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Season 3- Champions Cup Draft Special
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It is the Champions Cup Live Draft Special as we draft for our highly touted(?) Champi-Yanks League competition. This time thankfully there are no other drafts occurring for either of us. We pick through the fine margins and strategies that will need to be employed for this year's competition. Have a listen for all of our mistakes, headaches and feel good picks as we go through 17 rounds of fun with the other lads from the CYL league.
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Transcript
Introduction and Draft Kickoff
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody. How's it going? It's Fancy Rugby, Hank. My name's Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glowden. And we're here live drafting our Champions Cup FRD for the Champions League. Ben's leading us off. We've already popped our beers because we were definitely just ready to roll. Oops. Oops. Sorry, not sorry. It's a very special episode, so you don't get to hear our beers crack. Yeah, maybe. You will later. Yeah. Just about the first one.
Draft Preparation and Challenges
00:00:34
Speaker
But I gotta tell you, I was preparing for this draft. I got about five minutes before it starts now.
00:00:42
Speaker
It's it's so much easier to prepare for this draft than say The the premiership because first off there's more teams So the margins are gonna be very fine here right very fine margins in this in this thing Especially with the addition of four was it four extra teams that they added to this thing. Yeah, so, you know For quality ish teams at the very least with definitely quality players. We've also got their
00:01:07
Speaker
a telegoing with Worcester and Bath from earlier today. We already know the result, but have not watched anything about it, so might as well, right? I've seen a few minutes of it. I switched to it. I saw the little bit into the second half. Oh, okay. During halftime when we were watching wasps. New Castle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, so just get into it. We do know the result.
00:01:33
Speaker
But it's, you know, one we haven't seen and I don't, none of us really want to watch Exeter take it to Lester. So. Although apparently the first half was worth watching at least. But after that, we'll see. Second half, I mean, Lester, we're pretty good, but fucking Exeter just ranted up their butts.
Impact of New Formats on Draft Strategy
00:01:49
Speaker
That'll do it. But yeah. We'll see how this goes. So your first overall. The fascinating thing is, so we're staying, we're going through to the semis, I think it is. The semis will be the finals of our,
00:02:02
Speaker
No, the final the final will be the finals. OK. But either way, you don't know how what teams are going to advance. You know, there's so much question marks about that because it's not the normal path forward and it's going to be I think there's going to be a lot of, you know, you get the best players you can in the beginning and then try to find fill in players on on the teams that look like they're going to advance as as the league goes on.
00:02:31
Speaker
because I don't know that there's any way to, yeah, it's good to know that, where did I find out? The first quarterfinal, because it's a two leg quarterfinal, this competition for a Champions Cup, that's gonna be the final game week now. It's five weeks, we thought it was four, and I think FRD had not remembered that they added another week to that quarterfinal, excuse me.
00:02:57
Speaker
So yeah, semi final one for FRD will be quarterfinal two and semi final two will be the semi final of Champions Cup. The final will match up. But something to think about as we go through the draft, the top
Player Selection Strategy
00:03:13
Speaker
the winners, the favorites, Leinster, Exeter, Rossing, and Toulouse. Those are the ones that, you know, as it gets tighter, you probably want to lean if the decision comes. Oh, absolutely. You want to think about the teams are going to go forward because you don't want to just think about that. But if you're definitely if you're tossing back and forth, you know, we talked about probably the ninth round being the time to start splitting hairs really. Yeah, that's probably where you want to go.
00:03:40
Speaker
is a team that's likely to at least advance to the semifinal if not the final. But yeah, so you gotta give yourself a shot. There's some great players on this list, John Cooney playing for Ulster, probably not getting to the final. Maybe they do, I don't know.
00:03:55
Speaker
LRZ's on here. He's probably not getting to the final as much as it would be cool to see Gloucester do that. Olly Thorley, same thing. So, you know, they'll be very useful in this round and, you know, all the rounds going up to probably the first quarterfinal of Champions Cup. And then after that, it kind of... Yeah, they're so useful. They're not so useful. So yeah, don't load yourself up with too many teams that are going to get dumped out of the pool round even, you know.
00:04:24
Speaker
So you gotta consider that as well. It was definitely funny to
Debating Player Picks
00:04:28
Speaker
watch. Here we go, five seconds from the opener. Not that Ben's made too many headaches about this one. No, I'm already, it's Sam Simmons. And go. And go. All right, George, pressure's on. I am playing Duncan in that 15-a-side Fox League in the Premiership.
00:04:47
Speaker
I've got a good number on him, but he's still got a few guys left I think I can Joe Simmons went second. That's a I gotta disagree with that pic Yeah, not not here
00:05:00
Speaker
Justin only eight teams. Yeah, remember that one Let's see we got and then thomas. Ramos is off. That's it. Yeah, that's not a bad pick very me. Vacatella goes to anton. That's also a quality pick Yeah, teddy toma the first the first overall ranked is not has not gone yet. No, too I really like damien pano just as a player overall and obviously he's brought value to That as well. Am I gonna get who I want here? Do you want reds?
00:05:28
Speaker
No, I mean, I will take him. No, no, I'm not getting him. I'm not getting him. Justin's taking him. Let me have Mark. Are you getting, you want Thomas or do you want the node? I do, but I will, I will settle for one of them on the backswing. That's a good pick. That is a good pick.
00:05:47
Speaker
I liked this guy a lot last year, and unfortunately he plays for the, probably the wrong French team, but I really liked him last year and I thought he was quality. And again, we talked about midfielders kind of being a little bit dicey, outside backs being a little bit more plentiful. There goes Toman, I bet you Carrick's going to go Pinot as well.
00:06:07
Speaker
Sexton sex. Oh, that's not a bad pick either. That's not bad. Okay. Um, here you go. I already see we talked about this already and I'm already at a crossroads. I need to consider diversifying. Yes, you do. So another French team.
00:06:23
Speaker
Okay, thank you for not going the way so I'm looking at Cheslyn Colby sitting right there Yeah, and he's not bad either and he's gonna be playing for a team likely in Right to at least the quarter. I'm thinking I'm thinking em off and Colby if I if they're available the two of them back to back That's a good one. We're low
00:06:43
Speaker
Yeah, he's still around. James Lowe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because they're likely going to be. Emof just went. Fucking Vakatawa injured. Nobody killed for him. That's the other thing. Like in that time, if I have somebody that I'm thinking of and I'm like, oh, wait, are they hurt? Because I don't know the news on a lot of these guys at this point. I think Moala is OK. I haven't heard anything otherwise. I'm like a Finn Russell.
00:07:08
Speaker
And, uh, check that injury report hurt. Okay. Yeah. Check that injury report. Um, sexton was hurt up until this weekend. So I was worrying about that as well. Um, well, then I'll go Colby and low. Yeah. The latest news was he's going to be out until the spring. Oh, shizzle. Um, Hastings will be out even longer. Oh, fuck. Okay. Leave them alone. Colby's not hurt though. Right. I don't believe so. Come on, Anton.
00:07:40
Speaker
Yeah, I don't see much he's probably thinking he's probably looking up fin Yeah, he's he's beat up. So yeah Yeah, if you're gonna be in these competitions at least like have a clue as well Like we have a player that shall not be named in our one of our Premiership Leagues and he's like losing his mind over, you know, the internationals being currently played. It's like, um Did you forget they're being played because everybody's known this besides you apparently? So yeah, if you're gonna play in one of these leagues do your homework
00:08:11
Speaker
What do we got? Oh, the pick's gone here. E-muff's gone. Yep. Cooney, again, and Maschanel also all quality. Yeah. Cooney's the little. Colby. Mother. There goes that. All right. Well, then I'm probably going to have to pick Reinak. Unfortunately, he's only going to be probably good till through the pool stage and I'll be it. That's the other problem. Maybe I'll go low and Larmor.
00:08:42
Speaker
Well, I really like Jordan Larmor.
Advanced Draft Strategies
00:08:45
Speaker
I really do. So that's not the worst way to go. All right, now that I have Zebo. Simon Zebo. And he usually plays fullback too. So that's a slight uptick of an advantage there. All right. Then we have...
00:09:04
Speaker
Ooh, hmm, I wonder who, where am I? Okay. I think I have an idea who I'm going for. We'll see what happens. I think I'm gonna, mm-hmm, I'll wait for you to be done, but I think I know what I'm gonna do. Oh, jeez, Spencer almost got pinged for a penalty. Ooh, and here's Reese, looks like.
00:09:35
Speaker
All right, I'm not gonna think this about this too much harder than I've already have James low internally. She got that man. What do you think of ring rose though?
00:09:50
Speaker
Gary Ringrose, again, midfielders, you need the quality ones in this because there are so few, although there's gonna be a few more here, obviously, but because you want that quality in every spot you can, at least one. Right, that's where I'm gonna go. All right, that way I'm not going double, same teams, but. Not double outside backs. And yeah.
00:10:14
Speaker
Because I'm personally going to load up on outside backs in this next go around and then I'll start to diversify from there and you know, they'll be I have a loose forward. He's that's done. Nope. Yep, that's good. And I have a midfielder, but yeah, midfield is good.
00:10:31
Speaker
Get the guys who score, who run. This is all based on how much guys, really how much they run with the ball. The tries helped, obviously, but even they're not worth as much here. They're five points, not like 10 in TRM. This is all about how many meters you try. Meters are definitely worth quite a bit in this one. You want to run meters when you can. Speaking of which, I'm very satisfied with my TRM team so far.
00:11:01
Speaker
Uh, i'm doing okay. I pick simmons and barberry bounce back. We'll see what the final count is on that one. Um Mercer was my other Oh, yeah, I don't have him. We did okay. I don't have him. I have dom brandt tomorrow along with vise So we'll see how that goes. Yeah, I have dom brandt going um dom brandt vise uh mark tow smith and thoroughly
00:11:27
Speaker
So I got some guys going. Yeah. If Paciliato fell to me, I was probably going to take him, but I was really suspect. I would have also suspected something bad happened. Yeah. Yeah. Duncan takes Pinal, which how can how can you not? Right. You know, he's just so good. You know, talk about that youth movement in France. He's definitely a part of it. No doubt about it in my mind. Yeah. I think I know who I'm taking.
00:11:56
Speaker
And so there's three outside backs that I'm looking at right now. Thorley, Hogg, and Larmor. And the difference in that, I love Thorley and I know what he can do, but the difference in that to me is the quality between Thorley and Hogg is so marginal at this point. Gloucester probably aren't getting outside the pool stage. Exeter are. And I'm 99% sure that Hogg's gonna play most of those matches.
00:12:22
Speaker
I'm very confused by some of these ratings JJ Hanrahan Tell his friend. Oh Ben. Earl. There he goes that I don't know how far Bristol's gonna get in this competition, but yeah, that's still not a bad idea Fly haves. Oh, there's Marcus Smith. Yeah, he's in there. He's not gone. Someone was like I thought I saw Harlequin ranked higher than him and I was really confused besides Dom Brant and
00:12:49
Speaker
No, I meant a fly half.
Maximizing Points with Player Analysis
00:12:51
Speaker
Really? Yeah. Yeah. You know, I didn't pull out a no. But even Mark Atkinson is a fly half. I don't get that. I saw that. Oh, you're up, dude. I was like, how did this happen? Like, somebody definitely messed this up. Hand-ra-hand. Yeah. OK. So I'm definitely taking Stewart Hogg first off. That's not a terrible decision at all. Carrick might make my decision for me here, depending on how he goes with his double picks here.
00:13:22
Speaker
And then who else? I'm sure Carrick wasn't expecting me to pick so fast. He's like, Whoa, why so quick? Because there's not a whole lot. Yeah. Hastings and Russell are going to sit there for a while as is Noel. No, not while he's out. Yeah, he's out. And Russell and Hastings both will be out for a wee bit. So.
00:13:49
Speaker
Yeah, now it's, that was where we're looking at, you're looking at players who are either not hurt or are on those teams. And we have Henry Slade off the board. Not bad for this competition by any means in this format.
00:14:02
Speaker
Shit, I might still get Jordan Larmor on the on the bounce. No, you're not. No, you're not. No, you're not. Looks like I am. Says who? Says me. Oh, I'm not I'm not ignoring the other guys. And I'm definitely taking a Lancer player. So bye bye.
00:14:21
Speaker
Well, fuck. Listen, you're going to learn to keep your mouth shut. Lester front row off the board. Raka. There goes that one. That's a good one. Yeah. Again, not sure he'll make it beyond the quarterfinal with Claremont, but still a quality pick. Just the same. All right. Now I got to start considering other positions besides those, like the ones that are really hard to grab, like fly half and all that stuff. Excuse me. One thing I would
00:14:51
Speaker
I would certainly consider is Langsless as a fly half here too, that sucks. Yeah, it's weird. There's maybe backups to certain players like Johnny Sexton. He's definitely gonna play this competition, but if he's banged up, and we know he's taken a few injuries in the last couple of years. So what do you think of this double back to back? Stockdale and Cordero.
00:15:17
Speaker
That's uh, we're talking santi san fakundo fakundo. Yeah, santi's away right now So again remember that hopefully fakundo is okay after today. I heard oh, yeah He just got they just bounced off. Okay fair enough. Um, I believe jacob stockdale is flying so I uh, I didn't see it goes was he in the Was he in the island team this weekend, I don't remember
00:15:45
Speaker
Um, yeah priest got himself run over Poor guy. Yeah. Oh, did he? Yeah, that's what that happened. It looks like yuck Holly Morris might have destroyed him Jeez, um, um, hmm not taking them yet, but uh, there's definitely some fly halves that I will take and then maybe take like a backup to one of the better teams
00:16:13
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that's actually something. Finn Russell. Yeah, Sockdale played. He did. Okay. So he's okay, at least. He's all right. Yeah, looks like I'll get... Russell, if I make the... Yeah, that's pretty much what you're banking on there, Anton. You have to make the... You actually have to make the knockouts. I mean, everybody's making the knockouts in this because he talked about the Sacco bracket and all that stuff.
00:16:31
Speaker
Points are on the line until the last very moment kids. Yeah, don't mess with it. All right, so who did he go? He went exit or front row Interesting. Yeah, sure. I would have done that. I would have gone wasps over exit or front row. I mean things it'll be there So hmm, I guess that makes sense, but they're not gonna get you they're not gonna win you point. We're not gonna win you games Yeah, it's a little early for lost might. Yeah. Yeah, right boss. We'll get you to where you need to be. Yeah I'm not arguing against that. Okay, I'm up who went get tone
00:17:00
Speaker
Key toon that's a good one. He's been switched to a midfield this year and he's definitely got the ability of an outside back Is your Baron injured? Um Might be or Luke McGrath McGrath's a good pick. Let's just half back. Yeah. Yeah, I think I'm going and Leinster there. Mm-hmm Good Luke McGrath there and then outside back and
00:17:25
Speaker
That's where uh stockdale yeah, i'll go stockdale there I don't know that ulster are gonna push past but he will get me to where I need to be and there was other All right, so mine's coming up there's other outside backs that i'll be able to poach throughout the season. Yep, i'm thinking Yeah, i'm thinking damn bigger
00:17:45
Speaker
for my next one if he doesn't disappear because he's an EFLIF and again, you need some quality. Here's the thing, that's the other thing that you have to balance. You have to get to the goddamn semi-final. You want to get to the semi-final first and then you can solve it but you have to balance the
00:18:02
Speaker
getting there with the smart selections like Dan Bigger is a good pick. He's going to take all their kicks and he's quality enough to hit most of them. So, especially in like a match like they played against Benton last year. That definitely rode some people rode that day because he had a good day that day, you know. So we'll see how that goes. Cobus. Cobus is gone.
00:18:29
Speaker
Charles. Oh, Justin. Justin. I hope he's I hope he's healthy. No, he's not. I know he's not. He's not. Yeah. And here's the other thing, like front rows. If you don't get. At this point, like no, the front rows are going to jump off the page to me. You know, there's some good ones all the way down the list, like to have a quality front row, you know.
00:18:54
Speaker
Bristol aren't as good as they used to be. Munster have a quality front row, you know, and so at this point it's like if you didn't get one of those big front rows, the wasps, the exit, or the rosings, you probably don't need to go. You can just be very patient and wait. Yeah, at this point I'm just gonna wait until. Yeah, last pick. Yeah, lock in front row at this point, unless you get one of the big locks like Johnny Hill or Johnny Gray.
00:19:19
Speaker
Yeah, it's not really worth it, you know, but yeah, there's only gonna be eight selected and there's eight good ones So I'm not gonna worry
Adapting Strategies for Uncertainty
00:19:26
Speaker
about it. Yeah, I mean Ray Ryan Ian Henderson Roy Arnold Yeah, Turia who can be deployed as a loose forward sometimes the sequel again can be deployed as a loose forward sometimes So which way are you looking with your? I Am I am gonna go damn bigger. Okay bigger or go home. I
00:19:47
Speaker
And then we'll see. I'm glad. Okay. So now that you've picked a fly half, I'm looking at Marcus Smith as mine. Yeah. And again, I'm going to look for somebody. I think I'm going to take, I think I'm going to see if I can be patient and wait for, wait for a backup of one of the better teams and then hope I fall into it a little bit. Ross Byrne is sitting there. He's there. Cammy Lopes.
00:20:11
Speaker
You know, Lopez is pretty good. He'll at least again, let's not seem to probably at least get to the quarterfinals. So you can write in Marcus Smith. Those, you know, he's playing the way he's playing right now. He could score points and go far. Okay. So Noel and Vanderfleer really care. You go and go. Guys are starting to go on and go in on guys that they think will be around for a while. Yeah. Interesting. Very interesting. Okay. Um, so of all the positions that are left,
00:20:40
Speaker
You know, it's really hard for me to ignore this guy. And I think I'm going to be going for I think I'm going to be regret if I don't. Yeah. Jack Willis. Oh, Jack Willis. Yeah. Shit. OK. I'm looking. OK. Interesting. See, I'm going the same position. Different player. Oh, now it doesn't matter. I can tell you. Yeah. Marcel Cozzi. Yeah. He's very good.
00:21:03
Speaker
Um, he currently is just checking it out leads in, um, carries and was it offloads? He's like for all Australia for the pro 14 for the pro 14. Yep. He's leading triscore. Um, so if I have both the leading triscores for the PRAM and the top pro 14 in my, um, no, I know my, my, as Plankers.
00:21:28
Speaker
Yeah, that's pretty good. That's a pretty deadly combination last I checked him and then I might go mark a smith. Now I'm just going to look for points and get them. Yeah. Now you got to start thinking about guys that are going to get you over the line for a few weeks in a row at least here. So yeah, one, two, three, four, five. So yeah, we're in around six. Okay. It's not about that time to start. Yep. So Justin's up.
00:21:57
Speaker
All right, so I'm at 50 yard here. Yeah, he took Coates here. Oops. Justin does his homework too. Mark has gone monster front row. Yeah, and the thing with front rows obviously as we advance, it's going to be tougher to do that. And I guess that's one thing to consider is you need a front row that's going to go at least somewhat far.
00:22:26
Speaker
Yeah, but at this point, I don't know. There's any front rows that are going too far. Uh, you know, I think I'm, I think I might take a gamble on it and really reach for it because this is a team that's probably going to make it to the quarterfinal and I'll see what happens to that. Maybe somebody drops another team that, oh, here we go. RG barge. Let them have it. Weird hair.
00:22:55
Speaker
Oh, that lid is super adjusted. It was like you've been You definitely had been in a scrap obviously, but oh Yeah, he's super lopsided right with that hip with the headband Fix your lid donkey Decent boot Yeah, oh was that is that man vacy on the bench? Oh
00:23:25
Speaker
I didn't did he did he come off too? No. Oh, maybe that's him. I thought he was okay. That's him later. Maybe he got maybe maybe they make a sweatshirt halftime. I don't know. There's Hastings. He's seen so yeah. Hastings. Oh, he's always a good pick. All right. He's never a bad pick. Let's put it that way. So I think I'm gonna do what you talked about and look at teams that might, you know, be around later. Mm hmm.
00:23:57
Speaker
Um, as far as front rows, and then we'll take Leon. Yeah, they might be. We'll see how they go. And that's also our boy, Joe T. Yeah. Well then, okay. Yeah. Now I'm even happier that I have one. I have them. And then, uh, Marcus Smith will go for me as my fly hat. Yeah. I mean, you got, you got a field one and if you got a good one sitting in front of you, you might as well play them. You know, that's how it goes. Um,
00:24:26
Speaker
And plus who knows, like with any of these teams, we don't know. Like this is like one, one team shits to bed. It's going to be so, it's going to be so crazy. This is going to be a batshit crazy freaking cop. Yeah. As much as, as much as we, you know, talk about like, yeah, you want a team that's going far. We don't fucking know. We don't, we just played this format before. No, this is going to be crazy. There's no way to know this is how it's going to happen. Cause wait, don't Leinster play Exeter like twice. Yeah, I think so. One of them's not going anywhere.
00:24:52
Speaker
Yeah, I guess not. That's a potential as well. What if they fuck each other up? That's also true. That's absolutely 100% possible. Because you're not just playing against the opposition that you step on the field against. You're also playing against the opposition across the scoreboard, too, because there's only two pools and you only can get the top four. So you gotta really...
00:25:13
Speaker
You really you know, everybody has to go for the jugular number one nobody can hold back if you hold back and you and you know you You're eliminated because of either not having enough bonus points or not having a good enough points differential You're gonna be pissed. Mm-hmm, you know, that's just how it is
00:25:29
Speaker
The the Saracens got through last year with a little bit of help from points point differential You know, that's those huge and just you know being able to pick up that big bonus point in Munster, you know in Cork So that was a that was a big one.
Refining Strategy and Opponent Analysis
00:25:43
Speaker
So stuff like that makes a huge different even more Like it's just it's amplified because of only four games and so what's going on in the Shrek snoggin right now? What are you looking at? What do you got? What are you looking at? Let's see your I have
00:25:58
Speaker
I have I'm pretty well I'm set at half back and fly half for now. I need another loose forward. Yeah, I need another midfielder. I need another outside back row. And I do need a front row and I think I think I'll take a flyer on our front row. What are we getting around seven? Almost here. Seven or eight like that. Okay. So I think
00:26:22
Speaker
Yeah, I'm looking and you know at this point Yeah, he's too tasty sitting there and I gotta take him To round out one of my positions here I can't assuming assuming he does. Oh Brycene. That's a great pick He was so good Deegan's a decent pick Jimmy G. Obviously right now He's a tool. Okay
00:26:46
Speaker
So, and they have, you know, we know their quality of their players in that squad as well, so they do have a shot as well, you know, and they want to restore the history of their club for, you know, Grant, they did it with a lot of big money, but they want to restore that belief that Tuon are not a force to be screwed around with, so.
00:27:07
Speaker
I can't really argue but right now you can but yeah, ultimately So we'll see what happens with that. So picking them might not anybody from them is not a bad idea either in my opinion No, I don't think so either I think you know, I think I think we could see some a particular too long loose forward as well Bryce julian, that's not a bad pick All right. So I'm gonna take
00:27:35
Speaker
this guy because he's just too good he's just too good like i know i know they're not hanging around longer than the pool stage but still you know give me if i can get four wins at a pool stage because thoroughly just has it has days i'm not shaking my head at all
00:27:53
Speaker
You know, and it just gives me three quality outside backs that for the most part we'll probably see more often than not. And then I'm gonna take a flyer on a front row. And I can get, you know, I think maybe I can find somebody, because now that I have two that I've kind of convinced myself I can take and have a decent shot at seeing them beyond.
00:28:19
Speaker
I might um, I might go for other positions that probably need a little bit of help and There's a guy that played really I did this comp last year with um with karik actually kim riggy also a good pick Another one of those like thoroughly though that will get you points and probably will can get you some wins in this pool stage um, I played this comp last year with
00:28:40
Speaker
with Carrick and he was really good. Stuart McCloskey was so good that Andy Farrell picked him for the Six Nations team. So yeah, I'm not going to say no. So I will, assuming that Carrick doesn't snap him out from underneath me, I'm probably going to do that to round out my midfield. Try time. There's Mercer. Yeah.
00:29:04
Speaker
He's like, yay, I have free space and not a bunch of black jerseys in front of me. He's going to see those black jerseys in his sleep for a while, unfortunately. That was not a fun experience for him last week. No doubt. No doubt. Most of the bath team, really. You know, that was just an absolute tonking. No fun. Come on, Carrick, you can do it.
00:29:32
Speaker
I'm sure if anybody could have seen me reaching for that beer, you would have laughed as hard as I was thinking about laughing. Oh, you're up. I am. And there he is. He's still there. Give me. Was that Duhan? Yep. Yeah. Not a bad outside backpack. He'll be, again, one of those guys you're going to need to win games early on. So here's an idea. I might go with Ross Byrne here.
00:29:57
Speaker
Not a bad idea. And I was thinking about finding my my second fly half right now. Yeah. As well as taking one of those front row fliers on this backswing. So right at this point. Yeah, I'm thinking burn because again, like you said, Sexton, he can get hurt. And absolutely kind of does a lot. So actually, I might go. You know what? I might go you're a baron to make it so backups at that
00:30:23
Speaker
that both my half backs right just to to cover them because you can get outside backs outside backs gonna be a fucking dime a dozen um and like yeah it's gonna get kind of butt tight as it whittles down but it's huge if you have a if you don't have a fly half
00:30:42
Speaker
Or a half pack. Oh, you're gonna be in trouble. You're gonna be really, you're gonna be just looking at that waiver wire and praying that something happens, basically. Yeah. That's not really a fun thing you want to be doing. So, you know what, I might go, yeah, I might go, I might go starters instead. Instead of going burn as a lens star, cause I get, like, I just kind of talk myself out of that. Cause, cause these are backup and it's a team that might not even make it. Like what if, what if Exeter do them out?
00:31:09
Speaker
You don't know. Which is possible. I mean, I think I honestly assume that's why Exeter are playing with the chip on their shoulder because they need to be playing. They need to be beating the teams the way they're beating them now, because that means that they're playing the way they need to play to beat Leinster. And are Leinster playing that well? I don't know. Yeah, you know. I don't know. You know, people are talking about the quality of the pro 14 right now and that's a lotta.
00:31:39
Speaker
people are talking uh... cheetie goes did you watch the player for whales today no i don't know i did not oh i did a little bit spoilers did you break i don't think so no i mean uh... bristle posted up a picture obviously of him and he always goes yep not not uh... this is okay nope okay good so he didn't break so really that's all i need to worry about honestly what else do you need to worry about
00:32:09
Speaker
Oh, because yeah, because obviously we know if you don't know character does a shit ton of analysis Yeah, and it's very good at it as well. So he's probably coding and all that stuff for his Pretty good stuff. Okay, who went? Pidaki Pidaki. Yep. He ended up being a decent decent ad for For people last year an FRD might be a little early for can they worked? Um, but it's not too early for Ereborin So I'm gonna do that definitely
00:32:40
Speaker
So that's not a bad idea. Um I didn't take ficundo cordero yet. I thought I did you have not Why didn't I do that? I don't know. Why haven't you he's there? I mean the idea of he and his brother being in a fancy team together is kind of fun Yeah, I don't have either of them at the moment. Um But if I had one I couldn't get the other Yeah
00:33:05
Speaker
But he he gets points. I don't I think it's He's underrated in that respect because again, he's a he's a runner. I think he's been raking pretty much in an frd. Yeah So why wouldn't he continue to do that especially as a fullback? He's not a kicking fullback. No, he's not he wants to go Champions Cup and even you know, he'll probably get bumped to the wing with hogback. So even better for him And then where I was a river in
00:33:32
Speaker
Yeah, Teddy, you're Brian. Done.
00:33:36
Speaker
There you go. So there's that now. I need to go seeking out. I may take Ross Byrne here. I'm not going to I'm not going to assume shit. Yeah. Well, I heard you have too many Leinster guys. So I have. Yeah, I have Larmor. And that is it. Yeah, that's it. I have Larmor. That's it. So I have low ring rose. Oh, yeah. You are. There's good and bad to be in stacked with a with a team.
00:34:03
Speaker
Which is what well, that's why I went with McGrath and then your brain because one of them One of them should make it if I yeah, I I would bet that I would absolutely bet that One of those two is probably gonna get to at least the knockouts. Yeah I Need to work on my halfback situation, but again, I have a plan for that unless you sneak in with Kami we have McGrath for halfback
00:34:28
Speaker
I mean, no, I mean, fly off. Yeah, let's say you mean the other the other half that one. Yeah, it's feeling doors. That's pretty good. That's yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah, Taylor Doris has played pretty well for Ireland from when I understand this, but despite their dysfunction, he's not he's not the problem.
00:34:48
Speaker
Let's see what else we got here. Yeah, I think I need to go. Yeah, this is the time to go with that backup fly out from that loose foot and that forward front row flyer. I don't want to wait too much longer because somebody else could have the same idea. I do. And then I'm shafted. Yeah. So, so it begs the question, Claremont or Toulon, which one am I going to get through the knockout you
Building a Balanced Team
00:35:10
Speaker
think? Oh,
00:35:14
Speaker
I don't know I that's um, yeah, I would I Would go too long which I think I think the quality of their players from one from one to as we might put it 18 1 2 3 16 17 18 Are probably better. Mm-hmm. So With me now up and with that idea in my head. I'm just gonna do it. I
00:35:43
Speaker
Jacob Umaga goes, wow. Yep. I mean, it's just, I hope that's not his only. Yeah. But that's the problem. There's, there's other guys available that'll get you Johnson van Rensberg. I just, he's okay in midfield in this format, but man, he just, he frustrates. Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:02
Speaker
I don't think sale's going to go far in this competition. I think Carrick's seeming to like him. Doesn't Carrick have him in a bunch of early weeks? He at least has him. I think he has him in the prom. Yeah. Yeah. I think he has him in the prom. So. I just, I try to stay away from him. Yeah. I can't, I can't, I can't back that. Carrick, I would like to know what you see in your own run spending around the bird cause.
00:36:22
Speaker
I don't know the fact that he's a fucking Safa. Yeah. He has one cap, I think. For the spring. Yeah. For the spring bucks. Yeah, I went with Ross Byrne, finally. So I'm going to look at Cammy Lopes. That's the other one I was thinking of too. I was like, if I don't get him, I think I'm okay with getting Lopez. Yeah. I think I'm going to go with him and then I'll go with probably Santy.
00:36:46
Speaker
Yeah, there you go. He is he he does. Yeah, you're you are going to have to wait for him to get back. Oh, he's hurt. Well, he's he's in Australia right now. I have Cordero Stockdale low. So yeah, you're you're you at least have guys that can start you this two weeks. Yeah, because he's going to have to come back from Australia in quarantine. Yeah, I'm not worried about that. He can he can chill for for a minute. OK, he just went CJ Staunzer.
00:37:11
Speaker
yeah i was looking at him because i need a another loose forward but he's not a carrier he's a tackler machine he might well he might be a carrier for months for munster he might not be a carrier for ireland but he's there he's probably gonna be a carrier for munster because they are gonna need some of those forward bangers
00:37:29
Speaker
I like him. I like him a lot. Obviously another one that's going to have to wait. I have two ideas for my list. So it's coming up here and I think it and just to provide myself a little bit of depth. Don't pick poetry. Don't pick Ben Curry. If you're out there, don't do it. It's not a good idea. Curry's out for a while. Pleasure is out for the year. Yeah. Pleasure is not not in currently deal.
00:37:55
Speaker
Yeah, outside back. Yeah. I mean, again, talking about guys that are going to be probably on a team that'll be here for at least this quarter file for the semifinal. Why is Rata's not, why is he still around?
00:38:11
Speaker
They're probably not making it to the next round. He is very quality. So if you're looking for outside back depth, that is a good spot to go. Absolutely. He's very good. We obviously know the quality that he possesses, so not bad. He and even Liam Williams is probably a decent grab as well at this point.
00:38:30
Speaker
was worried that Lopes was gone. No, he's still right there. Yeah, I mean, if you don't, if you have a quality starter, that's probably taking you to the distance for fly half right now, you have I have Marcus Smith. Yeah, well, but as far as like, how, how deep the they're gonna go. Matt you jelly bear is a great ad right now for Bordeaux Bordeaux are probably not gonna get outside the pool stages.
Executing and Analyzing Draft Strategy
00:38:54
Speaker
Maybe definitely not beyond the quarterfinal. So there's that.
00:38:58
Speaker
I don't think Mark Atkinson is going to play that well. I don't think he's going to serve well either. I don't know how they did the math on that one, but Ookie. Here we go. So we got Beal. Keith Earls is off the board for an outside back. Not terrible.
00:39:12
Speaker
Again, and Munster may research this year too. We may see them in a quarter-final, the semi-final as well. So that's not a bad way to go either. GLDP has a loose forward here, boo. He's gonna be one. Yeah, he's definitely gonna be one. But that would have been one of those fun lock grabs, like, yep, I'm playing him because he's playing eight, at least for the next month. He just went. And James Ryan.
00:39:39
Speaker
Okay, so I mean, locks, as far as the quality locks go, that's one of the top two or three. Yeah, without a doubt, I would put Gray and Henderson in there as well. Johnny Hill up there. I think you'll see a lot more Joe to Corey this year. In the same vein as like a well skeleton. Is the big fella on this list? Because I've thought his team made it to the
00:40:03
Speaker
I don't know, but I just went. He's not. Uh, he must, he must be on one of the not as good teams. Boo. Cordero and Lopes. Yeah. There you go. Santee Cordero can be a Lopez. Not bad. Yo, who's this Carlos. Oh, everyone's happy there. Who's just scored.
00:40:32
Speaker
um somebody ugly is that max right oh my goodness he is hideous he is hideous but tries are still pretty so uh Dave Carney off the board no that's why it just kind of popped into his hand oh so he's just and all you have to do is run that's easy yeah i can run too not fast but you know
00:40:58
Speaker
Let's see. Um, so I can just basically go best of it. Look at that. Yeah, you could at this point if you feel like you have some quality, but like I see a couple of those towards that I think could get to the that next round, um, potentially. So I'm going to take them.
00:41:13
Speaker
Yeah, that's I think the direction i'm going because now that I have so I my My outside I have four outside backs. Mm-hmm. I have oh, I need a midfielder. That's where i'm Yeah, you might want to find one of those so you have to take probably your best one. Esther hasten's not a bad grab I know you already have a quinn. So maybe not that john porch isn't bad either. I like him Oh, and there's another name right after that that I really like and I forgot about him. Damn it Well, you have you you've got it you're you're a
00:41:40
Speaker
Do you think DDE, your DDA? Yeah, Dale Ende. He was, I mean, obviously excellent for South Africa at the World Cup and just, yeah, an excellent player overall. So, you know, in terms of just grabbing guys that are good, you can do worse. But there's plenty of guys that are going to score. That's the thing, going down. So at this point, but I still need a second and he is, as you said, he could be an excellent pick.
00:42:06
Speaker
whoops don't don't lose it marcher so good to see the fans back in the premiership though i will say that uh i'm thinking marshant though ah you fucker anton oh who'd he go with ollie volum that was one of my that was one of the ones i had in my head damn it okay next and now i'm gonna go come down south africa and punt you in the butt catching feelings there jared yeah i well i really like ollie volum so but yeah
00:42:35
Speaker
Damn you all to hell. You blew it up. Let's see. Oh, that actually may be as good of a direction to go.
00:42:55
Speaker
Yeah. I think I'm going to do that. All right. Oh, you're up. I am up taking him first. He's calling it the end of the year. He's calling it the end of the year, but I'm still taking him. Not a terrible selection. No. Oh, Carrick got DDE. That's a good man. Again, good pick. You're not going to hear me complain. No. So I think I'm going to end up with, uh, well at this point,
00:43:22
Speaker
And for those that are out there in Never Never Land, there's a guy from Conak named Paul Boyle that has actually played really well in the time that everybody else has been away. So I don't see him getting dismissed from that team. Dan Robson's also a quality pick at this point. I'm gonna take
00:43:51
Speaker
Hmm. Yeah, I'm gonna take him like I like him just a tiny bit better shoes in no, hmm Because again, we're talking about guys that are probably gonna be around for You know the duration of this comp I don't see how Rossing get eliminated before the semi-final and that's me probably putting the kibosh on them, but you know Sorry, so what do you think of Chavon see then?
00:44:17
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Henry Schaffanci. Yeah, I was I wrote him for a little bit too last year. That was that was not bad. Then I think he's probably going to be my next pick. Not bad either at all.
00:44:28
Speaker
Because again, I'm still surfing that line between, you know, get me points, but also get me, you know, get me far and Rossing, uh, should do pretty decently there. Yeah. Quarterfinals, that minimum. Yeah. You know, so you'd hope. I think a lot of people would think. Yeah. So I'll go Chamoncie. And then at that point, I might go give me points. Start looking at like a, uh, yeah, Fritz Lee was another name I was looking at too.
00:44:56
Speaker
That's one of those guys that you're happy to see the back of when he walks into field, he and Yato especially. I mean that, as far as Priscilla Yato goes, that pool match he was playing against Australia where they were blitzing him to start.
00:45:14
Speaker
if he doesn't come off Fiji when that match. No question about that. I don't think anybody would argue that at all. But that's just the problem for Fiji. Their depth is not great. Top line players are unbelievable, but they're... So who am I going again? I got...
00:45:35
Speaker
You got shovel see going I'm gonna have show on see if unless he gets picked. Mm-hmm and then crows Yep, not bad. Those are my that's my plan going into the quality picks 96 97. So we're we're deep in our cups here. Yes, we are speaking of which say we got we got beers beers You're going somewhere stand up for a second All right, well Jared stretches his legs and Maybe takes a little bit of a smoke break
00:46:08
Speaker
You're stuck with me as, uh, watching Worcester really trying to maul it over Fritz Lee goes Patricia Fernandez goes and tons up. I don't think there's too many choices for him to go South African too easily.
00:46:37
Speaker
Hello, Esther, who isn't sitting there and he did not go. Josh, uh, Joshua to his Sova to Anton and we get Duncan. What did they do to Ben Obano?
00:47:06
Speaker
It better be nice to have. Oh, I'm up. You're up. Bessie. I should have taken my obligatory relief earlier before the pod. Yeah, exactly. All right. Plan is up. Chavonsie goes to moi. Billy Mata. That's a good pick. Tui Silva. Then Cole. Bessie. Chavonsie. Yeah. Yeah. Good picks.
00:47:32
Speaker
Good picks, good picks. What am I going to do next? All right. So I have fly half backup. I have a midfield. I do not have a midfield or an outside back backup. Do you want to have a scrum half backup? I have no lock, which is fine. Yeah. I'll take one at the end and just discard them if I need to. Um,
00:47:56
Speaker
my halfback. Okay, so at this point I can take kind of a wild shot in the dark at a couple of positions in terms of I think my halfback's good in terms of that. I think I have at least two loose forwards that will get to at least a quarterfinal, so that's okay. I feel pretty good about two out of the three of my outside backs, so that's okay.
00:48:18
Speaker
So I'm going to dive into some depth in a couple of spots. One of them is going to be halfback, assuming he's there. Again, played this competition last year. He did pretty well for me. If he's there when he comes to my turn, I'm going to take Kaitlyn Blade. So we'll see how this goes.
00:48:38
Speaker
Did all right for me last year. I think it was the win that last gas win they had against Montpellier I believe and that was a huge one. I actually had to cut up a couple iconic players in that one. So that wasn't so bad. Obviously as the competition went on they started to fade in their pool but didn't be good for a couple weeks at least. Johnny May goes to Duncan.
00:49:05
Speaker
Yeah, you know, start looking at guys that know where the trial line is and that can get you points when, you know, cause you don't want to eat a zero. You need guys that get you seven, eight. Max Malins goes. I, that was monitoring. That's a good one. How long that would last. Yeah, that's a good one. He's outside back in this. Yes. Yeah. Okay. I would assume I didn't. Who'd you go to? Sons of Zeus. Be silly if you still fly half on this. No, he's outside back. Okay. Would be kind of silly.
00:49:36
Speaker
Um, wow, uh, Anton leaning on Bristol has a has a major Bristol in his pants He's going he's so looking at his he's got, uh, Ben Earl um Callum sheetie because Finn Russell's his other uh, oh, yeah I have right now and now mail-ins so he's uh He's looking for points where the points are I suppose so
00:50:02
Speaker
Yeah, this becomes real interesting at the end here. That's for sure, so we'll see what's left when everything shakes out. We got Justin and Mark, and then I'm going again. Do, do, do, do. Yeah, if you didn't know, Ben and I live in New England in the US, and my heat's about to kick on, so if you hear a clang or two, that's all it is.
Final Reflections and Insights
00:50:29
Speaker
No worries. Nothing to worry about, promise.
00:50:33
Speaker
Always this referee boom Who's the routine came out on top? Mm-hmm probably the team that deserve to yeah, well, I mean Worcester just don't finish so you kind of Phrasing boom we should expect is Johnny Gray off the board Wow Wow Yeah with five picks left, I'm not sure I'm ready to take a lock
00:50:58
Speaker
Yeah, i'll need to pick a lock I'll need I want to I would now then it's time for like I think locks and backups now because I still need another midfielder Oh shit, I gotta Hey I didn't do it Don't know why kicked me out of the draft. That was annoying. Oh, that's annoying Instead of did I I guess I hit back somehow um stop doing that. Yeah
00:51:28
Speaker
I need really ought to stop doing I need another midfielder. I have four outside backs. That should be enough. Yeah, maybe, maybe you can grab a fifth of here feeling feeling spry like another front row. Here we go. So Mark Martin Alonso. Okay. Let's see. Alright, so we have this. Yeah, I think I want him. Mike Haley.
00:51:58
Speaker
Munster outside back. I know Munster don't play a super flashy brand, but in terms of guys that you want that might be there by the knockout stage for Munster, it might be okay. So I'm going to give him a shot. And then assuming that character doesn't take Kaitlyn Blade out from underneath me, I'm going to grab him too. Because again, I think I have a quality halfback that's probably going to ride me at least until the semi final.
00:52:28
Speaker
Should I get should I get there? What's the other thing? I have to get there too. Yeah. Locks. I'm not worried about all locks for now. Do I need another loose forward? I don't see like I don't even see I don't even see a lock on this first page that would excite me. So
00:52:54
Speaker
Who wins Billy burns? Okay. Yep. Good fly half decent option in this in this format for sure. What else am I looking at? Oh, and then yeah. Oh,
00:53:22
Speaker
I think I might know I have to go have to pick this guy if he's around But I'll wait till you pick him first before I well assuming I start talking about assuming Kaitlyn blade again assuming that blades not taken out from underneath me Although there's another guy on there that I would take as well Loose load them again, you know, it's really hard to go wrong with the big names right now because there are so many Yeah, so I'm gonna take Kaitlyn blade
00:53:52
Speaker
All right, so I mean he's not broken. I'm looking at uh, nanu Yeah, that'll be very i'll be very interested to see how too long use him Be very interested I just want to have my own at this point. I mean why not right? Yeah, what's the worst that can happen? He I mean You know with uh, shall we see in ring rose? I should I mean those guys should get me meters. Mm-hmm. So i'm not too
00:54:21
Speaker
No concern. You're okay, but Yeah, but I don't also don't know the matchups so mm-hmm. There's too much to this There's so much to consider at this point. So that's why it's like it's it's hard to think too much if they're they're not hurt Mm-hmm. And oh, I know right they get you a little bit of a Diversification of your mm-hmm team portfolio and
00:54:47
Speaker
Like, I don't know how many too long guys do I have. Oh, I did it again. Doesn't like you. Well, I'm using a PC mouse on a Mac. Well, that'll do it. It's like super, yeah, I right click even a little bit. It's like, oh. Let's scoot you over.
00:55:11
Speaker
Oh man. All right, who we got here? We got... Careballa was another one that was on my mind too. Porch, Saron. Saron's a good pick as well. Hard to go wrong with that. Oh man, I gotta go look at this. I don't know. I don't think I was.
00:55:39
Speaker
Yeah, I think I'm going to grab, um, I'm going to, this is a total shot in the dark at this point. We got three picks left. So I'm going to grab a guy that, um, might be there might not. Okay. So, Oh, Ben Lamb. Yeah. That's a, that's a good pick for if you have enough depth that you're outside back position and, or you're just, yeah, he's going to do fine. He usually knows where the trial line is. It's a hard guy to tackle too. I already have the Leon front row, but they're not terribly,
00:56:09
Speaker
I want to see if there's another front row I can get. Oh, there's like a lot of shell or Claremont or Bordeaux. All of them could.
00:56:20
Speaker
Claremont could I'm not sure I mean Lara so could be a dark horse never know. Yeah, they're I mean They have a lot of quality players, right? They're five. They're top For top four finish. They are actually hmm highly ranked for that at least for as far as betting options are so I think I'm gonna go with the
00:56:44
Speaker
with the money line at this point. And it's a backup, so nothing else. So La Rochelle, right? La Rochelle, Rochelle. All the Rochelle. There, and then Nanu Nanu. Kaboom. All right, now what else do I have to pick? I need a lock and then best available. Who gives a fuck?
00:57:12
Speaker
Yeah, that's at that point. It's like all right. What's what's out there? What's available? You know You have four you have four outside backs. Five's not bad. Exactly. Yeah, you have you know You have two midfielder or a loose forward. You probably could use three true All that probably is another loose forward because I have backups at every position now, but mm-hmm loose forward Yeah,
Closing Remarks and Future Prospects
00:57:35
Speaker
yep, yep so and really
00:57:41
Speaker
And this is not a bad strategy by any means. I've seen people employ it. If you're like, all right, I have a player that I want. I have a player that's not playing now. And then I have an empty spot in my lineup. Play without a lock.
00:57:55
Speaker
Yeah locks get you two to three points, right? You know rather than playing a lock that'll get you two or three points go grab a midfielder character I think so. I think he plays it out a lot. Yeah, he does it a lot He did think he did against me dump me. Yeah Friggin Marcus Smith and 12 cheese just bent me over ankles grabbed with the sands, you know any any help
00:58:18
Speaker
Only your own tears. Yeah, pretty much. Woodburn off the board. I don't know how much Woodburn is going to play. If, if, if Facundo Cordero is there, Hogg, and no Flaherty, like, yeah, he'll get a spot start here and there. Maybe the, maybe if they're either one eliminated or guaranteed to go through. I don't know after that, though, honestly. Like, who's this as a midfielder in this? That's interesting.
00:58:43
Speaker
Okay, there wasn't another midfielder that I was thinking about there's one I'm thinking about and I think he's gonna have I Think he's gonna have a starting job by the end of the by the end of the the year and if they're in this competition Then I don't see why they don't play him and that's that's Tom Anderson, okay. Oh, all right. See I'm looking at Devoto. Oh
00:59:05
Speaker
Also could pick. Hendrickson's still low because he didn't play in this comp at all last year. And somehow has this really weird old man shadow named Ian Whitten that's keeping him out of the extra lineup, which doesn't make sense to me. But you gotta figure it's gonna be Devoto and Slade. Yeah, and you know, if...
00:59:23
Speaker
Hendrickson might get it. But I if Devoto is broken, I would hope yeah, Hendrickson is the first pick. Yeah, actually, yeah, maybe maybe not. We'll see. That's why I'm looking at I'm looking at Devoto. Who else is there maybe just just in case I'm getting too ahead of myself scan Rory Scandal is not a bad idea. Clement check could be a good pick. Um,
00:59:49
Speaker
Just plenty. I mean, everybody's good pick at this point. They're all just sitting there. None of them are bad pick. Why is Sam Spink a midfielder in this? That makes no sense whatsoever. I'm pretty sure he's a halfback. Oh boy. Silly FRD. Silly, silly boys. I don't see.
01:00:11
Speaker
All right. I'm up. Jeez Louise. Well, okay. Joe Marchant, Piers, O'Connor went. Yup. Well, you talked me into this pick instead. Good job. Way to go. Oh man. Okay. Who's that? And then do I, nope, I'm not doing that. So I'm going to go half penny and Woodward go. Well, you have penny. It's a good one.
01:00:41
Speaker
Would yeah, I mean leave happening takes a lot of kicks. Oh, yes, that makes sense. Mm-hmm. I'm gonna take one more outside back that I Wish he was I Wish he was healthy damn Matsushima. Mm-hmm. He's not healthy broke his ankle the other day so
01:01:04
Speaker
Mercer get a second. Yeah, he did. Damn. Oh, no, this is replay. Got it. Yeah. Yeah. We're at half the red half. So they play just they replay each try like 10 times. I don't need it. You know what? I think I'm going to go with your take your suggestion, Dr. Isaiah to Yaba. There we go. And then we have one more pick. I do at least I have two more. I have I have one guy that I'll pick.
01:01:29
Speaker
And that's it. Like I have one guy that I want to pick maybe two, but yeah, I'm not, I'm not, I'm, I am not losing sleep over this. Um, I have not gone to sleep over this whatsoever. Like if I get one of four people that are on this list, whatever. Yeah. I'm not worried about it at all.
01:01:55
Speaker
Oh, I don't know what the fuck. Here we go. I really don't know which which direction to go here. And we moved along here about an hour into the draft and on our last round. So not so bad, but about what you hope for. Justin's connection seems to have stabilized up wherever he is. He's in the country in the mountains and the hills somewhere. So he survived.
01:02:25
Speaker
Hopefully we get marked to his little event, whatever he was doing. He said what it was, but not being British, I have no idea. What's up with Gibson Price? Or Gibson Park, sorry. Jameson Gibson Park? Yeah. I mean, he's the backup, but he's good. There's no doubt about that. He's definitely good. I just don't see the point. Yeah, I'm not going to draft him. Yeah, you don't need to.
01:02:50
Speaker
Oh, they have Dave Ewers as a loose forward. Yeah. Yeah. He's a loose forward in the prem too. Not my favorite, but he's there. That's all I know. Duncan, you bugger. Who would you just grab? Apparently, Mr. Mark wanted to tear you. I can't blame him. I'm up now. Oops. Should've grabbed him. I'm like, all right.
01:03:21
Speaker
Who was Anton? I'm just seeing this. Who's Anton calling Arthur? That's none of us. Yeah, I was wondering about that. It's like, it's nobody here. Matsushima. Yep. Yeah, because all this guy does is fucking score. And then just in case I need an outside back. Yep. Good one. Scoring McConaughey. Yep.
01:03:51
Speaker
And then back up. All right. I still need it. I mean, George picked Matsushima with one of his last picks. So whatever. We think a Tonga. Which one's that? You want Tonga? Let me see. Rossing 92. I'm not sure. Yeah, it's going to be. I just don't know anything. A lot of these like top 14 guys, I don't fucking know. No. What's he at?
01:04:24
Speaker
Loose forward from 140 140 overall Just behind Jordy Murphy Yeah, I mean Ross and definitely rotate that forward. So yeah, that's the only problem. That's the only thing so I mean Whatever it's my last pick, right So it is
01:05:01
Speaker
This guy will play and he'll get to run around a little bit. No, he won't. Fuck it.
01:05:09
Speaker
All right. Um, I overthought it. Now I'm just going to go with Jordy Murphy. My head, my head hurts. I'm done. Oh man. Uh, I'm going to go with one more outside back and you know, Hmm. Big T is right there, but he just wasn't good last year and it hasn't been good this year either. No, I haven't really played this year. No.
01:05:42
Speaker
Yeah, I already have three mental I have three midfielders Becky toe is still struggling with that shoulder so that's not a great idea
01:05:54
Speaker
Yeah, maybe I read something old on Matsushima then in which case, I'm stupid. Oh, what, Matsushima's fine? Yeah, he went in fine. I thought I read something, but it could be old news that, you know, me reading something old and thinking it's new. Yeah, we don't really get the best. Yeah, I have to check the date on things. Yeah. I guess I didn't check the date on that. Oops, a daisy.
01:06:19
Speaker
Yeah, you know who my outside backs tell you I could be there at the end could be there at the end could be there at the end. Definitely not gonna be there at the end. Yeah, maybe that's what I'll go with. I might go with King Horn. Actually, shit, I locked on I technically I need a lock, but
01:06:43
Speaker
I'll take one, and if I need to ditch him, I can ditch him. Let's do that. Well, I'm going to take my favorite lock on this, and that's Ian Henderson. Yeah. Can't go wrong with Ian Henderson. I was thinking about that, but again, I mean, I am going to take that advice of just, I'll pick up a lock. I'll figure out who I didn't actually want. Yeah. It's like, okay, this guy is actually no good to me whatsoever, so bye. Right.
01:07:12
Speaker
And it might end up being not new and then I'll have to sort out my, you know, my other shit situation. Oh, okay. Yeah. So that's, that's the article I read then the one, the one that character was late October. And if he just played last week, it's not late October anymore. So remember, so he's fine. It's December, dude. He's at least, he's at least not break. Yeah. Not breaking broken words. God damn it.
01:07:40
Speaker
Here we go. Last three picks. Mark, myself, Carrick. Lowry, Rendervault, yep, just played for Scotland today. Is Dan Levy healthy? Again, another guy that I wasn't sure. He did have a nasty injury that was keeping him out for a while. Good draft, kids.
01:08:12
Speaker
Yeah, I will take you in. Done. Carrot gets Mr. Irrelevant. Is Mr. Irrelevant? It is. Do it. Do it. Do it.
01:08:23
Speaker
any Bristol wrestling you can probably put your put your money on Bristol is gonna be a different story as far as this competition goes and you know we all enjoy the way Bristol play so they could they could do well most Bristol players will be worth a shot yeah no matter who's out there for them because of their style but I saw their first matchup I can't remember who it is off the top of my head
01:08:53
Speaker
Andrew Conway is Mr. Relevant.
01:08:56
Speaker
That's worse. That's another quality outside back that plays for a team that might go far. Bristol plays Claremont. Geez. That's not who I wanted to see. The likes of Rocca, Moala, Yato. And Conact. Okay, so they might have a shot. I bet that that Conact-Bristol game will be very entertaining. I would bet that that will be. Not that the Claremont-Bristol game won't be either, but I think that'll be wildly underrated because
01:09:24
Speaker
That's Pat Lam's little team as well. So that'll be very, it'll be very interesting. We'll talk, we'll talk a lot more about it coming up this week. But yeah, so it's going to be a fun time. Oh man. All right. Well, hopefully we gave you guys all a little bit of insight and a little advice and what to do, what to not to do. Remember the margins are very, very fine in this draft. You're looking at a shit ton of good names, but you have to figure out which ones are getting through. You have to figure out which ones are worth, you know,
01:09:51
Speaker
Picking now and riding out the fact that you probably won't have them in later rounds, right? So weird competition to draft in it is And especially this year that's the best part is How much can you plan for you can't? Like it's not like pools where you can be like this team's definitely coming out of this pool This team's definitely come out of this place to pools like I have no idea and they only play two other teams, right? So there's not like you don't play what four other teams or three other teams, whatever it is for the usually. Yeah three other yeah three other and then like you that round robin and
01:10:21
Speaker
It's just the two and then it's who did the best from there. So good luck two teams like Beat the snot out of each other so that they don't absolutely they don't get tries over right It's gonna be this gonna be open very open play. I think this year Yeah, I mean you're gonna need points. Everybody needs everybody needs to score everybody needs bonus points and you know losing bonus points or it can even be valuable like
01:10:44
Speaker
Yeah, man, that's gonna be crazy. So we can recap it real quick before we sign off. Pool A is Bordeaux, Leinster, Wasp, Bath, Edinburgh, Toulon, La Rochelle, Sails, Scarlet, Dragons, Montpellier, Northampton. Pool B, Exeter, Leom, Ulster, Bristol.
01:11:05
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Monster, Rassing, Claremont, Conak, Quinn's, Glasgow, Gloucester, and Toulouse. Yee. There's a couple teams that definitely don't belong there. But we'll see how it goes. Poor dragons. If they don't play better than they did against that Bristol in that quarter-final there. Not many dragons. There's a lot of dragons that were sitting on the board at the end of the draft. And they may get used eventually.
01:11:32
Speaker
Um, just for the sake of having a lineup that's cobbled together, but same thing with the warriors Gloucester, like a lot of these, these teams that you could see that are, that are not quite. Yeah. Like, I think one of the horns is playing fly half for Glasgow. So, um, because Hastings is going to be out for a little while. Yeah. So, and I don't know, Glasgow, do you think they're going to get through? No.
01:11:55
Speaker
No, and it's something I'm going to spend my pick on, especially if I have a starting fly-off already, assuming that one of my fly-offs is not broken. So that'll be that. Yeah, this will be a good time, just the same. And we'll see how that goes. But we will be back with you guys this coming week. But thanks for hanging out with us and listening to us make lots of mistakes. And we'll talk to you guys later on this week. Have a good one. Later. Cheers.