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Season 4- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Premiership Week 6 Preview)
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It's the fantasy advice you've been seeking, well certainly if you're bothering to listen to us. This week on the fantasy corner we dig into some potential replacements for players that will be leaving on international duty for a couple weeks, position by position. We also give out rankings to 10 of the most likely players to be captained (likely missed a few, did our best). As always, we recap the happenings in CYL and do our favorite thing, Start/Sit. Get the notepad ready and tune in!
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Introduction and Welcome
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody. Welcome back. This is a fancy rugby game. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Guff. Welcome in. It's fantasy time. Let's do it. We got a few things to talk about going on in the fantasy universe. I'm looking forward to it. I'm cracking another one because I can. I'm still on my first. I'm good. That's all right. I'm on my second bowl, so it doesn't matter. I'm a consenting adult.
00:00:34
Speaker
Get yourself a, get George a coffee.
Supporters and TRM Success Stories
00:00:37
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Because as always, if you're listening to us, you should be listening to him too. Because he's definitely worth it. Or a beer, however you want to phrase it.
00:00:47
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Make sure you grab your TRM upgrades to help the restart rugby. Again, not a great organization that just needs to be have a bigger reach. And the one way that's going to happen is if they get a little more coin in the pocket and you get something cool, cool back with all the TRM upgrades. So that's cool. Right. And then don't forget about our Patreon. Thank you once again to Alex and Duncan. We appreciate it very much. I hope you're getting good shit from it.
00:01:11
Speaker
Yeah. We, we hope that's what you Duncan. Yeah. Listen, first we can talk about it. All right. But on that, but yeah, it sounds like Alex is doing really good in his, um, this is his first season in TRM and he's doing pretty well. So hopefully we can keep him there with a little bit of help. Um, so yeah, we appreciate that. Don't forget yourself. You guys can get it too. Just go sign up. Right. It's $5 a month. You spend that on beer easily.
00:01:39
Speaker
And it'll help you with, you know, talking trash. Yeah. So if you want to avoid a, um, avoid a really nasty forefront amongst your friends, maybe, um, maybe do that right. Five bucks a month. I think it'll be totally worth not being embarrassed. Right. And it's again, stats. You won't, it's a little bit of a analytics. You won't get elsewhere.
Fantasy Rugby Analytics and Player Performance
00:01:57
Speaker
Yeah. I call it Frankenstein.
00:01:59
Speaker
There's a lot to it. Both player and team information that when combined can be used very nicely for evil purposes of winning fantasy rugby. With your powers combined. Oh, sorry, that's not this. Let's look at a TRM week recap. First of all, Champion H1.
00:02:27
Speaker
And movement was minimum, to say the least.
00:02:32
Speaker
Yeah. Duncan and Justin switched spots and myself and Anton switched spots. Anton is on the struggle bus, unfortunately. He is. Yeah, that was an unfortunate weekend for him. Liebenberg, the only luster player who like didn't score. Yeah, his card did not help at all. Right. And he had to play Baron Jens van Rensberg at 10. So yeah, he was not.
00:03:02
Speaker
He was hurting. Right. It would have worked better if he'd played continent at 10, um, and, and brought cross-dale in, but oof, that's harsh. Yep. That's a, that's a rough one. Yeah.
00:03:17
Speaker
is a rough
Player and Team Challenges
00:03:18
Speaker
one. So the standings don't change have a whole lot of changes them as nobody was shocked about been still on top by good 100 points or so 90 points. Yeah, I dropped 40 this weekend. So yeah, you said that. Yeah, I went big. I decided I'm still so mad about the the lack of the line out reception. Yeah, but we know that TRM is problem now at least.
00:03:42
Speaker
Well, it kind of is. It's annoying. We're not getting points. It's annoying, but it's not something that they can control. Right. They have no control. Optin needs to sort that shit out because that's, you know, if you're going to offer that service, then fucking get it right. Yeah, get it right. You dingleberries. So yeah, Ben's on, Ben's on top. Duncan has now moved up to second. Justin, Carrick.
00:04:05
Speaker
George, Mark, myself has finally climbed out of the basement and Anton has switched places with me. Although there's only a 13 point difference or 14 point difference there. Not by much. So one good week gets you out.
Division Two Highlights and Recap
00:04:18
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Let's go to division two.
00:04:21
Speaker
I imagine there's a little bit of movement in that one as well. Maybe a little bit more movement, I should say. Yep, Franco has unseated John at the top. So there we go with that one. Terry has climbed up a little bit. He jumped ahead of Liano and the bottom half, the bottom three did not change a wink. Larry, Yuri, and Bob are your bottom three going in reverse order there.
00:04:44
Speaker
So yeah, it's, um, it's getting competitive. It looks like, uh, let's see, there's three guys over 2000. Everybody else is under it.
00:04:53
Speaker
Larry is not doing us justice, although last week was actually quite good. He had 410. Okay, good. So that's not bad. So he's not doing the Mercs any good here. Right. I think I just realized that this week was the first week so far in TRM that I have not been the top scorer in the Champions League.
Match Reviews and Player Standouts
00:05:16
Speaker
So I'm kind of sad about that. Don't have the answer for that one.
00:05:21
Speaker
I was there. It was always going to end someday. Yeah. Eventually when you guys, how many, you get 20 odd weeks in this thing. You're not going to get them all. It's just life, man. Um, FRW action, uh, Anton took down Justin.
00:05:37
Speaker
Mark beat up on, uh, Carrick fricking max mail-ins just cost me a huge, every time I was excited, he scored. I was like, yeah, Duncan has him as his captain. Oh, captain too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I lost to that one. And then you and George in a fricking knockout drag out 80 to 92, maybe the one of you deserve to lose that one. No, he had like in the seventies and I was like, good. He won't, you know, I think I looked through his team and then Mickey'd have,
00:06:06
Speaker
much in the way of scoring, but I think he had Montoya. And there you go.
Captain and Player Rankings
00:06:10
Speaker
No, I had Montoya. He had I can't remember. He had somebody who just kept fucking scoring and it pissed me off. Let's see. He had who was the big one on his on his team here? He had Nadello and he kept it. Right. Right. Captain Nadello. That was what that was. What? Really? That was a big one. That was it. Yeah. And he had shields and shields had a good day and Creevy. Yeah. Oh, Creevy. That's who it was. Creevy.
00:06:34
Speaker
creepy had a huge day. Creepy kept scoring and it was like, God damn it. You overcome, you overcame a couple of negatives too. Can I have had negative pepper and had negative negatives on your side? Yeah. Nicky poor Nicky. Yeah. He's rough. It's rough on him with it when the toji comes back. Yeah, it is. He's no longer that focus of attention that usually is when he's not, when, when, uh,
00:06:58
Speaker
Tomorrow's away. Well, so it goes, man. So let's have a look at this week. And we already know one, one matchup. Ben and I do two guesses as to what that is. Carrick and Anton will do battle. It's Justin and Duncan, Mark and George. And of course, Ben gets to kick my ass once again here. Here's your dollar. Maybe he'll get the first one up against you. If you're, if I'm the first, if you're my first one, I'm going to fucking laugh.
00:07:26
Speaker
I will probably laugh too. And Farrell will still be disappointed in my team. Yeah, I like that. I do like that icon. Oh, shit. Okay. Let's talk about a couple of things, fantasy-wise, that are going to be coming up. So we know... Let's go with the first one, which is captain's rankings.
00:07:51
Speaker
is huge in TRM, is a difference maker. And we saw the difference between somebody captaining, you know, Ellis Ganesh who did really well week one and somebody who, you know, basically anybody else at that point. So there's a few names that are out there.
00:08:11
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that I think you'll see more often than not, Captain,
Fantasy Rugby Strategy and Tips
00:08:14
Speaker
assuming they start. And so, as far as these, so I got 10 names here for you. See if we can sort them out. Maybe you can go who goes to the bottom and who goes to the top and work our way in the middle.
00:08:29
Speaker
I'll rattle them off and then we'll go at one at a time. Gens, Dombrandt, Creeby, Sam Simmons, Tom Willis, Lina, Dolly Quirk, Maylans, and Marrow. So those are probably going to be some of your more often captain players. Right. So those are falling hard for Dolly as well. So if Dolly equals Montoya as well. Although at this point, I don't know that we can... I wouldn't captain either. They'd be immediately moving to the last because they're not going to get the 60-point bonus probably because, fuck, you can't. 60-minute bonus, yeah.
00:08:59
Speaker
Right. That's what I mean. Sorry. Just a minute. Um, because why wouldn't, you know, have the starter play 50 55 and then bring on a fucking excellent hooker for 20 to 25, you know, 25, 30 minutes. Yes, please. Like, yeah, that's not, um, you're sticking, you're sticking Dolly slash Montoya last. Yeah. For now. So that leaves Genj Dombrandt, Gus Simmons, Willis, Lina, Quirk, Malins and Maro.
00:09:29
Speaker
So the forwards all go up, although mail-ins it's hard to not, it depends on their lineup. That's the thing. Mail-ins is lineup dependent. So he kind of moves down to the bottom. He's probably my nine. Creepy. Let me, let me take a look at creepy a second. I hadn't, I, he's not in consideration for me. It's one of the top point scores. And yeah, he is. Let me, let me get to the, I want to see what his,
00:09:58
Speaker
Um, numbers. Yeah. Yep. Nope. Using the information I have compiled because I just hadn't really, again, me personally, this, this week, speaking on creepy, I have Gus is my number two over this week. And yeah, that's behind Matt of AC. And that's not, yeah, that's no, no question. Creepy has been, been excellent. Um,
00:10:24
Speaker
It's more that, yeah, I mean, he has, yeah, he's only scored once under 20. So yeah, then yes, he's up there. I just don't know, but he's also capped out at 45. That's the other thing. There might be a ceiling there for him. Whereas like, shit.
00:10:42
Speaker
Dom Brandt's hit 70. And Genj has hit in the 50s. He's hit 50, 43, 58, shit. He's a guy who you can consider will score you
00:10:58
Speaker
Almost at least 30. I mean, his lowest is 20 points now. And it was this past week, um, where they took him out early because they were just blowing out the other team. They were like, yeah, we're not going to get you hurt. You're coming off. So they were playing too well for him to continue playing and scoring. Um, that's really the, the, the risk there with Genge, um, and going away.
00:11:17
Speaker
Willis has got to be up there. Willis has to be up there. It's hard to create our tiers, but he's in my top tier of them, like top three or four. Because you got Gens, Dom, Brant, Simmons, Itoji, Willis. I think those would be my top five. Right there. If you're captaining any one of them,
00:11:43
Speaker
You're doing all right. You're not, you're probably, you'll probably make a good, it's a good decision either way likely. Right. Yeah. And that's definitely the thing. You don't want to make the absolute wrong decision either. Like, you know, I didn't captain, um, Dom the other week when you get 70 and obviously we're all kicking ourselves that didn't, but you know, I still, I think I still captain Willis, he got like 24, 25. So it could have been worse. Right. And I guess you've got,
00:12:10
Speaker
You got somewhere in the neighborhood as well. Right? Like I could, again, she got 43. And so captain and him got me 86 points. So it's like, okay, I got one guy with 86, the other guy with 76. I'm not, I'm all right. Cool. Yeah. Not mad about it. No. Yeah. All right. So, so with those, with those five in order there of these three order, um, Gus line, uh, quarter. Um,
00:12:37
Speaker
I think that was it. Actually, I think I would go Gus line of mail-in's quirk. Okay. Um, just cause I scrum heifer can be, uh, that can, that's two hit and miss. Cause it takes one, you know, one team that just decides to shut them down and, and make the, especially for sale, if some, some defense is going to come to their, their, their, the correct conclusion that they don't really.
00:13:02
Speaker
Distribute well, and once you get it past the 10, they're no threat at all. Unless you overcommit and all that, yeah. Someone's going to figure out that really all they have to do is shut down Quirky, and that just kills the rest of their attack. And then at that point, he's going to be done. The rest can make their own points. You know, Malon says, yes, he's always going to have someone good running with him. He'll score. Lina, yes, he'll always have a fly half. He will always have a fucking world-class fly half. Yes.
00:13:31
Speaker
Right, he's got a couple of minutes disposal right now, so. With the line out wins and the running and the tries, you always want to find a player that's on a team that's mauling well and the Irish are mauling well, so.
00:13:46
Speaker
Correct. That is true. Okay. So our, our winners are our top 10 look like Genj Dom Simmons, a Toge Willis, Gus, Lina, max mailings, raffy quirk, and Nick Dali only for the fact that Nick Dali has another really good hooker sitting behind him. So as good as it is for Lester, it's a bad thing for Nick Dali.
00:14:12
Speaker
And once the once autumn internationals are over, it's Marcus Smith is up there and up there very high, right? Right, right, right. Yeah, we'll wait for that to happen. But yeah, go get to make sure that one, he doesn't break into right to and then, you know, he's obviously not going to be too battered, just the same. Even even if he doesn't break, he might be a little gassed. Right. Also not also not. Yeah. Oh, no, it's not going to be like right away. You're going to wait like a week or two.
00:14:41
Speaker
and then slot him in there and don't worry about it. Okay, so we have some big names here that are going to be missing time and it's going to be all about who's going to replace it.
Dealing with Player Absences and Replacements
00:14:56
Speaker
Let's throw out a couple of names, a name or two that's going to miss. And then we'll think of some ideas that maybe might help you out there. Um, hopefully you have them on your team already. So again, just going to be away for all money. He's probably going to start for England. Um, so he's going to, he's going to be away. So you need another prop and you need, and you know, it doesn't have to be a loose head. It just needs to be another prop. Right. Makes it very easy. Is Dan Cole now the answer, like you can just trade out one tiger for the other. Okay. Nope.
00:15:25
Speaker
OK, Cole is not that good. It's been better, but he's been he's been all right. But even this past week, he had eight points. He hasn't cracked 20 yet. So no, he's not your guy. Your guy is especially because you're going to lose some, especially for the internationals, you're going to lose some here or there. You're going to want to pick up Wilco Lowe, who did not make the.
00:15:53
Speaker
So he's back at Harlequins and he'll be scoring points. He actually fucking started too. He will. I'm sure he will. So yeah, once he's in, he should be in. He should be in your team. Right. At the hook position, there's going to be
00:16:11
Speaker
two big names that are highly owned right now that I got to miss time. And that's Mattivacy and Nick Dolly. Mattivacy has been picked for Fiji. He's probably going to be one of the better players, honestly. And then Nick Dolly is going to miss a little bit of time likely even if he doesn't start for England. So with I mean, but there are so many good position guys to go back into and
00:16:33
Speaker
If you need somebody cheap, the guy that I'm staring a hole through right now is Tom Wilson Croft. I was just going to say Tom Woolley. Absolutely. He's your guy. Um, it's a like for like replacement. It's especially that it makes it so easy to, to, to, um, switch in and out, you know, you don't have to worry about, Oh, do I go to clear salary or anything? Um,
00:16:53
Speaker
Yeah, Wilson Crofter, man. Yeah, he'll be less. He'll be less than what you probably paid. So right. And he'll make he'll make he'll make you some cash. He'll he'll grow your investment there. Right. As opposed to some of the other guys who might not. Yes, definitely. Guys that I personally love to play or love seeing when he's when they're in are guys like
00:17:19
Speaker
Maro Toge and Sam Skinner, lots of lock options, really, like, you can pick the lot and there's plenty to go, you know, for features, obviously, an expensive error one, but even Harry Wells is not that expensive anymore.
00:17:34
Speaker
Oh, he's dirt cheap and he's scoring well. I mean, he disappointed because of, again, the line-out situation, because he's there, one of their guys to go grab them. But he even still got 23 this weekend, so I'll take it. It wasn't what I wanted, but I'll take it. Yeah. And then we talked about a guy that doesn't do well when he's
00:17:55
Speaker
got his buddy in there, but when he doesn't, he's great. And that's Nick Asiqui, like for like as well at series. So another guy that you can probably keep on your radar for the international window here. Here's a surprise, a real surprise who it might not be fit. And it's not fair, because it's another Quinn. So you might not have room for him anyway. Do you know lamb? Quite good.
00:18:19
Speaker
Under 150 right now. Yeah, and he has scored 39 24 28 in the last three matches He's playing stuff in the Beast's role right now, right? And that's exactly what it is and he's playing it very well. Yeah Yeah, that's not fair Great it's really not fair
00:18:37
Speaker
Damn it. I need, it didn't need to be another Quinn. I already got a bunch. Although I think I might be ditching one of them this week. So we'll say, um, back row, you know, not a lot's going to be lost in terms of the big score is at the back row. Um, early flank at the very least. Yeah. Tom Willis, I'm at eight and Ben Earl at flank, um, girls finally come around too bad. I dropped them, but whatever, um, I'll get over it. I stuck. Uh,
00:19:07
Speaker
Curry, who scores well, despite what we think, you know, despite our opinions of him, he still scores. Well, because he does the turnovers alone. Yeah, that's every that you get so many points for that. So yes, you do. So that there's that. And then, you know, obviously, eight man, Sam Simmons, Don Brent will be away. Tom Willis is an obvious replacement, but there's one cheaper option out there that I hope people keep their eye on. And he plays up in Kingston Park and his name's Carl Ferns.
00:19:36
Speaker
He's actually pretty good and he's not too expensive. He's doing very good. So yeah, just turn your eye towards the tune every once in a while and they'll usually give you something decent. So there's that half back. Alex Mitchell wasn't on the team. He's one of my favorites. So I'm not, I'm not mad about that. I actually, one of my, somebody for to pick up him this week.
00:19:59
Speaker
I think I might, too, because I think I'm not sure that Alan Davies is going to be the runner that I thought he would know. Yeah, same. He's as far as this week goes itself out of 10 from half. He's 10th for me this week. So that's that's what that is that. Yeah. Well, yeah. And, you know,
00:20:19
Speaker
Even with that, it's Alex Mitchell. Jack Maunder's not that bad. And I don't want to say that that loud because I feel like I'm going to put the X on the kid, but he's actually been pretty good. A bar last week, last week was not good. But really since he's since the start of the season, he's actually been very serviceable at a not bad price. You know, I got a plug bin light.
00:20:39
Speaker
Yeah, I know. We need Nick Phipps to go away sometime soon here. Phipps, go find yourself in the ocean somewhere or something. Ben White scored, what, 19 from the bench? 17. 17, sorry. Yep, close. Still good. Still good from the bench.
00:20:56
Speaker
Right. I mean, that's that's and he's done that before. I think he got 20 from the bench before. So he's just tearing up points whether or not he he starts. So he's a guy who and he's only one. He's like 170 170 maybe somebody somebody to stick on on your bench for when he plays. Right. I agree. I agree that whole hardly.
00:21:18
Speaker
Fly half is another one. Uh, Marcus Smith, obviously gone. Adam Hastings gone. Feral will be gone. Um, there's a guy that plays at Franklin's gardens. That's going to replace somebody else that's going to leave too. And his name's James Grayson. He's usually pretty good when he gets rolled out there. So he's not expensive. He's on my team. Um, I, I, um, 157 or so. And it's like, yeah, I'll, I'll take it because he might, you know, cause they might, um, you know, want to give,
00:21:46
Speaker
Because he keeps getting a knock, too. Every time he plays, he starts limping. He's Roethlisbergian out there. So eventually, Grayson's going to get a look, too, just because they're going to want to rest bigger, even when it's not an international window. So yeah, definitely somebody to have.
00:22:05
Speaker
Yeah. And I will say Chris Boyd's usually somebody who, even though they don't have to rest guys that don't play for anyone, Chris Boyd's usually want to listen to his guys and ask him,
Player Rotation and Position Strategies
00:22:15
Speaker
do you want to play? Do you not? If the answer is no, he doesn't play him. So he's very good at that. So to his credit. And at this point, might as well keep, because I also have George Ford.
00:22:28
Speaker
Yeah, keep them, keep them, keep riding them. And I'm hoping A.J. eventually isn't broken. At the midfield, we're going to be missing Slade and Marshawn, who are obviously two big scores. And midfield's really hard to find good scores consistently. Esther Hazen is definitely top of the lot right now for guys that aren't going to be playing.
00:22:52
Speaker
I like Dingwall. I think he's going to be fine. Jomo. Jomo's going to be great. Yep. He's not hurt. Proctor's banged up. We'll see. Okay. Or was he suspended? Now that you mentioned it, I can't remember what he was. Yeah, he's banged up. Okay. So we'll see. And then with Farrow going away, Lozowski is also somebody to consider as well because he's eligible at center. So when he plays 10 and has the T, scores well.
00:23:21
Speaker
So that's something that's a guy to consider in the midfield. Not Alex Goode, not when he's at 10. No, no, no, no. That is not his bread and butter by any means whatsoever. We're going to see some other guys leave out wide on the wing. The big one being Adam Radlan, obviously. Plenty of guys to fill that spot. Linus obviously not gotten the phone call. So he's a thumbs up. Well, near Harry Potter.
00:23:48
Speaker
as well. The dollar's not as expensive as I thought he was, and he's center eligible, so that might be something to consider as well. I'm trying to figure out what maintenance I want to do with my team this week, and then swapping out Rona for Nadolo might be on the list, because especially a forward is sticking around.
00:24:11
Speaker
There's a lot of continuity there. Yeah. Right. So, yeah, I'm hopeful. Yeah. I'm hard, I'd be hard pressed not to do that. I think Ali Crossdale will be good when he comes, when he comes, finally get to fucking another start. Like, right. We saw the goodness that was in him. And for whatever reason, Lee Blackett has gone away from it. I have no idea why.
00:24:33
Speaker
And then, uh, green is still, he should be like, I, for bank was great. He should be your fullback. Him and Tom partner should be wanting to, no question. No question about that. And I still have will mirror too, who, um, yeah, one year, definitely not, you know, nothing he's, he's had, but he had, I mean, everybody has a down week when they play Saracens. Um, still got 16, which isn't bad. So.
00:24:59
Speaker
Yeah, I think if they finally pull their heads from betwixt their cheeks over there at the wreck, we'll storm the castle
Injuries and Management Strategies
00:25:07
Speaker
there. Yeah, and with Rory, it sucks that Watson is hurt. We didn't mention that earlier. Yeah, no. I'd love to Anthony Watson for another injury. Lesson for you all, if you haven't, we've talked about this before. If somebody walks off the field after an NCI, it means jack shit, okay? If it's a non-contact injury,
00:25:26
Speaker
they walk off the field, it doesn't mean a frickin' thing. Right. Can confirm. You've never done that. Seen it. Not only did I walk off the field, I carried my kit bag, I carried the chair bag, and probably a couple things of water and a beer. And I still
00:25:47
Speaker
Yeah. Hey, look at that. You tore your ACL. Zero ACL. So it doesn't mean anything. No, it doesn't mean a fricking thing, kids. What matters is that it was a non-contact injury and he's out. That's it. He's probably gone. I think it's helpful that he's, because he's walking, I'm like, it doesn't mean a fucking thing, man. It really doesn't. I'm sorry. Sorry to burst your bubble. It doesn't mean a damn thing. Oh shit. Okay. Oh yeah. That really fun thing we like to do called start set.
00:26:16
Speaker
Can I start? Yeah, better up. Northampton versus Wooster. Do you remember the Leicester-Wooster match from this past weekend?
00:26:31
Speaker
Yeah. So Worcester are the worst fantasy defense. They're giving up 60 points per game more than the 12th place defense, which is Gloucester. So across the board, that's like four points per position.
00:26:48
Speaker
Oh, well, I guess with the 23, so three points per position, whatever. The 10th or worse by position group, except to props, which really doesn't matter here because Northampton don't have props that you're going to start. No. But everyone else's is probably a full go. The Saints, on the other hand, are the best fantasy defense overall. Their only weaknesses are lock and scrum half where they're sixth in the prem and wing where they're ninth.
00:27:11
Speaker
They're number one versus a fly half, which is a dramatic change because they've been by far the worst fantasy defense versus fly house for the past couple of years. Yeah, they've been easy, easy pickings. Right. So no longer the case for the Saints. So again, stay away from the props.
00:27:28
Speaker
And really only ribbons at lock the back row. I'm not a huge fan just because of the cost to points ratio, but everyone on the whole back line is to go. Um, or what starts kind of the opposite. Uh, Sam Lewis, I think would be good if you try to kind of store on your, on your bench, if you have them on your team, um, Justin Clegg should score well at lock cause especially if they do line out stuff, um, this week, they decided to give us points for that, but, um, he's also been tackling a lot and doing a lot of work that's getting him, uh,
Player and Team Performance Analysis
00:27:58
Speaker
Quality points that will translate in it regardless of the team he's playing against. Uh, Kovacik and Heinz kind of go for it. And other than that, Milani Nanai is the only one I'd look for. He's the only last one who's averaging over 20 points per start.
00:28:12
Speaker
No, they're not. They're not scoring well. Oh, Wolster, I think are also the worst attack. So that would make a lot of sense then. Yeah. What's your back there? The like you saw this past week and they really miss both Heinz and Williams. All right.
00:28:30
Speaker
Gloucester and Newcastle. This is going to be played at King's home, so bad news for Newcastle. They aren't great away from home sometimes, more often than not, for the Sherry and White. Ben Meehan, don't mind him at all. Not a bad price. His last four games have been 25, 26, 33, and 26. Newcastle are 9th against Scrumhafs. There you go. Yeah, there's that.
00:28:56
Speaker
Chris Harris, another one, not a bad price, scored well in the limited action that he's having. And Newcastle are 11th against centers. So, yeah, there's another one. I love Chris Harris as a player too, just the same. We've hammered the drum against this guy.
00:29:13
Speaker
God, if it's not clear, Johnny May, I can't not recommend this guy enough. He has one good match this year, and Newcastle are actually pretty tough against Wings. They're fourth. Sit him, get rid of him if you can. Won't be worth holding him over the international period, so just...
00:29:30
Speaker
But no, should not be on it. How much I wonder what he how much he's got a decent ownership percentage, if I remember right, which is ridiculous. Yeah, whatever. Everybody else has lost points for me. Right. For the team, Newcastle, Trevor Davidson, not been great so far, but lost our dead last first props. And he's probably their best scorer at the position. So if you have him and he starts rolling out there,
00:29:56
Speaker
um gmail blue mire if the tune decided to roll him out after his england call-up he scores well when he plays so and glosser middle of the packer against hooks so give him a thumbs up um calum chick i was banging the drum for him earlier i don't think i can recommend him here glosser aren't bad against flankers but are more and but if anything else they're more generous to sevens and eights which is not what chick plays usually plays six um so i mean if he's deployed at eight then that's bad news for californ's owners yeah but he still kind of plays it that way he still plays it it was like a six and a half so
00:30:26
Speaker
There you go. So yeah, can't can't say I recommend in this week. Sorry, guys. On to the stup for Queens versus Bath. Do you remember the the Saracens versus Bath match from last week?
00:30:46
Speaker
Yeah. Bath are strong against flankers. They're seventh, that's strong for them. And scrum halves, they're fourth and full backs, they're first somehow. And they're, they're worse everywhere else. They're really weak everywhere else. Queens are kind of middle of the road, but I'm sorry, Bath are the worst attacking fantasy team. They're almost tied with Woosters. They're 13 and 12. Great job. Yeah.
00:31:12
Speaker
So, for the Quinn's, start low. They're both locks, as we said, you know, give them a look too. Whoever's not at sixth, hold off on that, Lade or Chisholm, no, but start everyone else. Special shout out to, we've mentioned him enough in the last pod and now this one, Louis Lina, or the...
00:31:38
Speaker
just revenge poop. He's about to take, um, I, I, I, I hope he gets the opportunity to take, uh, so, um, and then for Beth's sake, I kind of hope he gets the week off, uh, for Beth, I did. I'd look at, uh, Megan Ali, um, and at Ellis Fox and Bailey, not so much else. I have a Jomo and mirror, but I'm going to probably keep him on my bench. I don't expect much from them. I don't know that I like a Jomo running at Esther Hazen.
00:32:07
Speaker
Nope. He's going to be trying to run away from them. Right. And to be fair, he's, he's done that really well. He's been very elusive. So I might, I don't think I'll sneak onto my team, but he'll be on my bench and mirror. Same thing. He'll be on my bench. Right. Don't want you there. Um, right. We club from Devin against the exiles. Um,
00:32:28
Speaker
for the host at Sandy Park. Jack Andard or Jack Andald, the likeliest candidates to replace LCD, obviously, both are fine options should you be in a pinch at Hooker, give them a whirl. Sam Skinner over Hill or Lonsdale at this point, scores better when he's in either at six or lock.
00:32:49
Speaker
and eligible in obviously both those positions as well. So and that's unlike Hill, who's only lock eligible. So a little bit, a little bit of dice there. So yeah, especially if he's at four on the pitch, stick them on your flank. Done.
00:33:05
Speaker
Genius. Said no one ever. Fakundo Cordero, scoring much better than his fellow back three teammates,
Matchup Predictions and Strategies
00:33:15
Speaker
Hagen Knoll. But as we discussed last week, Exiles eat wings, and only two of them have scored well. Only one of those was above 25, and that was Perry Humphries in week one. And LRC was literally an interception try from the other teams 22 away from doing jack and shit. So it's like, you know,
00:33:35
Speaker
Obviously it takes fluke plays because, you know, Perry Humphrey is going to try it and a Louis re-sam it finally breaking through because they make a mistake on an attack. Yeah, now Parkham.
00:33:47
Speaker
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Um, to bring for a drug, we team, um, the exiles, uh, Isaac Curtis Harris scored well last week in his first start. Yeah. And, um, the opposition this week are dead last against flankers, especially generous to seven. So if he's at seven again, he's a thumbs up and he's a, he's a good play, especially at his price tackles. Yes, he does. Especially. And I think he scored last week too. That helped.
00:34:11
Speaker
Um, Rob Simmons over mafia or Coleman, if he starts also a position there as a position that, um, The hosts are weak again. Sorry. I was like, just had a freaking space space one with their second last, their second last there. Um, to a sui, I like him, but there are so many better number rates out there. And I'm pretty sure he's, is he still lock eligible?
00:34:34
Speaker
He is, but yeah, that's not something that you don't want to go the other way around. You want to lock who's eligible at eight, right? Not an eight who's eligible at lock. Cause then yeah, exactly. All the points are at lock. Yeah. Um, and there's just so many guys that are more consistent and have a way bigger boom at eight. So if anything, stick them on your bench. If not, just chuck them off to a Wilford road, Lester versus sale.
00:35:01
Speaker
Um, both teams are, uh, leaders in points for and points against, but Lester are better in both. Um, this could look a lot like last week, just, I mean, even if it is, even if sailor away, um, or it could look like a tonking cause they'll kind of just their, their run of, uh, I guess kind of the fortunateness in the back backs. Um, yeah, we'll see. Uh, I feel like they don't have, they don't have much of a back line, but every so often they just get a break. Um,
00:35:31
Speaker
Anyway, sailor number two versus fly halves last versus fullbacks kind of middle of the road everywhere else Lester or number two versus lock number four versus fly half number two versus center and number one versus wing, which, again, isn't the problem because you're not playing any those sale backs for Lester.
00:35:48
Speaker
Gens, Dolly, or Montoya, both are starter worthy, even from the bench, depending on your options. Wells and Snehman, all the staff is in the back row. Van Staden, Liebenburg, these, they will make a ton of tackles, because again, sale aren't going to spin it too wide. So these guys are going to get that opportunity again to do the triple Z's on some unfortunate soul from the opposition.
00:36:14
Speaker
Yeah, stay away from the lesser nines outside of JVP. I think four is going to struggle because tens do versus sale. Just just ask Marcus. But the centers outside backs go nuts. For the sale side.
00:36:31
Speaker
the Dupreezes, basically, you know, the Locks, Dupree, you know, Curry, if he's playing, yeah, I mean, you're going to play him. You've spent too much on him to not play him. And Quirky, obviously, outside of that.
00:36:47
Speaker
No, again, 10, 10, 10 and wider. Just stay away. I'm not excited about anything else outside of that on that team. If Wilkinson had a boot, um, has there ever been a Wilkinson with a boot though? I mean, seriously, I don't know. Never heard of it. Never heard of such thing. Never heard of it. Um, yeah, if he, if he was a better kicker, then he'd be a sneaky look for, for awhile, but I'm not seeing it.
00:37:11
Speaker
Okay. Sarries and the Wasps. This should be a good one. For the Sarries, Tom Wilsoncroft. I think we see Jinx for one more week before he disappears. But if it's Woolie instead, he's a play and not that expensive like we talked about before. And the Wasps are second worst against Hooks. So there's also that little thing. Big Billy. Not a huge fan of this these days. But if you've picked them up, this won't be a bad week. Wasps middle of the pack against 8s. Last three starting 8s have gotten 24 plus.
00:37:41
Speaker
And he had an excellent try assist for Etoge last week. Yeah, this little round the corner there. Marco Riccioni, love the work he gets through on the field, but not a fancy prop that you want on your team right now. And wasps are also second toughest against props. So, meh. A whole lot of meh right there. For the wasps. All right. So, here's an interesting thing. So, Jimmy Garbreath,
00:38:08
Speaker
If you're trying to figure out what to do with your 10, because I've been trying to figure that out for a while, apart from Marcus Smith, if you don't have the coin for that, he could do with your 10, he's FIF eligible, give him the K. Series did give up 34 to Conin. And that was a lot of that was kicking. So just putting that out there. And that was at the Stonex. That wasn't the way.
00:38:27
Speaker
and they're at the Stone X this weekend. So there's the idea as well. Ali Crossdale, we talked about him already. An old friend that walks into the Stone X this weekend, if he's at 15, it might not be such a bad place. Here he is, they've given up 20 and 30 to the last two fullbacks that they played. So there's that.
00:38:46
Speaker
That's it.
Player Selection Advice
00:38:48
Speaker
I talked about him before. Love him as a player. Not as a fan. Yes. I right now and series are mean to wings and that includes mirror last week who just completely bit it. Uh, only one player scored over 20 on the wing for against series this year. Yeah. And that's six, eight wings, something like that at this point. So I wouldn't be excited about it. All right. We're on to the, uh, the other weeks. Hooray. So my start of the week, uh,
00:39:15
Speaker
I mentioned Louis lineup because I think he's going to have a day, but he's not in. I don't think quite as fortunate a situation as Tommy Freeman will be for Northampton versus Worcester. So my my start of the week will be Tommy Freeman. My mind's coming from the same game. It's funny that you mentioned that you didn't like this group, but I'm going to go for it. This guy scored well in his last two starts. He's looking at a very good matchup. He'll also have a week of rest.
00:39:45
Speaker
He settled in nicely in the Midlands and will be this. He is definitely going to make a splash this week because, you know, the premise really lacked number eight in the league right now. I saw the week for round six of the premise does Hampton's favorite new Safa back rower, Yano Justice. He he is. Yes, he's the real deal. I appreciate you play.
00:40:07
Speaker
My sit of the week would be a shocker last year, an absolute pants dropper of a sit of the week. This year you're kind of like, you know what, his play matches his hairstyle.
00:40:21
Speaker
The team is going up. It's a bad matchup for him anyway. Um, and he's, he's just kind of a shell of what he used to be, um, last year. And, and so my, I said to the week this week, Tom, Tom done a bath. Oh yeah. Yeah. Jeez. Not, not quite the same guy. Not, not getting those driving mall tries. No, it's just that just as I was saying, you know, about, uh, gosh, creepy, find you a hooker from a team that's mauling. Well, uh, done that.
00:40:49
Speaker
Does not fit that bill right now. I really miss Elliot Stuke, don't I? Can't imagine why. Yeah, it's not that you're now you're bad, but Stuke is just something different. That's for sure. Yeah.
00:41:04
Speaker
For me, this guy has decent start of the season. He's a popular pick. He's been very hot and cold though, literally alternating good weeks with bad weeks. And this week would be a bad one if we're going by that pattern. And his opposition does not like props as well. So he also does better when he gets that magic 60 minute minimum or 60 minute
00:41:24
Speaker
bonus, obviously, more time on the field, more opportunity for points. I think he'll get worked too damn hard this week to reach that limit. So my study of the week for around six. The prime is was big kiwi props have to among Alan. Oh, how harsh.
00:41:42
Speaker
Yeah, man. I mean, the pattern fits and the natural does not look good. That's true. That's true. But all it takes is one run. You know, like if they get up with him, I know. So it's like, yeah. Listen, I've been OK on these. I haven't been like home run. Oh, I'm not saying. But I've been OK. That's it. Look, that's good advice. That's all. I agree. Yeah, you're still of the week as someone who you probably won't. I probably wouldn't start him anyway, but this week, but.
00:42:10
Speaker
Yeah, he's still going to make my bench, I'm sure. Yeah, no doubt. I mean, put them there just in case he decides to. Yeah, it depends on what I decide to do with my team. I'm still plotting. Lots, lots to think about. My ups are dependent as well. They so do. I make like 10 different plans and then they all blow up.
00:42:33
Speaker
Absolutely. Cause it's not just the, Oh, I want to start this like, Oh shit, that guy forgot. I've completely forgot that about that guy and there he's starting. Oh, that's right. I should, I should have him. Right. Like, Oh, it's like, God damn it. I can't do it all. God damn it.
00:42:49
Speaker
Okay. Um, we'll be there for your planning help on, on, uh, our Friday morning. Yes, we will. Friday afternoon. Yes, we will. Yeah. Those of you in the UK Friday afternoon. Um, yeah, feel free to hit us up beforehand too. Uh, right. Pick them, uh, against Worcester. Is this really that hard? Probably not. No, it is not that hard. Um, it'll be, it'll be the host. Yeah. Uh, Gloucester and new castle.
00:43:18
Speaker
Oh, fuck. I'm going to go Gloucester. Yeah, I am too. Hosts and Newcastle are not... Newcastle are not road warriors right now, so... Right, and I'm just not... Yeah, I'm not buying into them for, yeah, on a weight match just yet. Same, same. Quins and Bath, who? Hosts, yeah. Yeah, I'm going to go with Quins. By a lot. Exeter and London Irish.
00:43:49
Speaker
The, uh, again, the hosts. Yeah. Unfortunately. Yeah. Irish haven't won a game yet. So despite the fact that they've tied up some points and I'm not going to, right. And I'm not going to, I'm not going to pick a tie. I'm not picking a tight. We're not, we're not talking 40 here. We're talking rugby. There's a difference. Um, I'm a betting man and footy. The tie is always in play. Uh, ooh, Lester in sale. I guess in sharks, uh, Lester. Yep.
00:44:17
Speaker
Same. And then series and loss.
00:44:24
Speaker
But again, the team with the 10. Right. I'm picking on one. I'm picking as well. So the home team sweeps it. Oh, again, not fair to Jacob Amaga. The team with centers against the team with the midfield is a team that doesn't have one or at least where they had one actual center that's viable, who's not playing because he's hurt. So, yeah. Or did he come back this week? I can't remember. No, he was he was pictured in a sling. OK, so he will not be back this week. He won't be back this week.
00:44:54
Speaker
No, he wouldn't. Yeah, he's certainly not this weekend. No, no, no. Unless that's like a super precautionary thing, which isn't something unusual. But yeah, that'd be. Yeah. I mean, I've seen it done like you put a guy in the booth before your play. Yeah, but not the boot, maybe. Not a sling.
00:45:12
Speaker
No, I agree. Okay, so that is it for fancy. Hopefully everybody got some good stuff out of this. Again, thank you to our to our patrons, Alex and Duncan, we appreciate it. Join the crew, everybody. The water's fine. Okay, so yeah, well, Friday, we'll be back.
00:45:34
Speaker
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Encouragement and Closing Remarks
00:45:35
Speaker
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00:45:52
Speaker
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