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Season 4- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Champions Cup Round 2 Preview)
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It's our first Fantasy Corner post Champions Cup, let's have at. We take a look at how we faired in our first outing in Superbru for CC and where the crew in CYL landed. We give a recap at who the top picks for the weekend were, with some big surprises that landed top honors. We'd usually do Start or Sit, but since this is a new thing with very little data, we decide to go with a segment called, This or That. Grab a glass of something good and enjoy!
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Transcript
Ben's Health Update
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody. Welcome back. Here's the fancy review of my tank. I'm Ben Plaza. If you weren't around for the first one, I sound like I'm underwater because I've been in front of the weather. So coming out the good side of this illness, though, thankfully. So I can actually get back to work, which would be nice.
00:00:25
Speaker
Which is great for all of us. I do actually like what I do for a job. So when I'm like down for the count, I'm the biggest asshole because I'm one, miserable when I'm sick. And two, I am like, I want to go to work. Well, you know what they say, you love what you do. You never do a day's work in your life. That's true. Yeah. So as it is, I'm abstaining from any
00:00:50
Speaker
alcoholic beverages to help support my recovery. So that's not happening. And Ben started drinking. So I'm done. I'm done. I'm getting my butt kicked by this. Wow. You chugged the vaccine. Yeah, I got it done. Oh, the vaccine is starting to catch up to you a little bit. I don't know. I could just be getting old. It's not because it's not even APM and I'm ready to zonk. So I'll get through it. I'm going to power through. I've been there. I've been there. I don't know. You might be getting old still, but, you know,
00:01:20
Speaker
Okay.
Weekend Adventures & Game Highlights
00:01:21
Speaker
So it was a fun weekend in Champions Cup for a lot of reasons, but we had some, you know, we finally had a game that we liked as opposed to the alternate to TRM, which we've been doing in prem, which was not our favorite right now. And I think if we had to ride this out, I'd be okay with it.
00:01:42
Speaker
right honestly you know yeah superbrew it's different scoring but it's at least it makes sense yeah i can look at the scores and be like okay that yeah no this guy played well he just he yes he gets gets a high score yes absolutely makes sense and you know it's it's never going to be
00:01:58
Speaker
a system that rewards everything, because that doesn't make sense. You don't get everything. Right. I think as long as it's being fair, that's what matters. And I feel like this system is pretty fair. It kind of evens meters and tackles. There aren't many guys who get more than 20 meters. There aren't many guys who get 20 tackles. So it kind of favors the tackle a little bit more than the meters unless you're getting a chunk.
00:02:31
Speaker
So yeah, I like the scoring system. And it's not as high as TRM, kind of like the higher scores, but at the same time, it's fair. It's across the board fair. You don't need the same scoring system everywhere. So it's nice to change it up a little bit.
TRM Scoring Critique & Leaderboard Insights
00:02:46
Speaker
Right. And TRM is just weird because they change their, I mean, it's high because they reward certain positions with certain things. Like, you know, you can get a really high scoring prop because all you have to do is run a bunch of meters. Right. Points, points, points, points. Right, right, right. So, yes, I got the leaderboard to finally get up there. So the totals from this past weekend,
00:03:14
Speaker
I got it. I finished top for the weekend for the first champion. So you got to know what to tell you. Almost top for the fucking world. So that was nice.
00:03:26
Speaker
Oh, only ninth. Yeah. I'm sorry. I wish I was sorry. I thought it was eighth. So yeah, I, um, I, I captained some asshole named Dupont. So, which was extremely smart. You know, that's just how it goes. Yeah. I wish I don't have another answer after that though. Like I,
00:03:53
Speaker
Um, I got, I benefited from the auto subs.
Team Strategies & Social Media Engagement
00:03:57
Speaker
I will say that. Okay. Cause I had, um, my center and, um, one of my centers and one of my props dropped. Um, so that was less than double. And then I had, um,
00:04:15
Speaker
Yeah. And so that subbed in for long, who had a really good day. He did. He was the best. Yeah. He had a star. Yeah. And then, um, DDA. So he was also very good. He didn't do too bad. So was he also started? I think no. Oh, no. No, he was not. Cause I was like, I got, um, I had like four or five on my team. Um, see if I can find team and around, uh, do, do, do, do somebody help.
00:04:47
Speaker
get over here. Yeah. I'm still the site. There's a lot going on in this site. So I'm still trying to, yep. I'm scared of most of it. Team of the round was furlong warty from LaRochelle, Kelleher, Rowan Kelleher, Johnny Gray, Ryan Baird, Laura from Rossing, Aldrit Okeke.
00:05:09
Speaker
DuPont, Hanrahan from Claremont, McCloskey and Hume from Ulster, Ima from Rossing, Prothero from Osprey's, which did not have that on my bingo board, and intercomly. So the center, the center, the center panel around was McCloskey and Hume.
00:05:27
Speaker
OK, that was pretty good. Oh, yeah. I think we mentioned them on the on the other part. So, yeah, I do believe we did pretty good. So let's back up. Hey, there we go. Right. I'm not going to move from this page. So from from from after that. So I'm up on top marks right behind me. You're you're Ben's third. Nice. Carrick is fourth. Duncan fifth. Anton six. Our old friend George is seventh. And Justin's at the bottom.
00:05:58
Speaker
Oops, Daisy's don't, the scores aren't quite pulling up right now, but that's okay. Yeah, I did. I mean, George gave me some excellent advice for things that like, I wasn't sure about. Um, and I kind of went my own way on some other things, but yeah, though that's, I, you know, George, I see you down there. Thanks for all the help getting me where I am today. Yeah. Right. Um, yeah. Okay. Here we go. I think the pool, the leaderboards are back. Okay.
00:06:29
Speaker
Let's see. Doo doo doo. Yeah, there we go. They're back. Oh, there we go. Yeah. So actually, in terms of the U.S., George is ahead of me. Oh, yes. OK, so maybe now they finally come back to the making things right with the world. Yeah, I guess they got that right. Yeah, because he's like 13 points ahead of me. Never mind. But thanks for thanks for letting me swim in your wake, George.
00:06:58
Speaker
Same with different. Um, but yeah, but also, uh, nationally, uh, in the U S better, better than I are both in the top 10. So there's the, there's that one too. That's pretty nice. I'll take that. Yeah. Oh yeah. Okay. Here we go. Final, final things are updated here. So yeah, it's me. Carrick Mark. Okay. George, Ben, Anton, Duncan, and Justin. Sorry, messed it up. Damn you. Super brew. Hey, it's the site. Yeah. Right.
00:07:27
Speaker
But to their credit, and we make a habit of shitting on things that suck sometimes around here. So we're very responsive on Twitter. We give them loads of credit for that because there are a lot of things that we all get annoyed by that would tell us to pounce in. TRM is very good about responding. But we all know the apps, the service, the
00:07:53
Speaker
you know, the TV, the TV watching apps, like, oh, flow is garbage and they will, they don't help out at all. Fuck. Right. Peacock same. Peacock same. They're like, yeah, you'd be happy you can watch this. And we're like, yes, we are. But fuck you anyway. Yeah. I'm paying for a service, dickhead. You need to have the game that you say you're going to have. Right.
00:08:19
Speaker
So credit to Subaru for being very responsive. I appreciate it very much. We all do. Okay.
Fantasy Rugby Player Analysis
00:08:26
Speaker
Um, let's dig into a little bit of this or that. Let me go into this. There we go. Okay. So we're going to talk about positions for the, for the coming round here. And I'm going to look them up by, um, popularity here. Okay. As far as high, high end picked.
00:08:49
Speaker
And I'm going to, we're going to play it a little bit here or there. All right. So the highest props are Gens for long, both are from Osprey's Marlar, Slimani, Sinclair, by Dylan Lewis from Cardiff, Kilcoyne from Monster and Unai, Antonio from La Rochelle and Kebel, actually, that's weird. All right, so.
00:09:16
Speaker
for this weekend, maybe you can pull up your match, your fictitious page. You got that up. Okay. So, all right. Well, I'll make the, I'll make the tough one for everybody right now. Singler again. So let me go. Singler is playing, where are we? Singler is playing Conact. Ooh, that's going to be an interesting one. I'm sorry. No, Singler, sorry. No, that's lesser. That's Ganj. Singler was Bristol.
00:09:44
Speaker
We don't know what Bristol are doing here. That's the other we don't know. So I can make a lot of tackles makes a lot of meters like those things get to the points in this and I think they're going to win because they're going to be at home. Bristol are, I don't know.
00:10:05
Speaker
I mean, my two props are really Genge and Furlong and I don't see any reason not to have them. Let's start playing Montpellier. Furlong is always a threat to go over and Furlong and Genge are the same type of player.
00:10:24
Speaker
are busy doing things that get you points in fantasy rugby, like either carrying or or tackling. And each one is a threat to go over. So those that's why they're those are mine. I love I love Sinclair, but as a player, not not so much fantasy. He passes a lot, which is cool, but doesn't get your fantasy points so much. So I'm going to take Genjin for a long off the board for this now, but that will make it a little harder for us. Marlar or Sinclair?
00:10:56
Speaker
Sinkler. Marler's not really a threat. Like he's, he doesn't do Dick ball at hand. Um, and Sinclair can at least sometimes, um, go for a run and have a, uh, a try assist. Here's one that's going to be a kind of outside of our, um, our wheelhouse here. Slimani or by so many from Claremont by from Toulouse. Okay. So Claremont by had nine this past weekend, so money had four and a half.
00:11:24
Speaker
Right. And I like by Claremont are playing sale. So no, no, no. So bye. Yeah. Bye. So money or an Antonio from La Rochelle at seven and a half this past weekend. La Rochelle are playing bath. Yes, I'm going to get the matchup against that over the match. OK, OK, there you go. One for the one for the URC folks.
00:11:55
Speaker
Ollie Kebel or Dave Kilcoin? Kilcoin had nine, Kebel at five. Uh, teams. I'm, I'm, yeah. Monster in Glasgow. Kilcoin from Monster, Glasgow from. Monster plane cast. Glasgow. Where are they? Exeter. They got Exeter, I think. Yeah. Yeah, but Exeter give up points to props. Right. But that's also for like, uh, it's, it's different, um, different roles, different reasons, but, um,
00:12:26
Speaker
Still, I would give, I'd give kind of that nod there. Cause it's going to be that it's going to be a prop kind of game. Um, a lot of, a lot of chance for tackles. All right. Um, all right. Um, Tom, both of who had four this past weekend or, um, or Ollie kibble, both of the place for Osprey's. Um, well, the place for Osprey's who are, I see that again, are Rossing.
00:12:56
Speaker
I still, still like cable. Yep. Okay. All right. So couple, couple up a little bit this week. All right. Let's go to the hook. Yay. Hook. All right. So there's some, there's some interesting tricks here. Um, we'll take 5% up. So, um,
00:13:17
Speaker
Let's go. So 5% up is Cowindicky, Montoya, Kelleher, Herring from Ulster, Dutoy from Bath, weird. Evans from Scarlett's, Alfie, and Acker from Sale, though I'm not 100% sure Acker is healthy at this point. So let's go with Malvaca and Shaw from Fluz and Rossing instead.
00:13:43
Speaker
So Osprey's Toulouse are playing wasps. Yeah. So let's go right there with those two with those two French hookers right there. Shaw and Mavaka. It's really who's likely to play longer at that point because they both have fucking tasty, tasty matchups. Rossings at home against Osprey's.
00:14:09
Speaker
Frank, I don't think she started this past weekend, though. That's the other thing. So, yeah, no, I'd go with Avaka. Yeah, we'll see. You came back this weekend, so it could be interesting. But we're just going among those these these popular players. Rob Herring or Roni Keller? Herring from Ulster, Keller from Lenser. Keller.
00:14:34
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I really like him, but I like I just like him that much. Yeah, I do, too. I didn't even see what the other. Who's the other? Rob Herring from Ulster. I think they have Saints. Who knows? That's a that's kind of a toss up. Saints could decide to rock up anyway. But yeah, no, I'm going with a little monster man. Cowndick here, Montoya.
00:15:06
Speaker
I'm sorry. I did not play this past weekend. That's the other thing. Um, so my question now is, is Montoya their, their hooker, um, long term, you know, he's not going to be long-term. So are they going to just, are they going to start to really bring, um, Dolly to the forefront, which they should, um, by all rights.
00:15:27
Speaker
So got Montoya and, um, I guess you're going into Glasgow. That that's a game for Luke Calendiki. He's he's, he should get attempts at the tap and goes down, you know, the five meter tapping goes. So, you know, give him three of those ops, those opportunities to score a month. So I'm not going with him. Um, Alfie or Dutua from Bath? Alfie. Alfie or Kelleher. Kelleher. Although.
00:15:58
Speaker
I don't know what else you're playing to lose. Oh, yeah. Way. Yeah. No, no. Keller Keller or Karen Dickey. That was, this is, this is the one, you know, if you don't have one of these two, uh, I think you're fucking up even if they're on your bench. Um,
00:16:23
Speaker
I think I had Cowindiki on my bench because just because he does that tap and go shit so well. I multiply. They're both in serious danger of scoring tries, but I'm going to go with LCD. OK, I I'm kind of going against my instinct on it. So I'm going to go with my head, not my heart. Yeah.
00:16:54
Speaker
Sean Evans is kind of the wild card here from Scarlett's cause they didn't play this past weekend. Um, and I don't, I also don't think I'd risk it at this point. If you don't have one of the, let's put it this way. If you don't have LCD, Calla hair or really Rob Harry, who I really like a lot. Um, or if you haven't taken the, the, the flyer on Barbary, one of those four.
00:17:21
Speaker
If you have evidence as your backup, whatever, that's fine. He shouldn't be your starter. Yeah. Not this week at least. Excuse me. All right. Moving on to the instrument. All right. Surprise, surprise. Who's at the top of that list? Most popular players are Skeleton, Ludiagir,
00:17:44
Speaker
the other Gray brother for up in Glasgow, Henderson, Tigeburn, Vamahina. Don't understand that. Johnny Hill was who got who got COVID this past week, I guess. So and then Johnny Gray. So, all right, let's pick between the exit locks. Gray or Hill? I mean, Gray had the hat trick, but that you can't can't depend on that every week. You hope not, right? Hill.
00:18:13
Speaker
I can tell you how much of that counted five points a piece, 24 points. So that brings her back pretty much to dead on what he had, what, what, um, right. He'll had, right. And if, you know, going forward, Hill is the better option for, for points. He's, he hasn't been playing well, but exit of themselves haven't been playing well. I'm thinking, wait, let's again, sorry, moved away from it. They're going against Glasgow at home at home.
00:18:44
Speaker
Yeah. Um, Glasgow are at home. This is just their kind of match. So I exit just kind of match and I don't know what, um, yeah, I'm not sure what Glasgow are even going to bring at this point. So, um, burn or burn or one of the extra guys. I like burn. Yeah.
00:19:10
Speaker
I like him a lot. So he's on my team. I can't remember if I started him. No, because I started Skelton and maybe was burned. I had burned. I know that. No, I think we ended up with the same starters anyway. Yep. Skelton burn and burnout sport of bird sport very well. I would, I would expect that he just, he runs a lot, which is under underrated. Um, he may not like be volume and carries, but every time he carries it's super effective. Yeah, it's effective. That's for sure.
00:19:40
Speaker
Um, Ian Henderson or Tagburn? Yeah. No, I, I, okay. So Henderson did Anderson drop late last week. I think he did. He's playing saints. That could be, that could be tasty.
00:20:00
Speaker
because saints are, you know, away, they're probably kind of thinking they're out of it. At this point, or if they do, they're looking at Ulster back home was there, they're really going for it match.
00:20:19
Speaker
It just depends on if he plays or not, but I do like burn a little bit better. I mean, if you have those two, like, you know, those are my three. I have skeleton burn and oh, no, I had ribbons because because he dropped because what's the name dropped late. So Henderson Henderson. Yeah. So or he wasn't on the squad or whatever. I had him originally. Yeah. No, I love I love Henderson. So I have him just maybe not so much against burn.
00:20:46
Speaker
Two strangely high ownership. Richie Gray and Lou Diager. Lou doesn't get points. Three and a half is best we can. Yeah, not. And two of those were because he. So think about it this way. You get two points for starting and two points for winning. Yeah. How many points? How many three and a half? Yeah. Well, he started and they won.
00:21:15
Speaker
So where'd that, where'd that four go? Yeah. That's not a good sign. No, not a good sign. Not a good sign at all. Right. No, I shouldn't have been a team. Nope. Um, from, from TRM. Right. Um, we'll skeleton skeleton. Okay. Problem solved. Um,
00:21:41
Speaker
Yeah. We'll, I mean, we'll skeleton or burn, like not that you're going to ever have to choose that. Cause you have two of them, but right. Um, burn ultimately. Cause he still could always skeleton will score the occasional try, but burn is always a threat to score a try. Like it sometimes it's just one player getting just enough of him to bring him down. Um, away from him, just finishing one for like 20 meters. So.
00:22:11
Speaker
Yeah. Um, I'd go burn. That's the, that's, I think he's the only one I'd take a risk out just cause something can do it all. He can, he can just own a match when he, when, when he needs to, um, another one that's somewhat strangely high, uh, Vamahina or one of the exit or the second rows. Exeter. Yeah. Well, I mean, it did score 10 last week. We're.
00:22:38
Speaker
I have no idea how. No idea. Yeah. All right, let's go loose forwards. Fun day here. Okay. I'll make 8% the cutoff here because that's plenty of guys. Simmons, Aldret, Vermeulen, Matt Fagerson, Jasper Veese, Naveedee, Tom Curry, Don Brandt, Kaelyn Doris, Van Der Fleer. That's plenty of names right there. Yeah, you get to pick three of them. So that's the good news. Right.
00:23:09
Speaker
At this point, I'm going to assume that everybody's going to pick Simmons and probably Aldret because they're the two highest on 56 and 40. Yeah. I mean, there was on my bench. Unfortunately, I thought, um, I thought one of, uh, Simmons, Dom, Brent and Doris, I thought at least two of them would go off and really not a decent game. Yeah. I mean, Dom, Brent and Simmons both had over, um, had double digits. So no problem there. Um, but all G was.
00:23:39
Speaker
fucking unreal. Unbelievable. And playing bath. Yeah, right. All right, so that makes the third spot kind of hard for a lot of people, I think. All right, so let's play a fun game of the third spot, assuming that you got two solved already. Vermeulin or Jasper? Well, Ulster and Lester.
00:24:04
Speaker
Yeah, I'll start playing Saints, Leicester, Connacht. I would actually prefer neither, really, Vermeulen. You had seven last week.
00:24:19
Speaker
Yeah, that's not enough. And I'm not sure you're going to get much more from him. I just don't know fantasy-wise what he does. He does some really cool shit on the field, but I'm not sure that it translates to fantasy so much. And Jasper is always a threat to get a card.
00:24:35
Speaker
So you just cannot, I wouldn't risk it with all the other options out, all the points available on the table. I would just stay away from him. No, just cause you know, he could just lose his head and get a red and don't need to do that. Yeah. Uh huh. Um, Matt Fagerson or Tom Curry Fagerson from Glasgow, Tom Curry, cause we'll get a bunch of turnovers. Um, that alone will get you points. You can count on it. Doris or Ben Fleer.
00:25:06
Speaker
Doris and I love van der Fleer. Um, it's really, it was hard for me not to have him on the team, but, um, Doris can also just dominate a game. Like that's why, that's why he's on in my four. Cause I see him as being a, you know, a Dom Brant Simmons type and Audrey type player. Um, he just didn't quite get it done, but that's not in shit. It was kind of a, um,
00:25:36
Speaker
I kind of a game on air. So you can not, you know, there's points go all over the place. So it's not that they don't always cash in. Right. Curry or one of the Lancer guys? I'd still go the Lancer guys over Curry. Again, he'll get you there. How many points did he have?
00:25:59
Speaker
Uh, Korea nine and a half, both of those guys at 10. Right. And so it's, and I feel like that Leinster guys underperformed and Curry, that's what you can expect. You know, he, he gets, he gets those turnovers. He gets, he doesn't get so many tackles because he's, he's not the tackler. He's the Jackler. Um, so he'll get those turnovers, but that like, you know, there's points to be had in volume of tackles. So, and he doesn't really run with ball in hand, so he's not going to get your meters.
00:26:27
Speaker
There you go. Uh, yep. Uh, Dom or I'm a Leinster guys. Dom and one of the Leinster guys. Well, then you're out. Then you're out. Simmons are all right. Well, right. Well, that's what I'm saying. So I would like, um, that's, and that's the problem. So like all those are my four, like I said, Simmons, all Dom. That's my problem. Yeah. Dom's not, um, I was playing.
00:26:58
Speaker
That card is at home. Oh, he could run through. He could just torch them. Right. So, you know, he's on my he's on my squad. There you go. I think it's probably going to be Simmons who drops because he's not scoring so well lately in any format. Yeah, and I was best. No, all right. He's not really scoring points. Right. All right. Let's go. Let's go nines.
00:27:27
Speaker
CUNY, DuPont are the top two, DuPont and CUNY in that order, actually. Murray, Reinach, who didn't touch and didn't play a minute, Care, the clerk's up there too, I don't know why. Gibson Park and Quirk are two of the better, some of the better ones that are out there. That's a probably good cutoff right there. Yeah. I don't know who else outside of those should be starting anyway. Some people picked Blake Kelly Price.
00:27:56
Speaker
Okay. Although if you had national, it wasn't a bad week. He had 23 and a half, but that's cause he kicks. That's cause he kicks. So you would have had to, you'd had it as the kicker too. Yeah. That would have been tough. Right. All right. Um, all right. Um, DuPont or Cooney this week. DuPont.
00:28:15
Speaker
Cooney, actually, because if I'm not mistaken, Saints have been good against scrumhaves, too. So, yeah, I'd rather go do pun against wasps. That could be those wasps and knives. Could be a long day for them. Right. Without the not Robson crew there, not Robson, not Huigard. Right. Although I think he's healthy now, but thankfully we'll see. Cooney or Murray?
00:28:45
Speaker
Cooney. Who's my. I just don't know how many points did he have last week? Seven and a half. Yeah. He's not a point scorer. Yeah. Remember Cooney's points mostly came from kicks as well. So, uh, yeah, but he had two tries. No, I'm thinking Cooney didn't, sorry. Yeah. Not that one. You don't have the other one. Jamison Jamison gives the park. Yeah. Did Cooney have a HRI though?
00:29:13
Speaker
Uh, maybe, but nope, actually, no, we didn't. I only had two was McCloskey. One was the other one. I can't think of his name. All right. Well, not that one. Um, yeah, here we go. Uh, care Gibson park, uh, Gibson park.
00:29:36
Speaker
Okay. Cara has, has, has kind of assumed more of a distributor role. It seems in the, in the attack. Um, he's not, he's not running as much lately. Um, Gibson Parker Cooney. Who's Gibson Park playing? Um, who's he with? Um, Montpelier. Yeah. Right. Um,
00:30:08
Speaker
Yes. Cause bath were away. So I'm still going with that. I'm still going with that matchup because I don't trust saints. Okay. Um, but I'm also not dropping like Cooney is on my bench. I'm not, if you know, I'm not making a transaction for that. It's not like I'm going to bring on, um, James Gibson park just for, uh, to signal my bench.
00:30:32
Speaker
Yeah, no, no, no. Yeah, that's the other thing. If you're transferring somebody in, you should be transferring them into play. Right. Yeah. Raffy or care? Raffy. Yeah, figured as much. All right. That's the fun. That's the fun part. Sale of Claremont. Yeah. And then Cardiff.
00:31:01
Speaker
Care could have a good match, but Korky, like, Korky gets just score for fun. Right. All right. Let's do that. Let's go to the 10-10 shirt. Top guys are Intimac, Marcus, Finn, Sexton, who didn't play, Bigger, who's probably hurt now, Garbrey, again, also hurt, and Ford. So we're going to skip two of those names at least. We'll assume Sexton returns this week, maybe, just for shits and giggles.
00:31:33
Speaker
Finn or Marcus? Ben had 18 and that was without kicks. And they are playing. Shit, I can't. They're at home. I still like the Quinn's matchup against Cardiff, though. That could be just
00:32:02
Speaker
bombs away. You know, we saw it's too, it's too, too Welsh teams that we're talking about. There's opposition here. It's Osprey's for harassing. Yeah. Oh, that's not fair. Um, I think I'm still gonna go with, uh,
00:32:23
Speaker
Marcus could end up with like a double. Yeah. And Finn, you know, Finn does the tri-assist, he does some awesome shit, but fantasy wise, I'm going for the guy who could score higher just for fun. Whereas Finn's having fun and other people are scoring. Yeah, that's true. Into macro Finn. Into Mac for the same reason.
00:32:53
Speaker
Sextant or Ford Sextant didn't play last week, but right. Let's say they are playing probably a plaster versus Conner's replacement scored 19 last week. So right for reference. I think Lester going to kick a lot of, I think they're going to first off attack more. They'll be at home.
00:33:16
Speaker
I think they'll get a lot more opportunities for 40 to be kicking for points. So that alone, I think. And 40 could take it over, because he occasionally will. Yeah, I'm talking myself into 40. OK, 40, Finn. Finn. OK, there we go. Let's go to the centers. Start by that. Isn't that beautiful? OK, 10% and up.
00:33:48
Speaker
is DDA leads the way, Ringrose, Bakatawa, Bundy, who didn't play last week, he got dropped late, Slade, Esther Hazen, Fiku, and Olamape, who also got dropped late last week. So, we have some interesting names. You get two of them, thankfully. So,
00:34:11
Speaker
Of those names, who's who's never leaving your team? Let's put it that way. Let's start with that. DDA is on my team. OK, he's he's role. I'm rolling with him. So we're going to we'll stamp him in there and debate the others. All right. Let's go with the two guys that didn't play last week, Aki or La Mape? La Mape. And I mean, he is a special dude. That's all I know. Right. All the he does things that get get points.
00:34:39
Speaker
Whereas Bundy is more of your line straightener. He's not even the guy I would want. Like, if I'm on a fifth, you know, my two fantasy starters are Dale and they and Esther Hazen. Right. I'm kind of shocked that Esther Hazen wasn't a little higher, even though he kind of underperformed. He did this week, but like.
00:35:00
Speaker
If you want a power runner and tackler, you want Esther. Esther Hazen is just ridiculous. He just didn't have a great match this week. He missed a couple of tackles, which is unlike him. Very. Um, let's do at that point, you want, you want, you want runners. So Ringrose or Slade? Ringrose.
00:35:25
Speaker
I still think is not, he's not really getting the opportunities. Yeah. So he could score. He's like, you know, he's one of those, either scores a try or he doesn't really do much. Yeah. Um, FICU or Bundy? FICU. Um, Faka Tower or Bundy?
00:35:52
Speaker
Mm. Neither. Probably Vacatawa, though, because he could he just does fun things in space that could end up in the tri zone. And again, it's the fact I want somebody who is at least a threat to score. Yeah. And hockey is really being that right now. Yeah. That's raising her ringers.
00:36:18
Speaker
Well, I have Esther Hazen. So yeah, I would go with him. There's Ringrose. Yeah, there's other players from his team that are available, too. Whereas Esther Hazen generally, like in TRM, and we did look kind of, there's a relationship. It's not obviously one to one. It's more like half to one or so. But there's a pretty good relationship between the two.
00:36:43
Speaker
scores and extra his is usually the one of the top scorers for. And he's very consistent. Again, just a bad week, so I wouldn't I wouldn't overlook him just for one bad week, right? I could tower slate. Slade. Never again, that same thing. You never know he could pop off for two, right?
00:37:14
Speaker
Ringrose. Cause I think he's, he's failed. They work to get him the ball. It seems so. Um, I just, yeah, I like his volume. There's that. All right. Back three.
00:37:30
Speaker
Uh, we'll make the cutoff there. 6%. It's pretty good. Uh, so your top guys are hog, Lowe, Pinot, Zebo, Keenan, um, Ben Lamb, Imaf, Scoson, Green, Teddy Tomah, and Mack Hanson. Mack Hanson not played this past weekend. Right. Um, okay. Uh, let me know who the hell we're going to rubber stamp right into this thing right away. I got to go low.
00:37:59
Speaker
I mean, he wasn't had 20 last week, so 20 last week. Wasn't he the highest score in the back three or close to it? I think he was close. Yeah. Right. Oh, yeah. Because there were other somebody had a hat trick, but yeah, that happens. Yeah. I change this thing. It was a pro throw and actually Andrew Conway. OK. Oh, that's right. Oh, yeah. He had been the top one of the top scorers for he wasn't the team of the round and then got bumped off. Yep.
00:38:30
Speaker
Yeah. So maybe he wouldn't be a dead set, especially if he's going away to Montpellier. There's room. There's room there for other options. We'll pick apart. Although I like him off. He was on my team for a hot minute and then I transferred him out and then I
00:38:50
Speaker
you know, thinking that, ah, maybe I'll regret this later. I regret this decision immediately. Yes. All right. Let's play around with it a little bit then. Hog or Imoph? I want both. But if it's one or the other, I think Imoph, I think he's more dangerous.
00:39:15
Speaker
Hogg, he's more dangerous to have like a hat trick. Hogg could, but I think both could. What am I fucking saying? It's just preference. Yeah. Even off of over Hogg, but it's like 1A1B. Yeah. Keenan or Pennell.
00:39:36
Speaker
I know. I kind of lean towards the French, I guess. Not so much when I, I guess, made my team, but they just are full of running. It's just fucking run. Ben Lamb or Tyrone Green?
00:39:51
Speaker
Tyrone Green, the same reason he will just like, he's back there catching kicks and we're in a lot of other players will kick it back. He'll just be like, you know what? Let's see what you got. I'm going to, and that's like 33 meters right there that he, he'll get like, you know, five or six times a game. It seems. Uh, Zebo or Zebo or green. Still green. Yeah.
00:40:21
Speaker
Cause they get that attack that he's a part of that Zebo's not, but yeah. Tomah or lamb. How many, how many points did lamb get this past weekend? 11 and a half. And then Tomah? Six and a half.
00:40:43
Speaker
Okay. I mean, that seems about accurate. Cause like lamb, I feel like he, he was dominant for a year at super rugby. And then he, I, I just haven't seen much of him. Of course, I don't know that they were in champions cup last year or whatnot. They were. They were. I just don't remember him making much of an impact, but yeah, he didn't play. He didn't play. He wasn't healthy for every game to play. I don't, I don't think at least and Teddy Tomah is
00:41:10
Speaker
Again, when it seems like, you know, when he shows up to play, he shows up to play. But. I still think I sound like I'm going with lamb. I trust him a little bit more. OK, you offer no. You're off. OK.
00:41:30
Speaker
Yeah. All right. Cool. A little bit, a little bit of bounce around there. It's good. Okay. Of course we should, we should have been asking you these questions because you're number nine. No idea what you're talking about. No idea what you're talking about. All right.
Champions Cup Predictions & Fan Engagement
00:41:46
Speaker
Let's do some pick them. All right. Uh, Friday night matches, uh, Ulster and Northampton. Uh, and it's at Ulster. It's in Belfast. Yeah.
00:41:59
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going Ulster. Yep, same. Mapelli and Lentscher in France. Lentscher. Yeah, once they're done. Quins and card of Saturday morning. Quins. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. Bath, La Rochelle. We'll see if this match actually happens. Bath or have a small issue at the moment. But La Rochelle, either way. Yeah, same.
00:42:25
Speaker
Uh, sale in Claremont. Interesting. Yeah. I just don't trust French teams away from home to it. But Glasgow, Exeter. Exeter. Yeah. Exeter type match. Glasgow play the same style and Exeter do it better still. Right. Rossing and Osprey's. Yeah. Kind of a joke, right? Yeah. Rossing. Monster and cast.
00:42:54
Speaker
Monster. Yeah, no doubt. Scarlet and Bordeaux in Wales. Oh, in Wales. Well, I think this is the one that, you know, Bordeaux really want to get good position, they're going to have to. They're going to have to win this. So they're going to rock up. I agree. I agree. So yeah, take it take it the French. Yes. Okay. Western conic.
00:43:25
Speaker
Oh, Lester. Yeah, same. They're at home. If this was in contact to be a different story. But to lose or Lester have seen again, another number one in their site. So right. Yep, yep. Toulouse and was to lose. And stop from stop from saying Bristol. Ah, one second.
00:43:55
Speaker
Oh, yes. And it's at Stodd. Yep. I'm going to say Bristol take us. OK, I think they're going to rock up. I think they're going to they're going to need a punching bag. And I think they're, you know, hopefully this they've taken this week to get their shit straight. Yeah, we'll see. I'm going to take the French team at home because. Yeah. Yeah. And I'll give you a chance to catch up. We'll see. OK, cool.
00:44:26
Speaker
All right. Isn't this just fun? Okay. So we appreciate you all for hanging out with us, listening to us. Um, yeah. Uh, again, this is kind of new territory for us. So yeah. Ask T Frisor is going to be open for on this, this Friday. Not much else we can do. Um, maybe when we get a little bit more data, like for the knockout rounds, we can do something, but maybe, but yeah, it's right. It's kind of.
00:44:53
Speaker
It's hard to see, you know, there's no, there's not much crossover. These are the teams aren't playing the same team. So it's not the best data. No, it would not be. So yeah, we can, but we might start doing a, yeah, especially when we get to knockout rounds, it might be, you may be able to do more of a start sit kind of thing. Yep. Definitely. I think at least the, the, the smaller number of teams would help. It would help. Yes. That'll help us at least. We don't have to forget to do 20 odd teams. Good Lord. No way.
00:45:22
Speaker
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