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Season 5- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Champions Cup Round 2)
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It's another Fantasy Corner from TFRY, here for all your Fantasy Rugby needs. On this episode of FC we talk about players to keep in mind and apart from the obvious, what stat categories to keep an eye on when choosing (or not) your players. We wrap up the opening weekend of Champi-Yanks League Champions Cup FRD (try saying that 5 times fast) and of course, we preview the matches with Start or Sit. Grab your notepads and enjoy friends!
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Transcript
Introduction and Banter
00:00:02
Speaker
It is... The Fantasy Europeans. My name is Jared Dyke. I wanted to say it's stupid and let's move on, but then you kept going. I'm Ben Glauser. I don't like any way anybody gambled that. Collusion! Collusion!
00:00:25
Speaker
Hey everybody, welcome back. It is a fancy rugby game. My name is
Fantasy Rugby Weekend Review
00:00:28
Speaker
Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. Let's go to it. It's fancy corner time. It's the fun time. It was such a bit of a topsy-turvy weekend for some. Yeah, up and down like the scores were I guess a little lower than I expected around the Kong. And I think that reflected like
00:00:52
Speaker
There were only three players in our division, or in my division anyway, who had over 100 points. I had 98. There were three here as well. Yeah. Almost. Yeah, there was a 96 as well. Yeah. It was a little bit of a struggle this week.
00:01:14
Speaker
Yeah, I think people are just still figuring it, figuring things out. Obviously. Um, I also think just points were, were not what they would expect to be. You look at the, the players who are available on the waiver wire and it's not like there's massive points that were just left. There were some, but it's yeah.
00:01:31
Speaker
Yeah,
Fantasy Strategies and Key Stats
00:01:32
Speaker
it was it was good. It was good for a lot for a lot of things. And there was some and I guess I pointed out some of the big busts in my in my column. You know, big big ones for me were like Theo, who obviously did poorly. I called into Mac. I said, don't fucking start them. But yeah, I know. I know. I have a I have a thing of like putting a hex on those on those names when I put them in red and green on the far right of our sheet. But that was one I was very confident in.
00:02:00
Speaker
Stockdale from All-Star was a huge shock. Like he's been great for a long time, you know? So I will say before real quick, and I don't know, we got to get to the other stuff in a somewhat speedy fashion here. Meters made is a huge thing in this competition. Remember that that is one of the big ones I would be looking at for, especially for players that didn't have try involvements, but still did well. Like Mike Haley. I don't think he had try involvement at all. Still put up a nice number. What do you end up with? He ended up with 17.
Player and Team Performance Critiques
00:02:31
Speaker
That's a nice number. That's that's the type of number that won't go into a slump if he's doing that all the time. Right. For not having a try. That's really good. Right. Let me double check and make sure my homework's right. Yeah. No tries, no trices. Yeah. Oh, wow. No time. Oh, wow. That's impressive. Yeah. So stuff like that, you know, and then yellow card. And like I said, on the other end of it, yellow cards are annoying, but like those aren't the things to avoid someone for. Right.
00:03:01
Speaker
Like more look at the mistakes, like penalties, conceded turnovers, conceded missed tackles, which is a big one. Um, fly-haves are really bad at missed tackles like Chris Smith and Finn Russell with the top two this, this week, not, and I didn't, I'm going to include that. I included in the front row, uh, stats in terms of the top stats. Cause that's, they're going to have a lot of them. Yeah. There's six, sometimes seven, depending on how things are broken down.
00:03:27
Speaker
Yeah. Um, yeah. So that, that stuff like, but like turnovers conceded and missed tackles and, and, you know, stuff like that. Those are things to be worried about. And also if somebody's not doing good on the other categories that we already talked about, like clean breaks and meters made. If somebody's not showing up on that and they're showing up on the other end of it. Avoid, avoid. It doesn't matter the name. Avoid. Exactly. That's just, you're not going to get points. So. Nope. Not at all. Stop trying to force it. Not at all. Uh, let's go to.
00:03:57
Speaker
Let's go to Champion's League. Let's start with the Hicks. The Hicks, I guess that's me, huh? So the Hicks, our rankings are, okay, hold on, if I can get it right. Yippee Tri-A is Stu. That's Stu. Stu is, okay, so he's in the lead with, well, we have three 1-0 teams, Stu. Dead Ants, Alex, who beat me, bastard. Then, right.
00:04:23
Speaker
Ruck and cover which says Sophia and then mark myself and Carrick all our own one how it happened was Stu had 159.4 over Mark who had 101. It's really a battle the Titans. That's that's that's a painful lot to eat right because you scored the third most and still lost and then
00:04:51
Speaker
Alex spanked me pretty good 138 to 98. Um, just a good number. Yeah. Yeah. I had some of my guys who just didn't, didn't put up the numbers that I, that I would expect. So, um, good stuff, you know, and his guys showed up, some of his didn't, but kind of all worked out a little bit better. Like chunks, it just was a fucking, I don't know. Zero. I'm annoyed because I added him late cause I was like, well, it's free points and it got zero for it. And he got zero. Yeah. That was a real shock for me. Um, and then, uh,
00:05:23
Speaker
Yeah, Sophia wanted a kind of the relative pillow fight. She was the fifth best score and won over the sixth best score, 87 to 83. Oh, man.
Upcoming Matches: Analysis and Predictions
00:05:34
Speaker
Well, sometimes you get the luck of the girl. Right. Yeah. That's not dissimilar over here either.
00:05:40
Speaker
Yeah. And they're the players that I've questioned. Um, that's, uh, that Sophia drafted like the, uh, uh, slaves and Harris's, um, and even to some extent, the, the DuPont, um, that's what, yeah, I knew it was going to struggle as well. I'm like, yeah, he made my rankings, but as like, he was outside of the starter starter range, like possibly playable, but if you have, if you have someone else a little higher, do that. Um, yeah.
00:06:08
Speaker
You had to know he was going to have a tough day over there at, uh, Toman park. Right. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And, and the skids skids. Um, I beat George. George did not deserve to lose cause he scored the second most points on the weekend, but I scored the most. What are you going to do? Um, yeah, for like, I didn't have.
00:06:30
Speaker
I didn't have a, I didn't play a lock, but I didn't have anybody score negative and George had two and that was the killer right there. Just that right there. Yeah. It was probably what did him in like Iraq and, um, well, and, um, the, uh, both got negatives. No. That's an awesome. Um, and I had some bad scores too, but just, I was able to cover it up with a little bit better. Like, um, La Rochelle fun. Yeah. Not bad. Didn't do too bad.
00:07:00
Speaker
And Tom Willis, Tom, I think the sweet baby T-O for Tom Willis. And he was on my bench and that won't be, yeah. I had, I started Dom Brad, that was silly.
00:07:11
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I started marching in care. So, you know, neither of which were awesome. I started care as well. So yeah. Yeah. And marching was actually also on my bench. So we have a lot of the same team. That's funny. Um, my bench, but it would have done better for me too. Yeah. Uh, the, um, the relative pill pillified as you had put it, uh, tigers and tiger feet are a good friend. Duncan and, and, uh, Luke, Luke got the job done.
00:07:39
Speaker
Otter draft, not so awesome for Duncan's sake. Yeah, Farrell was his best asset at 19. A lot of zeros and negatives. So that's less than awesome, but that happens sometimes. But hey, Luke drew the lucky straw. He scored the second least points, but he played the right team. And then sometimes that is luck of the draw.
00:08:00
Speaker
And then Justin took care of, um, our good friend, the fighting spirit of Cobus. And that was, um, yeah, that was, that was about a 30 point gap there. So that's, that was fairly easy. And in those, in those terms, yeah. Maro was a negative on, um, Cobus' team. Capuzzo got zero before he came off, which sucks. And like I said, that's a bad one. Yeah. Well, that's a bad one too. He had Tommy Allen with point one.
00:08:29
Speaker
Um, Peter hockey, who had, you know, 2.1, but then he also wrote the lobster front row and Sam seven. So that helps. And Andreas or Hayes knew how to, how to brace and almost had a hat trick. So, you know, good and bad, good and bad, good and bad. All right. So we reached the point where we're doing start set. Although actually, uh, I mean,
00:08:57
Speaker
Do you see any need to be that clear at this point? I'm on top, Justin, and then Luke, and then obviously George, Cobus, and Duncan. Then we have. So again, I'm going to go through very similar like I did last week. I'm not going to look to go too wild and crazy in terms of
00:09:22
Speaker
trying to make some super stupid guesses with this whole thing. No, no. This is like those guys that you want. And then minor, it'll be clear. I'm kind of the same way. I'm right. There's so many teams, so many options that you're not going to be playing like if you're on the third or fourth player from one team, you're you're picking the wrong guy. You probably go to somewhere else. Yeah, unless unless you're playing somebody that's a team, it's awesome. But yeah, right.
00:09:49
Speaker
like right you know if ulcers show up the same way that did this week exactly oh yeah like spoiler alert my notes for lower shell are play every one like yeah right right so there right um but but yeah so let's start anyway friday night uh
00:10:04
Speaker
I think I got the first one. Yeah. I think they start at the same time. So I don't think it matters. Right. Well, I got I have one last right. Right. Go for it. So that's the one. All right. So for Lancer, that's there's going to be a lot of names here at the same time. Sorry. Go ahead. Yeah, I think. Yeah, I think Lancer starts that afternoon. Yeah, they start. They're an hour apart. Yay. I like this. I like this. Lancer.
00:10:29
Speaker
Burner section either one's fine. Yes, Gibson park your it is in as well. I would I would definitely play them Let's see loose forwards bender flare That's probably needs to be the biggest name in your hole in the whole thing ring rows in the midfield and then Any really any of the back three is fine. Honestly, and then the front row. Yes Luster
00:10:54
Speaker
I would avoid 10, 12, 13, honestly. Um, they need to, those need to be shown. Yeah.
00:11:02
Speaker
They don't have a back row that I'm really excited about. Honestly, unless it's blood right. Um, their front rows ago, they've shown, they've shown they can do it. Uh, and then, yeah, like if we see like resammit, yes. Um, but other than that, yeah, I'm kind of, I'm, I'm a little, I'm a little met on the, on the back line at the moment, which was, you know, and then they're, they're half backs. I still need to see it. Yeah. So yeah, there's that.
00:11:28
Speaker
off to Bordeaux versus the Shocks. Um, and there's really only, there's three names to talk about here. And one of them is not even in a name really. It's Bordeaux's front row should do. Okay. Tom Willis is worth playing, um, for Bordeaux. That's about it on their side, uh, for the Shocks. Ma Pimpi. Yep. Everyone else. No.
00:11:53
Speaker
So that's it. I'm not expecting much from this game is from a fantasy perspective. At least there's options elsewhere. We'll have a full start set, but these are the guys like, if it's not one of those people I mentioned, look somewhere else. Yeah. If it's
Player and Team Evaluations
00:12:11
Speaker
not in the five that we put out there for one reason or another, like generally avoid. Generally avoid. If you're in a pinch, you can ask us, but yeah.
00:12:21
Speaker
A redling Scott Lindrost. I don't know if that's a good thing. No, it's not a good thing. Well, yeah. Okay, I guess he got Scott Stevens. Also, I don't know if that's a good thing. He was the Lindross. Somebody else was this Scott Stevens. Yeesh. Yeesh. Alright.
00:12:40
Speaker
We got Bulls and Exeter down in Sandy Park on Saturday. So, let's go with the Bulls. So, I think we'll see. Currently, I didn't say so. He's a thumbs up for me. I'm not convinced on the half bag, Vendalinda, because he had three try involvements this past weekend. So, that speaks to, if you can keep that rate up, great. But I don't, that's not sustainable. So, I'm going to go with, I'm going to go with a no on that. Similarly, you know, that's not the right game, sorry.
00:13:09
Speaker
Open my mouth. Too early. Yeah. Marcel Cozia and Carr are probably going to be good plays there. Other than that, I'm kind of out of it. Yeah. Pass. Exeter. Sam Simmons is a go. Maybe Joe. Yeah. I said maybe. I didn't see him all. Yeah, I know. Leave the halfbacks on the sideline. As usual, it's not a new thing. Woodburn.
00:13:39
Speaker
Maybe hog. That's, that's, that's, that's what I'm good. Yeah. And then if you're hot up for a lock, I don't think she ends is going to score nothing. So go ahead and play him as well. She should score. That's all. He'll be fine. That's a blip. Not a, not a reality. All right. Up North Edinburgh hosting cast. Um, I'd stay steer clear of the Edinburgh pack. Um, again, it's every saying about those meters made being a huge thing and they don't don't have runners in that pack. So I'm not that.
00:14:08
Speaker
Nah. As I said on the other pod, if James Lang is as busy versus Cast as he was versus Saris, he actually might be worth a pickup for this two-game swing, because he could put up some points in it. On the other side, for Cast, I look just for shits and giggles at the player availability, there's not a single Cast player selected on a team in the Hicks division.
00:14:37
Speaker
I support that. Right. Just don't. Yeah, I think Nikos is the only one I throw a punt at. Maybe, Arjun, that's it. Maybe, but yeah, those are really big punts and there's other players who are a little bit, yeah. The total punt. Yeah. I agree.
00:14:56
Speaker
Yeah, that's all they are. And sometimes you get a late drop and like, fuck, what do I do? Right. You know, that's that's that's that situation. That's exactly what that is. That's that's choice. I don't like I just you kind of like go to the starter page or the you know, the the. The player help page player find the start up on the starter and just pick one and you click the button. That one comes up.
00:15:21
Speaker
That one works. All right. Let's go with him. All right. Leon and Saris. Yay. So let's start with the hosts. Let's go with so for the hosts.
00:15:39
Speaker
Botha, if he's, if he's in, yes. I mean, for him, it wasn't just his score. I think it's the highest score of the weekend. His score wasn't just his tries. It was also the other things he did, which makes him somebody that's viable at the very least. So give him, give him a thumbs up. If you're hot up for a walk, tough. Maybe Kuyo, but Vance has been a dick to most half maxes here. So that would be my one thing with that.
00:16:09
Speaker
And I don't love their OBs or their mids. And they played like three guys that were, I think fly half or half back to eligible last week. It was kind of weird. So just, yeah, this bird dome. I mean, if you're really hot up for it, have fun. Anyway, for the series, um, Theo and Earl both should have better weeks. A little girl didn't have a bad one, but Theo, it wasn't that at all. Um, um, it's always, they should have a better week.
00:16:33
Speaker
This is those Jekyll and Hyde games you get with Myro sometimes, and that was definitely the Mr. Hyde version. Daily is a midfielder by list, so he's a thumbs up, totally because he's probably playing in the back three somewhere. Tom-O as well. And then if Maitland's is healthy, he's probably it there. Yeah, and as much as I leave him at home. Yeah, Lillington and Maitland are not runners. Nope, not at all.
00:17:04
Speaker
Okay, off to, wait, where am I? Going to welfare road. Ooh, that's welfare road.
Strategic Tips and Strategies
00:17:10
Speaker
Lester hosting Claremont. Um, for Lester, I'd expect similar results as last time. Atkinson is a break glass in case of emergency. Watson is who in my estimation, just cause I, he still improve it territory to me. Like show me your back bully before I'm willing to get back on that train. Love him, but not ready to, to, to bump him as a fantasy option yet. Potter could score again.
00:17:34
Speaker
and Porter should score better, but neither are guys I'd be happy about having. On the other side for Claremont, I'd expect Les from Newsom, maybe more of the same from Plisson, especially off the tee. I don't mean, you know, maybe he probably won't have that long ass try, but that still gets some pretty decent points. It'll add up. And Rocca and Pinot kind of expect more, but Lester also
00:18:00
Speaker
They're not what they were, but they're still the same type of defense. What they're missing is that attack. They don't have the deadly attack that they had last year. But the defense is still there. They'll choke you out. So not good times for Claremont to be visiting this location against this team. Right. As Osprey has probably found out last week, it's not. At least they were at home. Right. OK.
00:18:29
Speaker
Stormers and Irish, so both teams are actually gonna be in the same boat here because stormers have traveled. So they're gonna be kind of in the same boat. Obviously, they're still, stormers are still getting the home cooking. So there's that. But both teams have traveled. So I think we can put, if Gonzalez is healthy, I'd give him a thumbs up. Hassell Collins did okay. So I think he'll do okay again.
00:18:59
Speaker
So that's a thumbs up. And then. Yeah. I was disappointed with Will Joseph last week. JBR Bernard baby. You know, again, that's that's he's probably at this point, I'm going to say say he's the more viable midfield option of the two. And leave dipshit at home. I wish exiles would. Yeah, seriously. Bye. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait for me. No, fuck you. You stay here.
00:19:30
Speaker
I wish, not happening. Anyway, for the Stormers. Dion for, was that, yeah, for free. I like him. The oldest first cat player ever, but there's something like that. I don't hate their front row. So if you really are like into them, then go for it. Leibach or Vellum say,
00:19:55
Speaker
Lee block is probably the choice there. If Wilms was playing fullback, that's a different story. He's like an OB playing fly half, which I'm into. And then. That's what I heard. Right. Um, that's what I heard. Yeah. And that's it. I think that's, I think that's pretty much it. I'm sure, I'm sure there's a name I'm missing, but for now we're going to go with that.
00:20:21
Speaker
All right, off to Ulster hosting La Rochelle. I spoiler this one already, but for Ulster, take a flyer on Lowry, everyone else is meh, big old bucket of fucking meh on this one. And then La Rochelle play everybody. Find you a La Rochelle player if you have any doubt. Especially if you're going to take a punt on La Rochelle player, because Ulster are
00:20:49
Speaker
Not, not in, I don't think they're in this competition really. That's that's my front row. Looking forward to it. There you go.
00:20:57
Speaker
All right. Stute observation there, my belly and sprays. This won't be a whole lot different from that in a lot of ways. Um, carbonyl, Reinach, Reinach, Reinach. I, I benched him. That was stupid. Um, Mercer doi. Um, if I need to tell you to play Max Zach Mercer, you were playing the wrong game. I've never heard of this man before in my life. Um,
00:21:26
Speaker
Who was the, the midfield that scored last week for them, the homegrown one. And why am I, I'm missing my notes. Hold on. I know this answer, but anyway, he he's good to go. I'll look that up later and I'll dig it. Well, I'll dig for it while you're, while you're doing your thing. Um, Ben Lamb, Butye. Yes. Yes. Yes. Give them, give them more world as well. Talk about Damon.
00:21:55
Speaker
No, no, no, no. Thankfully not. Yes. That guy. Ospreys. Jack Morgan's probably a punt and that's, that's a hell of a punt.
00:22:12
Speaker
I mean, listen, he's, he's a good player. So yeah, good players do usually do okay. So, you know, again, if you're going to pay for whales, you should be, you know, in my opinion, you should be in the back row for whales, but Hey, right. Right. I'm not. So what are you going to do?
Fantasy Rugby Insights and Picks
00:22:30
Speaker
Okay, off to France for to lose hosting sale to lose. Just this tournament.
00:22:45
Speaker
DuPont and Intimac, but especially DuPont, need to go to whoever did the drawings for this tournament and kick them in the balls until they feel better about it. Because this just sucks for them. They get they play sale now. Oh, it's just one shit after another. I think they'll be. But like defensively, it's going to be annoying as fuck. Right. So like DuPont and Intimac, Lebel Ramos, they're going to struggle. They're going to struggle big time. I think Ramos will be OK, because he's kicking.
00:23:11
Speaker
Yeah, but still it's going to be, it's going to be tough. On the other side for sale, I don't know about the forward dupriuses. I think although Robert should do okay, I think he's worth a look. He's probably available if you, you know, have a frontline issue. Again, either a late drop or the lineups don't look right to you.
00:23:35
Speaker
for other match-ups or they're not working out in your favor, go with Robert Dupree's. He'll be okay. He'll get you close to 20 points somehow. And you'll like, you won't notice it during the match. And then all of a sudden you're like, holy shit, this guy scored a ton of points for me. That's awesome. A flattery and sale, the front row are worth considering at least having on your team prior to the line of release. They haven't done this the whole season of the prem. So I was like, what the hell? Right.
00:24:01
Speaker
And then on the very plus side, Tom Curry and Joe Carpenter have been absolute class. Very good. Agreed. Agreed. All right. We are going to the gardens for Saints and Munster. And that's going to be tough for Saints. Oh, I wish there was a lot of good news for Saints. There isn't.
00:24:30
Speaker
if Alex Mitchell is playing their home. Yeah, they're at home. So that's the upside. Yeah. Like they have chances. So like Freeman, like the back three could have a chance here. I don't know. Right. Alex Mitchell is probably the other one. If they play better than, yeah, Vince, that's totally worth a shot. But like, that's it. You know, I don't feel good about truck or anybody like that in the forward. The front row just fucking punt them. They're done. But yeah, that's it.
00:24:59
Speaker
Or the Munster. The men from Munster. Front row, yes. Joey Carver. Craig Casey is a yes for me right now. Ty Byrne is a yes. Back row, go for it.
00:25:16
Speaker
Midfield I'm struggling with Man, I hope free play is better. I'd love to just like well, this is a this should be a good if like this is a Prove it match. Certainly. Like you're basically running on air. What can you do? If you don't have like three line breaks in this one, what the fuck then you're going you're going home. Um, yeah Haley and anybody else playing in the back three, but especially Haley Mike Haley, I totally give a thumbs up too. Yeah Yeah, and that's it
00:25:48
Speaker
And then, so, okay. Quinn's hosting Rossing at the stoop. Nope. This sounds familiar. Yeah. I expect Quinn's to be sluggish again on the return home, just kind of like they were in South Africa. But really there's only two must starts and that's Marley and Andre. Everyone else is kind of meh. Like drop them down or, you know, think like, depress their, what you would assume they would get normally by like five or 10 points.
00:26:18
Speaker
you know, adjust that accordingly. For Rossing, thinking about Quinn's is that their best defense was their attack. And if their attack isn't clicking, their defense has openings. We saw that live in person. Yeah. Yeah. Saints made life miserable for them.
00:26:42
Speaker
Right, and one, Vinifer Russell, I think that's his full name, should do really well. Wade himself might be popcorn worthy in this match. There's a lot going on there. I was thinking about him earlier. There's a lot going on there, so. Mm-hmm, that is tasty. It was a four-on-go. Yeah, in a format that rewards attack, that is tasty right there. So whoever got him might have just got themselves jackpot. We'll see.
00:27:11
Speaker
Yeah. Although I just put the hex on it. So we'll see. Yeah. Because we both look at, put it this way. We both agree that Christian Wade should have a pretty damn good match. Yeah. Take that for what it's worth. Yeah. Maybe it's something to avoid. Right. Anyway, stay away from the Rossignine because Danny care is present.
00:27:34
Speaker
Yeah, he's a prick. OT dubs real quick here. So yeah, my guy is going against a team that surrendered plenty last week and I don't see why they're not going to surrender play this week. And he scored well, didn't score a try, still scored well. My start of the week for this round of the champions cup is Mike Haley from Munster. Nice. My start of the week, again, so I'm looking for here bubble players. Like if you have to make a decision on these guys, like, you know, I could fucking tell you,
00:28:03
Speaker
You know, like anyone from La Rochelle, like, you know, that that's too fucking easy. And I am going to pick somebody from La Rochelle and looking at somebody who's probably available in your league. And that's Anton Hastoy. He's not available in the skids league because George played him against me. So that sucks. He's available in early 30 last week. Oh, yeah, exactly. So someone certainly worth taking a look at.
00:28:31
Speaker
and have it on your squad. Oh, he's no longer available, by the way. It looks like a Mark picked him up. So somebody was smart and got a hold of that. Look at that. No room to hide here and see why. Oh, right.
Match Predictions and Conclusions
00:28:42
Speaker
My say the week. I love him as a player. I love his team, but this competition is just a different beast and he's playing a different beast entirely this week. Got balled up last week. Don't love it this week at all whatsoever. Going over to Dublin. Um, I said that we can stand to crash from Gloucester.
00:28:57
Speaker
Yep. And I've already not only sat him, but I cut him. Yeah. Because it's like, well, I'm not going to, I'm not going to add it. I might, you know, maybe I'll add him and we round four, but I might not like he's done. I don't need him anymore. So bye. Right. I'm with you on that one.
00:29:16
Speaker
My set of the week is someone who is probably someone who, you know, there's probably a prem fan here and there who's like, no, this guy's awesome. And you should be on my team and he's, they're not wrong. Um, but, but Ollie Hassell Collins right now. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's going to be a tough, tough whole week for him. Right. Not a, not a good, not a good draw against the stormers, you know, at the stormers, you know, the travel, all that, not good. This is like the worst time to play, uh, an active in exile balls. Yeah.
00:29:46
Speaker
All right. Pick of them. Lester and Gloucester Friday. Lester. Same. Bordeaux and Shocks. Bordeaux. Yep. Sounds right to me. Travel's tough. Yeah. Exeter and Bulls. Same reason. Exeter.
00:30:04
Speaker
I'm going bulls bulls. All right. I think that I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong. I just think that there's like exit or wall at some point run out of points and the bulls can just keep going. They will do that. I don't disagree with that. Uh, Edinburgh up in Scotland against cast Edinburgh Edinburgh. Yep. Leon and series series competition series. Yeah. Uh, Lester and Claremont. I'm going to take the guys at welfare road.
00:30:36
Speaker
I'm actually going to go with Claremont. This is their competition. This is their jam. And I respect that, but just going to Wellford Road is a fucking task. That's the only thing. It is. It certainly is. But this isn't, again, this isn't the same Wellford Road team. Also, where's their coach's head at? Oh, and I can understand that as well, totally. So there's distractions there.
00:31:06
Speaker
Stormers and Irish. Yeah, Stormers and Irish. Stormers. Stormers, obviously. Yeah. Also, La Rochelle. La Rochelle. Montpellier sprays. Montpellier. Montpellier. Yep. Toulouse and sail. I'm going to go with the French. Me too. Come on, OC. Back home. Northampton and Munster. Munster. Is this such a flip a coin, though?
00:31:34
Speaker
I don't know that they looked good. They looked like they're competing with Toulouse who are European, you know, and they themselves are European champions, obviously at one point. But this Toulouse team still has a lot of the team that played in that final. So. Oh, no, I'm talking about Munster Saints. I'm on the next one. Oh, OK. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. And still, like, yeah, Munster look like they're going to. No, it looks like they're going to cause trouble.
00:32:00
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Right. But the months are going to cause trouble, but are they are they a team that's going to take advantage of the Saints defense? Do they play in a way that's going to take advantage of that? And I'm not covering Casey. I bet you they do. That's true. Coveries could run right through. All right. I'm convinced I'm going to monster. Yeah. No, if it was Connor Murray, I'd be a little bit more question mark, but no. Yeah. If it's Kyrie and Casey. Yes. And then Quinn's Rossing.
00:32:30
Speaker
I'm taking harassing and I feel dirty about that, but I'm going to. I'm, I'm taking the home team. Okay. So we've got a few different, so we're not going to be on the same number this week. That's for sure. Cause we have an odd number of games. So this will be okay. That's good. This is where, this is usually where things get fun. So all right. Fancy rugby podcast at gmail.com. Sheets coming out at the end of the week. We're going to do what you call it. Um,
00:32:57
Speaker
You know, I'll do the rankings. We'll do start set on Friday and all that stuff. Any other questions, you know, where to find us and we appreciate you all for what's up. The updated prem sheet should be out later this week too. Nothing, not too much, or at least it will be available ahead of the waivers at the end of the thirst for waivers, whatever. Yeah.
00:33:18
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this is yeah before people start like taking a look for next week right i'll have that out there's there's still some work to be done about player averages and position like opponent position averages working on that part working through yep all right but yeah other than that we appreciate y'all for hanging out with us listening to us tune in next week for Festivus we'll catch y'all then enjoy the Rutgers this weekend have a good one everyone later