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Season 3- Episode 13- Scotland is Coming Home (6 Nations Round 1 & Premiership Round 8)
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It is the latest and greatest from those American (rugby) Idiots. On this episode we are all over the place and cover a ton of stuff. We talk a little player movement, ranking the Premiership front rows right now and who we'd prefer to start a club with. We picked the order of CYL Super Rugby FRD league for this weekend's draft, oh the controversy! Of course, we look at the happenings this past weekend in the opening round of the 6 Nations, including what went down at Twickenham (don't hate us England fans). We wrap the action from the Premiership as well and give you the low down on who to start & who to sit this coming weekend.
Be on the look out for leagues for the upcoming Super Rugby season from TFRY and mark your calendars for our Super Saturday Watchathon, we are going to need your help in more ways than 1!
Ask us questions via Twitter: Jarrod- jdyke8man & Ben- admrablsnackbar. Send us your thoughts for the show and questions for upcoming shows via e-mail fantasyrugbypodcast@gmail.com. Use #AskTFRY for your lineup questions this weekend.
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Transcript
Introduction and Weekend Sports Highlights
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody. Welcome back. It is the Fancy Burpees. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. Oh, what a weekend. My goodness. So much. And so much to we got a lot to cover today. Let's put that way. Yeah, there's a fair bit of rugby played this weekend. Right. And then just between that and football, there's a there's a Super Bowl was there. I mean, apparently Brady knows there was a Super Bowl because
00:00:37
Speaker
Whether or not he remembers, there was one after today. I don't know. He enjoyed himself today. I guess so.
Super Bowl Discussion: Chiefs' Performance and Refereeing
00:00:45
Speaker
Good Lord. Good Lord. Yeah, that's not good. Right. Now the Chiefs didn't show up. I saw people complaining about the refereeing. And then first off, I've had it. Stop doing it. But football is the worst. American football is the worst when it comes to complaining about the referee.
00:01:04
Speaker
And it's like, because there were a couple of defensive fouls on the Chiefs that people were saying were ticky tack or questionable. And they kind of were. But yeah, well, but they scored nine fucking points. Also that your your your ability to whine about the officiating goes out the fucking window if you don't score more than 10 points.
00:01:26
Speaker
And the score is above 20 points. You know, it's a multi score margin now. If it's a one score, then you can, you know, if it's a one point game, maybe you have something to complain about because football, that shit can give you points. But like.
00:01:45
Speaker
Kansas city just sucked. They couldn't, they couldn't move the ball at all. So it's like, you can't complain because you're not forcing the, the Buccaneers into the same situation. They found out that the refs are being consistent. Like they're not anywhere near your receivers because the ball's nowhere near your receivers. So there's nothing to complain about. You just sucked.
Tom Brady's NFL Legacy
00:02:02
Speaker
You screwed the pooch, kids. Yeah, I mean, I'm with the tiki-tac-ness of the wank ball. It has gotten just a little bit ridiculous and I can't say I'm sad I didn't watch a whole lot of it this year. No, it was an okay season. Nothing to write home about. No, I'm good with that. I'm ready to win the Super Bowl. I mean, what else is new, right?
00:02:27
Speaker
That's been an average year in the NFL, so I don't care. He's won seven in the last 21. He's got ownership right now, unfortunately.
Podcast Promotion and New Listeners
00:02:37
Speaker
All right. I'm going to join Brady in one of these. Obviously, you want to find us on your favorite podcast app, download us, rate, review us.
00:02:51
Speaker
We got some, we got some newbies joining in on both our six nations, probably end in some, some of the FRD stuff too. Good. Welcome aboard. You suckers about that. Um,
00:03:09
Speaker
By Georgia, by Georgia coffee, by Georgia beer. Cheers, George. Yeah, from the fantasy rugby geek. He's always worth it. Not everyone knows him as George. Not everyone is that fortunate.
Mental Health Resources for Rugby Players
00:03:22
Speaker
No, that's true. We are the lucky ones that know him by his first name.
00:03:27
Speaker
TRM upgrades, especially if you're involved in both the competitions currently going right now, they are going to come in handy and make your life way less hectic. Give you a few less headaches, especially. And then obviously it supports the restart rugby, which we want. Did you see the tweet from Jamal Ford Robinson today? I did not. Showing that there's
00:03:51
Speaker
that the RPA has sponsored, they can basically have access to on-demand meditation services. So if they need a moment, they can just pop in some headphones and take a moment. And then I don't know if it's manned or if it's just music or how it works, but it's access to something to help guide people towards mindfulness if they need to take a moment for themselves. So yes, support the RPA. Yeah, because some of these guys don't know
00:04:19
Speaker
how to do something like that. There's all kinds of free resources, but if you have easy access through something you know, then yeah, that's good. That makes the barrier low. It keeps that branch low. You don't want it to have to be a climb. You want it to be within arm's reach. So yeah, that's a perfectly good move for the RPA there.
Social Justice in Sports: Accountability and Awareness
00:04:40
Speaker
And it's a good move by Jamal Ford Robinson to publicize it. Yeah, thankfully. There might be players that didn't know this.
00:04:47
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, he's a big supporter of stuff like that. So respect for JFR there. Black Lives Matter, as always. Yeah, we've had a few funny things going on lately around these parts. It's just
00:05:06
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Oh, police are getting a little come up and it seems we'll see how far it goes. But yeah, this is local to us and some police are are under the microscope now. And that's that's a big thing. It's it's it really is about the accountability. I mean, because once the accountability happens, the actions stop. Right. And that's what people are looking for out of this movement. It's not just about
00:05:33
Speaker
like don't hurt and shoot black people for no reason. It's about accountability for when that happens because there's more accountability for like the cop in Minneapolis who shot an Australian lady. He's going to prison and it's like, well, okay, so that happens when you shoot a nice white lady, but what about, you know, like, so we have to have accountability both ways. So this is an unfortunate thing that it has to happen, but it's a good thing that it's happening.
00:06:03
Speaker
Right. Got to have that. And then you have, um, you know, you have some people that are just like taking the piss out of some of the six nations teams because, you know, they're yelling and they're not kneeling. Yeah. Just get well, number one, Neil, you're not, if you support, you know, rugby against racism, black lives matter, anything of that sort. Um, I don't understand what the problem with that is. Like that's the bullshit is.
00:06:31
Speaker
the kneeling, it wasn't about the kneeling. It was about when the kneeling was happening like that. That's really that it was happening. And I'm saying like original if you want to talk about OG response to this. Yeah, no, sir. You know, necessary thing. It's that we're kneeling for the anthem when proper protocol is to stand attention, you know, hand over heart stuff like that. Hats off like there's. Yeah.
00:06:57
Speaker
All that bullshit, let's put it that way. And Colin Kaepernick knelt for the anthem. And regardless of all the other shit, that's what the problem, that's what they made the problem about. These people are kneeling to kneel. It's just a kneel and a show of respect. There's nothing, they're not, they're not breaking any protocols of already sacred blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:07:24
Speaker
They're just kneeling as a sign of respect. So why the, it's not, it's not political. It's just saying, Hey, we're against racism. It's just the stupid fucking idiots glommed onto the kneeling idea. That shouldn't be a political idea. Like why that's a political idea. I still am baffled by, you know, it's just like, uh, that's a human idea. Uh, call me cookie.
00:07:43
Speaker
And the fucked up thing is I get like, so I'm starting to get, you know, when I'm on the Twitters, it'll say like, you know, this is because you follow rugby. Like, here's a tweet about rugby. And like all day today, it's been those tweets that it's just showing me. And I'm like, what? Yeah, I saw a couple. I'm just like, oh, this is not a good thing. Oh, leave me the fuck alone. I don't want that. I don't want this in my face. Don't make me mad. Although that's the point, right?
00:08:08
Speaker
I suppose that's probably their point.
Sports Traditions: National Anthems and Young Voices
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Speaker
Yeah. And then talk about the anthem here. Mavericks just threw that out the window. They just said, look here, let's not, let's take the controversy away. And obviously that's caused controversy in itself, but they just took the controversy out the window. They're like, Nope, we're going to play basketball. End of story. So there used to be, I think it was like ancient Rome, someone, one of these ancient civilizations that were somehow better than us. They,
00:08:36
Speaker
had this whole year and a day thing where if you got away with a crime for a year and a day, whatever, we can't do much about it. You're absolved. The Mavericks did it for 13 games before anybody said anything.
00:08:55
Speaker
How much did it, does it really matter? You know, like if, if, if it was like a, especially in front of like nobody, basically, right. Then what the, who gives a shit? If you don't like, if it took you that long to get it, then as much as you thought you did exactly what we shouldn't be playing in front of sports games anyway. Yeah. We don't, we don't need to do that. We're kind of dumb about that.
00:09:16
Speaker
it's because but but that's how it perpetuates itself it's because we do that that people got pissed at Colin Kaepernick right because it was like no this is what we do this is what you did when you were a kid like this is the worst that's the worst reason to do something because it's what we do that's the fucking honest thing i've ever heard in my life could be talking about rugby could be talking about the anthem could be talking about anything that's reason to do something just because it's what you do like what the fuck
00:09:42
Speaker
I challenge my, my young kids that I coach, if it's, if I say, well, it's what you do, I want them to ask me why. If I, if that's the reason I give them my challenge, I'm like, ask me because that is not a good excuse. And I want them to learn that. And I want everybody to learn that ask a deeper why, because if that's it, then there's something
Super Saturday Watchathon for Charity
00:10:01
Speaker
going on. That's probably doesn't need to be there. You know, that's just, call me, call me nuts. You know, so let me, so
00:10:09
Speaker
We're having fun here. Yeah. Um, let's go with something more uplifting. Uh, super Saturday watchathon March 20th scared, excited about this. Yeah, I know. I'm trying to find, I'm trying to look at some, some tips. I haven't found anything good yet, but, um, uh, of how to not die when you do one of these suckers, lots of, lots of coffee. Um,
00:10:35
Speaker
So yeah, Ben and I are gonna just basically be up from Super Saturday when the final Six Nations round kicks off until the Premiership match the next day on Sunday and hopefully we can get some Kiwi brethren to join us and pull us through those rough hours in the night. Because if I can get to the other side where there's light, I'm okay. It's those wee hours of the morning where it's still night and I'm gonna be like, ooh, this is tough. But if I can get to that like,
00:11:05
Speaker
It's going to be super weird when we watch the super rugby game live because it'll be daytime. It's true. We're going to turn that brightness up on that TV up way high. It'd be like, it's light. So yeah, it's it's it's all for charity. It's Greater Boston Food Bank. I'm still working out the details with them, but we will get a page up very soon. I promise in the meantime, if you don't want to donate to Greater Boston Food Bank via whatever
00:11:34
Speaker
website we get and or you can't because of whatever is going on with you or your country. We encourage you to go to your local food banks, your local bread pantries and give what you can, whether it be goods or money or time even would be good as well.
Rugby Player Movements and Transfers
00:11:49
Speaker
All those things would certainly help somebody's life and you have no idea what something like that does to somebody's life when they have food to eat.
00:11:58
Speaker
you know and they and they're struggling for it as well and we are all struggling right now let's be real it's it's really bad here so um yeah that's just what we figured we could do to help do something we love and hopefully make it make life easier for somebody somewhere
00:12:15
Speaker
Uh, so yeah, March 20th, we will get the page up ASAP. I promise. Um, in the meantime, let's go to new cycle player movements, uh, scoping, kappa jumping ship immediately, uh, heading home to Australia. Sounds like.
00:12:30
Speaker
So he's joining that. Yeah, there's a bunch of them that have gone. So yeah, another one. Don't blame him at all. Um, and, and he was doing well, but he could do very well in super rugby too. So you might, you might find a team, I bet. Yeah. Uh, so.
00:12:47
Speaker
It kind of sucks that this is the situation, but good for him. Right. Yeah. Go do what you need to do. Replacing him at Irish for kind of Hannah was not unemployed for very long, it looks like. So whether he had a deal ahead of time when he was leaving Lester or whatever, but he is he's found a home very immediately just going down the pike a little bit there. And that might, you know, maybe
00:13:12
Speaker
maybe they did him a solid and was, you know, like there's, there's teams in American sports anyway, they're like, Hey, we're going to wave this guy. If you want to take a run at him, like if you want to trade us or whatever, you know, something like that to make sure you get him stuff like that. Um, I'm sure that went down because he's a, he's a good guy. Give him a soft landing. He's, he's not, he's got the competition. There is, uh,
00:13:34
Speaker
not on his side. So now it is. And now he's likely to have a place to play this week's here. Right. He'll dress more often than not. Definitely. I agree with that. And then as if we don't have enough of them, another Eagle lands in North London for the Saracens, Ruben de Haas on his way to
00:13:56
Speaker
the series from the cheetahs. As I mentioned last week, I believe the cheetahs are one of the teams that's odd man out when it comes to the new, uh, pro 16, um, league with the South African super rugby teams moving over to that league. I believe the cheetahs are just getting dispersed. I think, uh, the guy that played for Bathurst, we can scum and, um, the, the 10, I'm pretty sure he was, he was on that squad as well. So, uh, Hey, cool. I will take him. He, I think he was,
00:14:23
Speaker
What of the scrum halves that went to the world cup for the Eagles? I think he was the better one. Yup. And I hope he, uh, I hope he continues to development. We know that the Saracens will develop him. Um, he's already got the likes of, um, what's his name? Yeah. Davies is there that that's, that's huge right there. I'm talking about well scrum half here. Uh, and you know, the, the,
Rugby Team Strategies and Front Rows
00:14:45
Speaker
the coaching staff at the, the sessions has done quite well. So right.
00:14:49
Speaker
And White Leal, they have guys who are there who will help him be a pro too. Not just the tricks of the trade, but how to carry themselves. I'm not saying that the cheetahs didn't do that, but this is going to be at a different level. This is definitely another level. They play defensive series, so it's a little bit different.
00:15:11
Speaker
He'll do what he can while he's there. Hugely happy for everyone around. I'm excited to have him on the Sarries, and I'm excited that he himself is on the Sarries for the Eagles. The Eagles benefit, yeah. You know Gary Gold saw that move and said, ooh, that's awesome. So I'm sure he is certain.
00:15:35
Speaker
depth chart that may exist in Gary Gold's head. I think Duhas just moved to the top of it almost immediately. If he should have been there already, but- Correct. No, he definitely- He should be there. He should definitely be there now.
00:15:49
Speaker
Alright, let's let's play a fun little game. It's called. Let's look at your front row. Yeah, let's just go through. I want to go through front rows a little bit here. We've done back rows. We've done nines and tens. Let's let's just do the permission front rows that we got here. So let's look at so bath bath. Got a pretty good set up there with Tom Dunn. Obviously the two guys that are away with England right now, Apollo Stewart judges. They're currently boys kept.
00:16:19
Speaker
You know, um, yeah. And you know, even Walker's is pretty good. So, and even like, if they don't have them like baddies there as well. So that's, that's a solid group there. Um, Bristol again, another solid group, especially with the addition of bubbles. Um, he's been pretty good since he's come there. Actually 20.
00:16:42
Speaker
Yeah, he seems to never age and that's I mean between him and Sinclair being their two main tight heads. That's pretty scary. Was it this week or last week that the FOA went 80 essentially?
00:16:52
Speaker
Uh, last week, last week. Yeah. And then, so, and then obviously Harry Thacker's not in there right now, but you can throw him into that mix as well. And he's pretty darn good. Last we checked, Exeter quality. They do have a bunch of quality guys. Francis is there. Uh, Williams, despite the fact he's at bat shit, crazy. Um, he's still a good prop. Um, and, and Hepburn on the other side and Yandall obviously is the club captain. You know, he's pretty good too.
00:17:21
Speaker
So that's a, that's a quality outfit there. Gloucester, it gets a little murkier. Um, singles is hurt. I would assume that's, that's the guy that you would look at. And then it comes down to, I would think Sesino is going to take that to share it at some point, um, while singles is away. Yeah. And then it becomes the prop issue. You know, you have Balmain, JFR, Pavaruskin,
00:17:45
Speaker
I mean, those ones have been deadly this year. Yeah. So I, they've been some of the, you know, when either of them are in, you know, JFR or VRR, they're, they've both been monsters. So I got to give them credit there.
00:18:02
Speaker
Balmain had a good match the other week, but this past one was not as good. Yeah. So, but that's why it's like, Hey, I remember he had one good match. Right. That's not that that's, that's the, uh, the tone I was going for with that. Yeah. I understand. Um, Quinn's you're bald when you have Marlar and then I can't say I love any of the other props, you know,
00:18:28
Speaker
Yeah, low's good. Low's been good. Yeah, that's
Fantasy Rugby League Draft Order Selection
00:18:32
Speaker
true. They just hired him. He's been pretty darn good. But other than that, like their starting front row is definitely their best. And Elia, I do like Elia. I got to say Anton turned me on to low. I started watching him because I saw a hit that he picked him up because of course he picked him up, right? I think that would be obvious. So I was like, Oh, whatever. It's more homorism. And it's like, so I was watching it just to, you know,
00:18:53
Speaker
And I was like, no, no, he's scoring. Fuck that shit. I'm picking. It's not bad. Yeah. He's been, he's been good. Yeah. And then Lester, we saw their, their new edition this weekend and he's, he's quite good. Montoya, you know, Cole, Guinness, uh, Guinness, Ellis Gens, excuse me. Um, play it to Unga, uh, Hayes, and then obviously that Wacko Youngs. Um,
00:19:17
Speaker
good players all in that mix spread about. So nothing to really shake a stick at by any means whatsoever.
00:19:25
Speaker
Yeah. Um, just got to watch out for Dan Cole just eating you. Right. He looks like he's good. He always looks like he's hungry. He could swallow a man whole. I think he could. I think he could. I think he could. I think he definitely could. Uh, and then you go. Yeah. They're not, they're not scary though. They're like, okay, that's going to be a Matt. Like fuck. I, I, you know, it's a, it's a put out of stays work to go up against that, that pack, but not like,
00:19:50
Speaker
Yeah. Not like going against Bath, certainly. Then you look at the exiles. They've obviously done a pretty good job of recruiting. Um, Hoskins, well, good, Rick Clark, obviously Gus, Creevy and Mattoo are both, uh, they're pretty darn quality hookers. Shauatama, one of the best names in rugby. Lovejoy as well.
00:20:16
Speaker
Newcastle some some names we don't necessarily know the likes of like Davidson and God Cooper played prop this past weekend. That was not good And then trying to think the brockle bank, you know Not the not the names but still the two cookers they had the the three hookers they have really are quite good So I guess that kind of saves that one Then we moved her over to the Saints good and bad
00:20:44
Speaker
Like you're talking about like Jekyll and Hyde kind of with, with their hookers are really good for the most part has been on fire. Right. And Mikey Heywood's not bad either. So terrible. Alex Waller has been decent. Yeah. Paul Hill and Ox Waller have definitely been the best front row at that club for the season. But they're, they've had their ups and downs as well. So.
00:21:07
Speaker
But I mean, you still can't sleep on Owen Frank's off the pine. If he's, if he's available, it's just not fair to have him. He's getting old. He's getting old, but I still wouldn't want to go against him for like 10, 15 minutes. Yeah. That, that, that all black experience helps sail another team. That's kind of lacking a little bit. They're under the radar a little bit, but they're still lacking at the same time. Like Ocker got hurt and they were, they had no answer at hooker. No, like I don't think Lenin's that good, but no, he's not.
00:21:33
Speaker
you know, and then who's their best prop pair. I have no idea. You know, is it, is it, is it, well, Griff, John, like, it's not well, Griff, John.
00:21:45
Speaker
It's not Harrison. Because they're a bunch of guys. Actually, no, that's the problem. You have a bunch of guys that you know are not the guy. They're like rich guys. They're like, all right, they'd be that guy who you want, like Will Griffton, Ustuyzen, and Harrison. Are those guys here like, okay, good. They'd be solid backups just to eat time, eat minutes, eat a blood sub, something like that. But not nobody that you want as your starter.
00:22:15
Speaker
No, Bevin Rod's pretty young and for him to be the level he's at now gives them hope. That's for sure. Yeah. I mean, he might be the guy just because you're like, I don't know that he's not the guy. They're not the guy, but he's, he's certainly getting his opportunity. And especially, you know, look, if I know these things about these players, I'm pretty sure Sanderson does. And I'm pretty sure he'll figure it out. I'm pretty sure that's why Bevin Rod is playing because he's like, I need to see, I want to see what this kid has. Cause I haven't, I don't have any enough on him. The other guys I know.
00:22:41
Speaker
I know what I got you. That's true. Watch for a row. We know, we know the, the, the bunch that they are. Taylor, Cruz, McIntyre West. Um, even like hair, even likes a Harris and be yellow. And yeah, that's a good group. Yep. Oh, wait, no, that's just FRD.
00:23:00
Speaker
about that. You don't get five front row players on the field usually. No. And then, you know, Worcester aren't bad in, if you look at their starting front row of Waller, Schonert and Annette,
00:23:17
Speaker
I would do that. I would do that. I'm in, I'm buying, you know, but really, you know, Beck cutting Paul for men. Yeah. After that, it gets a little working. It's like, I would, I love that for a row. It's just not working of the clubs that are in the, in the front row players that we've mentioned.
00:23:37
Speaker
Which one are you starting your, your club with right now? Bath. No, no hesitation, obviously. Clearly. Yeah, I do. Yeah. Bath or wasp are probably both on my, on my radar as well. Um, I do. I deal with that. Um, which one is, is, is it sale or is it new castle that you're just like, Oh, see the thing is, I don't think you mentioned it, but mola polo has been good.
00:24:04
Speaker
Oh yeah. I didn't mention him. That was probably something I should have mentioned. Yeah. I'm a little polo. That's true. But still, uh, I don't really want, I don't want sale sales. The one I don't want. Cause I'm outside of Vander Mer where there's just not, there's nothing there. Nothing. I mean, yeah, Devin Rod's getting a look, but no matter what he's showing you, he's not ready yet. It's just a question of what, what can he be? Yeah. He's like 2021. That's really for a prop. Um,
00:24:34
Speaker
But then again, shit, who was it for Australia that we saw go through, but again, different story. I'm not going to, not going to make that, that comparison now because he's not really, Rod's not rated to go that high. So let's, let's, let's, let's just temper expectations on them. But no, I don't want any of those guys really right now. No, I agree. All right. It's that time kids. We get to pick the draft order.
00:24:57
Speaker
Um, my wife has derelict her, her duties and gone to the grocery store to get my fat ass ice cream. So she's not going
Fantasy Rugby Draft Strategies
00:25:05
Speaker
to be here to, to, to, to be our, our, our neutral party. But good news is we, we are recording this. We have it on video and all that shit. So, um, all right. So let's see, we got our first number pick to five, five, it confirmed five, five. Okay.
00:25:29
Speaker
Pick this up. See who we get. You shake it more than twice. You're playing with it, Joe. That's what I've been told. And number the fifth pick for this Saturday is going to go to Mark. Mark. Yep. Confirmed. And I have, I have my chicken scratch. And the, the conferences will be the same as well. So odds and evens.
00:25:54
Speaker
It's worked so far. So why screw with it? Right. All right. And we got, I'm live tweeting this to the group. Uh, and now next pick second to last seven, seven. Yup. Okay. Dan, any, any, any, no.
00:26:25
Speaker
Man, it is. It looks like it is the geek. George. Yes, confirmed. George at seven. So George and Mark. In the same conference. Good luck you two. Next pick is. John. Small thumbs here.
00:26:57
Speaker
Ooh, two dose. Yes. Two. All right. This'll be, this'll be a good one. So basically, see, it seems like Malanga is the, is the popular picked to take one right now. I can't imagine why. Yeah. And that really is probably right behind him. If he's assuming he's healthy. So then you end up getting banged up a little bit. And the last time we had draft, at least F R D.
00:27:27
Speaker
I haven't started my process yet. Anton. Anton. At two. At two. Oh boy. I don't know. I don't think you can take Dewey at two right there. Call me nuts, but I know I've been saying that all day, but yeah, I think that's the wise decision. I haven't started my research yet, but I mean, you got to go Bowdoin, right?
00:27:55
Speaker
Ooh, about that. Don't, people out there, don't do that. Don't do that. You'll be like Andre from the league. Yeah. You don't want to be that. You don't want to be that guy. All right. Next pick is, oh, oh, here we go. Here we go. Business is on.
00:28:15
Speaker
And we're number one topping topping topping only here prime suspect prime suspect and whoever gets this pick gets to go into Justin. I'm, I'm flipping. No, he's got, didn't he get to get one in prem? I think so. All right. Number one for this Saturday is going to, Oh,
00:28:44
Speaker
I don't know what to tell you and I'm sure I'll get called out on it, but I swear on my mother that was, trust me, I don't want to be in another conference with George. Here's the thing, I don't want to be in another conference with George. I'm in his conference in like three of the leagues, like no.
00:29:03
Speaker
Like he's in, he's in my conference in that 15 aside box scoring league in prem. I think he's in my conference. If champions cup ever resumes, um, he's in my conference in that too. So no, I don't want George. Here we go. Hey, the other end of the spectrum. This has worked out well for me, I think in, uh, in FRD. Yeah. What are you thinking? My turn. No, I'm saying just my, but I had the eight position there. Oh, that's where you hit. Yeah. And I think I liked what I got out of it. So.
00:29:33
Speaker
Which I can't remember what it was, but I got good value. I remember that. I remember that. Okay, here we go. Number eight. Come on. As I said, I'm all thumbs. Oops, almost ripped it. The Tiger Man. Duncan. And he gets to join Anton. Godspeed, Duncan.
00:30:03
Speaker
All right, here we go. Huggy if I could. Here we go. Next pick is
00:30:22
Speaker
It is number four, despite my chicken scratch, that's four. That is a four. It's not a nine, that's for sure. The good news is, there's no nine or 10, so. Right. So it makes six and fours and sevens pretty straightforward. Right. Okay. It is. Come on. It's vermulin.
00:30:52
Speaker
Justin at four. Justin and Anton in the same conference. With Duncan. With Duncan. Oh God. God help Duncan being in the same conference. All right, here we go. Only got a couple left. It's going to be you or Carrick. And then
00:31:20
Speaker
Yeah. I'm not sure how advantageous either one of these picks are.
Six Nations Rugby: Reviews and Previews
00:31:23
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Three and six are left. It is. Yeah. These are, these are kind of the weird ones. Like you get stuck in the middle. You just kind of have to take what's there at some point. Can't plan too much. And the name is.
00:31:46
Speaker
Sir Carrick. Carrick. Oh, thank God. So you're a three. So Carrick's in the same conference as Duncan, Anton, and Justin. Yep. And you and I, fuck you. You and I end up in the same fucking conference. God damn it. Are we in the same conference in Champions League? I think we are. Fuck. Or Champions Cup. Excuse me. Fucking A.
00:32:17
Speaker
Yes, this is not a PG-13 show. We dropped the F-bomb. That's just how it is. Okay, so we have myself, Anton, Ben, Justin, Mark, Carrick, George, and Duncan. Oh boy, here we go. Hold on to your fucking seats.
00:32:37
Speaker
Trust me, I did not choose this conference. So when people are just like, yeah, he got the first pick. All right, cool. I understand. It's definitely, you know, we can call for a recount. I can promise you it's not going to matter. Right. There's somebody else that does that. That's been doing that a lot and they can promise you it didn't matter. Right. No, this is all legit. As we said, we had the recording. Yeah. If you need to, if you need to see recording and just, just so it's, it's not like, Oh, where was Ben's the whole time it's right here.
00:33:06
Speaker
That way nobody's like, Oh, he was just going to get whatever pick was last. It's here. Okay, cool. It's here in the picture and the text here too. If I can just pull it, come on. Damn it. Stupid thumbs. Pull it. Phrasing boom tree. Three. Yep. So that's that.
00:33:29
Speaker
that all controversy is gone. There shall be none. We will hear none of it. Well, you know that those boys can hold back from controversy. That's just not how they operate. No, they're not shitsters. No, they're not shitsters. Well, let's put it that way.
00:33:47
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. So the seems the consensus rank right now or on the spoiler alert on the, on the pro rank. It's good. I'll give the top 10 and then we'll move on. Um, and we can just give a few thoughts in there. Uh, Milonga, Haveli, uh, Demack, Talia, Rico,
00:34:13
Speaker
Red's front row. Well, Jordan, man, he was good last year. Uh, Diganoo, Jordy Barrett, and Nanae La Mape. That's the top 10 right now. Not sure. I agree with Jordy. I mean, it's hard to say he's too low, but you look at the guys in front of him. It's like, wow.
00:34:37
Speaker
No, I think he's too high. I think he's too high. Yeah. I don't know that I would take him in the top 10. I don't know. Yeah. He's good. Um, yeah. I mean, he's probably talk on it as we get there. Yeah. I think he's got, I think he's, he's listed as an outside back, but he might be playing 10 because I don't,
00:34:58
Speaker
I think Garden Bash have been moved. So in terms of which club he's playing for now. So as I said, I've done zero research. Yeah, I could be wrong about that. That's what I know. That's always a good start. No, but it's always a good start.
England vs Scotland: Match Analysis
00:35:13
Speaker
Okay. Um, so let's go to,
00:35:19
Speaker
The rugby, the rugby, the actual rugby, um, start with six nations. Uh, let's start with the, the, the appetizer. Um, we'll gloss. So we'll gloss over a few of them. We'll, we'll dig into a handful of them. Really? Italy lacked execution, looked all right. The scoreboard didn't do him any favors. They also played probably the best player in the world.
00:35:50
Speaker
there's a lot to like about what Italy did because a lot of the, they missed on a lot of opportunities that are just the players not being used to playing in that position at that level. Like somebody, you know, it's a couple passes like that these players can do in their sleep, but they're, you know, they're pooping themselves a little bit right now. It's, it's, it's all moving very fast. So, um, so they're not pooping themselves. It's just they're, they're under a lot more pressure than they're used to. Um,
00:36:09
Speaker
Right. What are you gonna do? So look, there's
00:36:17
Speaker
they'll get there and yeah, they'll need to play an easier team. Yeah. Yeah. This is, this is a team that everybody tipped to be to in the, in this competition. So, so, but I liked, I mean, who was the best 10 this weekend?
00:36:33
Speaker
It's really hard to say. It probably came from this game, honestly. That's, I'm saying, I'm saying it's Garvisi. He played extremely well. He was the best 10, the best, you know, play who's best fantasy score, but, um, but the, the shit he was doing was, was good stuff from me from a 10. I like, I want to see more of that and, and against it, a solid team too. And I think it's the solid 10. Um, yes. Like the, you know, there weren't many, you know, we'll get to another match where,
00:37:02
Speaker
It's clear who was the, you know, how it goes, but like down the line, one, one to 15 here in this match. There weren't many spots where Italy played better than, than France. That's not, that's not no shame to Italy. It kind of was one of the more, I think definitely. And that, that it was a standout position to me, how good garbage he was. So I, there's a lot to like about the future for, for Italy.
00:37:24
Speaker
All right. And then let's just do the, the, uh, the appropriate gush for the best play on the world right now. I need to crack a cigarette. Yeah, right. Just the offload over the shoulder, the chip and chase. And oh man, that,
00:37:44
Speaker
That guy's amazing. I don't, I don't, you can't name a better, a better player in the world right now. Like that plays for his club to the level he does. And that plays for his country to the level he does.
00:37:56
Speaker
That fucking offload. Oh, just absolutely absurd. Totally absurd. He just, he trusted a guy who was going to be there and just said, whatever, let's just try it. And it worked. Like the thing is though, he just, he flubbed it. Like you could see, I can't remember who it was who came on to score that. I'm in Vincent. Yeah. There was Vincent.
00:38:19
Speaker
I think. But yeah, he was running a different line. And then he looked over and saw the ball just floating there. And he's like, oh, I have to go get that. But he had more than enough time to do it because of the way DuPont threw him. It was just ridiculous that he just laid it up there. All he had to do was catch it. Absolutely.
00:38:39
Speaker
Absolutely. So the, um, the French get off to a hot start. That was the other thing. This was a hot, this was going to be Gauthier's best lineup because it's the first game. Yeah. You know, like if this had been a round three or round four game where French, the French were a little beat up, he might've got, you know, the Italians might've got a softer squad.
00:38:58
Speaker
They weren't going to come out soft with the, with the first team. That's all. That's just how it is. They, they, they set a marker. They did. Unlike every other team in this tournament, this weekend, they said, they certainly set a marker. Right.
00:39:25
Speaker
Oh, Flower of Scotland, my, oh, my. What a job from the Scots. Wow. Just got to hand it. I mean, and the players who stepped up were up, you know, Hamish Watson, like the mesh, the mesh, Russell on a rat. I mean, fucking.
00:39:49
Speaker
Oh man, I was laughing so hard when I heard that. That was more impressive than the jackal. Because I got to tell you, the more, the funny thing is the more, to me, the more impressive jackal was the one right before that, the red path.
00:40:04
Speaker
Turn. Oh, yeah, which I thought it came out hard. Love it. Oh, yeah. And he that that that was, you know, he deserved a Montoya moment for that. If it wasn't for fucking Hamish Watson. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, that was.
00:40:26
Speaker
That was an unbelievable performance. And yes, it wasn't like a lights out amazing destruction of England. But this is, you know, this is a play. And yeah, that's the only club that was on our team that was on that pitch that can say it as much. I agree. England just didn't play at all. It was 66 carries.
00:40:47
Speaker
in an 80 minute 66 in 88. Now you can get like easy five in a minute. If you're, if, you know, you're doing it right. Yeah. You're doing it right. And they couldn't get one per minute for, for an entire match because they just fucking kicked. I, what are you, um,
00:41:10
Speaker
I'm going to go down. I just want to look at the on for the guys in the blue first and just, you know, obviously amazing performance with them. Red path on his on a mission to to just prove that this was the right decision for him and that, you know, just, you know, kind of the double finger rocket as it were. And, you know, it was it was no hockey led his team as you know, as well as you could ask a captain to, especially from back there.
00:41:37
Speaker
the best second row on the field belongs to Scotland in gray, you know, without a doubt, going through the going through each position group. Really? Loose head to loose head. Go through each position group. Go man by man. Yeah. So I mean, so loose head, tight head. I'll call it, you know, probably Stewart had the best
00:42:02
Speaker
match of the props, but at the same time, like he was invisible because nobody, nobody else in the England front row was showing up for him. Right. So, and yeah, so, and then Turner, yeah, played out. Definitely all played jinx. Oh yeah, definitely.
00:42:17
Speaker
in, you know, one to one, you know, as the, as the second rows go, like Cummings and Hill were probably about even and Maro was terrible and gray was very, very good. Um, back rows, really hard to say that missed in outdo Curry. Uh, Wilson was a little bit of a ghost and Richie was right on top of it. Although he took a pretty good bang. That didn't help. But Napola was awful.
00:42:41
Speaker
Just awful. Fagerson was everywhere. He should be. He didn't, it didn't show up on the stat sheet, but he was in a lot of places that he needed to be very good. This is a guy that we talk about all the time. Ali price. Amazing. I'm so glad he's getting his opportunity without lead law in there. You know, I'm not, lead law wasn't terrible, but Ali price is better. End of story. You're not winning this game with lead law. No, you wouldn't have been. Um, Ben young's Eddie, just get rid of him. Get rid of him. Be done. Be done. It's got to be over. It has to be.
00:43:10
Speaker
I can't throw a pass. You know, Finn ate the yellow card. Farrell wasn't good, though, either. So we'll call it a draw.
00:43:21
Speaker
Brenda Murford definitely wins that one. She's a house. I will say this, Farrell put his team in a bad spot. It's not his fault. So it's hard to say. He executed the game plan that he was putting to execute. It was a shit game plan. It was a terrible game plan. It's hard to take it out on him. He kicked the ball so much, and every time he kicked, it went very badly for England. But obviously, that was his charge, was to kick it any time he touched it.
00:43:50
Speaker
We'll get to the game plans in a second here. 12-12, Lawrence was a ghost and that's not his fault. Red half definitely outplayed him. Same thing for Slade, a ghost, not his fault. Harris had some good runs, even though, again, didn't show up on the stat suite. Watson didn't touch the ball until like the 60th minute, so can't say a whole lot. Can't say badly about it. Maitland did what he needed to do. Diffuse bombs. Diffuse bombs is all he could do. But he definitely outplayed Daley, although Daley played pretty well.
00:44:17
Speaker
I will say daily did do daily fucked some kicks. He should have kicked. There's a bunch. He should have put in the touch that he, he put right down the middle of the field. Yeah. He was terrible with the boot. Yeah. Okay. So fair enough. He didn't have to be like, it was just, he was making bad decisions with it. Okay. I'll give you that one then. Nevermind. I take it. I take it back. Um, so yeah, it's just, just the starting 15 right there.
00:44:42
Speaker
And we've talked about it before, and here's the thing. Number one, when we're talking about like, why are we just gushing about Scotland when it was only a five point win, when if this was an England win, we would have called it ugly. England have one of the deepest, if not the deepest talent pools in the world. And for them to lose to Scotland at home, I don't care if there's a crowd or not, doesn't matter, to lose to Scotland at home in the manner in which they did where they looked like complete dog shit, that is the thing.
00:45:11
Speaker
You got two penalties. That's all. You got six fucking points against that team. And then I'm not saying that, you know, that the picture, the seven on three, that's all you need to know. That's a try right there. And they didn't score it, which means that's that, you know, that would have been the game. And because they were taught to kick or, you know, demanded to kick, instructed to kick, ordered to kick. Right. Fuck what? Yeah. No, they just didn't. They didn't bother playing.
00:45:39
Speaker
Again, not even one carry per minute in the match. That's just an inexcusable one of those words. Yeah. And it's one of those things. Eddie has no plan B. We know this. He goes in with a couple... He has like one or two game plans that he wants to use for the most part. Both of them usually involve kicking. One of them usually involves the forwards being dominant. They were not dominant in this beat.
00:46:06
Speaker
and they didn't know what to do. Right. They both involved keeping it tight until the end of the game. And the problem with that is sometimes when you're playing a worse team, you just want to do what France did. Just put them away. You don't want to see them again. Scotland was right for the taking for that, and England didn't even try to do it. Nope.
00:46:31
Speaker
So it's like, I mean, and again, Scotland played very well. They did what they absolutely what they had to do to win. And that's a good job. And it's just, it pisses me off because like it's a wasted opportunity for those England players. You know, that's one more international match or one less international match really that they get to play. And they really weren't allowed to play rugby. And that just fucking pisses me off.
00:46:58
Speaker
There are a few key areas on this team that probably aren't going to see France in 2023.
00:47:06
Speaker
And if you're a coach, even if you're a coach of a country like England, and you pick a somewhat experimental pick at, we'll say 10, because there's a plethora of them in England right now. If you pick a potential experiment at 10 in say, Joe Simmons or a Marcus Smith, and the team doesn't quite click, you get wiggle room.
00:47:31
Speaker
When you fucking stay goddamn stubborn like this and you pick the guys, whether it's Ford or Farrell, it doesn't matter which one. When you pick these fucking guys and they shit the bed, yeah, your head's going to get called for. This is not an acceptable thing. Again, this is a country with the most talent, but the most heads up their ass I've ever seen in my life.
00:47:59
Speaker
It's it's a joke, but sometimes games like this make it true when they say, you know, the world record holders in wasting talent. Yeah. Like this is exactly why people say that. What did you know what? I don't know why people are getting all pissy about it. Yeah. Sorry. You you completely fucked the dog right here. Like you really did. I'm impressed, though, how many people are not are actually going out of their way to not blame players.
00:48:26
Speaker
that they're all just looking at Eddie. Because it is that picture. Eddie's selection was definitely the biggest problem here. Well, there's that. Yeah, it's the selection and the game plan. I haven't seen it mentioned, so I'm going to mention it.
00:48:40
Speaker
I'm not sure Tom Curry is your answer at seven. If you need a seven, he's a sixth internationally. He's extremely good at six. He was lost out there. He wasn't doing seven work. And the sixth work he was doing, he was not doing it well. Well, he's usually got Sam Underhill to balance him out. Exactly. And I think that's the thing. Obviously, Underhill's not available.
00:49:04
Speaker
Right. But Underhill is amazing without him. So that kind of, you know, if Curry needs Underhill to be good, then maybe it's time to look elsewhere is kind of where I'm going with that. Because it does it appears that because fucking Wilson's a good six and he did solid work.
00:49:24
Speaker
just got lost in the whole thing yeah lost the whole thing curry was everywhere and doing bad shit that's not a good thing to be oh there's curry doing something stupid oh there's curry oh he's fucking up oh there's no he's missing it's not a great thing
00:49:41
Speaker
credit, all the credit for being there, but yeah, um, got to do something once. Yeah. And then just the, the, the late substitutions to bring on guys
Wales vs Ireland: Match Review
00:49:51
Speaker
that have a little bit of a spark, like the last four names on this list probably should have come on a little bit earlier or all Robson Ford mail-ins just to throw some energy into the team. Like, right. I don't get it. Like, you know, you have Robson come on and he is, was a spark plug.
00:50:07
Speaker
Yeah, but the things that he does good the things he does well and he doesn't want him to do it's like so why'd you pick him? Right? Why not? Like if you this is gonna be your game plan when you box kick the shit out of a team. Why not pick Wigglesworth? Because he's so good if this is the only thing you're gonna do he's damn good at it, right? Like why wouldn't you just go pick the guy that the one of the best guys are doing that even if he's not gonna be your starter? Yeah, you know like
00:50:33
Speaker
How hard is to say at halftime, just let's kick less. You don't even have to change. It's not even a plan B. It's just a kick less. And then you work within that system instead. Instead of it's like, oh, there's got to be an adjustment. And yeah, these players are good at things that you...
00:50:52
Speaker
I don't know. It's, it's just, I'm with you. So it's frustrating to watch. So, so it's, um, yeah, if, but it is kind of fun for, you know, I, I've, I'm, I'm happy for Scotland or, you know, from Scotland. So it's nice to, to be able to give them a shout and it's nice that they get to have the moment. Absolutely. You know, the Scottish people will, will enjoy it and they rightfully should.
00:51:20
Speaker
Isn't it our fortune as Americans to be somewhat neutral here? As much as we cheer on England, we can laugh at them too. They fuck it up. We can just blend in with the crowd. I'll say it right now. If they lose to France, Eddie needs a new job.
00:51:40
Speaker
Yeah, I think it's time right now anyway. I do too, but that won't happen. I do too, but after Six Nations. Even still, I think for the RFU to have it go through their thick head, they need to lose one more.
00:51:59
Speaker
If they somehow managed to win the Six Nations even by the skin of their teeth, they're going to be like, oh, everything's fine. Nope. Okay. Yeah, they do need. Okay. I hear you. Nope. Because you are not winning the World Cup with these game plans and the squad that he's currently been super stubborn about picking.
00:52:20
Speaker
Because this is the time, because you don't want to open up the selection of players to more guys when you're getting into a World Cup year. Yeah. You want to start getting adventurous now. If you wasn't going to do it in the fall, when the fucks are you going to do it? So I'm cheering on Italy this weekend. That's probably not the match to do it. Let's go to Sunday, Wales and Ireland. Oh, Peter Ohmani, what is wrong with you, buddy? Oh, not your not your smartest decision.
00:52:49
Speaker
You know, you know, personally, I don't know if the pod listeners know how much I struggle with Peter Romani between like, if you need a job done, he'll fucking do it. But then sometimes he does it like that. And so it's like, yep. This is true. This is true. It's like he did. He cleared that fucking rock. Did he ever? But
00:53:16
Speaker
I just did it like the most dickish way possible and absolutely read all day. You know, as soon as there's like the two factors, you know, no cleat, no arms in it, straight shoulder, right to the head. Yeah. No. Bye. Bye. Good Lord.
00:53:32
Speaker
I mean, all of that, even if he used an arm, that's a red. That would probably have been trouble. Yeah. Great. Red all day and then tomorrow. But then on the other side of it, how much better did they play without him? They had some sort of moment where they just kind of gathered themselves and said, all right, we got to elevate our game because we're down to 14.
00:53:56
Speaker
And they attacked ridiculously well with 14. Really put a lot of pressure on whales a lot more than they should have. Which kind of goes to show that like with Peter Romani, you have to walk that line where sometimes you're better off without the dickhead. Like you gotta know which matches you need the dick. Like you're playing New Zealand. I kind of want Peter Romani. Although I think you got carded once against them. You gotta yellow against them, yeah.
00:54:27
Speaker
Playing England, yeah, I want Peter Romani working them up. You know, because who's going to work up? Fucking Alan Wynn Jones. That's not working out well for you. I'm taking Alan Wynn. I worked up Alan Wynn over a worked up Peter Romani. So this is why. So, yeah, I think this was a good match to not play. I think he's reached that point in his career where they got to manage his dickishness.
00:54:55
Speaker
Yep. For Ireland, I want to mention a couple more names. Bern, Stander, Keenan. All excellent performances. Bern had a great performance until he got hurt. But yeah, that was like, so they just, fuck their forwards. Yep. Their locks in specific.
00:55:18
Speaker
And then for, for, for the Welsh, you know, that tip Rick was the usual self can no one's is back. And then, um, you know, we, we saw the guys on the outside do, do pretty well with like North resam it. Um, but Naveed off the bench for the probably very injured Dan, Dan Lydia, which is terrifying for that guy. I'm really, really unfortunate to see that. Um, yeah, quite good. You know, boys, boys did quite well. Put a shift in the Welsh did.
00:55:47
Speaker
We can't just gloss over it. I won't, I won't allow it. Reesamit against James Lowe. Now that is a proper wing matchup. He skinned him too. Especially for, especially for Reesamit who's, hold on, how old is he? He's like 21. Yeah, something. He's a baby. Not that James Lowe is an old man, but that's fucking it. That's a serious winger right there. Kids good. 20.
00:56:14
Speaker
Yeah. Rhysammit just skinned him. Just made him alive on attack and defense. Just low had nowhere to run. And Rhysammit had a lot of room to run on a guy who doesn't usually allow. He's on the physical, so he'll put a shoulder in. Yes, you will. But Rhysammit is just that fucking good. So it's time to
00:56:37
Speaker
Yeah. I want to give him that respect. I hope he plays more often. I would say he's officially arrived as a, an international player having done something like that. That's his second try of international career so far. Not bad. Yeah. He's going to be just fine. Um, let's, uh, let's hop over to the PRAM real quick, trying to dive into too much. Um, a couple of words on Bristol sale.
00:57:03
Speaker
Fuck, I hate fucking sale and their fucking boring defense bottling up Bristol. Bristol just had nowhere to go. It's not as though they had opportunities that they missed. There just was no room. Fuck you, sale.
00:57:22
Speaker
That's nothing personal. I actually I'm rather impressed. Yeah. Oh, man. God damn. Yeah, it's annoying. And A.J. with the with the winner. Fucking A.J. Fucking A.J. Yeah, that's that's that's on point. That dude's that dude's pretty good. Well, next day, was Northampton. By the way, fuck you, Peacock, for being stupid. Yeah. Was Northampton.
00:57:52
Speaker
Hey, it seemed to have found a corner here. And did they, though? Because it seemed as to me as though wasps when they didn't have 13 men when they had a full 15 just kind of dominated that game. They did. Well, but they discipline, discipline, man. I hear you. I'm just saying that the only time that Northampton were truly dominant were in was in that period. You know, they scored 14 points in that period, actually, and they'd let up seven. Is that right? In the yellow card period?
00:58:22
Speaker
Yeah. Um, yeah, probably with the 14. Yeah. So 14, you know, 14, they don't score eight other points. Wasp scored 10 outside of that. So it's like, right? There you go. I mean, that, and that, Hey, was for stupid Brooks fucking idiot. Um, Gaskell fuck, what did he do? Cause Brooks had a high tackle, right? A height, the hot. Um, I can't remember what Gaskell did.
00:58:47
Speaker
I think he caught somebody as well. Brooks was way high and had like a 10 or something. This laziness and then you can't do it. But now you're down to 14 and someone like Askel who's
00:59:04
Speaker
Um, come on recently, but still is long-term has been a, you're kind of more of a journeyman is going to make a mistake like that with the pressure on too. So, oops. Well, I mean, that's two, that's two on the trot for Boyd. So I'm sure he'll take that just, I know. And credit's in with Hampton. They played, they played a hell of a match. I'm not, I'm not trying to take anything away from them. They, they want it fair square. It's just, it wasn't as dominant that the scoreboard doesn't tell.
00:59:31
Speaker
you know, the story of who played better. I would probably not play better overall. It's outside of the, yeah. Um, bath a little better than, um, than they, than they have been. It helps when Marcus Smith is out. It does. Boy, boy got him sprung himself leak. Yeah. Um,
00:59:52
Speaker
But yeah, Bayless Bayless at the end, like give that pass and let your wingers score in the corner, dude. What are you doing? Oh boy. Oh boy. You know, you're on a team where they're struggling and you tried to be the guy you want to be that that turns it around. There's a lot, but at the same time you're a lock. It's late in the match. Give it. Give it. Yep. Um, Dom, Brent and care kind of just picked up the slack.
01:00:20
Speaker
Fuck a little bit. It's just a bit quite good. Both of them. Um, yeah, Tom Branson, fucking beast. Good Lord. Angry man. And he should be, can you imagine, you know, that if, if you just replace Dom Brant, you know, with unipola, unipola with Dom Brant, just, just for whatever, whenever unipola was doing something, like if he was making a tackle or taking a charge or taking a carry, if you put Dom Brant there instead, um,
01:00:49
Speaker
Good result, probably. Much better result. Yeah. Agreed. Um, exiles and the Gloucester, um, something might be cooking over at Brentford.
01:00:59
Speaker
uh, tries apparently. Yeah. I mean that definitely that there was a lot, there were a lot of tries in this match. It was actually a match. It was including the one in the first, what, like 10 seconds or something like that. Like Coleman, you know, made the sacrifice. Oh God. Poor guy. At least he got on the ball. He's like, screw it. I'm getting on the ball. Yeah. The sacrifice, my calf for that. Right. Um, and Cowan finished it. Uh, yeah, he had a double. He did.
01:01:29
Speaker
Fuck. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, Parton got over with the smile at the camera. That was pretty fun. Yeah. And, you know, lost her had some good ones too. Um, Alex Craig with off, uh, getting the offload from Reed on the floor. That was, um, that was pretty, that was pretty handy stuff. They, both of these teams wanted to open it up, which I appreciate. And, but there's something going on with London Irish. I'm not saying they're going to do anything super special, but I'm not saying they're not. They're no longer the pushover they once were.
01:01:58
Speaker
Not at all. I mean, aren't they? Hold on. Oh no. They're okay. They're, they're top five now. Fuck. Okay. So they might be sniffing champions cops soon. Yeah. They're, um, good for them. Yeah. They're, but they're earning it too. Like they're, they're certainly playing very good rugby. Yeah. Um, against all covers. So part and part in a fullback has made a huge difference.
01:02:18
Speaker
He has, and it's unfortunate for Gloucester that they ran into this buzzsaw right now because they need, they need more positive, um, momentum.
Premiership Rugby Weekend Summary
01:02:28
Speaker
They're not turning over every time they turn the key. Um, right.
01:02:36
Speaker
So they need a couple in a row to start feeling a little bit more, um, you know, less cautious about, about showing up for match day. Right. Yep. Um, Lester forwards dominant. This is like, this is very, this is kind of an old, this is a bit of an old school Lester team right here. That's that they've put together. Um, a lot of big, heavy forwards, just crushing dudes. Um, Montoya getting a double. Yeah. He's getting over. Young's getting over like seven double.
01:03:06
Speaker
Um, he might've. Yeah. He had a double. Okay. So there you go. So more, more of that. Um, yeah. Wrong day for Western, uh, to play Lester Lester. We're in the mood. Let's just see how it is. Yeah. Cause that kind of didn't look nearly the nearly the lost soul that he can be sometimes. So that was a good thing for Lester. Um, having Wigglesworth probably helped him in that one.
01:03:26
Speaker
Um, and Worcester were, were without, you know, we're for most of the match. They were without who guard for the whole match. Um, yeah. So it was just the, the writing was on the wall almost, almost by the time we were got hurt. That, that, that 10 Jersey is, is a cursive now seems and that's two in a row, two in a row that they haven't even made it out of the first half. No. Yeah. Sarah Lynn him. So I will say I'll give show a Cox from credit. Um, he didn't look too bad.
01:03:53
Speaker
Well, he was playing for playing that first receiver. Yeah, you can't at that point. Any positive is a positive. No, you looked all right. So I think if he gets some some reps in there, he'll be OK. And then Sunday, Newcastle and Exeter Exeter figured out a way to get done.
01:04:10
Speaker
really not a whole lot else to say about it. No. Um, you know, Sam Simmons and Cuthbert Kitten get the tries. Um, because of course, yeah. And then, you know, Cuthbert
01:04:25
Speaker
Didn't even know you were still alive. I remember that name. Fucking score tries and okay. There you go. Once upon a time. And then then you just kind of fell off the face of the earth years ago. It's like, yeah, I dusted off that name. Like that was like, uh, Wiley came back at a retirement for like, Oh yeah, that guy.
01:04:46
Speaker
I remember that guy. So yeah, it's, um, it's, it's exited back into the, into the driver's seat. Looks like, um, they're not quite there, but in terms of where they stand, but they're definitely no longer fucking around like the, like everybody kind of thought they were at one point. They certainly needed that. Agreed. They need to get their heads out of their bums. Okay. Um, let's do a wee bit of start set. Um,
01:05:13
Speaker
Six nations. I'll try and go through this as quickly as possible. England versus Italy. The Azure are smarting after this past weekend. Played well, did some good things. Defense was not one of those good things. Starts it for England. Will Stewart was one of the few that performed last week. So I don't see that changing this week. So go ahead and give him a whirl. Johnny Hill should still be just as good this week, assuming he starts maybe Eddie does squad rotation. I have no idea, but if Hill's in, go ahead and play him.
01:05:43
Speaker
Watson, he's probably a start because of who he's playing, but I think sticking him on your bench is the option. So you minimize the damage of, oh shit, he didn't do anything, but also don't miss out completely if he does well. Yeah.
01:06:00
Speaker
That'd be my, that'd be my thing. And then Billy is way too highly picked and he disappointed a lot of people this past weekend with what am I as two, am I as four? Good Lord in heaven. Yeah, not great. Anyone are going to be mad if you didn't know. Yeah, but what are they going to do about it?
01:06:17
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. We're going to find out. There are still some guys you can take from the Italians. Start set for the Missouri. David Sisi should be a solid Italian option. Lots of tackling is going to be done here. And England were quite generous. The second one was last week. That includes Scott Cummings as well. And I think Richie Gray had 19 off the bench. So yeah, go ahead. Luca BG, he's got the targets and he's quality. So
01:06:42
Speaker
If you have a spare bench spot for a hooker, that's definitely some place to stick them. If you're feeling brave and you need that contradictory play because a lot of people have the same guys in this one, okay, that might be the option.
Rugby Insights: Future Game Expectations
01:06:55
Speaker
On the other side, um, Danil Foschetti, um, 12% owned. It's going to be a bad day at the office for him. He had minus four last week. I would not go with that at all. Honestly, um, Canada and Allen are both very highly owned as well. Um, and they're also guys that shouldn't play in the 10 Jersey and Franco Smith mostly agrees it seems, but if he decides to change his mind, I would just, you know, assume that Franco Smith was drunk when he made his team. So do not play a kind of, or Allen.
01:07:25
Speaker
if they're in the 10th jersey by any means whatsoever. Okay, for Scotland versus Wales. So this is going to be interesting. So Wales, as we saw, didn't defend very well against 14. So Scotland will have opportunities, I think, up the middle. So I think Locks
01:07:47
Speaker
loose forwards and centers should score pretty well. Although I think Tom here and around the rumor mill and the rumor mill being blue check marks who write in British because they obviously know a lot more than me. So I'll take their met their word that Tompkins should be should be starting this one as well as Reese and on the other side. I don't know and resam it.
01:08:12
Speaker
And and Liam Williams are playing on the wing, so which gives you some thoughts, because resam it'll will score some. He'll score some points in this. Williams won't so that that kind of helps with that. Gotcha.
01:08:28
Speaker
Oh, Finn Russell. Also, he put up 22 last week. Sorry, I went back to Scotland. He put up 22 last week minus the yellow. So we've got 12 or something. Yeah, something like that. So I would expect dependable, but not top tier points. I don't think he's going to carry much. He's going to be the distributor to players who are going to be running wild. Gotcha.
01:08:48
Speaker
But yeah, so back to the, to Wales though, Scotland, we don't know what the fuck they do on defense. We don't know where their, their weak points are. Cause they never were tested. They weren't really tested. So it's hard to know. You kind of just have to go with, with your gut. So that's why it's like resammit. Yeah. He'll get more opportunities. And I think he'll put up points.
Fantasy Rugby Player Evaluations
01:09:03
Speaker
Um, Liam Williams is not a points, a fantasy point score. He's there at that bomb diffuser. He's going to be the one, you know, Yeah. Like the mate like Milan did. Right. Um, who got 14. Okay. That's not what you want though. No, it's not what you want. You need 20 plus for most of your players.
01:09:18
Speaker
Thomas Williams, legit. He will do well. He'll find the holes in Scotland's defense, wherever they are. Alan Wynn Jones just scores points. And as we said, Tipperick too. So how can you not have them on your squad? Correct. Yeah. I love me some Tipperick. All right. Ireland and France. French had an easy go last week. So talk to judge the numbers by that. Even so, there's still some clear decisions to be made against and for them.
01:09:48
Speaker
For the Irish, how in the holy hell is Tyburn not more owned? He's like 8% owned, 6% owned, something like that. He played amazing. I chose poorly. He had some ridiculous numbers last year or last week. Semi saved my week. I picked James Ryan instead of him. I flipped a coin. That's why more owned.
01:10:16
Speaker
Yeah. Um, okay. Um, Billy burns Ross burn. I think they're going to be the guys that are wearing the 10 shirt because I think section is going to be a little bit, uh, head nockage going on with them. Um, so go ahead. I'm, you know, regardless of what burns did the other match.
01:10:35
Speaker
Don't give him shit for that. Yeah, that's listen. Trust me, nobody feels worse than than Ryan Ford. I've done shit like that before, too. It's just like, oh, the pressure was like people act like the pressure wasn't on him to put a great kick in because they weren't going to make a 22 meter mall. This was this is games on the line. Yeah, you got to go for that corner. And it's such a tight margin there that he he just was just overcooked it a little bit. And so they have to fuck off. Yeah, he had to hit that corner.
01:11:03
Speaker
Yeah, no, I admire his bulls. Yeah. On the other side of the coin here, heh heh, coins. Keith Earls, love him as a player, not as a great fan, not a great fantasy asset, especially in Irish colors. Sexton, as I said, just, he's got to be done. He's not in your fantasy team. Don't pick him.
01:11:23
Speaker
Um, 14 on the other side, 14 man, Ireland put in a shift last week, but 14 on the field means there was some extra room to run. So hard to tell that they're whether or not their defense did that. Well, um, for Lebleu, um, Doulan and Villier.
01:11:39
Speaker
They're single position options, which sucks. They're weighing in full back each. Doolan's a full back video is a wing only. But if you've got to have one of those, those are two good ones. That's really good. So go ahead. And again, we're looking and I'm trying to also play the idea of like these contradictory plays where you're trying to find the ace in the hole that gives you that leg up on your friends. Right.
01:12:04
Speaker
Jean Baptiste Gross. If Gautier rotates props, he should do well. He scored at a pretty good rate, even though he only got 19, but he came off the bench and got that. So, not bad. And I know the opposition was a little soft, but should still be all right. On the other side, it'll be a much tougher week for Gail Fikou. He won't have a lob pass going over his shoulder or anything like that from DuPont, or a walk-in, whatever. Yeah, he had a walk-in. It wasn't, yeah.
01:12:31
Speaker
Nope. And then, oh, I know where it was because the Italy fell apart in defense on first phase. That's not good. And DuPont took it. And I think he just awful. It was like the let, you know, the last thing on the 15, you know, what are you going to do? Yeah. Likewise, tell him the tries boosted his score. I did. He's not going to find the trial lines today. First weekend. I don't think so. Just just be very cautious of that as well. Yeah. You want to do your start set?
01:12:59
Speaker
Yeah, I'll do my start. So my start, I mentioned him earlier. Yeah, start of the week. You failed to mention his name a little bit from what I heard. But he's I think he's going he was the top fantasy points score at his position last week. And seeing his opposition this week, it's possible that he could do it again. Which is not saying much, but Paulo Garbisi, I think at 10. Again,
01:13:27
Speaker
Against its solid team, including a pretty solid defense, he put up he was the best 10.
01:13:32
Speaker
in the competition. So, you can't do better than the best. That's why he's my start. Nice. I like it. I think he'll do it again. Yeah. So, my start of the week, not as much of his usual work to do last week. Opposition was the reason for that. This week's opposition is tailored for him and some of his back row friends to do their work and score well. My start of the week, kiss to death, from around two of six agents, is La Rochelle and Lebleu Aitman, Gregory Aldrit.
01:14:03
Speaker
and pick. He's solid. He will also get you points. I think he had a... Hold on. He only had 19 last week, but again, the game was not tailored to him. Exactly. Olivo only had 16, but now we're getting to get into games where it's like... Lots of tiles are going to need to be made. Turnovers, so on and so forth.
01:14:24
Speaker
Yeah. Let me see what the, uh, cause he only made, he made, uh, yeah. All you want made 12 tackles missed too, but that at some point you're not really, you know, he probably wasn't paying attention half of it. Like, ah, fuck it. I gotta make a tackle. Oh, I try. I don't know. We're up 50 to 10. What the fuck's the difference? They have a tackle for next week, but that, yeah, that, that costs points that you, you know, when, when the game's on the line, he's going to be doing it. Yep. I agree. Uh, sits.
01:14:53
Speaker
Oh, sit other week. So I stressed him earlier because it seems like he's a decent point scorer when he has a very good supporting cast that he doesn't have right now. And he just did too many things that I don't like to see on the rugby pitch. They also lose your fantasy points, which makes it even worse in fantasy. So, yeah, Tom Curry, because Underhill's not around, Tom Curry's not on my team. Yeah, fair enough.
01:15:20
Speaker
Uh, for my sale of the week, um, his opposition didn't let up much to a set of very good props last week. He's decent quality, but his job is getting is not about to get any easier. And after the energy, the whole squad expended last week against England, I'm wondering what kind of gas will be left in the tank. My city of the week is Glasgow and Scotland prop Zander Fagerson. Oh.
01:15:44
Speaker
That's that's not a bad one. It's just that's bold because he's he's a guy who right? A lot of people haven't begged. Yeah, I just don't think he's going to do well this week. Fair. All right, let's turn the page to the prime. Gloucester Bristol go my friend. Bristol Sneaky, one of the top fantasy defenses, number two overall in FRD, number one in TRM.
01:16:04
Speaker
uh, first against backs, third against forwards in, in TRM. So not a lot of, not a lot of space to find there, uh, for, for Gloucester. So, you know, we talked about them not being able to quite turn over, not looking good here either. Um, so loose, um, flankers look for Gloucester's flankers, um, Ackerman and I,
01:16:24
Speaker
Not him. Read the low. Read the low. Yes. And Gloucester Front Row are up against the best in both formats. Oh, they cost me two games last week. Yeah. So sit everyone on Gloucester Front Row in every format. Just nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. A whole lot of nope. Locks and halfbacks will do OK. So Alemano, Heinz, 12 trees should do well.
01:16:52
Speaker
reasonably well, good in a pinch. On the other side, Peers O'Connor's value is fucking sky high. He's there 13, and he can do it very well. He did well against sale, or reasonably against sale. So expect that and more from not sale. Nathan Hughes is possessed. So is Andy Uren. Oh, and a gentleman named Chris Vue. So those are your guys.
01:17:18
Speaker
Those three are the ones you want in FRD or TRM. Right. Yeah, for sure. All right. On the other side. Moving on. Speaking of sale. Sale versus bath. Uh-oh. Oh, no. Yeah. So we're finding results. Finding success in the results column, but not much in the fantasy world. Bath appeared to override the ship a little bit, but are still
01:17:47
Speaker
A very generous fantasy team, so it's going to be an interesting to see who pops up for sale this week. My ideas are Josh Walmont should perform much better now that he's playing his natural position in second row. Ate Man was not his home. It was clear. His fantasy score said so, for sure.
01:18:07
Speaker
I kind of talk shit on them, but this is the team maybe to play them against Langdon. Cheap, decent replacement while Ocker is out, especially if you're in kind of a pinch like, oh, I have no hookers playing, but I have like 200K. That might be your answer right there. I think Bath are fairly generous against hookers as well.
01:18:24
Speaker
On the other side, Jono is a yellow card waiting to happen. Just don't. I know this is an easy opposition, but Jono Ross is just, no. You're going to get banged with minus 10 or whatever it is real quick. And we mentioned this guy earlier.
01:18:42
Speaker
Good for him for being where he's at, but Bevan Rod why he's so highly owned, he's actually like 10 or 11% owned, which is much higher than I would ever think. Well, he's super cheap, right? Yeah, he's cheap. Other than that, I don't get it. Yeah, I mean, I guess, but no, I would pass. Find another prop. There should be some props returning back. Wes is coming back. Harry Williams is coming back. That should do some people good.
01:19:10
Speaker
A sailor once again the black hole. This is where fantasy points go to die. Top two in both formats. But there still might be some options for bath. Tom Dunn has been very consistent despite how bad bath have been. So if he's in your team, play him. I mentioned this guy earlier. Keep an eye on him. Tien Schumann.
01:19:32
Speaker
If he plays, consider him, especially in FRD. It's like 14ish points that still give up on average. So that'll do you okay. Especially if you're like me who just lost Duncan Weir.
01:19:50
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So keep an eye on the team sheet coming out this week. Um, maybe even jumped a gun a little bit. And if you have a spare spot, grabbed she instrument and he's like 200 ish and TRM. If you have them, maybe go bet, maybe go onto the bench, not, not in your starting lineup. Cause it's usually better options, but that's okay. On the other side, um,
01:20:08
Speaker
Koka Nusenga is way too expensive and not nearly protective enough. I don't know, just know there's a lot of money there that's just getting thrown into a hole. No, thank you. On the other side, Josh Medivacy, he's just on the edge, but he's still not quite productive enough to justify having him. So I'm going to give him a pass as well.
01:20:32
Speaker
So on to Quinn's Lester. These are interesting so we're not like that Lester are towards the better end of the range of defenses. Quinn's are towards the bottom.
01:20:46
Speaker
Lester are number one versus wings in the rugby mag, so bear that in mind. And Quinn's are leaky except versus 10's. So how about that? That in mind. Danny Care, Alex Donbret, Marcus Smith, if he's healthy, I assume they'll patch him up enough to I think he'll be OK. Yeah, I would start selling Mike Brown. He's
01:21:09
Speaker
When men reach a certain age, they start to lose their steam after eight or nine weeks of rugby. Fair enough. And that's what's happening to Mike Brown. You know, just not as effective as he was earlier in the season he needs a bit of a rest so I would rest him from your fantasy.
01:21:27
Speaker
team until he starts turning it around. Yeah, fair enough. On the Leicester side, their front row, we talked about them enough. They're awesome. The Quinn's are leaky there, especially at Hooker,
Fantasy Rugby: Team Performance Insights
01:21:36
Speaker
where they're tied for worst in the rugby mag. Hello. So, yeah, Leicester front row. Julian Montoya. Zach Henry this week, again, as I said, the Quinn's are strong against 10s and Henry is just not like, don't get sucked in. He may be good long term, but this is not his week. Yeah.
01:21:56
Speaker
They just sat down priest. Yeah. Uh, Jasper Vis though is very much your friend this week. Yeah. He's coming around. Um, and they're, they're leaky there. I give Matt Scott a look also at 12. He's had a few good weeks in a row. Um, the quince are good. They're actually top versus centers. Number one in FRD, number two in TRM, but still, um, he, so this again might not be your week.
01:22:24
Speaker
for him, but give him a look. He should be at least on your radar for TRM. Yeah, agreed. Great agreed. All right, Exeter and the Exiles. Going to Sandy Park. Exiles are middling in both formats. Vast improvements from last season, just fancy wise, just the same. They are no longer the leaky that they once were. Start sits for Exeter.
01:22:48
Speaker
This is a guy that we both talked about better. Nice Sam Skinner versatile and a good score. Not too expensive. That's a, that's a double thumbs up for me for, for Sam Skinner. If he's in quietly cementing a place in the back row for Exeter is Richard capstick.
01:23:05
Speaker
And he's scoring well too on top of that. He is. I like him a lot. Yeah. Give him a look. I kind of like that guy. He should, he should hold onto that Jersey long-term. I hope he does at least. I keep thinking he's doing a shit ton, but then I'm realizing I'm confusing him for, I think yours has the same little like stripe around the head. So I'm just like, Oh, it's one of them. Fuck it's the wrong one. The right one enough. Yeah.
01:23:30
Speaker
Yeah, given that on the other side, Tom already has become very disappointing, especially as of late fans, you guys still a solid player, you're probably going to be forced to playing with an FRD. So just do it. But personal Tommy, take it personal.
01:23:47
Speaker
I'm not selling yet. It's when you open your mouth that people seem to just turn it around, not me. That's why I'm trying to get someone to feed myself. Somebody else on the hex there. Yes, it's off to you. Yeah. Alec Hepburn is 16% owned. Not quite consistent. It's either really good or really bad. There's no between. So I don't know if I'm really feeling good about that. And Lester, excuse me, Irish,
01:24:15
Speaker
actually not too bad against props, so just keep that in mind. Exeter, they're still a tough outfit, top four in both formats, as far as their defense goes. Binding form again, which is also bad news for most of the league. Exiles have themselves some good options though. Tom Parton, if you haven't heard the name enough, I'm gonna say it again. Tom Parton, he's a fullback only, but he's fairly cheap and he will score you points. He will. I like him.
01:24:41
Speaker
Well, Will Goodrich Clark, bad week last week, but before that, scored pretty well a couple weeks in a row. It's not super expensive, and for whatever reason, Hoskins just seems to be off the radar. So, in lieu of that, that might be your option right there. I fucking... Where is Hoskins? I have no idea. I have no idea. I'm on the other side of the coin. Bend me in. Kind of meh.
01:25:02
Speaker
Pretty man. Um, there's better options in TRM and hopefully you're not picking up an FRD. Um, Matt Rogers. I love the guy. I feel this is a down week against this, against this team. Um, for whatever reason, just don't feel like it's quite going to be there for score wise. Can I end up with like 15 and probably like four in FRD. So just not, not quite there. Not the share of the points isn't going to quite be there for him unless he plays eight in which case I'll let it go.
01:25:33
Speaker
On to Saints hosting Newcastle. Saints are a Civ. Newcastle are giving up huge points to forwards. Seems unlike them. How that boils down is on the Northampton side, the front row and Medivacy, as we've been saying, have been huge. Medivacy especially, yeah. It's going to hurt to say, but Aydendorf too.
01:25:57
Speaker
How about that? He's played well last few weeks. What would I say? He's been doing not dumb things. It helps. Yeah. Okay. Good. And Alex Mitchell, maybe not so much in an FRD, although I think he's worth a shot. And if you need him, but on TRM, fucking pick him up.
01:26:26
Speaker
I have in there, too, in your squad. I will have him this week. I hope I have to see how my depending on how the why I'm shake out. Yeah, I had played to me the last week and then the last week was a mess. Yeah, I ate my first 20. Thanks. Oops. On the other side. Anyway, to the game, Newcastle. Greg Peterson has been a beast. Another person who should be on your team. John Robinson might need to go away for this. So just like we were talking about,
01:26:56
Speaker
Tom Curry, not needing his friends. Sean Robinson, I think, needs his friends without Graham and Wilson. Yeah, I know Graham and Wilson. Vanderwalt's picking up the slack. Robinson is not. So if you're going to look at one of the back row, go with Vanderwalt. And same for Matias Orlando, I've got to see it. Yeah, I feel that. Yeah, I agree. I agree. I agree.
01:27:23
Speaker
Um, all right. Western was last game of the weekend. Was there still a generous bunch bottom formable formats? Worcester do have options to take advantage of that. Um, the wings Nick, David and Tom how, or if it's very Humphries, even they've been pretty good against a leakier defense. I would bank on them scoring some good points. Um, Kvessek and mama, same thing. Like they definitely take advantage of the not so great defenses. Um, certainly against, um, their position group.
01:27:49
Speaker
And so they're going to be a good contradictory play as some might say. So go ahead and give that. Andrew Kitchener, yeah, that's still a no for me, dog. Like, no. Didn't he get carded again last week? Yeah, one of the kitchen. They're both the same player. I love it. But you should really just get a Kitchener, and it can be both. Like, you get the points for both of them or the cards for both of them, and that can be one of the players you started. You still wouldn't do it.
01:28:14
Speaker
God. Um, yeah, no, thanks. Um, anyone, not, uh, Francois who guard at nine, don't play him. Even who guard this week. I'd probably only play him in TRM.
01:28:25
Speaker
Um, on the other side, we'll start, uh, bang on in the middle of the pack six and seventh and fantasy. Um, that means there's definite areas to attack and others. You want to avoid for the was, uh, Bellicott or wherever the fucks at nine. Uh, that's a thumbs up for me this week. Big time. I'm Wilson home, Porter, whoever the hell it is. Go ahead. Um, just prefer cheap lock. Tim Cardinal might fit the bill for you this week.
01:28:48
Speaker
Go ahead and play them in TRM. If you're kind of like, I have no locks and I only have X amount of cash. He's like, he's like 180.