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Season 6- Weekly Fantasy Corner (6 Nations Round 1)
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It's another action-packed episode of the Fantasy Corner. On this ep of the FC we are of course talking about 6 Nations and all the fantasy fun that will come with it. We'll also look back at the status of CYL in the Prem and out PWR fantasy league as we hit the back half. Of course, it's Start or Sit for the opening round of 6 Nations too! Get the notepads ready and let's go.
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Introduction and Highlights
00:00:04
Speaker
It is. The Fantasy Europeans. My name is Jared Dyke. I wanted to say it's stupid and let's move on, but then you kept going. I'm Ben Glauser. I don't like any way anybody handled that. Collusion. Collusion.
00:00:27
Speaker
Hey everybody, welcome back. It is the Fantasy Rugby Yanks. My name is Jared Dyk. I'm Ben Glauser. We'll see if I can not bottle it. If you're only listening to this episode, I highly recommend you fast forward all the way to the end of the last one and just have a laugh. Make sure you don't miss it if you got that far and said, ah, I'll turn it off now.
00:00:45
Speaker
No, you missed Jared's epic. Just lock up. Brain fade. Oh my God. My mind went totally blank. I was like, uh-oh. And we're done, I guess. All right. That's it. You had more to say. Oh man. We had more to say, but the show is over. Yeah. Goodbye. Oh man. That was bad. I haven't had one of those for a long time. No. Hilarious.
00:01:11
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, prepare for a few more of them. If this one's freaking kid gets here, geez, space out of the lower.
Champion X League Challenges
00:01:18
Speaker
Anyway, uh, champion X League recap. Uh, let's go to division one. First. You know how much that this league pisses me off? Cause it's so not representative of.
00:01:31
Speaker
like the everyone else out like this league is ridiculous you gotta say well i mean even like look only look as far as our other league our podcast league and everybody in this league is in the top like 15 i think yeah something like that it's ridiculous i mean like and and i look at other leagues and yeah i'll move up and down like i moved up um significantly in our in our league um and in in georgia's league
00:01:59
Speaker
But I go nowhere. I'm like not that far behind like the top scorers week in week out in just an hourly and I'm fucking sick. It's so fucking annoying. Right. And there was literally zero movement in terms of like positions like.
00:02:17
Speaker
I am, I'm three points behind Duncan now. Like that's the movement or cause I had the yellow cap. Justin had the wooden spoon. Sorry, but Justin had like, let me see what he have. He had 207 points. Like that's, that's the, he had a good, a good score for the competition.
00:02:36
Speaker
Um, not for champions, not for the champion league. So we're making each other, we're making each other that much better. I think there is no hiding here. No hiding whatsoever in the same and floundering in the champion league. Fuck. Yeah. Right. Um, in the, in division two, uh, Anton leads the way Paul right behind them, Alex, Abby Barty, Luke and Franco pulling up the rear with the wooden spoon.
Division Two Overview
00:03:04
Speaker
I'm in there so it technically gave me the yellow cap because I had the best score. I had a pretty good score all week. And like you were what you had 263. I had the yellow cap in our in our pod league so.
00:03:17
Speaker
Jeez. Yeah. That's yeah. Wasn't so, so bad. Let's see. I had 244. Like I'm not even that far behind. I had it in Georgia's too. Like that tells you, that tells you what I did this week. Didn't think I did that well, but I also was one of the few that managed to avoid a hit. A lot of people took a hit on the transfers.
00:03:38
Speaker
And I took one, but and it didn't
Impact of Player Transfers
00:03:40
Speaker
quite pay off because I dropped. I changed in Hutchinson, and he only got three and a half points more than Kata, who was on my bench, so I could have. Handle that better, although Kata also had more points and Esther Hazen did me, so I started him, so. Yeah, I jumped to. Catherine jumped a three in the US could prefer.
00:04:03
Speaker
What? Yeah, she's no 10. Excuse me. She's in the top 10. Yeah. She jumped three. Yeah. She jumped three. I'm four. She didn't. Sorry. No, she's not jumping you. Don't shit yourself yet. But yeah, she's top 10 in the fricking US. Not too bad. Not bad. No, not at all. I am.
00:04:24
Speaker
Where am I globally? 51. Damn. All right. It's the highest I've been since week four. Yeah. And I'm one 23. So geez. Yeah. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot of people between a couple of points. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got 42 on you. So that's, that's plenty of room. Honestly, it's doable. It's just, yeah.
00:04:49
Speaker
We're all scoring well. It's hard to catch up on each of us. Yep. Yep. Um, George is 11th in the
League Standings and Persistence
00:04:56
Speaker
world. Fuck. Yeah, he's up there. He's killing it. Um, make sure that if you- It's two, it's two 12th. He's right there. They're both there. Jeez. Yep. Uh, for all our Champions League friends, make sure that you are signed up for both leagues in super brew. Um, that is where the league is not on the official, which is,
00:05:16
Speaker
why I could not fucking blur it out at the end of the last pod. Seriously, like, I don't know if I'm ever gonna let that one down. That was pretty bad. Anyway, let's do, let's do PWR picks and recap. So we know, we know, we know. We're now on obviously the back half now, so. Right, everything resets. The slate has been,
00:05:44
Speaker
wiped everybody's clean. So you are free to pick anything you want. Um, as I suggested last time, if you do not keep a, um, some sort of spreadsheet of your, of your picks, just so you know that you, that you can't pick someone without us having to tell you that, um, I would highly advise doing so that way you're just, you're not waiting on us to tell you that you've already picked them. And you know, you know that that way. Cause if I have to tell you,
00:06:12
Speaker
If we have to respond to you, you already picked them and it's like you don't get the email until after the next kickoff, then you're going to be one player short and you're going to be pissed. You're going to be pissed. And yeah, so highly advised, keeping a spreadsheet of this shit. Maybe someone, some days. Luckily, I don't have to because we have ours. Yeah, we already have ours. That's easy enough.
00:06:36
Speaker
And you, um, let's look at where we stand and then we'll talk about picks.
Struggles and Comebacks in the League
00:06:41
Speaker
We know Ben's one on to second page is going slow here. Go faster. Damn you. Hmm. Do you do too? We know who's holding, you know, who's holding up the basement, unfortunately. Cause they've missed a couple of weeks. Yeah. Um,
00:07:04
Speaker
but here we go. I think we have Ryan and three. Ryan's three. Yep. George's four. I point three. It's Joe. Yeah, I know. Ridiculous. And Joe is five running on the top five. Um, yeah. And Rihanna missed that first week, but she's done pretty well to get herself right back into it. So good on her. So it'll be very interesting. Yeah. There's been, I mean, it's a lot of movement. Like take her example, like,
00:07:30
Speaker
take a, I think it was, was last was around eight around seven where Duncan jumped to the top three. Now he's all the way down to seven, right? Like there's a, there can be a lot of movement had each week. So just keep at it and stay with it. Yeah. Well, he did have the zero, which, which hurt. That's that's really hurts hurting him there. That always hurts, but still. Yeah. Yeah. Keep at it. Things happen.
00:07:51
Speaker
As long as, you know, I'd look, as long as the movement is between say like two and 11, I'm fine with that. Sounds like a, that sounds like a really good place for all the movement to continue. Let's keep it that way. I am breathing right down that neck. All right. Let's do, let's do pics. Let's do pics. Um, yeah. So I'm in, I'm going to take, um,
00:08:17
Speaker
a couple different tactics here. One, obviously with the reset, I'm still sticking with the Saris as much as I can. But I'm going to go in this case with maybe not the primary option. I'm going to stick my toe in on this one and go with Poppy Cleel as my forward.
00:08:34
Speaker
OK. Again, they're playing. Was it Trail Finders? So I think there could be opportunities there from from a from a strength and a little bit of a wiggle space. But again, this may change depending on how to see what the lineup is. Back when you go with page fairies. Also from the comparisons. Yep.
00:08:58
Speaker
And because I do like to match up against Lester, I'm going to go with Emma sinning as my kicker for Gloucester Harper. Nice. Okay. So I went a different route and we'll see if it pays off. I also, that also depends on health and everything. So I'm going Alex Matthews from Gloucester Harper as my forward. Not a bad call. I am also going page ferries for my back user in that front half. So I'm not wasting an opportunity at this point. And then.
00:09:27
Speaker
Assuming health, I'm going to go Zoe Harrison, but I don't know what her status is exactly because I can't find the fucking news and I haven't heard anything. So, um, that's probably, I'm one of the broadcast and I just didn't hear it. But anywho, um, we'll go with that for now. Um, yeah, we'll see how it goes.
France vs. Ireland Preview
00:09:46
Speaker
Now it's time for start set. And I lead us off. You say you are getting us going on Friday night. France, Ireland. Um,
00:09:59
Speaker
kind of throws the immediate like, I don't grenade right into round one. Oh my God, it doesn't ever.
00:10:09
Speaker
Everybody, good luck. Right. Because some of the other matchups are pretty easy to find. They could be one-sided. I don't know. Actually, I think your match is also going to be a little bit difficult to predict just because you don't know what either team is bringing. We kind of have an idea as to what each team is going to be trying to do. It's a question of who's going to do it better.
00:10:33
Speaker
But for France, I kind of want to stay away from the front row and really the tight five in general, if you can. Because again, in a lot of cases, you're going to be team numbers limited. I will say, just from the French perspective, that especially in the official Six Nations game where you don't have to pick a kicker,
00:10:55
Speaker
Especially if he's in the back three Ramos is key. He has to be in your team. There's no way around it. Find other space, but he's got to be there in the the Superbrew game.
00:11:07
Speaker
different story because you can select your kicker and maybe you want to 10 you can eat but um in champion's cup though Ramos has been good even without the tee um at 10 so it's that that's a possibility anyway um especially going up against this you know who know like we don't know exactly what Ireland's going to be doing defensively who's going to be keeping them together there's a lot that's going to be um changing there
00:11:31
Speaker
Meanwhile, friends are just kind of plug and play like there's no reason I wouldn't. If no one got like a wreck is playing, I would not hesitate to start. I might also not hesitate to start gypsy Gibson Park. But like Iraq is one I would I would put money in there. Penno can't really come out of your lineup. The guy just fucking scores.
00:11:53
Speaker
And then Aldri, I'd be looking his way, too. He's really the, you know, fantasy wise, the one who's healthy, as you mentioned, you know, with Geelong and Olivong hurt. Aldri, it's going to be the guy that, you know, Wokey might score a little bit more and have some more runs than some other guys. But Aldri, it's the man. So look there on the Ireland side. You know, I mentioned James and Gibson Park. I really do.
00:12:22
Speaker
like Calvin Nash to potentially a cheaper option as opposed to James James level score. I mean, although Hugo Keenan is going to score, they'll they'll get there. It's just a question of. Ken, is it if it's Crowley, if it's Crowley or Farley, Farley. Who gets them the ball and how well do they do it? That's really my only question, of course.
00:12:48
Speaker
Josh van der Fleer I think is a must-start. I don't think this changes anything. He's going to get a lot of fucking tackles. Dan Sheehan is a guy you'd throw in there. And maybe one of the other, like the Ireland forwards are different from the French because again, the Ireland, you're only going to pick one of their back at most, or one of their back three, or maybe one of the centers. France, you have your choice of options, but with
00:13:16
Speaker
Ireland, it's kind of make a fair kind of Feaster famine in a way. I don't know if that's exactly right, but you're taking a big gamble. Any of them could score, any of them could not score. I guess that's, yeah, so it is kind of Feaster famine. So the forwards are much more consistent. So I would be definitely looking at your vendor players, your sheens, whoever's at eight, if it's Conan or Doris, but yes.
00:13:43
Speaker
Um, and I would look at honestly, whoever in the, um, what the official in the game, whoever is the backup. If it's Doris is, is the backup, um, flank for Ireland making their suit, make that your super sub. I would absolutely look for that. Yeah. Whoever that backup, they tend to score tries. So they come in late and do, do damage. Yeah. Yep. Not so bad. Uh, as very in England.
Italy vs. England Key Picks
00:14:21
Speaker
players that can play in this team. And I think there's plenty to have to be had. Um, so from the popular, uh, picks so far from the Italy team, uh, Bischetti, I would give it a go. If you're going to pick him, that's fine. Uh, Lorenzo can only definitely, uh, seven degree, I think more valuable and official than, than official than a super brew. Let's put it that way. Okay. Because you do get a little bit more for help on the defensive side from that one.
00:14:41
Speaker
So for Italy, I think that we know that we've all found
00:14:49
Speaker
But still I'm kind of man on that either way Pollock or BC I would start but only if there's no Tommy Allen because Tommy Allen's gonna have the tea probably if he's in So that's that's the thing if Tommy Allen's and he's playing whether he's at 10 or 15 That's fine. I wouldn't issue with that. Especially first price and super growth. He's pretty cheap Certainly compared to like, you know bin Russell Great
00:15:17
Speaker
Capuzzo, he's been a little mad, so I'm kind of leaning sit right now. Maybe he'll make me shut my mouth and that's fine. I'm okay with that. I hope so. I agree with you and I hope he does make you shake your mouth. And then, hey, yeah, yeah, listen here. And then Monty, yep, play him. Go, go, go. He's back. You missed this competition last year, but boy is back. All right, England.
00:15:46
Speaker
We'll see how much of this contingent starts. It's elite, so they'll consider probably rotations at some point or another.
00:15:54
Speaker
In any case, Genji, assuming he's healthy, yes, Jinx, same. Chess him over Maro right now. Earl over Dom as well. I'm okay with all four of those, by the way. Mitchell, yes. Marcus is out. If Finn's in, that is a lovely, cheap option, and I think it's going to pay off in spades. Just saying with that.
00:16:17
Speaker
If you must with Ford, fine, but I think you can find a better price for maybe one of the island guys, maybe one of the whales guys even. And then- Just stick with Finn. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's that. Right. There's that. Slade, I'm a little on the mass side for this only because I don't know what he's going to do in attack. The thing is, if it's Ford and Slade, well, that wouldn't make any sense.
00:16:46
Speaker
Now, Slade doesn't have the tea. So what the fuck? Slade's not going to have the tea either way. I don't see why you give it to him. I could see if you have, if you play Finn and you want someone there to, to calm things down, that's why I would, that's why I would see Slade there. And then they would have, have, give him the tea because that's literally his only use. Yeah. Um, an attack. So that's.
00:17:09
Speaker
I could see that happening. Makes sense. And for the official game, if that's happening, then that makes sense to play him. Right. Because we talked about the note, the note does need a kicker thing. So, yep. Off you go with that. That's fine. And then Freddie airlines. Yep. You're going to play him as well. Yeah. All
Scotland and Wales Player Evaluation
00:17:26
Speaker
right. Well, for Scotland, the host fucking leave it alone. I don't like maybe some of the front rows to fill out your team, but I don't see where their points being scored here.
00:17:38
Speaker
Okay. I have Basham in my team right now. As of right now, I have Basham. Like I'm saying, I'm looking the forwards. You know, Rafael might be better in the official game because he gets a lot of turnovers. They do have a little bit more defensive emphasis, but
00:17:59
Speaker
Other than that, like who's running for tries here? I'm not, I'm not seeing it. Um, certainly not where there's better options available. So yeah, stick with the, the, the forwards front rows and yeah, bash them or, or rafael consider, um, Oh wait, does, do they still do the defensive specialist or is that, uh, that was one cup. That was one. Oh, that was just world cup. Son of a bitch. Because that would have been, that's where you'd want rafael. Um, yep. And then, uh, on the Scotland side,
00:18:30
Speaker
kind of the reverse. I'm not, you know, as we talked about in the preview, I'm not, we're not really enthralled with some of the players they'll be picking, probably in the forwards, like Matt Fagerson, just leave him alone, leave him the fuck alone on the pitch and in your fantasy team.
00:18:50
Speaker
You know, Jamie, you know, the guys like Jamie Ritchie. Yes. Rory Darge has been amazing when he's been allowed to play and he's been healthy and all that shit. So if he's there, honestly, yeah, I would kind of look his way. But then you look at the backs and. You know, Dewey and Kinghorn and Rowe, like they've got and that Huey Paloto should should fare well, very well in this match, too.
00:19:19
Speaker
They got, yeah, they got a solid squad and Finn Russell, obviously, as I mentioned before.
00:19:27
Speaker
He might be the best 10 in this competition, the scoring 10 in this competition. So, um, you know, might want to set it aside for him. Both Jones and Tupelo tour, three, three mil. Okay. Super brew. Pretty, pretty sure you considering Bundy six. Right. What the fuck is Bundy? Yeah. Yeah. Even Tom was four.
00:19:55
Speaker
Wow. Yeah, no. And yeah, nice options there. Nice options there. What's Finn at? I didn't even look. Eight. So, yeah. I'll put Jollibear. He's Jollibear and Ford. All right. And Smith. Yeah, that's fair. One of these things is not like the other. Yeah.
00:20:19
Speaker
That's not bad. Yeah, that's about where they should be. Right. Okay.
Star Players and Predictions
00:20:28
Speaker
Start of the week. So, low hanging fruit, highly picked player, definitely his team's best player and the last time they put on these jumpers, my start of the week is going to be Benro from England. Awesome.
00:20:46
Speaker
Um, my start of the week is I just like to match up a lot and I, um, this guy just doesn't do anything but score. Um, and it's, uh, Blair Kinghorn. Yep. Yeah. And he's going to make that 15 shirt his own now. Yeah. And I know Dewey is going to,
00:21:06
Speaker
be farewell, but at 9 million versus at 6 million. Yes. That is a tastier option, honestly. Much tastier option. I mean, if you're going to do on go, don't shake it. Don't let me stop you, but consider, for your presentive consideration. It might not interest you in a Blair King horn.
00:21:31
Speaker
If that doesn't interest you, why not interest you in this pile of shit over here? What's it gonna take for me to put you in a Blair Kinghorn today? No, yeah, let's give it a start. My Silla Week. Love the player, not really loving the day, the matchup, or the fact that he's in the team. My Silla Week's gonna be Bundy Aki from my own. There you go.
00:21:57
Speaker
my set of the week, I'm sticking with that same game. And this person has is exactly as popular. They're both at 5% as as player, and they're both at 6 million units. But do not make them 5%. Don't be part of that 5% and pick Josh Adams. Don't do it. Oh, yeah. Yep. Yep. Yeah, that's very tough.
00:22:28
Speaker
Billy Barry is only four million. What? Yeah. Oh, he's nice and cheap. Crap. Nice and cheap. Nice and cheap. OK. Kinghorn. Yes, please. I'll take one. Yeah. All right. Pick him. France and Ireland. France. Yep. I think they're coming in with the more settled. A lot of things.
00:22:57
Speaker
Yeah, no, with the exception of nine. But even there, they know the answer. Yeah, you're like, it's not. No, is it? It's not Anton, but you don't. It's one of those things like Anton DuPont would be great even if he wasn't on France because he's just that good. France can be great even without him because they're just that good, too. It's fucking scary when we're there together. Mm hmm. Over to Saturday, Italy, England.
00:23:29
Speaker
Don't. Ben's trying to be a dramatic dude. I got to go with England. I don't know. I honestly like this is just because. I think the guys that they got can can play really well at this level, and I don't know what Italy you're going to. There's a lot. There's too many questions around that, so I'm going to go with England. Right. I have a lot of questions around England, too. I this could. And especially the way it was questions around England and around Italy, though.
00:23:58
Speaker
Yeah, it's just to me, if Italy, like it depends, what are they bringing? If Italy are bringing what they brought at home last year and both, no matter what stadium they played in, they can win. And if England play the game that they have kind of been playing recently, they can easily lose. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So I'm kind of gambling that that won't happen. Right.
00:24:24
Speaker
Yeah, agreed. No, I just, they're, I'm excited about Italy, but there are more questions around Italy than in our England. So that's where I'm going with that. Uh, Wales, Scotland. Scotland. They got a pulse. Yeah. There's a lot of things that are, that are a problem in Scotland, but also there's a lot of things that are well settled there. Wales, there is nothing settled. There's nothing settled.
00:24:51
Speaker
Sorry, guys, it's gonna be tough. So here's the thing, though. Finn's gonna get bored. And when Finn gets bored... Start kicking them all over the place. Finn gets bored, shit happens. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. Never know. That's the thing. It's gonna be an entertaining as hell match. It doesn't matter. What I'm saying is, don't worry about the score. It's gonna be entertaining. Finn's gonna do something. Just watch. Okay, for all the shit he was getting about, oh, I'm messy.
00:25:20
Speaker
Honestly, yes, he is because I don't really watch soccer that much. Does Jared can attest? Yeah, I'll watch Messi play. I'd pay. I'd pay, like, you know, actually a known as he play. Right. He's on that MLR team. If they come to New England, I'd consider going to the game. Right.
00:25:40
Speaker
I'd pay to watch Finn Russell play. There's definitely players I would pay to watch play. Finn Russell, yes, is up there. Fits that bill for sure. We're talking about it. Marcus Smith is up there. Oh wait, we already did that. We did that. We did that. Half that squad. Check that box. Joe Marlar, Dom Brandt. There's guys out there that sometimes you just want to stop and watch.
00:26:03
Speaker
And Finn is absolutely one of those. And sometimes for good or for ill, like that, if you're going to be entertained, you might be kicking a try away against Bristol at the end of the game. Fuck, it doesn't mean anything except take go for it. Why not? Like, OK, it's not the end of the world. You lost a try. You gave away a try. No big fucking deal. He gets it. People don't get it. They're too up with their own ass about it. Many of those. Many of those. I love Finn Russell.
00:26:34
Speaker
Please give me more. He is a treasure.
00:26:37
Speaker
He is a treasure. And also that body. I thought that was a Photoshop. I know where I knew that was accurate. I saw that was accurate. That's hilarious. Hey, he's listening. He's not there to look good. He's there to friggin play good. He doesn't give a shit otherwise. I know. But it's just so funny how like you don't need to have the look like no wonder coaches hate him. No wonder I get it. I totally get it. Like, you know, it's not a look. It's a way you play, man. Like, all right. He's not.
00:27:06
Speaker
You know, I'd be annoyed if I was a coach because he doesn't train hard, but like, man, when you just see what he does in practice and what he doesn't, he doesn't games, you're just like, I'll take the good with the bad. Right. I don't give a shit how you practice because at the same time, like, yes, this is not the practice is not the kind of environment that Finn Russell and tell you players like him want to be. It sucks. You're constraining them. And I don't want to, I don't like, I don't like doing that as a coach a lot, but you kind of have to just to get him better at certain skills and as a team and.
00:27:37
Speaker
Damn, I'd pay to watch him play though. Yup. Absolutely. Abs to freaking get off his jock about it. He was right. You're wrong. Right. All right. And the fact that he looks that way just makes it more hilarious. Yeah, right. Oh, okay. So boom bust tomorrow. We will have sheet on Friday. Yep. Um, all the Patreon things. Otherwise,
00:28:03
Speaker
But other than that, yeah, and I'll tweet leagues. Other than that, enjoy the opening weekend at Six Nations, everyone. Have a good one. Later. Cheers.
00:28:18
Speaker
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