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Season 4- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Premiership Round 12 Preview)
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It's The Fantasy Corner for Premiership round 12. On FC this week, we look back at the damage that was done by the CYL crew on The Rugby Mag and how things shook out in the FRW match ups as well. We also do another round of Buy, Rent or Ditch and This or That. Oh yeah, and that Start or Sit thing we all enjoy. Get something to write with and a beverage, enjoy the final Fantasy Corner of 2021.
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Transcript
Introduction & Patreon Update
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody, welcome back to this. I'm Ben. It is the fancy corner, that place that you get your bad advice from. If you don't, if you don't. Yeah, at this point, at this point, we're considering how we're doing so. True. And how are our Patreons are doing? So there's something there. Yeah, our patrons are doing not too bad, especially considering like Alex and Duncan are like are doing awesome.
00:00:38
Speaker
Yeah, they are. And Marcus is a recent addition, if I'm not mistaken. I learned how to figure it out. Yeah, it'll take a little bit. But he's on the right path. He's got he's got a couple of things going right for him. Rodgers and that you got to got to get rid of him. I realize he's like number one in terms of flankers, but that's just because he plays all the time. And right. He plays. He's definitely played the most minutes of the play. Right. But the points per minute aren't really there. And no. And he doesn't get very high scores. So.
00:01:05
Speaker
But no, that's again, he's
Champions League Standings Review
00:01:07
Speaker
moving in the right direction. He's got Clark and Robinson and Captain Domra did a lot of good things this weekend. Lots of good things. Lots and lots of good things. Yeah. So let's look at TRM review for the Champions League. A little bit of movement, but not much.
00:01:26
Speaker
Duncan still sitting on top, although that's getting narrower and narrower by the minute. Ben's two, Carrick is three, Justin is four, but I've got my, I'm right on him. I get 20 points away. It's a 20 point difference. So you made up 70 points this weekend. So not so bad. Hopefully I can do that again.
00:01:46
Speaker
Um, and then Mark is right behind me. Anton jumped George, poor George, just having a, having a bad old one for George. That's hurtful. Oh, George messes us. We'll help you. Yeah. We need to at least offer that.
00:02:07
Speaker
T2, there was almost no movement. It's Franco Cobus, John at the top three, Terry, our old friend Terry, Leannu, Bob, Yuri, and Larry pulling up the backside. But some good weeks in there. Cobus had a great week, 551.
00:02:27
Speaker
Like hot damn. Yeah. Hot damn, dude. Like that is a week. That is that's three. That's three. He is just in front. He was just in front of me this weekend.
00:02:41
Speaker
I do want to give a little up to our podcast.
Fantasy Rugby Strategies
00:02:44
Speaker
So let me go over there. Well, Ben's on top of that. Sorry, guys. Rich. Rich and rich in order to two different ones. Terry, Anton, Luke.
00:02:57
Speaker
our friend George and Rob and Keith are rounding up the top 10 of that. Yeah, so we got 14 guys in there. It's not too bad, actually. So that's cool. And then yeah, we so we appreciate you guys there. FRW.
00:03:15
Speaker
Still can't buy one. Anton's, Daveed Mark, Justin got me by three. So close. I thought I had it. Skosan did nothing. I need him to do something on Monday and he did nothing. That's all I needed. All I needed was a little up there. You were able to get the best of Carrick and that was a pretty good one. 66 to 55. And then, yeah.
00:03:43
Speaker
George, George got the, as fast as George is doing in TRM, he's doing quite well here. George got the better, better Duncan here. Upcoming week here. We got a few couple more weeks before we go back to Europe. Justin and Anton, and then we have Carrick and Mark.
00:04:01
Speaker
I've got Duncan. Oh boy. Um, and then you and George, that should be very interesting on that one. I'm looking forward to that one. That should be very interesting on that one. One in three right there. Pretty good. Pretty good stuff. The boys and girls, um, lads, ladies, and everybody else in between.
Player Analysis & Management Strategies
00:04:16
Speaker
Um, so let's do a new thing that we started last week. Just looking at like some of the lists here, uh, by rent or ditch. Okay. And I kind of liked it. Um,
00:04:33
Speaker
We'll do a couple. We'll do a couple for. We'll do both for these. Gabriel Agree by Renterditch. I have him and I'm. I just don't know. He I would assume he's I don't I don't know if he's going to be the starter or what I don't know what to do with him. I'm going to probably end up ditching him.
00:05:00
Speaker
because I don't know if there's another guy on your list or this guy's coming up on your list, but Wollstonecroft is obviously back for Saracens and they're about the same. So Woolley is 187, Agree is 166, so they're like 21k apart.
00:05:18
Speaker
I'm, you know, that's a switch I'm looking at. Okay. I'm going to be there for the, you know, George will be back soon, but probably not for Six Nations. So no, he's probably not gonna be ready for Six Nations, I think. Right. Okay. And then Sam Simmons by rent to ditch. I'm ditching him. There's too much.
00:05:43
Speaker
Um, too, too much scoring at the eight man position. And he is, unfortunately, even when he's scoring tries, he's still not lighting up the fantasy world lately. So I, you know, Dom brand is a better play and he's cheaper, you know, right, right there. That's, that's that, you know, you could even look at, you know, a Dan Dupree or a, um,
00:06:03
Speaker
John Luke Dupree, who's eligible there, even when he plays lock. There's just so many points. Ben Arles is scoring points and he's at less expense. There's just, yeah, there's better plays for your money and your value. Yep. Red Radra, buy rent a ditch. I'm buying. I'm still looking for a way to bring him into the team.
00:06:33
Speaker
I he's coming back, you know, it's going to be a building process and Bristol are still obviously still learning how to play with each other. I really want to see him with Piers O'Connor again. And once they get that matchup and figure out some of what they're doing in the back three.
00:06:51
Speaker
There's there's there's work to be done there and Roger Hager will make it work. I thought he made it work with with some, you know, not so great guys this past week. Flashes this past weekend. Yeah, I agree. Just not quite the result on those two over there. Alfie, Barbary, Byron to Dutch. Rent. I think a lot of the wasps guys are rent right now. Don't get to attach to any of the back anybody who plays in that.
00:07:20
Speaker
Um, that back row. Cause you know, I have Willis. How long is that going to last? You know, when his brother come, when, when Jack comes back, I don't know. Um, and when bar, you know, Barbary, they want him at eight, I guess it looks like. So we're in the background somewhere somewhere, but it's like, you still have shields. You still have Tom young, you know, the, the both Willis's and that's, you know, that's seven guys for three spots. Um,
00:07:49
Speaker
I, you know, I'd be looking at cars, cars, still a factor at wasp, whether we like him or not, he's still a factor there, too. Right. But you're not going to buy him, but there's all these options to have and where options or the points will go. So, yeah, I'd look at it again. Rent it. But don't, you know, yeah, unless something becomes clear.
00:08:14
Speaker
I wouldn't, I wouldn't be too sentimental about it. Right. Yeah. I feel like, so those are, they're wondering rent is like a one or two week thing, not like a, yeah. Like don't be not beyond that beyond that. I consider it buying. Yeah. Cause you're probably in it for a long haul at that point. Right. All right.
00:08:33
Speaker
And then let's do a little this or that. So when I say this or that, I want, we're going to, let's define it this week for this week. Okay. How's that? So pull up your, pull up your fixture list there. Big guy. The sheets, the sheets ready on the fixture list. Yeah. That way, you know, that way, you know, got that. All right. So let's start with prop. I'll do a couple for each position. Okay. Let me get to the props.
00:09:00
Speaker
Well, I mean, I'm going to. Um. Tomoga Allen or Joe Marlin? Tomoga Allen. Okay. Marlar doesn't doesn't really score. I mean, you're looking at the two of them. Marlar averages.
00:09:19
Speaker
Oh, what the fuck just happened. Okay. He averages like, where is he? There he is. 14 points a game is last or like about 11.8. Um, to mug Allen, um, averages in the twenties and his last five are still in the twenties. So yeah, to my gallon. Yep. Um, to my gallon or Val, we're probably rusting.
00:09:41
Speaker
Oh, so I had to make that choice this week. I had to end up cutting Val because I just didn't have the cash otherwise, but I would have rather kept him. I'd go Val, if you have the option. Yep. Kyle Sinclair or Will Stewart? Okay, so Will Stewart.
00:10:09
Speaker
has. So he's played, let's put it this way. He's played six matches, started six matches, sorry. Four of them have gone over 25 points. His lowest score is 10. His highest score is 53 that I think he hit this week. And what was the other? Sinclair.
00:10:27
Speaker
He started four matches. Only one has gone over 25. He's gotten one that's under 10. I think it was this past week. He's averaging 16 points a game. Yeah. Stewart. Here's a fun one for you. Will Stewart or Ollie Hoskins? Ollie Hoskins.
00:10:50
Speaker
Stewart week to he's he has those that big splash week. Yeah, you got 53. The rest of it kind of kind of skews his numbers a little bit. Olly Hoskins, though, I'm concerned now since since he kind of came back from Australia, from the Australian team, he's he's not had the production, but it could still be there.
00:11:18
Speaker
People will be there for, well, they might be seeing each other this weekend because it's exiles and baths, so we'll see. All right, let's go to hooks. Yeah, if anybody has an idea that they want to see them here, please, please hit me up. Sam Adivasi or Jack Walker?
00:11:47
Speaker
I'm not a big Jack Walker fan. I don't think that's, you know, any, anything hidden. Really what it boils down to is the difference.
00:12:01
Speaker
is that Mattavacy is actually doing slightly better against opposition average than Walker is. So Walker is actually negative opposition average. And Mattavacy is only slightly positive. So it's actually a good comparison, but that's why I would go Mattavacy, because he'll get more points than he should. Whereas Walker just kind of has good friendly opposition.
00:12:28
Speaker
It's sneaking some points in when the other they're not, you know, they're paying attention to Dom, Brent and other guys. Yeah, same amount of AC or Luke. Matt of AC because you'll have him through. He's cheaper and the points differential are not great.
00:12:48
Speaker
So, um, Cowan Dickey is averaging 26 points per minute per, uh, per start. Matt of AC is averaging about he's like, they're like what 0.8 of a, you know, eight tenths of a point different. So maybe one point different there. And it's two 90 versus two 15. Um, and there's about similar points versus opposition average three to three and a half. So, um,
00:13:15
Speaker
Yeah, I'm good there. Okay. Um, Jack Singleton or Tom Dunn? I think I got to go singles, but I don't see him. Where's he on the list? There he is. Okay. Now he's all weird. Okay. Um, Singleton or Tom Dunn. I think I'm going singles.
00:13:40
Speaker
Don's super, don's super expensive and he's, he's averaging less over, over the year. He's still averaging less than 20 points per match per starting. Um, I think, you know, he may be done, done maybe having a little bit of a resurgence or he could just be. We'll find out. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Um, Jack Singleton or Julia Montoya. Montoya.
00:14:09
Speaker
I think that's no doubt. I mean, there's like 10 points per start difference. Although, Singleton has started 10 matches to Montoya's five. So, there's something to be said for that. You know, Montoya, there's Nick Dolly to be reckoned with over in Leicester. Right. Singleton is the man there. But again, 10 points different per start. And it's about the same price. So, you're always going to have a second hook or so.
00:14:41
Speaker
Yeah, I go. Yeah, I want to tell you. Yeah. All right. Montoya or Gus Creeby? Oh, Creevy. Cause Creevy is the man. And there's no, there's no question about that. Whereas Montoya is, he's half the man because Dolly is the other half at that position. I am half the man you are. Gus Creevy or George McWiggin? Creevy. Although it's close.
00:15:12
Speaker
But the preview has is scoring better. He's right now. McGuigan is is just trailing him a little bit. OK, let's go to Lux. Maro or via. Maro because Maro like. I feel like via that was a solid match he had. Obviously he can do much better, but like.
00:15:40
Speaker
Mara kind of had a poopy match and still scored like 28. So I mean, you know, he had done a poopy match, but he just didn't, he didn't have much to do because everybody else was doing stuff. Um, Mara is just going to get to the points. I mean, you want both. I have both. I don't have to make that distinction, but, um, at the same time, as I said in the other, the other league or earlier, um,
00:16:03
Speaker
When Willis dropped, I had to bring in Fafita. He was on my bench because it's the Tojay and Clark for me are on my locks right now. Okay. Via or JLDP? That's not a fair question. That's a legit question I have right now. That is like my biggest issue is do I drop, like I want JLDP. I really do. And I think the only way I get him
00:16:33
Speaker
is if I dropped for feeder.
00:16:35
Speaker
And I don't really, I don't want to please somebody, somebody answer that for me. I can't answer this question because I don't know the answer. I haven't, I haven't come up with it yet. Um, yeah, I, I don't know. Cause I, yeah, Dupree is available. He's eight eligible, but that doesn't really fucking matter. Cause there's enough eights right now that are scoring. You don't have to worry about that so much, but good to have the case.
00:17:04
Speaker
Yeah, Fafita, I think, is a little bit more boom or bust, whereas Dupree will just get you solid points. You don't have to worry about it. That's kind of where I am. OK. Sean Robinson or JLDP? And this is one of this is why. So put it this way. And I'm not sure we're getting to him.
00:17:29
Speaker
but Harry Wells is gonna be off of my team this weekend. And the thing is, I can drop him basically one for one. It's a 1K difference for Sean Robinson. So yes, Sean Robinson is on my team. So I think at this point, he's the most valuable. His low score is 26. That's terrifying. That's ridiculous. Fingers crossed, man.
00:17:58
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, yeah, does that kind of hold up? I don't know. Probably not. He's going to have a bottom out at some point. Right. But still, you know, that's that's a damn good floor to have for for 218 degree. That's and that's the difference because Dupree is fucking 70 K higher. Yep. All right. He has a good one for you. Sean Robinson or Freddie Clark? No.
00:18:27
Speaker
Or what's this? Or is this bullshit? Both. No, I don't know. Yeah, no. OK, but Clark plays more or has played more. I guess Robinson was injured a little bit. So that's not exactly fair. Yeah, it's not super fair. But that's that's that's to me the only difference. You know, the most important availability is availability. Very often.
00:18:53
Speaker
I mean, both are going to score off the bench, you know, even, but that's the other thing. Clark has scored off the bench. She's appeared twice, um, average 15 points that's off the bench. So that's a, you know, if he's going to be on the pitch, he's going to be scoring points. So you're going to have him on your, in your roster, no matter what, you know, he's playing 10 out of 10 matches for her roster. Then yeah, he's my guy. Yep. Yep. Um, all right. Thanks. Um, Lewis Ludlow or Tom Curry.
00:19:25
Speaker
Well, you know what? I haven't even looked at either of them. So give me one second while I... Oh, duh. I'm typing in the wrong keyboard. I'm dual-computering it here. Don't close your laptop. I won't do that again. OK, so where are we? Curry? There's Curry and Ludlow. Ludlow.
00:19:54
Speaker
I got it. Ludlow is not scoring well. I mean, Curry's scoring like 20 or so points higher. But I'm going to go with neither. Well, that's what it's called either or not neither or both.
00:20:14
Speaker
Oh, it's not. It's gross. But I guess I get that end up going with Ludlow because he's 50 K less, 50 K less. And he's still way overpriced at 270, but at least you could get those points. You know, it's three point difference. So yeah. Fucking cares in the end for 50 K three points is not that big a deal. Each match can do better, but lower on to help. Um, I, I really, I mean,
00:20:41
Speaker
No, I like under Hill. Um, I don't know if that's the right answer though. Where the fuck is under Hill? There he is. I mean, he's still above, but he's still also super expensive. So, so love, uh, well, they're still, they're both just flanker.
00:21:02
Speaker
I guess they'd go under Hill. All things considered. Go off. Yeah. Or it could go out 11 minutes in buses himself. You said, you said under Hill. Yeah. I'm going to go under Hill. All right. Under Hill or Jack Kenningham. Kenningham. Much less, you know, what? 90 K it's a lot. It's a really low expense. Yeah. Can you, can you remember Matt Rogers? Kenningham.
00:21:30
Speaker
I, Roger son, again, I can't say it enough. He scores. Okay. I mean, he's averaging his average is 21. His average is 21 points per start. You know, his last five, he's averaging 20.6, but that's it. You know, he's not, he's not super high on the point. He's, he's, his points for his position average is, you know, he's five points above four points above opposition, average points, average, like.
00:22:01
Speaker
Yeah, he's good. But right. Yeah, you can do better. All right. Let's go to the fellas wearing the eight shirt. Guys wear the eight shirt a lot this year for Bristol Fitzharding or a white truck. General Augustus Augustus. That's not I said it quickly, but that doesn't
00:22:26
Speaker
That doesn't portray the thought I've already put into this. You think what's wrong with you? I don't know. All right. Augustus or DDP? Augustus is cheaper, a lot cheaper. Okay. Augustus or
00:22:56
Speaker
Tom Willis. Tom Willis. Tom Willis or Sam Simmons? Tom Willis. That's a short term thing, but yeah. All right. Tom Willis or DDP? Tom Willis. Got that. All right. Let's go maps. All right. Let's do what we got here.
00:23:28
Speaker
Yeah, let's do, I like that. Alex Mitchell or Harry Randall? Alex Mitchell. Okay.
00:23:43
Speaker
Right on the trigger there. Well, yeah, because Harry Randall is splitting time and Alex Mitchell is really your best starting Scrum half right now. OK, here's here's one. Young Scrum Haps. Jack Van Portbleat or Harry Randall?
00:24:05
Speaker
Um, Harry Randall, because I think JVP is, I don't know if it's going to play that much, whereas Randall is going to play it, you know, he'll get a half in about each week. Okay. Um, Jack Monder or Alex Mitchell. Alex Mitchell. I mean, he's cheaper too, somehow. Yeah. That's weird. Um, Jack Monder or Louis Scooter.
00:24:42
Speaker
Maunder. Better to, like, he'll, you know, he has a better chance of throwing a pass to some galoot falling over a try line. That's true. That's true. This is fun. Well, for whatever reason, this is this is a weird discrepancy going on, but I'm going to throw it out there anyway. Should be an easy answer. Ben Spencer or Hurlit Davies?
00:25:09
Speaker
And Spencer. Yeah. And that's not saying much, but it's saying enough. Saying just enough. One more. I got one of these coming back your way when you're done with your. No. No. And I'm dying. Getting care of Alex Mitchell.
00:25:38
Speaker
Alex Mitchell, mostly for the Harlequins. Care has been good, but you can only have so many Harlequins on your team. And you're not going to have that many saints. So Mitchell's like, if you're going to have any saint, he's like the first saint you're going to have him or Augustus or maybe Dingwall. I have I have Mitchell and Dingall.
00:26:03
Speaker
So like I don't know that I need others at the moment, but you know, maybe Medivacy. But yeah, you know, with Danny care, it's like I don't have any care because I have already have too many Carla Quinn's that are not any care. So my one back to you as given that this weekend. One scored the backup scored higher than the starter. Ben White or Nick Phipps?
00:26:33
Speaker
just for the price Ben White.
00:26:35
Speaker
I can't I can't bring myself to spend that kind of money on Nick Phipps. No, because he still has a he still has a poopy game in him now. And again, that's too much money for me. Like Danny Care has not had too many bad games in his locker, and he's almost the same price. And I'd rather spend it on Danny Care because he's on the quiz. Right. And there's still a chance that he finds Tom Brant or somebody out wide or whatever and gets over the line or he goes for a scooter himself. Phipps doesn't go for a scoop that often. So no.
00:27:05
Speaker
And Ben White, yeah, I have him. Obviously, if you've listened, you already know that. Yeah, on the options he starts, man, he does rake. You're not wrong on that. He's perfect for like $1.91. I got him at $1.62. I've had him the whole time. Right. You have to have guys who are good on your bench.
00:27:24
Speaker
And it's like, who else, you know, I have Alex Mitchell and Ben White, and I'm doing that dance each week, like, okay, when am I going to have to add another Scum Hat? And it fucking seems like I never do, because Alex Mitchell is starting every match, and Ben White is, you know, either starting or on the bench every match, and still scoring. He still rakes from the bench. You know, he averages 15 points or so off the bench.
00:27:47
Speaker
Like I'll put that on my backup scrum half and be fine with it. Like if I can put, you know, resources elsewhere. Yep. Okay. Um, guys, we're in the tennis shirt.
Rugby Player Recommendations
00:28:00
Speaker
Uh, a fun, but not so fun one, uh, Kalim Shidi or Joe Simmons.
00:28:10
Speaker
sheet because he's playing at least Simmons. You never know. He only started five matches this year and he's had five from the bench. So you're, you know, if you're, if you're spending 329 K on your 10, you better be fucking playing every match. So, you know, I'd rather pay two 58 and have a sheet. He was actually playing. He's actually playing better than, than Simmons is anyway. So, uh, Brett Conner, Joe Simmons,
00:28:42
Speaker
This is almost like I plead the fifth. Please no. You know my answer, but I can't. Don't make me do stuff. Don't make me say it's not Sir Joseph Simmons because it's not. I'll go with that. I would not pick. It's not him. Sir. Okay. AJ or George Ford? AJ.
00:29:10
Speaker
And I have, again, I'm quick on that because I have made that decision in real life. I've already made it. Not just a member, or a president, I'm also a client. You know, of the A.J. Smith, Irving J. McGinney Fan Club. Cross the two, and there you go, you got your pie apps.
00:29:33
Speaker
you know, AJ's averaging six more points per start. I, you know, I had AJ this weekend as my starter to get the 20 points because I needed it. Had I? Same. Yeah. Originally, if I'd gone with Ford, guess how many points I would have had? 20. 20. Wouldn't have been a big deal.
00:29:49
Speaker
Right. Not a big deal, but it's also 120K difference. So, that's, to me, the big deal. I, you know, I'm going to be, and I say AJ, you know, I would guess, I fucked that up when I said AJ Smith, but that is my, those are my fly-hats. I have AJ and I have Marcus Smith, and I don't know that I'm, you know, I have for, not for me, I have Grayson too, for when, you know, the Six Nations roll around, he's cheap, I might as well just keep him on the roster. But that's it. I don't have to think about my tens, really.
00:30:18
Speaker
forward, it was like, yeah, he'll start, but he's also matching highly, be much more matchup dependent. All right, out and out centers, which are really hard to find. If you have to pick between the two of them, Andre or Joe, Andre, and Joe Martian. I had that decision. And again, I went with with Esther Hason. Okay, there you go. Dings or Tompkins?
00:30:48
Speaker
I'm going dings. Yeah. I actually, I actually had to make that decision too. Yeah. But things also will be there through six nations and Tom, Tom won't. And that's, that's a decision for, and it's, you know, 50 K difference. So. Okay. Um, the guy, a lot of people are bringing into the team now, red router or raster.
00:31:10
Speaker
Esther Hazen, because of the how often he's used and how he's how consistent he's been. Yep. But Rajarajah Long, I mean, I will I want to have both long term. Yeah. Dings, Arona. Dings. Dealing. Yeah, Rona. I mean, again, I had to choose which one to cut and I cut Rona.
00:31:36
Speaker
Right. Another decision I've had to make. It wasn't an easy one. It wasn't an easy one, but Dingwall has been, he's been consistent. Rona, I mean, as we saw this weekend, I don't know where he went. Yeah. So really bringing down his average. So here's the thing, Curtis Rona, that you'll see if you join the Patreon,
00:32:04
Speaker
He's played, started 10 matches. Five of them he's gone over 25 points. Four of them he's gone under 10. That's not a great thing. That's literal boomer bust right there. Right. That's literal boomer bust. Yeah. You could not get more boomer bust than that. Right. And Dingwall has played nine or started nine. He's had four, four times over 25 and only once under 10. So Dingwall. At least under 10. Anything over 10 won't kill you a week.
00:32:35
Speaker
will be great and centers centers are the hardest position like that. You know, to, to only have one under 10 is actually pretty, pretty impressive to have that many over 25. Let's go out wide. Find some big, big ones. Oh, here we go. Hassel collars or recycling?
00:33:01
Speaker
Again, I have made that decision myself. And there was no question about it. Ollie Hassell Collins. Hassell Collins or Caden Murley? Hassell Collins. Because he plays more, really. Actually, not mine. There's only been one start difference. But also, then I would go with the difference in production, which is significant. There you go.
00:33:29
Speaker
Radwin or Hassell Collins? Right now, Hassell Collins. Radwin will be on my bench for a little bit. He's not he's so put it this way. He's average. He's starting average is 20 is about 25, 24 and a half. His last five he's averaged under 19. So Radwin's on my he's working his way off of my team. Radwin or Duhan?
00:34:00
Speaker
It's funny. Cause I was just looking at that at two hon. Cause I was like, how much would that be? It's 50 K difference or so. Uh, no, let me hold on. Two ones, two 61 rad ones, two 38. No, it's not that big a deal. Um, that can be done. Um, do hon. Okay. He's also going up. So his, his starting average is 27 and a half, his last five or 30 or over 30. So he is, he's trending upwards. Do you honor Hassell Collins?
00:34:29
Speaker
Hessel Collins, because he won't go away for six nations, even though he should. At some point, right? Um, two guys that are kind of becoming comparable for not good reasons. Um, Lana or Potter? I like Potter, but he's also trending down too. Yeah. Um, Potter and Nadella. Same team.
00:34:58
Speaker
And then Adolo is trying to even worse. His last five, he's average under 13 or I'm sorry, under 14, he's at 13.6. Uh, and no, and he's also, he's rarely getting that. Only has he even gotten it once. Where's the 60.4. There it is. And we're looking for an Adolo.
00:35:21
Speaker
Oh, he's gotten it before. OK, he gets it every so often, but damn, I feel like he comes out pretty. Right. Pretty early. There we go. All right. Guys that wear the very last shirt on the 15, starting 15 fullbacks. All right. Here we go. Green or max railings? Yes. Yeah.
00:35:45
Speaker
No, this is a way you got to find a room for both. It was super easy before when I did it because they were both like, you know, much cheaper. Right. I had green from the start. He was one ninety three. I got Max. Max hasn't even risen that much. He started at two twenty six. He's now at forty seven. It might be a little bit pricey to get your hands on both now that green is up to two sixty seven. Holy balls.
00:36:11
Speaker
But to me, if we're, if we're going, if you have to go with one, I would go with max because again, it's the Harlequin's thing. You can get other Harlequins at score fine. It's just that, yeah, he's, but Tyron Green's one of their better ones. So Sarri's outside of, you know, there's, there's their scores and outside of that, you probably don't need any Saracens. Uh, green or, uh, yeah, green or for bank.
00:36:39
Speaker
Green. Yep. I'm not a big fan of for banking fantasy. He's also turning down a little bit. Oh, a lot. No, he's he's his last five starts. He's averaged 17 and a half. And that's not that's not good from the full back position. Excuse me for a banker pardon.
00:37:07
Speaker
Um, especially consider, well, we don't know what happened, what the hell happened to Parton. Um, but he's also, it hasn't been good this year. Um, he started 11 times. He's averaging 16 points to start.
00:37:20
Speaker
you know, his highest, his top score is 40, 43, his low score is one. So it's like, you take that out, you know, you take out that 43 of his 177 and 11 starts, they have 10 starts, you know, you're averaging 13 points a start outside of his big one of 43. That's not, that's really not good. No, I don't like what you're getting there.
00:37:48
Speaker
No, no partner for he said four scores under under 10. Yeah, he's harder for me right now. Yeah, partner Freddie Stewart. That's almost in neither. Obviously, Stewart's a good player.
00:38:07
Speaker
doesn't really produce fantasy wise. So I don't even, where the fuck is he? There he is. Holy shit. He's beneath Anthony Watson as far as, well, that's my one star. He's under Sean Maitland.
00:38:20
Speaker
Next. Maitland. Maitland's not that well. Maitland's a good player, but he's not a fantasy player. He doesn't do the things that, like, yeah, Freddie Stewart, he's averaging 14 points a start in 12 in his last five. He still has under 100 points in seven starts. No, not good. No, no.
00:38:37
Speaker
zero times over 25, one under 10. These are things that you would have it at your, you can see how easily I'm pulling these up as we're talking. Like I'm manipulating the sheet as we're going through this. So as long as I'm using the right keyboard. So this is the kind of information that- And you don't close your fucking laptop. Yeah.
00:39:02
Speaker
That's what that's about. Yeah. So if you have a this or that question.
00:39:10
Speaker
get to us by like Monday, if you can. Yeah. Cause we'll either be doing this Tuesday or Wednesday. So you can always, right. You can always ask us live. Um, you know, on, on Fridays as well, always also an option. Okay. Um, it's starter set time. Right. Yay. I think you go first this week.
00:39:35
Speaker
Do I have that right? That is a you, sir. Oh, it's a me. All right. You're on sale. Wasps. Yes. They'll versus wasps. Okay. So wasps are third best attack sailor. The ninth, um, sale are the six best attack wasps or 11th. So this is like unsophable force and immovable object kind of thing. Um, and then not moving versus not really stopping. So, um,
00:40:03
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You know, when you're looking at sales, so wasps are our fourth versus the number eights. Um, not sure that quite matters here. Um, the third versus fly half, which might be relevant. Um, they're 12 versus hooker, which is incredibly relevant. Um, and then, no.
00:40:20
Speaker
irrelevant, but they're 11th versus the wing and 12th versus the fullbacks. Yes, that not not so much a problem in this one. So for sale, Acker is yes, Jay, John Luke Dupree is a big time go.
00:40:35
Speaker
Dandupriya will score okay, but I think there's better uses for your number eights. And then, again, same thing with the other flankers for sale. Quirky and AJ are always a go. Don't really care that they're kind of strong versus fly-haves, especially because that implies the presence of Umaga, who's actually pretty decent at tackling when he's not doing it extremely high.
00:40:59
Speaker
Don't be tempted by Tuilagi with Goprith at 12 though, because I think Goprith will, you know, he's a fucking right cunt who will shut that down. It's not going to be intimidated by Manu Tuilagi on the other side. Sail are fourth versus scrum halves. They're third versus fly halves. It doesn't really matter. There's sixth versus hookers, which is somewhat relevant. Eighth versus lox, very relevant. Ninth versus flankers. Seventh versus eighth.
00:41:28
Speaker
and 13th versus fullbacks. So those are, I think, the relevant positions that you'll see from WASPs. So whoever's at Hooker, go for it. JTA at Prop, but nobody outside of him. Even then,
00:41:43
Speaker
Tumag Island might be best for your bench at the most this week, depending on who else you got. Fafita Fida and Stuq will get opportunities for tackles, as will all the Lucy's. Stay away from the Nines, from the Wasps this week, and pretty much outside of them with the Omega band. I will say the start
00:42:02
Speaker
mentally preparing, having a plan for Odagu's return. Um, get that ready. I don't think it's this week. Um, but it's going to be soon. So start getting your, you know, make preparations for your team to get hit. I won't be till after the European competition here. Yeah. I wouldn't be in, I would be shocked if we see him before then. Right. But just the thing, you know, I, I'm starting to come up with, um, you know, multi-week plans now that I have like,
00:42:29
Speaker
I have like the core of my team in place. Like the real spine of it is ready to go. Now it's like, okay, who do I want to ship in and out? Um, but O'Dogg was returning and I think what I'll probably end up doing is, is Ojomo for him, myself. Yep. Okay. Uh,
00:42:46
Speaker
Exeter and Bristol at Shandy Park. Bristol tend to give up points to the back three. Most often are guys wearing 14 and 15. For the Exeter players, that means hog for me, not knoll. But the biggest game they surrendered on the outside was 2-11, so Tom O'Flaherty, come on down. Fukundo's also on play if he's in. Fukundo, Cordero, he's on play if he's in.
00:43:10
Speaker
Sam is definitely a play this week. Bristol 11th against number eight. So with the rest and the matchup, I'd strongly consider him possibly even overdone. We'll see. I know the matchup isn't bad, but I think we can all admit that there are better options than Sergio.
00:43:29
Speaker
this week, um, for your team or ever, um, you can play him, but strongly consider getting out from underneath them, especially for a 300 plus that he costs. There's another guy that costs 300 plus. That's probably better. Um, for Bristol, um,
00:43:47
Speaker
Sinclair is in play this week hasn't been great but Exeter last versus props. A word of caution the better of the two sides against Exeter is actually the loose head but there's still nobody on that side that I want from Bristol so if you need to go with a prop from Bristol he's the guy.
00:44:04
Speaker
Jeffrey Heenan in Harding, a youthful trio of loose forwards performing super well for the Bears this year. Eggs are also weak against flankers, so give them a go if you got them. All of them cost under $200. So just in case you got a little bear spare change.
00:44:22
Speaker
Back three are off limits for the Bears right now, especially this week. Exeter, our top three in points against for both wing and fullback. So Peter Allen Co need to have a seat. That's just unfortunate facts. It is.
00:44:37
Speaker
All right, off to Offord Road, where the top of the current top of the prem, Lester, take on Newcastle. Lester, our first in defense, fifth in attack, Newcastle, our fourth in defense, eleventh in attack. But the thing about there that, you know, that's that's a
00:44:59
Speaker
Not a complete honest number because there's certain guys on Newcastle that you know you're just not going to touch. But then there are guys who are just scoring really well so it's like the people who they have who score well score well consistently and the people who don't score well can don't score well consistently so it's pretty easy to break that down.
00:45:17
Speaker
for Newcastle's defence, their third and the relevant for this match, third versus props and locks, their fifth versus hookers, which is, you know, that's that's fine. They're right. It's kind of in the middle ish. That's, you know, good for for any of the Leicester hookers.
00:45:34
Speaker
They're 9th versus scrum halves and fly halves, which is relevant for 13th versus centers and but they're surprisingly strong. 4th versus wing and 6th versus fullback. So for Lester, any other hookers, Genj is still a big time go. It doesn't matter that they're they're good from props. It's time to move on from Wells. As I've said, I'm moving on from him to to Robinson that that'll be fine for this week too. Yeah, works well here.
00:46:03
Speaker
6, 7 and 8 for Lester have been shit lately. They've been a points hole, so kind of just stay away from those. It's weird to say, but they're not scoring that well. Ford is good to start. Moroni is also a potential option. He kind of had a shit week this past week, but he's been scoring well. Again, stay away from Stewart. He's not scoring well. On the Newcastle side, Lester are first versus hookers, which matters. They're also, again, first against Lux and 8s.
00:46:32
Speaker
Oh, and flyhaves and centers. So, yeah. Oh, man. Right. This matters. They're, they're second versus flankers and wings. So, and they're fifth versus fullbacks. It's just like a terrible, you know, as I said, Newcastle players are scoring the ones that score score, but
00:46:53
Speaker
everywhere where they score is where Lester shuts them down. So this is one of those. McGuigan should still rake. I wouldn't worry about that. Robinson too. He's just scoring too well. And, you know, at the lock position you can produce, especially, you know, he's a tackler. He's a runner.
00:47:12
Speaker
that will score against any team. It's just the way it works. Uh, Adam Radwin, I think is best on your bench this week. Um, certainly not in your starting lineup. Um, as I said, he's averaging less than 19 points his last five starts. So, uh, Brad, when is, is a no for this week, dog. That's a no for me, dog. All right. Um, Gloucester and Quinn's at King's home, which should be fun. Um, be a good test for Gloucester.
00:47:40
Speaker
for the cherry and white. Hastings hasn't been amazing this year, but Quinn's are 11th versus fly-offs. So if you have him and you're supposed to use him, this could be your week. There's earned plenty of good weeks the Quinn's have. So Jack Singleton, as I mentioned previously, quietly going about having a good bounce back season after last year, a good chunk of people who own him and this
00:48:01
Speaker
There are a good chunk of people who own him and this week is a fine play. Quinn's averaged 26 plus to starting hooks. So give that a thumbs up. The one position Quinn's are strong against even with the truck's performance last week is number eight. So Ackerman, Morgan, Clement are all bench if not off your team this week. I'm not saying sell them but I'm saying this is not the week to play them.
00:48:25
Speaker
For the Quinns, Kade Murley talked about him before. He's become the better winger option for Quinns, fancy wise, at least over Luellana. And we are big Luellana fans here. Just let's make sure that's clear. Play him, expect good things.
00:48:40
Speaker
I'm not a huge fan of any Quinn's hooker, Quinn's flankers, but this could be a week if you have one cluster 12 against flanks in order of my favorite, Solis, Kenningham, Laudade, Chisholm. On the other side of the coin, Joe Marlar, love the guy, love the player, hate the fancy asset, probably eight other props that do better than him, especially for his cost. So ditch him, ditch him, ditch him, ditch him all day.
00:49:07
Speaker
OK, I'll do the my last match of the week with the Saints hosting the Saracens. The Saints are the sixth best attack, second best defense. Saracens are the best attack and number three defense. They slept a little bit after this week, if you can imagine. I can't imagine why. Yeah. So for the for the hosts,
00:49:34
Speaker
The Sarries are our second versus hookers, fourth versus locks, first versus flankers, second versus eights, 11th versus scrum has, second versus centers, eighth versus wings and 11th versus fullbacks. Those are the highly relevant positions because we're looking in your saints, you're looking at Medivacy, probably a bad week for him this week. I would, you know, he's,
00:50:02
Speaker
Not, he's, he's kind of temperamental. And again, saris just eat hookers alive so probably not not his best week ribbons kind of, you kind of hoping for the best again there saris are our fourth versus locks. So ribbons could still score pretty well but probably temper expectations. Augustus, I think is far more likely to bust into boom against areas have consistently been one of the better teams against eight's.
00:50:29
Speaker
in the prem for years. If you have bigger, use him, but you don't have bigger because he's only at 4% owned for a reason. It's a rough week to have Dingwall. Skosan could go off or get nothing. The injuries mounting for Saints in their back line kind of may affect how they're scoring. I don't know how much Skosan benefited from having Freeman around because he didn't threaten too much. He got the ball a lot, but he didn't really threaten. Right.
00:50:59
Speaker
On the other side, for the salaries, the Saints are second versus props, they're eighth versus hookers, sixth versus lock, fourth versus flankers, eighth versus eighth, second versus centers, tenth versus wings, and second versus fullbacks.
00:51:16
Speaker
Wollstonecroft, if he's back, big time go. I'm big into him, again, especially because he'll, you know, as Jared mentioned, Jamie George is out for a significant while still. And Wollstonecroft has been hurt, but when he's been playing, he's been amazing, fantasy wise and on the field. So he's someone you should be looking at for your team for a medium term investment.
00:51:41
Speaker
Um, cock and marrow or scoring 15 to 15 points above opponent average. So I don't care about the scenes rankings. These guys are going to score.
00:51:50
Speaker
Mako and Ezekiel, we saw what Ezekiel can do at lock and now he's going up against this former team now. So we'll see how that works. Ben Earl still 10 points above opposition average. So consider him for a bench spot at the very least if your squad runs deep. But if your squad does run deep, he's on your bench. If you kind of need him, then you don't worry about putting him in there.
00:52:15
Speaker
The laws is a kicking option is fine, but stay away from Tompkins. Melons is a must start and we'll still get his points. So don't worry about that. Yeah, well, I love Lozowski. All right. There's no point in having him on your spot and you're on your team if he's not. He's not. Oh, totally not. No, no, no. You need to put you need to give him the kicker. Right. All right. I'll exiles and bath at Brentford Community Stadium.
00:52:44
Speaker
for the Irish. I'll crack them.
00:52:48
Speaker
Flanker and number eight eligible. Former off-road man settling in well. Scoring decently. Under 200 in cost. Bathroom 12th versus number eight. Give them a go if you got them. Or if you're desperate. Gus creepy, prem leading, try score. Another big weekend star for him is Bathroom Alaska. So don't even fucking like, maybe even captain them. Who knows? Believe it or not, Bath have a place that are shoring against fancy wise. This week I need to pick on a guy I've grown to love.
00:53:18
Speaker
Well, it's not been doing well. And that's Tom Parton. Have a seat. And maybe a bit of scratch that you could get from selling them if you really are just like, which he's fodder for me right now. So sorry, Tommy. I love you, but nope.
00:53:34
Speaker
Nope, nope, nope, nope. Per Bath. Front row is a position of weakness in terms of fantasy for the Exiles. So any of Stewart done or even Dutois, if he's playing and you have him, play him. If Bayless is back in the age for it, you can play him. If you got him Irish or 10th versus number eight, he's also flanker eligible. So you can still play your favorite number eight only guy like Augustus, Dom, or Sam, if you really need him.
00:54:00
Speaker
Not the week to get cute and try and get Orlando Bailey. Exiles are second against playoffs. 7-11, 10 score under 21. 21 or under, excuse me. So that's not great in terms of that. So if you want to get cute and play the outside guy, that's not the one to do it. So are we off to the other weeks? We are. We are. Get your start.
00:54:28
Speaker
My start of the week.
00:54:30
Speaker
It should, it shouldn't be a surprise. Um, and I think he'll have this one last start potentially before champions cup. Um, and I think the return of the regular starter who will never be a start of the week. Um, but, um, wasps have too many gaps in that nine, 10 combination right now. And raffy quirk is going to take much advantage of them. So raffy quirk is my start of the week after quirk.
00:54:59
Speaker
But that would be, again, at this point, that's a that's a rental because. Yeah, probably. Yeah, I would probably. All right. For the rest of the week.
00:55:11
Speaker
This player has sort of flown on the radar, quietly going about having a very good season. This club are not doing as well as they'd hoped, but he gives them plenty of reason to look forward. This week, his opponent are very generous to his position and he scored quite well himself. So that's why I've made my start of the week for round 12 of the Prem. Bristol Bears young and upcoming back rower, Jake Enan. Like it.
00:55:33
Speaker
Like it a lot. Yeah. That's of the plank position seven, which is one-on-one. He usually plays is where, um, extra give up points.
00:55:41
Speaker
Right, because they make easy tackles. They're just big galoots. You have to make them a lot. And he's quite good at that. And he steals, so that helps. That's another big thing. So the week I mentioned it, and he's, again, a guy that we've discussed a great life, mostly positive, significantly positive, not this week.
00:56:07
Speaker
running into the number two overall team versus his position and he has a negative points versus opposition average. Sam out of AC.
00:56:24
Speaker
Yeah, he could still get 20. Just don't captain him. No, definitely not. Definitely not. Sit if you can, if you can at all. But if you can't, then sorry. Yeah, be prepared for disappointment. Yeah, no shit. At the same time, again, he could still go off. It's just if there's better options out there. Oh, yeah, totally. That I agree with.
00:56:48
Speaker
For my set, as as the case with this, usually I love this player as a player, but not as a fan, a fancy asset. Not only that, he's going up against a team that just is not nice to his position, four points less than the average on the than the next team. Not great. That's significant if you don't need to, if you if you're confused about that. So it pains me to say I still week around 12 of the Prem Saints and England back or at least of recent weeks, Courtney laws.
00:57:16
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, well, yeah. He's not one to take. He's not been performing, but he's so I'm he's one of those players that like, how is he that highly owned? He's fairly highly owned and baffled by it. I'm like, he's never one of the top fantasy players at either lock or flank. And he's 11 percent owned. That's too much. I don't. Sorry.
00:57:43
Speaker
There we go. That's a good one. All right. I don't understand this. He's 11% owned. He's I mean, his projections on fancy TRM are good. He's not like he's one, two, three, four, five. He's had four starts and not Eclipse 20 yet. No. He off the bench once and scored 10, which sounds great, but
00:58:13
Speaker
Other than that, I can speak is is averaging more point he's doing better. And I don't like him. Right. He's averaging. So he's got he's averaging 15.3.
00:58:28
Speaker
points per match for start. Laws is only a 13 and a half. Right. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck. Yeah. Folks, ditch him. It's not yet laws. No, there's no reason to have Courtney laws. He's not. He's update for Freeman. He was playing lock. Oh, I didn't. I've been searching it basically for the last couple of weeks. So his initial soldier injury was four to six weeks. Four weeks is
00:58:55
Speaker
next Friday, so the seventh, that's four weeks, FYI. So if you have them, and you've sat on them through Europe, and you sat on them after this week, might be okay after that. Yeah, exactly. At this point, because like, but you have one more week of, of prem action, and you probably wouldn't play him against Saracens anyway. Right.
00:59:18
Speaker
So now you hold on to them because I'm guessing you know it's obvious, there's no reason for him to play this weekend, and not with who else they've got, and then there's no reason for him to play it all in Europe, even if he's healthy so there's your six there's your four to six weeks.
00:59:35
Speaker
So he could be back right away. So that that's all right. So he's someone one for me to keep an eye on for. Yeah, for my plan. Yeah, I had him and he played. He did really well for me for the week. I had him and then the damn shoulder injury. I was like, no, that was a great play. And until it just got smacked in the face, as old my case, you should say where is. Oh, yeah, exactly. But he's also the number two averaging.
01:00:04
Speaker
Fullback. So there's mail-ins, him and Green. They're all in the sandwich together. Hot damn. Gimme, gimme. Has fullback eligibles. So, like, yeah, he's averaging 28 per start. He's had three over 25 and only under 10. So, a little material.
01:00:24
Speaker
You know, I don't, I don't have the thing open to know who is his 10, his under 10 was against, but yeah, that's a, that's a, that's a good thing to know. Cause he's a player that you're going to want to, to have around. Yeah. Don't, don't hate it. Okay. Uh, pick them sail and wasps.
01:00:42
Speaker
sale. Yeah. Don't trust Charlie in his first start back. Sorry, buddy. No, no. And freight and sales at home and all that. Yeah. Exeter and Bristol.
01:00:59
Speaker
Exeter. Oh, by the way, Tammy Freeman's one under 10 was when he played against sale. Yeah. And they they're strong out there. So. Right. Oh, I remember that match, too. It was fucking pissing down rain. Right. It was gross. I did not help. Right. So that was the only time he scored. Actually, that's the only time he scored his other lower lowest score other than that was 24 as a starter. So. All right. Give me, give me. Yeah. Cool. Exeter Bristol. Sorry.
01:01:30
Speaker
Are my notes on this? I've looked at them before. Bristol. I think Bristol are.
01:01:37
Speaker
If they weren't playing the fucking champions, essentially this year, I think that that would have been a much different match. And I don't think, I don't think Exeter are challenging teams the way they normally do. Yeah. I don't think so either, but they're at home. So that's my only concern. I agree. So I'm going to take Exeter. Right. That's fine. I'm trying to see if I can get back in this or just to make stupid bed. Whatever you want to do, buddy. Lester Newcastle. Lester.
01:02:08
Speaker
Lester. Yep. Gloucester, Quinn's. Quinn's. I assume Marcus Smith's back. I assume. Either way, Will Edwards looks too bad. Tenish. Good distributor. Yeah. Saints and Sarries. Saracens. I think the Saracens get down to you if it's ugly. Yeah. They're used to doing ugly. It's different. You know, there's always a bugaboo there with Exeter.
01:02:35
Speaker
I think, you know, Saracens obviously kind of did the bet against them and then they kind of pooped it against Irish. Two other places they don't perform well and this is not one of them. Right. They haven't played either place yet. So, or no, yeah, they will soon. All right. And then Monday match, weird enough. London Irish and back.
01:03:00
Speaker
Sorry, Beth. I don't need to see it. I need to see it until I do. And when I do, I will believe. But until then, I do not believe. I mean, the Irish even look good in their loss to the loss. They look good in every match. Yeah, they've they've they've had patches for sure. And there have not been so many matches for Beth. No. Sorry. Sorry.
01:03:22
Speaker
Like the Irish is bad. Patches have still looked pretty good. That's good. Patches still look pretty bad. So there we go. All right. This is the final fan score. This is the final part of 2022. As Ben, I have said before, we appreciate you all for listening to us and just giving us the time of day. But yeah, so everybody enjoy 2022.
01:03:51
Speaker
on the incoming, don't fuck it up. Make like Nigel Owens and don't fuck it up, okay? That's all I can ask. One of these years is gonna be better than the last one, right? One of these years, someday, someday.
01:04:08
Speaker
We're going to be very old and very gray at that point. Too late. The very old part being the important part of that one. Not very old, just old. There's a difference. I don't know if you recall from Can-Am when I came into one of the matches and the guy was like, that guy's got gray in his beard. Watch him. He's going to do something.
01:04:32
Speaker
Oh, man, he's he's a crafty old fuck. Yeah. Did you see that? He has gray in his beard, sir. Keep your eye on him. Yeah. And he was right, too. But that's the point. That's the point. So, yeah, we appreciate you all. We'll be back obviously next week. Enjoy your new year. Be smart. Be safe. Don't do anything too stupid. I see you guys then. We appreciate you. Enjoy the rugby and have a good one.
01:05:02
Speaker
Later.