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Season 3- Episode 3- Thanks for the Giving (Premiership Round 1)
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It’s those American rugby bozos here to give you their latest bit of banterings. On this episode of TFRY we discuss the all too soon passing of Christophe Dominici, RIP Monsieur. We give our rugby thanks in honor of the holiday here in the U.S. We hit up all the international action including the draw in Tri-Nations and the England comeback that’s not being talked about enough. Oh how could we forget!? We recap a great round 1, that certainly ended with a bang, in the Premiership (welcome back Falcons). Of course we go through our Start/Sit thoughts for week 2 and recap the goings on in the Champi-Yanks League. Crack one and tune in with us!
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Transcript
Introduction and Welcome
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody. Welcome back. It is the Fancy Rugby Yanks. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. Here we go. Week one in the books. Oh, so much fun. Knocking the rust off. Yeah. Also, some of them were not pretty. No. Knocking the rust off. Yeah. I mean, you know, we saw some games come to life and other games never really got going. No, they didn't. They kind of just... Yeah. Just definitely pittered out and...
00:00:34
Speaker
took a big old dump on it. And so I guess this is week one sounds about right anyway.
Underdog Victory Discussion
00:00:41
Speaker
So whatever it is, I mean, and for the second year in a row, I mean, we'll get to it. But the second year in a row, we have the team coming off of relegation or being promoted, walks into a another team's house and comes over with a W.
00:00:56
Speaker
Yeah, not too bad. A little bit different situation this time, but some similarities. We'll get to it later. Yeah, for sure. Let's drink. Yes. I like drinking. I like drinking. You shouldn't be singing about that, but yeah. Yeah, but what's better than rugby and beer as a combination? Maybe peanut butter and chocolate. Maybe. Maybe.
Listener Engagement and Feedback
00:01:21
Speaker
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00:01:39
Speaker
Apple podcast, that's the one. Yeah, we'd love to hear from you. And if not, you know, email us, fancyribbypodcast.com. Feedback's always good. You know, some of it we will take to heart, some of it we will not. It depends on what it is. But either way, we want to hear what you have to say.
Performance Predictions Recap
00:01:59
Speaker
And then hopefully you listened to George this week. He had a few good ones.
00:02:04
Speaker
and then some not so good ones, but just the same, that's how it goes, man. Yeah, that's how it goes, but you and I both know that. So either way, make sure you check out his website, make sure you give him a look and give him a little bit of help with the coffee,
League Updates and Excitement
00:02:19
Speaker
too. Buy him a coffee, yep. Yeah, definitely. TRM upgrades, support RPA.
00:02:24
Speaker
Um, you saw, you know, it was really, it was really cool to see the big names that were playing it this year, this year. Um, and TRM Chris Robshaw is playing it. Nick Mullins is playing it. Ugo, Ugo's playing it. I was like, Oh, this is kind of cool. I, I think you did better than all of them. I did. I did. I think I would have come in third on that list that they showed today. I was just like, okay, I feel all right about this. Yeah.
00:02:48
Speaker
I feel pretty good about it. So that was, but yeah. Quite pleased with my week. So nice to see those guys join in too. Yeah, for sure. Cause it only helps. It only helps. This is the reason that Ben and I do this is cause we believe that we can grow the sport in this fashion as well as others. But this is the way we, this is the way we can grow it. Cause we saw it. We've seen how it, what it does to American sports. So we
Mission to Grow Rugby in America
00:03:13
Speaker
want it. We want to get to going down this road as well.
00:03:15
Speaker
Um, champions cup, FRDs, not around the, not too far around the corner either. That'll be fun. Yeah. So it's going to be wild. Yeah. It's going to be pretty wild with all the teams. Yeah. It's going to be pretty crazy. You have to learn some things. Yeah. You better learn a thing too. Yeah. Do a bunch of, uh, what do you would, um, yeah, research. Cause I don't really follow, we don't really follow so much. Um,
00:03:40
Speaker
you know, the top 14 or the pro 14. So, I keep track of it, but I don't religiously follow the players. Yeah, it's different to know the players too, especially from a fantasy fantasy perspective. How do you get ideas about it?
00:03:54
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I mean, we know, we know the big names in a row too. Hey, the trick to fantasy is not the big names. It's that's knowing the, uh, you know, knowing the guys towards the bottom of the list that, that are going to get your points when you need them. Absolutely. So yeah. Um, be on the lookout for our league opening up soon for the podcast league. We'll get into the CYL league a little bit later.
00:04:13
Speaker
Black Lives Matter, as always, nothing new here. We are going to support this movement until we see some serious change here. So hopefully that comes at some point, but until it does, we're just going to keep banging that drum. Indeed.
100th Episode Announcement
00:04:31
Speaker
As you know, 100 episodes, I think we're nine away. Plan on January, pencil it in, don't pen it, and pencil it in. January 23rd, we're going to do our
00:04:42
Speaker
or 100. It should be a fun time. We're going to do something different. It's going to be so much fun. We'll have a new president. That'll be great. I'm not going to lie about that. There's a lot of things to look forward to about the 100th episode. Yeah, no kidding, right? We'll talk about that a little bit more later.
Supporting Women's Rugby
00:05:04
Speaker
As I say before, the US women rugby team need your help if you're in the US and you have the means donate to their cause. Get these ladies to New Zealand so they can bring home some self-aware because I have a really good feeling that they're going to be on the edge there.
00:05:21
Speaker
So let's get them there. I'm donating. I've already spoken about what I'm going to do for my part. The percentage of sales from my company is going to go to these ladies, and I'm not going to change that. So that'll go through until the end of February. So that'd be great. Okay.
Tribute to Christophe Domenici
00:05:40
Speaker
Ooh, the news that came today. Christophe Domenici.
00:05:45
Speaker
Very sad. A very sad ending too. You think French rugby, you think flair and certainly Dominique personified that for sure. So much respect pouring in from all over the world to see as well. So young. Yeah. It was amazing to see because he's just just outside of my realm of
00:06:12
Speaker
of rugby knowledge, like I was not following rugby at the time. But to see the outpouring from specific people, Johnny Wilkinson sending a tweet in French honoring him.
00:06:31
Speaker
as well as Sergio Parisi. It's like these guys who are legends, who are heartbroken and it's okay, you know, this obviously, you know, 48 way too young. So I can absolutely connect to that. Yeah, way too young. But yeah, obviously, and so well respected and well loved among the rugby community. That's a tough get to be that level.
00:06:53
Speaker
Yeah, hopefully his memory will live on for a long time with his play and his style and the person he was. Yeah, thoughts and condolences go to his family. That's just really awful.
Thanksgiving Reflections
00:07:11
Speaker
Oh, well, this is not a bad time to roll into if you're not from the United States. It's Thanksgiving this week. And Ben and I have much to be thankful for, especially after this past.
00:07:24
Speaker
year and you realize what you have and what you don't have and how important the shit you don't have really is. It's like maybe that's not so important and the stuff you do have and even some of the stuff you have be like, yeah, maybe I don't need that either. So we have a lot to be thankful for.
00:07:44
Speaker
In terms of rugby Thanksgiving, I'm personally thankful that the US has had a player in the person that is Chris Wiles. I listened to his interview with Dallin the other week. You know, he and I share a nickname.
00:08:06
Speaker
Yeah. I didn't know that. I would say I'm the uglier of the two, so maybe I should have it, but, you know, whatever. It's just odd for a winger to have a nickname of Shrek. Yeah. Sounds like Dallin gave it to him. Yeah.
00:08:23
Speaker
That's how that's how it works. Of course, the the fly half full back is going to the slippery eel is going to call the wing just the big beast of a wing hooker. So whatever, man. So, yeah, and, you know, he's he's he's so well spoken. He's and he he loves.
00:08:44
Speaker
He loved every minute of playing for the United States, you know, and that, and to me for, you know, he was an ex-bat, you know, he was lived here for about 10 years or so. And just, I'm, as far as rugby goes, I'm thankful that the United States has had a player like him to go to bat for the US and do a damn good job. I'm privileged to say I got to see him play twice. So that was, I'm lucky in that sense, you know.
00:09:12
Speaker
Just once for me, but still, still very memorable experience.
Gratitude for Rugby Influences
00:09:16
Speaker
Yep. It was a good one. Yeah. Um, on my end, I'm, you know what? I gotta say I'm thankful for Pat Lamb. Um, that's a good one. Bringing that, like the, the style that he's bringing to Bristol, whether or not, you know, it, it,
00:09:33
Speaker
They didn't, they didn't pull it out in the end. Um, pulling a double, but they still, they still won European hardware and they still way outperformed expectations where this club had, um, and how it's grown.
00:09:48
Speaker
to where they are now is just fantastic. And it's an insult to others to just credit him, but he's the one who's bringing the style of play that's, first off, it's entertaining as fuck. So that's really how I like rugby. I like it entertaining. I like when teams really attack.
00:10:08
Speaker
So that's, yeah, I'm thankful for him to bring that style and making it, forcing other teams to respond to it. You know, it's not just that he's doing that, that he's doing it and that's it, he's doing it. And it's, it's, you know, other teams had to step up and be like, all right, well, fuck. I mean, you have your Gloucesters who try it and just.
00:10:25
Speaker
can't quite get it right. But they've at least been trying it. You have your North Hamptons who are kind of in that same boat, although improving. But even Exeter now has stepped up their game and is much more expansive than they've been in a while. And sale this weekend was pretty fucking expansive too. So good. We're expanding rugby. We're making it more aggressive in the prem. And I think that's a lot in response to what Lamb has done in Bristol.
00:10:53
Speaker
Yeah, I agree 100%. He's been a blessing to the league, really.
Family and Rugby Connections
00:11:01
Speaker
Yeah, and then obviously as far as Thanksgiving goes, I'm obviously thankful for everything that I have. I have a nice house that's now we're just down the road from bed instead of half an hour away in a place that is comfortable and I feel like I can live in for a long time. And I have a family that supported me starting a business
00:11:23
Speaker
you know, which makes people which can make you bash it crazy. And I kind of was for a long time. So yeah, I'm already there. So yeah, I was definitely on the edge of it already. And that pushed me towards it. So as far as good old fashioned Thanksgiving, I am very thankful for the things I have and the people I have in my life, including the guy that sits across from me once a week on Monday or Tuesday. And yeah, back at you. But I mean, this is we've got a
00:11:50
Speaker
Um, we really, as much as we, you know, we, we, if you notice, we don't talk about things that we need for ourselves. We, you know, we speak on behalf of others because we, we are blessed, both of us. And we recognize that rugby is a complete luxury. Um, and that we should be thankful to have, and it brought us together. Um, and so many other people. So, and, you know, our personal lives, especially with the pandemic, we, you know, neither of us can complain. We've we're being, we're.
00:12:22
Speaker
We're provided the untouched, you know, all my friends are okay. No family affected. So, um, you know, we're both, you know, we both have a lot to be thankful for here. So in all seriousness.
00:12:39
Speaker
That's why we understand that and
Promoting Women's Game and Social Movements
00:12:41
Speaker
try to speak out. That's why we speak for Black Lives Matter. That's why we try to promote the women's game because they deserve attention too. Because they're fucking good. We'll talk about that a little bit, but yeah, absolutely. I totally agree. That's a little bit of mush, so you're welcome.
Return of Fans to Stadiums
00:12:59
Speaker
I'll be thankful for you, the listener, because we do this for fun.
00:13:02
Speaker
Yes, that's true. We definitely, I mean, we only do it for fun, but to see that, you know, something we do for fun is actually, you know, people are enjoying it. So thank you. Definitely. Big time. Um, good news. Speaking of listeners and fans, um, fans possibly returning next month to rugby grounds in a very limited capacity. And this is,
00:13:25
Speaker
this will be the biggest step forward in terms of this because zero to anything is huge. And the money I get is anything. And I was talking about it with a colleague of mine that's very privy to
00:13:41
Speaker
vaccines and the protocols and stuff like that. And he said, you know, spreading out people in a, you know, spreading out 200 people in a 10,000 seat stadium is no big deal. It's getting them to the park and the refreshments and the facilities that gets a little hairy. So that's why you got to be careful of it. So, but hopefully that's the good news. And hopefully we can start to hear real voices that matches again. And, you know, I'm really trying to do the same thing as well. And I'm looking forward to seeing some bodies in the stands here.
00:14:11
Speaker
So there we go. That'll be great. I hope it comes through. I'm such a sports misinthrope, I guess, that I'm like, I was annoyed. I was watching a game last night and maybe it was just because of the COVID situation.
00:14:27
Speaker
I guess the Monday Night Football game, there were like 15,000 fans in the stadium. I mean, it's a big stadium. It's in Tampa. Florida is like the Wild West right now. Exactly. I don't know if I was annoyed at the fans by the noise because I was just like, just let me watch the game. Or that I was just gruff because there shouldn't be fans there right now. Oh, not in that state. No way. Either way.
00:14:53
Speaker
I was annoyed by the fan noise and just putting that out there. But that might have been just my natural reaction to those people being together. You watch movies from like even a couple of years ago and you're like, why are they all touching each other in public? So maybe that's my. Yeah, right. Maybe that's where I'm coming from. You watch shows on TV like you can touch each other. Oh, yeah, this is film. Sorry.
00:15:19
Speaker
I remember when that was like that, but I don't, I'm scared of that right now. So I know it's just a little, it's a little, it's a little hectic. It's a little wild right now. That's good. Good for prem that they can bring fans back and have that in-person experience again and get some gate. Somebody's teams definitely need it. Yeah.
00:15:37
Speaker
And the players deserve to be cheered at some point, you know, even if it's a very minimal capacity, it's nice. Yeah, be good to have fans there. Yeah, I did feel when before the they pulled back the restrictions back in the summer when they had I think it was Quinn's just weren't lively at all at that game, which you know, you kind of forget that you know what it's like to be at a game and then you then you're just like, oh, shit, we should be sharing about like everything. Right.
00:16:03
Speaker
My bad, but still, it'll be good to see bodies in the city.
Southern Hemisphere Matches Overview
00:16:09
Speaker
So that'll be good. International Roundup. We'll go Southern Hemisphere first and then we'll come back North for all that happened here, both men's and women's. Are you not entertained? You were not entertained of this one and I found plenty to like about it personally. I think there's this context missing here.
00:16:33
Speaker
um and what do I need to know that I don't know I think you were in a different mindset than I was watching it so um I know you watched it Saturday if I'm not mistaken yeah I didn't watch it until Sunday and so I had watched all the other it was the last of the internationals that I watched and all the other internationals were so but
00:16:57
Speaker
that I was just fucking annoyed with the lack of fucking anything worth watching. So in that context, watching this game afterwards, I'm like, well, what the fuck was this weekend about anyway? Because nothing fucking happened. I even saw a stat, and it was like, in the international matches, the maximum number of tries scored was three. I think two matches had like two and one. One had a three and O or something, and then this one had zero. And it's like,
00:17:26
Speaker
fuck no, how do you have, you know, 320 minutes of rugby and have only like nine tries scored like that's just a shit weekend and there should have been a lot more scored because fucking well sort of lit up Georgia and they
00:17:42
Speaker
That's sad that they didn't. Yeah, I will say that. And fucking France-Scotland was somewhat entertaining, but still, the tries weren't there. It was hit and miss. It was kind of Wooster style. You kind of get there, just can't finish so much. So yeah, to watch this one, after all of that, I was just like,
00:18:04
Speaker
Could somebody just go for the fucking corner? At some point, just fucking grab this game by the balls. Both these teams beat New Zealand by going for the balls. And in this case, they kind of just were like, they were both teams were okay tying this match.
00:18:22
Speaker
Yeah. That's disappointing. Yeah. The way Jake Gordon jumped out of it, obviously, was he was at the point that he gathered the ball. He's like, I cannot lose this match. So that was that was the thing you do at the time. Yeah, I know. I'm always one. Like when the game when I can win the game, I'm never one that I want to that I want to kick.
00:18:45
Speaker
You know, I never, I never won that. I'm like, yeah, I'm going to kick this away. No, no, no. You hang on to the damn thing. So the fact that the RGs did kick it and I think they were trying to, they were trying to chase it down and you know, they had a reasonable expectation that they could get it, but still. Oh, that's still not as bad as the O to the other map. Fuck, which match was it?
Match Error Analysis
00:19:04
Speaker
Irish. The Irish match. Yes. Yeah. Kicked it away. What the fuck are you doing? Yeah. Sean O'Brien. He was not happy. He was not happy.
00:19:14
Speaker
Oh man, that dude on, that was one and unhappy Irishman. And that says a lot right there. I don't want to know shit. I don't remember who kicked it, but I would not want to be him right there. Oh geez. I don't know. It might've been Jackson. It might've been one of the wingers. I don't know. But geez. Oh yeah. He was not a happy person. That is not somebody I'm about to go cross in the dressing room. That's for sure.
00:19:36
Speaker
Um, yeah, you know, I watching this, I, the, the RG's. So I will say this, if they were any other team, we'd be talking about them in a, in a bad sense, because they were very confrontational in this, this match against them. Um, looking for, but they were looking to put Australia off their game, which they did. Um, I don't love this style, but at the same time, it's obviously got them some results. They're also probably not super tuned into their skills yet. So they gotta, they gotta do what they gotta do.
00:20:02
Speaker
They kind of won that first match just on balls alone. Pretty much. It's hard to back that up and maintain that, because, fuck, what are you thinking about yourself? Like, shit, we can do this, but no, no, no. We have to make sure we can do the little things first. And that's really what it was. There was a lot of, in this match, a lot of the forward, crash, forward, crash, back play. Forward, crash, forward, crash, kick.
00:20:26
Speaker
that pisses me off about premiership rugby. When I was watching it, especially early, and I'm seeing
00:20:34
Speaker
you know, that second place. So you did the second phase across the field. They have the option. They have a two on one out on the, on the wing. They have it. And instead of doing that, they hit the forward pod and just crash into these guys. And it's like, it's a slow ball. And then the other team has chance to reset their defense because they're international level players. And they set up for the next phase and nothing. And so it's just like, yeah, they, you know, they're not really attacking. They're not taking what's in front of them. They're just kind of playing a system. And I just,
00:21:04
Speaker
you know, or a set of plans and that's, that kills it. It's just, you know, when I see multiple two on ones or three on twos in a row that just go unused, I'm like, yeah, what the fuck am I doing watching this? Like I want to see them use that
Argentina's Strategy Against Australia
00:21:19
Speaker
too. Cause that's what's fun.
00:21:20
Speaker
Yeah, I will say that Dave Rennie made the the wisest move possible when he pulled Tupo. Tupo was a red card weight nap and he was hitting everybody like I don't care what somebody did to you at the bottom of a ruck. They're going to get you if you if you're the reactor. You know, don't do that, but that's that's what you said. Argentina were trying to do that and they were successful on Tupo.
00:21:39
Speaker
Yeah, Tupou is the Australian's Kyle St. Clair. Yeah. And, you know, that was, in a way, they succeeded because they got David to pull him. Yeah. Oh, no, that was perfect. You know, it worked like they knew off the field. Hell, yeah. We're not paying attention to running. Like, I don't want him thinking about running the ball down my throat because he'll do it really well.
00:22:02
Speaker
Absolutely. Yeah. And, you know, he was, he was definitely off his game. He threw a pass. I don't remember who's noggin he hit, but I was just like, Oh yeah. No, that was, it was bad. The hooker. Oh, BPA.
00:22:16
Speaker
Yeah, but it worked out. It actually worked out well because I think they were able to field it up the field because it wasn't a knock. No, it wasn't his office dome. He was actually a pretty smart play by the prop. Ended up working out. Worked out better than if he had given it to his hands.
00:22:34
Speaker
Yeah, I think BPA was going to get lit up if you can coach that move. Good luck with that one. The ball will bounce foot past them and then you go gather. Yeah, great. I'm sure the person getting hit in the noggin is not going to really appreciate that. Take one for the team. How much do you love you guys?
00:22:53
Speaker
Wait for it, right? I do know that Materas probably will see some disciplinary action for that little hairy yank on BPA. So just be careful. Yeah, they they they crossed the line a couple of times. Like I, you know, I got your text about Chupo being a dick. And then when I saw it, I was like, yeah, he was a dick, but they were all being dick like they were they were just dicking around with everybody. So yeah, he just kind of joined it like he didn't he didn't rise above it. He kind of just joined.
00:23:23
Speaker
Yeah, he got sucked into it. Yeah, he got sucked into it for sure. Well done for Argentina, but it only got him a tie. Like, I would have much rather them played it straight and played some expansive rugby and won it or lost it than... Yeah, I'm not sure what it would have got, but yeah. It's also not a good look, too, because, like, you just got everybody's attention and everybody wants to love you, right? The world wants to see, like, what you can do to back it up. And then you come out and you're getting kind of like punchy and hairpully and...
00:23:55
Speaker
I'm sure Ledesma is going to rain them in and say, hey guys, we got to be better than this and do other things better. I'm sure I have no doubt about that. I don't at all. How about automations? Apart from the Johnny May tries or anything we need to talk about.
00:24:15
Speaker
You know what, I will say that the Billy Burns chip that resulted in the Ireland try was also good. But no, that's it. They were all just chips and kicks and scampers. Other than that, it was decent attempted open field rugby, but in the end, just one up hits. Nobody was really setting the edge of the defense. No one was running a hard under his line to separate the outside from the interior.
00:24:43
Speaker
So it's just guys running into the guy who was responsible for them mostly. Again, physical as fuck. So entertaining in that respect, but no, we're good. We can move on. Red roses putting together a hell of a comeback.
England Women's Comeback
00:25:00
Speaker
Shocker. A lot of people turn that match off more, I understand. They regretted that immediately. Yeah. Oh, man.
00:25:11
Speaker
You can't walk out on them though. No. It sounds like they changed all their subs at once. Yeah. That is a move I've not ever seen in my life. Not once. That's a whole new move. Go win the game.
00:25:27
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I guess if you have some winners on the bench, which, you know, you assume most, most teams do. Yeah. Just throw them all out there and be like, all right, we are so fucked right now. There's no way this is going to get worse. So I'll wait you go. I don't believe my guess. I was in a match like that once. It was fun. We rested our starters because we were playing a shit team. You know, generally you don't do something like this against France if you're, cause they're actually pretty decent. I know.
00:25:50
Speaker
in our bench players because they needed time. They gave up a lot of points. So coach put us all in at halftime and we just trounced the other team. Let's turn this around, please. This is how this goes. And that's really what England needed. But damn, I'm still shocked even with any kind of strategy like that.
00:26:12
Speaker
France is too good to disrespect. But I'm also shocked that England should have been beating them straight up. It's impressive for France that they forced England to come back. That's honestly a huge step forward for France right now.
00:26:31
Speaker
Good for them. We do know that, as far as World Cup does, we do know that US women and Canada women will be in the same pool going down to New Zealand. That'll be interesting. I like how it's going to be some matches worth watching. They did it right. This is the kind of thing you want to do to grow the game. You get rivalries. You got New Zealand, Australia. You got England, France. You got US, Canada.
00:26:55
Speaker
people will watch this. This is what they want to see. You don't want to, you know, as much as you kind of want to see, you know, England, New Zealand, you want to see Australia, New Zealand. Yeah. You might, you might want to see that in the final maybe, but not right. And you want to see that.
00:27:10
Speaker
Yeah, look lunch lady. Yeah, it'll be very interesting. There was one Stars and Stripes match this past weekend. A couple of players ended up popping positive later on, so they canceled the other one. But from all accounts, that was the type of match the US women needed. Yeah, they needed that because you could tell, I was able to watch most of it.
00:27:40
Speaker
I know some of the players and I know what they're capable of doing. There was a lot of nerves. It was very nervy first half and they haven't really played in a while. So a lot of rust to knock off on a live action. But they really fell into it and some good offloads because the problem is that,
00:28:05
Speaker
And even Rob Kane said it himself, they're all taught to play physical, but physicality won't win you the game as much as if using space and getting the body out water. Physicality, space is what wins, not physicality in a phone. Yeah, you don't need to do that anymore. So you can hear him trying to grow the women's game into that more expensive attacking. And it takes a while to get
00:28:35
Speaker
but they got it. So, so definitely the kind of match like that, that the women's game needs here and the women's national team needs here. Yeah. Especially down for sure. Yeah.
Premiership Rugby Season Kickoff
00:28:46
Speaker
Yeah. Hopefully we can get some more high, uh, early, early then high performance games here soon. Yeah. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully.
00:28:54
Speaker
Okay, let's go to the time and the place that we've been waiting for all of three weeks. The Premiership round one for the new season. Exeter, Sam Simmons' show. That's it. He's the number one overall pick for a reason. Yeah, like. No, he should have been. Oh, man.
00:29:18
Speaker
dude can ball. Yeah. He's tight in space. Yeah. He's scoring tries. Yeah. I mean, people will talk about, you know, he does belong in the England team, but you know, it's more of a who's you're out now at eight, man. If you, if you, if Billy goes down, right? You know, Sam Simmons is a goddamn good replacement last time I looked, you know, I,
00:29:44
Speaker
I haven't, I can't figure out Eddie. So whatever. Uh, don't, don't think ill of me. I think Billy at this point is overrated. I'm kind of, I'm, I'm not that high on Billy anymore. Oh, I mean, he's nearly going to be at his guy. He's Eddie's guy, but he's not productive. He's not, he's not, um, he's not doing when he, he's not doing what wins matches. No, but he's always going to be Eddie's guy, you know, and that's just how it is. So, um,
00:30:09
Speaker
It's just disappointing because Sam Simmons, fuck, he's 10 times the eight man that Billy is right now. And that's hard to say for me. It's really hard to deny though. It really is. It's really hard to deny. And that's kind of why even the 25 that Eddie named for the panel, I'm looking at the back, I'm looking at the forwards first off and I'm like, there's a decent amount of dynamic forwards in there. And then I look at the backs and I'm like, there's not really that much dynamism here.
00:30:36
Speaker
And I'm just kind of disappointed by it. We'll see. Fucking Simmons. Sam could just add so much to that team. Yep. Unbelievable. You're going to get an argument on too many people. Yeah. I don't think you need too many arguments at all. On the other side, though. Yeah. Quinn's were quite disappointing. His opposite number, too. Big time position for him.
00:31:01
Speaker
y'all's in a nine in fantasy? I mean, and basically it doesn't show up. Yeah. It's, um, you know, and make no mistake about it. This match was close and then Exeter busted it open. I stopped watching about 20 minutes to go. Yeah. That was the wrong time to stop watching that later. No, that was the 20 minutes I needed to watch. Yeah.
00:31:24
Speaker
Yeah, it's hard to deny how good Exeter are, obviously. There's so much going on right there. They really did not put a foot wrong. They really didn't. Yeah, they controlled that match. There was no real question. I mean, there was question maybe towards
00:31:50
Speaker
you know, later, you know, at some point early, but not, not by halftime, not really. It was, I mean, it was only seven, three, maybe 10, three by then. You kind of had the feeling that eggs were just kind of lean on them enough to, to, to put it away. So, and they eventually did. Right.
00:32:07
Speaker
And then over to the other match Friday, um, sale Northampton sale control this morning. Yeah. So controlled for the most part. And our captain fought back valiantly. Um,
00:32:21
Speaker
I'll say, I say it before. I'll say it again. The sale team's better when AJ McGinty's a 10 and not Rob Dapria. I love that man. Um, but good job. I try the double dummy. Somebody said that was his college nickname, but first off, like to my, to my point earlier about, but you know, the, the forward pod, forward pod, then backs, um, I,
00:32:48
Speaker
The whole the whole work up to that try and some other ones that that sale scored. This is going to hurt, but sale played a very impressive, expansive game here. You know, it was off the it was off a kickoff. And. I was in Northampton had just turned over their entire front three.
00:33:09
Speaker
And the Saints ended up knocking on the kickoff. Sale got it back themselves and like ran a phase or two. And then it was AJ doing his thing. And he beat one of the props who just came on the field. He beat- He knew what was in front of him. Yeah, absolutely. He totally knew what was in front of him. He's like, oh, you're a prop and you just came on the field. You're not stretched. You're not ready for this. I'm all lubed up and I'm good. I'm going to burn you.
00:33:36
Speaker
Yeah, and he did. And he did. So great spot there. And also the was it the Dupree a try? The Dan Dupree? TDP? Yeah. How many times but how many times do you see advantage in the inside the 22? Were the like the 10 chip it as a pass? I mean, you saw the Saints do it once. Yep. Fuck how many times does it actually work?
00:34:03
Speaker
Oh, it doesn't work that often. Right. But instead, AJ takes it and uses the ball, passes it wide. And it was Solomona who almost scores. And then a few wide faces forward crashes later, you know, that was the Acre pops into DDP.
00:34:21
Speaker
Right. And that's the, that's the wide ball. I'm looking for off nine too. Like if you're going to go off nine, this, this stuff that goes right into the two strong guys sitting next to the rock is just done as hell. That's just ramming your head against the wall. That doesn't make any sense to me. Right. So there's a smart way to do that. But most teams just don't, seems can't get it right now. So, um, but then, um, has to be said. Yeah. He is very good.
00:34:48
Speaker
What a move. It was very good. I will say, John O'Rourke continues to piss me off.
00:34:53
Speaker
Yeah, that's what he does. Yeah, he's he's just he's just an asshole. I'm surprised that that was at that one. There was one I think in there that should probably just should have been a penalty try. I think it was off of it was a late one of the later ones. It was should have been off of off of a mall. So came in offside and then took it down. And it's like, OK, those two things. Saints are already driving. They're going to score. That's easily a scoring. You know, you stopped a scoring play literally stopped. It should have been a penalty try. I think Saints ended or sale ended up
00:35:23
Speaker
getting it off a turnover in the lineup. I thought Matt Proctor was the best player on Saints. I'm not going to argue with that. Yeah, definitely putting in a shift. Was Nick on the field? God, he was definitely a ghost. I have no idea.
00:35:43
Speaker
No idea, man. No idea. Um, let's go Saturday. I see his name in the lineup. Nobody knows where the hell he went. He definitely disappeared. Um, let's go Saturday. Um, we'll start with the guys that came, came, came away with the goods up at the rack. Newcastle Falcons come back to the league and they get back on the one column immediately.
Premiership Match Highlights
00:36:01
Speaker
Good on them. Yeah. They, they should have won the smash by a lot more. Yeah.
00:36:07
Speaker
No, they really should. Bath are good. Like, let's make no mistake about it. Bath are good. There's a reason they went as far as they did last year. And it's not because they're bad. It's because they're good. And yes, even with their guys away, especially their front row, their backups aren't fucking shabby either. No.
00:36:24
Speaker
and they still have a hell of a 910 now and Mercer too coming back. Like they had a lot coming at this and I think it was just, they couldn't get themselves going. No, they had issues here and there. But their defense was pretty solid. Newcastle were just very, very good.
00:36:41
Speaker
for a first match. I mean, and, and the liveliness, the liveliness with, especially with that, what turned into the, I think it was a second Graham try. Um, I appreciate something like that always, you know, with the, with the click line out and just say, Hey, let's go. And then the recognition of it's our line out was very good as well. Like some people would have been waiting for the touch judge to point away and they knew it was there. So they just said, screw it. Let's keep going. Let's go.
00:37:08
Speaker
And they, and they kept doing it. So, uh, go on the Newcastle boys and Dean Richards will be quite pleased with that result right there. Um, yeah. Either he needs to improve or Toby flood needs to get it. If he's on the field to as terrible as Toby flood is going to be for the majority of the season. That's the one thing he can do quite well. And that's put them all through the posts.
00:37:32
Speaker
Um, so if you don't, if you're not going to have, if you're not going to use them there, then have it be burl and, and some other, some other player. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure Orlando will get a run. Oh yeah. Yeah. There'll be, there'll be a few guys that get a run. Um, Tom Penny can shift forward into, into the midfield from what I, from what I know as well. So, um, yeah, there's, there's stuff there that they can use. Um, and then did, um,
00:38:00
Speaker
Did the right team walk out of the dressing room at Walford Road or did we see things? You know, if there's something that can be learned from sale, it is if you're a struggling team, buy yourself some Safas.
00:38:16
Speaker
Because they found a couple, they found a couple and they worked out very fucking well. Mm hmm. Yeah. Jasper Veece being the, the one that comes to mind and along with then Vic, Vic tout, I thought as much as you were, you were kind of shitting on a little bit during the match. He actually showed really well. He was a lot better than he was last season. And that was only three weeks ago, but shit. Right.
00:38:39
Speaker
Jared absolutely put the mush on him. Um, he texts me and he's like, hasn't done shit. And then right after that, he just like blows up. It's like, uh, I think he's okay. Well, now you figured he heard me. I don't know what to tell you. Yeah. That's how it goes, man. Um, yeah. You know, as good as Lester was, this cluster team cannot get out of its own way.
00:38:59
Speaker
No. I mean, everybody was talking about the back line that's all over 30 and it's like, oh, they're KG. Well, they can't fucking move. So. Let foot back line. I mean, Atkinson's got some feet, but after that, I don't know, man. Yeah.
00:39:16
Speaker
Yeah, he doesn't look heavier, but he put on weight after. Banana hands. Yeah, he lost the momentum. That's why he's got to get he's got to get going again. And 12 trees is yeah. 12 trees. He's out. That's how he's been. That's how he's been. Yeah, that's not a new thing. And Woodward was Woodward. Just he was not he was not good. Poor, so very poor. Yeah, extremely. Yeah, he was not good at all at all.
00:39:45
Speaker
Yeah, and frustrating and the forwards, you know, Ludlow getting.
00:39:49
Speaker
The shit knocked out of him didn't help. Yeah, I will say. Yeah, she said it was not helpful at all. I will say, was it handsome to end up eating that yellow card? Yeah, it was. No. Oh, James James. The yellow earlier. Nope. Freddie Clark had the other yellow. OK, fuck. How was Garvey? Garvey was just bad. That's what that was. That's why that was that he was bad. Oh, shit. Huh?
00:40:16
Speaker
So James Hansen had to eat the Yale card along with Callan Green. I will say this right now. If I'm James Hansen, Callan Green's lucky that's all that happened. If you reach up and grab for my boys. Yeah.
00:40:30
Speaker
like a fist, a knee, something, there's very little that's going to get me to react like that. That is something that's absolutely going to get it done. And when they say, you know, the referee said what he said, and I'm like, I think you're being very nice to Callum Green, because if you saw what he was reaching for, whether he was trying to grab it or hit it,
00:40:49
Speaker
Mm hmm. I have, you know, people do that in the bottom of a rock and I will start fights with that. I don't care. You know, I will start throwing bows. I will make sure that you don't walk away from the field. And that wasn't in that like he didn't really he he he shoved him away the only like the best way possible.
00:41:06
Speaker
Yeah, it was just a push with the foot. But I also think it was fair that both got the yellow. I think that was fine. I think it was officiated correctly, unfortunately. I think the penalty should have gone the other way.
00:41:21
Speaker
Yeah, the the final penalty should have definitely gone against Lester. Yeah, because that's just egregious. I'm sorry. Yeah, I don't like the other retaliatory here this year, the second penalty. So you get the penalty, I'm gonna reverse. No, give the original guy the yellow and then the yellow of the retaliation. But that's, you know, it should be the original offense that started it. Yeah, that was bad. The penalty in that case, because that was
00:41:47
Speaker
Um, yeah, Callen Green was not, uh, I mean, you go, you go back to like when Farrell's hanging on to CJ standard. I am doing exactly what seizure standards do doing with Farrell. I am getting him off my leg in any manner possible because he shouldn't be doing that to begin with. The referees aren't doing anything about it. So you left it to my, into my hands. So I have to get free from this guy so I can go get in my defense.
00:42:12
Speaker
What's because you see in the other matches guys are throwing and they're not throwing fists. They're smart about it. They're throwing their like forearm down like what it has. Would you have been OK with Hanson? Just reach down and throw in a forearm down that like you'd have to go all the way down. No, just just give them a little bit of a toe tap and and just shove them away and be like your face and the situation.
00:42:36
Speaker
Yeah. Be like, I'm not letting you grab me at all. Get away. Like, right. Green gave him no choice. So yeah, kind of bullshit. The way, the way it ended. Sucks for how it ended. But, um, well, yeah, still boy, you're a lucky boy. That's all I know.
00:42:52
Speaker
Um, so yeah, um, Lester looks a lot better and we'll see if they can, uh, continue to improve. Um, the combination of Zach Henry and Diaz Benilla 10, Diaz Benilla, obviously not away with Argentina, as I thought, my bad. Uh, that was a, that turned out to be a quite a good combination for them. So good on them.
00:43:11
Speaker
Uh, so we'll see, um, we'll see if the back three look dangerous. Yeah. Potter, uh, then Vic and, um, had some runs. Yeah. Good on them. Yeah. Not, not too bad for them. Nice quick turnaround. I mean, think of the bodies that they're missing in that back three with Nadolo and Murray, Murray, while neither one of them playing. So, uh, yep. Should be interesting. Are you following Nadolo on, uh,
00:43:36
Speaker
on the twitters i know he's pissed sitting at home and watching these games that's all i know he's like in cards like everything he's doing is like quarantine yeah i feel bad but it's it's entertaining to to see because it's like yeah i feel the same way dude we've been there
00:43:54
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I've, it's, it's interesting to follow somebody on either Twitter or Instagram when they're in isolation. Cause they're just like, this is my life. I'm like, yeah, I got off. I walked, I walked around this small room and they said, Hey, that's all they can do. Like you, um, I saw somebody, um, this one rate, this woman, Rachel, um, she's a hitting coach for an Australian, uh, baseball team. Um, or she might be more than that, but now I might be doing a disservice here, but.
00:44:19
Speaker
She moved the bed to the middle of the room and was walking around the edge of the room because that's the only cardio she could get. I was like, God damn, that's annoying. Well, good. I mean, anybody that has to sit in isolation is doing it because they want to. That's off to you. That's off to you. All right, moving on. What's
Fantasy Rugby Picks and Strategies
00:44:40
Speaker
your Irish? Just a story of
00:44:43
Speaker
you couldn't finish the damn thing. It really was. I think the final line summed it up. What the fuck are you doing? Yeah. And I mean, there's some decent scores in fantasy too. So that tells you a lot of that, you know? Right. Again, it's like I said about, I can't remember which match, that was like a Worcester match, you know, just no finishing. That seems to be what this was, you know, a lot of,
00:45:10
Speaker
You know, decent attack. You know, from what I saw, I didn't see that. I didn't bother to watch the whole thing because it's fucking 11 to 10 match and I'm not going to do that. But from what I saw, it wasn't like they were. It just wasn't finishing like it just they weren't they weren't working. No, there were plenty of breaks from both teams. Yeah, just couldn't just found a way to knock it on in some generally some reliable hands and just guys are just finding a way to put it on the turf.
00:45:38
Speaker
So yeah, I have no explanation for that whatsoever. But there were some good bits. Billy Stroll didn't look terrible, which is something that I was a little worried about. I was like, how good is he going to look? The two wingers looked quite good, despite they could have a lot more in their back pocket here with what they have. So good on them. But overall, yeah, it was that.
00:46:05
Speaker
That was pretty much the story of the game. Just, you know, great breaks. Good job getting into the 22. Been freaking finished the damn job. So, and then obviously the Sean O'Brien reaction. Oh, bother. Oh well. Let's go Sunday. This was way more entertaining than any of the other games on Saturday. That's for sure. As expected. Everybody was kind of looking forward to this one. Took a while to percolate. Right. They had to find themselves a little bit, but once it got going, it got going.
00:46:35
Speaker
Mm hmm. Absolutely. Yep. I totally agree. Brad Shields coming off early. Might have done Wasp a favor. Yeah. Okay. So I have thoughts about Brad Shields that I want to get to in a little bit. But yeah, yes, I will agree with that.
00:46:51
Speaker
Yeah. Big time. Yeah. And this was, this was a Bristol team that was depowered. There's a lot of guys that are going to be out till the new year. It sounds like, um, and still put, yeah. Bernal look excellent. I mean, Harry Thacker who? Right. Look, just sub them right in. Okay. No problem. What the fuck?
00:47:10
Speaker
Yeah. Um, the one guy that I have to point out, and there were a lot of guys that perform extremely well on this Bristol team, especially considering all things. I love Harry Randall so much. And this kid brought such a spark to this team and really put them in a position. He really put them in a position to win. Um, they just couldn't hang onto it, but he really did it quite a bit of himself. And that is such a,
00:47:35
Speaker
pull the pick, they quick tap try. It makes me so happy to see this kid just making so many good moves for this team. I really like him, so yeah. He's aggressive. So that goes, there's a lot of that, and I was gonna mention it kind of with the Stars and Stripes game. And it also applies to Brad Shields. So I'm gonna tie it all the fuck together with, he's empowered to do things. He's empowered to take chances. There's a lot of players in rugby who,
00:48:04
Speaker
you're told, oh, we don't want you to do this. We want you to do this. Even though it's like, no, you want somebody who could do everything. You want a nine who knows when it's time to quick tap and open space. You want a nine who knows when to fuck around with the other team and then quick tap on the goal line for the cheeky fucking nine try. You want this.
00:48:27
Speaker
But you don't always allow players to make mistakes trying it out. If somebody does it too many times, you're like, oh, he sucks. And it's like, no, he's just trying something, or she, let him try it. And I think that was part of the problem with the Stars and Stripes game a little bit, because some of the players don't feel empowered to try some of the offloads. That's unfortunate. Because they're not coached up to do it.
00:48:51
Speaker
I will always say, tell my players, if you're going to make that risky decision, make it. But we'll address it later on. Be prepared to be dressed down afterwards. And I'm not going to do it to be a dick. I'm going to do it because I want you to get better at it. Because if this is something you really want to do, then you need to get better at it if you can't execute it. But that brings us to Brad Shields.
00:49:15
Speaker
where the announcers even talked about it. And as soon as they mentioned it, it pissed me off. And I don't understand how they didn't see it. They just moved right the fuck past it. And they're like, you know, Brad Shields, he's such a good play. It just shows they're like, it shows you what kind of player that he is, that he comes here, he was dominant in super rugby, where he was a flash player. And he comes in here and he does no flash at all. And because that's what they want him to do. And I'm like,
00:49:41
Speaker
No, that's wrong. He throws that 25 meter pass and I'm like, you want him to do that? Why would you want him to do that? You have a weapon in your back pocket that's like, why are you tying one hand behind your back? Yeah, don't do that. Brad Shields, you have a player who can do that? You fucking go do it. Throw that fucking... Give him the platform to do it. You don't take it away from him just because it doesn't fit what you like to do.
00:50:08
Speaker
That's not why bother having him. Give him to someone else who knows better. So, yeah, like, Shields, there's so much he could do. And they just don't. It seems like they don't let him. And that's disappointing because, you know,
00:50:24
Speaker
You don't take a Brad shields and make him a Joe launch bird. No, you don't want to do that. Why? There's no point in that. There's no point in that. Launch bird is good and I'm not trying to slander him, but you can find 20 guys in the back paddock at England Rugby.
00:50:39
Speaker
pull up, you know, 15. You can do a lot. You can find a few of them, yep. Right. You don't find many guys who can do what Brad Shields can do. So why would you stifle that into something that you can get anybody else to do, literally anybody else? Because Cardinal and Gasol did a fucking hell of a job around the pitch.
00:50:58
Speaker
doing dirty work and Thomas Young does it as always too. Why would you ask Brad Shields to do the same when you can have him? Especially if you're sticking to the eight man. Right. So yeah, it doesn't make sense and obviously Jack Willis is Jack Willis.
00:51:13
Speaker
Yeah, so Willis Brothers both get over with the Tom Willis version, gets the all-important one. I mean, and he is the, you know, well, Barbary did a great job coming on in the time he had, which says a lot about him. They brought him on and they're like, well, he's going to be a man of the match now.
00:51:35
Speaker
You hope, right? I mean, he, if he's good enough, absolutely. The comms were like, he's down to be better than that. Now that he's in, he's got 20 minutes, but the Tom, Tom, Tom Willis was the beneficiary of Josh Bassett's really good work on that final try. Josh Bassett. I mean, you say what you will about the Bristol defending, but really Bassett makes that happen. It's not, it's not so bad on Bristol. It's definitely more of a point to Josh Bassett for sure.
00:52:04
Speaker
He's fast and he had the angle on several of your players. Like he's a professional athlete. That's how it works. So yeah, Bassett was amazing in that sequence. Yep. And he knew he needed to find one more body and he did. And Tom Wallace wasn't support and got on Tom Wallace for being at the right place at the right time. And there's always something to be said about that. I don't want Tom Wallace for fucking keeping up with him. That's true. That is true. Yeah. And I mean, it just,
00:52:31
Speaker
It's quite it's quite in the genes in the Willis family. Clearly, they both have incredibly athletic genes. So look out world. So do take it as everybody expected, but it was just a wee bit squeaky at the end there. Good. That's a great way to end, you know, opening week. Not bad at all. Not bad at all. All right. Let's blast through our start sets.
00:53:00
Speaker
I do believe it's before beauty in this case. Oh, I'm up first, huh? All right. One moment. We're going to Newcastle. We're up to the Kingston. And it gets sale, which kind of... Yeah. That's not what I want from my home opener back into the premiere show. Right. So let's talk about who we got at the Newcastle in terms of fantasy.
00:53:27
Speaker
The front row, I think, I think you got to look at them. Um, they scored well, um, sale against sale. It's a little bit of a dicey proposition, but they got, um, guys that can move around and lose. George McGuigan is obviously, uh, hasn't lost a beat. Um, so he's someone you'd want to look at in, in TRM, um, certainly as a cheap option. Well, um, as we mentioned, Thacker is being out. He's, he's definitely a guy you can lean on any week to, to get your points if you need somebody.
00:53:57
Speaker
Yeah, who knew? Incredibly active. So someone worth watching in TRM.
00:54:06
Speaker
And same with Greg Peterson, the yank. I got it back, the yank. He scored 30 this past weekend. Was absolutely active all over the place. Yes, he was. Huge line out threat. And then showing to be a threat in the loose. So you might want to watch the American there, huh? Good job, big fella. Brett Connan, don't use him as a kicker, but he put up some points.
00:54:30
Speaker
And then Gary Graham definitely is someone who's worth potential as a discount player in TRM rather than someone like a Ben Earl or a DDP who will get, Graham will get your points too. He'll just be a lot cheaper. So that's definitely an option if you wanted to spend some resources elsewhere.
00:54:51
Speaker
Uh, good guy to fill it. Correct. On the other side, um, say it for sale, um, Acre Venema rose must have, uh, the front road, not so much. So, um, he'll Acre will carry sales front row in, in, in FRD. Uh, but in TRM, just, just, just Acre, just Acre. Correct. As that's mentioned DDP, uh, but any, any format worth starting. Quite useful.
00:55:21
Speaker
big sell on Fath. Just doesn't, you know, good, good player for your team, not so much for your fantasy team. Not worth the resources in TRM. If he's in FRD, he doesn't, he'll go for a dart every so often.
00:55:37
Speaker
But he's, he'll, and he'll get your big points every so often, but not consistent as we saw this past week. Um, AJ, fuck any format I think is a, you know, that he's got to be a play. It looks like he's, he's ready to go. Um, and then as with the front row, with the rest of the back line, not so much. Um, you'll get guys who will have a good week here and there, but it's not going to be consistent and not worth leaning on any of the sale back outside of AJ.
00:56:05
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Hard to, hard to say otherwise, honestly. I know that I know the James brothers are a fan favorite, but they just don't quite get it done in TRM, maybe FRD, but yeah, no. Yeah, exactly. And then really I would go with, um, the, the younger James, um, not, not so much Sam.
00:56:22
Speaker
Yeah, not bad. Not a bad group. Let's go to the first game on Saturday, Northampton in Queens. Matt Proctor showed it, showed it this weekend. He's been moved to midfielder as an FRD guy and TRM, he showed up pretty well too. And that was without scoring a try. Right. Not bad.
00:56:39
Speaker
Not bad. Not bad. I'll take it. I'll take it. And Quinn's, you know, they played a tough outfit this past weekend. Both did. So, um, you're fair. You're better. Fantasy assets are going to come good on both these teams. Um, but Matt Proctor definitely stepped up and put his hand up. Nick is sick way. Be patient. He will come good. I promise, especially as a lock in FRD. He's playing sex right now for the most part. So let it go. Um, assuming Alex, Alex Mitchell's part of the team this week.
00:57:05
Speaker
I think he'll start. Harry Taylor was not was not that impressive this past weekend and the team came to life when Alex Mitchell came on the field indeed, so I think you'll see him and I think he's going to be very useful in both formats. So go ahead. On the other side, I really like this guy.
00:57:23
Speaker
But you know what? Not for any fantasy reasons whatsoever. Tae amount of Harrison has just been very, very non-useful lately. fantasy. Yeah. Yeah. Especially the shield's kind of thing. Very much does a lot of good work, but doesn't translate to fantasy points. No, it doesn't right now. So, um, yeah, so stay away. That's, you know, two and a half bills or two and three quarters bills you're spending in TRM that probably isn't worth it.
00:57:47
Speaker
Damn. So ditch him. Um, for bank FRDS, uh, TRM, no way. He's just not been good. He gets like 19, 20 points tops. Yeah. Not worth it. My spot. Not from fullback and Tom Collins was ballooned a little bit this week because he got that mall over try.
00:58:05
Speaker
You're very weary. FRD only at best. I don't like him in TRM at all. Let's go on the other side for the Quinn's. A guy that played really well this past weekend despite the terrible showing fantasy wise for most of Quinn's was Will Evans. So keep your eyes peeled for him, especially in FRD, but TRM he might be worth it too.
00:58:25
Speaker
Danny Carroll will come good. Have patience. Just have a little patience, kids. I promise he'll come good. Another guy I want to really point out, he came on for Matt Simmons and that was Glenn Young, the former Newcastle guy. He put up a decent number. He put up 17 coming off the bench and he put, what do you have? 10 as a lock or something like that. Decent day, five lock as a lock. Decent day, not expensive either. So that could be a good steal.
00:58:54
Speaker
Right now, expensive. And then on the FRD side, he's available. He'll be available. I can almost promise you. So although, you know, again, Louise who didn't do so well will also, as you said, he'll come good. Yeah, he'll come good as well. For sure. Um, and then, so just guys, I want you to be aware of like Caden Marley. He started on the wing this week and I don't think he's going to be that useful. So just be very weary of that one. Um,
00:59:23
Speaker
Anybody not named Scott Baldwin in that front row, maybe Elliott Elliott, stay away from the props and really the front row unit as a whole for FRD. The props between the four of them couldn't collect 10 points a piece on average. I think one of them got 11, two got 10, one got eight.
00:59:41
Speaker
That's awful. So like it probably won't score more than like 15, 16, but that's not 15, 16 last I saw. So, you know, um, and then Mike Brown is probably an FRD only, uh, asset that I would roll out there for the quince. So that's, um, it's still not a bad asset right now. Um, but don't invest in him and TRM cause he might lose his job eventually. Yep.
01:00:03
Speaker
onto King's home, Gloucester versus Wasps. For the hosts, the front row seemed to be scoring points, even with the yellow. It's in solid a good day. It's in still had like 40 or something, something ridiculous. I don't have it up right now. But yeah, definitely someone who in FRD get their front row,
01:00:30
Speaker
in TRM, sign their individual props and hookers, because they'll get you points. Instant at 37. Fuck, not bad. Not bad. Especially with the yellow. Slator, he was my set of the week. He still got 25. So he's kind of showing up a little bit, but that's still not what you'd expect from him and not something you'd want consistently. From your lock position, when you can get guys who are normally flankers playing there.
01:01:00
Speaker
scoring tons of points. And on FRD, wait to see if he actually blows up.
01:01:09
Speaker
in the backline, Sips needs help. He also needs to help himself. So until our internationals and Ben Morgan come back, I just kind of stay away from that backline. But Thorley should be a little bit of a help. He could be available this week. Yeah. I'm assuming he will be available because he got released back. But on the other side, for the visitors, Wasp's front row, duh.
01:01:36
Speaker
But not TRM. Don't bother with any of their front rows in TRM. It's fucking weird like that. Yeah. They all kind of split points in TRM. And of course, Alfie Barbary is a front row in FRD, which boosts their points. Bam. Jimmy Goprath fucking had an amazing day in both formats, which is impressive, because even if you didn't use him as a kicker, you still got, I think, over 20.
01:02:05
Speaker
and in TRM. So showing he's worth it as a center potentially, maybe even using him as a fly half if you're going to kick, because he'll get some points anyway. All their flankers, whoever's starting a flanker, good to fucking go for it. Yeah, they've had tried to get quite a litany over there. Right. And as we talked about, same with the wingers, because Kiberge's going to go off, Bassett's going to go off. They kind of flip flop. Sometimes they both go off. Could be Marcus Watson as well.
01:02:32
Speaker
So here's a question for you, Jared, Mr. Fight Fantasy Genius. Alfie Barbary and Tom Willis, are they worth a start even when they're on the bench at this point? You know, that's a great question. Um,
01:02:53
Speaker
They're all, I will say they will always meet my bench. That's for sure in TRM. No question about that. Even like I started Tom Willis on my bench in TRM, despite the fact he was on the bench. I had no problem with that. You still got points. You still got quite a few points at that. Obviously he came in for shields early.
01:03:11
Speaker
I think it depends on what the bench looks like. If it's one of them, sure. If it's both, then you're really playing the gamble. Yeah, because even then, like you said, Willis came on earlier and then Barbary came on later. Barbary had 29 to Willis is 25.
01:03:28
Speaker
Yeah. Cause he had a few busting runs. Right. So it's fuck. Um, you know, for, for, um, FRD it's, it's full, you know, you don't have to worry about Barbary, but fuck Willis had 12 points.
01:03:42
Speaker
Um, yep. That's, that's a huge number for, uh, you know, Jack Willis had had 15 and he played the whole match. So that, that kind of gives you the perspective there. Um, yeah, I think, I think Tom is, is maybe a must start, even if he's on the bench too. Yeah. He's an FRD. He's definitely like have him have him.
01:04:02
Speaker
Cause who else would you get to start somebody who might get seven? What are you really going to do here? Yeah. What's the difference really? Don't know, man. Don't know. All right. Um, we got Bristol and Worcester, um, for the bears. Um, obviously both showed promise in both teams showed promise in the opening games, fancy wise, loads of quality options. Um, even with international as a way, as they've shown, um, Chris Vue.
01:04:30
Speaker
Gotta have him. Especially if he's going to play six a lot in FRD, a lock playing six is definitely worth it. Like, I know a sequel didn't do well this past weekend. He also played sale, which is a bastard of a team to play. So in terms of that. So just FYI, we said it before, Harry who? Harry who? Brian Byrne, definitely worth grabbing in TRM. If he's going to put 40 plus points up every week, he's definitely worth it. I don't care if he doesn't have that flanker ability, throw him in there.
01:04:58
Speaker
A guy we overlooked and didn't talk about enough, or maybe we just talked down a little too much. Henry Purdy stepped up fancy-wise in both formats this past weekend, and I think he's definitely a hang-on too for FRD. He'll get some space on the outside there. And then TRM, he might be worth it too. He's probably not super expensive, if I remember right.
01:05:20
Speaker
Yeah, he's probably around two, maybe less, maybe more, but yeah. And he's still a pup, so he's got room to like the, you know, the knock on him that we had last year was just he wasn't consistent. He wasn't scoring points. He's 204. Fuck. If he's going to score like this.
01:05:36
Speaker
You know, monitor it again at two or four. You have some wiggle room. You can wait three weeks until it gets up. If it gets to 240, it's still be kind of a bargain. They won't. But that's, you know, if he's performing well, it'll be worth it. You know what? I would set the line at 215. If he gets over 215 and he's still performing, give him a look. Yeah.
01:05:59
Speaker
Yep. Um, kind of on other side ish. Um, Pia Tao is probably still worth it. Ciali, um, only because he's now a mid. He's no longer a little says an outside back. He's, so he's okay. He's an okay player and he, and he gets, he gets it done from, from that 12 spot, which is not something we always expect. Um, but he is one of those guys that can get it down from the 12 spots.
01:06:18
Speaker
Jake Walmart is a little too owned for me in TRM. I don't love what he puts out there and the fact that they rotate through their props so often and for what he gives doesn't excite me. So that one. And then everybody is jumping on the Jake Keenan train.
01:06:34
Speaker
Be careful. This could be a one-off. I don't know because we haven't seen this from Jake Keenan before. That's the thing. This is not the type of game we've seen from him, despite him starting a few times. So be very weary of it. Grab him an FRD, especially if you need to lose forward, you got somebody that's away on international duty, so on and so forth. Cool. Roll them out there in FRD, but TRM, you got to just be very weary.
01:06:58
Speaker
Just temper your expectations, kids. For the Warriors, Ethan Waller, this is not a drill. Go get him. If he's not in your TRM team, he needs to be. Go get that guy. He's not going to get you 50 every week. No. He's going to get you 20 to 30 every week. Yeah. And as a prop, that's a lot. So go, go get that man right now. And I don't actually, I have him already. So I don't even need anybody to wait.
01:07:25
Speaker
Yeah, he was definitely, he was definitely one of the only Worcester ads I had. First of all, Venter should do fine no matter who partners him. I think he's going to be in that role for a while and he looked really good. He's a solid option in both formats.
01:07:40
Speaker
all the time. So and he doesn't go anywhere as far as international duty. So that kind of production out of a 12. It is, but he did really well. And I think there'll be down weeks, but he'll definitely have weeks like this as well. So yeah, no, not a bad ad. And Tom Bresler solid and cheap and TRM, as we've talked about any luck with a pulse and effort, he's worth it. So just give that give that man a look. On the other side, Billy Searle,
01:08:07
Speaker
Great in FRD. Terrible idea in TRM. I know he's cheap. It doesn't matter. It really does. He had 33 in TRM. Did he? Damn. That's a lot. That's a lot more than I thought he did. But you know what? That was against the Irish, so I'm not bad at it yet. But that's also with only having, what? Ultimately, one conversion and a penalty.
01:08:31
Speaker
Yeah. Cause he had a couple of breaks. No, no, two penalties, right? Cause it was 11, they scored 11. Yeah. Um, yeah. He had a couple of breaks. That's what did it for him. Okay. For sure. Um, uh, and I said it before, I'll say it again, and I wait on TRM. He's, he turned out to be a decent FRD, uh, this week. So.
01:08:47
Speaker
And I did say that last week, but, um, yeah, wait on him on TRM same for both wingers. They both play it performed very, very well this past weekend in an FRD. TRM, it was a little hit or miss. So just, yeah, they're cheap, but they're also one of those ones that's like, Oh, it's cheap. Just try it. You get what you pay for sometimes. Yeah. They're, they're, they're easy now. They look.
01:09:10
Speaker
like easy money now, but again, consider their opponent and then consider what they have been, that they will regress to their mean, which isn't this. One guy I would actually like to mention on Bristol, I'm sorry to step on your toes there, Toby Fricker.
01:09:29
Speaker
If he's starting, I would highly consider starting him in either format. Yeah, definitely a possibility. He made a big impact off the bench and for the short time he had, I think he's, you know, 1.1 points in FRD, isn't something to spit out off the bench because he had limited time to play. But he was very visible when he was playing. So somebody just to look at.
01:10:02
Speaker
versus Bath, which should be an excellent match. Oddly enough, the exact rematch of week two of last year. Although that was up at the wreck. So they won't tear up the wreck this week though. That mud. Yeah, that'll be nice. Maybe it'll last a little longer. Anyway, Yandel in the front row. The Newcastle did very, you know, front row did really well against Bath. And I think Exeter's front row are slightly better.
01:10:16
Speaker
off to Exeter.
01:10:33
Speaker
Yandl is definitely a guy to look at now with, especially with Luke, how and Dickie being called up. He might, he may play 80, so be ready for that. Sam Simmons, Joe Simmons, duh. Those are doys. Jack Monder in TRM, but not FRD. He's actually scores pretty well in TRM, but what he does does not translate it at all to FRD. So no, don't touch him there. But in TRM, he's a good ad as a backup spot starter.
01:11:01
Speaker
Whoever is 13 should score reasonably well in FRD. So go with that. And Armand still scored really well in both formats and played very well in the locks. So definitely someone don't shy away if he's playing lock.
01:11:19
Speaker
On the other side, Beth, their front row, duh. They'll still go. It doesn't matter who they got. Their backups are performing extremely well as well. Locks, same thing. They should score well versus Exeter. A lot of pick and goes, tackles to be made. Not so much maybe in FRD, but certainly in TRM, they're going to get you tackle points and line out points.
01:11:43
Speaker
Probably want to ease off on Mercer this week. Exeter shut down Don Brandt and he's slightly better than Mercer. Sad to say for Zach. Yeah, sorry, Zach, not your day. Yeah, I would not expect him. And then Cameron Medpath, just yummy. Yeah, that was really, I was really happy that he came good.
01:12:06
Speaker
Yeah. It's fun to watch him. And it's fun to have him on your team. I can attest to that. Yeah, exactly. And Scory McConaughey just puts up points. So you got to have him.
01:12:20
Speaker
He knows that he knows how to do that. That's for sure.
London Irish Return to London
01:12:23
Speaker
All right. And then to Sunday over to the brand new place at Brentford, that the exiles are going to open up here. Pretty, pretty snazzy if I didn't say so myself. Yeah. I'm sharing it with Brentford football club. It should be very, very nice spot for them. Welcome back to London, London Irish. Thanks for leaving breading for finally. I'm sure all their fans will thank them as well. They did pick up where they left off. Fantasy wise, though, they started bags of points.
01:12:49
Speaker
to Worcester players and they got some too, but they definitely started a bunch. Lester looked very improved as we talked about all their new toys doing the job. Van Vic.
01:13:02
Speaker
He knew where the trial line was with the hurricanes and then super rugby. It hasn't changed. So it's valuable formats. He didn't have it so much at the end of the last season, but he's figured it out. Took him a little time to settle down, which natural. I think it was good that he had that time. The wizard Harry Potter, you know, he's he's a name, but he's not just a name. He's worth it 100%. He's he's put up points in both formats and especially if our day like.
01:13:29
Speaker
There's so many in international outside backs away right now. You got to do it. Just do it and be done with it.
01:13:37
Speaker
He could be the eight man for the foreseeable future for this team. Um, I'd say until he's unseated, roll with him, especially if he's going to play there. Um, wait, you're saying this week that, that Harry Potter might take out Voldemort. That'd be great. That'd be okay with that. I think a lot of people would be okay with that. Zach Henry.
01:14:01
Speaker
TRM no, but FRD pretty good start. Yes. He runs. Yeah. He's a running, he's a running 10 and really an FRD. That's what you need. Um, as a 10, especially if he's not, and he hit his kicks too, fairly well, even for a drop goal that didn't quite go so well, but that's all right. Um, I, I spat shit about him, but Yoko Touta as an FRD asset is not bad at all. So go ahead and roll with him. TRM it's not as pretty. Um, and there's also a better options at center.
01:14:29
Speaker
And by the way, Tauta is available in the fantasy rugby Yanks league. The champs are the champion's league champion's league. Interesting. I think I'm over there. I think I like what I have. I think I like what I have in my midfield, but that's a good, good knowledge. And then Harry Wells, he's just not as useful as he was when he was a lock in F.R.D. And he doesn't quite bring that value to your arm either. So I'm just going to go in a big old nope salad on that one.
01:14:55
Speaker
And then for the exiles, secret sauce, um, exiles, um, Ben Donnell, he should be somebody that everybody knows by now. He played six this past weekend. He's probably going to play six for them for a little bit, especially since they're missing some guys. Um, I'd give him a moral. He's definitely worth it in TRM too. Um, fairly cheap. And he, yeah, I've been honking him since, since the, the teams, give me the, you know, team info came out. He was a guy who was like, yes, he, he scored really well last year.
01:15:25
Speaker
So I'm kind of surprising how cheap he was. Yeah. The other wing, not named Hasselkorn has been loaded. It's actually done pretty well and will do well, especially in the FRD team. But I think he's worth it in TRM as well. Rona has done pretty well on top of that. He got moved to midfielder as well.
01:15:46
Speaker
So that helped his value in FRD for sure. So yeah, give him some eyes. Either scrim half is probably an option in FRD. I'm okay with it. I don't know about TRM. It's kind of the unfortunate game about that because we talked about it with like Randall and Yaron. When Yaron's healthy, you know, it's tough to
01:16:04
Speaker
say that you want to roll them out there with TRM, but they both have found value in FRD at the very least. Meeks, he's going to come good in TRM, but you've got to wait for him. So just roll them in FRD. It's fine. You know, no big deal. And then Tom Homer, I've got to see it before I start playing him again. He's a little hairy since he's moved to Irish, back to Irish. So yeah, just kind of keep the eyes on that one just a little bit. Yeah.
01:16:34
Speaker
You want to do your start of the week? Oh, um, my start of the week. I think I got to go Akramat, Dinamura and any even a self-run route. Newcastle are vulnerable there and yeah, Sal are pretty strong. Yep. And he's a, he's a loose forward playing a hooker. So
01:17:01
Speaker
Um, yeah, my start, uh, I just talked about him. Looked pretty good in his debut this past weekend for his club. Um, looking at a really yummy matchup coming up this week here. Um, and, uh, I'm going to ride that train until proven otherwise. Jasper V's.
01:17:17
Speaker
Yeah, I'm sorry. I actually had mine and I fucking fumbled it. It's Sam Simmons. What am I fucking talking about? Attaboy. Sam Simmons is going to tear the fuck up bath. I mean, considering what? What Gary Graham did. What Gary Graham did. No, it's going to be Sam Simmons. Sorry. I had that written down and I just wasn't looking. A little hanging fruit, Attaboy. Park Ocker for another day. Park Ocker for another day. How about your sit? You got that?
01:17:46
Speaker
So the week said, yeah, same same match. And I just talked about him not a few minutes ago. Zach Mercer. Oh, yeah. I sit him the fuck down. Yeah. Tough, tough matchup. Tough day for him. Mine, he had a decent start to the fantasy season, but the guy playing this position last week.
01:18:07
Speaker
had a less than fair result. I mean, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. And I'm writing this trend until it gets back to my say of the week. His new cast is number 10, Brett Connan there. All right. Um, let's have a look at the champion's league. Um, let's start with, um,
Fantasy Rugby Standings and Insights
01:18:30
Speaker
A TRM. This is now, this is a group that's now led by the guy sitting across from me. Bends up by 11 on Carrick. It goes Carrick, Anton, Justin, Mark. Not bad, Mark, for your first go around with that one. George, myself, and Duncan. Duncan had a stinker of a week. What happened to Duncan? 429 is not bad, though.
01:18:54
Speaker
No, it's not, but compared to the rest. Yeah. Oh, he was bemoaning that that Spencer to Simmons switch. Oops. I picked I picked Spencer as well. So yeah, that's what. Yeah.
01:19:07
Speaker
Yeah. Dom Brant killed everybody. So that's not news. Uh-huh. That's not news at all. No, I mean, really that's what it came down to for him. I was fortunate. I was fortunate that I went from some Simmons to Mercer. So I still got 60 out of the deal. That's not bad. Right. It was so I'm sorry. I was, I was looking at Willis. I Simmons wasn't, I thought Simmons was going to, um,
01:19:27
Speaker
you know, have a little bit of rust to bang off, especially after the double and all that. A lot of people didn't. Right. But fucking goes to show. So I'm not making that mistake again. This is the second time I've doubted Simmons and both times to come away with a hat trick. I think after Jesus. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I was fortunate enough to pick Mercer, which which gave me huge points. And I obviously hit with Waller and Willis to those guys, the three of them put me over the top end of my bench.
01:19:57
Speaker
don't sleep on the bench players. Don't just grab a shitty player and throw them there. Get some quality players on that bench. Like, you know, yeah, it sucks. I didn't have Vui or Dupree in my team. I could have put them both at lock and said I had Dom Britton and Luis. Yeah, I had one too many quince players as well. But getting all them, getting all their points in the reserve, 16 and 19 points in reserve is nothing like that. That helps.
01:20:21
Speaker
That's a good, that's a kind of a disappointing starter. So that's, it's helpful. It helps so much more than, you know, I had got breath on my bench. He got me five like that. Don't bother if got breath on your bed. Start him or you, or you don't play. If you can help it. Cause you're not going to get points from his kicking. Um, so that was a tactical mistake on my, on my end.
01:20:41
Speaker
Yeah. And then let's go to FRD scores for the week in the champions league where Mark beat Duncan, Anton beat Justin. Carrick was able to just nudged. And then I was able to, I kind of smashed. I think I doubled George.
01:21:05
Speaker
Yikes. That'd be for George. What happened to George? Oh, I see where things went really wrong. Yeah.
01:21:14
Speaker
He had almost, yeah, he had almost minus two from John Ross. Henry Taylor didn't do a damn thing. And Ollie Woodburn, Ollie Woodburn didn't do a fucking thing either. Oh, and he started, oh, and he started Tom Hendrickson, but you know why? Because of the FRD blow up on Friday. That's why. Right. Right. That's what bit him. That's what bit him. And as much as I bemoaned about FRDs blow up on Friday, I went four and oh.
01:21:38
Speaker
I want to win three as much as I was like, I got my shit done. Like I was kind of, I was taunting. I think I sent the, uh, yeah, the, uh, tick tock gift to the lead chat. Cause I was like, guys, I I'm all set. I'm good. And no, I was, I, you know, I was done, but I wasn't good.
01:21:56
Speaker
No, you were not good. I had Sam Simmons that helped. Malcolm spanked me. I had in our one league, I had Sam where I have Simmons. He went off, obviously he did his thing. And I think Carrick said at some point it was like, that's a 99% win. Yeah, you were the 1%. I was less than 1% to get snotted because Malcolm just rolled me.
01:22:19
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I had, I mean, as much as Sam Simmons will do it to you. I had Danelle with 10. I had Gloucester front row with 15 and a half, 15.7. I had Henry Purdy with 15.8 and I had very mcconnie. He was 16.1. Yeah. We're mcconnie. He didn't score either. So that's pretty good. Um, sign me up all day for that. Um, yeah. So it'll be an interesting week. And I got host by, by Danny care.
01:22:44
Speaker
Um, he had a bad day eating a Dick and then, um, honestly, George Furbank going out like, what, seven minutes, seven minutes. And that did not help at all. Didn't help me. So just, just some, some poor scores there. Although everybody else kind of did what I, what I expected. So, you know, a little bit of, and I only lost by four. So a little bit of difference there and, uh, and things go my way.
01:23:06
Speaker
And this week we have, I'm taking on Carrick, George and Bennett going against each other. Duncan and Anton are matching up and then Mark and Justin are going at it. So we have a couple of, we have one matchup of two undefeateds already. Not that that says a whole lot because we won't be in, but you know. So we'll see how that goes. Should be fun.
01:23:31
Speaker
And then obviously next week, next week we're going to draw the Champions Cup FRD league for order and conferences. And we will draft next Saturday as well. And yes, Ben and I will likely be doing a live show then. As you'd expect, people like those. I don't know why.
01:23:52
Speaker
I like them. I like doing them. I like doing them, but I don't know why people like them. Usually there are more popular downloads for the year, but Bisa should have many people. Hey, I mean, we'll talk. Maybe you want to talk about what not to do. Right. Well, hey, yeah, that's exactly what it is. It's learn from our mistakes or hear what we have to say, hear our analysis, why we thought this was the right move.
01:24:14
Speaker
or what we, you know, pissed about what we were obviously trying to do. Yeah. Of course, George helps too. Just because we told George that I wanted the bath front row and he swoops in and hey, yeah, we open your mouth. Dumb, dumb. Oh man. All right. We'll see how this goes. Let's go to pick them. We were dead even. Thank you very much. Worcester, you assholes.
01:24:38
Speaker
Let's start with Kingston, oof, sorry, sale, Newcastle sale. Yeah, oh, sale, absolutely. No question. Oh, man. Northampton and Quinn's. Taking the hosts. Yeah, I am too. I was leaning that way. I thought they looked improved. They did. Against sale. Against sale too. And that's a tough outfit, yeah. Exactly. Here's the thing, they put up 23 against sale.
01:25:06
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Like forget that they lost so much because sale put up sale. Like as we talked about played really fucking good rugby, um, and scored a lot of points. Saints did that against that defense. Um, there's, there's a lot, there's a lot to like about what saints did. Hopefully maybe they figured it out. So I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt. Turn the corner as it were.
Rugby Match Predictions
01:25:29
Speaker
Um, Gloucester and wasps. I got to see it from Gloucester before. So I'm taking wasps. I couldn't, couldn't have said it better myself.
01:25:36
Speaker
Yeah. Skivington's got something to figure out with that club. Bristol and Worcester. I'm going to go with Bristol. I know Worcester looked a little bit better, but Bristol looked really good in the loss. Yeah, there's, there's no, it was just so much better than Worcester and Bristol again, like she said, looked really good. So, uh, and, and Worcester did not know Bristol, especially their, their host. Yeah. Exeter and bath. I'm going to go with the chiefs. Yeah.
01:26:04
Speaker
No question. And then, um, geez, am I about to do this? London, Irish and lesser. Am I going to pick on the tigers? I'm doing tigers. Shit. Hello. Lester. I'm taking Lester. Cause I know Steve. Yeah. And the Safas.
01:26:21
Speaker
Yeah, that's helped him for sure. So annoying, they're good. I know. That's all right. The old heads are going away. Like what's the case is gone now. The not Cole, but the other one, the frigging other stupid fat prop that was kind of a juice head. But yeah, anyway, moving on. If Mike Ford gets fired, that'll make my day dance gone. That's the one. Yeah, David's gone. If Mike Ford gets fired, I'll dance. Cole still has no neck.
01:26:51
Speaker
I know. He's missing a few other things. You know what? We learned the trick. If you want to go no neck, if that's the body you were born with, be a cammy shat. That's true. Wear it. Get your hair long. It frames your head. It makes you look like a human being as opposed to whatever the fuck that is. He's missing some hair up there.
01:27:18
Speaker
All right, let's go international scene. We'll go down to the Southern Hemisphere first. Yeah, same. They're going to be so pissed. They're going to be out for a while. And Argentina could be missing Matera, so. Yeah, what I need to do is not go on the Twitters on Saturday morning. Yeah, same. Watch the fucking match. Same. Same, same, same.
01:27:44
Speaker
Let's go to the automations. Well, England, I mean, England, right? Cause Wales struggled with Georgia. I know they named it a depowered lineup, but still they struggled with Georgia. Like, come on, that's bad. But yeah, it's a depowered lineup. That still means you play fucking rugby and it still means you open it up and not just like,
01:28:04
Speaker
I don't understand why these teams feel like they have to beat Georgia at their own game. Just play your fucking game. Yeah, you don't. Like, what are you doing? You're just trying to prove a point? Like, stop. Just play your game and stop being dumb.
Coaching Criticism During World Cup
01:28:15
Speaker
I will say any, I will say this, and you know, this is in the reference to the likes of Peaback and Fozzie.
01:28:22
Speaker
Anybody that's calling for an international coach's head in one of a World Cup cycle, wake the fuck up. Yes, it's disappointing your team's doing poorly. Isn't the ultimate goal to win the World Cup? Yeah. Like Eddie had a really bad year, if I'm not mistaken. I think it was year two. They were awful.
01:28:43
Speaker
And they got to the final. And whales are still without they're still even when they're at full power. I mean, look, they're they have Chris Harrison, who's who's not bad. I'm like, you know, I'm not going to knock him. He's a very solid player when you when you use him. Right. But only when you use him. Right. You think it's going. Oh, fuck. You need Tom there. I'm thinking with whom I think of with whales that they're playing over fucking Tomo unless you use. Yeah, Davies like.
01:29:12
Speaker
Davies on them is the other one. There's a couple others. Either way, where the fuck is Tomo? Yeah, that's my question. Like if all the guy does is fucking score points, fucking use him. So I think, you know, maybe he's hurt. I'm not sure. It's me.
01:29:30
Speaker
But, you know, that that's the only question mark I have for feedback right now is what is his selections, not so much their performance because they're performing about as well as I would expect that team that he's named to perform.
01:29:45
Speaker
but I don't know why he's naming not his best team. Cause again, and you know, yeah. Yeah. And then the last two, the last two, I won't, I won't even make us France, Ireland, over, over Italy and Georgia. Yeah. France and Ireland, over Italy and Georgia. Yeah. There's going to be ugly as much as ugly as they may be. That's probably going to be the results.
01:30:08
Speaker
All right. Well, we're going to be tied going into the next week, too. So, yeah, it's so lovely. We've had those weeks before. It's all right. Champions Cup is going to make it fun because there's going to be a lot of separation that comes from those weeks. I bet. I know we're only going to have four of them, but it's still going to be fun. So there'll be some separation there. OK, this was fun.
01:30:29
Speaker
Yeah, but until next week, enjoy the ruggers. There's going to be plenty of it. Our American friends, happy Thanksgiving. Be safe. Don't be stupid. Enjoy your time. Make sure you're smart afterwards. Yeah, please. The next couple of weeks. You're okay, potentially, like Jared and I are being smart about Thanksgiving.
01:30:52
Speaker
My mom is having it. It's just, again, just the two couples, my, me and my wife, my mom and stepdad. We've been quarantining for two weeks and more before this. So we're, we're good. Um, be smart after it because there's going to be so, did you see the fucking videos of the plane planes that are in the air? Yeah, yeah. And then, um, I think Canada's numbers really had a nasty spike after their Thanksgiving. That's Canadian Thanksgiving, which isn't.
01:31:22
Speaker
nearly what American Thanksgiving is. No disrespect to Canada. It's just not what we do. It's not the same as what we do here. Fuck. And then Christmas is going to be another one. This is going to be a hard, tough month here. A few months for the U.S. So guys in this country, especially places where it's big, which is fucking everywhere now, just be safe and smart.
01:31:48
Speaker
Yep, please be smart guys. Other than that, we'll catch you guys next week. Enjoy the Rutgers. Pick that FRD draft next week is gonna be so much fun. Other than that, we'll talk to you guys next week. Have a good one later.