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Season 4- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Champions Cup Round of 16 & Super Rugby Round 8 Preview)
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It's the weekly dose of fantasy babble from TFRY. On this week's FC we get back into Champions Cup on Super Bru. Hopefully you didn't saddle yourself with too many players that didn't make the knockouts, because there's loads to pick from if you can make the appropriate changes. Naturally, we also take a look back at the week that was in Champi-Yanks League AND the Six Nations Fantasy game as well. We cover an abbreviated Start or Sit for Super Rugby and a bit more. Grab the note pads and a cold one, let's go!
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Transcript
Introduction to Fantasy Review Show
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey everybody, welcome back. It is the fantasy review. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glaser. It's fantasy corner time.
Returning to Superbrew and Fantasy Aspects
00:00:14
Speaker
Hooray! We have some different fantasy to talk about now because it's Champions Cup week and we have to go back to Superbrew. Holy shit.
00:00:25
Speaker
Yeah. Finally. I wasn't sure that we'd ever get to this point where we felt so far off and it's still, yeah. So weird to be like, Oh wait, we don't have premise weekend. It's something else. What the hell else is there? Also that. Yeah. Also that, um, do to do.
Women's Six Nations Fantasy Review
00:00:46
Speaker
So let's chat a little bit about women's six nations first and the official game and, uh,
00:00:55
Speaker
I had some really good ones. I had some really bad ones myself. I was doing so well, so well until Sunday. Who are your England players? My England players, I captained Cleel. I had Abby Ward and Shauna Brown as my starters. And then I had Sarah Hunter as my super sub. I was trying to tactically use the super sub on an England player who...
00:01:19
Speaker
Yeah, I thought my score well, I could I mean, if I'd gone burn, it would have been ridiculous. And that was that was under consideration. And then I didn't. But damn, that would have been one hundred ninety some points right there for a bet. Yeah, I would have liked that. And I also, of course, picked, you know, Cleo as my captain and that she did all right. But yeah, I did. I had her too. Yeah.
00:01:45
Speaker
I would have done a little bit better if I'd had, you know, either of the wings, pretty much.
Mystery Player 'dose 68' Discussion
00:01:51
Speaker
I had Johnson. I got lucky with that one. I wish I had captured her now. Should have thought better if that's all right. Yeah, but then I had some brainfire moments where I didn't put in Sansa. I put in, I left Shambaugh on by accident and I was like, oh shit, that was stupid. And she had a stormer. So it's like, well, Sansa was, she was my scrum half. So that was,
00:02:16
Speaker
Quite pleasing to me. Total brain fade. Just like, oops, what the hell was I doing? You even texted me like right after this game started. You're like, shit, I meant to have like sensors in there. And I was like, oh, that's and that was like right before she scored the first one. It's true. It's actually true.
00:02:34
Speaker
like, Yeah, okay. Well, I got her. Now I feel for me. Whoopsie daisy. Yeah. See, lovey. In in our league, who is
00:02:50
Speaker
I really am curious. If you're listening, we are dose 68. I don't know who that is, but please like, yeah, identify yourself. Yeah. I don't know who have they had least they had tough. Fuck.
00:03:05
Speaker
I'm, I'm, I'm just, I'm angry. They had Thompson as the captain. Oh, damn it. She captained her or the captain or whatever it was. But damn, that's huge. That was a huge one. Yeah. And they had something. Yeah.
00:03:21
Speaker
Yup. Yup. Okay. Now, now I'm angry too. Now I'm angry too. Congratulations. Look what you did. Right. And the David Parsons, uh, super sub 27. She's yet up to 83.
00:03:37
Speaker
Oh, nice. Yeah, that's a good one, too. Yeah, those two those those two designations are huge. Get them right, man. They are they you hit big time usually, right?
Six Nations Matches Preview
00:03:48
Speaker
Obviously turns into good results. Yeah. So this week will be interesting, at least I think.
00:03:57
Speaker
We got this week. England, Wales. Oh, that that should be good. All right. Scotland, France. Yeah. In Scotland and Ireland hosting Italy. Hmm. Hmm. Interesting. Yeah. So if I'm even Wales, is that my scene is on Friars? I'm sorry. That's Saturday. OK, so it's a two two match on Sunday. Got it. I understand. I know days I would look.
00:04:28
Speaker
heavily towards France for captains and super potentially super sub because, again, it's not just the player points, but the team points. Right away away wins away wins or you get you get a lot more points for that.
00:04:47
Speaker
Totally agree. So that's one of the reasons why I went with England this past week. Um, so this week I, I'm going to lean more on France and I am excited as a, in general, as a, as a rugby fan to see what Wales does against this England team. It'll be a good measuring stick for them. Do I think it's going to be that competitive? Probably not for Ollie, but you know, it'd be nice to see where kind of where they've, how far they've come.
00:05:14
Speaker
I'll be fun to watch. Um, do, do, do, do, and champion actually, that's the one I know words.
Fantasy Premier League Strategies
00:05:24
Speaker
Um, I know days, I know words. How do you like that?
00:05:28
Speaker
Um, champion sleep, uh, prem, we had, we had actually quite a bit of movement and it was all a lot of one spot shifts, but, um, I reclaimed my third, my third spot, but only by five points. Um, Mark had a huge weekend made a jump from six to five points. How many wow. And George has dug himself out of the basement and has leapfrog Justin on Mark 70 overall. Well done. Yeah. Yeah.
00:05:57
Speaker
Hot damn, my brother. I mean, this was a this was a rough fucking week. And then the way that like I got five twenty four and I was like, oh, shit, I scored really well. And I was seven. I was seven sixty nine for the game week. Like, fuck, fuck you. All right. How about that? No, this is for sixty nine. Yeah. Damn. OK, well, that's how it goes, man. Yeah, this was this was a lot of people scored high.
00:06:27
Speaker
You know, yeah, it's it was shit. We were only 23 points apart. And we had like, there's about 300 in between us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people scored well. Right. It was just one of those weeks where and it was the guys that it was a lot of the usual suspects that you'd expect to, you know, but it wasn't Maro Itoji or Vincent. No, it wasn't.
00:06:49
Speaker
Those are what really kind of set me back. Although Bevin Rod wouldn't have been an upgrade. He got fewer points. Like I still started the right guys. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm not going to start Joe badly over Maro Joji. No. So that's not really a thing. We're not talking about that. I got a little too full on myself from started back over. That's right. And then now I feel really stupid. Well, I have to pull myself. I had Esther Hayes on the bench because I had, uh, John's fun Rensberg, which also worked out pretty well.
00:07:15
Speaker
And then, uh, uh, Kaden Murley as my other center. Cause I had really as mine too. Yeah. Radwin and Hassell Collins in Maylands. That's my back three. So I'm like, okay. Morley has a center. He'll get wing points at center. I didn't think the same for me replace Radwin with Tommy Freeman.
00:07:32
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. I think you won that one. Yeah, that was a good, that was, I was like, I was excited that that worked out. I was like, okay, this is actually going to be a thing. Hooray. And I think this week is, I'm going to start diversifying a little bit like that. I think I'm going to drop some, some big value players that I have that I'm not really using. And, uh, like Dan, I think Dan Dupree is probably gone this week. And then, um,
00:07:56
Speaker
picking up a bunch of like, you know, maybe get a Pearson or somebody, you know, somebody a little bit cheaper, that's gonna maybe come up in value. Yeah, stretch run. I definitely have some, some dead weight to shed here. So yeah, it is time to start preparing like
00:08:12
Speaker
in the once you get to the knockout stages to have to finish out the season, your overall roster value is going to determine whether or not you win because it's, you know, are you going to be able to afford all these high value players who are going to be in the in the in the last couple of matches?
00:08:28
Speaker
So making sure you can pump up your value, like having, you know, having max value guys right now, it's not the best idea. If you can avoid it. Although I'm not getting rid of a Toji, I'm not getting rid of Smith. Yeah, like a Dan Dupree who's not been playing too great. If you can get rid of him for, you know, two mid range guys who are still going to score because they're out there. Yeah, go for it.
00:08:57
Speaker
Yep, yep. He's not going to be there in the postseason and he's not, his value is not really going to go up much. No, it isn't at this point. So it's kind of probably just bought him out of anything. Right. Super rugby, FRD for a Champions League. Ben, sorry for you, buddy. Ben went down to Anton in a frigging pillow fight. Mark beat Justin.
00:09:22
Speaker
George bested Carrick and I got shit stomped by Duncan. I mean, I didn't, my score wasn't awful, but yeah, Duncan put 130 on me. So that sucks.
Super Rugby FRD Recap
00:09:33
Speaker
That's not good. Yeah. He had, he had, how about C, he had Pais, who was actually a midfielder by. Oh, that's a good, yeah. That's a good, good half. Yeah. Tella, who didn't do too early and McRite was another one that he had.
00:09:46
Speaker
Franklin mounting getting negative 10 for me was not ouch not helpful. That's a kick in the pan at all. That was a very big kick in the pants.
00:09:56
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, even Quinn two pi, I got over 10. So I was super happy with that. Um, Julian Sevilla, even with the trial, he only got 11.9. Yeah. Cause he was almost a ghost apart from the tribe. Yeah. So again, we talked about in the previous part, uh, she's kind of starved them of the ball. So yeah, that helped that hurt in that case, obviously. Um,
00:10:18
Speaker
So yeah, bad news for everybody. I have just like, I think I went, I think I started 2 and 0 in this league and I have just been tumbling since. Stumble, stumble, stumble. Yeah, I'm 2 and 5. I think I started out stumbling and I have continued to stumble. Well, yeah, Richie Bawonga is not, um,
00:10:37
Speaker
I have so many guys who are either, you know, getting by weeks or, or, you know, I'm having some just shit luck. It feels like more than anything. Sometimes it's the way it breaks. It is like, you know, someone might like, I have a good player who's just not, not available this week or the team isn't playing. And you know,
00:10:54
Speaker
poop. And see what's this week got. Think we're back around. If we haven't been yet. Yeah, we definitely been back. We're definitely on our way back around. But anyway, George and George and me, it's Justin and Duncan, Carrick and Anton and Ben and Mark are going out. No, I played Duncan.
00:11:19
Speaker
You have, you have, you have, um, George plays. Oh, I have week nine. I'm sorry. My fault. Oh, my fault. I'm an idiot. Um, that's what happens when I start clicking buttons. Yeah, you're right. So Ben, it's been Duncan, Mark and George, myself and Carrick. There we go. And, um, the staff has to battle with Justin and Anton going at it. Oh, Darby South Africa. Yeah. We got to know what's on the line. I'll have to ask. What are you guys been shots of Johnny Walker.
00:11:52
Speaker
Pieces more like, but yeah. Yeah, maybe something like that. Shit. Yeah, so I need to start wondering if I'm going to have a shot at this thing. Right now, our first place, our playoffs look like Justin, George, and Antonin Carrick. So, time to make moves. Time to make moves. Exactly what time. Yeah, let's keep that away from that.
Champions Cup Fantasy Tips
00:12:19
Speaker
I want to stay away from that, please.
00:12:22
Speaker
All right. Let's go to super brew and champions cup. Let's talk a little bit about what's going on down the road here. Um, now obviously we have like, I have no idea what the lamps are going to look like obviously, but you assume that most of these teams are going to put their best foot forward at this point. So especially the interest inter
00:12:45
Speaker
intranational matchups like, you know, Conoctin and Leinster are going to likely go at it, you know. Is it Salem, Bristol there? Salem and Bristol, but without AJ, I don't know. Oh, yeah. I think Bristol, we know Bristol are going to go full bore.
00:13:04
Speaker
Because Pat Lamb's basically said as much. She's like, this is all we have to play for. So we're going to play for it. So what else are you going to do, right? Right. Nothing else. It's the way the series were that last year. Made at least fun for a little bit. Yeah. Let's do a little bit of shopping here and play maybe a little bit of this or that. Props. It's going to be interesting. It's going to be a balance. And as we obviously obviously we're going to be able to
00:13:34
Speaker
It's still a three player limit. I think those go up after we get out of the round of 16. So you can kind of manage that for now. That's true. So for now you have
00:13:49
Speaker
You know, the two of the most popular right now are Killcoin and Gensh. Killcoin, obviously, because he's been fairly consistent and Gensh because he's Gensh. So, being... Well, those are my two props. So, there we go. There you go. Well, that explains a lot. I think I have... I think I have both of them along with... That's how it's dangerous and he's not playing, so I'll have to kind of get rid of him.
00:14:11
Speaker
I think he's my only player who's not playing so that's that's good or at least not if not his team isn't in I shouldn't say you know. I mean double check I think it yeah I think I I think I actually have I have players that are that are playing on there for every team right now or not like nobody's going to be missing this because I have the player that's on the outs.
00:14:31
Speaker
I have AJ too. Well, yeah, you're going to be missing that one too. Well, yeah, I'll be putting Marcus Smith in. So that won't be a problem. That's not a big deal. No big deal at all.
00:14:46
Speaker
Rod has actually scored well though. I will say that he's, he's, he's averaging about 11 points a game. So that's pretty good. So let's see is like, is it consistent? Yeah, actually it is fairly consistent six 11 and 16. Yeah. Like, so it's not like one big game and then two poopers. Right. It was in a way, Matt, like a way at Osprey's that belt.
00:15:08
Speaker
They'll slow down a game. That'll happen. And it's easy to kind of shut down a prop. But, yeah, Claremont did well on the road and then Osprey's at home did well. And, you know, playing it, they're playing a prem team that's not terribly great. And but Rada had a good match this past weekend against Sarri's, I thought so. Right.
00:15:29
Speaker
you know, if he's not going against Sarri's this week, then he'll score better. You know, I know it's different comp, but he's definitely one, you know, I wouldn't go any of the sale backs. So like I said, I have AJ, I also have quirky, um, still probably wouldn't play either of them if I had the chance. Right. Um, obviously I had, uh, I had Ashman. Okay. I actually might work out all right. It might. Um, speaking of them to them guys that were number two, uh,
00:16:01
Speaker
Do you burn a Leinster spot with one of the hookers, whether it's Sheehan or Keller? No. Okay. Because I mean, they've both been two of the best, no doubt. Right. But yeah, I think.
00:16:15
Speaker
I think Ashton's on a bad pick, and neither is Herring. I think both of mine. Yeah, they are actually. But also, I have Herring in LCD, so I'm going to have to do something, you know, probably have to just start Herring. Yeah, so you ain't getting LCD in there, I can tell you that. That would be not recommended. And then you have like an outside play of like,
00:16:36
Speaker
depending on what you value on La Rochelle, you have Boogery as well. So he's been fairly consistent. So just options there. Because I say outside play, it's not like La Rochelle didn't come get to the final last year. You know, we'll see if we see Will skeleton finally, he didn't play in either of the
00:16:59
Speaker
Uh, previous two matches that he could have for Laro shell. Um, but he did do well for the one game he played in. Right. He's still, you know, he, it's a different time in their season. Who knows? Yeah. Um, and for the two games that Chris, we played and he actually played all right too. So that's a possibility. Bears are throwing the ball around. So they're, they're playing better than they were playing back then.
00:17:28
Speaker
True. Yeah, that's probably true. They got fortunate to sneak in, and COVID helped a lot with that. But the way they've been playing, I mean, yeah, they're not winning, unfortunately. But they will likely win this matchup in probably the return. Because again, so either way, it's a guy you'll have, and he should score well against this team.
00:17:57
Speaker
Right. Yep. Not wrong. Um, loose forwards is obviously a very valuable one. There's a lot of good ones out there. Um, you presume that a lot of people are going to pick like Sam Aldridge, Dom rant and one of the ones, one of the, yeah, one of the ones that's right. Those are my four. Yeah. Um,
00:18:20
Speaker
And then you have, you know, obviously, there's outside options like Fitzharding and maybe Tiallo from Rossing if that's a, you know, that tickles you a little bit. It obviously also depends on lineup. Obviously, you know, I again, we assume full bore and we assume everybody's healthy. So we'll see how that looks. What do you
00:18:46
Speaker
Shoot, who am I thinking? From Rossing, not Rossing, sorry, not Rossing, Montpellier.
00:18:54
Speaker
Fuck from bath. Oh, Mercer Mercer might be an option because, you know, Quinn's are are a solid attacking team, but they can be had fantasy. She was defensively like there's there's gaps there. They might not, you know, allow too much scoring, but they'll they'll let you run. Like we said, the Irish.
00:19:17
Speaker
Carved them up a little bit, but never finished. So, um, there's, there's opportunity there for little line breaks and, and lots of tackles. Yeah. There you go. And if Mercer's playing, that would be a good, that might be a sneaky outside play. It's always a matter of what the hell Montpelier you're going to put out. Cause we know that they're not a huge fan of this competition. They think it's punishment and all that bullshit. So maybe they'll actually put some fucking effort into it this time.
00:19:40
Speaker
Right. Scrum halves. It's, you know, DuPont and pick your favorite backup basically at this point.
Captaincy and Key Player Strategies
00:19:51
Speaker
You know, right now,
00:19:55
Speaker
It's, there are a lot of kicking nines, I will say that. So there's like, there's Cooney, there's Mashino, there's Morgan Parra. So yeah, I think Luku's taking a couple of kicks as well from Bordeaux. So just keep an eye on that. Because if you don't have them as your kicker, the points kind of go down. So just keep your, so when you see the scores, like, keep that in mind that that's included in that. And if you don't put, if you don't become your kicker, you're gonna be in trouble.
00:20:22
Speaker
And yeah, like for me, it's gonna be a toss up depending on what I can do with my lineup. It's either gonna be DC or Gibson Park as my backup to DuPont. Yeah, I guess that'll be easy to drop Corky in.
00:20:40
Speaker
And I had DuPont as one of my six tran- Yeah, okay. Right. Right, right, right. Yeah, easy enough, right? Flyhaves. I mean, are you going to pick anybody besides? Marcus Smith? Well, no, because I have AJ as my other one. Oh, of course you do. But no, there's no other person to pick. Although, at this point, Sheedy might not be a bad option.
00:21:10
Speaker
Yeah, could be a good. Like if you want to throw your Harlequin's resources elsewhere and have a Shidi as your option there, you could be doing worse.
00:21:23
Speaker
Mm hmm. Yeah. And there's obviously always into Mac, too. Yeah, but he hasn't been kicking for them. If Ramos is in the lineup, that's it. That's true. He's the only kicking. If Jack Cardi was playing somebody not named Leinster, I'd recommend him. But he is so I can't like I and I and we talked about how much I liked him less over over the over the the pool stages. But yeah, it's just
00:21:51
Speaker
not really something that I'm going to be into. Joey Carberry is should be healthy for a month or as far as I know, unless there's something else that I missed in which case, please call me out on it. So that'd be also another option that would strongly consider as well.
00:22:06
Speaker
midfield. Jimmy O'Brien has been playing on the wing out of position. And it's worked wonders for those that have chucked him on there pretty well. So there's that option number one, if he isn't playing playing either wing or fullback, I don't think he was playing mostly. Yeah, and then there's
00:22:28
Speaker
We, again, we assume the, the bears team will be full noise. So Rad, Radra comes back into play. Um, I would imagine Lomape is back in play for stop. Ron say, uh, so he's not hurt. Uh, yep. Fiki. Definitely. He's been a monster for them. Um, yeah. And even like, you know, if you need to, again, we're looking at other options besides certain teams, uh, ulcers, James Hume played pretty, has played pretty well when he's gotten the opportunities too. And.
00:22:58
Speaker
scored pretty well on average, if I remember right, yeah, 17, eight, eight and a half, 11, eight and a half. Okay. Yeah. So not too, too bad. Um, certainly isn't going to lose you any weeks. There's my three, the red Roger, I think you and him. Okay. I'm not, I'm not touching them for this weekend.
00:23:15
Speaker
Yeah, you might not need to honestly. So the those are the those are the ideas there. It's the popularity on centers just curiosity. Yeah, deal on days up there. But he's a he played two games and scored 10 on each. So it's not terrible by any means whatsoever. Oh, bear in mind with Jimmy O'Brien, that his
00:23:42
Speaker
He's played three, went off the bench, he had three points. His two starts have been at home against Montpellier, who as Jared noted, don't show up. And the second one was at home, I'm sorry, on the road at Bath, who were at the time, they had nothing. So, you know, and they're playing, he's playing Conak, I think you're gonna have a,
00:24:08
Speaker
It'll be a tougher task, no doubt. What did you put up? 20 odd in both? Yeah. He had 25 and a half against Montpellier and 33 and a half against Bath. I would not expect. So he's not going to do that, but he still might be 12, which is by no means going to be, you know, for a midfield spot is really good.
00:24:27
Speaker
I wouldn't spit at it, no. Don't captain them. I'm sure people will be very tempted to captain them after seeing those scores, but again, take them in context, as Ben just talked about.
00:24:42
Speaker
Yeah, and then back three. I really I still really like Pinot. Like, I know he's I know he's not the best score there. But he does know how to he is a fancy asset that's always come through for me in the clutch. So yeah, keep him in consideration doesn't doesn't, you know, I honestly don't know how many people are going to be looking at different clan players either. So
00:25:08
Speaker
that's one to consider as well. Mike Lowry, Ulsterman. He's on my squad. Yeah, he continues to dance and it's amazing to watch him. Yeah, he scored well in all four games in the pool stages.
00:25:25
Speaker
Hopefully, he keeps it up for everybody's sake. Yeah. Against Toulouse on the road. Oh, that should be tough. But hey, again, it's not like he's been scoring high against soft teams. It's not like that Jimmy O'Brien kind of situation. Not that, again, no disrespect there. But Lowry's been
00:25:47
Speaker
putting up lesser points on average, but to 10 good teams. Yeah. Against some really good teams. Yeah. Um, again, with the, with, um, Ramos, he's only scored, um, he's only played in one game, but in a lot of his points came off kicks. So keep that one kind of in your brain there. Um,
00:26:07
Speaker
A true winger, James Lowe, also an option. Also that guy. He's kind of good. Right. Yeah. I have Hugo Keenan as well. Yep. Not terrible. And I might have to get rid of green, but at the same time. Yeah. We'll see what his health status is. Geez.
00:26:27
Speaker
Um, but he did, he didn't look great when he came off the other week. No, the week. No, he did not. I agree. But you know, trading him out for, but a Pinot might not be though. It's the worst thing I could do. Nope. And then, um, you know, I played two games, but wanting him off, he loves this competition too. Like he just, whatever it is about, about this competition, he just really likes to perform in it. So keep that one, keep that one in mind. Um,
00:26:57
Speaker
And then what was the other one? Yeah. Zebo could be an option. We'll see. He's only played one game and here's O'Connor. Perhaps he's not listening as an outside back. Yeah. Um, which is interesting, even though he normally plays centers, but he could still score fairly well. Again, if he's, if he's at, you know, even a 12, there's, there's going to be spout spots for it.
00:27:23
Speaker
Right. So I know I'm pumping up the bears a little bit, but they I know I can pretty much guarantee how that matchup should look. So what I know. Yeah. Don't buy what I know. I have no clue what to think. Like with Lester and this comp, I'm just not sure what to do with them. Right. Against, you know, a way to Claremont. I'm not unless there haven't been like fantasy
00:27:52
Speaker
You know, they haven't been crushing it fantasy wise anyway. They don't, they don't win that way. So no, no. Um, no, I totally agree. Hmm. So no disrespect there, though. I think they're going to win their, their matchup too. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Um, yeah. So, and then, I mean, who was, I mean, is, is it, is it just captain DuPont and call it a day?
00:28:24
Speaker
I honestly, I don't know because I just don't know what to match up. Who else would you get then? For sure. Yeah, I honestly don't know. But for lack of, you know,
00:28:44
Speaker
knowledge about anything else? Yeah, probably. Yeah, right. Yeah, no. It's gonna be a tough task there. Well, although, you know, Dom Brandt might be a good idea to potentially go nuts against this team. Yeah, you just
00:29:08
Speaker
And you have to see what the matchups are and who decides. But so, yeah, like on DuPont would be the natural choice as of now. Right. There's no there's no one else. There's a couple of suggestions to look to. But no, no, nothing. You have to have this person the way it is with DuPont. Yeah.
00:29:29
Speaker
No, no, no, no. All right. Let's do. Let's just start to sit. I think I leave off.
Super Rugby Review and Upcoming Picks
00:29:40
Speaker
Yes. Cause I only have the two. So I think you have the three. So starts at super rugby, um, Highlanders and Moana Pacifica for the Highlanders. How does front row haven't been anyone's favorite so far, but Moana Pacifica our last versus front rows. So guess what? You lucky dogs that have them are unlucky dogs. Uh, you get to play them this week and feel okay about it. Um, Mitch Hunt has come good over the last few weeks after a stinker of a start, uh, give him a go Moana our 10th versus the fly half.
00:30:10
Speaker
Pine one, Shannon Frisell. Sixes are averaging under under seven versus Moana Pacifica, including two very low ones the last couple rounds. So yeah, that's a no for me, Doug. For Moana Pacific. Highlanders are also low on the points against versus fly half table. So Christian Lee, Liofano, come on down. Especially a decent idea for those missing the likes of James O'Connor or say, Will Harrison. Yeah, give him a go.
00:30:39
Speaker
Um, how hounders give up more than 13 on average to fullback. So William Habili plays there and he is a consideration this week as well. So give him a look. Um, stay away from it. I need to fly half, um, with, I think what James O'Connor has is on by. Oh, there you go. So it's like, I might consider him because he's, that's, he's listed as fly half. Yeah. Right. Um, stay away from Inari hounders are third versus half backs, especially while Smith is still hanging around and Aaron Smith is in fact starting. So find him.
00:31:11
Speaker
All right, off to the Western Force versus rebels. The force really antsy and Koteka and the forwards are points hogs. Koteka has been much more consistent but antsy is still worth it. Prior, this is starting. I give him a start to he's been kicking for points.
00:31:33
Speaker
What's not to love? You're not going to find that from your scrum heads very often, and it's super valuable because there's not many points to be had for scrum heads in this competition. Mata Eili and Godwin in the backs, other ones to watch. For the Rebels,
00:31:49
Speaker
Tumua, Stacy, Eli are really the guys who had saved. Yeah, go for it. Right. Callaway and Hodge are got to see it now. Stage. I mean, Hodge always played one game. Well, he's I guess he's come off the bench too, but yeah.
00:32:09
Speaker
Yeah, I still. But Hodge, definitely. I'm totally with you on that one. I'm just not seeing the points, even off the bench and stuff like that. I'm not seeing the production yet. I want to wait till he gets a little healthier before I'm ready to start him. I think I might have to start him this week, but I'm not
00:32:31
Speaker
Not excited about it. Not excited at all about it. No, that happens sometimes. You just go, Ooh, close your eyes. No. Okay. Go. Please do it. Don't, don't mess it up. Um,
00:32:45
Speaker
Hurricanes and Crusaders. Play the Hurricanes front row Crusaders are second versus front rows, but I really like the way Amua and Rickety stones are running. So for me, it's worth it. God, it'll be great to have Dan Coles back when he's ready to play the role. Billy Proctor is a go this week really like really like him and believe it or not, Crusaders are last against midfielders. So
00:33:08
Speaker
He's a go. Tempered the expectations for TJ. Unfortunately, this week, Crusaders are second versus halfbacks. Won't want. I have him, so won't want. For the Crusaders, Hurricanes are second to last versus OB. So, yeah, all those usual suspects, yeah, just go ahead and play with confidence because the gates are going to open.
00:33:31
Speaker
The other heavily David is in play as well this week. Hurricanes aren't super soft versus midfield, sorry, but he's in decent form as well. So it's an okay play this week. You're not sitting, Richimo.
00:33:46
Speaker
But keep in mind hurricanes are the version fly house so far. So he'll still score. So just keep that just keep that in the back of your head when you go. That's not what I was expecting this week. Right. It might go that way. Just keep that in mind. That's all.
00:34:04
Speaker
Off to Hamilton where the Chiefs host the Blues for the Chiefs. The front row is looking pretty solid for this match. Caitlin Bashir has a little bit of his brother in him.
00:34:16
Speaker
I'm not sure we're like fully there yet, but there's so many good signs. And the fantasy points are there. So he's someone to watch out for. I'm picking him up because the ties are on by. So I'm hoping he goes well for as a rental, but he may stick around. Who knows? Peter Gus Sowakula, absolutely, has just been a monster as you can attest.
00:34:40
Speaker
And then just that entire back line, nine through 14. Not you, Caleb Trask. You stay put. No. You just don't fuck up too much till Chase Tia-Tia comes in. That's your job.
00:34:56
Speaker
On the other side, the Blues have not released their lineup yet. Kind of fuck them. But their front row, too, should score well. Papali is a 2-2. Bowdoin and Heem, I'm not quite sure about the rest. The Chiefs are solid versus centers. And outside backs, they're fifth and fourth. Sit whoever's at nine, though, because the Chiefs are first versus Scrum has. Yeah, whoever's at best.
00:35:18
Speaker
He's a pesti in the one. He very much so. All right. Virginia Drua and Brumbies. For Virginia Drua, Teti Teller, running theme here in my records if you haven't noticed, is a play this week. Brumbies are fourth versus fly-ups. He's been okay, and okay for him to say the least.
00:35:37
Speaker
Wait, yeah, yeah, yeah, nevermind. Fourth worst, I think, but it doesn't matter. Vota is back and one of the best, but he's been one of the most indivisible druid players. So if you have him and you need a midfielder, please, please play him. He's a go again. Those looking for a spare lose forward, Joseva Tamani is not the one that you want. That's the guy to avoid. Brumby's are giving up, giving problems to those wearing the sixth shirt. Less than two points on average.
00:36:06
Speaker
That's not awesome. For the Brumbies, Valentina 8 is an exciting one for this week. Drua average almost 10 points per game versus 8 so far, so give him a go. Likewise, Tom Wright at fullback. If you're hesitating on him, he's in form, and with the opposition and a 15 on his back, what the fuck are you doing? Play him. Drua have given sevens issues, so six, sevens. Keep your expectations low for that one if you've gone with Luke Rimer as one of your rentals for this week.
00:36:38
Speaker
All right, off to our of the weeks.
Rugby Fantasy Start or Sit Decisions
00:36:43
Speaker
And I was sober when I made this call. You sure about that? I guess not very much so was my start of the week this week.
00:36:55
Speaker
is Scott Gregory. Okay, then. Mostly because it's Scott Gregory, like, I mean, you can, it's easy to pick, you know, fucking a Richie Moinga or like I did last week, Caleb Clark, how well that worked out, right? Scott Gregory actually had a try and played a good match.
00:37:20
Speaker
So yeah, who knew? But, um, he's going up against Moana Pacifica. And if he's going to score very well against anyone, it's going to be this team. Like this is, this is your week boy. Don't disappoint us. Right. Oh, all right. So my start of the week. Um,
00:37:39
Speaker
from zero to here, or at least for me, um, I kind of, I kind of trashed this guy at the beginning of the season, but he's shoved it right back in my face and he's now going against a very, very tasty matchup. So my start of the week is forest flying when you're a manassa, not to LA as I was like, Hmm.
00:38:00
Speaker
This feels funny because I did. I started with this. I started the whole season with him as my sith of the week and he trashed the hell out of that. And where are you? My sith of the week is like a guy who I I'm I'd like in general, but not not against this team because the Brumby's I think you mentioned it are number one versus outside backs.
00:38:30
Speaker
And, um, I think it's my guy who I'm looking at that will not. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. Sorry, dude. Sorry, dude. Um, so my, so that we can fortunately comes from the same team. Again, a guy I really like, um,
00:38:50
Speaker
Yeah, a little hot and cold going against a very tough defense. And I think this is, this is definitely going to be another cold game for him. So am I said the week is drew his halfback Frank Lamani. Oh, don't you? Which means he's going to go off. You know that. Yeah. Okay.
00:39:10
Speaker
Just FYI. Just so we're clear here. Oh, shit. Okay. Pick one. We're getting out of here. There you go. Catch up. And we will pick. We are going to pick the Hurricanes game, which I spaced on the last-minute-week game from Super Rugby last time, but we're going to pick this one, the second Hurricanes more on a Pacific game as well. Oh, wait. Hold on. On Tuesday. Okay. On Tuesday. Gotcha.
00:39:38
Speaker
All right, Champions Cup, let's start with that.
Champions Cup and Super Rugby Predictions
00:39:42
Speaker
Connick and Leinster. Leinster, yeah.
00:39:47
Speaker
Bordeaux and La Rochelle. Old friends. I think it's the Rochelle. Yeah, I do too. Unfortunately, because there's a lot I like about Bordeaux. But, um, sale Bristol. Bristol. Bristol. I think you have made that perfectly clear. Yeah, you played that pretty fucking obvious. Um, Toulouse and Elster. Toulouse. Take the defending champs. Yeah. This will be fine.
00:40:22
Speaker
I'm taking the ones that are really chomping the bit of this competition. That's right. Yeah. Me too. Although that's going to be, that is going to be.
00:40:32
Speaker
This might not be the most entertaining game, but it is going to be freaking box office for the heat that this thing is going to bring. I don't doubt that for a second. Right. Exeter and Munster. If there's one team that can do the things that Exeter does and do them better, it's Munster. And I'm taking the Munsterman. I am too. You know, we've talked about
00:40:54
Speaker
There's not much to exit or if they can, if they can actually work an expensive game, they have a shot, but it's going to be one of those. They're not going to get the free cheap penalties at midfield. Like, and they're not going to, you know, they'll get disrupted on the goal line a little bit better.
00:41:10
Speaker
Yeah. Thank you. Um, Quinn's and Lester Quinn's, you mean Quinn's and Quinn's and Montpelier. I'm sorry. I read down instead of across. Yeah. Uh, Quinn's either way. I'll tell you. Yep. Uh, Quinn's and that Lester and the Claremont. Uh, Lester. Yeah. Lester. Yeah.
00:41:34
Speaker
They didn't breeze through the pool stage, but it wasn't super hard for them either. I don't see it getting that much more difficult, honestly. I love Claremont, but who knows, maybe they do it. Okay. Super rugby. Highlanders, Pacifica. Oh, Highlanders. Yeah.
00:41:56
Speaker
I was like, is this their second win? Probably not. No, I don't think so. Unless the Highlanders completely like shit themselves because they want to match. They might. Or they got too close to winning a match. So yeah, they can almost beat those two chairs. Taking the force. Force Rebels. I don't want to. I'm going to take... Fuck.
00:42:21
Speaker
I don't want to take either team. I want to pick for the rebels and I'm picking the rebels. Oh, there you go. I'll regret it later, but I want that team to start winning again. So we'll see. I do too, but I don't think it's sweet. The trip to Western Australia is a bitch. It is. Um,
00:42:43
Speaker
canes and Crusaders. I'm not stupid enough to do this twice. Try it once. It didn't quite work. Chiefs and Blues. I'm taking one more shot with maybe the Oh, they did put out a lineup. They finally did. Yeah, a minute ago. Bowdoin's at 10.
00:43:03
Speaker
No, that's good to know. Taliah Heem, Yohani, Ratumavati, I can't do it, Neepkins. Oh, okay. Parafetta's at 15. Ooh, fine. I think, I think I'm, wait, but it's in Hamilton. Yeah. I'm going to take the Chiefs. Yeah. That's the determining practice. These teams are very balanced. They really are. So I'm going to take the home team.
00:43:29
Speaker
Jua and Brumby's, would be fun to see it, but Brumby's. Yeah, Brumby's. And then the midweek game came to Pacifica. The canes get revenge. Canes, yeah. Yeah, that's gonna be...
00:43:45
Speaker
There's going to be some anger there. Yeah. Even if it's the, even if it's like half first and half seconds, they're going to be an angry bunch. Right. No doubt. No doubt. No doubt. Okay. Cool. Look at that. Efficient. Hooray. Cool. Now I'm going to be efficient and do both of these right now. So I don't. Okay. There you go. Get them both out. I'll get one posted and one scheduled to post. Done. Right. For the, um,
00:44:14
Speaker
For the Patreons out there, I will be getting the super rugby sheet up on the on the Patreon tomorrow. So my apologies have had a lot of long days. We've got the sheet ready. It's just not up. It'll get up tomorrow.
00:44:30
Speaker
It is in there. We just got to produce it now. That's all. Cool. All right. So yeah, fancy rugby podcast at gmail.com. I don't know what we're going to do for this Friday, but we'll do something and sort it out later. I have, I'm thinking about my, my, my, my youngsters game. So I kind of got that in the back of my head.
00:44:49
Speaker
But yeah, we'll do something and we'll definitely get the sheet tomorrow. Tweet up NRI if you have questions. We'll be back next week and enjoy the Round of 16 Champions Cup. We'll see you guys then. And if you're going to the free Jax game, hit us up. Have a good one. Later.