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Season 2- Episode 26- Where Have You Been Aussies? (Premiership Round 12 & Super Rugby Round 5)
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Here we go, it's exactly what you've been waiting for! No? Oh well, here we go with the latest episode of those rugby boneheads from THAT side of the pond. This week we talk about player movement, and something possibly being afoot over at Sale. We also talk about the action from this past weekend in the Premiership, including the ending at The Stoop that has many talking. Also, we take a look at Super Rugby and the resurgence of some of the Aussie teams this past weekend. Finally, it's everyone's favorite segment, Start or Sit. Tune in for all this and all the laughs.
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Promotion
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey everybody, how's it going? My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. Let's go, let's get to it. We'll commence our recording so late this week, life happens, you know, we do have real jobs.
00:00:19
Speaker
Well, jobs. I know. Some people say I've had so many people just look at me like, you don't have a real job. Fuck you. Right. Dude, I am up at like four thirty in the morning. You can bite me that I don't have a real job. Get over it. Yeah. But what is a real job? I mean, yeah. Better to have a job you like than a job you hate. That's all I know.
00:00:41
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You can do what you love. You never work a day in your life. Speaking of which. Let's crack some. Let's crack on here. Check us out on all your favorite podcast apps. Send us a review. Rate us. Download us is usually nice too. We would appreciate that. Reviews and rates are also somewhat important. But either way, we do appreciate that you're here with us just the same.
Rugby Lineup Management and Fantasy Rugby Tips
00:01:08
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yay no spill nicely done now i set this to this side so i'm not buffalo out of boy that one video yeah that was buffalo i was like whoops no no no no
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Make sure that you get your TRM upgrades. It's going to be a huge weekend for it. Obviously, Six Nations is kicking back getting grand. They only have two matches, but you're still going to want to know who's starting along with your prem team, because everybody just seems to want to blow shit up from the prem coaches. Like, yeah, let's see what way I can fuck with your lineup today. Let me start a mix of A and B sides.
00:01:46
Speaker
It's been painful. I was rough last week. I ate 20 points and I didn't even end up getting a starting scrum half. Who got dropped eventually anyway? I was like, oh, God damn. So that's not great. But yeah, get yourself your TRM upgrade. It'll save you a few headaches here and there and hopefully some embarrassment from your friends and all that good stuff.
00:02:07
Speaker
Make sure you check out our friend the fancy rugby geek. He was just on our second favorite podcast the other day. Give us a shout out and he was very kind to point out that we are very good about making sure that he knows when we beat him.
00:02:28
Speaker
But he'll be this one day. Yeah, absolutely. And we will hear all about it. Yeah, and that's OK. That's justified. That'll be justified. All we're doing is digging a little bit deeper.
00:02:41
Speaker
Yeah, he's going to want one of us big time. Yes, it's probably going to be me. Might be me in that second league, man. I'm awful in that. But yeah, make sure you check out our buddy. He's definitely worth a look. Get your tips in, especially with all the competitions that are going on this weekend. You are going to want help, I promise.
Organizing Fantasy Rugby League in Boston
00:03:04
Speaker
He's definitely a good source to return to.
00:03:07
Speaker
Speaking of FRD, we are looking for anybody that's stateside to have like a stateside FRD. If you happen to be in the Boston area, please email us. But anyway, we would like to have a stateside FRD next year for Prem. I don't want to be, you know, elitist or anything like that, but I'd like to see if we can at least put together an eight-man, an eight-team league. Yeah, that would be great from states for that.
00:03:33
Speaker
So, if you are stateside and you want to try your hand at this and see how bad you can embarrass us, then we certainly welcome you. Fancy rugby podcast at gmail.com. We'll keep plugging this throughout the end of the year here and hopefully we can get that going come September.
Player Transfers and Team Strategies
00:03:51
Speaker
Little player movement. Just a little. Red path leaving. We talked about that. Ashton leaving sale as well. Going to Quinn's.
00:04:02
Speaker
I wonder what's going on in the sale? Open up the books! Yeah, right. Goody had some things to say about that. It says things might not exactly be on the up and up. Yeah. Steve Diamond, can you just go ahead and open your mouth and shove that foot right in there?
00:04:19
Speaker
Yeah, jerk. That's a big mouth and a big foot right there. For all the, cause he was talking so much shit when the salary cap stuff hit. And now it appears he might have a few problems of his own. So you're welcome Steve Diamond. This is what happens.
00:04:33
Speaker
And then Ryan Mills on his way to Worcester and I saw the video that they dropped and they mentioned very underrated player and I absolutely agree. Super underrated player. Worcester, this has got a huge, huge loss for Worcester. Nobody's gonna talk about how big it is unless you're familiar with Worcester.
00:04:53
Speaker
Ryan Mills is a fantastic good fantastic player and the second he gets capped the better honestly for England's sake he's He's gonna be a lot to him up. Yeah, he's gonna be held edition over there I don't know where he's gonna fit into that midfield you somebody's leaving. Mm-hmm whether it's corporate retiring or Fekito moving on soap water moving on somebody's gonna have to move on from that midfield I don't know who but
00:05:18
Speaker
Um, otherwise he's just going to be where you bump him out to wing or something. I don't know if you guys
MLR Match Recaps and Analysis
00:05:23
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could play wing. They could think of one of the other guys playing wing, right? Or dropping a fullback maybe, but that's about it. Um, a little, a little whip around for MLR. What else?
00:05:36
Speaker
Who signed, who signed, I'm blanking on it, but whoever signed with, was it Lester? The wing that went from, hold on. Oh, let's update this. Cause this is something I did not see while my head was buried in.
00:05:53
Speaker
Yeah, the money Lindola will be a luster tiger next season. Whoa Yes, it's big. Well, I have mixed feelings about this because the biggest thing that you heard the two former Tigers talk about on pod pod They've they they're they just bemoaned how bad their recruiting has been less right well and this is obviously Somebody answering that call between the signing of him Tafua who I thought was a fantastic sign for them. So
00:06:23
Speaker
You know, they're at least trying to write that part right? I think the issue though to me is is a number which is 32 and You look around that Lester team and they're old they're getting up there. Yeah, and How are you gonna be better? I don't think I mean they have they have a lot of issues on other spots and they're they're they're not that
00:06:45
Speaker
pour off at wing, it's just they don't get the ball to the wing enough. No problem. They don't have a fly half, but that's beside the point. Different story for every day, I guess. I guess the point is it's almost like it's a good sign and good player, but how are they going to use him?
00:07:03
Speaker
Yeah, maybe that's the question that needs to be asked. Right. That's my only concern is that if you're going to invest in a player to bring in, invest in a player that can really fill a need. And I don't see how he fills a need. It's like the step up from whoever they would have at his position.
00:07:27
Speaker
Wherever he's replacing right a little fellas not bad. I mean he's not in a dolo, but no he's not bad But he's not good in that they don't really get him involved enough so yeah, he could help And he's going to help, but I'm not sure that the the return on investment That's I guess where I am is uh is high for that I think they could have done better, but at the same time I don't know who is available
00:07:52
Speaker
I don't know who else they were looking at. So good get. Yeah. I'm not sure it's as helpful as it could be. Yeah, we'll find out if there's some exiting going on as well that maybe we don't know about yet as well. That could be. All sorts of fun things like that are in play. Yeah.
00:08:07
Speaker
Alright, let's go to our local league now. MLR whip around. I did watch our guys a little bit. The Sunday night game as well. We'll talk about those in a second, but just go through the scores here.
00:08:22
Speaker
Nola 21, San Diego 25. That sounds like that was a pretty big comeback for San Diego. They stay unbeaten, I believe. Austin 19, DC 28, DC continues to cause problems for everybody else. Look out. Colorado 22, Utah 14. I think Utah is weaker than they let on to start. Seattle 44, New England 29. We'll get to that in a second. Atlanta 18, Toronto 28. Toronto is not a team to be.
00:08:49
Speaker
Fucked with big time. Houston 23, New York 31. Let's go back to our friends, the free jacks. You and I were texting the next morning, because I think we're way too tired to try, because it was late here. It was late here. So I was like, I'm watching this. I don't know if Jared is, and it's like 11 o'clock at night. I'm not texting. Not even bothering. For as much as we do text each other, we kind of are good about putting it away.
00:09:17
Speaker
Yeah, there comes a point where it's like I'm not gonna assume that he's up and I'm not gonna know But yeah, I did watch this and we were texting the next day When the free checks were hot.
Premiership Rugby Insights and Highlights
00:09:32
Speaker
They were hot when they were not they were dog shit. It was bad Obviously their defense got carved up two three times off first first phase maybe first three phases and and just went to hell and
00:09:45
Speaker
They played really well outside of those spots when they fell asleep So it was like you'd have 30 minutes of a really great rugby and they would actually like again Seattle's a very good team I'm really glad the three Jacks are done with this trip now because we got one more, but we got Noah coming up here But yeah one more really rough match yeah, but they've played four or three or four the best teams in the in the league for sure and yeah, they're the records not looking so hot but
00:10:15
Speaker
That's just because they're playing the best teams like i'm looking for managing to scrape out bonus points here right there, too That's the other thing that yeah, they were scoring like they were looking very good. It's just that all they would give up What 15 points in like three minutes or so? It's just like fell asleep a little bit You can't give up like multiple. You can't give up like three scores in Yeah, just in a short period of time guys falling asleep on defense, especially up the middle, which is cardinal sin, right? um
00:10:44
Speaker
Yeah, guy's just not paying attention to what the hell's going on. You know, you gotta cover JP Smith. He's not gonna, he's gonna take his opportunities. And he definitely did. SEMA looked really good for Seattle as well. I think this is his first game back since kind of being banged up. So yeah, he got banged up in pre-season. Yeah, he looked very good. That boot is on for him. So Seattle's got a lot to look forward to in that.
00:11:08
Speaker
John Polin looked really good, especially in that individual effort there that he scored off. I was like, is this going to... That came off. Oh, wow. He's in. That was... They scored some entertaining tries. They definitely have. I like Polin. I think his service is snappy. I just needed to move the ball a wee bit quicker. But I mean, he shows...
00:11:27
Speaker
All kinds of quality for sure. So I'm you know, once tie tie leader gets healthy that'll be uh, that'll be great 9 10 combination Yes, it will that's really looking forward to that in a little over a week and other player movement ben landry
00:11:42
Speaker
Yes. Signing for the free pass from Elon trail finders. Yes. I am so excited about that. Right. I was like, whoo. So him and Larson possibly in the second row or he goes to flank. I don't know which one, but I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. He's getting in there either way. Right. Put him out there and let him do his thing. We'll sort that out. Yeah. I did watch a little bit of the Houston, New York. I just want to say one thing.
00:12:07
Speaker
That field in Houston, this is their new stadium, it looks gorgeous. It was beautiful. The Sabercats logo is right in the middle of the field. It looked like they had a decent crowd there. The pitch is perfect. So I will say, if you are in the Houston area or you go to Houston and you have a chance to go to the Sabercats game, that looks like a great spot to catch from rugby. And they played a pretty good brand over there.
00:12:34
Speaker
what the hell was his name, the dude, Mr. Do Everything for them, was it Simmons? No, can't remember. But yeah, Windsor, that's the one. Oh man, this dude was doing everything for them, but New York just has too much quality in their team. Hankle Hammer size was playing and I was like, oh, I forgot they had him too. So they're gonna be a scary outfit when they're firing. Yes. Especially with, especially if Terminator's playing pretty well. I mean, he looked like he didn't miss a beat.
00:13:01
Speaker
So yeah, it's Houston 23, New York 31. They showed some fight, but I think an intercept try ended up being their undoing at the end. All right, let's go to some prom.
00:13:14
Speaker
Friday night at the King's home. Gloucester 17, sale 23. This had some ups and downs. Gloucester showed some spark and then they would go to sleep in case in point the Marlin Yard try.
00:13:33
Speaker
oh god that was just awful yeah awful just this is why you clear your lines right here let's just drop it and then every look at it while molly merlin yards like oh look what i found yeah there's nobody in front of me here i go yeah this you couldn't give them an easier try really outside of like an easy intercept that's about it yeah
00:13:53
Speaker
oh man that was so disappointing and then between that and then the uh the 12 trees try that was they needed a barrister and luckily there was one right there like reviewing every piece of it i know and the uh the we go back again to the commentators don't seem to know the laws shocker right and that that's just you know i i i
00:14:21
Speaker
Yeah, it was something I did kind of want to talk about earlier, but you know when we were doing our planning for the show, but The you know rugby isn't the only sport with problems I I I'm hard I harp on it. Oh, yeah
00:14:39
Speaker
So when I say, you know, it's it's annoying that the commentators don't know the laws. That's true of football. Like they don't know what the hell they're talking about. That's true of all right. It seems like baseball is the only sport where in America anyway, where the and maybe basketball, where the commentators are like, they know what they're talking about very on it.
00:14:57
Speaker
I mean, basketball is fairly simple and baseball goes so fucking slow that it's pretty hard. And there's a few actual. Yeah, I have loads of time to analyze that. Right. But yeah, to see certain things, like there's just some things where the commentators don't know what they're talking about. And then off the top of the shoulder and the head, yeah, it's fine. Play on. Like it's on the arm, but it's on the knock.
00:15:18
Speaker
and we have a really tall trees right and then we had the yeah, so that the knock that or that the head off the head that just shoots forward and the the sale players are Mucking around and on kid on it, dude. Yeah, 12 trees just jumps on it and they're like was he on side? Yeah, he yes. He got put on side Good enough. Good enough. Good try. Yeah, that was a lot of fun Yeah, it was it was a obviously it was an entertaining match clusters for a lot of fight. Mm-hmm but they just
00:15:46
Speaker
didn't quite have enough and couldn't get over the line. So they fall 1723 to sail. Rough for for Gloucester. They're they're they're dropping down the table. Yeah they seem to just not not quite be able to figure out. No they're at nine.
00:16:04
Speaker
Yeah, but there's a lot of weight. There's a lot of room to move. Sure. Yeah. Mid table to even four. I mean, how wasps went from bottom of the table with they've had two five point wins recently and now they're. There must be. They're at seven now. They're just out there. They're a point behind the Irish. OK.
00:16:24
Speaker
But yeah, like it's not doesn't take that much clusters at 25 point. There are only two points behind wasps So there's a lot there's a lot to play there's you know, you're looking at five points separate the the fifth place from ninth So, you know one good week and all of a sudden they're up in in Champions Cup contention represent. Yep
00:16:43
Speaker
They have they have the ability to turn around they just need to fucking do it. There's a big difference. Um Let's go to the Possibly the most controversial match of the weekend. Mmm Quinn's and Exeter Quinn's 34 Exeter 30 I mean we can we can talk about the two young fly-haves in this game Eddie. Are you watching? Young fly-haves in this game that played miraculous just miraculous games Marcus Smith
00:17:08
Speaker
The the inform 10 in the prem. I don't know. I don't know if there's another one, right? I don't know if there's anybody better right now why he doesn't get an England cap because you have to have George Ford I Have to say I love when I'm fucking right
00:17:25
Speaker
of the three fly halves that we had that we had. Yeah. A question about this weekend. Right. Who was the one that picked Marcus Smith? You were this guy. Yep. So yeah, this dude, he hasn't scored below 20 since the one game. Yeah. The one game this year. Everything else has been 22 plus.
00:17:42
Speaker
So I will I'll take that all day long. Yeah, he's pretty excellent He's and he's in my lineup now. I made that switch a little while ago. Yeah, but He was just being more consistent. Yeah, he is And as much and yeah, obviously you want to talk about Joe Simmons too because he was fucking amazing Yes, great, but I want to I want to talk about a second another player cuz cuz Joe Simmons had a lot of help and
00:18:06
Speaker
And I want to single out if you're a coach out there and You want to show your young scrum half? What it looks like when a scrum half is it like the decisions they make in the way they play Nick white in this match? Unbelievable like the the tries that that that Exeter scored
00:18:28
Speaker
Were a lot of them were set up because Nick white was he was taking a lot of lateral runs and suck in cutting off defenders that way so if you look at the At the Joe Simmons try
00:18:42
Speaker
White takes a lateral run with a wedge runner and just two of them take out like five quids. So he passes it out the back to Simmons who has like two or three players out wide on two defenders.
00:19:01
Speaker
So Nick White, with just a little bit of a run, takes out more than half of the defenders and just frees up the space and credits Joe Simmons because he made a hell of a move or a hell of a run. But like a scrum half to do little things like that. And I single out that one play, but he was doing that all match. He did that actually even to set that up because right before then it was he did the same thing, hit Joe Simmons off the Sam Simmons and Sam went for a nice long run.
00:19:30
Speaker
So he did it twice in a row and the Quinn's just couldn't, couldn't respond there. The rampaging Simmons. Yeah. They just 50, 50 for Sam 77 for Joe this weekend. If you had him and you captained him, welcome to first place. Oh, that was, that was great. Um, let's go to the very end of the match, which is obviously the biggest talking point. Um, so David toy, I had no try.
00:19:55
Speaker
Yep. Oops. I mean, huge error by Ridley. Right. And let me just start by saying I really like Christoph Ridley, especially as a young referee. There's a couple of referees I would kick like into the next into the next universe over Christoph Ridley. So let me just say I really do like him, especially as a young referee. He totally balled up his decision. He did. He's had a couple of bad ones. That was definitely his worst that I've seen so far. But as far as the penalty tried decision,
00:20:24
Speaker
For me, it's not a makeup. It's, you know, we've been down here forever and you've just been fucking giving away penalty tries. Finally, Quinn's get some goddamn movement and exit are still fucking up. Right. So I'm I'm more than okay with the penalty try. I don't care if they weren't necessarily going over the line. To me, that's a fine call because how like.
00:20:44
Speaker
How many times did extra commutability to stop themselves from getting shoved back? Didn't they have two yellow cards during that sequence? One, but they were on two yellow cards. They were on a second warning. Right. For sure. Right. And at that point, like how many times do you see
00:21:03
Speaker
in that kind of situation where you have all that pressure built up, built up, built up. You can't just keep allowing penalties and allowing penalties. Then they don't score. It's like, well, fuck, you just lost the game because how many times would you have had an opportunity that was taken away because of a penalty?
Key Matches and Player Performances
00:21:25
Speaker
And because he screwed up the first one, that should have been a try. At that point, you're like, you know what? Fuck you guys, Exeter. You did everything you could to fuck up this ball, including the offsides penalties, this and that. I thought he was going to give the penalty try at the offside penalty. I thought that was like, no, you do that here. You did this on purpose. You did it on purpose. You're obviously screwing up a scoring play. You rushed the defense, and that made them knock it on.
00:21:56
Speaker
At that point, it was like, okay, you, that's your last, that to me, I was, I was sitting there, uh, turned to my wife and I'm, and she's like, what, what the hell's going on here? And I'm like, this has got to be like this, you know, if they do it again, it's got to be a penalty try, no matter what happens. Like another penalty has to be a penalty try. And he did it. And I was like, yeah, there you go. Like, like they have the balls to say, this is unacceptable behavior and discipline by Exeter. And this is what you get.
00:22:24
Speaker
Yeah, I remember last year, I think it was Bath going against Worcester. Worcester eventually scored. But they ate like three yellow cards because they kept committing infringements. And Worcester did eventually score. But you know, those are two fine solutions to the same problem. I don't have, you know, neither one's more right than the other. I don't have a problem with the way Ridley made that decision. So, you know, and the Exeter just were completely
00:22:51
Speaker
Oh my god, I can't believe you just wore a penalty try against us. Dude, you guys sucked for the last 20 minutes of this match. You deserve to lose. Sorry. They did. That was the thing is that Exeter deserved to lose that based on how they played.
00:23:07
Speaker
Like what else are you gonna say about it? Because you can't anybody that really want the only people that will argue that they shouldn't have lost their match right and Remember, this is Saracen these are Saracen supporters talking very highly of Quinn's here And it doesn't pay me to say that because I don't I don't dislike the
00:23:29
Speaker
the Quinns, nearly to the level of say like the New York Yankees as a Boston Red Sox fan. But yeah, they totally deserve to win this game. Anybody that couldn't see that, you were either an Exeter fan or you have no idea what you're talking about. So yeah, well done to the Quinns. They go ahead and take the win, 34-30 over at the Exeter Chiefs, and they certainly showed that Exeter are not bulletproof. No, they're not. Yeah, they rocked up that whole match. Big time.
00:24:00
Speaker
Um, well, this was, this was a fun one. Uh, Northampton 21, Terrisons 27. Everything for anyone that possibly could want to watch a rugby match. I think we had it. Yeah. This was a pretty good match. Just entertainment wise. Right. Um,
00:24:16
Speaker
outside of the let's let's get the bad out of the way first the the injuries that we had scary no bigger bigger his injury which uh looked apparently not a lot worse than it was thank god um he may be back soon which is good yeah um but then the hia's
00:24:33
Speaker
Like the four or three in the in in one play it looked like as it was a jet Jackson Ray Ray was goofy. He was he was definitely so it was good Yeah, he wasn't great either. No, I think Ray was worse. Yeah And Duncan Taylor had had an issue yeah well either I think he actually picked that up on No, no it was
00:25:01
Speaker
Oh, fuck it. No, I don't remember. I don't remember who picked it up either. Yeah. Well, it wasn't good either way. He definitely was down for the count. I mean, Don Morris deputized quite well. Nick Tompkins knows what the trial line is. Not news there. No, no news there. I mean, he had obviously an easy advantage that they took that they were able to capitalize on speaking of an easy advantage. Ben Earl.
00:25:30
Speaker
read it like a book. Yeah. And it's so funny that it happened to Cobus Reinach, because who's the king of that? Right. Reinach. Reinach. And it's like, oh, oh, oh, wow. There were so I saw a video of Northampton fans being very unhappy with it. Oh, yeah. Couple of middle fingers. I guess we're not too happy about that, eh?
00:25:55
Speaker
Eddie Jones, are you paying attention this weekend? Good God, there's so much evidence that should be out there that says
00:26:02
Speaker
I might fuck up here. I might be fucking up here. No, you just, just, just the thought, just the thought. Um, a little bit. Yeah. And then, you know, we had well, skeleton going for a little scamper. That was fun to watch. That was, yeah. Just knocking people over and noping people left and right. So Saracen's played great. Obviously Harry Malander played his ass off. That was a great line that he ended up running for his try. Yeah. We got completely lost on that. It was worth just kind of wasn't sure.
00:26:28
Speaker
Yeah, I was kind of annoyed by that because he's I don't like seeing players with their hands in the air looking at the referee or like it doesn't usually lead to good things. Right. He's he's looking like he's standing a little bit off sides with his with his arms up trying to I'm not sure what he's trying to signal to the ref instead of getting in position to make a tackle and mounders is like, OK, bye. Yeah, see you.
00:26:50
Speaker
just watch it okay you can just keep your arms up in the air and i'll just keep running by Wiggles did make a difference though he did um with his foot especially you know there's so much
00:26:59
Speaker
And he made up for it with a try saving tackle. Yes. So, yes, he did. Yeah. So he doesn't to speak. I don't know what else I can say about Wiggles and his his contribute contribution to his team. I mean, I think he's done at the end of this year. And yeah, it'll be it'll be sad to see him go. He's had a great career. But man, he's he's still he's still got it. Right. He's still got it. And one more on the other end. What's that?
00:27:26
Speaker
Yeah, the amount of unipolar had another he's really picking it up. Another another quality game from him. Yeah, I'm really happy to see that I am.
00:27:35
Speaker
And then another young player who is just having a fucking hell of a season. Roddy Shagan. Yeah, Shagan. That try, the little like. Good step. Yeah, just tippy toeing the touch line and dotting down the try. Good footwork, dude. Well done. Yeah. Because a lot of players will do a little juke move and put that foot into touch. Yes. Especially when they're young. But that footwork was veteran quality right there. Absolutely.
00:28:03
Speaker
Yeah, and there's one person whose praise I've sung before, and I don't think it can be under understated. Nick is playing very, very well. He's playing out of position. Right. Still doing a very serviceable job as a six, because right now, apparently, we have more second rows than we do back rows. So.
00:28:22
Speaker
and he's doing a very admirable job as a six, but he's running the line out too. And we're talking about missing George Cruz who runs England's line out. And he's running the line out instead. So it has to be said, he's...
00:28:37
Speaker
You know, there's a I was thinking about it today like There's that short list of players that have been yanked off the field before Much more than 30 minutes was up in their England debuts and I don't know what good Folks like Eddie think that does for these young players It doesn't do them any good and then to just like banish them for the rest of their career, right? like this is their first England cap and
00:29:04
Speaker
Nyx was against South Africa for f**king sake, you know? I mean, that's not a cakewalk by any means whatsoever. And I'm pretty sure he was playing out of position as well at that point. So it's like, all right, this is... And instead now he's putting f**king yules at eight. And it's like, okay, if you're going to have a lock out of position, I would much rather have Ezekiel at six than yules at eight. Yeah, agreed. But that's just me.
00:29:30
Speaker
Call me kooky Yeah, so Saracen Saracen's win Northampton 21 Saracen's 27 Don't don't tell the Saracen's there's nothing to play for right still playing pride This would a lot of pride there if they didn't have all the point imposed on them. They'd be in second. Mm-hmm. So just remember that Lester 14 Worcester 8 and moving on and that happened and
00:29:54
Speaker
I didn't watch the game. Neither did I. Yeah. I looked at it. I'm like, nope. No. Hold on or no. Ben White's. I mean, I can tell you the fantasy wise, Ben White scored 30 by underscore 33. That's the big numbers on the one side. And then on the other side, HooGard with 26, HooGard usually produces Ollie Lawrence with 28. That's a good one. Yeah. Good on him. Your buddy Moulds with 31. That's a pretty good one. But yeah, I saw the score.
00:30:23
Speaker
Kind of like we talked about last week. I'm gonna look at the score lines and figure out if I actually want to watch this friggin match. Kitchener off the bench with 30 though. What? Making up for his uh, yeah. Andrew Kitchener. Making up for his uh... Hot damn. His yellow right off. 62 minutes. Wait, who'd he come in for? Had to be... I couldn't tell you actually. Bresler or his brother. Bresler. Bresler. Oh, so we had Kitchener and Kitchener attorneys at law in the second row, eh? Yes we did. Okay. Well, that sounds like fun at least.
00:30:51
Speaker
Yeah. Couldn't tell you. Couldn't tell you what happened. Lester won. That's the end. I'm sorry. I couldn't. I could not bring myself to watch this match. Let's go Sunday. Let's start with the one that kicked off first. Irish 26. Washed 36.
00:31:08
Speaker
I'm not sure I watched this match. No, I didn't watch it. This was decent quality. I watched clips of it, or a little bit. I mean, our little graph that we have on the regular mag, thank you, regular mag, pretty much dictates it. Irish definitely had the control for a little while, and then just a surge by the loss.
00:31:28
Speaker
Took off and that was and that's where they ended up getting it Taking over there A couple players. I do want to highlight ben mian for irish He's holding off. He's holding off nick phipps as an international australian, like an australian international nine Well that chip and chase for the try. I did watch this. Yeah, there's my notes There we go. The chip and chase for the try. I mean this was this was you know, I talked about nick white This was very much
00:31:54
Speaker
Among all competitions to me of a scrum half week So many scrum halves played well. Yeah, a lot Nick white played well And then here we have Ben Heenan Just opening up that way. Yeah, and Robson too. Yeah, and Robson right, you know in the same match Yeah, and so very well
00:32:16
Speaker
Certainly a, you know, a high quality matchup right there between those two, even with the international FIPS on the bench. Right. It's crazy. How about Keppu feeding it through the legs to give his team a shot?
00:32:33
Speaker
You gotta, you gotta love the prop action. Cause it's like one of those, if, if, if he fucks it up, it's like, ah, that's a prop trying to have fun. But when he does it, you're like a prop did that. Yeah. That was, I mean, great heads up play, but by him, um, Ben loader's try was, it was a good step. Yeah. Yeah. He's okay. He's not too bad. I mean, why sake who?
00:32:59
Speaker
Who, what? Yeah, exactly. Adam Coleman went for a hell of a scamper as well. Good luck getting in that guy's way. Jacob Umaaga, the kid's playing with a load of confidence right now. So I can, that I can understand what Eddie sees, but I just still think there's somebody better. I'm not saying that Umaaga is bad. What I'm saying is there's better out there, but I do appreciate that this kid's playing with a shit ton of confidence. So I do have the appreciation for that at the very least. So good on the kid.
00:33:28
Speaker
I also want to put out the Irish with the clock red. They're in their own 22 and they worked it down the field. They worked it very well down the field to get the bonus point try. That's a very heads up.
00:33:44
Speaker
and very well organized especially for still like you have to remember it's their first time or the first year back in the in the prem and they're playing with a lot of players who are still new to the club and they're still getting used to each other but they're looking like they're used to each other now much much better and that kind of organization and and teamwork to to move from one end to the other
00:34:04
Speaker
Fantastic, I know wasps didn't really have to defend because they had their own bonus point try bonus point win And then their their points were locked up, but there's a bit of pride that's usually on the line there, right? And they were playing hard They they were there the penalties that they earned were aggressive penalties or the penalties they gave away were aggressive penalties
00:34:24
Speaker
for and then the irish took advantage and ended up with the uh the mall over try to to get the bonus point so uh just uh really smart heads up play by the irish and and well worked yeah i will i do want to point this out and i know we've said it about a billion times remember when england didn't have any second any back growers yeah jack willis
00:34:44
Speaker
Ah fright kids pretty good. He's he's not not bad at all. Nope. And then of course our boy Bryce Campbell got on field happy to see him get in there. Yank on the field. Yay. So Irish 26 lost 36 lost jumped themselves up into the table and get away from the bottom the bottom half.
00:35:03
Speaker
nobody wants to finish 11th but it's still it's not quite the same really good lately and i can't tell i can't imagine if there's only i could figure out a the catalyst for that and why no idea all right well moving on wouldn't know a thing about it um
00:35:21
Speaker
Bath 13 Bristol 19. This is a huge one for the Bristolians. They have wanted to be back at the wreck for a long time. So I want to give you a quote here to be from a from a tweet that I saw, which was from a Bristol player saying back from their academy days, their club, they did just a fun thing is to to get everybody together and everybody was going to write down what their goals were, what they wanted to do.
00:35:49
Speaker
You know what their their high point of their career would be or what their their biggest goal would be if from a career and they said that You know most of them are saying oh, I want to you know play for England and maybe captain England and blah blah blah one player I'm gonna ask you to guess who it was said
00:36:09
Speaker
I want to be playing for the top side for Bristol and beat Bath at the Rec. Was that Joe Joyce? That was Joe Joyce. Yeah, I think I saw that. That's great. That's good. You've got to love that hate. A little bit of fire in there. Totally a Bristol man. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think the one guy for me, Charles Pyotow,
00:36:36
Speaker
I was thinking about cutting him like two weeks ago and cutting my losses. No, you don't. No, no, no, no, no, no. He's going to stick with me for a while. I'm good. He was extremely good. Callum Sheedy was very well, very good as well. But yeah, Pyotow was just making guys miss for fun. So just having, making people have a seat just because he felt like it. So that was really good. Reece Priestland might get a phone call this week. I don't know. I guess he doesn't have the official 70 caps that you need or whatever it is for whales.
00:37:05
Speaker
I would totally make the exception for that. If you're in need of a 10 and you really don't have another option, you might as well just pick up the phone and call him. Yeah. That's definitely worth it. Reese Webb's first game for the bathmen, not as successful as he'd like, but he's still getting used to his teammates. He knows who his 10 is, that's for sure. They've played together plenty of times, not necessarily in the black, blue, and white.
00:37:32
Speaker
They are, they know who each other are. Will Chudley's Scrumhalf line for his try. That was excellent. I mean, Priestlin was the one that broke the line, but that's a textbook good Scrumhalf line right there. That was excellent stuff.
00:37:49
Speaker
And it was this match where Bath were camped out on Bristol's doorstep. And well, first off. Bristol repelled it. Yeah, Bristol held. Bristol held. And so that's to me, that's where I was. And they even earned a yellow. And it was Joyce who got the yellow. But they didn't end up scoring a try. They didn't even score on that opportunity. So that's, I guess, back where I was with Harlequin's Exeter.
00:38:15
Speaker
After a while, you know, but this was not even close to the amount of time that that that Quinn's were on Exeter's doorstep But this is the shit that happens and at some point you got a got a word that paint that penalty try Look at you look at the numbers and the match stats and doesn't don't even watch the scoreline you think Oh bath must have won this
00:38:34
Speaker
You maybe even buy a landslide territory 70% possession 66% Bristol made 215 tackles And Bristol one. Yeah, so I mean that says a lot about the Bristolians and the way they play defense So there's a little bit about bath in the way it the attack possibly as well, you know, oh, yeah I think they're obviously missing a few pieces in there But yeah, I think that definitely says a lot about Bristol and the way their defense has been charged Yeah, pat lamb even talked about it on the broadcast. Yeah, he's really looking for that
00:39:03
Speaker
And I realized that you can't really, again, you can't go by fantasy points as the... As a barometer. As a barometer for how guys played. But you look at that, the bath team, and once you get out past Priestland, who had 45 points this weekend, it was only Raka Naguni who had over 20.
00:39:25
Speaker
Right out out in the back line way in the back line. Yep every you know Likoniki with 12 met of ac15 willison 10 Homer had 15 Yep, what? Obviously these guys sell my indication at least right you need to have if you only have one guy with over 20 outside your 10 You're not it is a sign. It's not necessarily everything but there's a sign right. It's indicative of of a
00:39:52
Speaker
Some sort of deficiency there with the attack. Yep. So bat, like I said, bat 13 Bristol 19. They are with the out of position try. Yeah. Way out of position, but it still works. Yeah. Yeah. Give him, give him a little credit for that one. And Jordan crane, the return of Jordan crane, the short return of Jordan crane. He's retiring at the end of the year, but, um, too bad he couldn't get a whole lot more run.
00:40:16
Speaker
Right. Let's go to the guys in Super Rugby. Hi Rebels, where you been the whole, where you been all my life? Andrew Kellaway, holy shit, that guy's not too bad, eh? Speedy little bugger. Might have won me a week. Call me happy. But yeah, the Highlanders 22, Rebels 28, Rebels come in and crash the Highlanders party.
00:40:44
Speaker
Mmm big time and you know, there was a point where little tile owners were gonna take this back and then the rebels decide don't know no, yeah Right and we'll just say a prayer for
00:41:00
Speaker
Yes, man. Hi. Did you see it? No good. No, I saw it was not good. I couldn't I couldn't watch the nut. Well, I couldn't watch enough of the match. I saw a replay. Oh, Jesus. But I didn't see the injury on the replay because it was I just watched it the first time through. But I see when I saw him.
00:41:22
Speaker
Flop fall over and I saw all that stuff and I was like, I'm not looking closely at this and I'm just going to vote was pointed the wrong way. That's all you need to know. Yeah, I was like, oh, and they and, you know, the rebels totally were like, well, I saw that. Yeah, they were all waving like.
00:41:38
Speaker
They could have scored on the play that this play stopped at and they had no problem with it. Yeah, this dude's leg is clearly broken. We need to get him off the field. We'll deal with the attack later. And Reynolds showed all kinds of sportsmanship by going over to Lynch's afterwards.
00:41:55
Speaker
making sure he was okay and checking on him and wishing him well. So give him loads of credit for those boys. Highlanders 22, Rebels 28. Speaking of Australian teams, what the fuck, Warataz? Where you been? Holy crap, like Bi-Wake did them well, obviously. Yeah, that helps. And I know the lines had it too, but clearly the Warataz used it much better to their ability.
00:42:18
Speaker
My goodness, uh front row try anybody? I mean it does help that the lions are Kind of shit this year They definitely lost a lot and you can tell right so so that that that Certainly helps the water toss playing at home against a bad team on the road out of you know
00:42:39
Speaker
out of the continent so... Right. Martin Skooman with a double. Thank you. Yeah. Take that. Put that in my pocket. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, they played, I mean, give the Wartos crowd, they played their asses off in this game. They knew they needed to get something out of this game. You could tell.
00:42:58
Speaker
They had a lot more urgency in the way they played than the Lions. And it was very evident their front row played fantastic, obviously. James Ramm gets his first try in his first Super Rugby match. So, hey, good on you, kid. I think he's starting this week, actually.
00:43:19
Speaker
See if he can make it two and two But the war toss 29 online 17 yee-haw. So we're tough to get off the yes He yes, he is starting it way. Yep. Yeah, how about that? Which is which be helpful to them if they can yeah if he can ride that out if they well if they have two young wings with him and Marky Mark, that'd be That'd be something to certainly be excited if I was a war toss fan. That's for sure
00:43:41
Speaker
Yeah, there's a lot to like about about there. They're they're outside backs there. Um, well Hurricane 62 so we'll shift in how much of this you want to talk about I watched the first half I mean this you know, this match started at like 10 10 30 almost 11 o'clock our time pm on saturday and I was like
00:44:06
Speaker
Mmm, I'm falling asleep, but I'll pop it on and I watched a little bit and I was like well This is entertaining and then you know after half. I'm or at half. I'm like yeah, I know whatever I'm good. I that then wick Patrick right Patrick in his first hurricanes game Not too terrible, right? She Chase Tia Tia. He's back. Yeah, he has returned
00:44:28
Speaker
The man returns with the triumphant bit of work here. Kicks a pound. Gets a conversion on top of it. Why not? Why not? What's his face? Smith. Yeah. Well, Fletcher Smith is the starter.
00:44:43
Speaker
Garden Bash up, I believe is hurt. Okay, so he's getting Fletcher Smith's probably gonna get a little bit of a run here Right. Well, he was the one kicking all the conversions and they're like, yeah, let's get chase a kick. Why not? Yeah Great stuff from the hurricanes. Obviously, you know, this in Sasso
00:45:00
Speaker
also also also Yeah, that dude is he had a really have like so in an FRD. He had like 60 points Yeah, I think he assisted on three or four tries plus scored one of his own. Yep. So I believe they called it being ass out. Yeah Yes, you were yes you were yeah great stuff for them unfortunately, I think the Sunmills are starting to show that
00:45:25
Speaker
Show the true colors, which I hate it, but it's just a fact. No Garth April, this game, I think that makes a big difference. In my opinion, Kid's a fantastic player, so I think he has a very bright future. Just a little bit of a problem here and there for these guys. Hurricane 62, it was almost 15. Let's go to the next day. Saturday, Reds 23, Sharks 33.
00:45:54
Speaker
Sharks have shitloads of speed. It's not a new thing. But if you didn't know it, you know it now. They have a boatload of players that are just going to turn it on whenever whenever they can. Look on your arm returns with a vengeance. Yeah, he needed a little bit. I'm back. Yeah, he got it. Yeah, he did. Tom way obviously capped it off very well. A little bit of.
00:46:19
Speaker
Yeah, I wasn't overly thrilled with BP burner pick role in this in this match. I thought some of his decision making wasn't great as far as giving away certain penalties that
00:46:30
Speaker
Really? I don't think we're necessarily in players control. So I thought that was a little bit unfortunate. Dylan Richardson, anybody snap him up at Hooker for FRD? He's listed as a Hooker. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, no, he's been. Yeah, I know. He's been snapped. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I looked. So if you have the shock front row, drop to your knees and thank you. Thank you. Count your blessings because you have four front row players on the field if he's playing. Right. Because he's technically listed as a Hooker and FRD is not changing that. So. Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:00
Speaker
Good luck. Anyway Good stuff from the Sharks. They I think they're the team to beat in South Africa likely Yeah, I mean they're gonna have to beat the Jaguars, but that's it right? It's gonna be the two at those two teams
00:47:15
Speaker
Let's go to Stormers and the Blues. Holy shit, Blues. What the hell? Holy shit, Stormers. What the fuck? Oh, I know. Let's not split hairs here. The Stormers played an absolute egg in the Smash. This was terrible from them.
00:47:30
Speaker
I know Yoko Piper's referee, I don't care. No. He did not make this much of a difference. No, he did. Stormer's 14, Blues 33, Joe Marchant. Yeah. There's that guy. He can play wing a little bit. He can play anywhere he wants to, I think. Right. Especially with Yoani coming back, that just opened up so much space for both Blues wings. Huge return. Obviously, especially Marchant. Mm-hmm.
00:47:55
Speaker
So and then they're about to get another return coming in the next uh next week Not this coming week. I think in the next couple weeks we can see a couple of big returns. Yes Um, but they're they're playing, uh, bowden bowden barrett in a club match to get the the kinks out this weekend so if uh
00:48:15
Speaker
As well if all goes well, he'll be playing next weekend. So This might be the time to get him on your roster. Oh wait. I already have Yeah, hopefully you stayed pat on him and didn't just dump him I actually the funny thing is I dumped him in one of our leagues this past weekend Yeah, and then picked him right back up on waivers smart. Yeah, I dumped a mua because I needed to but I picked him back I needed to yeah, I just didn't have the space on my right
00:48:41
Speaker
But anyway, yeah, this was not a brilliant performance by any means. What's more from the storm is very good from the blues Don't get me wrong. They did everything right. See him. Parafetta is actually playing very well Even though he's played he's playing wherever they tell him to and he's doing a serviceable job by all means Any spot he's
00:48:59
Speaker
He's told to, so give him loads of credit. Your buddy at Scrumhalf, Mike Ruru, not... Might be... Might be Solanid. Yeah, might be. He had, like, yeah, you know, I've been chittin' on both their Scrumhaves, Ruru and Nock, but Nock played his ass off.
00:49:21
Speaker
I thought he really made that that attack go. Mm hmm. A lot. And the difference is that he's throwing up the pass that helps the whoever's at that receiver go forward, whereas knock hits them stagnant and. Socks. I don't think that's a technical term, but yeah. Yeah, no, I totally agree. Yeah, I definitely.
00:49:49
Speaker
would encourage a scrum have to have their runners run onto itself. That means leaving a yard in front of them, then that's perfect. That makes them put a foot forward unless they're saying, unless the plan for the attack at that time is to catch the cabin, catch it standing still, which it's a set move. You know what you're doing. But yeah, you're right. In that case, I do like that a little bit better.
00:50:12
Speaker
Yeah, and I think that's what really helped spark there at their attack this week. So a little, you know, Harry Randall, the opposite of Harry Randall and a urine for Bristol. They, you know, the, at this point, they, the, the blues have to just ride the, not ride the less, less cold. Yeah. The less crappy. Yeah. The not so bad hand. Right. For sure.
00:50:35
Speaker
Yeah, so former former Stormers 14. There we go. That's the one blues 33. Let's go to Over to Loftus rest felt Bulls 24 Jaguars 39 Jaguars, you know, but despite having one loss I believe they are or two losses now actually but despite that they are they certainly seem to not be somebody that's just gonna go away very easily obviously, they have some they have a whole load of talent in that team and they just played
00:51:04
Speaker
They play as a unit you gotta give them that they play as a unit befellia is Everything that you could want and outside back plus. He's a tough bugger on top of it These guys are these guys are playing they got walking walking Diaz Bonilla back I mean and Miyati played brilliantly in his stead too. So it's like What do you do if you're? You can't sit there and say oh, they're gonna change him out. Nope. They're both just as good. So you can't say that
00:51:34
Speaker
I believe the words you said last year or last week where the Bulls are not good And I don't think they're great by any means whatsoever. They played a little bit better this match than I've seen Ben Stodden played very well in his return, but Other than that, I you're you might you might have something there I'd be on to something. I don't know
00:51:57
Speaker
I think that and they're gonna have probably a simpler problem to the blues where Scrum half's gonna be a problem for them. I think Papier's okay. Yeah, he's not good That sale is
00:52:11
Speaker
He was good. He came from somewhere, right? Where else was he playing? Well, he's been here, but he went to sale for a little bit. Okay, because he had a really good match with sale earlier this year. He did. And so I should have realized it was sale. He's South Africa. Shocker.
00:52:31
Speaker
But yeah, I'm kind of disappointed. I thought he like based on what I'd seen of him with sale That he'd be better Not so much nope, nope Bulls Bulls 24 Jaguars 39 Jaguars are certainly in the hunt I think they're actually probably in the first well, they're in second third. Oh Yeah sharks
00:52:54
Speaker
Hello. Yeah. Yeah. I like the way the sharks are playing a little bit better than the stormers. Yeah, especially after this weekend. After this weekend. But just in general, you know, watching them. Right. They've, I mean, stormers are good. Don't get me wrong. They're solid. Good luck. You know, for the most part, they're a wall getting through their defense. But sharks are just very fast, very excited. And they're attack. Yeah. I like that. Yeah.
00:53:20
Speaker
They haven't this weekend. I don't think that's no and they still do well without them. It's still they're pretty good and they still haven't played um, oh Shit, who was Pearson? Yeah, I'm who's their other wing the other wing from the national team Yeah, we'll get to that Yeah, maybe later. Yeah, maybe later. Maybe later. All right
Fantasy Rugby Start/Sit Advice
00:53:46
Speaker
So let's go to this lovely thing that we like to do called Start Set. It's a whole lot of fun.
00:53:55
Speaker
Um, so everybody keep in mind. So if you haven't read your message from a TRM, they're going to lock the game at the Ireland kickoff. So, which is like nine 15 on Saturday morning for us. So, okay. Extrapolate that from Eastern, Eastern us time. You can figure it out anyway. They're walking the game then we're going to lock the game then.
00:54:20
Speaker
OK, so just keep that in mind. You can play either of any of those players, but it's going to be like an average kind of like what they do. Right. Yeah, it's your average. Whatever the average is that weekend, that's what they'll award those players. So you can play those players, some of them it might actually be worth it because your other options might suck this weekend. Just remember that. So is it the average player at that position or just average player? Average. Oh, right. Average. OK. And I was talking about Ninkosi, who hasn't been playing.
00:54:49
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that's right. I completely forgot about that. Yeah, he hasn't played much. No. You are correct, sir. You are correct. Yeah, I get to be right, even though I couldn't remember the answer. No, that you're right about it. Yeah, you're right. I couldn't remember his name either, so whatever. Fuck us, right? Yeah, right. I think you're up first.
00:55:05
Speaker
England, Wales. Yeah, that one. All right. Uh, for England, um, Sinclair, obviously, um, he's, he should have a pretty good game. I don't know how much Genj is going to play, but that might be at least give it a thought to it. Even though if he's a reserve, he's still a points score. Uh, might be one that if you have him, have him on your bench. Um, Jamie George has been huge.
00:55:32
Speaker
Johnny May, Owen Farrell, Ford, and Underhill. Underhill's been, I think, their best scoring loose forward. That's probably true, yeah. So he's a good option. And Mario Itoji, you can't get wrong with him. Yeah, hard to steer away from that. And I don't know how well Cruz is going to do in this match.
00:55:51
Speaker
And I thought he's more of a defensive player, but that still gets your points as well as the line outs But you see with it with the Tojay right for for whales this is gonna be interesting because
00:56:06
Speaker
Don't know exactly who this come half could be. Yeah, there's a lot of options there. Not sure who their fly half is going to be. Yeah. But outside of that, for now, Tip Ricks, someone you really were going to struggle with to keep off your roster. Ken Owen has been putting up points, Ball and Owen Wynn.
00:56:29
Speaker
Whoever the scrumhef is, whether it's Williams or Davies, I give a shot. And then Nick Tompkins should be playing. It's hard, because I think he's going to be their crashing center. And he'll be, I think, making enough tackles. It's going to be hard to see how whales do well in this match. So I'm not going to really suggest anybody else other than those players.
00:56:55
Speaker
And I wouldn't expect that so that's the other reason why I wouldn't expect cruiser to do too well because again He's getting the more on the defensive side of points. I don't know how much wells are gonna have possession, right? That's a possibility as well. Yeah, you're right
00:57:09
Speaker
Okay. Scotland, France. This should be entertaining for a few reasons. I'm kind of expecting France to do well, but really well here. But also Scotland do have some decent scores that you should lean on. Hastings proved himself against Italy. I mean, God, he scored like 71 against them. That's enough for me. I don't care if it's Italy. 70 is a lot, lest I checked.
00:57:31
Speaker
Watts and Richie are starts as well. Sutherland, if you have hog, you might as well roll him out there. Fagerson, Stuart McNally, if he's the starting hooker, I would definitely play him. He's way more dynamic. So go ahead and roll him out there. Ali Price is worth a start because France don't do not necessarily that well against Scrumhouse. There are two second rows coming, as in tools are probably a sit and Magnus Bradbury is highly selected, but probably shouldn't be started.
00:57:59
Speaker
For the French they're gonna be pretty obvious names that you know very well at this point into Mac Dupont all the ball villains Aldrich March on crows LaRue Damien Penno. Hopefully he's back this week at the ease back this week So that'll give you a little bit of hope on the wing out there the guys that I absolutely avoid our fiki and bakutawa and We talked about him last week to the Tomah
00:58:24
Speaker
Just not getting it done. Fancy wise. No. So sorry. Nope. All right. Let's go to the problem. Sail Irish. That's the one. Oh, there you go. Let me. That's what happened. Words to edit. Let's go to dashboard here real quick. For fuck's sake. I knew I screwed something up. What the fuck? Here I am thinking. Here I am thinking we're all sitting pretty. We'll start Northampton's first.
00:58:55
Speaker
There it is. Is that me? That's me. That is you. Yay. So Wooster. Do you want to be starting for across the, well, for TRM, you want to start molds because he's been doing all right. But you still want to, I would say for FRD, you want to sit the Wooster front row. Dynamic there, but there you go.
00:59:23
Speaker
Also for Worcester to start, Anton Bresler has been scoring up some significant points. Quinell Dupri, Ted Hill, and Francois Huguard are players you want. Duncan Weir, only starting FRD. Don't start him in TRM because there's so many better options.
00:59:43
Speaker
for Northampton Harrison Reinach Nair Voro, Tom Wood, all our starts and across the formats. For FRD only you want to be looking at Grayson because he'll be there starting 10 and that's a good ad. You don't want to have him for TRM because it's just not worth it. Matt Proctor has been scoring much better at FRD than he has in TRM so start him
01:00:12
Speaker
Probably there. Yeah in an FRD and Tom Collins is another one. Yeah, pretty good stuff. All right, now that I've gotten this word out Sail Irish the other Friday night match Sail it's fairly straightforward guys that you know Anybody with a last name to Priya? John Ross is good if McGuigan's available John Luke to Priya. Oh
01:00:33
Speaker
Yes, okay. Yes, he's fine. All right fine. He's settling into that that lock role. Yeah, he's fine, especially in TRM FRD If you have a better option, I understand but at the same time he's hard to sit Okay, John Ross is worth the roll out there as well I don't know if my Wiggins gonna be available if he is rolling out there Sail front row along with Ross Harrison's a good a good one The James brothers are guys that I would only start in FRD The TRM numbers are not great
01:01:00
Speaker
For the Irish, there's still some worthy names, even though they're going against the best defense in fantasy Blair Cowan Ollie Hoskins. Ollie Hoskins is like top two or three prime in TRM So you gotta play him to his suey the uncitable Ollie Hassel Collins and Adam Coleman's been playing out of his skin lately So you gotta play him
01:01:19
Speaker
And then the rest are just, the rest of the guys, unfortunately I have sits. The other wing loader, heptema, Irish front row, yeah, this is the wrong front row to go against if you have a front row. Find somebody else quickly. Curtis run is also somebody that I would avoid at all costs.
01:01:38
Speaker
All right, on to Sarries versus Lester. Hooray. Should be a fairly one-sided affair, especially with Lester, well, Lester really not having anybody due to the Six Nations. We did this once before at Wellford Road, and it worked out fine for the Saracens, so that's all I know.
01:01:57
Speaker
And this one is at Allianz parks, so should be a little bit different from that, too It starts you want is equal Someone who I've been kind of down on but had an excellent week last week and should repeat that again as well skeleton
01:02:15
Speaker
Um, whoever the nine is whether it's Wigglesworth or spencer where we go with uh an f and for the frd You want to start the front? You want to start Saracen's front row? Yes, you do And in that respect you also want to start maca vuna pola in trm because he's back and should be playing Yeah, um, and then roddy segan is is a starter across. He's been he's been a beast because he's been huge He's somebody he
01:02:37
Speaker
I don't know that when I don't even know who would replace him at this point because I Think even when they're at for that full noise. He's he's worthy. He's one of their wings. Yeah So so he's someone to be looking to possibly add in in TRM for FRD only you want to start manuva Napola because he's he's a quality option there All these guys are away, right
01:03:02
Speaker
And I'm not sure what his value is or what his cost is in TRM to make that call, but you also know that once Farrell's back, Farrell's back. For Lester, Lavanini, Vayanu, and Harry Wells. Harry Wells! Hey! You wouldn't expect him, but he's actually been scoring very well.
01:03:24
Speaker
And he's also in TRM. He's a lock slash flank. So he's got that versatility. So that's somebody you might want to be picking up anyway, because I think he's pretty cheap and outscoring his cost. For FRD only, Ben White, because he's not worth the ad in TRM. But in FRD, if you need a scrum half, give him a look. Yeah, especially if you have like youngs or whoever else is away this week. Right. Yeah, he's an excellent ad for a fill-in.
01:03:54
Speaker
Yep, for sure. Exeter Bath. Exeter, believe it or not, Exeter are one of the leakier teams defensively in fantasy. So you're going to have some good options for Bath. But let's start with Exeter. Sam Simmons, Derp. O'Flaherty's a good option. Etherstein's and Joe Simmons is fine. Johnny Hill, he's picking up for it. He's found it again. He's found it. I think he even scored well off the bench last week.
01:04:21
Speaker
Yeah, Johnny guys grew back, so you can go ahead and play him. Darn, I'm worth the start as long as he's playing. Start in TRM for sure, actually, is Nick White, not great, FRD, which I can't believe, but it's funny how they translate sometimes. Ollie Devoto's okay at rolling out there in FRD if you have to. Witten, Kirsten, and the Exeter front row are Pines. Yeah, I know, Exeter front row, right? But Bath are actually really good against the front row, believe it or not.
01:04:49
Speaker
Especially with Obano in there. For the Bathman, if Priestland's not away with Wales, he's definitely somebody you rule out there. Stuke's worth it. Obano, done if he plays. If not done, Jack Walker's good too. I have him. He's played almost every game.
01:05:05
Speaker
Zach Mercer assuming he doesn't get benched for some stupid reason. Stuart Hooper, wake up dude. Bath front row are definitely one of the better scoring front rows out there, and Exeter surrounded plenty of points there, so go ahead. And FRD onlys this week are Rockin' to Uni and Tom Homer.
01:05:24
Speaker
On to wasps versus Gloucester. A little bit of a, you know, a reversal's a fortune for these two teams where wasps are headed up, Gloucester headed down. And we'll see how this matchup works, because wasps are playing above their station, Gloucester playing below their station. Let's see what they can do if this kind of moves toward to equalize things.
01:05:50
Speaker
for wasps, though, Robson, Willis, Carr, Goprath, Fekitoa, Umaga. Of course, assuming Goprath wasn't, was he the one who went off? Bloody hell. His upper lip was pretty bloody, yeah. Made the grass grow. But if he's playing, play him. Fekitoa and Umaga.
01:06:13
Speaker
For for Gloucester Moray has been excellent at that hooker Ron Akerman Louis Ludlow Franco Mostert has been scoring pretty decently and he's kind of building his way back I'm sorry Slater's has been building his way back into the into the lineup Someone to be looking at Tom Marshall Atkinson Ben Morgan has been Spotty rocky. Yeah, I feel like I feel bad me too. I feel like Ben Morgan has been I
01:06:43
Speaker
His his decrease in play has has really hurt that's been a big driving force and Gloucester not playing so hot as well as Cipriani who has kind of Struggled a bit this season, right? But I'd still start him anyway because you never know when he's gonna go off and then I'd same for the same reason to start Ollie Thorley. Yep Absolutely. Yeah that guy. Yeah
01:07:05
Speaker
All right Bristol Bristol and the Quinn's this should be an entertaining match for sure two teams that seem to be finding ways to play fairly well Bristol for the Bristolians Callum sheetie Chris Bowie Pete Pete if you're sitting pia tau, what the fuck's wrong with you? Nathan Hughes should be an I'll start as well luatua If Harry Thacker's finally healthy, then yes More still a couple days away. I think so. So maybe maybe not. I
01:07:34
Speaker
More hands probably okay. Piers O'Connor, who has played every minute of the premiership season this year, is still probably only worth an FRD start, and as is Alapate Layua. Quins, the names are gonna just be no brainers off the top of your head as well. Marcus Smith, James Chisholm, Dom Brant, that guy. Ubitoya still worth it, even though he seems to be turning in the wrong direction right now, but you never know if he bounced back.
01:08:01
Speaker
I don't think he's, I don't know if he's healthy yet. Simmons, I think he came off last match, not so hot either, but give him a roll out there if he's healthy. Danny Kerr, yes. Our boy Paul LaCicche still knows where the tri-line is. Bold over this weekend. And then Cade and Merle in FRD only.
01:08:20
Speaker
All right, let's go to the super. Remember, early kickoff for Super Rugby. It's actually going to be late Thursday night here, which means it will be like Friday afternoon for some of you guys. So you'll have this just in time for... Keep your heads on us, little kids. The lineups are out, so we're able to give you some semi-accurate advice, at least at this point.
01:08:41
Speaker
For the Sun Wolves, who are technically the host, even though they're playing in Australia, Pafita, Garth April, Rudy Page, go for it. Mitchell Jacobson is a 15, the full 15 team, only for Loose Forward. The sits right now are the front row for Sun Wolves. Brumbies don't give up anything to opposing front rows, so this is the wrong week to gamble on them. Ben Teo, JJ Engelbrick, and Tasi for the Brumbies.
01:09:09
Speaker
Plenty of options most options that are wearing a Brumby shirt this weekend will probably be viable But these are the guys that I would definitely recommend that they end up in your lineup Tom Banks, no Alessio ira Simone Samu the front row salmone cotta current Johnny ala ala toa and fine qualifying is not playing but
01:09:33
Speaker
Maybe gamble on Carl McConerney this weekend. I believe he scored a hat-check against the Sun Wolves coming off the bench. So if that sounds right, then yeah, maybe he's worth the roll out there. Just FYI.
01:09:48
Speaker
Four, the Crusaders versus the Reds. For the Crusaders, their front row should be, as always, pretty excellent. Todd Christie, Tom Sanders, Richie Muonga, Severeese, Jack Hoodhue, and George Bridge at 15. That should be fun. Maybe, yeah, good option there. For the Reds, you're looking at Liam Wright, Harry Wilson, Isaac Lucas, Henry Spate, and Jock Campbell are the guys I would start. Nice.
01:10:17
Speaker
Yeah, I like jock campbell. I think he's good. Yeah, although Yeah, because you got to figure the reds are gonna be playing a lot of catch-up So somebody like jock campbell should have plenty of opportunity to give it a run to give a yeah Go take a run who gives a shit? Why not?
01:10:31
Speaker
All right. Taws and Chiefs. Taws playing home for the second week in a row. Let's go with the guys that you're probably going to guess. Beal, their front row is actually done very well, especially with the addition of Robbie Abel. Speaking of Robbie Abel, go ahead and roll him out there. Hooper.
01:10:49
Speaker
Will Harrison's a good option, he's turned himself into a decent option even though he wasn't expected to be their number one after Foley left. James Ramm might be worth the gamble out there. The Chiefs are a little leaky on fantasy defenses even though they are a better team. Jack Dempsey, Jack Maddox, Gus Bell, if he's starting, why not? I mean, you're talking about props that are going to score.
01:11:10
Speaker
maybe two points, maybe take a chance on the guy that's going to hit you a home run. The guys I would avoid would be Mitch Short and Carmichael Hunt. For the Chiefs, Alamalo's back. He's playing 15. There's no Damien Mack this weekend, so we'll go ahead and put him out there. Cruden, Bashir, Sean Stevenson, A-L-B,
01:11:27
Speaker
Brad Weber, Pete Tasso, Wacula, and Tonkay Ajo. Their hooker should be a definitive start if you have him as your hooker. Their front row is probably a little hit or miss, so start at your own risk. Sam Kane's the only guy I would outright sit. Onto the, yeah, Hurricanes versus the Blues.
01:11:51
Speaker
Which should be an interesting match. So for the Hurricanes, just going to start their front row. Gareth Evans, Duplisi Khurrifi, Naneh Lamape, Tijia Pernara, Vince Aso, so you don't get Aso'd yourself.
01:12:08
Speaker
And Wes Houston should be back, I hope. But other than that, you got to look at, you know, these these lineups aren't out yet. So we're kind of playing guessing. Well, I'm kind of playing guessing games here at the moment, but they're with their wings, essentially. For the Blues, Ricky Ioani, of course, Hoskins to 2-2, Joe Marchant and not to start, but somebody you should be picking up is Akira Ioani because he's going to be back soon.
01:12:32
Speaker
Also, as I said earlier the the Boden the aforementioned Boden Barrett who will be back soon So so Barrett and Akira you wanna your guys you want to start stashing on your bench for when they're playing again Yeah, if somebody was dumb enough to drop either one of those growl them
01:12:47
Speaker
All right, uh rebels lines so lines didn't show a whole lot of good things and the rebels showed showed a whole lot of good things So we'll see what happens here. Um Rebels are rebels we're going to go with kellaway. Hey, look petty. Nice ronnie corbetti, uh tom english if he's playing billy meekes is definitely worth the rolling out there tamua. Yes, um matt phillip Lorenz if he's there starting nine, I don't like lamani though. So if he's playing nine don't play him
01:13:14
Speaker
Uh rangy. Yes, uh codrill and hardwick are the full 15 format only for the lions. Um If you aren't jesus jutan, he's one of the better 10 scoring right now So you're gonna you're gonna play him tarot green's worth it. Um He's like a top 45 player right now for frd and super rugby
01:13:33
Speaker
He scored two tries last week. This is a reason. He's good. That's not by accident. Len Masson and then Vriane Warner is probably an okay play as well.
01:13:48
Speaker
And the sharks versus the headquarters. For the sharks, obviously, Fasi, you can't sit. Kerwin Bosch, Lucanio Am, Naché, and Pimpi. If Nikosi's playing, I'll throw that name because I forgot it earlier. Here we go. Nikosi is somebody you'd be wanting to play if
01:14:07
Speaker
If he's in the lineup for the jaguars their front row, which has been Fantastic. Yes, as we talked about to wingo mate or Joaquin Diaz Bonilla Whoever starting at 10 one of those two plan either or Mattias Moroni Santiago Carreras Sebastian conciliary and Miliano Bofilli top scorer right now in FRD, right
01:14:34
Speaker
yeah kind of good he's all right he's kind of good so i'm gonna go ahead and start him yeah all right just thought um it takes the expert to to say these things
01:14:53
Speaker
Shit. Oh, man. All right. Bulls and Highlanders. Highlanders are going to try and recover, obviously. Bulls finally have a top 50 score in FRD. His name's Morna Stain, so you better be playing him. Vince Stodden played pretty well last week, so if he's in there again, go ahead. Is this the return of Roscoe Speckman? He scored 30 last week. Maybe, maybe not. If he's in your lineup and you spent a high pick on him, you're probably playing him. Yeah.
01:15:18
Speaker
Really the spec bin actually, I didn't notice that, that he actually scored finally? Yeah, finally. Or like put at least... Put up a good number. Put up a good number? What the fuck? Where's he been? Where you been? Where you been? Where you been on my left? Hendrix Halant, Jandrew Rudolf is fine. Kruger's been a great start for second rowers. Josh Strauss is a 15 only format. JB Cozia, Johnny Cozia is a sit. He's outside back playing 12, it's not great.
01:15:47
Speaker
For the Highlanders, usual suspects. Nurekki too. Michael Collins, Rob Thompson. Rob Thompson scored really well last week. Josh Ioani, shaking off whatever bad performance happened the other week. He's fine. Aaron Smith's actually probably okay this week too. He scored pretty well last week, finally. Again, talk about a guy that we've been waiting on.
01:16:08
Speaker
And then, I know he's not going to be the kicker, but Mitch Hunt might be an okay play this week, who's usually they're starting 10. And they've usually bumped you on 8-12. So if he's in there, and you're in need, try it.
International and Premiership Match Predictions
01:16:21
Speaker
It might not be a bad idea. Okay, let's go pick him. I'll even up there, sir.
01:16:29
Speaker
Well, yeah, that's actually I'm happy with that. As long as we're not behind anymore, we're all you end up. All right. Good enough. Good stuff. England, Wales at Twickenham. I don't know how Wales won this match. Honestly, neither of these teams have a fly. I mean, no, no, sorry. One of these teams has two fly abs and the other has maybe a half.
01:16:54
Speaker
Yeah. Half of what I have. Yeah. Yeah. I just don't know how Wales pull it out. That's the only thing like I'm not that England's so much better than them. I just don't know how well they win by sheer will of Alan. Win Jones. His scowl across the field at the other 14. That's how they fucking win. But it's not going to happen. No, probably not. Scotland up Murray Field against France. I don't know how the French get taken out. So.
01:17:24
Speaker
I'm gonna go I'm gonna go with fear the rooster All right to the Prem Worcester in Northampton I Know I'm definitely gonna go with the Saints because wasters played late poop as of late Yeah, I have that too. Okay, I'll tell you I'll tell you what what everything is. Yeah Saints versus Worcester
01:17:52
Speaker
Hey, what's your fucking blow? Yeah, they're not good. They're not that good right. So Saints. Yeah. Pull up on your. Yeah, I'll get it up on your effort on your TRM. So there and that'll solve it on it. Yeah, I'll write them down. Now, there it is.
01:18:09
Speaker
Sale and Irish. Sorry, Irish. This is going to be another loss for you while you're at the A.J. Bell. You know, sale have been they won last week against Gloucester. Hasn't been pretty. Hasn't been pretty. But you know who has been pretty Irish and you know what they've been showing some big old clangers. So I'm going to go with the Irish. OK, fair enough. I'll take sale.
01:18:34
Speaker
All right, let's go to our friends at...
01:18:41
Speaker
Our friends are friends with the aliens, Saracen's and Lester. I don't I don't know what the Saracen's life can look like. It's going to be a little bit. It might be a little more decimated than than usual because of all the injuries. I don't know where Lester pulls the quality from. That's the only problem to listen to. Ayan is definitely their best player and they have some decent forwards. But no, Thomas Young, who as much of a hammerhead as he is, is the leader. So he's not there. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:19:10
Speaker
Yeah, I'm young so that's the one right that one and right And I'm just as on the side I'm calling for a Bateman yellow in this match What happened? I'm just predicting that yeah, but but yeah saris. Yeah, no no no doubt about that Exeter bath I
01:19:35
Speaker
This is gonna be an angry exit our team. Sorry. Yeah a little bit a little bit Rob Baxter is gonna be firing some Rockets up asses even though they played really well they did but you can't lose a match like that. Nope and Bath are You know as I booked that technical term. They're not
01:19:55
Speaker
Great. Yeah. OK. We'll go with great. Because they're not bad. So to say that they're not good is not fair. They're just not great. And Exeter, I think, are going to put it together this weekend. Yep. Same. Lost Gloucester. The guys in black this weekend, I have to say. I do, too. They play way better. Gloucester, they're lost a little bit. And if they were at home, I'd have a better, warm, fuzzy feeling about picking them. Agreed.
01:20:25
Speaker
But on the road at wasps, I'm picking the the bees. Right. Quinn's and Bristol. You know, Quinn's have been really check on Hyde when they've been really good, they've been really good and they've played amazingly when they've been bad, they've been very bad. Bristolians each went out last week, played pretty well the week before.
01:20:49
Speaker
They're at home. I guess i'll give the home team the nod here and go with the bristolians here Yeah, I too i'm going to do that because uh Yeah, it's it's the quins on the road they they're coming off the high of of a vote Semi unearned win, but they earned it. It's like it's a it's a Yeah, it's it's hard to describe how to how to qualify that game for them, but
01:21:15
Speaker
Yeah, let's just qualify it by saying bears win. Yeah, go with that. Super sunwalls, Brumbees. Sorry, sunwalls. Brumbees are actually a teen, believe it or not. Crusader's Reds. I don't know how the Reds get this one done. They were very undone by the Sharks last week after. Right, and I've already called that game, so. Yeah, done.
01:21:35
Speaker
Um, Todd's Chiefs. This should be a good game. Todd's short a little bit of fight. I still think Warren Gatlin finds a way to get this done. Yeah. Especially they're anchored in playing at YF and Brad Weber playing at nine. And they're coming off a bye week, so. Also helpful. I forgot they're traveling, but whatever. Right. Hurricanes Blues. This will be interesting. Hurricanes played at home last week and Blues are coming back from South Africa, so I...
01:21:57
Speaker
I think the travel is going to bite them just enough till the hurricanes get up. Yeah, I mean the blues play well, but again depends on do we have a nine? Yeah. And we don't have the lineup yet. So I don't know exactly who's going to be playing nine, but I know it's not going to be anybody who's very good. So yeah, I'm going to go with the canes on this one.
01:22:22
Speaker
Rebels Lions. Rebels showed something last week. And Lions didn't show a whole lot last week, so they gave it to the Rebels.
01:22:31
Speaker
Oh, this will be a fun one. Sharks and jaguars. Oh boy. Jeez, jaguars are actually playing really well away from home. They're used to it. Sharks are actually traveling a long way. No, sharks are at home, right? Yeah, but they've just come to Australia. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yuck.
01:22:53
Speaker
So the haguari's have been in country. Yeah, they've actually been in country longer. So I think I want to give it to them actually I'm gonna go with the sharks. Okay, that's I mean, jeez. I'm losing coin tossed. Yeah Bulls highlanders The word you used was not good and I think that the bulls are not are less are more not good than the highlanders fair enough So I know the highlanders will be coming off travel but they are
01:23:20
Speaker
I won't be surprised if the Bulls win this match, but like the hounders still find a way to pull it off Yeah, I mean the Bulls don't have a win yet this season. No, so how can I pick them? Aaron Major will be kicking somebody's ass this week. Yeah, that's for sure. All right
01:23:37
Speaker
Whoo, it's gonna be a fun weekend kids. So yeah, we're gonna do that thing where we kind of look at certain scores and determine whether Right a little triage action. Yeah myself. I'll be a little busy. So we'll
Final Thoughts and Listener Engagement
01:23:51
Speaker
see what happens. But yeah anyway We'll see we'll see how that plays out I am gonna be hopeful I'm gonna be very hopeful that the Saracens win but
01:24:02
Speaker
Uh, just be looking out for some good scores and some not 14 eight matches. I don't know about you. That sounds terrible Um, but anyway in the meantime, thanks a lot for coming along. We we really appreciate that check out your rugby mag upgrades Make sure you check out our buddy the fancy ruby geek. Yep, fancy fancy rugby podcast at gmail.com Tweet at both ben and I if you have questions, we love we love answering questions. It's a lot for us believe it or not. We're weird like that But other than that we will get you guys next week and thanks for coming on everybody. Cheers
01:24:32
Speaker
Bye.