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Jarrod Dyke: Hey everybody, welcome back. It is the Fancy Rugby Yanks. My name is Jared Dyke.
Grumpy Old Prop: I'm Ben and Glauser.
Jarrod Dyke: Let's go, we got fancy things to talk about. Let's have ah have a look. What are we leading up with here? Let's champion sleep. yeah things bells are all me um So I will leave lead us off the bat.
Jarrod Dyke: um Division one champions cup um after two rounds is, there there was quite a bit of movement actually. um Duncan fell two, Mark fell a spot.
Jarrod Dyke: Um, Alex fell a spot. I think Justin's just mailing it in cause he didn't enter a team again. Um, okay. Everyone makes their own choices. Um, I jumped, Toby's jumped and George jumped.
Jarrod Dyke: So that's a little bit of movement. Although the top is like a clear chasm between top and everyone else.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm.
Jarrod Dyke: It's five 15 and five 12. And then after that it's like four 40. So, okay. Well done to those guys. So that those two are Stu and Mark, and then they're followed by Cobus, myself, Duncan, George, Alex, and as we mentioned before, Justin.
Jarrod Dyke: So Justin's just going to hold up the base of this thing and be our, be our foundation. um kind of be We appreciate that.
Grumpy Old Prop: And one second. So i I was looking for my own the Premiership Champions League. That's weird. But it sounded like you were doing the Champions Cup there.
Jarrod Dyke: That was
Grumpy Old Prop: Ah, OK. So I'm trying to find my Champions Cup team. Give me a second.
Grumpy Old Prop: Shit, because it's not in my two days because it's.
Jarrod Dyke: All good.
Grumpy Old Prop: There we go. Champions Cup found it.
Jarrod Dyke: How do you do that?
Grumpy Old Prop: Takes an extra step. ah Yeah, let's not talk about this one. um
Jarrod Dyke: I'm guessing the results aren't looking good for someone.
Grumpy Old Prop: No. um Paul's in in first, up at 4 .95. I'm um'm in last at 3 .62, so I've had some...
Grumpy Old Prop: This is just not my competition.
Jarrod Dyke: Questionable Vex.
Grumpy Old Prop: I feel like i feel like this is what but ah one of the things that killed me last year, too. um Champions Cup is not my bag at all ah for my team. um Anyway, Paul's in first, Marty's in second.
Grumpy Old Prop: Hey, Marty, nice to see you. Oh, yeah, that's you. um Then in third is ah Franco. ah Fourth is Luke.
Grumpy Old Prop: And then I guess I'm in fifth because you're yeah you're still in until we get everybody in.
Jarrod Dyke: Oh, I got to get that out of there.
Grumpy Old Prop: um Because we're still missing.
Jarrod Dyke: That's all right.
Grumpy Old Prop: ah We're still missing a few. But Barty, welcome. Thanks for for joining us. um And now you're...
Jarrod Dyke: He joined the party.
Grumpy Old Prop: Why are you in so far ahead of me?
Jarrod Dyke: Isn't that nice of him?
Grumpy Old Prop: Don't do that. That's me.
Jarrod Dyke: All right. So we have um PWR update standings.
Jarrod Dyke: One second. Stop that. There we go. um We have a PWR updated standings. So after 10 rounds, um, yeah, we got, it's dunking out in front.
Jarrod Dyke: He's got, he's the only one that's clipped 500 points thus far.
Grumpy Old Prop: Hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: Um,
Jarrod Dyke: And then it's actually, hold on, let me find the better file real quick. There it is. Open Sesame, please. I knew I had a better one. I just couldn't remember where the hell I put it. I'm missing pieces. Does anybody get shocked by that? No. It shouldn't be at least.
Jarrod Dyke: And this will be, this this is going to go up on the Patreon tomorrow.
Grumpy Old Prop: Hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: let So everyone can, Checked themselves out. um I did youll but go back and find that some of the formulas were a little dodgy.
Grumpy Old Prop: Hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: So I went back and triple checked everything and should all be peachy keen now. But I was like, hmm. Cause I looked at a couple of things. I'm like, that's not adding up, right? So went back, fixed it all.
Jarrod Dyke: Should be good to go now.
Jarrod Dyke: That's the one I want. Here we go. All right. Table.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh, nice. I crushed round 10.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah. Round 10, you were great. you Round 9, you were tits.
Grumpy Old Prop: We're not talking about round nine. I'm talking about round 10.
Jarrod Dyke: ah Here we go. All right. So the standings are as such. Duncan, myself, Tom, Julia, Joe, Ben, Matt, Oscar, Rihanna. Sorry, Rihanna. I spoke too soon on that. And then George. George, hold on at the bottom. and Aren't you kind, George?
Jarrod Dyke: um
Jarrod Dyke: Team of the round went to, what did go to Ben though, for round 10.
Jarrod Dyke: He had 74. Who'd you have again?
Grumpy Old Prop: Did Yes, I did and then I had um oh Millie was it Millie David, yeah Yeah,
Jarrod Dyke: You had, you had Conkle.
Jarrod Dyke: Millie, David, and HSN. Hands down, without a doubt, the most selections ever for one player was Holly HSN last round.
Grumpy Old Prop: I think almost everybody had her
Jarrod Dyke: I think there were three people that didn't.
Grumpy Old Prop: Cause it was a free, wow. Cause it was, man, it was a free like use of Amber Reed later. Like you get all the benefits of the kicking points from Bristol bears against a really soft opponent and none of the, oh fuck, I can't use Amber Reed anymore, which is others were, yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: Yes.
Jarrod Dyke: Right, totally. And few people chose to take advantage of that, others, less so.
Jarrod Dyke: we had two We had three people pick someone else.
Grumpy Old Prop: Hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: One of them worked out well, one of them not so much.
Grumpy Old Prop: I bet they regret that.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah. Oopsie. Oh well. Yeah. Three other people picked between two players. Pretty nuts. Anyhoo. So that's that.
Jarrod Dyke: um Let's do our picks for the week.
Grumpy Old Prop: And you're going first because you've got the three.
Jarrod Dyke: I got it. Well, but yeah, first we're going to do our PWR picks there, Chief.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh, PDR, that's right.
Jarrod Dyke: Yep. That one. Anywho, um so mine has got a theme and I'm going to give you a guess of who I'm going to go with here. I'm going to start with Daisy Hereward Jones, number eight from Lightning.
Jarrod Dyke: I'm going to go with Fran Goldthorpe, the back three player from Lightning, and I'm going to make Emily scare at my kicker.
Grumpy Old Prop: o
Jarrod Dyke: Hopefully she works out better for me than she has for the other people that have tried to use it this year.
Grumpy Old Prop: Interesting.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right. Cause I'm going to go with, um, if you dig, uh, city of Cabea from, from the lightning, um, I love, I love Kelter from the lightning.
Jarrod Dyke: Nice. I just used her so I couldn't use that.
Grumpy Old Prop: And my kicker is going to be Helen Nelson of the lightning.
Grumpy Old Prop: because she, because she kicked at least she had a couple of conversions last week.
Jarrod Dyke: Hopefully she kicks more more than Skaz.
Grumpy Old Prop: So I'm thinking, you know, going to go with that in that direction.
Jarrod Dyke: Uh, yep. All right. Fair enough. So it sounds like you've gone with the same theme, but just completely opposite side of me.
Grumpy Old Prop: Three different players, three same exact team for all three positions, three different players. So we'll see what about this. Kicking business.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah. This'll be the determining factor right here. All right. So we got start and set. So my, we have Gloucester Quinn's to start, um, for Gloucester.
Jarrod Dyke: ah For Sogbon, he's cheap, so we should be still okay.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: Freddy T, Freddy T, not Freddy C, Freddy T, Freddy Thomas, yes.
Jarrod Dyke: I'm still gonna say no on Mercer. i I need to see it. I need to see some fire out of that guy. And it pains me to say that, because I do love him and the way he plays usually. But of late, before this, kind before we went on this little break, meh.
Jarrod Dyke: Bag of meh. um Thomas Williams, yes. I mean, Charlie Atkinson's playing like a similar position as like Barton, who I'll mention in a second.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm.
Jarrod Dyke: With the tee? Yeah, sure, why not? Like, ah I liked what he did last time. um Blow Allen, we know him now. Wade, yes. Sits are singles. We've talked about Mercer already. um Barton, saying same deal. like I need to see him in full back with the tee. And Anscombe, just, nope. but he's there Unless he goes back to kicking, nope. Nope, nope, nope. Boy of the Quinns. Hopefully got their full contingent back since we last did the prem.
Jarrod Dyke: ah Dom, yes, Will Evans, yes. Less so kidding him, but yes, because Gloucester were giving up points before, so go for it.
Jarrod Dyke: There we go.
Grumpy Old Prop: Lester hosting Bristol. There we go.
Jarrod Dyke: um So hold on, on not I'm almost there.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh, I thought you were done. do You keep being all quiet.
Jarrod Dyke: I sneezed.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh, missed it.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah, because I sneezed and I hit the mute button.
Grumpy Old Prop: Sorry, I'm looking at my notes because I don't want to...
Jarrod Dyke: Didn't need everyone hearing that.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, um I can't look at you and my notes at the same time. so
Jarrod Dyke: That's fair. um Porter over care. Marcus. Yes. Northmore. Yes. I'm going to give beer to go this week. um Marlene Green. Yes.
Jarrod Dyke: Launchbury. Jared Evans. If he's in, which I don't know why he would be, but if he is, nope. And then um quarter penny. No longer half penny.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: Quarter penny.
Grumpy Old Prop: No, at best. i see
Jarrod Dyke: Let's try to be nice.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: Okay.
Grumpy Old Prop: All right, now.
Jarrod Dyke: Now you can go with the Ellen.
Grumpy Old Prop: um Over to Lester V v Bristol um for Lester, I'm looking at Nicki Smith, whoever they have at hook. um Jack Van Portflite, 100 Pollard, Parisi and Ollie Hassel Collins, all all of them.
Grumpy Old Prop: Scoring reasonably well, um you know, and actually playing a pretty good clip, so um consider them. And they they should have, unfortunately, the slightly easy feasting this week, um if like assuming McGinty's out, as we were saying.
Grumpy Old Prop: um for For Bristol, their their hooker, um again, could be either one, but I think um all gray may catch a ban.
Jarrod Dyke: Right.
Grumpy Old Prop: Didn't you get red carded, or was it just a yellow? Either way.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: um
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah. Well, if they deem that it should have been a red then they could ban him.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right. Um, they're any of their loose forwards. They've been excellent. Um, Harry Randall. Yes. But after that, it gets really dicey further out. There's, it's hard to, to really pick somebody in there.
Grumpy Old Prop: Um, they're setting, you know, especially like, uh, Baron, uh, Ben Huggins van Rensburg, like, yeah he's not having the best year.
Jarrod Dyke: Mm hmm.
Grumpy Old Prop: Rovovo is okay, but you know without McGinty really getting the ball where it needs to be this team just kind of falls to poop so That's where I'm looking on that
Jarrod Dyke: Mm -hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah. i No, I'm not arguing with that for sure.
Jarrod Dyke: All right, Newcastle Bath. Newcastle will be pretty easy, excuse me, to figure it out. um Maybe Tom Gordon, maybe, and maybe little Meyer, and that's it.
Grumpy Old Prop: and Yeah, how did he not get how did he not get red carded this last weekend? I don't know if you saw that hit Did did you see what he did?
Jarrod Dyke: I don't know, it's Challenge it's challenge Cup, so. No.
Grumpy Old Prop: Like it Never mind doesn't matter, but he should have been red carded and he wasn't yeah, let's not take up time here for that
Jarrod Dyke: We'll get there. I'll go, I'll go look later. Uh, no. Anyway, uh, bath also should be fairly easy to figure out. Um, Abano, de Toire, Hill, Pepper, Finn, um, all about, obviously, um, maybe Spencer. I don't love the idea, but it might work. Um, well, but assuming he's healthy, um, did I have el coca? Yup. You're going to go with that. Um,
Jarrod Dyke: Mirrors not as highly selected as either of them, but I would rock him too. Um, and then still sit done. And I think Barbary's hurt. So don't bother going around to try and roster him.
Jarrod Dyke: But if he's in there, he's probably coming off the bench anyway. So I'm not sure I want to do that.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
Jarrod Dyke: So there's that. Um, one person I mentioned it in my little. I hate this post. ah Ben Vic has actually scored pretty well, whether he's come off the bench or if he started, he's come off the bench for I think everything but one.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm -hmm
Jarrod Dyke: So if you, that's one position I'm okay with playing someone off the bench as a prop. So have a have a look at him and like his price.
Grumpy Old Prop: Certainly, yeah, yeah Yeah, I played Thomas de toy off the bench this past weekend in um in Subaru and look at how well that turned out for me I'm all the way in last ah But okay, it was for decision.
Jarrod Dyke: That's that's one thing I'll say.
Jarrod Dyke: Probably. Well, I mean, he scored so couldn't have been that. That was a good play.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, it was for decisions other than that one
Jarrod Dyke: Still worked out though.
Grumpy Old Prop: So yeah, yeah, totally. So ah yeah, I'm just kind of going with the, I'm letting the people know what, all what, what these, all this successful advice um gets them.
Jarrod Dyke: That one did. ah Yeah, the the others less so.
Grumpy Old Prop: Um, anyway, onto, um, Oh, just the game of the fucking century sale hosting Exeter.
Jarrod Dyke: ah sal no there I knew you were gonna be happy when I said this to you.
Grumpy Old Prop: Just put a fucking frame on this one.
Jarrod Dyke: I was like, oh, he's gonna hate this fucking thing.
Grumpy Old Prop: Just. something you just want to stop and and look at every so often throughout your day, when no matter what day it is. um This would be that type of rugby match. Anyway, ah for for sale, look at the front row, I really wouldn't go with a but the back row.
Grumpy Old Prop: um I'm sorry, the the second row. um Even though they should do well against Exeter tackle -wise, these sale locks aren't really the ah run -in type, so you're not going to get better points from them.
Jarrod Dyke: Mm hmm.
Grumpy Old Prop: um And even the back row, I'm not terribly hot on. it's not You're going to get really high tackle counts, um low bus tackles.
Grumpy Old Prop: But like again, these these guys, those um second rows, back rows for sale are not runners. They're not going to gain ridiculous meters for the most part. um And then you're looking at wow war or guess war, I think, could actually do well because he doesn't really have much of money of of opposition in this one. And sometimes he he puts up points and that could be this kind of game.
Grumpy Old Prop: um George Ford should be kicking a lot, assuming he's their 10. Should do all right. And then the back three will have lots of space to operate.
Grumpy Old Prop: um For the same thing on the Exeter side.
Jarrod Dyke: Ball at the back, ball at the top.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, the back three for Exeter, because they really don't have anything else.
Grumpy Old Prop: Like they've got some Futter forwards, their centers aren and 10 aren't like great. Their nine is kind of pedestrian. Like, but man, I mean, we saw Tom Wyatt, um, and we've seen Josh Hodge, um, and we've seen Feiyu Oboso.
Grumpy Old Prop: Um, although I'm seeing Feiyu Oboso do a lot less lately. I think people are, are, are, are keying on him.
Jarrod Dyke: They figured them out.
Grumpy Old Prop: But again, cause they got nobody fucking else.
Jarrod Dyke: Nope, they do not.
Grumpy Old Prop: And having only three, you literally, you have three players that you want running the ball in this game, on this team.
Jarrod Dyke: They do not.
Grumpy Old Prop: And it's like, what, what?
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: How does that, fucking rubb back that's why he's hopeless.
Jarrod Dyke: That's it.
Jarrod Dyke: Hopeless.
Grumpy Old Prop: That's why I'm done. I'm done trying to like reform him. I can change him. No, I can't.
Jarrod Dyke: No, you cannot.
Grumpy Old Prop: He's just, he is what he is.
Jarrod Dyke: Yep. All right. ah Saracen Saints. This will be this will be a classic. um um I do believe at least um for the series.
Grumpy Old Prop: o
Jarrod Dyke: Reese Carey, as long as he's a cop, a band for that stiff arm, which wasn't a red, I don't think.
Grumpy Old Prop: Hmm That was all that was terrible either way that was it that was it that I don't even think it was that because he he was doing a a proper fend and the player chopped his armor away and that's when it became The elbow though.
Jarrod Dyke: But, you know, um yeah, that was a yellow only.
Grumpy Old Prop: He he actually hit he hit his fin on the the opposition player shoulder first and And then they they kind of used a maneuver and that that's why his, it's like, it's lit off.
Grumpy Old Prop: i I don't know how that's, anyway, I don't, fuck, anyway.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah. So anyway, he should be here. It's okay. Either number two jinx with Theo, um, Theo Mac, Mauro, um, sit tis or a sequel this week. Um, the secret expert won't play cause he's probably gonna have a confirmed concussion. So he'll miss out. Um, but assuming we got tis back at some point, um, Theo Mac and Mauro. Yes.
Jarrod Dyke: Ben Earl, Conzo Willis, yep, love all of that. Willis is probably my number one right now with Earl and Johnzo behind them. Vince Sale, still good. We'll see if we get laws back. I'm not sure we're going to, but since he's at 13, I'm okay with it. um Tobias Elliott, yes, we talked about we've talked about him a bunch. Daly and Shagan, sure.
Jarrod Dyke: um Burke might have the tea, so he might actually be worth picking this week, so that's the one thing to consider. And then, still sit top. I love the guy, but he just doesn't do anything in fantasy.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: For the Saints, there's gonna be plenty of guys to pick our pick around for this as well. Langdon up front, yep. Chunya Munga, yes. Coles, yes. um Pollock Pearson truck, go for it.
Jarrod Dyke: Mitchell, duh. um Thin. Yes. Um, midfield skip over as much as I like those guys. Um, and then, yeah, like pick your back three. Honestly, uh, could be Ram.
Jarrod Dyke: We won't, we know it won't be for a bank, but it could be Ram. It could be Hendy. It could be slate. It could be Freeman. Any of those guys pick them.
Grumpy Old Prop: Throw a dart I'd have a dart Of the week um My start of the week I think he could definitely um gain some momentum from um How things went this past weekend and um Again, sometimes you just need a little bit of a layup and all of a sudden
Jarrod Dyke: How about, yeah, have a, have a ball.
Jarrod Dyke: All right. Uh, start over week.
Grumpy Old Prop: and The game slows down, and the holes get bigger. um You see what's happening much clearer. And I think that's going to happen with Alex Dombrandt this week.
Jarrod Dyke: yeah like ah So we talked about um guys are going to have a lot of space this week and I personally like this guy a lot. and Coming from 15 often gives you the most opportunity to have some space and to take advantage of it.
Jarrod Dyke: So I'm going to go with Joe Carpenter as my start of the week from sale.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm.
Grumpy Old Prop: Not bad. Um, I sit of the week, I kind of mentioned it. Um, and he's on my team, which means I'm probably going to end up meeting him, which means he's going to do great, but I get this week, um, from Gabriel of a toy.
Jarrod Dyke: Hmm.
Grumpy Old Prop: It's, it's actually a pretty decent defensive opponent. They're, they're coming on strong and don't have a 10 and they're going to like, you're still getting the ball, but it's much easier to contain you.
Jarrod Dyke: Yep. Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Cause it's like a forced pass. Like, so we just got to get this guy, the ball and the defense will, we'll see that they have, and they've adjusted. So, um, you know, unless AJ is playing.
Grumpy Old Prop: Sit. Yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah. For all those reasons, I'm saying sit Bernard.
Grumpy Old Prop: yeah
Jarrod Dyke: For all those reasons, it's been Rensberg because, yeah, Sam's, unless AJ is healthy at any place, like I, yeah, no, no, like you saw what the often that attack did without.
Jarrod Dyke: him and Benad's a wonderful player, but man, he needs someone to, that is going to actually convince a defense that he might take off or that there's other options besides just shucking it wide.
Jarrod Dyke: And I'm not sure Bristol have that, unless the guy's named AJ McGinty.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, and bed hard well he has a ah history of popping up fucking anywhere and the problem is that Well, ah no. Yeah. The problem with that is that it's dependent upon having a 10 who can get the ball anywhere.
Jarrod Dyke: Yep. And unless AJ walks out there, don't think did sadly, sadly, sadly.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, they don't.
Jarrod Dyke: Okay. So that's that gang. Um, keep your eyes peeled on the socials for our. for the old start set sheet. Don't forget your PWR picks. Make sure that, make sure they're playing because we had one of those happen in a couple of weeks ago.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: But on that, we appreciate you guys for listening to us and we'll see you guys in two weeks and enjoy enjoy the holiday and happy going on everyone.
Grumpy Old Prop: Later.
Jarrod Dyke: Cheers.
