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Season 4- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Champions Cup Round of 16-2nd Leg & Super Rugby Round 9 Preview)
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It's Fantasy Corner time! Time for some pretend rugby chatter. On this week's FC, it's a bit of the same song different verse as we look again at the Six Nations official game and who could be a possible captain candidate. Will a French player in Wales be enough, or should you possibly shift back to an England player for this week? Champions Cup Round of 16 2nd leg is also on the docket, we have a look at players for the round and what to do about going forward into the QFs, hint, don't take any Clermont players if you can help it. Yes, of course, we dig in to Start or Sit as well for round 9 of Super Rugby in FRD. Grab those note pads and join us, won't you?
Update: Yes we are idiots and not we didn't realize 6 Nations was on a break this week, oops.
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Transcript
Introduction to The Fancy Rookies
00:00:07
Speaker
Hey everybody, welcome back to this The Fancy Rookies. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. It is The Fancy Corner. We talk about all things of your fancies. Nope. Wait, that's not this podcast. What are you wearing out there? Wait. Nope. I mean, you can tell us that, but I didn't recognize it. It's a general question. It's all I'm saying. And there's no judgment on the... Right. We have...
00:00:37
Speaker
We have ourselves loads of fancy stuff to talk about.
Women's Six Nations Highlights and Fantasy Impact
00:00:41
Speaker
Let's dive into Women's Six Nations. How was your round last round? I'm not even sure.
00:00:51
Speaker
I didn't like it, but I mean, I just picked over some of the wrong players for the right teams, which kind of annoyed me. I had Boulard as my captain because I was like, I remember one of the French players and like, I should have been in sound series, but. Yeah. Yeah. That was a good one. I had, uh, trammellia as my captain. Okay. Which is not bad though. Yeah. She had 74.
00:01:13
Speaker
Yeah, so she had more, she had more straight up than Bullard did as captain. So yeah, that'll happen. That'll happen sometimes. Yeah, but I may pick up with it for like, you know, Sarah Burns getting 74. Yep, will help.
00:01:29
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I had her too. I can't get the hang of this friggin triple kit, this super sub here. No. I'm having bad luck with it, and I'm also probably not picking the greatest target, so that's obviously my fault, but like... Well, I went with Rosie Galligan and only eight points. Like... I'm talking to it. No. Oh, blood. Okay, I had to refresh. Blood actually did better than I thought, so... You hadn't refreshed? I hadn't refreshed, so...
00:01:59
Speaker
But yeah, puppy Cleo with only 33 kind of I did not pick her. I was I was hopeful anyway, but as soon as you got moved into lock, I was like, Nope. Sorry, her value is when she's in the back row.
France vs Wales Fantasy Preview
00:02:17
Speaker
This weekend, we have France away at Wales. So as we did last week, not that though, I think they're not going to give the same bulk and they gave Scotland to Wales, but right, that won't happen.
00:02:30
Speaker
But again, and it's on Friday, so just kind of keep your eyes peeled on that one, because that might catch some people napping a little bit there. So there is that. Yeah, and it still might be worth considering a France captain, but
00:02:49
Speaker
It's going to be somebody on the high end, like senses or, um, who art or actually don't know, not really a whole lot of others. I would nominate into that spot personally. Cause yeah, they'll get the away win, which is helpful, but this, this is a much better team than the one that just played. So it is. So you got to take that into consideration. So, you know, scoreline won't might, you know,
00:03:16
Speaker
Might be right. It's not going to be a blowout. Let's put it that way. So yeah, go this way. I still think I don't know. I think your best bet is probably good. Four from France, four from England.
00:03:29
Speaker
And maybe even Italy at this point could show really well against Scotland. Yeah, that game has me intrigued at this point. Might be able to pick a couple for me, honestly. Especially if Scotland somehow dig out the win.
00:03:46
Speaker
Although I think Italy is going to be very buoyed after the news this week and probably feeling a little angry about how last week went as well. So that might not be the wisest of picks in hindsight here.
Fantasy League Standings Overview
00:04:00
Speaker
Yeah. So who is, let's have a look. We'll see who's leading our league. It is. Oh, that jerk. Nevermind. Yeah.
00:04:16
Speaker
George, George, who invited you anyway? And he's he's well, so is we are do who I'm not sure who that is. But they're just yeah, they're just handsome people right now. Yeah, they're flying. I'm feeling I'm happy to be in fourth. And there's a significant gap between fourth and fifth. So it's like it's me and Wolfhounds, who I'm also not sure who that is.
00:04:46
Speaker
I don't know. Actually, I'm sorry. Wolfhounds is up there at the top. Like, they're only... Yeah, they're a little bit about 100 points out. I'm a little more than that out. So... Well then.
00:04:58
Speaker
Yeah, there's quite some distancing going on at the top. Not much time to reverse it.
Fantasy Rugby Draft Recap
00:05:03
Speaker
No. Let's see. Hold on one second. Check the bruise of super. Now it's doing the update. Jerk. That's fine. We'll go to FRD, and maybe they'll stop doing that by the time we're done with it. Super AB FRD. Championks League.
00:05:25
Speaker
Yeah. I skate by the skin of my teeth. Ben fell to Duncan. Oh, what a nail. I can't catch a break. 0.1 between Mark and George. Mark getting the one on the right side.
00:05:47
Speaker
in a pillow fight me and me and I beat Carrick. We wouldn't have beat either team besides. Yeah, no, no, not good. Yeah. That was bad. And then Justin was able to best Anton in the Battle of the Saffas.
00:06:03
Speaker
So we'll see. The win at least keeps me alive. That's all you can ask for. Yeah, two and six. I'm looking rough. Yeah, starting to stumble here. Don't be like squitter. No, well, that's the thing, though. I'm still not the worst in terms of, I mean, I have far and away. Oh, no, only, sorry, Duncan has more points against.
00:06:28
Speaker
We're up in the 800s. Nobody else. The highest is you. You're the next one with 790. It's just like we're running into the wrong teams at the wrong times. Clearly. We have this week. We have George and I are set to go head-to-head. Justin and Duncan. And then it's Carrick and Anton. And that leaves Ben and Mark going at it for Super Web EFRD this weekend.
00:06:57
Speaker
Um, Z double team one. I feel bad for whoever the suckers that lost to that team. That's a bad team. Hell is your problem. Yeah. Yeah. And it is not a good team. Actually, I will say to that team's credit, they outscored my, um, my championship team. So that's, that doesn't speak well to that. That's not good. That happened. Um,
Fantasy Rugby Strategies: Positions and Picks
00:07:24
Speaker
Yeah, not good. Whoever fake news is, that's the team we meet. Okay, for you. 76. Yeah, we won by 1.5. Thanks. Yeah. Sorry, dude. Sorry, not sorry. So we needed those. We need those ugly ones, man. Maybe. Yeah, lame. And Superbrew still. Still spinning. Damn it, Superbrew. We'd have a conversation about this. Let's go. Yeah, they're not. That's always problematic.
00:07:54
Speaker
Oh, there it goes. If I went to results and then back to leaderboard, it loaded. Hold on. There we go. Oh, well, where's the overall? Just let me pick a round. Results. We don't want that. And then leaderboard.
00:08:21
Speaker
Okay. Here we go. Um, oh, wait. Nope. I wanted. Oh yeah. No, no, no. Okay. Now that is it. Okay. Now we want round of 16 first legs. No, it's still zero. Yeah. So it's still in something lame, super lame, super, super lame. Um, but let's go into the same category, but we'll talk about
00:08:49
Speaker
what we're going to do going forward here. Because we got things to think about. Let's see. Let's do it by popularity. There we go. So the three most popular props right now are Gensch for long, although he didn't play this past weekend. And Bevin Rod. Actually, yeah, for long to play just didn't do much. Pretty sure at least.
00:09:25
Speaker
Oh, sorry. You're right. I had the wrong thing on it. No, that's point. That's popular. Okay. Oh, popular. Got it. Didn't work. Nope. I had the right thing.
Analyzing Back Row and Centers
00:09:35
Speaker
Look at that. I had it right. What the fuck? Yeah, there it is. Yeah. So in, yeah, I mean,
00:09:41
Speaker
Genj is kind of the obvious one for me, because I honestly don't have a lot of lesser players. Right, neither. That's an easy one for me to pick, because I can use another player elsewhere from the team. Not that there's any bad teams really left at this point. No, but having Genj and Montoja there is just... Don't worry about it. Montoja almost had two. So I know I'm getting ahead of us, but still Genj is... I mean, he had one, so you can't... He's always a threat to...
00:10:11
Speaker
He's always a threat to score a try. He won't every match, but no, we want to be there when it happens. And even if he doesn't score a try, he's still getting a lot of points. So again, just kind of have to be Bevin kind of just the points come out of nowhere. It's in a lot of ways. It feels like I mean, contributes no doubt. But it's not. Yeah, he didn't. He's still still scored a few of them. I'm not mistaken. Yeah, we get this past weekend.
00:10:40
Speaker
Um, he got five and a half, which was not awesome. It's not terrible. I mean, Gens only got eight and he scored a try. So, you know, you got to figure, you know, getting over five points from a prop, you probably did pretty well. Yeah, that's probably not wrong. Actually. Um, I will, I probably would have wanted to pick by, but because I mean, Bevin rod has 38 and a half.
00:11:02
Speaker
Point he's played four matches. So, you know, less than 10 points a match. That's, that's pretty fair. That's all it goes. Yeah. That's pretty good. So, you know, not many props are doing better than that. No, probably not.
00:11:15
Speaker
Um, to hook, um, in terms of the point and point scoring leaders are Sheehan and Herring, which I have both of them. Um, I have Herring. Yeah. I would have, I would have kept Ashman, but didn't start. So I was like, sorry, it's time to start moving away from sale players anyway. Yeah. I would say that's a likely idea. Um, Boogery could be another one. Cause I think we all know that while we're showing moving on to the next round.
00:11:44
Speaker
Um, like very, very likely at least. Right. Um, yeah. And then in herrings, definitely. Um, one of those, you have to have them in your team somewhere, whether he's on the bench or starting, right. Yeah. He's well in this team may very well move on as well. So that'll be exactly that. And that's why I also have Montojic is they're, they're moving on. So I do not have to touch my hooker position again for a while. Probably, probably wise on that one, uh, for the locks, uh, we he's only played.
00:12:14
Speaker
in two games but Paul Wilms has started to work his way into my eyesight of locks because that's another position that struggles for points sometimes and you know I had Skeleton and Skinner and neither was fantastic this weekend but yeah I mean Skeleton got 10 I'll take it again yeah that's right that's what I would hope that's that's the thing yeah you that's what you expect that's the expectation and he
00:12:39
Speaker
achieved it. So yep. Yeah. So I might be moving to another French. And that's another position where like the top, the top point scorers aren't scoring. Who is it? I mean, um, yeah, Sam Skinner is the top point score and he's averaging less than 10 points a game. He's 10 points twice. So it's like 10 points is not bad for, for a lock in this. No, by no means in this company. Not at all. Um,
00:13:03
Speaker
Probably one of the more contentious places is back row. And it's a lot going on. You have, so, you know, Mercer started to obviously put his hand up for that. You have Timoni from Ulster. You have Conan and Ben DeFlair from L'Enster. Gregory Aldridge. Obviously, people are going to be picking Sam because you want to be a part of that.
00:13:26
Speaker
But you want to be a part of that if you can right when he when he decides to put a double on Yeah, I mean we saw what he could do when he was given a little bit of room against Montpellier in the last round right Dom brands Dom brand so We have those things you have those team those players rather Yep, it's a lot. It's a lot to pick from
00:13:46
Speaker
You know, it really isn't, and none of those are bad picks. Honestly. No. And I have a vendor Fleer too. And that's just right. Yeah. So him and Conan as well. Yeah, exactly. And yeah. So like I have Simmons get on brand Aldrich and vendor flare. And it's like, which would I not want to pull it's a struggle to which, which I put on the bench. Yep. Agreed. Agreed on that one. Agreed. Source of consternation. Tell you what. Um.
00:14:12
Speaker
You know, and so there's, there's the question mark over, it's always this question mark over, do you captain or don't you on DuPont? And last week was probably not your best week to captain them. I know that that went poorly. So I just, yeah, I just don't. Fuck if I know.
00:14:38
Speaker
But, yeah, I'm not sure I want to go with DuPont, again, just because, you know, I might want to roll the dice somewhere else because, yeah, it's an easy decision to make, but is it the right decision? You know, just because it's easy. Like, the problem might not be worth it. Because, you know, nine and a half points. You know, we're bitching about skeleton getting 10 points. Well,
00:15:02
Speaker
to fuck up less than nine. You don't want that from the guy you captained as well. And the guy. Yeah, exactly. All that is just bad news. So
00:15:10
Speaker
So hopefully that doesn't happen again, but at the same time, you know, don't want to, don't want to. Yeah. I mean, I'm looking at Keenan. I'm probably going to see if I can add low and then that might be my choice. There you go. Um, yeah, somebody from one store might be a decent pick this weekend. Um, and again, we've said it a thousand times, remember the likes of, uh,
00:15:34
Speaker
Machino and Para and Cooney and the young kid from wrestling. Those are the law that's kicking points. You just keep that about your head. Like if you're going to pick a non-kicking 10 like if in Russell.
00:15:51
Speaker
then OK, that's that's fine. But just keep that just keep that in mind, because that's where those points come from. So you're going to need to get it helpful to get. Yeah, if you don't want to just give up kicking points and not have any. Right. No, you don't want to do that. Don't want to do that at all. Tens. They're all over the place right now.
00:16:14
Speaker
Yeah, Mark is a big choice for a lot of people. Obviously, Sexton has kind of worked his way back into that board. I have one, the only thing I have when it comes to like Intimac is he doesn't kick. Right. So again, that's another one where you can pick a junkoonie.
00:16:33
Speaker
Give them the K and then you pick into Mac, right? That'll work out. That shouldn't be too bad. Um, but yeah, that's, that's something you just have to keep in mind when you, when you pick something like somebody like that. Um, how much did he get that? Yeah. Yeah. I West scored really well last week. 23. How could be a outside, that could be a dark, dark player right there. Just like outside shot, like nobody's going to pick him.
00:17:01
Speaker
You give him a K and yeah, if he's going to turn that in, that is not bad. So I would not be mad if I was anybody that had that.
00:17:13
Speaker
We saw Jimmy O'Brien come crashing down, as you mentioned, that might happen for the centers. Right. So yeah, maybe, maybe hold off there. Yep. Yep. I agree. Hume's still fairly consistent. Nine and a half last week. Yeah. I'm not complaining about Hume. Nope. Um, wasn't bad. Right. Cause Fiku scored, he only got 10. Rajarajah got eight or did he was that.
00:17:36
Speaker
Yeah. He only got eight. So it's like, and he scored two. So he even got nine and a half. Okay. I'm good.
Outside Backs Performance and Transfers
00:17:42
Speaker
I had Peter hockey in mind. He had 13 last week with no scoring and he came off early. So I'm wondering if that might be worth keeping.
00:17:52
Speaker
Yeah, we'll see. You know, I just, I was like, you know what, the team tosses the ball around. Let's, um, let's try it. No, good. Do worse. Could do worse. Yeah. What did Hinshaw get last week? Eight. That's not awesome either. Right. So we'll see. Maybe, maybe I don't, I, I assume none of that is not healthy. And that's why he didn't play. Cause otherwise what the hell are you doing?
00:18:18
Speaker
What the hell are you doing out here? And Joe Marchant, obviously, the quality option, too. He had a score, but he's just been fantastic in that 13 channel. And yeah, he's been breaking the line a lot. So you know, the twins are going to be going for it. So they have to check it about. So it'll be interesting. No doubt. And then back three, the outside backs like
00:18:44
Speaker
This is where, you know, you live and die sometimes. Because these are going to be the big ones if you hit it right. You know, I had, I had brought in Zeebo thinking it was going to be a good day and didn't even play. So what happens? I think the leading point score so far still is my Clowry. Yep, it is. You got 12 last week and didn't even try so. Yeah. I had Ramos on my bench.
00:19:14
Speaker
Yeah. And some of his comes from kicking as well. So. Oh, that's true. Nineteen nine and a half was from kicking. So, yeah. So still would have been better than I'm off. Yeah. Points and brackets. Yeah. OK. So, yeah. Not not awesome. No. And see, I've I have to say.
00:19:34
Speaker
John porch. I had him in my team for that one, that four point week. And I can't bring myself to put him in there again. I'm like, nope, it's going to be a bad news. It's going to be bad news, man. One's bitten twice shy, but damn, he's scoring. Yeah, he is apart from that one. So yeah, I'll let everybody know out there that picks John porch if I pick him.
00:19:54
Speaker
then dump them. They're going away. That's not somebody you want to hang on to very long. Right. At Leinster, they're not there. They're not lasting longer, although there are unlimited subs for the next round. I can't remember. I was looking at that earlier. Give me a second here. Either way, I'd move. I'd start moving away from Porsche. That's the transaction you're going to have to make anyway. Right.
00:20:20
Speaker
Yeah. And then you, cause I had, yeah, I have all players, I believe we'll be moving on. I could be wrong about that obviously, but yeah, that's definitely something you want to consider at this point. Like how many of those? All right. I can tell you, we will have.
00:20:40
Speaker
eight transfers, uh, in the next round, the next round. So you still have to get rid of players and players you still have to start moving away from. So that's how that is. So depending on what you got, if you have a spare one, this round, try to move some guys around or at least, you know, as you're making your transactions, remember that you're going to have to transfer guys out. If you transfer them in and they're gone after this week,
00:21:08
Speaker
Okay.
Superbrew Leaderboard Update
00:21:10
Speaker
Um, good news. The leaderboard is up for, uh, super brew as well for champions league. Uh, Duncan is the leader and he also had the best round last last round. So good for him. Um, followed by Mark, George, myself, Carrick, Ben here, Anton, and Saf has bring up the rear on this one. Um, and Justin, Justin all the way down. Justin's a little, maybe fall asleep on this one once or twice.
00:21:38
Speaker
But as our guy and our man Duncan pointed out,
00:21:45
Speaker
This is not a fun league to be in, in this competition right now, because four of us are in the top 100. Yeah. Or yeah. Yeah. Actually four of us are more of a 20. Right. No, it's worse than that. Yeah. I messed that up. Right. And worse, way worse. I'm in, I'm what, where am I? I'm sixth in this league. I'm 86 in the competition. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:13
Speaker
And Anton is like, and Anton's like right behind me too. It's like, wow. Yeah. No, that's me. I want to see Anton. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Yeah. It's, uh,
00:22:29
Speaker
It's brutal. No. And that's the funny thing is I feel like I just see it. I'm like, I suck at this. And then it's like, no, actually, wait a minute. You're just in the wrong league, bro. Don't just in the wrong league. Yeah. I was. Yeah. And I was, um, actually, it was actually just outside the top 20 before this round started, but I was able to cobble together a decent round. So I jumped back into the top 20 and some 9 25. So he is.
00:23:02
Speaker
There he is. He's 194. Wow. There's a big gap between that. But not that big in points, but big in numbers. I'm at 960. He's 35 points behind me and is over 100 people away. Or like 70 people away. Something ridiculous. Still. Yeah. Quite a bit. Not for the faint of heart.
00:23:24
Speaker
Should you choose your fate to join the champion league next year? No, that this is not a mess around just competition. Right. No fucking around. Cool. All right. Well, I'm glad they were able to get that done.
Super Rugby Start or Sit Advice
00:23:41
Speaker
Yeah, let's do start set for super. Excellent.
00:23:47
Speaker
So where does that start? I believe that's you. Crusaders and Blues, it does. There you go. Start with me. For the Crusaders, their front row, Blackadder and Christie have been scoring. Christie scores kind of meh, but the Blues are ninth versus Loose forward, so he should score OK. Moonga, obviously, the back three, absolutely. Now, Havelian and Orr are kind of bubble this week because the Blues are second overall versus centers. They give up like nothing up the middle, so not looking good there.
00:24:16
Speaker
the for the Blues, the Crusaders of the 11th overall defense. So there could be points on offer. And as we saw last week, Blues will run the front rows on the bubble because the Crusaders are fourth against it. But Robinson, Papa Lee, so to to, you know, Robinson's in that six jersey, you know, same six for the Blues gets you double, apparently.
00:24:42
Speaker
Christie's on the bubble, but otherwise the entire back line is a go.
00:24:56
Speaker
4Z Rebels, Andrew Kellaway, the move could be beneficial for him moving to 13, seeing as the Reds are much softer in the midfield, 9th, than they are on the outside, 2nd, give him a go. Good week to grab a lock, Reds are dead last versus them, so I would pick Matt Phillip as the leading candidate for the Rebels there, scored 10 plus last time out versus the Reds as well, so there's that.
00:25:19
Speaker
Six is an ugly position in FRD generally, stands what we just talked about with Tom Robinson. And the reds defense makes that especially so with 3.1 average versus sixes. So Michael Wells gets a pine recommendation out of me this week. Sorry, Michael.
00:25:34
Speaker
For the Reds, Rudy Valo returns with a tasty matchup to get himself off the mark here. Rebels are dead last versus upside backs. Rebels are also 11 versus midfield. So a flier like, you know, a waiver wire flier like Ham Stewart is worth a shot in the dark. So, Stewart.
00:25:55
Speaker
For me, until the Reds front row stops getting carded, I'm strongly considering other candidates. I don't have them, but I definitely would consider Hunter. Even in this matchup, honestly, they just can't stay away from cards. So strongly consider somebody else, guys. Yeah. It just fucks you so much. There's players who have great games, but then the card has some negative points. And you're like, what the fuck? Right.
00:26:22
Speaker
Okay, so on to Chiefs versus Monica Pacifica so they're, you know, the Chiefs lineup is out. Monica Pacifica is not as of this recording, which means it'll probably drop right after we drop this. Either way, for the Chiefs their front row should be just fine.
00:26:40
Speaker
I had Peter Gus. He's not playing. Luke Jacobson will step in and do just fine against Mauna Pacifica. I'm actually starting Kalem Bashir again because just same thing. He had a card last match, but other than that, he played really well and just barely got negative.
00:26:58
Speaker
still considering him, especially in this matchup. He'll get his chances. What did I say about the back three? Yeah, outside of Stevenson, Narawa, and Nana Satoro. So, are any of them playing? Stevenson is playing. Nana Satoro is playing. 11 and 14. Yeah, give them a start. Nakavela at 13 should do pretty well. TiaTia at 15.
00:27:18
Speaker
Maybe I kind of need to see it. Britton Gatlin will score very well at 10, because it'll take a lot of kicks. And Radama is starting. It might be a sneaky play if you are, you know, basically have anybody else who's like, you know, the fucking muckety muck. Radama would be a fantastic pickup for this weekend. Right. Yeah, there you go. Should be worse, right?
00:27:40
Speaker
Right. You could do worse. Yeah. Like you might, you'll have to drop him, but like as a, as a fill in starter for basically, of course anybody, he should score pretty well. Right. All right. Um, so for highlanders and hurricanes, so highlanders have the lineup out hurricanes yet. Come on, hurricanes. Let's go. Um, for the highlanders. So highlanders front row as it goes, uh, continues the recommendations, uh, this week, they obviously performed well last week. Um, hurricanes aren't a whole lot better. So in terms of.
00:28:09
Speaker
what they do against front row. So the, the highlanders front row gives a go for me. Um, hurricanes are pretty soft against outside back. So Sam Gilbert is the one I'm picking out because he seems to be a finisher for them. Um, I have him and I haven't regretted apart from, I think last week, actually surprisingly, he didn't get anything, but, um, that's like the first week in a long time. He hasn't gotten anything. So I'll give that a pass.
00:28:31
Speaker
Marty Banks is playing for the Islanders. Only if you're desperate, though, honestly. Mitch Hunt's on the bench, so he could be on a short leash. Just keep that in mind. For the Hurricanes. Jackson Garden Bashup is in play this week. I know he's not the kicker usually, but...
00:28:48
Speaker
Flyhaps are very, very, very good against the Highlanders. I believe they are second to last. So there you go. So there's that possibility. And he'll go for a scoot. So that's the thing. And if it's love, same thing. That's a possibility as well. Listen, you're all going to...
00:29:05
Speaker
If you in the in the choice between Jackson guard and bash up or love and Marty banks, I'm taking one of those firstly, that's without the kicking points because they run and Marty banks can barely move. And then so for the outside backs or the midfield, excuse me, the midfield has been a little bit chopping change for the hurricanes.
00:29:24
Speaker
I'm going to pick out Billy Proctor, Ormoumaga, Jensen Osley, or Sullivan. All three of them are in play. Highlanders aren't especially strong, and all three of them usually do well when they're in there, so give them a go. Halfbacks not named TJ. Have a seat for the Hurricanes. So, Roy Guard, Booth, any of the Highlanders are second against Halfbacks because of the guy that plays nine for them. Dick. Okay. So, Force versus Warataz.
00:29:54
Speaker
in Western Australia. Some mediocre attacks force our eighth, toss our fifth versus some strong defenses force our fifth, toss our first. So it's like, you know, we going up against kind of strengths. Although I did, you know, five versus five, but still fifth and attack is very different from fifth and defense. The defenses are a little bit tighter up at the top.
00:30:19
Speaker
Anyway, for the force, Kane Kutaka, he asked even with the card last week, just as he said, with Bashir, give him a, you know, roll with him anyway. Prior, because he gets the kicks, everyone else, Mata Eili, Kunzel, Godwin, and Pulu, they're on the bubble, just because the company comes to the number one defense from the Taz. On the Taz side, the front row should do fine, Gamble and Hooper together.
00:30:47
Speaker
Yes. Gordon is back. So I, you know, he expect, um, probably doesn't get a full run of, you know, it might probably play under 60, but he still could go for a scoot as we've all seen, um, for Katie and Parisi are on the bubble at best. Cause the force of the top team versus centers, uh, no walking in a Wassey as a go, uh, Newsome and peach are on the bubble. Yeah. Yeah. It can be worse. Yeah. I mean, it's like, don't, yeah. If you want to play and play him, but expect less.
00:31:16
Speaker
All right. We're doing other weeks now, right?
00:31:22
Speaker
I guess so. Yeah. Um, okay. So you don't have another match. Then we're doing, we don't know. Of course, we lost one. I do math. Um, okay. So start of the week for me. Um, I had not talked about this guy in my match, but he wasn't one of my matches. Um, we love fetches on this pod and this guy is a good one. He's been nearly unstoppable so far. And his matchup is begging for another good one. So my star of the week for around nine of super rugby is wallop. He's in red's ball winner, Fraser McRite.
00:31:53
Speaker
Excellent. That's a good pick. I love it when right off the bat, I know we didn't pick the same person. That's always a good start. Yeah. Cause mine's not a fetcher. He's a, he's a runner. And, um, we've, we, we love him on the pod. Uh, I think he, he doesn't get the, um, the playing time he generally deserves and he's kind of showing it now.
00:32:13
Speaker
He's got a great matchup. His opponent is last versus the position. I think I mentioned him. I didn't mention him by name, but, um, I did mention his entire back line. Bryce team is my start of the week.
00:32:26
Speaker
love him. Crusaders are last versus the centers. So yeah, really weird, right? Yeah, not we'll get it. But go on either. Alright, so my still the week. This guy has not had a great start in terms of points goes to fancy and he's now going against I say start like season at this point.
00:32:47
Speaker
He's not really going against the toughest defense for his position, and it's not going to be fun for him. And I think he's just going to have a miserable day all around. So my sizzle week for round nine of Super Ruby is force flyer Tony Poole.
Champions Cup Game Predictions
00:33:02
Speaker
Interesting. I went with that match for my city of the week as well, but I went on the other side. Oh, interesting. Okay. Because the force are number one versus centers. And this guy, as I can attest, because I have him on my team and I still might play him anyway, because I'm fucking dumbass.
00:33:18
Speaker
And I really don't have much else in here. Yeah. Todd's center, Isaiah Parisi. Oh, yeah. And I like him, too. So I do, too. That's a painful one. Yeah, I'm with you. Try to avoid it, but I don't think I can. Yeah, I know. You can't do nothing about it before I run away. One more time, hurricanes. Come on, do something with me. I just checked. That's not helpful. I told you.
00:33:49
Speaker
Or can't you kill me, man? Also, I wasn't even worried because now I'm like, all right, is there something wrong? Uh-oh. Please. Please, no. We've seen that enough. All right. Here we go. So, we're picking the game for the Champions Cup, not the tie, the game. Just remember that. Okay. Just this coming game. Yeah, just the weekend. All right.
00:34:13
Speaker
So we got an early one Friday, just FYI kids. It's, I'm pretty sure this one's early. It's like noon over here. So keep your, keep your head on a swivel with that one. Lancer Connick. Lancer. Yeah. In Dublin. Absolutely. Yeah. And then later on in the afternoon for us, Bristol and sale. I'm going to take Bristol. Bristol. Yeah. Yep.
00:34:36
Speaker
Quinn's Montpelier. We're picking the game. I will take the Quinn's. Yeah. We're not thinking over time that tie is going to be a whole different ball game. It is. La Rochelle and Bordeaux. La Rochelle. Yeah. La Rochelle. Yeah. Bordeaux are going to have to make that really ugly and that's not their 4T.
00:34:54
Speaker
No, it's not. Monster Exeter. They're at Tomin Park. I got to take Monster. Yeah, Monster will win. We'll see if it's enough to overcome. Right. We shall see. Lester and Claremont. Oh, my goodness. Sorry, Claremont. You are going to be in for a while to hurt. No, it's going to be right. They're going to throw everything they have for 20 minutes. And if anything sticks, then maybe it stays a game. But if it doesn't, then this is just going to be bad.
00:35:24
Speaker
Um, here's probably the most curious one so far, Ulster and Toulouse. That's like one of these Toulouse to, to win by not, but not by enough. Yeah, it could be. They might win by one or three or something like that, but it's not going to be enough to.
00:35:42
Speaker
Yeah, they might. I like the way they play at the king's band. So here you get a chance to get a game on me. I'll take the ultimate or I lose a game. Yeah. I said, I'll give you a chance. And yeah. Rossing instead. Rossing out while the false. Yeah. Rossing. No. All day. Okay. Off to super rugby. Sorry. I got a change. Um, brain. I'm going to take the crusaders are at home.
00:36:11
Speaker
I really like the way the Blues are playing though, but at the same time, a lot of that was that she's just pooped. Yeah. Rebels and Reds. Reds. Even if the Reds get carded, it's going to be them. Right. No, Reds. Rebels aren't good enough to win that match. No, sorry. Chief's Moana. I see your boys bouncing back. Chiefs. Fucking better. We'll go Chiefs too. Yeah.
00:36:39
Speaker
uh highlanders hurricanes i'm taking my guys i know the highlanders are feeling better but man they've been so fucking close a couple times they should be able to get this one over the line and yeah i don't i don't i don't have much faith in the highlanders and i think that they're the disrespect over rating starting marty banks come on i think they're yeah the smell themselves a little bit and they're not that good they've had they've had a couple like clicky games but i like i actually do like the way the hurricanes are playing it's just
00:37:06
Speaker
Yeah, they need to play team like the Highlanders to really put it on full display. Yeah. Valence Sullivan in center, I hope, because he's been playing out of his skin. He just hasn't started much. Forest and Taz.
00:37:23
Speaker
The force had showed better against the rebels. I would take them, but they didn't. They were poo. I'll take the toss. Yeah. Yeah. So, all right. One game different. I mean, again, Hooper and Gamble. Yeah. That being the other thing. There's another thing called Michael Hooper.
00:37:41
Speaker
I had a kid, one of the kids I'm coaching is like, so I've just been like watching highlights and it's this one guy that just like seems to be doing everything himself named Michael Hooper. I'm like, yeah, that sounds about right. That's his name.
00:37:56
Speaker
Yep. And that's correct. Congratulations, kid. You win. I mean, I was dying. And I told that I nudged Eric and he was just like, yep. OK, I noticed him, too, huh? I guess you've seen the water tosmatch. Yeah, right. Or we're we're. Oh, shit. All right. Cool. So there's that.
00:38:20
Speaker
Get this up ASAP So yeah, I'm all well, yeah, we'll get it up for you George Yeah, we've gotten them. We've gotten the sheet up the last two weeks, right or at least the last week. We did have the sheets out So we'll get that out again. It's up on the patreon. Nice. Oh and they start sets We'll get the start sets. We'll be out as well. Yeah, so we'll get those out Yeah didn't do much Friday because I was kind of spent I'm dead and I had men get outside the game. So I was like, oh you need to
00:38:48
Speaker
constrain on that. Sorry, guys. I love you and all, but kiddos come first. Right. But yeah, so we'll see all for that. Obviously, you can always just tweet us and ask us questions out of the blue. We have no problem with that. But yeah, we will catch you guys that next week. There was one thing we do need to talk about. There's still an open question out there about the draft league. Oh, yes. CRM style. Yes.
00:39:12
Speaker
And and I will say this, I have competed in leagues like this in football. Oh, right. And like this, because again, you're this I'm a fantasy old head. I have played every style there is. Right. Including that in an American football. And it's not as fun.
00:39:34
Speaker
I believe it's like, cause you play your week, but it's not like if you have your team that you drafted and you know, you have the other players, you know, you don't make trades.
00:39:43
Speaker
Cause you're like, this doesn't do anything for me. Right. Um, cause it's not like strategic. I need to beat this. All I need to do is beat this person rather than I just need to score a bunch of points. It's not the same experience. So, um, no, the salary cap is, is a better experience than, than the draft in that style in my experience. I mean, there's a reason that those leagues existed fantasy wise and like the, the ESPN's and the Yahoo's and they don't anymore. Um, it was tried about 20 years ago and it doesn't really, it doesn't, it doesn't work.
00:40:13
Speaker
Yeah, worthy question. Yeah, no, it's a great idea. But yeah, the reason it was tried and it went, you know, maybe some alterations could help. But I don't know what else would be on it went extinct for a reason. Yeah, yes. Yes, yes. Okay, cool. So yeah, we did we did our job on that. And congratulations for us.
00:40:34
Speaker
Cool. Yeah, we appreciate you all for hanging out with us and asking us questions. You're not a blue. Awesome. Always fun for us to find redefine things to think about fancy wise. So keep them coming. But yeah, we will. We're all going to sit back and enjoy the second leg of round of 16 plus super rugby plus the women's six nations and
00:40:55
Speaker
everything in between so if you are seeing catching us on the rugby pod pod we'll see then if not we'll see you back to the fancy corner next week everybody enjoy the enjoy the rugby have a good weekend later