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S8 Ep15: FPL Pod: Mateta a must-have? · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: Another pods and another opportunity for us to state a
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  Speaker 1: case for the defense. We analyze the form of some
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  Speaker 1: of the game's popular players. We discussed if Matetais must
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  Speaker 1: have given his fixtures and yes, my wild card didn't
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  Speaker 1: go well. I'm going to start this podcast with a disclaimer.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be here. I wild carded, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't go well. Yes, Kelly Summer's better on the FBL
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  Speaker 1: pod as you heard Julian and la Ron and Sam Bumfield.
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  Speaker 1: Not only did these two outscore me, have vander Ben
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  Speaker 1: who I didn't have. They're both on holiday, so they're
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  Speaker 1: both winning at life and.
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  Speaker 2: I'm using in rainy England.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, guys, lovely to be backguard, just what I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be doing.
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  Speaker 2: Sam, as you've not been quite as glowedy already. How
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  Speaker 2: you doing.
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  Speaker 1: You had a good game week, having a good holiday.
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  Speaker 1: What's time to be Sam Bonfield?
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what Carol's Honestly, I was probably unbearable
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday because when Mickey vander Ben scored that brace
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  Speaker 3: my better half of fl family. He sold Mickey vandervenn
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  Speaker 3: heading into this game week.
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  Speaker 2: So you can imagine it could.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly imagine being out for dinner with me with Mickey
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  Speaker 3: Vanderman on my bench boost and having to deal with
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  Speaker 3: not only Spurs winning, but it being Mickey and having
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  Speaker 3: solved him. I did actually think I might be coming
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  Speaker 3: back from this holiday without husband.
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  Speaker 2: It was that bad.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I had a great week.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been wonderful. Thanks go on, Jeles. How good
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  Speaker 2: to your week?
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  Speaker 4: Them much better than yours? Skills, that's for sure, almost
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  Speaker 4: twice your point.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, how is well?
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  Speaker 4: I mean wild carding usually you know, against your points.
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  Speaker 4: I mean my defense was on fire.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, do you know what?
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  Speaker 5: That terrified? Do you know what?
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  Speaker 1: My defense actually kind of salvage what was a terrible week.
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  Speaker 1: The thing is, I don't I don't dislike my team.
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  Speaker 1: It's really weird. One of my other colleagues that I
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  Speaker 1: work with also wild card this week, and we had
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  Speaker 1: quite a similar teams, and there was two or three differences. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: one of his was Creepy Junior, so that was a
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  Speaker 1: difference because Creepy Junior actually scored. But I even looked
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  Speaker 1: at I looked at my team again for this week.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't dislike it. I still obviously it's easy
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  Speaker 1: Sarah regret and I having Van de Ven now, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't consider him, and probably I still would.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe I would.
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  Speaker 1: It's so hard when someone's got twenty three points to
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  Speaker 1: say you wouldn't, But I actually don't dislike my team,
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  Speaker 1: and you have to remind yourself. I think at this point, Sam,
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  Speaker 1: there's been so many horror stories, hasn't there with wild
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  Speaker 1: cards and people like exactly for example, vact saler score
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  Speaker 1: in this week, like that was written in the stars.
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  Speaker 1: But I still don't mind that I sold my salar.
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  Speaker 1: I still stand by that. But wild card isn't for
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  Speaker 1: one week, and often this happens, doesn't it the first
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  Speaker 1: week you wild card, It doesn't go to plan, and
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  Speaker 1: you have to just kind of push through it and
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  Speaker 1: realize this is for the bigger picture. That's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling myself anyway. Yeah, remember that a wild card isn't
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  Speaker 1: literally just for that game week. If you're free hitting,
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  Speaker 1: it goes badly, that's a disaster. But if you've wildcard,
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  Speaker 1: you've done it for this particular reason over the next three, four,
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  Speaker 1: five weeks or in your case, probably with a view
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  Speaker 1: of the next ten weeks in mind, up to a
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  Speaker 1: sort of game week nineteen when we get the next one.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't panic like the fact that it's
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  Speaker 1: not gone well this week. Yeah, it doesn't look great,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it probably doesn't help that you've like
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  Speaker 1: slipped in the minigue as well. That's always the worst feing.
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  Speaker 1: I know she threw up because finally, sorry, but Sam,
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  Speaker 1: you should have been above me throughout.
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  Speaker 2: Let's be honest, you're the one that's the experience. You're
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  Speaker 2: actually a good FPL player.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just here talking about it kind of trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep you two in line. But yeah, you did overtake me,
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  Speaker 1: but also you should overtake me, even in a wild
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  Speaker 1: Cup with the bench boost active. By the way, we
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  Speaker 1: spoke about Jaws's incredible bench boots last week. Hats off
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  Speaker 1: because talk us through what your bench looked like and
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  Speaker 1: the points you got from that. Yeah, it was decent.
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  Speaker 1: So I had a spoiler alert.
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  Speaker 3: I was on an aeroplane when the Gabrielle team whether
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  Speaker 3: he was going to start or not, broke, so obviously
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't react to it. So he landed and I
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  Speaker 3: was like, what do you mean, Gabrielle is a doubt?
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  Speaker 3: Why is he flag this is a disaster. Anyway, he
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  Speaker 3: was on my bench anyway, because I was playing Timber,
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  Speaker 3: so I had Debravka, who was frustrated that he lost
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  Speaker 3: his clean sheet. But anyway, to Bradcuick, I stayed with two,
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  Speaker 3: at Gabrielle with nine, and then obviously Vandervem with twenty three,
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  Speaker 3: so that it was a very successful bench boos, but
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  Speaker 3: mostly thanks to Mickey, because you know, I would have
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  Speaker 3: taken to be honest, I sort of said, if I
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  Speaker 3: can get more than fifteen on a bench boost, that
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  Speaker 3: feels like a decent battalion. So for them to for
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  Speaker 3: Gabrielle and Vanderven to get what thirty two between that,
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  Speaker 3: you got thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Six on your bench post, didn't you?
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  Speaker 1: That's but last week I literally said it when we
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  Speaker 1: were congratulating Jewels.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think that could be better, but fair play
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  Speaker 2: that is. Yeah, yeah, that is.
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  Speaker 1: A good bench boost. I would have laughed so much.
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  Speaker 1: So if you hadn't bench poosted me, he was.
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  Speaker 2: Your third self.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, could you imagine imagine? If I hadn't,
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  Speaker 3: it would have been absolute and that would have really upset me.
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  Speaker 3: You know how I feel about Mickey vander n so
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  Speaker 3: for me, yeah, it was kind of written in the
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  Speaker 3: stars that he was going to be the bit of
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  Speaker 3: a hero of my week because I was like, kind
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  Speaker 3: of I was really frustrated with the Debravka stuff. A
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  Speaker 3: isdo things, so I was like, oh, well, at least
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  Speaker 3: Isado played, so I points out of him, so that
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  Speaker 3: was good. Like the fact that I got through a
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  Speaker 3: bench boost and everyone had played, all fifteen of them,
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  Speaker 3: that felt good. The goalkeepers were both massively disappointing for
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  Speaker 3: Pope and a brav could not get clean sheets. That
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  Speaker 3: was really disappointing. But yeah, actually, to be honest, that's
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  Speaker 3: why when you look at it in the cold life
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  Speaker 3: day with your team versus mine, like mine is saved
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  Speaker 3: by the bench bees, because otherwise we'd be on very
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  Speaker 3: similar points for this week, because my actual eleven didn't
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  Speaker 3: do very much like Harland blanking that doesn't happen very often.
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  Speaker 3: Jel Pedro was again a frustration. Rota Marta, who I
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  Speaker 3: brought in, was frustrating soccer In fact, you know, across
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  Speaker 3: the midfield, if you look at my midfield, it's like
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  Speaker 3: soccer rinders, kudas and absolutely nothing across the same.
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  Speaker 2: Midfield, but same points.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have any any returns and same as my
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  Speaker 1: forwards too, Yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there was only really Timber and Sinnetti and
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  Speaker 3: my starting eleven that really did anything. So definitely saved
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  Speaker 3: by Mickey and yeah, a really good bench Beace. I
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  Speaker 3: ended up on sixty nine for the week and it's
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  Speaker 3: another really really nice big green arrow.
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  Speaker 5: So happy with that.
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  Speaker 2: Tools.
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  Speaker 1: You had a lot of points on your bench, didn't
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  Speaker 1: you bet you wish you had another bench.
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  Speaker 4: But you know what I think, And we would talk
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  Speaker 4: again about defenders later on the shore, but I think
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  Speaker 4: that the most difficult, really nice to pick the four
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  Speaker 4: or three best one amongst your five, because right now
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  Speaker 4: the ones returning are your defenders. Did they score like
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  Speaker 4: Mickey van Deven and he's not going to score two
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  Speaker 4: every week anyway, or they don't concede, or they get
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  Speaker 4: the death compoints or an assist somewhere or be a bit.
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  Speaker 5: Of a mix of everything.
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  Speaker 4: And this time, to be fair, started olriley thinking that
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  Speaker 4: City against vilag even away from home, could do something,
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  Speaker 4: and with him being at the starving and Gradula went
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  Speaker 4: for like a more defensive minded team and O'Riley was
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  Speaker 4: only on the bench when Gay was on the bench
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  Speaker 4: because he played against Arson and Sakha, Gabrielle and Timber, etcetera. Butah,
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  Speaker 4: he got four points at Petrovich in goal on the
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  Speaker 4: bench with eight against Pope that some mentioned with only three,
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  Speaker 4: and I debated a lot between the two and I
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  Speaker 4: just thought, okay, Pope against for them, that should be fine,
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  Speaker 4: and it wasn't. So yeah, it was a little bit frustrating.
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  Speaker 5: So Indian.
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  Speaker 4: And I've got nineteen eighteen points on the bench because
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  Speaker 4: Minte also returned out traff against.
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  Speaker 2: United, which I had had eighteen points on the bench.
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  Speaker 5: The amount of points you got for the whole.
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  Speaker 1: No, just to talk you through because obviously we I
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  Speaker 1: spoke about more while on last week's show. If listeners
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  Speaker 1: haven't tracked down my team and seen what I did,
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you what my team was. I did
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  Speaker 1: get thirty nine points, but I went with Robert Sanchez
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  Speaker 1: in the ending goal.
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  Speaker 5: I had.
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  Speaker 1: I think I maybe had Petrovitch the last time we
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  Speaker 1: recorded on Thursday. Well I should have kept him, shouldn't I.
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  Speaker 1: But I found a little bit of extra money. I
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  Speaker 1: had a little bit of tink around, so I did
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  Speaker 1: Snessy Gabrielle and Timber and then Mickie Eli and Richard's.
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  Speaker 1: Richards was I had rode On by the way in
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  Speaker 1: my team all week, and then I fiddled things around
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  Speaker 1: and went for Richard's over rode On, so that would
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  Speaker 1: have also been more points. Again, though happy to have
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  Speaker 1: Richard's longer term. You just kind of think you have
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  Speaker 1: to think road On isn't going to score like that
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  Speaker 1: every single week. That's what I'm telling myself. Anyway, my
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  Speaker 1: midfield is Sarsameno, Enzo and Soaka. They just about got
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  Speaker 1: double points between them, and I went with grantited Jaka.
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  Speaker 1: I downgraded, I kept Enzo. We talked about last week
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  Speaker 1: about whether the Enzo versus Caido, but you're normally the
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  Speaker 1: status person on this show, Sam, but I actually did
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  Speaker 1: a bit of look into the underlying stats and stuff
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  Speaker 1: and decided that in the end, I thought that Enzo
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  Speaker 1: was worth the extra money and if I want to,
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  Speaker 1: I can go down from him or I've got someone.
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  Speaker 1: Then at that six point five, still not sold on Ishmelasa.
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  Speaker 1: That's my Watford bias coming out. And granted Jaka, he's
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  Speaker 1: going to play each week. He was unlucky to not
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  Speaker 1: to get more at the weekend sunder and looking good form.
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  Speaker 1: I'm quite happy with that as at that price point
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a good value and then I
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  Speaker 1: thought my fowards were brilliant. I thought they were going
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  Speaker 1: to go world last week and even with captain in Harland,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't get double points, double figures. I got Voltemada,
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  Speaker 1: Matteta and Harland.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks lads. Yeah, anyway, that's my team. I ended on
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  Speaker 2: Thursday nine points and the only way is up.
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  Speaker 1: Let's move on to the FPL Pod Mini League. Enough
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  Speaker 1: about us for now, and we've got another leader at
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  Speaker 1: the top. Norman Dierden and his team return of the
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  Speaker 1: Moysire lead the way after getting sixty five points this week.
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  Speaker 1: He had returns from of course he did vander Ven,
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  Speaker 1: Gabrielle s NeSSI and Eza. He's two points head of
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  Speaker 1: Raja Sharma in second, all of the current top ten.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Harland for his blank against Aston Villa, so we
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  Speaker 1: weren't alone, with the exception of Joan Wayman in ninth
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  Speaker 1: he was brave and optave of Voltemada. I'm sorry but
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  Speaker 1: I still don't know how Mad didn't return that chance
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  Speaker 1: that he had summed up my whole game week on
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  Speaker 1: once he missed that, I was like, it's not gonna go. Well,
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  Speaker 1: is it a reminder if you haven't joined us, the
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  Speaker 1: codes is x Y six XP L Okay. Then let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about big at the back, because it feels like
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: I present the Fantasy TV show as well I present
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  Speaker 1: this podcast. I talk about FPO a lot, and we
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  Speaker 1: spend a lot of the time talking about defenders. And
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  Speaker 1: on a week where we saw in case you haven't heard,
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  Speaker 1: fand of End got twenty three points. Matt Cash was
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  Speaker 1: the second I scoring player with fifteen points, and as mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: Rojohn also scored big with thirteen points. Then there was
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  Speaker 1: Poroh eleven sold him on the wild card true for
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  Speaker 1: Gabrielle Shaw, Danzo they were on nine. Conzo and pow
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  Speaker 1: Torre has all got eight. So I think that just
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  Speaker 1: backs up everything we're saying, Sam, does it not?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's it's highlighting that big at the back
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  Speaker 3: is definitely or four at the back anyway, it's definitely
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  Speaker 3: the right strategy. But it also highlights that you don't
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  Speaker 3: need to go big at the back, doesn't it Because
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  Speaker 3: if you look at those players none of them are
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  Speaker 3: the experts to get the back.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of numbers, but not in terms of cost exactly.
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  Speaker 1: It's the inimation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, in the past we used to go, oh, you've
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  Speaker 3: got to go big at the bat by by trend By, Gabrielle,
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  Speaker 3: by Saliba, like all of these expensive players. But actually,
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  Speaker 3: the reality of this week's highest scoring defenders that you've
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  Speaker 3: just filed out is that, with the exception of Gabrielle,
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  Speaker 3: these are all really cheap assets. These are all in
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  Speaker 3: the four to four and a half to five bracket.
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  Speaker 3: They're all really cheap budget enabling defenders. So it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: mean that you can play for. It is going to
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  Speaker 3: be something that I think is hard to do in
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  Speaker 3: some ways because you build this wild card team or
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  Speaker 3: this team that you've created, and unless you burn one
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  Speaker 3: of the front eights lots, it becomes quite hard to
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  Speaker 3: play for at the back. And you saw it this week.
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  Speaker 3: I was right. You have to kind of shift your
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  Speaker 3: formation in the way that you think and maybe move
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  Speaker 3: to a three and a three or go four four
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  Speaker 3: two or how you want to do it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I definitely think moving forward now that my benchbieces plaid
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  Speaker 3: for at the back feels like the way to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does for me as well, Like it is
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  Speaker 1: nice even with having me La and Richards in there.
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  Speaker 1: Actually you can you can get points. I mean, George,
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  Speaker 1: you've had gay heat throughout and I know he's had
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  Speaker 1: price rises, but you really don't need to spend much.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like we said it last week, didn't we
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  Speaker 1: You go with your Timber and your Gabrielle. But even
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  Speaker 1: the regular points they're providing, they're not above I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Gabrielle is, but Timber hasn't had another price rise.
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  Speaker 2: Has he's got above six? Is he still five?
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  Speaker 5: Nine? Yeah? Six point?
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  Speaker 2: He's gone up six Timber? Right, miss both of those.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that means my team value have gone up because
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  Speaker 1: team value killed me with my wild card as we saw.
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  Speaker 2: But like they're above six million.
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  Speaker 1: But actually if you've got them at the right particularly Timber,
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  Speaker 1: if you got him at the right point, he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: And it does just show if you aside from those,
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  Speaker 1: you you don't need to spend loads to still get
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  Speaker 1: the same kind of points.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, And like I said earlier, I think the hardest
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  Speaker 4: bit really is to pick four of your five because
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  Speaker 4: even the ones that you might have got in your
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  Speaker 4: squad to be just your budget defender. Are four four
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  Speaker 4: point five can return as we saw with the Sunderland defense,
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  Speaker 4: that m is a really good pick that you have
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  Speaker 4: at directed we mentioned before Ballad were mentioned. You can
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  Speaker 4: look at Senesse, you can look at Gaye again. I
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: know they're better teams really, Bonnemouth and Palace the overall,
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  Speaker 4: that's the idea and and you know you usually will
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  Speaker 4: have five really good defenders that could return every week.
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  Speaker 4: Now it's just about picking the right four. But if
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  Speaker 4: you look at the importance of set pieces this season
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  Speaker 4: in the Promedigue, incredible long throws, corners, wild free kicks,
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  Speaker 4: every team seems to be even more threatening than they
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  Speaker 4: used to in the past. So that adds to the
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  Speaker 4: value of your defenders because now they can score more
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  Speaker 4: goals than ever. Not just Arsenal, but if you look
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  Speaker 4: a lot of other teams are becoming more and more
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  Speaker 4: efficient on all those kind of debt boards situations. Really,
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  Speaker 4: plus the death cons of changing the dynamic we said
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  Speaker 4: that before, so now more than ever, go forward the
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  Speaker 4: back every single day. There's not even a doubt. Don't
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  Speaker 4: think about it, because that's where the points are it
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  Speaker 4: would be silly to go just for a back three.
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  Speaker 4: And on top of that, if you get the right
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  Speaker 4: four defenders, then you're good.
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  Speaker 1: It's also changing that I think about defensive transfers too,
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  Speaker 1: So to be honest, when I was making my World Card,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, in the past, I would just never
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  Speaker 1: have wanted to change a defender, whereas now I'm like, actually,
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind that. I don't mind in a bit
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  Speaker 1: moving Chris Richards to someone else, do you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, particularly if you're going to have a couple of
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  Speaker 3: arsenal defenders in there, because you're probably locked in on them.
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  Speaker 3: SINESSI feels like he's going to be a lock in
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  Speaker 3: most people's team. So those other two defender slots feel
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  Speaker 3: like you can move around and you can pick different ones,
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  Speaker 3: and it no longer feels like a waste of time
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  Speaker 3: doing that if you're going to play four at the back,
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: because in the past, you'd have your two arsenal, you'd
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: maybe have one other and that will be it you
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: just lock in, and the other two it's kind of like, well,
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: they're just going to sit there until you bench boost,
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: or if you've already bench boost and maybe you've taken
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: money out of them and they're four point zeros. But
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: this season it definitely feels like you can look at
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: the fixture runs and that's why a lot of people
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: write sold Mickey vander Ben last week because the Bears
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: fixtures are a little bit tougher coming up. So you
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: can see why people were doing it, because they're moving
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: towards the defenses that have got better fixtures over the
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: coming weeks. So yeah, for sure, I think in a
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: way that I haven't been before. I'm looking at the
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: defensive transfers and thinking I'm more likely to change those positions.
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: Maybe then I am the midfielders, all the forwards.
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: And the ownership now is so high of those defenders.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: Gabrielle is almost three if it's cause.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so true.
• 14:10
  Speaker 5: I thought that if Discovery does something.
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, even Sessi vander ven is now thirty two percent,
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: Timber is almost twenty five percent, get his thirty three percent.
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: So if those guys.
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: Redne it's not Okay, it's not as much as sixty
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: percent for you know, d Pedro or Salao or seventy
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: five percent of Holland obviously, but still that's enough to
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: hurt you. And as we said, if you get Vanderven
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: this week, it's a good week. If you don't have
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: Micky van Deven this week, it's not a good week
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: for you. It's almost as simple as that. Yeah, I
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: can confirm and I think that, Yeah, no, but I
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: didn't say that fuicually, although on a white card I
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: would have picked nickivand even every single day. I'm kidding,
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: I kidding, but that ownership is so high. It's true
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: with those defenders that you have to take that in
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: consideration as well when you build your team.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: I did actually check and SESSI surprised me. He's just
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: under twenty seven percent, so he's not quite in the
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: arsenal defender's category.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: His ownership's only going to go up, isn't it really Okay?
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Moving on then, I think we're all in agreement about that.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: It's just by defenders and make sure you've got you
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: to ask ones and then some good ones.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: There's some really nice options elsewhere.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: But yeah, some of the other big talking points this week,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: is he ever going to not be a big talking point?
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Huell Pedro sam the updates on his shots and I'm
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: coming we can see that he's not returning in FPL,
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: but the shots and the chances have been a bit
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: of a problem, and I'm wondering when you're going to
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: sell him, to be honest.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Now, I mean.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: So I am actually very very nearly told him earlier,
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: and then I was like, no, I'm going to wait
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: until this evenings because obviously we've got leak happening this evening.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Sorry, yeah, we're recording on Wednesday night. I should have
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: said that.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So in my head I was like, well, I'm
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: going to go to Mateta Crystal Pallace obviously playing after
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: we've finished recording this podcast, so I want to make
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: sure that he makes it through. Actually he's on the
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: bench anyway, so maybe he just stay there and be
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: fine as long as he does. Though, Jack Pedro for
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: me is he's it's ridiculous, isn't it, Because you still
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: look at the fixtures and you go, okay, well, I
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: still think there's decent enough fixtures in there. But over
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: the last few weeks we've held him because the fixtures
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: have been great and you've kind of gone, oh, he's
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: got Sunderland, Oh he's got But actually the underlying stats
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: just aren't there, Like at the beginning of the season
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: he was doing really well and you know, his goal
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: threat looked good, and he was having shots and you
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: know all of that stuff. But actually when you look
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: at it, like in terms of the actual number of
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: shots that he's having, he's not even top across the
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Chelsea team, and Zo Fernandez is top. He's not even
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: top four shots inside the box, which is kind of
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: surely his bread and butter, that's where you would expect
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: him to be. He's not top for big chances either.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Everything's just disappeared, like the underlying numbers just aren't there.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: And we could sit here all day and talk about
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: how bad the underlying numbers are for jel Pedro, but
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: it's probably you know, I don't think I need to
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: say that. It does seem ridiculous to do it given
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: its Spurs, who I mean, we never did very well
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: against Chelsea anyway, but Spurs up next, but then after
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: that it's Wolves and Bernley, so it feels ridiculous to
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: sell him. But I've equally held him through games against
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Nottingham Forest and Sunderland, who have been you would expect
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: him to score. Certainly in the Nottingham Forest game. You
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: would have expected him to do something in that one,
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: So the fact that he hasn't it's part of the
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: reason I've gone for a different Chelsea player in my
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: team as well. So that sell jow Pedro. I'm still
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: invested for Wolves and Bernie in a couple of weeks time.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: But yeah, Jil Pedro is going to exit my team
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: in the early hours of this morning.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Easy, sell Jews, isn't he if you've got rid?
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: I can't believe he's still owned by more than fifty
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: percent of the managers.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: I won't lie.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: I would help you out on his Sunderland underlight arms,
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: just normal studs. He had zero shots. He's expected this
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: since was zero point zero two. He had more death
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: cons in that game than actually touches in the Sunderland box,
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: which means that he actually was more active defensively for
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Chelsea than doing anything with the board going forward. Like listen,
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: whether he plays as a ten right now, it's just
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: not happening for him. It's not really happening for Chelsea
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: overall as a team, and Sam is right. The only
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: thing that could make you doubt is that after the
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Spurs game at the weekend they will play Wolves and
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Bernie Wolves are terrible, I mean as in the bottom
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: of the table terrible, and and you know Burnley are
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: still Burnlee, who played Arsenal this weekend for example, coming up,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: So maybe in the bottom three when they play Chelsea.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: That's the only reason why you should think maybe Benching
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: for that Spurs game and then start him, giving him
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: a last chance. But other than that, really there's nothing
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: we've seen in the last few weeks that deserves him
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: to be in your team.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Really, who's the obvious replacement, because you could go Jean
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Felipe Mattetta, you could go Wall Tomato as well, or
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: you could even go cheaper some.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean absolutely.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: I mean I think if you haven't got Mateta, given
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: the fixtures that they have coming up from this week,
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Matteta is the obvious replacement. Matesta's also had more big
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: chances than Jae Peger has had shots over the course
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: of this season, which is mad. When I read that,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I was like, that is actually mad that jo Pago
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: would have less shots than Mateta's have big chances. So
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I think if you don't have I mean, I know
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: that we all know that I love Jean Felipe Mattetta,
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: but if you don't like I do think he is
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: probably the best buy.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Volta model. I still really like.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: I like him a lot, and I think the Newcastle
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: fixtures are also great, so you can go there if
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: you don't have him either of those two. But you're
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: right colts like I don't think it's too ridiculous to go, well,
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: I'll come right down and take a load of money
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: out of it. Like Creepy Jr. How long we get
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: with him starting?
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: It remains to him in my World Cup because I
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: didn't want it remains to be seen.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: And I think you know, if if you've already played
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: your bench boost though, I don't mind the creepy junior
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: pick at all because you can just sit on your
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: bench and it's it's fine. It's taken value out of
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: the bench and putting in the starting eleven, which feels fine.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Maybe gear is starting to come back into the conversation
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: as a really really cheap option as well. I think
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: that there's plenty of kind of in the six and
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: a half through sort of seven and a half bracket
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: that you can go to if you've got a little
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: bit more money. Then I still don't think your Caress
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: is a bad option either, despite everyone wanting to sell him.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: So I think I would hold if I had him.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Your career is yeah.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, first of all, matter that I bought him
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: in and as you know, his parents born and bred,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: so he's very special and everything. The only thing I'd
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: be slightly worried about is he played nineteen minutes against
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Bournmouth way he's called the hat trick.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Should have had four, but it's called the hat trick.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Then he played ninety minutes against La Naka in the
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Conference League. Then he played nineteen minutes against Arsenal. At
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: the weekend, he's on the.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: Bench against Liverpool.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Okay, but those games are going to because of place
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: being in Europe for the first time ever, this is
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: going to be very, very different than anything Jeophilip Mattter
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: himself has gone through that the clerbing himself has gone through.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: He can't keep playing nineteen minutes.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Every three days because at some point this is going
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: to be a bit too much even for us to
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: own him in the Premier League, I think. So let's
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: see how he manages all the game loads and all
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: of that, because this is a lot. I'm glad he's
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: on the bench for this Liverpool League up game. Then
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: there's Branford obviously at the weekend. Then it's Alkmaar, who
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: are doing really well in the division in the Netherlands.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: In New yorka league again, a game that Palace have
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: to win because they've lost that game against Laka that
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: they should have never lost where he played nineteen minutes.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: And the thing is you can play and Ketcha instead
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: of in but it's such a different profile. This team
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: is built for a number nine lack Mateta, not like
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: and Ketcher really, so you know that he has to
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: play a lot in those games coming up and that
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: can just maybe be the little thing that Rory's us
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: a little bit in terms of owning him in the
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Premier League is that I feel if he plays too
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: much that that will have an impact negatively on his
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: performances in the Premier League.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good point, actually, isn't it that those
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: fixtures for Crystal Palace are going to keep coming?
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: But anyway, I'm your crest shows.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: That's what the other thing I wanted to ask you about,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: because Sam mentioned if she doesn't think he's a bad.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Pick, no, but then is there enough goals from him
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: now to justify the price. Obviously, that's that's that's put
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: in your squads to start with, because he does a
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: lot of things that are very good and very important
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: for Arsenal overall within that collective. But the goals are
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: still a bit a bit missing there in the league.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: And I'll be okay if you know, if I was
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: mikel Arteta, but for us in the game, we still
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: need returns. And he scored two in the Champions League. Great,
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: but then he went to the weekend with nothing. He's
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: on the bench in the league of game. So you know,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: let's see against Burnley on Saturday, for example, it's the
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: kind of game where he needs to he needs to
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: do something more than just helping the team out holding
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: up the ball, being a nuisance to the defenders and
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: et ceteras. Right, he needs to score in a game
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: like that where you know exactly what Arsenal is going
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: to face this low blog, very aggressive, very compact.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: Not much. This is this is why they signed him
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: to score in games like that. Yeah, so let's see.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: But I think right now, until he finds his mojo
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: of scoring, it's maybe a little bit early to bring
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: him in because I think there are other options that
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: are in more cheaper, cheaper one in better goals going
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: form only because he's in good form, it's just not
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: the goals are not, I think, coming regularly enough to
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: maybe justify him in your team.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I actually agree with you there.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: What about Egle Thiago Sam because he's proven popular just
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: sh I have two hundred thousand people have put him
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: in at the time of recording and he's even that
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: little bit cheaper than Voltemada and Mattessa.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Could he be an option?
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. He's definitely somebody that I'm kind of
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: watching the next two I don't love. It's Palace obviously
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: in at weekend, and then it's Newcastle. But after that,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I think that the fixtures Arekka's, Brighton and Burnley, who
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: you know, neither of those defenses have been solid, so
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: definitely there could be goals there.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: Then they've got.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Both sides of North London with Arsenal first and then Spurs,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: and then after that it's Leeds Wolves and then born
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: with before Spurs again. So there's definitely goals in those
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: fixtures that they have coming up for Thiago. I do
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: like that Brumford are starting to kind of find their
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: mojo again. I think that obviously they had a difficult
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: sum money, lost their manager, they lost their star players too,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: both of them the ones that scored all the goals
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: last season, so it has been a bit of a struggle.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: But now they do seem to be fine in their
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: feet again. We're seeing the best of players like Shada,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: of Dango and of Tiago. So I do think that
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: he is a nice option, and he comes in significantly cheaper,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: as you mentioned Kells than both for Tomata and Mateta.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: So if you are looking to take some money out
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: of that front nine because you want to invest it
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: in the defense, or because you want to upgrade one
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: of your midfielders, he does feel like a really decent option.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Plus in the difficult weeks, he is a player that
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: you could bench in order for you to be able
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: to play that back for that we've been talking about,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: so you know, in the game against Arsenal in game
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: week fourteen, he's a relatively easy bench that week and
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: then play for it the back instead. So he does
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: make changing the formation of your team a little bit
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: easier because if you've got a front three that has
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: got you know, the players that we've been talking about,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: plus Harlan in it. If you've got Val Matteta, Harlan
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: really difficult to bench any of them me every week.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: So maybe Tiago isn't a bad option because he allows
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: you to move the formations easier around the fixtures.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, then onto midfielders, and I really struggled actually, once
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I'd put some Meno and soccer into my team. I
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: think there's quite a lot of variance that you can
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: have in your midfield, particularly if we are now going
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: bigger at the back. I also obviously opted to go
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: for the three starting forwards each week at the moment
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: in terms of Harlem Metteta and why did I forget
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: my third Voltemada very forgettab Al last week? To be fair,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I sold Rinders and I sold Kudus. Rinders is a
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: bit of a frustrating one, isn't he Jeels? Because I
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: nearly kept him purely because it was hard to find
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: someone else at that price point. In the end, I
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: actually decided to go down to Jaka, which I think
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: was about point seven differents and it felt weird that
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I was happy to go with the Sunderland player over
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: at Manchester City player. That was obviously to do with
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: team balance, but also Rinders. We were so excited at
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the start and then it's kind of fallen off a
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: little bit in terms of returns, hasn't it.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, he another I think some mentioned you know,
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: mentioned him earlier as well. It's those games with one
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: point two points, games where he's playing different positions, sometimes
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: much deeper like we saw against Ustin Billa for example,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: which is frustrating because he's.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Really a box two box player. This is where he's
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: really good at.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: That's where he was very good at for Milan, making
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: those runs into the box that he can't really do
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: when he's your deeper midfielder, and even when he plays
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: higher up when he does because you know, with Foden
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: coming back, Schecky coming back to a good level, Checky
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: coming back from Injurina Banado Silva, who's always going to
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: be a bit of Guardiola's favorite because of everything that
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: he's achieved for him in the club and the quality
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: that I can bring. I'm not even sure if Renders
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: is a guarantee starter anywhere that compared to maybe others
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: in this city team. So I think it's it's difficult
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: to again justify him ahead of even they can rise.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: So there's even players who play deep like him who
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: are bringing more points to their team, Like I see
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: the don't rise.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: So yeah, I think if you have Ryander, it's probably
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: time to say goodbye.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: What about cudis Sam? How genuinely how is he?
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I have struggled to sell him because I was like, actually,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: he looks like he has got returns for us, but
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: he looks like you should be getting even more. And
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: as you, I think you said it to me on
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: last week's show, He's probably been your best second player,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: hasn't he really of late? But unfortunately for me, part
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: of it was well I can actually spend point two
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: cheaper and kind of use that point to elsewhere, and
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I just don't is he the best player at that
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: kind of price bracket.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: He's been so frustrating, honestly the last couple of weeks,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: in particular backing you know, game week Hate. We had
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: the Mickey Vanderven assisting him goal that got ruled out
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: for offside. The week before, he should have had a brace,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: had one off the cross bar, another one ruled out
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: for offside. This week again he was frustrating. The underlying
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: numbers were there. Again, he's been really difficult owning kudis.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Do I think he's the best pick in the six
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: and a half bracket, No, not really.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: He's also, like I said, he's that bit above it
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: as well, which makes sometimes, as I realized, when you
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: haven't got great team Valley's sometimes hard to find it.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I think you know when you look at
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: where you could go and the other players that you
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: could have. I mean we briefly mentioned Declan Rice last week.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: If you haven't got those extra Arsenal players and you
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: do want to cheap weigh in. I think he's a
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: decent option. I think there's plenty Like Ishmaelasa, I really
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: like that pick when you made that on World card. Like,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I know, we didn't do anything for you last week.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: I don't think you were really expecting him to against Arsenal.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: You didn't pick him for that game. You picked him
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: for the ones that they now have coming up in
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: the future, So you know, I think he's a really
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: decent option. We talked about Brentford, like the Brentford boys
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: are cheaper and you know, fixtures or right, maybe they're
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: not as nice. But then suppose I've got a real
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: mixed bag of fixtures coming up over the next few weeks.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: It's not exactly like Spurs. I've got brilliant fixtures. It's
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Chelsea up next and it's Manchester United or they're both
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: home games. But then we've got to go to the
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Emirates to play Arsenal, which won't be fun. After that
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: it's full of Newcastle, Brentford for Liverpool. Who knows by
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: the time we get to Forest and Liverpool what kind
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: of teams they will be. All right, at the moment
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: they look like good opportunities to score points, but will
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: they be you know, six seven, eight games down the line,
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: who knows? So no, I mean, I think for me,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: I kept kept him on wild card. The plan was
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: to keep him for a couple of weeks and then
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: probably looked at me. I him on. I think I've
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: got other things I want to do though, so I'll
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: probably end up keeping him. He'll be one of those
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: players probably that sticks around longer than he should, because
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: I do think that there are better options in that
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: price point.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: But you know, good on, I don't mind. I don't mind.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Mohammed Kuduz all I would say is that Joe flipping
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Pollinia as as many points as Mohammed kudus in your team,
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: and of course you're one point three million less.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: And it's been significantly better. To be fair, like, he's
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: been really good when he's been playing.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: If you if you look at their total points, it
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: depends on which point you owned them Juels, so you
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: might have owned kudos.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: For course, You're right. I think I think he is
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: a very interesting player to you have. I'm just thinking
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: it's still owned I think by over thirty five percent
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: of the of the manager thirty three percent, which I
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: think is still a lot considering it's a bit hit and.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Miss in certain in terms of return.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: I know, you know there's there's there's good things that
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: he does in games for Spurs, for sure, and sometimes
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: he feels that he's the only one creating something more
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: than Chavis Simmons or Johnson or Audebert or Tellor, whoever
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: you want. I just I just think that again, there
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: are so many good options. Even somebody like like and Bomo,
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: who is obviously much more expensive than than Kuduso, is
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: now hitting the ground running really and he's doing really
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: well for this United team that is improving.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: So if you look at even somebody like Bomo, who's
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: now I.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Think is the second best midfielder in the game in
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: terms of points, you think, I think that makes you
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: think twice about somebody like Kudus and the hit and
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: miss return.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: As well.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, do we need to start
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: looking at them now, Sam, because I mean, I know
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: it's it's early days, but this is probably the best
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: man United we've seen for a while in terms of
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: starting to strong results together and players returning.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, whether we see the consistency remains to be seen,
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: because we've had this before with them, where they've had
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: a couple of good results and then they've gone regressed
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: a little bit. So whether we get like constant continuity
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: of good performances, we'll see. But you know, if you
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: roll the ticker from game week ten through to game
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: week nineteen and then it's world card Manchester United a top.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: The fixtures are nice, there's a lot of green in there.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of decent fixtures. I think over the
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: last few weeks we've basically been saying, well, if you're
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: going to have Manchester United, it has to be Bruno
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: and there isn't really another option, but there are other
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: options now as Geors mentioned, and the fixtures are actually
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: there for defensive picks as well. You know, if you
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: wanted to go for a shore even a goalkeeper, if
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: you're on the hump for a new cheap goalkeeper, I thought,
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: you know, you looked good last week. So yeah, with
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Manchester United, then Spurs, Everton Palace, west Ham Wolfs decent
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: fixtures for Manchester United, I think we are going to
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: have to start turning our attention there. The problem for
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: me is that Cudises. I've had him since the beginning,
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: so I've taken the price rises with him, but he's
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: still not enough of a price wise for me to
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: be able to just move him across to Enbomo. So
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: it's a tough own because of the price point that
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: he comes in at, because you have got so many
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: decent options in the kind of six and a half
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: to seven brackets, so looking for those kind of more
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: expensive midfielders is a tough one, particularly if you're going
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: to go for an expensive frontline, unless you do what
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: we talked about earlier and have Tiago instead, and then
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: it's much easier.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Are you considering any United players ruels.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Bomo is the one really, And you know,
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: if we start talking about Semenio, who has had back
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: to back blanks right now, which is maybe not in
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: the form that he was at at the start of
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: the season. Semniu is seven point seven million and Bonmore
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: is eight point two. So there's not much there for
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: you to switch from Semenual to and Bomo if you've
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: got a bit of money in the bank, if you
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: can have another free transfer and find some money there
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: to switch from Semenial to and Bomo, especially maybe after
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: the Spurs game, because I still think Spurs will be
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: tricky for United, but after that it's looking really good
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: for United. So if you see that kind of improvement,
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: like Sam said that, they don't go back to that
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: kind of inconsistency that we saw even last season where
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: they were good in the top games and then maybe
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: not so good in the game that you expected them
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: to be good, then I think and Bomo is the best.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: It's the best asset to have from the United team.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: I think.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wish I wasn't particularly looking for them last week,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: but now when I think about love, maybe maybe it
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: should have been But like you said, Sam, love.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: Your world, can't do you still have your world? Can't?
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I'm going to wait a couple of weeks.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give them time, and then once I
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: played my bench boost, I'll be able to maybe play
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: around and maybe I will go away from my formation,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and then I'll have some extra money. Okay, we're running
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: out of time, so just defenders very quickly. The Palace defense.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people want investment in Richards
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: is an injury that I think he's not playing tonight.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Glasa hasn't ruled him out of game week ten just yet,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: so fingers crossed.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: But do we need to go that? Do we need
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: to pay the extra for muon ors?
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Some since I sold him, he's been brilliant, and I
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: think you know worth the extra if you can afford it.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: But I do think that you don't need to spend
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: it like Laqui. If you've had Laqua since the beginning,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: is offered incredible value for money. Saying with Mark Gay,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: he I think Gay he's taking so many price rises
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: now that actually is kind of like in that same
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: conversation as Laquirre, and it's like it's difficult so really,
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: if you do want to go cheaper, it has to
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: be richer, and then you should probably wait for the
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: weekend to see where we are with him in his
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: fitness levels. But I do not have a Palace defender,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: and that run of fixtures that they have coming up,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: not having one feels awful. Can I bring myself to
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: sell Mickey van Derven on the back of a twenty
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: three point hall? But I do feel like I need
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: to invest in Crystal Palace Defense for sure. Even pondered
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: on is it better to downgrade the goalkeeper and go
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: to move over to Sean Henderson instead and do it
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: that way? But yeah, I can't. I'm not going to
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: be a had off with me, is the reality, unless
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: I'm happy to burn a slot elsewhere. So I'm probably
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: going to have to look at one of the slightly
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: cheaper options at Palace, which is I might wait an
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: extra week just to see where Richards is okay.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Other defenders, I mean, I think at this point, if
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: you are in Virgil van Dyke, I think probably you'll
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: be selling, might you?
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: Gosh, well, you've considered a lot of gors if you
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: own him?
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know many people that still own him,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: but there will be people that do in the hope
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: that Liverpool pick up again because those fixtures are great,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: but yeah, it doesn't feel at the time to go there.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: And kouk career is an interesting one because there's a
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: lot of upside with him Joels, but we just and
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Chelsea have been pretty consistent. Then you saw at the
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: weekend they still have bizarre results in they're not bizarre
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: so brilliant, but at home you'd have expected them to win.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: The absolutely yeah, and the ninth in the table for
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: a reason as well.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: It's because they just can't put that kind of run
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: together and as important as it could be going forward
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: with the boards, only defensively they have moments where they
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: just not very good and then concede goals. So if
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: he doesn't return going forward, which he's done regularly. Last season,
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: I think he had seven or eight goals in the
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: Premi League Lasteason something like that, maybe six, and already
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: started well this season. If they don't, if that doesn't happen,
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: then defensively you can't. You can't bank on them keep
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: it in cheap because they don't. They don't usually do,
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: so you end up with Sanchez with one point, Colla
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: with one or two points. Def Cone is not really
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: his thing either because he's so attacking. So yeah, I
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: think it's a difficult one if you're in Korea, whether
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: you keep him or or let him.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Go, sorry defenders him away. We haven't spent much time
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: when you put running out of time what we did. Actually,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: we spoke about defenders a bit at the beginning, didn't
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: when we all said they're great, So it's fine. A
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: differential of the week. Congratulations both got returned. Someone with
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Creepy Jr. Changed up the world back. Unfortunately neither one though,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: because you both got exactly the same.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: As six points gone.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let listeners into a little secret. Normally Sam
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: comes armed with many Before the record you're asking Jewels
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: who he'd got.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: And I was like, no, no, this is how it works.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: So because of that, Jewels, you can go first.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: Oh great, My big this week is Wilson Easydoor from Sunderland.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: One because he's French obviously and very handsome as all
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: frenchmen are, and.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: Two because he's in great form. Guys is in really
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: good form.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Six goals already for him in this wonderful Sunderland team
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: that fourth in the table. Nobody saw that one coming,
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: not even Magic Lebries on the bench. Only on by
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: three point three percent of the manager. So that's a
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: proper differential, not not like the one that Sam picks
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: at nine percent nine point five percent nine point nine.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Month less than yours.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Thank you six.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: I can't read even how much it costs you, but
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: maybe five point six.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: Don't know I wrote, I wrote these bad. Okay, they've got.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Arsenal joan to be quick.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, hang onton Everton this weekend at home at
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: the Stadium of Like, this should be fun and it's
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: always is really great, So go and sign him.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I'd advise people check his fixtures because I'm not sure.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: I'm sure, I just yeah, I could not read what
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: I wrote.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Available on the Fantasy dot Premier League dot com website. Sam,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: which which flower are you going with?
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: I've got care on tripiter for you this week.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: So he's going to cost you five million his own
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: owned by two point seven percent as so you know,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: less owned than yours, A big differential, so you know, yeah,
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: he's created fourteen chances for Newcastle. That's the most in
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: the Newcastle team He's also supplied forty crosses so far
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: this season. Again that's team leading, and of those sixteen
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: have been successful. Again that's team leading. They've kept five
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: clean sheets this season. Only Arsenal have more, and only
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Arsenal have a better x she see as well than Newcastle.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: So you know.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Everything is there for This is why I picnic Pope
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: like everything is there for Newcastle clean sheet and attacking
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: returns for him, especially as you know they've got a
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: decent one of fixtures. So as west Ham up next,
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: I would expect a Newcastle winning that one. So should
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: be potentially both ends at the.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Pitch, transfers and captains what you're doing.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: So I am going to wait up and watch the
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: watch what happens, just to make sure that John Philip
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Matesta doesn't do anything to himself from the bench. Hopefully
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: he stays there for the entire game and if he does,
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: be doing Je Pedro to Matteta as one of my
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: free transfers. I've got two because I made three transfers
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: last week, so I still got two. I don't think
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: I'll make another one. I think I'll wait it out
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: for a Palace defender for the week after and just
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: give myself time to work out what's going on with
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Richard's tours.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: I'm good for transfers and I keep I wrote it
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: on the thing with captain is it becomes a bit difficult.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: Highland at home to Bournemouth.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, potentially Bournemouth the way they play they will
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: be will be an open game. But Saca Burnley is
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: tempting for the made at west Ham because it's west
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: Ham and then all my goods, it's very tempted as well,
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: and to be fair, so is Mateta at home to
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: Branford for Palace.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: So there's a lot of options really this thing. And
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: you know what I think, just to.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Go back as a as the loop about defenders quickly,
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: the defender is so good decision that you could even
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: think about captaining a defender a Gabriella, you know, a
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: way of Burnley potential clean sheet on set piece because
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Arsenal could well broke the Deadlocke in that game on
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: said pieces. I think Gabriela's captain away Burnie is not
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: a bad idea either.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Will you do it?
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: Though you have you have to listen next week and
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: find out, Sam I do do you want to do
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: you want to bed let's bet I'm.
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: Doing now, I do it, now, let's do it.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: But you'll change it just before the day.
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: I swear to you is my captain, I confirm, yeah, No, No,
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: I won't change.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: I swear to you I won't change captain.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: To be fair, I don't disagree that it is it's about,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: but I think it's a brilliant pair.
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: I agree.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: I just didn't think you do. It's a fair play
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: sam on between Baltimoto and Socker. To be honest, I've
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: been backward and forwards between those two a week. I
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: don't think Harlan's a bad captains option, but I do
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: think Bourne with a decent offensively, so I don't think
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: you're riot against them. And we've already seen him blank
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: last week. So Sacer, I don't know at the minute
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: at the moment, but it's been on the bus team
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: on soccer all week, so maybe I'll leave it with him.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: I do like that fixture away at Bernie, but then
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: I do prefer at west Ham. With the way that
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: west Ham I.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Just keep replaying that miss in my head.
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: I know, I know, well you know it can happen.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I can and both of them, both of
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: them being good form. To be fair, it's nice, actually,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: isn't it when there's a bit of variance on captains
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: and we're potentially going to go with something different and okay,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: that's where we'll leave it. George is in a hotel lobby.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Whereabouts are you at the moment.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: In Spain in front of on toura?
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Lovely you get back to here.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: We're very good this week.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Congratulations to them. It means it's going to be rubbish
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: this week.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: And Sam, you're in Dubai continuing the longest birthday ever celebrations.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: Correct, that is correct. I have milk to this for
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: all it's worth.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I enjoyed the last few days of milking it.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: You both have great holidays. I'm going to be in
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: rainy London. A reminder, it's a Saturday afternoon deadline. I
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: don't even live in London anymore, so that was actually
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: an unintentional lie to get your teams locked in before
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: one thirty. That's ninety minutes ahead of the five matches
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: which kick off at three pm. The Fantasy Show is
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: back on Friday as well. Then off the bench. We'll
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: be back on Tuesday. Next week, it'll be Sam and
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Harry talking through all the key talking points from game
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: week ten. Have a good game week, guys, and we'll
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: be back next week, babe,