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GW17 AFCON Era Begins I Ep: 117 · Draft Offsides Podcast

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Hello and welcome to episode 117 of Draft Off Sides.
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I'm with Tico Enzo. My name is Keith.
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Follow us at Draft Off Sides. This is another week and the
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beginning of the AFCON era. Entering our AFCON era, guys,
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what are we? What are we thinking?
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There's a bunch of players leaving Man D of Masala.
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I mean so many. Papa Saw Ishmael Assad.
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And blammo. And Blambo.
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And Diamond, and I mean there's, there's countless players that
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are leaving, some more important than others.
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It will be Yeah, big one right there.
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That means that Lukic is going to get some freaking time.
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Me. Yeah.
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I mean, I think there's a lot of Afghan players you can just draw
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like anyone. That was kind of borderline
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already. You can just get rid of that,
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obviously. Like you're not.
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Dropping in Blammo, you're not dropping like some of the bigger
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guys. But what about like I dropped, I
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dropped, I took crazy. I think you can keep maybe he's
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kind of borderline because he's been playing well.
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But I dropped like dude, I dropped like duf.
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I dropped him. The problem with Chukowazi is he
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will be scoring as also Chukowazi which opens the door
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for Kevin and fingers crossed for Kevin too because I was
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borderline thinking of dropping Kevin but now I'm like hey I
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have to hold on to him because this is when he's going to get a
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chance to shine. Kevin Lukic, they they got
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chances to shine and Harry's on form right now, so if he can
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carry the team it's going to be fine.
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Do you like a Neil Smith row then too potentially?
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Or do you think he he's just so goal?
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Dependent. He's.
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He's to come. Again, typical.
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He's score, he's score, he's been scoring.
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But it's the issue is that if he doesn't score, he creates, he
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doesn't do nothing. Yeah.
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Well, doesn't do nothing. Also we saw Emma Smith or last
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year play a full year as like get the opportunity and he
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didn't capitalize on it. So it's not like the first time
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he. Didn't even get a full
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opportunity, but yeah, he like, but yeah, because like halfway
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through they're just you're not doing anything.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, things are also living too.
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And die. So I wonder if Siri is going to
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change his name or or actually he's going to ring more to it
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because he misses it. Everything's actually very
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interesting because and dies leaving and then KDH pulled up,
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pulled up with an injury ever at the.
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Hamstring. Apparently Kreelish made Moy
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said that Kreelish talked about his hamstrings.
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Kind of feeling his hamstrings too.
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Let's not hold front 3. So now we're talking like
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dibbling Alcaraz and our boy Tico.
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You know what I'm talking about. Barry.
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What? What are you saying?
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Against no that that that the last midfielder at Everton that
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we everyone was so excited about Dwight McNeil.
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Oh, Dwight McNeil. Right.
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So there's a there's a chance that neither like obviously in
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die isn't starting. Obviously a very likely KDH
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isn't starting because of injury and very possibly greenish isn't
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starting. So there's a chance that it's a
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it's a brand new front or midfield attacking 3 next week,
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which I don't know if it's a that's not necessarily a good
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thing, but no, they could get like a play, which is
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interesting. Yeah.
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We'll see. And also, they're playing
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Arsenal, so it's gonna be. Yeah, so I mean without giving
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you, I mean Carlos, yeah, we'll talk a little about Carlos
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Sakuras. I think he's probably the number
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one waiver ad this week. But but yeah, knowing that it's
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Arsenal Nexus doesn't it's not the best matchup by any needs.
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All right, should we? I think the biggest thing is we
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ought to talk about Sal. I think last week where I I was
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a big opponent of trying to get rid of him at any cost
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necessary. And it seems like after that
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he's kind of come back with a fold a little bit.
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Did you guys feel that way? He got some.
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Playing time. He didn't start, but there's an
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injury. So he came up to the bench and
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he he played OK. Like I, I still don't think he
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looks great. It's it's still the same issues
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where he's he's kind of squandering chances that you you
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got really used to seeing him finish and like kind of forcing
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stuff. I.
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Mean now he's going to AFCON so. Now he's going to AFCON.
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He also did Oh, he did like after the game, he walked around
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the stadium and like clapped every corner, you know, like
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which a lot of players do when they're leaving, you know what I
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mean? That's that's but but but like
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to to Aratha, who's one of our leagues point.
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He's the bookies having 6:00 to 1:00 to leave.
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So that's not yeah. It'd be interesting to see like
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how Liverpool are in the like in this month or so without solid
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because obviously you want to see if the team's successful if
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it's not successful and at the same time, I'm sure it also
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depends how he looks at Afghan as well.
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So it's. Well, gag gag pose injured too.
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Don't forget about that. So yeah, he's out for a few
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weeks. I I'm not concerned about GAK.
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I mean, I don't. Think about Lupo as a whole, how
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they're going to perform about I don't get wrong, style has been
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hasn't even he's been existent. He's still performing like
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fantasy wise, am I right? Oh yeah, he's, he's been, he's
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been 5. He's.
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Been 10 points or 9 points? He's not.
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Sensational. I think it's more just the whole
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the phases of play, like he's still just, the opportunities
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are still there and he's just not finishing the way that he
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has in the past. Well, it doesn't just quite look
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as good. Here's averaging 11 points a
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game and we talked so much about Salah, but remember early on in
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the year when Liverpool was going like in the last minute, a
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lot of those Salah good games came.
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Keefe you remember as well, because you had him back then,
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like. Oh, last minute. 87 minute they
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get a penalty like the last minute garbage time assists were
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like it still counts, but as far as like we look at it with the
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eye test, it doesn't pass it. Yeah.
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So, yeah, I mean, OK, here's an example.
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In our league, a trade went through this morning.
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It was salad for Yokoresh, straight up so.
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Upset. You're upset.
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You're upset because you were trying to RIP the guy out that
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had salad. You're trying to get even less.
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False, I don't even know if he was thinking about trading Sala.
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I thought my trade package was better.
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I rather have Cesco. Can you can.
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Can you say? Rather have Cesco than Yokoresh.
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I don't think any. I don't think you're in your
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right mind to think that. I did.
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I I believe Cesco still has room to grow, whereas I think yo
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Chris. I mean.
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Obviously, like, you know, no one knows to predict the fucking
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future, but I'll be willing to put up a little wager who'll
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have a better year from January the end of the year.
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January. No, starting this weekend.
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I don't. I don't want to January.
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Well, no, because Cesc, we just got back from injury.
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He's not even. I don't even know if he's going
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to. Start that's but that's that's
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still part he's played today. If you want to make the bet,
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we'd have to make the bet starting this weekend.
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I'm not that I'm willing to making a bet.
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You you just suggested it. No start in.
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January. No cohones.
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You can make a better right Joker is the OK Sucks, I'll make
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a bet. OK.
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Yeah, yeah. And Enzo.
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OK. No, I don't want to zone this.
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OK, put it on the board. 2nd, put it on the board.
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Who has a better rest of the season mark?
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Like. OK, so, so the odds are looking
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better. That's always going to be back.
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I'm still 100% sure. I think it's going to be up in
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the air. And I think to Tika's point, it
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does. It is really dependent on how
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Liverpool looks. It's really dependent on what
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happens. Sala, you have to remember too
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that Sala's historically been a lot worse after he's come back
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from AF con. And if he he wasn't, he hasn't
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been, he has been, he's been good, but he hasn't been great
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to the levels that we've been expecting this year already.
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You know so because when is the AFCAM final game like the
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championship game I think. I think if if a team makes it to
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the final, I think they're they're, they can miss up to six
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games. So yeah, and also like usually
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when they come back, they have like a week off or two weeks.
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So you're looking potentially like 6 to 8 missing 6 to 8
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games. So the final is January 18.
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It that's I think it's obviously they're not going to sell in the
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beginning of January. I think they'll wait until after
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AF con because nothing. 'S going to.
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Nothing's going to happen until after AF con.
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Even if they make a deal beforehand, nothing will be
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announced after. Yeah, I don't know.
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It's an interesting conundrum. I, I, I, I didn't hate the trade
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for Gilkresh. I think it's more of someone
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who, like the guy who traded for Salah is, is at first in our
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league by a little bit. So I think he felt like he could
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afford to make that risk. And the guy who traded for
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Gilkresh is not doing well. And so he felt like he needed,
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he needed something now. It was needed to make a risk, I
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thought, as as far as trades go. I thought it was fair.
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Yeah, it's like, you know, just judging the risks of what, of
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what's going on. I I understood it.
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Because he kind of offered me for floating the worst and I
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declined that I thought that was a.
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Good. I would rather have words.
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I would have. I'd rather have words.
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Yeah, for sure. I'm.
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I actually tried in our main league.
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I tried. I tried to offer essay for
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words. What do you think about that?
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That was a logo. Never responded.
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Would you? Who'd you rather have?
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What? Words or essay I think I just
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just because I like. Has been playing a little bit
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more in the. Last well, that's where I'm with
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it too. I feel like I like, I like where
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it's more than as a restless season just for guaranteed
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minutes. And also worse, seems like
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fantasywise turning the corner the last three.
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Exactly where as a has been. He had that amazing 42 point
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game a few weeks ago and then since then it's been pretty
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underwhelming. Yeah, if I said at least.
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I'll take his off your hands of. Course you'll take it.
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Yeah, please. I can't make me an offer I can't
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refuse. Tillaman.
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Let's I think I can refuse that one.
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All right, I'm going to let's move on a little bit.
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Talk about Harry Wilson in Fulham.
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But Tico's pissed because he played against in both leagues.
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Is that the? One of them wasn't close.
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The one was against Enzo and it was the early game too, so it's
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33.7 or five points. He had one goal to assist.
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Such a huge hole to dig yourself out of, but luckily, you know,
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my boy Diallo came through. But yeah, man, he's been.
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He's been on fire. You know, it's funny because I,
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I mean, I think we've talked, we talked about it a few times
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prior to this, you know, and it's always been like, oh, like
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if you can pull it all together, like he'd be a great asset.
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And then he kind of did it. He kind of like did like the
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best case scenario for him, but we all knew he was kind of
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capable of it. You know his left foot is
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fucking magical when he wants to pull.
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Yeah, when he hits, when he hits it right, where does he kind of?
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I mean, I think with with the Fulham players leaving too, I
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think that also adds to his value, Yeah.
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Even if he does like dip for like a game or two, it's like
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he's going to get bench because they kind of need him.
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Who? Who's going to what?
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What could you get for Wilson? That's a really good question.
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I think well, when you look at where he is in, in like points
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per start right now, he's sitting right around like Kevin
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Shade at right around 9:00. So he has nine points per start
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right now. And if you've got current, no,
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it's going to be more, it's going to be more because this is
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this is based on from before this would be before this
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weekend. So he's probably sitting close
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to like probably 101112 points. We start like it's just tougher
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because it's tough because it's not as like it's just because of
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play. Like sometimes you got to be
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mindful like is this guy just in good form right now?
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He's going to just re revert to the mean or is this is this like
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the new normal, you know, and that that's where you you have
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to take your bets. Yeah.
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So a guy you want to take a bet on and also.
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The team he plays for has never been like, you know, something
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amazing and he doesn't have that sexy name.
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He's been in the league for a while and he's never had like,
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like consistent around of like being a very good fantasy
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player. And also like Harry Wilson.
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You sound so like blah. You know, just the main.
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Sounds so Scottish and what is he?
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What is? What is he?
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Welsh. It sounds so Welsh and so I
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mean, if if like obviously you were you were you were never
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going to trade Mohamed Salah for Harry Wilson, but would you do a
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traded like? Eze.
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No, I think I'd, I think I'd rather bang on on Eze really.
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I think I just think that there's, I think I can get, man,
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that's tough. I mean, if Harry Wilson.
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Obviously, if Harry Wilson can, I think that here's the thing,
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if Harry Wilson continues like this, of course you take care of
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Wilson for Eze. I'm just saying that the
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likelihood of him maintaining this form rest of the season is
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low, lower. Like I just, I, I, I think that
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it just really depends on if you think that he can sustain this.
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I mean, who would you rather have, Harry Wilson or granted
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Shaka? That that was the name I
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actually just had. I think that's a really good
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example of like, I think that's a really good kind of comp And I
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think I would probably go give me Harry Wilson plays high up
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the pitch more consistently, both onset pieces a decent
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amount. But I think Harry Wilson is a
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little bit closer to the goal and so has a little can have a
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little bit more like of the scoring opportunities, like
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point scoring opportunities. What do you think Tiko?
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I. I like to find that shotguns.
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Producing on the team that's on that street like as elite
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players and they doing a yeah. So I think I like that at
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consistency more. And Fulham has been known to
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have a rotation as well. So if he has a couple of bad
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games, is he going to fall off the rotation?
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So for their consistency wise, I think Shock has better, but
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obviously Harry Watson has those the upset of having those like
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master games over shot high I think.
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Yeah. And so deciding factor, who
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would you? Who would you choose between the
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two? Wilson.
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Because they beat him, he's mad at me.
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No, I would hope that he wouldn't just say what just to
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make you mad. I love you to be honest.
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I'm going with you. You say consistency, but you
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said also the the upside and he's no Wobi, no crazy.
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So now he's going to have to take a little bit more and it's
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like a you could have a go one way or the other.
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He could step up to the plate and keep doing what he's doing,
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which he has been consistently the last, what, four games?
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Five games, Yeah, where he's been getting goal.
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It's so it's so goal heavy. I've actually, I'm, the more I
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think about this, the more I'm kind of on the fence.
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Because when you look at again, Jacques, as of the 5th of
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December, so prior to this week, you know, 10 days ago, he was
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averaging 10.4 points per start. And then but his ghost points
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per start with 8.4. So he was only, he was only
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averaging 2 points less. I eventually guessed that Harry
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Wilson's is significantly lower. Yeah, probably.
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Like 65. Wilson's more of a gamble pick
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if you like to gamble volatile. Volatile.
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That's a great way to put it out.
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Very like high floor, high ceiling.
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Like low ceiling, high floor. You know, that's a great point.
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Let's say it's Monday and you're down by like 12 points.
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You either play Wilson than Shaka.
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Yeah. But if you're down like eight
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points, I'll play Shaka. So it's all about, yeah, I got
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it. I would maybe say like, I'd
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probably put the line at like 1015 points.
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OK, Yeah. 14 1/2 from. The 14 1/2. 14 1/2 OK, I like
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that just to kind of stop the eyes and circle the teaser.
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Wilson as of 10 days ago was averaging 9.
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So it's probably significantly higher, probably close to 12,
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but his his ghost points were started was 5.
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So you're definitely missing, you're definitely taking a
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little bit now, but that's also the whole season so far.
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And what we're really looking at from Wilson is the body of work
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for the last five games and just being like it's just
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sustainable. All right, next one Aston Villa
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keep winning. I think they've won nine of
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their last 10 games in all comps.
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Surprisingly, their XG is still incredibly low.
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So I think they had .6 XG this game.
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They scored three goals. So like, you know, at some point
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you just got to go like they, they do it.
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But when you look at underlying numbers, it's definitely hard to
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be like, these are the guys you know, like these are like I've
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I've trust these guys like, you know, to do their thing you.
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Cost cash. Just cash the score is what
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you're saying? We had lies because he's their
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top scorer. Like he's the one being probably
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the most consistent. Is he still their top scorer?
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As you. See.
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Well, Rogers scored this weekend, right?
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He scored one or two. Scored two.
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It's still cash. Rogers is only five points
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behind. So Rogers is like creeping up.
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Yeah, Rogers definitely could be.
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I mean, you, you when you think about who's the most valuable
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fantasy awesome team is, you don't think of it as Maddie
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Cash. No, you think of it as Margaret
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Rogers, probably Rogers kind of surprising people just given
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that we we were kind of a little leery of him at the beginning of
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the season. But he's actually kind of
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proving to be like playing a little bit better than his AVP
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because it's kind of right now he's ranked 16th overall total
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points. But yeah, let's see if we can,
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let's see if we can sustain. I think that's the concern.
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It's amazing the drop off of Ollie Watkins.
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I kept telling myself that he was going to be he was going to
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figure it out. And I literally almost, I tried
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trading for him a few times and I'm kind of grateful it didn't
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work out because he's just other than that one Matt Matt monster
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game, he's really struggled. Two years since that big season.
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But even last year, like it was obviously underwhelming.
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It's like the same way that we talked about Salah where it's
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like it was still fine. Like last year we still had a
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fine season, but this year it's like not fine.
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It's like you're, we're talking, you know?
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I don't think he's even made into the England school.
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No, no. And I mean, he's the 23 forward
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overall. Like some of the guys around him
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in that place. You like, you like vomit?
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Thinking about like as far as like, you know.
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The interesting thing about Villa?
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Guess who's their leading goal scorer?
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By the gas, I would say I don't know buen.
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Dia. Who is that Tiga?
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Buen Diaz had for second with Marlin at four.
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Number one is Morgan Rogers. But the crazy thing is they only
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have it's only five goals. So it's not like they're sworn
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to shell out the goals in. And I'm trying to figure out if,
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like from all the teams, that whoever has the most goals this
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year, if Rogers is the lowest total from everyone.
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No, he's not. Probably not.
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I bet you it's like it's probably someone at Leeds or
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Wolves. Wolves and Wolves.
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Last few Wolves. Yeah, but that's a good point.
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I mean, considering that they're in 3rd place and that's where
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the goals are, I think that's why a lot of pundits are having
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a hard time taking them seriously as like a tie up
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contender. Well, they're kind of struggling
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in that sense. Also, Arsenal has a bunch of
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players have four goals. No one has more than four goals
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at Arsenal. Really.
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Yeah, that's right. Can't put it in.
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Great thing. But yeah, Villa, we're so wrong
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about it to start off with because they got off to a rocky
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star, which kind of makes you like wonder, like Martinez,
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their goalkeeper, who was not playing.
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His situation was up in the air. He was supposed to be on his way
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out and he doesn't like they're like emotional leader on the
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field as well. And obviously everything starts
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from the back. It kind of coincided him coming
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back in the team kind of going on this run.
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Well, he didn't play today. He didn't play.
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This week, yeah. But in general, I would agree
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Tico. Yeah, but I haven't the same
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word. This isn't kind of turned over
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yet. And their third place would only
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three points behind Arsenal and one point behind City.
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So they're right in there for the contention of it and if they
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have a good transfer window if they get in a striker.
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They bring Duran back. What's their?
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I was just I'm going to look at what their gold difference is.
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It's amazing though, because their gold difference is +8.
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Not the best, not the worst though.
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But I mean, you look at man CDs, it's plus 22.
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You look at Arsenals as plus 24th place, Chelsea 12, but then
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Palace is only plus five. United is only plus 4.
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They're in six, Liverpool +2. So it's not like ours world bad.
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But yeah, I just think that I don't I think it's they're just
18:39
not letting in a lot. You know they've let in 17
18:42
goals. How many is also let in?
18:44
10 now 10 they've been letting they're like, I like players
18:48
still like I think their defenders still played pretty
18:50
well. They were still playing, they
18:51
were just playing against a robot, a goal scoring.
18:54
Football, there's not much you can do.
18:55
It's kind of amazing. And in form, Foden, there's not
18:59
much you could do. And they just couldn't put the
19:00
ball in the back of the fucking neck.
19:02
What did Donna Rumor score in that game?
19:04
Because minus the clean sheet points, because I I think he got
19:07
peppered, he just couldn't score.
19:10
Yuri Pino hit the bar. Yuri Pino shot a pretty good
19:13
game, I think. So 14 1/2.
19:14
So, yeah. So, Donna. 15.75 He had four
19:18
saves, yeah. That's not bad at all.
19:21
It's not bad at all man. It's the best game thus far.
19:25
Do we like him? Is he goal?
19:26
Good goalkeeper. I think he's good is.
19:29
He a his goalkeeper like how Cassius was.
19:31
Yeah, I think so. I think that as when it comes to
19:36
like fantasy metrics, he's a good goalkeeper because it's
19:38
like fantasy metric doesn't care as much about like distribution
19:41
on the back and stuff like that. You know what I mean?
19:43
I feel like, I feel like for city, because they've kind of
19:47
changed what they want to do. He's, you know, he does, he's
19:50
fine because it's they're they're looking for less of
19:52
that, like a quick pass out of the back type situation.
19:55
But yeah, I think he's I think he's good.
19:56
I think I think the biggest issue against the biggest slide
19:59
against him is if there's always going to be chances of the city
20:01
that he's not going to get a ton of like he's not going to be
20:04
that busy like this game he was. But that's not that's not always
20:06
going to be the case. Dude, they're only two points
20:09
behind Arsenal. That's crazy.
20:13
Earlier in the US, this team is not on the appeal winning side.
20:17
I remember you saying that me and me and Enzo absolutely show
20:21
you down immediately. Yeah, Pep, one of the greatest
20:24
manners ever. I'm trying to pull this up.
20:26
So yeah, Donna Rama, early Hall and up to 25 points.
20:29
Matthias Nunez, 20 points. You had a nice assists as well.
20:32
Yeah, you did. You know what's been really
20:34
interesting with City this year is that there's been
20:36
significantly less rotation. So it was in the past, it was,
20:39
it was like the back line and the front line were rotating
20:42
quite a bit. But this year, like the
20:43
background's been pretty stable. Like Nunez has played almost
20:46
every game, you know. What, because they had Ake
20:50
Akanji, like Diaz was always injured.
20:52
There was the other one who was in and out of the lineup.
20:55
So I feel like this year, not just the back back line, I feel
20:59
like even the midfield in the striker has been more consistent
21:01
than the years of the past. And the one person I want to
21:05
shout is Brian Shirkey. Seems like when he plays he puts
21:10
up points. Love to see it.
21:13
Yeah, I mean, Nico O'Reilly, there's been a bunch of players
21:15
that are kind of delivering on that in that sense.
21:17
All right, talk about Palace real quick.
21:21
Like Yuri Pino finally rostered in about 50% of leagues, you
21:25
know, for the first time in a while.
21:27
But he's he's quietly been having a very good little rise
21:30
recently. Two games, double digits.
21:32
This last one is 14.5. All Ghost.
21:35
I think if he's available in leagues, you're definitely
21:37
looking at him. Yeah.
21:39
Anything else on that on that front?
21:41
The palates are losing Ishmael SAR for AF com just.
21:44
Yeah, losing Ishmael SAR. So I think that probably leaves
21:48
Nketia something interesting then.
21:50
Maybe. Essentially, I think maybe I can
21:53
play. Higher Uche to shine?
21:55
Uche. Forgot about Uche.
21:58
Yeah, he scored many week, I think.
22:00
Is he not going into AFCON? No, he's not.
22:03
All right, what about are we, are we anything else here?
22:05
Oh, I guess we're going to talk about Munoz and his knee injury.
22:09
And doku. Right, because Doku they
22:11
announced right before. It was very vague though.
22:13
It's just a leg. You said a leg injury.
22:16
Yeah, I'm not super worried about Doku yet, you know, What
22:23
does it say exactly? It just says leg injury.
22:26
Pulling it up right now. I think that's the type of thing
22:28
where you you're not worried about it.
22:30
Maybe if if he if he doesn't play again and they're still
22:32
vague about it this this coming week, then you're worried.
22:36
But until now, just you can. You should probably anticipate
22:39
that he's probably going to. Start and munoj.
22:41
You should be worried for sure though.
22:42
So. I think it's really thick.
22:44
So they're doing a surgery. He's going to be out for like a
22:46
month, right? To six weeks.
22:48
Four to six weeks, four to seven months, a month and a half.
22:51
And then usually then you really just got to hope that it doesn't
22:53
turn into a situation because, you know, there's a knee.
22:56
Like my knees are just. Yeah.
22:58
I mean, do I mean, Neil talk about the Tottenham striker
23:02
Solanke. What?
23:03
What about? Who else is it?
23:04
Here's the other one. How we've been.
23:06
We've been talking. About Kulzefsky.
23:08
Yeah. I mean, all these guys are.
23:09
Yeah. There's just a bunch of.
23:11
I think the knee is just one of the hardest things to really
23:13
guess. On knee or ankle?
23:15
Yeah, I just estimate any of those joints are just very
23:17
difficult. All right.
23:20
Anything else there? I mean, Moon, as you're holding
23:22
on there's, there's not really any question there though.
23:24
Yeah. OK.
23:25
We got to talk about Tottenham collapsing.
23:28
The odd thing, the odd thing I have to say though, and so is
23:31
that like. Removing.
23:33
From real life, but when you look at fantasy like Zabi
23:37
Simmons had 8.5 points but you look for him you're not mad at
23:40
yeah Randall Kulimulani at 10.25 points you're not mad at
23:43
Muhammad kudos at eight points you're OK with like does that.
23:47
I don't know if it means anything, but I just I'm just
23:49
saying that there's actually some points coming from the
23:50
attacking lines. Even if there wasn't like, you
23:53
know, the performance wasn't great, the.
23:55
Phone's horrible, Absolutely horrible.
24:00
I looked no idea what to do with the ball in the third.
24:03
Kudis got shut down every. There was three guys on Kudis
24:06
every time I got the ball. They, they, I think they've kind
24:08
of figured out that if you, if you lock down kudos, then that's
24:11
really hard, like nothing else is really happening.
24:14
Richardson has cement in his shoes.
24:17
Solanke can't come back soon enough.
24:18
Is that the idea? That's he can't come back soon
24:20
enough. Kudoseski can't come back soon
24:22
enough. Give me some fucking options.
24:25
I like to think that Ang had such a big impact at Forest and
24:29
he trained them for this revenge game against Tottenham and they
24:33
want this game for big Ang. Oh, is that?
24:35
What it is? That's what I like to think.
24:38
God. What on where are we at, though,
24:40
as in terms of like Xabi Simmons, are we?
24:45
I think we're still holding on too.
24:46
I think he had a hold on. Now he's had a few good games.
24:49
He scored in Champions League, like he's consistent, I think.
24:52
We're back into holding. Kolo looks like he he, he looks
24:57
bare on that left and anyone else we had on the over there at
25:00
that time. I feel bad for Brendan Johnson,
25:03
who actually had a good start to the season, Just got shit on as
25:07
soon as we got the trades in. I like the midfield, just can't
25:11
get it right. I think Bhagwal's really good,
25:13
but he's just so young. Archie Gray looks like a kid
25:17
when he's out there. Partly honest.
25:19
He's moments, but yeah, I think there's a little naivety moment.
25:24
So I think Frank's still trying to figure out what his best
25:27
freaking team is, and I don't think he can figure out at the
25:29
moment I'm. Just not talking about.
25:31
I mean, it's one of those things that's so funny because
25:33
Tottenham, when you look at them in in the table, they're not
25:36
like they're not that bad. You know, they're a few points
25:39
off, like kind of they're right in the pack.
25:41
But like as far as fantasy assets go, there's just not that
25:43
much no there. Nope.
25:47
You know, that's the like the interesting world.
25:50
Because that's the interesting thing with Tottenham, if you
25:52
look at on the table, the teams around them, they're Tottenham
25:55
sitting at 11. Like Brighton has fantasy
25:57
pieces. Obviously Newcastle has a lot of
25:59
good ones, porn wood Fulham every 10.
26:02
But Tottenham? Besides kudos, who do you feel
26:04
comfortable like plugging into your line up on a weekly basis?
26:07
I mean, you, you'd have to, you do Poro just because you have
26:09
to, but you're probably not that excited about it because where
26:11
you drafted him for what, what he's delivering is probably not
26:14
quite good enough, you know? I would not even do Poro.
26:18
They're not his only valuable. If they create chances, they're
26:22
not creating chances. At the end of the day, at the
26:26
end of the day, you're still going to you're still going to
26:27
play Poro because he's better than like guys on waivers.
26:29
But where you drafted him, he's hurting you, you know what I
26:32
mean? Yeah, he's shooting you
26:35
according to where he drafted him, for sure.
26:36
And I started with Mukulele this week thinking that he was going
26:39
to do better. And Mukulele scored I think 12.5
26:42
in a loss. Yeah, that seems crazy.
26:44
I I was actually looking at like ghost points per start and like
26:49
the top players and ukuleles up there is one of the best ghost
26:52
point players you know, not like not like top five or top ten,
26:55
but like top 25 ghost point players elite so.
26:59
Can you look at like the did you see Theo the fucking center back
27:03
for Newcastle? Oh, Fiah, yeah, he's he's really
27:06
high up there as well. I saw him up there as well.
27:09
They. Lost one nil.
27:12
He had eight headers or some shit.
27:15
Yeah. Call me 21 Clearances 1111118.
27:23
Points per start 9.1 Wow. Which is quite good.
27:28
I mean, I know you gotta. Fuck me this week. 38 Malik saw
27:32
the ring 38th in ghost points per start and over everyone so
27:36
pretty good portal. Dude 21 clearances is
27:39
motherfuckers panicking every time we get the boy just kicks
27:42
it out. I don't think it's, I don't
27:43
think it's panic. I'm just saying.
27:45
One and down like it out. I guess my favorite, yeah.
27:48
The age-old rule, The classic second grade.
27:53
I'm in doubt a lot when I'm in defense.
27:59
OK moving on. Arsenal win but do not score.
28:02
There was a they had a 2 on win where the other team scored all
28:06
three goals. Yep, Wolves scored all three
28:08
goals and lost. What did Sergey say?
28:11
That's the next level of Arsenal, our data managing.
28:15
Yeah, the next meta. The other team scores for you.
28:20
I have to I have to tell you a funny story.
28:21
When I opened the like our podcasting like software today,
28:26
like had like a year in recap and it said like our most common
28:30
or the word we said the most of the year.
28:31
And it shows like all these clips of us saying it over and
28:34
over and over again. The word with Arsenal, that was
28:36
our most said word of 2020, of 2025.
28:39
I've Sergio. I feel you can find some joy in
28:42
that. You gotta stop.
28:43
That I know. Does it?
28:46
Does it breakdown of how much of it was positive and how much was
28:49
negative? Does not break it down and I
28:51
think that if we did that, I would change that that
28:53
perspective quite a bit. I I saw an interview of Arteta,
28:57
who I think all of us are fed up with.
28:59
I don't know how old it is. It shows one of those pictures,
29:01
you know, where you could see like a rabbit or a duck.
29:05
Yeah. So he asked.
29:07
Yeah, Rushchark. Test, right, yeah.
29:09
So he he does that so some of them say it's a rabbit, some say
29:11
it's a duck. He says.
29:12
My goal is to make sure everyone on the team sees sees this as a
29:16
duck, and then we're ready to win it all like this guy like.
29:24
Seems like he's like what you want.
29:25
About his tactics. But this man, he changed the
29:29
culture of that team. This team is a.
29:32
Different team because he's, he's and.
29:34
That's the type of coach every team is looking for.
29:38
Chelsea top. I don't.
29:39
Think it's the top coach every team's looking?
29:40
For I think they're looking for a coach that's willing to win,
29:43
able to win trophy, no. I think I want to change this.
29:46
Culture. So I want to change this
29:48
culture. OK, you guys ever, have you guys
29:51
ever played a video game? And you're like, oh, I really
29:53
like this game. And you get really into it and
29:55
then you like, and it's like a like a PvP like you like a like
29:58
Call of Duty or something. OK.
30:00
And then you, when he's really starting to play it, you're
30:01
like, man, like these guys are way better than me.
30:03
And you start to like watch like streamers and stuff.
30:06
And you realize that they're doing all these things that like
30:08
aren't really in the spirit of the game, but they're like,
30:10
they're these little hacks like be like slightly better do this.
30:13
Like, you know, And I feel like Arsenal are just like doing all
30:15
these little like weird hacks that are like hacking the system
30:19
just to just to win. Yeah, you know what I mean?
30:22
They're just like, yeah, the way they play, it's just like, it's
30:24
just kind of like this thing where they're like they're,
30:26
they're it's winning. But that's part of the game.
30:28
I'll, I'll have to get better at that.
30:30
I mean, that's, that's totally fine.
30:32
I'm, I'm not saying that that's like a bad thing.
30:34
I'm just saying that it's just like, it's kind of like it's,
30:36
it's like a OK, like, yeah, you deserve to win.
30:38
And like, I'm not, I'm not going to argue with you that you
30:40
deserve to win. That's kind of lame.
30:42
So you want them to win a certain way way.
30:44
And if they don't win? It, but you haven't won.
30:47
No, I'm just saying that's why I said want.
30:49
That's why I said want. I didn't say we want, OK.
30:51
OK, OK, I'll just, I'll just making sure we're clear.
30:53
But haven't you? You haven't even made a final
30:56
since the FA Cup final. So.
30:57
So here's my argument. Says changing the culture.
31:01
What was the culture beforehand? Like what?
31:03
What was the culture like? Well, I think I think
31:05
historically, like under winger in South Arsenal was known for
31:09
having a really good Academy and brewing in like fostering youth
31:11
and bringing up these really exciting players.
31:13
That was a story. They had a really good Academy.
31:16
They they bought a lot of young players from my other Oh.
31:18
Yeah, I guess they bought a lot of young players.
31:20
OK. Yeah.
31:20
But when, when, then, then Wenger would like, kind of like,
31:23
you know, build them up. But then when he laughed, they
31:27
were very long. They were adrift for a number of
31:29
years. And I think with Arteta, they've
31:30
started to develop a culture that's very based.
31:33
Around That's dirty news, Arsenal.
31:35
Looked better, you know. Like I've said, they look good
31:37
as a as a team. They're very structured, they
31:40
know like the way they play defence, the way they run back
31:43
on defence is the effort is there, but I think.
31:46
People say that is just we used to be called soft, right?
31:49
We're we're bullies right now, you know, like we can't.
31:52
We took that name out of. Ours Where, where, where did?
31:55
You saw, I saw Alandro ball at Gabriel's head and no one did
31:58
anything. Not only.
32:00
Gabriel was happy. He was happy they tied.
32:02
That's why. I also think you guys kind of
32:05
you're like bullies, but when you actually, when you go up
32:06
against other bullies, you kind of looked weak.
32:08
Like when you went up against Sunderland, you looked a little
32:10
bit soft, like Dan Dan, Dan Ballard.
32:12
They're they're front runners, front runners and also.
32:15
Like they're, they're, they're true bullies in the fact that
32:18
when they when they fight another guy that's actually just
32:20
as tough as them, they can't really cope.
32:21
You know, you know in the race where there's that one guy in
32:23
long distance that sets the pace and then just slows down, let's
32:27
everyone go around and once he set the pace.
32:29
And, and it's also like Arteta, he's been there for how many
32:32
years now, 7, six years, seven years?
32:34
Like if, if Emory was given the longevity and he was given the
32:38
resources, he might have done the same thing that Arteta does.
32:41
He's doing more with he. Had that FPS Villa, what did he
32:44
do? He had that at PSG, what did he
32:47
do? You know what, though, I, I
32:49
don't know, I, we don't let's get we're getting a little too
32:51
like general with our conversation, but I, I think
32:53
Emory maybe that the set up at Villa is better for Emory.
32:56
I think so much of it isn't just like you can, it's not just like
32:59
horses for courses. Like sometimes you eat like a
33:01
club like Villa is more suited for a player, a coach like Emory
33:04
and like Arsenal needed like a Arteta former player, tactically
33:08
smart. Like I think it's, I think it's
33:09
things just work in the right situations.
33:12
You know, I I do want to talk about from a fantasy standpoint,
33:17
OK, I want to talk about from a fantasy standpoint.
33:19
Bukai Osaka, 28.5 points. You had a conversation.
33:23
We had a conversation with him a few weeks ago where you were
33:25
saying he was a little underwhelming.
33:26
Is are you kind of feeling better now?
33:29
Feeling better, he's put on a string of like double digit and
33:32
like high double digit scoring games, but the goals and assists
33:36
have haven't been there this year.
33:37
And obviously last year was injury real season and the year
33:41
before he finished with sixteen goals and 9 assists, which is
33:44
almost a obviously almost a double double, which is huge.
33:47
So that's that wasn't there. And I think he's kind of the
33:50
more the year goes on, the stronger he gets, which, you
33:53
know, you can't say a lot about about a lot of players.
33:55
But Sock has one of those and now he's climbing his way up.
33:57
He's ranked 6th overall with missing some time so.
34:01
I think he's ranked 4th overall, 6th overall, 4th man.
34:04
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Pretty good, I think.
34:07
I mean, that's like amazing actually.
34:08
I think he's going to finish the season.
34:09
He could finish the if, if Holland, if Holland stops
34:12
scoring at the rate that he's scoring and like just scores at
34:15
like above average rate as opposed to a superhuman rate,
34:19
you know what I mean? Then if he's gonna finish as the
34:24
number one. You think he'll close the game?
34:25
He's 90 points behind, man. That's.
34:27
Yeah, but we still have so much season left to go and Saka
34:29
missed. Like that, there's a lot of
34:30
seasons, Saka. Missed like 6 games.
34:32
But it's Harlan's on. Harlan's still having like one
34:35
of the worst seasons of his career and and he's coming up.
34:38
I I wanna, I wanna talk about something else too.
34:41
So we we Tigo you brought up the fact that only like what bunch
34:43
of players are on four goals for arsenal.
34:46
That's it. So Saka and this gave me a 2
34:49
assists who scored 28 1/2 points.
34:51
The next high scoring player was 13.75 and that's pure Hin Kapi,
34:55
who is well just over 50% owned 13% increase in the last week.
35:00
But I think that like that the defense is still where it's out.
35:04
You know, from the Arsenal standpoint well and like.
35:07
Yeah, they're, they're not able to score goals.
35:10
Yeah, Like, yeah, I mean, it's true.
35:13
I mean you. So I just put it on a fantasy
35:15
standpoint. Like I still think like
35:16
obviously, like the news came out with that Gabrielle is going
35:19
to not be ready until the beginning of Jan, until like
35:21
maybe the first second week of January.
35:23
Like is White House still? Saliba what white still out or
35:28
did. White got injured.
35:29
He got hurt again hurting. Bad got hurt, piece of shit.
35:34
Piece of shit. Well, piece of shit.
35:39
I had it, but I mean, you know, I'm looking at the table.
35:43
We think Arsenal don't score a lot of goals, but they have the
35:45
tied for the second most goals. No, yeah, I don't.
35:48
I don't think that that's really.
35:49
Yeah, I can't hear that. But as I think it's just from,
35:52
it's not coming from the attacking players, a lot from
35:54
the players you'd expect. Well, it's from set pieces.
35:57
Yeah, and also they have the same amount of goals as Maister
36:00
United, which is sad. Man United's sworn goals, huh?
36:06
United's actually playing well, like they're playing going into
36:10
this weekend. United and Chelsea were on the
36:12
same amount of points, you know what I mean?
36:14
Like but like, the narratives are very different between the
36:16
two of them. Dude, Ameren's going to be
36:18
really happy by the way they're playing right now.
36:21
It's like it's finally clicked. But that's.
36:24
The elements of it, elements of it that.
36:25
Sucks man. Like you get rolling
36:27
everything's, you're starting to look well and you're losing to
36:30
your top five players to F con. And then like I, I actually
36:34
thought felt like Mason Mountain has been not bad.
36:36
I feel like you have Cesco coming back or, you know, coming
36:40
back healthy. Xerxes scored a few goals in the
36:42
last little bit. So there's there's, there's a
36:44
potential there. 11. Thing I think missing him Bueno.
36:49
I think missing him Bueno's got huge loss.
36:50
And like you saw that Diallo the last few weeks, he's been huge
36:54
actually. I kind of agree with you
36:55
actually. I lost respect for Dalo today
36:58
when he started doing the samba dance with Cunya.
37:00
I'm sorry, that was just embarrassing and terrible.
37:03
Do you see him? Fucking horrible?
37:05
Do you? Guys have any thoughts?
37:07
I don't, I don't care. Do you guys have any thoughts
37:10
about kunya in general? What?
37:13
So this is going to be interesting time for Manchester
37:16
United. And I think this is where like
37:18
we're playing the guessing game. Obviously they're missing,
37:20
they're going to be missing 2 starters.
37:23
Maserati is going to be out to Afghan as well.
37:25
He's not a regular, but he's in the rotation.
37:27
So you if you could pick up the right players that are going to
37:30
replace them, I think Mount will have a big role and obviously
37:34
Cunya. I think this is Cunya's chance
37:36
to step up. I mean, Cunya scored 19 and then
37:39
25 points the last two games. So he was even before this, he
37:42
was kind of stepping up, you know?
37:44
Yeah, he was. His connection though with when
37:46
Bimbo's got a lot better, like they like the connection they
37:48
have so losing them Bimbo actually could.
37:51
I, I just, I just feel like with Kunia that I didn't even feel
37:54
like he's been particularly playing bad.
37:56
It was just that his scores weren't the best, you know?
37:58
So I feel like, if that like, like I think any United fan
38:01
would be like, Oh no, like we love Kunia.
38:02
Kunia's been great. Even if you look at his stats,
38:05
they're not like at the level that you're hoping for, am I
38:07
right? He has been amazing, but whereas
38:09
last year with the Wolves when he got the ball towards the
38:11
attacking half, he kind of kept the ball and he was the one kind
38:14
of finishing the attacks. Now those attacks finish with
38:18
Embuemo more often than not. So he passes and he makes their
38:20
own. So he's played amazing.
38:22
He's been very involved in the build up, just doesn't
38:24
translate. And I know United has been like
38:27
the huge talk of a fantasy because which players are going
38:29
to hit? Right now you have three top 20
38:31
players from Ambuemo, Diallo and Bruno Fernandez, who's ranked
38:36
second overall right now. Oh, second, second.
38:39
Yeah. So those three players are in
38:41
the top 20 and Cunha is climbing up.
38:43
And I think this is I think the players that are going to take
38:46
fantasy wise take advantage of Afghans, Konya mount and I think
38:50
the successful opportunity as well because he's going to be in
38:53
the box a lot more to finish off those chances.
38:56
And if he doesn't, circuses also, obviously I think they're
38:59
going to striking medicine circusy.
39:01
Do you remember the beginning of the year when we're like, doing
39:04
draft boards and stuff where like, there's no way that this
39:06
is sustainable to have this many United players in the top 20?
39:09
Yeah, all those guys are kind of there.
39:12
Yeah. You know, I mean, Cunha hasn't
39:14
been, but you wouldn't be. You wouldn't bet against him
39:17
getting there or being there rest of season, you know.
39:20
Yeah. And we also thought Bruno was
39:22
going to beat the lowest one. Job because he would probably.
39:26
Play more like the six more but. I thought that way, but he's
39:29
been amazing. He scored 39 against Wolves
39:32
31.75 today. I mean, he's doing it with
39:35
goals, assists, keep, pass it. I mean, he's just doing it all
39:38
across the board. Points per game.
39:40
This is his best year, year so far since his third best year,
39:45
the best in the last five years. He has seven assists already.
39:49
His career high in the EPL is 12, so he's more than halfway
39:52
there, Yeah. He's so he's on track right now
39:54
to beat it. That's what you're saying?
39:55
Yep. Well, pretty impressive.
39:58
With that attack, they should score 2.
40:00
Three goals a game. Easy.
40:02
Who needs defense? I think that is a going to score
40:06
more points. It's, I mean, they're also
40:08
getting healthier as well. Like their defense should be
40:10
getting healthier. They should be getting euro
40:12
back. McGuire should be coming back.
40:14
Euro came back, didn't he, I? Think Bournemouth.
40:16
I thought Bournemouth looked pretty good in this game too,
40:18
though. I have Nielsen got a goal,
40:19
Semenya had a goal. I thought it was a pretty solid
40:22
game of. Having a goal.
40:23
Goal. Yeah, I thought it was very, it
40:26
was very deserved. Like I thought a draw was a very
40:28
deserved result here. It was a good game, man.
40:31
Yeah, fine looks of it. Man.
40:33
Yeah, it was fun. So Mano said he had a draft of
40:36
seven games without a goal. Yeah, I was.
40:39
I tried to. I sent a trade to Sergei, hoping
40:42
to capitalize on that, but he didn't buy it.
40:45
I said I offered him what offer? Ivory, Voltemod and Eze for
40:49
Semenya. Voltemod scored this weekend.
40:52
He said. We didn't talk about that.
40:55
Yeah, Ultimatum had an own goal in that in this in the Derby.
40:58
That game was kind of underwhelming though, just from
41:00
a like, obviously if you like the energy was great, whatever
41:03
the fans. But if you if you take this from
41:05
a strictly footballing standpoint, that wasn't a very
41:07
interesting game. It was.
41:08
It was a. Grinding friggin Derby is what
41:10
it was. You know that Sunderland had
41:12
been unbeaten against Newcastle in 10 games that they played
41:15
against. You.
41:16
I didn't know that. And they just tied.
41:18
The win last time? Do you know the last time they
41:23
played each other? A fan got arrested for punching
41:25
a horse. Go.
41:30
That really funny, last year they played in like the FA Cup
41:34
and I think it was a son Inland fan got arrested for punching a
41:36
horse. Or maybe the Newcastle fan, I
41:38
don't know. One of the fans got arrested.
41:39
You guys know about Sunderland having like the huge Mexican
41:42
support? No.
41:43
Why is that? I I guess I was talking to one
41:46
of my coworkers today he said I guess randomly like this Mexican
41:49
football community went on Reddit and they decided to pick
41:52
like support this random ass team and they picked Sunderland.
41:56
That's cool, I I like is. There anything or what?
41:58
A couple, a couple, just notes Silva slide left the field with
42:03
that injury. I think it's a huge deal for
42:05
Liverpool. That's was like a serious
42:08
injury. There's an ankle injury and
42:12
Domino's his ankle. It didn't look great when I just
42:14
saw him, but he has unbelievable mentality.
42:16
So let's hope for the best. That's not you don't love.
42:18
You don't love that quote from. No.
42:21
From it's kind of great. Yeah, I think that was staged.
42:24
To get Saul on the. I don't know if no, he if I have
42:28
so this lie, I'd anticipate not having him for a few weeks.
42:32
So that's that's an insane conspiracy theory.
42:34
So yeah. I'm.
42:36
Saying I love a good conspiracy theory.
42:38
So obviously I like modern Sloba Sly because he should have been
42:41
be mine. I fucking meet the dumb trade.
42:43
But then I put a waiver claim for a grave on Birch.
42:46
I lost to the waiver claim to fucking Tom.
42:49
Which kind of added. Like injury to insult.
42:52
Yeah. Yeah, that is funny because he
42:54
has Sloba Sly. He traded him for Sloba Sly.
42:57
OK Gakbo was out for a few weeks as well.
42:59
So Slobos has out, Gakbo's out. We talked about Grealish and
43:02
it's hamstring issues. Big Dan burned fractured rib out
43:05
for up to six weeks. That's a big rib.
43:09
I agree that's also I that I think that benefits like
43:12
everyone. I think that benefits Lewis Hall
43:14
because that Narmento Dan Baron was playing was like the backup
43:18
yeah liver mentor a little bit Malek Tia.
43:20
I think that benefits him as well.
43:23
You know, so, yeah, interesting. So it.
43:25
Seems long when I feel like people play like NFL, it's a
43:28
fracture. They be like weak and they play
43:30
through it. Legal pads on that, don't they
43:33
I. Don't know.
43:33
Yeah, I don't know. I can't.
43:35
Can't speak to it. Yeah, much the impact, Yeah, I'm
43:38
not sure. Well, OK, let's go through
43:42
waivers now. You guys ready?
43:44
Alright, number one, first one I have on here is Carlos Alcras,
43:47
27% owned Everton man. He's the first.
43:50
He's been the first guy off the bench and with the KDH injury
43:53
and with Indi going to AF Con, like we talked about earlier, I
43:56
think he's locked in to start a lot of games.
44:00
Who else starts alongside him will be the question mark.
44:02
We talked about that earlier like if it's dibbling, if it's
44:05
McNeil, you know, if Grealish is able to play.
44:08
But I think I think Alcroz is the sure thing.
44:10
And then if you're looking at like taking a punt, I like
44:13
McNeil or dibbling. I honestly think if you're going
44:15
to punt, punt McNeil. I wonder why he does.
44:19
That I feel like like nothing like very small nobody, right?
44:23
Maybe some because he was being drafted fairly high and maybe
44:25
people didn't drop him, but I feel like you she's probably
44:28
available in most leagues of anyone that's paying attention
44:30
here. He's on 20%.
44:32
I just think that like, I think that like, Dibbling might start
44:35
a few games, but like, when I've watched Dibbling, he's like
44:37
fine. But like, you know, when McNeil
44:40
gets on the pitch, he must always deliver his fancy points.
44:42
So if he gets an opportunity to get on the pitch and you have
44:45
one, you're going to be super happy.
44:47
But it's it's like one of those like gambles.
44:48
It's not, I'm not saying like you must pick him up, but it was
44:51
like a 2. Cali and McNeil, yeah.
44:55
Next is Noah Okafor from Leeds. Owned in 31% of leagues forward
45:02
had a solid game this week. I think he had about 10 points
45:04
and he just looked pretty good. Like he looked lively.
45:06
He had a couple of two key passes, one shot at Target.
45:10
I just think that he's been scoring fairly well.
45:12
Like it's like, you know, he's he has a bad game, but then he
45:14
has a good game and it's you know, the forward field is so
45:19
barren. Like he's the 22nd ranked
45:21
forward and he's he's ranked. He's only owned 31% of leagues.
45:24
So like, think about that. So that means that, yeah, I
45:27
mean, that means that you really like the top 30 forwards should
45:31
be owned, right? Realistically if every team has
45:34
maybe 3 forwards. That's exactly.
45:36
Yeah. But that's like they have 3
45:37
forwards. That's yeah, what I think, Yeah,
45:40
true. And you only have to start one.
45:41
But I'm just saying that like, I think Okafori, there's like
45:44
something to him. He looks decent.
45:46
He's been getting a little few more starts, so I don't know,
45:50
don't hate it. OK, Next to I have two Crystal
45:53
Palace players, Nicholas Sylvania, I really liked him.
45:58
I picked him up and then he picked him up against Everton
46:01
and then he scored out 1.75 points and I dropped him and
46:03
then he played against Tottenham and scored 10.25 points.
46:06
So Floyd's worth, not bad. He's owned in 12% of leagues,
46:11
but he's had a really consistent running games recently.
46:14
So I kind of I kind of like him as a, as a, as a fun like right
46:17
back option. And then the other one I have is
46:20
Omari Hutchinson from, from Forest.
46:23
He's looked pretty good lively. So at 8.5 points this week after
46:25
having a bad game last week within a really good game the
46:29
week before. I think if he's I think he's
46:31
started like 3 or 4 games in a row now.
46:33
And if, if forest is going to kind of be a decent team, he's
46:38
going to be a part of that. And they're like.
46:40
Well, they've they've lost a couple players to AFCON, to
46:42
Sangare, the one that scored that banger against us, he's
46:46
going away. I think there's one more on four
46:48
of us that's going remember correctly.
46:51
So they. They're losing the most players.
46:55
They think it's like 6. I think of those 6, I think four
46:58
of them are are pretty normal starters for them.
47:01
No, they're losing. Two players will be Bali and
47:06
Ibrahim Sangata. They're losing.
47:09
They're losing more than that. They're losing like 6 players.
47:11
I'm literally on the page. I I know for a fact there's any
47:14
more players than that. I don't know what what, what
47:16
you're saying. What's the page?
47:17
ESPN it says headline Afghan 2025 How many players from your
47:22
Premier League team are going? Well, ESPN is wrong.
47:26
Sunderland is the team with six. Oh, you're right.
47:30
So I'm thinking Sunderland. My fault.
47:33
Validate Tico what? Are we talking about?
47:35
We're talking about forest. Yeah, we'll talk about.
47:37
Forest my fault. That's I'll I'll take, I'll
47:39
take, I'll get. I got owned on that one.
47:40
Apologies, not me. Yeah fuck ESPNESPN.
47:46
No sorry I was thinking Sunderland Forest is fine but
47:49
yes Sunderland is missing a lot. A lot of players staff on.
47:53
OK, sorry for that tangent where I was just being ignorant.
47:56
I'll cut it up. I'll cut it up.
47:58
Max Mason Mount, I, I think, I think the leagues that have been
48:02
paying attention know that Mason Mount has been like quietly
48:04
doing all right the last few weeks.
48:06
He's only owned in 48%, so there's still a chance that he's
48:10
available only 6.25 points this game with four goals scored.
48:14
You're a little disappointed with that, but I think in
48:17
general you're kind of happy with with how he's been, yeah.
48:21
You got to get. Some chances and you just and
48:24
you know, he's going to have opportunities.
48:25
I think that's the biggest thing.
48:26
I think it's more like, you know, I think he's going to have
48:28
a lot of opportunities, but he seems like he's healthy and he's
48:31
finally getting back into like really match fitness for him.
48:34
So I like him. Keiko, next on my list is your
48:37
guy Kevin. Who's the I think he had a
48:41
couple of the last game he didn't even come on he.
48:44
Didn't even come on. I think that's that's the one
48:46
concern with him is that he kind of seems like he's lost his
48:49
starting spot to Chuck Wazee, you know, or like to some of the
48:52
other guys. Those guys are gone now or will
48:55
be Chuck Wazee. They're both gone.
48:56
So I think that I think that there's a chance.
48:58
I think he's more of a punt than some of the other ones, but I
49:01
think he's worth you could be worth it if you're kind of
49:03
desperate and maybe you don't have a high waiver claim order
49:06
and maybe you don't, you know, I think there's a chance there.
49:08
Do you guys have any thoughts? No, I like the last one, Kevin.
49:14
I like the Amari Hodgson, just knowing that who's going to go
49:18
in AFCON cool with Sangari, so he's gonna have even more
49:21
opportunity. He did look good that game too.
49:22
Perfect. And he put balls in the box.
49:24
Yeah, but Sangari is more of like a holding man where
49:26
Hutchinson is more like an outside like winger or whatever.
49:28
But yeah, but I think just like availability, you know, he's
49:30
there. But yeah, All right, guys, you
49:34
want to look at next week, Are we going?
49:35
Are we going to make it better? Are we going to do something
49:37
different this time? I say we don't do a parlay.
49:40
Tika and. He said he'd be back in 5
49:42
minutes and he went to go roster bait for a second.
49:45
Really. OK, Angela, why don't we make it
49:47
back? Sergey, you want to join us?
49:49
I'll join. Oh yeah, let's just let's just
49:51
let's not know Tika, let's. Maybe that'll be our magic.
49:54
Yeah, I. Mean that won't be it.
49:57
I might say. Whoever's playing against
49:59
Wolves, I'm going with them. Brentford like that?
50:05
Yeah, I'll go Brentford. Don't you want?
50:07
You want the odds. Go on.
50:09
I'm pulling up right now. Splits wolves.
50:14
Yeah, I mean what? I mean, they've had two draws.
50:17
If you bet against wolves every single every.
50:20
I wonder how much money you'd have if you bet $10 against
50:22
Wolves every single game this week.
50:25
Or every single like game. This season, this season I think
50:28
we have enough for a part like 7 bugs.
50:32
Who's betting? When you hit bet on wolves and
50:35
they win, that's when you get the money.
50:38
So Brentford is only -1 O1, which is actually kind of good.
50:40
So it's risking, you know, you're almost getting even money
50:43
for a Brentford win. So I actually kind of like that
50:45
bat. All right, I'll go Brentford.
50:48
OK, Sergey. I don't have the schedule in
50:50
front of me, so you have to say the team.
50:52
OK, Newcastle, Chelsea, Bournemouth, Burnley, Brighton,
50:57
Sunderland, Manchester City, West Ham, Tottenham, Liverpool.
51:03
What'd you say? Sunderland.
51:06
Sunderland over Brighton, yeah. I I like Sunderland, They're,
51:11
they're good. Sunderland so that it's it's at
51:16
Brighton Stadium, so Sunderland are plus 4:15 to on this game.
51:19
They're a good underdog team to bet on.
51:22
OK, so that's the big one. That's the big swing game.
51:25
So I'll I'll do something safe then.
51:27
Keeps faces the. City.
51:30
So at West Ham, man, you know what?
51:34
I feel like West Ham didn't look that bad against Villa.
51:37
Yeah, but it's still Manchester City right now.
51:39
Who? And Arsenal gets Everton doesn't
51:41
feel great either. No, because like Arsenal's, I've
51:44
been super convinced. And where is it?
51:46
What's the leads in Burnley? Who they played?
51:48
Dickinson Burnley plays Bournemouth, I'll do
51:50
Bournemouth. How about?
51:51
There you go. All right, Bournemouth is, let's
51:55
see here. Bournemouth is -216 wow, that's
52:00
not very good. So right now these three games
52:02
were plus 1400. Thirteen 99.
52:05
Thank you, wolves, thank you so much.
52:07
Risk 10 to win 140. We like it, I like it, and if we
52:11
win, if we win, Tigo doesn't get to make another bet until we
52:14
lose. I like it and.
52:16
That's fair. OK, this has been episode 117 of
52:20
Draft Off Sides. My name is Keith.
52:21
I'm with Tigo Enzo. Follow us at Draft Off Sides and
52:24
we'll see you next week. The place is bad.
52:27
So I'm going to do 40 to win five to win 5.
52:31
Can we can we talk about how mystery books pissed me off?
52:35
Pissed us off and the only thing Keith can e-mail to apologize.
52:41
That's so weird. Well, I, I emailed them twice,
52:44
so essentially 3, five days away, he said.
52:47
And I. We're done with the episode.
52:49
We we made a bet without you. What?
52:52
Was the bet. Well, we we're we're taking your
52:54
money for the bet, but actually, OK, the bet is am I in the bet?
53:00
No, you, you can, you can participate in the bat.
53:02
We didn't get a decision into that.
53:04
So what's the bet? The bet is Brentford against
53:09
Wolves, which is -1 O one. Oh, you mean the partly?
53:14
Yeah, we mean the partly. OK.
53:16
OK, then we did Sunderland over Brighton, which is plus 4:15,
53:20
and then we did Bournemouth over Burnley, which is -216 so it's a
53:23
total of +1399. So there's intend to win 160.
53:29
So Bournemouth, Sunderland, Brantford.
53:31
Bournemouth, Sunderland, Brantford.
53:32
I can I can place it unless you want to.
53:35
No, go ahead, go for it. And then?
53:38
Oh no, you're not. You know you want the.
53:39
Bet you're in though. No I want it.
53:42
Can I do I get a team 2 or no? You don't get a bet if.
53:46
If. You can.
53:47
We've said that if we win this bet, you don't get to partake
53:50
until we lose. Well, I mean, I could just make
53:53
the bet on my end and then double down on the final.
53:55
Yes, I'm saying you can participate in the the actual
53:57
money being placed, but you can't participate in the
53:59
decision until we lose. You know what, I'm going to go
54:03
out the other way, make a party with the opposite teams.
54:06
Do it, I'll do it. We're all going to lose.
54:10
You don't want to do that. No, I want in.
54:13
Oh, you want in? OK.
54:14
That's, you know what this is. It's like, you know what, like
54:16
with the company, they collect like $10 each to buy the Lotto
54:19
and one idiot goes like, I don't want in and then they won't put
54:23
their job except that one idiot. I don't want to be that one
54:25
idiot. I don't want to be OK.
54:27
Have you are you guys put bullion Powerball?
54:31
No, I when is that? When is that being drawn?
54:33
Is that drawn on Wednesdays? Mon, What's it today, Tuesday.
54:37
Is it today or Monday? It's one of those it's.
54:39
Three times. Do you even know if it's up to?
54:41
Yeah, that's a billionaire I didn't even know.
54:43
Yeah, what day is the Powerball Giants is?
54:46
It Monday, Thursday. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday,
54:50
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. So if it was drawn today but I
54:53
didn't, I'm assuming he didn't get drawn.
54:56
Hasn't been drawn yet. Drawn's around 7:00, Yeah, if I
54:59
win. Maybe you guys order the new the
55:03
box jerseys or you haven't. No, not yet.
55:08
Do you guys want me to go to the store and buy it for the three
55:11
of us? Yeah.
55:14
I can tell you. If it's like, if it's like if
55:16
it's close, yeah, if it's close by or something.
55:18
But I'm just done with like ordering it online.
55:20
Yeah, if, if I'm in the area before Christmas, I'll buy it.
55:23
I'll try to be in the area. It's not that out of the way for
55:25
me. I still have something random
55:28
coming from that, that it's funny because we literally were
55:30
going to do like a free promo for this company, not that they
55:32
care, he says. We have tons of followers.
55:33
Whatever. We're not Gary Neville.
55:34
It was we were literally all excited.
55:35
We all like ordered one. We're going to open them on our
55:38
on our podcast and they just like, they just fucked us.
55:41
So now. We're trying to do it.
55:42
They said three to five business days and it's been it was over 2
55:47
weeks and I emailed them twice nicely send my emails.
55:51
Yep. Horrible.
55:54
They they didn't even like, send it out.
55:58
But we don't. Have a name?
55:59
You're. Going to have a name who knows
56:00
the density. To get a fucking response.
56:03
Tico doesn't get a response. Vincenzo doesn't get a response.
56:07
Dude, what? What are you talking about it?
56:08
They responded to me right away. They're like, hey, sorry for the
56:11
whatever. We cancel your order 3:00 to
56:12
5:00. Minutes ago.
56:13
No, no, they did that. I'm talking about the, the, the
56:15
I'm sorry e-mail that is taking so long because Gary Neville
56:18
messaged us again that e-mail. Is is that why we like this?
56:23
Why does that? I don't know white privilege.
56:25
Of course you wouldn't know. Wait, what?
56:30
I oh, you're saying why I got an e-mail saying that they like
56:33
apologizing and then. You guys, they went, they went
56:35
down the list. Let's see who's.
56:36
Let's see who do we need to make?
56:38
Sure. This sounds like sounds the
56:39
whitest, yeah. In turns out he's not going to
56:41
go all Yelp and complain Tegan Barse again, though, he's not
56:44
going to keep Dempsey Now this one.
56:47
Let's say like someone who's going to call the ruckus, you
56:49
know? Oh my God.
56:53
Mine's on the way. I don't know about you guys.
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You're going to get a quick jersey.
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No, hopefully you opted out of that.
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No. So what he did is he thought
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that the ones you're clicking on, he thought the ones you're
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clicking on are the ones you want to like teams from there.
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He didn't know that's the excluding 1.
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So he probably clicked on like Italy, England or like whatever.
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He's not going to get yeah. England, Italy, Germany.
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I'm gonna get, I'm gonna get like Uzbekistan junior.
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That'd be funny too. Yeah, that'd.
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Be funny, all right? Oh.
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Hi boys, I gotta run. Yeah, me too.
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I go to sleep. I gotta be on.
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Wait on. Peace, I guess, yeah.
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Turn the lights off. He probably is Tico.
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He's waking up at like 4:00 AM, what do you expect?
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Alright, there you guys.