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Season 6- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Champions Cup Round 3)
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On this episode of the FC we are looking back at the big movement in our PWR league, including 1 big jump. Then it's a recap of the CYL in the Prem for both Divisions 1 and 2 before we take a break for a couple weeks. Then it's a big Start or Sit as we dive into Champions Cup once again! Grab your notepad and have a laugh with us.
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Transcript
Introduction & Fantasy Rugby Talk
00:00:04
Speaker
It is. The Fantasy Robias. My name is Jared Dyke. I wanted to say it's stupid and let's move on, but then you kept going. I'm Ben Glauser. I don't like any way anybody handled that. Collusion. Collusion.
00:00:28
Speaker
Hey, everybody. Welcome back. It is the Fancy Rugby Yanks. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. It's fancy corner time. Let's roll, boys and
Collusion in Fantasy Rugby: Does It Work?
00:00:36
Speaker
girls. By the way, I just wanted to note for the record, not all collusion works out well for the collusers. The colluders. Because I think if I'm not mistaken, and I guess I might have to ask the group chat.
00:00:53
Speaker
It was my reaching out to Cobus when Joe Burrow got hurt to say, okay, I got, you know, if we can see this game, I'll like, I'll give you my quarterback and blah, blah, blah. Like we were going to, we worked out a deal and instead he's like, okay, so cool. The game doesn't matter. So he just played all his guys and then he won. And so it was like, I'll just do the quarterback deal anyway. So it went from, I would, if I just said nothing until after the game was over,
00:01:20
Speaker
And then said, hey, by the way, how do you think of this? I had to fucking talk after the Thursday game. And then Cobus went and, if I'm not mistaken, you won the league. Yeah.
00:01:31
Speaker
I think he was out of the playoffs at the point when I made that that that collusion deal with him. And fuck that backfired. Anyway, didn't work well for you. No, I'm sure that's probably, you know, no good deed goes
Weekend Champions Recap
00:01:44
Speaker
unpunished. No. Let's look. Let's look at the champion's recap for this past weekend. So the for Division one, speak to speak to the devil. Cobas had the had the little cap. He had the best week without a doubt.
00:02:00
Speaker
You had the wooden spoon there, Chief. Attaboy. Well, yeah, listen to me. Attaboy. No, I made the worst possible, like I went my captain forwards. Ironically, I loaded up on forwards and the backs that I wanted, I was like, well, I really want slight home.
00:02:17
Speaker
but I also don't want to miss out. Oh, hold on. Where was my, who's my starting 15? Like I had to switch out visa for Earl, like, or something like they were Dom brand or something. It was, it was like, wait, Dom brand worked out all right, but.
00:02:30
Speaker
I think Earl did very well. And no, I like all my best. So I had to go with Sinti and Green and Reed. And I was like, you know, if I played Freeman, I would have done better than either Sinti or Reed. I went in, I was like, OK, I hope both those guys just go off, like have a nice long try and then that'll be enough for me. Nope, neither did. Well, thanks. Thanks to your.
00:02:51
Speaker
buffoonery, I jumped you. So, and that was the only movement really for the week. The standings are as follows, George, Stu, Jovis, Duncan, myself, you, Justin, and Mark. Division two. So Anton is top of the group there. Paul has the yellow hat for the group. Barty had the wooden spoon. So it's Anton, Paul, Alex.
00:03:22
Speaker
Franco, Abbry, Barty, and Luke. Luke is... He's not that far back, actually. He's only two points back, so especially after that week that Barty just had. That's not gonna fall at all. All right, so let's shame... So, Catherine actually had a really good week, so we get to really... I think we get to shame a few people now. I haven't even been looking at that.
00:03:44
Speaker
I just, I saw that I dropped so that I'm like, not happy about it. She jumped six people, including Mark. Wow. Yep. Still ahead of Terry and Yuri. And yep. Oh, sorry for everyone. Yep. Jamie. Oh, sorry, buddy. Yeah. She had me by 52. Jeez. I had a shit week. I had just such a bad week. Yeah. Well, she she's like,
00:04:11
Speaker
She's like somewhere. She's near the top 10 in US. She's not there. She is. She's 13. Wow. In the US. I'm down to four. I'm up to three. Yes. My main goal, one of my bigger goals is to try and finish top 100 in the world. So you've got to figure if you do that, you did okay and whatever happens, happens after that.
PWR Rankings Shake-Up
00:04:41
Speaker
Um, yeah, so, and then we have, ha ha, that's right. We have movement in the PWR. So this past week was, uh, you know, some of the bigger names not hitting as big. Um, Alex Matthews didn't have much, um, just breach kind of was a meh pick, which is really unusual for her. Um, Rachel Johnson was a meh pick. Um,
00:05:09
Speaker
Molly Packer, who you would assume is a dynamite. Yeah, she was top five of the week of the scores that were picked, but like 24 for her this week. Top scorer was, I'll give you three guesses who the top scorer was.
00:05:24
Speaker
Well, it was Paige fairies. She doesn't have a hat trick. Yes, she did. I mean, and also I'm looking at the top score. So that's not really a bunch of a guess. No, it's yes. Yeah, she's 39 KZ KZ coming in number two. Yeah. Thank you, KZ. God love you. You know, it's funny, everybody that I did the math. So everybody picked anybody but Sophie DeGutey this week because I think I was the only one that probably could have picked her actually. Maybe you could have. She would have had 10 this week as a kicker.
00:05:54
Speaker
Wow. Yes. That's correct. The so huge week. That's funny. But I think everybody's picture. Bad weeks. Otherwise like she had minus three. The last, the last round we had with her in it, five was pretty good too.
00:06:10
Speaker
And then Zoe Harrison was still around at that point. We're about round one. Nope. Yeah. Nope. She didn't know we picked her that week. So anyway, yeah, that's where that, um, fricking, that was a good one. That was, I, I think it was the only one who picked her. You were. Um, yeah. And that was, Ryan was the only one that picked Paige though.
00:06:33
Speaker
That's why he had talked for the week. I already picked her, so I couldn't. I have not picked her yet, so I still have her in my pocket. I only got 30 from her, so this was a much better week to- It was a huge week for her. Nine more. Top weeks where Ryan, myself, and you actually. Yeah, I'm still- The honor was number four though. Good for her. She hasn't had a big week for a bit. Certainly not top three, top four. Right. The standings now are as thus.
00:07:01
Speaker
Ben Ryan after his huge week has jumped to number two. Myself is three, George four, and Duncan has tumbled to five after going after jumping to two. Like the separation is very little. It's, you know, between myself and Ryan, between Duncan and Ryan, it's 30 points, which you can make up real fast if you're, if you're on your game. Right. Between you and me, it's like 16. Yeah. Which is, that's one to three. So. Right.
00:07:30
Speaker
Not much room there. Still tight. Still funny. I'm just happy that I'm picking like if you get one play, if I get one player who gets me, you know, a bunch of points like like Poppy did. Oh, so happy to see that. Yeah, it can stabilize you at least even if you're not going. Ladies and gentlemen, let the record show. Ben has cracked a second drink.
00:07:52
Speaker
I have, I have, I was thirsty and I was like, wait a minute, I brought this in. Why haven't I? This is, this is monumental folks. I'm doing some, you know, it's serious when I'm doing two, two drinks, um, getting crazy.
Upcoming Week's Fantasy Picks
00:08:06
Speaker
But yeah, all you need is one player to just stabilize you for the week. And then you can kind of manage it otherwise. Um, do, do, do, do. So we're going to do,
00:08:20
Speaker
We're going to do picks here. Big week for some of these players. Wait, where? That's what I was looking for. There we go. Make sure I have my picks ready. I was like, wait a minute. Where'd they go? Yeah, I have my picks. I just want to make sure I have the schedule ready. So I want to make sure I know the opponents properly. Yeah, I just didn't have the tab open for some reason because... What'd you do that for? I don't know. I thought I did have it open, but I've got a lot of tabs open. You tell me.
00:08:49
Speaker
And close to those premiership ones, we're done with that. Yeah. So we got big week this week. Yeah, Sarri's our host and Exeter. Quinn's our host in Loughborough. That should be interesting. Trail Finders welcome the champions like Lester and Bristol. Bristol need to get back on the winning track. Me too. Maybe they can do it again. So Lester, we'll find out. Maybe let's present them more problems.
00:09:16
Speaker
Anyway, um, so let's do our picks for the week. Um, so I, I will go first because my forward is the same. It's never Campbell. She didn't end up starting last week. So I'm going to go with her again. Um, I'm going to go Jenny has kids from Bristol.
00:09:31
Speaker
as my back. And then I'm going to, I'm running low on kickers. We're going hell on over on from Loughborough. I am also going with Helena Roland from Loughborough. Oh, okay. Nice. Um, I'm going with Megan Varley from Bristol as my, my back. There you go. That's a good one. Um, and my forward is Ronino Marston Mulhern. Oh, nice. From Bristol. Yeah. They're eight. Yeah. Um, I do have a feeling that they will, um,
00:09:57
Speaker
Yeah, they'll run through. Cloud through. I think so. Is it where? It's the sad, but yes. Yeah, I'm good. I will take advantage of that. I've got a Bristol forward in mind in my brain for next week, so I'm going to save that. This is subject to change. Always. I may end up with Sarah Byrne anyway. Have you pictured it?
00:10:15
Speaker
No, I haven't. I picture the once and then she didn't. I think that was either it didn't happen. I think it was the way. Yeah, I had that in my brain, too, for another player. I was like, yeah, didn't I pick her already? I was like, oh, it must have been that week. Yeah, no, I picture the week. It didn't happen. So, yep, there you go. I'm I'm I have to think about it because Marshall Molaran's been scoring really well. So right. Yep, always good. OK, and now we have
00:10:42
Speaker
starts it for champions cup. And I think I'm, I'm leaving us off. I'm going to be really boring because there's so few players to pick from, from some of these teams. So at this point, at this point, you've got to start, you know, you have the six, um, transfers, six transfers. So you've got a little bit of wiggle room. You don't have to, to consider it just yet, but now is when I would also consider two things. Are they gonna, um, you know, are they going to be playing?
00:11:10
Speaker
more than, you know, there's only, there's only two weeks left in the, before the knockouts. So some of these clubs only have two weeks left. Are they going to be playing? Are they even going to try? Like, are they just going to pack it in? Yeah. That's the question. Which really affects not, you know, not only like, yeah, does your guy play, but does he play well? Do they score or are they just kind of pack? Like you said, pack it in. Yep.
00:11:31
Speaker
Yeah. Start working your roster towards the teams that are definitely advancing and looking strong. Yeah. I don't know if they're doing extra transfers for the next round. I don't
Ulster vs Toulouse: Gameplay Predictions
00:11:42
Speaker
know either. So I'm assuming it's still going to be six. It may be more. We'll see. Maybe they were nice. Hey, man. Anyway, Friday night, only one game. Friday night. So Northampton Bayon, get all the
00:11:54
Speaker
All the attention. Oh, sorry, Bayon. You're going to get it. I know. So for Northampton, based on the most selected laws, I don't know if he's still hurt. I think he's still banged up, but he might be back for this game. If he is, then he's definitely a play. Also consider some of the back rowers like Truck. I think Truck over Pearson, I think Truck steals most of, steals most of Pearson's points. So that's my thought on that.
00:12:20
Speaker
Finn is a definite go. He's been lighted up. And then Tommy Freeman, after having a rest for part of the match last week, he should be ready to roll. There'll be others that I would definitely recommend from Northampton, but those are the most popular picks right now. I would say home. I have an eye towards him because he's probably a cheap option. And I'll eat possibly. Yeah. Yeah. Not dissimilar to like George Handigo. I had, I originally had, but he broke. So right. Um, for Brown, the only one I would recommend is Lou Tangy.
00:12:47
Speaker
And that's it. He's a million for a prop. Yeah. And it's a position you don't need to waste another really good team on, you know, stuff like that. There are other positions like you don't want to like buy is a great option should you choose to pick him. Right. But also you probably want other players on to lose. Yeah. So that's just the idea. But yeah, so tiny is a good option for that. All right. Off to my first match is the hosting connect.
00:13:16
Speaker
Leon, I
Connacht vs Leon: Championship Preview
00:13:17
Speaker
have a couple of guys you're looking for. Was that should be interesting? It should be interesting. But, you know, I'm kind of leaning in towards the hosts here, considering especially considering how this championship is going for Connacht. I'm not sure what they're going to work with, but agreed. So again, I'm leaning towards Leon on this one with Okuya, Paige Rello is my backup nine would highly recommend because he's extremely cheap. He's like two million, I think.
00:13:45
Speaker
Radraja, Parisian, Ioani, Dumortier, you're like, yes, go have fun. For Kanak, I'm looking at Prendergrast and Aki and that's about it. And even then they're not, they have the, you know, see so far, they haven't really put up those kinds of points. So I'm not, I'm not considering many Kanak players. No, no, I have Aki and I'm definitely going to be dumping them.
00:14:15
Speaker
Yeah, I think I have both Parisian and do more I do have both prison and do more shit. Yeah, that's a good one Yeah, I like do more. Yeah, I might I might try and move towards him. I might dump him. I think I think I want to keep hers Yeah, I think do more. Yeah
00:14:30
Speaker
He's only scored, like I think he scored 13 against the Bulls at home, which to me that should have been. Right. But he scored well against Bristol too, didn't he? He scored 10, I know he scored 11 and a half against, well, not bad. Not bad. He's listed as a midfielder, right? Yes. Yeah, those are both midfielders. That can be a hard position as we found out in prom. That can be a hard position to score from. So if you get somebody that's scoring all right from there, maybe don't rock the boat. Right.
00:14:59
Speaker
Right. Exactly. He's even a solid guy, but I don't know. Yep. All right. Next. Assholes versus Glasgow. This is going to be a match. For the butt cracks, I would go with Frost and Fisselow only. Jenkins and Slade also were picked, but I'm not convinced on either of them. Most of them. Jenkins because Jenkins isn't very good and Slade because you still have to give him the K probably. Yeah.
00:15:27
Speaker
not convinced of that. If you have a good running 10 option that can produce otherwise, then okay. But for the most part, I'm going to go with no. Does that change if Wyatt and Hodge are back?
00:15:43
Speaker
If Hodge is close, I would definitely give Hodge a look hard if he's back, especially if he's starting. Granted, his minutes probably are going to be capped at like 50, but keep that in mind. I think this Glasgow team will be something to be had.
00:16:03
Speaker
For the Warriors, there's only two players that should probably be considered heavily, and that's Figgerson and Matthews, and I don't know about Figgerson even. So Matthews is probably a good Joe, because he's a nice, cheap hooker option. Grant Sheehan is probably still the better option, even though he's more expensive. But if you're looking for a bargain hooker that's going to probably score you all right, Johnny Matthews is a good way to go. There are others, like the two centers, they're too expensive, though. So I love them.
00:16:32
Speaker
and can't wait to pick one of them in Six Nations, but probably not here. They may not play either, considering where Glasgow are and that they're traveling.
00:16:51
Speaker
Anywho, off to Ashton Gate, Bristol, hosting the Bulls. This could be, you know, if the Bulls bring their full noise squad, this could be a great matchup. The Bears are, I would say, fearsome with A.J. McGinty, as we saw in the prem this past week. It's a different team. It looks different. He's a massive upgrade over Sheedy, not that Sheedy's
00:17:17
Speaker
Not great, but we can see how different this team looks under AJ than under Sheedy. And it also depends on what the Bulls bring.
00:17:28
Speaker
If they bring the, you know, Van Saaden, Huson, Creel, Kirlia Rensa and Moody, yeah, this could be a good game. But if they do what they did last time and just bring the shags on the road, just don't bother, I would say. On the Bristol side, Oh, Gray. Yes, I think I picked him up.
00:17:47
Speaker
in the last round. Yeah, that's going to work out well for me, especially because Thacker's injured, unfortunately. It's like a problem I'll come to down the line, but for now, I would take advantage of it.
00:18:03
Speaker
Luitua is scoring well. And then Randall, as I said, AJ is a fine look. I'm not sure how much he costs. I didn't look into that. But that's somewhere to consider now if you're in the market for a different 10. And then Ibetoye in Maylands. Ibetoye, this is his kind of competition. So he's in my thread. AJ is eight, which is a lot. What's that? AJ is eight.
00:18:27
Speaker
That's a lot. That is a lot. That's a lot for him, unfortunately. Sad. Yeah. I mean, I have Marcus, which is 10, but... Yeah, he's worth the 10, though. Yeah. To me, it's like, though, I wouldn't have a problem considering...
00:18:45
Speaker
But if Marcus wasn't playing so fucking well. If you're looking for a bargain at that position to invest elsewhere, then AJ is your guy. A bargain-ish. Too long and Monster, both teams need this game badly if they want to stay alive.
00:19:05
Speaker
So, uh, all Yvonne currently is highly picked and I know a lot of people haven't done their team yet, but he is injured. He's probably gonna mix, miss the six nations. So get him out of your team as fast as you can right now. Uh, Herva is, uh, one of those quiet, but cheap guys that might get you over the line. So keep in mind other considerations that I might make.
00:19:25
Speaker
considering that they're at home are guys like Singleton and the year and such. So, um, Gemini as I was like, I know that one more name in my pocket, ribeye, if he starts maybe, but the thing with ribbons though, I don't know if you want to waste your, one of your two long players with you. That's the question. Maybe it's not a waste. We'll find out. Um, four months.
00:19:49
Speaker
There's definitely two guys that aren't a waste and that's Burn and Aaron. Aaron is playing loose forward lately and is a lock, so.
00:19:57
Speaker
And he actually looks like he's a loose forward too. So, um, so we got that one wrong, but that's all right. Um, Coombs is another one. If he's in the back row, I think he started in the second row last time. Then if I'm not mistaken. Um, anyway, yep. And then on the two, three other guys that are just highly picked, uh, wouldn't touch our Murray Crowley and O'Brien, especially Murray Murray. Just, he doesn't do the things that get you fantasy points. Great scrum half, but he doesn't do the things that get you fancy points. So leave it alone.
00:20:27
Speaker
Doodle-doo. Leinster hosting Stade Francaise. This could get ugly. This could get ugly. Go deep. Leinster. Sheehan, if you're interested in that. Yes. Van der Fleer.
00:20:46
Speaker
James and Gibson Park. Now that the scrum half, the top scrum half position is wide the fuck open, Gibson Park is still a perfectly viable option here. So perhaps look, where is he? I was looking at four million. That's not terrible. I had DuPont, so he's gone. So it's in two million savings, but I actually think I'm going for Garak. But either way,
00:21:13
Speaker
Gibson Park is another one now, you know, but the argument is up there now and he's he's a part of it. The Frawley and then that entire back line is could be tasty, especially this week on side, maybe Makalu and Jeremy Ward, but you're not going to get winning points. So that's that could be big. OK.
00:21:42
Speaker
Then we have stormers and sales. So believe it or not, there's actually nobody that's highly picked in either from either of these teams. Shocker today. I'm anticipating that the last two teams they put out will be very similar to what happened this week because sailor traveling so far and stormers are hosting. So I'll give you three names for each that you can probably start.
00:22:02
Speaker
Stormers, I would say Daemoni, Libach, and Loader are three names to really clamp an eyeball on. Daemoni isn't that expensive and he's a good back rower, so. Yep. I got him. Keep your eye on that one. Thank you. Yep. And then sale, even if they send this, you know, the shags, Taylor, Bobby Doops, and Reed could be, should be heavily considered, especially considered like Taylor would be a nice person to plug in there for not, for a front row, like for, for a hooker.
00:22:31
Speaker
Probably not, he's not that expensive. He should score you a decent amount of points and it'll be cheap. So you can spend your cash and your spots on bigger teams elsewhere. Especially if you're like me and have Dan Sheehan and maybe you want to shed some load and find it so you can use a Lancer spot somewhere else. Next.
00:22:56
Speaker
Cardiff hosting Quinn's. Ooh, this would be interesting. I don't know about that. I mean, if Cardiff show up like they did last time, it'll at least be a match. Could be. But I don't think so. I would honestly stay away from Cardiff. They're not scoring points. They're not that reliable.
00:23:16
Speaker
I don't think many of them have scored more than 10. I don't think any of them have scored more than 10 twice. The two centers and then Adams. Those would be the guys I would look at. Yeah, right. That's about it.
00:23:35
Speaker
And then for the Quinn's, Dom Brant has decided that he's ready to go. You know, this past week in the Prem notwithstanding, but then they pulled him after like 15 minutes or so. He'd done enough. You know, care, Smith, Esther Hayes in green. Yes. And then the wings. I mean, you have now if Lina and Murley and or Murley are playing, that's a that makes things difficult.
00:24:04
Speaker
for who to who to pick. I would still go with green as my top choice, because as the fullback, he's always going to get his his attacking chances, whereas Marley in line, I will go off, but could also be kind of kept silent because the other one's going off. It's a delicate balance. Yep. Joseph obviously would be good, but that depends. You know, don't don't go else and all stay away from beard. Yeah, no, no, no, not ready yet. No, he's not. You ain't ready for the show, dude.
00:24:35
Speaker
Uh, also to lose. So I really think this will be one, one will be wide open. I know to expand his grass, but I still think this will be a nice wide open match, which both teams will take advantage of in terms of fantasy scoring. So for me, um, big players to look at for ulster or tool, their prop, um, Timoni, we know I love him and I have him and probably we'll start him. Um, and then don't go over Cooney, but I'm actually okay with both.
00:25:02
Speaker
And then to lose, like I said, by, yes, Malvaca. If you have to pick three to lose players from the most popular players that I picked right now, I'd take Malvaca, Ramos, and do we know if DuPont's playing yet?
00:25:17
Speaker
Is he around still? I don't think, I don't think he's playing. I think he's gone. Okay. Well, cause the last we knew he was going to play these two rounds and then leave. So if he is then yes. So he's that, he's that third one. I was assuming he wasn't cause I've seen him training with the seven. So I thought that he was just gone. Oh, maybe not in which case. Yep. Bye-bye. But anyway. Um, and then if you have buyer Richie Arnold play that play them as well. Mm-hmm.
00:25:40
Speaker
So those are the most popular picks, and I'm sure there's other picks to take from there as well.
Leinster vs Stade Francais: Anticipated Outcome
00:25:44
Speaker
Yeah. Just, you know, plug and play. Have fun. Okay. Next, where are we? Bath versus Rossing. This could be tasty. But then again, Rossing are just not showing up this tournament yet.
00:26:04
Speaker
I don't know what they're going to, if they're going to try to, to, you know, obviously now they're on the road against back played. Well, they just haven't come up. They've not come up with the goods. That's all. You're right. So the question is, are they going to be able to do this at the wreck for bath? Their front row or options? Because there's so many options out like you. First off, you know, you have to have an Ollie Lawrence on your team.
00:26:24
Speaker
As we said earlier, he might be the best center in Europe right now. So he needs to be on your team. So the question is where you're going to invest your other Beth players. Again, the front row is a fine place, although I think they might be a little bit expensive. Ben Spencer, I don't know that he scores enough.
00:26:44
Speaker
Finn is obviously full go he'll score. And then those back three, as we've been talking about, especially look to Glanville's way. He's going to be cheap and he just scores tries for fun and for fantasy points. Yeah. On Rastingside Ligarek. Yes. Fiku and maybe Habosi. If he's playing, if you're into that kind of thing, he could score points.
00:27:11
Speaker
If you're into that kind of thing, you mean that kind of thing? I wouldn't put him on my team. Kick him in the nuts. Yeah, exactly. If you're into being all right with him on your team, I'm not... I'm on my second beer. I'm not going to make a judgment at the moment. Have him on your team. He'll play all right. He'll get your points. Congratulate your fucking lations. We got La Rochelle and Lester. So the best news of this matchup? He's back. Greg Aldrich.
00:27:41
Speaker
Oh, that is tasty. Yep. So he's back. So I would, I'm sure he'll be a highly transferred in player for this round. Cause they need this, like they're not going to go away. This is their competition. They're not going to go away. So they need this. So they'll come, they'll, they'll bring it. Um, skeleton Astoy are also full goes, um, stay away from both to you. Like he's not, he's been a, he's been a problem in terms of.
00:28:05
Speaker
fantasies and also for law Rochelle. So stay away from that. Lester, highly picked players. Cole is actually a highly selected player, but I would not play him in this match. Chessum has finally maybe turned the corner for fantasy purposes. So he's a go. Jasper has been a no brainer these days and Pollard as well. So go ahead. Aldrit is not in the game right now.
00:28:27
Speaker
Oh, I wanted to see how, how expensive he might be. Um, let's see. Well, how's the, how's, how expensive is the most expensive guy? That's true. He's probably in that 8 million. He's probably one of those, um, Doris, all of all Wokey. He's definitely on the same level as all Yvonne Doris and Earl. So I would anticipate him being eight. Wow. Wokey is eight.
00:28:50
Speaker
Oh, that's awful. I think that's way too much. Yeah. They missed, they missed a mark on that one. No, the other did. That's yeah. I didn't even notice. Nope. Not worth it. Not worth the case. Okay. Okay. I don't, these things take, uh, uh, that that's a lot of work to do. And sometimes you're just like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm going to throw a dart. Yellow. I think they, yeah, I think Wokey there really was a little bit of a dart throw, but yeah.
00:29:20
Speaker
It just means look somewhere else. Anywho, where was I? Bordeaux hosting Saracens. That one. Saracens defense still incredibly strong no matter what. So it's going to be tough for Pete Samo to score points, but I still think he could. I think he's one of those eight men that will find ways through the Saris defense and we all will be very annoyed because we're not used to seeing that.
00:29:47
Speaker
Luku, Jallibare, Penno. Who was that? Burros? Yeah, Burros. Yeah, Burros. Someone to look at as well. On the Saracens' end, Jinx, Theo, I'm out on Marrow. I'm dropping him, moving on. Fantasy-wise, it's not there. Too much. It hasn't been in a while. He's playing fine. It's just that
00:30:12
Speaker
It's not the things that he was doing that were just like, we used to be like, just give me the, that ball's mine now. Um, it's not, that's not happening anymore that they've caught on, um, attacks kind of taken away his.
00:30:26
Speaker
his best abilities to score points. Gonzo, Ben Earl, Owen Farrell, outside of Owen, it's kind of hit or miss. So I'm not really looking at the Sarri's backs in attack.
00:30:44
Speaker
I got to see what they bring. And also the way they've been used is a lot of that kicking game we were talking about in the other pod. Very unhelpful for fantasy points and interesting rugby to watch. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I'm scared of that game, but we'll get there in a second. Of the weeks.
00:31:03
Speaker
So I am going kind of low hanging fruit. The guy's caught fire and he's going to have a nice matchup going back to a place that was a little bit of bogey-ish territory for he and his club. And I think he's going to come through with buckets of points. Uh, my star of the week's going to be Alex. Oh, nice.
00:31:25
Speaker
I'm right near you. I went with Dom Brant last week. He did very well. He did all right, yeah. But it was a coin flip, and this guy way outscored him, because that's just the way he's being used. And maybe it was the fact that he played all 80, but at the same time, Andre Esterhazin.
00:31:45
Speaker
He is likewise kind of like, you know, I did say earlier that he's, he's not on his form, but he's kind of, at least last week he was regaining it, you know, a good practice girl. Like, all right, sometimes you need that layup. Um, I think he's going to continue on.
00:32:03
Speaker
move her in sits my city of the week. I love the player. I don't love the way his team has been playing in this competition. And I don't love the matchup and or the location of said matchup. So my syllabus can be Jack Crowley from Munster. Hmm. Sorry, dude. Unhelpful. My, my city of the week, speaking of unhelpful,
00:32:30
Speaker
I mentioned him and I'm moving away from him. And this is more for me than anything else. Because every time you want to get rid of him, you're like, oh, can I really? No, it's time to get rid of Maro Toji. I think I'm kind of done with him as a fantasy lock. He'll have his games of like 20, but it seems like those are
00:32:51
Speaker
Um, the exception rather than, you know, what it used to be. Like he used to be a, I don't care how expensive he is. He's my play. He's, he's on my team and he's probably my captain to man. This guy is way too expensive for the points he's, he's getting. Yeah. Yep. It's annoying. So yeah. So he's my side. Yeah, it sucks. I mean, great play. It's, he's reached that point where the contributions he makes and he makes plenty of contributions to the game. Um,
00:33:21
Speaker
Don't show up really in fantasy points unless he's getting yellow carded. In that case, you really don't want him. You really don't want him. Absolutely. Pick of them. All right. Friday night, Northampton and Bayon. Saints. Yup. Leon Conak. Home team. Yeah. Assholes in Glasgow. Home team.
00:33:49
Speaker
Bristol Bulls. Home team. Yep. Too long, Munster. Home team. Yep. Munster Stodd. Munster, but they're also the home team. Yep. Stormers on sale. Home team. Cardiff Quins? Oh, oh, waiting. Tech season. Fire!
00:34:16
Speaker
Austin Toulouse. Away team. Yeah, same. Bath Rossing. Back to home team. Yeah, back to home. LaRochelle Luster. Also home team. Bordeaux Sarries. I'm going with Sarries. I'm frightened at what Pennell and
00:34:34
Speaker
BLABR you're going to do to us. So I don't want to think about that. It's going to be the happiest person to be wrong ever if they banish it, but I'm going to go with Bordeaux. Fair. Rabbit season, duck season, fire.
00:34:50
Speaker
Anyway, that didn't get the Looney Tunes reference. Sorry for you. Too young. Aged, damn it. Listen, they're on YouTube probably somewhere, maybe somewhere on your streaming platform. Go watch.
Closing Remarks & Next Week's Teasers
00:35:03
Speaker
Go watch. If you don't know Looney Tunes, you're missing out. You are Looney Tunes. It's like, what? You don't know the Muppets? What are we doing here? Different type of Muppet, guys. Well, no. But I'm just saying, in general, you're going to just miss out on the children's classics.
00:35:19
Speaker
Plenty of those coming our way I'm excited for bluey People tell me about this bluey thing and I I don't know what it's about, but I guess we're gonna find out soon. Yeah I've heard good things And Jess likes that the the dog mom plays rugby So oh nice. Um, you know that that's awesome. Yeah
00:35:42
Speaker
That's all that's like the most I know about it. But except that I also know people really enjoy it. It's not it's you know, kind of like, I'm not sure if it's like, I don't think it's like exactly Sponge Bobby in but I think it has enough for everybody kind of thing. Well, if it's Sponge Bobby, and that means you can, you know,
00:35:58
Speaker
partake and watch and enjoy it too. But, but that's not, that's not going to happen. So, yeah, I don't think so either. It's not a good idea. No, that's a poor decision. Cold turkey in it, dude. This is not going to, I'm going to be too tired to, to want any of that. Fair enough. Yeah. So that's that. Um,
00:36:23
Speaker
We appreciate everyone for listening to us babble in these places here. We'll be back next week. It's a nice week in the Champions Cup. I hope everybody enjoys the hell out of it. And we will talk to you all next week. Good luck with your fantasy match ups. Have a good one everyone. Later. Cheers.
00:36:49
Speaker
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