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Season 5- Super Rugby FRD Draft Special
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A busy week for TFRY wraps up with a Super Rugby FRD draft as we are joined by the one and only Fantasy Rugby Geek, our friend George. Listen to us as we discuss, thoughts, strategy and just general foolishness as we make our way through 17 rounds. Kick back, use those notepads ands enjoy!
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Transcript
Introduction and Special Guest
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!
00:00:27
Speaker
Hey, everybody, what's going on? It is the Banshee Rugby Yanks. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. It's the draft special. And of course, with draft specials, it usually means we have a third person and it's our good friend George. George, what's going on? Hey, hey, George. Here we go, guys.
Draft Order Mishap and Strategy Discussion
00:00:39
Speaker
Here we go again. Looking forward to it. Bring it on.
00:00:43
Speaker
I like that. So the order was not what we had picked. Someone forgot to set it. So he had to order. So he's got first pick then, Jared. I still did. Illusion. I wish I could tell you I made that up, but yeah, nope. My bad. Yeah. I had my head up my ass for a little bit.
00:01:07
Speaker
Jared at one, Karak at two, I guess Mark at three, myself at four, Nobus at five, Justin at six, George at seven, and Duncan at eight. I'm still picking who I was going to pick at eight at four, so. Are you? Yeah. You feel like it's a good value there still? I think so. I don't really care about value in this. I've decided to ignore the value aspect of it and just pick guys who are going to score a lot of points for me.
00:01:36
Speaker
Good strategy. Good strategy. Like the rankings don't mean shit to me anymore. I've decided to just kind of blow them up. Just as far as like a list of, yeah, Jen generally, here's the area where you're going to go. Right. And there's still guys plus, I mean, there's guys from last year that aren't here. Those guys that weren't here last year that are like, um, the DOLO. Yeah. And DMAC coming back. Yeah. Another one.
00:02:01
Speaker
And I'm staying the fuck away from him. So I would advise the same. A little too hot and cold for me.
Live Rugby Match Interruption
00:02:08
Speaker
At least not. I could be tempted. I figured that much out. Held up.
00:02:28
Speaker
Geez, Ford's played 20 minutes of this match. Oh, yeah. Beat to hell.
00:02:33
Speaker
Has he gotten smooshed yet? He got, yeah, he got crushed on the front. Like just on that tackle. Yeah. Basically that, I don't know who chased him down. Was it Ram? Just like slid over the back of him and on the top of him and just smooshed his face into the air. There was nothing he could do about it. Neither one of them was like, that's an incident. You can't do anything about that. Well, welcome back. Here we go. Oh, yeah. Right.
00:03:02
Speaker
Hi, Duncan. Oh, just wait. I did. Geordie. OK. Will Jordan and then Geordie. Eric is offline. So he ought to go. Yeah. So he might. You might have set that one up already. And obviously it's Richie who goes at three and then no big surprises that the gentleman I was going to draft at eight. I'm picking him here. I'm not so much.
00:03:31
Speaker
Well, he's, he's always going to play. Right.
Strategic Picks and Surprises
00:03:34
Speaker
Class. Yes. Can't believe he's 27. He does not look 27. Not a chance. Yeah. There was others I considered here and I, and I'll probably, I think one of the people I want on this wide turn coming up when I'm picking in another 20 picks here. Yeah. Right. Okay. Steemak.
00:04:01
Speaker
I think people, I think people have a pretty good sense of where they're going with the first few picks at least. And then it gets funny after that. It does. Now it's like, yeah. Who the hell knows? Right. I see. There goes that. Yep. Yeah. He was on my radar. I mean, he's again, not really an all black contention at the moment. And he plays easy. As long as he's healthy, he's absurd.
00:04:31
Speaker
Yeah, he's a ridiculous pickup. Okay, so all right. It's Duncan on the turn, so he's freaking out his two, obviously. Yeah. So I'm probably going to pick fly half next, because there is not much depth in that position. There really isn't. There isn't. There might be some dark horses that we didn't know about last year.
00:04:59
Speaker
Um, some of those guys, I have no idea who the highlanders will start at 10. Cause they got hunt. They got burns. They've got right. Marty banks. And they've got that kids coming through as well. He's top costs. Cameron Miller Miller. Yeah. Caleb Clark. Well, as OBS are pretty much. Yeah. In that case.
00:05:24
Speaker
as well as they're not both on forced rest at the same time. Yeah. Yeah,
Player Conditions Impact
00:05:28
Speaker
I like that. I like the little CEO. I was looking at him. I was hoping he would make it to 20 in my original. Or no, whatever. I was hoping to make it to the third round, but that didn't happen. Excuse me. Which may mean that I go for James O'Connor here. You know what? I'm going to wait. There's somebody else I want later in the draft.
00:05:52
Speaker
at this point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got ideas there. Rocky quiet over there. Are you wanting? Rico. Rico. I think I'm going to give him the recce here. If he. Is he actually going to play? Like, I know that last year. I know that last year. So that that wasn't shocking that he didn't. Right. I think I took you wrecked. He wrecked his knee, didn't he? I think that's what it was. But they were very. Oh, James O'Connor off the board. There goes O'Connor.
00:06:23
Speaker
They're very quiet about the injuries, especially in rugby, but especially on in the Southern Hemisphere. Like, your guess is as good as mine. Unless you can find someone that's got the inside scoop. Yeah, your plan was ruined anyway there, Ben, looks like. Exactly. I think I'm going back to my original plan here then. Mm-hmm. Frazier McRite.
00:06:48
Speaker
Oh, the average 20 points a game last year. Yeah, it was good last year. Yeah. Very good. He was a proper outlier in his position, wasn't he? He's just one of those guys that you set him to get her feta cheese. Who's that? Who gets that? That's Mark. Mark. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. What are you drinking tonight, guys? Got my spoon along.
00:07:19
Speaker
Local. These guys are not far away from my house. So now I have to get some of this just in honor. Yeah, that's a good one. Very much enjoyed that. I did, too. All right. Oh, yeah. So we lost after McRate. Tava, Tava, Tava, Nawa, who was absolutely on my radar, too. Very good one. Yeah. And then he went to Mark and then Carrick picked a 10, Nana, Satoru.
00:07:48
Speaker
who when he plays will score very well. Yes. The fuck is he going to play? I know, right. That was kind of the problem. I mean, like he'll play. He'll get, you know, he'll get six or seven matches, but it's one of those. That just that's another spot you have to still worry about. He's never an effort present. He's always picking up injuries here and there and already goes. Nice. Yeah. Then.
00:08:18
Speaker
I'll go, go. Our vote. Yeah. Nice. So then Perafetta goes. Perafetta off for Carrick. I'll tell you, I'm going to walk into Nawasi. If, uh, who, where am I going? Right. I'm right. Yeah. But Mark looked really good at the international stage. So it looks like he's ready because he, he had, he looked not right last year. Yeah. He looked a little off.
00:08:48
Speaker
But he looked pretty on. Yeah. Do we know if Banks is healthy? Is he still around? He's still around. I know his elbow was all fucked up. Weather he'll play. Yeah. Yeah.
Tactical Decisions and Game Availability
00:09:04
Speaker
I remember seeing his elbow being all messed up and I was like, oh, that looked, that was ugly last year when he did that. So two, two. So three, three.
00:09:22
Speaker
What do you got Ben? I'm going no makin no wasi. Solid. Solid choice. That's a good pick. Yeah, I have no ideas about how I'm going to solve. Yeah. No ideas about how I'm going to solve my fly half problem here.
00:09:46
Speaker
That's the thing. That's, that's why I went in early. I just know the depth is such an issue there. Right. I think what I'm looking at, I think on my next pick, I'll grab two and just be like, that's it. That's not a bad idea. So, all right, George. No, Tom, right. Yeah. There you go. Can I go wrong? Right.
00:10:21
Speaker
Duncan for two. Oh, that was a ballsy ass kick for much. Oh my God. Yeah. Just enough. Carpenter. Hmm. Okay. He's gone. Ah, yeah. Yep. Makes sense.
00:10:52
Speaker
The Tigers fan would pick Nadello. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he's also quality. Yeah. That'll be good. He'll, I mean, when he has a game, he has a game. It can win you a week. Right. Where's he going next? And next and next.
00:11:23
Speaker
Yeah. North Hampton were put together with Jesus week too. God, after that game. Yeah. And for a bank had already left like, I'm at the summit 76 right now. That's good pick. Ooh. Yeah. Showing up the midfield. He would have been the other midfield for me. So yeah. This guy was injured a lot last year. I hope he's going to be back a bit more.
00:11:53
Speaker
ALB. Okay. I hope so too, but now I'm upset. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Justin's online. Quality. Nice. Two pies. Isn't he? He is. He won't play. Yeah. He's at least out for a while. Damn it. He picked a layer nicely done. Yeah.
00:12:22
Speaker
still still kind of bottle bottle does it has to be said yeah it will went horribly wrong yeah and the reason well actually I'm what I'm excited about is yeah I'm taking Nankaville next season I think he's it's Munster
00:12:46
Speaker
Wow, that's a get. Yeah. But with Tupac out, that means he'll play a lot. Oh, he's playing a lot. Yeah, no doubt. No doubt about that. And he averages like he averages well when he plays. So that's like his only problem before was he was brilliant last year, wasn't he? Yeah, absolutely machine. Yeah, he was probably one of their players in the season. Yeah. Wasn't a crazy race, but nice. Yeah. And that was another midfielder I thought about as well.
00:13:16
Speaker
But no, I won't, I will go with Ravel, but I think he's going to play most weeks, if not all. Oh, yeah. There goes that. Yeah. Nightcavell's off the board. Silly. Here goes Mark. He's the after.
00:13:44
Speaker
question was, I mean, so you try and balance what you need with what's sometimes if what you need this way down, it's like, maybe I just pass on that one for a little bit. Right.
00:14:03
Speaker
You can do it, Mark. We believe in you. Go, Mark. Bryn Gatland. OK. That's a good one. Oh, no, Mark. He's. Oh, I said, oh, I don't. OK, so Karen got. Yeah, Karen got. Yeah, he's back to auto-draft, I guess. But he won't be. He's been. Yeah. Yeah. Right. That's the problem. It'll. You just seem you just seem to be kicking. Yeah. Yeah, he will be. I'm going to go with.
00:14:40
Speaker
I like that. Yeah, that's a good, that's, that's good. You'll, they'll be playing. Yeah, exactly. And then you can pick whoever's got the better game each week. Both on by, which I don't think people, yeah. Yeah. You know, I haven't even paid any attention to who's on by when, cause there's only three weeks or two or three weeks where there are buys. It's like in the middle of the season, but that has not factored into any of my planning. Narawa. Okay.
00:14:54
Speaker
to fly halfs and hope it solves my problem for that.
00:15:10
Speaker
I like, I like that. And if he survives, I'm taking a Kiri Awani. Just one, one pick left. Come on. Wait, is he around? Yes, he is. Another guy who signed after this year. After this year. Okay. Making sure I got, I didn't get my facts wrong there. Like, wait a minute. Something in my head said something.
00:15:41
Speaker
Yes. Yes. Um, yeah. Somebody that's auto-drops one's going to get end up with to buy. Unfortunately. Uh-huh. Yes. Sorry, boys. Harry Wilson. Solid option. It is. I really liked, you know, he didn't get as much playing time as you hoped, but solid option. I really like him. Oh, we got here. Right. Justin, are you off there?
00:16:20
Speaker
Rosing my machine here. Who's who's backing up Barrett now? He's got it. Parafetta. Yeah. Parafetta. Of course he is. I guess. Parafetta will restart most games at full back as well. Right. Yeah.
Drafting Strategies and Insights
00:16:40
Speaker
He'll be as an obvious quality starting in the end.
00:16:44
Speaker
He's already gone, right? Somebody, I think pretty sure somebody already took him. The only thing is that he's a, he is a, um, an outside back. So when he plays 10, oh, David Haveli. Nice. Nice. Yeah. That's good. That's good. That is here. Midfield again. He's middle. Yep. Okay. He's got play most weeks. Right. I think I'm going to go for front road next. It is about that time.
00:17:12
Speaker
It's about that time. And I don't understand why these guys are ranked so far down because they've got Angus Bell. Oh, we're going to be more tasks. Oh, Todd. Oh, sorry. Yep. Freddie Burns does. I took Mitch Hunt and Freddie Burns. That's nice. I think those highlanders. Nice. That's that's not a bad one either.
00:17:44
Speaker
It's don't think I might grab the blues here. Blues were good last year. They didn't lose any pieces, did they? I don't think so. They got Kurt Eklund as well. He got ridiculous about the tries last year, I think. Yes, he did. And it's somehow not anywhere on the All Blacks radar. I mean, I know tries are one thing, but like, come on, like, at least put him on the radar for God's sake. You know?
00:18:14
Speaker
Consider him, put him in the mix, don't just throw him frickin' into the bed. Let's see, who else? I have ideas for how to round out a couple positions.
00:18:37
Speaker
We'll see what happens. I got a little bit of time here. We waiting on Justin. Yeah. Yes. So I still need, I mean, I got bit by power or something again. Yeah. There he goes. There we go. Shooter. Interesting. Shooter. Okay.
00:19:00
Speaker
Shit, I guess I'm I don't really like not really huge on any of these other guys Well, you're not gonna live with it, you know I Might still get him on the wraparound. Okay. Mm-hmm No, there we go, who's huge
00:19:28
Speaker
Who was it? Thomas E. Maga Jensen. Oh, oh, oh, okay. Peter's better. You're not wrong. All right. I'm going blue's front row. Blue's front row. Okay. Good shout. Yep.
00:19:45
Speaker
And you suck. I wasn't going to be definitively that, but I was like, I'm considering this and no longer. No, you're not. Don't worry about it. I got you covered.
00:20:03
Speaker
No longer considering that. Oh boy. Oh, Oh, there he is. Oh, that's correct. Oh, shock. Two of us to check was on my radar for my next pick. Yeah. Two of us are sharks. Not bad. Um, all right. Let's see. Well, we'll take that number one. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes.
00:20:34
Speaker
I don't love, I don't love a lot of these OBs. I know they'll be good ones. Do you take the risk on Dalgouni? No, I did that last year and I fucking hate myself for it. Oh no, no, no, no. Doesn't work well last time now. Let me see something. Hold on.
00:20:57
Speaker
or I know I'm on the clock, but I don't care. I love the results. Um, that's put tire. He's made of glass at that. He is. He is. He's good, but he's not. He's not that good. Um, I think I might end up taking, um, like this guy too much. I'll take, I'll draft them and live with the consequences. Valentini. No, I'm not taking him. Yeah. The Katie T's not bad. Um,
00:21:26
Speaker
Not a bad autodraft for Carrick. No, that's not so bad. I just don't love him enough to say, yes, I'm going to take him over the other guys that were available and Valentini's quality. So I was like, you know.
00:21:54
Speaker
It's tense. It's tense. We can do it. Who's next? Ben, you want to play? I'm up, and I have no idea where I'm going to go. I don't like anything. At this point, it's pick something. It really is.
00:22:11
Speaker
TNT is on the force now. Jeez, he's falling a bit of a way. Yeah. I didn't know that. What do you think about Fly Half, then? You're still... Oh, I'm fucked there. That's what I'm thinking. I'm considering... Oh, I don't even know. I don't like any of these guys. I only have 30 seconds. I'm good. Harris. 28, 27.
00:22:42
Speaker
Charis going to have Cardi Bail, isn't he? Yeah, is he set to go? Like he doesn't need to. They're not waiting on anything for him. I don't know. Yeah, the million dollar question at this point, I guess. Might as well. Good view. Good view. Is he going to be finally healthy? I don't know, but I need another midfielder and
00:23:12
Speaker
Not really, we're kind of down on the drag to this point. There's still some that I like. Yeah. There's still some in there that I like. Well, yeah, but it's like, at this point, it's almost like kind of flip a coin stage. A little bit. Yeah. This guy versus that guy? Fuck, I don't know. So I'll go with Goodhue. At least when he plays, he should score pretty well because Crusaders are kind of a decent team.
00:23:40
Speaker
I don't know if you- They generally are. They generally are. Right, come on Justin. Right, I'm after Dalton Papalee next. Yeah, all right. Providing Justin doesn't snipe me. Hunter Paisani. Another guy that needs to be just healthy, like- Yeah. He doesn't help himself.
00:24:09
Speaker
His playing style doesn't blend it's up to being healthy now It really doesn't it doesn't lend to longevity does it now and it's effective but again Short careers usually go for that But is there another MLR game today is that was yes tonight nope that's a night Eddie All right, so the city that's not the same game. I think in New York game
00:24:36
Speaker
Or is it Seattle? No, it's Seattle. Oh, that's it. Yeah. Yeah. That'll be interesting. One of those teams, some team in America. We don't know. All I know is that the 18th, my eyes are towards the boat for weeks from today. Look at that.
Upcoming Rugby Events
00:25:00
Speaker
All right, Duncan, what do we got here?
00:25:06
Speaker
Yeah, I like Papa Lee a lot. I think he's getting better on attack, which is obviously the place that you need him the most here. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So fingers crossed that actually comes good overall. But he's getting plenty of all blacks time at the moment as well, so he might get rested a bit. He'll definitely be on forced rest, especially in a World Cup year. All right, so I have a plan here.
00:25:34
Speaker
after careful consideration. That's what I got. No, you don't, because I'm looking at Fly House. Oh, no, you're right. I don't have a monkey wrench to throw into that. I kind of like that pecker. He's a Highlander now, isn't he?
00:25:56
Speaker
Uh, I don't recall, I don't recall, but I do like what he did last year. So give him a thumbs up. There's no really beyond. So hockey this. Yeah.
00:26:21
Speaker
to smash it here. Um, jello. Alright, what else you got? Come on. We can do this. Come on, Duncan. Come on, mate. How much playing time is hoops gonna get this here? Oh, I don't know. Good question. You go cheese front row. Okay, cheese front row. Okay. Right. Right. I mean, yeah, so this guy when he paid last year was dynamite.
00:26:49
Speaker
Josh Morby Morby. Yes, he was. He was on my radar for this turn. I'm going to try to round out one position here, or at least do some damage on position. Jared, is Ruben Love playing fly half of the hurricanes? I think so, because I think our ambassador is gone. Right. I was just wondering if they're throwing Morgan in there. It could be going to be Morgan or Love. I don't know which one. All right. Well, that's why I'm having neither be on kegs.
00:27:20
Speaker
Nope. It's going to be Geordi because Geordi is one of the best gamers in the world. Yeah, exactly. Why take that off, you know? Monty Yewani. There he goes. Oh, all right. I was wondering when we'd see him. Okay. Well, I guess I'm going to go with my backup and it's a little early for him. Way early for him. Yeah, but, you know, whatever.
00:27:42
Speaker
That's true. I did say, don't worry about that. Play your own game. Yeah. Play your own game. Nice. Okay. All right. Yeah. That's a good, that's a decent pick at the very least. Yeah. It's still get the job done for me. It will. Um, one guy, I got an idea about the guy I want, but I just don't know if he's going to play enough. And if I'm not mistaken, he averaged over, let me go check this out.
00:28:14
Speaker
Going by our our sheet not their stats because I don't think their stats are accurate. I think is that 20 is that the 2020 students they have up That doesn't look good that doesn't look correct me so right. Yeah, all right So I don't think because I don't think that they have 14 games says Carter Gordon played 14 games for the rebels I'm not sure that that's accurate
00:28:39
Speaker
Wow. That'd be a lot. Yeah. Oh, Charlie. This is projected. Yeah. Charlie gamble's a good pick. Islander's put row and Charlie gamble. Okay. Uh, yeah, that's projected stuff. All right. So I like this guy a lot. We'll see what happens with him. Um, Oh, let's project a gotcha. I see. That looks like it's projected. And then.
00:29:05
Speaker
A little bit of a Homer pics. Nice. I got both now. Isaac. Oh, I like that one. Oh, now they're getting into the. Well, the auto picks going to halfbacks, but yeah. That doesn't mean we need to go start going. He's going to have a horrendous team, isn't he? Let's see what you got. I'll look at it right now. No, I was. No, nice. It's her own parapetto. OK.
00:29:35
Speaker
Okay. That's not too bad. Dirty Barrett and two two pie is a problem. Bryn Gatlin finds gambling, Mikaela two. So the, so the places that are definitely going to be bad news are mid fly and halfback right now. Although he's got a good halfback. He's got off pretty lightly actually. It could be, it could be a lot worse. I think that midfield, the midfield and then bring gallon could be a problem. So we'll see. I've got,
00:30:06
Speaker
Hmm. Tight. I've actually done really well so far in my terms of like rounding out my team. Now I'm up again. Motherfucker. Tate went. Of course he went. Yeah. Mark saw the Carrick pick and said, Oh, I guess this is time to pick my half back. Whatever. It's fine. There's only like.
00:30:35
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's funny that to see Fakotaba higher on the halfback ratings than Smith, but it's a fact also because Fakotaba loves to run and Smith does not scoot anymore. They really did, but doesn't definitely doesn't anymore. Ah, son of a bitch. Maybe he locked back in. All right. Well, you didn't kick it out for like a brief second. Luckily, didn't auto pick for me.
00:31:05
Speaker
Or did it? It might be gone.
00:31:19
Speaker
Who is clearly there's some young bucks on this list that we don't know about tool and Jorgensen. Jorgensen is supposed to be a bit of a beast taking a gamble on dog. All right. This is a good place to take a gamble though. Yeah. Nothing wrong with it. Kipper Riggies on the force. Interesting. Yeah. Kipper. Yes. Yes. Yeah. That's where that's where a lot of the people go to. Yeah. To resurrect their careers.
00:31:59
Speaker
Come on now. Blacketer. All right. All right. All right. Well, he's most weeks. So he's on all blacks for us. What's next? Come on. We've known Justin here.
00:32:27
Speaker
There he goes. Gilbert, Gilbert. Sam Gilbert. Okay. Yeah. He wasn't bad. I picked him up. I picked him up for a little while last year and sort of being all right. Okay. I know what I want to do, but I don't love my choices of either. So this is going to be fun. Yeah.
00:32:57
Speaker
I've got three outside backs already. Say again, if he pays when he finally plays like he barely played last year and he wasn't good when he did. It was not, not pretty. We got Duncan on the, on the double here. All right. As long
Draft Reflection and Team Composition
00:33:20
Speaker
as it's not your starter, that probably is okay. Let's see. I'll pick it as
00:33:27
Speaker
No, that's his first loose forward. That's gonna be interesting Four outside backs I mean to fly yeah, he's plenty of bait to go with yeah, there's there's still some you know what that's probably okay though because There's a lot to obvious. There's always a lot to pick up from with loose forward. So yeah, but he's ready exactly, but he still only has one midfielder Yeah
00:33:53
Speaker
He's, he's very, um, I'm a guy, you know, and then there's the other one. Scott Gregory. Yeah, exactly. Oh, nicely done. Brad Weber. There goes that Bradley. Bradley. I think I'm going for Jake Gordon then.
00:34:16
Speaker
Yeah. Also good. Shut up the both of you. Well, I mean, I need a, I need a half back and get out of my head. There were only three half backs to average over 10 last year, I think. Right. And he was one of them. Two of them were the four skies and one of them was. Yeah.
00:34:44
Speaker
Nope. Lonergan and McDermott. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, but, oh yeah. Gordon was right up there. He's at the top. I'm an idiot. Sorry. My eyes are not functioning properly and very observant. Justin picking for Zell. Come on, man. Oh, he's off. Sorry. There's Carrick. Um, but he's offline. That's then he is offline. Oh, Justin's offline. No Carrick. That's Justin. That was Justin. Okay. That was Justin.
00:35:13
Speaker
And I don't know if Justin's offline. Justin's willing to sell us all. It's okay. As long as you're okay with it. You're the one that's a little bit. Okay, Cobus, don't fucking do it. Do it, Cobus. Whatever you're about to do, do it.
00:35:34
Speaker
So there are no freakishly good locks, really. There's no really outstanding ones. No. I was looking at our numbers before. No out of position players. No, not really. I mean, Holloway was OK. Yeah. Holloway was good for me last year. Yeah. Phillips knackered. I think he's done his ACL. And then Lee Werner.
00:36:02
Speaker
But yeah, he was great last year, wasn't he? Yeah. Yeah. But he's a boss now. Yeah, he was. Was that was that Worcester? And the right jump has taken Jack Campbell. Joke, I will. Is he if he's healthy, that's good. I'm going to jump on Jake Gordon. I'm not sure what Jacob would appreciate that very much. Probably not. He's a professional. I think he can take it. At least buy him dinner first. You can have that.
00:36:32
Speaker
at G Gordon and Mark then Carrick's I will pick the main part. I like the way this is going. Yeah, I think, I think you can quite happily leave a lock right to the end. It's a painful pick right there. Net him again. That's a painful pick. It's not a pick for Carrick, unfortunately. Ooh, we've been love for Mark though. That's a good, that's a good selection like that.
00:37:03
Speaker
Is Braden not even more healthy? Yeah, I think so. Grab him. I think I might be looking at Reese Hodge here. What's up? Jared, I know you're still picking, but I'm looking at Reese Hodge. Why? Oh, don't do it. Oh, how can you not? It's too. It's not good enough for me. Who's kicking for the reps this year? Who will be Hodge?
00:37:31
Speaker
Hammers Gordon, probably. Right. It's almost hurt now. It's to move. It's to move even there anymore. I don't think so. Let me see. It's just, it's just. I thought you jumped the ship. Wrong one. Um, one of the very few half backs. Yeah. To move it jumped to, uh, Japan. That's what I thought.
00:37:58
Speaker
So I think Hodge will be more valuable. Yeah. So I'm just talking myself into it because I've always have them on my team. And how often does that work out for you? I think that's the one thing you need to consider, chief. It works out all right when I have to use them. But well, when I have to, when I'm forced to, it gets like carded occasionally. Yeah, yeah.
00:38:26
Speaker
Yeah. So for half backs, it was Gordon, the two forest guys, McDermott, Lonergan for the brief time that he was in there, then the two chiefs guys. And then it was Christie. So that's why I went into Christie in terms of average last year. So who, who has Weber? I grabbed that back up if I were you. Yeah. That'd be, that'd be my, one of my very near future moves.
00:38:54
Speaker
Yeah. Radima is good too. Yes. He was good. Yeah. He was great. He was in it. He played, he played one less game. He scored only four less points than Weber. So that'll do. Or I should say he started. Sorry. That's what I meant.
00:39:18
Speaker
You Morgan and Sullivan. All right. There you go. I like, I have too many hurricanes. I would have taken bailouts all over. I've got a lot of canes actually. I've probably got too many now. I've got Morby, Ryasi and Sullivan. That's, that's probably like your limit on a team. Yeah, exactly. So stop at that. Stop it. You start getting into other things. Yeah. Yeah. Georgia, I'm going to see you in a couple of months, right?
00:39:46
Speaker
Yeah, man. Can't wait. Can't wait. Yes. You probably, I don't know if you heard us talking about, um, in our, amongst our shenanigans on our fantasy pod, but we'll come back for more. Yeah. Let's find another game. Yeah. Let's do another weekend when Quinn's and Sari's are both at home, all under Irish, maybe do a Brentford trip. I'd be interested to go to G tech. Yeah. Yeah. Really nice stadium. Just boo their 10 constantly.
00:40:15
Speaker
Yeah. Oh God, I won't shut up about it.
00:40:19
Speaker
I would never shut up about it. I'd be the most annoying fan there. I would be the annoying and really like an angry American. That would be me. I'd fit that role to a T. Yeah, exactly. Like really crack up the obnoxiousness. Are you American, baby?
00:40:46
Speaker
Without a doubt, the thing I always tell people about that trip, besides our Sarah, the day at series was the day it quends when the kids in front of us. Oh yeah. Turned around and they were just like, you're not from here. You're like, no good. Yes. Yeah. That's not a regular site of the state. That's for sure. Probably not. And he, he's trying to tell me all about Marcus Smith. I'm like, dude, we came to this game for a reason. I know who that is.
00:41:15
Speaker
That was great. I appreciate that. And the old guy next to us was giggling the whole time. Yeah. Listen to that conversation. Oh, man, I was dying. I was dying. I was on the inside just trying not to bust a gut because I knew what this I knew what was happening was totally innocent. It was just funny as hell. I don't blame the guy. I miss those. I miss those meat pies, man. I really do. We need to get those here.
00:41:43
Speaker
Still much good food. Yeah. Tell tell mags about that one. Yes. Right. We should get a they should get a truck. I'm sure I'm sure you get Will Harris asked you to get a well. All right. So, yeah, let's let's pay attention. What else we're going on here. Don't page. OK. Yep. Good. Billy Harmon. Not bad. Will Harris. Yep. Good one. Corey tool. Like I said, this is apparently a young kid that we don't know anything about. But he's a seven. He was a seventh player. OK. I think he was like one of the top
00:42:13
Speaker
Top try scorers on the tour last year. All right. You never know what you're going to get with 7's convert. No, there's definitely some mixed bag out there with those, no doubt. Still loads of outside backs on the board.
00:42:29
Speaker
Yeah. I am absolutely going mid field here because I only have, I have two could use a third. Yeah. I'm scooping up some backups here for positions that probably should have backups. Right. Like I'm looking at pooj right now. You're a pooj. Faces of pooj. Not denying that. One o'clock here. Okay. Let's go. Let's yeah. Hopefully he's not listening.
00:43:00
Speaker
Okay. Yep. I respect that pick. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I think I know what I'm doing. I'm probably going to hate myself later for it. Cause it's going to, it was something like backfire here, but I'm going to do it when I'm Ben though. Yeah. Well, I'm, I'm just going through the due diligence on Puj.
00:43:29
Speaker
before I take him and see if he's broken or not. No, just seeing what he looked like from from last year. I know he was broken a little bit, but I wanted to see what stats he did have just before I. Wasn't that I don't think. No, he was. I mean, he was average nine per game, according to our sheet. So not bad. Take that from a midfielder. Not bad at all.
00:43:54
Speaker
Yeah, that's going to be a merry-go-round in the midfield though, especially if Geordi gets involved. It is. Yeah. It is. Semasurma Vaudre. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I see you. I see you. All right. Yeah. I like Tui. I, uh, yeah. So we couldn't keep up with him. I'm glad he went where he went. That's an auto pick. So. Well, fella. All right. Um, so. Yeah. Oh, is he, is he broken? I will take the flyer on this guy. Uh, we'll probably be, um,
00:44:23
Speaker
Gatlin starting in terms of cheese. That's true. And then, um, I like the numbers this guy put up last year in limited actions. Oh, Carrick does have, oh wait, hold on, whatever. Hold on. I skipped one of mine. I skipped one of mine on the, on the show. What happened there then? Um, I had, I took AJ Lamb.
00:44:50
Speaker
Oh, yes, it's. So Josh, you want a character does have. What's his name? Get bring Gatlin. So that. Oh, that is. Lucky boy. Oh, wow. Lucky boy. All right. Then I'm going to go with a little bit of a Hail Mary here, but we're 100 picks in. So. OK. Oh, yeah. Total Hail Mary's time at this point. Yes. Hamish Stewart.
00:45:16
Speaker
He was out of position. He's a mid. He's probably going to play 12 and he's listed it as a as a fly half. OK. So if he if he can run a little bit, if they, you know, force do look like they're. Or is he trying to that right? Reds. No, he was Reds. OK. Yeah. Where's he now? He is. Hold on. Let me make sure I got this right. Don't mess it up.
00:45:45
Speaker
I don't know, I'm gonna mess it up. Yeah, Hamish Stewart, yeah, he's on the force now. He's on the force now, okay. Yeah, and it looks like their centers are like, it looks like the only centers they have with experience are him and Sam Spink, because Godwin and Kahoui both left. That's where Spink went, I was wondering. He went there, yeah. I knew Godwin left, yeah.
00:46:06
Speaker
Yeah, I got the last interest of the old Kahui retired. So, like, just looking through that lineup. Kahui was definitely in need of a retirement. Yeah, that was a long A.B.G. Yeah, he was, he needed to call it a day a long time ago, but I'm glad he finally got there.
00:46:22
Speaker
They have two guys out of college and a steward of pink. So maybe he can, I can do something there with them at fly half. Anyway. All right. We had Samu Tamani and Luke Jacobson. Nice. I don't like that pic. I like him. Yeah. I'm quite happy with the way it's shaping up. Yep. Oh, weird. Slim Pickens out there now, huh?
00:46:47
Speaker
Yeah. I like Samu Tamani, Luke Jacobson. That's not too bad at that. All right. Duncan on the, on the double here. Oh man. All right. We're going to go with that. And then we're going to go with bloody hell. Yeah. We are starting to get a slim pickings in some places. That's for sure.
00:47:16
Speaker
I wish, I wish we knew like some of these younger guys that played in like one or two games last year. We're going to get more action, but we don't know that. So it's like, you can't quite throw that gamble until a couple more rounds. You know, it's weird. Nearly there. So whatever the page that I have anyway, with the force, they don't have the, uh, um, kibriggy there. So now I'm huh. Well, that might not be awesome either. Right. I don't know what to do with all this.
00:47:47
Speaker
This is information. I'm not sure what to do with each good, good nine pick assuming he's in there. It's going to be, yeah. That's also a merry go round these days as well. The half-acts at, at, um, with the hurricanes. Yeah. He's, um, I think he might be broken. That sounds right. Nice.
00:48:12
Speaker
Yeah. Um, yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. It's a good decision there. Do we have? Yeah. All right. Who got, um, Lamani. Nice. That's a good backup scrum half. Yes. He could go off. Agreed. Agreed. He could, he'll, he'll start most weeks for them I'm guessing.
00:48:39
Speaker
PJ Parinara ruptured his Achilles in the Autumn Internationals against England. That's what it was. I knew he was fucked. Originally planning on an August return, but he's ahead of schedule maybe back in May, so yeah. That's still really early. Oh, you know what? I know, yeah. Don't mess it up. Okay. What do you think? Heem or Muirhead? Heem played in the centers mostly last year. He's down his nuts like that.
00:49:10
Speaker
Mulehead played most matches, didn't he? Yeah. Although if that sevens kid plays a lot, maybe Mulehead will be out. Yeah, we'll find out, I guess. But you presume it'll take him at least a couple of weeks to kind of shake it off. Yeah. Mulehead played at least 10 games last year or started at least 10 games last year. So take that for where it is. I think that's where I'm going to go. Let me go.
00:49:39
Speaker
Cause he just played, he just plays and it's one of those, like he's a backup. So he's one of those, I don't have to worry about having to sign somebody. I can throw him in there. Right. Ideal. Checking my notes here. Colin grace to Callaway. Three picks left. I got, I got an idea.
00:50:08
Speaker
that I want to throw at the wall, but I want to make sure I do my homework here and I don't go picking something that's broken. It doesn't look like it. All right, cool. Cause I got ideas about certain people. Um, mirror, mirror, solve that problem. And then.
00:50:40
Speaker
Man, there's like no good options at the other position I've been somewhat desperate need of. But that's what happens when you get to this point. Yeah. Like that happens. How many force players do I have right now? Too many. I could just have the two. I'm sorry, did I say too much? Yeah. Two's not bad. Who have you got, Mattie Ryan? Mattie Lilly and Hamish Stewart.
00:51:10
Speaker
Cause I'm thinking about picking up prior here. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, nice. Mirror, mirror. Like the force can have someone that can actually kick. Cause I don't like Ian prior that much as a kicker. So right. But he's my backup now and I have Jake Gordon. So it's just like one of those he'll play. So definitely.
00:51:35
Speaker
Don't have to worry about signing anybody unless I, you know, drop one of these guys while stoned. Right. Cause that's never happened before. Yeah. You keep on drinking over there chief.
00:51:59
Speaker
Uh, you're never living that down. Just FYI. I don't care if he never, if the guy doesn't work out. Never living that down. Not a chance. Not a chance now. Oh shit. Oh man. All right. I guess. Don't love it.
00:52:35
Speaker
What do you think in George? I am wondering if I pull the trigger on a lot now. Jed. Jed Holloway is probably the one. Yeah. Because they're slim pickings elsewhere. Yeah, it's points. Yeah, exactly. It's points. It's points in your lineup.
00:52:56
Speaker
Yeah, there were only two guys that played at least 10 last, or started at least 10 games last year that scored eight or more. And one of them doesn't play in the league anymore. So, you know. There we go. Yeah, and Matt Phillips gone, yes. Uh, Nanai, I was gonna, I was thinking of taking for my last pick. Mulani, Nanai, Crusaders. Like, he won't be starting, but... So he's gonna find, is he gonna find a role? Geez. I guess when Jordan gets all black's rest,
00:53:26
Speaker
Yeah, that's probably it. I have an idea about a backup position, but I just gotta wait until it gets beyond the both of you. Although, George, you're all set, so I don't need to worry about you. It's more the other guy. You don't have to worry about me. I'm the guy. Yes, I do.
00:53:54
Speaker
Yes, I do. You liar. How do I know? Well, I've got my heart set. I'm at least forward next. I know who I want. What are those out there? Salawa. Sevens guy. Okay. Yeah. Nice. Oh, yes. The juror guy. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Which is apparently somehow making my pick look silly because I took Mira Mira. Mira Mira was good last year. Yeah.
00:54:24
Speaker
He was one of, he's one of those guys that was up on the top end of scoring. He scored, yeah, like eight for every, he started six, six, seven games, scored eight plus. So amounting for an average, not bad. You're supposed to see Coryfe is still sitting there. Still there. Why? Why would you want him though? That's true. Why would you want him? He could not score for his life last year.
00:54:55
Speaker
TK Howden was a better pick than him. Devin Flanders was nearly the same type of pick as him. Flanders. That's harsh. Blake Gibson was a better pick than him. Oh, man. Dewey just doesn't do it anymore. That's just fact. That's all it is. Does that mean you think... Who's that new guy? The Jose? Yeah, there's a couple of them. Jose, Lobacher, they were all...
00:55:24
Speaker
They're all getting probably thrusted towards us from the line over Dewey. That's pretty much how that's gonna go. I think Did you already come on Duncan? He might be in there, but he also might be hurt. So I don't remember Scott Barrett areas Right and then for my final pick I will take another outside back
00:55:53
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going, uh, I'm looking at, I need Kins. I can't say his full name. Kins. Yes. Something like that. Brody Retala kudos. Yeah. Fuck. I can't do it at the moment. Yeah. Yeah. Not right now. Give it a try. I did. I've tried twice.
00:56:25
Speaker
There we go. Got it. Nicely done. Zach Kiberige is still on the board. We'll let together a little bit. Yeah. I mean, it's not the worst idea ever. And like you're at a dart throw stage. So it's like, you know, let's do it at a score point. They are going to just throw up points. So it's like maybe if you get to start for Neekins or Kiberige.
00:56:52
Speaker
Neepkins. Okay. I'm not going to because I have too many force guys. Oh, that's a good idea. Tainan been off the board. Yeah. Good call. So I'm just going with players on teams that are going to score points. Yeah, at this point, it's probably not a bad idea. No way to get bad way to go. Neekins. There he goes. All right. So my half back. So with TJ out, obviously you're going to need a
00:57:22
Speaker
half back for the hurricane. So I'm going to take Jamie Booth. Yeah. Yeah. There's that. So that answers my problems there. And then the last pick peek in his way or my last pick kind of want to make it an OB. Lucky Anderson still there. Average, average of a one pointer. I know. Jeez. Um,
00:57:52
Speaker
That's not, he definitely played more than one game last year. These stats are weird. They're projections. The average points is probably about right. Oh, these are projections. Yes. Yes. Oh, Jake Strachan. Oh, I can't just let that go. But you can. I can. I will. I just don't know. Who the fuck am I going to play?
00:58:21
Speaker
I don't think this guy was that bad last year. Was he? Was this the why? Tiny. The why? Yeah. Yeah, he played a bit. Didn't play a ton, but did okay when he was in. No. Yeah, when he was on. I picked it up in my head. Nice. There's a good chance I made that up in my head. Let's be honest about this.
00:58:41
Speaker
He was, I think he was hyped quite a lot at the start of the season. Yeah. Okay. So played about six, seven games or started about six, seven games score close to nine points a game. Okay. Could be worse. Could be worse.
00:59:03
Speaker
There we go. All right, there goes that. Mm. Springer. I did want Tony Pulu. Dammit. But hold on. Yep. Who is this Springer fellow that we hear about here? Marcus Springer. That's out of a name. That's a name. Maybe Mark just picked him on name. I think that's why. I think that's it. Let's see. I can't, I really can't go with the, you know, I'm going to go with
00:59:29
Speaker
played in the NPC a little bit, um, part of the crusader set up. Okay. All right. Because I've heard things. That's the name that I know as far as he's been pushed in the past. I don't know if he's any good, but the reds guy. Yeah. Yeah. I remember hearing about that last year. Wasn't much to be said in turn in those terms, but now I'm hoping maybe he takes
00:59:58
Speaker
20 or 30 steps forward. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's all dark throws right now. Are you kidding me? Like just hoping a prayer. I am not kidding you. Nor should you be. Yeah. I think my midfield field really weak, but everything else I feel pretty good about. I mean, Mac was by like six, one, two, three, four, five, six, I have seven outside backs.
01:00:28
Speaker
You got seven outside backs. Yeah. Wow. I have six. So yeah. I have three midfield. Two fly. Two of them start next week. Two of them will start next week for Ben. I'll be able to start any of them. I'm on Cobus. You can do it. I'll be cutting people anyway. These are just, these are the names to throw out the tuba. Oh, tuba by. Yeah.
01:00:58
Speaker
Yeah. I don't know if that's a bad, that's not a bad lock pick. I mean, we got to pick a lock. There's, there's worse players to take. There are. It's talented. It's just a matter of, is he going to put up the points? Josh Lord actually put up slightly better points on average, but not by much. So I'm going to go for either Mogg or Kippericky. Nice.
01:01:20
Speaker
on now let's go zach bailey kunzel take taken brit i'd love to see bailey kunzel like actually be a asset to a fancy team because i do like him but just highly lobster lobster okay that's a good that's a good dart throw again like yeah he was
Conclusion and Future Plans
01:01:40
Speaker
good when he played but just didn't play a bunch because
01:01:43
Speaker
That was also last year, a lot of like second-string, third-string players were playing because they were throwing in those midweek games. Oh, Jared, once again. What the fuck? I can't run away from you, I swear, man. Every time. If I could count the times I was able to run away from you, I wouldn't be very rich. That's for sure. How many times is that happening? What are we doing over here?
01:02:14
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. I don't like this. All right. So yeah, it's me and George, uh, Ben and Duncan, Mark and Justin and Cobus and Carrick. Yee ha lads. So we'll be doing start sit on super this week. It's me. Interesting. Um, Tom white, but I did get ahold of Bruce.
01:02:37
Speaker
We will get, and I do want to coordinate it so we can get you, obviously us, him, and you'll give as well. That'd be amazing. Yeah. Cause I think that's, I think that's a worthwhile pod to have whatever time, whatever day we can get it done because it's a discussion that we, I think, I think needs to be out there. So I'd love to see their thoughts. You know, they're the ones that are driving that bus and not us. No doubt.
01:03:07
Speaker
Okay. Cool. Cool. All right. So we got that. And hopefully everybody found something valuable out of this, whether it be my terrible picks or Ben's trouble picks or whatever. But, uh, cool. So Ben, we're finally just enjoyed being able to talk this, this draft. That was nice. The entire time we're in silence.
01:03:37
Speaker
Uh, shit. Yeah. Uh, but Ben, we're finally done this week. Believe it or not. Yeah. Thank God. Yeah. So don't have anything to do till Monday. Nice. And we'll see you guys for the pink slips. Uh, yes. Thanks for the draft before we know tomorrow, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Tomorrow. Oh my God. I could be, I could be mistaken, but I think it's tomorrow, but Godspeed everybody in there.
01:04:03
Speaker
But yeah, so thanks to everybody that tuned into all this week has been and I were busy like we just said We will be back to a regularly scheduled program without too much chaos next week until then We appreciate you all for listening to us and hanging out and have a good one out everybody later. Cheers guys