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GW12 Should You Hold on or Trade? I Ep: 113 · Draft Offsides Podcast

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  Hello, this is dropped off sides.
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  My name is Keith, I'm with Craig.
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  My other two Co hosts, Chico and Enzo have abandoned me.
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  So I had to find a man off the street to help me out here.
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  No, so Craig is someone that I've I've found on Reddit and
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  he's been doing these really great posts on.
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  They're just talking about waivers and kind of getting a
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  little analytical about it. So we wanted to have them on and
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  just kind of talk through some stuff.
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  So, Craig, tell me about yourself a little bit.
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  Yeah, so I am originally from England but I live in Columbus,
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  OH. My background I mean I played
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  football most all my life basically was a professional
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  club called Russian and diamonds who don't no longer exist.
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  Back in got to League One and they had a lot of money issues
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  and they kind of folded and then ended up getting a football
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  scholarship to the US back in 2010.
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  So went and played at University of Kentucky for two years and
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  then and then transferred to Northern Kentucky University for
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  two years. And in that time I did a degree
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  in mathematics and statistics. And then I went to end up again
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  do my masters at Miami, OH, university in statistics and
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  then got a job in at our bank doing analytics basically.
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  And that's kind of what led me to Columbus.
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  So yeah, I kind of kept moving N continued to kind of.
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  I've been working with data basically since I was in school,
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  so it's always something I found fascinating and kind of doing,
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  to be honest. I feel quite lucky in my job, to
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  be honest. I got to enjoy playing around
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  with data, so. Yeah, then so this is probably
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  like fit, like fan track is probably a dream then because
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  it's football and that data, you know, it's like 2 things.
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  Well, I mean, I mean, I've been on fan tracks now for what?
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  Maybe I think my first season was like 2018, maybe so and and
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  before bed, I don't know if I don't know.
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  How long have you guys been playing for?
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  I think we've been playing fan tracks for close to five years.
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  And then, yeah, before that we were, you know, we were kind of
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  on other things, but nothing really stuck like the way that.
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  No, it didn't. Did you guys play around with
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  Toga at one point? No, we never did.
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  That was something you've kind of heard about.
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  Like that's obviously in the lore of, you know, fantasy, you
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  know, fan tracks and everything. But we never did it ourselves
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  because that was the original kind of scoring system, right?
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  And. Yeah, toggle was like toggle was
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  like, but it was a bit basic, but it was a bit more kind of
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  probably a little bit more than the current fantasy Premier
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  League draft system. So it was and then and then when
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  you actually move to fan track the first season, because they
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  closed down the app and they're like actually go and use fan
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  tracks. But that's where we're
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  suggesting people go because like they didn't have enough
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  money to support the system and in the first settings that were
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  on fan tracks or actually togger base stats kind of related.
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  And then we, you know, I don't know if you guys, but I mean,
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  our league is a little bit more customized than that.
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  And I played three leagues now and each scoring system slightly
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  different. That's why even unlike the
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  little blog I write, I try and give a bit of a range of the
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  points that people get. So I played three leagues.
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  So I kind of do it from the minimum to the maximum of all
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  three leagues to try and give myself a bit of coverage.
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  What are the what are the biggest differences in your
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  league as far as scoring system changes differences?
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  One, I mean, so one I've got like kind of the main one, I my
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  main lead, the one I've been in for eight years.
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  The other two are kind of fairly recent.
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  We have stuff like we have like long passes, which is seems to
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  be decent to start. We so I remember John Joe
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  Shelvey was really good at one point because he just do those
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  long passes. But the one of the things that
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  we haven't added in there, I mean, the people in that league
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  are kind of a little bit more. They like the scoring system.
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  So as new stuff's come in, we've not really added much.
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  So if like I think there's like a high claim say thing now,
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  which is adding for goalkeepers, we don't have that in our
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  league. So that's in another league.
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  I think that's just some more general stats that would kind of
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  change the scoring of, I honestly can't remember, but
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  like making stuff maybe a little less by the values of stuff a
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  little bit less. Like I know in one league we
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  actually changed the saves being from 2 points to one point for
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  one of the least for goalkeepers.
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  Because some people were arguing that it's a bit unfair that a
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  goalkeeper concede five goals but still get like 16 points
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  because they've saved all these shots, which I argued with.
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  While for making all these saves, they're still keeping
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  them in the game. Right?
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  As you can do it either way, I suppose.
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  But then also like if you're not keep, but then you have a keeper
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  who doesn't get who gets a clean sheet and they only get 10
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  points and it's less than. So it's I don't know.
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  There's always arguments, isn't there?
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  People are always going to argue about what they with the scoring
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  system. There's always going to be
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  people that what like certain things and dislike certain
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  things. Yeah, it's constant.
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  So how does that work then? I guess my question would be
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  about like defense and stuff, because I feel like the last two
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  years we've seen a big shift with that change to get like to
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  not get that 2nd -2 for the first goal for the first.
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  Yeah. So in your guys leagues is that
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  that's not that's not the case. Yeah, no, that's we've, we've
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  kept that since that got out of them.
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  We actually did update our, you did update because I thought
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  that was a good one. So I think it was a little bit
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  frustrating with the, it makes sense to compound it when it's
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  234 goals, I suppose. But when it's like, I'll tell
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  you one thing that we've still not figured out is the wing back
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  situation. Like, I don't know if you've
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  noticed this, but you have like if you have a wing back who's
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  classified as a defender, they don't get the goal difference
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  against them. And one in my in my league days
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  a lot they don't get the goals against them, but another one
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  they do. I don't know what how the sets
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  are set up. So so to win, that's quite
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  valuable because you can play them and as a defender, but they
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  don't get any of the goals against.
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  Yeah. So it's I'm not sure if we need
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  to like check in the settings, but I remember like emailing fan
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  tracks to be like this is a bit strange.
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  I know some people don't like that setting in our league and
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  but yeah, it's funny, I'm the commissioner and it's like kind
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  of the main one that we've been doing.
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  And every single year I'm like, OK, well, we want to change
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  these things. Let me know.
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  I'll change. People will moan about it
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  throughout. And then it gets to like a month
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  before the season, I'm like, OK, let's have a meeting and discuss
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  changes. And no one wants to like,
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  discuss it all about that. Basically required right now.
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  I'm the commissioner in my league and it's like I feel like
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  I'm constantly at war with like 5 different people.
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  And then when it comes down to the end of the season, yeah, no
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  one wants to make any change, but everyone wants to blame and
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  point fingers. Yeah, yeah.
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  And right now there's like half my league, there's a campaign
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  against like there's some, they're like not at me and
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  they're like, they're like all meeting again, just like like
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  stuff, like not even anything I did things I didn't do where I
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  was like, hey, like it's not fair for me to make this
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  adjustment because I'm not have to do it for everyone else.
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  So you know what I mean? Like, someone's complaining
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  about this and like me trying to be really fair, sometimes it's
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  perceived as like a problem, you know?
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  But now, now like half the league is like actively rooting
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  against whatever I do. So like if I lose a game,
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  everyone's cheering in the chat and it's just like, man, I'm
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  trying to just do my best here. I know it's hard, you try to be
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  fair and unbiased but like people will still complain.
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  I'll tell you what, one of the hardest things I feel like even
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  with fan tracks, which if not I wish there was better options,
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  would be the substitutions or Subs.
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  So in almost three of my leagues we have something different and
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  one league, which is kind of like the lowest amount of money
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  that's been gambled on it is we have no water Subs.
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  So you kind of you have to pay attention in my second, in my
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  second league, we have the ordered like settings, right,
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  so. If someone doesn't play, then
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  this person's next stop. Yes, but also if you don't set
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  your order before the weekend then you don't get any Subs.
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  But also if say, throughout that that weekend, your person that
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  you've ordered #5 you sub in for a player, that player then
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  doesn't get that order. They just won't always sub in.
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  So that's a little bit annoying, right?
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  Yeah. But then, and then my other one
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  is the kind of main one we have is we, we have just highest
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  player comes in. But in that league, we've also
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  developed a good etiquette about people not playing injured
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  players. People do check and stuff
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  because we didn't have an incident 5-6 years ago where one
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  guy was cheating the system. I remember it was like it was
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  Paul Popper was out for like 2 months and he kept putting Paul
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  Popper in and he'd have 3 midfielders on his bench.
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  So then the highest of the three midfielders would come in and we
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  were like, mate, you can't do that.
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  Like it's it's so annoying. And yeah, but then yeah.
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  That's the other thing I know would get taken advantage of.
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  Like I couldn't even, I like certain can of worms I can't
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  even open as commissioner, you know, because I just know that
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  people would, you know, would absolutely abuse it, but I'm OK.
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  The last main thing is who do you support and why?
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  I'm a Man United fan unfortunately, but also things,
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  things are coming back. No, I'm a man I find.
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  Well, I'm from Northampton in England, so you think I'm being
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  in Northampton Town. But I suppose my earliest memory
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  is none of my family are from Northampton.
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  My family are from North. My family are from just outside
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  of Stoke actually. So I should be a Stoke, I should
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  be a Stoke City fan, but the first kit I ever got was the
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  white Man United sharp kit and I Beckham on the back and I'm a
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  twin and my brother had a gigs 1.
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  So I kind of just just became obsessed from that minute on to
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  be honest. And then yeah, just, you know,
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  I've only been to probably like 3 or 4 Man United games, but I
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  watch them religiously every single weekend.
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  So it's, you know. Are you, are you filled with
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  optimism or doom right now with Man United?
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  Where are you on the spectrum? I think, I think some of it's
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  been positive. I think I think the real test is
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  going to be when AFCON comes and Brian and Bumo and Ahmadiyala
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  are are are gone for I think six games.
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  So that's what I did look up yesterday.
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  It's going to be 6 games that I missed through through AFCON.
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  So that'll be our whole right side, which will have to change.
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  And I think hopefully you've got players like Cuno who will step
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  up and maybe Bruno will play a bit further forward.
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  So we'll see. But I don't know, I, I feel kind
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  of optimistic. I think, I think last year
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  pushed through the ringer really didn't it, as United fans.
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  And I think as I think there's a lot of reactionary fans.
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  I could, I myself can be like that sometimes as well.
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  But I think people forget we were very, I was very blessed
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  with my whole childhood to watch with Alex Ferguson, to watch 13
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  out 20 titles or whatever it was he won and you know, 2 Champions
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  Leagues and you know, the various FA Cubs and the cups and
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  stuff. So it's, you know, it's just a
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  cyclical thing. I think it's a hard time.
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  I I do think I got I had to optimism.
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  I think the signings we made this year are good.
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  Brian and Boomo Kuya look great. I know Cunya's not scored loads,
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  but when you see him play, you're just like Manny is a
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  player. You can you know, I mean, it's
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  like we've got we've upgraded from Garnacho and Anthony to and
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  Boomo and Cunya, which is great. And I actually I like Cesco as
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  well. I think he's been getting a bit
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  too much harsh criticism recently.
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  I think he's, you know, he's coming from a different league.
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  He's also younger. I think people have been a bit
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  harsh on him a little bit. He's I think, I don't know if
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  you remember the goal against Brighton the other week, but
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  Cesco set up. He had a really great first
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  touch and then laid him in like a perfect ball.
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  And I was like, that was just, you know, we see moments of
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  quality like that and you're like, you know, OK, he's got
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  something about him and Hoiseland just kind of I think
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  did every United fans that everyone was so frustrated with
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  him last year because he just kept playing kind of a strange
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  game where he was just in battles and fights and he
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  wouldn't he wouldn't hold the ball up.
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  He wouldn't was never in the right place.
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  Is I don't know, it's hard, but I think we can all see with when
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  teams are playing badly, all the players suffer.
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  Like look at Man City last year. Man City players last year were
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  not besides Harlan, but he was injured for a bit, but he didn't
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  look some like Phil Foden, but he wasn't very good last year.
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  But the whole Man City wasn't wasn't good.
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  So when you have a team that's performing so badly, it's hard
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  to get, it's hard for players to play well as well, you know,
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  it's hard to kind of judge them really as well sometimes.
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  Yeah, I feel like this is the this is the first time this like
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  the season where the MRM system is really made like making
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  sense, you know, like with like because you have the right
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  personnel. So it's like Cesco, like it
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  makes sense that he's that kind of striker.
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  And then Guama and Cunha both make sense in those 10s
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  underneath, you know. So it's just it feels like even
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  if it's not perfect right now, you see what you see what he's
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  trying to do finally, like you're starting to see more and
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  more of the vision, I guess, but kind of moving into the news and
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  notes kind of just a few things. Just top First thing is like
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  England perfect so far through their their qualifying series.
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  You know, sock out a goal as it as it's got off the bench.
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  They play in a little bit, but we're not going to we're
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  obviously recording before the Sunday game.
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  A question for you is Morgan Rogers as a, you know, he seems
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  like he's like this perpetual fantasy, kind of like
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  frustration, but he's loved by chuckle and people, you know,
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  he's like, you know, so high, highly valued.
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  Where does he kind of fit into things?
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  And have have you looked at him analytically or like have you
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  looked kind of ever delve into him before?
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  Most of that was I was kind of looking at him before, like I
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  didn't name my drafts this year quite a lot.
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  And I was like, because I think he finished the season off last
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  last year pretty well. And I was like, I think he's
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  kind of a good big, you know, Goodyear the season and I think,
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  you know, again, be the start the season poorly, right.
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  And I think the hard thing with Morgan Rogers, Morgan Rogers as
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  a fantasy player is unless he and we noticed this last year,
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  unless he scores or he assists, he doesn't like you say, get a
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  lot of those kind of like ghost points, which is kind of strange
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  in a way, because when you're watching play, he's got that
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  kind of like Jude Bellingham dribbling hasn't he's got that
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  strength and that type of like, but it seemed but it's really
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  odd how sometimes it doesn't kind of match up with his
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  points. But I think there's players in
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  the past where that has happened.
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  Like I, I remember, like people say, I was going to say, like I
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  remember when Miguel, Miguel Amoron, remember when he had
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  like a really hot period and he was kind of similar.
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  Like he was kind of like when he didn't, when he wasn't scoring,
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  he didn't score particularly well for a long time.
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  Then all of a sudden he had a really good period where he was
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  playing well, he was getting ghosts, but he's also getting
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  some ghost points as well. But like, I think, I don't know.
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  I think same Jared Bowman as well.
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  I feel like Jared Bowman was like that for a while where he
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  was only goals and assists and he wouldn't get too many points.
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  But he's kind of almost like grown into this like role with
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  West Ham as he's a man and he seems to, I actually like traded
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  in one of my leagues, which I kind of regret doing, but he
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  kind of traded. For him.
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  No, no. But I, I had one of my leagues,
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  I had some, I had no forwards basically apart from Matthias
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  Kunia. I drafted Kunia in all my 3 much
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  drafts because I was 79 and eight were all my draft
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  positions so they weren't particularly good.
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  So I managed to get Cunha in all of them and as a second a second
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  picking one as well, which was strange but so I got, I got.
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  So I didn't have too many other forwards.
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  I went a bit too midfield heavy for some of them.
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  And so I wanted to trade and someone offered me a trade at
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  the beginning and I'm actually Ahmed Diallo, Jared Bowen or
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  Anton Stack and some other people who weren't who I who I'd
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  barely, I think it was Sobers life Liverpool and Anton Stack
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  and someone else kind of random. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  I was like, so I've got Amidal and Jared Bowen and I ended up
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  trading Jared Bowen and Miko Damstar who were picked up off
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  someone dropped Damscard off waivers, which was strange.
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  So I liked him. Me too.
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  I did him last year and all three of my teams and he was a
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  was a great pick up like early because I got him early on
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  because I was like, again, it's just what, you know, just watch
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  games and Damscott finished the season before pretty well and I
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  was like he's there's something really good about him.
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  Like I remember looking at his stats, but like because he was
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  good at where did he play before?
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  He was in Atlanta, Atlanta in Italy and he had pretty decent
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  kind of attacking stats. But he's also like he get good
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  ghost points as well. He's actually like wins a lot of
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  tackles and would get interceptions and stuff.
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  So so it's like he could do well if he plays a lot.
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  And then all of a sudden Frank started playing him more and
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  then he became a really valuable asset last year where he was
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  very good. Wasn't he very much a breakout?
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  Susan for him, yeah. So I I managed to trade him and
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  Matt Bowen and and Cherokee, which I shouldn't have traded
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  Cherokee, but I've got Munoz Aneka TK and I thought Munoz is
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  the best defender in the league. Definitely get him.
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  And I needed a full Aneka TK. I've ever since Isaac moves.
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  I thought, I thought I never I thought something fishy about
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  not fishy. But I feel like when you've got
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  that much drama about you, your season's going to be affected a
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  little bit. And Liverpool have been poor and
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  I've tried it. Ecka TK.
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  It's not been very good, to be fair.
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  So I've probably got. But I think he will play more.
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  But especially. Yeah, I was actually, Yeah.
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  Sorry, real quick though, we can we can just shout about that.
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  Like do you feel like Ecka TK right now is the number one for
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  Liverpool? Like I feel like his Isaac Isaac
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  came on for Sweden and played, you know, 30 minutes.
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  But I think until until that that that stuff.
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  It seems like, I mean, I can't imagine Essex Esac starts on the
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  weekend, you know? Yeah.
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  He seriously seems unfit, doesn't he?
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  Akritika came on in at left wing.
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  Actually, I don't know if you saw that.
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  He came on for Arcola and he scored and he got in a couple of
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  good positions. He looked, he looked pretty
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  threatening out from the left. I mean, I think, I think with
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  AFCON coming up, I think obviously Salah is going to be
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  going to Afghan. So there's that might actually
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  help a little bit of the balance of Liverpool, I think.
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  And Akritika could play more. They were I mean, if you
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  remember, he's that played a couple of times at left wing for
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  Newcastle. I don't think you I don't think
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  he'll play there much for for Liverpool.
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  But you know, you've also got Cody Gapo out there who started
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  the season really well. But you know, you speak to a lot
• 17:20
  of Liverpool fans and they don't love Gapo because of how
• 17:23
  predictable he is. He gets the ball, he cuts
• 17:25
  entirely shoots, which I suppose is good for fantasy value,
• 17:28
  right. You get a shot on target or or
• 17:29
  whatever might happen. But he's kind of a bit more
• 17:33
  one-dimensional than someone like Louis Diaz and I I love
• 17:36
  Louis Diaz. I had him in all my draftings
• 17:38
  the last couple of years and he was he was great last year.
• 17:40
  But I don't know. How do you feel about Liverpool?
• 17:44
  Do you think Liverpool are going to turn it around or do you
• 17:46
  think they're just going to be shaky or season like Man City
• 17:48
  where last year? I bet you they'll it'll come in
• 17:50
  waves, so I bet you they'll they'll be good for a while.
• 17:53
  You know, they'll get a little bit figured out and then they'll
• 17:55
  kind of get undone again. I feel like like it's over.
• 17:57
  Not it's hard to overstate how being that the Jota passing was
• 18:01
  on them because emotionally and like for them to just each each
• 18:04
  week is probably really tough, you know, and I think like it's
• 18:06
  hard to overstate how much that affects the players and
• 18:08
  everything. So I also think like when you
• 18:10
  add that many new pieces even, but they all are great.
• 18:13
  Like it's always going to take time to adjust and it's so I
• 18:16
  don't think I. Think we've rarely seen it ever
• 18:17
  happen in the Premier League where players have just I mean,
• 18:21
  I think not enough forests were kind of weird that one year when
• 18:23
  they when they even been the first time they did it when they
• 18:25
  saw like Jesse Lingard and they signed 2 new players.
• 18:27
  They it took them like a whole season.
• 18:29
  They were like relegation about 1:00 and then they kind of
• 18:32
  picked up. But even this season have signed
• 18:34
  a lot of new people, the midfield like the Douglas
• 18:38
  Louise, they signed that forward, you guys, Jesus.
• 18:41
  And yeah, yeah. What am I, Hutchinson?
• 18:44
  Never telling you guys, Jason. McAfee somebody, somebody plays.
• 18:47
  There's actually like good players there where you like
• 18:49
  waiting for them to kind of or you.
• 18:51
  Wish they would have went somewhere where they would have
• 18:53
  played a little more, you know, and that as well.
• 18:55
  Yeah. But it's funny though, too,
• 18:56
  because then for every, you know, I think the the more
• 18:59
  likely than not it's going to struggle when you bring that
• 19:01
  many players in. But then you look like a center
• 19:02
  land where it's like, wow, they brought in like a whole new team
• 19:04
  and there's they're doing fine. So it is like it is possible to
• 19:07
  do it, but it's just it seems tough.
• 19:09
  The other question I want to ask you is Voltamad with a double.
• 19:11
  So he keeps scoring goals and he scored a bunch for Tottenham or
• 19:14
  for Newcastle and would try a little bit and that'll be he
• 19:16
  keeps scoring for Germany. You feel like.
• 19:19
  I think with him it's similar where it's like his his lack of
• 19:22
  ghosts is the concern. Have you, have you kind of
• 19:25
  thought much about him? Yeah.
• 19:27
  Yeah, he, he, he got, he got bidded on quite a bit.
• 19:30
  I think everyone he got bidded for in most of my leagues, but
• 19:33
  for quite a bit of money. I, I'll be honest, I didn't
• 19:36
  really know much about him before then.
• 19:38
  My my friend who who got him he's he's won the league quite a
• 19:42
  few times and he's. Hold on, look who it is.
• 19:45
  Look decided to show up. You just woke up.
• 19:50
  I did. My iPhone did an update over the
• 19:52
  over the night, but it didn't recover the formation, so my
• 19:55
  alarm didn't go on. So, like, my iphone's gone,
• 19:58
  yeah. So this is.
• 19:59
  This is Craig. We're just, we're just, we're
• 20:00
  just chatting through some of the international games right
• 20:02
  now. Hey.
• 20:03
  Craig, Sorry, guys. Sorry.
• 20:04
  Yeah. No, no worries.
• 20:07
  But yeah, Walmart, I'm not sure. I think I mean, again,
• 20:11
  international football's different to Premier League
• 20:13
  football, even European football, right?
• 20:14
  We're seeing out of a lot of players this year.
• 20:15
  But like some players are performing well in the different
• 20:19
  settings. I do like Paul Romano though.
• 20:21
  He's got this kind of like Peter Crouch, like touch to him, but
• 20:25
  he's like a good dribbler. He's you know, I, I think
• 20:28
  Newcastle play in a way where their actual wingers are, you
• 20:32
  know, supplementary to the forward.
• 20:34
  Like Jacob Murphy, I think is a, you know, if you're a forward,
• 20:37
  he's probably a great winger to have.
• 20:38
  He's always trying to cross it in.
• 20:41
  It's a shame really. Someone like Trippia has lost
• 20:43
  his his fantasy value this year. Like, remember a couple years
• 20:47
  ago, Trippia was going like first two rounds in the draft,
• 20:49
  wasn't he? He was.
• 20:50
  One of these like the highest scoring player three years ago,
• 20:52
  I think. It's funny, We had a draft, the
• 20:55
  draft after that he got drafted. So whoever drafted second
• 21:00
  drafted in 2nd and it threw everyone's draft off because
• 21:03
  like everyone's expected him to go like later in the first
• 21:06
  second round and everyone was like panicking.
• 21:08
  And it was, it was, it was quite funny.
• 21:10
  But yeah, I don't know. I, I like him.
• 21:14
  I think, I think Newcastle have struggled away from home this
• 21:16
  year, haven't they? I think at home they're still
• 21:20
  going to be good. They've got man.
• 21:21
  Is it Man City this weekend coming up?
• 21:24
  Which and new. And man, see, they're kind of,
• 21:27
  they're looking better, aren't they?
• 21:29
  They're kind of quietly going about their business.
• 21:31
  They look a bit more solid. But I still think when Newcastle
• 21:35
  are on their day and they've got, you know, Tonali Gomarez
• 21:38
  and Joe Lidd in the midfield, they're like a powerhouses,
• 21:41
  aren't they? And that could maybe overpower,
• 21:43
  you know, even at home. When they're at home, they are
• 21:45
  they're very difficult to kind of ignore and say, hey, they
• 21:48
  they might not win this game because they even against
• 21:50
  Arsenal with 10 men, they were they were really good.
• 21:53
  So I don't know. It's it's you've got the other
• 21:56
  players for Newcastle, which have been inconsistent, which I
• 21:58
  think would help Walmart. They're like Harvey Barnes was
• 22:00
  good in the last game. Gordon's been quite inconsistent
• 22:03
  since since the last since he started last season off really
• 22:06
  well the first half. Do you remember?
• 22:08
  And then he got injured and really struggled to get back
• 22:10
  into the team. Alanga's been I did I was going
• 22:14
  nowhere near Alanga. I had a feeling this would
• 22:15
  happen if I'm being on the studio.
• 22:17
  I mean, for coming from Man United, I was like, I've watched
• 22:20
  him play enough to be like he's good, but he's not that good.
• 22:23
  First season Forrest he was OK, last season seemed like an
• 22:26
  outlier massively. But again, he might even, even
• 22:30
  even with Sweden, he's, he's struggled, hasn't he, to really
• 22:34
  find a place there, I feel. Like we've seen what he's
• 22:36
  capable of in both ways, like from a positive and a negative,
• 22:40
  like from a positive sense. It was last year with Forest
• 22:42
  with the from a negative just kind of disappearing.
• 22:44
  You know, we saw United and Sweden.
• 22:47
  Yeah. I think with Volta my my thing
• 22:49
  is that like similar to Morgan Rogers where he, he does things
• 22:52
  and he looks like he'd be scoring better, you know what I
• 22:54
  mean? Like some of the like the some
• 22:55
  of his link up play and stuff, you're like, oh wow.
• 22:57
  Like he's so involved in play that none of it is just directly
• 22:59
  driving to points, I guess. So we'll see.
• 23:02
  I mean, I just feel like also part of it hopefully is that
• 23:05
  Newcastle just been done once they get better, you know, once
• 23:07
  they you know, once their their form kind of picks up that he'll
• 23:10
  he'll kind of pick up in points as well.
• 23:12
  It's the last little thing to talk about, just Erin Holland
• 23:15
  and it's just the, you know, two more goals for Norway.
• 23:17
  Just the machine that is. It's just.
• 23:19
  A joke. Any he's Yeah, it's just the
• 23:22
  most one of, if not the most clinical finisher in the world
• 23:26
  at the moment, isn't he? Him and Harry Kane really are.
• 23:28
  And then back pay. But you know, them three are in
• 23:32
  terms of scoring are just up there and it's terrifying if
• 23:36
  you're if you're playing against them in your game week, isn't
• 23:38
  it? Every time I play talent and I'm
• 23:39
  like, please just have an off week.
• 23:41
  But. I feel like it's interesting
• 23:43
  though, because I feel like right now, like the, you know,
• 23:48
  Laminia Mall gets all the hype and stuff and, and, you know,
• 23:50
  he's not having the best season ever.
• 23:52
  But like, then you look at Holland and it's like, I feel
• 23:54
  like there's, there's such like a, there's less hype around him
• 23:57
  and what he does and I feel like is warranted.
• 23:58
  I'm not sure it was just him playing for Man City or him, you
• 24:02
  know, maybe the striker position isn't as like kind of coveted as
• 24:06
  it was back, you know, 20 years ago.
• 24:08
  But like, it's such an interesting kind of thing, just
• 24:10
  like from a notoriety standpoint, I think.
• 24:12
  They look at his goals as boring goals.
• 24:15
  Boring goals. Yeah, it's it's kind of similar
• 24:18
  like the whole when Ronaldo was, you know, Fernaldo tap merchant
• 24:22
  kind of nickname he was given versus Messi.
• 24:25
  Messi he plays obviously this, you know, you watch Messi, he's
• 24:28
  like just this elegant, beautiful football player who's,
• 24:31
  you know, everyone, everyone seems to think he's the best
• 24:33
  player in the world, right. And then Ronaldo, you got these
• 24:36
  two greats, right? But they're just slightly
• 24:38
  different in how they do things here with Harland.
• 24:39
  Harland is, you know, when you actually like look at the stuff
• 24:41
  that he does so well. There's no one bad like the way
• 24:44
  he makes runs. I saw some an amazing start the
• 24:47
  other day. I think in 108 games he's been
• 24:49
  offside less than 20 times. And I think, and it's something
• 24:53
  it's something insane. And I think Alexander Isaac will
• 24:56
  had a good ratio as well, pretty good, but and Bappe was
• 24:59
  averaging at least one offside a game.
• 25:03
  And it's really funny because I saw some really stupid comments
• 25:06
  on it and so on being like, hey, how could you be?
• 25:09
  Like, how can you be offside, like every game?
• 25:12
  And it's like, well, mate, if you play forwards and you play
• 25:14
  with people who don't play the ball when you wanted to play it,
• 25:16
  you're going to be offside. But it's also like the timing of
• 25:19
  everything shows you how impeccable his timing is because
• 25:21
  he's fast as well. Like, you think he'd get caught
• 25:23
  off more, but he obviously uses it really well.
• 25:26
  And his, you know, the way he peels off to the back posts is I
• 25:29
  think his holder playing his general blinker play this year
• 25:32
  has been so much better as well. Yeah.
• 25:34
  Absolutely. And I think.
• 25:35
  That goes, you know, people just think him as this big again,
• 25:38
  it's, you know, you have people like the media, like Roy Keane
• 25:40
  saying that like he wouldn't do well in league.
• 25:42
  What you know, you know, those that there was those kind of
• 25:44
  comments that was made. It does kind of paint a kind of
• 25:48
  picture about him, which is a little bit untrue.
• 25:49
  And people kind of when you watch him close, you're like,
• 25:51
  you know, there's actually a really good football player
• 25:53
  there and, you know. I got.
• 25:56
  When he went through the other day and he just, you just know
• 25:58
  when he's gone one-on-one, he's going to score, don't you?
• 26:00
  Which is crazy. It's.
• 26:03
  Also, I think a lot of people forget how he played in
• 26:05
  Dortmund, which was a complete different style, how he would
• 26:07
  drop back and make the runs. And I saw an interview recently
• 26:10
  with Kyle Walker that, you know, was one of those things on
• 26:12
  Instagram, name a player who's faster than you.
• 26:14
  And then he said how long that's faster than he is.
• 26:16
  And that's coming from Kyle Walker.
• 26:18
  Yeah, which is intense. He's like in the long range.
• 26:20
  It's like, no, no one's beating Holland.
• 26:22
  And I, I, we talked about this before, Keith as a defender.
• 26:25
  Imagine. Holland is running.
• 26:27
  Towards you. With those giant strides, you're
• 26:30
  scooted. No one.
• 26:31
  Yeah, 3. So much, so big.
• 26:33
  Yeah, you're done. I want to just quickly just
• 26:35
  touch on some of the injuries. I think the biggest news coming
• 26:38
  out of this week so far was Gabrielle going down injured for
• 26:41
  Brazil and then Cal Fiori having some having some issues or him
• 26:46
  going home. So now we're looking at, we're
• 26:48
  going to look, we're looking at the best defense in the league
• 26:50
  and potentially 2 of the two of the players off that going down.
• 26:54
  Yeah, I live. I mean, I sort of invested well
• 26:57
  in the defensive, haven't they? Like they really have.
• 26:59
  So it's it's, I think everyone has come in well there.
• 27:03
  So I'd be interested in who partners.
• 27:05
  They've got that Zamos wearer and they've got Henkapi for who
• 27:09
  came from Bilevikus and the two good options and then MLS.
• 27:13
  As well MLS. And Ben, why so I I think I'll
• 27:15
  be fine, but that's actually they're all probably.
• 27:18
  I might try and see if they're available right now actually.
• 27:21
  Yeah, that's what I did. I immediately went and grabbed
• 27:23
  mascara, but I kind of was going to ask like, what is that order?
• 27:26
  I think, I think for me it's mascara, Hincapie and then maybe
• 27:30
  MLS, because it feels like MLS has fallen down the pecking
• 27:32
  order a little bit. But what do you guys think?
• 27:35
  Did you know what the severity of the injuries were to those
• 27:37
  two? One of the there's like that
• 27:39
  injury, like I figure it's a Twitter account that kind of
• 27:42
  looks at the video and kind of predicts what the injury's going
• 27:45
  to be. And they're thinking it could be
• 27:46
  because it was higher, it was like a groin injury, but it's
• 27:48
  higher up. So they think it could be three
• 27:50
  to six weeks. Oh wow.
• 27:52
  But it's. Hard, you know, it's hard to
• 27:53
  know, but it's like if it's a, if it's a grade, if it's like
• 27:56
  the lowest grade of injury, it'll be two to three and.
• 27:59
  Especially with, you know, the Christmas period coming up,
• 28:01
  that's actually quite a lot of football that he could miss,
• 28:04
  which which again, would offer a lot of value for those players.
• 28:07
  So yeah, I just. I just traded for him so this is
• 28:11
  really hurting me. That's that, did you say?
• 28:15
  You you gave up, Keith. No, I don't really want to talk
• 28:17
  about it, no. Who did you give up?
• 28:19
  I. I.
• 28:20
  Traded Sala for Gabriel Straight.
• 28:22
  Up may do you know what was my? It's I went into my whole logic
• 28:30
  for it, but a lot of it was about like the Arsenal defense
• 28:33
  being so good and Salah going away and Salah really
• 28:35
  underperforming. So it's like, you know, a lot of
• 28:37
  that stuff is mute. If he's not playing, it doesn't
• 28:40
  really matter. You know an injury is an injury
• 28:41
  but. So I I created this fan tracks
• 28:45
  data dashboard based on my or I've created data for the last
• 28:48
  five years. I've almost seized all the
• 28:50
  players final scores and I've got this like drafting tool.
• 28:53
  So you can use it to draft right?
• 28:54
  I posted, I read it a long time ago, but one thing I've noticed
• 28:57
  with certain players, and this is true of Salah is he will go
• 29:01
  one really high season kind of dip a little bit higher than
• 29:05
  dip. And I had him the last Afghan
• 29:08
  season and he 3 when he came back from Afghan, he struggled
• 29:12
  in getting hurt. I remember he still, he still
• 29:15
  was obviously a good player, still gets like, I think like
• 29:18
  over 400 points for the season, but he's not getting that
• 29:21
  500600I mean it's very, very hard to maintain what he did
• 29:24
  last year. Last year was an out an outlier
• 29:27
  season for any player really. Wasn't it like that amount of
• 29:31
  goals and assists in the league? I I, I understand your logic for
• 29:34
  doing it. It's just especially because
• 29:36
  when he's when he's not getting anything, he's he's getting
• 29:40
  around 0 points, isn't he? It's yeah.
• 29:42
  That's what was killing me and I just felt like I I felt like it
• 29:45
  would like this. And it seems like there's such a
• 29:46
  trend towards the defenders scoring really high this year
• 29:48
  and the way Arsenal's defense was, it made sense in my head
• 29:52
  and and maybe it'll still pay off, you know, depending on this
• 29:54
  injury, but we don't need to go too long on this.
• 29:56
  I want to briefly touch on AF con and a little bit of AF con
• 29:59
  prep. I think, you know, like always
• 30:00
  it was solid as the big one, but now it's like you've kind of
• 30:03
  been missing Saul already this season, so it's probably like
• 30:06
  Emblemo and it's probably the biggest AFCON mess.
• 30:09
  Yeah, definitely. I think he'll, I think not.
• 30:15
  I think I don't think that's just going to affect like people
• 30:17
  who own like Emblemo, but also people who have probably owned
• 30:21
  Man United players, right. He takes over set pieces.
• 30:24
  He's been integral to the attack.
• 30:26
  I mean, same with all times where people got absence.
• 30:28
  Like who's going to step up? You know, Mason Mount is
• 30:31
  probably going to get more minutes now.
• 30:33
  So you know, and I imagine as well what we're going to see is
• 30:36
  maybe Dorby play left wing back and Dalla right wing back or
• 30:40
  Mazzaraoui. So it's going to be minutes to
• 30:42
  those players and well, you know, Bruno Fernandez might play
• 30:46
  a bit more attacking this time as well.
• 30:47
  So I don't know, Bruno still was getting decent points.
• 30:51
  I think he's not quite been as high as he has in the past, but
• 30:54
  you know, there could be an opportunity there to even trade
• 30:56
  for someone like Bruno, especially with AFCON going on
• 30:59
  because you might have a bit more of an attacking license,
• 31:01
  which could, you know, he could be good value around that
• 31:05
  period, especially when I'm boomers away.
• 31:06
  But I mean, other players, Amy Diallo, who else is going Sala,
• 31:11
  I think. Nori is a big one.
• 31:13
  I mean, he's been injured, but I think it's just more for like
• 31:14
  Nico O'Reilly all of a sudden. I think it were where he's been
• 31:18
  kind of, he's been really good in that position and now he's
• 31:20
  going to have even less competition.
• 31:21
  You know, I was going to. Talk about him being an over.
• 31:23
  It's performing, actually, yeah. It's like a great thing, but do
• 31:27
  you want to do you want to start with the over underperformers?
• 31:29
  So Craig brought some guys that he he kind of looked at the data
• 31:33
  and had some over underperformers.
• 31:34
  The first one we can do you want to talk about him first?
• 31:36
  Yeah, I. Think I did talk about him the
• 31:38
  other week. I think again what the one I
• 31:40
  don't like you guys league, but he's he's been picked up a bit
• 31:42
  more recently as a mid, even as a midfielder and he's playing
• 31:45
  his defender because he's he's doing well right.
• 31:47
  He's getting over 10 points a game or whatever.
• 31:49
  I think the thing with Nico O'Reilly is that put people off
• 31:52
  was he wasn't a defender. So you know, when you're picking
• 31:56
  up a defender, one of the main reasons you pick him up is that
• 31:59
  hope of a clean sheet bonus, right?
• 32:01
  Or, or because that's an extra 6 points or whatever you might
• 32:04
  have it in your whatever you have is whatever your scoring
• 32:07
  system is, whatever you have as it's still it's a big chunk of
• 32:09
  the points. So not having that every week is
• 32:11
  OK. Why would I pick up a a
• 32:13
  midfielder who's playing as defender?
• 32:15
  But we've seen in every week he plays, he gets forward and he
• 32:18
  you know, a lot of fullbacks. Now we have a fullback legs, a
• 32:21
  lot of opportunities. They are good value for money
• 32:23
  and he has, he's going to make it hard for Al Nori to get back
• 32:26
  in the squad, in the team because he defends really well.
• 32:29
  I mean, he pocketed Salah. Salah's not having the best
• 32:32
  season ever, is he? But he still was brilliant
• 32:34
  against him. He he scored, he scored a couple
• 32:37
  of goals. He gets up and down.
• 32:39
  He defends really well. Al Nori's not great defensively.
• 32:42
  I could see Al Nori playing more, especially when you think
• 32:45
  about Man City playing maybe at home against some of the weak
• 32:49
  opposition who might pack it in. You could see maybe OK, Al Nori
• 32:52
  might be a good, you know, a good play to play in this game.
• 32:56
  But even then, if if O'reilly's contributing to the attack in
• 32:59
  every game, why would you drop him?
• 33:01
  Fully what I mean well, how's he been scoring?
• 33:05
  Is he like kind of because I, I know that it's been like he's
• 33:07
  ever been showing up on waivers a lot and I think he's on my
• 33:10
  waiver list, but you know, like I think it's been like his last
• 33:14
  two games he has 14.5 then 21. You know, that's what he had an
• 33:18
  assist and then a goal. So I mean, yeah, I I feel like
• 33:23
  he's also, he's still and he's still under rostered in.
• 33:25
  He's rusted in less than 50% of leagues right now too, which is
• 33:28
  pretty crazy. He had his first England cop as
• 33:30
  well. He looked.
• 33:31
  Good as well. He was kind of he had the shot
• 33:33
  that led to sack of scoring. But yeah, I I again, I think
• 33:38
  he's he's good value for money especially.
• 33:41
  And it's going to be difficult with Al Nouri coming back there.
• 33:43
  There might be that risk of him not playing.
• 33:45
  But it also let's say Al Nouri's going to be going away for
• 33:49
  AFCON, right. So he's definitely going to play
• 33:51
  a lot in that period. And the fact that he's young
• 33:54
  means he's you know, he's probably not going to be rested
• 33:56
  or get burnt out. He's he's it's amazing really,
• 33:59
  because Rico Lewis exactly Rico Lewis kind of blew on the scene
• 34:02
  a couple years ago, but he never really he was very you know, he
• 34:06
  looked he didn't look very didn't look.
• 34:08
  He has a physique to last in the Premier League.
• 34:11
  Right. He looked at.
• 34:11
  The words O'reilly's a big lad and he like he it's mad to think
• 34:15
  that he's only like 19 years old or something.
• 34:17
  He is a big boy, but no, I I like him.
• 34:21
  I think he's been over performing other players that I
• 34:23
  mean height I've put down here. We were probably all been
• 34:26
  drafted. I mean Declan Rice has been
• 34:29
  brilliant this year. I think I'm happy I drafted in
• 34:32
  one of my teams. I had a the the first week I,
• 34:35
  when I, the first game week I drafted him, he got an assist
• 34:38
  against United and that's all he did.
• 34:40
  And I remember I, I was gutted because someone got rising Ders
• 34:43
  and I was going to plan to get him after.
• 34:44
  And I was like, oh man, I should have got rising ders after that
• 34:47
  first week. And and then ever since then,
• 34:49
  Rice is just like almost every week you think he's going to get
• 34:51
  an assist because he's just all the corners for scoring.
• 34:55
  So you know, he's been very kind of over performing, but even if
• 34:59
  you looked at last year, like he is one of those players that was
• 35:01
  getting more and more licensed going forward as a boxer box
• 35:04
  midfielder. So you kind of could see the
• 35:06
  writing on the wall and especially them signing super
• 35:08
  Mendy it it's given a lot more for Rice.
• 35:11
  I mean rice is is brilliant. He's he really is that great
• 35:16
  boxer box midfielder outlet that you kind of want and also great
• 35:18
  for fantasy because he does contribute at both ends.
• 35:21
  So he's been good. Igar Tiago again, I I'll be
• 35:25
  honest, I I was kind of put off with him.
• 35:28
  I think there was a lot of people who didn't know if he was
• 35:30
  going to be great this year. But he's again shows you how
• 35:33
  important confidence is in form. Like once he got the goal early
• 35:36
  on in the season, it shows you that he's kind of not stopped
• 35:38
  and he's looked he looks a handful, doesn't he?
• 35:40
  And he's looked to have made kind of good chemistry with like
• 35:44
  the other bread for the tacos. So he seems to be over
• 35:47
  performing. Don't know how long that will
• 35:49
  last. I mean, if you look at someone
• 35:50
  like even like Simenyo, right, he started off the season
• 35:53
  really, really well, but he's dropped off a little bit last
• 35:55
  couple of games. Bournemouth have had a had
• 35:58
  couple of games of fixtures I feel like, but they're played,
• 36:02
  they've got a good, I think a good like 5 or 6 games coming up
• 36:04
  now Bournemouth. So you'd imagine he'd get back
• 36:05
  on there. But last season as well, he
• 36:07
  started the season really, really well and then he kind of
• 36:10
  taped off for a middle period and came back again.
• 36:12
  But I liked him. You're in Timber was obviously
• 36:16
  has been doing very well as a over performing defender that
• 36:21
  Yancuba Minta not got loads of goals and assists, but he seems
• 36:24
  to get really good ghost points. He gets a lot of crosses he gets
• 36:27
  he's obviously a great dribbler. So that helps.
• 36:30
  And then I think one of the key one, that one person, one
• 36:32
  goalkeeper that stood out is Robin Rose for for Sunderland.
• 36:37
  Like he's not only just making like loads of saves, but Sunland
• 36:40
  have been doing well as well and he's actually a goalkeeper where
• 36:42
  I feel like there was a strategy before they could pick.
• 36:44
  I've done it before. You pick up a goalkeeper every
• 36:46
  week if you've not got a a true choice, whereas he is, he's
• 36:49
  getting over like, well, I think his average is like 1215 points
• 36:51
  a game, somewhere in that range, like which is for a goalkeeper
• 36:55
  is massive, right? Like you're usually hoping that
• 36:57
  your goalkeeper get somewhere between what, 6 and 10 points
• 36:59
  and you're like, that's OK. But if he's getting like 12
• 37:02
  points plus every week, that's a massive asset.
• 37:05
  It's kind of like. How Flecken was last year, it's
• 37:06
  almost like you're you're benefiting from a team that's
• 37:09
  that's over performing and then a keeper that's also busy.
• 37:12
  It's like that combo is really, really good.
• 37:14
  I wanna I wanna go back quickly. So you go to Tiago.
• 37:16
  I think one of the things that's really good about him is
• 37:18
  obviously he's been scoring goals and it's really nice.
• 37:21
  But what's also great is that for a forward, his ghost points,
• 37:24
  he gets like 7.1 ghost points per start too, which is like for
• 37:27
  a striker is great. That's like that's like that's
• 37:29
  really ghost point numbers. And so topping that with the
• 37:33
  fact that he's all of a sudden getting all these goals and
• 37:34
  assists or goals mostly is like, yeah, so he's he's suddenly
• 37:38
  first on the scene and it's amazing with Declan Rice that
• 37:41
  he's the number one in standard toying.
• 37:43
  He's the number one midfielder right now really.
• 37:46
  Yeah. Which is, I mean, you know, you
• 37:49
  think about, you know, the you think about all these great
• 37:51
  attacking midfielders that are in the league and the fact that
• 37:53
  Declan Reis is there, it's just a testament to how good he's
• 37:55
  been. Yeah, it's been, it's he's
• 38:00
  really kind of evolved this game and I think he's only going to
• 38:02
  keep continuing to, to be honest.
• 38:03
  I mean, he's he's started to add a few goals to this game as
• 38:05
  well. And I think that will continue
• 38:08
  and we're still. Waiting on that the free kick
• 38:10
  goal this year, right He she's got a few in his locker.
• 38:14
  I know, yeah, I'm hoping so. I mean, great, he could do that
• 38:17
  for England at the World Cup next year.
• 38:18
  That would be nice. Yeah, maybe saving, saving them
• 38:20
  up. So yeah.
• 38:23
  So I think you just you've listed some really good names of
• 38:25
  those names. Do you think would be like
• 38:26
  you're the biggest like trade target?
• 38:28
  You think is is like a Minta or like obviously rice is so tough,
• 38:32
  but like who do you think's like maybe one that you'd look at and
• 38:34
  be like this guy's maybe like not right.
• 38:36
  You know, his numbers aren't quite as good, but he's doing
• 38:39
  all the things maybe and could be, could be a great person.
• 38:43
  It's interesting, it's interesting for trading because
• 38:45
  you just have to do it the right moment.
• 38:46
  I've seen people in the, the, you know, the draft EPL fantasy
• 38:50
  that are ready to drop some menu or trade some menu.
• 38:53
  So like people could, you know, he could be if he has another
• 38:57
  bad, you know, an off week. There's there's an opportunity,
• 38:59
  there's opportunities there isn't it?
• 39:00
  It's whether you believe when they're going to pick it up
• 39:02
  again. But I think Minter is is a good
• 39:05
  option. He's not had the most score in
• 39:06
  his Sats, but you could again, he's getting loads of ghost
• 39:08
  points. So he would be a good option.
• 39:11
  I think for some of my trade, some of my trade targets I wrote
• 39:14
  down, there weren't necessarily some of the over performing
• 39:18
  players. I think like Igor Tiago, again,
• 39:22
  I don't think people are going to give him up right now because
• 39:23
  he's playing so well. I don't know.
• 39:27
  What do you guys think? Do you?
• 39:28
  Who would? You yeah, I mean, I I think that
• 39:32
  shot up Bruno Fernandez is actually a really good one
• 39:34
  because I think, you know, I think people draft him expecting
• 39:37
  him to be a certain way and obviously he's doing great.
• 39:39
  He's like, I think he's the 10th ranked player overall, but maybe
• 39:42
  he's just not delivering at the level that people maybe have
• 39:45
  anticipated for him in the past. So I think, I think there's
• 39:48
  something there which is really good.
• 39:52
  I would stick to menu, but I would go after Cunha.
• 39:55
  Obviously he's been very big on the performing, especially with
• 39:58
  the Afghan coming up players going in.
• 39:59
  Also Cesco, we don't know what what the situation is.
• 40:02
  So I think he might have a bigger role in the next coming
• 40:04
  like month or two, at least until like start of the new
• 40:06
  year. So that's someone who else?
• 40:08
  What was he going top first two rounds?
• 40:10
  Very underperformance of release.
• 40:11
  So that's yeah, end of the. First.
• 40:13
  Yeah, yeah. Cesco's, I think he's on it.
• 40:16
  He got injured. I'm not sure the how bad it is,
• 40:19
  but he does. He did pick up a bit of an
• 40:20
  injury. So, but hopefully that's not too
• 40:22
  bad because you're like, right, like if with AF con coming up,
• 40:24
  he'll play a lot more. You'd hope.
• 40:26
  And it's also your players need games to get in a groove and to
• 40:30
  get goals, especially as a forward.
• 40:31
  It's, it's hard if you're in and out to kind of get that
• 40:34
  consistency. The the 2 two players that I
• 40:37
  kind of, I, I wrote down, which might be a bit controversial.
• 40:41
  I, I thought could be the trade targets would be, would be
• 40:43
  Florian words. And hear me out.
• 40:45
  He's not been great this season, but I've seen people willing to
• 40:49
  drop him and he was going top 2 drafts this year.
• 40:52
  And I feel like if you I feel like it would hurt, it hurts
• 40:55
  your soul a little bit. You're going to have to drop
• 40:57
  someone who's one of your first two draft picks, right?
• 41:00
  So I think with with with salad going to afcon and maybe as soon
• 41:07
  as Liverpool pick up and perform works can maybe find his groove.
• 41:10
  He could be a good asset. So you could be traded with
• 41:13
  someone like Wertz with, I don't know.
• 41:15
  I'm trying to think of a player who someone like Damstad, for
• 41:18
  example, right, who has constant good fantasy value, but maybe
• 41:23
  you have over three or four of them midfielders that are of
• 41:26
  similar value. You're like, OK, maybe if I I
• 41:29
  could offer it attempt off would be him for of words and then
• 41:31
  words ends up being really good in this next period.
• 41:34
  He ends up being like a really good trade about a trade option
• 41:37
  again, a bit more risky. I like Phil Foden as a trade
• 41:40
  target as well. I think he's starting to look
• 41:42
  like himself. I think he's going to be
• 41:45
  unnoticed. I think against us who like
• 41:48
  Liverpool at the weekend. Sorry, he he played a lot
• 41:50
  deeper, which I think affected his score a little bit.
• 41:53
  But you can still see evening it's England.
• 41:56
  He seems to have that bit of swagger back about him, doesn't
• 41:59
  he? Where he was like he's so good
• 42:01
  at turning on the ball like and just going forward with it.
• 42:03
  So I think he again, I'm not sure how his fantasy stats
• 42:08
  change if he does play deeper because he is doing that a
• 42:11
  little bit. But he scored two goals midweek
• 42:13
  against. We did City play, they beat when
• 42:17
  they smashed, it was a full 1. But he scored two really good
• 42:20
  goals. He scored two really.
• 42:22
  He scored two really good goals there, didn't he?
• 42:23
  So I think he's kind of back. I think he could be good values
• 42:26
  for money. And he seems to be getting lots
• 42:28
  of minutes on the path. Whereas players like Savio and
• 42:31
  even, you know, I was a big Oscar Bob believer at the
• 42:33
  beginning of the year and I'm bit disappointed that he's not
• 42:35
  doing good and it's kind of broken my heart a little bit,
• 42:38
  honestly. I bid my my mate texted me
• 42:40
  saying I'm bidding for Bob. So I bid 20 of my 100 FAB on him
• 42:43
  at the beginning of the season and I ended up and no one else
• 42:46
  bid for him. I was gutted.
• 42:47
  I was like, mate, you've done me over.
• 42:50
  But every time, every time I see Norway play again as well, I
• 42:52
  always like how did Bob do? And he is the only person who
• 42:55
  didn't get a goal or assist. And I'm like, no.
• 42:58
  I wanted to just touch briefly on your words shout out.
• 43:01
  I think that's actually a really good one.
• 43:02
  And I think there's something about it too, where there's been
• 43:05
  a lot of talk in the Liverpool camps about how Salah's not been
• 43:08
  holding them back, But Salah's needing to play out on that wing
• 43:12
  is just kind of not what they need positionally.
• 43:15
  And like with potentially with him out for F con, they can
• 43:17
  really get into that a better line up for the new personnel to
• 43:21
  have, you know, and so like and who knows?
• 43:24
  I'm not saying that that's going to be the case, but I think if
• 43:26
  there's ever a chance to trade for words, it's probably right
• 43:28
  before Afghan to see like maybe that'll just really wake up, you
• 43:32
  know, there. Maybe that'll allow them to
• 43:34
  loosen up to shake things up formationally and like activate
• 43:37
  words a little more. So I think that's a really good
• 43:38
  shot and I. Think especially if you can
• 43:40
  afford, if you've got 3, three to four of the midfielders that
• 43:44
  are confidently starting all the time and bringing you good
• 43:47
  value. I think that's a, you know, I
• 43:49
  think it's worth a risk, you know, because I think ultimately
• 43:52
  in your team, you want, you want at least three solid
• 43:56
  midfielders, at least two. Yeah, it's.
• 43:58
  Kind of lottery pick guys, you know, like those last guys.
• 44:02
  And then to your photon shout out, I think it's like, yeah, I
• 44:04
  mean, photons look so much better.
• 44:06
  I think the rub with him is always just the same with Pep
• 44:09
  was just like, so it's like one week Pep loves you and you're
• 44:13
  the king of the world, and then like the next week, you're not
• 44:15
  going to play for a month. You know, it's just like always
• 44:17
  so tough to know where that kind of where that's going to shake
• 44:21
  out. And you know, I think other than
• 44:23
  Holland, I don't know if anyone's like fully guaranteed a
• 44:25
  spot on that team even. Doc who's he had a couple of
• 44:28
  games he had he had a couple of games he was I mean he was
• 44:31
  unplayable, wasn't he? Against Arsenal, he was unreal,
• 44:34
  unbelievable. I hated I was playing against
• 44:36
  one guy who he was. I think he had like a 5060 point
• 44:39
  deficit against me going into a last game and he had Doku and I
• 44:42
  was like, please take Doku off. Please like give you a.
• 44:45
  Heart attack AM not. Catching me up, but still I was
• 44:48
  like take him off, but he's not again.
• 44:50
  Doku is that game almost he's had two really good games this
• 44:54
  year, two or three really good games and the other games he's
• 44:56
  not been as sharp. But if he, if he can show some
• 44:59
  consistency like that, he's going to be like a top five pick
• 45:02
  next year, isn't he? Like if he does that, I mean.
• 45:05
  If he maintains this, yeah. And it's going to be that's
• 45:07
  going to be one of those ones where it's going to be so, so
• 45:10
  such a risk reward because you just with you just never know,
• 45:13
  you know, he's like, you know, it's like, would you rather have
• 45:15
  a, a guy who can do that and score that many points or
• 45:18
  someone, you know, that's going to get you XY And that that
• 45:20
  becomes one of those like being like philosophical draft
• 45:23
  questions, you know, and I. Also think the frustrating thing
• 45:25
  about drafting like a Doko or any of the city wingers is if
• 45:29
  you draft some like Doko early in the first round, let's say
• 45:31
  top five, I feel like later on in the draft you have to
• 45:33
  handicap it by drafting another mad city player.
• 45:36
  Like maybe you fold it or Savio just to be on the which kind of
• 45:39
  like impacts your draft as well. But the potential for a dog who
• 45:42
  to have those like 20 plus point games is like very, very high,
• 45:45
  especially with how loud scoring, the way he is scoring,
• 45:48
  it's interesting. That there's definitely a Man
• 45:50
  City tactic to draft in. It's like you can't just have
• 45:53
  one. You need to have like 2.
• 45:54
  And then it's great when both players play, but it's like also
• 45:57
  hurtful when they both don't play, isn't it?
• 45:59
  Yeah. I, I've riding in Savio in one
• 46:02
  league and it's like it was kind of OK for a little while and now
• 46:05
  it's just not great. It's like really bad, you know?
• 46:08
  Satya was. Dropped in one of my leagues and
• 46:09
  I'm tempted to pick him up. But he's also, again, it's it's
• 46:14
  hard, isn't it? Like rising this as well.
• 46:15
  I don't think I'll drop rising this, but it's hard to know how
• 46:18
  he's going to come back because that first game against Wolves,
• 46:21
  he was unbelievable. Like, we're not, you know, just
• 46:25
  the passes he was doing and the way he was running.
• 46:27
  And I'm like, yeah. Such a strong runner.
• 46:30
  I don't know. Yeah, it'll be interesting.
• 46:32
  I I saw I, I it's kind of hard to.
• 46:35
  I can't really do anything about it.
• 46:36
  I just have to sit there and like have them both on my bench
• 46:38
  and just pray, you know, that's really.
• 46:42
  Yeah. So I just want to touch briefly
• 46:44
  on this. We've talked about all these
• 46:45
  guys, but just you know, going into the end of the week and
• 46:48
  into the next week, like some late waiver picks up.
• 46:50
  We talked about mascara, Hincapie and Miles Luis Skelly.
• 46:54
  I think, I think with the Gabriel news and potentially Cal
• 46:56
  Fiori injury as well, I think those might be the priority
• 46:59
  pickups, you know, and then I think we also Craig mentioned
• 47:04
  Nico O'Reilly, which I think is a huge one that I have on waiver
• 47:06
  is as well. I mean, 46% owned first England
• 47:08
  cap look great AFCON to or at Norway to AFCON.
• 47:12
  I think those are all things, you know, we like AFCON is
• 47:14
  something you definitely should start thinking about a planning
• 47:16
  about now. You know, like, I think, I think
• 47:18
  you're going to be ahead of the game if you're starting to make
• 47:21
  moves with that in mind. Yeah, you don't want to wait too
• 47:25
  late, do you? Because, because then everyone's
• 47:26
  going to be going after them. Same with some of the trade
• 47:28
  stuff. It's gone.
• 47:30
  You're doing a little bit further out portal on those kind
• 47:32
  of notices. Yeah, I like Mason Go.
• 47:37
  Ahead. No, Mason, that's a good shout,
• 47:40
  I think. Yeah, Mason.
• 47:41
  That was my other one I had written down, and you shouted it
• 47:43
  out, too. And I think like this, I think
• 47:45
  it's only compounded by the fact that Cesco tweaked his knee, you
• 47:48
  know, like, it's that that plus Ahmad going to AFCON plus.
• 47:51
  And when we're going to AFCON, I just don't.
• 47:53
  I don't see a world where Mount isn't starting a good amount of
• 47:56
  games during that period. Yeah.
• 47:58
  I. I I posted my my like blog
• 48:00
  earlier this week, but I'm probably going to add a couple
• 48:03
  people to it now that that kind of stuff's happened.
• 48:05
  So I think it's probably important to add in.
• 48:08
  But I also like I did met one place I mentioned for next for
• 48:11
  the next one is Lewis Hall or Newcastle.
• 48:14
  Dan Byrne got sending off. Obviously they're at home to Man
• 48:18
  City, which is tough. But Lewis Hall, he played the
• 48:20
  England in the 20 ones the other week like this last week.
• 48:23
  So he's obviously back playing and if he played in that as
• 48:25
  well, he must be showing a bit of fitness.
• 48:28
  He was obviously great fancy value.
• 48:30
  He had a couple of really big games last season.
• 48:32
  I think before his injury. He had a couple of games over 30
• 48:35
  and what, maybe over 40 points. So it's some big upside to
• 48:38
  picking up him. And especially when Newcastle
• 48:41
  are at home, it's always worth a gamble that you know, they're
• 48:45
  going to be, you know, the tsunami will be showing up and
• 48:47
  they'll be kind of they're kind of to to kind of put up some new
• 48:52
  points. So I like Lewis Hall.
• 48:54
  I'm a big. Lewis Hall True there as well
• 48:58
  for sure. And then Emy, when Dia is
• 49:00
  another person, that's kind of, I remember I mentioned him a few
• 49:04
  weeks ago and then I remember I was downstairs doing a workout
• 49:07
  and I was watching the Europa League, I was watching Villa.
• 49:10
  And then maybe when Dia started and I was like, oh man, that
• 49:12
  means he's not going to start the weekend.
• 49:14
  And I just recommended him. I was like, but he obviously
• 49:19
  played very well in the last game.
• 49:21
  And if Javier Elliott not taking his chance, potentially he's
• 49:26
  fighting with Morgan Rogers and that kind of attacking mid role,
• 49:29
  but they both could kind of come out onto the right as well.
• 49:32
  Evan Goosand hasn't really lived up to show any value yet.
• 49:36
  Jane and Sancho is still, you know, fighting for freedom.
• 49:39
  So it's you've got kind of like there's a big opportunity there
• 49:44
  for him to kind of hopefully prove to Emery that he's more
• 49:48
  reliable and can and, you know, offer a lot on attack because
• 49:50
  he's a really good player, isn't he?
• 49:53
  I think we've all really liked him and just and like even
• 49:55
  earlier in the season, it looked like he had had a few good games
• 49:57
  and looking he was primed to become like the guy that he got
• 50:00
  injured and this was his first full game back who.
• 50:03
  Was preseason. Last preseason?
• 50:05
  He was brilliant if you remember his knee and then Keith.
• 50:10
  Who was the striker that last year who would always that went
• 50:12
  to Saudi? He would come up for villain
• 50:13
  always for. John Duran.
• 50:16
  John Duran. John Duran.
• 50:17
  Yeah, yeah. I think the issue with Villa,
• 50:20
  which is so fascinating is the their XG numbers are not good.
• 50:25
  Like they're one of the worst, they're one of the lowest XGS.
• 50:27
  I think of like a top team. I think that's I think that's
• 50:31
  why I think that's why Morgan Rogers, like we talked about
• 50:33
  earlier on, is that kind of has that question mark over him a
• 50:37
  little bit like it, like I say, because there's not enough
• 50:41
  chances being created like who and not about Watkins hasn't
• 50:45
  been as clinical as he has in the past.
• 50:48
  I think it will drop to him at some point.
• 50:50
  You know, he gets himself enough chances.
• 50:52
  You got to believe he's going to start scoring again soon.
• 50:55
  He could actually be a good trade option as well.
• 50:57
  I've seen they traded someone traded Yocharos for him the
• 50:59
  other day. One of my leaves for.
• 51:01
  Watkins whoa. So yeah, so someone that
• 51:07
  believes that Watkins going to step up, I'm OK.
• 51:08
  I'm looking at the XG right now and Villa is the 2nd to last in
• 51:15
  expected goals through 11 games. They want full no last game I
• 51:20
  know. But like it was like it was
• 51:22
  goals, but the crazy thing, it was like goals from outside the
• 51:24
  box. Like they keep scoring these
• 51:26
  goals that are like low percentage goals.
• 51:28
  But yeah, it's a very interesting thing because like
• 51:31
  you obviously underlying numbers are are just that like you can't
• 51:33
  you can't sit here and be like, that's the end.
• 51:35
  I'll be all. But it's definitely can be an
• 51:36
  indicator of what's going on. You know I.
• 51:39
  Mean Matt Cash has scored quite a few of those as well, hasn't
• 51:42
  he? So it's he's yeah, I never play
• 51:46
  as well. West Ham seems to be researching
• 51:50
  a little bit. Matteos Fernandez looks quite
• 51:52
  good. He's he seems to offer some good
• 51:55
  fantasy value. Those games.
• 51:56
  I remember last year or when he was with South, this was with
• 51:59
  Southampton before. Like for how bad Southampton
• 52:02
  was, he was like always a little kind of spark.
• 52:05
  Little. Spark or he'd get like more
• 52:07
  points in the rest of team so he could be good.
• 52:09
  And I also like in that team as well as there's Freddie Potts,
• 52:13
  who was that young lad. He kind of came out of nowhere
• 52:16
  and he put up a pretty good haul.
• 52:17
  I think I'm like nearly 10 points.
• 52:19
  He got injured after 60 minutes and he had a goal disallowed the
• 52:22
  week before. So he looks like he could be
• 52:24
  again. He's a bit more unknown.
• 52:26
  We don't know much about him. What you know, it's a bit hard
• 52:28
  to kind of say how consistent he's going to be, but he's could
• 52:30
  be good. And then also Somerville is
• 52:32
  still lowly owned and I think he always had a really good season
• 52:37
  at Leeds in the in the Championship, but we're still
• 52:40
  yet to see that in the Premier League.
• 52:41
  I think you can kind of write off almost anything that
• 52:43
  happened and the Potter was bad. So if if, if, if, if Nuno's
• 52:49
  going to keep playing Somerville and West Ham keep kind of
• 52:52
  growing into some good form and some and some good kind of play.
• 52:56
  He could be a good pick up some of it, I think as well.
• 52:58
  But again, he's only had that one game where he got a couple
• 53:01
  of or one assists. So he's still yet to kind of
• 53:03
  prove if he's gonna be reliable or not.
• 53:06
  Yeah, I like, I like that shot. I've kind of been like gambling
• 53:09
  on West Ham players a little bit too, for that same reason.
• 53:11
  I think Nuno's just a good a good coach and he's gonna go in
• 53:14
  and he's already kind of made some changes and it looks good.
• 53:17
  I think Fernandez is a really good shot.
• 53:19
  I've been, I've been picking him up where I can.
• 53:21
  Yeah. I really just I think he's like,
• 53:22
  we've talked about guys like this, but guys are just like
• 53:24
  pass the eye test. Like you watch him play and
• 53:26
  you're like this guy's a good player.
• 53:28
  And like it's starting to, it's starting to show in point the
• 53:31
  points too, I think, which is a really good sign, you know,
• 53:33
  especially with like the new manager and everything.
• 53:35
  So yeah, it's. Amazing one.
• 53:37
  It's amazing how just watching football sometimes and to say,
• 53:39
  no, he's a really good player. And it just translates
• 53:41
  sometimes, like not all the time.
• 53:42
  Like Morgan Rogers, on the other hand, doesn't transfer so well.
• 53:46
  Matias Fernandez is like, yeah, he's there's something about
• 53:49
  him. He looks like I see it.
• 53:51
  And also if you look at like, like you said about Nuno, like
• 53:53
  you look at his forest team, he had Alanga and Hudson Nidoya,
• 53:56
  the wingers. Now you've got Somerville and
• 53:59
  Jared Bowen and then also, you know, Morgan Gibbs white in the
• 54:03
  middle. Matteos Fernandez might take on
• 54:05
  that role. So he did get a lot out of those
• 54:07
  front three players. And then obviously I don't think
• 54:09
  Callum Wilson's going to be like Wood, but hey, would no one is
• 54:12
  expecting Wood to score 15 odd goals last year.
• 54:14
  So maybe Callum Wilson will this year.
• 54:16
  I don't think so, but full full crig as well.
• 54:19
  He's still hurt, isn't He's still floating.
• 54:21
  Around, I think he's coming back from injury, but like what
• 54:23
  Wilson got a goal last game, I think he scored close to 20
• 54:25
  points, so he's a good. He's a good player.
• 54:27
  He's just hurt all time. He's yeah, Germany a good
• 54:30
  player, yeah. And he was.
• 54:31
  He was. He was playing for England for a
• 54:33
  while. He's totally like, you know,
• 54:34
  it's the quality is there. All right.
• 54:35
  So I think we kind of covered a good amount.
• 54:37
  I think I would just want to chat, chat briefly.
• 54:39
  Don't need to go through every game.
• 54:40
  Just touching on some of the game with 12 notch UPS kind of
• 54:42
  going into it. I think the big game of the week
• 54:44
  is probably Arsenal, Tottenham, and it'll be interesting with
• 54:47
  like Gabrielle injury and potentially Cal Fiore injury.
• 54:50
  I wonder if that is going to change like the odds or change
• 54:54
  where people are looking because it's like that Arsenal defense
• 54:56
  has been kind of the the showpiece for them.
• 55:00
  And without that, I mean, I are are you even more interested in
• 55:03
  talking of attacking players or their their attack has been so
• 55:05
  kind of sturge it that it's like I don't even know if I'm if it
• 55:08
  changes that much for me. Like I feel like the depth for
• 55:10
  Arsenal on defense is so good. Like, does it really shift that
• 55:13
  much, you know? I'm still don't know if I'm
• 55:15
  going to drop Milani or not. I've had him for a while and
• 55:18
  he's just been disappointed. So but so attackers in general,
• 55:23
  apart from kudos really. Like I know a lot of people
• 55:26
  someone bid 90% of their FAB on Javi Simmons and he stopped in
• 55:32
  great has he? So I mean enter.
• 55:33
  Did that too. Yeah, 100.
• 55:35
  Percent ended at a. 100% of his fab Yeah.
• 55:40
  So it's it's it's kind of I don't know, Tottenham are a
• 55:43
  weird one. They've been kind of oddly,
• 55:45
  weirdly good away from home this year and not as good as at home.
• 55:48
  This fixture always has had goals in the past.
• 55:51
  Like you said, Arsenal going to how are they going to respond
• 55:54
  with these injuries? So far when it's come to these
• 55:57
  injuries, they seem to have good cover and they seem to have a
• 56:00
  much better mentality this year. So it'll be interesting to see
• 56:03
  how our kind of sets the team up as well.
• 56:04
  Like is he going to play a bit more defensive like he did
• 56:06
  against was it the first couple of games this season?
• 56:10
  Will he will he be maybe be like that?
• 56:11
  Gabriel's missing. But I I think I think Arsenal
• 56:14
  are still strong favourites. And I think I mean also
• 56:19
  Tottenham conceded at a corner against United at the last
• 56:21
  minute, another set piece. So Arsenal will probably be
• 56:24
  licking their lips with a set pieces against Tottenham.
• 56:28
  Hopefully Van de Ben doesn't go on too many massive runs and
• 56:30
  score again because he seems to be doing that all the time,
• 56:32
  doesn't he at the moment. Yeah, that's a good shot.
• 56:35
  OK, Next one, boarding with West Ham.
• 56:37
  I Semenya hasn't scored in four games.
• 56:40
  Is that do you think that changes against West Ham?
• 56:42
  Do you think? It's like, I feel like we we're
• 56:43
  even when he hasn't scored, he's looked really good.
• 56:45
  So I'm not like necessarily concerned about him in general,
• 56:47
  but I do think he definitely needs to be getting goals to be
• 56:50
  maintaining. It's kind of spot on that top
• 56:52
  forward list, Yeah. I think, I think he'll come
• 56:55
  back. I think I think as good as West
• 56:57
  Ham have been Bournemouth have been really good at home this
• 56:59
  year. So I I'd be surprised.
• 57:05
  I think there will be goals in this game.
• 57:08
  So I think Semenya will come back.
• 57:10
  I think Bournemouth look good at home.
• 57:11
  Cavaniers looked kind of that right wing spot for Bournemouth
• 57:15
  is still up for grabs a little bit, isn't it?
• 57:16
  You've got him Brooks ideal that's name he's come in a few
• 57:20
  times as well. Be interested to see if Evan
• 57:24
  Nelson all that creepy starts as well, because creepy came in to
• 57:26
  do quite well, didn't he, but Evan Nelson has been a bit of a
• 57:30
  bust this year. Not, you know, he was slow
• 57:32
  starting last year as well. If I remember Riley, I think a
• 57:34
  lot of people dropped him early on and then he got picked up and
• 57:37
  did he had that one game where he got 3 assists from getting
• 57:40
  free penalties. Remember that?
• 57:41
  Yeah. Iconic.
• 57:44
  I feel like with him, it's interesting because there's a
• 57:46
  lot of things he does off the ball that you can tell I really
• 57:49
  likes. He presses well, he kind of gets
• 57:51
  really engaged. But at the end of the day, if
• 57:52
  Krupi's coming and scoring goals, it's really hard to argue
• 57:55
  against that. Yeah, so it could.
• 57:56
  Actually be a last minute kind of pick up the forward because
• 58:00
  but West Ham do look better. So it's but this, I think this
• 58:04
  will be a much harder test for them than the last couple of
• 58:07
  games have played away at Bournemouth because that's a
• 58:09
  hard place to go. Yeah.
• 58:11
  And last time I want to highlight Manchester United
• 58:13
  versus Everton. How are you feeling about that
• 58:16
  one? United unbeaten 5.
• 58:19
  But like the question is like who's going to be playing?
• 58:21
  I think is Mount pretty locked in to be start starting in some
• 58:23
  capacity or are we not quite there yet?
• 58:26
  I still don't know. I think Ameren's still been a
• 58:28
  little bit like a lot of times, the people who've been
• 58:32
  predicting games, it's never been spot on really.
• 58:36
  I think you can. There's always been a couple of
• 58:37
  a little bit of surprises, especially on the wingback
• 58:39
  rolls. I don't know how Dallow keeps
• 58:41
  getting starts. I've been apparently because he
• 58:43
  has a long throw, but he is he's really struggled to like right
• 58:49
  right back and because these defendants always been a bit hit
• 58:52
  and miss. But you're thinking, oh, when it
• 58:53
  comes to wing back, he could be a great wing back, but he's
• 58:56
  really struggled. Granted, though he's been
• 58:57
  playing left wing back to the right wing back.
• 59:01
  I think door grew as well. Dog is a great fantasy acid When
• 59:04
  he plays, he gets a lot wins a lot of duels, but he's not
• 59:08
  showing much an attack. I think Casamiro has been
• 59:11
  obviously great. I don't know if you saw the
• 59:12
  start recently about when, how much we've conceded, when he's
• 59:15
  come off the field after 60 minutes.
• 59:17
  It's been quite alarming. So I think if we can get a good
• 59:20
  lead against Everton and Everton haven't been super great away
• 59:24
  from home this year, I think, I think, you know, I'd need to
• 59:27
  continue this form if they want to be taken seriously about
• 59:31
  trying to get into Europe this year again.
• 59:34
  You're asking your players to step up.
• 59:36
  I think I'm Boomer will be the kind of match winner again
• 59:38
  you're hoping. But Everton, they have some
• 59:41
  really good players, Jack Grealish and Dia a very, very
• 59:44
  good wig for us and Drewsby Hall as well as he was good in the
• 59:48
  last game. It just one thing with Everton
• 59:51
  to be frustrating is you've got Beto and Barry to choose from.
• 59:53
  So, and it's, and to be honest, I did, I did mention Barry is 1
• 59:57
  to watch because I think he played better last game and if
• 1:00:00
  Everton can get him to start scoring out of the tap, they've
• 1:00:03
  got you got a pretty good, they're looking, they've got a
• 1:00:06
  pretty decent 1st 11 I feel like.
• 1:00:09
  So I everything. Is so interesting to me because
• 1:00:12
  I think they had such good early season for him and they really
• 1:00:15
  dipped. But it's like in your mind,
• 1:00:16
  they're still like Jack Rios is still destroying people.
• 1:00:19
  But when you look at his actual numbers, they've definitely gone
• 1:00:22
  down a little bit as everything's kind of struggled.
• 1:00:24
  So yeah, I think they do miss that though.
• 1:00:26
  They missed that striker. Like, I think that that everyone
• 1:00:29
  else on that front 4 is pretty exciting, you know, like, and I
• 1:00:32
  has been probably one of the most yeah.
• 1:00:34
  Really great, Revelatory. Players of the season and you
• 1:00:36
  know, so. Oh, Craig, we don't want to keep
• 1:00:39
  you too long. I know England just started
• 1:00:41
  playing. I'm sure you want to tune into
• 1:00:43
  that. So this is an episode.
• 1:00:46
  Yeah, this is an episode 112 of Dropped Off Sides.
• 1:00:49
  I'm with Tico and Craig. Follow us at Dropped Off Sides.
• 1:00:52
  Follow Craig on Reddit. And then where else is your
• 1:00:54
  stuff? Yeah, mainly Reddit.
• 1:00:58
  I have a website which I use and then I I need to start getting
• 1:01:01
  stuff out there a bit more. I'm not great with that.
• 1:01:04
  So what's your? What's?
• 1:01:05
  Your what's your website? We'll make sure it gets shouted
• 1:01:07
  and we'll add it in the bio. It's datahood.com.
• 1:01:11
  What is it again? Datahood.
• 1:01:13
  Dot com, yeah. Cool.
• 1:01:15
  We'll link it in so people can go check it out.
• 1:01:17
  OK. Yeah, no.
• 1:01:18
  Sense I appreciate it mate. Thanks so much.
• 1:01:20
  For having us. Thanks for so much for being on
• 1:01:22
  this is this is really fun to chat with you.
• 1:01:24
  Anytime, guys. Hey, Craig, how are you watching
• 1:01:27
  this England game? Because I was trying to find it
• 1:01:28
  and it's like on a, it's like a weird.
• 1:01:30
  It's like I might. Ask the US.
• 1:01:32
  It's a weird. On a dodgy screen they always
• 1:01:34
  put on like big sports or something, don't they?
• 1:01:37
  Yeah, it's. One of those weird like ones
• 1:01:38
  that I don't, I like. I pay for too many things.
• 1:01:40
  It is, you know, Yeah. I agree.
• 1:01:42
  A lot of the time it'll be that or I've sometimes been listened
• 1:01:45
  to on Flat Mob. Yeah, I'll be honest with you,
• 1:01:48
  like a lot of English people, a lot of English people don't
• 1:01:50
  really care about the qualifiers.
• 1:01:52
  It's they until like, yeah, it's been well, it's hard for me as
• 1:01:56
  well, especially because I can't find a decent network to watch
• 1:01:59
  it. I'm not paying an extra like.
• 1:02:01
  I know so. You know I already paid for,
• 1:02:02
  like you say, pay for enough stuff, don't you?
• 1:02:04
  So I'll see if I'll see if I can use my father in law's streaming
• 1:02:07
  service to see if it works. I don't.
• 1:02:08
  Know AVPN and just really just do that yeah all right man well
• 1:02:13
  thanks so much for being on this should be coming out in the next
• 1:02:16
  few days so I'll definitely send you the link in Seth and we'll
• 1:02:19
  we'll definitely include your your site and stuff.
• 1:02:22
  Awesome. Thanks guys for inviting me and
• 1:02:24
  yeah. Yeah, stay in touch.
• 1:02:26
  Yeah. It definitely makes.
• 1:02:27
  Craig well also you leave the I'm gonna end it.
• 1:02:29
  Will you leave the window open for like 5 minutes after?
• 1:02:31
  Cuz it takes a minute to like load the load the episode from
• 1:02:37
  your computer to the server.