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Season 3- Episode 9- We Have a Problem (Premiership Round 5)
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It is those American Rugby dudes yapping at you. OK, this is an episode that if you aren't into politics, you may want to skip the first few minutes because we were on one today thanks to the awful things occurring in Washington D.C. Elsewhere on this episode, we have a chat about what Premiership (and the rest of rugby) could do to drive fan interest and possibly help some of our fantasy site friends. We also discuss much of the issues with non-playing staff on the touchline of matches, because well we had to. Naturally we wrap all of the other action from Round 5 of the Premiership, have a look at what went down with the CYL and do our best with Start or Sit. Crack one open, maybe pour a little something else too, and hang on for this one.
Ask us questions via Twitter: Jarrod- jdyke8man & Ben- admrablsnackbar. Send us your thoughts for the show and questions for upcoming shows via e-mail fantasyrugbypodcast@gmail.com. Don't forget to send us your questions to be discussed on Episode 100 next month!
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Transcript
Introduction and Topic Overview
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody. Welcome back. This is the fancy word. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauzer. So we're going to get right to it.
Podcast References and Planned Discussions
00:00:15
Speaker
There's a shit ton to talk about. Yeah, you know, and I need a beer for George. Yeah, George, PRM, RPA, pod 100, all aside, like there's there's the mention of those because we got we got some shit to get down to because if you if you were under a rock in the last
00:00:33
Speaker
I think we all need this at this point.
Support for Black Lives Matter
00:00:38
Speaker
Good Lord. Break it up. Okay. Fuck this shit. No shit. So, number one, so Black Lives Matter, let's talk about Hewitt real quick. Yeah. And I wanted to, yeah, because I had the thought about that before we got into the real thing to talk about. As you all know, if you've been listening to this podcast for longer than five seconds, you know, we are strong believers in Black Lives Matter and
00:01:02
Speaker
quality for everyone and justice for everyone and you know the appalling behavior and thankfully he's had a lot of support come out and oh yeah for him and this is this is great and actually he was obviously a big Ben at the forefront of it in the community big leader and you know the disgusting
Social Media and Movement Understanding
00:01:22
Speaker
Twitter account that, you know, messaged him and tagged him. Yeah. Like it should not be okay to do that on social media. And I think Twitter will take better action than we have Zuckerberg because fuck Zuckerberg. I think Twitter will take better action than he would. So hopefully we see that.
00:01:43
Speaker
But here's the thing, even if I know if you're if you've downloaded enough and you've listened enough and you're still listening, obviously you're not at least 100 percent against Black Lives Matter. Maybe you just don't quite understand it. I want to and maybe pass through this, but if you're listening, whoever needs to hear it, we've been doing this for what's basically since George Floyd. So since last
00:02:11
Speaker
Um, Memorial Day area. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, we have had some new incident to talk about.
00:02:23
Speaker
almost every single week. And sometimes we've had to just cut them off and be like, okay, we have these, these, these things happen. We'll pick out one of them or something. Like this is not, these are not isolated incidents. This is systemic.
Political Frustrations and Moral Values
00:02:37
Speaker
And it has led to the next thing we're going to talk about, which is, Hey, man.
00:02:43
Speaker
Insurrection. I could not believe this is just this is just absolute bullshit and call it what you will. And this is what fucking pisses me off when people vote for idiots like him and they say, oh, my 401k and my finances, fuck your finances, fuck your 401k. This is about people. Yeah, you know, you have to consider people
00:03:10
Speaker
Your 401k does not live. And guess what? You don't get to take it with you either. Fuck your goddamn money and consider people like I am not, I've never been like so against a certain candidate. It doesn't matter what side of the fucking aisle it is. In my life, in my life.
Critique of U.S. Societal Issues
00:03:28
Speaker
And I'm not that old, but you know what? If you haven't met me, I usually have some pretty strong opinions. And for me to say that is just another level.
00:03:39
Speaker
That's all I know. And, you know, I've tried to see down the middle in other candidates, in other presidents and other, you know, administrations, I could not hear. And that just, you know, my moral compass just goes super haywire with this guy. And this is exactly why. And when people look at me like, you're fucking crazy. You must be, you know, this is not a real thing. Why do you care so much? Well, shit, it isn't a real thing. Did you just see what happened? Did you just see what happened today?
00:04:06
Speaker
That is ridiculous. So here's the thing. And it's because I've been saying it for a while. We are not as much as we want to talk about. We are. I mean, and now the proof is here. We're not a first world country. We're supposedly the best country in the world. And I call bullshit. We're feudalistic.
00:04:25
Speaker
there are serfs and there are lords who are untouchable by certain, you know, like, you know, unaccountable to police or law enforcement of any kind, essentially unaccountable. Like, fuck, Kelly Loeffler, who thankfully lost, but she has been known to have been done doing insider trading, all sorts of shady shit. And no, she's unaccountable. The people who got their kids into schools under fake athletic scholarships and whatnot, because they were fucking stupid, they got like,
00:04:54
Speaker
slap on the wrist, but some woman who, of course, a black woman who goes, you know, fakes her address so her child can go to a better school gets like 20 years in prison, like, bullshit like this, that's actually that happens in this country.
Systemic Racism and Inequality
00:05:08
Speaker
And then we don't have basic we don't have our basic needs met, you know, we're the only one of the only countries in the world without universal health care.
00:05:16
Speaker
an idea that's as old as indoor plumbing in this country. So not having universal healthcare is the equivalent of shitting in a bucket in the corner. That's where we are. That's the level of development that we have as a country. And it's disgusting that we've let it come to this, but so this shouldn't be a surprise in some ways, which is sad. I'm not surprised. It doesn't mean it's not gonna make me angry.
00:05:43
Speaker
Right. Oh, I'm fucking furious. But this is white supremacy in action. Police. There's the protests that we saw this summer. Fucking. Did you see that today? No, the police just welcomed them right in. Said, hey, oh, you want to go to the Capitol? Go ahead. Are you shitting me? You're taking office with police. Get the fuck out of here. Like this is the police or a white supremacist organization. And this one and they were allowed to go up onto the Capitol with a fucking Confederate flag.
00:06:12
Speaker
Yeah, that shit is not right. And the police just let them, and then they let them out, and then they did nothing about it. It's as good as frigging walking up there with the swastika. Right.
Protest Symbols and Actions
00:06:23
Speaker
It's the same flag. They sell them at Trump rallies right next to each other. The Confederate flag, the Trump flag, and the Nazi flag. They sell them all right in a row. Oh, and the Blue Lives Matter, the bastard. That desecration of the American flag. And people would shit a brick if BLM had done that too. Oh, fucking Colin Kaepernick kneeled.
00:06:46
Speaker
Yeah, because that's a problem. That's a problem. We'll make a fascist version of the US flag that will worship, but Colin Kaepernick kneeling. Who he was advised to do so by him or by the way.
00:07:02
Speaker
So all you people that are just like, you know, and oh, why did he's not going to consult every fucking person he knows. He consulted somebody that he that he respected and he thought and he thought the best of and, you know, was like, how can I do this in the best way possible? And he said this is how he knew who to talk to. And that's what he said. So and everyone else who has not been a fucking let's OK, it's time to put it flat out. Anybody who was not a white supremacist,
00:07:29
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was like, yeah, this is fine. This is respectful. But everyone, you know, if you're a white supremacist, oh, that's just respectful, blah, blah, blah, because it's a fucking black man with an opinion. Yeah, they still want slaves here. Oh, absolutely. Our prison system is slavery.
Critique of U.S. Prison System
00:07:51
Speaker
California uses firefighters to battle those fucking forest fires that they have out there.
00:07:58
Speaker
They pay prison inmates like 11 cents an hour to go do that. And once they're out of prison, they are legally prevented from fighting fires. So they're doing that while they're in prison, but then they they're not training them to be better citizens when they get out. They're just saying, yeah, fuck you. We're not doing anything for you. Like it's it's like 11 cents an hour that people die doing like, no, that's slavery. Like we do have it in this country.
00:08:26
Speaker
It's time to acknowledge these things.
Call to Awareness and Acknowledgment
00:08:29
Speaker
These may sound shocking, and you may be like, oh, Ben's fucking office rocker. That's because it's time to acknowledge these. We have not been acknowledging them. This is where it leads to. People think that we're just on these extreme ideas. It's right in your face, man. If you're not seeing it, then we can talk about it.
00:08:55
Speaker
Please, you know, take a second to open your eyes, you know. Yeah. And if you don't see it, I'm not hiding anywhere. Come ask me, you know, I'm on the Twitters. I'm on whatever. None of us running and hiding, I promise. Right. So so please reach out if you have questions. I don't care. You know, I will answer them. I mean, I care. I do care. But I mean, I'm not going to be like, like, I can't believe you asked me the stupid question. I'll be like, OK, that's a good question. I and I understand. Trust me. I understand.
00:09:24
Speaker
I've been, I'm not here. I didn't go from birth to this. I had to learn. And a lot of people need to be doing a lot of learning right now. So please reach out and ask. And if you have information that we don't have, please reach out and let us know. If we're missing something, let us know. Let's not be ignorant. We can't ignore these things anymore.
00:09:53
Speaker
No, it's time to. And I'm spent.
Shift to Rugby Discussions
00:09:56
Speaker
Yeah, I know. More beer. We got to do a show now, too. Yeah, let's talk some rugby for a little bit. Now to the rugby. And use ourselves briefly. Now to the rugby.
00:10:08
Speaker
Oh, anyone backs a lockdown, unfortunately, just a whole lockdown elite sport has not been touched yet. Yeah, but yeah, keep that yet in there. Exeter. Yeah, fucking hell. God damn it. So, you know, no, no, no fans will be allowed, obviously. And yeah, that's just how that's just where we're at right now. We can't do anything about it.
00:10:31
Speaker
you know, this new strain and the rollout of the vaccine is just really painful right now, just how it goes. And we don't know if the vaccine will address the new strain yet. I mean, there's all the evidence says it will, but you never know. So keep your fingers crossed, kids.
00:10:51
Speaker
the player movement, uh, 200 on his way from, uh, Edinburgh to Worcester. They needed him. That's a unit right there. We'll get into why they needed him in a minute, but it's a unit and they, yeah, hopefully he's a finisher. Yeah. And Davidson goes to Gloucester as well. So Scotland's going to need some reloading to do up there and, uh, their two teams here.
00:11:13
Speaker
Now, do they do the same thing as Wales and Ireland, where you have to play in country? Scotland is good. Nope. Definitely not. It's one of those, I guess, beggars can't be choosers, right? Absolutely. Yeah, I don't know. If you've either gotten your citizenship in Scotland or you have a Scottish, you know,
00:11:32
Speaker
grandparent or parent, then you are eligible to play for Scotland doesn't matter where you play to rugby. So that's the upside. That's the upside of them at least. And that's, that's why Finn plays in France. And you know, hog plays down in next year, although they both have a shitload caps between them. But you know, point B. So they're not as dumb. They're not as dumb as they sound. So like, if you're an Eskimo brother with, with the Scottish person, you qualify. All right, that's good. Although I don't know that that's
00:12:02
Speaker
I'm not going to overthink it. Let me know if that's wrong. I'll apologize.
00:12:10
Speaker
Yeah, what else we got? I'm hearing some, you've been pinging me about all these blues things, but I haven't had time, there's been other shit to go on. What are you talking about? We could be, so we have potential movement from Bath to Cardiff. Oh, Cardiff, okay. Reese Priestling could be on his way to Cardiff to go home, as it were. Interesting. You know what? I like it in a couple of ways.
00:12:41
Speaker
Yeah. Priestland has been good for bath. No, don't get me wrong. Yeah. But I think they've found their fly half of the future that they want. They have a couple of guys that they could play there right now. Yeah. I feel like they're grooming Redpath. Yeah. I totally would go for that, you know. I think this weekend they subbed him in, you know, or they pushed him in instead of Josh. Metabase, yeah. Yeah.
Rugby Coaching and Team Changes
00:13:09
Speaker
Yeah. It was a, so I think they have a good, I think it's good move for both. I think priest gets to keep playing a lot of rugby and he'll probably bring along that blue squad as best to the best of his ability, which is clearly shown while he's hung out at the rec. Um, and then they have a new coach potentially on the docket. It's an old friend. Oh no. Die young.
00:13:35
Speaker
Oh no. Oh no. Okay. Well, all right. I can mentally prepare myself for that. Did they not see? Have they not seen Wasp?
00:13:46
Speaker
Before this? Yeah, I don't know. Okay, wait, hold on. Did they not see wasps what they fucking just did? Right, you know, what they did after Diane left. Right. Well, I mean, what they just did this past weekend. Yeah. And be like, hmm, maybe this guy's not our guy.
00:14:02
Speaker
No, I mean, I don't know. I mean, he's Welsh and they love the, they love the homers over there. Um, and we, I didn't know this, but we'll roll into said he's probably going to play him Wells next year somewhere, whether it's for what, which club I don't know. Right. Right. That's what makes sense. It does make sense.
00:14:20
Speaker
you know and good for him. They need they need a they need a lock. Right and his contract's up and their rules say he needs to play in there he wants to play for whales and considering that they had um like they've just lost ball and they're probably gonna lose win jones um i would say they're gonna need him so they're gonna need him at least for a transition they're gonna be banging down the door to make sure he lands at a Welsh club. Right not that he's um
00:14:46
Speaker
Not that he's a terrible player. I'm not trying to say it that way or that he's just adequate. He's very, very good luck. Even at the international level, I think he's quite solid. So it's like they're going to at least need him for two or three years until they get their next like Jake Ball and all that going and their next young studs ready to play at that level. He's a good player.
00:15:11
Speaker
And Fred said he leadership too, he knows what it takes. Once Allen Wynn goes, he can fill that role adequately. Mm-hm, I agree, I agree. I think he'll be fine. And he's obviously a solid player. So good luck to that, good luck to lost Phil in that position. That's not fun. I know they've launched Brady, but he's not getting any younger. Yeah, he's not. No, he's not. Gaskel though.
00:15:32
Speaker
Yeah, we'll talk about James Caskill this past weekend in a little bit. Oh man, so that'll be interesting to see how that, both those pan out for the blues. Yeah. Very interesting. I die young. What the fuck? All right. Yeah. Talk about it.
00:15:51
Speaker
Let's talk a little bit about the punditry that we've had to experience. And it's sad that punditry and commentary has been such an issue lately, but it's just really painful sometimes that you just have to shake your head and go, really? This is what's going on in this world? It's a generational thing, really. This is what it is. I feel like, and they're not, they're just, you know, what?
00:16:12
Speaker
what they're used to, just like, you know, we talk about the, you know, when we talk about Austin, when he doesn't know the rules, because he's like, back when I played, that was fine. Like, why isn't it fine now? Like, where do you want me to start, Healy? But that problem is that that, you know, goes to a lot of other places. And eventually, you just don't connect. It's not about that they're there, you know, they have bad comms. It's just that the comms are not for the audience anymore. No.
00:16:38
Speaker
that's become, it's become a
Bias in Rugby Commentary
00:16:40
Speaker
problem. Right. You know, it's, you know, yeah, you know, and really if they wanted to at least solve some issues, um, keep, keep Ben Kay and Austin Healy off Lester matches together. Number one, absolutely. Two of them do not help each other at all. Both of them.
00:16:58
Speaker
There you go. Neither of them, but certainly not both of them. No, definitely not both of them. You have to have one, have just one. Yeah, just have one. Ugo's gotten better with Quinn's. He was definitely very, very biased in his commentary when calling a Quinn's match. And like, it was very painful. Laul's a pain in the ass, but that's all I have to say about him. You know, it is what it is.
00:17:23
Speaker
He shouldn't do it. I'm still not good at identifying. Yeah. He shouldn't do a wash game. That's all I know. Okay. Well, yeah, I'm not sure. I'm like, I don't, I don't know the history of these people so much. So I'm kind of like, you know, yeah. Well, I'm nonpartisan like that. So it's, so it, I mean, it's, obviously it's confusing, but yeah. Well, yeah. Like I've been kind of a, I've been nauseating in and out since about 2002. So I've, uh, I've had a, I've had my share and my, my, my fair share at this point and understand who's who.
00:17:54
Speaker
So yeah, just there's a lot of things that need to. Yeah. And like I said, on Twitter, give me flats all day. Flats is amazing. I love listening to that guy. You know, don't put him on Harrison's match. He was a Saracen. Don't put him on Harrison's match. But other than that, like...
00:18:08
Speaker
Go for it. Like, I love listening to him. You know, he's he's a ride on Twitter. Just he's he's a entertaining and connects connects you to the game. Like, even as like go back to Healy, though, as a coach, sometimes when he says certain things and I'm like, I don't want young players to hear this. No, no, not at all. And it's bad. And it's like you shouldn't be commentating on a fucking scrum like Healy. What do you know? What do you know about a scrum? Like, you know, the only thing you've ever known about a scrum is how to watch it. Go away.
00:18:38
Speaker
So yeah, it's it's but flats will give you that, you know, if you get somebody who's naturally funny, they'll give it to you straight, because that's what it really is. That, you know, a lot of humor is just being like, I'm going to say this. And it's like, oh, nobody says that because, oh, I never thought of it that way. Or, you know, it's like, yeah, we just.
00:18:58
Speaker
Don't think it out that way. And I've listened to some to some interesting guys on certain podcasts. Yeah. But they tell you good shit. And it's really it's really fun to like I love Ben Kayser when they do year when he does Europe. It's so fun. He's such a great person to listen to. Guys, I wish would be more interested in it, but they've been kind of casted out for reasons X, Y and Z, which none of most of which I don't agree. Jason Robinson.
00:19:23
Speaker
That dude would be very interesting to listen to, I think. Don't let him do a sale match, though, because he was sale through and through for a long time. Although, actually, they pissed him off, so maybe not. Maybe he wouldn't care. Yeah, as long as it's just the one, the other person can keep him in check. See, that would be humorous, though, if somebody's like, oh, you're only saying that because you're former sale. Call them on that. That's funny. Do that. Do that, exactly. And then Jason Leonard, formerly known or also known as the Fun Bus.
00:19:53
Speaker
Okay. I will say front rowers are fun to listen to. They are. Because they don't take it seriously. They understand it's just a game. They're interesting to listen to. Like, I'd be interested in like what Joe Marlar has to say when he's done. And they can actually tell you about like, instead of nothing gets me more upset than the repeated, oh, no one knows what's happening in the scrum,
Rugby Scrums and Statistics
00:20:11
Speaker
the dark arts. No, it's not that.
00:20:13
Speaker
Ask a prop. They'll tell you. You need to be somebody should slap you. Ask a damn prop. They'll tell you that complex. It's it's it's hard to learn. Don't get me wrong. But if you want to break it down, it's super easy. You just have to like get out of this mindset of, oh, no one knows what happens. It's like, get the fuck out.
00:20:31
Speaker
We know what happens. You just don't understand. That's not, I guess that's kind of your fault, but not your fault. But it hasn't been well explained. And it's, it's the easy thing. It's like, as we were saying before about the culture, like for them, the culture is, ah, no, you know, everyone says that, you know, no one understands. It's the dark arts. No one knows what happens down there. And, but the reality is, um, no, it's, it can be done. It can be done. Uh, so, so yeah, let's, let's fix that a little bit. Wipe the slate clean. We're good.
00:21:02
Speaker
Um, so we may have, we may have sussed out something that could be a long-term answer that we need to find the actual solution to. Um, but the answer.
00:21:15
Speaker
is very simple, but the how you get there is very complex. The path to it is, is very complex. And we're talking about, you know, unfortunately, I've already had another hiccup this past weekend, you know, as as infuriating as it was to us all, there's a deeper problem that we probably need to dissolve. That's not FRDs problem. It is rugby. And in this case, premierships problem where they need to find
00:21:40
Speaker
a way to not. So Opta, as most of us know, have a monopoly on stats for the premiership for rugby, really for rugby in general, I think. So if leagues can start to find a way to give to make stats more publicly available via them themselves,
00:22:02
Speaker
then we might have an easier answer where a site like FRD or TRM doesn't need to pay through the nose to get the stats. They just need to, they can pay for other things. They can pay for a better system. They can pay for,
00:22:18
Speaker
new features. They can pay for all these things that we want as fancy sports players, as fancy rugby players. And we can have that. We can have everything we want, really. As someone who, and I don't know how frequently I say this,
00:22:42
Speaker
I don't know if it's too early or not very frequently. Yeah, the newspaper thing, right? I've been doing this for that long that we were, you know, before, you know, before we did it digitally. And so I've seen this trend from, you know, from back then till now. I remember when, you know, like they made you make a mark, you know, this stats are are you make you make them something interesting? Yeah, you make them interesting to the fans and then you make them
00:23:11
Speaker
um mythical or even religious in nature like look at baseball those stats oh yeah they call them hallowed stats like boomers are like jizz over stats i'm sorry for the the obscenity there but sorry for any language you may have heard um
00:23:33
Speaker
But like, you know, you talk about, you know, most home, Hank Aaron being home run King was like, Oh, you know, and Barry Bob's breaking that record was heartbreaking that this cheater took that number away from, and then that lead and, and all these, you know, and I remember Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa like chasing the home run record and football getting a thousand yards rushing or receiving or 2000 yards rushing, you know, is a, is a,
00:23:58
Speaker
Like, what's his name, Travis, or Derek, whatever, Henry. Henry, yeah. Not Travis, Henry. No. Watched out of the League a while back. Derek Henry passed 2,000 yards on Sunday. And like, that's huge. They cut away from games to say, look, here's Derek Henry.
00:24:16
Speaker
break in 2K. They make it a thing. It makes the fans that much closer to the game. Rugby should do that. I shouldn't have to look up stats to see, or pay for stats to know who has the most meters.
00:24:35
Speaker
that they should be marketing it. Yeah, I think they clearly want to use them because they publish those graphics every week, the Premiership does at least. So it would behoove them to somehow, some way, find a way to start small and
00:24:56
Speaker
and start finding ways to get the, you can start with the basics, you know? All right, we want to know meters and we want to know tackles. All right, cool. Let's start with that. I got a good one. It's not meters, carries and tackles. You combine that stat, you say, or you know, you say, you know, here's your carries leaders, here's the people who are doing that work there, and then who's the tackles, and then you figure out a way to combine them, you say, here's the person like, what was it? Somebody going into the contact area a lot.
00:25:23
Speaker
Right. Exactly. Like this person's like our iron horse of the week or something. Something like that. Something like really tough. And you say that and you give out that award each week and then that becomes a thing. Like that person did a lot of fucking work right there. And maybe you add Rux hit into it and then you get all three of them together and you put it out. And then you do the league leaders, you put them out, you make sure that when you open the box score,
00:25:50
Speaker
Oh, back in my, I'm gonna fuck my pants. Baseball. You got suspenders there. And yeah, if you wanted to know who was number 10th in home runs in baseball, you couldn't know. You could only look, maybe you could piece it together from American League and National League, but you could only see like the top eight or so home run leaders. They publish them every day. It would be like, here's your home run leaders. Here's your RBI leaders. Here's your hits leaders. Here's your average leaders.
00:26:18
Speaker
And they published that. And that grew, obviously, away from there. But that was a thing that they put out every day. Rumbi could do that. Things like this where instead of everything, like you said, they kind of do.
00:26:35
Speaker
But it would be nice to have access to all the stats so that the fans can really connect to it because stats numbers help. Numbers drive engagement. Yeah, they do. Marketing people should be able to tell you that. And I almost imagine that somewhere in each club, there's somebody that's taking tallies of certain things that they can probably
00:26:57
Speaker
you know, hey, can you you know, would you mind handing us over those numbers too? Yeah, sure here. You know, and that start with something, whatever these clubs have been keeping track of, I'm sure there's at least a few things in there. You know, see if you can piecemeal that together and publish that. And then okay, you got stats. All right, cool. So we got way to do stats. And you know, if you want to
00:27:21
Speaker
Yeah, there's a way to do it. It's not going to be an easy answer. It's not going to be, it's going to be a long-term answer as well. It's not going to be an overnight thing, but it would be very wise of them to go start collecting their own debts. Start publishing them. And use them, yeah. And not, you know, and we're talking about, you know, the premiership and rugby not being a super well-funded game. Well, there's somebody saved from you right there. You don't have to pay off to that anymore. You know, so, and that's just, that's just,
00:27:51
Speaker
I think that's the answer, how we get there.
Publishing Rugby Stats
00:27:55
Speaker
I don't have it right now. I wanna get there, but I don't have it. Somebody else has the answer, please, please tell us. That would be great. We have a think tank of our own that might have some ideas too. So we'll see. Moving on. Is that what you're calling my Lou?
00:28:14
Speaker
I don't know why. I definitely am. I definitely am. We have our own, but yeah. Anyway. I think it's it. You know, it was really unfortunate to see what happened on the match on the weekend.
Non-Playing Staff in Rugby
00:28:36
Speaker
But really rugby in general needs to get a hold of coaching staff and non-playing staff in general. Oh, that. There's a lot that happened this weekend that we could be talking about. Yeah. And so there was, so in general for that, it was, you know, so talking about the sale incident and sale cluster, that shouldn't have happened. And really it's not the first time, like,
00:29:00
Speaker
my mind went rewind to Munster and Saracens a couple of years ago with Jamie George and a coach marking bullshit at him and making a derogatory comment about his weight. And you know, and Jinx isn't like the most angry person ever. And he knows he's not Svelte either. So it's also that. His fuse is about as big as he is. So if he goes off,
00:29:26
Speaker
You've done something that's really upset him. He's from all accounts a fairly easy going dude. So if you've got him wired and fired up, so it's more to the point of just keep non-playing staff off the field. And my thought went to Joe Marler. Yeah.
00:29:47
Speaker
like doing the same thing also against Arizon's coming back on and so all of that shit like so yeah it's funny how like you texted me about the the monster incident and i texted you but i was like oh i was thinking about crins and it's like oh shit like we both had forgotten about each each of the ones but it's like and there was even the Exeter incident with yeah
00:30:05
Speaker
Yeah, Harry Williams did shit. That was less than ideal too. It's not a new thing. It's something that needs to get under control though because you shouldn't be allowed. Nobody on the sideline who's going to have zero repercussions. Oh, they're not allowed to be on the touchline that weekend.
00:30:25
Speaker
fucking cares. Yeah, you know, if you're gonna do something that bait somebody into getting a yellow card on the field, then there's something wrong with that. And the story, the thing that pisses me off too, is that the barriers are there, right? Right. The barriers are there. And the when you put up a barrier to me, that says, if you're on the field side of the barrier, yeah, and especially for a kicked ball like that, like if you're, you know,
00:30:52
Speaker
Whatever, especially at the lower levels at the at the high these higher levels know that ball that they should be almost like arena football or that's like it's secret area what's your life, you know, don't touch it. Right.
00:31:04
Speaker
unless it goes over the barrier. And in this case, the guy, whatever. Yeah. And so yeah, that should not have been the, if you want to give, um, 12 trees a yellow for, for shoving him, it's the penalty still got to go against sale for, for, um, ultimately, cause it wouldn't have, and then with all the, the bullshit, like the Marlin yard bullshit afterwards, just inciting
Player Safety and Foul Play in Rugby
00:31:27
Speaker
it. No, it's, it's.
00:31:30
Speaker
horrible way to uh they did review that he didn't he actually they said he didn't do anything so he shouldn't have been there anyway no the whole thing shouldn't happen to begin with right um but then i was thinking i was thinking that we had two instances and one right right in in line with what we're talking about with the um uh the sale uh gloster match we had two instances of potential foul play
00:31:57
Speaker
that led to HIAs eventually, not immediately, but eventually, that went not even, not carded, just not even penalized. Yeah, that's not good. Wait, was DDP penalized? I don't think he was. No. They said play on. They just play on. And what was the other one? Wasn't the one in Bristol, Newcastle? Was it Wasp's Exeter? Maybe Wasp's Exeter. Where it was the same kind of thing where somebody got hit and it was not,
00:32:26
Speaker
not right, let's put it that way. And then they had to pull that person off for an HIA. It's like, no, if you have a hit, at this point, I think it's if you have a hit that's, and those, both of the hits were questionable and fucking should have been cards. At least penalized. At least penalized.
00:32:43
Speaker
But at that point, if someone hits someone in a deliberately unsafe manner, whether or not it is a high tackle, this or that, so as to remove the whole thing around the Dandupriya incident, it was an unsafe tackle that led to an HIA or an unsafe challenge that led to an HIA, you're binned automatically for that period. Because they're going to have to miss 10 minutes. Even if they're okay, they have to miss 10 or so minutes, you got to go.
00:33:11
Speaker
Yeah, it's around the changing of the behavior, too, that's really trying to drive
Reforms in Rugby Tackling
00:33:16
Speaker
it. And, you know, people... There was no need for that hit at all. No, there wasn't. But, you know, you look back at the red card that Montpelier got, Immelmann. You know, it wasn't anything nasty or dirty, but you can't come flying into these tackles high anymore. You have to make the effort to get down, get low, and try and put, you know...
00:33:37
Speaker
try and put her shoulder into somebody's hip as opposed to somebody's noggin. That's just how it's going to go. And until that happens, we're going to continue to see shitloads of yellow and red cards. And that's just how it is. Right. But that should be prepared for it. That happened when we first brought in the concept of high tackling. Yellow cards went through the roof for like
00:33:58
Speaker
what, a season and a half or so? And then players got better and the coaches got better. It's time for this. You have to get it out. You just have to take hits like these out of the game. And same with the Hill and Vanderfleer the other week. Like, got to take these hits out of the game. Whether or not they're technically legal, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, fuck that shit. They're not safe, ultimately. And that's the point of it. It's not a safe play, so it needs to be taken out of the game.
00:34:25
Speaker
And people that are, and, you know, this goes to another point, people that are trying to get the jackals out of the game don't understand that. All right. So if you take the jackals out of the game, the only other way you have to get the ball back is to counterrock and the counterrock's get vicious, like the one that Tom Wood tried to employ.
00:34:41
Speaker
And that's what's going to happen. And that's what you're going to see. So what? Because players get beat, too. Yeah, it's that's what happens to a lot is when players are beaten and they don't like it and they know they're going to get their coach for it. You are like, all right, I got it. I'm not I'm not losing this. I've taken I've taken a couple of shots because somebody got got beat to the rock and they didn't like it. Right. Like came back into me. And that's hey, it's all in the game. But at the same time, as long as it's safe.
00:35:09
Speaker
Right. So like if you if you have to make an unsafe play to win, you don't deserve to win. No, no, let's let's get that. Let's kick that shit. I mean, but I mean, not not the game. I mean, the incident like, you know, that rock you should not make an unsafe play to win that rock. No, let's play fucking rugby. Absolutely. I agree.
00:35:29
Speaker
Okay. Now let's talk to the, let's, let's go to the stuff on the pitch. Um, there was some good stuff this weekend as, uh, you know, as much as we, uh, as much as there was to talk about in the new cycle. Um, let's go to Ashton gate, Newcastle eat their first loss of the season, Bristol 29, Newcastle 17.
Bristol vs Newcastle Performance
00:35:49
Speaker
Um, you know, this is good. There's some good stuff going on at Bristol last I checked.
00:35:54
Speaker
When would we have thought in the past that a week five match between Bristol and Newcastle is not the game of the week, but it's up there. It was definitely on the guard. It's almost a must win for these teams. They need the points if they want to finish top four and they're both well in the challenge for it.
00:36:19
Speaker
Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I thought that was I thought both teams played pretty well. You know, really,
00:36:27
Speaker
There's a lot of things you can look at, but, man, that Nalago try was that was gifted to him really just kind of... It set Bristol off. It really did. Well, because they feed on that kind of funness, right? They get a little bit of fun going. And then it... I mean, we saw that last week too. Not a whole lot of not much fun in the first half. And then all of a sudden, no fun. And then it goes and it kind of clicks for them.
00:36:51
Speaker
Yeah. And that's really what it took to to kind of break through a little bit. Oh, yeah, this is this is what we're doing today. We're playing this style. Like, OK. Excellent, excellent stuff from, you know, it was good to see like Pia Tal back. That was that was a big one for me. You know, they need him.
00:37:09
Speaker
in many ways only because depth can be a problem. You have a long beforehand. They took him off. And when I saw them take him off, I did the, I honestly did the, no. And then I realized, oh wait, no, he's coming back from injury. Like, it's time. He needs some time. And I was like, yes, okay, we're good. Maybe that's the way to do.
00:37:35
Speaker
Yeah, this is the way. Go for it. Then Mr. Newcastle himself, Mark Wilson returned for the Falcons, which was a big boost for them as well. I thought, man, you know, that pack was off a try. Yeah. And if they're going to flourish and him and assuming they get Graham back sometime soon, I mean, and we talk about Robinson wasn't bad. No, he's and he's not been bad at all since they can move him back into flank if they wanted to.
00:38:02
Speaker
Well, I think the idea will be they move him back into the to the engine room there. Yeah. And Peterson. Mm hmm. Well, that's danger. That's that's a fucking dangerous club right there. Yeah. It's a good this is a good team. Yeah. Really good team. And they're playing well. And flood flood played decently. I mean, I think Hannon has been better.
00:38:23
Speaker
Yeah, but what's that steady head that you sometimes need that steady hand that can steer the ship a little bit? And wait a minute, I got to stop you because I know you want to keep going with this, but I got to give you the props because there was a certain player for Newcastle that you'd been saying
00:38:43
Speaker
This is the guy they get the ball to. I was mispronouncing his name the whole fucking time. But yeah, he was. Yeah, you got that ball. I was just like, go, go, go, go. He had the wheels. Yeah, 13 on 13 on that one. That was a pretty good matchup, actually, between Ian Rodrada. It was. I like that. Yeah, that midfield. That's a tough midfield right there between me and Orlando. Yeah. You know, Orlando didn't show up much on the fantasy scoreboard, but man, that dude is not messing around. No.
00:39:12
Speaker
And then their back line, their back three is fairly formidable. So yeah, this team is not somebody to push over. I know Bristol ended up doing the business, but Bristol's also a very good outfit. Callum Sheedy's kind of good as well. So. A little good. And Nathan Hughes. And Hughes. Where the hell has this guy been?
00:39:32
Speaker
for a couple of years now. Like we're not talking about exactly. This is a long term. This is back. We're talking wasps days. Yeah. Where's Nathan Hughes? Where's this Nathan? He's been kidding. No kidding. This is this team's going to get Ben Earl back and have a backer. Right. Oh, I know. And then there's, you know, there's guys that didn't touch the field like weren't on the, you know, they're they had a fairly new row. Yeah. Right. Max Malin still needs to come back. Like,
00:40:01
Speaker
Randall started on the bench on this. And Lewa Tua has been on fucking fire. He's a leader for this club. But just to go along with that Nathan Hughes thing, like Lewa Tua, I don't remember Lewa Tua making these kind of plays.
00:40:17
Speaker
in any recent history.
Wasps vs Exeter Analysis
00:40:19
Speaker
He's been that solid guy. This is this is the flash that we haven't seen from luatua in years. And it's it's so much fun to watch. Yeah, I mean, he knows his team needs a spark sometimes. And, you know, there's there's guys missing. So he's he's just doing what he has to he knows there'll be other people
00:40:36
Speaker
to pick him up when he's having a rough one. So he's doing his best as captain to make this thing happen for them. Good for him. He's quite a good player if you hadn't noticed. I have noticed. Yeah. But he's been on another level. Yeah, quite. Let's go up to Rico. He's 34, Exeter, 5.
00:41:01
Speaker
Wow. And caveat, Exeter, we're missing some guys. There's no doubt about that. But this is, so is Wasp. And they put a good number on these guys. And Willis came off at, Jack Willis came off at halftime on top of that. And they don't have Barbary.
00:41:17
Speaker
You know, and this is the kids been a sensation. So, you know, say what you will, you know, and and they were saying that that 1213 is not their their best 1230 young does not the young is not in their best 1213 by any means whatsoever. Let's let's talk about a guy that's had some real struggles adapting to English rugby.
00:41:40
Speaker
and, you know, has gotten his massive, quite a massive amount of shit, even a little bit from us sometimes. Lee Musilpawaga has played quite well the last two matches, and I think we'd be silly to watch him out. So if he's coming back into form and, you know, he's feeling comfortable in that 15 spot, this could be fun. He was also, for you FRD players out there, he was the top scoring fly half this past week. I think he was one of the top scoring players. He was, I think.
00:42:12
Speaker
But now it's maybe time and he's probably a free agent because nobody has been scoring shit. No, I mean, well, not in our league. It might be time to to consider, I should say, at least because the spots on your team are valuable. I get it. Right. But he might be a good stowaway. Right. At this point, just in case he comes comes good, you know, long term. Yeah, there's that chance. So.
00:42:41
Speaker
London Zoo needs to like lock their gates because they've let the giraffe loose again.
00:42:47
Speaker
Huh. Gaskell. Gaskell for two. Yeah. Who knew? That's six. I mean, maybe you should have been playing six the whole time. Or it's just the jersey. Maybe something like that. Anybody in the six jersey. You put anybody in a flanker jersey in lumps and boom. There it goes. They're going to score a try. Good for him.
00:43:13
Speaker
he's been amazing and although he I think he was a flank lock last week when he scored too yes but it was what he hadn't scored try in how many years or something and he scored like four and three games now you get hot and cold I suppose right good stuff dude I like it you know what Tumaga Allen is is coming along nicely too speaking of people who who haven't adapted well um but he's starting he's looking like he should be I mean I think he is and they're starting
00:43:42
Speaker
pack now unless Kieran Brooks keeps it up. But yeah, I'm not sure how to do it. I thought he yeah, I thought, you know, this was a this was a tough. This is always a tough front row against to go against. And I thought Kieran Brooks did pretty darn good against them. And, you know, that was a good back and forth between the two front rows. Honestly, I don't think you can say, you know, advantage the one in those cases. But I will say overall, this is the thing that obviously bit them in the ass for Exeter 15 penalties.
00:44:12
Speaker
That is not a number that Rob Baxter is going to be excited to see. Especially scrum penalties too. And you're right, the Exeter team, and especially with Exeter being a team that thrive on earning penalties, they're giving them away. Fuck.
00:44:26
Speaker
Yeah, not good. Especially in the scrum. That's their, that's their bread and butter is earning those scrum penalties and mall line out malls. And yeah, you're right. 15 yikes. Yeah. Not, not a good number. Not a good number at all. Um, and you know, they blooded some new guy, some younger guys and you know, there's still capstick looks like he can play a little bit. Yeah. He looked really good. You know, apart from the whole hammerhead yellow card thing.
00:44:48
Speaker
Yeah, but yeah, he looked really good. And they've been they've been touting him for a long time. So I was really excited to see what he had. Maybe he can take that seven shirt from Kirsten for a little while. Yeah, there's times you know, like a lot of coaches will talk about how it's a
00:45:06
Speaker
Well, you can't you don't lose your job due to injury. But there's times when it's a really bad time to get injured. Yeah, there are definitely times. And I think this might have been it. This this is this may be if capstick can keep this up. Yeah, you're right. He may he may just earn that seven years and be like, Look, he's all he's doing is producing. So why would we take him out? Absolutely. And I still and we've talked about it numbers numbers times. I still don't get Ian Whitten.
00:45:31
Speaker
Like, especially on the wing. Like, what the fuck? Like, why? Did you not see what Josh Hodge did in, like, what, 15 minutes? Yeah. He did more damage to that, to that WASP team in 15 minutes than Ian Whitten probably has done in his entire career. Right. Like, certainly in the last couple of years, like, get the fuck out of here, man. Like, you just have a guy, you have to have, might as well just put a jersey out there. That's what we call a jag. Just a guy. Just a guy. That's all it is.
00:45:57
Speaker
So the was the mighty wasp have possibly resurrected their season a little bit more. I thought I want to bring this up. Sorry, happen quickly. And I'll talk about a little bit why later. But Sam Simmons got fucking bottled up by wasp defense, which I again, I'll talk about it later. I just wanted to kind of tease that for now. But I did also want to note that, you know, he had a big match last week, but he's still what? He's still scored two.
00:46:24
Speaker
This week he still, he scored 25 or whatever, but, but on the field, it was kind of, uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You had him in the party. You were, you were disappointed. That's for sure. Yeah.
00:46:36
Speaker
Well, again, talk about that wine a little bit. Yeah. Let's go to Gloucester and Sale. Gloucester 19, Sale 22. A bit of a disappointing, I will say, amongst all the bullshit, it was really good to see Josh Bowman back on the field and the fact that he got the winner, you know, good on him.
Gloucester vs Sale Highlights
00:46:55
Speaker
That dude's had a rough go in the last 18 months. It's like you take...
00:47:01
Speaker
every reason I have to hate this fucking match and then say, you know what? At least something good came out of it. And that was it for sure. Yeah. Um, you know, and you and I both have been tuning this guy's horn for a long time, but ho boy, Chris Harris, my goodness. And the past that he got from Lloyd Evans on the, on the whole, on the, on the first place was amazing that put the end up putting LRZ away. Um, but yeah, that's just how good he is. And he recognized.
00:47:28
Speaker
It takes a good player to stay switched on when you're running a line and it looks like it's lost because Lloyd Evans had to stay alive to get that ball to him because there was a defender in the path. And Chris Harris is so good to just understand. All right, I'm not getting it behind. I'm going to get it when I get on the other side of this guy.
00:47:45
Speaker
and ran his line, held his line and just took off from there and don't give that guy space. That's how it makes people pay and good on him. It was just, you know, and he was, he was pretty much everything good about what was going on with this, with this Gloucester team. After that, it got a little dicey after that for a while where Pablo Ruskin was being a monster, but that's not new. Yeah. He's been, he's been fantastic. Still don't, still don't get the,
00:48:14
Speaker
rumor and acumen that eighth thing. No, that didn't make any sense. Nope. But what are you going to do? No. Is there a bigger dick in prem than the genre of Ross? Oh, absolutely not. So here's, and this is something I want to say for next week. We're going to talk about
00:48:32
Speaker
There's two, there's two things I want to talk about next week in turn in the premiership before we get to Europe next week. One will be, uh, starting tens and one will be captains for club for the clubs. And I want, and I want to talk about both those things, but there's way too much topics. Those are way too much. There's way too much in the news cycle this week. And we'll just, we'll bleed into frigging two hours before we know it. So let's, let's hold that, hold the water for that a little bit.
00:48:58
Speaker
We're good on it. But yeah, no, he's an absolute jackass. I could not. I could not dislike a player much more than him, although I'm sure I've had a few that I dislike more. Yeah, it's just that's the technical term for sale. Yeah. But before we move on from this match, we have to let's have our palate cleanse and we'll talk about the opposite of John O. Ross.
00:49:27
Speaker
And of course that being Jordy Reed's bum, budgie smugglers.
00:49:34
Speaker
Those are team issued budgies, by the way. Those have to be. Those 100% have to be. Doherty, tie your shorts, man. Yeah. I missed the first one, and Jared was like, I'll just have missed that. And then I was like, wait, now I got it. Yeah, those are like hard to miss. Those rival, God, it was an Elophan for the Rebels that had the pink budgies. Yeah.
00:50:00
Speaker
Those are team issued buggies. There is no doubt about that in my mind.
00:50:10
Speaker
tie your shorts, at least wear something under your shorts. At least you wore that. And if you're going to do that, wear those, because fuck yeah. That's great. That's hilarious. Thank you, Jordan, for your kind of relief. Fuck that match. Next. Speaking of fuck that match. This is all right. So I'm going to get this out of the way first, because it's going to take a lot for me to say this.
00:50:37
Speaker
This is the best job I've seen George Ford use his foot with. I've not seen him do this with his kicking for a while. And I will agree with the caveat.
00:50:49
Speaker
He's not going to have that wind every month. Oh, yeah. No, I wasn't. It wasn't. It wasn't just his boot. It was how he used the wind to just fuck with Beth. Beth had no no way of handling. I mean, that's what I don't get. They had guys like that. You know, they're full back how far deep and Ford's like, all right, I'm just going to get really high and really short and fuck you. It happens. Yeah. Yeah.
00:51:14
Speaker
or or yeah, or you do it like medium and let the wind carry it long. And I can't remember who knocked it on Watson just knocked on an easy one because he didn't move his feet. Right. I mean, not what I'm not blaming him. It's just that's what happened. It's a shit. It was a shit wind. You know, his feet were frozen. It was frozen where he was. And then he just reached out and said, move his feet and whatever. I'm not. No, it happens to everyone. Just, yeah, well done for him.
00:51:43
Speaker
Because we have to keep things. We have to have something about this. Ben Young still fucking sucks. Yes. I mean, in that one play where he gave up the ball and then George Ford gave away the penalty for going off his feet, which he was going off his feet. You're an idiot.
00:51:59
Speaker
learn the rules, learn the laws, you dipshit. But yeah, that's your, Eddie, that's your starting nine and 10 right there. Really? That's your starting nine and 10? The fuck. They were not good. I mean, I fought outside of his kicking. I didn't think it was very good.
00:52:15
Speaker
No, but you know what? At least that's something he doesn't do ever. So I was impressed by that. I was like, all right. He never knows how to use his fucking foot. And when he tries to, he usually just cocks it up. So I wanted to at least get that out there to let everybody know I hate the guy still, but I can at least acknowledge when he does something right. And that makes me hate him more.
00:52:35
Speaker
a little bit. It's like, wait, you can do all this shit. And I know. Well, that's the frustrating thing, probably. It's like you have this ability, but you don't fucking do it. What's wrong with you? Right. But yet sips get shit on for the for that kind of thing. Oh, God. Fuck. Fuck.
00:52:52
Speaker
I'm not letting that one go for a while now because he doesn't he doesn't deserve that shit. So he doesn't want to keep it up. He does not deserve the copious amounts of bullshit he got, especially from likes of healing. Good. I'm not feeling like I have any fucks left to give. I am fresh out.
00:53:07
Speaker
I have, I have no filter today. I am super fresh out, man. Jesus. Um, yeah, shit. Yeah. I mean, on the other side, obviously, you know, he had a, he had a bad second halfish, um, and Spencer's why he's not in an England team. I have no idea what he needs to do. But the speed, the speed, he's kind of fast.
00:53:34
Speaker
Yeah, you look at those two, two nines playing against each other and you come away with Ben. Young's is the guy you want. No, no. I mean, that's got to be Six Nations. Spencer has to be has to at this point because he's fucked around with Eddie. Eddie's fucked around with him too much at this point. I mean, if I will say if Ben Spencer is not in this Six Nation squad or the next squad in the fall, he has every right to say, fuck it. I'm going somewhere else where I can make more money.
00:54:01
Speaker
Yeah, go to France, go to whatever. Whoever's going to pay him a shit ton more than he's making, do it. I would have no qualms about that whatsoever. He gets to do what he wants at that point. You know, that's just how it is. But yeah, and then, you know, the other fullback on the other side, people are really gushing about him, and I'm not sure I see it. And Freddy Stewart, I just saw it. He was good.
00:54:30
Speaker
He was good today, or well, this past weekend. Yeah, but I don't see it enough, though. That's the thing. One game does not make it. Like, okay, he was pretty good at this match. And, you know, he outdid Anthony Watson, who's, you know, definitely on the England squad. Yeah, that's different.
00:54:50
Speaker
15. I'm not big on the against your matchup because you're rarely your opposite number because not all the time, maybe nines and tens. If we're comparing, I'm just saying if we're comparing, you know, Oh, who had a better game either side? Yeah. Yeah. You know, I'll give him that. So yeah, but he also he he found work. And when he when he the work that he did, he showed the fuck up. Like he was actually
00:55:15
Speaker
doing some good stuff every time he was around the ball. And that's why I'm like, whoa, he was really good. Why are we criticizing him? No, this was...
00:55:25
Speaker
Yeah, it's just, it's not, it's one, one does not do it enough for me. I'm just, he needs to be a little more consistent before he gets anywhere near an England squad. And that is fair. Yeah. Oh yeah. For that level. Yes. No, you show me more than one game against a team and bath. Let's not like, let's not mince words about bath here. They are what's the word not good this year. They've been quite poor. They've been shit. Unfortunately.
00:55:54
Speaker
And then, you know, as long as we're comparing England to England, you know, Genj and Obano both should make England feel pretty good about what they got in the locker for a loose head. Like, quite well. Quite well. That try that Obano got, I mean, it wasn't...
00:56:14
Speaker
Shit, who won that for him? That was, was it Ewels? Might've been, yeah. I think it was either Ewels or McNally, and it was definitely one of them. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was, well, it was McNally that took off. That took the ball. OK, yeah. So McNally grabbed the ball and, yeah, Urbana was right with him. So he got the benefit, but well done with that, that sneaky. I love that shit, man. Getting in a mall, fucking it up.
00:56:43
Speaker
I miss Maro Toji. We all do. I miss watching him. He's a gift. And seeing him do stuff like that. So thank you, Josh, for being Maro-esque, for a shining moment. For a minute.
00:56:58
Speaker
Okay. Faletau had a good match. I thought. Yeah. He was solid. He was solid. I like him at six. That was a good back row for them. That was a good back row for them. Him and Mercer together. Yummy. Yeah. They should play more often. I believe too. And the other guy too, which was all right. Aside from the penalties. Yeah. He was not good in that aspect. No.
00:57:20
Speaker
Oh,
Fantasy Rugby Strategies
00:57:21
Speaker
all right. Um, let's look at the champions league. Um, that's not, I had some upside down shit going on with FRD, obviously with the fact that we're missing two matches. So four teams, we had the hiccup with, you know, the server having a, having a meltdown. So that was kind of, um, oops, but just the same. Um,
00:57:43
Speaker
Mark took down Ben, empatically. Somehow, someway, I beat Duncan, and I had one starting OB, and he was not even my best scorer in that position. I can't explain that. This is the fun part of Fancy Breakbeat. George finally gets a win. He took down Justin. And then the Battle of the Unbeatens was quite a letdown.
00:58:10
Speaker
Yeah, it was it was over by it was over by the first game. Yeah. So Anton took down Carrick. Oh, man. I mean, any movement in the there was almost no movement. I don't think so. In the in the leaderboard. No, which was pretty crazy. Not for TRM. No. Yeah. I mean.
00:58:32
Speaker
I grabbed the top score of the week, but that didn't do me a whole lot of good cause I'm still sitting right. Everyone's still kind of like, cause it was a shit week. It was such a great, it was not a great week, but I think the number number one in the, in the competition got like 450 or something like that. That's a bad way. I had four Oh one.
00:58:48
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's a good, I had three 88, not terrible. Everyone. It was round three. Actually it's funny. Like everyone was, Oh, um, Carrick is still, uh, still struggling to get back to form. Uh, but everyone else just three or five this week. Um, but everyone else got in like the three fifties to 400. That was it. So it was within the 50 point range. Nobody's moving around at that point. Yeah. What happened to character? Good Lord. How did Mark not catch him?
00:59:15
Speaker
Oh, he's only two points behind him now, though. Yeah. He's right there. That makes way more sense now. I understand. Yeah. And Justin had that. Oh, no. Carrick had a lot of zeros. Yeah. Oh, I remember seeing his team. I was like, how do you pull this off? How do you pull that out? How do you have zeros instead of... Well, he had Kirsten because... And Kirsten didn't play. So he kind of had a brain fart on that. Walmart, Vooey, Rafel, Velikot, all zero on his bench. McGuigan was zero on his bench. Oh, I mean, I... I did one zero.
00:59:45
Speaker
damn, because I'm looking at my points and I'm like, well, I had, I just, if I had his position, um, so, you know, little, little insider information about the way the pros do it. Um, you know, if you're struggling and you're like, you know, I don't know that so-and-so is going to score many points. And especially in a situation like this, like Dom brand, I started Dom brand this week because I'm like, he'll get me 18 to 20 points. And I don't know if I can get anybody else who's going to get to that level. So put them in. I'll take those. I'll take the points there. Yeah.
01:00:12
Speaker
and didn't know my bench, too, for a couple of sessions. Yeah, I had a bunch of guys on my bench that were not playing because of cancellations. Yeah, right. And you just take the points. Yeah, sometimes you just go to the point. But you got to have the right makeup on your team. Yeah. Let's see what happens next. This coming week. Oh, here we go. So Ben and Duncan are going to do battle in FRD. Got you, don't. It'll be George and Anton. That'll be interesting.
01:00:41
Speaker
Carrick and Mark, and then I get a piece of Justin. That'll be interesting. Yeah, we obviously now know that we have two teams that are not available for the weekend with Northampton giving up their match.
Fantasy Matchup Previews
01:00:58
Speaker
Whoopsie daisy. Yeah, Northampton and Lester will not be playing. So same thing. If you have a Saints player or a Tiger,
01:01:08
Speaker
You know, and you're not sure about what to do with, with a specific position. Fuck it. Yeah. Throw that in there and you never know. Take the points. Sometimes you just get some points and it's not a bad idea. See what I got here. What's that? Sorry.
01:01:25
Speaker
Oh, yeah. He's in the bottle. Nice. He's on the show stream. Jared recently purchased a home. So of course you got to give your boyfriend a housewarming present. Your other husband. Right.
01:01:41
Speaker
I believe that was the term that your wife used. Anyway, we had to give the Jareds a soda stream is what we did. So I wasn't sure. The best part was I asked Jared at one point like, Hey, do you guys have interest in like a soda stream or an air fryer or something like that? And he was like,
01:02:06
Speaker
Yeah, either will do whatever. And of course, every time I've been there, Jared's had like a seltzer or something like a can. Yeah, something else. And I'm like, you know what? We we have a soda stream and we fucking love it. We've stopped buying cans and bottles, all that shit. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm like, we drank our last can this weekend. Yeah. So maybe they'd like that. And apparently now now all we need is like a beer factory to
01:02:27
Speaker
just pump out beer into a kegerator or something. Then they'll never have a can. Oh, you want a home brewery system. Yeah. Yeah, sure. That'll be cheap to get that going. Oh, all right. Let's do start set. I will start because Ben's want to get Ben's game bag. I only have two teams, so we'll go. I will sandwich you start. So let's go to one of the Friday matches sale in Worcester.
01:02:57
Speaker
So, wasps are still a little meh when it comes to starting points, but they're getting better. So, and then, sale are just struggling to score points in general. One second. Let me just pull up my sheet here. You mean that. Wait. What? Oh, you're going. Okay. Yeah, sorry. Go ahead. Go for it. But, yes, sale are just generally struggling to score points, fantasy-wise, in general. So, for sale,
01:03:26
Speaker
If you haven't, if you have them and you haven't played them yet, the hell's wrong with you? AJ McGinty. He's got to be, you know, if he's, if he's on your TRM squad, um, number one, if he's not get them, number two, if he's, you know, if he's on your tree arm squad and you've been starting somebody else, find another spot unless it's Marcus Smith. That's the only person I'm accepting there is, is if it's not, if it's Marcus Smith. Um, but other than that, yeah, I knew, uh, it's gotta be him right now.
01:03:51
Speaker
He's been a lot better than pretty much most of the TRM, uh, tens. And he's definitely been good in FRD as well. Um, Josh Beaumont, if he's back and he's starting people. Yeah, go for it. And you know, he's not super expensive. Um, so give it, give it a go. And then, um, JP to Priya, if he's back, if
01:04:17
Speaker
Even if Beaumont's back, I think he's going to play too. Stay Pat, I know he had a bad, he did have a bad week last week. I think there's more good than bad to come from him, so.
01:04:26
Speaker
Oh yeah. I wouldn't worry about that. I did. I'm struck that Visa had, it's had such a good week. Yeah. And that was one of the points was about Jasper. Are you talking about Cobus? Cause Cobus was shit. He was shit, but he got 12. He got a, sorry. 18 points in TRM. So yeah, that's somehow that ain't that good of a week. Trust me. Yeah. Speaking of speaking to him. Um, yeah, I'm out there. I'm over him. Ditch him, ditch him. And you know, if you, if you're stuck with him in FRD, Godspeed.
01:04:53
Speaker
Yeah. You shouldn't be because it's very easy to find a replacement. There's got to be somebody else better than him out there. Faf, just stop. He's still pretty highly owned, which is really kind of unnerving. It's like, how do you have this high of an ownership in
01:05:13
Speaker
This thing, I don't get it. So no, just stay away. He's been terrible in terms of that. Like he'll have one good game and people are gonna go, oh, yeah, he's good. No, he's not. He's 17% owned. How is he 17% owned? I don't get it. I do not get it. Get rid of him. And then John Ross has no bang.
01:05:35
Speaker
Yes, he starts and yes, he gets some tackles just it's not enough. There's better options in both formats just on the other side. Oh, that's it was I said, I meant was
01:05:48
Speaker
Yeah, I thought that's what I thought, but then I'm, I've had a beer and then maybe a smoke. So, Oh, you know, I thought you said Worcester.
Worcester Fantasy Analysis
01:05:56
Speaker
I crossed up the two teams, the two Friday games sale and loss. Nope. I see things sometimes anyway. Yeah. Worcester. I just thought I missed her. I forgot what you said. Worcester are also middling in terms of fantasy, a little bit more susceptible in FRD, but
01:06:15
Speaker
So, yeah, there's that. Anyway, on the other side, Worcester. Nylonette might be an okay play, although if JP Dupree is in the sale lineup, I'd be a little worried. But he does do a lot in the loose, so it's not so bad.
01:06:29
Speaker
Um, Billy Searle's actually kind of good when it comes to fantasy, especially in FRD. But you know, if you're, if you have him, you, you might've blended us a little nugget there where you can play him every once in a while and he's probably not going to be too expensive on your sitting in your squad. So you might be okay with that. Um, yeah, if he's in the lineup, play him. Um, and Cornell de Prius scores at a decent clip. So if you have them play him, I know, I know sale do,
01:06:56
Speaker
do quite, quite well against those forwards in general, but there's always one that scores well. So I got to figure the guy that start with the ball at the back of the scrums going to at least have a shot. On the other side. I have three names that I would only recommend you play an FRD. Non I how and venter and just don't touch them. Otherwise, they don't produce the you're looking at
01:07:25
Speaker
No, 14 to 18 points each in TRM. It just, it's not enough. Like if you want to get one of those big weeks or 500 points, you need guys that hit about 20 on, you know, in your, in your squad. So they are not going to be those guys, especially against this team. Right.
01:07:46
Speaker
All right, on to the actual wasps match versus Bath at the Rec. So for Bath, so the way I'm going to do these at this point, as you noticed, if you noticed, we were just talking about a couple of people on each squad. I'm going to talk about who's trending good, who's trending bad, and what to think of each of them.
01:08:07
Speaker
Um, foul talent Mercer, uh, looked strong together. Um, and then both put up decent fan experience. I was really pissed about Mercer cause I captained him. Um, and, uh, he had at one point like a fantastic fantasy score and then he missed two tackles. He had like 11 tackles. He had to predict that 100% bonus and then all of a sudden it went away. Um, so it kind of hurt.
01:08:34
Speaker
his cause a little bit, but still, that was like, that's bullshit. Marceau does not miss tackles, but apparently he did. Ben Spencer, as you mentioned, he's got a little loose on the scoreboard and yes, he's trending good. He may be coming good, so keep an eye out.
01:08:55
Speaker
Yes. On the other side, Rocco Draguni and Watson are just yuck, fantasy-wise. Fantasy-wise. Fantasy-wise. Yuck. Right. No, they're not going to do it. No. And then Reece Priestland, he's still getting healthy like we talked about Pieta earlier coming. He obviously, but a little bit more recent injury and not as bad, but you know, Priestland still kind of returning. I would like a little bit stronger performance this week, so hopefully he can turn it around.
01:09:23
Speaker
He's not one that I would say to take out of your lineup just yet if you know he's a worthy start. You just hope he does a little better. He should do a little bit better. Correct. Rocco di Guini and Watson knew. On the other side of the field, the visitors, they have a couple of guys who are just fucking putting up fantasy points.
Fantasy Recommendations and Player Focus
01:09:48
Speaker
Gaskell, we mentioned him a little bit. Yeah. In FRD, he's a lock. Get him the fuck on your team if he's available. He definitely wanted me that week against Duncan, I can promise you that. Maybe not TRM. I'm not sure how expensive he is. I haven't looked him up. But if he's cheap, you can grab him. I don't know. But I have a feeling he's kind of expensive because he's a fucking veteran. Yeah, that's usually how it goes.
01:10:12
Speaker
So he may not be worth it, but give him a look. But the next three, you might want to be having on your team. Paolo Dogwoo is just fucking lighting it up. And I think he's, let me see.
01:10:29
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, that's not bad. That's, that's somebody who, yes. Uh, look for him on your team or look for him out there. There you go. Um, anyway, Paolo Dagu has, has shown that he, he will score from any position, um, and just put up, put up some points for him. Um, no more Kung Fu kicks.
01:10:45
Speaker
Yeah, none of those. But but points. Yes. Dan Robson and and Bassett, even if he poops out towards the trial. Oh, God, I thought he put so much shoes on on that one. I was like, whoa, whoa. Well, that's not Josh Bassett, is it? Right. And then trending bad for for wasps. Umaga, Jacob Umaga is is
01:11:11
Speaker
I'm looking to get rid of him in my TRM. I may hold on to him because of the center.
01:11:17
Speaker
the different positions he can play, but he's trying to struggle with us. And then we mentioned before, Le Bourgeois and De Jong, no, even if there's just one of them, they're not worth starting. Yes, I know, I think Le Bourgeois had a big week the other week with their dog. We're outside of him, I think. But that just happens. I think, you know, you don't expect that every week. They shouldn't be sure he comes in any format. He found a trial, like it was like an interception or something. Yeah, whatever it was.
01:11:47
Speaker
Yeah, he got a little bit lucky. Those guys don't know. No. Agreed. All right. Newcastle and Gloucester. Gloucester are middling in... What's the word? FRD rather? Kind of... They're approaching tough. And then they're actually getting pretty tough on an average basis here in TRM. But there's still some good goodies to find in the Falcons.
01:12:15
Speaker
If you, I nabbed this guy last week, and if you haven't yet, go get him, Phil Aventervault, he played very well. And I think he's going to be there eight if all, when all are healthy, I think he's going to be there eight. So, you know, Graham will probably come in and play either six or seven. So yeah, go ahead and give the thumbs up to that.
01:12:33
Speaker
McGuigan's still good. I know he didn't play last week, but assuming he gets healthy, yeah, that's still a guy to play and he's not super expensive and all that good stuff. And then my guy, what cookie cookie, he's got a little tries for this team in the championship last year. And he picked up where he left off. So trust me, grab that guy, put him in your team. He's probably worth it. He didn't do a lot TRM wise last week, but I think he'll be a little bit better this week because they'll feed him the ball a little bit more.
01:13:02
Speaker
I believe. On the other side, Conin are really even flood. I wouldn't play either one of them. No. But definitely not Conin. Burrell, yuck. Maybe Conin in FR today, first for the kicking point. I mean, yeah, if you can fucking land a goddamn kick.
01:13:20
Speaker
You'd struggle with that too. Oh, that's true. Oh, yeah. And Radlan, who's got loads of pace, he's an FRD only option right now. He's not done well since week one against Bath. And Bath are one of the leakiest teams in the league. So, no.
01:13:39
Speaker
On the other side, Gloucester. Assuming 12 trees doesn't get any sort of ban, give him a thumbs up because he's going to probably have the T. Considering that Lloyd Evans doesn't know where the posts are, it seems, at some points. Ed Slater. Yummy. I love this dude right now. Lock in FRD and TRM. Just, yep, just give it to him. And he's, I think he's flanker eligible in TRM too. So that gives you a little bit of movement there.
01:14:05
Speaker
And this is coming from me, who if you have been paying attention at the beginning of the season was down on Ed Slater. I started him this past week.
01:14:15
Speaker
Yes. Good on her with you Jared. And then the Gloucester Front Row has actually found a way to be good in FRD. So go ahead and give that a thumbs up. Quite good. Between Singleton and Rapala Ruskin and those boys and Ford Robinson.
01:14:36
Speaker
Give it a thumbs up. And Paul main had a big week this week. So yeah, who the fuck saw that coming? Post me. Oh, yeah. On the other side. Johnny May, FRD only. He's still don't expect anything. Yeah. Yeah, right. You know, the name is really what gets you there.
01:14:56
Speaker
Lloyd Evans has been not great when we talk about... No, fantasy wise, no. Yeah, we talk about guys that are turning the wrong way in fantasy. That is one guy that is going the wrong direction. Yee! And then, yeah, he just put a good performance in, but in general, he's kind of expensive and not producing a ton. Balmain is a little bit the one guy on that front row that I'm just like, me! Yeah. Please, please don't. Right. So, no. No phrase about me.
01:15:26
Speaker
onto Exeter versus Bristol for the hosts.
01:15:34
Speaker
Trending good, Don Arman, if he's playing, he's in your lineup. Yeah, I mean, I'm amazed. Good for him. Just like before, it may be a little bit difficult to keep him around. I'm not sure. Just like Gaskell in TRM, but in FRD, he's worth having as a bench player just for when he plays. Even at lock, obviously, he just put up fucking points this week. Right.
01:16:02
Speaker
Whoever's at Hooker is going to play well and get points. And just the front row in general usually gets points. And we talk about them a lot.
01:16:16
Speaker
now paying off on the T's from earlier, Sam Simmons, had an okay TRM week because he made a shit ton of tackles. But that was about it. FRD, he was what, like a six or a seven, which is- Yeah, he did not have much if I had him. No, that's a jag. He had a jag score. He did. And I think the reason he had a jag score, and I said at the WASPs defense, but specifically their mobile pack,
01:16:45
Speaker
They were all over the pitch really giving him no room. So you they put they basically I think.
01:16:52
Speaker
you know not so much put a spy on him but basically gave two guys in the defensive line the responsibility of shutting down Sam Simmons because you know those lines he runs off of his brother somehow he just gets he disappears and they're like no we're not gonna let that happen yeah i'm guessing Tom Willis had something to do with that right and Bristol are again a very mobile pack so he's kind of running into the same problem
01:17:19
Speaker
in this match. So just like I did, and as I said earlier, I started, all right, I captained Zach Mercer. I picked the wrong captain, but I was right to not pick Sam Simmons as my captain. He also didn't have much of a game. Same thing in this week, play him, but don't expect much, don't cast him. Possibly consider somebody else.
01:17:42
Speaker
Right. On the trending bad side for Exeter, their entire back line is just kind of yucky, starting from their nine. Yeah. Oh, man, that nine's a hole right now. Like, I picked up Hidalgo Klein thinking he wasn't going to be as terrible as monitor, and he was. He was still negative. He just worked. Yeah.
01:18:02
Speaker
And Joe Simmons, I'm considering him a fantasy risk for TRM. So probably he is that he does have the third most points, but he's played every match, which is unlike even I think A.J. in front of him hasn't played every match. And maybe even didn't Marcus Smith miss a match? Marcus Smith missed a match. And they're like they are all well ahead of Sam Simmons. So Joe Simmons in terms of points. And it's both both divisions in both formats. He's the third overall. And it's by a lot.
01:18:29
Speaker
So I think there's better options. And obviously in FRD, you keep them around and you drafted them in the first round or second round. So you keep them around because he's going to get you the points every week. But in TRM, yeah, this was the week that I dropped and I've been looking to figure out how to free up some money.
01:18:49
Speaker
It's going to be, I'm dropping him for AJ. And that'll also, because it's such a cost difference, that'll help me drop Cobus. Oh, yeah. I did already. Good for me. I think you and I might be getting rid of the same two players. I got rid of Vis as well. No, yeah. I already got rid of him. I already got rid of Vis. So I'm going to figure out who else to get rid of. Wrong Vis to have. Jasper is the one to have. Right. I'm going in that direction.
01:19:15
Speaker
So yeah, the Joe Simmons, as I said, FRD play him because you'll get the points. He's not going to be the best fly half, but he's also not going to be the worst. On the Bristol end, I think the two loose forwards you mentioned earlier, Hughes and Luitoa, can they keep it up? I don't see any reason why they can't.
01:19:34
Speaker
Even if it is against Bristol, I'm sorry, against Exeter. Exeter, the shine is off of Exeter now officially, even if it wasn't before. Wasps took it to them. We didn't even mention Sy McIntyre doing the double as well. So good on those boys. They put in a shift.
01:19:56
Speaker
And Bristol can do the same. I don't know about the fantasy points, how that's going to fit in, but I would still use them to our starts right now. Owen Lloyd has never started versus Exeter. But he's been putting up points, so I'm looking to see what he can do.
01:20:13
Speaker
Callum Sheedy last year versus Exeter scored 30 points in both matches. Hello. Just a hint. Just a hint. Just a thought. Just a thought. Just a thought. And trending bad for Bristol.
01:20:28
Speaker
Piers O'Connor has been, he's had two bad weeks in a row, at 12. And that's tough because that 12 position. It is. C.I.P. at TOW is better suited for that 12 position. But he still doesn't get fantasy points generally. So it's a fantasy hole, the 12 position, if you have to.
01:20:46
Speaker
And so it's just tough for peers. So hopefully he can push him out on the wing or something. But the other guy, Naulago, he can finish as we saw, but he doesn't find work yet. He's still in that, you know, when the ball comes to him, fuck. But the ball has to come to him. So I need him to be a little bit more engaged. And he's learning. He's getting better at it as we saw. Fuck.
01:21:14
Speaker
I'm just like, on your left. Oh, okay. Here you go. Oh, that's where that goes. Got it. Ooh, that's where it goes. That's one of those like, Sheedy is like, why is he, why, why are you? Oh, okay. Yeah, no, no, you take it. Here we go. Now we got it. I thought I was gone, but this, oh, no, no, no, he's gone. He can run way faster than me. Yeah. I'll take it the rest of the way.
01:21:39
Speaker
yeah do that but you know i want to see him do that from from from deeper and you know i want to see him score 50 meter tries and stuff like that but then that's going to come with him inserting himself more in the middle of field you know open play yeah you're not wrong um quinns and irish irish should be pretty fresh for this one having not played for the last two weeks you right also could be rushed
01:22:02
Speaker
Irish are quite generous in TRM, so feel pretty good about a lot of positions going into this one. Not nearly as generous in FRD, so just kind of temper the expectations there.
01:22:14
Speaker
So, I mean, if I need to tell you this at this point, please send me your address so I can come there and slap you. Marcus Smith should be your guy. He should be your kicker too in TRM if he's playing like, don't question it, just do it.
01:22:31
Speaker
This is one of those things you do not question why just do it. Okay, promise. Scott Baldwin, good to go. He's, he's probably back at hooker this week. So he's fine. He finds ways to score. Just he always does. It doesn't matter if it's a team flashy, but no, he doesn't points.
01:22:47
Speaker
He tackles, he hits his line out throws and he, and if, if a mom is called on a five meter line, he usually can make sure that he falls over the line. So he's good to go. Um, and then, um, I'm going to give Will Evans a thumbs up this week. I think he'll be, I think he's, um, he, they need, they have, I mean, they need a fetcher obviously, and he's pretty good at it. And like I said, um, yeah, he gives him a look. This squad kind of likes to leave points. They're number 10 in TRM against.
01:23:17
Speaker
Plankers, and then they are, they're actually top five against those forwards, but I think we'll still find some, find a way to make it happen. So go ahead and give him a thumbs up. On the other side, Notchisms, like never. No. The word is never. No. No, no, no, no. So Nochisms doesn't matter what position they're playing. No. Joe Marsha is an FRD only option right now because I just don't see it happening in TRM these days.
01:23:47
Speaker
You can't see the pitch somehow. Yeah, somehow. But also, like, even when he's seen it, like, he's either been against tough opposition or just kind of had a bad game. So, FRD only because you picked him probably for that. So, got to play him while you have him because he's probably going there in a few weeks. And then, I mean, he's been, he gets suspended, but Esther Hazen, I got to see it for him now. He's, you know, it's just kind of been bleh. So, that's a no for it. FRD only if needed.
01:24:17
Speaker
That's it. On the other side for the Irish, Ollie Hoskins is still one of the best scoring props. And that's terrifying to think about because there's been guys that have been playing more. So yeah, give him a nod.
01:24:31
Speaker
Brophy clues. If he plays at 10 or 12, I think I'm okay with it. He looks super, he looks to be super full of life and very talented. So, um, if he gets, if he gets a nod, uh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go ahead and give him a thumbs up. And then, uh, his potential halfback partner, uh, partner Nick Phipps actually should be a decent play as well. Um, he scores quite well in TRM at the very least when he's in.
01:24:57
Speaker
On the other side, Ben Loader is an FRD only option for me right now. I love the kid, but yeah, just, man, that's the only place I'd put him in. It's rough. I know lots of people are going to be... He'll be all right. I mean, he will. He'll put up points, but he's got to play. I mean, they just haven't played no long enough. No, I know. We'll see what they look like when they're banging off the rust here.
01:25:20
Speaker
Tom Homer's way too highly owned. I don't understand. Just know so much now. I hope I hope he's not your outside back and big old bucket of nope. Yeah, that's a nope salad right there. And then I love the guy, but Billy Meeks has not put up points. You know, I really liked the guy, but he's just I know you do. He's not putting up points. And he's not. That's a that's a no. So have him a bet, especially if Esther Hazen's in the middle, like,
01:25:46
Speaker
there was no room before there's going to be even less if he's in the middle. So no. Oh, yeah. You want to do your start of the week? I started the week is someone who I mentioned.
01:26:02
Speaker
couple of times this pod, um, he's all he's been doing is putting up points. And so what am I going to do? But have him as my start of the week. Um, and unless I've used him recently, which I don't think I have, it's going to be Paolo a dog woo and assuming, I don't think you have, if you have, I don't know. Civ, as you mentioned, civ of a defense and bath. And the guy just runs and nobody stops him when he does. So, uh, it seems like about that. So when I look at this matchup, uh, yeah, he's my start of the week.
01:26:32
Speaker
Nice, that's a good one. No, you have not used him yet. So, woohoo! All right, so my start of the week, going against, same team, going against a really, really porous defense as much as I like the club and the players that are on the club.
01:26:51
Speaker
Um, they're just this, and this kid's obviously dynamite and he just finds ways to score points, especially in TRM where there's so many more ways to score it, but just feel good about starting him this week. My start of the week is the, the wasp flanker and wonder sensation, Jack Willis.
01:27:09
Speaker
That's not a bad pick. He's extremely easy to replace if he's not playing. Whoever's in his place, he's just going to be starting. Yeah, just play that. Flankers against Bath 2, kind of okay. Yeah, but it's Jack Willis at the same time. Yeah, exactly. No, they do very well. Oh, okay, fair enough.
01:27:33
Speaker
As for my sit of the week, again, a position that we've mentioned and I mentioned, and I think, you know, I called it Yuck and Jared. I think he got there before me. I'm not going to list a name because I don't know who it is yet, but it's whoever's wearing the nine on Exeter.
01:27:51
Speaker
Oh my God. Yes. God. Yes. It's probably under any circumstances. It'll probably be monitor, but yeah, it's probably be monitor, but under any circumstances, uh, if you're like, Oh man, I lost, uh, um, Alex Mitchell this week and look elsewhere or very at least don't start anybody. Cause these guys are getting negative numbers. It's both of them, right? It's pretty crazy. It's not worth it. And that's a couple of weeks in a row now that they're getting negative numbers in, in, um, in FRD.
01:28:20
Speaker
No, no, don't don't do it. Yeah. Oh man. What is, what is monitors ownership percentage? It's not, it's, it's extremely high for where I would want it. Right. I think I had it at first because he was really cheap, but then 12%. Why do you, why do 12% of you have Jack Monder? I don't understand. How much does he cost?
01:28:40
Speaker
He's cheap. I understand that. Well, yeah. No, I'm not. I'm not asking for that reason. I just don't know how much he costs. 229, which is not super cheap, but that's not cheap enough. But still like he's no so much. He scored 60 points and he's played every match this year, I believe. Right. Like, holy shit. He's he's missed one match.
01:29:03
Speaker
Mickey young is 219 and he's got 76 points and he also didn't play this path. I don't think he came on to sub either. Right. So there you go. If you have those of you for whatever fucking reason, have Jack monitor a new team, drop him for Mickey young this week and thank you.
01:29:23
Speaker
Or do something else, but don't do that. Do something. At least in TRM. But yeah, FRD, I don't know. Oh, God, just find someone else. Almost anybody else, Lord. I think he's on the bench. Yeah, I know, right. Find a bench. I think you and I are going to be a little bit on the opposite side of this.
01:29:47
Speaker
My say of the week is going against the staunchest defense in, in fantasy right now. Uh, I know that just surrendered a bucket of points, but I also think that means they're going to be mad. So considering that, you know, guys at the position tend to fall into a hole against the against Exeter. Uh, I want to go ahead and pick the former paperweight. Um, as my say of the week, that would be Mr. Nathan Hughes. Yeah. That's a, that's a, they.
01:30:14
Speaker
You know, I'll be on the opposite side of that. He's too expensive to. I know. It's hard to set him. It's yeah. Right. So if you have him, it's hard to set him. But at the same time, it's hard to have him. So yeah, this is not the week to pick him up. This is not the week to say, you know what? Yeah. Maybe that's more of a warning to people that saw last week's score and go grab him. No. Wait till next week. Don't touch. Yeah. Bad touch, Ricky.
01:30:41
Speaker
All right, let's do pick up a new we can get the fuck out of here. Yeah. Bath was was was sale Worcester sale.
01:30:55
Speaker
sale. Yeah. I don't, I, I want a reason to pick Worcester. Same, but I can't find one. But I did. And it comes down to something we've been talking about in the, in, in our amongst our, our champion champions league members. But Worcester have our 11th in the, in the league in tries with only six. Right. And sale are one of the best defenses. So I'm going with sale. There's the answer. There lies your answer. Um, Exeter and Bristol.
01:31:28
Speaker
I'm going with my heart. I'm going with Bristol. I know it's it's not. And I also I also don't I think Exeter, I think I think getting fucked out of the Champions Cup as as Exeter have been essentially unless a miracle occurs has gotten in their head because they cannot do the double now. And I think that if not repeating at the double, you know, as much as we talked about them coming out fucking hair on fire.
01:31:55
Speaker
I think that being taken away from them may have kind of fucked with them because they had a shaky match two weeks ago and then they lost this past week big. They're not what they were in Bristol.
01:32:08
Speaker
outside of a one half and, um, maybe another match here or there. It's really been on them that have been kind of fucking themselves over. So, um, yeah, I'm going to go with Bristol. Okay. Yeah. I am. I am going to take the chiefs just cause I feel like they don't lose back to back very often. Um, I don't lose very often. No, also that, also that, um, Newcastle and Gloucester. Hmm. I'm gonna take the Falcons.
01:32:38
Speaker
Yeah, me too. Way the fuck up there. Yep. Let's, uh, that's a, that's a rough trip. I'm going to take them. Quinn's in Irish in a good old London Derby. Um, they're the stoop. I'm going to take the cleanse.
01:32:55
Speaker
And the teams are actually well rested too. So right. They're both well rested, but, but, uh, the Queens are a little bit better than the Irish. So, uh, just a little bit, but no, they're, they're a lot better. Yeah. I think hopefully they're at their time off. How does them write the ship a little bit? They've been weird. They were stumbling a little bit. Yeah. But I think hopefully this gets their legs back under them and Irish.
01:33:21
Speaker
Yeah, we did. They've been playing above their heads. So maybe this is the week they come back to earth. Okay. Well.
01:33:31
Speaker
So we got one more week and then we're back into champions cup and it'll be fun. And then the final weekend of champions cup, don't forget, we'll be doing our podcast episode. We will our hundredth episode. It'll be, it'll be fun. I'm really, I'm really, if you can't tell I'm really excited about this. Um, so I'm going to, I'm, I'm really looking forward to it. It's going to be fun.
01:33:54
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