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Season 4- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Premiership Round 11 Preview)
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It's the return of The Fantasy Corner for Premiership and The Rugby Magazine. This week we recap the very limited 2nd week of Champions Cup in Superbru and see who is in good shape going into the January fixtures. This week features a new segment, Buy, Rent or Ditch (we all know the variation that you prefer, but you know). We do a little This or That TRM Prem style and of course it's the return of everyone's favorite, Start or Sit. Also, enjoy the blooper for your entertainment. Get a pen and a cold one, enjoy!
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Transcript
Return to TRM Segment
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody. Welcome back. It is my name is Jared. I'm Ben Glauzer. It is the fancy corner. We are back into the TRM part of it, which is a little bit more fun for us. Not that we don't enjoy the Superbrew because we did. Right. Absolutely. It's just the the scoring. All this stuff is within our wheelhouse. So and much more comfortable. Oh, wow. Going for number two. So this is how you know, I'm feeling better. I'm going for number two. Also hanging out with that fucking idiot. That's, you know, my friend.
00:00:36
Speaker
Yeah. Who did say to say hello, by the way. Oh, he's nice. Yeah. I like the two, but begrudgingly that asshole. Get him one day. Listen, you're on his list too, dude. Bad part is you're on his list too. No, we like each other. So it's, yeah, no biggie. It's mutual.
00:01:04
Speaker
feelings mutual. Alright, yeah.
Champion's Cup Fantasy Recap
00:01:08
Speaker
Let's go to the recap of the fans of the Champion's Champions Cup fantasy. Some asshole still winning, but you know, not a lot of movement. It's me
00:01:24
Speaker
Then Carrick Mark, Mark had the best week of us all. Uh, George, uh, Zeus, mr. Zeus, uh, Anton jumped above you. Um, so you're after him and then Duncan and then Justin still sitting at the bottom. So, you know, yeah, I had a couple of things that didn't, although yeah, I'm not quite far my, uh, my way. So I was like, damn it. Um, interesting to see the team of the round. I was fortunate enough to captain the guy that had the.
00:01:52
Speaker
Yeah, the most up there. Where is that? Oh, it's in the info, right? So yeah, it's under points. So if you go
00:02:04
Speaker
Um, points or pools, whatever it is, which one of the two, but you can figure it
Team of the Round Discussion
00:02:09
Speaker
out from there. Um, so teaming around where both, uh, both Glasgow props body along with Turner, the front in the front row Cummings and Richie gray, like the whole tight five from Glasgow. I was like, did not have that on my radar, but okay. No.
00:02:27
Speaker
Back row was Don Brandt, who had the most points on the weekend. Thank you, Captain. Adana Hugh and Dempsey as well from Glasgow. Glasgow had a big weekend along with Quinn's in the back line.
00:02:40
Speaker
Cause the best back line was care, Dana, uh, Marcus Smith. Also like 90% of people had him, uh, Esther Hazen. That's a good pick. Marchant was obviously a good pick because he's out on the wing. So Mackie, I almost picked John porch and I'm so fucking pissed. Um, and Kavango from, from Cardiff, which is, I was like, there's going to be a Cardiff player on here. I just don't know which one somehow, some way there's going to be a Cardiff player on here and I don't know which one.
00:03:07
Speaker
So yeah, not so bad for myself. Still hanging out on the top. So not mad about it. But yeah, very interesting things going on. I just had a sense that this is going to be a huge match for Don Brent's turn up. He gets two tries. I was like, thank you. That's all I wanted. I feel justified now. Thank you.
00:03:29
Speaker
Right. Yeah. And that's the thing. He's a big, obviously, one of the top point scorers in the prem for fantasy. So it's good to see him representing himself well in the fantasy world at the European level. Quite. And express himself. Like, I mean, the guy is he's what a what a tale he has right now. And right. Just
00:03:55
Speaker
Good to see him succeeding too. And again, that rep, there's a lot of, you know, when you, when you talk fantasy, we, we tend to stick, try to, you know, not be Homerish about the prem. Cause that's really, you know, obviously what we know fantasy wise, um, certainly nothing about the French. So, um,
00:04:14
Speaker
It's good to see. It's like, no, Dom Brant. Okay. No, he's, he's a good player. Yeah. Right. It translates to fantasy. We're not just fucking around. Right. All right. Green, green didn't go off too much. No, he didn't. Like you thought a lot of these guys who, you know, yeah, Smith and Dom rant though. Um, yeah. Thumbs up for sure. Right. Both of them. All right. Um, so we're going to do a new thing.
Player Decision Game
00:04:39
Speaker
It's going to sound familiar. It's called buy rent or ditch.
00:04:43
Speaker
I'm sure you, I'm sure everybody out there has played a similar game to this. Um, so we're gonna, I'm looking at, um, names that are on the most signed most released. And we're going to talk about, do you buy them and keep them for, for a long period of time? Long being like at least, you know, four or five rounds, or do you rent them for a week or two? Or do you just like, Nope, that want nothing to do with that?
00:05:10
Speaker
Okay, cool. I'm using our sheet for the fur. They'll help you then. A little bit of analysis here. So here we go. So let's go with some release names because there's some interesting ones on here. Andy Yeren. By Renner Ditch. Oh, I don't even need to look for him. I would ditch, to be honest.
00:05:37
Speaker
He's not their guy. So Randall's their guy. You're in, um, is going to take a backseat. I think he's, he's taken, I think he's taken some of the wrath for, for Bristol start. So, um, and Randall is still playing pretty well. So I, at this point I ditched because I think there's points available elsewhere. Joe Martian by Renner ditch.
00:06:03
Speaker
I'd say if any, if you don't, you're not a Quinn's player outside of, he's not in the core. So he's, he's a rent at most. Okay. Um, cause you gotta have Smith, you gotta have Dom rent. Um, you gotta have green.
00:06:21
Speaker
And at that point, it's like Esther Hazen or Marchant. And I lean Esther Hazen. So if you want Marchant in there too, then OK, that's good. But be prepared to trade him out for something else because he might not be in their lineup every week either. Kind of like what we talked about with Marley. He and Marley are kind of at a similar level. OK. Tommy Freeman, assuming he's not completely brother. Well, yeah.
00:06:49
Speaker
I'm ready to buy on him. He's on my, he is on my list of, of to buy. I have a, I have a plan, um, or had one until the injury. So, um, at this point, no, I'm going to, I'm going to ditch him for now because he's also cheap and he's highly owned if I'm not mistaken. So it's not as though he's going to shoot up in the, uh, um, he's not going to get rapidly more expensive for no particular reason. So you can always pick him up later. Yep.
00:07:19
Speaker
Um,
Front Row Fantasy Analysis
00:07:21
Speaker
and then Alex Mitchell by runner ditch. Um, bye. This person is on my team. So, uh, I am buying. Bye. Bye. Bye. Cool. Yeah. I can't say no. I can't say anything else.
00:07:35
Speaker
Well, just so we're clear, the first few names I said are on the most released and the last two I said on the most signed for the round. So there you go. Just so we're clear. Right. Cause I was ready to buy, like I said, I was, I was considering Freeman. Um, one of these kind of glad I, uh,
00:07:52
Speaker
Yeah, glad I did not follow through on that. I think sounding creepy in the long run was a really good buy there. Yeah, that's actually a good one too. All right, so let's go. Let's do a little this or that between positions here. Here we go. Let's do... Ooh, I like this one. Maco or JTA? Oh, for props? Mm-hmm.
00:08:20
Speaker
I go Mako. I mean, I am in the process. Like I said, you know, having a plan. Sorry, I'm getting to it. But Mako is in my plans. He's too good. I'm trying to get a way to have him, Creevy, and Genge in my front row. And it's actually coming together pretty nicely. But... Absolutely, truly. Yeah.
00:08:47
Speaker
Yes. Mako. I'd rather have him than, cause JTA is, is inconsistent. I mean, fuck when like Mako has a bad game, he gets like 15. I'll take that. Uh, bevin rod or Marlar. You know what? I don't know once this, I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to consult the Oracle here. Um, so Marlar is in pink.
00:09:18
Speaker
Yeah. Where the fuck is he? Oh, there he is. Okay. And it's okay. Him or, um, rod rod sale, who is no, he's not, he's like not performing well at all this year, huh? Uh, so I can't even find him. I don't know where the fuck he is.
00:09:45
Speaker
Um, yeah, let me, hold on. Let me look for sale a sec. Just for sale. No, everyone out. Just sale. I just got to know. Okay. Oh, why the fuck isn't he showing up? I got something, something screw you here. Oh, that's why. Hey, you piece of shit. It's, it's unclicking things for me. So it decided it wanted to do.
00:10:14
Speaker
Um, it took away everyone who had seven starts. Huh? Oddly enough, who am I looking for? Something that's got a lot of starts. Right. Let me make sure they're all there. Jesus. It clicked. It like unclicked some. Oh, cause it, yeah. Got it. Yeah. I'll stop doing that. Damn it. I'm sorry. You can do it. There he is. Oh yeah.
00:10:41
Speaker
He closed his fucking laptop, dumbass. I blame the cat.
00:11:06
Speaker
I did not, I didn't realize it would close all the way. It was like, I, you know, was typing and I heard it click and I'm like, fine. Well, there goes that. All right. Let's go back to the, uh, from the original question. Der Marler or Bevinrod. Der Marler or Bevinrod. Neither.
00:11:27
Speaker
They're not worth it. They're, you know, Bevan Rod's averaging less than 10 points a game. His top score is 21 on the season. Marler is scoring, you know, a little bit better at 12 points a game. His high is 26. He's also scored zero, like both of them kind of just blah.
00:11:46
Speaker
the for the money, you know, 193 for rod. Where's Marla Marla 279? Like you can do so much better with that 279. We can fuck the Vincent caucus 257 go there. Yeah, I'll repel Russkin the same thing. Like, there's so much better value out there. Go get go get them.
Flanker Options Debate
00:12:05
Speaker
All right. Hooker. Nick Dolly or Sam out of basic?
00:12:16
Speaker
So the issue here is with the whole Sam Mattabasi is going to be their hooker like every week. So it's it's tough to be like. You know, Dolly is going to score when when Dolly is playing, by all means Nick Dolly.
00:12:44
Speaker
Um, but Matt of AC is going to play more every week. So I'm, I'm trying, I'm like, kind of working away from Dolly. Obviously that's, that's why I signed Creevy. I'm like, right. Pull the band-aid off. I'm not going to deal with Agree, you know, or, or, you know, or the, the wasps run around and the Dolly Montoja, uh, drama Lomory. I'm just going to go with Creevy and be done with it. Also helpful. Um, all right. Second rows. Um,
00:13:13
Speaker
Sean Robinson or Jean-Luc Dupriac? One of each. One of each, please. But then you don't get defeated, then you don't get a toge. Right. And I'm working on having a toge. So another part of my plan or Freddie. Yeah, but another part of my plan is
00:13:38
Speaker
Harry Wells, basically a one for one Harry Wells out and Robinson in and they're both around the same price. So it's like, okay, good. One for one replacement and done. I want jail Dupree so bad, but you're right. I can't, I can't get rid of Maro. I can't get rid of via, I can't get rid of Freddie. And it's like, well, if I have those four, you know, including Robinson, we'll
00:14:04
Speaker
What else I don't need anything else. I'm good Like I already have Ben Earl. I already have Tom Willis. I already have Dom rant if I and even even Kenning him like Who I'm also trying to get rid of but it's like if I don't need that much more, you know If I had to pick one With no nothing else, you know All things being cool. I think I'm taking JLDP He's just a shit ton more expensive and I can get
00:14:33
Speaker
You know, Robinson right now is the best producing lock. You know, outside, you know, Morrow is obviously outstripping, you know, on the average, but Morrow is not quite playing every week. So right now I'm going. Yeah, no, I'm going Robinson on there. Mm hmm. Flankers. Sam Underhill. Or Henry Leibnberg.
00:15:07
Speaker
That's a very good question. Holy fuck. One second. It's still not showing everybody. It doesn't like you. It really doesn't. There he is. Okay.
00:15:19
Speaker
Underhill, I mean, Underhill's scoring 23 points per game. His last five have scored 20, almost 26. So, doing pretty well there. His top score is 37. Levenberg is, I think he's sneaky. So he's like, he's averaging 21. His last five are, he's averaging 19 and a half. His top score is 30. So you're seeing the high end. You know, Underhill has the tie end.
00:15:44
Speaker
He has a little bit better play each week, so no. Leibnberg, I think, played much better when, you know, Van Staden and Visa were away, and he was like, he was the man, and now, you know, he's at six, and...
00:16:04
Speaker
He's at six, so I put him away and yeah, and under Hill, it's just I like him. I like him better as a player anyway. So yeah, I'd lean under Hill DDP or number eight DDP or general justice. It's hard because you know, AJ has been away, so DDP has been kind of falling off, but he's going to start.
00:16:32
Speaker
shooting right back up again. But Augustus has been the real deal. I think I'd say Augustus because I think overall his, his team's attack will get him, you know, significant points. Nice. Raffy Quirk or Harry Randall?
00:16:57
Speaker
Harry Randall has the longer lifeline here. We're hitting on January. FAF is coming back and love Quirk.
00:17:10
Speaker
But as much as you like him, uh, when Faf comes back, this is Faf's team. You know, they're going to give it to him. Yeah. You don't, you can't, you can't, he's got, he's got the cup. Um, he, he gets the guy, he gets the start. So yeah, Randall is, is going to be starter for as long as he wants it until he called away to England. So that's a much longer lifeline for him. Uh, Jacob Umarger or Callum, she'd be flaps.
00:17:39
Speaker
Oh, neither. Well, right now it's called either or. Oh, too far into my beard. We're not far enough. Bad taste in the mouth. You know what, though? Here's the thing. It's it's one of those like
00:18:00
Speaker
It makes me sick because they should both be doing so much better. It's not the, it makes me sick to watch them. It's the, they should be, they should be kicking. They should be a, damn, that's a very hard question. And instead it's.
00:18:14
Speaker
You know, in a good way, like, ooh, which one's better? In this case, it's which one may not suck. Right now, I don't know. I don't know which one is not going to not suck. But I know that one of them, the guys are getting healthy and the other one, they're, they're really not. So that's why I'm, I'd go with Sheedy.
Center Comparison
00:18:34
Speaker
Um, centers. Hmm. I like this one. Alex Lozowski or Curtis Rona?
00:18:46
Speaker
How much of the Zosky is in his boot? Probably all of it.
00:18:52
Speaker
So that's, that's the key. It's the, like, there's sneaky points. I would go Rona. Um, there's also, that's the, you know, I think, uh, Sari's attentions go into a shell, you know, as we saw against Exeter, that's why I was just thinking that match. It's like, they will just fucking shell up, not really open it up. And, and that's not good for their centers. Whereas, um,
00:19:22
Speaker
you know, the Irish that that road is going to get his touches and his his opportunities and they'll be kicking themselves if they don't rather than just being like, OK, well, whatever, like salaries do like shut up. There was a team effort. It's like.
00:19:38
Speaker
So it's a better team effort when the guys who can do a lot of good shake at the ball the most. So, that instead. Irish at least have that. Fuck their fly half. But they have, Verona, I would go to Verona. Yup. Wings, Radwin or Reece Lightning? Luis Reece, damn it. Radwin.
00:20:05
Speaker
is producing at a higher rate. I shouldn't say at a higher level because, fuck, that's Reece Lightning. But Radwin, I'll leave you, does his score tries for fun. And not that Reece doesn't, but it doesn't happen as consistently because of the team he plays on. He has to work to get the ball, whereas
00:20:29
Speaker
Newcastle work to get the ball to Radwin, they like, you know, same as I was just saying, get the ball to your playmaker gets your ball to your playmaker, you know that the guy reached you. Radman just gets more opportunities. So it's that's why he's more consistent. Yep. I'm back to back the other week. Melons are green. Bowlbacks. Oh, see this.
00:20:52
Speaker
this is what the shitty umaga question should be right because the answer really is both i mean and then that is my answer because i can do both one of them that's the wing yeah oh which one um if you only could have one so you're sticking with one so you can do
00:21:17
Speaker
I mean, I'd go with green because he's sticking through, you know, he'll be around through six nations. It's true. That is true. That's the only, that's the only reason I would pick him because mail-ins I'm going to have to work around in a couple of weeks.
00:21:32
Speaker
Okay. Well, I'm not just fine. All right. Hey, let's
Bristol vs. Leicester Preview
00:21:38
Speaker
get back to that. Start something we'd like to do around here sometimes. Sweet. There's matches coming up, I hope. Yeah, fingers crossed. It's Boxing Day. So it means I'm doing absolutely nothing on my ass. So yay. Actually, I'll probably be off from after Thursday on until the new year. So hooray. All right.
00:22:01
Speaker
Oh, I start off Bristol and Leicester. Yay. This should be very interesting. Okay, for Bristol. End year and or Randall, if he's healthy, got off to a slow start, the both of them kind of did. But they both have been better. And the position has been better for Bristol in recent weeks. So it's actually one of the few positions that the Tigers aren't super strong against 27 points on average per match. So to them to Scrum have so
00:22:31
Speaker
If you got one of them, then here's your lifeline. You get to play on this week. Harry Thacker, if you've got him as your hooker, good news is it won't be as bad as it first looks against Lester. They've had at least six hookers score 20 plus starting hookers score 20 plus. So if he's your guy, then you don't need to go panic.
00:22:50
Speaker
So you're good. Um, I think we can all dump, you know, in Lloyd, it looks like a lot of people have started to for the time being, I know it's not much cash back in your pocket, but he's just not the guy that we all need him to be. Right now you signed the wrong really, really cheap guy. Yeah. He's going through some growing pains and that's just how rugby is, you know, it's just how it is. He'll be back soon. Just get rid of him now. If I'm not mistaken. So yeah, he's a, he's still a baby. Yeah.
00:23:20
Speaker
For Lester, Bristol are also strong against hooks, but I have no issues with Dolly Ormentoyo this week. Bristol have given up five or so decent games to two, so don't go transferring those guys out and making panic transfers. Now, if you have a plan, see Ben's previous conversation about this. Cool. But if you're just like dropping them because this is the matchup, no, no, no. It's fine.
00:23:43
Speaker
Bristol are strong against locks, but Harry Wells is usually the one that wears the foreshirt. And that is the position that in particular does fine against Bristol. More good games than bad, than bad for the bears at that position for the guys that wear the foreshirt. So if you got fairy Wells, like a lot of you out there, you're good. Thumbs up.
00:24:03
Speaker
Other side of the coin, Nemani Ndolo. At this point, I'm not convinced he's worth the cap hit and the spot. Very tri-dependent. Games, he scored a try-in. He scored 28 and 45, one of those. He's got a double. He has one game this season that he scored above 14 without a try. And that was week one. So spend your cash out elsewhere if you can. Yeah. Like, that's one of those, if you sign him on the right week and then drop him,
00:24:31
Speaker
Like that's that's you're getting so much. You're getting the value for him. If you if you just have him on your team, it's the law averages out to be like mediocre. So you have to like, yeah. You have to be very judicious and incredibly smart knowing that though this is the game he's going to go off. Agreed. Oh, on to the CBS arena.
00:25:00
Speaker
for wasps versus the exiles. All right, so we got some really poor defenses here. The Irish are ninth overall, the wasps are 11th, and really strong attacks. The Irish are the second overall, and the wasps are three. So points, points can be fucking everywhere. The Irish are fourth versus fly-haves. They're seventh versus locks, scrum-haves, and wings, and then they're worse everywhere else. So yeah.
00:25:30
Speaker
especially weak versus props, which if you know the team they're playing against, that's yippee. The wasps themselves, you know, their third versus the scrum half, fifth versus lock and eight, and then they're weaker everywhere else. They're especially weak at center and hook, which for the Irish, yippee. For wasps, whoever's at hook, you're playing them. JTA, good week for him.
00:25:57
Speaker
And the locks, we have to know who's injured, who's not. If Fafita's in, oh, he's a big time go. He was in their last lineup before that game got bad, wasn't he? I don't recall. I didn't think he was, but I didn't. I was confused. So anyway, we all were. Right. Big points in the back row. They have so many players available to them this weekend.
00:26:23
Speaker
Again, young is still a little weak there, but everyone else should be absolutely fantastic. Stay away from umaga for now and then it really depends on on the wasps who they're there, who's available at back. So I'm not going to make too many recommendations there right now because I don't, I would just stay away from it entirely for the further time being anyway.
00:26:45
Speaker
For the exiles, Creevy, again, huge, big go. All the props should be fine. Whether or not Robson starts, kind of give me that advice on Phipps or White, because Robson has been shutting down scrum has, but his backups just aren't quite the dick that he is. Yeah, I don't think it's Grant's healthy.
00:27:07
Speaker
And then, but the entire Irish backline could score very big. So keep them in your thoughts as you formulate your team. Uh-huh. Uh, Fafita was in that lineup against Toulouse before it went down. So that's good news for those of you out there that have invested in via Fafita. That's a guy like me. I'm a guy like me. Right. And I'm just looking at Robson. Um,
00:27:33
Speaker
middle of January, so he's going to be out for a few hours. Okay, so he's still out, so yeah.
00:27:39
Speaker
If you get FIPS or white, it should be good to go. There you go. Newcastle up to the tune in sale, also from somewhat near the north, if my geography is correct. For Newcastle, Callumchick, still a good back row option. Flankery eligible. Uncharacteristically, sale are not strong against flanks, believe it or not. So, their ninth, stardom.
00:28:04
Speaker
So there you go. You're welcome. Next. Depending on who's at 15, Mike Brown is the first name that comes to mind. Might be a good contrarian slash outside the box play this week. Sailor last against the 15 shirt. So if you're one of those few people that got them, this is your week. Play them.
00:28:21
Speaker
Stay away from the Falcons fly half sale our second against tens. 17 or so points per match. Looking at you, you 8% of Brett Connan owners. You foolish people. For sale, they have plenty of quality scoring hookers. So if you have one of them, this is a perfect week to play them. Newcastle aren't soft.
00:28:46
Speaker
But pretty much every guy that wears a t-shirt for sale produces more often than not. So, you know, Langdon, Taylor, Acker, Ashman, who we're becoming, you know, big fans of over here. Yep. All good to go. AJ is obviously our favorite back, but not without reason. Falcons are 10th against fly-offs this week. So start the man.
00:29:11
Speaker
Newcastle are strong against props, so another tough week for those that, you know, thousands that have invested in Bevin Rod, 22% of TRM. Take them on the bench, just in case if you must, on that start considering ditching them. Especially if you're in need of a starting prop, I get it.
00:29:28
Speaker
Like, yep, but still, but not him. No, it's not good. Good prize. Again, the things he does don't translate to fantasy rugby. So unfortunately, um, um, off to the, uh, what is it? Uh, city arena, um, saris hosting stone next. That's right. Um,
00:29:57
Speaker
Saris are just a second ranked defense, top ranked attack. Worcester are by far the worst defense in this 12th ranked attack, so it matches up very synergistically there. Worcester are the strongest against props and fullbacks, and that doesn't fucking matter here, because if Mahlon is at fullback, he'll get his points, and both Mako
00:30:22
Speaker
and Vincent, and it should be paid. Is cockpit suspended? I don't think so. I couldn't remember if he got injured or something. I can't remember. Either way, they'd be fine. Go play them.
00:30:41
Speaker
All the Saris, whoever you've got, maybe not Ezekiel or Ray. Ezekiel doesn't score as well when Maro is in. He still gets his, but it's inconsistent. For the Warriors, maybe Duhan, maybe, but I would not expect a repeat performance of what they just did if I recall correctly against Wasp. Wasp, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yep. All right. Holy shit, I was right.
00:31:07
Speaker
What's that? Holy shit. I was right. All right. Uh, bath bath and Gloucester at the rec. Hopefully Beth finally get off the shine. Um, we'll stir it. He's been a pretty good scoring prop so far. Um, he's up there, uh, despite his clubs for, um, scores well on average, couple that with a soft Gloucester opposition. Um, this could be a good solid week for him to be started.
00:31:33
Speaker
Also, same goes for Ben Spencer. Should have another decent day for the black and blue. Glosser dead last against nines. And we know he loves to go for a scoot. So if you bust loose, then you're welcome. On the other side of the coin, you're being suspended means that there are zero wings options for Bath that I would play this week at all.
00:31:54
Speaker
cluster number one against wings as well. So that really just kind of puts the icing on that shit cake for Gloucester.
00:32:04
Speaker
You know, lots of prop options this week. Obviously, another one for cluster is our old friend, Val Republic Ruskin. Strong prop here. Not as highly owned as others, but maybe should be. Slow start, and that's probably why not, but five out of the last six have been good. He's on my team for a reason. Yeah, I have. And I managed to, I was lucky, just like I said, with
00:32:30
Speaker
Uh, and the mining Adolo, I dropped Val off my team the last week. And cause he just pooped it. It was like, just that he was the perfect matchup for him to poop it. Yep. He just worked out. Um, but I wouldn't, I wouldn't expect that's, that's the outlier. I believe so as well.
00:32:47
Speaker
One Frederick Clark, our unsung TRM hero that we talked about before. Yeah, get him in your team and then line up this week. Bath our 11th against Locks. So there's that. Other side of the coin. Johnny May. I don't care how veteran, crafty, whatever bullshit turn you want to turn to him. He's not a fan. I said you want to spend your hard earned cash on. No.
00:33:09
Speaker
bench him and ditch him. He No, just no, no, no, no, no, bad. He had two tries the other week. Yeah, they were kind of bullshit tries. Yeah. And he walked in for both of them. So you're welcome. I listen, a bull could have gone through that fucking hole like I would have got there. Yeah. So it's not great. It's just you can't rely on that. No, no, no.
00:33:34
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Oh, last one. Off to me. Last one. Um, where are we? Quinn's versus saints. This is going to be delicious. Um, potentially if unless, you know, saints kind of turtle, like they have been lately, um, since of the third rank defense, Quinn's are the sixth, um, 22 points per game separate them. It's kind of not too much. Um,
00:33:53
Speaker
and then Quinn's and the attacker fifth the Saints are sixth and only it's 15 points per game between the two of them so it's like you know for for third to sixth and fifth to sixth it's it's kind of um kind of balances
00:34:07
Speaker
Saints are strong against props and fullbacks. They're second overall. Eats and centers, they're third and flyhaves, they're fifth, which is interesting because before they were getting killed by flyhaves. They're weak versus hookers, locks, scrumhaves, and wings, they're eighth.
00:34:26
Speaker
So for the, uh, for the Queensland, you still start, uh, levies, not lamb. Um, lamb was scoring when he was in the levies role now that he's not, he's not really scoring. So, um, you know, I see the people who still own him, uh, ditch him, you know, move on. He could probably pick up levies too, um, in the process and get many more points. Um, Dom brand, but maybe not captain him this week, uh, but, but still have him on your team.
00:34:56
Speaker
Cares, Smith, everyone outside, absolutely. For the other side, the Quinns are strong versus the Hook. Their fourth overall, number eight, their second overall, full deck again, their fourth. Their weak versus props, locks, and scrum halves. They're 10-9 and 10 there. So that means for the Saints, Medivacy, maybe this might be a week where he struggles. Ribbons and Augustus are a full go. Mitchell, yes. Grayson is actually,
00:35:25
Speaker
a better fantasy fly half than Dan Bigger. He's having a much, he's having a better year in limited time, averaging much higher points per game. He goes for darts a little bit more than Bigger does. Dingall's goes in and slight home. You know, obviously Freeman is sadly probably won't be with us this weekend.
00:35:47
Speaker
slights has having a bad year though. So I'm hoping his, um, his runs in the, uh, in the champion champions cup, uh, kind of help loosen him up a little bit. Yeah, you hope. Right. Right. Yeah. I was looking at, but at the same time, I don't know that, I mean, I think he will do well. I think this is his, Hey, remember me game, but I wouldn't, I wouldn't count on it. This could be another game that might be next week because he's playing quins.
00:36:15
Speaker
Could be. Yeah. Mostly. Yeah. No, I can't find any news necessarily on Freeman. I know he's banged up, but Jersey Sling's usually a bad sign. Yeah, that's not good. I can't imagine he'd be playing this weekend. Yep. All right. Star of the weeks.
00:36:31
Speaker
This guy's had a great season so far, and I actually picked him in this role probably about week two. So we're back to week 11, so he's fair game now. For a club that's had some landmark wins, including one at Sandy Park. His opposition gives him a perfect matchup, especially with a bit of his rest for his aging body. So my start of the week for a round alone on the prem is former Pumas and current exiles hooker, Gus Creevy.
00:36:57
Speaker
That's interesting. Good. Good. I like it. Um, cause he's, I, he's my honorable mention for my start of the week this week. Um, so my start of the week is a guy who.
00:37:15
Speaker
He is Mercurial, but I mean, he's one of those, you're gonna have him anyway. You might not start him every week. I don't think I started him this past, the last week against Exeter. It was just not looking like a very good matchup. But it's going against Wooster this week. And I don't know that Wooster have anybody that is particularly skilled.
00:37:40
Speaker
in the manners that were required to stop him. Ben Earl could just have a scorcher this week. He may end up my captain.
00:37:52
Speaker
uh, assuming he plays, but, um, this is Worcester, not a great defense. Um, he is just a kind of athlete that, uh, could tear them apart. And I, I want to see, I want to see it. So he's my start of the week. So the weeks, um,
00:38:12
Speaker
Listen, we all love this guy. There's no doubt that he is super talented and he's so much fun to watch, but as far as fancy assets go, as far as his expense goes, as far as what he's done performance-wise this year, it's been lackluster to say the least. And then this week he's going against one of the best defensive teams in the premier ship. So unfortunately my, uh, my say of the week for around a lot of the premier prime is formal all black and current, um, Bristol bear, Charles beautiful.
00:38:43
Speaker
Oh, wow. Interesting. I hope and hopefully future talking. Don't die. Did I catch you that off guard? Yeah, because we were all completely in line until those the last like five words of all that.
00:39:04
Speaker
I was like, fuck, we did it. Okay. We got the same person. It's so close. Everything, everything. Um, Jared just said, um, except that this guy, I think has been playing much more poorly. That's the thing this year. Um, and again, he's playing that same team that just, I don't want anything to do with, um, at times and Callum Sheedy is not, not, not, not, not this week. Um,
00:39:36
Speaker
Fuck. I want to say, if you're, if you're listening, you know, if you've heard me, I, you know, I, I'm a big fan of what the bears have going on. Right. Again, just going to make that, oh, that's going to be such a fucking bad-ass team.
00:39:49
Speaker
Yeah. I think that they're so that my theory on the bears is this year, they're like, yeah, okay, this is our take a breath here. I think that's kind of where they are now. They're like, okay, we were, we were the tits last year and next year we're going to be fucking dynamite this year. Let's just.
00:40:08
Speaker
Fucking take a chill. Take a chill. I'm not saying that's a good thing. It's what's happening. So I think that's why we both ended up with bears on our team when they're playing against Lester because the Tigers are going to crush the bears. And Lester have just been smashing it.
00:40:24
Speaker
Yeah. Also that there's also that part. Excuse me. All right. Um, to the pick Evans, uh, well, the aforementioned match Bristol and Lester. Um, yeah, sorry. Lester, Lester was in Irish. Irish. Yeah. I was really like, Ooh, I want to pick boss at home, but at the same time they haven't proven a whole lot to me.
00:40:54
Speaker
Have an Irish beat wasps at the same arena. Yes. The same arena the last two years. I think so. So I know it happened two years ago. I'm pretty sure it happened last year. So I'm not going to look it up right now. We're going to go with it. Right. We're going to go with Newcastle and sail up in the tune. I got the Falcons. I do too.
00:41:21
Speaker
Sarah. Yeah. Unfortunately, the, the, here's the sad part. The last time this picture was played, you know what happened? Oh, this was the fats. Yeah. That was, that was very sad. Yeah. That was scary.
00:41:41
Speaker
Hopefully this ends with a series win and less of that happening, please. Especially because that game was a fucking blowout too. There was no need for an injury in that match. No need. That match did not need an injury. No. No, no, no. It's going to be a lot like that other than the injury. Yeah, sans the injury, please. Right. Bath and Gloucester. Gloucester. Yeah. I definitely improve at territory right now.
00:42:09
Speaker
Oh, yeah. I don't know. I don't know where their next win is coming from. Yeah, I don't either. Maybe this weekend, but not sure. This is the best shot, but a win for a while, I think, though. So it probably will be. Quinn's in North Hampton at the stoop. I'm taking the home team, taking the home team. Yeah. OK, well, sorry, buddy. You ain't catch me up. You kept making a room on me. What's what's the what's the count? I'm up five.
00:42:41
Speaker
Have you won this yet? You won one. Actually, that's a lot. You've won one. I think season two, you won. I think season two, you won. But season three and season one, I got it. And right now, it's not your best at the moment, but there's a lot to go. So I won't sit here and count my chickens yet.
00:43:00
Speaker
I don't prefer to see it as I suck as much as I see that you're very good. Well, I appreciate that. I just suck a little less. Yeah, I don't like to look at it that way. All right. Shit. Okay. So
00:43:20
Speaker
It's also why I don't gamble. Yeah, same. I mean, I do in different ways, but I don't like better things. That's a different story. Like sit me down at a poker table or a blackjack table on it. But other than that, that's different though. There's usually strategy involved in that. I'm not leaving it up to somebody else's hands to not fuck up.
00:43:42
Speaker
Blackjack you do, which fucking sucks. I sometimes sometimes you do this. You just want to punch your table mate. Be like, don't just sit there and do nothing. Except when your table makes a fucking toony and doesn't know how not spend all their paycheck. Yeah. Which is definitely something I don't care. Well, I fucking do.
00:44:02
Speaker
Thanks, dude. Shut up and stop being a dick. Right. Stop losing my money, you piece of shit. All right. Yeah, so this will be our last pod before.
00:44:13
Speaker
all the, um, all the Windsor's winter solstice holidays. So, um, happy holidays to everybody out there. Um, whatever you celebrate, we see you, we appreciate you and, um, we do appreciate you all for hanging out with Ben and I. Yeah, be safe. Don't be stupid. It's still COVID. It's still, you know, we're seeing it in the sports. So, you know,
00:44:31
Speaker
I'm traveling, but we're keeping it for being as safe as we can with it. Yeah, there's going to be a whole three people in my house. Right. That's where we're headed. So that's what we're doing. So if we're not, yeah, I'm not going to be fucking stupid about it. So you gas mask out. Right. But yeah, so we will. Yeah, but we will be back next week with more fun of this. If you
00:44:57
Speaker
don't typically listen to the first pod I would next week, because we'll do team of the year and our top five rugby moments. So if you don't, that's, that's probably a fun one for you to tune in on, even if it's just for that, then you can ditch the rest. But other than that, enjoy your weekend, enjoy your holiday, enjoy the rugby on Boxing Day plus one. And we will all talk to you later. Have a good one, everybody. Later.