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Season 5- Champions Cup Draft Special
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It's another one of those magical specials from those rugby dopes from America. It's the Champions Cup FRD Draft special as we draft in two separate 6 manager leagues for this season's edition of CC. The pool is stacked so have a listen to our potential mistakes, hidden gems and oh no picks. Good luck to everyone this season in Champions Cup FRD.
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Transcript
Introduction to the Fantasy Rugby Podcast
00:00:02
Speaker
It is. The Fantasy Robias. 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 gambled that. Collusion.
Champions Cup Live Draft Commences
00:00:20
Speaker
Collusion.
00:00:27
Speaker
Hey everybody, it's the Fancy Rugby Inks. We are live drafting. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. Let's get to it.
Advice on Missing the Draft
00:00:34
Speaker
Champions Cup Draft. This is going to be wild.
00:00:37
Speaker
Also, if you somehow don't get to your draft, guys, don't panic. There's so much down on the way, Royer. No, it's right.
Selecting Fly-halves: Key Players Discussed
00:00:45
Speaker
It's not even close. I was sweating it, and I was like, OK, who am I looking at for picks? Whatever. Doing my draft prep. And then I realized that, fuck, the fly-haves alone. There's no reason for me to pick up on Farrell with my first. No. Really, I need to make maybe Jollibear because he's such a runner.
00:01:06
Speaker
Well, Marcus won't be available for the first two rounds, so. Oh, that hurts that even.
Valuable Outside Backs and Matchup Analysis
00:01:11
Speaker
So, yeah. So, yeah, that means, you know, Max Maylands can really easily, you know, well, should easily be one, too. But then there's Tomas Ramos, who's who's available, although I don't like his matchups. In my pre draft for the Kings, he's read. Who did to lose out? They have monster and they have sale.
00:01:35
Speaker
Yeah. So it's like one of those, like, OK, it's not that, you know, that's why I put those in red just so I know it's like, OK, you can't like. Yeah, I mean, they might not, you know, they'll get through. They'll get through. But it just means that they're not like, you know, if it's between him or I mean, unfortunately,
Injury Updates Affecting Draft Choices
00:01:53
Speaker
what? James Lowe was injured. Is he? Arendelle Arendelle. Well, he didn't play in the. But I think he just played this past weekend. Oh, did he? OK, well, then he's back on yesterday.
00:02:06
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know how long Arendelle's out for like February. He might or he might miss. He might miss six nations. Mm hmm.
Impact of South African Teams Joining
00:02:14
Speaker
That's unfortunate. Yeah. So like outside backs are actually kind of at a premium here and a lot of them do have to have rough matchups like that. All the two lose players are kind of highly rated. Well, a tough time. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Darcy Graham with Edinburgh.
00:02:33
Speaker
I don't want that. I don't like, I liked RC Graham, but I don't want that matchup. Oh, here we are. 40 seconds. Yeah. And then obviously if your knowledge on South African rugby is crap, then you're going to be screwed because I am the inclusion of the South African teams as well
Key Draft Picks and Strategy Differences
00:02:56
Speaker
here. So it's going to be, yeah, that's all bets are off at this point. Right.
00:03:03
Speaker
Interesting to see Louis carbonyl that high. He didn't, I don't think, do you play this past week? I've been trying to tune into some other rugby besides the prem since we're going into this. I don't wait for Montpelier this past weekend. I don't trust, I don't trust Montpelier to play. I don't know who the fuck they're going to play ever. I mean, I hope they start taking this here, this competition very seriously. And obviously they gave Quincel, they could handle and beat them in the 16, but they barely inched into that.
00:03:32
Speaker
as well.
Team Selections and Prominent Team Debates
00:03:33
Speaker
All right. Draft has started. Um, DuPont first. Who went first? It was not mail-ins. Tamboy. DuPont was first in our league. Oh, that was bikobis. I know. Wait, Mark just picked Libach. I will get either mail-ins or Marley.
00:03:59
Speaker
Oh shit. Okay. Leinster front row. So I get mail-ins. Leinster front row.
Finn Russell's Impact and Other Standouts
00:04:06
Speaker
Yeah. Interesting. Like I guess Leinster, I do have a really good front row. Like you look at their top six players. It's really good, but I think I'll play them all the time. Yeah. Lee bucks off the board in our, in our league too. Fuck. I could go for some James low. Like I don't, I, yeah, I think Finn Russell gets going. That's gone. Although I think that's the George goes with Ramos.
00:04:26
Speaker
I don't know how much Finn, how his points translate to this competition. So that's why I'm, I'm wary of him. I imagine try assist will come almost just went. Oh, try assists are big. Yeah. Yeah. Even though he's not kicking for Rossing.
Draft Dynamics and Strategic Implications
00:04:40
Speaker
So that's the one thing you got to keep in mind. I'm just kicking for them now. Right now. Yeah. It's you guys kicking. So
00:04:49
Speaker
Sophia gets Ramos and DuPont. Oh, wow. That's, I liked that. Was that, was that the turn there? That was the turn. That's a sweet turn. We got, we got some, we have a couple of guys that are half in the bag, I think. So it's going to be a minute. Yeah. All right. So I have, oh, I have all sorts of people available. You got mail-ins. I can go mail-ins in Murley and be pretty happy about that. Oh, no. I'm going to go James Lowe.
00:05:19
Speaker
Let's switch. Switch that up. Yeah. This should be interesting. Excuse me. Although if he comes back around to me, I'm taking jelly bear. Because I think he's going to be running a lot. Right. And Bordeaux are playing. Wait, where is it?
Backing Up Key Positions for Resilience
00:05:47
Speaker
Gloucester and then sell sea sharks. I think both of which, um, they should be able to do damage to run on. We have a Marcus bottle pick. It looks like, oops. I'm taking Maxwell as well at five. Justin's going to go on the turn here. Shoot. Let me show him ready.
00:06:17
Speaker
Okay. I still have a while to go. I've missed no, that's a good one. No, James. Okay. I picked James like Hugo Keenan went after James low. All right. That's a good one too. Yeah. Justin's gone for per now as well. And then I wonder if he's going to double down that OB or if he's going to go somewhere else. Okay. So carbonyl played two weeks ago. Okay. So you're going to be there resting on for this coming weekend here. Right.
Drafting Strategies: Outside Backs and Sleepers
00:06:46
Speaker
A distinct possibility. So he's available if I don't get. Jollibear. Although carpenter just went, so you could try it. I was listening. Yeah. Justin, Justin might have a tap on the phone because he also just grabbed Jollibear. All right. Now the only dog Mercer just went. Oh, go into that. I'm going down that road.
00:07:14
Speaker
OPs and fly halfs galore. Yeah. How many of them are high end is the question. Right. So I think I'm going. Oh, Ben Earl. Yeah. Mark, just go. Yeah, that's a good one. All right. I'm going. I have low on mail-ins now. Is that who you have?
00:07:38
Speaker
I have, hold on. Yeah, I think I do. Just a copy. All right. And Dylan. Dylan just went that way. I'm going with Theo. Yeah. Because at this point I know it's third round. Oh, my team's right up there. I was looking
Challenges in Selecting Midfield Players
00:08:02
Speaker
elsewhere. Well, I was trying to also figure out who to draft because I was coming up.
00:08:08
Speaker
So, okay. I'll treat goes. That's a good one. Yeah. Luke Crosby, very high on the loose forward list. That's very interesting. Ruse makes sense. Um, for me, but I think it comes back around. I got to take Marley. Yeah. I wanted to, but I didn't want to take two English wingers. Yeah, but I don't want to fuck it. I don't really mind. Although yeah. I'm like low as a drop off or anything like that either though. Right.
00:08:41
Speaker
Okay. Okay. Oh, wow. Sophia is listening. She picked. Oh, and she picked kabocha. She'll be bearing. There goes that. Okay. We'll have this outside back. Marley Darcy Graham. I don't want a fin Russell and Johnny Sexton off the board. I don't know the sexton healthy in place because we cannot think maybe dead. Maybe. I think I got to
Fly Halves Selection Deep Dive
00:09:05
Speaker
go Marley. I don't see any, there's no other back that I'm like,
00:09:10
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, Luke with the curtly yard. And so I had that in my brain. I think, Oh, he's way gone. He was, he was gone. Where, where did he went? He went 11th. So that's exactly where he was. That's exactly where we're at. Oh, no, he picked it just, just past me. Sorry. I picked James Lowe. He went right after two picks after and Keenan and currently, but she got to go with, right? That's a interesting.
00:09:42
Speaker
That is interesting. You don't get the the and he's got a good lineup, but are good. Opposition. Yeah, he's got good. Thank you. Some of us are slow, although I haven't been yellow. He's a Bordeaux and Leinster. Oh, I don't I don't favor them against Leinster. No, probably not puts us off the board now.
Unexpected Picks and Strategic Impact
00:10:08
Speaker
Oh, did Fazgo.
00:10:11
Speaker
Yeah, he went. Okay. But so Farrell, then I pick Murray. Okay. There it was. That's moody rule. Fuck. I need a, I do need to fly half. What do you know of Houston? Which one you on from the bulls? He was on. Yeah. He was Montpellier's fly up for awhile. Okay. I do know if I guess he's, is he playing for the bulls? Yeah. Fuck that's what I just don't know. Yeah, I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. He should be the starter.
00:10:44
Speaker
That's something that really losing it. Let's see. Yeah. We have a Capuzzo off the board. Let me check real quick. I have 88 seconds. Yeah. Okay. He played in over Cardiff this on the weekend. So I'm assuming that's the warmup and I'm going to pick Houston because I need to fly half and they are dropping like flies and duplicity. Interesting.
00:11:14
Speaker
Hmm. Okay.
Balancing Teams for Competitive Advantage
00:11:19
Speaker
That's not been do pretty much. That's, that's my downfall for not knowing enough about that Teddy Tomah for George is playing for. See a Khaleesi go a failure than see a Khaleesi. Intimac went right before. What did, yeah. I wonder what value Khaleesi brings in this format.
00:11:42
Speaker
It's a very, it's very peculiar. Peril off the board. Yep. Oh no. Duncan is, um, is auto picking and he's taking a lot of, um, number tens here. Yeah. I'm going better.
00:12:07
Speaker
Yeah, I mean he's gone and he's there we go nurse for a bank just goes oof. I'm like Sophia I don't like Khaleesi in for a bank this early. I gotta say I Mean you watch watch me shut the fuck up later, but right? Right off the bat. I'm not Yeah Should be very interesting it's it's funny that Santiago Carreras is a it's a midfielder here. Oh really? Okay. Yeah
00:12:37
Speaker
Oh, I'm taking Santi correct. Yeah, that's not bad. Or daily. How many series do you have? I have, does it matter? I mean, I have, what was it? I mean, no, but yes, like you want to also keep that in mind. Yeah, I have mainland Cynthia. That's true. If they have a bad week, then they all have a bad week. So Gloucester, again, I don't like, oh, against Leinster, I don't like. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So Leinster front row off the board.
00:13:03
Speaker
Over here. I know you guys, I know you said that they're there. We're going to long gone. Other
Adjustments and Adaptability in Drafting
00:13:08
Speaker
side there. You're Rossing. Are they, are they green? Yes, they're green. Okay. I'm going to go with Fiku. Is Fiku hurt? I don't think so. But he played through on the nationals now. So I have Leinster and Quinn's. Uh,
00:13:41
Speaker
Tell you where Alex Mitchell. Fuck it. What's the Saints schedule like? It's La Rochelle and Monster. So there's points to be done. Yeah, but still, it's going to be tough. It is. It's not going to be easy. Let's see. I want to fly off. But I was also freaking. I lost. I totally shot the Betelmethic. Yeah. No question about it. That was bad. Yeah. I was talking myself out of every single option. And I should just have stopped doing that.
00:14:11
Speaker
I went with Kerwin Bosch as my fly half. Hmm. Selsey sharks. Okay. I have Houston. I'll pick someone else up just to... I remember back when we were playing FRD super rugby. Fikugo's Carrick was listening to our conversation. Mike, he's listening to me anyway. Tap on you. And we have, yeah, Alex Mitchell from
00:14:36
Speaker
from Northampton goes here as well. Daily goes. Okay, so all the people that I was looking for are all are just are going so trying to figure out which one you want, right?
In-depth Analysis of Player Selections
00:14:48
Speaker
Yeah, midfield, as we found out, midfield has been hard to find scores. And so it is. But that's why I think I'm looking at Carreras, because I think from the 10 position, he will get line breaks, he will run.
00:15:00
Speaker
Well, I guess he's going to start at 10 cause he's still out. Right. Either way, when he comes back, he's going to be playing because they love him. So if he's either a 10 or is it weighing in either way, I like his, you know, and if he's that, if he's at wing, that means Hastings is playing 10. So they'll get in the ball. Like Hastings playing up really ups the value of both. Well, absolutely resam it's value. Right. Um,
00:15:28
Speaker
Carreras, though, it's kind of neutral. You know, he'll get the same points at winger at 10, I think. As long as he is interesting, I wonder if he's going to have any. I wonder if he's going to be able to be be kicking it off or Edinburgh. That's what I was wondering, too. But who the they're not going to be kicking much. Yeah, they're playing Saracen and in cash and cash. Well, truthfully, if that's your if that's your third OB, though, that's probably OK.
00:15:55
Speaker
Yeah, that's all right. Exactly. That's your first, your second. You might be in trouble. Right. That's that's where I am. And I have three OBS already, so I'm pretty pretty happy all around at this point. I've got a lot of classes available, though. Oh, who's he playing for? La Rochelle. Oh, that's right. They play Saints. Oh, yeah. Anybody playing to answer or taking a shit to.
00:16:23
Speaker
Yeah, they just surrendered a bunch of points in their game this weekend in the second half. Yeah, Ringrose goes. LaRochelle and Ringrose go. LaRochelle front row. Yeah, I like that. Boogery. What's his blood? I'm just not bothering, because I'm going to take Saracens late, because nobody cares. All right. Kriel just went. I don't know. Jesse Groh?
00:16:52
Speaker
Yeah, interesting and then yeah, I like him as a I like him as a mid um, I think in this comp that's actually probably a good pick because You know, he's not gonna. Oop. Cobus I For four outside backs. Caden merly. James. Lo max melons teddy thomas pinwah, whatever. I like calling it balls Yeah, i'm okay there. I think i'm done Bulls and I still might get current at us on the turn
00:17:19
Speaker
Esther hazing goes mark dance is Alex, get some. Yes, Kanye Oh, Sofia Sofia, I don't think he is. So is he healthy? Interesting to see the midfielders row from Rossing.
00:17:40
Speaker
Yeah. No. So note the midfielders, how high Phil Cochen is in this. That's too high from Lester for me. He's, he should not be the highest rate rated tiger, um, midfielder. And why is Rohan Yantsevan Rensberg, the highest rated Rantsa Yantsevan Rensberg? Oh, I'm up. I don't know.
Strategizing Around Top Players
00:17:55
Speaker
I'm taking the answer. I don't have an answer. Sure. Toby's you with us buddy.
00:18:08
Speaker
So who picked where? Okay. Luku went right before I picked. Okay. Half back. Okay. And I'm at this point, I went on this turn. I'm going to take James and Gibson park because he's rated at one 56, but he gets actually good points per game. He should. Yeah. I get it. Like Luca rats, he'd rated higher, but he gets four point. He gets half the points per game as James and Gibson park.
00:18:31
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. That does. So like I kind of bricked when I picked Alex Mitchell, but I'll take JGP on the way back. Yeah. There you go. Because now I don't have to think about it. Right. And especially when Leinster played Gloucester. Yes. Carl Bernal and Evan Roos say that's a good pick, Roos. Ringrose. David George. Get out of my brain. Get out of my head.
00:19:03
Speaker
One one, I think we can keep an eye on your boy fauna. He's a midfielder, but he can also play wing for Bordeaux. So keep that one in your back pocket. Oh, my final. OK. And Bordeaux, I have as they're playing against Gloucester and then Celsius. So at least that Gloucester matchup should be favorable. Yeah, I'll keep him in my back pocket for a few rounds from now. Yeah. Although I might go some other way. I have time. Get some parkos, so I'm not going there.
00:19:33
Speaker
No. Shut that one down. Who was listening in? Mark. Mark was listening in again. Yeah. If he doesn't go, somebody that's been playing a lot for Montpelier is Reinach. And I would be very interested to see him.
00:19:55
Speaker
to see him in this comp again and run loose. So assuming he doesn't go disappearing in the next two seconds here, which he didn't. I got to go into a think hole. Good luck with that. Yeah, that's kind of good. All right. I need another midfielder.
Assessing Draft Picks: Successes and Errors
00:20:11
Speaker
Mofana's there. Well, there's a couple of guys there. I'm not too worried about loose forward. Oh, I could go Dom brand. I could go Jelosh.
00:20:19
Speaker
Or Toulouse. Toulouse, you didn't have highly rated. No, Monster in Sale, I don't like it. Right. So I might go Dombrandt, because he will be featured. If nothing else, yeah. That's a lot of points that I will take right there. There's Dombrandt in our league. Justin's just taking them. Mm, Cobus Reiniger just went. Yippee Tri-Yay. Who was that again? That's still...
00:20:46
Speaker
Stu, okay. He's been, everybody's listening to, I guess we'll, we're talking about the people who are up, but so too. Right. That's buried down a little bit. So he is, you have to go look for him. You really do. All right. Carrick is up. Yeah, I'm thinking. Yeah. I just don't like the other, oh, Tom Curry is the, Oh, I still don't like.
00:21:12
Speaker
sale could do okay here. They're, they're an orange. Ulster and Toulouse are going to have, they're going to have trouble with. Um, where are Ulster's match-ups? Ulster are against, uh, sale in La Rochelle. Yeah. Oh, it could also go with.
00:21:40
Speaker
Conan, but no, I like Dom brand better. They, they like try to feature Dom brand. That's why he's rated way too low. I feel bad. I feel weird taking them so far, but the rankings don't matter. And that's where I have to lay out. The rankings are kind of just go with what feels right. Right. Like Edinburgh, like all these teams are well above Saracens and I'm going to take Saracens like soon. I don't want to like sale or dough bag. Like Edinburgh is up there. Exeter are up there.
00:22:10
Speaker
Yeah. Pass. Gloucester. Gloucester are low Gloucesters are doing all right. But they're underneath Quinn's front row. They're like at the bottom. All right. Who did? Yens Serfontaine. Okay. Yeah. All right. Where was I going? Oh, I was going with loose forward. I was going with Dom Brant. I hate that it resets everything. Dom Brant. Every time you go back. Yeah. No, every time I like, I have it looked in the, like, um,
00:22:42
Speaker
As soon as somebody makes a pick, I check on it and it sends you back to where you were. It's like, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Sometimes you're almost better typing it in and just let it, let it be the thing there. What are, ooh, bander flare. That's a good one. What are, what are Irish's match ups? What an Irish Irish. Oh, they're, they actually are all right. Montpellier and Stormers.
Strategic Player Swapping and Team Adaptation
00:23:11
Speaker
Like I would not worry about them getting their points. I would, I would consume like Ali has a Collins is just fine. I don't think they're getting too, I'd like my failure. Good. But they will also, they'll let your run on them. Right. So, and they'll have reason to run. So yeah. We're about luster.
00:23:31
Speaker
Lester are green as well. For me, they have Osprey's and Claremont. They're actually good. Yeah. If you have like a Lester player, I would go with them. They'll do, they'll do reasonably well. I think it was flying Freddie. That's not a bad, I don't know. Yeah. I wouldn't, I mean, there are plenty of OBS here, but I just, some of them, I don't trust my knowledge of them. And some of them I'm like a matchup or, or, or they're either, or they're hurt. I think it was Mercer was waiting for that to happen.
00:24:02
Speaker
Okay. Oh, okay. Who's up? Chris Harris. Okay. Oh, Johnny sex. Didn't think Chris Harris go. That's right. Cause I'm going with Saracen's for a row. As long as nobody fucks me out of them, you know, the loose forward and then somebody else or whatever the next one, I mean, that'll be in the need to lose forward or Alex, you stay away. Okay. Shouldn't be too bad. Saracen's for a row.
00:24:30
Speaker
Yeah. Way too far down. Yeah. Nobody's going to see him. So I'm okay with that. But damn, I don't know. Like with all the ones that are left, this is, this was, I think by far the best one. I don't know. I'll get it. I'll go right to your rocker goes. Although Gloucester could do well, but I don't have them in yellow. I have them in yellow. Oh no. They're going to get shithouse again with Lancer. Yeah. Lancer's going to be a tough, tough, tough ass there. No doubt.
00:25:02
Speaker
No, Mark doesn't like my pick of, uh, sorry, smart row. So they've been killing them all season. I don't care. Damn it. I think they're going to crush it against these, these people in this competition. It's different. Like they're not going to play their B list guys, or they're not going to arrest anybody. They're going to play everybody they have. Exactly. They've been resting guys like, yeah. And they're coming off a two week buy into this competition now. Yeah. Well, so they'll be all right.
00:25:31
Speaker
Which reminds me, he's, he's a Tojay. What's up. Okay. Mara was gone. I just don't, I didn't see when Mara went. Wow. Mara's gone already. Wow.
Refining Draft Strategies
00:25:49
Speaker
Or is, what? Here we go, Luke. You can do it. I believe in you.
00:26:05
Speaker
I don't see a Toji on. Oh, there he goes. If you try, I just picked him. There it was. Duncan's off. Cameron Wokey is a lock. Doesn't he play flanker for Rossing? He might not be as much anymore because I know the French national team are really trying to turn him into a lock.
00:26:28
Speaker
I need another midfielder. Oh, right. Mofana. Ha boom. You're welcome. Thank you. Good looking out. I love that we're in separate comps. It's not like the last time when I was between you and George and you could say Jack shit. Oh, that was annoying. Except it was their best pot ever for, for a live draft. Like a rack. Okay. Interesting.
00:27:00
Speaker
Yeah, like some of the guys that have been killing it in crime, FRD just may not do as well because of a lot of reasons. Yeah. Like Tommy Freeman and Burbank, who are both really good. Right. Furbank, I think, gets negated by this comp. I don't he gets. Oh, Moafana just went. Damn it. Mark, Mark. Stop listening, Mark. And they're listening. All right. Like Dingle, I don't know.
00:27:29
Speaker
Yeah. All right. I'm going to take. I think I'm out of the. Out of that. I think I'm. Yeah, I'm out of the. Oh, Kuyu for Leon. Yeah, Kuyu is good. As far as needing out, if you need help. But they're they're playing bulls and saris. Saris have been shutting it down, actually. Yeah, Vanzel's been an asshole to her in these days. Yeah. Ulster yellow.
00:27:59
Speaker
Luke McGrath. I don't want to go with Luke McGrath. Rather go with Danny care, but I don't really want to go with Danny care. So then, okay. Midfield. I don't want, I don't like midfield right now. Yeah, I have Jared. This is fucking bullshit. Well, I don't know what to tell you, man. Cause I'm not, I have nothing to do with yours. Yeah. I'm looking at potentially under the giant here.
Comprehensive Draft Tactics Overview
00:28:26
Speaker
I'm going to go to you. My next pick we got. So Hassell Collins is off the board. I took him LaBelle's off the board. I think I might have to go with Marchant, my next pick. Yeah. Unless Alex picks him because Alex, Alex might do it. Don't do it Alex. Don't you dare.
00:29:06
Speaker
Yeah, if this is a chaos sounds like a chaotic cloud it is yeah, we're doing two different leagues After I make this pickle I want to just remind everyone and tells me Alex was looking at kuya
00:29:22
Speaker
But he went, oh, Balacoon. Nice. Balacoon. All right. That's a good pick. Yeah. But like you said, but if that's not your one of your top OBs, that's a good pick. Let's put it that way. Right. Where is he? If you're expecting him to be one of your first two starters on the sheet. And he's got Bafeli. So he's got Panno, then Ashvili, Bafeli, and Balacoon.
00:29:46
Speaker
So one of those, so one of those last two, he could probably trade off. I think the other two will be fine. But yeah, fuck you, Justin. Fuck you, Justin. Santiago Cordero goes, Oh, wait, wait, did I pick the wrong guy? Fucking A. Did you? Santiago Cordero. See, I picked Cordero. I don't know. I'm confused. Oh, Cordero, is he he's the other Cordero? Santiago Cordero, Exeter? No. Where's he? He's in France. Okay.
00:30:15
Speaker
Okay, cool. Yeah, no, you did not pick wrongly by any means.
00:30:21
Speaker
Now that it's now it really fucks me up. The Lewis Ludlum versus Lewis Ludlow. I did the other day, too. I did. I was I was like 50, 50 shot. I went for it. I cannot. I like it fucks me up because I don't I can't remember which one plays for which. And I always get the room. What do you got for Munster? This let's go around here. Munster on him in yellow. They're kind of just to lose. And then but Saints, that's Saints. I'm I'm I'm dripping for Jaco Donohue. It is then.
00:30:51
Speaker
Yeah. Like, if you're picking him for playing against Saints, you're doing all right. Yeah. And he's my second loose forward, so. Yeah. I'm not mad. So, who's Monster's fly half? Barbara, he's not hurt. Otherwise, it's Healy. All right. I have to check on that. Well, I pick because I have to pick Marchant right now. With this tournament.
00:31:16
Speaker
Anybody that's participating can get points in the standings, so that's why we're going to separate the D2 managers into different comps. Obviously, the four participating here for D2 are not going to be able to participate in Six Nations. And the point assignments are the same. So that's why we did it the way we did it.
00:31:37
Speaker
So everybody can hurt points here. So if, you know, if Luke wins our, our division, my division over here, then he gets the points, you know? Okay. So, so Joey Carberry is, um, he, he was out for the rest of Ireland's tour, but he was going to be back for a monster. So apparently he's back. So he's going to be my next pick because I don't know. I don't trust Houston. Is that your first laugh?
00:32:06
Speaker
Houston's my first fly half. Okay. That's always good to have two. Right. So carvers would be my second and monster are playing, they're playing at seats. And so it's like Houston, the bulls play Lionel first and then they play exit or at exit or so. I would rather play monster at saints than bulls at exit. That's going to be a difficult environment. Right.
00:32:31
Speaker
It's apparently somebody who's just bothered my dog. Ross burn. Then James Hume went. Hume. I like him. I liked him a lot. There we go. What do we got? So we have, we had a small run on front row. So I took, took a Donahue series is off for Duncan to lose is off. George grabbed them. David Creel. Interesting. Donte.
00:32:58
Speaker
Now we're up to, okay. This is the time for Cobus. He's getting two here. So he's grabbed Donti with one. LaBelle goes, Hume then LaBelle. Yeah. I'm looking. All right. Time for, to make this more chaotic. Yeah. I think I'm going to go to midfield and then round out my. Climate check. Okay. I have starters everywhere, but lock.
00:33:27
Speaker
I don't need that. And then I have backups at outside back and scrum half. Pretty good with that so far.
Analyzing Team Performance and Strategy Effectiveness
00:33:39
Speaker
And then get my backup fly half.
00:33:43
Speaker
You think I think I hope let's see what just what's going down Um l reload Ali hustle collins has gone from from mark Okay, no karick is playing karick is is drafting. Yeah, I grabbed castle collins as well I'll reload. Yeah, you just went nice as well. Yep Okay, i'm about to uh
00:34:12
Speaker
Draft. So what's your team looking like? Unless you're also about to drive. I have, I'll tell you in a second. I have, I need a second midfielder. I believe you. Yes. So I have my three OBS are low mail-ins hassle. Collins midfielder. I have a fake you my fly off right now. I'm going to grab a second one in a second here. Right. Right.
00:34:32
Speaker
is my halfback. Ben Earl and Jacquelyn Donahue are my loose swords as of right now. Nice. Nice. My, my plan is to, some of those I don't love. So obviously I'm going to go backfill with other names that might hit, but right. Like, I don't know. I, I believe Figue will come good in this comp, but I don't know.
00:34:54
Speaker
Right, it's so much of a, the midfield is such a fuck who knows. Totally. And one of the reasons that I picked March hand is because he might play on the wing too. Right, that might be who I go for next year, trying to fill that out. Wait, no. Carrick picked Mark Bennett. People like him a lot. And I'm not knowledgeable enough to say whether or not he's going to be good in this. Yeah. So I'll admit that. But people do like him.
00:35:20
Speaker
I'm just not sure. I think at club level, he's probably very quality. I think at international level, he probably still needs to be somewhere in the rotation and not necessarily a nailed on starter. Let's put it that way. So that's what I know. All right. So I got Joey Carberry picked Bordeaux Big Le front row. Yeah, still good. That's still a good front row. Yeah.
00:35:44
Speaker
Still a good one. And he goes, jazz. Right. So now at this point, it's all backups. Unless I want to pick a lock. So Joe Martian is my almost best player available. Yeah. That's a lot of people are talking about Joe marching right now. People are talking, but people are talking. Freddie burns and Billy burns 32 and 34 in terms of Freddie's just slightly ahead of Billy. Yeah. Um,
00:36:15
Speaker
There's only two chiefs that are worth mentioning at the moment, maybe three. Two of them have the same last name. Yeah, right. So what is their, what's their matchup look like? Oh, Jack O'Donohue is available in my league. I have, yeah, I grabbed him. I'm going to grab him. That's a backup loose forward. Oh, fuck you. That's your backup loose forward? Yeah. I have Theo and Alex Nombrett as my starter. Oh, Jesus Christ, man. Yeah, I know. Your league makes all need to be fired right now.
00:36:45
Speaker
Monster are playing tools and oh, but they're playing Saints. Oh, yeah Saints. He's gonna be mine versus Saints. Yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah, that's fine. You're insberg. Oh Oh Sophia Mac my pimpy for Justin. That's not bad. Yeah, that's not bad. That's not bad at all here. Look Lewis resam. It's still available here Fosse
00:37:07
Speaker
I remember Fosse. I liked him a lot. I really did. Yeah. And sharks. Where are they? So see, they play Quinn's and Bordeaux. They'll be open. They'll be spots. They'll be playing open. Yeah. I'm up. There'll be chances. Okay. Wait. And I'm going for Jack O'Donohue. Chris Smith. Not knowledgeable enough to tell you that I know exactly who that is. So told you where I need to do my research on. Let's play Rossing. Oh, when Quinn's play Rossing, I'll probably play O'Donohue against.
00:37:37
Speaker
The Saints. And then just always play Theo. Yeah. What do we got for front rows here? Oh, Cooney was badly knocked last night. I heard that too. Yeah. I did hear that. Eples. I just hear that. Yeah. It was an interesting incident. I got to look at it again because I saw a quick video, but I didn't get it. I didn't look at it enough to be able to diagnose it. Um,
00:38:06
Speaker
Well, we go with a lot of Rochelle's front row. You need a midfielder. You do? Oh, a third. Oh, okay. Yeah, I don't have a front row yet. So I'm just going to go with a front row that I think will go deep in the competition, even if they're not going to be amazing. Well, it's only the first two. It's only the, it's not just four. Oh, how does, I don't, yeah, I guess they'd have to go deep. You'd want them to go deep, huh?
00:38:31
Speaker
I didn't realize it involved the knockouts at all. I thought it was, that's right. Cause the, the last couple of rounds are in the knockout rounds. Got it. Yeah. So it'll be the round of 16 each week. And then, okay. Um, the quarter file on the semi-final, I believe, um, I'll double money. I don't know who that is. Jordan Larmor goes. Diamani. I don't know from Adam to be perfectly blunt. Right. Yeah.
00:39:17
Speaker
Here doo-doo-doo-doo Get picking and see you know All quiet on the Western front
00:39:31
Speaker
It'll be six game weeks. Okay. Round Robin. Okay. So yeah, you, I mean, it's, so that's four rounds of the first two, plus the, um, rounds of 16 around 16. Yeah. Right. That's all.
Reflecting on Draft Choices and Outcomes
00:39:48
Speaker
Oh, that's right. Those are, those are, uh, dual weeks. Oh, I love that shit. Okay. Up there. There goes my pimpy. Yeah. Good pick. Yeah. Arendelle gone for.
00:40:00
Speaker
For here, I hope they're, I hope that's not their last oof. Hope that's not their starting. It will be. Yeah, it might be. Have fun. I might go after Lily Fosse, my next pick. Yeah. I think that's a quality pick, especially if it's not your first one. It's my fourth outside back. Okay. That's, that's solid. I'm already having Merle, low mail-ins and Toma. That's a good one. So Fosse will.
00:40:29
Speaker
Just add to a, a collection, although I do need midfield help. Uh, I don't know who duke Plessy is. I don't really. Yeah. I don't know. So far up there. Right. That's what I was saying before about the Tigers midfielders. Like, why is he the highest ranked one out of all of them? Right. Might be the quote unquote most talented, but certainly isn't the highest. Where are they? Do I have them?
00:40:59
Speaker
Dude, my armored white ball team just took a dump. Oh, did they? Oh yeah. And I'm playing you this week. So. Oh, that's, yes. You are playing me this week. Where the fuck is Claremont? Oh, there they are. They're okay. Oh, they played Lester stormers and Lester. No, no, thanks. I don't, I'm not going to pick one of them. I can pick my wallet. Sorry, friend. Yeah. Is that your backup center?
00:41:28
Speaker
Yeah. That's not bad. He's always been good. He's always been good. All right. He's a tough task to handle. Okay. I'll do more. Oh, there goes Marcus Smith. Mark got him. Doris went. Pimpy, then Doris. Now Marcus. Dylan Doris. There's just not much in the way of, I guess, Henshaw. Oh, why would I not pick Henshaw? Yeah. As long as he's healthy. Oh, that's true.
00:41:57
Speaker
But then he's my backup, so he'll be healthy by the time I need him. That's, yeah, possibility, possibility. Until new year. So he'll be back when I need him.
00:42:18
Speaker
New Year's only a month away, bro. Right. I don't need him for this week. I got covered at us. Raven roll to get picked up in March. Do I have, I have everything I need. Sans like if I want to lock, but that'll be doing far between. But then yeah, I'll definitely have hench off for the knockout stages. So that's all that matters.
00:42:49
Speaker
Yeah, you just need, you just need, uh, a front row. Uh, you need players that are going to get to that round of 16. That's really what you want to focus on. Yep. All right. I got two more spots. You guys are flying. We're only on 10, uh, 17 year. Wow. Like we have a couple, you know, yeah, we're down under the weather as it were. I see him to the weather and I let's go for out of the influence, but Hey, Oh, Ben hard.
00:43:19
Speaker
Okay. Oh, so I missed. Okay. Mark Smith. Then Kamara. Okay. Yeah. I like him. Henshaw. Then Alex picks Ben Hardy on Sylvan Renzberg. Okay. Yeah. I mean, sure. He was looking at Henshaw. Let's see if that's not his starter by any means that's pretty good. Yeah. Let's see how he, how, uh, Oh wait, I had him on. Hold on.
00:43:49
Speaker
Well, I gotta go. Alright, that's a good pick. I'm about to have to pick Freddie Stewart went Christian Wade than Freddie Stewart. That's a good one too. Yeah. I'm going with Fosse Wade, man. He's still there. What a waste of time that was for him to be a way in the freaking NFL. What an idiot to do nothing. I mean nothing. Three loose forwards do.
00:44:16
Speaker
I don't think I need a lock. I don't see any locks here that I'm like, I'm really disappointed that Theo is not on a lock. Yeah, there was a chance of it, but man, I don't need another. Okay. Okay. Do Han went to
00:44:46
Speaker
Stuart Moore and there's Wokey. Okay. Oh, and I can pick Jack McGrath and have a half back in the... Yeah, that's what I'm going to do. Jack McGrath or Luke McGrath? Luke McGrath, sorry. Say Jack McGrath. I feel like Jack McGrath was a prop at some stage. Yeah, sorry. So, you know, we were talking about some people are feeling under the weather. Yeah. Yeah. Attaboy.
00:45:12
Speaker
You're doing terrific. Yeah, that's okay. Luke McGrath. Because now I have Mitchell and you for the whatchamacallits and then for the playoffs. Yeah, I'm set there. Ooh. A certain. Quinn's halfback has not left the building yet, so.
Review of Drafting Process: Strengths and Adjustments
00:45:35
Speaker
Oh, Marcus Smith went for us just know the other halfback care. Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. Danny cares available here, too.
00:45:43
Speaker
Yeah. And they play sell the sharks and Rossing. So I. Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean, if it's he's my second. So yeah. Oh, that's true. Yeah. You'd be all right. Yeah. If he's my first, I get it. But he's my second. So we're going to go with that. Oh, excuse me. Because I also think they should do well in the tournament. So I think they'll be OK. I'm coming up on my last pick here.
00:46:13
Speaker
Well, that's it. And expired next. Okay. Outside that I'm still looking at Jimenez avail is he hurt? He was. Okay. He's also competing with that fullback spot for with Ramos.
00:46:31
Speaker
Oh yeah. Cause he's now at all these, there's like a lot of guys who are really good high, but I'm just like, no, not interested. Yeah. They have Tyrone green way up on this list. Tyrone green is stuck for a bit. So right. Right. Yeah. All right. So do any care. Did he care and go with Ryan? I am definitely turning back the clock on the old days there. Love it. Love it. Wokey just went here.
00:47:00
Speaker
Oh, he just went. Wow. He went early year. Yeah. There's not like even the locks. There's okay. Maloney, it's a Beth. Skelton. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe shelter at Tibet. Those are the ones that catch my eye on that one. Yeah. I'm not even going to bother drafting one though. Ribbons. Maybe. Big old ribeye, but he's way down. It's down for a reason.
00:47:27
Speaker
Right. I mean, Justin's gone with Cooney to see if he gets healthy here. I assume that's not his first one. I assume. Yeah. Last round. Like we're, yeah, that was my second to last round. Oh, that's, that's Justin's first half back. I want to grab a second one, Justin. Just a thought just in case Cooney's not healthy. Cause it sounds like you get his, uh, his bell run pretty good. Yeah.
00:47:57
Speaker
who won em off is available. Yeah. Depends on if he plays a lot for wrestling. I mean, when he plays, he was, he's terrific. Yeah. But he's on my, he's on, he'd be my fifth outside bag. That's, that's, that's, that's a good throw him or Fosse. Yeah. Cause if you play, he's right. He's like, you came off place. He's lights out.
00:48:20
Speaker
Oh, totally. Yeah. I'm looking at backup 10 here. I'm considering either Simmons or Vellum, sir. Hmm. But actually, I don't know if I want films because that's the same team as Leibach. Is it not? So I don't want that. I don't think I want that in that case. Um,
00:48:47
Speaker
Do to do to see. Oh, Jimmy O'Brien is still available. Oh, is that a midfielder picking him? No, he's an outside back. Yeah, lame, lame. I think, you know, I'd rather have him than him off anyway, because Jimmy O'Brien is it like you'd have to I'm going to have to struggle with my outside backery here. Mm hmm. It's not the matchups are going to be going to go with Sir Joseph.
00:49:18
Speaker
Yeah, I like that idea because he'll be taking kicks. He's my, he's my blast. He'll be there fly half. He's my second. He's my second checker. So, or my second fly half. So I could be in worse shape. Uh, they got, there's no way about writing this. He's an outside back as well. Yeah, he is lame. Yeah, he is lame. Nobody asked for that. Nobody. Any backups and other spots though. Yeah. We got five more picks to go over here.
00:49:49
Speaker
Wow. Oh, expired who got Oh, Carrick, Arendelle. Oh, Carrick. Oh, that's not as large. So I'm up. He's picking for last pick. That's about please. That's fine. Pretty steward goes. Yeah, I'm going. Oh, yeah. And Jimmy O'Brien will definitely go through. I'm picking Jimmy.
00:50:17
Speaker
Jimmy holds grudges. Yeah. I would say in this format, if you're hot up for a loose forward, that you beyond the first two that you have, Billy, you have so many options that it's not a big deal. Yeah. You can, you can just leave it on like, we're through, we have five picks left, but you still have.
00:50:45
Speaker
way too many to name for me. Will Skelton is Mr. Irrelevant in our draft. Oh, he's not irrelevant. He's an elephant. All right, so Masha, let's see who I'm playing. Against dead answer against Alex, Alex. So at the start right now, if it were the lineups were as as it shows, there is, you know, it does automatically.
00:51:16
Speaker
I have Tomah, Melins, and James Lowe at outside back. He's got Panno, Duhan, and Nini Ashvili. Yeah, that's a good matchup, actually. Yeah. It has Henshaw in for me, but it wouldn't be Henshaw. It would be Santi Carreras. Right. And Joe Marchant. And then Freish and Esther Hazen for Alex. Yeah, interesting to see how Freish is going over there and monster.
00:51:44
Speaker
Finn versus Carberry. Oh, Carberry. It has for me, but I would probably probably going to go with recent for round one. And same with with half back. He has Kuyu, but I'll take. Probably Mitchell, round one of the sea. And he's got Luku, but again, he has probably his second. I think that was wasn't his first. Intimidate. Yeah, because it does. You're the latest ones you picked. So Jack O'Donohue and Dom Brandt for me.
00:52:14
Speaker
Right. Okay. Yeah. It's some interesting ones to go through here. Do more, do more tier for Colas. Yeah. And that's, uh, it's definitely a Saffa pick. Yeah. Um, interesting to see. I don't know how much I don't think he's playing this game, Helen work on it for wrestling. So it's interesting to see him on that, on that list for Rossing.
00:52:44
Speaker
Um, what else we got? Yeah. Fosse is still sitting there. I might, I might grab him if I can get him. If he comes back around, I got three picks before me, before me. So he would be my fourth OB as I grabbed back up half backs and fly house. Cause I'm just not 100% sure how well they're going to go off. Right. Yeah. I ended up with two fly halves and two or three. Sorry. Well, okay.
00:53:13
Speaker
Okay. Cause it's all going to be matchup. And then Luke McGrath, when I move on, I go, yeah, I've planned for the future. And I pick guys who are probably likely to play. So on teams that are likely to be in their match-ups enough to, uh, to moving forward. And then when they're, they're done, if they're, you know, they're tapping out, then I'll cut them and there'll be people available. So I'm not too worried about that. Just got to keep your eye on that.
00:53:44
Speaker
But I definitely feel like Quinn's are going to use this as an opportunity to like. Get back to their, you know, kind of roots. Yeah. Open. You launch both go. At least one more. I mean, I can take who I want. Yeah.
00:54:11
Speaker
Wondering. Yeah. Backup OB. Definitely need another mid and then probably another OB. Those are my main concerns at the moment. Then all bets are off after that. I'm definitely going with the no lock approach because it allows me to keep all that
00:54:29
Speaker
It's a lot of talent to keep on and hang on to in those cases. Yeah. And maybe maybe when you get to the round of 16, you can you can consider a lock unless you have one of the top ones in the. Exactly. When it becomes time to. Oh. We have a no, it's not an adult inception anymore. But it should be now interception by Cincy, thrown by Cincy. But.
00:54:54
Speaker
Like, yeah, I'll be able to pick somebody up for when it's around a 16 because I'm dropping some guys who didn't make it. Like, that's that's when, yeah, you free like you start this out by thinking long term. Like, I definitely pick some guys ahead of where they should have gone just because it's like, well, I need to make sure that this guy is on my team because of X reason. Right. Like, I'm not drafting at that point for best player. I'm drafting for need because Fosse for me, everybody on my team has a role to play.
00:55:22
Speaker
And there's no room for a lot Except in my heart, yeah I'm one in your hearts Number four or five in my hearts See there's no closkey injured. I thought I'd love I don't know all stores matchups But
00:55:54
Speaker
Should be interesting. Penders for the Bulls. Maybe there. Well, sir, yeah, they're not, they're not great match-ups, especially going to sale is going to be not fun for them. It's going to suck. Well, it should be out here. Charlie, not that this is an interesting one there. Hmm.
00:56:33
Speaker
Let's see. All right. But you know what? He's my. I'm a lot. He's my he's my third midfielder. I'll take McCloskey. Yeah, exactly. Because if he's not healthy now, he should he hopefully is all right. Yeah, soonish. We'll be all right with that. Because this is yeah, it's it's such a it's hard to remember that it even like, you know, this is a long term thing. Not just it's four weeks from now for season wise. Yeah, definitely.
00:57:04
Speaker
So guy, and that's why, you know, you got to make sure if guys get hurt, like it's, it's actually quite easy. If you're paying attention during the intervening weeks, like if you haven't seen a guy gets hurt, it's like a long-term or whatever it's, you know, swoop in and there's, there's a lot of swooping available in this competition. So the, the draft is important, but you know, when you are get looking at your third guy, it's whatever. Yeah, totally.
00:57:32
Speaker
And volleyball has just scored for rushing. Nice. Nice. Yeah. That's it. They're talking about in this match, I guess too long has been, has either willingly scheduled or has just kind of gotten the short end of the stick and been scheduled for a Sunday night game on the fixture list, which that's not like a crowd I'm willing to like get up for and.
00:58:04
Speaker
That just sounds annoying to me personally. That's just me personally, but like, yeah, especially if like you're trying to get youth into the, into the stadium, kids got school the next day, man. Like personally, I got to say I like, and I'm sure we'll obviously talk about it on, on Wednesday. I loved what the prem did yesterday.
00:58:25
Speaker
And, and having a game started eight and yeah, it went till 10, but it's just, it's a Saturday, but the kids stay up. Like watch it's special. Make it something cool. Like, yeah, there's something I football on tonight that like millions of people will watch just cause it's, say it's something on it's, you know, in the background, I'm sure like Jess and I might end up watching it, but it's like, do we really care about the outcome? Not really, but it's on, it's a habit.
00:58:49
Speaker
And it's like, that's, that's super helpful. It's like when you're on, when no one else is on and people don't want to watch something that's non controversial, just to have on. It's like, yeah, let's watch some rugby. It's fun. Oh, totally. Especially the display of rugby. So sorry. Just a little preview for the pod for this. Maro's kind of gone into max gone.
Final Draft Picks and Season Shaping
00:59:12
Speaker
Okay. I think I'm shocked that Maro went as early as he did in ours, but
00:59:17
Speaker
That's not a bad pick. I don't think he can go too early. Like, you know, I picked Theo early. Yeah. He's one of the few walks that you can take and feel confident that he's going to usually have a good output in the week. You know, I haven't had to miss the other one probably, but you need one of those. Yes, you do. All right. I have three picks left and we have.
00:59:46
Speaker
There's some names that are in here that I would, um, really looking forward to being able to grab now, whether or not they come good. No idea. But yeah, like Santi Cordero for Bordeaux as long as he's playing. Yep. Yep. That works. Yeah. And I'm perfectly, I really like Carretta's wherever he plays. I'm very happy with this. Yeah.
01:00:10
Speaker
Uh, yeah, that's, I thought that was sneaky. That's my, my favorite sneaky pick, I think. Yeah. What's his, but from, um, Montpellier, a booty. You was playing the other day. You look pretty good. So at least from what I saw. Oh, and then, and then is he on this list? I don't know if you got registered in time.
01:00:36
Speaker
Jack Willis is not on the list. No geek. If that's who you're looking for. Nope. So a name I want everybody to keep an eye on. I don't know if he's going to be able to get registered for this comp. Um, is George bridge.
01:00:53
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah. No, he's in he's in the list. He's here. I saw him. Is he? He's down low. He's far. Oh, damn it. George grabbed him right before I as I was saying it. That's who I was just looking at. I was like, Oh, Alex Newsom's in this competition now as well. I might snag George Bridge right now.
01:01:15
Speaker
Yeah, that's a good, that's a, that's a decent get right now for my play. Has he been playing? He played this past weekend. Oh man. Who I caught. Oh, Brian, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They have ratas over there too.
01:01:35
Speaker
Yeah, that's actually a quality in that because there's oh, OK, guys at the end. Hold on. I did look below like when I found the saris all the way down below. There's people down there who should be listed who are not. Let me give me scroll down to my bottom of my list. Sorry. Guy Porter is way low. Yes. He's he's like six hundred four ranks. He's he's a good get. I'm only to actually drop somebody for him if he's around. Yeah.
01:02:04
Speaker
More and much in Gonzales is a fine get for the for the exiles and he's at 687 Peledris down there Ian Henderson is Herschel Yankees hurt No, but I don't think he's I don't know if he's playing that much for them, okay Don't that being the problem? I think like there were yeah, there were a lot of guys down there. I'm like, what the fuck are these people doing down here because totally
01:02:31
Speaker
Cause there's some, yeah, there was some quality talent that I was just like, shit. I can't see you. Okay. I like that one. All right. Bridge. He's playing for all for Montpellier. I got it. Drop Jimmy O'Brien. There's no reason that's, that's easy. Yeah. It's not to say Jimmy O'Brien's bad, but I guess it's a matter of. Does George bridge settle into life in France? Well, and drive. And I'm willing to take that bet.
01:03:00
Speaker
Yeah, he's not one of your starters. Right. Exactly. Exactly. That's just a, you know, we'll see. He plays. Hold on. Need to refresh. Oh, they play the Irish and there's steak. You can run on the Irish. Yeah, I believe that. So even if it's at home, it's there. Yeah. We saw that yesterday. The holes are there.
01:03:30
Speaker
Right. And then Osprey's. So he's got great matchups. So I'm definitely going to. Yeah. Yeah. And you could play in the round if they're going to play in the round of 16. So that's a it's a good way to split up my to diversify, too, because I already have several Leinster players. I have loads of Leinster players. I mean.
01:03:50
Speaker
It's not a bad bet because the odds are they're at least getting to the 16, which means you'll be able to use them for the entirety of the comp. Right. And they're mostly backups. Like James Low is my only starter. I have Henshaw at midfield, although he might start. And then McGrath and O'Donohue are in backups at halfback and loose forward. So that's four, but still. Guy Porter is my fourth midfielder. There you go.
01:04:15
Speaker
I'm going to go with no B. Let's figure out who I want. Is there anybody down here that's like possibly going to just storm the whole thing?
01:04:31
Speaker
Uh, Porter's making my, I now, um, do I want to pick him? Unfortunately, they do have Nidal list in this, which don't pick him. He's not, no, don't pick him. Not hanging around guys. He's, he's gone. He's, he's done it. Taz now don't get too, uh, too itchy with that one. Yeah.
01:04:51
Speaker
So that list again for the people who are listening, if you have another draft at some point, um, Guy Porter, personally Yankees. Again, I don't know what his status is. Ian Henderson. I don't know what his status is. Um, Jake pull edger, who I think is getting prepared to take on this competition. So if you're, if you're interested in him, he's way down. He's six 49. And then one Martine Gonzalez, it's a player who I would always recommend. Um, he sits six 87. He's all the way down there, but the London Irish.
01:05:19
Speaker
They're match ups against Montpelier and Stormers and there's there's running to be done. It'll suit him. This competition suits him really well. So certainly someone who should be even though you're kind of limited, he should definitely feed your third.
01:05:38
Speaker
Loose forward, you're doing pretty hard. Yeah. Throw the darts. Throw the darts with people that aren't going to have to make your lineup weekly, at least that you're not leaning with. Right. You know, that's the way. That's the way to go about it. George has gone with Wade as his last pick. Christian Wade. Wade is such an interesting. Like he's one of those people that everybody recognizes his talent, but like it's very split on whether or not he was actually a good player.
01:06:07
Speaker
Like, yeah, I definitely got to recognize the talent. I just, I don't know that he's as good as he was hyped to be. Couldn't defend for his life. No, but also like, I guess, again, nevermind. I guess to me, it was like a split thing that's him between him and, um,
01:06:32
Speaker
Fuck, I'm losing this game again. Don't know, whatever. Where it's like you can either develop your game into that more physical game so you can play at the next level and you can really be.
01:06:41
Speaker
an all-around player or you can't and then people just gonna be like okay well all I have to do is worry about him in defense and that's it and then attack him right and good things will happen and you can only get you know run over so many times before you're not really playable yeah before they figure you out and go maybe you need to go away
01:07:04
Speaker
Right. Slade and Boutier leave the board. Aaron Dell. Aaron Dell is a hell of a player. Can he, can he defend? Is he, is he a full, is he all around full back? And that's what we'll have to find out. Right.
01:07:19
Speaker
So I don't feel like Wade, Wade crossed that bridge ever. So no, probably not. I think my last pick's going to be my Kaylee for Munster because we're talking about they're going to play saints and that could be a potential matchup that I take advantage of. I don't know yet, but yeah, man, if it's my last pick, I'm not worried about it. Right. Not worried about it. My only issue is do I have, um, laughs that are going to make the knockouts.
01:07:51
Speaker
And if the answer is maybe I got problems, if the answer is yes, then I'm not going to worry about it. Right. I'm kind of concerned about that. Monster. It depends on one, actually a lot of things, but they'll be willing to have two against saints. So Carberry, I think should do okay. Right. And Houston with the Bulls. You know, Exeter, Exeter twice. They should beat Exeter twice. Should. Should. I don't know. They'll beat Exeter in South Africa probably.
01:08:20
Speaker
Right. I don't know about how I don't know enough about the Bulls as a team. Right. Yeah, it's going to be fun. A trip for it is the teams that have to go down to South Africa during this comp. Oh, and the South African team. So some of them don't like salaries don't have to travel down there. No, I'm very thankful of that. Right.
01:08:42
Speaker
But like, yeah, lucky with that. Hastings looking at the board off. They play Leon. Then they go to exit or then they come back, play exit or then they travel back up to play Leon again. Yeah. Well, thankfully, those aren't four weeks in a row, but right. They're not. But it's just that's a that's a lot of travel. Just it is. But I'm guessing that they'll they'll factor that leg into like you are see. So it's like, OK, that's part of a road trip or something. Yeah. I mean, you hope so. Right. Right. People aren't freaking dying.
01:09:12
Speaker
Yeah, you get a little bit acclimated, then you can play that and then play another one and move on. Oh, man. That was just a, that was a common track. Try you, you. Let's see how the character did three picks left. Three actual picks left. So those that are wondering, there's 102 picks in the total in the draft. Nice. Yeah. 17 rounds.
Carrick's Team Evaluation and Autodrafting
01:09:46
Speaker
Um, Carrick's team, Dylan leads, Raka, Keenan, Larmor, Arendelle, and Zess. There's us at, at, uh, I'll turn back. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know enough about them. Bennett, Fikou and Sir Fontaine at midfield and Timah can burn fly half.
01:10:07
Speaker
You're a baron at halfback Coombs, Yato, Camara, then Wokey and Leinster's front row. That's solid, but I think he autodrafted. Possibly. Here we go. My last pick, Michaeli. There goes that.
01:10:35
Speaker
And we won't see it until it's got until it goes, but Justin's got the last pick. Do, do, do, do.
Potential of Italian Teams in Future Seasons
01:10:49
Speaker
Yeah. No Italian teams in this one this year, but that could change soon. The way they've been, the way the country's been playing at least.
01:10:59
Speaker
Um, well, yeah, I was, I was watching, again, I was trying to diversify my watching this weekend a little bit. I was, I was watching Zebra in Glasgow. They were, Zebra was definitely making life hard on Glasgow. I think it was in Italy though. So, Sophia's team, I either love them or I hate them.
Critique and Suggestions for Sophia's Team
01:11:18
Speaker
There's like, you know, I heard some of the names you said Santi Cordero Ramos, Stewart, Capozzo, Furbank, Wade.
01:11:30
Speaker
And it's like, I love half of that. And I hate to like, probably not awesome, but yeah. Um, Lucano, um, Chris Harris and Rowan Jans van Rensberg. It's like, there's a, I don't love that midfield. No, I don't. I like the one, but the other time, like one, are they going to produce two? Are they healthy? Are they healthy? Um, yeah, I don't like Rowan Jans. Um, Sophia, if you're listening, go, go pick up Guy Porter.
01:11:55
Speaker
Please. Yeah. Give yourself some grime there. And then Jollibear. Jollibear and Sexton at fly half. I actually really like that a lot. What is it? Jollibear and Sexton at fly half. Yeah. DuPont at half back.
01:12:16
Speaker
I can say words, skeleton, and then Ross saying that's just a, it's actually, except for the, yeah, that Wade for a bank row on right there. Those last three picks get a go, go seriously. Go get, go get Porter, please. Are you,
Satisfaction with Conference Teams
01:12:40
Speaker
Are you satisfied with the, with the conference teams I came up with? I was hoping you'd let your list. Oh, I did. I couldn't, I can't see the, I don't think, hold on. Can I see the only table should just blame both? I think the skids. Yes, it does. That was great. I do like that. I was like, okay, that's, that's really, that's perfect. That's what we needed. Um, I need one that wasn't a day that wasn't too long either. Cause it wouldn't show up. Right. And it's also just, it's non, um,
01:13:08
Speaker
controversial. No, like that was, what was it? The head of lettuce versus yeah. No, no, no, no, no. We're not doing that. Plus that goes on too long. Yeah. Yeah. Headless would be too long. So my first week seemingly
Team Lineup Overview
01:13:24
Speaker
always happens. I got George the first week. So here we go. Um, it'll be Duncan and Luke, and then it'll be Cobus and Justin. Let's see. My team is.
01:13:39
Speaker
Oh, this is interesting. So we have low Haley and male, it's not Haley, but it'll be, um, my other guy words, words are skipping me in the moment. Again, George who has Ramos Keenan and Tomah in there right now. Yeah. Yeah. I have like three other guys that I would, that I'll put into OB. That's not named Mike Haley. So anyway, uh, Joe Martian.
01:14:04
Speaker
is my one minute fill there along with probably BQ reporter. Then it'll be a toss up between Kerwin Bosch and Joe Simmons for me.
01:14:16
Speaker
Danny care, Jack of Donahue, Ben Earl, and yeah, yeah,
Fantasy Team Strategies and Player Handcuffing
01:14:20
Speaker
yeah. Lower shelf, front row. And then for him, it'll be, it'll be, um, let's see what we got. Ring rows and Hendrix. Although let's see, does he have a better material or not named Hendrix? I just don't know enough to know. Um, daily. Yeah, no, he's playing daily. Oh yeah. He'll play daily. He's playing daily. Um,
01:14:42
Speaker
and then he has who's he got for he's got oh he's got sex well he has sex with him and Ross Burns so we handcuffed him which was smart that's yeah that's a wise move and they're not it's not like the in terms of production value probably in this comp there's not a ton of drop off between the two of those no so i think that's uh that ends up being a very wise move uh get our action from rousing is the is his half back what's up george is a wise fantasy player
01:15:09
Speaker
Yeah, something about something about that. I don't know. Fucking geek or something. Yeah. And then he's got, um, Ben always got Fander Fleer and Theo as his loose. Oh yeah. And he's got, he's got Wokey. Yeah. You know what I like? Yeah. Theo. Yeah. The two of those that's deadly.
Excitement and Skill in Fantasy Format
01:15:25
Speaker
And then Wokey and, uh, to lose this is from bro. Not bad. Yeah. I'm super like, here's the thing. I'm super psyched about my team, but this is a,
01:15:37
Speaker
there's so few players, the players are there. And so it's like, this is a, I like this, this format. It's very reflective of the format itself, because this is wide open. This is, this isn't, do you know, good fantasy players. This is, can you make the guys who score the most in this? Because there's going to be a lot of players who are names
01:16:00
Speaker
Maybe they don't have the, you know, like this is, if you do your research, the points are, are clearly there versus other players versus, and maybe, maybe the research is wrong. Maybe it won't help much, you know, go off and, and you never know, but, um, never know.
01:16:14
Speaker
Yeah, there's a lot of, there's some luck, but this is, this is definitely a skill competition. So I'm looking forward to it. If I suck, then I'll feel down. So be it.
Setting Team Goals and Scoring Strategy
01:16:22
Speaker
Well, and then we're also going to open up circle brew as well. So yeah. And you're right. And if it's, it's like one of those, as long as I'm scoring points, I'm happy. If I'm like one of the top points whores, then that's good things will happen. That's all right. That is that. This is this and that is champions cup. And we're going to be in.
01:16:42
Speaker
We'll obviously dive into the Champions Cup preview this week as well. Yeah. We'll cover a few other subjects apart from the prem and then we're going to get into it. And we could have news tomorrow as well that we're going to end up talking about. So we'll find out. That would be fun. In any case, we'll have plenty to chat about on Wednesday. And we have a listener question.
01:17:01
Speaker
that we'll get to. Oh, yeah, that'll be good, too. Good discussions, discussions. But hopefully everybody finds this helpful and avoid those mistakes that we probably made. And you too can succeed. Right. I hope that last of the bottom of the barrel thing. I don't know if anybody goes. I might be like one of the only people who's actually gone to the last page of that. Right. Yeah, it's way down there. It's way down there.
Closing Remarks and Future Discussions
01:17:27
Speaker
So you're going to have to go look for them.
01:17:32
Speaker
Diamonds in the rough, man. Yep. Until then, we're going to call it a day here on Sunday, and we will talk to you all on Wednesday. So happy drafting this week, folks, and enjoy and choose questions if you need us. Otherwise, have a good one. Later.