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S8 Ep12: FPL Pod: Assessing the season so far · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: No Premier League football this week, but a happy pod
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  Speaker 1: after a much better game week. We check in on
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  Speaker 1: Chip Strategy Big Up Bournemouth to our regular positional stock check,
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  Speaker 1: and the question is will I be persuaded to finally
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  Speaker 1: play my World card?
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  Speaker 2: Well, isn't this.
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  Speaker 1: Refreshing an FPR pod where we all actually had a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good week. It's only second what was seven or
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  Speaker 1: eight game weeks, but I think we're improving.
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  Speaker 2: Would you say jewels between us?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I think that was amazed. That was our best
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  Speaker 3: week so far. As you said, you know, everybody who
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  Speaker 3: had plenty of not just a green hour, loads of
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  Speaker 3: jumping a lot higher in the rankings, which is great.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he helps when you know your captain does well.
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  Speaker 3: For example, when some of the key players do well,
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  Speaker 3: it could have been better I think for three of us,
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  Speaker 3: even more than the what seventy seven points for me
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  Speaker 3: and UKs and I think eighty something for six. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Very still very happy on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone very happy. And Sam, I imagine you especially
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  Speaker 1: so because so many returns.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and big returns as well from the players that
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  Speaker 4: did so. Like I text, you didn't know because when
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  Speaker 4: Kudis did his thing I was.
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  Speaker 2: I knew he wouldn't rely. He never replied something.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy for. I mean, he's good. You know the
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  Speaker 3: shot he's not even on target, right.
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  Speaker 2: It's been coming for weeks. I'm not going to. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to.
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  Speaker 1: Also, I've watched Spurs' games recently more than I would
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  Speaker 1: have just because of work, and the last few games
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  Speaker 1: he's been so unlucky.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I take it all back.
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  Speaker 1: You know, And I think you can put the kip
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  Speaker 1: on social media when I said it was wrong it
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  Speaker 1: was a mistake bringing Kudis in over grealish.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't. It was a master's troke.
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  Speaker 4: It it was genius, part of the plan. You just
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  Speaker 4: had to be patient. So you know, the fact that
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  Speaker 4: you were is yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it started well, didn't it? On Friday evening
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  Speaker 4: with ce Meno in his points. Although I was a
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  Speaker 4: bit upset with Sinessi for not picking up the deaf
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  Speaker 4: con that he normally does.
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  Speaker 2: But how can you be annoyed every week?
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  Speaker 4: I know, But that's why I was annoyed, because I was, like,
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  Speaker 4: I got so used to seeing at least born next
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  Speaker 4: to his name that when you only see two it's
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  Speaker 4: been like, oh, but I mean it changed the game
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  Speaker 4: and he went off and they went all out of that.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, really good from Semeno. Kudas did well. Timber
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  Speaker 4: was great. Timber winning the penalty for soccer was probably
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  Speaker 4: one of the favorite things that happened for me at
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  Speaker 4: the weekends.
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  Speaker 1: Also, that was very big for the whole arsenal debate,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't it In the conundrum of who's on penalties and
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't have soccer before, like myself, I think
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  Speaker 1: it showed that you do need him. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: Jewels that we're reading too much into that. Could there
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  Speaker 1: be a sharing situation on our hands, or do we
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  Speaker 1: just need to assume it's soccer?
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  Speaker 3: No, I think a good question because I was at
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  Speaker 3: the game and I was obviously very happy when Timber
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  Speaker 3: got the penalty for FBI reasons really and Timber was
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  Speaker 3: amazing in the game from start to finish, to be fair,
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  Speaker 3: And then the question was like, and I think there
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  Speaker 3: was probably a lot of the people within the Emirates
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  Speaker 3: who were in the simplation as me, like, oh, who
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  Speaker 3: is going to take it for the FBL team and
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  Speaker 3: your cares waited for Saka who went to get the ball.
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  Speaker 3: The ball was like a win by the touchline. Zacha
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  Speaker 3: went together the ball. You see your Carris waiting. Then
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  Speaker 3: they the little shots, probably your Carre saying do you
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  Speaker 3: fancy this? Do you want me to take it? Because
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  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff, And there was no way it
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  Speaker 3: was no Soaca who weren't scored yet. You know, your
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  Speaker 3: Carres had a penalty against Leeds for example, and two
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  Speaker 3: k it when Soaka was not on the pitch anymore.
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  Speaker 3: They might share. Although I still think that Saka will
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  Speaker 3: be the number one taker. Although in a game where
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  Speaker 3: has already scored maybe one or two goals, a penalty comes.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if Saca gives the boat to
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  Speaker 3: your Cares, but I think for now it shows that
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  Speaker 3: Saca is still the number one taker.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to see the FPL meltdown on social
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  Speaker 1: media the next time your christ It's going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it anyway? Yeah, great week for all of us.
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  Speaker 1: Six hundred k green ara if you jewels one million
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  Speaker 1: for me, two point one million for Sam. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: really good, really nice to have a break.
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  Speaker 2: Where we've got something good to reflect on. Isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: As for the Fpopom Mini League, it's so exciting at
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  Speaker 1: the top at the moment because it's changing absolutely constantly
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  Speaker 1: at the top. Now is Alex Monte their team? Ha
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  Speaker 1: ha Harland, Oh no, just two hours, but you get
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  Speaker 1: my point, Rich should eighty two points. They went from
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  Speaker 1: tenth up to first. It's really competitive at the top.
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  Speaker 1: He captain Thailand, like so many of us did. Also
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  Speaker 1: had returns from Gabrielle and die Kudis, Semeno, Eza and Bomo.
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  Speaker 1: David Shackleton had a really good climb as well. He
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  Speaker 1: may only be second, but after game week six he
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  Speaker 1: was sixty six. He now sits just one point off top.
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  Speaker 1: He played triple captain. He tripled captained. Wow, get this
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  Speaker 1: Semeno who got him fifty four points. He also had
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  Speaker 1: double digits from Berne Kudis, five points from Tarkovski, his
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  Speaker 1: two deaf corn and a bonus. He also benched Vardioles
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  Speaker 1: at twelve points for his assist, clean sheet and three bonus,
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  Speaker 1: as well as Greenish as ten points.
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  Speaker 2: So it could have been even better. But what a
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  Speaker 2: squad he's got there.
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  Speaker 1: He's got squad depth, doesn't he Norman Dierman climbs up
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  Speaker 1: into third got eighty one points. He played his wild
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  Speaker 1: card could have been even better though, because he did
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  Speaker 1: bench Caido, Munos and Bomo, who got a combined total
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  Speaker 1: of twenty four points. A reminder of the code for
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  Speaker 1: the league and it's worth joining just because it's so
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  Speaker 1: tight at the moment. X y six xp LA.
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  Speaker 3: Just quickly on captain right, you said, remember you said,
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  Speaker 3: never captain anybody from a Friday night, Thursday night, Wednesday night,
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  Speaker 3: Tuesday night, Monday night.
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  Speaker 2: We said, no, let's be fair.
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  Speaker 1: We've always said, We've always said that it just going
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  Speaker 1: be Sam in particular has a thing about it, and
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  Speaker 1: Sham has never said that's a fr gospel.
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  Speaker 2: We tell you to do it. It was your free
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  Speaker 2: man like Sam, you wouldn't have done it anyway when
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  Speaker 2: you got Holand on your team. You can you got
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  Speaker 2: Holland with.
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  Speaker 3: But semonial is the semenial right now? Is there? And
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  Speaker 3: we talk about you know, midfielders later and Semino is
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  Speaker 3: the best promiy player right now. He's been the best
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  Speaker 3: since April. Probably nobody has scored more goals than him,
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  Speaker 3: or or more goals than a seat than him in
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  Speaker 3: prom It's just well, then you should have.
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  Speaker 2: Known to him then, couldn't you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean imagine if I turn my friends who
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  Speaker 3: I do ashore with? Hey, why about Semon you? Nah,
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  Speaker 3: don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to really on this.
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  Speaker 1: Let me stick up for some on this because she
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  Speaker 1: always says about the Saturday twelve thirty and the Friday.
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  Speaker 1: She always says she feels funny about it. It's a
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  Speaker 1: funny thing that.
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  Speaker 2: Who wins my weekend? Everyone else?
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  Speaker 4: I never tell you not to do don't listen to
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  Speaker 4: me anyway, So why would you listen to me on this?
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  Speaker 2: Also? Was your above?
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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't be listening to her anyway? Can we move
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  Speaker 1: on to the actual topic rather than descending into yet
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  Speaker 1: another argument chip strategy. It's always a good time to
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  Speaker 1: talk about this in the international break, isn't it. We
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  Speaker 1: are going to look back on what's happened so far,
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  Speaker 1: which kind of I suppose plays into why we might
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  Speaker 1: be playing chips at this point. You guys have both
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  Speaker 1: played a chip, you've both played your wild card. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't played one yet. But of course we've got to
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  Speaker 1: be planning when we're going to be using them. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people. Of course, we'll have used that triple
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  Speaker 1: captain chip on Harland just a couple of weeks ago. Sam,
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  Speaker 1: what's your current plan.
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  Speaker 4: I think I'm going to bench boast this week coming
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  Speaker 4: out of the international breaking eight because it's sat on
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  Speaker 4: my team for this so just to be able to
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  Speaker 4: get rid of some of the bench. Yeah, but also
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  Speaker 4: am I weirdly I might actually put some extra money
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  Speaker 4: into the bench ahead of it because there's a player
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  Speaker 4: we're going to talk it in the mid just start
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  Speaker 4: who working Afford right now, and I think he's possibly
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  Speaker 4: better than Anton Stak who I've got right now. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm probably looking at a stretch of a bench about
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  Speaker 4: in a unless there's like injuries glory over the international
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  Speaker 4: break and then obviously I'll have to change my traps
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  Speaker 4: the triple captain. So I've sat down and went through
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  Speaker 4: the game weeks and kind of looked at when, and
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  Speaker 4: it's difficult to plan too far ahead right because form
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  Speaker 4: changes were already seen a form change from west Ham
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  Speaker 4: under their new manager. They're looking better, so then maybe
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  Speaker 4: no longer a team's target. Harland's got good fixtures in thirteen,
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  Speaker 4: fifteen and eighteen against Leeds, Sunderland and Forest, so.
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  Speaker 2: Might go for him.
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  Speaker 4: Then I quite like the idea of Semtno versus Forest
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  Speaker 4: in game week nine.
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  Speaker 2: Is it the first fixture of the weekend, haven't checked.
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  Speaker 4: Haven't checked, but if it is, then that would put
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  Speaker 4: me off for sure. Or Always also got Burnley and
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  Speaker 4: both his home games in seventeen, so I do quite
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  Speaker 4: like the idea of that soccer. Possibly he's got Burnley
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  Speaker 4: in Sunderland in ten and eleven Wolves in sixteen or
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  Speaker 4: Eastack against in eighteen. Those are the kind of options
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  Speaker 4: I'm looking at, So basically I'm going to look that's
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  Speaker 4: the list. Those are the players that might get the chip.
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  Speaker 4: I kind of do like at the minute, I'm erring
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  Speaker 4: towards Semno in game week nine against Forest.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see how we are.
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  Speaker 4: As we get to that point, but it feels like
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  Speaker 4: a decent option. Particulars we'll talk about later because SAMENU
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  Speaker 4: and Bournemouth are one of the teams with the fewest
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  Speaker 4: fixtures over the next few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Joe's what about you? This is you've got that notebook,
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  Speaker 2: You've got the talent panel.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely Ben's book game week nine. It looks good for
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  Speaker 3: my for my squad and my players. I like a
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  Speaker 3: free hit for game week fourteen because I think especially
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  Speaker 3: for the for the big clubs, it falls forced pretty decently.
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  Speaker 3: And then the triple captain everything that So basically just
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  Speaker 3: educate halland seems to be the most obvious one bars
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  Speaker 3: we saw with Semeneur against the Fulham for the guy
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  Speaker 3: who is top of army in the league, I think
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  Speaker 3: Seminio is a is a great shot. By the time
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  Speaker 3: that you can also you want to play your triple captain,
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  Speaker 3: somebody might be on a great run of form with
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  Speaker 3: decent fixtures, so you can't You can't just say Rhina
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  Speaker 3: is going to be high Landing. You can have an
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  Speaker 3: idea thirteen leads we said fourteen Sunderland for City. It's
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  Speaker 3: all good. But by then Issac might be on fire,
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  Speaker 3: or soccer might be on fire and scoring three or
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  Speaker 3: four games in a row, and then that would obviously
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  Speaker 3: change your mind and you could go for one of them.
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  Speaker 3: So just keep an eye I think, as always with
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  Speaker 3: triple captain, with the run of form of some of
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  Speaker 3: those key players and the fixtures, and then you can decide.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is tough, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of feel like that with bench boots as well,
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  Speaker 1: because you can plan for a bench boost and then
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  Speaker 1: if you get a couple of injuries or something, it
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  Speaker 1: is really hort But if you are wildcarding, it's definitely
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  Speaker 1: something to think about. I haven't wildcarded yet. I still
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  Speaker 1: wildcard this week. I know you're agree with me about this,
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  Speaker 1: aren't you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so surprised that you haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I meant to message you ahead of this, but
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  Speaker 1: I was like, actually, it's almost a conversation to have
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast. I've done multiple drafts. I nearly did
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  Speaker 1: it on Sunday. I know I need to sell salad now,
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  Speaker 1: like that that's done. It needs to be selling to SOACA.
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  Speaker 1: The prices haven't changed there. I've been monitoring it every day.
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  Speaker 1: If that would have changed, I think it probably would
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  Speaker 1: have tipped over the edge. I'm a little bit worried
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  Speaker 1: I should have done it now because I want to
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  Speaker 1: do it. But if I'm not going to wildcard, I
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  Speaker 1: need to make sure SOCCA doesn't get injured in the
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  Speaker 1: international break or but do you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Like it's it's a genuine thing.
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  Speaker 1: So there's multiple scenarios that could see me end up
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  Speaker 1: worldcard in because I could do that transfer Sacker gets injured,
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  Speaker 1: I then have to worldcard. I can do my two
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  Speaker 1: transfers to get me to a place that I quite like.
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  Speaker 1: Kudas returning did not help me because I was I
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  Speaker 1: was all set to sell him. I can also do
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  Speaker 1: it get an Arsenal defender. There are the two reasons
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  Speaker 1: I would be worldcarding to cover Arsenal at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: I've got some meno. I've got Harland Pedro is a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a problem. I do admit that, and you
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  Speaker 1: I'm still not sure. I wanted now by now some clarity.
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  Speaker 1: What I wanted, I'll be honest, is for your Cares
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  Speaker 1: to take that penalty, because then I would have gone
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  Speaker 1: with your Cares as my third forward.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't decide what to do with if I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go soccer. I'm still not sold on Esak,
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  Speaker 1: so I just don't know. I don't I don't quite
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  Speaker 1: know what to do there, and I would be I
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  Speaker 1: would ultimately be wild carding to get a soccer, which
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  Speaker 1: I can do with the transfer anyway, and to change
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  Speaker 1: my fence.
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  Speaker 2: Really it feels like.
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  Speaker 4: But then the defense are so important right now, Like,
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  Speaker 4: if you look at the players that are really returning,
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  Speaker 4: it's the defenders.
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  Speaker 1: So soness, I've got Anderson, who's a deaf con magnet
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  Speaker 1: apart from it, but did you get different? I think
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  Speaker 1: he might have even got a death conpoint all I
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  Speaker 1: can't remember, and I'm an Arsenal defender. Yeah, I do
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  Speaker 1: need to change my keeper as well. Being honest, it
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  Speaker 1: could likely still happen. I'm monitoring the price where I haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't about the other problem I have got is that
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  Speaker 1: Grealish is suspended next game week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that that.
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  Speaker 1: Could swing it, to be honest, but yeah, I have
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  Speaker 1: The price changes have meant I haven't needed to go
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  Speaker 1: already whereas I would have I would have normally gone back.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good thing because that means you don't feel
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  Speaker 3: like you have to wild card because you're you don't
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  Speaker 3: like your team or you think your team is.
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  Speaker 1: Also everything you've just said there in terms of like
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  Speaker 1: looking at your strategy going forward, I've got to be
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  Speaker 1: careful that I don't push my wild card back too
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  Speaker 1: far that affects my bench boost and triple captain.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not just that, it's also not pushing it
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  Speaker 4: back so far that it impacts the transfers around after
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  Speaker 4: conn in game week sixteen. Is that something else to
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  Speaker 4: consider that you know, if you are card late, you've
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  Speaker 4: then you know, obviously you'll have less transfers, but you
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  Speaker 4: do need to kind of think about that strategy forget.
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  Speaker 1: I will play it, if I will play it by
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  Speaker 1: the end of October, like that's kind of my is
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  Speaker 1: my thinking, it's it's going to be this month because
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  Speaker 1: then I want the whole of November almost to sort
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  Speaker 1: myself out in terms of transfers and everything. I say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm probably seventy thirty going to do it over the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, again eight on nine basically.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you know even yeah, but even yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: it's game we k on nine really so yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: just a lot of things going around.
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  Speaker 3: My head with it because we're going to go through
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  Speaker 3: the best.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the end of these she doesn't have and.
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  Speaker 3: Then yeah, exactly by the end.
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  Speaker 2: This podcast will probably press a button mine.
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  Speaker 1: I just think there's quite a lot. I'm not normally
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  Speaker 1: this indecisive. I've normally got a real I think the
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  Speaker 1: double chips thing has really thrown me. I know we
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  Speaker 1: already had two wild cards, but the double chips thing
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  Speaker 1: has really thrown I Usually I'm like, well, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to triple caps in there, and I'm also still I.
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  Speaker 2: Should probably world card because I've learned my lesson?
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  Speaker 1: Have I not learned my lesson impact from the fact
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  Speaker 1: I did use my triple captain when I knew I
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: should have a couple of weeks so I didn't do
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  Speaker 1: it and look what happened ended up down. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: decisions aren't my strong point guys.
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  Speaker 2: As we know.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of in terms of for other people that
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  Speaker 1: are listening who haven't wild carded, would when would you?
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  Speaker 2: Is now the point? Because not everyone some people will
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: look at their teams and say they don't need to. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think now is the point.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't have Arsenal, if you don't have many
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  Speaker 4: Manchester City players, if you are looking at a team
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  Speaker 4: that's still set up for game we I mean, the
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: chances are if you set up well for game week
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: one and you know that your team now doesn't look
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: great heading into the next fixtures that we have, unless
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: you've used your transfers really wisely, which you might have
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: done so this does feel like a really opportune moment
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: to just reset and start again. I don't think there's
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: anything wrong with your strategy of waiting another week or two,
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: particularly if you're looking at your team for game we
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: Kate and thinking, oh, that actually looks okay. You do
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: have to be mindful of the other chips though, because
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: you know, in the past, the triple Captain, the bench boost,
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: the three here, all three of them would have been
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: pushed into the second half of the season and we'll
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: have gone, oh, let's wait for double game week here,
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: or a blank game week there, or all those opportunities
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: later on. But because we have to use all of
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: these in this first part of the season, we do
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: need to be mindful of the fact that the wild
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: card's going to come. But then you need another three
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: game weeks where you can play those other chips as well.
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: So don't let it get to a point where you're
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: getting to sort of game week fourteen fifteen, and then
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: you're panicking because you've got to get everything done in
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: the last few weeks, which I know cow is your specialty.
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: You do like leaving things late.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: I just yeah, I don't think you can this year.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: I think it is a real thing. I need to
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: get my spreadsheet back out, you do. I was much
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: more effective when I had a spreadsheet. Should have didn't
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: use a spreadsheet last year and had my worst ever finished.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: I need to get the spread sheet back out.
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: I do think the international break in November feels a
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: bit too late to play it, so somewhere between now
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: and the next international break feels like the best time.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: Moving on, then let's talk about the fixtures for the
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: next few weeks. Sam, in terms of this is another
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: thing that makes it a minefield. So many competitions and
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: so many Premier League teams who have got multiple fixtures
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: to contend with over the next few weeks.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I sat down and I tried to work out
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: who had the least fixtures, because obviously, even if you
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: just take up until the next international break, if you
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: just look at who's just playing in the Premier League,
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: they'll have four games. So you've got Born with Burnley, Everton,
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Leeds United, Manchester United, at londond and west Ham. Then
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: you've got the teams that are also playing in the
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: League Cup, and then you've got so you've got Brentford, Brighton,
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: Fulham and Wolves. You've got those then that are playing
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: in Europe but without the League Cup, so Forest and
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: Villa they've got six, and then everyone else so Arsenal,
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: Chelsea Palace, Liverpool, Manchester City, Newcastle and Spurs all have
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: seven matches to play between now and the international break
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: in November, which is massive. That's a massive number of
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: fixtures after a really busy period for most of these
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: clubs already with Champions League, Europa League, Conference, League, Tea Cup,
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: everything else that's been going on. So it does make
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: you kind of think, because if you are going to
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: be using bench beach ships, if you are going to
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: be trying to triple captain, if you want to use
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: your free hit, you have to be really mindful of
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: the fact that there might be some rotation and for
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: some clubs we're seeing that and the back of the
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: midweek action. So something to consider and something that is
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: making me kind of look at the clubs that just
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: a playing Premier League or maybe just a playing Premier
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: League and League Cup and thinking maybe these are the
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: teams that I should be looking to invest in for
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: that security of starts over the next few weeks.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: It does make Bournmouth so attractive doesn't because they're out
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: of the League Cup as well.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Jewels, Yeah, absolutely. I mean, of those teams that Sam
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: mentioned with only four games, they're not just the best
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: one right now, they're also the most informed, with the
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: players that we mentioned are also informed, from Senesi to
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: Semeno potentially and Evanilson if you want Petrovic in goal,
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Jakitya as another defender. If you don't want to go
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: for Senesi, or even if you want to Doublop Troubler,
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: you could look at Clover who scored a world on
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Friday night and might come back into the team and
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: might come back into some sore form. So there's there's
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: a lot of options there. For Bournemouth, you can look
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: obviously at Everton with Grayleish or Ndi, Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's a little bit more difficult just to invest
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: more on those teams. United maybe if they can somehow
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: get a bit of consistency for an Enbomo or even
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Bruno if you believe really, But but yeah, Bournemouth are
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: the ones really to target.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's go through by position.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Then I probably haven't quite left long enough about this
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: because We've waffled on about my world card too long,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: so that we don't have two long guys and many
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I'm in that Hugels, Pope and Ruth's lead the way
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: in terms of goalkeeping points and the pretty much two
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: of the best options, aren't they.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Jeels, Yeah, I.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Mean for Pope, no doubt they are very strong defense
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: and Newcastle with a very strong midfield. We said that
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: often for roofs Well I think is interesting and Sanderland
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: as a whole great start of the season for a
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: newly promoted side. The thing is the fixtures coming up
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: are tough, so you wonder how stainable this kind of
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: four mills from him to start with, from this team
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: overall and especially defensively. They will play Chelsea Arsenal, Liverpool
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: City and Newcastle I think in the next eight games
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: or nine games something like that, So things are going
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: to get far more difficult for Sunderland than they were
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: so far in those first seven game weeks of the season.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: But he's still a very good goalkeeper. He was highly
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: rated in the summer. A few other European clubs like
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Leon wanted to sign him. He chose Sunderlands and he's
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: been good so far, but things are going to get harder.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: We're in Sundland's early season fun.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: And I'm saying, and they have a fresh manager, so
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I love them dearly.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Sam, you went for Pope on your World card and
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: it was tight, wasn't it for you? Between the Pope
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: and Raya.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was massively tight, And in the end, I
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: think the only thing that it came down to was
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: the value that I placed in three additional arsenal assets
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: that aren't the goalkeeper, because otherwise I think Rayo is
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: the standout pick. Right he plays for the best defense
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: in the league. He looks like a really nice option,
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: but if you pick him, you can only have two
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: outfit US players and that put me off. So Pope
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: was a really really great option. I mean they say
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: second in the fixture ticker. If you run it right
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: the way through to game week seventeen, just asking them
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: ahead of them, fixtures look great. There's a nice opportunity
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: to go with somebody who also gets upside like he
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: often gets a save point, he'll often pick up a
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: bonus point, so there are there's more potential upside, I
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: think for Pope than there is for ray Ray is
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: probably going to get six most weeks because the Arsenal
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: outfielders they're going to get the bonus points. And he
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: doesn't make that many saves whereas Pope makes more. So yeah,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think Pope is the best goalkeeper right
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: now to have, So I'm quite glad I went there
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: on world card and.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: It's former Newcastle man Debravco still the second best kind
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: of backup goalkeeper.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Is he?
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Its price Jewels He's made the most saves this season
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: with twenty nine as well.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean good performances for a Burnie team who's
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: been considered a lot of Gord's compared to last season
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: in a championship for example, and I think they will
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: keep conceding goals. So it's good to have on your bench.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: You can maybe play play him sometimes depending on who
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: is the opposition, but I don't think it should be
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: your starter anymore.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, onto defenders, I'm a bit worried because I said
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: to go through quickly. We're not going to rustle through
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: too quickly. Yeah, but Keith is always always a bit
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: more simplant to talk about, isn't it. Defenders? I think
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: we all just need an Arsenal defender. Do we maybe
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: need two Arsenal defenders Joels.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: One for sure? Definitely. Again, we talked a little bit
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: about it last week and I watched Geran Timber play
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: live on Saturday, and really was he was incredible.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: He said last week he's the best value.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, he's the best value for money, I think, and
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: right now, because of the penalty that he got on Saturday,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I think he's just a point clear of Gabriel, who
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: is also a very good option, like his Saliba and
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: like his Calafiori, who seems to to stay in fit
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: for now, which is which is great. The thing I
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: like with Timber is obviously the most attacking of the four,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: justin I'm not talking on set pieces, but in the
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: in the play in itself or the way Arsenal player
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Calafiuri comes a lot in midfield and is an inverted
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: left back into midfield, and we'll have the odd goals
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: and suddenly on said pieces. But Timber is far more
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: involved in the final thirds going forward for Arsenal than Calafiory,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Gabriel or Saliva. Gabriel is the best on said pieces,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: and everything around said pieces is aimed at gabrielle So
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: the other three Gala, Fiori, Timber, and Saliba are just
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: making some work to help Gabrielle scoring. So keep that
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: in mind, because Gabrielle will always score more goals than
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: anybody else in that team. I think defense what scares.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Me a little bit.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Timber's one point ahead, but Gabrielle, he's a little bit
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: more expensive. And I guess you kind of get what
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: you pay for, don't you really?
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: So yeah, no, you are, But I just I also
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: think that Timber will bring you more potentially more points
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: in assists or in you know, like Gabrielle would never
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: get the penalty that Timber gets on Saturday.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Fuming about that, by the way, because I knew you
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: both had Timber, both of you, not even one of you,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: both of you had both players.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I was doing so well until that point. Sorry.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think that the timbersaka combo from last
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: one point, if you start with just two Arsenal players,
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: is the best one.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does feel that way, doesn't it? Samnything to
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: add on Arsenal? Or should we suggest some other defenders
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: to people? No, I think just make sure you've got
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: one at least possibly have two. If you're not sure
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: about doubling up on the attack, but I think you
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: might want to double up on the arsenal attack, so
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: probably just depending on when on your budget or which
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: way you lean. I still think the underlying numbers for
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Timber are better, so I'm still in Timbers camp. Oh So,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I really like this because every time we've spoken about
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: defenders this season, and particularly if you watch the Fantasy
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Show as well as listen to this pode, it feels
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: like we've spoken about deaf con so much. I think
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: we're all guilty of getting a little bit too obsessed
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: with def con maybe, And I think this start, all
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: of the top thirteen defenders in the game have reachised
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: at least one attacking returns. So far this season, only
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: three of the top seventeen defenders have received death con
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: points at least once. So, Sam, we need to consider
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: death con, don't we. And it's changed things a little bit,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: But those attacking returns are still are still gold for us,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: aren't they.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: I think that's the thing, isn't it. Like the deaf
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: compoints are really really good and I think I guess
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: it depends on what we classify as a return. So
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: this season we've got more potential for returns for the
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: defenders because we've got deaf com But in the past
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: it's really been do they get a clean sheet or not,
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: So it's either two or six unless you're a full back,
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: and then you're more likely to get an attacking return,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: so maybe an assist.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Or maybe a goal.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: So if you've got you know, in the past, if
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: you've had a trend or you've had a pedro poro,
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: you're more likely to get something out of them. Plus
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: those players are more likely to take the set pieces,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: the free kicks, or the corners. This isn't It is
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: different though, because we are seeing continuation of attacking returns
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: from the center backs in like particularly if we take
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Gabrielle who've just been talking about, we're still getting potential
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: from him from set pieces, but you have the added
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: benefits of the deaf compoints. So all of that stuff
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: is kind of contributing. So I think what's really fascinating
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: this season is that now and if we take Tarkovski
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: as an example of this last week, Tarkovski gets five points,
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: but he doesn't get a traditional return. There's no clean sheet,
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: there's no goal, there's no assist, he just gets two
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: deaf con points and a bonus point plus is two
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: points playing the game. The fact that you can get
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: a defender getting five points without actually getting any official
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: returns as we would normally have classified them, that is
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: incredible and it is changing the way that we look
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: at defenders, and it should change the way that we
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: look at defenders. So rather than just going I want
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: my fallbacks and kind of ignoring the center backs, I
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: think there is now a conversation where you have to
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: wait the value of the fallback with the potential that,
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: like Tarcole, you can get those five without really doing
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: much out.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I also think it's just changed the way we think
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: about maybe our slightly cheaper defenders. We're a little bit
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: more selective. Whereas it before it was like who's the
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: best fallback from the newly promoted club, now it can
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: be like, who's the best center back from maybe not
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: even Mark Gay. He's a prime example, I think in
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: some ways, like he's not from a newly promoter club,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: he's from a team that do keep clean sheets. We
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have looked at him in the past because we'd
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: always looked at munos, but yours, you've managed to get Gay.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: He benefit from the clean sheets and benefit from his
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: death corn without having to spend the moon off money.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: So it's just it's a different way of getting into
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: other defenses.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: I think clearly. And from the beginning, I mean the
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: price of Gay at the start of the season. I
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: don't understand how he was so cheap anyway, because the
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: guys an England international plays in Europe is the Cup winner.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Oh I loved England.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Well that's nice, unusual exactly, but but no, it's true.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: And even now with all the price rises, Gay he's
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: still four point eight. It's way cheaper. It's like more
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: than a million less than Timber for example. That's and
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Gay he in terms of the season so far, I mean, okay,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: apart from the world I scored against you in that corner,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: you think, okay, if the guy can also do things
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: like that, it's even better. But Gay has been Everybody
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: should have Gay in the team, I think, really, I
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: think again, the value for money is incredible. What's interesting
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: is the top eight of the best defenders of our
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: center backs if you count Calla Fury and Timber, who
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: are center backs really but now play fullbacks. But they
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: are center backs, which goes to the point that Sam
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: just made about death Gone and not looking at fullbacks before.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: I remember maybe two years ago we all had defenses
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: with just fullbacks. There was not even a center back there.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: We were all looking for dan and trends and those
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: kind of like attacking fullbacks. Now they're not even in
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: the top eight really, So maybe the right balance is
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: some established like star center back defenders if you want,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: like a Gabrielle or Timber, and then balance it with
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: maybe players cheaper Damach cheaper. But do you know what
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, like those guys who are going to start
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: in death Gone more than being the best defense in
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: the country.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: YEA was at the beginning of this when you said,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: I don't want a wild card just for my defense.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, it makes me feel worse. I knew
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: this would happen, and I knew when we come on
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: this change.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: We've got plenty of time the rain and turkey, will
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: you know? Give you that's true.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: You can think about it while you're sitting inside. It's
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: all inclusive, free drinks. At the end of the day,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: then play it.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I think if you look back at last season, by
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: this stage, only five defenders had hit thirty points, and
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: only one of them have broken forty points. This season,
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: we've got twenty defenders who've already got thirty points and
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: six who have already got more than forty. So we
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: are seeing a shift in the number of points that
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: defenders are scoring, and it's therefore suggesting that we should
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: be going back to the point of putting more thought
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: into our defense rather than just going I'm playing three
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: at the back and that's the end of it. And
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: I have these three and I'll just pick two randoms
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: who are likely to you know, it was like Leif Davis,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: wasn't it last season, He's more likely to get an
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: attack in return, so I just stick him in. This season,
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: it's really different, and we're seeing like you've got options
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: in these cheaper clubs who are getting defensive contributions, who
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: have the potential for assists or goals as well. So
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: the defense feels like it's more important than ever because
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: of the value that they're bringing and because of the
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: fact that they are achieving far more points than the
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: forwards at the moment. Yeah, So Anderson, Sinnesti and Telkovskiv's
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: called the most with twelve other possible of fourteen deaf compoints,
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: which is pretty impressive, but only Sinesti makes it into
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: the top ten scoring defenders, So yeah, something to consider,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: but not the be all an end all. With all
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: that we've said, then Sam, outside of an Arsenal defender,
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: and it sounds like both of your Arsenal defenders of
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: choice or defender of choice is Timber. Who are the
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: best options? Jewels has already said Gay, Yeah, definitely, I
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: think him. If you want to go for a Laqui
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: or Richard's as well, then you know fine. I think
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Gay he's the best one, though in my opinion, Sinesti
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: I think still has to be there. I think he
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: looks like a great option for the rest of the
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: season pretty much. If you're not going poping Gold, I'd
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: have a Newcastle defender, probably go for Dan Byrne somebody
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: along those lines.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: And then.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: I think you can then afford to go for one
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: of the cheaper options at the four million who's the.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Best cheaper who's the best four at the moment?
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Then it's difficult, isn't it, Because like Alderette's obviously had
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: that Monster Hall last week. Rodan is lucky that he's
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: not scored two and two. He could have easily scored
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: again against Birds at the weekend. I think he would
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: have quite enjoyed that one as well. So there's options
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: that have got a taking threat, but they're also keeping
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: regular clean sheets. And I appreciate what Joe said earlier
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: about Sunderland and the fact that their season is is
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: going to be a bit more difficult, but you're not
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: really sickly going to play your four point zero very often,
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: and the fact that you know in the next three
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: so they've got Wolves up next, then it's Chelsea and Everton,
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: difficult game against Arsenal, Fullha Bornouth, Liverpool Man City. But
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: in those games you just mentioned them anyway, So I
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: think probably i'd still go for somebody like a Roadan
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: or an Aldurette because you do have that little bit
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: of upside potential jewels.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Who would you go for You've already said Gay and Timber.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Who else?
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I would just add Mo, who some mentioned last week
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: are Sunderland's part is born and bred, which makes him
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: even more special as you know, but a four million.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Don't get points for that.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: You should.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Also sorry, because I don't want to forget to say this.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Someone tweeted, I don't know if you saw this.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Jewels.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Someone tweeted saying, if you've got FPL points for TV
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and radio appearances across the last week, Julian Larron would
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: win the entire game because you've been on so many programs.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: They just switched on and seen you on Sunday Supplement
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: on the Sky Sports and you've been on I can't
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: even remember, but you've been on so many other programs.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I just thought it was quite funny.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Sorry, I didn't see it. I look for and response,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: but yeah, I think just a four million, his four
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: point zero is good to have.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: We'll go on to midfielders then absolutely no surprise to
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: see Antoine s Meno is top of the charts.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: Sam must have. Yeah, absolutely essential. And I just think
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: it's fascinating, isn't it? Because he's gone up by zero
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: point nine million already. We are bonkers, isn't this mad?
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: We're seven game weeks in and he's gone up by
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: nearly a million already. Yet he still looks cheap. He
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: still looks incredible value for money. Like I think, if
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: you don't have him and you've got to spend seven
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: point nine on him.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Just spend seven point nine.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: On him, because in the next couple of weeks he
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: could easily be eight and a half. Like he's going
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: to be by far and away the player that has
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: the most upside in terms of team value over the
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: next few weeks. I think you'll rise again over this
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: international break. I just think that he is he's just essential.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Like he is.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: He's the first player I would genuinely categorized as essential
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: this season. It's also quite nice, isn't it that an
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: essential player is someone that isn't I know, he's gone
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: after a lot, so he's still under eight million, Yeah,
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: still under eight millions. So for our budget, it's just
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: it's just brilliant, Like you can understand if people if
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: socas or salaries essentially or struggling to get him in.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: You shouldn't really be struggling to get him in in
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: my opinion anyway. And it is quite it kind of
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: epitomizes the top of the midfield of rankings in general,
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: doesn't it was? If you take a look at it,
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: the highest scoring premium infielder is Sala and he's twelfth
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: in the rankings. There's been incredible value in midfield this season.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean incredible value. You're right, and people like
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: se Menium have been outstanding really, but it's disappointing from
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: the premiums right, Let's be honest here, let's call it
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: what it is. He hasn't been a good season for Bruno, Fernandez,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: who missed penalties, for Mosala, who at times just saved
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: this performance by a lake goal or late penalty like
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: a Burnley, but really was not good during the game.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Saka has been injured. So from those kind of perspective
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: on those players, it let's not even go there. We'll
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: be like, yeah, it hasn't been good really so far.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: So let's hope that they get better, although that we
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: bring more head x to us and then who to
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: go for and find that money that you mentioned kels
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: to bring Bruno in your team or Salah back in
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: your team, or Saka if you don't have him, et cetera,
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: et cetera. But for now, let's enjoy the way it
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: is because it's quite fun and it's good because it's
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: just different. The other interesting thing as well is in
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: the top eight of those midfielders, you've got six defensive midfielders,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: So forget about a guy who plays as a number
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: ten or a very creative attacking midfielder lacks e meeno.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: But you've got your Cacidos, your Rices, graven Bersh, Colin
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: is there too, and there's another one I can't even
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: read my writing. And Enzo, of course, yeah, who sometimes
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: plays a little bit higher up on the pitch, maybe
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: as a number ten, but still those players are usually
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: deeper on the pitch, certainly for Cacido, Gravenbersh and Rice.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: And yet their performances descent has been and in the
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: game they come up with good can sid it's got
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: three goals already on top of all the deaf cons,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: all the bonus points because he's been outstanding, one of
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: the league's best players so far. So even a bit
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: like the defenders and the fullbacks and center backs. We
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: used to just look at attacking midfielders for our midfielder line,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: which is absolutely fine. Now I think you can look
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: even more at defensive midfielders.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, then let's build our best midfield So we're also
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: in semeno. Who would you go after that? It's got
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: to be Socca, hasn't it, So yeah, I'd have Soccer.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I think I would be really really tempted to have
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Socca and ASA at the minute. Because of the arder
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: guard injury, I think that will make as are increasingly
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: important in the Arsenal team for the next few weeks,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: so I think I go there. I really like Anthony Gordon.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I appreciate we didn't see a lot from him in
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: game week seven, but I like the fixtures. I like
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: where he's playing. The fact that he probably is on
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: penalties when he's on the pitch also adds another element
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: to his games.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: I like him.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: I like Ishmiodasara as well, and the Palace fixtures, and
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: then Caido.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: I just think he's probably.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: Going to be my transfer in this week or next week,
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: ahead of ahead of the next game week anyway. I
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: just think he looks like great value for money in
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: a Chelsea team that you know, seems to be getting
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: points and goals through him. So yeah, I think Isado
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: is a really nice option. Then of course there's Ryander's
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: still who if you want to stay in the really
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: cheap bracket, it feels like a really nice option as well.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: I left Case on the bench against Liverpool and I
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: was human and I did it because I had Josh King,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: who I really like and I know he hasn't in
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: terms of FPR hasn't brought that many points yet. But
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: I knew he would probably play up front because of
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Jimenez and Mooney situations and full But the weather was
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: so bad it felt like I fail, Josh King could
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: fly off with all the wind that there was one
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: because he's so you know, small. Thank Yeah, So I
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: left Casey on the bench. And then when I watched
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: the Chelsea Liverpool game and I was like, oh my god,
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: So that's my ten points on the bench from Casey.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: I think for me, Casey is a must have. You
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: can have Semeno and Soaka and all the players that
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: some mentioned, and that's they're all great the case he
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: is a must have.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Now one name that I thought one of you might
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: have mentioned didn't die at Everton. He looks good value too.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he does look good value. I don't know Everton. Obviously,
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: it's Manchester City up next, and it's Spurs. Then they
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: get into a nice run of fixtures again before they
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: get to Newcastle Bournemouth and then Chelsea and Arsenal. So
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: the fixtures are a little bit mixed, and that's probably
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: why because like he's significantly more expensive than somebody like Caido,
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: So I think because the fixtures are a little bit
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: more difficult, that's why I'm leaning away from him and
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: towards some of the cheapest Chelsea options.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, on to forwards, I think we're all saying that
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: one of our slots has gone. If you're going to
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: say Antoine se Meno is essential, you're going to say
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: that you've got to spend the big bucks on Harland
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: any jewels.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. I'm still a bit baffled by
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: the fact that he had only one shot against Branford,
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: which came in the ninth minute, and he took his
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: gold really well, but even that ball was not a
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: great But I mean he had a lot of work.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: He's not happening, That's what I mean. He still had
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: a lot of work to do and then nothing. So
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: you've got the most informed striker in Europe with Mbappi
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: and Kane, there are the three really outstanding right now,
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: and you only give him one shot in nineteen minutes
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: away at Branford, which I know City controlled that second
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: half and they controlled the game and they were happy
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: with the one. They'll win and halland W.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Wasn't help us inn fpl doesn't it, But do you
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: know what I mean?
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Like, but the guys in that kind of form just
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: giving the board orders. Even if you put crosses in
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: and he's not always at the end of them, it
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: doesn't matter. Just just feed the guy. Really, so I
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: think he should even be better than what it is now.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: But I think it's called eleven in eighteen in his
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: eleven games so far, it's in for club and country.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: It's just it's just sick really how good he is,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: even with not much service. So he's a banker, go
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: for him. I know he's expensive, but he's worth it.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: He's also the only fool with one double digit return,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: which when I read that, I was like, what, how
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: was that?
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: How has that happened?
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Outside of Harlan's ral Pedro has been popular but now
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: we spoke of him last week and we kind of said,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: don't sell him now, and there's a whole fear of
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: if he does reten, you could be kind of left behind.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: But if I was wild carding, I don't think he
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: stays that. It's really hard to sell him ahead of
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Nottingham Forest and then Sunderland, like that it's really difficult
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: to sell him ahead of those two matches.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: This is also factoring into my wild card thinking as well, yeah,
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: I get that wildcard.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: I get that totally because actually, and again going back
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: to that conversation we had before about the defenders. Last season,
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: we had ten forwards who have got thirty points already
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: and five on more than forty. This season, we've got
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: six who've got thirty and only Harlan who's got more
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: than forty. So the forwards have been really disappointing at
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: a time where the defenders have been really good. And
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: I'm so heavily invested in my forward line, like I've
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: got Harlan, I've got job Pedro, and I've got Esac.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: So much budget in that front line it feels a
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: bit ridiculous to have it that far. And it does
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: look like Joe Pedro could be the player that goes
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: sooner rather than later.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: But I really struggled to.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Sell him ahead of those next two fixtures. So I
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: think the underlying numbers suggest that he's a sell. Two
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: attempts in the last four and zero on target. I
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: mean that's really bad, Like there's bad and there's that.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: So yes, I think so, But that Forest defense, I
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: think I'm going to give him another week.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, So the third scoring forward in the game is
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: actually Jared Bowen. He's had some price drops, He's at
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: a brilliant price point. We know that Sam loves him,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: and we know that if west Ham are going to score,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: you kind of no, it's going to be him, don't
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: you really? But the problem, I guess jeors is how
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: many are they going to score? Does it justify buying him?
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah? And I think he might take a bit of
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: time for Nuno to just, you know, make this team
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: a better team. There's only already better structure than they
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: were before under Harry Potter, which, let's be honest here,
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: they didn't didn't really, you know, I'm not a biggest
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: fan of it is anyway, but that didn't work. Tell
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: But you're right. I think Bowen will be great in
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: a Nuno team kind of thing, a bit like what
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: we saw last season within the Landau of Forrest, you know,
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: and that kind of just think about that kind of
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: of template. But how long will it take? And and
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: and again, Bowen should not be the third highest forward
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: in this game right now, because this season hasn't been
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: that good really, let's be honest, and neither has been
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: west Ham. It shows you again that the big guys
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: have been disappointed or just just oroad. It has been
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: pretty pretty average from the fours in the game. So yeah,
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: but when why not if you want to go there
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: for sure and the fixtures coming up a decent to
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: be honest, says score has now scored two and it's
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: looking a little bit better. The Branford Goldie had to
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: have three shots before scoring and you know the one
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: at the weekend was kind of a tapping on a
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: long throw and and that was it really so I'm
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: not sure against Sanderland that you take too much away
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: from it, but why not? I think for to Tomato right
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: now is the one that everybody should look into.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: That that's why I would be bringing in one hundred.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: It's still less than ten percent owns seven point two millions,
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: so not too expensive compared to Issac or Harland or
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: even Pedro. To be fair, the three as he took
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: his penalty really well and some maybe he's right, maybe
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: he's going on the number one taker before the matter
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: is there too. He's getting i think more used to
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: playing in this team and you see his skill set
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: very much. Certainly you saw it at the weekend. So
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: it's an interesting one. And just to finish for me,
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: let's let's address really the elefant in the room or
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: the etac in the room because that returned against Chelsea.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: No way, this is an assistant.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Running out of time on the show.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: But touch from Isaac who probably wanted to get the
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: boat done for himself.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: No, no, I take the point.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm just saying for.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: People I didn't have him, true, but for the people.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: Who say, like, oh yeah, that's it he you know,
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: this his first return finally, like because there was a
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: goal in the league, but not in the league. It's
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: something in the league. Well it's a fluke in the league,
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: That's what it is.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, okay, best three foward, then a round off.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: We haven't got much time. Le's some here, would you
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: guys for.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Harland.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: Obviously I water advanced. I've literally lost the ability to
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: speak now, and then I don't know. I still really
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: like Matteta. I think I made I think I made yeah,
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: and I think I think when I kept pedro over
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: him through fear of ownership, that was a mistake, all right.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: The next two an't great. It's born with an arsenal.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: But after that, I really like the fixtures for Palace,
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: and so I think what I'll probably do is give
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: you Pedro two weeks and then move.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: Back to the room.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Jeels, give us your.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: Three f how did you the more.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: He is commonly known as in the FL community, and.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: The third one for Nu, I stick with Pedro.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Would do you want to sing u out? Then Jewels
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: will be back next week is an international reckon. We'll
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: be previewing the next game week then, so still plenty
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: to come, Joel sing us out.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Please have a great week, guys.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Room