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Season 3- Episode 15- Seeing Red (Premiership Round 10)
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It is the latest and greatest from those idiots in America that like to talk about rugby. In this episode, we laugh, we cry, we get angry and everything else in between, probably why it's so long. We go over the two biggest talking points (from our perspective) of the weekend, first we cover how much SANZAR and their TV partners here in the U.S. have dropped the ball and our frustration with where that leaves us. We also cover ALL the red cards that we saw in the Premiership this past weekend (there were 5 of them and a host of yellow cards. Of course we wrap all the action from the league this past weekend, put in a hell of a shift to do all the start or sit and so much more. Sit back and ride the wave with us on this episode.
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Transcript
Introduction and Rugby Frustrations
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody. Welcome back. It is the Fancy Rugby Yanks. My name's Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. Let's get her going. Lots of boiling over from this weekend about just it's all in frustration of a lot of things for pretty much every rugby fan in the universe, but especially for you and I here. Yeah, I'm just.
00:00:31
Speaker
Yeah, I'm pretty fucking pissed about the way things are going down. It's really annoying. And it's, you know, on and off the field, let's say. Yeah. Just really,
Listener Engagement and Community Support
00:00:44
Speaker
yeah, I guess this is kind of what happens when Six Nations rolls around. You know, some guys who are playing who shouldn't be playing or getting more minutes. Sometimes, yeah.
00:00:52
Speaker
Not all the time, though. Some of these guys are regular starters. Anyway, but the other shit, they're not being able to watch Super Rugby because Sansar and ESPN dropped the ball. We'll get there. I just need a beer. Same. I wish you'd check us out on your favorite place to find your podcasts, rate review, all that good stuff. I do apologize for last week's hiccup. I had a complete brain fart and that's my own fault. So apologies for that.
00:01:22
Speaker
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00:01:48
Speaker
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Social Media and Racial Issues in Rugby
00:02:09
Speaker
union.
00:02:09
Speaker
but they're very good in terms of supporting the players for life after being off the pitch and stuff like that. So, where they lack in one area, they still do pretty well in others. So, they're still worth supporting for the players here. As always, Black Lives Matter here. Yeah, it's just, it's, and we talked about the social media stuff last week and unfortunately it still continues and we did get a,
00:02:37
Speaker
Did you see the, it was the Iroquois that, that tweeted at the premiership about Exeter as a Twitter account. Um, but I missed this. Yeah. Um, but basically like they, when, when the whole bit bit dropped about, you know, exit or dropping their name, they're like, yeah, let's see it in action. And now that now that Exeter has, hasn't done that, um, or even stopped doing the chant.
00:03:00
Speaker
No, any of that. They're calling them out. So yeah, gotta keep calling these people out because, you know, especially like premiership, like what are you doing to fight racism?
Fundraising and Rugby Match Highlights
00:03:11
Speaker
Exactly. Other than, you know, putting out a hashtag and raising awareness. That's all well and good, but what are you doing? You know, you have a big platform. Use it. So that's my thought at least. I agree.
00:03:26
Speaker
Super Saturday. Watch it's on. Let's get, let's get into that because that's way better stuff. That's way better. Um, if you haven't figured it out yet, um, we have, we have a link, um, we'll try and get a better link. That's got like a pretty picture to go with it. But anyway, um, we're raising money for a great link on the Twitter. No, it isn't. But, um, we are raising money for, um, uh, greater Boston food bank here in, uh, here in Boston, um, to donate for, uh, for our cause. Um, my.
00:03:56
Speaker
GBFB.org, backslash, T-F-R-Y. Watchathon, no spaces in there. That'll get you to the link and you can donate. If you can't donate to Greater Boston Food Bank for reasons X, Y, and Z, do what you can. Give what you can time, supplies, anything. It's the time to be helpful to others when you can be. So- Our local charity and kitchen type thing. If there's international concerns,
00:04:25
Speaker
Yeah, correct. Absolutely. But anything you can do to that. $25 donation to the Greater Boston Food Bank will get you the link so you can watch Ben and I embarrass ourselves for 24 hours straight. So the thing we're going to talk about next is kind of throw a little bit of monkey wrench into it. But we'll get some we'll get sorted. I promise. Could could leave some room for something a little bit more fun in there somewhere as well. So I think
00:04:51
Speaker
And we could get a variety, possibly get one of the Allianz Premier 15's matches squeaked in there, which would be, which I think, I think is totally worth it. If you didn't see the, the semi-pam track from the week.
00:05:07
Speaker
Please don't take my front row card. Yeah, so it's they're worth it. Trust me. And if you didn't also if you didn't watch the the women's any of the sevens from this past weekend, there was a play from both the US and France that were similar and good Lord were they gorgeous to watch.
Broadcasting Issues and Rugby's Growth in North America
00:05:24
Speaker
Um, going up, taking the ball from, from the kickoff and passing it off to a teammate in one, in one fell sweep, not, not even get coming down and passing it. Just, I got it. And just tipping it to a teammate. And she like laid herself out. Like there was blatant disregard for her own personal safety. I was like, don't die, don't die. Like she came down on her feet. She, she jumped over somebody. Yeah. She took her own legs out. Yeah. She was waiting on it. Yeah.
00:05:53
Speaker
but uh that was pretty yeah that's pretty ridiculous so anyway yes these women are totally worth watching so yeah maybe we'll sweep that in there now that we've um hit the station hit hit the situation we've hit um let's let's dive into it because it's it's irk the shit out of me and and ben at all so it's really annoying um
00:06:14
Speaker
So this isn't the biggest, the United States and Canada, North America, whatever you want, whatever you wish to refer to it as. I guess North America would be the correct way to refer to it. I wasn't a geography major, man, leave me alone.
00:06:32
Speaker
If this is one of the biggest media markets in the world, I know it's not Sansar's biggest media market. Obviously, that's their home markets. I'm not stupid. But if this is still one of the biggest media markets in the world and you want to grow your league, your sport, wouldn't you want a foot in there somewhere? Apparently, I missed how to do things. I don't know. Yeah, you kind of want to grow the game by getting more eyes on it. And we're kind of at a crucial juncture here because
00:07:01
Speaker
at least in America, like there's some good high quality rugby that's coming to this country and it's being promoted in country. And so it would be, it's good for the game if Sansar, you know, had a presence here, you know, like you go to any match and somebody's got, you know, Kiwi or Aussie or South Africa or all three, just cause like they're awesome countries at rugby and people want to rep them. So, but you can't just,
00:07:28
Speaker
take that, you know, there's a market here for your shit is what I'm getting at. Like people here buy those, those jerseys. I have a hurricanes Jersey. Yeah. And if you're not going to promote it there, then people will buy what they can. Yeah. They'll go somewhere else. You know, I mean, people, we talked about, um,
00:07:50
Speaker
watching matches with our, with our club and people were bitching. Oh, can you watch something besides premiership? Really? There's nothing else on, you know, watch that six nations. Um, we have pro 14 proof. Tell me which one's better than their pro 14 or premiership. I'm going to put my hat in the ring for the prime. Thank you very much. Yeah.
00:08:13
Speaker
So we don't have France. We don't have the top 14. Yeah. That, you know, that, that leads a mess from what I understand in terms of like, they're, they're fighting with the French national team and all that stuff. Oh, it's totally fun to watch. I know that. Yeah. But therefore the league's fighting with the French national team and nobody's, you know, getting along over there and playing nice. So that that's unhelpful for them. So they're going to, they're going to be a whip. They're going to be a bit.
00:08:35
Speaker
Not only that though, but because of all this ESPN basically destroyed their Southern hemisphere content now. So all the back catalog is gone. The national matches that they had from the, the, um, the rugby championship, the tri nations. Yeah, it's all gone. So like, fuck, like this is bullshit. You can't even watch the international matches. You basically just shut out.
00:09:00
Speaker
North America from Southern Hemisphere rugby. Thanks, Dix. I don't think that's in. We're not we're not the greatest thing since sliced bread. If you haven't listened to this podcast for longer than five minutes, neither Ben nor I honestly believe that. So we're not sitting here trying to toot our own horn or anything like that.
00:09:20
Speaker
But, you know, just thinking on basic basic economics and, you know, all that stuff. And, you know, just marketing, like we are one of the biggest media markets in the world. Like they've got they've missed. So super a you missed out completely for both the UK, Asia and here. Like that is that if whatever that TV deal is that happened in their backyard. Great. Although I heard that got cocked up to a little bit for the opening weekend. So it sounds like there's a lot of problems there.
00:09:50
Speaker
Oh, and it's total. That's why I totally lay the blame at Sansar here. Not so much. ESPN, I feel like, probably negotiated honestly. They've been doing this for years. So they know the value and they're not going to
00:10:06
Speaker
you know, fuck over Sansar, they'll give them the same fair, I would assume the same fair shake unless things drastically changed. But ESPN seems pretty much like, anyway, what I got from CNN, or from ESPN anyway, was that they were like, I mean, yeah, it's scripted, but they were still saying, we're doing our best. They wanted to. Everything we can.
00:10:26
Speaker
And so it's like, yeah, they obviously, if they're saying they're doing everything they can, that's not, that's a little bit, that's a better answer than we've gotten in the past. And it's still, we don't know. It was definitely, or, or it could be through this janky website. Nope. So that's better than we've ever gotten. Honestly, it really was. Cause they, yeah, ESPN and the previous users was like, we think we can get a deal done. We're hoping to get it done. You know, we, we want it. They were always saying we want it. And,
00:10:52
Speaker
This time they were like, no, we're doing everything we can to do it. And that's, that was definitely a different message. And, uh, yeah, yeah, complete and complete cock up from Sansar. And, you know, we, because it also happened in, in, in UK too, you know, they had, for them that, that rug de pass came through, um,
00:11:11
Speaker
for just a Tarot though. No, not you. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. I don't know. They play finger out as it were. Yeah. I don't, I don't understand. I get, I completely, I am not a major in any of this. If someone, somebody is listening to this in Australia, New Zealand, can you pull and you have like some, some sort of insight that Ben and I are completely just, it's going over our heads. Please inform us because I,
00:11:41
Speaker
have no idea how this is going, going down the way it is. Like, yeah, it doesn't make any sense. They were, they were, I can't remember the last time. It was been, it's been a good six, seven years easily since they didn't have this, the contract for this league. Yes. Over here. So.
00:12:00
Speaker
It's it's been in good faith, obviously, you know, they had a four year deal before now that then they had another three or something like that, whatever it was, basically, they were they were able to work shit out for the longest time.
00:12:11
Speaker
But I also remember, I think it was Australia last year, even, uh, we missed the first week of super rugby Australia, but then it came through. I feel like, I feel like something like that happened. We were down to the wire. I remember that. I definitely remember that we were down to the wire, both, I think both times. Um, so that, yeah, that doesn't sound too, uh, uh, off the, off the road.
00:12:31
Speaker
But I'm still holding out hope that it could happen, but I think it's not going to. I feel like ESPN might have just walked away because they've just, like I said, they've just taken everything off their site from Southern Hemisphere rugby.
00:12:45
Speaker
Yeah, I think that I would be willing to bet that you are correct on that one. And that's really unfortunate. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody please like let us know because I have got no idea. I'm so lost at this point. I didn't even realize how mad I was about this until I wake up this morning and
00:13:07
Speaker
Jared texts me at like not long after I'd woken up. So it was like one of basically the first text I got of the day was, Hey, we have, we actually have an advantage on, on lineup day for New Zealand because they'll release it at 10 PM our time, which is so much ahead of, of, uh, the Safas and the UK boys, although the Safas might be awake at that point, but it depends on what time they get up, I guess. Um,
00:13:34
Speaker
But yeah, like, so, and I'm like, fuck do I care? Can't even watch it. I'm like, I'm so, I just, that made me so mad today. Right. I am too. Like, and like hurricanes play this weekend. I want to watch the hurricanes. I want to watch what's going on without all that stuff. And it's just like,
00:13:52
Speaker
You know, and it was we can't even really like stream it now because that means getting up at like one of the more. I'm like, no, that is not happening. Like the the very first Australian game or the second Australian game of the day on in.
00:14:12
Speaker
on Friday morning, I could, it's like five, six o'clock in the morning. If I really wanted to, and like, I didn't, I wasn't at work, which I'm usually at work at that point, unfortunately, if anybody understand how early I start. Yeah, I could if I really wanted to, but it's not, it's really not happening. So yeah, that's the only one and I just, it's really frustrating. It's like, it's another,
00:14:41
Speaker
It's another thing with the sport where people, where they're not listening to their customers and it's just. And, and, and can we, we put this further in, in further context of again, we're, we're Americans and right now it fucking sucks to be an American. So it's just like, there's just one more fucking thing. Like I can't even have this. It's like, there's this.
00:15:06
Speaker
saving grace. It's so yeah, it's like, I mean, yeah, and that's such a shitty, you know, attitude there. But at the same time, it is it's just like every nothing nothing is like going even the things that go well here just
00:15:22
Speaker
don't go suck right now. Yeah. So it's just like one more thing that just one more one more thing letting me down that like, I have no control over, but that should stream straightforward. What the fuck? You know, why is why is this just not working? Which seems to be life in America these days. It's not just this. It's within the whole context of agreed. Nothing working. Agreed. Yeah, it's
00:15:48
Speaker
You know, I go back to June when we were still amid lockdown and here is like,
00:15:59
Speaker
the little light that we had remaining because we're in the middle of a fucking COVID pandemic and super Ruby a Tarot is there to save the day so we can watch rugby and enjoy it and with fans. And now we're just like the fuck. Yeah. The actual fuck guys that I still, I was thinking about that the other day, the, um,
00:16:22
Speaker
The welcome back speech that the sports minister, I don't remember his name, but he was great. But that speech he gave was just like I wanted to be there. I want to go to there. But it was nice to see that ray of hope that things could be good again. It's been replaced. Yeah, I know.
Player Safety and Red Card Controversies
00:16:48
Speaker
It's been replaced.
00:16:50
Speaker
by this shit. Literally shit. We're happy. Speaking of happy things.
00:17:00
Speaker
Yeah. You know, they weren't giving out candy this weekend. I saw lots of like, they weren't. It was it was liquor sheets. That's what it was. It was red liquor sheets, like, you know, lemon, lemon drop or something like that.
00:17:21
Speaker
Oh man, everybody like enough cards to fill a poker table. Good Lord. Yeah. I mean, what the fuck? We just did the count. It was like five red, six yellows. You know, I was two teams that didn't get carded that played.
00:17:37
Speaker
And really, you know, if you look, if we look at one of them, um, Exeter, yours was probably lucky that he didn't get a yellow. Yeah. You know, like if he hits anybody else, that's not Dave ribbons with that force. And he's definitely getting a card that might be red. So he's probably lucky to still be on the field. That was not his smartest moment. Not that he's the smartest man in the world that we've seen at least.
00:18:01
Speaker
yeah i mean i'm just going through the lake at almost as they happen in order to like the big moments are probably asking here's the thing they all involved a degree of. Bad technique stupidity and i hate being way off like those three things were involved in everything here and.
00:18:22
Speaker
I they're trying to change behavior. This is what happens, man. And this is this is good. It's good for the sport because they're taking shit out that they should have taken on a while ago. And and.
00:18:34
Speaker
Chicken wing shit. Yeah, like it's because it's not just like they get rid of the high tackles and that was that's excellent. And yeah, people are saying, okay, we took go to the high tackles, but there's still a lot of head and head knocks. And it's like, yeah, because there's shit like this. It's not just high tackles. It's how do you come in at a rock? How, you know, how are you assisting on a tackle? Like, you know,
00:18:56
Speaker
the oh yeah he the val was the like and and you know he's trying to fend i get it but he missed right so i think i think he was going i think he was trying to fend um i can't remember who who did the two
00:19:11
Speaker
the Bayless, I think he was trying to get his right hand on Bayless's right shoulder and missed. And that's, and then he just pops them. Yeah. That's, that's, it's like, that's all, you know, that's the cost of doing business. If you, if you're trying for a friend like that and you, you're, you're going for that style offend, you're going to pay the price if you miss. Right. So that to me, that's given Val repover us in the benefit of the doubt. I don't think he was throwing up a forearm to run behind. I think he just,
00:19:40
Speaker
mis-offend and he had a prop arm and that's what you know like you try that as a prop you know shit can happen nope that didn't and it didn't it didn't work and yeah he got him right on the button like force yeah right on the end to the head and anything that's not legal you're gonna get sent off and
00:20:01
Speaker
That's just how it goes, man. I'm glad that they're applying it to all contact situations like that now. Yeah. Really, in the Mike Williams situation, you could have probably sent both guys off for one reason or another between he and Schumann. Yeah, that wasn't the best tackle in the universe by either one. Yeah, Schumann got saved by Williams doing
00:20:22
Speaker
just blasting him in the face. Was that moil that he hit? I was like, oh, poor guy. Like, yeah, that was dumb. And, you know, the big fellows are going to have to adjust and it sucks for the big guys. Like, but, you know, and we saw it with like our boy, big Willie skeleton, like he had to adjust because he is a large human being and he needs, he knows he needs to get his body low.
00:20:49
Speaker
But if he's going to miss, you better, you better miss low. Yeah. Don't miss high. Cause it's going to end poorly. And a big guy like that is just going to destroy somebody. That's just how it goes. You know, big Mike Williams. Sorry about a year off. And then the fucking good luck, the red cards that were handed out in that wasp match. My goodness. Like every one of them involved either stupidity or laziness, really.
00:21:15
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, or just, yeah, needless aggression. Like, they're definitely stupid. Like, Wiese's penalty, or Wiese's red, just no need for it. You don't have any right to hit him, first off, because he's on the other side. Like, you have to, he wasn't going through the, he didn't enter through the rock. He just hit the guy who he could see, you know, who was actually behind somebody. So, like, he had no right to hit him in the first place.
00:21:39
Speaker
And because there was a less luster player between it, like, yeah, came over the rock to do it. And right to like, there was never going to hit him anywhere but the head just. Yeah. And tucking the tucking your arm. Shit's got to go like, listen, I've done it, but it's got to go. We've been coached to do it a lot. A lot of lot of it's not not not a spirit of
00:22:06
Speaker
you know, yeah, fuck them up like that, but, you know, drive them off the ball. You know, there's a lot of, yeah, just get your shoulder in there and drive them off the ball. And there's no, there's no, you know, real, I was not always taught to rap.
00:22:20
Speaker
Right. Yeah. Well, it was just blow them off the ball. OK, I can do that. I love doing that. I can do that. Yeah. Maybe maybe when the referee is not looking to drop a shoulder into somebody that's being a dickhead. Yeah, all the things. But but the the shoulder on was was was always the emphasis, you know, whether it was a wrap. Yeah, sometimes you want to wrap a crocodile role. Yeah, you want to you want to obviously need a wrap, but not not as a part of a clear out. It's not not coached that way by by every coach. So
00:22:49
Speaker
Yeah, that's got to change. But obviously, there's no need for that.
00:22:57
Speaker
Hammerheaded and Brooks was hammerheaded and Leibenberg. Leibenberg, what are you doing? Like, you know, that's going to end poorly all like, yes, you're in a bad situation and you know, you're fucked. Like catch him. Don't, you're going to get penalized. Deal with that fact. Don't fucking let him go. Ass over T kettle. You're going to get sent off, you dumb shit. Oh, so they're out to back rows now at Lester. Good luck. Yeah.
00:23:22
Speaker
Oh man. And they're playing Bristol this weekend. Oh fuck. Good luck. Yeah. Um, sorry, Duncan. I don't think your boy should win this weekend. Oh yeah. They're out. They're out too many guys. Forget it. And then the next, Oh, that was, that was it for the reds, but then just a ton of yellows. So like the, the bed low yellow.
00:23:47
Speaker
At first glance, I'm glad they caught it. At first glance, it looked like, you know, Phipps kind of sold it, which he kind of did. But at the same time, like, Bedlow did not need to do that. Like, I get it. Scrumhaps are annoying as shit. Trust me. I want to hit every one of them sometime. James excluded. Oh, no, no, that was the Mitch Edie one. He was the one. Oh, that was the Edie one. Okay. Oh, Bedlow was the dump. Duh.
00:24:08
Speaker
Yeah, it was the dump the dump tackle. Yeah, dumps are. That's another thing that's getting sent. Like we don't see those anymore. Thank God. Right. Because those were awful. So, yeah, that was like I was the first thumb tackle I'd seen in like a year easily. And it was like just especially the clear dump. Like I've seen some that it was like, was that a dump? And it was like, no, that guy just got his fucking shoulder in there and laid him out. That's that's perfectly legal. This there was clear, clear twist and lift and no.
00:24:36
Speaker
I mean, but the good thing is though, that's now a shocking behavior, right? In rugby, everybody saw that and was like, oh, like there's a reaction. There's a reaction to it, yeah. There's a reaction to it, because you're like, oh, that's bad. Like, and it used to be, fuck nice, fucking tackle. So. Not anymore. Yeah, it's like that the game can change for the better like that. So all the people, you know, if you're upset about the sudden emphasis on this stuff,
00:25:03
Speaker
And or you want to change a different editing a different card for. Oh, my God. Can we stop that talk, please? Right. No, I fully appreciate the you know, and I kind of like the idea that I would I would love to see it in action. But the red card where a team after 20 minutes can substitute someone else back on.
00:25:27
Speaker
Um, that's not my favorite. Honestly, I want to see it, you know, it was like the 50 22 rule. I wanted to see what it, what it looks like. Although we won't see what it looks like. So we won't see it. No, but, um, I think you record the game on the screen and send it to us, please. I think that's a good idea because at the very, at the same time as, as it, you know, it makes the red a little less harsh in ways, but it also allows for referees to punish things appropriately, you know, without having to deal with, Oh, should that be a red? Like.
00:25:58
Speaker
I think holding teams to the red card for the red card sake puts the onus on the coaches. You don't want to get your team screwed by a red card. Coach them correctly. And if your players continue to not listen, don't fucking play them. That's coaching.
00:26:17
Speaker
You know, to me, that's coaching like you better fucking believe that if one of my boys freaking got in a fight or did something really stupid on the field and got themselves sent off, they'll be banned. They will be banned. Whether the weather, whether somebody comes in from the state or not, they're going to get banned because I'm not putting up with that shit on my club. That is end story.
00:26:36
Speaker
So yes, that is down to coaching, you know, so and I realize these are adults and not kids, but it doesn't matter. That's still your team. You're responsible for this team. You're responsible for what happens on the field. Yes, players play coaches coach coaches need to set them up sells these guys up to understand. If you get sent off, you're fucking us. Don't fucking do it, you idiot. No. So yeah, no, I think
00:27:00
Speaker
I think it, um, and then here's the other thing. If you hold the red card to the full red card, the team, your teammates are going to fucking stare a hole through you, the dressing room. And they're going to be like, don't fucking do that again. Cause you, you, you just left us out there 14 men and just dog in it. And sometimes, you know, you can rally it. And awesome. If somebody rallies like this past weekend with Lester, if a team rallies after getting a red card,
00:27:29
Speaker
And still wins. The guy that you guys had off owes everybody in that locker room a drink for sure. So two because you owe one for the red card. That's that's right. That's true. I'll give you that one. At this point, you might just buy it. And especially at that level, you buy him each case of beer or a case of wine. If you really want to be classy about it, if that's if that's if that's their preference, it's OK. No judgment here. And yeah, but
00:28:00
Speaker
Yeah, that's not it. You owe your teammates because they already you know, even if they lose, they had to do so much more work because of you. So if they if they win in that effort, then yeah, you owe them big time.
00:28:13
Speaker
Yeah, no kidding.
Premiership Rugby Match Reviews
00:28:14
Speaker
Okay. Let's talk about the actual games because that's what we do. Um, wish we could talk about Subaru BU, but we can't. I bless you. Um, that is the Ben I know and love for anyone that hasn't ever heard that before. Just so you know,
00:28:37
Speaker
I'm glad everybody else can find out now. I think with that watch-a-thon, you would have found out anyway. I will express myself through bodily functions if I have to.
00:28:54
Speaker
Yeah, I think through the watchathon we would have we would have found that like things like that out about both of us because if I'm that tired, there's no way I'm gonna give a shit. Yeah, exactly. Oh shit. Alright, let's go to bath and Gloucester bass 16 for Gloucester 14 Gloucester can't buy a goddamn win. And it was a great try to give them the lead bath or
00:29:20
Speaker
That's a fight and back at least. Yeah. They're showing some life. For all this talk about relegation, getting rid of relegation will mean teams will just give in. Did you see that? Have you seen what basketball is doing? That was a good match. And them getting it done. I mean, penalty at the death is you can get without being final whistle.
00:29:48
Speaker
Yeah. That's just a good clean win for a team that needs it. Even if, you know, it was messy as fuck. Yeah. Oh, I mean, between this and the, and the, the victory over sell last week, just right. Yeah. Give Stuart Hooper some life.
00:30:02
Speaker
Yeah, and yeah, right. Porgal, on the other side, Gloucester is in the position bathroom. Although they're fighting so hard. I mean, imagine if they didn't lose their prop in the first 10 minutes. And who came off after that? Seabrook. I think Seabrook came off. I wanted to see that. It was a center, but that's a winged center. Oh, I know. I really wanted to see where they were going with that, because that looked like a really cool thing that they were doing.
00:30:30
Speaker
I didn't get to see it a lot more fun of a match. Yeah. Um, the guy that we, um, in past seasons, we kind of shat on because he just wasn't doing a whole lot, um, on the, on the, on the statue or, and, and visually as well. Um, but man, this year,
00:30:51
Speaker
I don't know who found the fire delight underneath him, but to loop a foul, Tao has been playing out of his brain this season. And, you know, he always got the nod for whales and it was almost like just because.
00:31:04
Speaker
This year, he totally deserves it. Sixes has done good for him. Really has, which is so weird that it's almost like took an experiment, which wasn't really much of an experiment, but it's really where he belongs. It's clear that he belongs there, at least certainly on both of those teams. I'm not sure if maybe that's his position now.
00:31:31
Speaker
Yeah. What a shift he had. Yeah, absolutely. Mercer's always, Mercer's always willing to put it in. Let's just be real about this. You know, welcome back. Yeah, I know we all will. Welcome back Ed Slater. He had himself a pretty good match.
00:31:47
Speaker
Yeah, a good match. Ludlow, the captain leading from the front and getting his first try in a long time. So it's a club that's not lost their spirit by any means whatsoever. They just can't quite get over the line and Bath have figured it out. So they're going to start being probably a little bit of a more of a mess to beat than they used to, than they had been in weeks past. Still has some players to look forward to, right? So, I mean, Ben Morgan, we got, we got a,
00:32:17
Speaker
A little bit of a glimpse of him. That's good. But then he'll be back soon. Hopefully more, more than now. Just getting back for his first match in a little bit. Yep. So they still don't have singles. Right. So they still have.
00:32:34
Speaker
Reinforcements come in just a little bit more patient. It's not like they're that far away. They've shown the fight, so they'll get there. They could certainly make their way to top six if they play their cards right.
00:32:49
Speaker
Yeah, that's so wide open right now too. They need to start getting on their horse a little bit. We got a long way to go. Let's go over to the stoop. Our friend Sam was on the comms for this one, which was great to hear. I'm at a loss for words for Marcus Smith. I really am.
00:33:15
Speaker
This is one of the best defenses in the premiership. And yeah, I don't give a shit if they have a depower. Their system's really good, generally. Sales sharks is. Yeah, he carved them up. But he is just caught it. He is doing what he wants at will right now. And that is just a special thing to see. And my God, if this guy, at this point, it's, you know, we talked about,
00:33:41
Speaker
You know, obviously, Jack Willis, that's something we didn't even get to get into. Like, at this point, like for Dominator and Sam Simmons, it's personal from Eddie at this point, to not get called in. And, and for this point, and at this point, it's almost personal for Marcus Smith to not get called in because he's playing so well, right? You're calling in guys that aren't necessarily playing well, but are almost about the same age, Jacob Umaga, Charlie Atkinson, like, you're not calling in Marcus Smith. Why?
00:34:08
Speaker
Like I've yet to figure it out. It's, it's head games. I, I, I don't know, but I don't know how Marcus Smith cannot be in the, in the world cup squad. How, and, and 23. Yeah, absolutely. So, so that has to happen now. Just fucking with him and then he'll bring him on like next year or something or like, you know, you're leading up, but why, why? And you're going with for no fucking, like it's just, it,
00:34:37
Speaker
Right. And Farrell's best position at this point in his career is not 10. Right. So having him at 12 kind of makes some sense, but not even then. I'd rather have a much more attacking team at this point. And that's that's Marcus Smith right there. Absolutely. And the guy he helped him out a lot, although once is just a fucking fluke that he fell on, which is great.
00:35:04
Speaker
But, uh, yeah, Joe Marchand, Joe Marchand. Good to see him back in lively. I call, I call, I called him out as the say of the week and look at that. And, uh, a guy that's put, you know, it was funny as we said it, um, I think it was either Sam or somebody else, um, tweeted like, if there's somebody playing 15 better than Mike Brown right now, I don't know who it is, you know, and we'll see on this, we'll talk about the Sunday game and somebody put their money, put their money right up there. Yes, they did.
00:35:32
Speaker
But yeah, so.
00:35:35
Speaker
Quinn's credit loads of it. They did a lot of good things in this match. Things that are really hard to do against a sale sharks team and they didn't have a lot of the ball. They played really well. They've rallied since Guzy got fired. Again, we talked about they felt responsible for Guzy getting, you know, walking away and getting canned because they weren't performing. So now they're, they've got the rockets up their bums and they're playing well. So good on them. On the other side,
00:36:04
Speaker
I think Sanderson's starting to figure out that sale shark's job ain't so easy. Yeah. It's, um, there's not much there, huh? Yeah. He's got a lot to build up, build with here. Oh, Tommy Taylor's on the way there. So that should do them a little bit. That should help. Um, although accurate, like anyway, they'll figure that out. Um, but, oh shoot, where the fuck did one, two punch just the same. Yeah. But that, um, that, that quirky,
00:36:32
Speaker
Yeah. Raffy Quirk. Yeah. He was pretty good. I, I, I was impressed. That's, that's like, you know, he's learning about his team. I think he's learning now that AJ is the 10. Um, God, I hope he has learned at this point. Geez, pretty clear. He's lost two games in a row with frigging Rob Dupree at 10. Not going well. Um, and the five minutes that AJ played, he, he managed to set up a try or score a try. Like, come on.
00:37:00
Speaker
And then you didn't get to play this past week, but... No, you didn't. Yeah, give him a break, though. But Lude coming back will help. Just a little... Yeah, that's a fucking load right there, good lord. Yeah, so he's got some things to work with, and Quirk there, I really think... How old is he? 20.
00:37:21
Speaker
Fuck. I mean, there's, there's your guy. Like I, you know, thank you, Will Cliff. Um, yeah. 200th appearance. Congratulations. Move on. You're done. Bye. Yeah, there's, there's no, if I'm, yeah, if I'm Sanderson quirks, my guy and I'll let him do the, do the, the blooding and the, the mistakes that he's going to make. Um, cause you know, he got a good squad, but then they're, you know, that's not going to kill them. You know, you'll play FAF obviously, but,
00:37:49
Speaker
giving his backup, it should be. It should be Quirk. I agree. I agree. Let's go over to Welford Rowe, Lester and Wasp. Fuck us up with Wasp. I don't know. I'm so, you know, this is a team that should have played so much better than this. They had a lot more to offer them. Roland's.
00:38:13
Speaker
I don't know. He's a workhorse, but he didn't do a whole lot this game, honestly. 13 tackles. I don't think he had too many carries. He had a couple of runs, but that was like a three-meter plot, a three-meter plot, a three-meter plot. Yeah, nothing crazy there. But the missed tackles, though. Yeah, 13 tackles. I know he had a couple missed tackles that
00:38:40
Speaker
I think he had a missed tackle on the lead into the Wiese tribe, but I can't remember. He had a couple key missed tackles. I remember him missing a play here or there that cost wasps. I'm really disappointed with him right now, unfortunately.
00:39:01
Speaker
I think Julia Montoya has state to claim to that two shirt for sure now if it's if it's not his then man Sorry, Steve. What's what you're doing it wrong? I Think he's got it It's been a couple weeks in a row now. I'm pretty sure that's pretty clear. That should be his yeah, absolutely And there were some good step-up moments for four guys in a washer exact Henry played pretty well this this game you know and and
00:39:29
Speaker
A problem that was a lesser problem for a long time was penalties, and they cut them down this match and that helped. Granted, they had two big ones that resulted in guys getting sent off, but they're not committing them on a regular basis. Four total for the match. Yeah, something like that. Wasps only committed, I'm looking, oh no, that's, I'm sorry, looking at different ones, penalty conceded seven, seven for the match.
00:40:02
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And you see the numbers that kind of just tell the story, but lots of possession for Lester, lots of territory for Lester. Never let the boss get out of their own way. 71 tackles. Yeah. That's something that's nothing Lester. That's, that's a little of the ball that either was had or used. Right.
00:40:24
Speaker
So there's something going wrong with that, that was attack. So back to the drawing board for Lee Blackett and Co. Yeah. They're not getting consistent play from their 10. Oh no, I'm sorry. Neither of them. They are getting consistent play from their 10. Yeah. It's, it's not been good from either of the guys that are in there. And I don't think it's not a good.
00:40:46
Speaker
the answer sounds like you know you'd say oh well then put in jimmy gopert i don't think that's the answer either honestly i think his best spots at 12 right now so no this is just like we were saying with with sale this is the time where you let atkinson and umaga lose games and yeah let him let him get used to the mistakes because as they learned in this young age
00:41:05
Speaker
They'll it'll pay dividends down the road. And we've seen Charlie Atkinson perform well. We've seen Jacob Umaga perform well. They have it in them. This is not the time that's obviously come out that that happens with young guys and Lester. Well, they had a tough opponent this week, too, that has been playing well of late. So, yeah, it's pretty it's pretty it's pretty funny to think about that, considering where Lester has been in the last couple of years.
00:41:35
Speaker
even where they are right now, relevant in the table, but that's not indicative of the way they've been playing. Right, I agree. I agree, I agree. Yeah, let's zip down to Sandy Park? Muddy Park. We started Sandy because that was no beach right there. Good luck. We know what's Sandy there, but the... Now I'm thinking about South Park, stop.
00:42:05
Speaker
Anyway, that was just such an ugly match. It was a hideous match. It was just totally worth the ending. Oh, the ending? Yeah, the ending was the clock. Did you ever watch a movie where you're just like, fuck this movie. Fuck this movie. And then at the end, it's like, no, this was all worth it.
00:42:27
Speaker
That's this match. Yeah, that's pretty much what it was. Yeah, we even glossed over the controversy. We haven't even mentioned it till now. That's how much other shit was going down this weekend. We didn't even get to make fun of Sir Joseph Simmons MBE.
00:42:45
Speaker
Yeah, you know, uh, resetting his feet. He knew it. And he's like, shit. Yeah. I totally fought that. Didn't I? And like, you see the two reactions right after the whistle and he's got his head in his hands even before, um, you know, as soon as that ball's being kicked, he's just standing there with his head. Yeah. It's getting kicked off the tee by the saints. Yeah. Hage is like livid with the referee and it's like, dude, yeah, Simmons knew he screwed it up. So, and, and yeah. Um,
00:43:15
Speaker
that's that's pretty much all you need to know like you see confirmed it in the post game like Baxter Baxter yeah um was like yeah he moved nothing yeah he had no argument he's like you know and you know you contrast that with like um what happened after
00:43:32
Speaker
uh Christopher Lee award that that penalty trier for Quinn's where Baxter was living this was completely different and he's like yep we screwed up end of story so that's pretty much all you need to know right there Baxter saying yeah that's it so who would have um
00:43:50
Speaker
picked it that Ali Sleitholm had the most influential kick of the week. Oh, yeah, I know getting that getting that thing away from Devoto. No, no, no, the kick, the his kick, he was the one who kicked it off the tee. Oh, was that him? I didn't realize that was him. It was a bald dude. There's a couple of them on that team, so I didn't know which one it was. Yeah, I mean, good on Saints for fighting like hell. This is a team that struggled. They made 220 tackles this weekend.
00:44:18
Speaker
as a team. That is a lot. That is a lot of sore bodies right there. And that's what you have to do. That's what you have to do against Exeter more often than not. Yeah. No, you have to defend like hell. Right. These guys out and they played better. Exeter rugby than Exeter played, which you don't do at Sandy Park. You don't do it all generally, but you don't do there. So good on them. Yeah, we hit himself a nice little match. Yeah, he's yeah, he's he's still a beast with this team and the story.
00:44:48
Speaker
And then, yeah, and debuters, that penalty was just dumb and it gave them that extra penalty. Pierce Francis slide it and that was the difference. So, good on Pierce Francis for nutting it when he needed to. Wouldn't pick that lineup ever again if I was Chris Boyd, but it worked.
00:45:09
Speaker
Like through exit or off their game. Yeah. Don't know. Don't know. But, uh, it seems to get the job done just the same. Oh boy. Let's go to Sunday. And my goodness, was this a match? Like if you had turned, if you were dumb enough to turn this off at halftime, shame on you. Shame on you. This was crazy. You know, mafia, like as soon as mafia scored it at the half,
00:45:37
Speaker
Yeah, game on. But the problem here, I think, and you know, I don't want to say anything bad about my boy. So but sometimes coaches get caught up in the moment. And they think they've devised a plan for how they want to work their subs, especially as it relates to halftime. And
00:46:05
Speaker
Sometimes it's you kind of push it back and sometimes you bring it up. And I think, um, early on in the match, the Bristol coach pulled his, you know, accelerated his, his substitution timeline. Yeah, probably, probably needed to weigh a good 10 minutes to let that go. And the mafia try should have had him recalculate. Yeah, absolutely. And it, that didn't happen. Um, and I think that ended up costing Bristol the match.
00:46:33
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, it's going to be like, I mean, I don't know why he took him out more. Ham was playing. Oh, more. Should it come off? Yeah. More. I should have easily been the guy. Come on. If you're going to take somebody that back three off now, Lago obviously had was on his game that day. Pieta was clearly in the mood. More. And it's just lost lately. I don't understand. Still, it must be obviously still working with way back into game and fitness and whatnot. But man, not his game lately. He hasn't been.
00:47:02
Speaker
Um, consistently good in a number of years. Let's put it that way. Yeah. Since a couple of years ago, probably. So he's, he's always the target to take off, but I think, uh, Pietal playing so well and coming off in a recent injury. Uh, I think he, that was, that was part of the plan, uh, to pull him up early. I know, but still did not go well. No, I wish he hadn't. I really wish he hadn't.
00:47:28
Speaker
So there was so much to this match to divulge into. I don't think we can get it all, but we have to just- It was so much fun. It was a blast to watch this match. It was so much fun.
00:47:41
Speaker
you know, and Nalago seems to have made the adjustment from league. So we're good on him. Two tries. Looked like he was just screwing around with people out there for God's sake. Like, I love, I was like, wow, this guy's really good. Like people are seeing it now. Uh, Piers O'Connor at 13 is obviously not semi road, road road, but still pretty good. It's still pretty good. Um, the, we, um,
00:48:06
Speaker
It wasn't lost on the commentators, but I think people miss how good the Irish bench is on a week-to-week basis. You see, Creevy, Dell, Hoskins, Sean O'Brien, Nick Phipps, and Tom Parton, and the UNHEP team had a good bit in this match as well, though he came out for another guy that played really well in Brophy Clues.
00:48:30
Speaker
So, but Tom Martin, I wish he had played 15 the whole match. Cause I'm sure, I'm sure Declan kidney wishes he wishes he had too at this point, but yeah. Um, Irish are cooking with something over there at, uh, at Brentford. Hepatima has suddenly come on strong. Um, and.
00:48:49
Speaker
There's nobody else either. Meeks is gone. He's running those lines at 12 extremely well and getting his line breaks. I'm disappointed, but I understand. I really want to see Brophy Clues at 10 because I thought he showed pretty good 10 skills from 12.
00:49:13
Speaker
Obviously, Rona at 13 is fantastic. But Hepatima at 12, I struggled to think of a 12 I would rather have right now, the last couple of weeks in the prem. I think he's been the best 12. And then Loader and Hassel Collins have been money lately. Yeah, they've kind of come out of it, which is hard. I want to see that. I really want to see that back line.
00:49:41
Speaker
Yeah. And you know, this is, this is like a, this is a thing with Nick Phipps. It's like, this is Jekyll and Hyde that we see from him. Unfortunately, he does really well for like a spurt. So jump, you can jump on the train if you want, but the train is going to come to a halt at some point as well. Exactly. But you know, they don't really have the best nines in the world right now. Um, so me and it's acceptable. Me and Phipps are, are just like ride the hot hand. Yeah, exactly. It's like the, the, the previous version of,
00:50:08
Speaker
Um, Randall and your, um, now it's, now it's, you don't ride the hot hand, right? I think Randall's the guy, but urine, um, is also the guy. Yep. It's certainly a one A one B. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. For them for, yeah. So good for you. And it's like me and, and, and sorry, Phipps are, uh, the opposite end of that. Like, yeah, they're grizzled veterans who would probably get it done. Yeah.
00:50:36
Speaker
I suppose. Yeah, I guess. I was kind of disappointed though that Cowan came off so quickly. I thought he was having himself a good match. Although, you know, I'm not going to say, I was not going to second guess that they won, but, um, and I think Shannon O'Brien came in. So I'm really not going to second guess that. Yeah. I shouldn't show no Brian's op-ed. Yeah. Uh,
00:50:59
Speaker
I just, I, I'd like seeing Cowan play. So I was disappointed. It was more of a personal thing than anything. Yeah, I suppose so. All right. Um, let's do, we got a, we got a bit to run through here. Um, let's do our best at start, sit, especially with the, um, other games that we have to do that aren't that we can't watch. Um, yeah, we'll start with, we'll start with those and get those out of the way. And then we'll, we'll dive into the other things first. Um,
00:51:26
Speaker
So who goes first? Cause I don't know the, uh, I believe I do. Cause I have the highlanders and crusaders. So I will go with that first. Um, all right. So as, as it was last week, we're flying blind without heroic, but we can take some pretty good guesses. Um, and also highlanders and crusaders lineups out. So I can have a pretty good guess at what's going on there. Um, Ollie model playing fullback this weekend for the islanders. Let's let's, let's go, let's do that. That's a go, go, go.
00:51:54
Speaker
Yeah. Let's do that very much. Yeah. Um, Connor book, garden, bash up. If he plays anything like his brother, Jack's, um, he'll be good. I think it's his brother or his cousin, either one. Um, if he plays anything like Jackson garden, bash up, he'll be fine. He's playing, he's playing outside back. Go for it. He's playing on the wing related actually.
00:52:15
Speaker
Wouldn't be shocked the way things are going these days man, I don't know Shit On the other side. I'm gonna target the two centers here for different reasons super Tomkinson I'm not sure he's the center to get it done this weekend At the same time Poonie Vi is an outside back playing center. He's playing 13
00:52:38
Speaker
It's probably okay, but if you have another option, try it. I like outside backs at 13. I like 13s, as you'll see in my lineups. Yeah, I don't mind it, but if you can find somebody that's playing maybe more of an 11, then yeah, maybe that'd be as an attacking winger or a fullback, maybe go with that option instead. For the Crusaders, the mighty Crusaders who hopefully somebody too off.
00:53:03
Speaker
Dallas McLeod, funny name, but he's playing with Goodhue and Moonga. Should be okay to be productive at least. Another guy, Lester Feinga-Nuku, he was a beast last year. Fit well into the setup. I think he'll be fine so go ahead and give that guy a double thumbs up.
00:53:20
Speaker
On the other side of the coin, Bryn Hall, just the big old bucket of nope. He doesn't do enough to make it worth your halfback spot. And then Ethan Blackberry, I'm pretty sure this is the top Blackberry kid. Good bloodline, unknown entity at this point though. Six is a tough spot to play from. So I think in that back row, he's the odd man out. So that's just my thoughts on that one.
00:53:48
Speaker
On to hurricanes versus blues hurricanes flying blind, but we can make some educated guesses or some semi educated guesses. The Sevilla's there's a couple of them if you got one of them.
00:54:03
Speaker
put him in the thing. Karifi, Jordy Barrett, because you don't have Bowdoin, and he's not on this team anymore. And Houston, I think will be- West Houston, yeah. He knows what the trial line is. 11, and yes, he will do okay. On the other side, there's a guy, it's another brothers of this time by the name of Ioani.
00:54:26
Speaker
If you have either of them or both of them, if you're fucking lucky enough, I have both of them, one of our leaks. Yeah. Start them. Caleb Clark, Hoskins to two, two and Mark to Leia. I believe you're one of your other outside backs. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised there.
00:54:44
Speaker
Uh, yep. And that's, that's your, for the moment, not knowing what, who's yeah, not knowing what the lab looks like. Um, but over an AU, we do know the lineups, um, still lots of unknown, especially since we couldn't watch last week. Jokes on us, uh, reds and rebels, um, pitaya midfield on the wing. Hell yeah. Especially for him. Um,
00:55:04
Speaker
For his ring right, last week probably wasn't a fluke. Scored like 20 odd points in FRD. He's a viable option as long as he's starting. On the other side of the coin, Saru Uru is a loose forward playing lock. That's a problem. I don't like that at all. And I don't care if this is super rugby locks, like, no. They don't do that well. I think Kade Neville did the best of the locks last week and I don't even know. He's barely part of the equation still, so whatever.
00:55:30
Speaker
Um, also Hamish Stewart was sort of left out with all the things that, all the good things that happened for the red last weekend. He was still kind of left out in terms of the point scoring. So I think it gets worse this week. Unfortunately, sorry, um, for the rebels, Tom Pinkus formerly of the Bristol bears. I bet he brings a little bit of something like that from, from the fullback position. So go ahead, give him a thumbs up. Joe Powell, new team still damn good. Go for it.
00:55:58
Speaker
On the other side of the coin, Stacy Illy, new guy. Reds beat up midfield last week. Not sure this is going to be any better. So yeah, look out. Brad Wilkin also, not enough points to go around in that back row, I don't think, and I think he's the odd man out. So that'd be the guy that I would probably go, uh-uh. On to the Brummies at Waratahs.
00:56:24
Speaker
So you'll notice a pattern that I like, I like sevens. I like tens. I like thirteens. And usually one of the outside, at least one of the outside backs positions, 11 and 15. I prize and I lead more there. So Jerome Brown is definitely a go. He'll then the sevens in super rugby or fetchers that if you've got a guy playing at seven, you're doing all right. Six, I worry about.
00:56:49
Speaker
eight you just fucking never know sometimes they they crush it like a you know a husk institute you sometimes they don't so i i don't tend to recommend them though so jerome brown at seven uh lola co i did see his play from the weekend so i did see some points where we're good just the just the same so go for it right um lennica two at 13 um and tom banks for for the bromby all those for the brommies obviously for the for the taz uh carl or dizano
00:57:18
Speaker
Um, I, I'm not sure what, uh, you know, he was eating for breakfast, but you know, 25 tackles, not terrible. Seems like they have a seven. That's a good seven. You know, he's, he's replacing the little bit of Australian. Oh man. Yeah. He's replacing a hell of a guy. That's a lot to love too.
00:57:39
Speaker
Seems to, at least from a stats point of view, live up to that. So yeah, he should be in your lineup. Will Harrison, Alex Newsom at 13, I'm very interested in seeing. And Marky Mark, I'm looking forward to. No, Washington will watch these in. Yeah, I heard. Oh, we'll see how that goes. All right, so of the weeks,
00:58:06
Speaker
My start of the week, I mentioned it before, so now I'm picking him back up right where I left off. Got out to a hot start last year for his club and I don't see why he won't do it again this year. Nothing different happening for that crew at Christ Church. So for my start of the week for Super Rugby week two, week one for him is the Crusaders big ass winger, Lester Feinga and Nuku. Oh, nice.
00:58:32
Speaker
Mine is a guy I mentioned briefly, but again, I love my 13s. So I'm going with Alex Newsom at 13. There we go. I like him as a player. So yeah. Yeah. So I'm going to, you know, jump in on him. Yep. Not a bad, not a bad place to go.
00:58:52
Speaker
For my sit of the week, I'm glad I heard you mention him and, and, but it sounds like we're going to be on the same side on this one. Stacey Ely. I don't trust him at that. You know, it's just, it's just first match at this level and against the reds. Yeah. It's going, going against the reds like it's going to be a bad news. He's my sit of the week.
00:59:15
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, mine's based on what I see in the numbers. Uh, Brumby's at his position, ate his position for lunch last week and he didn't perform so hot either. So this is something that Ben and I are on the opposite sides on. He played 80 by the way, he did not get pulled. So his numbers didn't, that's not good. So I think the math adds up at the very least. Um, I say the week for week two and super rugby is the war toss out half will Harrison fair, fair.
00:59:42
Speaker
Yeah, didn't think it was too much. You want to go six stations, you want to go prem.
00:59:48
Speaker
Um, let's go six nations. All right. We can do that. Six nations of this. All right. So I'll start us off. Italy and Island. Um, Italy, look sharp. I don't still have plenty of places. There's some running points. So should make for some fun stuff for the Italians. Um, start sit for the Azuri Monty Ohani. If you haven't noticed, he's like really well the first two weeks and he's totally worth it. I'm pretty sure he's got to try in both weeks as well, which helps, but he's worth it either way. So go ahead and give him the thumbs up. Um, Lazaroni.
01:00:18
Speaker
Everyone wants Negri, but he's actually the guy in the second row and back row that's getting it done. So that's the guy you'll want right now, not Negri. Speaking of Negri, very highly owned, not getting it done, not what it used to be, Benjamin. And on the other side, but also on the other side, Carl kind of, I love the way he plays, but it's not getting it done in fantasy land. So he's not quite there. So I would bench his ass, unfortunately. On the other side of the field,
01:00:48
Speaker
italy are obviously still bleeding points everywhere so you're gonna play irish assuming their attacks sorted out um so anyway play some of your irishmen um anyway for ireland um key and heli hasn't got it done recently i don't understand where it's gone um very highly on prop
01:01:08
Speaker
Probably not the one you want right now though. So I would pass I think will Porter's actually been more productive than him which is Probably the guy you want Billy burns and Ross burn should thrive this week. I Don't know what the status of everybody's tens are I hope they have something better than that But if you're just stuck with an Irish 10 because you're playing on sexton then okay trade them out and pick one of these guys up You can do it and you'll be okay on the other side Henshaw
01:01:37
Speaker
It's the Robbie's Robbie Henshaw, just not quite doing it this year, even against these guys. I'm not sure it's going to quite work out. Maybe, maybe not. If it's going to be one of the two centers, it's probably going to be ring rose. Honestly, he's got a little bit more of the feet, so I would give it to him and Rob Herring. I think I don't even think he starts this match. I think kill her gets the nod. So ditch him if you have him as your as one of your hookers. So, but if you have him, don't play him and destroy.
01:02:08
Speaker
Um, onto Wales, England, um, England, they're still, you know, despite their, I guess, overall performance, um, their defenses are still their defense. Um, so it's, it's, you have to, you know, kind of pick your spots. Um, that said, the players who are scoring for Wales are going to continue scoring for Wales. So like when Jones will still do well from the prop position for you, Alan, when Jones will still do well from the lock position, cause he'll be making his angry.
01:02:36
Speaker
Angry self-known. Right. And, you know, he'll pull for one here or there. And Louis Risamit will get an opportunity here or there. And I think there I think that's a spot where England could be a little leaky if the team actually presses in there. Right. And that said, Thomas Williams could if he's you're starting nine for Wales, then I think he could he could do well.
01:03:01
Speaker
Um, cause I thought, I thought, I thought Varnie played exceptionally well against England. Um, so the, the, the, someone like Thomas Williams, I think is a little bit more, a little bit more lively just cause we have the experience. Um, we'll, we'll score higher. Yeah. Um, on the England side, fuck. Um, um, Makov and Apollo will still be scoring points for you. Um, Maratoji, Johnny Hill. Yes. Uh,
01:03:32
Speaker
So I'm going to go. My last note is don't start the guy. We don't know who he is yet, but don't start the guy who's going to get the red card.
01:03:44
Speaker
I'm going to throw out Curry as the option here. That's interesting. Yeah. I mean, wouldn't be beyond it to happen. You know, I was just looking at their lineup. Like he's the most likely, I think, to just wow. Yeah, that's absolutely crazy. A little loose against Wales because somebody will seem like somebody does every time.
01:04:06
Speaker
If it's not Curry, then don't start to get that guy, whoever the guy is. Whoever it is, don't do it. Don't do it. That's what I got. And then I can say, I told you not to. Yeah, right. Oh boy. Okay. So France, Scotland is going ahead. Despite all the things that France is. Oh wow. I was not expecting that. Yeah. That's good. I mean, I'm glad they are because we need to get the, we do need to get on with France have shown they have the depth. So.
01:04:32
Speaker
as long as they don't, they're two days in a row with no new cases. So thumbs up, thumbs up from everybody. So anyway, it's gotten a bit of sideways, but here we go. Anyway, for France, Lebroux, Baptiste Seron is a likely, is the most likely replacement for DuPont and he's pretty good too. So if you need to just sub, sub like for like, there you go. There's your answer right there.
01:04:57
Speaker
Damien Pinot didn't quite get it done a couple weeks ago. He will this week. There's no video and Tomah might be the other winger. So give it to Pinot. I like that guy. Own the other side and you can play him at center as well. So that's it. That's always the other fun thing.
01:05:14
Speaker
Um, on the other side of the coin, um, Bernard LaRue highly owned, maybe he'll still produce, comma slash not get yellow carded. That's also helpful. Yeah. Cause I'm pretty sure he's the one that got paying for a trip. Um, so, but until I see it from him, sit him. And then any of the French props stay away. They've not got it done. They've not got it done. The French, the French hookers are the ones getting it down a little March on. It's not in there this time either. So.
01:05:44
Speaker
Anyway, yeah, the hooker position will be interesting. I think Boogery is going to end up starting for them. Anyway, that's just a fun thing to say. Boogery. It's got Boogery in it. Boogers. All right, for France. They can tough when they want to be, but they do have places to give away points.
01:06:05
Speaker
For the Scots, um, George Turner has performed really well and I don't see why he won't continue to do so in this match. So give him, give him a nod if he's your hooker. Um, Chris Harris, this could be his game. Um, you know, with some, with some things kind of not quite clicking right for the French, obviously they can have a lot of new bodies. Uh, and he is just so lively when he gets the ball. I think this is it on the other side. Um, is Jamie Richie still healthy or is he broken still? Um, I think he's going to be broken still cause he had a hamstring injury.
01:06:34
Speaker
OK, so well, be careful anybody that's playing at his position as well that they're playing. Yeah, he may be good for this because that now there would have been two weeks off, so he may be back.
01:06:45
Speaker
Okay. So either way. Yeah. Opposite of the mesh. Don't play them. Assuming it's Jamie Ritchie, um, friends of devour flankers and he's definitely the odd man out. Um, and also Rory Sutherland Scottish props aren't getting it done. Um, Fagerson did it one week one and then he went and got himself red carded. And other than that, there ain't much. So yeah, he's not gone back. So I would say no on that one for sure.
01:07:11
Speaker
Do you want to start of the week? Start of the week. I don't remember where he fell on your. So which side of the line he was? Yeah, he was. He was one of yours as far as I'm sure you mentioned to play him. I just don't know how how much you pushed him, but Tyburn. Oh, that guy. Yeah, I think he'll get some opportunities and he's been good defensively, but he's also been the terror ball in hand in the loose and.
01:07:38
Speaker
That could be trouble for Italy on this one. I think you're right. And mine's going to come from the same match. I think you're going to like it. Young guys has led his team so well and is a spark for his country, especially since he's gotten a good run of games with a good player to partner him.
01:07:57
Speaker
I see this week at home in Rome as being a week. We all remember him for a while. Oh, my start of the week is round for round three of the six nations for Italy is Italy and Gloucester scrum half. Steve. Oh, look at that. I like it.
01:08:13
Speaker
I like Varney a lot. We didn't get to it, but he may, he'll be one of the top two scrumhaves next year with Willy Hines moving on. Yes. So he may be getting a starting spot in the prem too. Yeah. And he deserves it 100%. Much deserved. So yeah, I fucking love the guy. So yeah, no argument here. On the other side, my sit of the week is a guy who, he's scored okay.
01:08:42
Speaker
But he's got 21% ownership, and that's just fucking wrong. Thomas Francis. Wow. I don't get it. Wow. He had a decent week.
01:08:54
Speaker
Um, in his, in the last match, I think he had like getting belted in the head count for points. You can't expect that every week. And he's not, he's not exactly lighten it up. Um, no, that's that. Yeah. For prop, like those guys, they're scoring better than him for sure. That's too much. I agree. It's someone better.
01:09:13
Speaker
Yep. No argument on me. Who's scoring consistently. Yeah. Other side of the scrum. Like, come on, man. Who's not seeing this right there. Trade them out.
Fantasy Rugby Insights and Player Performances
01:09:23
Speaker
Like for like, um, anyway, um, for me, this guy is very highly owned as well, has bags of quality, but isn't getting it done. Fantasy land. Um, on top of that, he's playing a tough opposition that like the toughest in fantasy for this competition. Uh, nothing against them.
01:09:37
Speaker
I don't see how he, how it gets better for him facing England this week. My facility for round three in the six stations is skylights and Wales fullback Lee half penny. Oh man, it's been bad. Yeah. Just not happening for him. And now he's going against the toughest fancy defense in this time so far. So we were doing our, we started up our, our, uh,
01:10:00
Speaker
our club watching sessions with the team yesterday. And so we started with Wales, Scotland by request. And I just caught myself seeing
01:10:11
Speaker
half penny just doing so much bad. So I actually was ended up being one of my talking points while we were watching. It was like, yeah, you see, here's Lee half penny just in a really bad spot. Hogg put it like just fucked him with that kick. And yeah, it was a Darcy Graham charged him in the end. It was just, no, every, every time.
01:10:33
Speaker
It goes bad for the poor guy every time he touches the ball. The dude can't catch a break right now. I feel bad for him.
01:10:48
Speaker
It's a shame. I said it with love. I made sure that there was clear respect for his game. Yeah, I love the game too. It's a good talking point that even one of the best in the world can just get dicked for a whole game. Yeah, completely. And he's just not out of this here. Not good. Nope, nope. Let's go with the prem. First game of the weekend is sale exit. Did I make that up? Yes. Oh, boy.
01:11:18
Speaker
Yeah, take the medicine first. Okay, Exeter are now are getting tougher fantasy wise as the year goes on. So not a shock for anybody really. They do have some places they surrender fantasy points. The problem is, who the fuck is going to score points on sale right now?
01:11:35
Speaker
because yeah so really my only consistent my only consistent options are ddp and aj yeah and i and like those are the obvious ones and i try and seek out something else i don't have anything for sale
01:11:49
Speaker
I really don't the people and the people that are on the other side of the coin here, like any of the nines. I mean, Cork played really well. I hope you would. I would hope you would produce if you were given a start, but like Cliff and Faf, like not consistent in any way, shape or form. So no, stay away from that. This is a good defense, obviously. Well, so that's not good. Yeah.
01:12:10
Speaker
And then Bevan Rodd has got some sort of like seven to 8% ownership. I have no idea why he's not scored well. He's super cheap. So people got him and they couldn't get rid of him. That's what happened. Yeah, no, they don't let you fell into that. That one suckers. Yeah. Um, on the other side, obviously the sharks are, are back to being that pain in the ass black hole that they, they just are and it sucks. Um, and so
01:12:36
Speaker
They did show last week though, that they can give away points, give points away to the, to the elite guys out there. See Marcus Smith and Alex Donbrandt. Um, so for the Exeter, um, the Sam's are in style right now. Sam Skinner and Sam Simmons should be very in style for this match.
01:12:54
Speaker
I feel like I've been talking about Sam Skinner for a little bit. Yeah. It's been about five weeks since we both been kind of two and this dude's going pretty well last week in both formats. So give him the thumbs up. Um, and this is another thing that you, you, and I'm definitely jumping on board at this point, the 10 position for Exeter is
01:13:12
Speaker
a whole lot of meh right now, especially in TRM, but FRD if you have to, and I understand sometimes you just kind of get pinned into the wrong spot, but yeah. Seriously, you can rip someone off for Joe Simmons. Oh yeah, you can totally rip somebody off for Joe Simmons. I have no doubt about that in my mind. I don't see if I can explore that in one of our leaks. Anyway.
01:13:34
Speaker
And also like any of the centers at this point, like even Hendrickson who I have, who are huge on. Yeah. I picked him up this week because I know you've been riding them a little bit and I was like, all right, I'll give him a shot.
01:13:46
Speaker
No, he's, yeah, none of the centers have done, have done for X's this year. So I went, I went three and one. So you have a tour. No, it's me. Yeah. Two more against you. I went three and one in prime and I went O and two and, um, in, in, uh, in super. So it is what it is. One of the, my super, one of our super rugby matches. There you go. That's that a boy. So if you're listening person, I beat, I can't remember who it was.
01:14:13
Speaker
Sorry for you. I had a shit week and I still managed one in the super rugby because I had more, more Australia players than you. Yikes. Oh man. It's not that funny. It's just kind of sucks, but I'll take the win. Yeah. Um, also, yeah, it's just speaking of that, just before we move on to, to my Bristol versus Lester on the Saturday, um,
01:14:40
Speaker
I just got a, one of my work colleagues decided to change a meeting from tomorrow morning until Friday, also Thursday morning to Friday at like three o'clock. And I'm like, I'm like, that's right when the rugby match is going on. But then, um, that could be a worst match to miss at least. Exactly. It's, it's, it's sale exit. Thank you. Thank you. Nevermind. I'm not worried about it.
01:15:10
Speaker
Yikes. That's where we're at right now, kids. That's where we're at. That's just how it is. Oh, man. On to Bristol Lester. This could be the best match of the weekend. Although, no, I think I have the best match of the weekend coming later. This will be also very good.
01:15:26
Speaker
Um, for Bristol, um, Andy yearn, the aforementioned Eddie yearn has been on fire. Um, and now with the Harry Randall injury, unfortunately I'm hearing up on the inside about it and I have enough in my head right now. So I'm maintaining a veneer of, of, uh, being okay with it. Um, but anyway, Andy yearn is helping with that. Cause I have him in a couple of more leagues and, um, yeah, he's going to be like, it looks like he's going to be in for a while. So just a bit. Yeah.
01:15:54
Speaker
He's your guy. Jake Heaton, if he plays, is in for a big day, especially from the Lester back row. Being a little depleted, yeah. Oh, and Lloyd, I guess he won't be available, huh?
01:16:11
Speaker
Depends. He's been available the last couple of situation weekend. So we'll see. So I'm hoping he's there. Yeah. I'm hoping he's back at 10 and he should do well, especially in like an FRD where he's an outside back score and it's tens. Right. Not bad.
01:16:26
Speaker
And then Piers O'Connor, as you mentioned, Lester, he's just been. He's been awesome for fantasy owners. He's been definitely a semi who because he's he's just been filling in love. Oh, he's been awesome. Yeah. That spot on the other side. Lester got he's been impressing me. He pisses me off that he spells his name wrong. I can get over it with with the way he plays on the field. Kyle Brink got to try, unfortunately, ripped away from it. Yeah, that's blame Jasper.
01:16:56
Speaker
by Jasper Wiese. Good job. You owe that man a beer for sure. I mentioned Julio Montoya and he's carrying a Leicester front row, but I'd still lower expectations. Bristol are just a fantasy nightmare here. So yeah, I wanted to maintain that too. So that's why I'm not going to mention too many Leicester players. And then Greener Wells at Lough. Not Lavonini, because you know, and he's probably up for a red at this point.
01:17:26
Speaker
Yeah, it's about time for that. How did he get missed with all the things that were hit? Well, he got he got the ping from Brooks. That's what it was. That's what it was. So yeah, so yeah, don't don't don't go with Lavine. Don't play with him, but Greener Wells should score pretty OK.
01:17:45
Speaker
Right. I agree. I like it. Okay. Um, so on, onto Newcastle and Quinn's, we know the, I mean, we know the names for both, for both, but we're going to go over it anyway. Um, Quinn's are just outside top four for both formats. So they're getting tougher as it goes. And on the other side, um, there's still some problem areas that people seem to be leaning on for Newcastle. So I'm starting to raise my eyebrow a couple of times.
01:18:12
Speaker
Brett Conin, no, like no, no, no, no, no, no. McGuigan should be fine. So that's, that should be a guy that's owned a little bit more. And also trying to think of his name, spacing out here.
01:18:31
Speaker
Philip Vanderbilt, not owned enough in my opinion. That's not a bad option. See, I haven't been, I haven't picked up Jasper Reese yet. I keep getting fucked with that. Right. Vanderbilt is 171 on TRM and he's, he's performed well and he, and I believe he'll play eight because I think Graham's going to be away. So go ahead and thumbs up on that one. As I said, Conan should be a no, no thank you. And then I think,
01:18:59
Speaker
Um, Sean Robinson's kind of coming back to earth. So just, yeah, I think, uh, he's, he's really suffered from the loss of his, his back line or back row mates. Yeah. Back row hates for sure. As we expected.
01:19:14
Speaker
Yeah, it's, it's not been, it's not been confirmed. And then on the other side, Newcastle are kidding. Um, as they sit on their thinkers, um, in our ranks, they're, they're actually getting lower as they sit there because their average wasn't fantastic and numbers are just not helping them right now. So they're bottom in TRM, I believe on average match. Yep. Bottom in TRM and they're middle of the pack on FRD. Um, so there's that.
01:19:38
Speaker
Anyway, um, so I kind of shot on him last week. I'm going to go ahead and give him a double thumbs up this week. Joe March. Go ahead. Give that guy a whirl. He's back. He is back. Give him a go. Uh, I really liked that. Do on top of it all. Um,
01:19:54
Speaker
So we might not see Will Evans this week. I'm thinking Archie White might be okay in TRM, but not in FRD. So that might be your spot to fill in that at least if you need to. And then somebody to obviously that I think we need to just be playing more and more is Stefan Luis. He's 8% owned, which is somewhat high, but like,
01:20:19
Speaker
I feel like that needs to be a little higher. Yeah, he's still getting back into it. I think he's still really good. Right.
01:20:26
Speaker
And so there's that. And then, um, uh, this is, this is like the one position that Newcastle are actually good against the scrum half. So, um, they give up 20 points a game in TRM and in FRT, they, they give up almost nothing 2.3. So if you have to, and you're Danny care is Danny care and I am still score. So he'll still score, but you got a temper expectations with him. So that was, that'd be my piece of advice for that.
01:20:54
Speaker
All right, up to the Rico for wasps in London, Irish. The scene of the crime last year.
01:21:03
Speaker
with the Irish walking away at the death as they return to the prem. The wasps at the time under shitty management. What a difference that time makes. On the wasp side, the Irish are terrible versus locks, and James Gaskell has been on a bit of a tear lately. Last week,
01:21:26
Speaker
Not withstanding. I'm going to give him that. You know, you could always have a kind of a down fantasy week and performance week in there. Absolutely. When you're kicking ass the rest of the time, Tom Willis and whoever is at eight, if it's not him, yeah, go for it. Um, Wollstoneholm, Vellicott, whoever's at nine should still score reasonably well. Uh, so, yeah, Wollstoneholm a couple of weeks ago, he wasn't bad.
01:21:50
Speaker
And I think Charlie Atkinson will will score well here, even if he doesn't, you know, we don't think why it plays too well. On the other side, the wasps are shutting down 10 so so Voldemort.
01:22:04
Speaker
You know, even though Atkinson and Umaga are disappointments, they're still playing good defense. So there you go. So he's not, you know, PJ is not going to have too much room to operate or score points. He's not really scored a hell of a lot as it is. Tui Tui has been unreliable fantasy-wise. He's been fucking awesome to watch, but it's not. Yeah, it's, yeah, unfortunate because I really like points.
01:22:29
Speaker
Fucking everyone outside of PJ though. The center is the outside backs as I mentioned. Yeah, go for it because they're going to be fun to watch whoever they're playing against. Yeah, that's a good group that's been going there. Yeah, for sure. I would love to see that lineup that I mentioned. I would love to see it this week.
01:22:50
Speaker
I mean, I'd love to see it anyway, but you know, give me something please. Something please. Okay. Gloucester and Worcester. So Worcester are once again, kind of that, that team that you can almost always rely on giving way to some good points. So this should be fun.
01:23:07
Speaker
Um, whoever is at scrum half should be a, should be a go, uh, for Gloucester, whether it's Willie Heinz or Simpson last week sucked, but that was a sloppy game. And that's just an red card to do that. Unfortunately, sometimes it's just how it goes. So I would, yeah, the, the Worcester bottom against scrum half in, uh, TRM and third from bottom in, in FRD. So that's a thumbs up. Good Simpson, Heinz, whoever.
01:23:32
Speaker
could be, could be me. Just do it. That's perfectly fine. Um, Freddy Clark, if he's, if he's playing eight again, you didn't do too bad. Then I think we, I think it'd be fine. But, but I bet you we see Ben Morgan, honestly. So either one, either one's fine. Either one's fine. Um, on the other side of it,
01:23:55
Speaker
Man, I like 12 trees. I'm just not sure. 10's his position. So, FRD only for him. Well, so they have. Right. They don't. Hopefully Evans is back soon. That'd be helpful. That's gotta be back, right? It doesn't take that long to heal. I think it would take two weeks off would be. I hope so. Enough to get him healthy. To get it done. Yeah, I hope so.
01:24:21
Speaker
Phrasal Balmain is going to be everybody that kind of leans, where everybody leans for the Gloucester prop because Rapalva Ruston's gone. Don't do it. Worcester are actually okay against props in TRM, so I would just stop doing it and reconsider that completely.
01:24:38
Speaker
On the other side, um, Gloucester are, uh, again, struggling in the fantasy land, especially in FRD, but what options do you have when it comes to whisper? Honestly, like it's, it's getting down to slim pickings, honestly, cause we're out for the year. Um, so it was going to be a while. So, um, show Gox going to play 10 FRD. Go for it. That's fine. Uh, I w I would not play him as your TRM 10. No way. Um,
01:25:07
Speaker
I don't care what this team looks like. Don't do it. I promise. Um, nylon that should be fine. If you have him as your hooker and he's not broken. Yeah, he's fine. Yeah. That's a good one. They give up almost 40 to 40 a game to them. So yeah, go ahead. Thumbs up. And then, um, you'll, my last thing is, uh,
01:25:31
Speaker
I think you can be, feel pretty good about whoever plays eight for them. What's your surrenders on average 33 points a game to an eight man. So whoever it is, whether it's mama, Kvesic, Cornell, Dapria, all those guys are good. So go ahead and give that a go. All right then.
01:25:51
Speaker
On to what I actually think will be. It's on a Sunday again. I think this will be the match of the weekend. Because I think it will resemble very closely Bath versus Wasps from a few weeks ago, where everybody's like, where did you get to go? No, it's just a lot of fun because they're going to run. So a
01:26:17
Speaker
Hey, Sean, that guy, the eight man door, the door, door, fun rugby. I might be the only one who gets that joke. Um,
01:26:32
Speaker
So yeah, Aidendorf is worth the start. Naira Voro, I think will be playing this one. And I think he'll have room to operate because he will make himself room to operate. Yeah, so he's good at that. Nick Aziquay will likewise be operational and he'll have to make a lot of tackles and I'm sure he'll be
01:26:58
Speaker
I think a little bit more engaged in the attack, as he seems to be waking up there. And a guy who's also had a week or so off, Billy Proctor. He's one of those guys who, sorry, he's one of those guys who, yeah, Billy's the other league.
01:27:19
Speaker
And he's one of those guys who he should be appears appears O'Connor, and he kind of is but he's not used enough. So I think maybe this week, this week, I'd like to see like, you know, hutch and then Proctor at 1213 with Vero at 11 against bath, who's
01:27:35
Speaker
defense has been a sieve. Yes, please. Um, so speaking of bath, uh, their front row and especially done obviously have been scored. And so yes, go with them. Um, Zach Mercer, the, um, Reese priestlin, I'm back on the Reese priestlin bandwagon. Yeah. He's not playing the top opposition anymore. Yeah. And now he, yes. And now he's playing a team that just, you know, doesn't build its points. Yeah. It's just, uh, against tens. Let's put it that way. And, uh, Deglanville,
01:28:03
Speaker
Um, I'm, I'm leading thumbs up, uh, his, in his direction, um, just cause he's been scoring lately. And again, Northampton are, are a Civ. So, and I think this is going to be a highly attacking match in which you would probably want somebody of his talent. Yeah. Play the 15s. Um, but I don't know who's playing 15 for saints. I'm pretty sure Dylan will be playing for Beth.
01:28:25
Speaker
Yeah, I think you're right. All right. Um, of the weeks, um, from, uh, for, from, for me, uh, looked good off the bench last week and he's still going to lay claim to that 15 share for his club. 100%. Uh, he's playing re he's playing a really leaky club on top of that. And I'm loving his play. Uh, finally booting Tom Homer out of, out of there. No disrespect. Um, I started the week for around 11 for the prime from, from the exiles is their fullback, Tom Parton. Yeah. He's he's been excellent. Um,
01:28:55
Speaker
On my side, my start of the week, I'm not sure which because I don't, I'll make a decision at, you know, come game time, come line up time. Um, cause I'm not sure when one of them may end up sitting because fuck, you never know. Um, but either Zach Mercer or Reese Priestland will be my, my start of the week. Yeah. One's good. I'm leaning towards Mercer. Um,
01:29:17
Speaker
but also depends on who's running in the backs. Priestlin could find himself in some space too. Yeah, I'm surprised. On the other side, I really like the way he's playing for his club, especially in the absence of what would be usually their starting 10. And they are kind of on a roll, but this is the wrong week to be playing his position. And he steered their ship pretty well.
01:29:43
Speaker
Um, got a couple of wins in the bag, especially this past weekend when his team had two red cards. Um, but I think this is where it comes to a bit of a crashing halt against the wrong club. Um, I say the week is, uh, Lester's 10 Zach Henry. Oh, interesting. Okay. See that's.
01:30:00
Speaker
I had a duel to the same thing on the sit of the week. And you picked one of them. So I'll just go with the other guy. Perfect. Yeah, Zach Henry is definitely on the list for sit of the week for me. But I also mentioned
01:30:17
Speaker
that the wasps are shutting down 10s. And I just generally don't like this motherfucker. So I'm going with PJ. Oh, yeah. There you go. From the London Irish that they're 10, as I said, of the week. And I don't know if I've chosen him recently. And I don't care. I don't like him. I'll let you have. So you're good. All right. Quick whip around in the Champions League. So in prem,
01:30:42
Speaker
The wheels are coming off. Mark beat him. I was able to topple Ben over. Justin won again. Yikes. He beat Duncan. And then George seems to be getting hot. Look out, everybody. He beat you, Eric. In both formats, George is... Yeah, he's heating up. Bitch, he caught on.
01:31:03
Speaker
Yeah. And, uh, and listening to us super rugby, FRD kind of a crap shoot. Justin beat me, uh, Mark beat Carrick, uh, George beat you, George beat Ben. And then, um, in the best matchup of the week and where nobody probably deserved to lose Duncan beat Anton because they both scored well over 70. Sorry. And you paid the wrong guy who played the wrong team there, Anton. Sorry about that. Um, on the other side with the, uh,
01:31:30
Speaker
with the TRM for the premiership. Justin has climbed out of the basement. Good for him. That's a hell of a comeback for him considering where he, he had that zero week. So good on him. No movement. Otherwise in this, this past weekend, everybody stayed put. That was pretty, it was pretty bizarre, honestly. Yeah. I'm still sitting in fifth and I'm still sitting at the top and, uh,
01:31:55
Speaker
Ben, Duncan, George, like I said, myself, Mark, Justin, and now Carrick gets to hold up the rest of the league at the bottom there.
Predictions and Upcoming Matches
01:32:03
Speaker
Oh man, okay. Let's do, pick one and then we can get out of here. Let's start with Super Rugby. Opening weekend for the Atarola Islanders Crusaders Crusaders.
01:32:19
Speaker
Crusaders. Yeah. Hurricanes and blues. I'm going to go hurricanes. I'll back my guys. I'm going to go blues. Okay. Fair enough. I don't blame you for that. I'm not blaming you guys. Week one, I want to back my guys at least. If they fall on their face, then I'll retract that next week. And I'm going to try to hopefully make up or
01:32:40
Speaker
You gotta try and make more, you gotta try and extend your ground. I'm used to one in front. Over to AU, Reds Rebels, Reds. Reds. Yeah, and Brumby's Waratahs. I'm going Brumby's all day. Yeah, Brumby's. Yeah, Waratahs are a mess right now, from what I understand. They're not quite together yet. Nope. Okay, Six Nations, Italy, Ireland. Ireland. I don't think, I think it'll be close and I want to pick Italy, but I'm going to go with Ireland.
01:33:10
Speaker
I'm going to go Ireland just to make sure I don't change. I would love to go. I would too, but I will hope I'm wrong about this one. Let's put it that way. Yeah, I'll hope I'm wrong. Wales, England. How are England going to play? I'm going to pick England because they finished with 15. Because that's pretty much been the line. Like the other team has always finished with 14 and that's what's cost them. But they still lost to Scotland.
01:33:39
Speaker
They did. I agree. And they could turn that back, that attack, such as it was, right back on. Like they could have just opened it up for Italy and then just put it right back away. But I'm going to go England too, because I don't think Eddie's that fucked up.
01:33:56
Speaker
We hope fucked up. I don't think he's that fucked up. Yeah. And then France and Scotland, France are going to be a little depowered, but we also saw the level of talent and depth that they had this past fall. So I think they'll be okay. And I am going to pick the French.
01:34:13
Speaker
I think this is the match that they French it up. You think so? It's going to be, cause it's always an inexperience. Scotland's been their bogey too. That's true. Yeah, they have. And who was it? Was it, um, Hualas who, uh, decked someone last time? Yeah. Um, dummy. It's just, you know, inexperienced player, whatever, got it caught up in the moment and France are going to have a lot of those little red mist. Yeah. A lot, a little red mist, I think is going to the Rouge.
01:34:40
Speaker
And Scotland are in, they're prepared. They're in good form. Yeah. So I'll give you that. So, all right. So we could have some ground meetups. Stuart Hogg right now is ridiculous. He's one of the best full backs in the world. If I'm not the best full back in the world. France will have, we'll give him plenty of room to operate. That's probably true. So give him plenty of chances. Yeah. And I think that'll, that could be enough to tip Scotland over.
01:35:06
Speaker
Yeah, not wrong. Okay. I wouldn't be surprised if that's how it goes. All right. Over to the criminal quick sale. Exeter. Exeter. I don't, I don't love the idea, but sale are just like absolute dog shit. I mean, fucking exit arm playing terribly better.
01:35:25
Speaker
Um, but they know how to win. They know how to win and they, they, they will want it more than sale to sale. Don't really look like they want it right now. No, no argument on me. Um, Bristol Lester. I'm going Bristol Bristol, especially with Lester missing a good chunk of their back row. Right. Cause George Martin's now away with England too.
01:35:44
Speaker
Oh, oh, fuck. Yeah. So that was, that was like a nice little piece. They're going to have like Cal break. They're going to have to put like Cal break at Al. It'll be like, they might have to put like, you know, both Harry Wells or something like that at six. They're probably going to have to do that. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised. It'll be, it'll be loving any and green in there. Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised. Newcastle twins. I'm going to take the twins are playing red hot right now.
01:36:08
Speaker
Uh, wasps and exiles. Uh, yeah. I don't like the, they're playing so they're playing really well right now. And the wasp are just lost right now. Yeah, they, I agree. They're, they're a little lost. Gloucester and Worcester. Gloucester get it done. Oh yeah. Yeah. This is, this is, they need Worcester. This is like, um,
01:36:29
Speaker
Yeah, this is, this is, this is their plan to slump Buster. So, so was just coming along at the right time and Gloucester have quite the blue balls and this is, this is it. This is the opportunity to, to, to
01:36:47
Speaker
Yeah. I'm not continuing with that. Yeah. Go to the next match. Nice. Okay. And then Sunday, Northampton and bath. I will, I'm going to take the saints. Yeah, me too. That, that, that boosted them big time last week. And yeah, bath or are they escaped with one? Um, but they're still a little messy. They're still, they're still, yeah, they're still extremely vulnerable.
01:37:12
Speaker
Agreed. All right. So that's the fun that we have for you all this week. We're going to limit the games we talk about next week. So hopefully there's not too many good games, but hopefully there is. There's a whole league we won't be able to watch. Well, that's true. So we'll pass over four games automatically and then we'll sift through the good stuff for next week.
01:37:34
Speaker
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