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1:54

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2:00

of the end that you think now you've reached the beginning of

2:03

the end Yeah

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2:10

own wild card freshly off wild card I

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2:14

a fresh red arrow to go with it

2:17

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it back and go through it all since

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no no food and rip

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Yeah Let

2:27

me pull up my team So

2:31

here is wild card gaming 2017 I got 74 points

2:33

a captain's son Almost

2:40

everyone captain Holland but between Holland soccer son

2:42

and ended up not mattering The only people

2:44

who profited were all the cappers and

2:47

jitterbug who captain Kai, but that's because he's

2:49

a genius Word

2:52

for it. Yeah, it's a word. I Mean

2:55

that the most annoying thing of

2:57

my team is fucking senesee, dude,

3:00

I mean So

3:02

I am so excited about the pic banger

3:06

followed by home double Handy

3:09

in instant that one pointer

3:12

Maybe I even get a green if he just keeps a clean.

3:14

I don't even know how close that was to a green another

3:18

tilting dumbass thing is I Got

3:21

the killer nine pointer in the first line of

3:23

games. I'm like, oh my god Genius

3:26

incredible every keeper just kept a

3:28

clean this week It was

3:30

the all-time in the season of no

3:32

cleans. It was the all-time clean week.

3:35

I mean Leno clean

3:37

do Bob clean Keller clean

3:39

Netto clean Raya clean Ariola

3:42

Penn save mega all the

3:44

false So everyone

3:47

everyone got fucking a million keeper points.

3:49

I didn't even get any edge there

3:52

But yeah, I guess I should read my team out.

3:54

I stuck with Dom Holland Ollie. I was very Holland

3:58

out Vibes, Willing.

4:00

But then once mowers ruled out of sight, why

4:02

am I a. Wire. I've eighteen

4:04

million dollars in the bank. Like? There's no

4:06

point to this, I just one fact. all

4:09

and. Ah, Maddow, Palmer,

4:11

Zoc and son. So notably

4:13

though Foden. The

4:15

libor gabrielle ensnare see I also

4:18

doubt he and rags. My

4:21

Keepers or Keller net though. Yeah.

4:24

I mean I i I think in the and

4:27

I went with like a pretty normal level level

4:29

headed team I guess like of there's a lot

4:31

of teams I saw even in our discord that

4:33

were like guy of like eat of the same

4:35

players. I. As the

4:37

big difference between my team and most

4:39

teams is like I have like a

4:41

bunch of guys playing and give me

4:43

twenty nine based well my backups playing

4:45

him and Twenty nine find me besides

4:47

the players that literally don't matter what

4:50

are the ones are describing right now

4:52

The main differences: Mad Over Foden. Yeah

4:54

Mad Over Five and that was the

4:56

biggest yeah. Yeah. Yep an

4:58

arrow Adam my like I was I

5:00

did that above average pod and Adam

5:02

is also a wildcard and he also

5:05

a matter of referred but. He.

5:07

Is for hitting and twenty nine. Which

5:10

is makes it weirder select the five. The

5:13

matter was playing twenty nine. I'm hoping maybe

5:15

I can like Aids and points as Potent

5:17

has. Your. Liverpool blank Arsenal.

5:20

I will say and maybe just gonna fuck embrace

5:22

every game and when The Golden boot so. Who.

5:24

Knows. But. I'm damn it

5:27

was a fine we carry that the

5:29

average in the elite teams as seventy

5:31

seven. I at seventy four. With.

5:33

The no vote and I'm. Fine.

5:37

My thing, I'm pretty well set up. it's just

5:39

first. so annoying as my whole plan was just.

5:41

You. Know obviously starts and se with the

5:44

home banker doubles save maybe is to

5:46

freeze and twenty or maybe just one

5:48

yada yada but i already feel like.

5:51

Maybe also pivot to different bomb at the fun

5:53

or something like that. but yes, fun sign. in

5:56

swansea yemenis a nasty things

5:58

you can million jews I

6:00

was just hilarious though because

6:03

I mean I was giving some pushback on

6:05

him being I mean you were like staunch

6:07

standing like automatic not oh yeah and when

6:10

we were talking on the Friday streamer it

6:12

was kind of like just there

6:15

are other guys like they're all kind

6:17

of whatever and it's just you know

6:19

yeah it's it's unlucky to have this

6:22

occur to you obviously with the hamstring

6:24

but there was more than just you

6:26

telling me about the Barney the mainly

6:29

the main case was just because of

6:31

the yellows so nothing on eight yellows

6:33

just you know he'll probably eventually get banned

6:36

for two games at some point he'll probably

6:38

get two more yellows and

6:41

I was just like ah whatever it's worth the

6:43

fucking double digits like it's worth the fucking halls

6:45

and the goals and the banger

6:48

of of a run that they have and

6:50

then yeah he just it's simple as hammy

6:53

and they still clean and win and I'm

6:55

just like oh cool yeah that was sick

6:57

I mean the other aspect too is I

6:59

mean it's very minimal but you know you're

7:01

getting the most expensive guy it's point one

7:03

yeah I don't know I don't think there's

7:05

anything you can really know you know learn

7:07

from it yeah it's an injury you know

7:09

you can't really pull anything from it it's

7:11

just unfortunate yeah you probably just need that instead of

7:14

save just you know

7:16

use your transfer there I would

7:18

guess yeah probably because I mean

7:20

you're happy you know but I I could

7:22

I certainly yeah yeah you

7:25

don't have to and then we

7:27

pull up Nathan Ferguson what the

7:29

hell happened here Nathan Nerguson sorry

7:32

you can pull me I got

7:34

this likely T-loss

7:37

you were I mean I've been blind the

7:41

fight ended here loss

7:43

was 1.8 million in gaming 16 going into game week 27 he

7:45

was 280k and then the 52 pointer happened

7:53

yeah things happen you know I'm gonna

7:55

captain Kev until he won't allow until

7:57

he's not actually fit But

8:01

you know your captain Kev you sell hot

8:03

you sell walk-ins for Tony a few weeks

8:05

ago. That's a minus 40 yourself

8:08

Odin literal minus

8:10

40 It's

8:16

something like in the 30 region But you

8:19

know you sell phone in this week while

8:21

I'm just too I just keep floating a

8:23

transfer and taking huge hits with my Free

8:25

without I mean I've been doing it all

8:27

season. I've been doing it. Yeah. Yeah

8:29

if I let my transfers just Fire

8:33

I would be I'd be

8:35

in probably top 100k right now, but

8:37

instead I keep sabotaging my team and

8:40

doing bad shit, so Here

8:43

I am Here I

8:45

am. This will be a post-mortem topic,

8:47

but like I Is

8:51

there anything to learn from the amount

8:53

of transfers that both of us have

8:55

made that have just netted negative 30-point

8:58

like well, yeah, I mean to me

9:00

it's very don't get rid of Yeah,

9:03

I mean it's fairly obvious for me is

9:06

where it's just like I'm looking for kernels

9:08

of Fiction

9:10

to prove to myself that conventional wisdom

9:12

good picks and everyone's team are bad

9:15

Yeah, these are the walk like I

9:17

this is my problem. Yeah, I mean

9:19

I have this issue every year for

9:22

10 years it's like I

9:24

sit here post-mortem and Stomp

9:27

at the end of last season like this is the

9:29

best pick in the game If

9:31

he's X price and then he comes in

9:33

at X price And then I have him

9:35

and he gets points every game and then

9:37

I sell him like that's how I FPL

9:39

That's how I play this game. Yeah, and

9:41

we're going you may both trying to like

9:43

thread The most difficult

9:45

fucking needle to thread possible right like

9:48

we are trying to find this

9:50

is the mastermind Venus window where

9:52

this nailed good pick

9:55

whether it's mo Ollie's son

9:58

Foden or other transfers we made This season

10:00

is gonna blank and I'm gonna get ahead Versus

10:03

like I mean you don't you don't really have

10:05

a good example in your current team But I

10:07

definitely had moments in my team where I could

10:10

have gotten rid of like a way

10:12

worse pick or like an injured or

10:14

suspended Pickers on the and I didn't

10:16

I did the way harder thing instead

10:18

and it just always rips me. Yeah

10:21

Yeah, I mean and I play a

10:23

lot of obviously I kept I'm capping cats like I

10:26

am I'm obviously I have that yeah, I do the

10:28

things because I'm just like oh this is cool like

10:30

whatever and then I get 200k

10:32

right now. I'm like, oh I'm doing badly again. Yeah

10:36

Yeah, I mean I did also like I

10:39

against better judgment I

10:41

wanted to get rid of Palmer kind of all week and

10:43

that felt Dumber thing than

10:45

getting rid of photos and then I'm sitting here

10:47

and that's a minus 10, you know So jokes

10:49

on me, but I would have agreed if you

10:51

said the exact same thing to me That's

10:54

the thing though Drastically

10:58

changes the landscape But like even if

11:00

phone just scored one goal and then

11:02

we're sitting here looking at Liverpool blank

11:04

Arsenal It would have felt

11:06

right Like you get it

11:08

like even if Sun blank and phone on one

11:11

goal And it was just a five-point difference instead

11:13

of a fucking 90 point difference

11:15

It would have just been like over

11:17

the next four weeks. This will be you

11:19

know, I made the move I made the right moves, but

11:22

just the fucking hall just

11:24

rammed in your ass and

11:26

it's just But the

11:28

hall means you made the wrong move That's

11:31

the issue because then you're fighting against stream

11:33

to hopefully come out even when

11:35

that rarely happens and then we lose track

11:37

because a couple weeks happen and we're like

11:41

There's a bright light over here. We get distracted

11:44

and we do something else Like that's what I

11:46

was like with Tony where I'm like, oh fucking

11:49

Fuck Ollie like give me Tony. I love him.

11:51

He's playing well like Bob and then No,

11:57

I mean since you've gotten rid of Ollie I

12:00

spent two thirteen nine

12:02

thirteen. And

12:05

Tony blanks every game. He blanks every game and

12:07

is playing basically in the field. So I'm like...

12:10

Yeah. Stonging, Neil's, song gang,

12:12

Roar's, Blood's, Donging. Everyone else is stonging.

12:14

I mean they've scored five goal. They've scored

12:17

every game. He never gets any

12:19

games. You know, he's score is really bizarre

12:21

also. But that's a good different story. And

12:24

this is the same one where I'm not selling him.

12:27

If I sell him, I'm gonna miss his points. And

12:30

I'm just gonna... What I know is

12:32

like really dumb and just some stupid

12:34

bias that we just can't get over.

12:36

Don't care. Bias me. Bias

12:38

me, Neil. Being like of regret of

12:40

like I can't sell him though. It's

12:43

gonna backfire like the lore bullshit that

12:45

we all joke about. Yeah. But

12:48

still follow. I will die by that

12:50

bias. Live by the lore, die by

12:52

the lore. Yeah. I'm

12:54

fucking sitting here just straight up.

12:57

Well, I got a little bit of

12:59

wisdom from Liam in Discord because I've

13:01

been just so... My

13:03

past like three, four weeks of fantasy, it's just

13:05

been hell. It's just been so bad. And

13:08

he's like... I've just

13:10

ranked like million something. He's

13:13

like the only season I did well at

13:15

the beginning was

13:17

just a nightmare. Even

13:19

though I had my best ever finished, like I

13:21

just felt bad the whole time and stressed and

13:23

anxious about my team. And

13:25

versus like now I'm badly ranked. I'm just having

13:27

fun. Like I just go up a little bit,

13:29

go down a little bit. He's like, yeah, it

13:32

just feels good. Some weeks you go up, some

13:34

weeks you go down. Yeah. But

13:37

yeah, I'm just sitting here without Ollie,

13:39

without... I mean, freshly sold phone and

13:41

yeah, it just didn't work out for

13:43

me. So, yeah, phone to someone.

13:46

Yeah. So, to the March mug

13:48

leaders so far, Dave Vernon,

13:51

aka Hartvie Norman, 98 pointer

13:54

beast, Andrew

13:57

Foskran, aka Grossin Confidence, and

13:59

Servin. or curd in Minter aka

14:01

coming up for shaar and then

14:03

shout out to the still leader of the public

14:06

league, Caffink, up to 39th. Telling

14:08

it. Maybe 37th, I don't

14:11

know if the site's giving me a different answer than

14:14

I feel, Game Lake. Alright

14:23

bro, it's a double.

14:27

Are we sure? Yeah,

14:31

it's a double if you're free hitting or

14:33

a double for loot players but not

14:36

really a double for performance players maybe but I

14:38

don't know. I want to start with Dom because

14:40

I'm curious where you're at. Jeff D said does

14:43

Dom look fit enough to cap if not

14:45

who but then X50 with the more relevant

14:48

for me. For those of us who are

14:50

planning on triple capping Dom in 28, should we be concerned by

14:53

him looking a little off the pace against Burnley? He

14:56

was like hurt. He

14:58

wasn't like off the pace. He was

15:00

like multiple times of like being around.

15:03

Yeah, I mean he was very

15:05

labored and he wasn't sprinting. When

15:09

there was a break on, he would motor

15:11

but generally just his work rate of what

15:13

you're used to seeing him was just clearly

15:15

maybe 75% of that. So

15:19

I mean to me that tells me that

15:21

he's dealing with pain, right? Like it's not

15:24

risk of... Yeah, that's what that says. Yeah,

15:27

so it's just a pain tolerance thing

15:29

which obviously affects like when every little

15:31

nano second decision when you're playing matters,

15:33

if you're in pain, that's going to

15:35

affect your ability to do the normal thing that

15:38

you normally do. We don't

15:40

know is what is a week do or is

15:42

this something that he's going to have to manage

15:44

all year or is

15:46

this something that well, he gets another

15:48

week of rest and then the

15:51

bruise heals or fuck, we don't

15:53

know. All

15:56

that said, I don't

15:58

really think it's... idea not

16:00

to captain him like we just saw

16:02

Sheffield unite I mean they're basically like

16:04

oh my god a league game one

16:08

team like they should they're not even a champion

16:10

plant team this is like the worst team I've

16:12

ever seen it's the word it is the word

16:14

cuz neither of us saw Darby when

16:16

they're like whatever that was before

16:18

our time yeah they're there chef

16:20

is the worst Premier League team I've ever

16:23

seen like but yeah it's for sure it's

16:25

not even close they're more than

16:27

a joke more than a feeling yeah yeah

16:29

and that's that

16:31

takes some doing because we've

16:33

seen some really diabolical Huddersfield

16:36

town teams and the enormous

16:38

Huddersfield second season chef you

16:41

yeah I mean they just

16:43

get him back insane there

16:45

but so that's

16:48

kind of how I see it and it also

16:50

doesn't help that you know it's like Liverpool City Week

16:52

and you know so where else would you

16:54

really go I mean the other

16:56

aspect too though that is that you know you're concerned

16:58

about is it's only

17:00

a couple days off right Sunday Monday Tuesday three

17:03

days off like which normally for a double is

17:05

fine like you would never think anything about it

17:08

yeah I would be triple capping a

17:10

99.9% yeah that that certainly isn't

17:12

the move you know you're I don't think triple

17:14

I can risk it I don't think I can

17:17

risk it doesn't it doesn't it just takes like

17:19

one corner where it's center

17:21

back and him collide hard and

17:23

he's out for he has

17:26

30 minutes on the over the whole day yeah

17:28

what about you how are you saying Tom

17:31

similar I think unless we

17:33

get word he's definitely out

17:35

for chef you which won't

17:38

happen is he

17:41

you gotta cap him I mean I'll

17:43

probably like vice netto who I guess

17:46

would be the second my second favorite

17:48

cap of the week yeah but like

17:51

again in less thumbs out I'm not capping

17:53

that to over Tom yeah

17:56

but yeah I think I gotta just put my triple cap

17:58

in my pocket I mean on Honestly, unless

18:01

I feel really like, okay, maybe Neto,

18:03

I'll just fucking triple cap it or

18:06

who gives a shit, fuck it. But

18:09

it's weird now because if I don't use

18:11

a chip this week, I still have triple

18:14

cap, free hit, and bench boost, but

18:16

I'm set up to not free hit during the playing

18:19

and there's only two double game things left.

18:21

I'm going to have a weird time using

18:24

my chips because my whole plan was to

18:26

triple cap Dom. But

18:29

yeah, I don't know. I mean, it doesn't really

18:31

matter. It just doesn't really matter. Yeah. I mean,

18:33

you're going to get eight-ish points from your triple

18:35

cap whenever you use like, fuck me, whatever. You'll

18:39

do it in a double or not or whatever, like

18:41

free hit. There's going to be

18:43

another blank, I guess, at some point. Yeah, I mean, some

18:45

fucking whatever. Even just looking at the line. Even just looking

18:48

at the schedules, it's like, Holland

18:50

still has home luten. Liverpool

18:53

still has home chef pew and

18:56

other good shit. Even

18:58

if I end up not using a double,

19:00

there's still like insane bangers to use it

19:02

on. Yeah, you just do

19:05

it on Mo, home chef pew, April

19:07

4th. I'm looking at 31.

19:10

Fine. He could score 72

19:12

goals in that game and then you're fucking

19:14

laughing. I don't think we can talk

19:17

about how bad they were today

19:19

enough. We

19:22

could do whatever we want. I just can't get

19:24

it out of my head. Even you just

19:26

saying just now, Mo could score 72 goals. Like

19:29

Austin Trusty, bless

19:32

him, American International, just

19:35

out of nowhere, Wilder's just like,

19:37

you're my left back and

19:39

I'm putting you on an island. I've never

19:41

heard of Bakayo Saka. He probably sucks, so

19:43

you just get to go defend him on

19:45

your own. They're probably never going to give

19:47

him the ball because I've never heard of

19:49

him because I'm Chris fucking Wilder, baby. This

19:53

fucking idiot. It

19:56

was like me or you trying to defend him. It was just

19:58

like past the ball. And

20:00

a straight line to Sokka. Chusti's

20:02

just turning around sprinting. Sokka's five

20:04

yards ahead of him already. He's

20:06

like, what's happening? And then also

20:08

like Kai. Kai

20:11

is... It's Kai's team now.

20:14

He's flying. I don't have

20:16

his fucking like page up right now,

20:18

but Kai is the garbage time king.

20:21

I swear to God. He has lost three games, 14, 14, 12.

20:25

He has gone and assist every game for three

20:27

games in a row. I swear to God. All

20:29

of his goals is the sixth in a sixth

20:31

nil, the fourth in a four, one in the

20:33

fifth in a five nil. I mean, it's incredible.

20:36

His team... Look at

20:38

this team scored six, four, five, six,

20:40

three. Like they're just... They've

20:43

won every game. Fucking destroying everyone.

20:45

And in destruction fashion.

20:49

It's just so funny. It's like Kai, like

20:51

I remember last week, I was almost like

20:53

it's Kai the bear. Obviously not, you

20:56

know? But like if it's four and

20:58

ill, and he's on the pitch,

21:00

like yeah, he's probably gonna score. Like that's

21:03

what he does, man. It's crazy. Yeah.

21:05

Of course it will. Chef

21:13

Yu, the exploitability of Chef

21:15

Yu needs to be front

21:17

and center. Because the other thing too, if I had

21:20

to form him, who gives

21:22

a fuck? It doesn't matter. Well, I mean,

21:24

it's just before I moved. It's just a fair thing to go back

21:26

to and then there's this. But look, I mean,

21:28

I wanted to move on to Bournemouth again

21:30

for a second, but the

21:33

defenders that Chef Yu did, they

21:35

don't have a single competent defender

21:37

in their fucking team. Like their

21:39

defenders are the worst part of

21:41

their team. They're all terrible. And

21:43

there's no reinforcements. Like this is

21:45

who they have. They're so bad.

21:47

So embarrassing. Yeah, so they're not

21:49

gonna get better. People

21:52

were leaving at like 13 minutes when

21:55

it was already three and ill. It's

21:57

obscene. It's just like what are we

21:59

doing here? But you know

22:01

going over back to Bournemouth for a minute like They

22:04

won 2-0 against Burnley and they could have

22:07

just drawn that game. I mean there's another

22:09

Or lost that game. I mean they did

22:11

miss their fair share chances on

22:13

the counter as well Bournemouth did but I Mean

22:17

I I was surprised that they didn't

22:19

go to turf more and actually just

22:21

control the game Yeah, they got a

22:24

hero control. Yeah, like why he's setting

22:26

up in that way I

22:28

was very very confounded by that

22:30

decision I guess he was like we need

22:32

to win so bad that we need to

22:35

just treat them like they're Liverpool and it

22:37

was probably Like it was just

22:39

fucking weird but this still goes back

22:41

to with Bournemouth on like the triple cap or even cap

22:43

like I thought that

22:45

they would just Destroy Burnley

22:48

and they barely won. Yeah, I

22:50

mean it was 2-0 which feels

22:52

like scoreline convincing They barely won

22:54

that game. Yeah, so home

22:56

Sheffield United. I mean Thunderland

22:59

would beat them right now, but

23:01

Luton That's a tough

23:03

game for them. I mean they I expect

23:05

something is it'll be an open game Yeah,

23:08

I heard for captaining purposes. I mean the

23:10

yeah, I'm just saying more from a Bournemouth

23:13

standpoint Yeah, no, but but like an open

23:15

game I think is

23:17

good for both attacks and like it's

23:19

a lockier darp. Holy shit. Oh, you're

23:21

thick But like

23:23

also I should have pulled these numbers

23:26

up beforehand if I was a you

23:28

know, more talented Podcaster but

23:30

like Luton for yeah, they can all 50

23:32

goals every year for some Yeah,

23:34

like I don't know when the when it

23:36

started. I don't really remember but they used

23:39

to be a bus like

23:42

not that long ago, they were like double-decker

23:45

bus try and counter at home and

23:47

now they're just The

23:49

most open team in the league and

23:51

they just don't give a shit and

23:53

they're just trying to score Outscore everyone.

23:55

So that's really good for Dom. Yeah,

23:58

I think it was honestly like Barkley

24:01

was a big part of that. I think like

24:03

when he started playing more consistently like because he

24:05

started around like he got hurt a little bit

24:07

but you know around

24:09

gimmick 11 10 11

24:11

12 like when he got into the team I

24:14

feel like he's the like reason why they kind

24:16

of got kind of unlucky and it's fucking weird

24:18

with them too because they have all these high

24:20

scoring affairs but they've been on the really unfortunate

24:22

and wrong end of a lot of them you

24:24

know I mean they I don't fall you know

24:26

for the decision villain the second half I mean

24:28

they were awful on the first half but they

24:31

massacred villain yeah second half yeah yeah and

24:33

it was just a little too late too

24:35

little too late but yeah

24:37

the Luton the Luton form of game should be

24:39

an interesting one but you know to be fair

24:42

I'm just I'm just having a look cuz I

24:44

had like while you were talking I was like

24:46

maybe it's maybe it was the senesee thing and

24:48

to be honest like he is

24:51

their number one passer he

24:53

attempts the most passes on the team he

24:55

gets the most aggressive passes on the team

24:58

senesee yeah like him going out seems not

25:00

that big a deal because it's like Oh

25:02

center back go up but like he's there

25:04

van dyke like yeah like they get him

25:06

the ball and he moves the ball up

25:09

the pitch and so maybe like that all

25:11

of that control just destroying

25:13

their build-up like on the fly like that

25:15

maybe that's just like really fucked them up

25:17

more than we're giving him credit for yeah

25:19

that's possible yeah he might have to

25:21

shuffle a little bit of midfield and have a different

25:23

like way to progress from yeah the

25:26

back and then I think the other didn't

25:28

like the other center back that subbed on

25:31

for him also got hurt or something like

25:33

that I mean remember then

25:35

met them yeah I mean he's just terrible maps

25:37

yeah he's just he's just a bad black of

25:39

california that's by the end of the game was

25:42

like limping around too so they all of a

25:44

sudden have five red flags in their back line

25:47

yeah which makes maybe transferring one of

25:49

their defenders in not you made it

25:51

but yeah I mean you're hoping for

25:53

a point I would say against luton

25:55

like I would be surprised if luton

25:57

score less than two in that game

25:59

and You're hoping for a point and

26:01

a clean. Yeah, you're essentially banking very

26:03

heavily on the Shephard United Clean which,

26:06

you know, I don't know.

26:08

No cleans are ever nailed. Yeah, especially when it's

26:10

a team like Bournemouth. Yeah, yeah.

26:12

Yeah, so I mean you could... Yeah,

26:15

it's kind of interesting because I

26:17

mean, going into... I mean, Aurelio

26:20

Aziz said like choosing one this week, Dowdy

26:22

or Zab to Barney. Like,

26:25

it's Dowdy. Like

26:27

the thing with Dowdy is that

26:29

Gluten might not keep another clean

26:31

for the rest of the season. I think they have

26:33

like two or something. But he takes

26:36

like 10 corners a game and puts in like eight

26:38

crosses a game. And they're actually good

26:40

at set pieces and his deliveries are actually really good

26:42

too. So I don't really

26:44

expect a clean in either game but

26:46

I think he has a better chance

26:48

of like just getting a random assistance

26:50

and bones. Yeah. He's like Cresswell from

26:52

Seasons 2. He is Cresswell. He is.

26:55

I mean, there is a little bit of

26:57

a difference because Gluten literally have to... They

26:59

won't keep a clean. Who cleans this year

27:02

so far? That's a big difference. It is

27:04

a difference. You know, I mean, whereas Cresswell,

27:06

you know, back then would keep like eight

27:08

or nine or something which is just respectable.

27:10

I mean, that one year, that one big

27:12

Cresswell year, he had 11 assists and

27:14

11 greens. Yeah,

27:17

that's insane. Yeah, that's really nice. Like that was a crazy...

27:19

He also had like a 7, 10 year. Yeah.

27:23

Like he... Yeah. And it

27:25

still goes to the... It stresses so heavily

27:27

on the assists because, you know, they're typically

27:29

conceding at least to a game. Yeah. So,

27:31

you know, I mean, he doesn't have a

27:33

lot of cards, only has a few but

27:36

he throws ones in there like nobody's

27:39

business, you know, he has that capacity.

27:41

So I mean, to me, the

27:43

answer is... Ain't an assist. Yeah. But,

27:45

you know, I mean, that's only 24 points. When you

27:47

start negative wanting for every two conceit, it's

27:49

like, it's not that good. Like he

27:52

doesn't have a bad pick. I mean, they're both kind of

27:54

bad picks. So to me, the answer is more

27:56

like neither. I mean, it's like... Hmm.

27:59

Like you would rather just... start a single game weaker

28:01

that you think is in a clean. Yeah, get a good

28:03

player. Get a good pick. I

28:05

played on a good team with a good defense.

28:08

Yeah, for sure. Long term, I

28:10

agree. But if you're not

28:13

free-hitting... I like Dowdy. I

28:16

like Dowdy with a... It's obviously not the

28:18

best double two of Waze, but at least they're in

28:21

and around Luton's level. And then

28:24

at home Forest in 29, and then you never

28:26

play him again. And he got five this week,

28:28

he could get some points. Sure.

28:34

Yeah, I don't

28:36

know. Bormith, I mean, Dean mentioned

28:38

it. Bormith don't even double. They're

28:41

in the Liverpool situation of

28:44

their double. If you're not free-hitting,

28:46

it's like they have this

28:49

banger and then they blank. So you're getting

28:51

the same amount of fixtures if you get

28:53

someone else. Right. The difference with Bormith

28:55

is then after the blank, they have home

28:57

Everton, home Palace at Luton. So

29:00

in theory, if you get someone good,

29:02

you're holding them for longer than just

29:05

the double. Yeah.

29:08

It's just still... I mean, Tav

29:11

is for a pun in midfield to Werner,

29:13

fine, Clive or whatever. I

29:16

was all over Clive. I'm like, well, yeah. Yeah,

29:19

yeah. I know you ended up with Sar.

29:22

I mean, I still looking at Everton, Palace,

29:24

Luton for a team like Bormith, I'm still

29:26

just like, maybe they'll keep one clean in

29:28

those three games and that's all I would

29:30

hope for. And more reasonably, I would expect

29:32

zero. I mean, we're going to be fit

29:34

by that time in April, I'm sure. I mean,

29:36

Alisa could be back, but I mean, even just with Eze

29:39

back, I mean, we look all of a sudden like, we

29:41

should score against bot from

29:43

seventh place down in the table. We're good for

29:45

a full every game. Yeah, Alisa should be back.

29:47

They said by the end of the month, we'll

29:50

be back for that game. Yeah, and like, Everton

29:52

just do their... They generally score a goal, like

29:54

sometimes. Atlun's never a

29:56

clean. So I mean, it's just like, you know, what

29:58

are we doing here? It's a

30:00

lot less appealing than Dom really. I

30:02

mean, we're back to just being like,

30:05

it really is kind of just Dom

30:07

is the only like, 100%

30:10

this is a great pick and everyone I think

30:12

should have him. I can't say

30:14

that about Tav or Semenyo

30:17

or anyone. Clive

30:21

would have been. Yeah.

30:24

Yeah. So. Just

30:26

two more questions about the double. So

30:28

one is just enjoyable from M web.

30:31

I love this kind of question. He said, can we

30:33

talk about why it's called triple captain?

30:35

Isn't it really just double captain points?

30:38

And then Jeff chimed in and said, isn't

30:40

it just 1.5 times captain points, which is

30:43

actually correct. It's not

30:46

the point of captain points. I don't understand

30:48

any of this discussion. It's called triple cap.

30:53

Yeah, it's triple cap. Like caps already

30:56

double. You get three times. You

30:58

can't triple cap a double cap. Sounds

31:00

like dumb and dumb. I

31:03

don't, I don't, unlike you. I do not

31:05

love this question. I love it. I have

31:07

one right now. It's just a man's question.

31:09

Like I don't get it. Who cares? Because

31:11

caps double, but it's just called captain. It's

31:13

not called double cap. Well, maybe

31:16

it is now double caps

31:18

and then triple. I don't know, man.

31:20

I don't like it. Okay. And

31:22

then Jitterick said, I mean, do you know, it was, do you know, it was really

31:25

good when there were no chips. That

31:28

was the life. Why

31:30

don't we go back to that? Why

31:32

are there any chips? They're all fucking

31:35

annoying and stupid. Like just go back

31:37

to wildcard. And random and lucky and

31:39

just bad. Go back to

31:41

just the wildcard. After the first half

31:44

of the season. Wildcard was

31:46

second half of the season. It worked

31:48

forever because it worked. I mean, it's

31:50

like, holy shit. They

31:52

put all these stupid ass fucking twists

31:54

to keep people who don't give a

31:56

casual, like oh my God. Yeah,

31:59

it's really. It really is.

32:02

They're all just adding more

32:04

arbitrary randomness when the game

32:06

is already fucking impossible. Come

32:09

on. Meanwhile, they

32:11

could make chips

32:13

that actually are

32:16

relevant to real football, which

32:18

is the point of fantasy. It's sort

32:20

of like a simulation of, or not

32:22

a simulation, but represents the real game.

32:25

The all out attack chip was useless

32:28

and always netted negative points. At least

32:30

it kind of was in

32:33

the vein of real football. I

32:35

can't believe you're defending the all out attack chip. It makes more

32:37

sense than any of these. It's

32:40

bad, but it makes more sense. For

32:42

people that are newer to the game, the

32:45

all out attack chip was the worst piece

32:47

of shit ever. It was like dreading playing

32:49

it. It

32:51

let you play. It

32:57

let you play a two, five,

32:59

three formation, one game week in

33:01

the whole season. That was

33:04

a chip to be cherished and held.

33:06

What these genius game designers never took

33:08

into account is that everyone's fifth midfielder

33:10

is the biggest piece of shit in

33:12

the world. He caused four, five, and

33:14

may not even play because we want the money

33:17

on the chips. What would

33:19

you see all out attack in their defender

33:21

who's way better than their favorite fielder was

33:23

clean and who's like, what is this? It

33:26

was just so silly. It was amazing. Oh my

33:28

God. I don't know how we got down the

33:30

chip. Oh, because it doesn't live.

33:33

The triple game. All right. M-Web.

33:36

Very, very good. Jitter with Morris. Is he

33:39

massively overlooked for the double? I

33:42

think he is. Morris is good. Morris

33:45

is good. I've been saying Morris is good

33:47

all year. He's

33:49

just good. He's

33:52

just a good relegation

33:54

tracker. Like we've seen

33:56

this kind of striker a million times. He's eight

33:58

goals, six assists. He's on

34:00

pens, he wins headers at a ridiculous

34:03

rate, is a double and then home

34:05

NFO. He's good. Yeah,

34:08

I mean they miss out a bio obviously.

34:10

But in his absence, they're still

34:12

creating decently and

34:16

they're attacking so much. He's 5'1". I

34:19

think if you're looking, yeah like if you're

34:22

looking, I prefer him to like some menu

34:24

probably. Oh yeah, for sure. For sure. Yeah,

34:27

so. The menu is

34:29

like, you're gonna throw a worldy or

34:31

maybe get you an assist and he

34:33

usually gets subbed off early. Whereas like

34:35

Morris could actually like get a pen,

34:37

score a header, like he could actually

34:39

get you some real points. Yeah,

34:42

he could get like 7 and 8 or something

34:44

in the double and that's a big hole in

34:46

the hole. Yeah,

34:48

yeah. Alice born with one.

34:51

What team is bringing him in is

34:53

the better question. Are people calling to

34:55

Morris? Maybe. No, come on. Honestly.

34:58

Who's doing that shit? I'm just saying,

35:00

if you're not pre-hitting. He's nobody doing

35:02

that shit man. Holland's at Liverpool blank

35:04

home arsenal. Morris is double and has

35:06

a game. Is

35:09

two extra pictures and good ones. I

35:12

kind of like it. That's basically

35:15

it for the double. I

35:17

don't think there's anything else to say. Yeah

35:20

I mean they're two teams and they both fucking suck.

35:23

Whatever. I

35:27

was like looking at my team a little bit more

35:29

and also I wanted to ask you when should I

35:31

be wild carding? Do you have any,

35:34

I mean you talked across, like you

35:36

know what's happening. Yeah, I

35:38

think we were talking that like game week, because

35:40

you're pre-hitting in 29, right? And

35:42

game week 31 is kind of I

35:44

think your sweet spot. What

35:46

does that mean? Well

35:49

can we do it in 31? Yeah, wild card in 30 or 31. 30

35:53

or 31. For the pre-hit.

35:55

Yeah depending on how your

35:57

pictures lie but like there's

35:59

some weird in 30 that maybe would

36:01

make you not want to which is Arsenal

36:03

and City play each other for example so

36:05

like you you're gonna probably want to wildcard

36:07

in a bunch of those guys and then

36:10

they have like an immediate worst

36:13

picture but yeah

36:15

I mean that's basically it but in between 30

36:17

and 31 which is another reason

36:20

why I favor 31 is when we'll

36:22

find out about the other doubles is what Pras

36:24

said the 34

36:26

and 37 doubles and stuff like

36:28

that so if you wildcard in 31

36:30

you'd have way more information and

36:33

you wouldn't maybe have

36:35

a team full of Arsenal and City players playing

36:37

each other but

36:41

to me that's more a reason not to wait because then I'll

36:43

have less information so I don't have to think as much that's

36:46

also a take how about that one I love

36:48

that for you alright

36:56

so okay I get

36:59

it but you can also wait till later

37:01

right you like if your team's good you

37:03

can wait till 33 or whatever and wildcard

37:05

right into a team of doublers so

37:07

isn't everyone doubling like does this even matter

37:09

like everyone has the same kind of players

37:11

everyone's kind of doubling based on what's fine

37:15

the doubles in 34 are gonna be way different

37:17

than the doubles in 37 like the

37:20

doubles in 34 are kind of like the bad ish

37:22

teams and the doubles in 37 is every

37:25

good team oh my god so

37:29

I should get really bad players

37:31

on the bad teams now we're not wild

37:33

card out of them I think you're more

37:35

you're more than Spidey's island

37:38

tomorrow yeah sounding good the

37:40

Morris move of the century

37:42

love so get rid of all of the

37:44

good players on good teams for the next

37:46

five weeks when they're hauling ass get shitty

37:49

players in so I get one double game

37:51

week in three months yes and then wildcard

37:53

them out of the good picks you got

37:55

to start getting rid of the good picks

38:02

Whatever you do if you're listening to this,

38:04

don't rewind 30 minutes. We

38:07

both get rid of the good picks all the time. Let's

38:10

talk about Man City. Let's talk about PhoD.

38:12

I mean, Jeff D

38:14

said PhoD to a born-miss mid is

38:16

dumb, right? Yes. And

38:18

Bolter said, how did PhoD go from worst pick in the

38:21

game with Kev's return to the best pick in the game?

38:24

Oh, God. It's so painful. Yeah. I

38:27

mean, what is there to say? What

38:30

is there to say at this point? Yeah. I

38:34

mean, don't get rid of nailed

38:36

guys on good teams, I guess.

38:39

But yeah, it has

38:42

been a transformation. I mean, I think

38:44

that like what we

38:46

saw with Kev

38:50

was real. And the thing

38:52

that changed was like, Pep was like, this isn't

38:54

the best way to play and PhoD needs to

38:56

be more central. And

38:59

that sounds stupid, but that really is what happened.

39:01

I mean, PhoD was out there,

39:03

isolated on the wing. It was like,

39:05

wow, alarm

39:08

bells are going off. PhoD might be an actual

39:10

bad pick as soon as Kev came back. And

39:14

then, fuck me, Hatrick later, Kev

39:18

injured, can't play, just

39:21

looks worse than PhoD anyway.

39:24

And, you know, misses some games and PhoD

39:26

just takes over. It's just PhoD's team now.

39:30

Yeah, I mean, the thing that was more noticeable to

39:32

me is that the amount of

39:34

interchanging and freedom feels like it's

39:36

at an all-time high for a

39:38

Pep team. And typically,

39:41

he's a lot more rigid where it's like, you

39:43

know, Mares does not leave

39:45

this small area of the kind of

39:47

shit like that. And now

39:50

it feels like with the exception of Doku, who we

39:52

could spend a whole nother pod talking about him, I

39:54

don't know what the fuck he is. It's funny, because

39:56

whoever plays left wing, it's Doku or Jack. Fuck

40:00

off. Like you're just saying. Well, yeah. Well,

40:03

the only time it's a little different is when Bill is

40:05

over there and then all of a sudden, but I mean,

40:07

he put Voden to the left for a little while and

40:09

that was like, holy shit, this is insane. They can't handle

40:11

this at all. But

40:13

even with Kevin, like whether he's coming inside or

40:15

he's floating to the eight area and the half

40:17

spaces or if he's overlapping on this, I mean,

40:20

Kevin and Voden both were really

40:22

just completely free. And

40:25

when that's the case, I mean, they're

40:27

both brilliant at finding the space and

40:30

with Voden having more ability or more

40:32

freedom again, right, to do that makes

40:34

him more

40:37

dangerous than we've ever seen him. And

40:40

he's clearly the best player on the

40:42

team. I mean, he's showing that and

40:44

coming from someone with my feelings towards

40:47

Kevin. Yeah, that was hard for you

40:49

to say. I'm proud of you for

40:51

getting that out. It's true. As much

40:53

as I will deny it tomorrow if

40:55

you ask me if I said it.

40:58

I'm clipping, clipping, clipping. It's

41:01

true. Yeah, that's true. It is a team. Yeah,

41:09

I think that also like, I

41:13

don't know, I mean, part

41:15

of it also for me is with Kez. I

41:18

mean, it was really noticeable against Manny Nye because

41:20

they were so parked. So like the whole game

41:22

was just right in front of you right there.

41:24

But I feel like Kev was floating in like

41:28

half spaces and wings. And

41:32

Voden was the one that was like floating

41:34

just in the top of the box

41:36

and in the middle of the box. And

41:39

like, you know what I mean? Whereas Kev,

41:41

like in previous seasons, we've seen him in

41:43

like the quote unquote big games. Like

41:45

Kev was sometimes further forward than the striker.

41:48

You know, like Kev would be like false nining and

41:51

just like donging in all the big games and stuff.

41:53

He doesn't have legs. He can't be in any one place.

41:56

And yeah, I just don't think that that's really

41:58

his game anymore. kind of like taking

42:00

that mantle that I'm focused. Numbers

42:03

are dumb. I

42:05

mean he is and even just

42:07

the ground he covers like how active he is

42:10

is just unbelievable his fitness. He's only had but

42:12

with 18 touches in the

42:14

box, nine blocks. Yeah

42:17

I mean that's a lot and you know you

42:19

like to see that if you have them in

42:21

your team. You don't like to see that

42:23

if you transform out of your team. Hey

42:25

now. Hey now. Stop kicking me all down.

42:28

There were those games right I mean there's

42:31

the games in between the hat trick

42:33

and I guess Bournemouth where it was like

42:36

he's not a bad pick. He's not a

42:38

bad player you know but he wasn't

42:41

what he's been the last two games. Like

42:44

the shots were all from bad areas and

42:46

like he's kind of wingery. He's

42:49

not as central and now

42:51

it's just like oh my god you

42:53

know like not having him just feels

42:55

so ridiculously stupid right now. Which

42:58

is also difficult to assess because he's

43:00

had periods this season where it's just

43:02

he's a peripheral figure and then there

43:04

are games where it's just like oh

43:06

he's the best thing I've ever seen.

43:08

Yeah and you know I think the

43:10

all in all the assessment is that

43:13

even though the given game is maybe

43:15

difficult to predict you know which type

43:17

of phone and it's going to show

43:19

up. He's obviously

43:21

a world-class player and this is

43:23

the best team in the world

43:25

probably still or top three whatever

43:28

you can have that argument. Yeah until the one with D

43:30

Thrones then. D Thrones right and they

43:32

win like every game so he's gonna blank

43:35

sometimes and he's gonna return a lot more

43:37

than that so he's probably just a good

43:39

pick that you just hold I guess you

43:42

know. Yeah totally. But back with

43:44

Kevin too is like you're saying you know and the

43:47

game was interesting too the Manchester United game because

43:49

when he's playing at second strike or I mean

43:51

Holland I don't know what Holland was doing he

43:54

was fucking horrendous. You just played a game of

43:56

trolling. He was just fucking shit-puck thing whatever the

43:58

equivalent of that. And

44:01

he could not have given Johnny Evans like an

44:03

easier game He was just doing nothing but whenever

44:06

Kevin's playing next to him inside like a second

44:08

forward. He literally is just a decoy He doesn't

44:10

do anything. Yeah, like he could even though you

44:12

like to see him in that area of the

44:14

field he is a zero

44:16

there and When

44:19

there's a bus, you know

44:21

He doesn't really like going in and

44:23

doing those kind of one-two short quick

44:25

combinations like he likes doing like you

44:27

said Yeah, he used

44:30

to but now it's like he likes

44:32

doing the like emphatic. Oh

44:34

my god ball Yeah, kind of thing Instead

44:36

of just keeping it simple and running

44:38

into the space like and doing the

44:41

on run like he'll overlap on the

44:43

wings Yeah, I don't

44:45

know. It's just a running forum. Yeah. Yeah,

44:47

it's really like that's how it is Yeah,

44:50

but then the minute Manchester United went down

44:52

all of a sudden I was like, oh

44:54

Kev could get four returns in the next

44:56

10 minutes. Yeah, because the minute there's a

44:58

little space Yeah, it's like he oh that's

45:00

like then he's doing all of this shit.

45:02

That's insane again Yeah, so it's just

45:04

the game state matters so much. I mean all

45:06

of this Goes to say

45:08

just like just get it just

45:11

get city players and just keep them.

45:13

I think right. Yeah especially if they're

45:15

nails right like it's funny in a

45:17

demented way because We've

45:20

been waiting how many seasons have we've

45:22

been saying phones great Like why doesn't

45:24

that just plan phones fucking let's see

45:26

when the first we've been saying this

45:28

for four years right, and then he

45:31

finally is nailed and somehow

45:33

we managed to Get

45:36

both ourselves ourselves with transferring

45:39

him out. Finally fucking idiots.

45:41

We're so fucking Finally he's

45:43

now like it's just so

45:45

stupid. It's just hilarious. It's

45:47

really just incredible And

45:50

I got and I got I

45:52

basically Chose

45:55

Kev over phone. I

45:58

was just like Kev is the guy before

46:00

the double this was gaming 22 or

46:03

something and Kev

46:05

has just been disaster after

46:07

disaster just he

46:09

will never everyone knows who hasn't

46:11

that he's just been the worst thing ever

46:14

and you just write so

46:16

and directly opposite of that phone

46:18

has just taken off to incredible

46:20

you just wait he will rise

46:22

like a phoenix from the ashes

46:25

listen he's gonna throw in

46:27

huge double-digit halls in succession

46:30

and everyone's gonna be clamoring

46:32

to get back to ask Kevin to rejoin

46:34

their teams and the smiters will be more

46:37

to be fair I feel like in the

46:39

you know he has Liverpool and Arsenal next

46:41

I feel like those games in the past

46:44

like I just said like those were the games where

46:46

he was like playing false nine I mean he has

46:48

more goals resarce no than any other team by a

46:50

lot and you know I

46:52

mean the blank against like he was clearly

46:54

off it and he almost like braced

46:57

yeah yeah like he had a couple of

46:59

good about it this is all I

47:02

mean he could have had multiple returns in

47:04

that game I mean he was with the

47:06

he had a couple of distance shots that

47:08

were like oh my god like that was

47:11

just just missed yeah from a worldy and

47:13

shit I mean he's he he

47:16

was not good but he looked good

47:18

if that makes sense yeah meanwhile

47:20

the guy who according to

47:22

FTL game week is leading the mug league

47:25

he has triple city he has Holland Foden

47:28

and Rodry which we should also shouted a

47:30

while ago and he just gets a double-digit

47:32

every other fucking week he's

47:34

fucking on 10 this thing you have three last

47:36

week you have 13 in the double in 25

47:39

and an extra two that is

47:41

Rodry actually a good pick is it worth moving Kev

47:43

to him I mean he

47:45

is a fucking good pick he gets a

47:47

double-digit hall every every two or three

47:49

weeks yeah I mean it's

47:52

within in the landscape of no

47:54

mo it's just hard to envision

47:56

him like because he's still not

47:58

better than you know Palmer I

48:00

mean who is it? I mean if you

48:02

need multiple sub six mids you can talk

48:04

to me about it Yeah, but yeah right

48:06

now you mean I

48:09

mean he's not a pic

48:11

like he had two passes in the middle

48:13

third and he had ten points this week

48:15

It's like he's a bit Picks

48:21

happen all the time He

48:24

I mean I mean She's

48:26

on pens at least yeah pens to make

48:29

a big difference I mean we've we've been

48:31

talking about Roger's newer role where he does

48:33

yeah comment come in to the edge of

48:35

the third And he does make some type

48:37

of creative Yeah, some creative

48:39

incisive passes You know he's around the area on

48:41

set pieces and we know how many of those

48:43

they get even though they generally don't do much

48:45

with them I Mean

48:47

he has six goals six assists. I don't

48:50

know It's fucking right. I don't play

48:52

a PL thing at Roger Play

49:00

for point Don't

49:03

play for point we play for other demented

49:06

things Yeah,

49:08

Roger he gets points therefore. He's good

49:10

if you play for points big if

49:12

you know big What's

49:16

up with mo is he gonna be back soon dude?

49:20

I could just fucking wild card right

49:22

now man. I literally know he hasn't

49:24

even been in the squad Yeah,

49:26

probably so still far away. I think he's

49:28

fucked. I mean like I People

49:31

are talking like Anfield rap people like oh

49:33

well if he's fit like he'll start when

49:35

I'm much more pessimistic Like I don't expect

49:37

him to play I mean Pop

49:40

pep all these top managers always talk about like

49:42

rhythm and shit. I think if he was Close

49:46

to being fit you give him 20 minutes

49:49

But you know he's not even in the squad, so

49:51

I don't know what to make of that yeah

49:55

Yeah, I mean their next league game isn't for

49:58

Three weeks March 31st Tom

50:00

Brighton. Yeah, so

50:02

I mean Fucking

50:05

it's basically a fucking month away. Yeah, I

50:07

would imagine that break. Yeah, I

50:09

would imagine if he was out for Seven

50:12

weeks that he'd be that's enough time to

50:14

get back from whatever his aggravation Well, the

50:16

brand ham game he'll be back my gaming

50:19

30 for sure I would say

50:21

it considering it's like we know it's like a

50:23

hamstring he'll be back but you for sure might

50:25

be back I think you'll for

50:27

sure be back but it be back No,

50:30

I don't know. I don't expect it.

50:32

This is a team like I'm Scared

50:35

I'm scared for that match. I

50:38

don't you're gonna get fucked. Yeah, our team

50:40

is so fucked up Great

50:46

It literally doesn't matter who caught that

50:48

kind of does when it takes a

50:51

99th minute Darwin that are to beat NFO.

50:53

It was always gonna I Was

50:56

always gonna have I told you the top

50:59

one. Yeah, Darwin's back. It was gonna you

51:01

know, it's fine They got the three points

51:03

the dance team now, you know, it's fucking

51:05

dance looks good Clark team

51:07

now It's it's ever it's all

51:09

fine. It's all fine. Oh man scary.

51:12

Oh We

51:15

got some people asking about a one-week punt Pete and

51:18

Already asking about as a is he the

51:20

best one-week punt and it's gotta be a

51:22

doubler, right? And pallets are on

51:25

lootin so I can see it. But like yeah,

51:27

I rather I would rather Yeah,

51:29

I would still pick have yeah, I would

51:32

pick to have for sure But if I

51:34

have a half in two, yeah,

51:36

I mean if you have three Bournemouth already and

51:38

you need a midfield punt for one week That's

51:42

a more difficult. I mean, I think you

51:44

would probably want Bowen right home Burnley Like

51:46

I would just want to exploit that or

51:49

I mean home lootin is maybe

51:51

a little better West Ham are

51:53

playing on Thursday aren't they or they still on

51:55

their by for whatever their ball. Yeah, there's Thursday

51:57

games this week Yeah, I mean you could maybe

51:59

go for I mean, I

52:01

don't hate that home loot and you expect that game

52:03

to just be a fucking joke and you would go

52:05

these guys over like Palmer

52:11

Home Newcastle, I mean, I just assume every team

52:13

has Palmer. I don't know. No, I don't like

52:15

I got rid of them You know, I don't

52:17

I mean I lost I would I would

52:20

I definitely think definitely Well,

52:23

look we can talk about Newcastle's numbers

52:25

like all we want and

52:28

they are still you know They got fuck

52:30

off back. They are playing a bus. They

52:32

did actually have a good defensive performance for

52:34

once Yeah, like they actually have good players.

52:37

I mean we're talking about looting and burn.

52:39

Yeah, it's a different here Yeah, I think

52:41

it's a different. Yeah, it's kind of hard for me to

52:43

like Like

52:48

even when Newcastle was Statistically

52:50

the worst defense in the league. It

52:53

was still like I'd rather have my players

52:55

playing in Sheffield loot Even

52:57

though every week Newcastle put up the worst

52:59

defensive numbers you've ever seen. It's a weird

53:01

like Dissonant

53:03

thing. I'm not sure how to word that correctly. But yeah

53:07

I mean the thing you love about as

53:09

a and and at least a when he's fit, but

53:11

he's not right now. It's like Really

53:14

hard to see Palace goals without

53:16

him being involved. Honestly, like he's

53:19

on fans. He's on freeze He's on the

53:22

corners. He's by far their best player He's

53:25

on the ball all the time and I just

53:27

talked about how looting have just Decided

53:29

to be you know, the most open team

53:31

in the league and he's gonna

53:33

be getting chances, right? Yeah, I like the

53:35

as they do Yeah,

53:38

I'd go as they overbone Yeah.

53:40

Yeah, I probably would too. I guess that's

53:43

fine. I mean the Arsenal playing Branham I

53:45

assume everyone has three Arsenal players But you

53:47

know, you could certainly pick any midfielder there

53:49

and you know, like that as well Yeah,

53:51

yeah, Brian Ham look like a fucking joke

53:53

right now. They are also

53:55

just completely wide open I don't know

53:57

what the hell's going on. There's Former

54:02

Formerly very organized

54:05

tough team and is now

54:07

just like No

54:09

me no panic. No Hickey. No

54:11

Henry Fleck mania Baria

54:13

like it's just like what what the

54:15

hell's going on? That's

54:20

golf said I got cocky with my good picks

54:22

move them out for bad picks Tony Dolly is

54:24

just moved my life It's very

54:27

if you're playing for points Yeah,

54:29

I got a very very

54:32

very easy move It's

54:35

just the most obvious easy thing to

54:37

correct that mistake. Yep, and then I

54:40

said Assuming you want a cheap

54:42

bill of mid so I guess Barak is not

54:44

free-hitting Who would you pick between Doug

54:46

Louise and Bailey? That's actually close.

54:48

I think They're

54:50

both fucking Yeah,

54:53

I I Mean

54:56

I generally like picking the player who I

54:58

think could score an open play which would

55:01

be Bailey but And

55:04

Doug Doug just it feels like it's an

55:06

inevitability with Doug this year where it's like

55:08

you're It's just

55:11

the way the tide is going. It's just

55:13

everything is coming up Doug Louise this year,

55:15

you know, yeah yeah, and

55:18

there's something to be said about that, you know when

55:20

a Player

55:22

has this long of a sustained sort of

55:24

like it's just going really well for them

55:26

and he's had that this season He

55:29

has 14 returns and you know 26

55:33

games. Yeah, it's fucking good. I mean

55:35

Bailey's not you know, not gonna I

55:38

mean, he has 17 returns and

55:40

he's played less minutes, but it feels a

55:42

lot. Yeah. Yeah, it just feels a lot

55:45

I mean, I don't know. I guess I haven't looked as

55:47

Chloe Bailey's Course points every

55:49

Bailey's numbers are absolutely Nailed

55:53

himself by now, but oh definitely that's

55:56

what there is Thursday. There is the

55:58

weird Europe. Yeah. Yeah That

56:00

I'm a little like, eh, Diabi did assist

56:02

the game winner. You know, maybe he gets

56:04

one game and Bailey gets the other two,

56:07

you know, that's possible. Whereas Doug Louise is

56:09

never, never being dropped ever. Yeah.

56:11

And the Spurs game is going

56:13

to be a very tough, you

56:16

know, physically demanding affair. Coming

56:19

off Thursday is probably not the team that

56:22

he's really happy to see that specific

56:24

fixture of her, but I

56:27

mean, I would just get neither. I mean, we're

56:29

talking about midfield's punt. Like, I don't think this

56:31

is where I'm looking, you know, really to be

56:33

honest. I think he's talking about a non-free hit

56:35

2019. And then honestly, the 29, there's not that

56:37

many midfielders

56:39

to get. Yeah, I mean, fine. I guess.

56:41

I assume that's why, because there's no other

56:43

reason to be like, I have to get

56:46

an awesome villa midfielder. But I

56:48

mean, I want to

56:50

like post Mortem more about this. Not

56:52

really right now about what you were

56:54

just saying about Doug, but I

56:57

mean, I guess we kind of post more about this

56:59

every year, right? So and so player got a million

57:02

points and everyone had them and we didn't have them

57:04

because, you know, over-performing the

57:06

numbers, don't believe in the player, you

57:08

know, any number of reasons that happens

57:11

literally every year. The

57:13

thing that also I was thinking about earlier today

57:15

is like, I remember

57:17

last year, I got Metoma way

57:21

before anyone, five

57:23

game weeks before anyone got him. And

57:26

I got like multiple double digit halls.

57:28

And all anyone talked about was like,

57:30

wow, a long genius pick. Fucking

57:33

amazing pick. I

57:35

mean, I was getting away with it

57:38

just as much as Doug Louis owners are getting away

57:40

with it. You know, it's not like Metoma

57:42

was putting up fucking seven shots

57:44

and one XG and all of these.

57:46

He's scoring like weird ass headers and

57:48

getting like scoring worldies and I was

57:50

getting all these random 10 pointers and

57:53

it's just the perspective. It's like

57:57

people were giving me credit for like, oh my

57:59

god. We were too, you know, we

58:01

were like, oh man, my batoma pic has just

58:03

been fucking genius. Holy shit but

58:05

like That's what Doug

58:07

Louise owners are saying to themselves as well and

58:10

we're sitting here being like that Louise I don't

58:12

want to feel like he's obviously

58:14

a good pick Every home

58:16

game fucking scores a goal every

58:18

goal He's scoring or assisting pens

58:20

happen all the time. Yeah, he's

58:23

a monster on bonus points monster

58:25

on bonus points It's

58:27

25. Holy shit. All

58:30

others nine goals have been scored at home

58:33

Yeah, you really don't think that is I

58:35

mean, it's like Jordan if you if

58:38

if you just haven't got an away I got

58:40

all yeah Yeah, I got it though But if

58:42

you just had a ham and Gordon and only

58:44

started them in home games all year, you'd be

58:46

winning a fail this year I

58:48

mean, I think there is something to the way that

58:50

the Players play and

58:53

you know how it looks because

58:56

every player who goes on a you

58:58

know Three

59:00

to ten game week burst of

59:02

points is overperforming. Yeah Hatred

59:05

be I definitely unless

59:07

if you're Holland who's just would do

59:10

that average with his average, but With

59:13

Doug, I think with my Toma, you know,

59:15

we have the element of Yeah,

59:18

well he is getting some really

59:21

fluky goal assist points and Also,

59:24

he's in the box and in the

59:26

final third all the time for the

59:28

most attacking team in the land right

59:33

So he has more to it with the

59:35

story that we create that would lead us

59:37

to believe well Maybe he's gonna get better,

59:39

you know, I mean who he came from

59:41

fucking the J League or whatever, right? Yeah,

59:43

versus with Doug who just kind of Meanders

59:46

around the middle third occasionally

59:49

joins into a Puts

59:52

in indirect set pieces and corners and

59:54

shit scores a couple pens at opportune

59:56

times and just over

59:59

the course of the season He's in Hall's

1:00:01

absolute ass, you know, and

1:00:04

he's not someone you can jump on and off

1:00:06

because you don't know I mean, right you have

1:00:08

to start every game Yeah, like no one is

1:00:10

sitting here, you know in game week 16 or

1:00:13

something is like, you know, like I think

1:00:15

oh He scored a few goals. They've all

1:00:17

been at home. I'm gonna just like Yeah,

1:00:21

it doesn't exist so, you know when I

1:00:23

think for us is more, you know If

1:00:27

there is like too much good juju around a

1:00:29

player When is there enough

1:00:31

like of a rising tide where we need

1:00:33

to like ignore? The

1:00:36

reasons we typically don't pick the guy and

1:00:38

just pick the guy. I don't know, you

1:00:40

know, I don't know I also have never

1:00:42

figured this out. Yeah, it's really big at

1:00:44

the other thing for me And I think

1:00:46

I think you're the same way as me

1:00:49

here because I noticed this like a bunch

1:00:51

of people in our discord had Do dumb

1:00:53

things well, yes But

1:00:55

it was a bit of a discord had

1:00:57

had gross this week and you see him

1:01:00

and he takes no shots and brighten get

1:01:02

fucking obliterated somehow That part of

1:01:04

it with like the thing with me getting these types

1:01:06

of players in a hard time I mean the men

1:01:08

start this like that he talked about Yeah,

1:01:16

and it was just I just saw people's team

1:01:19

is just like oh that fucking sucks Well,

1:01:21

the point I'm making is that like when

1:01:23

you have the players That

1:01:26

are like DMS, but they keep scamming

1:01:28

points or whatever. It feels infinitely

1:01:31

worse when they blank Like

1:01:33

if I had Doug Louise, I'd be like, you

1:01:35

know, obviously I would love the points and I'd

1:01:37

be 200,000 places higher

1:01:39

but as soon as he blanks away for them

1:01:41

I'm like, I can't believe I've dug fucking Louise

1:01:44

in IT like what am I actually doing?

1:01:46

That's what me and you make the dumb move

1:01:48

right and I go like Doug Louise is some

1:01:50

attacker and he gets 15 minutes Yeah,

1:01:53

gotta get clever now. It's time Shoot,

1:01:57

you know. Grow

1:02:00

and grow another prevented thing for me.

1:02:02

Yeah yeah like growth as a good

1:02:04

examples of to. I mean he just

1:02:06

had seven, eight, ten eleven to write

1:02:08

my own. Doesn't start in uniform but

1:02:11

in those games I mean has like

1:02:13

a couple of those games or he

1:02:15

took like a bad shot all game

1:02:17

and yeah look like doing nothing like

1:02:19

he had that a city on average

1:02:21

game at noon Stoppage: Time Warner from

1:02:23

Up and Son's death from going from

1:02:26

Sunni Muslims yes as five point assess

1:02:28

before the lights and and he was

1:02:30

gross. You know especially with Chow Pedro

1:02:32

out at least you can talk yourself

1:02:34

into like hands and again sometimes you

1:02:36

have had an orgasm science but now

1:02:38

really like but he also has more

1:02:40

pedigree a little then you know he

1:02:42

has done some about me with dogs

1:02:44

Zero cease to just be a six

1:02:46

you know and now is like we

1:02:48

have are we still haven't updated our

1:02:50

operating systems. I think that's another, that's

1:02:52

another dog is of is because he

1:02:54

used to be a six and Khamar

1:02:56

came and was like okay he's aiming

1:02:58

now and is far far. As income

1:03:00

argument for the season, he's just a six

1:03:02

again. But. It still doesn't not suffer.

1:03:05

get it is so so tense up

1:03:07

getting away with it so was alive

1:03:09

missile on their i have no idea

1:03:11

I kinda and I have no idea

1:03:13

when I think about. The

1:03:15

a robot users who are the

1:03:17

people who have doesn't always. None.

1:03:20

Of that sounds appealing to me except

1:03:22

for the fact that of it's it's

1:03:25

just like objective. It has no

1:03:27

emotions or opinion. That's because that's

1:03:29

everything. I've ruined all my seasons.

1:03:31

And. They'd just be like. Does.

1:03:34

Will Ways every week in my fucking the air

1:03:36

out. Or know maybe that maybe authority to go

1:03:38

over the edge but it's just like. They're.

1:03:42

Not even. I mean

1:03:44

I guess if you look at it

1:03:46

is years, scoring and easy pictures. It

1:03:48

is predictable. He knows. he's

1:03:51

getting all of his points in the games are

1:03:53

you expect villa to score points the same exact

1:03:56

games are you excited about owning ali walk ins

1:03:58

or the games that as always is good points.

1:04:00

It's the Loon, NFO, Manny,

1:04:03

Chef U, Burnley, Chef U,

1:04:05

Spurs, Loon, West Ham, Brighton,

1:04:08

Palace, Everton. That's every Doug

1:04:10

Louise return this season. Yeah,

1:04:12

I mean, and you know, there might

1:04:15

be something exploitable here because, you

1:04:18

know, it is a fairly,

1:04:21

I don't know if it's new, but I mean, I

1:04:23

haven't been aware to it, I guess until like this

1:04:26

year where you have these, you know, between 5'5

1:04:28

and 7 million midfielders

1:04:32

who, you know, are on

1:04:34

pens on mid table or

1:04:36

lower teams. And,

1:04:39

you know, maybe we need to

1:04:41

just have more open minds about

1:04:44

benching players because like you could

1:04:46

take Gross, Doug Louise and Eze,

1:04:49

maybe even like Gibbs White, you

1:04:51

know, these players who like are

1:04:53

never going to be a good chance

1:04:55

for an open play return against the

1:04:57

top eight team. But every

1:04:59

other of the 24 games or whatever the

1:05:02

number would be, not a

1:05:04

masked guy, obviously. You

1:05:07

know, they're just like a good bet. Even

1:05:10

if they're six and a half thing or

1:05:12

playing eight or not even playing ten or,

1:05:14

you know, but if the team's going to

1:05:16

be dominant, I mean, and you know, you

1:05:18

can't really take someone like Neto here because

1:05:20

you never know when they're good. You never

1:05:22

know what they're going to do. Like they're

1:05:24

good in hard fixtures and bad in good

1:05:26

ones. But there are these players like Doug,

1:05:28

like, you know, as again, right? And I'm

1:05:30

sure there are a couple others that we

1:05:32

could, if we spent more time looking, you

1:05:34

know, would expect to get point, you

1:05:36

know, and maybe it's something more where

1:05:38

we're rotating a little bit more rather

1:05:40

than just like our fifth mid is

1:05:42

nobody, you know, and it maybe is

1:05:44

this instead. Yeah, I think I do

1:05:47

think the game has changed maybe a

1:05:49

little and we haven't really adjusted our

1:05:51

radars for these kind of players because

1:05:53

they ticked boxes that are

1:05:57

old four fives never ticked, right? Old

1:06:00

guys who are the best on

1:06:02

phones were like Kante and

1:06:05

like DMs. Like they're the best on

1:06:07

phones because they want tackles and made

1:06:10

interceptions. But

1:06:12

the guys who are best on phones now are like fucking

1:06:15

Kev, Grob, Erickson, JWP.

1:06:20

They have to be on set pieces,

1:06:22

on pens, and like the number one

1:06:24

build up, you know, Rodry, like build

1:06:27

up person juice they play. The

1:06:29

most passes, they're nailed every game, they're

1:06:31

on pens, and they take corners and

1:06:33

they take breaks. Yeah. So,

1:06:36

you know, that's not bad for maybe next year. We

1:06:38

need to look for a guy who like takes literally

1:06:40

every single one of those boxes and be like, I

1:06:43

can rotate this guy with X.

1:06:45

Yeah. There's, I mean, there's four

1:06:47

right there, right? Gibbs like, I mean, Gross is

1:06:49

iffy. I think the pens, it has to have,

1:06:51

you have to have the pens because that's the

1:06:53

other way better. Yeah. But

1:06:56

that's the thing that's so important about having the

1:06:58

pens is, I mean, if you're looking at these

1:07:00

players in a rotational fashion, the

1:07:03

games that a team has a more chance of

1:07:05

winning a pen is when they're playing the fucking

1:07:07

shittiest ass team when they're in the box more.

1:07:09

So it's like they get like, Doug got a

1:07:11

pen a few when like, what, which

1:07:13

game was it? Fucking can't remember. Burnley

1:07:16

is. Wasn't that a pen? Was that a

1:07:18

pen Burnley home? I think

1:07:20

I don't remember, but I'll look right now. Yeah.

1:07:23

You know, it's like, those are the, I mean, he had

1:07:25

a fucking point nine XG. I'm saying I'm the same. So

1:07:27

the only thing I have, yeah, that was, yeah. So I

1:07:29

mean, that's the thing is like, you're looking at these games

1:07:31

where it's like home chef you

1:07:34

and then home Burnley 18 and 20. Yeah.

1:07:37

Yeah. You know, he gets

1:07:39

an assist on a fucking, I imagine that piece

1:07:41

eight points against chef you when they scored a

1:07:43

goal and then he scores a pen against Burnley

1:07:45

20 points

1:07:48

and he doesn't do anything. Like

1:07:50

that's good. Yeah.

1:07:52

All he does is he's good at pens and his

1:07:55

team won one. Yeah. And

1:07:57

he just takes that piece. So I mean, yeah, that if

1:07:59

you're looking. know say Gibbs white gross

1:08:01

like whoever the version of these are going

1:08:04

into next year and then just straight up

1:08:06

look at the fixture and say which of

1:08:08

these guys have a good you

1:08:10

know eight to ten game

1:08:12

week window of good homes you know and

1:08:14

just right doing something like that you

1:08:16

know I mean yeah that's that makes sense it's

1:08:19

good yeah yeah it seems seems very

1:08:21

good the bones are just too

1:08:24

powerful but anyway we that was

1:08:26

a long I was a didn't

1:08:28

expect to go there the post morning yeah

1:08:30

me neither me neither any

1:08:33

matches or anything you want to talk about I

1:08:35

mean we we're already like over an hour but

1:08:37

we know we're doing normal my

1:08:40

life on Thursday yeah we got a we have

1:08:42

pitch up and stream and all that I mean

1:08:44

were there any interesting man I feel like it's

1:08:46

this is the thing about this phase of the

1:08:48

season that's it's like nothing

1:08:51

matters because everyone is just tunneled

1:08:54

on and like Oh born this I

1:08:56

will yeah yeah

1:08:59

there's a blank like in two weeks like

1:09:01

well fuck okay I guess like none of

1:09:03

this shit is the thing so right talking

1:09:05

about the games is like so much less

1:09:08

useful yeah I'm rolling through I

1:09:10

mean I can't play

1:09:12

love to see that I can't play spurs

1:09:14

look good you know I'm happy with Sun

1:09:16

and Mato you know obviously not over vote

1:09:19

but I'm happy with them I mean yeah

1:09:21

not not much else I'm honestly not that

1:09:23

much yeah and then Liverpool City dude so

1:09:25

who do you think is gonna win the league city

1:09:29

yeah they're still I think

1:09:31

massive favorites they should be in the

1:09:33

book yeah I mean they for a

1:09:35

million many reasons should be

1:09:38

and they might not so I not now

1:09:41

they're not small game over here on Sunday

1:09:43

oh my god I mean you're

1:09:45

you want to draw properly right I would

1:09:48

take a draw yeah you rip fucking

1:09:51

limbs off for a draw the

1:09:53

way the squads are currently looking

1:09:55

yeah I mean assuming that our team's

1:09:59

still gonna be really fucked up which it

1:10:01

is I mean there's no way there's no

1:10:03

way that like six guys are coming back

1:10:05

in one week then yeah

1:10:07

I'll take fucking draw yeah and

1:10:11

then Arsenal City is soon after

1:10:13

I think yeah 30 or something that's

1:10:15

fucking it's a great title race I

1:10:17

gotta say that at least yeah definitely

1:10:20

it's fun and yeah it's fun all

1:10:22

right let me slap ass is

1:10:24

to new sign ups to the

1:10:27

patron Dean Noonan and Paul Murugu

1:10:29

what the ass did we get

1:10:31

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1:10:34

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