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GW 32 Pt. 2 Salah is a Sinking Ship · Draft Offsides Podcast

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Hello and welcome to episode 129 of Draft Offsides.
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I'm with Tico Enzo. My name is Keith and we are
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midweek of a what is this international break?
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We're kind. Of three weeks into initial.
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Yeah, this is, this is the longest international break, is
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it? It's been horrible international
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break, except why I enjoyed the Caravoy Cup final and I just
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enjoyed the core finals of the FA Cup too.
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They were excellent. And there were some good
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international games, to be honest.
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So yeah. Yeah, that's true.
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We had qualifiers too early. I'm an Italian fan, I'm an
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England fan and I'm a Tottenham fan.
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It's not. The best, not the best time.
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Not the best three weeks. For me, I get that, yeah, United
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States Hospital, there's I'm wearing the New Jersey.
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Oh, very nice. Yeah, there's like cool Black
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Stars. I don't.
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Know nice. That.
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My boxer. Boxer.
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But yeah, so that's the big news, is that Italy didn't make
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the World Cup for the third consecutive time.
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And I think there's needs to be a big inflection period for that
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whole country about what's going on.
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So Donna rumor when Swansea joined nearly has not yet played
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one World Cup game. I know.
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El Shirawi, you remember that player, of course he opted to
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play for Ellie because he wanted to play Walk up James and he
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never. He could have played for Egypt,
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right? Yes.
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Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, it's very,
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it's a very cruel, cruel thing what's happened to them.
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Yeah. And I think it's, it's what's
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funny is to me is that it's not like they're, it's not like
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their teams have been so bad. Like there are, they're good
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enough that they should be making it.
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Like, I'm not saying that it's the, it's the Italy of old, but
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it's Italy of good enough, you know?
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Yeah, they they should be there. Yeah.
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So there's a level, I think there's a level of like
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arrogance and a mentality thing that's going on, you know, with
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that, with them and just like their methods and stuff, you
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know, what do you know? All right, Tika, how are you
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doing? I'm doing good, big match up
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tomorrow for me, so we're waiting for the Champions League
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match up. Oh yeah, it's big, big Champions
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League games. We're recording for the game.
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So obviously, you know, news, injuries, whatever that happens
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in and during those we are not going to be responsible for.
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I think the first thing we kind of want to shout about is I kind
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of just like end of season Enzo, you pulled some stats about the
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last few years in the last seven games and how City and Arsenal
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performed in in in the last seven games of the last few
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seasons. What is what is that?
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What are those numbers tell you? I don't, I don't want to read
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them all, but just tell me kind of what the general gist of it
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is. So besides last year where Man C
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had an absolute mayor, you know, I mean, they had a terrible
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season. They still came what's third
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last season, right? They had two wins, one draw, 5
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losses. But all the the three before
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that, they had at least six wins and only one loss.
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So that tells me that they can win the league to my opinion.
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Because they all the alternative is Arsenal where they've in that
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in this time period they've had three wins, three wins, five
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wins out in unnecessarily in the last Four Seasons.
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Yeah, which isn't bad, but it's and honestly, this season
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they've been looking really great and now this song looks
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shaky. So it it doesn't and I would
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love to see what happens in Champions League this week
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because they've they've gone from quadruple to Uno maybe,
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which still isn't bad. No, no, no, no double.
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No. No, no, double the double still
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on the table. Double still on the table.
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It's Champs League this week. Yeah.
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But it's the. First like it's the first like.
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Yeah, but you lose 5-6 nil in the first leg, you know what I
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mean? Do you think they'll lose 5 or 6
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nil to sporting? Wishful thinking, you know.
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I mean, I would love for Kyocherez's replacement as poor
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Lisbon to bag in a hat trick. OK, Yeah.
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But I think what you're trying to point out is that like
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historically, there is there is precedent for Arsenal really
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crumbling at this time of year and there's precedent for City
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really coming out strong and finishing strong.
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Yeah, so with all these players that are in there, especially
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attacking ones for City, Oh my God.
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I would keep those in mind for fantasy and then think about the
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bottle jobs that might be happening to Arsenal with the
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Sun attacking players that you have.
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So be careful. Speaking of bottle jobs, we need
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to then talk about Liverpool crashing out of the carabout
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cup. You know, it's it's it's
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probably only good for their fantasy assets.
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I think that the two the two big talking points are one is
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Mohamed Salah and I I I made this joke before, but I feel
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like it's it's funny every time is that he literally it feels
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like he's like in space jam, like the monstars or they steal,
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they steal the talent. I literally I've never seen a
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drop off this severe. And it's like, and it's like the
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things that he would always do. You were just like, oh, that
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would used to just go in and now it just doesn't.
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It just doesn't and it looks so weak.
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You know, it's like where he like hits it with like the
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outside of his foot or just doesn't odd things that he would
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always just find a way to put those balls in the back of the
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net and now there's not going in.
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Yeah, it's not automatic no more.
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Yeah, and it's funny too because when he was out at AF Con,
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Liverpool actually had a pretty good run going and then since
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he's been back they've hasn't been good again.
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So I think I'm some of them are probably excited for him to
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leave. Anything else there on the solid
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front I mean? On the solid front, it's pretty
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much good. I think he's, whoever traded him
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did a great job so. I'll take it.
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You know, great foresight there. I wouldn't.
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It's hard because you can't drop him.
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No, of course not. And I mean he's still not like
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well, he's 96th ranked player overall, which you know you're
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that's still he's still starting off set, you know, like it's
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just he's just not a first round.
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He's not delivering first round there you.
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Go Yeah. The interesting thing to monitor
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for Salah for me, it's for the Liverpool is they're right now
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only sitting in 5th place, five points behind a fourth.
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So if you're in Liverpool as a manager, what do you do?
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You have to kind of it's obviously club legend and EPA
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legend. You give him the minutes to give
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him the proper send off or do you just Benjamin do the Jose
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Morena? We're like, we don't care.
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The team needs to win club over the players, so it's going to be
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interesting what they. Do there might be incentive.
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I mean, again, I'm not I'm not saying this will happen.
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They I think Ernie Slott probably still thinks that he's
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he's the best chance of winning games.
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But there is this argument where it's like, oh, if they secure
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top four or top five, you know, like if Chelsea loses this week
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and then City and Liverpool wins or whatever, whatever.
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Like maybe it's this idea of like shutting him down because I
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do still want to get some money for him.
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And if he if he takes some injury now it's very hard to do
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that. So like, maybe shutting him down
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isn't isn't the worst idea ever for Liverpool, which would
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obviously be not great if you own him.
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I'm sure they'll play him in the last match at Anfield.
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Yeah, at least bring him up. So yeah, it is interesting
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because Arne Slot is also kind of managing for his job, which
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is kind of ridiculous to say consider they're the defending
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champions. Yeah, there's a lot of rumors
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flying around. They're the defending champions,
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but not this year. They come fifth.
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They're not defending champions. Yeah, I think, I think it's, I
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think that you're always, when you have that much turnover and
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it doesn't matter how much money you spend, it's just the amount
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of new faces in the building, it was, it's always going to be
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harder than to win. I think in hindsight it's easy
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to say that now, obviously. Yeah, we, I can tell you right
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now, I think all of us here paid them to win the league again.
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We thought there. 'D be we thought they'd do
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better for sure. Oh yeah.
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I think I picked city. OK, the other the other big
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thing is ESAC is back in training and so there was a big
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flurry of people picking him up that where he was dropped.
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He was dropped. Tiko was really angry at You
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Gotta Burn our League that we don't need a name.
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But who snatched it before Tiko could and he was really upset.
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We can we can name him. No can I?
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Can I say my piece on this? Yeah, go.
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Ahead, it's this isn't just me specific, it's just across it's
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frustrating because this whoever dropped him, I'm I'm not sure
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who dropped him. He held down to him until he
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they announced he's coming back and then he dropped it.
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That's the part that Dennis said well with me.
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Who? OK, but wait, wait, that's
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weird. Where he comes, where he
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elaborates, he go, let him, let him do his what?
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What do you think that happened? They conspiring against.
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Me. Yeah, they conspiring against
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me. Collusion they make me.
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Collusion Chico Chico's having a full Hamlet moment where he's
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he's he's like super paranoid of everyone in the everyone's
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working against them and trying to kill him.
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Guess who was Guess who was last on the waiver wire?
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Who? This guy 12th.
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Guess who was 11th? Nate.
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Who's in second? Who's in second place?
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Nate. You're telling me if one through
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10 didn't pick it up? Oh, no, let's leave it to Nate
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so Nate has a chance to beat Eagle.
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Come on. Like, why?
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Why didn't you guys pick him? Up.
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I've been busy, man. Honestly, I mean, I probably
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maybe would have if I I'm not going to act like I was like
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super on it. No, I also, I also think though
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that I don't I don't think he it's going to be like even if he
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plays games, I I think it's like the amount of time he's been
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out, he's coming off the bench like, yeah, I don't think he's
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going to be like started, you know what I mean?
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I think there's a there's used to think that he's going to be
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this like dominant force in the last eight games of the season
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after pretty much not playing all season is like there's not a
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lot there. I feel like it's it actually in
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some ways it might be a good like it's just hogging a bench
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spot from a guy that you don't want.
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You know I'm going. To I'm shopping drag.
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The deal? So you, so you're saying like
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you had you had bench spots to spare?
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I have two goalkeepers. I had so many players I could
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have like dropped before. You're so.
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You're so. OK.
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Hey, so, but the positive thing again, I think this is no one
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paying attention because it was the long break.
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He dropped Fordham for him, which Fordham maybe get some
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playing time, get some games in. So I picked up photo and then I
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sent a trade off for photo for you suck.
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I don't, I don't know. I mean Foden's been not really
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in favor. I mean, he played for England
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and even even. Then they didn't look good.
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Even Tuco just kind of didn't have the best things to say
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about that so. Tuco's a fucking idiot.
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Excuse me? Yeah, he's a pretty good, he's a
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pretty good tournament manager. You can't really argue with
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that. I I don't think he is.
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I mean, he won. He won the Champions League with
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that very mediocre Chelsea team. What did he do with Messi,
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Neymar and Bapa? I won the league every single
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season and made it to a final. Oh made it to A.
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She won the legal PhD. Didn't you make it to a change
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like final? Am I wrong?
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He did. She did?
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Yeah. He also thinks Pep Guardiola is
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a whole manager cuz he's only played with.
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Great players, yeah. You're right.
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No, no. They're putting words in my
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mouth. That's Thomas.
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But. You you want you want the same.
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This is not this is not working out.
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OK, guys, next one, Tottenham new manager Roberto Deserbi.
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Are we seeing? So there's been a lot of chatter
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about the fact that, you know, what Tottenham do right now is
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like a win, not manager and Deserbi and every club he's been
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to like doesn't tend to win the first few games because it takes
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a while for players to get input like a system or implemented.
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Are you concerned about that? And.
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I I am concerned, but I've also know that he's got he's at two
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weeks of training at least. At least he's had that.
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It's not like it was all right, one training session bangs go,
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you know, I mean, he's had he's had a couple of weeks.
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So but do I think he has the players available to play the
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four he wants to play? No.
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Can I say a favorite Tottenham stat that I saw over the with
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the hiring of the Zerby? Connor Gallagher has had more
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managers at Tottenham than he has points with Tottenham. 3
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managers, 2 points. I have another one.
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Kulaszewski has been injured and has not played for the last
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three managers. Yeah, Well, fascinating.
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OK, question. Who do you who do you think is
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the most likely to benefit from deserving being appointed cinema
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from a fantasy perspective? Cinebank why he likes the long
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ball. OK.
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So you're going to get a lot more direct passes, maybe a few
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more clearances, assists. Interesting.
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OK, what? The last team he managed was
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Brighton right in DPL. No, I'll say in.
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EPL in EPL, yeah. Well, that was the first or
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second year we played fantasy. 1st and 2nd.
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First and second. Yeah, first and 2nd.
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They're attacking players were scoring a lot more points.
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They were. They did well.
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I think there was a level. There was a pretty good healthy
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amount of rotation I think. There was a lot of rotation.
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Solid Marshall was amazing purpose Suvia was really good
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for him. Tomo yeah, gross, obviously.
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So I think I think it should be more for attacking players.
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Do you think, I mean, so he plays A4231 and A34 322, you
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know, 4 or whatever, 343 or whatever.
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So do you think, do you think like the wingbacks?
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Well, look, the first season he did wingbacks, that was Parvis.
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Remember Parvis on the left hand side?
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That's when he was going down that wing.
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Then his second season he played the three in the back, three in
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the back where he was doing the long balls and down the line.
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That's when Matamo was going off.
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And who was it? Solid March on the right hand
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side when he had the two wingers, that's when they were
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going off. So all depends on what formation
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he plays. Yeah, I mean, I think it's
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likely you'll she'll change between the two because he's
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pretty, he's a pretty tinkering manager.
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So yeah, I think there's some value with Xavi Simmons too.
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I think he's he tends to play with a 10 so.
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You know what's fucked up? But I chopped that motherfucker,
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you know, picked him up. I think I did.
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No Cirque. Oh, in that league, yeah.
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So just real quick, the highest running players for Brighton
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those three years, obviously the players that are still with
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Brighton were total mile, gross and solid March.
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All of them were averaging double digits and high double
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digits. That's the the following year.
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Solid marches when he got injured, but I think it's going
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to be the midfield and obviously the attacking midfielders.
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So you think you can tell? I think Tal, I think Tal's a
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good shot, but he's been pretty good.
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So I think, I think the only rub would tell is you just if he's
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going to get starts the same way that he was under the loss
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manager because you just don't know with the new manager he
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might like another profile position, whatever, whatever.
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It'd be interesting to see how it affects for Charleston and
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Solanki. Because he doesn't have a, he
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doesn't have a that, that central midfield 8, maybe with
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maybe Connor Gallagher, maybe. Yeah, I mean, I think what he'll
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he'll what he tends to do is he attends to play like a box
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midfield, right? So it's like 2 guys.
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So it's like a Xabi Sims and Conor Gallagher and then like
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Archie Gray. And Paulinho pop.
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Pop ESR or something, you know, Paulinho Sr.
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So yeah, I think there's I think there's a lot of possibilities
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but yeah, I think Conor Gallagher could be an
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interesting one too. Yeah, maybe he could be the
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point generator from that midfield position, but she's
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he's not the same player as Pascal Gross by any means.
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You know, he's like doesn't have a similar profile.
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So yeah, something to think about, something to keep an eye
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on. I think there will be some names
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that are that pop though from that team.
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It's just it's just hard to know right now who those are.
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I think we just talked about some and who why we thought
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think they are. So that's, you know, up to you
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guys to make that decision. Yeah, I just picked up Conor
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Gallagher in one of the leaks. Not a bad shout.
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I was asking some of the leaks, so I'm going to hold on.
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I'm definitely holding on to him to see how that with that with
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the team looks like and stuff. Yeah, OK, United ride the hot
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players. Is there is there anything
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deeper to that? And.
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I think because they've been playing so well, like any of
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their players that they have like I know we're going to talk
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about this as they in the Seagull talk about a little bit
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later. But this is where you take some
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risks. You know, I mean, or maybe make
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some trades or whatever it might be for not just now, but for for
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the last couple games. Look at matchup, look at
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matchup, look at risky plays. And I think United the way they
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are, I would try to trade for some United players.
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That's just me. Yeah, yeah.
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It is time of the year where you just play week to week.
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So there's no one that's safe. You just drop everyone unless
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they're like top 2030 players. They are getting Patrick Dorgu
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back and they're getting Martinez back as well this week.
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So those are two players to keep an eye for their standard backs,
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kind of a rotation. So we'll see how that affects
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that. And Dorgu was amazing.
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Undercarry, Undercarry. Yeah.
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I let's so that's perfect kind of segue into it.
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We're gonna just go through a bunch of injuries and how like
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what to think about just orgy's a great one to chat about.
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I think he's back training, but I don't think he's gonna be back
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like for this game, right? He's 50.
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Yeah. He's 50, yeah.
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But I also don't know, and I even think if he is, let's say
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he does get healthy, like they've been so good recently.
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I don't know if he necessarily starts the way, but he was
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starting as a remember, he was starting as a winger for a
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little while. So I don't know if that I don't
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know if that continues, but just but still.
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I mean, let's see where we'll sleep.
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Keep in mind United game is the Monday game, so you don't have
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the luxury of waiting, you know, seeing what the lineup is on
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the. Day of, Yeah.
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Yeah, totally. A couple of other ones stash on
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Leeds got injured in the FA Cup game and he got like almost not
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carted off but like helped he got.
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Helped. I saw, I saw like a like a
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something like an Instagram post or something of his ankle and it
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was gnarly looking. Oh really?
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He had he had the golf ball on his ankle.
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So I highly doubt that he plays this weekend.
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And I think we've always talked about like the Highlander, there
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can be only one. There's always 1 midfielder for
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Leeds that does score pretty well.
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So if he's and it's usually him, but if he's not there, look for
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like Grov I think has done in the past.
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I think long stop, it's not a long shot.
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So, so just maybe that might be a sneaky start.
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If you if you see one of those guys starting in this game, like
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kind of morning of, that might be a really sneaky 1.
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So yeah, Gabrielle was injured in the game.
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But then it's the room. Everything's saying that he's
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back in training now. Yeah.
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He played No, he played in the last game at the.
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Yeah, he got injured and he. Came.
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He got injured, yeah. Yeah.
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So he was injured before the international break.
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He played in the FA Cup game and then he got injured and not
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supposedly, but then but then I'm really, I'm seeing that he
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was actually back in training already.
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Maybe because he got taken off for sleep?
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The sleeper came on 1/2. Yeah.
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So I think yeah, he's back in training with the oh, no, that's
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that's an old one. But I saw, I did, I did see
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somewhere that he was back in training again.
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So I would I wouldn't be as concerned there.
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Saka did not travel with the team.
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So don't. You can't count on him as a not
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with the team Rice back in training.
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Mm hmm. So as soon that he's going to
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play him, copy out kind of indefinitely, it sounds like it
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actually might be about injury. Timber not with the team.
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No are. You, I think what you said.
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So you're gonna have Caliphiore, He's gonna have to play.
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Yeah, it's a really good shout. I think Caliphiore is pretty
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good, might still be on waivers for some people.
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He's he's had, he's had a horrible freaking couple weeks.
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Suddenly. I know.
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The last three games, 3 eliminations, all three lost.
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Dude. Sorry Kelly, we cauliflower.
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And I mean, I mean, he did have a pretty good score on his last
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start for Arsenal though in the Premier League with a with a
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15.25 S worth looking at. He's probably taken most places.
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But yeah, another one to speak on is Enzo Fernandez suspended
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for one game, Man City. We'll see what happens after
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that too, but I have a feeling Chelsea probably loses a Man
19:21
City and then he comes right back into the team.
19:23
Can we talk about some of these Chelsea players right now?
19:26
Wouldn't want to skip past it. I mean, what's I mean, Enzo was
19:32
running the mouth about Madrid and he got suspended and.
19:35
Then wasn't there a couple other players that were talking about?
19:37
Maybe Cucarella made some comments, but they were more
19:39
like it wasn't. He was just saying that he was
19:41
kind of voiced some concerns with the way that they're doing
19:45
things. Cassando too, wasn't it?
19:47
I don't think Cassando really. I think.
19:49
It's so sad and pathetic that they suspended as a Fernandez.
19:53
We're talking about Real Madrid. They have small, small club
19:56
syndrome. They act like a big club, but in
19:58
reality we all know they're a tiny club.
20:00
Chelsea. Chelsea said the she said the
20:03
club, the World Club we. Literally have like multiple
20:05
Champions League in the last decade or the last.
20:07
Yeah, but. No history.
20:09
Imposter syndrome. What I think, I think Rogers.
20:13
Is like the rotaries and flirting with Real Madrid
20:16
non-stop. Pet acknowledged it and they're
20:18
not suspending him, I think. The issue is that is that
20:20
intervenes the captain. Yeah.
20:22
And you just don't want your captain doing that.
20:23
I think that's that's the bigger the bigger issue here.
20:26
Well, they've, they've got at least they've Chelsea has
20:28
history. And.
20:31
They've been big for at least the 2020 plus years or.
20:35
Yeah, exactly. Until like 20 years ago they had
20:37
more Division Two titles than EPL.
20:38
Titles they they had FA cops. Yeah, we're not gonna we're not
20:42
gonna convince him of the truth. Anyway.
20:44
He likes to live in his little fantasy land, OK?
20:46
That that Madrid is just the best and everything's below.
20:49
There's all Arsenal. OK, let's.
20:51
Fool him if. You want.
20:54
Danny Ballard, Danny Ballard is likely with the team.
20:57
I think he's pretty much back. Reese James Not likely to be
21:00
back yet. Trevor Chaliba I I read that
21:03
he's making good progress and is back sooner than expected.
21:06
Don't expect him this week, maybe not even next week, but he
21:08
might be viable before the end of the season.
21:12
And I know he was dropped in a lot of places.
21:13
So if you have if that might be a guy that if you, I think I
21:16
feel like Tika's all of a sudden not clicking around after I said
21:20
that. No, I actually I wanted to point
21:22
out Esteval because he he played the whole, I think he played the
21:27
whole game head. That's like a yeah, the goal.
21:29
So. I'll go on the 6th to get the
21:31
post choice. Yeah, this is a pro esteval
21:36
podcast, so I want to see if he's rostered in the.
21:39
Yeah. Are you have you been holding
21:41
all season? So did you find a job in the
21:43
league? No, I mean on that the league I
21:45
have him and my team wasn't competitive so I said let me go
21:48
down with my. Go down with the ship.
21:50
Yeah. Muhammad Kudus almost back.
21:54
Seen in training. Oh please.
21:58
TS tell is back training should be should be good even though it
22:02
wasn't in the international squad and die.
22:05
It's an interesting one, kind of Gray area.
22:08
I would not expect him to be to play this weekend, but you know,
22:12
have have a have a plan there. I think same thing for
22:15
Somerville. He did not make the FA Cup
22:18
squad. So that makes me think that he
22:20
wasn't even in the squad. So that makes me think that like
22:22
best case scenario, he's in the squad this weekend, but he
22:25
probably doesn't. Play Friday.
22:26
They're the first game of the week.
22:27
They're on Friday. Yeah.
22:28
So best case scenario, he's in the squad, doesn't go start.
22:31
I would say yeah, but I went there and then we talked about
22:35
Dorgu and then Trocard is back training as well.
22:38
Yeah. So yeah, those are kind of the
22:40
injuries we wanted to cover. I don't know if we missed
22:43
anything that you guys can see you're thinking about, No.
22:45
That's pretty much it. Not injury wise but something
22:49
else I wanted to. I'm not sure if about this as
22:53
well. All the games that were
22:54
rescheduled for Wolves, Palace, Arsenal and City do, have they
22:59
rescheduled it or not yet? Yeah, that's all available.
23:04
It's game week 34. I think that's going to get hit
23:06
really hard to. Double game week.
23:09
Yeah, so I I think that that's a double.
23:12
And then I think there's a blank.
23:13
It's on. There's this guy Ben Friendly on
23:16
on X where he has it up. But yeah, that's that's what I'm
23:21
seeing. But it's all, it's all there.
23:24
I just don't know. I don't have it in front of me
23:26
right now. Yeah.
23:27
Cool. Do we?
23:29
And what else? Anything else guys?
23:31
I got nothing. We got nothing.
23:33
What about top five predictions? Who's?
23:36
I guess it's more like who's not going to make it?
23:39
Top five? She's not going to make top
23:41
five. Yeah.
23:43
I don't think libel is going to make top five.
23:44
You think Chelsea makes over Liverpool?
23:48
Everything above that I think stays the same.
23:51
I think Villa sneaks in, I think Man I continues their form and
23:55
it's just Man City, Arsenal, whoever comes first.
23:57
I'm mad at it. What about you, Tika?
24:00
No, I don't think Chelsea overtakes Liverpool.
24:04
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, yeah.
24:06
A lot of stuff happening in Chelsea land.
24:08
There is, but they're also it's just one point and there's eight
24:12
games to go. And there's.
24:14
Just one point and Leo, don't get wrong that both their forms
24:17
have been quite similar, but Liverpool just hasn't been
24:20
without their catalyst. Hasn't been looking good.
24:24
Yeah, I think the thing you have to remember Chelsea is before
24:26
this like little slump they've been on where they lost four
24:28
straight, two of them to the best team in the world, PSG or
24:31
best team in Europe. They were on like a 10 game
24:34
industry. So it's like I could see them do
24:37
it, but they're just so young. It's so hard to really rely on a
24:39
team that's they're the youngest team in the Premier League.
24:42
It's all. They're also playing Manchester
24:44
City who just had a hat trick so and Liverpool are all playing
24:50
Fulham at Anfield. So kind of that one point could
24:53
be a four point. 4 point swing totally yeah, I think that's
24:58
super valid I mean that'll probably be super decisive but
25:00
yeah I my group chat of like Chelsea fans that I'm in are not
25:04
like buddies and Chelsea fans are very they're not optimistic
25:09
about the. Season.
25:11
That's a depressing check Group I.
25:13
Mean it's probably better than any taunt of chat groups, that's
25:15
for sure. Wow.
25:17
Wow, that was just, that was low.
25:20
There's a fact. It's pretty large.
25:22
OK, Wow. That's so true, I can't imagine.
25:25
Instead of lifting him up, you're putting him down.
25:27
What addicting to do, Keith? Yeah.
25:30
All right. What else was relegation?
25:34
Relegation predictions? Who do you think?
25:38
Oh man, West Ham plays Wolves This William home and Wolves is
25:41
on your favor, I'm thinking. But it was your favorite wolves.
25:45
It looks somewhat better. So it's not it's not out of the
25:47
picture. Well, let's just say Wolves and
25:49
Burnley for sure and then fuck. It fuck it forest and super feel
25:58
like forest. Seems like they figure something
26:00
out. I mean, just because if you
26:02
Tottenham 30. No.
26:04
No, like it feels like the last three years they're like, oh, we
26:06
think they're going to get relegated, but they like find
26:09
enough Jews not to like obviously last year they did.
26:12
Amazing. The teams that do that every
26:13
year are the teams that go down. I'm gonna tell you, I still
26:16
think it's gonna be Forest. I think West Ham is good enough
26:19
to stay up. I want it to be forest.
26:21
I'm not gonna lie to you, because I want West Ham to stay
26:23
up and I want them to stay up. Forest I don't care for.
26:26
Yeah, I think that Tottenham will just stay up.
26:29
I think that Forest might capitulate with a few games
26:32
left. Mia Khalifa is a big West Ham
26:35
supporter. Mia Khalifa.
26:37
Yeah, she is. Yeah.
26:40
That's. Cool.
26:41
She's actually, she's actually cool.
26:43
She doesn't like, she's like a pretty interesting person.
26:45
Like, have you actually listened to like interviews and not just
26:47
seen her other work? Since her other work I only know
26:51
her as a podcaster. OK, yeah, I think she's an
26:55
interesting. Person.
26:57
She never watched her a lot. They found her attractive.
27:00
OK, OK. Anything else we want to speak
27:07
to you about end of season risky waiver pickups.
27:11
You guys want to you want to see the latest edition of the
27:13
fantasy tracker that I've? Been working on no player
27:16
loyalty guys. No player loyalty no more.
27:18
That's out the fucking window. OK, but OK, here's a question.
27:20
Like you're saying no play loyalty, but like Brian and
27:22
Blammo has been sucking recently.
27:25
Try to yeah, I'm not going to drop Brian and Blammo.
27:27
No, he's like some loyalty. Don't drop him, you're trading.
27:30
I think it's just the middle pack of the people like you
27:34
write the hot hand, let's say like Dwight.
27:36
McNeil, you drop that guy. Oh yeah, I mean, yeah, of
27:39
course. But he's he's father anyways.
27:42
All right, like savvy Sigmund, you drop that guy.
27:44
Fuck. No, that's not a good example
27:46
because he potentially could do. We don't know what he's going to
27:49
do with the new coach. Yeah, done.
27:51
All right, sure. Sure, right.
27:53
Please don't. Just a provocative hat you've
27:55
got on. Is it?
27:58
Where dreams come to them. All right.
28:04
Can you guys see this? Yes.
28:08
All right, so I've done a few things.
28:09
One I've I've toggled to those. Keith, can you zoom in on your
28:14
screen because it's so small? Yeah.
28:16
That's what she said is. That better?
28:18
More. More.
28:21
That's what she said. Well, that's a little too big.
28:23
Now hold on. That's not what she said.
28:27
Is actually? Is that never to you?
28:29
Never to you. Why you got why you got be like
28:31
disrespectful. I wasn't being anything through
28:34
to you. It's just fun and games.
28:35
You got to go too fucking far. OK guys, focus, focus, focus.
28:39
We're almost done here. OK, heat index, some changes.
28:43
First is now we can there's a ghost point toggle.
28:45
Yep, which is interesting. Very much changes everything.
28:48
Bruno's obviously still the elite.
28:50
And then the other thing is now there's a three-week window and
28:52
a ten week window. So it kind of just gives you a
28:55
little bit more perspective. Yeah.
28:57
So the way that I was using it because I was like trying to be
29:00
like trying to think about like, oh, I, I what I really need is a
29:02
midfielder. So I was looking through and
29:04
obviously, like the first few names are always going to be
29:06
people that are there. Diego Gomez is interesting.
29:09
You know. I think the ones though, like
29:11
were like Jiao Gomez is really interesting to me with like some
29:14
of his scores, you know, like a 23 and 11 comes off strong and
29:19
warm, which are good things, warm and stronger good.
29:24
I think the a name that actually stood out that part of the
29:27
reason why I built this tool was that I wanted to try and be able
29:32
to look at this without my bias, like getting in the way, because
29:34
there's a lot of times where I'll see guys, I just won't pick
29:36
them because I'm like, Oh, I don't think they're that good.
29:39
And but then like, in fact, the data like backs up that they're
29:41
doing all right. I think a good example of that
29:44
is is what's his name? The first city that you're
29:50
talking about the midfielder Roger, Roger last few games,
29:55
11614 ten and then one DMP. So I think he's a very
29:59
interesting one and where it's like everyone's kind of written
30:01
him off as like he's kind of he's not what he was.
30:04
He sucks, whatever. When you really look at his last
30:06
few scores, if that was like some some no name and you saw
30:10
these scores, you'd be like, Oh, this is actually this might be
30:12
an interesting like late season play, you know, because it's
30:15
Roger, you're probably not seeing it thinking about it.
30:17
So that's, that's one way I've been kind of using the tool to
30:21
think through. And then like, you look at
30:23
someone like Michael Gamsgard, and I know you brought him up
30:25
and we were, we were, you know, but like when you look at his
30:27
scores, other than that 35 pointer, there's not much going
30:30
on there. No.
30:31
So yeah, that's kind of how I've been using it.
30:33
Any anyone you guys want to search or anyone any kind of
30:36
positional stuff you want to look at can?
30:38
You put put tell up because I'm I'm, I'm negative towards him.
30:42
Tell yeah, he's actually been good.
30:45
If you want to look at this is where I found he was really
30:47
interesting. When you want to look at ghost
30:48
points for forwards in the last five weeks, Matthias Tal ranks
30:54
second overall, huh. Because look at his look at his
30:57
scores when they're the ghost point scores.
31:00
Wow. You know, I mean, obviously,
31:03
like forwards are tend to be more consistent than most other
31:07
most other positions. They're the most volatile of the
31:09
positions for sure. So when you have a guy that's
31:11
getting consistently getting the last few games, getting 10 plus
31:15
from a Ghost Warner perspective, he's actually a great fantasy
31:18
asset and he was, he was very under the radar.
31:21
Yeah. Keith, is there any way you
31:24
could add a column that connects fan tracks roster percentage or
31:29
that's not doable? Yeah, I think, I think it's
31:32
doable. I think there's a point
31:34
eventually where I'm going to have to probably do something
31:36
with the API of fan tracks where it like plugs in directly
31:38
because right now I have to like upload the weekly data and then
31:41
load it. And so that might be a good
31:43
thing to add there, you know, but I also think there's a way
31:47
that you can like, there are also the potentially ways where
31:49
you can log in like directly, like, like you plug in your leak
31:53
and it shows you like availability.
31:55
So you could toggle like available and not available,
31:58
which I think would be interesting as well because that
31:59
would just make it so much more useful, right?
32:01
You can see like, who's that huge?
32:03
You could actually pick up right away.
32:05
Yeah. So I think those are things for
32:07
the feature for sure. But yeah, yeah, Tika, I think
32:08
that's not a bad shout at all. It's pretty good kid.
32:11
He's called it the Dempsey EPL Fantasy Index.
32:15
OK, so you think I should really just name it and really, yeah,
32:17
nail it in? You know, I think, I think.
32:21
Anthony's another example of someone who we kind of like all
32:23
season has been from Leeds. Yeah, look at, look at, like,
32:26
look at his. These are all his ghost scores.
32:28
These aren't even his standard scores.
32:30
They're like, those are great numbers.
32:32
Yep, from a ghost standpoint. So some of you might have
32:36
written off a little bit. Oops, it's a leap.
32:39
Was in there too. He's been interesting.
32:41
He not not normal for him, but he has two games he didn't play.
32:44
So that kind of is a factor. Yeah.
32:48
I think it's just, I think it's just interesting.
32:49
It's just interesting to have different tools and like kind of
32:51
look at stuff from a different perspective because it's like if
32:53
you're just using fan tracks or you're just using draft society,
32:56
you're only seeing you're seeing the same data as everyone else.
33:00
So. So yeah.
33:02
Anything else here you guys want to check out and ask questions
33:04
about? No, it looks pretty good, Keith.
33:06
Three-game week, yeah, and that's the other one, like
33:08
Mattel shows up in the three-game week as well.
33:11
Really strong. Cool.
33:14
All right. Is that it, boys?
33:15
Are we done? Close it out, Keith.
33:17
OK, this has been episode 129 of Draft Offsides.
33:19
I'm with Tikko Nezza, my name is Keith.
33:21
Follow us at Draft Offsides and we will see you next week.
33:24
All right, guys, I gotta go have dinner.
33:28
Later, leave your windows open I guess.
33:30
Hopefully Sergei will edit it. Something I'm gonna see him in
33:34
like an hour or so. So.
33:35
Oh. Perfect.
33:36
So he's not leaving for Vegas tonight.
33:38
No, no, tomorrow, Tomorrow. Maybe he can edit tonight.
33:41
Yeah. I mean, I'm pretty sure he could
33:43
stay up late and edit it. If he needs.
33:46
Wicker magic, Yeah. If he wants, if he wants us a
33:49
door direction, some monsters. Yeah.
33:51
Well, we will. We will.
33:52
I'll see here. Arsenal, you know, you could
33:54
just zoom in on this and use this as a thing for him,
33:57
motivation. Motivation.
33:59
I love that. Yeah.
34:00
All right, ladies. See you boys.