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Season 5- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Premiership Round 12)
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It's the newest Fantasy Corner from TFRY. On this version of FC, we look back at the final tally for the Autumn Nations Fantasy, congratulations to the top players and thanks to everyone for playing with us! We also draw for our 2nd draft of the season as we look towards Champions Cup FRD! Then of course, we dive into Start or Sit for the last of Prem before we venture into the previously mentioned CC. Grab your notepads and enjoy with us!
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Transcript
Introduction to The Fantasy Europeans Podcast
00:00:02
Speaker
It is... The Fantasy Europeans. My name is Jared Dyke. I wanted to say it's stupid and let's move on, but then you kept going. I'm Ben Glauser. I don't like any way anybody gambled that. Collusion! Collusion!
00:00:29
Speaker
Hey everybody.
Cider Preferences and Holiday Flavors
00:00:30
Speaker
Welcome back. It is the fantasy of rugby. Yanks. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. We're in. It's fantasy time. Let's do this damn thing. And also let's, I'm going to do this damn thing too. Oh shit. Now I'm just sticking with the one I'm. You know, stick with that storm along. Yeah, I'm good in the first one. Cider's dangerous, my friend.
00:00:53
Speaker
Yeah, it can be. This stuff, this holiday
Humorous Anecdote: American Dad Episode
00:00:55
Speaker
stuff is... Tastes delicious and packs a punch. This stuff is super sweet because it's like... It's like a fucking candy cane. Right. Yum. Yeah, candy cane slider. Yes, please. I know how the bad man would have got you into trouble before. I only had to be rescued from two vans.
00:01:23
Speaker
before I learned my lesson. This is an American dad episode where a kid keeps talking and dancing around strange men and he's just like, the dad's like, stop doing that. You wonder why you keep getting kidnapped. I was like, oh, that's so messed up.
Fantasy Rugby League Wrap-up and Congratulations
00:01:45
Speaker
Anyway, automations wrap up finalized.
00:01:50
Speaker
And do to do shark of the day. Um, I did not do well. Actually I went up to, you only went up one. I'm up with that. Which annoys me because I had, I, well, I, Freddy Stewart didn't do. I had a couple of, I had him too. We didn't do too. I agree. So Justin, Cobus and Stu are our, our top three. So congratulations to them. Um,
00:02:13
Speaker
Still, our friends Stupid Sexy Sexton and Laura B, who are you and why aren't you talking to us? We like you both. So. Yes, we do. Come give us, come give us a chat. Shall we? And let's see. And we finished, you, me and George finished in order. You, George, you and then me. Yeah. We're only, let's see, 60, we're only at 60, yeah, 63 points apart overall. Yeah. That's not a lot in this, in this format either. Not a lot. Really isn't.
00:02:44
Speaker
No, Justin had 300 points more than we did. Hmm. Yeah. About that. Dude, what the fuck? Yeah. He also started. I kept in the rents. Yeah. Yeah. The back three was the same. He had vellum says 10. That was probably smart. Oh, he had Thomas Williams as well. So I don't feel so stupid anymore. I had to walk into Wasey. I had make, I had make right. And fat towel. That's funny. Oh, so did I not have most of it though.
00:03:14
Speaker
Okay. No, I, um, Oh, I did. I did. I had him at locked. No, I did not. There we go. That was a good grab too off the bench there. Oh, I had Jack Morgan on my, on my bench, which was helpful, but damn, I wish I'd started. Right. Oh well. But thanks to everybody that participated. We look forward to more of the good stuff with this format in six nations.
00:03:43
Speaker
Yeah, it'll be fun. OK. So.
Champions League Draft Format Explained
00:03:49
Speaker
Well, I summon my lovely assistant in here. We're going to pick the Champions League draft for Champions Cup.
00:03:58
Speaker
And the way the formatting works this year is much like the six nations as they've done in the past where it's 16 leagues. So you really want to stack two leagues if you want to get a lot of people participating in this. So for our sake, where we have eight, eight people in division one and eight division two, the way it's worked is we have four to be determined from division two that are going to join the rest of us in division one. And.
00:04:24
Speaker
the four that don't get to participate from division two will automatically be put into six nations this year when we do that. So, um, the way it's going to draft will be, I've got 12 pieces of paper per, yeah, 16, 16 for leave. Right. So we have, I have 12 pieces of paper in here with everybody's names on it, plus four representing from division two. And then I have 12, I have 12 pieces of paper in, in,
00:04:52
Speaker
Another another bucket over here. Six of them are blue, six of them are green. We'll call them the green conference and the blue conference for now just to not fuck with it too much. And we are going to draft with this thing on Saturday. So it's going to be fun. We'll have to come up with different conference names. Yeah. I mean, let me just go halo and go red versus blue. Oh, no. Oh, no. I'm going to have to pick up some. Give me give me give me a time. I didn't. This is something I just came up with that. No, me. All right. What do we got here?
Draft Orders and Player Placements Discussion
00:05:22
Speaker
So we have six in the blue conference. Okay. Which means the last pick in the first round. Justin. We have a green conference one this time. Let's see what we got.
00:05:51
Speaker
The number is number one, number one, coming in hot and play to be named later. Okay. Just put DT number three play on player. There we go. Perfect. So whoever gets that spot, it's going to be real lucky. We got a green, we got another green one.
00:06:25
Speaker
You might have to put the market down. Number five. There we go. There we go. Okay. Got there eventually. Apparently I've done too good at the job of folding these up. Yeah, you did that last time too.
00:06:54
Speaker
So five and another player to be named later, just put DT number one. All right. Mind you, anybody from, if we end up with a conference of three people from D2, that's not a lesser conference by any means whatsoever. Because we have some good players in that second division. Certainly. Yeah. Remember, Cobus came up, was, came up from division two last year and he's been a problem for everyone this year. Yeah. Blue conference, second pick.
00:07:25
Speaker
And there's the, there's the other one. Well, we won't have, we won't have all four of them in one choppings because one just named the other one. That's good. Yeah. I'd like to keep them even if possible. Cause it's nice. And we did also, it's good to get that exposure to the other, uh, Oh, totally blue number four. All right. So we're going to have half our picks for blue conference number four. And there's a second here. Duncan.
00:07:56
Speaker
Sounds like he's not going to be able to make the jacket any day we do it, so. Other other Japanese. We got a great we got a green conference one now. Four or also four. Doo doo doo doo. Ben. Number four. Yep. You're right in the middle. Have fun with that one.
00:08:27
Speaker
Wait, so am I with Justin or who? No. You're with the other team. You're with the other team. Oh, man. Now I'm on my own. God damn it. Number five in the blue. In the blue and the blue. Oh, and look at that. You and I are split as we were hoping anyway. Nice. All right. So I'm number five. Blue. Blue.
Fantasy Rugby Players and Strategies In-depth
00:09:05
Speaker
Number six in the green conference.
00:09:18
Speaker
Look at that. We get, we evened out her. Oh wait. Nope. Nope. We have three in that. We have three in that, but oh well. I'm alone. All I have is the other, am I getting, is this how you're telling me I'm getting relegated? This is a joke. This is a joke we didn't tell them. Don't appreciate it much. First pick in the blue conference. Here we go. Big money, no whammies, no whammies. It's Cobus.
00:09:48
Speaker
So yeah. Okay. So the another, as you said, the former, former detail. Yeah. He gets to get a piece of some of the old friends. Yeah. Number two green. All right. Only threes left after this weird mark number two in the green conference. So he'll pick after one of the D two D two players. We still don't have George and we don't have Carrick.
00:10:18
Speaker
Carrick, okay. Blue three, all right. Which means, and we'll open up the other ones after this little note. George! So he's hanging out with me. Yeah, you're all on your own, buddy. Dammit.
00:10:38
Speaker
I think he and I were in the same division for six stations as well. And we can confirm Carrick's name was in the basket as well. Ah, okay, cool. Okay, so we did not rig it as much as I tried. All right, so orders. So in the green conference, D2,
00:11:03
Speaker
We have, we have one of the D two players, Mark Carrick, Ben, and then to wrap it up, we'll be two more of the D two entries and blue conference. It'll be Cobus, our final D two entrant, George Duncan, myself, and Justin. Yeah. But the games begin.
00:11:22
Speaker
I do like that they decided to do away with the using of the final for the, for any of the weeks. Like that is just such a ridiculous thing. Oh, that was, that was harsh. It was a little silly. Yeah. You're putting maybe three or four starters out there. Five. Right. Super luck. And then you're winning. Right. Okay. You have like three bench players. Right. Right. I'm just kind of silly, kind of annoying on the same.
00:11:52
Speaker
Oh, on the same. Okay. So that, that's that bit of fun. Thank you to my lovely assistant who also happens to share the same last name as me. She can't hear me. No, she can't hear, she can't hear me. She left the room.
00:12:14
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. It looks like FRD is slowly updating themselves to get to the champion, the champions cup stuff up because they, yeah, they ditched all the old leads. Yeah. They're, they're getting there. I saw, um, I think it may have been Cobus said, said something about like, you know, Hey, you know, what's going on there? And then I think they responded. It was like getting there. Like patients were getting there. I know we were like, they're not quite ready. Like that was a little bit of a, I mean, we have our league set up. I.
00:12:43
Speaker
I, um, Nope. Those are, those are now gone. Oh, they are. I didn't set those up. Oh, okay. I didn't set those up. So it's not, so I'm not worried about it. Okay. No, I thought, I thought you had, I thought that was like, well, at least they let Jared set these up. Nope. I have not set that up yet. So I assume I'll be able to soon. All right. So I went to set it up and it was not the same, the right format that they had said that they were going to. So I was like, I'm not going to set this up yet. I'm going to wait just a little bit so they can get themselves squared away. All right.
00:13:12
Speaker
Okay, let's recap what happened in prem action as we have one more week of that to go as well. This past weekend, division one, we have Cobus and myself. Cobus gave me a good smackdown. I was so boned on this one. I was like,
00:13:31
Speaker
Too many guys that I couldn't drop. And it was just hoping to get some, all my, as many stars as possible. I ended up with two bench players in my lineup. So what are you gonna do? I ate the loss. That's how it goes. Yeah. I kind of had to do somewhat similar. Yeah. You and you, you handed George's third one of the year. Hooray George. Don't call it a comeback. That was a, that was a shocker for me. Good for him. What was that? Obie, Obie, Obata Yembo.
00:14:00
Speaker
Yeah. Good for him. Yeah. I was, yeah. And then this, this would be probably the pillow fight of the weekend. Mark beat Carrick, 79 to 35. Yeah. That's the, that's, and I think Carrick was probably in the same situation as me and you. Yeah. And then.
00:14:19
Speaker
And actually, you know, I'm kind of disappointed that Ndolo didn't score any tries. I thought that there was surely going to be a... Ndolo farewell try. Right. Absolutely. And I'm sure he's disappointed in all of them. And so is the crowd. But yeah, it just never materialized and it never presented itself enough. Nope, nope. Unfortunate.
00:14:42
Speaker
And then Justin lost to Duncan as well. So that puts some, puts a little bit of a damper on that situation. Let's have a look at what's going on this week. Cause we got one more week of this. It'll be Mark and myself, you and Carrick, Justin and George, and then Cobis and Duncan. Yeah. Lead table. Let's have a glance, shall we?
00:15:08
Speaker
I know I tumbled all the way down because of that. I have a glance. Actually, no, I'm only in second. Okay. I'm not too bad. I'm not too worried about that then. I think I'm still in the play out too. Cause I'm better than you. You're good. Which is just, just good enough right now. Right. Exactly. Just good enough. George is pulling himself up out of the, uh, there though he's got three wins now. He's got more points scored than Carrick too.
00:15:32
Speaker
Also, Cobus has got the least amount of points scored against him. So that is a thing just to keep an eye on. It is. But he also is scoring pretty well too. He's got the third highest, fourth highest. Yeah. Fourth highest. Yeah, he is. So it's not like he's leaving any doubt. Right. But damn, 981 against. That's not in 11 games. That's pretty good. Boo. That's pretty good.
00:15:55
Speaker
It's rigged. Kidding. Kidding. We would be the ones rigging it. Yellow circle around all the zeros against. I don't know if it's rigged and we're the ones doing it and we're still losing. We fucked up somewhere. All right, let's go to D2. D2 we have. And again, thank you very much to our Deputy Commissioner Sofia for sending this along. So we had
00:16:24
Speaker
Sorry, Franco and Luke do battle. Franco won. Not quite. Yeah. 80 points being the top score is not always awesome. And then we, then we had Stewart and Terry Stewart put a hundred points up and that's usually going to do it for you these days. Yeah, especially with the.
00:16:44
Speaker
Inconsistent lineups. Right. Larry was able to put up a hundred odd against John. John did not have a whole lot of options in his lineup, unfortunately, and just bit the loss. And I think Sophia did the same thing. So Alex was able to beat her as well. So Alex is in really good shape now that after having a slow start, which was explainable by a lot of means, he
00:17:09
Speaker
got all of a really rough looking team, but he's fought back. So. Right. Which I mean, it's possible that the turnover in this is it's pretty impressive, especially this time of year. Like I was able to pick up Curry again. And so like my I'm actually pretty, you know, yeah. And I got Roger coming back. There's this. I'm confident that that'll get better going forward. And even if you heard it, a bad team like, you know, some some asshole might just drop Alex Mitchell for no fucking reason.
00:17:40
Speaker
And, and you just pick them up and there, yeah, there's plenty of opportunities to turn around now. Yeah. Yeah. That was my one problem position. And he actually, the funny thing is I don't think he scored well over the last couple of weeks.
00:17:57
Speaker
Like, no, he hasn't, he hasn't scored great. So maybe this Russell doing good. So man, so there. Oh, and she even looked at that. She's awesome. Uh, she included the tweet, we told match ups. It's going to be Larry against Franco and Alex against Stewart. It'll be John against Terry and Ruby, uh, Alex and Sophia.
00:18:23
Speaker
No, no, I'm not. Excuse me. Luke. Sorry. OK, I might have called it Luke Alex one of the second times. My fault. And I can't correct you because I'm not looking at the way you can see that necessarily. No. All right. Here we go. Now.
Fantasy Rugby Picks and Performance Predictions
00:18:42
Speaker
It's time for the fun. This is time for starts. Starts in the shits.
00:18:48
Speaker
Okay. I believe I think you go first ones because it is. Yeah. Nope. That's the, we got the bath and the bath twins. Yeah. So go through this the same way. We've been doing it for a bit.
00:19:09
Speaker
Let's see. All right. Bailey is a go for me. Warboys is a question mark at this point. Still, he had one good game and did not sell him meth on it. Obviously a Marcus or Tommaso, they're interchangeable. Go ahead. I'm guessing it's going to be Tommaso.
00:19:26
Speaker
because he's been really good and. I think Marcus needs to rest. Yeah, Marcus needs to. I do think Marcus needs to rest. I think he's gonna be very happy if he can get a rest. Yeah. Yeah, he's gonna be pretty wiped. Okay, and then front rows.
00:19:40
Speaker
I would take bath over Quinn's. I'm not going to shy away from either one this week at the moment, especially since a couple of more used front rows like Exeter's actually been a really highly used front row. They're, they're on by this week. So that and series as well. So might need to take a flyer on that. I still don't write, write that saints front row, very high. Yeah. Denny care. Do I not convinced on any of the bath half back. So leave them.
00:20:09
Speaker
No locks in this game. I really love. So keep moving. Miles Reed is probably the best bath loose forward. And then the entirety of the bat of the Quinn's back row is a thumbs up for me at the moment. Midfield. Let's see. Probably red path. Definitely Lawrence.
00:20:33
Speaker
Nobody, nobody else from bath and then really pick whoever starting for quince. It might be three of them with Marchant going onto the wing. I don't know, but honestly, yeah, Marchant, Esther, Hays, and Northmore. All of them are certainly a thumbs up for me. Obese, Gallagher, and Coco right now for sure for bath. After that, it's kind of meh territory.
00:21:01
Speaker
Murley and probably Nick David are the best of the Quinn's bunch. I'm not really sold on Bassett and Edwards hasn't played a ton yet. So those are probably the ones that you're going to look at there. All right. Off. Okay. Off to, um, exiles hosting new castle, uh, for the Irish.
00:21:26
Speaker
You're kind of, you know, you should know by now pretty much where we're going with this, with the front row. I would like to see for this game, Cunningham South get a start. So I'd like to see him Pearson and Gonzalez will definitely be playing out, I would assume. I go with white. I still like white, obviously, much better than Joe Powell, who I realized that for some reason, the Irish need to have an Australian scrum half.
00:21:57
Speaker
for whatever reason but they're they're not the good ones so i'm hoping it's no it's been some bad ones because ben wait is actually a pretty pretty quality scrub app um and then the rest of the back line except as we talked about in the other pod the 10 who is just not playing well and it's translating to fantasy as well
00:22:14
Speaker
Yeah, also for Newcastle, but you know. Newcastle, their front row, obviously. I did say the front row for the Irish, just because you never, I still expect them to return before. They're not doing so hot this year, but eventually they're going to play Hoskins more.
00:22:34
Speaker
you know, that they because they haven't really been playing. They're starting, you know, they're starting props from the last couple of years. So that I feel like they'll get back to health and get back in. But Newcastle, obviously, the front row, because Maguigan just scores tries. It's really that he's the guy who does that for this team. He does. Guy Pepper, if you don't have him on your team,
00:22:57
Speaker
you should have him on your, and if you have a spot, so like my loose forwards in the Champions League right now are Ted Hill and Tom Curry. I'm pretty happy with those two. If I didn't, and because they're both going to be consistent, they both are actual pretty damn good fantasy points scores. If I didn't have both of them,
00:23:22
Speaker
I would have Guy Pepper on my team because I have him in the other league. And I'm very I'm excited to see what he's doing every time he plays. And I think he's playing like who else are fucking Newcastle going to play? Right. They're they're they're back row is pretty shit. Yeah, it'll be firms and somebody else probably. Yeah, maybe check. But like Peppers, they're he's he's a runner and they don't have many of those like, you know, actual in space runner. So I think he's going to he's a guy who I would get on your team.
00:23:49
Speaker
Conan's a maybe this week just because they could end up kicking a bunch of penalties. You could get sneaky points. So if you're not even if you're hard up, if you have a serious question to decide and all that, because your starter's out, I wouldn't have a problem picking up Conan as a first second option, if that makes sense.
00:24:14
Speaker
Keredos and Radwan, yes. And then maybe Penny, if you're hard up as well. Penny's more of a third option. Right. Yeah. He's been playing 12 a lot, which is gross. It is, especially because I want him to get full back points from my midfield. Right. That was the fun part of that whole thing. And then my system. And then my fun went soft. All right.
00:24:43
Speaker
Let's do this thing with Gloucester and Northampton or Northampton and Gloucester, whatever the order is, doesn't matter. I know, I know it's the two of them. Um, four, 10. Yeah. For the 10, if it's not Hastings, I'm not, I don't love it. Barton's probably okay in a pinch because this is also a very leaky, um, fancy defense. Yes, it is. So that's a possibility.
00:25:10
Speaker
Ben Smith or Grayson. Yep. Don't care. Go for it. For the nines. None of the Gloucester nines, honestly. Right now, I need to see it from any of them. Any of them. Yeah, Chapman's not having the same year he had last year. Nope. He's getting a little sophomore slump. Big time. And then obviously Mitchell. That's a no-brainer.
00:25:31
Speaker
There are some locks to note in this one, actually. So it's going to be interesting to see, see who ends up capturing the points when Cole's plays on the flank. He's excellent. So that's, there's that ribbons. So Kyle Oto came into form before they had to take their break and then Freddie Clark. So those are, those, those are the options there. Who knew we'd have so many lock options. Oh my God. Right.
00:25:55
Speaker
The Saints truck and Ludlum are probably it. I don't know if I want anybody else. So Gustis and Lewis Ludlum for Gloucester. Please, please, please. We saw him come back last week. I hope he starts Jake Pledry. If he's in, yes, play him. Ludlow is also an option as well. Ackerman probably the least, the lowest of those three in my, as far as which one is my favorite. I think I would take either of the other.
00:26:21
Speaker
Um, aforementioned saints guys over him though, as well. He was, he was, he was close to being my set of the week, but didn't, didn't make him spoiler alert. Redfield, any like clutch Dingwall and Proctor are all options for saints. And I honestly don't love any of the cluster ones. So that's just.
00:26:43
Speaker
but maybe Harris only because of who his opponent is after that. That's exactly what I was thinking. That is it because I don't trust 12 trees. And even if kiss of the odds is healthy, no. And Reeves hasn't proven that he can be a fancy asset yet. So get rid of that. Obese.
00:27:03
Speaker
Um, brief salmon, Carreras definitively for Gloucester may in a pinch, cause it's such an open, it's going to be an open game. So he might fall over the line. Um, Northampton has so many options though. So many tasty options for bank, Freewind Collins, Slade home.
00:27:21
Speaker
It's ghosting if you're desperate, like same category as May for me right now. But yeah, lots of fun options. Hopefully this game's open, because if it ends up being a freaking 10-6 game, I'm going to start kicking things. I don't think that's possible with these two teams. I would hope not, but you know what? Stupid shit's happened before, so. This is true. Just going to throw that out. This is true. I'm just hoping you don't speak that into existence, really. Knock on wood over here.
00:27:51
Speaker
Off to Ashton Gate. Bristol are hosting Leicester, which is always a good time. Bristol, their front row, even without Genj and Sinclair, they could score because obviously they have their factor, they have bubbles. It's worth taking the shot. If one or both of them are playing and don't need the rest, then you're
00:28:15
Speaker
Yes, play them more. I think the last few weeks, even without them this quarter, right? Right. No, they're coming around. Bradbury is really the only other forward I would want here. Louis two is coming back and that's been and that's that's developing. This is more of the opponent specific, right? Where you have the boys and Louis two is and I don't think it's their week.
00:28:44
Speaker
Right. Urine and Porter could do well because they both can scoot and I'm guessing it'll still be Wigglesworth at nine here. Could be, yeah. And then, you know, after that, it kind of gets dark. Like, I'm not sure which, you know, like AJ, Sheedy, I'm not really liking in this match, although it depends on the, you know, if it's Atkinson or like who's going to play 10 for Lester.
00:29:13
Speaker
We talked about Piers O'Connor and Abitoye. I think both will still do well, because I think they're both in form. And Shidi or AJ will put them into space so that they'll get their chances.
00:29:29
Speaker
Radra is supposed to return. As I said earlier, I don't expect him to start. He's probably like a, you know, come in 30 minutes to go and just, you know, get loose again. Yep. So, but have him ready. If, if, if scan the waiver wire, always, you know, this, this is one of those things when guys are coming back, you're not going to see their points because they're an, or, you know, their form, however, you know, however the filter is in, right? Search their name, just check it out. I think that's how I signed Tom Curry the first time.
00:29:57
Speaker
And I was like, what the fuck? He's just sitting there. Okay. I'll take him. All right. Yep. And, uh, yeah, you never know. Go look in your, on your, on your waiver wire, just in case right now I'm not in the champion's league. Cause he's on my team. Don't worry about that. Go find yours though. But go check him out. Cause he's, it's, you know, he'll be, he'll be coming in and you want to get him, this is, that's like a player you'd want to get before the, uh, um, the waiver wires are back on again Friday morning. Right. Yeah, definitely.
00:30:26
Speaker
to be able to be hounded for him. Oh, and then, uh, Oh, no, no. Oh, then for the, for Lester, I didn't finish, um, the front row, obviously, um, because Montoya is back and the same thing, you know, he's going to score a try. So, um, visa is really the only other forward I'd want from them. Um, Charlie Atkinson, I mentioned before I actually started him here. I'm assuming he's going to start because I think that would be a lot of fun. Um,
00:30:52
Speaker
But the rest, it depends on, you know, really does depend on who's who's back from from the England squad and who's playing outside of that. Like, you know, is Guy Porter going to play? I would. Yes. If Guy Porter is playing, you play it, you know, but I definitely I don't know if he's going to be if I'm assuming there's going to be a rest week this week across. I'm guessing there might be a few rest. Yeah. Right.
00:31:14
Speaker
Although he played, I think he played for lesser last week, so he might be in. Oh, did he? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So that'd be the upside. Right. Cause he must, he might've gotten released. Okay. Then yeah, then, then okay. Porter will probably play this weekend. Bang. There you go. Uh, note on Bristol's front row, the last three weeks, they've had two good ones, 19 and 12. So yeah, I would give them a thumbs up. The other one was still a positive. It wasn't a negative. So not so bad.
00:31:39
Speaker
Yeah. That's the thing about front rows. It's just getting any points is good. Yeah. All right. OT Devs. I'll leave this off.
00:31:52
Speaker
My Star of the Week has settled into life quite well with his new club. And he's got himself a mouthwatering matchup and he is in excellent form on top of it all. And I'm excited to see what this kid does when he gets back onto the pitch. My Star of the Week for this round of the Prim is Saints Young number 10, Ben Smith. I like that. I like that very much because I've got him in.
00:32:16
Speaker
Shut up, nobody asks you. Yeah, I actually have that. Wow, I have my start of the week too in that league. Well, one of mine. It'll make more sense in a second. You mentioned him in your, you know, when we were talking about Gloucester and Northampton. And it's just a tasty matchup because Northampton are not in a good way. And that's why I was thinking about
00:32:46
Speaker
Ackerman for my sit of the week because I was like, I don't know. It's it's going to be a big loose game. I don't just don't see him scoring that way. But at the same time, I'm like, wait, no, sometimes he'll like he'll get that follow up try. You know, somebody else will get that break and he's right on it to score the try. And that that's that's good shit right there. So I could see him do that. OK, so he's out as my my sit of the week. And I was like, well, wait, they're going to play like Ben Morgan. And I'm like, wait a minute. Peledry was back last week. So.
00:33:15
Speaker
And I'm like, wait, Peledry against Saints? Fuck yes. So assuming Peledry starts, he's my start of the week. Nice. All right. And I'm going to bat with a backup just in case, because that's still iffy as to whether or not he's going to start. Right. My backup on that is Tommaso Allen. All right. Going back to that. Hopefully you're better luck for him than I was. He played well, but he didn't score well.
00:33:40
Speaker
Right. But he's had a couple of good. He's had a couple of good. Well, what about we? Well, yeah, this last start before then, before he left for the international was good. Yeah. Yeah. Thirty four points. So he could see that happening again, especially because they're you know, bath have been playing better. They've still been letting up a lot of points. Yeah. I agree. Yeah. I think they're going to go for a run on them. All right.
00:34:07
Speaker
My state of the week, he's playing a tough opposition despite the fact that they are not quite the same in the team that they were last year. They're still dicks when it comes to fantasy points and fantasy defenses. And they're particularly next to his position. And he's just not been in superb form. And I think that's going to be just enough to throw him off. And he's also probably my least favorite at this position, at this club.
00:34:33
Speaker
My set of the week for this round of the prime is Wales and Bristol fly half Callum Sheedy. Yeah, he was on my list. And my set of the week is actually from that game. There you go. And it's one of the ones I mentioned earlier, and it's Chris movie.
00:34:49
Speaker
Yeah, because he's not been he's not been great. No, I still think that's so that where this is coming from is even if Bristol go off, I don't I think I don't know that Vui is going to be scoring points. I think that he's just having that kind of year where he's doing some good stuff. It's not it's not really.
00:35:11
Speaker
clicking for him. And I feel like others are gonna, he'll be a good support player, but it feels like every time he's close to, you know, every time I see him in the picture as someone's going for a run, he's just on the wrong side for them to offload or, or they just don't give the offload or something, you know, some of the stuff where you're just like, oh, that's this, this is a good VUI situation. It's just not happening. So,
00:35:36
Speaker
I don't know what it is, but he's just got the mush on him. So, and look, if I turn out to be the motion, he goes off, I'll be extremely happy because I love the guy. So I do too. Yeah. I'm more than happy to, to, to form that service, but he's my set of the week. Yeah. So sad. Okay.
Reviewing Pick Records and Upcoming Champions Cup
00:35:56
Speaker
Pick them. Picking of them. Yeah.
00:36:06
Speaker
Okay, bath and Quinn's, how are we doing? Wait, how are we? What's our, um, your records? How are we Europe one? Oh, 38, 15, 37, and 16. Wow.
00:36:18
Speaker
I like our records though. That's pretty good. We're, you know, we're not complete helmets. No, we're over, we're over, uh, you know, 66%. Yeah. We had one, we had one week where we both went dead, even at 500. And other than that, we've been on the positive, most part champions couple get interesting. Yeah. Well, Bath and Quinn's wins. Yeah. Bath are getting better, but wins. Mm-hmm.
00:36:45
Speaker
Exiles in Newcastle. Yeah, this one's not easy. Oh, man. I really want to pick Newcastle here, but I just. Yeah, I'm not sure they're ready. I'm not enough of a believer yet. Yeah, Newcastle. I need to take the exiles. I'm not sure they're ready to take the show on the road. I think they they they've they will knock off
00:37:08
Speaker
the easy teams at home and that's really where they're going to be. Right. Um, but the same thing, and I kind of feel the same way about the, the exile. So I think the, you know, Irish get out of the basement this week. Yeah. Gloucester and North Hampton. Again, not a fucking, it was when I realized that it could be Jake Piledry. And I'm like, how can I, I'm not, I'm not.
00:37:32
Speaker
You can't take Gloucester. Taking Gloucester. They've not been good. That's my only problem. They've not. But at the same time, that's I think it's because of who they've been having to play. I think they're having all of their guys away. Also, that has been so painful for them. Yeah, it's just the quality of play is not there. It's not a matter of who's playing 10. Really, it really is. And if they go to Evans, which I think they're going to. Oh.
00:38:01
Speaker
I hope they don't, but they might. They're probably going to. So maybe I think still have Lloyd Evans. They'll still have Hoedry. They'll still have. Yeah.
00:38:15
Speaker
Like they're good. They have the runners and they're at home. They have the horses to run on Gloucester. I don't know, on Northampton. So I think they will. Yeah. Yeah. I think Lloyd Evans still is somehow on this field. So I don't believe it. So I'm going to take it. Yeah. Well, that's the ultimate decider. So I did the flip a coin and came down with that. Fair enough. Gloucester. All right. Bristol and Leicester.
00:38:43
Speaker
So wait, you're going with Saints? I am going to go with Saints. I'm going with a lot of away teams this weekend. That was the other thing, is I was going with Tigers going all the way away teams. So, mostly away teams. So, yeah, I went Tigers as well. Yep.
00:38:57
Speaker
Yeah, Tigers are going to be too good, unfortunately, for Bristol, I think. Maybe not. Can I also just say that it's for Tigers that it's been a while that we've had a reason to talk shit about them. And I remember there was a time where we used to, especially me, we used to have just not good things to say about the replay. Yeah, fact.
00:39:19
Speaker
And so, you know, because I would like to say that obviously we're fair minded on the pod. We're not homers. We're not, you know, by too biased, except when you have one salaries involved. But yeah, I think it's good. I'm happy that to see what teams improve themselves. And yeah, it's good to see that Lester are a good pick on the road now. Yeah. Which is, you know, again, we're talking a couple of years ago, but that's still good shit. Still. Yeah. Yep. Yep.
00:39:51
Speaker
All right. That is that. That is this and this is that. Sheet will be out on Friday.
Draft Session Recording Plans
00:40:01
Speaker
Will. We will have. It might be out tomorrow. Again, if it's raining. All things go well. If the weather is shit and I really can't be outside, then that's what I'll be doing.
00:40:17
Speaker
So get my yeah, that'll be out there We will be recording our draft obviously because that's you know, that's a popular one That's what we do. We let you a piece So well, we will we will be recording that as soon as I can get that fired up for the league itself. We'll get that going If somebody although we having are we we're gonna have two drafts though. I
00:40:39
Speaker
We'll be drafting same time. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. So we'll be reporting on two different drafts. Got it. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. So that's what we did for six nations too. Was it? Okay. Yeah. You, me and George were that's right. That's right. That was a good time too. So yeah, there'll be that and we can keep it and keep everybody up to date on what's going on with that. Hmm. Until then.
00:41:05
Speaker
Keep your eyes peeled for the draft special. Other than that, we appreciate you all for hanging out with us, listening to us dabble for a wee bit. We'll be back next week and we will be talking Champions Cup Rugby once again.
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00:41:18
Speaker
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