And yeah, pretty excited, pretty
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excited, especially when you drafted Wealthy League.
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That's super exciting, man. What do you guys think for him?
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Is that someone you would want to try and sell high or I is
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this whole year for you guys? I like him, Bumbo.
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I think I had him whistle last year.
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I think the the standings for Brentford, like they're going to
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start week in week out, you know, they're going to be the
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main focus. Umm, yeah, I, I can wonder.
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I wouldn't sell unless you really need a piece and you'll
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find where you're at. No, I keep him.
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If you look at the last two years also, he averaged over 10
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points for a forward. It's pretty consistent and he
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gets goals and assists, so I keep him.
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Yeah, I feel the same way. I, I, I'm not going to get rid
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of him, but some people might be tempted.
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I just think too, like even last year he was so hot until the,
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the he had to go off to Afghan. He got injured and then went to
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Afghan and they came back. And I think just everyone really
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struggled after that. Like there weren't a lot of
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players that came back from Afghan that like really lit it
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up. Other than like, other than like
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kudos, I can't. I can't really name another one
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that really lit it up after that.
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Maybe Nico Jackson? Kind of.
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Yeah, kind of. Kind of like, I think, I think
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for the most part, most people dropped off after international
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tournament in the middle of this of a season like that.
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That's such a crazy thing. I've expected big things from
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him. Who else do you have, Tico?
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Dominique Calvert Lewis had 24.75 points.
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Yeah, Lewin. I'm sorry.
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Yeah, Lewin. Yeah, for 24.75 points, first
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goal and assists of the season. And they were doing good until
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they were not doing good. This is surprising, but not
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surprising. You know what's crazy about this
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game is that as we're like, I don't know, you guys felt, but
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as we were watching this because we had that five game parlay.
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So it's like the whole time I watch this, I can't even enjoy
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the comeback because I'm all I'm thinking about was like, I can't
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believe Fulham fucked us. Because like you know, as
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Bournemouth came back and won this game, all we would have
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needed was a full of win and Fulham couldn't beat Ipswich.
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Ipswich. Fucking Ipswich.
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I know. So that was, that was pretty
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infuriating because I couldn't even enjoy this like crazy
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comeback because all I could think about was how it made me
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feel significantly worse. You know.
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You know. Well, look, Dominic, Calvin
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Lewin, I was surprised by wasn't surprised by this performance
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because he does this every Fortnite or a little bit longer,
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don't you think? And then he shows that he's got
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some sort of skill and value left in his team, but then he go
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he ghosts that team for another fucking two months.
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I don't know if it's a him. I mean, I think the injury thing
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is huge for him, right? So like him being healthy is one
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thing. The other thing is I think if he
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has service, he's like a very serviceable striker.
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Like if he if he's getting balls like delivered to him, then I
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think he can finish a healthy amount of chances.
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But I just don't think everything's like creating
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enough for him to score. Like that was a great.
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I mean, his goal was great, but that was that was that was all
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Dwight McNeil, you know, like kind of looked like he was going
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to shoot and just like threaded a really nice ball in for that
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run. You know, So for me, I think
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it's about I'm actually really interested in that guy.
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Gay. Gay on on Everton, he looked, I
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thought he looked really, really good.
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He didn't score a ton of points this week, but I thought he was
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like he was really creative in attacking.
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If he he could be, he could be like a sleeper waiver pick up
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personally. But I think like, I think if
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Everton's attack all around, Calvert Lewin kind of picks up,
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then Calvert Lewin's gonna be better.
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But I don't think Calvert Lewin's like anything on on his
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own. He needs, he needs the support.
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Yeah, I I think you have to kind of catch him on a good week
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because looks like everything are on their way down so.
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But I think he has value. I I don't know.
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I mean, if you could get, if you could trade up for someone else,
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that might, no? I wouldn't.
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You hold on. I wouldn't touch.
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I wouldn't touch Calvin. We were bought for man.
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I'd have to give him away for free.
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All right, who else we have? Luis Sinistera, 21 points, one
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goal, one assist. He's only the roster and 17% off
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fan tracks. So as a forward an option you
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could kind of look at it if you need a spot start.
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He didn't start, did he? He came in.
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He came in. Yeah.
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He's only started the first game.
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That's a little bit risky. It's good, good points, good,
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good start for this week. But I don't think he's a week
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in, week out star. I think he came from Leeds,
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right and he's at Bournemouth. Is it Bournemouth?
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Yeah, Bournemouth. So he came from Leeds.
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I think they spent like 1520 million on him, but they bought
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that. Was it the resilient guy, Evan
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Nielsen? Yeah, but he plays a different
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position, really. That's where since third plays
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on the on the. Wide like a wide forward,
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everybody else is more like a traditional striker.
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Well, that he's all fight with Semenyo.
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Tavern. Yeah, which isn't going to.
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He's he's 4th down the list. I mean, you say that, but he
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came out and had a golden assist.
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So there's a, there's a chance that you know that that that
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frontline switches up a little bit.
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Maybe. Well, you think Duran's going to
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take over all the working spot. He came on twice and scored a
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goal twice. Yeah, Ollie Watkins a lot more
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established than Cliver or Tavern Tavernier, you know, like
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like Ollie Watkins a lot more of a high profile player than that,
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so. Rolf Villa, almost Tavernier is
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an established. The menu was an established
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player for for Bournemouth. You think they would take their
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spots? I'm just saying it's I don't
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think it's as it wouldn't be as shocking if Tavernier benched X
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game like where I think it would be.
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It would be a much bigger talking point if Ollie Watkins
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was benched for Dran. OK.
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But but as I said, I mean, I don't know, I think this is an
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interesting one, but to to just the subbing end point or that
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whole thing, it's like you are taking a risk if you try and
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pick them up like because you don't, you just don't know like
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that's kind of what you were saying, right And so.
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Yeah, there's so much of A risk. Yeah.
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Unless you literally have someone on your bench that
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hasn't started a single game or come on.
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Which which idea? So.
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Yeah, I'm just kind of interested.
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There you go. What do you think, Tikka?
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It's you have to wake up rather see if it's in lineup or not in
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plane it's I remember last year we had a couple of good games as
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well. We kind of kept an eye on him
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but he never put up like a consistent few games in a row if
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I remember correctly. Yeah, I think it was, was it 2
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years ago with it with Leeds, but I don't know what, but he
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yeah, he he was pretty entertained to watch that.
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Like, he just looked young, but he looked really explosive.
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So those are the type of players that if they can put it
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together, it can be pretty lethal.
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It's just not like a majority of them can't put it together, you
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know? So we'll see.
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OK, We got an honorable mention on the studs.
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Mosala 33.25 points projected to have 18.83 involved in all three
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goals, had two assists, one goal and he had twelve goals points
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on top of that. You know, I feel like the last
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couple years we feel like he's on the decline.
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But this guy just doesn't age. He just produces and produces
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and produces. It's that new hairline, man.
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It's that new hairline. He's going playing like he's 24
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again. That was a great finish.
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Like we, we've, I know you said it, we said it this year, like
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that age, the age he's going to catch up to him.
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He looks fine in this offense. He really does.
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No, no, no. Nothing else to say about solo
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top three? Yeah, I think, I mean, the fact
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that he was dropping in some jobs was crazy.
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I think Tico Fat woke up to it right on time for the draft.
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Like as you you there was a period of time where you were
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going to let him fall, weren't you, Tico?
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And yeah, I was leaning maybe Cole Palmer or KDB, but the more
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I thought about it, Mosala, the the only scary thing about him
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is he actually came out and said it.
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This might be his last year. I personally don't think they
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would sell them in January, but you never know.
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You see him sign a new contract, like a little extension maybe.
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I get to that, yeah, but we'll see.
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I'm pretty amazing, pretty amazing player though.
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But it's also doesn't seem like you like some guys they get a
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little older and they lose their speed and they lose their
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effectiveness. Like he he's still really like
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explosively explosive. And I don't think that's going
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to change. And like, the way he scores and
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the way he assists and stuff, I don't think he's going to, like,
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age is going to hurt his game that much, you know?
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Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah, the rumours of his decline
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were greatly exaggerated. Yeah, sorry, my bad all.
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Right to go. Was it tough for you watching
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the guy that you drafted score, score and get 2 assists against
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the team that you now support it it?
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Makes me feel like he's not really a main knife because he
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was really a main knife. And even to put more solo in
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there. No SO.
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I think he's trying to be unbiased.
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The the positive thing about the positive thing about this game
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is the goals and the assists came from Mosala and Luis Diaz,
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both of them roster by yours truly.
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So, you know, if someone was going to score goals, I'd rather
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beat those guys. That's why.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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Do you hear what you just said as a Chelsea fan?
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If you had Luis Diaz and Saul on your team and they smashed up
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your team but you won your fantasy, would you still feel
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good? I mean, this week, it kind of
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happened this week because as they as they had one of our
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teams and he's scoring and so you're not.
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Happy about it, I. Know I'm not happy about it, but
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I was like, well at least it was this.
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Like he sounds bloody happy in the event of a bad scenario.
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At least it was the best case of a bad scenario.
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I had Isaac and Jolin. You think I was happy when they
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when when Isaac scored? But that's a game Tottenham
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should have won, whereas United was not favored in this game.
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So yeah, I just read and thought but what do you think is the
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worst result? Like who?
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What fan base is more bummed Tottenham losing to Newcastle or
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Chelsea tying with Crystal Palace?
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Well, what's more disappointing? I didn't watch the Chelsea game
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so I couldn't. I don't know if it was going
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back and forth but I did watch the Tottenham game obviously and
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top same old Tottenham dominated, fucking dominated and
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couldn't fucking put the nail in the coffin and let it go.
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So I don't think Tollen fans are as disappointed except for
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frustrated. I don't think this point is
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frustrated of the same shit. Yeah, probably the same.
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I think we're that's, I think it's a pretty comparable thing
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tying Crystal Palace and. Also, it's Crystal Palace and
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you're coming off of scoring, what, six goals?
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That's that's what I mean. That's why I like I sort of draw
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there feels pretty bad, but like I don't know if it feels quite
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like lost against the cast about I was.
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I was just wondering. Oh yeah, sorry, tangent, but
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let's get back on to duds. Where?
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Where are we at with that? Diego Jota, 1 1/2 points,
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projected to have 26.75. Not sure why his projection was
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so high, but it's high. Yeah, Jota, welcome back to
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Earth with 1 1/2 points. What do we think about this?
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And I think nothing of it. I think he's still going to
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start. Is it utility striker And he's
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still going to start? Like, I watched the game and he
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was just jumping in pockets of space, moving the ball around,
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making more opportunities for Diaz and Salah.
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And with sober Slide playing that further up role is they're
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just playing ticky tagy football up there.
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It's really good. But he'll get his assists, he'll
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get his goal, he'll get something.
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Yeah, I'm definitely keeping an eye on it though, because if he
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has another, a few more kind of like not like one point, but
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just like subpar performances, it wouldn't be that shocking to
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see Gackball come in. It wouldn't be that shocking to
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see newness come in. It's just that's not like it's
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like to what we were talking about earlier with Ollie
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Watkins. It's not like he's not an
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established star and there's people that are knocking on the
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door for those spots. So like gap PO for that gap PO
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look good. Yeah, I mean Gap PO has had his
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moments. I mean, he obviously looked good
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in the EUR so and Nuna, I mean Nunes is a good player no matter
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what anyone says. Like at the end of the day, he
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he misses a lot of chances, but he creates a lot of Eric.
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He is involved in a lot of chances.
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Too, He's going to get his opportunity, he's going to get
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Diaz is going to have to have a break at some point along with
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Salah, so. But yeah, I guess not concerned,
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but just you definitely are keeping an eye on it.
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This next one is what we should be concerned about.
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Really. OK, who is that?
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Bruno Fernandez only four points, projected to have 18.91.
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He started the year with eight points, 7 1/2 points and four
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points. He hasn't come, he hasn't gotten
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double digits, which for someone who went top three top foremost
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draft, it's very concerning. This is a man that is not a man
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of his word. Because he said he said he was
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going to help his fantasy people out.
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Yes, he did and he has not done that.
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He's actually steadily declined. Again, I don't think this is any
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fault of his own. I don't think there's any.
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There's no structure to this Man United team that everyone's,
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everyone feels like everyone's playing for themselves,
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unfortunately, in that middle of the park.
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So until they get some, don't get wrong, Rash would play
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better that last game and Garnacho turned into Garnacho
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from two years ago that couldn't seem to dribble.
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So I don't know, maybe next game.
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What I would say for Bruno, the alarming thing is in the three
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games he only has three shots, which came all in the first
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game, and he only has three key passes which came in the second
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game. So the stuff that he always
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could count on for those ghost points and all that other stuff,
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he's not even doing that. I wouldn't even say the most
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alarming thing to me was that in this game, the formation,
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because in the first few games they were doing like that like
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double striker thing with like him and him now, which was kind
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of weird and like he's kind of forget.
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You can kind of forgive him for being a little out of position
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and maybe not having the best games.
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But in this game, what Xerxi in front of him, he's playing the
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10 in his like kind of favorite spot at the wingers, everything.
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Just it seemed like the type of system that he thrives in, kind
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of having a free roll behind a striker.
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And so for him to struggle here too, that to me is all I mean.
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But that being said, I'm probably going to try and make a
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trade offer for him in some leagues because I still think at
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the end of the day, like Bruno, that's Bruno.
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I think he's been like one of the most consistent players
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since he's been in the league. It's Bruno.
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I'm willing to bet, yeah, I'm willing to bet on.
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I'm willing to bet on him kind of finding it, finding figuring
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it out. I wonder if I could send the
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Audie Watkins for Bruno. No, that's interesting if that
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person doesn't have a striker. Would you strip swap Martin
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Odegard for Bruno Fernandez? Oh.
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That's that's what I'm thinking. I think I might offer that jade.
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Wait, does it wait you just this is the older God that you just
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got? Yeah.
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You are a fucking slut. And again, I'm just, I'm just,
19:31
I'm just a, I'm a manager. I got to do.
19:33
I got to do. I'm a hustler.
19:35
I wouldn't because it's because it's the same position.
19:39
That's simple as that. It's a midfield for a midfield.
19:43
Yeah, but like, I just think like over time, I think Bruno's
19:46
going to be better. You wouldn't try to get a
19:48
different piece like Odegaard with Bruno and a little piece
19:52
extra. Odegaard hasn't been much
19:53
better. Oh, OK.
19:55
Yeah, you would have to put all day guard on someone else
19:57
whereas all the Watkins is coming off of an assist.
20:04
Juicy that sweet sweet sweet at this point, but all he Watkins
20:08
Rep out about his start to the year was last year as well.
20:10
You didn't. Score.
20:11
You didn't score. A goal You didn't score a goal
20:14
for like the first month. He didn't score a goal, but he
20:17
produced. Points I was gonna say didn't
20:18
have a sister. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:22
But OK, last, last name on the that's.
20:25
The wrong Bruno. The other Bruno Bruno Guy Maris
20:30
2 points projected 1212.86, again started off the year with
20:34
six, 7.25 and two points. The Brunos are letting their
20:38
managers down. But this one, we saw it coming.
20:41
We were not high on. Yeah, yeah.
20:44
I think, I think it's just a return to Earth a little bit,
20:45
right? Like return to the norm about
20:47
what the expectations are for him.
20:49
And I think we, yeah, we talked about it a lot.
20:50
But I think it's 'cause the there's so much more attacking
20:53
threat with like Joel Ellington back and Finale coming back, and
20:58
I think there's just a lot more. So he just has a different role
21:00
of the team. Yep.
21:02
Yeah. So if you if you drafted him
21:03
early, you should be trying. Yeah, you should try.
21:06
Probably trying. You should have watched.
21:08
Yeah, you should have watched the podcast.
21:09
All right, go on. Sucks to suck.
21:11
OK, honorable mention. Morgan Rogers 2 1/2 points
21:15
projected 14.3. He had a favorable match up
21:18
against Leicester City but was not able to capitalize.
21:21
It's a player Dad Enzo mentioned last year and he started off the
21:25
year pretty good so I think this might be just a one off.
21:29
If Devi passes the eye test, I think he looks like a great
21:32
little dribbler. I think he get into space, but
21:33
can he have the end product? I think that's the one thing he
21:35
was missing from this game. This was a very physical game.
21:38
It's not really a Derby, but it's close enough because
21:41
usually it's Philip, Birmingham and Leicester.
21:44
I don't know who's Leicester's fucking who's Leicester's rival,
21:48
you guys know. Anyway, this this felt like a
21:51
Midlands rivalry. So they were, it was.
21:52
It was a pretty rough game. Yeah, I mean, Laurie Rodgers
21:56
looked really good in the first two games too.
21:58
So it's not that crazy that he, you know, doesn't have the best
22:01
game, you know, for a third time.
22:02
I think the issue there is he still doesn't have a ton of
22:06
returns like gold and sins. So he had a lot of, he had a lot
22:09
of goes. He had a solid amount of ghost
22:10
points in his first two games. I think there's a lot of players
22:13
like that that look really good on the eye, like Elder Bear
22:17
looks really good for Tottenham, but Guy doesn't get more than
22:20
five points. Yeah, you know.
22:21
What I mean? Rogers produced points of the
22:24
first couple of games and he actually kind of looks at the
22:27
way he moves around. Is like a poor man's Jude
22:29
Bellingham. A little bit.
22:31
Yeah. And to answer your question
22:33
about Leicester City, their rivals are Forest.
22:36
There you go. Yeah.
22:37
And Derby County and Coventry City.
22:41
So knowing Forest, fuck the. Yeah, OK.
22:44
So but just for that to answer that, Rogers first two games
22:46
9.2510. So those are without a goal or
22:50
an assist. So, so those are pretty great.
22:52
Those are pretty. Solid.
22:54
That's pretty good. Pretty darn good without any
22:56
sort of goals versus points, so avid 11 off game does is not
22:59
concerning at all. No.
23:01
OK, kind of moving on to more general stuff.
23:05
First note on here, there was only one team that kept a clean
23:08
sheet this week. Mm hmm.
23:10
It was Liverpool. Felt like last year.
23:13
It felt like, well, yeah, I mean, there's goals being
23:15
scored. I think the craziest thing is
23:17
that if you were to tell me that there was going to be one team
23:19
that had three clean sheets in three games and no world where I
23:23
thought it was Liverpool after last year, right?
23:26
No, because they were learning goals left, right and center.
23:28
Yeah, Bradford really let us down, huh?
23:30
Because we were, we were talking about them getting a clean
23:32
sheet. And then of course, Southampton
23:34
scored in the 94th minute. That's done.
23:38
Concentration man, go, stay concentrating.
23:41
So is this, I mean, is this changing your thoughts on like
23:45
goalkeepers, defenders? I know Tico, you made a last
23:48
minute sub and put Killman in for McGuire in your in in our
23:51
matchup. And the thought process was he's
23:53
going to get a lot of interaction like you.
23:56
I think you kind of knew that he wasn't going to keep a clean
23:59
sheet, but you were just hoping that he was going to get enough
24:01
points elsewhere. Is that kind of?
24:04
Was that the idea? Clearances, yeah, winning
24:06
headers and stuff. And also I took out Aaron
24:08
McGuire, who I had a sense he was not going to start, which he
24:10
didn't even though he came on and he and he had positive
24:13
points, whereas Kilman had negative points.
24:15
But I thought they would give up goals.
24:16
But to be honest, when I was watching the game, the announcer
24:19
mentioned that City has never lost a game at was Sam.
24:24
When I heard that I was like, God, this is not going to be
24:26
good. So.
24:26
And yeah. I've been a huge mistake.
24:29
Yeah, I made a huge mistake. Yeah, it's interesting.
24:31
And I mean, I, I think I'm just probably not chasing clean
24:34
cheats as much as I ever have. I probably want to just, I'm,
24:38
I'm looking at my especially because I, I'm like streaming
24:41
keepers this year. So I'm going to, I'm looking at
24:43
that whole like that chase, chasing the dragon differently
24:46
than I would, you know, in years prior.
24:48
I'm looking for volume shot saved.
24:51
Who has like a bad defence playing against an offense that
24:54
can't score, get shots, Yeah. That's that's a great way to
24:57
look at it. Yeah.
24:58
Like we started looking at like XG numbers and yeah, yeah,
25:00
really. Exactly.
25:02
Or Keppa, Ariza Balaga, former Chelsea guy now at Bournemouth
25:05
on loan. What do you think?
25:08
Is that is he viable for? I think Bournemouth looks look
25:10
pretty solid. And if he's the new number one
25:12
there, hey, that's, that's an option.
25:16
He's a good keeper, he's not the best keeper, he's a good keeper
25:18
and he's at Bournemouth doesn't have the Lab do they have?
25:21
I don't think they have the best even they lost what Kelly who
25:23
was a good who's a key defender for him.
25:27
But is he a week in, week out? I think you play the match ups.
25:29
I think next week they're playing Arsenal, so I wouldn't
25:31
play him then. They're playing Chelsea, then
25:33
Liverpool. Chelsea and Liverpool, then I
25:34
wouldn't have him. Yeah, yeah.
25:36
But he got you 6 eighths, which is he got me 10 points because I
25:39
drop him because Neto got picked up.
25:42
I think he's going to get a lot of shots against them, so he's
25:45
going to get the opportunity to get saves.
25:47
He's not going to get a lot of clean sheets.
25:49
It's just going to be activity and you know he's a $92 million
25:54
keeper from Chelsea like so he is supposed to be good.
25:59
He's a $90 million keeper from Chelsea.
26:03
Yeah, no, let's not talk about that.
26:05
OK, we've on our subject. Jose Saab didn't get the start,
26:09
which was kind of a little shocking.
26:11
And then you realized that they had they brought someone else
26:13
in. Yeah, Johnston.
26:14
John Johnston, who's who was at Palace last year, so it kind of
26:18
made sense. He wasn't even in the squad, so
26:20
it gives me the idea that maybe he's going to like Turkey or
26:24
yeah, where? You really go Saudi.
26:27
Saudi windows closed now. Oh, what day is it today?
26:30
Oh, it is. It's Monday.
26:31
Yeah, Kentucky. Yeah, weird.
26:34
But it was it was a nice little treat because the guy was
26:36
playing against had Salon didn't wake up to change him, so that
26:39
was a nice little freebie. Who was trying to?
26:41
Who was trying to? Wasn't someone trying to be a
26:43
snake? Sergei.
26:44
Sergei was talking and the guy being like hey, don't forget to
26:47
change your keyboard. What?
26:48
No bitch. What did I do?
26:50
I just sent 100 text messages into the chat to try and bury
26:52
it. The games we play, some other
26:59
kind of notes. Gio Pedro scored again.
27:02
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Use my pun.
27:04
Wow, Pedro instead of Gio Pedro. I didn't realize I was a pet
27:09
pun. I thought you just like were dot
27:11
a grandmother? I didn't put a comma there.
27:13
Yeah, there we. Go.
27:14
Let's cut that part out. No, keep that.
27:18
I mean, Brent's looking good, so.
27:20
Pay hall and again, it's another year where T Tico was kept on
27:25
going from last year. Was it you to win or was it me?
27:28
That's it thinking Brian, Brian was going to have a down year.
27:31
We didn't. We thought he'd have a down year
27:32
last year, but this year they definitely have a down year, but
27:34
they're not looking down. I mean, last year they got off
27:37
to an amazing start to one of these or.
27:39
Goals, that's true. A good start last year too.
27:43
I think that I think the the thing that's really reassuring
27:45
for me is that is the is there hasn't been as much rotation
27:50
this year. So Deserby in the past or
27:52
Deserby when he was the coach was rotating that frontline a
27:55
lot. And Hensler has kept it pretty
27:59
consistent throughout the three games.
28:00
So to me that's a very big green flag for Jon Pedro because if
28:03
he's going to be starting every game, I think he's a he's maybe
28:06
a top ten strike. He's for sure top 10 striker,
28:09
maybe even a top five striker, but I got that guy.
28:13
Hensler's playing a football manager.
28:16
Yeah, for sure. He's a little running Sims.
28:18
He's. Running Sims.
28:19
President, President running on his phone while you're on the on
28:22
the pitch, you know. Fuck, you know that's an amazing
28:27
job to have. I thought you want to put on
28:28
your resume. Yeah, it's a little depressing
28:30
as as people who are older than 31, isn't it?
28:34
It is I'll be, I'll be happy to coach your Little League team.
28:37
I. Don't know if they have you.
28:40
I don't think so. Because as someone who owns
28:44
Sally March, I also have him in one of our leagues.
28:48
They we finally got an update. He's going to come back October
28:50
19th. Do you think he's going to get
28:52
into the rotation or is this something you're trying to
28:54
because I sent you a trade off apart of you.
28:56
Declined it. I don't know yet because I'm
28:58
fine at the moment. So I don't know yet.
28:59
I like Sally March and I, I invested him on a pick and I
29:03
don't need him. I don't need AI, don't need a
29:04
draft from yet, especially after JWP went to knowing Forest so
29:08
now I'm fine. Wins one game.
29:10
All of a sudden, everything's fucking amazing.
29:12
Yeah, it's like, I'm fine. I'm 2:00 and 4:00 throughout the
29:16
two leagues. But yeah, wait, wait, wait.
29:17
Wait, you offered, someone tried to get JWP off me and I said no.
29:21
Yeah, I just said no. And I, and it's because I'm
29:24
thinking ahead. If you'd asked me a week ago
29:26
with JWP, I probably would have given it up.
29:28
Yeah, of course, because we. Didn't know what was happening
29:30
with them exactly. That's fair.
29:32
It's amazing what happens in the line.
29:34
Let's talk about the Acavilla attack.
29:36
So Watkins, a little sub party, obviously got the assist this
29:38
week, but no goals. And then Bailey's been just
29:41
missing. And then of course, Game 3 gets
29:44
an injury now too. Yeah.
29:45
So I'm I'm getting like very concerned with Bailey because
29:48
the injury thing was always a concern.
29:50
But like the thought was at least when he's on, he's
29:51
explosive. He hasn't looked as explosive
29:54
this year. You know, he, he looked a little
29:56
bit stagnant on that right hand side and, and he's pulled that
29:59
hamstring again. It's the same ham and he did
30:01
before. So that's what's worrying.
30:03
Very worrying I would say. Yeah, by some of them.
30:06
What I Because you know, then with hamstring injuries,
30:09
sometimes they're really serious and sometimes you just need to
30:12
walk it off. Yeah, I mean, the hope is he
30:14
doesn't go on international break and hopefully everybody
30:17
won't. Yeah.
30:18
So hopefully he'll stay, stay back and just got healthy.
30:22
The other one, the one that this one really bothered me was Savio
30:24
Savino. There was just no communication
30:27
about it and he just wasn't in the squad and apparently it's a
30:29
knee injury. It's a knee injury.
30:30
Should Pepper like, mention that in the press conference the
30:32
night before? Isn't that like what coach is
30:34
supposed to do? They're supposed to be like, oh,
30:35
this guy's not going to be there.
30:37
No, he's not playing. Less privileged information.
30:39
Not, no, not all the time. You know, if it happened, I
30:42
guess it happened. I don't know, it actually
30:44
happened the week, the week of training.
30:45
So it happened. Yeah, he knew.
30:47
He just as he admitted it, He did, you know, it was almost
30:50
like he was lying to us, but. I know in NBA, in the NFL you
30:54
have to just close the injuries. You cannot hide it from.
30:57
Yeah, so. Yeah, that's what I mean.
30:59
I feel like that I'm a little, I'm a little miffed by that.
31:02
That almost, almost screwed me over in one of our leagues
31:05
because I was just, I was banking on set some Savio
31:07
points. Yeah, like 10, at least 10.
31:10
I'll go. Him too.
31:12
Yeah, yeah. OK, then I guess we got to talk
31:14
about it the the Declan Rice red card.
31:17
OK, this has been a big debate. So now that we've had a little
31:20
bit of time to cool off and think about it.
31:23
So where do we all lie? I was letting you go off, Keith,
31:26
because I fucking love it when you go off and it's fucking
31:28
hilarious, especially when you start going off these little
31:31
facts in my head. All I think was that ball was
31:33
rolling. There was, he didn't stop
31:36
nothing. The ball was rolling.
31:37
He shouldn't have got red carded.
31:39
He shouldn't have got to see a yellow card.
31:41
The other guy Van Heck, he should have got a red car for
31:44
following through and kicking fucking.
31:45
Dick and Rice, you're wrong. Oh, no.
31:47
Yes, he is. Yes, he is.
31:49
I I think if Rice didn't fall down, it should.
31:53
It would have been anything. But because he fell down, he
31:55
needed a whole scene. It kind of forced her out for
31:57
his hand. No, I completely I agree with
31:59
both you guys at six, I think you're completely wrong do.
32:02
You think he should have been a yellow card?
32:04
I think that. I think it was a soft yellow,
32:07
but I think by the letter of the law.
32:08
What is the letter? Should have been, should have
32:10
been yellow. Tell me that Declan Rice already
32:13
being on a yellow, you just should.
32:14
He should have done that. So I'm saying like, it's like,
32:17
it's like not it wasn't right that he got a yellow, but he
32:19
also put himself in a situation, he put himself in a vulnerable
32:23
situation to get a yellow. There's no situation because the
32:25
ball's rolling, the letter goes. The ball's rolling.
32:28
It does, because that's a free kick stopping the.
32:30
Place that's to the ref's discretion, though that's not
32:33
that's not Declan Rice's job. No, that's.
32:35
The letter of the light. You cannot take a kick when the
32:37
ball is rolling. Oh the letter Lord, you can't
32:39
take a free kick when the ball's rolling.
32:41
OK, but but but like but Declan Rice isn't the one that decides
32:46
that. The video decides that is
32:47
obviously rolling. The raft is the raft has a raft.
32:50
He's above the list. And be like that ball's rolling.
32:52
Stop it like like that's the that's the rough job to do OK,
32:56
the same thing. So like we're gonna like
32:57
disagree. I I don't know, I think it was,
33:01
I mean, at the end of the day, like I was, I was trying to just
33:03
wind up my arsenal buddies by being like, oh, that wasn't a
33:05
foul at all. Like like that was that was
33:08
completely bad, which like. That's exactly what I think it
33:10
was. But now you and now you guard
33:12
against it. It just doesn't make sense.
33:14
And truth, I think it was really soft and it was probably the
33:17
wrong thing from like a common sense perspective.
33:19
But by the letter of the law, yeah, you're going to get it
33:21
after that. Keep you keep saying the layer
33:22
of the law and you you are choosing one layer of the law
33:25
and forgetting the other. But it's not my job to shoot
33:28
pick and choose. It's the restaurant to pick and
33:30
choose. What the So you, so you're,
33:33
you're going to sign with the referee, you know he made the
33:35
wrong decision. Yeah, but it's a bit like he
33:37
made the wrong decision. But that's his job.
33:39
It's not Declan's restaurant to stop a ball.
33:40
That's not, that's not what I'm that's not what I'm saying.
33:42
I'm you're saying layer of the law, you're going back and forth
33:45
so. What?
33:46
You're saying layer of the law, and then it's his choice to
33:48
decide what the layer of the law is.
33:50
Yeah, it's his choice, the layer of the law.
33:51
It's his choice to interpret the laws.
33:53
So, OK, so he he interpreted voila, and he ignored another.
33:57
I'm saying the whole thing. I'm saying it's.
33:58
It's soft. What happened first, the egg or
34:00
the chicken? It's we're, it's, we're talking
34:02
about a game here. We don't.
34:03
Let's talk into philosophy. OK, Can't.
34:06
OK, can't. Yeah, and and I'm saying, I'm
34:09
saying, I'm saying the bull was rolling.
34:12
So there's no way of him taking a free kick.
34:16
So there's no way for. But the ball might stop somebody
34:19
stop rolling by the. Time they get to keep.
34:21
I let you run off on your little rant.
34:22
Can you let me talk? OK, go, go ahead.
34:24
The ball's rolling. So if the ball's rolling, you
34:26
can't take a free kick. That is against the rules.
34:29
That is lesser of the law. So Decker Rice touching that
34:33
ball hasn't broken any law because the ball is moving
34:38
however dangerous play Van Heck following through and kicking
34:42
through him that we've we saw just last Week 2 heads touching
34:47
each other. One guy falls and then the other
34:50
guy got a red card. I.
34:52
Think we're going to have to do to create a disagree on this,
34:54
but then Heck was trying to kick the ball that Declan Reister
34:56
just moved. No, Van Heck was being a vicious
34:59
little cunt this way he was. Yeah, I don't.
35:03
I just thought it was. I just thought it was funny.
35:04
I just thought it was really funny.
35:05
How wound up all the Arsenal fans got about?
35:07
It no I I didn't enjoy. The day that was, that was the
35:09
best part about it. Yeah, that was it, that that was
35:11
that. Was that was where the joy I
35:12
came from, from the whole situation?
35:14
Did you guys see Arteta after the match going to shake all the
35:17
referee's hands? No.
35:19
What do you want? How did that work?
35:21
The stair he was giving them, you could tell like he was like
35:24
just. Like it was like Eiffel fucking.
35:26
Disgusted. He was disgusted.
35:28
Honestly, it just the biggest thing to me is consistency.
35:32
If you're going to call it on one team, you just got to call
35:33
it for everyone. Something like that.
35:35
That's like Sunday leak stuff that we do just so like piss
35:38
other people off. Yeah, yeah.
35:42
All right, So there's a few lists here and we're going to
35:44
kind of just try to pick and shoe some days for us, but it's
35:46
risky business. So Enzo, what's your thought
35:54
here? These are people that are just
35:56
kind of like potentially pickups, but they're a little
35:58
risky and that you're concerned about.
36:00
Is that kind of the the thought process with these dance?
36:03
Yeah, yeah, basically like there's there's some new
36:05
additions, some transfers or teams that or they're in the
36:09
Prem already and they've moved to another team or they're
36:11
coming from outside of of the leagues, whether it be PSG or
36:14
Juventus and it's where the Lord are they going to come in and
36:17
star or are they there for just debts?
36:19
Like are they worth trying to pick up on waiver or are they
36:22
worth trying to pick up with FAB?
36:24
I don't know. All right, so.
36:26
I'm going to pick through this list some names that are aren't
36:30
waiver eligible because of like only transfer, just own
36:35
percentage like transfer. So like Sterling, the Arsenal.
36:39
What do you guys think about this?
36:40
Because obviously he's obviously owned in more than 50% of
36:44
leagues. Yeah.
36:46
I mean, I was saying before the straight was even a whisper of
36:48
the wind, I was saying I thought this would have been a good move
36:50
for Arsenal to pick him up personally.
36:52
So I think my thought process is like he might not start every
36:55
game, but like having that on the as a depth option.
36:58
And then also like another option outside of Martinelli
37:01
that, you know, I think it's a really good move for ourselves.
37:04
The the, the way I see is I'll tell the way he speaks about
37:08
players when he loves them, like when he got Ryo loved Ryo, you
37:13
know, I mean when he got Declan Rice loved Declan Rice.
37:15
Now he's talking similar the way he's talking about Sterling.
37:18
I feel like Sterling could take that last one, maybe not right
37:21
away, but I think he'll take that last one.
37:24
I think it's going to be a competition now.
37:25
I think before I, I think Arteta's proven that he doesn't
37:28
really like to start Charlesard that much.
37:31
He doesn't love doing that. Yeah, so when you look at it,
37:33
Martinelli has been pretty shitty last year, this year as
37:37
well. Tricart seems like Arteta
37:41
doesn't want to make him the permanent start on the left
37:43
wing. And Sterling to me is a better,
37:45
better option than both of those players because he gives you he
37:50
gives you everything that Martinelli and Trustard do.
37:52
And one player he has the speed he could dribble, cross it in
37:55
and take people on one-on-one and he could score goals.
37:57
Proven this sort of thing, as you know, years in the EPL.
38:00
So I'm super happy I was able to snatch him up and I do think he
38:05
could be someone who could be a consistent starter if he gets
38:08
the opportunity and he puts up a couple of good games in a row.
38:10
Great. Yeah, I think it's, I think it's
38:12
a interesting thing. It's a little bit of like a pick
38:14
up. If you have the luxury of doing
38:17
it, you should try and do it. But if you're like, oh, and 3:00
38:20
or 1:00 and 2:00 and you're just scraping by and you need someone
38:22
immediately, probably not the best pick up.
38:24
But if you have like a little, if you have an extra bench spot
38:26
and you want to pick up someone that could be a lottery win in a
38:30
few weeks. Yeah, I think I think that could
38:33
it could be there. OK, What about JW Report, JWP,
38:38
the Forest? How how do you guys feel about
38:40
that? I mean, he wasn't starting.
38:41
He had he didn't play a single minute for West Ham.
38:43
Really. He played a few minutes.
38:44
He played a few. Minutes in the first game and
38:46
then after that, not terrible. It's it's amazing that he just
38:49
got him last year. It was such, it was quite a key
38:51
figure last year. West Ham did some really did a
38:55
lot of business this summer. So I think he just went down the
38:58
pecking order with the new manager.
38:59
Also. I just don't think he was in the
39:00
plans. Him going to Forest though could
39:04
be good with, you know, Lango on the right who stayed at Forest.
39:08
You got Hudson Nadoy people for him to aim at.
39:11
I think it could work out. Chris Wood, he's been amazing,
39:15
by the way. Yeah, I got another goal really
39:17
messed with Chris Wood. Yeah, I think the only concern
39:21
JVP is like more gives. White has been taking all the
39:25
quarters in free kicks. So does JDP immediately slot in
39:28
there? Because I think without that,
39:30
without the corners in free kicks, I'm not that interested.
39:33
JWP. No, I hear you.
39:35
So I think that that's the question mark we need to kind of
39:37
see, see what that looks like. We'll see what the manager says.
39:42
Yeah, someone, someone gets all they they split on right and
39:45
left. You know what?
39:46
I mean it's a possibility as well.
39:49
I mean, I it's better than him being benched at new at West
39:52
Ham, but I don't think it's as good as him being a starter at
39:55
West Ham. I think that's kind of where I
39:56
lie with this. Let's see man, I can't wait.
39:58
I'm actually looking forward to it.
40:00
OK then what about so Edward went from Chris Palace at
40:04
Leicester? Uh huh.
40:07
What do you guys think about that?
40:08
It's I mean, he was, he kind of had some, he had some moments
40:10
last year where he was playable for a few streaky moments before
40:13
my Tete kind of took control and took over that spot.
40:16
You think? Did you see a a place for him at
40:18
Leicester? I think so.
40:20
They put a lot of balls in the box.
40:22
That lesser team, I'm not sure he's that big of that kind of
40:26
big of a target. But Darker's injured body's not
40:28
going to be able to play every single game.
40:30
Yeah, I think that's the end of the game.
40:32
Yeah. So I think it'll be more of like
40:33
a rotation thing with Eduard. It's like you can if again like
40:38
you said before, if you have the luxury to pick up an extra
40:40
striker and then spot star when needed maybe.
40:46
OK, then the last one, Eddie and Katya goes to Palace.
40:50
I think some people like Sergei think that he's going to be the
40:55
starter there, which I have a hard time kind of seeing.
40:59
I have a hard time seeing him having a path to a starter that
41:02
palace. Yeah, I think he's going to have
41:05
to train hard in training and he's going to hope that Matteo
41:08
doesn't score every other game. That was honest with you.
41:12
If I own and Katya, I would be trying to ship him like shop
41:15
him. The people who like think think
41:17
that he could be a starter because in my mind, I think he's
41:19
going to not be and I'd be trying to get rid of him while
41:22
there's like there's there's no greater hype than the unknown
41:27
yeah. You know, so like right now with
41:28
this uncertainty about his about if he's going to start not and
41:32
like I think he the chance of him starting after the national
41:35
break is like less than 10%. I think the tech is going to
41:38
have that role until he just has a bad slump, you know, but so I
41:43
I'd be trying to ship, I'd be trying to shop and cut yeah,
41:46
personally, I. Agree.
41:47
I would too. OK, let's get through this super
41:50
quick. But Ghost Point, So just talking
41:52
about some guys that have had some really strong Ghost Point
41:54
numbers so far. Tico, you're saying these
41:56
numbers aren't quite accurate. So I don't, I'm not going to
41:58
don't quote us on this. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
42:01
So for example, when we go on this, Dwight McNeil has 16 ghost
42:05
points toll. Was he?
42:08
Oh, just for the. Last week, yeah, just for last
42:10
week, that his toll for that whole week was 20.5.
42:14
So did he get an assist that game?
42:16
Yes. Plus whatever minus points he
42:19
got dispossessed. Interesting.
42:21
Like that. I see, I see.
42:23
So yeah. So the names are Tabernet with
42:25
12 1/2 ghost points, driving the L, 16 ghost points, driving
42:29
Bimbo with 17 ghost points, KDB with 18 ghost points, Jamie Doku
42:33
got 11, and then Jack Harrison with 17.75 ghost points.
42:39
Wow. Jack and Jack Harrison's
42:42
available in mostly because I would, I would assume.
42:43
He is. He put a lot of balls in the
42:46
box. But I mean, he was pretty absent
42:49
the first two games. Yep, as far as that.
42:51
So. David know he was still playing
42:53
there. Well, he yeah, he came back on
42:56
loan. He's on loan again.
42:58
Yeah. So I mean, that's these are this
43:00
is a good thing to look at and just to see kind of who is
43:03
generating points without, you know, the goals and assists.
43:06
Tigo, are you feeling better about Doku after his
43:07
performance? Yeah, I am.
43:11
The only thing about him is he's been subbed off on I think at
43:15
least the last two games. So that's the only concerning
43:18
thing. But what I was happy to see that
43:21
grill they started, but Doko still played.
43:23
They just moved Doko on the right side, so he was playing
43:25
out of position and he still managed to put up this point.
43:27
It's. Going to be really interesting
43:29
to see what how bad the Savio injury is.
43:32
Yeah, you know, and then I thought, I thought Grillish
43:35
actually looks significantly better than he has previously
43:39
this week. So that's interesting.
43:41
But I also don't, I just feel like really just doesn't have
43:43
the explosiveness of the other two guys.
43:46
Like Savio and Dokar are both so explosive.
43:49
No, yeah, it's more of he's not as fast, but he's great at
43:51
holding that ball. He's a more controlled player,
43:54
yeah. So that's interesting.
43:56
OK. So we go waivers and call it a
43:58
day? Yeah, all.
44:01
Right first name on the waiver list.
44:02
Juan Bisaka. West Ham owned in 47% of
44:05
leagues. He had a pretty good game.
44:07
He he looked, he looked like Reborn that game, the way he was
44:11
running up and down that wing, the one twos he was doing.
44:14
I think he getting out May and I was a blessing for him.
44:17
I think so too. I think you know he he played
44:21
the full 90 against City. City scored three goals.
44:24
He still managed to have 8.8 and a half.
44:26
Goes 8 1/2 points. Yep.
44:28
So you know, two key passes, he a few times he was exploded past
44:31
people which I never saw him get United.
44:33
Nope, I never saw him do that at United.
44:35
And then you start to think like, oh man, he's actually a
44:36
better athlete than you thought, than you think.
44:38
And then people always consider him one of the best one-on-one
44:40
defenders too. So to me that just kind of
44:43
excites that he's going to probably stay in most teams.
44:45
Like I don't think he's not once he locks down a spot for for
44:48
that team, I think it's it's going to be hard to uproot him.
44:52
So with all that being said, I'm I'm pretty hot on Lumbosaka.
44:55
Yeah. All right.
44:56
Then the next one is kind of a double Jayden, Sancho, Federico
45:00
Quiesa, pretty high profile names going into teams where
45:03
they're probably not expected to start every week.
45:07
Are they trap pickups, you guys or is is there one that's more
45:10
alerting than than the other? I think Tiko, you probably
45:12
didn't answer because I saw you picked up one of these guys.
45:14
I picked up Sancho, but I honestly, I think I'm going to
45:17
drop him just because look at all the players they have in
45:20
that position here, says the other one.
45:22
That was more interesting to me. I thought of adding him as a
45:25
just kind of in case Luis Diaz doesn't get doesn't play, but
45:29
the way Diaz has been playing, I'm not really worried about
45:32
that pick up. I think it's more of a kind of
45:33
just stepped for Liverpool. You want like a triple handcuff
45:37
you son of a bitch? God damn.
45:39
All right. I agree with.
45:41
I think Kiazza's more the appealing one out of two.
45:44
I think they just want to man, you know, I just want to get
45:48
Sancho out and Chelsea's more than happy to take it in a lot
45:52
of place. And they go over to Sterling,
45:54
but I don't think he's going to play too often.
45:57
Not Sancho, Elise, but Kiazza. He's got more of an opportunity
46:00
to play. The only thing about Sanchez
46:03
that's interesting is that the left wing for Chelsea hasn't
46:06
been totally locked in, you know, like Neto.
46:08
It's been possible, but not amazing.
46:11
Madrick is there, He hasn't been great.
46:13
So I can see Sanchez get him some minutes on that left wing.
46:16
But that being said, like, but to see this point, there's so
46:19
many people there now, it's like that whole team is such a
46:21
headache as far as players or rotation and what's going to
46:25
happen. They they also have Felix that
46:27
they could play there and. And Cuckoo could play there if
46:31
he plays. Ouch.
46:33
And who was the other player? Oh, NATO plays there as well.
46:37
So yeah, it's like everyone, they signed this for the left.
46:39
Someone makes no sense. Yeah.
46:42
So, yeah, I think they're both kind of, I wouldn't get too
46:46
excited about either of them until we see a little more OK
46:48
the next time on here. McHale.
46:49
Marino only owned it in 27% of leagues.
46:51
I think this had to do with the fact that he injured his
46:53
shoulder. Yeah, right.
46:54
Immediately I was a little pissed that I spent a good
46:57
amount of foul on him and then found out that he injured his
47:00
shoulder after. How much fat did you spend on
47:02
him? Quite a bit.
47:03
Well, it's quite a bit, Keith, Quite a bit.
47:05
And we get a number. 29. No, you didn't.
47:10
Yeah. Why?
47:12
Because I needed a midfielder really bad.
47:15
And I think he's going to kind of feel that that Jocko roll
47:18
like on the left side of the midfield and push, push Teklin
47:22
Rice back to the 6th and Partake goes out of that team.
47:25
Really, That's that's my that's what I think is going to happen.
47:27
I think Meridio is being signed to be what?
47:29
What Arteta? What I have to be. 29 Fab's a
47:34
lot of fab prompt. Yeah, and I mean and you.
47:38
Know what else is going to come in January?
47:40
That's. Kind of what I mean, that's kind
47:41
of where I'm at too. I was kind of like, well, you
47:43
know, I'm pretty much just like, I'm trying to make some moves
47:46
now and then, just like punting on the January transfer window
47:51
and just hoping that my, my talent recognition can pick up
47:54
people before everyone else see someone.
47:55
You could always sell someone to Kyle for a ton of fab.
47:58
I'm sure you'll. Exactly so there's there's ways
48:00
I'm I'm not burning it completely my.
48:02
Talent recognition. Yeah, my, I'm glad you picked up
48:06
on that. Thanks Tigo.
48:09
Jerry West over here. Yeah, the merino thing, I, I, it
48:15
was unfortunately it was going to be a couple of weeks, but now
48:17
it looks like ends up. So Kylie showed me this morning
48:20
that it's going to be until mid-october that he's out.
48:23
Yeah, but then you you've been in an argumentative mood for the
48:25
last couple of days. Fucking awesome.
48:28
All. I'll do was give you a friendly
48:30
update. Yeah, mid-october, Mid-october
48:33
is a little bit rough, but at least it's only the you
48:36
remember. 2 weeks off and I think there's a international
48:40
break this week and isn't there another week off?
48:42
Yeah, like right after. Yeah.
48:44
So I think you'll be fine. I think if you're like, if
48:47
you're someone that's like three and oh, and you can afford to
48:49
have Marino sit for a while, I think it's OK.
48:52
Like someone like me who's like won all their games, you know,
48:54
then I think it's very OK. But if you're if you're like one
48:56
and two or oh and three or something, then I think you
48:59
probably shouldn't pass on that and get people that are.
49:01
Fucking lucky and love it. Keep that same fucking energy
49:05
all season key. I think he's not for you.
49:08
He's not for you guys. He's more for, he's more a
49:10
player for a, for a, a manager like me, you know, he is for a
49:13
manager you know. You know what's funny, Enzo?
49:16
When you're also three, you know and have the most points.
49:18
You don't need to spend 5 on all these unproven players.
49:22
We'll see how that we'll see how that does for you at the end of
49:23
the season. OK, moving on from Macau, Reno,
49:27
is it Dean Anderson, what's his the keeper for Crystal Palace.
49:31
He made some really good saves against against Chelsea this
49:34
week. I think they have a fairly easy
49:36
game against, you know, relatively easy knock on wood
49:38
against Leicester, who hasn't looked like the most promising
49:40
attacking team. So I think he might be a good
49:43
like spot start keeper considering like Fleck in and
49:45
some of the other ones are going up against pretty solid teams.
49:48
There was a lot of goalkeeper moves.
49:50
That was a lot of. Goalkeeper.
49:51
Yeah, there was. There's a crazy amount.
49:53
Man. I it's weird too.
49:55
It feels like they're just like, they're like wife swapping
49:57
goalkeepers. They're they're just like
49:59
swingers. It's like, it's like swinging.
50:00
They're like swinging. The craziest thing was like the
50:02
Netto to Arsenal as the backup. I know.
50:06
That kind of screwed you over, right?
50:07
Well, well saw. But then I picked up Keppra and
50:09
got 10 points, but it just didn't make sense that, well,
50:12
maybe because I guess Netto's always dream, you know how they
50:15
always set up, dreamed of playing for a team like dreamed
50:18
of playing for Arsenal when he was in Brazil.
50:20
But he's he's gone from Bournemouth being a starter to
50:24
now going to Arsenal and being a Ramsdale, you know what I mean?
50:28
Ramsdale. Do you think Ramsay could be the
50:30
new Merrick playing for Southampton?
50:32
Maybe, but I. I just hope he wears a Hagrid
50:36
count costume when he's in goal the first game.
50:39
That was funny. Those pictures were funny.
50:42
OK, next thing on here is a striker Strand Larson.
50:44
We still talking about I I he had another underwhelming game.
50:47
So the the one game that he's really put up points is the game
50:50
he scored. But that being said, I don't
50:53
think there's that many strikers that are guaranteed minutes the
50:56
way that he is right now. And so for in that sense, I
50:59
think he's worth a pick up if you're hurting in that position.
51:02
I agree. Yeah, I agree.
51:05
I'm moving quickly. Next one on the lifts.
51:08
Yves Basuma, he's he obviously didn't start the first game
51:11
because he was kind of on time out after smoking some hippie
51:15
crack like known as laugh Big ass.
51:19
Yeah, yeah, busted smoking laughing ass.
51:21
Did you say hippie crack? That's what they call it, that's
51:23
what he call it. So they call it in in my
51:27
circles. The Devils let us that's.
51:29
What they call the hippie circles that I I frequent all.
51:34
Right. Go on.
51:35
But he said he he put together two really good performances in
51:38
two different ways. The first one he first game we
51:40
scored a goal second game, second game he had double digit
51:43
points, so pretty close to it and it was all from ghost
51:46
points. Yep.
51:47
So to me it's interesting and I think like he was fairly viable
51:51
last year with Tottenham, were playing well, he was a viable
51:53
player. But he he rarely broke double
51:56
digits. I feel like there'll be another
51:59
year like this year where he he's like a comfortable 7 or 8,
52:03
you know, I mean, if that's what you need and that's what you'd
52:05
rather have than, you know, a WAR player, then yeah, If that's
52:08
going to get you over the line, I.
52:10
Think it's like your midfielder 5 Yeah, you know what I mean?
52:13
Like the guy that's on your bench that you if like you have
52:15
to sub in because someone has a like a random like didn't start
52:18
a game and you can feel comfortable knowing he'll get
52:20
you a few points just get you over the line.
52:22
There you go. OK, next one with the injury to
52:26
Bailey, Jacob Ramsey, out of 27% of leaks, he came on, he scored
52:29
just under 10 points and just in the time he had, which was like
52:33
60 some minutes, Yeah, what do we think?
52:36
Yeah, I think he can be viable if Bailey's out for a good
52:41
amount of time. I think he got 7 1/2 points that
52:44
last game or and you got from about the amount of minutes he
52:46
played. So thinking about what you can
52:48
do in a full 90. Yeah, yeah, I think, I think you
52:51
could be good if you need something.
52:53
Yeah, I'm kind of interested too.
52:55
I, I might try to pick him up in the leagues that I have Bailey
52:57
just to like kind of handcuff that a little bit, try and play
53:00
safe there. So don't get too burned.
53:02
Yeah. Last thing on the list is a
53:05
defender and it is Constantinos, Maverick Panos.
53:11
So he's playing alongside Kilben.
53:12
Kilben's been kind of taking all the the plaudits, but Maverick
53:16
Panos had a 18 1/2 point game and I've obviously it's been
53:20
City went negative, but I think the whole West Ham defense went
53:23
negative. Yeah.
53:24
So I think in that sense, if you're if you're a brave and you
53:26
wanna, you wanna kind of start a guy that you need a defender you
53:30
think can get you some points. They play Fulham next.
53:32
I think that's a very potentially good like spot start
53:36
defender. Yeah, I took AI, took a risk and
53:38
picked him up against Mancine, knowing that, you know, there
53:41
was a chance of Harlan's corner hat trick.
53:45
And that happened unfortunately. Oh, you picked him up and played
53:48
that? Yeah, because I because I didn't
53:50
have anyone else, because, you know, I wasn't sure if the lit
53:53
was going to play and then he luckily I didn't play him
53:55
because fucking hell, you know, you know, shitty game too.
53:58
So. So what happens when you don't
53:59
pick up a defender in the first like?
54:03
Yeah, that strategy kind of backfired a little bit.
54:05
Yeah, a little bit, a little bit.
54:07
I'll change that up next year, all.
54:10
Right. Is there anything else you guys
54:11
want to chat about before we wrap this up?
54:14
Feeling good, Feel like we got it all out A.
54:16
Little bit upset by the the international break.
54:19
Never like this. Don't get, don't get to do a
54:22
parlay bet. Oh yeah, yeah.
54:25
I don't know if I feel good about betting on these
54:27
international games. I think no, just hold that that
54:29
was really devastating. We had a we were one.
54:31
We're one goal away, 1 result away from that.
54:34
Fulham getting another parlay win.
54:36
And and you'd think Fulham versus Ipswich.
54:39
Like, you know what, especially after they they leveled the game
54:42
in the first half, I was like, oh, Fulham's for sure gonna win
54:44
now. Yeah, they're gonna.
54:44
They just had all the momentum. And it's gonna be 3.
54:46
One, yeah, it felt like a game like that, so that was a little
54:50
heartbreaking. But hey, we move on.
54:52
The next time we'll do a little bit of a smaller parlay, just
54:55
try and three-game parlay, 3 game.
54:57
We'll try, we'll try and build a little bit.
54:59
Yeah. All right.
55:00
Well, this has been episode 56 of Dropped Off Sides.
55:03
My name is Keith, I'm with Tico Enzo, and we will see you guys
55:07
after the international break and we'll kind of chat through
55:10
some of that and with strategy after that.
55:12
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55:28
Why? Why?
55:29
I don't care about you. You know none of us care about
55:31
Real Madrid, right?