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Season 7- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Premiership Round 3)
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It's fantasy fun time from TFRY. On this ep of the FC, we are rolling out this season's variation of PWR Fantasy. Be sure you get yourselves sign-up with us for all the fun this season! Then it's more of the good with the Champi-Yanks League, D1 & D2, and that silly Start or Sit thing we did. Grab a notepad and come along for the fun friends!
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Transcript
Introduction to Fantasy Rugby League
00:00:29
jarrod_dyke
Hey everybody, welcome back. It is the fancy rugby angst. My name is Jared Dyke.
00:00:32
Grumpy Old Prop
I'm Ben and Glauser.
00:00:33
jarrod_dyke
Let's do some fancy stuff, shall we, friends? um We are on to fancy corner time. um So we're gonna talk a little bit about this little lead that we cobbled together for the women's rugby for PWR.
00:00:51
jarrod_dyke
So, um going off similar things we talked about last year um with some slight tweaks to it. um We're hoping that we don't know what stats we're going to get our hands on.
00:01:04
jarrod_dyke
So some of this, well, we're definitely getting our hands on some of this is like fingers crossed.
00:01:05
Grumpy Old Prop
no Yeah.
00:01:11
jarrod_dyke
So like things like try assists and we couldn't even get our hands on tackles missed last year. That was kind of annoying. So it's just like, yeah, all right. They're out there trying to make tackles. Go for it. So anyway, um, so here's how it goes.
Fantasy League Rules and Scoring System
00:01:27
jarrod_dyke
Everyone's going to pick each week, a forward, a back and a kicker. You can't pick the same one until we get to the halfway point of the season resets after that. And then we'll, and then we'll come back to it. Um, got to get everything into us before kickoff of the game. So this week it'll be before the.
00:01:48
jarrod_dyke
Saracen's game, um saturday morning Saturday morning here in the United States, Saturday afternoon over in the UK, so on and so forth.
00:01:49
Grumpy Old Prop
Yep. So 9 a.m. Right. I am Boston time. Yep.
00:01:58
jarrod_dyke
So there's all that is that. So you gotta give it to us before that. Otherwise we're gonna probably tell you, sorry, you're getting a do donut for the day.
00:02:06
Grumpy Old Prop
Right.
00:02:06
jarrod_dyke
um
00:02:08
Grumpy Old Prop
Unless I think we did it. Well, no, I look for the for the first week, I think we'll be relaxed about it, because if you want to you want in, you want in, we'll we'll sort it out a bit. If you're late, you can only pick from the games that have not yet kicked off.
00:02:23
jarrod_dyke
Yeah, so you were to get in before the 10 o'clock window kicks up because then you're s so well.
00:02:26
Grumpy Old Prop
Right, then you then you get, well, Gloucester or Leicester players entirely.
00:02:31
jarrod_dyke
Yeah, that's it.
00:02:31
Grumpy Old Prop
So that's it.
00:02:34
jarrod_dyke
That's all you got. Sorry. Anywho, so yeah, a forward, a back, and a kick, Aaron, Ben and I are going to talk about which ones we're picking today. So Scoring for but so both are very similar with the exception of the meters. The meters are 0.1 meters for a back for every meter made and then 0.2 for every meter made for forwards.
00:02:59
jarrod_dyke
adds up quick. If you got a damn good back row or a hooker in there, trust me. Um, we'll talk about some of the scores that hit the highlights last year. Uh, tries are five. Obviously, um, we're going to do tackles 0.5 this year and we're going to miss tackles one minus one for every two. So you can miss one and not get penalized is basically what that comes down to. So that's what that comes down to. I think it'll be,
00:03:24
jarrod_dyke
We'll have less gaudy numbers with some of our tacklers this year with that.
00:03:28
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:03:30
jarrod_dyke
Again, assuming we can get our hands on the missed tackle numbers, we couldn't. um Again, other numbers we would love to add. Hopefully we can get our hands on them. um Defender's beaten a point for each one of those.
00:03:40
jarrod_dyke
Line breaks, two two for every one of those. Assist, we'd love to have three. Let's try assist and know that.
00:03:47
jarrod_dyke
So that'll be three points. um
00:03:47
Grumpy Old Prop
Yes.
00:03:50
jarrod_dyke
Kicker scoring will be, as you'd expect, penalties three, conversions two, misses minus one. If we can get our hands on 50-22, we're gonna give that and a nice fat four points for our kickers.
00:03:51
Grumpy Old Prop
you
00:04:02
Grumpy Old Prop
Is that, but that should be forever. Anybody. Cause props props can kick a 50 22.
00:04:05
jarrod_dyke
What's that?
00:04:08
jarrod_dyke
No. Props also can't.
00:04:08
Grumpy Old Prop
There we go.
00:04:12
jarrod_dyke
um
00:04:12
Grumpy Old Prop
No, I'm just saying what I'm saying is everybody should be, able okay, good.
00:04:15
Grumpy Old Prop
You've moved it out of the.
00:04:17
jarrod_dyke
Well, no, it's a, but um yeah.
00:04:17
Grumpy Old Prop
You had it under the kickers, but that should be anybody. I'm just saying, like, if you pick any whoever you pick, if they, you know, as a player.
00:04:25
jarrod_dyke
Yeah.
00:04:25
Grumpy Old Prop
um Not just as a kicker.
00:04:28
jarrod_dyke
Seems silly.
00:04:30
jarrod_dyke
Whatever. Probably not going to get our hands on that data
Fantasy League Penalties and Submission Instructions
00:04:33
jarrod_dyke
anyway, so I'm not worried about it.
00:04:33
Grumpy Old Prop
Exactly.
00:04:36
jarrod_dyke
Yellow card minus five, red card minus 10. So I think we only had one player, one or two players last year that were picked that ended up landing themselves in hot water of that sort.
00:04:40
Grumpy Old Prop
I feel like I got one of them.
00:04:46
jarrod_dyke
um Yeah. Some of the big weeks. Scroll down here. I can, that I can definitely a report. um Like, uh, like Sophie to goodie was a, was a monster.
00:04:58
jarrod_dyke
Unfortunately, she won't be around to do that with her knee. Um, 56, one of the, one of the opening weekends was a big, was a big old fat number up there. Um, we only have numbers, obviously the weeks that people pick these players.
00:05:11
jarrod_dyke
So that also kind of throws things into perspective for that sake. Um, Kabeya was a big one, one week, one week with 37, you know, killed Don and Matthews both 50 one weekend in one weekend.
00:05:23
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:05:25
jarrod_dyke
Come on, what's going on with that? Like, goddamn. So, yeah, there there probably won't be Asgardian numbers because we're messing with those tackle numbers, but there will still be some fat numbers out there, like well into the 30s, I would I would expect.
00:05:33
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm. Right.
00:05:40
jarrod_dyke
So pretty good stuff out there. So, yeah, those are the types of players we're going to be looking for out there. um Yeah, make sure you email us.
00:05:48
Grumpy Old Prop
All right, this week, um I'm starting off
00:05:49
jarrod_dyke
Fancy Ruby podcast at Juma dot com. It's always at the end of the show, but also I'll just say it now. And anyway, um, all right. He's before beauty. Who are you picking?
Player Picks and Champions League Recap
00:06:03
Grumpy Old Prop
ah With the best team I can really i consider I think is um Poppy Cleel for my forward. um She is angry Also, so I kind of there you'll see you'll you'll sense ah a theme a little bit um Yeah, I think she's ready to put on a performance to to say no I went back into that squad.
00:06:13
jarrod_dyke
Yes.
00:06:25
Grumpy Old Prop
I think she She put on a good face when she didn't get picked. And I think she's had a beat to think about it and thinks poorly of it.
00:06:35
jarrod_dyke
She it now.
00:06:37
Grumpy Old Prop
so um Yeah, my back is going to be, uh, Pip Hendy from Gloucester heartbreak. Cause I just think that's a quality matchup.
00:06:44
jarrod_dyke
Nice. Good one.
00:06:47
Grumpy Old Prop
And then again, um, looking at it, kicking ass and taking names, um, literally kicking Emma sing.
00:06:47
jarrod_dyke
Yeah.
00:06:59
jarrod_dyke
Right. Yep. Good one too. Um, okay. So I too am picking Poppy and a very angry Poppy.
00:07:06
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:07:08
jarrod_dyke
Uh, I'm going to take, so I'm going to go to your other favorite team, Bristol, and I'm going to take lava bond off that team and read off that team as well. So my back will be lava bond and my chick will be read.
00:07:21
jarrod_dyke
If I'm spacing on someone being on a way with another team, my fault, I'm, well,
00:07:24
Grumpy Old Prop
well Well, we'll sort it out.
00:07:26
jarrod_dyke
Again, reserve the right to change these ah on day because also why us do matter.
00:07:29
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. Lineups matter.
00:07:32
jarrod_dyke
You know, they do matter, but.
00:07:36
Grumpy Old Prop
Yep.
00:07:36
jarrod_dyke
Get yourselves in there. Someone get us one of those like George tied a bunch of famous like women's players, and I would love if we could get one of them roped in. So someone go poke that those people want to be like, come on, come play, please, please, please, please.
00:07:48
Grumpy Old Prop
That'll be nice.
00:07:51
jarrod_dyke
I would freaking jump over the freaking moon for that shit. All right. um Okay. We are onto champions league recap real quick. I will, um, yeah, it's before beauty.
00:08:03
jarrod_dyke
Go ahead. Division two. Off we go.
00:08:04
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:08:05
jarrod_dyke
eight
00:08:06
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, so yeah, it's a fucking tough week in division two. So I, in every single one of my leagues, other than this one, I moved up like significantly either double digits or or more.
00:08:17
jarrod_dyke
No room to hide.
00:08:18
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, no room to hide up. I, I dropped a fourth. Um, and the thing is between me and Paul, Paul's at the top with, uh, 399, I have three 77 were 22 points away.
00:08:30
Grumpy Old Prop
So it's not like it's a. ah Gergantuan leap there. Barty's got, he's in second with 391, so he's only eight points away. Aubrey got the yellow hat um and just bypassed me. She's at 380.
00:08:45
Grumpy Old Prop
um And a half and I'm at 377. So we're all within 22 and about 22 and a half and then beyond that it's Almost a hundred point drop between myself and fifth place re Rebel Scrum who I still can't remember who that is um Is that who is that Luke yeah Luke and then um Franco 280 he's he's almost a hundred points behind me and
00:08:54
jarrod_dyke
oh man
00:08:58
jarrod_dyke
Luke. Luke.
00:09:09
jarrod_dyke
we we We heard him. um Also shout out to Carl and Will for putting together a league that we can actually play in. ah Dream 15. um
00:09:20
jarrod_dyke
We are going to be a part of their league that we won't say what it is because it's not public, a public thing, but we're basically going to be helping them try out this whole thing and see if we can get another, um, fantasy option out there because who doesn't want more.
00:09:23
Grumpy Old Prop
Right.
00:09:33
jarrod_dyke
You know, it'd be awesome if, you know, like premier ship pulled their head out of their ass and did an actual league of their own.
00:09:36
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. Right. So I'm hoping I, I'm also hoping I show well in that because that'll be.
00:09:43
jarrod_dyke
but yeah, we heard we heard Franco bitching in that one in during our during our draft on on Sunday.
00:09:45
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:09:49
jarrod_dyke
ah any Anywho, division one.
00:09:51
Grumpy Old Prop
is there a right too He had a rough, rough weekend.
00:09:54
jarrod_dyke
Yeah, he was having a rough go. Division one. ah Mark jumps two spots and takes the yellow cap. Duncan drops a spot. Cobus jumps a spot. and drop Justin drops two.
00:10:06
jarrod_dyke
Alex jumped three, so he went from the bottom to the, to
00:10:07
Grumpy Old Prop
Wow, to the mid.
00:10:10
jarrod_dyke
Yeah. To the mid table here. Um, Georgia dropped one. I didn't move an inch and, and, uh, Stu dropped two. So oopsie daisy. Um,
Standings and Match Analysis
00:10:20
jarrod_dyke
yeah.
00:10:20
jarrod_dyke
And Stu got the wooden spoon. So that doesn't shock. I shouldn't shock anybody. They went all the way down to the bottom.
00:10:26
Grumpy Old Prop
And I'm pretty sure if I'm looking at our, at our, um, wait, who's number one in your, in, in D one.
00:10:26
jarrod_dyke
Yahoo.
00:10:32
jarrod_dyke
Mark.
00:10:33
Grumpy Old Prop
Mark trying to find him in our, so I can see where he, oh, he's not in our, Oh no, there he is.
00:10:38
jarrod_dyke
Mmm.
00:10:41
Grumpy Old Prop
He's at, okay.
00:10:41
jarrod_dyke
So he definitely is.
00:10:41
Grumpy Old Prop
He's at the top. Wow. He's second in our, um, in our pod league.
00:10:45
jarrod_dyke
Yeah. Who is? Oh, James. So I know who this person is.
00:10:53
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:10:53
jarrod_dyke
Yes, it's James. Okay. Anyway, let's do, let's do some starter sets.
00:11:01
Grumpy Old Prop
Let's do, and I have the first one.
00:11:03
jarrod_dyke
You should do Massachusetts.
00:11:04
Grumpy Old Prop
Fuck, where am I? One second.
00:11:10
Grumpy Old Prop
um All right, saints versus queens. So don't take away from that hutch yellow. um I'd look much more towards the tries.
00:11:26
Grumpy Old Prop
um Obviously you're going to go with the majority of these teams. So I'm just talking about like some of the, the, the border guys, cause you're going to go with the back, basically the back three, except for Ram from Northampton.
00:11:38
jarrod_dyke
Right.
00:11:39
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, kind of at this point, Quinn's, um, I'm not sure what Cleves is at as far as cost, but he might be someone to consider.
00:11:49
jarrod_dyke
He needs to be healthy.
00:11:50
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, I'm sorry.
00:11:52
jarrod_dyke
He needs to be healthy.
00:11:53
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. Oh, did he get hurt? I thought he thought he that's right.
00:11:55
jarrod_dyke
He came off injured. He came off and injured. Don't know what the status is, but if he's healthy, it's not a bad option.
00:12:00
Grumpy Old Prop
OK, yeah, that's true. um And then the obviously the tens. Yes, I don't really trust at this point that the Quinn's centers on Yahoo, I should say, is it still a. A solid option, especially for the the cost, I just don't i I would really like to see him.
00:12:23
Grumpy Old Prop
Return to that for me was in like two or three years ago or two years ago when he was just tearing it up.
00:12:26
jarrod_dyke
Same.
00:12:29
Grumpy Old Prop
um Yeah, stick with the the those loose forwards, as you know, the Evans is. um ah CCS and then pretty much the entire back three of of of the Saints should do well.
00:12:37
jarrod_dyke
Excuse me. Yep.
00:12:43
Grumpy Old Prop
And then obviously there are locks. I'd go with Saints locks over Quinn's locks any day and and twice on Saturday or Friday.
00:12:46
jarrod_dyke
So hands down, hands down right now. Yeah.
00:12:52
Grumpy Old Prop
And I would just stay away from the front row because there's too many other skill positions, too many other positions that are are worth it.
00:12:52
jarrod_dyke
Twice on Friday.
00:12:56
jarrod_dyke
Right.
00:12:58
Grumpy Old Prop
I wouldn't want to invent, you know, Langdon maybe.
00:13:02
jarrod_dyke
Maybe. Yep. That's probably the one.
00:13:04
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:13:05
jarrod_dyke
Probably the one. Sail Gloucester. Sail, um either prop of high, high ownership right now. That was Rod Hurt. Because he didn't play last week.
00:13:17
jarrod_dyke
So, that's my only question.
00:13:17
Grumpy Old Prop
I'm not sure if he's hurt.
00:13:19
jarrod_dyke
um But the Forger, a poor good forger kid looks good.
00:13:21
Grumpy Old Prop
He didn't he didn't he come out early with Saracens didn't he did something happen with him in Saracens.
00:13:24
jarrod_dyke
Didn't play, didn't play against series.
00:13:26
Grumpy Old Prop
Oh shit.
00:13:27
jarrod_dyke
Yeah.
00:13:27
Grumpy Old Prop
I thought he did
00:13:27
jarrod_dyke
So I don't want to make these hurt. Nope. ah Anyway, LCD is one of their tops going forward, which should tell you how good they are. Fantasy wise, eek. This might, this might, this might write the ship because gloss are just as leaky as they are.
00:13:40
jarrod_dyke
um well Just as leaky as they are deficient, I should say. So maybe it'll help them. I still like Aaron Andrews. I know he didn't do great last week, but it'll still be good for the cost. He is. I'm going to give a thumbs up to John Luke, the pre of this week, because there's probably going to be space because cluster provided.
00:13:55
Grumpy Old Prop
If he's healthy.
00:13:56
jarrod_dyke
Yeah, I know. It's the other thing needs to be. Hopefully he didn't completely fuck his shit up when he got knocked last week.
00:14:02
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:14:03
jarrod_dyke
um Again, I hate saying this quirky. He's healthy. That's good. We know that. um I don't know if Bobby dupes is healthy. If he is, you can give him the K and.
00:14:12
Grumpy Old Prop
Right.
00:14:14
jarrod_dyke
Go for it, although he's in a midfielder that annoys the hell out of me that he's a midfielder.
00:14:16
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm.
00:14:18
jarrod_dyke
um Makes it hard. O'Flats, Roebuck, yes. More O'Flats than Roebuck though. um Sit, both carries, War. He had four and a half last week and that was with the try.
00:14:31
Grumpy Old Prop
Gus War, it's seven and a half.
00:14:33
jarrod_dyke
It's okay, seven and a half, sorry.
00:14:34
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, no, I mean, that's like I know that the numbers all bounce around. So you may have you may have been looking at like two minutes ago's number and now it's different.
00:14:38
jarrod_dyke
Yeah.
00:14:42
jarrod_dyke
Yeah. Uh, nightclub will need to see it at this point. So no as well.
00:14:47
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm.
00:14:48
jarrod_dyke
He just said, um, for Gloucester for Sogbon, if he starts. Yep. Mercer. Not everyone needs to go running to the sheds unless you're seeing bottomally like me. Um, you can, you can be patient with them.
00:15:00
jarrod_dyke
Uh, Ackerman. Yes. Thomas Williams. Yes. Barton, especially if he's at fullback with the T.
00:15:05
jarrod_dyke
Um, we'll see what happens with more guys coming back. And then Wade sits Val singles. I need to see it from singles at this point.
00:15:05
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm.
00:15:13
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:15:14
jarrod_dyke
Ludlow and Anscombe. Not trusting Anscombe right now, especially since he hasn't even been given the tee over a kid like Barton.
00:15:20
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm.
00:15:21
jarrod_dyke
Says a lot.
00:15:24
Grumpy Old Prop
All right, off to ah Bath Bristol.
00:15:29
Grumpy Old Prop
And um this This could go so many different ways and um Beth are are showing the the defense that, ah you know, make me wonder what what Bristol can do, but at the same time Bristol have been scoring when they want to.
00:15:45
Grumpy Old Prop
um
00:15:46
jarrod_dyke
Right.
00:15:46
Grumpy Old Prop
And I think that's going to, that that's going to kind of tilt towards their favor, but at the same time, that also means it tilts towards like everyone's favor in um fantasy rugby. Cause I, I really liked both of these back lines, um, across the board as far as scoring.
00:16:00
jarrod_dyke
Yeah.
00:16:01
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, I'm still not quite, although AJ had a huge week this past week, didn't he? Um,
00:16:09
jarrod_dyke
Yes.
00:16:10
Grumpy Old Prop
Hard to ignore that um because i you know theres there'll be penalty, there'll be kicks on offer and apparently he's got his legs back.
00:16:14
jarrod_dyke
Yeah.
00:16:18
jarrod_dyke
28 and a half.
00:16:19
Grumpy Old Prop
So that's good.
00:16:21
jarrod_dyke
Hmm.
00:16:21
Grumpy Old Prop
um And then, you know, Finn on the other side is going to be having a blast himself. So.
00:16:26
jarrod_dyke
Yes, you will.
00:16:28
Grumpy Old Prop
um And then that back row from that, it's hard for me to invest in the back row and bath because they're going to rotate so fucking much. um
00:16:35
jarrod_dyke
Yeah. So maybe you one of the cheaper options if you can.
00:16:38
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. And then we'll put on the other side, Bristol, it's hard because you never know what they're going to produce. um You know, Batley is the one guy out of this pack that I'd be like, you kind of have to have on your team.
00:16:49
jarrod_dyke
Mm hmm.
00:16:50
Grumpy Old Prop
Other than that, you're still looking at it between Maylands because they're just raking. um I don't know that I have Jans van Rensberg. I'm just not sure I want to. I don't know what to do with him right now.
00:17:01
jarrod_dyke
Yeah, um umm I'm, I'm triaging my team.
00:17:04
Grumpy Old Prop
Well, I have to get rid of.
00:17:05
jarrod_dyke
I'm trying to get rid of some players and I have.
00:17:07
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. I have to get rid of Northmore.
00:17:10
jarrod_dyke
Yeah, I have some dead weight too.
00:17:12
jarrod_dyke
So.
00:17:12
Grumpy Old Prop
And so now I'm going to have to.
00:17:13
Grumpy Old Prop
So that's one center that I can't really spend another. I can't justify two switches depending on. Lineups.
00:17:20
jarrod_dyke
Right. Right. Right. No, I agree. Um, yeah, bail is at 3 million is probably your best option for a bath, a bath, back rower.
00:17:30
Grumpy Old Prop
For a bath. Yeah. And then hope he plays. That's the thing. It's like is it it's it his week to to take a rest because.
00:17:32
jarrod_dyke
Yep.
00:17:35
jarrod_dyke
Right.
00:17:36
Grumpy Old Prop
He could go from the starting lineup to like just not playing for two weeks.
00:17:39
jarrod_dyke
Yep.
00:17:40
jarrod_dyke
Absolutely.
00:17:40
Grumpy Old Prop
And that's just because Bathard rotating their guys through.
00:17:43
jarrod_dyke
It is. All right. Newcastle and Leicester. A couple of starts for the Falcons. Blahmyer, Sammy Arnold is showing some promises.
00:17:52
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm.
00:17:54
jarrod_dyke
I mean, he doesn't hurt himself, but, and then, and Rads, I'm still okay with Rads.
00:17:56
Grumpy Old Prop
Break himself. Yeah.
00:18:00
jarrod_dyke
He is expensive as hell, but if you've invested that money in Radwine, you're playing him.
00:18:01
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm.
00:18:05
jarrod_dyke
So that's all that is. Highly young guys that I would advise against. Vanderwalt, Stewart, Daugherty, and Obie.
00:18:13
Grumpy Old Prop
Mhmm.
00:18:13
jarrod_dyke
There were other guys in there that are highly owned, but I know why they're highly owned because they're cheap as hell. And people are trying to fill in the gaps for what they can for the Tigers.
00:18:20
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:18:22
jarrod_dyke
Um, front rowers, Nikki Smith, Hayes and Claire are our goes. Um, second rowers, chess and Martin and Wells are all goes. Um, even Bergen ruffel. Yep. Give them a shot, especially leaving break.
00:18:34
jarrod_dyke
I like him a little bit better than ruffel. Um, Ben Portley, yep. We'll see if Pollard's back. If he is, yes, you're playing him. Hassell Collins actually has scored well the last couple of weeks.
00:18:45
jarrod_dyke
So despite, we'll score it even better if you don't want to let God damn try.
00:18:49
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm.
00:18:49
jarrod_dyke
um And then I'll ahll give Flank Freddy one more week. Couple of sits though, um Dan Cole and Josh Bassett, just don't touch him.
00:18:58
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:18:59
jarrod_dyke
Even in this situation, don't touch him.
00:19:02
Grumpy Old Prop
Okay, then ah last but certainly not least Saracen's Exeter. Exeter still are looking very um like they're giving up points to forwards, but most of that's because they make the easy tackles.
00:19:16
Grumpy Old Prop
So it's like a lot of positivity from making five pick and go tackles and missing none because you pretty much can't miss that tackle at all.
00:19:16
jarrod_dyke
Mm hmm.
00:19:25
Grumpy Old Prop
um So. frenzy of points for the Saracens forwards who are generally the higher scoring forwards in the in the league which means you know they're back three or a must-start. Tom Willis I'm very pleased with him and I think that please will continue throughout this match too.
00:19:46
Grumpy Old Prop
um Earl, obviously, the locks, Tojay and whoever is is next to him. Yes.
00:19:53
jarrod_dyke
Mm hmm.
00:19:53
Grumpy Old Prop
And then, you know, I have Theo Dan on my roster just because it's either going to be, you know, him starting in George. Um, backing up or George starting and him backing up until they're both gone for, for, uh, yeah.
00:20:04
jarrod_dyke
Right. November. Yeah.
00:20:09
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, international duty. So, um, I'd still ride with him, but the backs are still are showing up pretty well. Just kind of sucks. And that would certainly be looking at, um, Lizowski in the backs.
00:20:23
Grumpy Old Prop
If he's going to be, if he's going to be kicking.
00:20:27
jarrod_dyke
Yeah, makes it hard to know your 10.
00:20:28
Grumpy Old Prop
it might be It might be worth it. It just kind of sucks because Fergus Burke's got to go. now
00:20:34
jarrod_dyke
Yep, sadly, sadly.
00:20:36
Grumpy Old Prop
um But on the other side for Exeter, I'd really be looking at their back three, doing the most damage here.
00:20:42
jarrod_dyke
Right.
00:20:42
Grumpy Old Prop
Their forwards, anybody could get a, all ah um not a maul over, but a push over try. Like that's kind of, they'll get one of those and it's, you know, flip a eight sided coin um to figure out who that might be.
00:20:56
Grumpy Old Prop
Other than that, it's really the threats to score are their back three.
00:20:59
jarrod_dyke
Yep. Yep.
Weekly Picks and Listener Engagement
00:21:03
jarrod_dyke
All right. OT dubs. So I really tried not to do it again this week, but, um, I didn't like anything else that was happening.
00:21:13
jarrod_dyke
So my start of the week is going to be all he has to call it. I really tried not to get, I don't want it to be a trend where I'm just picking the guy against new castle, but I lost it. I'm like, I don't want to pick a sherry cause I don't want jins to change the shit up because we know we're really good at mushing these things.
00:21:27
Grumpy Old Prop
Right.
00:21:27
jarrod_dyke
And I don't want to. And I couldn't I couldn't justify any of the sale players and I was looking at both of them Both those matchups. Those are the ones I was literally i'm like Nope, no choice. um Yeah hassle Collins has actually started pretty well. So I think this would be another good week form
00:21:46
Grumpy Old Prop
um My start of the week, I mentioned him and it's it's almost.
00:21:53
Grumpy Old Prop
It's I think, you know, a little bit even easier. Unfortunately, I think that going against just going against Newcastle, but um my start of the week is going to be Tom Willis for Saracens.
00:22:02
jarrod_dyke
Hmm.
00:22:02
Grumpy Old Prop
um As I said, he's going to be asked to make a lot of easy tackles and not asked to make too many difficult ones. And. He can exploit that exit or defense, so.
00:22:13
jarrod_dyke
Hmm.
00:22:16
Grumpy Old Prop
um I think because he's got that mix of physicality and. um And breakthrough speed, kind of um breaking the line, he'll he'll get a couple of line breaks just because he'll run it.
00:22:28
Grumpy Old Prop
Some some he'll find a soft shoulder here, there on exit or because they're. Not terribly athletic in the pack, so.
00:22:35
jarrod_dyke
Right.
00:22:36
Grumpy Old Prop
He'll get an edge. A couple of times and exploited.
00:22:38
jarrod_dyke
Okay. Yep. um
00:22:42
Grumpy Old Prop
And he's been scoring like a fucking monster.
00:22:44
jarrod_dyke
Yeah.
00:22:44
Grumpy Old Prop
I don't know why I haven't kept him to me yet.
00:22:47
jarrod_dyke
Just you wait.
00:22:48
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:22:49
jarrod_dyke
Just wait.
00:22:50
Grumpy Old Prop
Can I wait till two days from now?
00:22:52
jarrod_dyke
No. um So, still a week.
00:22:53
Grumpy Old Prop
Three days from now.
00:22:56
jarrod_dyke
I... I don't know why this guy's as highly owned as he is. And, you know, I'm using that 5% threshold. Um, that's not highly owned, but it's not nothing either. Uh, don't know why 5% of people are taking Jack Walker right now.
00:23:10
jarrod_dyke
It doesn't do much usually. And, you know, if anything, the guy that's got the more explosiveness is the guy that's backing him up.
00:23:18
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:23:19
jarrod_dyke
I don't know if he's going to be able to, yeah.
00:23:23
Grumpy Old Prop
Hold him back. Yeah.
00:23:25
jarrod_dyke
And also, and also, I don't know if he's going to be able to find, yeah, not actually currently doing the best against hookers as well. So those two things kind of adding up against Jack Walker makes him my city of the week.
00:23:36
Grumpy Old Prop
Okay.
00:23:37
jarrod_dyke
And now now he goes out and scores double.
00:23:39
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. Um, my sit of the week this week, um, hate to say it but I think it's gonna be Marcus Smith because I don't just don't know that they're ready to score and I think the Saints might actually you know they might get up for this one in the ways for some reason they haven't gotten up in the first two weeks um although like you said they they did play pretty well throughout the except up right up until the like the very end but
00:23:50
jarrod_dyke
No,
00:24:13
jarrod_dyke
Yeah, last 10, 15 minutes.
00:24:13
Grumpy Old Prop
That just makes it worse.
00:24:13
Grumpy Old Prop
I think for Quinn's, it's going to be that much harder. So, and they've just struggled to score points in games that they should be scoring points in.
00:24:19
jarrod_dyke
Yeah, not good, man, not good.
00:24:20
Grumpy Old Prop
So I think that's going to, I think it's going to ah reflect, in you know, if you're investing that much in a fly half, find a different fly half.
00:24:29
jarrod_dyke
Maybe not this week.
00:24:30
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:24:32
jarrod_dyke
All right, so that's that. um Tell your friends about PWR fantasy with us and make sure that they get themselves their picks in by kickoff on Saturday for with the Saracens and job finders.
00:24:43
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm.
00:24:47
jarrod_dyke
But other than that, um yeah, that'll do it for us here. We appreciate everyone listening and taking part with all the fun with us this year. And we'll look forward to talking to you guys next week. Enjoy the rugby. Have a good one, everyone.
00:24:58
Grumpy Old Prop
Later.
00:24:59
jarrod_dyke
Cheers.