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Season 4- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Champions Cup Round 3 Preview)
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It's another episode of the Fantasy Corner from those beautiful dopes at TFRY (albeit a bit tardy to the party). On this FC we look at the past week's happenings for the Champi-Yanks League in TRM and FRW, safe to say no prisoners have been taken halfway through the Prem in any of the leagues. We also have a look at the TRM of the season at this midway point, hopefully you have some of these players in your squad. Finally, we glance at round 3 of the Champions Cup with a little This or That and Ogre's Rankings (although rankings definitely need to change with new information coming to light). Tune in, get out your notebooks and enjoy.
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Transcript
Episode Introduction
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody. Welcome back. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauzer. Here we go. Fancy time. Yeah. Good times. Great oldies. No, wait. That's not it. No. Just pretty fancy. Mediocre oldies. Yeah. Sometimes, yep.
Fantasy Corner & Champions League TRM
00:00:25
Speaker
Sometimes. On our best days. No. No, no, no. I'm popping one of these. All right. So we got a few things on Fancy Corner.
00:00:39
Speaker
Damn it. I was hoping to avoid that one. Let's have a quick, quick glance over at Championks League TRM. Lube in a movement. Top three unchanged. Duncan one, Ben two, Carrick three. Some other assholes now for them. Yeah. And Carrick better watch his butt. You're not, you're like 40 points away from him.
00:01:05
Speaker
So 41 points. Yeah. Yeah. Justin is in fifth. Anton is up to, is still in sixth and Mark's in seventh and poor George is still in eighth. Sorry, buddy. But George is doing well. He's been dropping. Okay. The, the store, our weekly George update. Um, no, he, he, his team is quite respectable. I mean, he had, he dropped 40 points again, but, um, hopefully it's a manageable team going forward.
Team Performance Analysis
00:01:33
Speaker
but it's a great team going forward. It looks like, I mean, cause he had to Fafita kind of fucked him as he did everybody. Yeah. Thankfully I had somebody to replace him with, but man, other than that, I just, I was mad because I would have rather had getting him in there than been Clark. Those were my two guys on my bench. So Clark went in for me instead. And yeah. Um,
00:01:53
Speaker
But yeah, he's got Jean-Luc Dupriya there, Clark, Simmons, Kenny Ham, unfortunately now. But he had Mitchell and Smith, like his mail-ins in there, you know, mail-ins Green had a shit of a day. Well, don't expect that every week. But yeah, don't expect that out of Green every week. Like he's got the, his team is well,
00:02:15
Speaker
Well structured now. So I look forward to see what it can do going forward. There's your fantasy rugby geek update. Yeah, so it's
00:02:31
Speaker
Unfortunately, the way it played out this week is the top half all got above 400. Um, the current top half and the bottom half all got above, uh, below 400. So yeah, I guess that's probably why they're, they're split the way they are at the moment, but hey, see a lot of me that happens. You know, income inequality, right? Of points, inequality, seeing it a little bit, a little bit.
Division Standings Highlights
00:02:56
Speaker
Shit. Uh, over to division two. Um,
00:03:00
Speaker
Nothing zero, zero movement. Franco Cobis, John Terry, Leanna, Bob, Yuri, and Larry. Larry's doing way worse than George even is. So if you want to poop on somebody, that's probably the one to poop on. I don't lie. I don't, I can't see his team. So I can tell you it's not great. Oh, you scored 300 this past week. So that's the eight 40 points. Oh, that's harsh. Yeah. That's harsh. Sorry, bud.
00:03:27
Speaker
He's playing, he's playing the likes of Seville and Hathorole and yeah. Uh, Matt Scott. I don't know, sir. I mean, Matt Scott usually scores pretty well, but yeah. This is some other options. Sam Spink. Oh, what, what, what, what? Okay. We need an intervention there. Yeah. Had four donuts on his bench.
00:03:51
Speaker
That's not good. Yeah, no, that's better. You know, maybe maybe he like I do. I like so I had I was kind of fucked because I have several exiles and like key exiles.
Fantasy Team of the Year Discussion
00:04:03
Speaker
So like I had to I ended up Montoya this week, Montoya this week, which I'm not bad. I'm not complaining. But yeah, missing Creevy. Missing there was it Hoskins, Hassell Collins.
00:04:19
Speaker
Yeah, and Ben hard Jens van Rensberg is and Ben white have been so clutch for my bench they've just been I put them on my bench and I haven't even thought about them. So if you have too many of them. Fuck, I had to do a lot of I had to do some mixing. Over there. This was, yeah, this was a bad week for me. So I'm happy I came out of it but if you had those, you know, you had those problems plus other structural problems.
00:04:46
Speaker
Real bad. If you're leaning heavily on, on the, on the, on the Irish this week was not, no, it was less than the deal. Less than the deal for a lot of people. Um, FRW Anton beat Carrick.
00:05:01
Speaker
Duncan beat Justin rather handily. George beat Mark and then I owe Ben a dollar because we were actually pretty close going into the final final day onto Sunday and Ben just blew the doors off. That'll happen. I'm just awful in that competition. Let's just face it. It is not going well. It is not
Player Market & Strategy
00:05:27
Speaker
going well at all.
00:05:28
Speaker
No, and I was with Cordero getting pulled off early. I was not happy about that. Yeah, no, no, no, no, just not good for me. The halfway point of the premiership means it's also the halfway point of TRM fantasy. So here's the thing.
00:05:47
Speaker
was able to cobble together the team of the halfway point so far, one to 23, based on just points, not worrying about budget, because let's face it, we tried that once and it was fucking very difficult. I don't think TRM does the budget on the team of the week. So why the fuck would I do it for this? No, they don't. No, they don't. There you go. So did you work out the numbers to see what the budget would be to have if you, you know, how? No, I didn't. But I'm sure we can do it later. And I'm sure it would be a
00:06:15
Speaker
If you, I'm sure we can look back, back at our original price and hope that you bought them all at once. Yeah. Where's you invested? Well, I'm really pissed right now about how the, the, like I've had people lose a shit ton out of nowhere. Like Ali hustle Collins. I bought him at two 79 the other week. He's two 50 now. What the fuck? I know that. I know that I've been, I've all in them.
00:06:36
Speaker
Yeah, it's, I'm very annoyed by this. I've noticed, I have noticed crazy went down. Same thing from two 97 to two 75. What the fuck? Right? Like these guys should be not going down. It's only going to help me. Cause I'm trying to acquire some of these guys. So the feed was up to 300 and suddenly he's got a bottom out, unfortunately. Right. So you either have to ride them out or you just live with the fact that you got to ditch them. Right.
00:07:05
Speaker
Um, anyway, so, so far, the team of the year is our props are Ellis Genshin back over to polar. Okay. Any guesses as to who the hooker is? Oh, it's one of the two that I have. I'm going to guess it's no, no, it is not. Yes. Our old friend, Jack Singleton. A singleton. That's right. He's been fucking ridiculous. The last couple of years, 300 points.
00:07:30
Speaker
He's been blowing it out. Yeah. Yeah, good for him. So the back five looks like this. Vaya Fafita, Freddie Clark, Nikasikwe, Ben Earl and Tom Willis. Remember, this is purely on points. Total point. This is not any averages or anything like that. This is purely on who has the most. So that's all it is. Which is crazy because I had all I had at one point all of them. I still have all of them. I have a Tojay in for
00:08:00
Speaker
And for Ezekiel, so we'll get, we'll get to that event because some of these guys are on the bench too. Um, the nine is Alex Mitchell. The 10 is George Ford.
00:08:10
Speaker
The centers, here's the thing about the centers. Alex Lozowski is one of the highest scoring centers. Yes. But, but, but, but, but, but that's the sticking point. And if you can only pick
Player Highlights & Bench Analysis
00:08:22
Speaker
one kicker. So assuming we're picking forward as our kicker, right? Lozowski goes from loose math from 282 with just his kicks at goal points down to 171.
00:08:36
Speaker
Right. So kind of drops them down a little bit, just so we, just so we bet. So, um, that there's that. So that kind of takes him out of the center conversation for that idea. Cause you're not going to, like I said, we can't have two kickers. It's not like, um, the six nations, um, here.
00:08:55
Speaker
Oh, wait. Well, you know, memory and go on. Yeah. Because the Six Nations official game, you don't have to pick a kicker. So it's not quite like that, unfortunately. So with that, the centers are Andre Esterhays and Francois Venter. Yes, Venter's been ridiculous. He's been quite good. Outside three are yeah, are Hassell Collins, Max Maylands and Tyrone Green.
00:09:22
Speaker
Yep. Um, and so, and then for your bench spots, you're looking at Gus creepy as the backup hooker. Um, your backup prop is Olly Hoskins. No shock there. Um, your backup second rows and, and, uh, back row are Elliot Stuke and Mara Toge. Your backup half backs are Danny care and actually another scrum half Jack Monder.
00:09:45
Speaker
And then your backup center slash wing is Caden Murley. And your backup wing slash fullback is George Furbank. Because even with the few points he's kicked, he's still at 210. Damn. So, yeah. So he's got a guy done mostly with his other skill sets. Okay. So, yeah. There
Impact of Six Nations on Fantasy Rugby
00:10:06
Speaker
you go. That's it. Jimmy Goproth was also in the conversation. But again, just kicking points. Yeah.
00:10:11
Speaker
He went from 223 down to 170 yards. So, you know, yep. Sorry. 1K on the field. If you use Jimmy, you're not too bad off, but no. No, no, no. Sorry, guys. So, yeah, that's the team of the week. I listen to a lot of players that you and I have both either had or had at one point, have at one point, so...
00:10:33
Speaker
Um, I don't have Ford anymore, but I did have him for a little while. I had him for a while too. Now I have McGinty and, um, and Marcus, of course, myself and James Grayson. I got it. Fuck. I got to get rid of him. That's one of those hard ones to get rid of because he's too dead. Like at the same time, I might want to keep him around for six nations. Six nations might be the time to not get rid of him. Right. And that's like, we're like now, so I have like one week left. I might as well hold on to him for a couple more weeks. Right. Um, but not like I'm losing AJ, but it might be nice to have him on my bench.
00:11:02
Speaker
Yeah, truth, truth, truth. Yeah, we'll see what I have to, I have to figure out what the hell I'm going to do for a backup 10 when Smith's going. Two to do two.
Champions Cup Player Selections
00:11:11
Speaker
All right. So this weekend, we're obviously nudging into back into Superbrew and Champions Cup. So we're going to do like we did last time. We're going to do a little this or that. And then we'll see what kind of time we got left. And then we'll do pick them. All right. So get your Champions Cup.
00:11:31
Speaker
Max fixtures pulled up there big guy. Yeah, yeah, so get that up. So you make some semi educated guesses here. It's going to take a little bit as I go back and forth between the standing. I guess it's I gotta figure out who the hell is playing like who's got their team playing and who's just.
00:11:49
Speaker
So yeah, thanks. Yeah. Thanks for, thanks for coming out. Right. Right. Right. Um, okay. So well, I can tell, I know a few of the teams are on the bottom and probably not giving a shit no more. So, um, we have, so we got, uh, props. We had, we could have zero by or slow money.
00:12:19
Speaker
Um, I mean, I, I like buy it. I'm not rec, which teams are we on here? You're going to lose in Claremont losing Claremont. Okay. Well, Claremont, I don't think is going to be where they might not be shipping anybody into this competition anymore. Exactly. So we'll see how that comes. Right. So I might stick away, stay away from them. Yeah. They have three points and cause they got a draw. Um, yeah, I'm not seeing it.
00:12:47
Speaker
Nope, no, probably not. Xander Ferguson or Dave Kilcoyne? Glasgow and Munster. And that's it. That's actually a very good question because Glasgow and Munster are both. Wait, where's Munster? I just had them. Where's Glasgow? Glasgow's in sixth in their pool. Munster's up there. OK, so they're both at Munster's in sixth. Right. Second, yeah. Well, tied for first.
00:13:18
Speaker
Well, aside from the whatever tiebreakers. And then Glasgow are playing Exeter, who may be fucking about because they really need to focus on the prem and.
00:13:31
Speaker
There are five points. Yeah. Who knows how well, you know, this could go either way. I think it's so silly how like cast in Montpellier, like, Oh, this is a punishment for doing well. I'm like, no, that your, your, your cohorts over in Toulouse would argue. Otherwise too long as well, even though they're not in this one, but like, come on. Right. Obviously I'm going to go with the Munsterman there. Yeah. There you go.
00:13:56
Speaker
Um, two hooks. Um, uh, Oh, here we go. Uh, two Irish ones. Again, uh, Rob Herring or Ronie Keller. I'll start in Leinster. Well, Leinster. Yeah. Um, certainly they, they, at five, they, they got the, uh, they got a loss.
00:14:22
Speaker
Apparently, unless that they're changing that to a draw. No, they were told they have to eat that as a loss, which is stupid. And who are they playing? So they have my play. My play has a supposedly we may have some COVID problems. So we'll see. And they're away. They're traveling. So yeah, not really thinking that's too much. Like it's pretty solid matchup there. If the game is played and then Ulster,
00:14:53
Speaker
They're at Northampton. Oh, Northampton are probably just packing it in at this point because they definitely need to sort their shit out in the prem. So, yeah, I'm going to go with the Ulsterman. OK, a couple English ones at least. Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's color. A couple of English based ones, you and Ashwin or Nick Dolly? Hmm.
00:15:21
Speaker
I am guessing, ooh, that's the question is if Nick Dolly is playing. At Claremont. Lester, go to Connor.
00:15:41
Speaker
Although Claremont might not be going for it. They're only at three points. Um, although there's, you know, they could, they might throw, you know, throw one last shot at it, but still sailor kind of dicks. And I like, I like Ashman. He only does the score tries and that that's, that's big for this count. All right. Um,
00:15:59
Speaker
jump over to the tall guys, second rows. We have Ty Byrne, or, I mean, that's basically it, or Richie Gray. No, Ty Byrne. Yeah, I must always burn all day. You guys are on another level. Right. No, I agree. Ian Henderson or Johnny Gray?
00:16:26
Speaker
Ian Henderson. One that's a little further down the list here. Johnny Gray had a hat trick the other week that's like never happening again. Right, right, right.
00:16:48
Speaker
Burn or Henderson. There we go. Oh, that's a fuck you. Yeah, right. With Will Skelton still sitting out there, too. So I know I'm going to burn. I might. Yeah, I love I love Henderson. I want both. I think I have both. I think I'll keep both. Yeah. But if I had to, you know, got in my head, one of them taken birth.
00:17:09
Speaker
I think we super were very generous with their transfer budget. They gave 14, which was nice. So I'm basically going to get my team that I had back with the exception of a little bit here and there. Let's see back rows. Okay. Oh, I like this. Nick Tamani from Ulster or what's this Laura from Rossing? Hmm.
00:17:39
Speaker
who Ross and playing Osprey's Osprey's. I don't know if it's a lot of fonts or if it's in Wales. It's in Wales. Okay. They're showing they can travel. They have. Yeah, no going.
00:17:57
Speaker
I'm going frosting on that one. Who was that? Who'd you have? All right. All right. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He's been huge. He's been amazing. Yep. Let's go that hat trekking in Saints. Matt Fagerson from
Player Rankings & Performances
00:18:12
Speaker
Glasgow or Jasper Beast from Western? Well, is this a play? He I believe this is two weeks. OK.
00:18:22
Speaker
Oh, I should be free to play. Yeah. I don't really want either of them, but I'm guessing I'm going to go figure something. Well, he might get a card too. I'm going to go Visa at that point. If it's like, yeah, they're kind of okay. Visa. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
00:18:41
Speaker
So let's see. Um, let's move on to scrum house. Do you, do you do? Um, assuming he's, uh, he's out of the, yeah, I say, who's assuming he's out of the question. Um, well, I mean, cause I, he's got 53%. Like, yes, I know. Um, Gibson Parker care. Ooh. Um,
00:19:09
Speaker
Okay. Who are they playing? So Quinn's playing monster or Montpellier, excuse me. And Quinn's have Cardiff in Wales or no, they don't know. They're in Wales. That's a lie. That might be a better, that might be a better Cardiff team than we've seen though, because they won't be so prepared by COVID.
00:19:28
Speaker
Yeah, but at this point with zero points, I guess, do they have, I mean, their season is still going on, right? So they might want to focus on, you are, you are at this point, you know, they have zero points and they're playing Harlequins. Right. And so they may just like, you know what, you're good. Yep. All right. So assume, so let's assume that you make either one of these guys, your kicker, John Cooney or Maxi Meccino from Rossing.
00:19:58
Speaker
Hmm. I think Ross and we're going to score quite a few points. Cooney, I think I made, I think I'm, did I make him my kicker last time? I may have and then fucked me. So yeah, I'm not going to use, I'm, I'm once bitten twice shy on that. So fair enough. All right. One more for scrum half. Allie price or Ben young's?
00:20:24
Speaker
Hmm. Ali, I mean, Ali Price is fantastic right now. Agreed. But Ben Young's, he's got that good, selfish fantasy rugby shit going on. He's doing a lot of things that don't really help his team, but are flashy and score points. But I'm going to go Ali Price because I just don't like Ben Young's. Fair enough. All right. Tens.
00:20:55
Speaker
Um, Oh, here we go. This is a good one. Jack Cardi or Joe Simmons. Cardi Simmons, especially for the, you know, as a kicker, he's not going to be scoring that many points. Like they'll, they'll, you know, they'll get their, their trial, you know, half their tries out in the wing. Cause they're, they're mauling it in and half them, you know, close in cause they're mauling it in. So, um, and he's not, he's not come good this year. No. So, um, yeah.
00:21:25
Speaker
Cardi. OK. J.J. Hanrahan or Matthew Jallibare. I think he's healthy again. Let me double check that. If he's healthy, is Jallibare. And if they're playing him. Yeah, I don't know how Porto feel about that right now. Yeah. Yeah, it looks like he's going to be good to go. And they have an outside shot there. They're in.
00:21:54
Speaker
You know, in the top, what eight? Yeah. So they're, they're in right now. It depends on, um, who are they playing? Yep.
00:22:12
Speaker
They're playing. Scarlett's home, so that they've yet to play a game in this actual thing, because they've been poor. They've had four foot and what you call it the draw. So that could go well for for Porto, I think. OK. To the midfield. Yes, yes, yes. Gail Ficue.
00:22:41
Speaker
Or, um, James Hume from Ulster. I'm going to go Fiku. I think he's playing really, really well. And he's settled into that 13 shirt and wrestling very well. Yeah. Very, very well. Um, Oh, here's one. Here's one for the, for the English folks. Um, Joe Martian or Sammy Radra.
00:23:09
Speaker
Oh, I was playing Stodd. Bristol's playing Stodd, I think. I thought that's what I said, Bears. I've had some beers. Beers are playing Stodd. Beers, Bears.
00:23:25
Speaker
I think this is, this is a Rad Roger competition. So, uh, yeah, I think, uh, and, and bears again, have, there's no reason for them not to just throw everything into this. Cause they, they got to get right for the prem. If nothing else, this is a practice match for, um, so depending on the practice girl, right. Um, depending on how Todd play this either way. Um, I think Brad Rogers is going to have an excellent, like he may have an excellent matchup either way, but he's going to be going balls out, I think. So.
00:23:56
Speaker
We'll see. Okay. All right. So let's see. We got back three. This is all assuming that matches go off, too. Don't forget. Don't take it. Always take that with consideration to it. Let's go with Lowry from Ulster or Hugo Keenan from Leinster.
00:24:23
Speaker
Keenan Keenan's been running a lot and I think, yeah, meters, meters are good for this. So that's a check. Yeah. It was usually a good thing. Well, some of these competitions don't, it's just like purely try a scored. No, I, I, I know. They actually factor meters in and it's, it's actually quite helpful. So you're going to go Keenan. Yup. Um, uh, one email for Tyrone green.
00:24:49
Speaker
Fuck you. Later. No, I want both. No, I want both. Probably Emof, because I can, you know, he's just such a freaking machine. Not that green isn't, but there's other, I can backfill with quins and not miss too much of a beat. You know, like, I can, yeah.
00:25:20
Speaker
Um, Andrew Carmley or Stuart Hogg, Conway from Munster? Um, Hogg for that same reason, because he, and he's also wanted to throw down a try or two if he holds onto the ball. Yeah, that's true. Uh, huh. He's done well on the prem. I can't remember if he scored in this competition yet. So he still, I remember last year he had some trouble in this comp. Yeah, truth. Truth truth. Um, let's see, one more good one. Um, Keith Earls or Ben Lamb.
00:25:55
Speaker
And lamb lamb
Fantasy Captains & Match Predictions
00:25:59
Speaker
with lamb. Yeah. Cause they same thing. He was, he was playing with a bunch of kids before. Um, so I'm not sure how it's going to, I'm not sure how it's going to work out for him or if you know, even if he's going to, who knows if even plays, um, don't, yeah, I don't know what they're going to do with, uh, yeah. Whoop.
00:26:20
Speaker
Yeah. Going to hurt myself. All right. Um, so I've cobbled together since I've been doing rankings recently. I've cobbled together a few, a few rankings for my, for this competition. Um,
00:26:36
Speaker
for props. Um, so I went based on what's been scored, what's in front of them. And also considering like you can only use three of somebody, right? So, um, so my prop, my actually, actually my number one prop for this week, um, is Andrew Ferguson from Glasgow scored well against Exeter and has the same opponent this week. And considering that sometime, and there are two, my other two guys are also very special players.
00:27:05
Speaker
How many guys from Glasgow are you going to want to use? Not many. Right. And so saves you one of those spots. And you're right. Exeter are,
Casual Chat & Rugby Viewing Plans
00:27:13
Speaker
are the, the props make so many tackles and you can get a little bit of hard yardage that yeah, it's, they score well against Exeter. And I'm also looking, I was also looking for guys that weren't necessarily a try based. I don't think Fagerston scored a try in the last match that he played. So that was kind of also on my, yeah, on my high end there. Um,
00:27:36
Speaker
And then two and two and three for me are for a long and like, okay, they're interchangeable and they're both very special players. So that's, that's a place I'm willing to burn, burn a Leinster spot. Um, Lester, I'm not looking for too many of them. So why not Porter over, uh, for long, uh, in terms of what Leinster picker turned to what I pick. Well, you pick.
00:28:02
Speaker
I mean, he's been scoring tries. Yeah, he's been outscoring furlong at this point, so I'm not sure. And fantasy-wise, too. I'm asking this kind of because I need the help. I'm thinking about dropping furlong for Porter. Why wouldn't I do that?
00:28:26
Speaker
for long, he's more likely to bust through. That's why, like he still can go for a scamper. Right. And that's the thing. Porter has been doing it. That's the thing. Less so. Less frequently. Yeah. That's my thing. Less frequently. And again, for long, he also has that nose to the trial line. Porter doesn't quite have it.
00:28:43
Speaker
You know, so on the off chance that that happens and Genjis Genj. So, yeah. Another note, though, I do want everybody to keep their eyes out on Rossings lineup for one Trevor Inukanya from South Africa. He is apparently going to be rolled out this weekend. So I don't know if he's going to play. I don't know if he's going to start, but just keep your eyes peeled and keep him in the back of your brain. That is a rousing spot that I'm not sure I want to burn that there, but but.
00:29:10
Speaker
Well, it's worth watching. Worth watching for sure. Hooker. For me, it's Alfie Barbary that goes to the top of the list because if he plays, he's out of position. He's playing in the back row. Again, another team. How many WASP players are you actually going to pick? Outside of him, none. You know? So, yeah, he goes to the top of the list for me. Rob Herring is also right there for me. I love him.
00:29:37
Speaker
Again, Ronan Kelleher, Montoya, also consideration. But the last person I ranked was Ewan Ashman slash any sale hooker because they found ways to do it. And that's just how it's been. So I'll give them the nod. What do you think of like a capon? Because you're not going to have any bears either, but... Yeah, he's a possibility too, especially because they're playing Stodd, right? Yeah. Let me look at one thing real quick here.
00:30:07
Speaker
The problem is Thacker keeps dropping. I ranked Thacker last week. Thacker dropped. That's one of the reasons why I've gone away from him because he's either playing and getting hurt early because he's not like, dude, just take a few more weeks. He should take this time.
00:30:30
Speaker
play capon and just let that heal up for two more weeks and just do nothing and then bring him back for the prem. Capon might not be too bad. He'll get you somewhere between betting somewhere between six and nine points. So that's not too bad. That's not going to kill you by any means whatsoever. So yeah, if you're looking to save a spot for somebody a little more flashy,
00:30:56
Speaker
Um, that could be bad. That couldn't be a bad pick actually. Um, so yeah. And then like I said, Callaher, Montoya, totally worth the mention here. No, no doubt in my mind. Um, cause I can probably tell you one of them is going to be on one of my teams. So, um, locks, uh, burn and skeleton are the top two. No question. Like they are, this is,
00:31:18
Speaker
these are special players at their position. So I'm going to give them the nod. And for me, like, it's actually a tie between like Skinner and Gray. And I'm probably gonna go Skinner assuming he's playing because yeah, like, that's what they did. That's they both scored well last week. The last week they
00:31:38
Speaker
played against Glasgow, even though obviously Gray's been buoyed by that hat trick that he got. But even still, he scored fine against Glasgow while they were up there. Yeah, the result wasn't great, obviously. But yeah, he still got seven, so that wasn't bad. Skinner got seven and a half playing on the flank. So again, not terrible. I mean, if you're looking for more than
00:32:09
Speaker
seven to 10 points from your lock position. You're probably expecting a lot. Yeah. You're asking, you're asking a lot there. You are. And you'll get it with one of the other two anyway, but yeah, just in case somebody doesn't want to burn like a, like a monster spot. Maybe they want to use some, some of the back three or, um, right. Or even like Connor Murray or something like that instead. That's fine. Cause you want to go with like, you know, consistent points. Cause like, yeah, you might not get the guy who scores the most every week.
00:32:38
Speaker
But, but like that guy, if you just kept him would get, you know, would even out to be worse. So it's like, yeah, you don't look at the players, you have the best score in the second week. Cause you're, you look at the, you know, I guess we're consistent. Like, like look at pro throw from Osprey's the other week against sale, like scored really well, obviously. Right. You really want them on your team. No, like, yeah.
00:32:59
Speaker
Yeah. Loose forwards for me, it's the one through three, one through three are the same three that I picked the first week, which were Aldred, Dom, Branton, Simmons, no question. Those are the, those are definitely guys that you want and you lose towards Nick Timoni deserves special mention. He scored well in both games that he's played in so far. Uh, the list forward for ulcer. Those are my four or that I have a pretty good one. And then as we said, um,
00:33:22
Speaker
Laura, Laura, he won't do what he did against Northampton, but it could still be a very solid play from wrestling against Osprey's this week. So also in consideration, scrum halves, DuPont. Like there's a reason. This is not the place to try to outsmart the crowd.
00:33:43
Speaker
No, this is not what you do. You do it elsewhere. Yeah, you don't sacrifice here. It's not like we were talking about with, you know, a factor or a coupon. If you want to sacrifice a position, you know, you want to scale down just a little bit. There's no scaling down just a little bit here. It's either DuPont or it's like the second tier. The second tier is pretty fucking far from the first tier. So, you know, I'm not, you know,
00:34:12
Speaker
just calling it like it is. Like if you don't have DuPont, you're, you know, not doing better than if you had DuPont. No, no, no, no. Um, Danny care is number two for me. And then Jamison did some Parkers three. Um, I think it'll be great. Um,
00:34:31
Speaker
As I stated before, CUNY, Maschino, a lot of their points came from their kicks. So just keep that in mind. If you're going to pick them, you need to make them your kicker, which means you're picking a 10 that's probably going to do more than just their kicks. So you got to figure that out. Yeah, you need more than that. Yeah. Maxime Lucu is another name. Just keep in mind the Bordeaux scrum half as well.
00:34:49
Speaker
uh, fly-offs, uh, into Mac Smith. And then Jack Carty, actually, I, I really liked the way he played both in Lester and at home. So I like, I like him going back home this week against the team that he already has a clue about. And I think he's going to put in a pretty good shift, uh, over there at the, at the sports park and, uh, and, uh, Galway.
00:35:11
Speaker
So good for him. Outside play, if he plays as Claremont's JJ Hanrahan, a lot of points with the boot. A lot of points with the boot, that boy. So just keep that in mind as well. For the centers.
00:35:25
Speaker
Really, these are three interchangeable names, but right now I have it as DDA, Gail Ficue, and Andre Estrasen. And again, pick your poison on all three of those. Yeah. I mean, it's the same thing, like Esther Hazen, the same consideration as for Tyrone Green. If you don't have him, you got to have those other two. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
00:35:49
Speaker
I think I have DDA and Esther Hazen, or they might be my centers. Yeah, I have both centers. Which is odd for me, because I usually like 13s, but... Yeah, they're both pretty good. Two other names to keep in mind. Jonathan Denty from La Rochelle. He could carve up Bath this weekend, assuming that game goes off the last time that... So, believe it or not, when Leinster played Bath,
00:36:17
Speaker
the center that did the best was the 12. Guess where Dante plays. 12. Yeah, yeah. And then James Hume has just been amazing for Ulster. So yeah, he's totally worth a go. Also didn't come off against. He hasn't come off the field yet, so that helps. And he hasn't played yet, but Rod Rogers has got to be in consideration. Yeah, you can put him on that list as well. If he's in their 15, if he's in their lineup, like,
00:36:41
Speaker
He should be in, you know, again, you're not going to have that many other Bristol players and he is a roll the dice. Um, but again, what, what center isn't, um, yes, that's true. Like he, he's still, I think one of those you'll come out consists more consistently good than bad. So, um, unless that, you know, unless they're, they're really taking the shit.
00:37:04
Speaker
but I doubt it. I think, I think Pat Lam is, uh, if nothing else, can I consider these to be practice matches and like, let's go. We got to play, we've got to play our best because we got to play our best when we get back to the prem. All right. Um, back three, Juany Mop goes right to the top of the list, assuming he's starting. She's just, I think he's just going to be having fun out there. That's all he gets Osprey's. So sorry, Osprey's fans. Um, Demian Pinell goes near the top of lists for me as well. If, if he plays, cause.
00:37:33
Speaker
He does it for France. He does it for Claremont. And I don't, I can't explain it, but he just does it. He does it almost every time. So I like, I really like him. Uh, John porch and James low, James low are the next two on the list. Um, porch has actually been great for Connick since, uh, they started playing in this competition. So even on him against an opponent that he's already done well against. So that also plays into that and James low, James low. Um, yes.
00:37:58
Speaker
Also to be in consideration is your favorite Ulster back three player, whether it's Gilroy McElroy Lowry, they all have been performing quite well for their club and they're going to play again, a very familiar opponent this coming weekend. So I would back any one of them to put a good performance in this coming weekend. So there you have it.
00:38:17
Speaker
As far as captains go, I was thinking about, that was the last one before I kind of got distracted. Ooh, a shiny. The captains, for me, I think two pawns still go to the top of the list. I think so too. Near it. If not, maybe one of those back three, one of those back rows that I mentioned. Aldred's actually my favorite in that situation as well.
00:38:41
Speaker
Yeah, me too. Simmons and Dombrandt haven't been really lighting it up like they're the points that they score in TRM.
00:38:49
Speaker
aren't translating. They're just not. The points aren't translating. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. And if, and if you need like a wild one, that's going to be either zero or a hundred wanting off, probably. Yeah. Right. If you, if you're like looking for that, all right, here's a total dart throw. This is 101 odds, but if it hits, I'm going to be a fucking genius. That's probably the one right there. So there you go. All right. Um, let's do,
00:39:17
Speaker
Some pick me's or pick them that one. All right. Big, big slate. Hopefully they all go off. Fingers crossed. Maybe only one cancellation, which I can live with just not, you know, seven. Right. Please, please, please. Um, don't spoil my weekend. I'm looking forward to staying on my ass. I'm watching a lot of rugby. Um,
00:39:38
Speaker
Especially considering it's been shit weather here in New England. I don't want to be out in the house at all. Nobody. Nope, nope, nope. No. Poor dog fucking froze his dick off last night. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Cali's not too happy about it either. Oh, yeah, he was not happy. She doesn't like she pulled the the I got snow between the same. Same. Same. She's such a turd. So sad about it. It's like, come on, I go and I brush it off.
00:40:05
Speaker
Oh, it happens to all of us. I'm sorry. You're fine. Like just come, we're going to be in the house in two seconds. Just do your business. Let's go. That's a great meme from the ground shit. And like the way you look at your dog when they refuse to go to the bathroom, when it's 10 below outside, that's like, that's it. That's exactly it. Yeah.
00:40:30
Speaker
Oh yeah, he has my hips and shit. Anyway, I digress. Back to this. Pick them. Cast and Monster. Monster. I don't care where it is. It doesn't matter. Cast are put into ship performances. I'm going to go with them. Cardiff and Quinn's. Quinn's. Quinn's. That's the Friday night games. To Saturday, Watson's lose. Taking the defending champs.
00:40:53
Speaker
Yeah. I think, you know, over the team that really needs to heal up for the prem. Yeah. Somebody's going to get sent to the, to the farm for slaughter there. Yeah. Um, I, and I wouldn't, I can't imagine like Galperth is going to play. It's going to be the Atkinson and, um, Le Bourgeois. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. Definitely taking Gelfigu now.
00:41:19
Speaker
Osprey's and not yet. That's the one. Osprey's and Rushing 92. That's why I said VU because I was looking at Rushing. Karnik and Lester out in Galway. Lester can have a little thumb up their butt for this one.
00:41:41
Speaker
Yeah. So I'm going to go with them. Okay. I'm going to take the Irishman take, don't take one home. See how to do. Yeah. I think it'll be nice. All right. Uh, Laura shell and bath. Um, yeah, no, I'm going to go with the hosts on this one. Exeter and Glasgow. I'm going to get with the way team on this one.
00:42:00
Speaker
All right. I'm, I'm going to go with the home team, but it's not the, I'm going to be surprised if they lose. And actually I'm kind of hoping they do. I need to match back. I need, I need, I need to start. You're down six right now. I'll take a freebie. I'm not going to argue out of this one.
00:42:19
Speaker
Yeah. You're down like six or seven. I got to go. I think I got to reject the math here, but yeah, a little bit, uh, Bristol and Stad at home, Bristol, Bristol. Yep. I think they're going to, again, same thing. Practice matches. And I got a pretty good matchup for that. Uh, let's turn Montelier, whether it's at the RDS, the Viva does not matter. Um, Bordeaux and Scarlett's in France.
00:42:47
Speaker
Bordeaux. Yeah. So I'm going with him. Northampton and Ulster. Ulster have got the bit between their teeth and they are sensing a clench right here this week, if they can get the job done. So I'm going to go with Ulster. Yeah, and Saints are, they have one point. There's no, there's no point. There's really no reason for them to like, what are they fighting for? And they, again, they're not, they're outside the top four in the prem. So that's how I think they're packing it in.
00:43:19
Speaker
And then the last one, Clermont and Sale. Very interesting here. Clermont. Yeah, I was really inclined to take the French team, so I'm going to take the home team. They also play better at home, so that's the other thing. Yeah, but what's Sale's mindset going to be?
00:43:37
Speaker
I don't know. Honestly, I don't know what they're, what's going on with the club right now. Well, yeah, especially considering the news that we have right. The potentially could be dropping sometime in the next couple, a couple of days here. So that could, I don't know if that'll galvanize them or if they'll distract them. Who knows? So, um, yeah, well, I'll go with probably won't do them a ton of good. So we'll do that.
00:44:02
Speaker
Right. So it's going to be a distraction. It's certainly going to be a distraction. So, you know, no matter who it is, no matter what, you know, right, what's going on. So and then they need again, maybe they just take the week and reset. Yeah. Thanks, guys. Maybe, maybe. Yeah, we'll see. Because where are they? They're still they're in there. Right. Or they could they could, you know, maybe
00:44:29
Speaker
It is Sanderson. I know, but they've got to kind of really figure it out in this competition, honestly. Yeah. Last year they had one good win and then they put up a stinker at home. That's true. Yeah, I guess I'll stay up with Claremont. All right, so there we have it.
00:44:52
Speaker
Fancy Corner done. Pick them done for Europe this weekend. It's going to be so much fun. I am looking very much forward to it. It's going to be a great weekend of rugby. Fingers crossed, everybody out there. So we appreciate you all for listening to us and listening to Ben and I Babble for now and again here.
00:45:12
Speaker
we will do open forum as you as we have on European weekends. On Friday for STT Fry, I will publish my rankings to maybe help stir some conversation a little bit that'll help out. I respect the right to adjust anything I've said today. Just don't line up of course. Yeah, absolutely. So until then, if you don't hang out with us on Friday, then we'll see you guys next week. Enjoy the rugby. Have a good one. Later.