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Jarrod Dyke: Hey everybody, welcome back. It is the Fantasy Rugby Yanks. My name is Jared Dyke.
Grumpy Old Prop: I'm Ben Glauser.
Jarrod Dyke: Let's go. it is fantasy chat time. um get Kicking right off. So we're going to into Champions League standings. We'll start with... You have Six Nations pulled up.
Grumpy Old Prop: um I do not.
Jarrod Dyke: You must.
Grumpy Old Prop: I can.
Jarrod Dyke: fair
Grumpy Old Prop: Yep, I do.
Jarrod Dyke: Okay. pull that up as quick as you can while I rattle off our...
Grumpy Old Prop: It's up. Oh, the game engine is busy.
Jarrod Dyke: What's going on with our...
Jarrod Dyke: Oh, son of a biscuit.
Grumpy Old Prop: But I'm in fifth, so who gives a shit?
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah, you're right. All right. We'll come back to that in a minute. Let's jump over FRD on Super Rugby. um And we can, I will say if um our friends at Fantasy are able to do what they're doing on a broader scale, we'll certainly bring this to bring these types of stats that we're going to do for super rugby to premiership next year, not this year, but next year, because things just didn't happen for that.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yes. Yep.
Jarrod Dyke: That's just, now what that's what we call life right there. Okay. So division one, um, Koba speed. Uh, that's yes. It's do, uh, by about 50 or so. So it's it's a fairly solid beating Duncan beat George by all of four and a half points or five and a half points. Woo.
Jarrod Dyke: Ouch. Who did it? Oh, George was done in by Hunter Paisami.
Grumpy Old Prop: oh
Jarrod Dyke: Minus 1.2. Ouch. And Luke Reimer doing dick. He had 0.6. Artie didn't even do that much. He had only had like 8 odd. um You certainly expect more out of him.
Jarrod Dyke: Who was the big winner for Duncan? Ah, Charlie Kale. That answers a lot.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. Yes.
Jarrod Dyke: That's a big one. That's a big one.
Grumpy Old Prop: For those of us who have Charlie Hale that we're very happy with that.
Jarrod Dyke: And Boat and Barrett didn't do too much. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure. ah Mark just handed me a nice spanking 60 odd points.
Jarrod Dyke: Thank you very much, Mark.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh,
Jarrod Dyke: I really don't want another though. um And then alex and just Alex and Justin went at it and Justin came out with a solid 20 point gap. um Yeah, Drosese doing absolutely nothing for the Jua.
Jarrod Dyke: I was surprised by that too. And then Justin rolled the dice and did Quintu Pai off the bench, and that paid off quite handsomely for those that decided that was worth the gamble. Yeesh.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeesh.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: What happened in your land?
Grumpy Old Prop: In my land, um so we have we have two open spots for this. So if you want in, um you're more than welcome. But ah those yeah both the blank teams lost, which is you know kind of like to see.
Grumpy Old Prop: um D-Magnificent won, which I think is Aubrey. um I'm just going to spitball there.
Jarrod Dyke: Okay.
Grumpy Old Prop: um Fluke Sharp, i don't know if that's Luke or Barty. Not sure. um both but Fluke Sharp won 167 to 80. So, yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: yeah Thumpings.
Jarrod Dyke: Nice.
Grumpy Old Prop: ah Franco won his matchup 165 to 140. That was the the tightest matchup. Oh, other than the D-Magnoson. um And then I managed to take out our friend Anton.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: 141 to 114. As you said, you know, Charlie Cale, I got him. Weigard did well for me. Donaldson did well for me. um He had Frazier McRae, but everyone else kind of was mid for what they would expect to be.
Grumpy Old Prop: Like Will Jordan scored 16, but there were 17, but.
Jarrod Dyke: Right.
Grumpy Old Prop: Meh.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah. Yeah. Oops. Uh,
Grumpy Old Prop: I am pretty happy, though, because i missed I did miss the start of the draft, and did I got auto-drafted for Roy Gard and Donaldson, and I'm not complaining about either of those picks.
Jarrod Dyke: That's not bad, honestly. You could ended you could have ended up with a lot worse on an auto draft, sure.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: um The latest PWR up at update is i don't have it all totaled up from round 18. I do't do know from round 17, which we weren't here for to talk about either. um it's couple It's a few folks stuck in the 600s areas as of right now. Obviously, some of them will go up. um Oscar, Matt, Rihanna, and then a few more folks with mid-7s odd.
Jarrod Dyke: Tom, Julia, Joe, George, Duncan. And then there's two other assholes that are up in the 800 range. And I don't know what to tell you about that one, folks.
Grumpy Old Prop: Just playing with ourselves up here.
Jarrod Dyke: It just happened.
Grumpy Old Prop: um Yeah, it just did just kind worked out that way.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah. um So, but we are into...
Grumpy Old Prop: Obviously, we put all our picks out there ahead of the games, so that's not a... You know, we're not... There's no funny business here.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: we're We're very clear about who we pick.
Jarrod Dyke: And we and we do make we do make it a point to do that, too, so...
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: I mean, you can be pissed at me all you want. That's just how it is.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right. Which is at one point, was it this past weekend where Jared was like, dude, get your picks in.
Jarrod Dyke: think
Grumpy Old Prop: i was like, oh shit. Like i had like 15 minutes to get them done.
Jarrod Dyke: it was two weeks ago. me Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: So
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah. um Well, no, it was last weekend. You're right.
Grumpy Old Prop: yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: Because they were all on Friday.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
Jarrod Dyke: That's why. I am considering a format change with this next year, but I'm not going to go too deep into that for now.
Grumpy Old Prop: Hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: Maybe, maybe not. TBD. ah there we are There are two rounds left. For those of you that are still hanging tight and hoping for the best. um Semi-final, final round.
Jarrod Dyke: Everyone's on the table for um this round, but you can't pick someone next week if you pick them this week.
Grumpy Old Prop: I
Grumpy Old Prop: don't want to
Jarrod Dyke: That's how it is. So if you pick, you but that's just how it is. So yeah, we're we're go we're back to another reset. You can pick whatever whoever you want for this week, and then next week you'll only have those three um restricting you.
Jarrod Dyke: So we'll see it um see how it shakes out. Thank you, everyone, for that continues to play, though. It's it's really fun. And it gives those players some recognition.
Grumpy Old Prop: So who are you going with?
Jarrod Dyke: some recognition um I'm go Matthews from Gloucester-Hartbury. i'm gonna go with ah matthews from
Grumpy Old Prop: OK.
Jarrod Dyke: glossar harbury I don't know if I'll get to pick her again. going to go with Ilona. And then Emma Singh's going to be my kicker.
Grumpy Old Prop: All right. um you had I guess we had a similar someone thought on this, um but I went the other direction on the non-Alunamar pick. um So obviously Alunamar is my back.
Jarrod Dyke: Mm-hmm.
Grumpy Old Prop: um i went with May Campbell as my forward, and Zoe Harrison as my kicker.
Jarrod Dyke: Ooh, okay. Okay. Also also quality. Also quality. So that'll actually... Have a tell on what happens over the next couple weeks here.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: Barring I still got to do the round 18 tallies. But still, that'll be interesting.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
Jarrod Dyke: Okay, we are diving into starts and sits. And I am going to kick us off.
Grumpy Old Prop: Oh, we didn't do Super Brew standings, but that's okay. We don't have
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah, of because the damn thing's updating.
Grumpy Old Prop: to. Oh, ha yes, you have mine, but that's okay. At least for the, for the, um for Super Rugby, but.
Jarrod Dyke: Oh, my...
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah, oh no, I went to look at those two and they both went all spinny on me.
Grumpy Old Prop: Gotcha.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, well well, what really matters, the only thing that really matters about the Super Rugby competition is that your boy is number one in the U.S., 51 worldwide so far. So finally having a competition that I'm not shitting the bed in.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah, I'm on the other end of that spectrum getting my butt kicked in Super Rugby. All right. um So as we do these start sets, as you listen, there's probably teams that have been named because they have been naming them not too far after too long after we're done with this thing on ah on Tuesday nights.
Grumpy Old Prop: right so we just miss him
Jarrod Dyke: So um yeah, I'm not staying up till 10 o'clock recording this. Sorry, folks.
Grumpy Old Prop: no sorry no no no no
Jarrod Dyke: I like you all. I like you all, but no, no, no, no. um Okay. Moana and Highlanders. So for Pacifica, We are looking at starting people like a Miracle Fialangi, Artie obviously.
Jarrod Dyke: um Garden Bashup only, um if no, William Havili in Superbrew, but he's an okay option in draft. He's bound found the try area once or twice, so not so bad.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, especially in draft where like you get points for kicking no matter who you put out there.
Jarrod Dyke: Right, yep. Ali Malo, yep. um Savella, if he's healthy, I'm not sure he is yet. Timma Folau, if we know how good he is, he's got, what, four in two weeks or something like that? yep um Yep. FRD only for um the the other guy that's been playing in the midfield there, Lala Milo, and then ah still sit them on a front row.
Jarrod Dyke: I know they had an okay week one, but week two was not good.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: So and need to that needs to be a consistent thing for me to recommend them.
Grumpy Old Prop: No.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: ah che And then Highlanders. Fabian Hollins actually played pretty well and scored okay.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: So I'll give him a thumbs up. Fakatava, yes. Tangitao, we talked about him before. Tavatava, now I do at this point. um If I need to tell you to start him, then you have not been paying attention. ah Sam Gilbert, give him the K if you're in Super Brew or not. It's up to you.
Jarrod Dyke: Don't sleep on Finn Hurley. He's not highly selected in Super Brew, but I bet you he's already been snapped up in your drafts.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: Sit, DeGroot, and... Robinson's highly owned for some weird reason, probably because of his price, but still. He's on that list. he He meets the threshold. i say sit him.
Grumpy Old Prop: um all right off to tos and the druah for the tos their front row um tupo and bell obviously um parecki obviously ah um langley gleason and in the um in the back row should have a good day um jake gordon tana bed and then that that back three suah lee jorgensen kellaway um
Jarrod Dyke: Parake. Parake.
Jarrod Dyke: Parake. Parake
Grumpy Old Prop: It's hard to figure out who was going to have a bad day there. I know Callaway's had some some struggles, but... Or had a struggle one week, so... I don't know what to take from that.
Jarrod Dyke: Yep,
Grumpy Old Prop: Start him anyway. um For the Drew, Nasilisilla, especially in draft, is not a bad option. Kanakaivata. Kanakaivata, sorry.
Grumpy Old Prop: um
Jarrod Dyke: yep that one.
Grumpy Old Prop: Good option.
Jarrod Dyke: I got you.
Grumpy Old Prop: ah Frank Lomani, always quality, um unless he's getting red-carded, but you know you can't predict that. um And then Muntz versus Revula kind of sucks because like if you have one, they they might play you know they might switch off a lot and sub out for each other. So it just kind of like because they're both really good players and there's only points for one of them at a time.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah, that's hard.
Grumpy Old Prop: um Then Ratuva and Joe Assessi should both score very well.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah, hopefully we see Ritavamundas soon. Ritavamundas soon.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah, I haven't seen him for a bit. All right, Chiefs and Brumbies. ah for the Chiefs. ah George Starr has been okay as a prop in Super Brew, so you can give him a thumbs up.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: um Bradley Slater, same thing for at atd hook for for those guys. So that means Chiefs front row is viable. um Both walks are viable right now, which is really weird. Valle and Lorde.
Jarrod Dyke: I'm only interested in Cortez Rotima. Yes, Rowe's score was okay this week, but like that's also because he did dot down, so that does change things. Yeah, they seem to be loving Rowe and not Rotima, but yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: If Rotima starts, great. If Rowe starts, FRD only. DMACC, yep. Tupaya, yep. ALB, sure. Leroy Carter?
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah. Cowboy Carter.
Jarrod Dyke: God damn it, Leroy.
Grumpy Old Prop: God damn it, Leroy.
Jarrod Dyke: Anyway, this is the one I'm talking about. Look up Leroy Jenkins, and you're welcome.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: Kids these days don't know.
Jarrod Dyke: Luke Jacobson is yeah ah look at jacobson is highly selected, but I also think he's hurt, so keep that in mind. Otherwise, I would sit him anyway, so don't worry.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: ah For the Brumbies, Billy Pollard, yes. Brumbies front row is a go for me as well. Tom Hooper, we'll see if he comes through with his his concussion before. I'm not sure he is going to be available this week.
Jarrod Dyke: I don't think this is the week we're going to see Bobby Valentini. I think it's one or two more. I thought I heard them say four or five, so in three.
Grumpy Old Prop: Okay.
Jarrod Dyke: um
Grumpy Old Prop: Well, I'm not too upset to have him not playing against the Chiefs.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah, i'm sure oh I'm sure you're happy to see that.
Grumpy Old Prop: I'm okay with this.
Jarrod Dyke: um And then Wright and Corey Toole sits. I got a host of them for you, unfortunately, this week. Al Alatoa, Frost, Reimer, Ryan Lonergan is an FRD-only option for me.
Jarrod Dyke: Sapsford is FRD at best, especially if he's at 12. That terrifies me because 12 is on score. I think he's a mid in Superbu and outside back in FRD. So...
Jarrod Dyke: really an FRD, like, you gotta hope he's playing somewhere on the edge, because, you know, Tabatabha, now, now why it's probably the rare exception of an outside back that's gonna score well at 12.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, but i mean even with his awesome game, he didn't score that great.
Jarrod Dyke: I had think did it, think Sivea did okay there, too.
Grumpy Old Prop: So, he had like 13.
Jarrod Dyke: We have, like, 20? Oh, okay, that's not bad, that's serviceable.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: So, yeah, there you
Grumpy Old Prop: right And then i your your boys, Canes Blues. For the Canes, their front row, yes.
Jarrod Dyke: I
Grumpy Old Prop: Their back row, it's hard to keep any of them out. um Shields is is the only one who, he's like the third one, I'd say, but I don't even know, um how expensive is he?
Grumpy Old Prop: um I didn't check that.
Jarrod Dyke: i don't know. Let me just stop starting him and put luck high ahead of him. Please do us all a favor.
Grumpy Old Prop: Please, yes.
Grumpy Old Prop: um He is 5 million. yeah That's too much.
Jarrod Dyke: That's too much.
Grumpy Old Prop: um Anyway, Roy Gard, obviously, and Godfrey. I know it's hard because i think he's outside back in Super Brew, and you kind of want the kicking points.
Grumpy Old Prop: That's a tough one there. um For the Blues, their front row, their back row, and then Bodie in the back three. Everyone else, i I haven't really liked their centers too much yet. They haven't been engaging them well.
Grumpy Old Prop: So actually, I don't like centers on either of these teams right yet. They haven't really come into form yet.
Jarrod Dyke: No.
Jarrod Dyke: Well, Hurricanes need fucking Billy Proctor back ASAP and that'll help open things up a little bit in there.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah, that'll help.
Jarrod Dyke: He does that.
Grumpy Old Prop: But AJ Lamb and Rico Ioani should be scored a lot higher than they are.
Jarrod Dyke: Agreed. ah Force and Reds for the host. Front row via Nick Dolly. Um, Jeremy Williams is a lock pretty, usually pretty solid when he's not getting an unfortunate yellow card.
Jarrod Dyke: Uh, Tizano Donaldson, peach Potter. That's all i'm looking for there. Sit swing and white. Why are you people are picking those two knuckleheads? I have no idea, but we'll talk about that later.
Grumpy Old Prop: he Doesn't matter.
Jarrod Dyke: Um, For the Reds, front row and whoever the fuck happens to be at hook because they had Asiad in there at one point. If I'm not mistaken, but it doesn't matter.
Jarrod Dyke: They seem to find hookers at score, so give that a thumbs up.
Grumpy Old Prop: Right.
Jarrod Dyke: um I'm seeing Angus Blythe right now, which is weird coming out of my face because I don't necessarily i did not trust him at all last year. But, yeah, give it ah give it a whirl. Why not?
Jarrod Dyke: um Wilson McWright, Tate, Tom Lina, Tim Ryan, Tiger New. um Fluke is not far the only option and Jock Campbell as well.
Grumpy Old Prop: All
Grumpy Old Prop: right. And now the, of the weeks, um, my start of the week, it's a, it's an away match, but it's still a, um, a really favorable matchup.
Jarrod Dyke: OT dubs. Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: And I've liked this guy, no matter which team he's been playing for.
Jarrod Dyke: Okay.
Grumpy Old Prop: And, you know, so frequent start of the week from me, um, throwing them up there again is Filippo Dalguna for the Reds.
Jarrod Dyke: You copied my homework, dude.
Grumpy Old Prop: Ah,
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a favorable. While the Force have won one of those games and have, or both of those games, excuse me, they've still surrendered plenty of points.
Jarrod Dyke: No question about it. And Dagonu just sucks up points left, right, and center. So, yeah, no, totally in agreement with that one. How about the sit? Yeah.
Grumpy Old Prop: set them going willy-havily
Jarrod Dyke: Ooh, good one. iho I hope, uh, Tana listens to you and Jackson Bashup gets it's the points and maybe I can sneakily play him instead someone else.
Grumpy Old Prop: haha haha haha
Jarrod Dyke: Um, Yeah, I went with Luke Reimer from the Brumbies. Chiefs have been pretty solid against fantasy points in general. so And I just don't love what he offers. Charlie Kale is the guy to have in there.
Jarrod Dyke: And then if Balentini's healthy, then Kale's just going to slide to the side of the scrum. And honestly, Reimer might be the guy ah the odd man out.
Grumpy Old Prop: Yeah.
Jarrod Dyke: So I wouldn't be shocked.
Grumpy Old Prop: Sounds about right.
Jarrod Dyke: maybe Maybe, maybe not. i think with Tom Hooper being hurt, that might actually do him one favor, but that means he's playing six, which is gross.
Jarrod Dyke: okay
Jarrod Dyke: All right, so that's that. um
Grumpy Old Prop: That's that it? Wow. So weird that that's just the end.
Jarrod Dyke: We do, ah is that that now?
Grumpy Old Prop: Because we used to do the pick-ems, but no, that's dumb.
Jarrod Dyke: um Yeah, we did. we moved We moved it around.
Grumpy Old Prop: Feels abrupt.
Jarrod Dyke: Okay.
Grumpy Old Prop: Anyway.
Jarrod Dyke: yeah Anyway, um we will have, yeah, pack your patience with us on Thursday. ah Super Rugby Sheet, we promise we'll get it out.
Grumpy Old Prop: Mm-hmm.
Jarrod Dyke: We'll get out. And then that'll be it because there's no games Friday. But go ahead and go watch yourself some PWR semifinals this weekend because those will be absolutely fantastic.
Grumpy Old Prop: Nope.
Grumpy Old Prop: Indeed.
Jarrod Dyke: um But other that,
Grumpy Old Prop: ah those all ah those Are all going to be on broadcast in the We're going to be able to see all those.
Jarrod Dyke: they should be on TRN, I think.
Grumpy Old Prop: Okay, good.
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah, ah should both i think I'm pretty sure they both will be. If they're not, then we should riot.
Grumpy Old Prop: One moment. Let's look this up. This is too important to just end without that question being answered.
Jarrod Dyke: I'm not disagreeing with you.
Grumpy Old Prop: um so there's saracens quins there's gloster harper okay yep both got them both
Jarrod Dyke: Yeah, we got them both. All right. All right, all right. um The question is, they going to make them free to watch instead of putting them behind the pillow?
Grumpy Old Prop: well personally don't care i already have the paywall so i've already paid so yeah
Jarrod Dyke: No. I do too, but it would be nice for me to be able to recommend that to some of my young players to go watch without having to go behind the paywall there.
Grumpy Old Prop: um And I don't know. It doesn't I don't think it says whether it's tier in plus.
Jarrod Dyke: it ah It usually says it on the TV app, so I'll check it later.
Grumpy Old Prop: OK. All right.
Jarrod Dyke: Cool. But, yeah, thank you very much, everyone, for listening to us and supporting us, especially all you patrons. We love you. We'll catch you guys next week. Enjoy the weekend. Enjoy the semifinals for PWR, everyone. Have a good one.
Grumpy Old Prop: Later.
Jarrod Dyke: Just...
