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Season 3- Episode 18- Watchathon Warm Up (6 Nations Round 4, Premiership Round 13 & Super Rugby Round 4)
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It's those nutty American rugby guys, here to make you laugh, maybe cry and probably roll your eyes from embarrassment. On this episode we cover some of the player news and give a nod to both CJ Stander and Sonny Bill Williams as they hang up the boots for their incredible careers. We discuss the 2 big launches from the past weekend with the Women's calendar getting a big boost and the debut of The Rugby Network which will feature MLR matches for the world to see. Of course we cover the action from the 6 Nations including what happened in Rome, at Twickenham and at Murrayfield. We wrap all the action from both the Prem and Aotearoa, of course we get down with some Start/Sit for the final mega weekend of the season (phew). Crack one open and kick back with us!
IT'S THIS SATURDAY the Super Saturday Watchathon for the Greater Boston Foodbank is this weekend, we need your help still.
Go to https://my.gbfb.org/TFRYWatchathon to donate and help us reach our goal.
Ask us questions via Twitter: Jarrod- jdyke8man & Ben- admrablsnackbar. Send us your thoughts for the show and questions for upcoming shows via e-mail fantasyrugbypodcast@gmail.com. Of course we welcome feedback via e-mail, twitter or by rating/reviewing the pod on Apple Podcast.
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Transcript
Introduction and Reflections
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey everybody, welcome back. It is the Fantasy Rugby Yanks. My name's Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glasser. Let's buzz through this just a wee bit if we can. But first of all, how was getting older yesterday?
00:00:19
Speaker
Yeah, it felt the same as it did a year ago. Yeah, that's true. That's about the time that we clocked into lockdown too. So I was working at a different division of my company. And the offices are like a quarter mile apart. It's really not that huge a deal. And I switched back to a place where I had been before at the other office.
00:00:44
Speaker
And that was all in the works right around this time last
Work Routine Changes
00:00:48
Speaker
year. And I left. I was like, you know what? Should I grab my stuff before I go home? It was like a Friday. And my birthday was going to be on a Monday. And I was like, no, I'll be back. We won't lock down just yet. We're not there just yet.
00:01:01
Speaker
And then on Monday, while I was on my day off, the company is like, nope, nobody coming, you know, unless you have to, like, we don't have letters yet. You have to obey the lockdown. And so, yeah, my stuff has been at my old desk, which I haven't belonged to at all for a year. So that's kind of how I feel. That's where that's at. Did Mrs. do anything nice for you?
00:01:24
Speaker
We had a nice dinner this weekend, actually with my folks. Obviously we were, she's like, can we do on the Sunday, like the weekend after your birthday? I'm like, no, we cannot. I'm busy that weekend. Yeah, we have a problem for that weekend, which we'll get to. And she's like, well, let's get together the weekend after. I'm like, no, we will not be doing that. We'll get over this stuff. We'll get together again on the Sunday. Yeah, try again. Keep trying. Okay. Well, hey, happy birthday asshole. Happy birthday.
00:01:52
Speaker
Um, sure. And we had a few other people chime in for it as well. So that was nice. It's always good. All right. Let's drink. Yeah.
Podcast Promotion and Shoutout
00:02:03
Speaker
Obviously you want to find us on your favorite place that you find your podcasts, download rate, review us. And as always tell us how you found us. We want to know those things.
00:02:16
Speaker
Yeah. We want to know if people are, if it's a word of mouth thing or if you just stumbled upon us or if you, maybe you saw George share the fantasy rugby geek Sharon and one of our pods, our, our, our, our advices. And on that, make sure you buy George a coffee because in the last, in this week, this past weekend and this week, coming weekend, he's going to be invaluable to some people.
00:02:38
Speaker
And he's doing a lot of work for it. Like let's not, you know, we, the amount of work we do for this is one thing he's that much more. He's diving into it, man. He really is. So, and he does it, you know, across all the cops, we, we split it up. So it's a, it's a two man operation. So he's a solo solo. So we can, we can divvy it up, but.
00:02:57
Speaker
But George is doing it alone. Yeah, ain't nobody helping that boy.
Social Issues and Sports
00:03:02
Speaker
Grab your TRM upgrades, especially once the players come back from international duty, all bets are off with the pram. So you don't know who's going to start and whatnot. So grab your TRM upgrade and help out the restart rugby on top of that. As always, Black Lives Matter on this podcast and everywhere else, there is no room for racism at all. And, you know,
00:03:27
Speaker
It's unfortunate that every other week we've got something to talk about this and if it's not annoying you, it should really bother you. At the minimum. I know what we're all thinking and it's that Andy Dalton was signed to $10 million and Colin Kaepernick's not in the league. No, that's not what we were thinking. He's a ginger.
00:03:50
Speaker
Andy Dalton, who's completely done gets $10 million. Well, it means the Bears, but Bears aren't very smart with all that stuff. How is that even a thing? Andy, like, if you compare their careers, you know, Andy Dalton is somehow still in the league and Colin Kaepernick can't get us get a sniff. And that's entirely due to racism.
00:04:07
Speaker
At this point, let's drop it. No, it's not about the flag. No, no, shut the fuck up. It's about racism. It's that you don't want to treat black people as equals and let's just call it what it is. What happened here in Atlanta, and it's so
00:04:28
Speaker
You know, I think people here in this country that don't just understand how the rest of the world works, you know, really don't see that this doesn't happen in any other place other than here to this degree. Right. I mean, we'll walk into an Asian owned massage parlor and start shooting up because it's Asians. Right. Like talking about killing Asians, like not like he was specifically like he's like, well, I know there is Asians here and I want to kill Asians. So as much as they're saying,
00:04:58
Speaker
you know, oh, you know, it's it's it's he's a sexual addict. No, no, this had nothing to do with that. This was him wanting to kill Asian people because there's been violence stoked against them by political leaders for a long time now.
00:05:14
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, it just went it went up a notch when coronavirus came around, too. Yeah. So by the way, the sheriff or whoever it was, the officer who I'm sure if you're listening to us, you've seen this by now, blamed it on the guy having a bad day and he snapped that that officer shared
00:05:34
Speaker
a tweet a couple, I don't know how long ago, but some time ago of a shirt that he bought from, or somebody gave him from a store and it was COVID-19 imported, it was like imported from China or something like that. And it was, it was. Okay. Now I understand. Yeah.
00:05:52
Speaker
That's, that's your answer boys and girls. Yep. The, ultimately the law enforcement agree with these assholes and that's that's where we are as a country. Like, it's just when I'm like hey we have a story we have stories that are not in America anymore we've got we have the, the royal family last week we could have talked about Sarah Everard this week and violence against women.
00:06:12
Speaker
And then this happened. And then this happened. And it's like, well, fuck what? You know, we can't even, you know, it's we're still this country. This is not a game of hold my beer. God damn it. Right. You know, let's not try to outdo each other here. Jesus. Yeah. But that men, white men need to stop being so fucking problematic. Yeah. That's coming from two fat white guys. Yeah. I'm as white as they come. What was the word you use the other week?
00:06:50
Speaker
It's, but you have to recognize what it is. So yeah, absolutely. And if me a fucking prep school kid can, can see all this shit, then I'm sorry. People who, who, you know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
00:07:04
Speaker
I'm public school thrown through. Right. All that. Like you should know, like, how come I, I'm done. Hey, a bachelor's baby. Uh, yeah. Hey, are you excited for this weekend?
00:07:17
Speaker
I am totally excited for this weekend. We have a huge, oh man, we have a huge undertaking going on, but we need your help still folks. We need a little less than $300. We are doing, you guys are doing awesome so far, but we need a little bit of help. So give it that final nudge. If you can, if you can't give it that final nudge, share it. That's awesome. Have a, like, yeah, get, get a friend to help out. It's a good cause, right? It's for a food bank. So.
00:07:43
Speaker
$10 here, $10 there, all of a sudden we're, we're home. Right. You know, so let's, let's get it done. Um, so final schedule after I've cocked it up a couple of times and I can't tell time. So that happened. Also, I think they switched one of the matches on me. I swear to God they did. Um, but anyway, so Saturday we are doing our super, super, super Saturday watchathon bleeding into Sunday. Um,
Rugby Matches Preview
00:08:08
Speaker
We will kick things off at 10.15 with Scotland versus Italy. And then we'll move on over to Dublin for Ireland and England at 12.45. Junty on over to Paris for France and Wales, which could be the big decider right there. If Wales win, that is all she wrote. Wales won the Grand Slam.
00:08:26
Speaker
And then we have the mighty free jacks kicking off at six 30. Uh, and we'll be able to watch it in a really cool fashion, which we'll talk about in a little bit. Um, and then at eight 35, we're going to explore the Allianz premier 15s with the Saracens and the, and the Exeter women kicking off. Um,
00:08:44
Speaker
I'm excited to watch that match because it's obviously got the Saracens women who I enjoy watching likes of Rocky Clark and Poppy Cleo, but also the American women that play for Exeter as well, you know, Katana, Kate Zachary, the beast that she is. She's been fantastic too.
00:09:01
Speaker
Yeah, so awesome. I might have just totally screwed up Gabby's last name, but my fault. I will totally cop to that. I apologize. 1040, in true super rugby fashion, 1040 PM, we're going to be watching hurricanes and chiefs on the end of that. Which is good because, again, hurricane supporter and a chief supporter. And we're now like, what, 12 hours into this? Yeah, we'll be focused on that one.
00:09:30
Speaker
1245, we start rolling into the prem with Quinn's and Gloucester. I know Newcastle and Gloucester first, but we're going to do Quinn's and Gloucester first because we need something to just kind of push us through that 12, 12 to 1, 1 o'clock hour or so. So we'll do Quinn's and Gloucester. Newcastle and Gloucester will follow it at 250.
00:09:48
Speaker
4.55, Beth and Worcester will go with, and then at 7 o'clock, we will pick up the other, the big one from Super Rugby Arturo with Blues Crusaders, 7 o'clock. 9 o'clock, we'll roll into Exeter and Leicester, and then they will lead us into the final match of the watchathon, which will be at 11 o'clock the next morning, Northampton versus Bristol.
00:10:09
Speaker
It's going to be fun. Of course, you're free to donate in the time while we're on air too. Don't stop donating just because we hit that click live button. Do that. Yes. Please let people know that we will be watching Rugby for the 24 hours. I got asked at one point, well, are you going to stop at all during this? I'm like, no, we're watching Rugby for 24 hours. It's like the whole time. The whole time.
00:10:41
Speaker
Yeah, so it's awesome. Yeah, just a few big shout outs. Thank you, Chris, Regina. My in-laws, my in-laws both donated, so that was very nice of them. Our boy Sean, and then Julie, thank you very much. Julie left a nice comment that you and I will both appreciate. Pitter patter, let's get at her.
00:11:05
Speaker
So yes, get yourselves to career Boston food bank website and get yourself, get yourself on the donation list here, kids. It'll be, it's good for a good cause. Okay. Player movement.
Rugby Updates and Changes
00:11:19
Speaker
So we talked about DC's retirement last week. And in the same day that I just kind of went over my head, suddenly Billy Williams hung them up. He did.
00:11:28
Speaker
Um, and good for him, really. I think, I think it was a rumor at the time and he made it official like the next morning or something. I was like, I saw whispers of it. I think I saw one, um, English player congratulate him, I think, or something. And I was like, well, there's nothing official there. So, but got to figure that was happening. Yep. I mean, he may have announced it and again, it's just not in our media. So we don't know. Right. Yeah. So it's, um, offload King just.
00:11:55
Speaker
Yes. Getting the ball to someone else in space was...
00:11:59
Speaker
something he was okay at. He was quite good at. He was quite good at. Yeah, that dude just, and he's such a great person too. Like that is just, and you know, rewind and it was played all over the place again this week with him giving that medal to the, to the kid that came onto the field and just, you know, that just spoke volumes to whose tiny bill is. So love the man and you know, he'll be, you know, the game will miss him.
00:12:29
Speaker
No question about that. And speaking of people that are really good human beings, CJ Standard's calling it good. And, you know, he's South African born. Yeah. But that is somebody that if you cut, he'd bleed green big time. He'd bleed Celtic green, no problem. Yeah. And like he said, he obviously, his family going back home was a big motivator for it. And I can totally understand, you know, he's
00:13:00
Speaker
You have to appreciate it when athletes walk away when they're at their best, right? And he's absolutely at his best. And if he's earned enough to make himself and his family comfortable for the rest of their lives, then hell yeah, more power to him. He's a very physical player, and that takes a toll on you over time.
00:13:27
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. And there's something that speaks so much about him in the one moment that speaks about him is the next game that Munster played after Axel Foley died, Anthony Foley, he had zero issue with changing out his uniform to 24. Like, 24 looks really weird on a pitch. Like, let's be real about this. But
00:13:55
Speaker
Like I saw it the other week, they had somebody who had to replace his jersey and they replaced it with a 24. And it's like, why, why, why do you even have that jersey? So he was, but, you know, it was a no brainer to him. And, you know, I do, I do vividly remember the day, um, I was going, I was going into the app to watch Monster and Claremont and the champions cup. And I'm like, Ooh, this'll be fun.
00:14:19
Speaker
I was like, Ooh, it's not, it's not on. And I was like really confused. I was like, where the hell is it? And I went onto the Twitter and I was like, Oh, that's not good. And Anthony Foley had died. I was like, Oh shit. And it was a, it was without a, it was not even a question for CJ standard. He said, yep, I'm not wearing eight. I'm wearing 24. Cause that is, you know, he deserved Anthony Foley deserved that. And to CJ standard and what he's done for,
00:14:48
Speaker
Munster and his country, he deserves an absolute tip of the cap and he deserves to go off into the sunset and be happy.
00:14:58
Speaker
I saw someone comment on it on the Twitters. And it seems to make sense because you think, especially with the Lions tour coming up against South Africa, is his retirement after that? Is he going to stay stick? Because he said something like he's retiring from Irish rugby, but he's playing out his contract
00:15:21
Speaker
for Monster. Which extends, I believe, past the Lions, what would be the Lions matches. So it's possible that he could still play there. Because it would make sense, right? It would be one of these things. If he's in the running for the team, you don't pass that up. It's like one last go. I'm going out like that, not just with your Irish, the performance that they put in the Six Nations. And you'd want to wash that out with a good Lions tour. Yep.
00:15:51
Speaker
Yeah, no, I imagine he is. I'm being selfish here. I want to see CJ Stanner play for the Lions. Yeah, I think he's definitely in that running. He should be at least. He's definitely one of the better ball carriers in the Northern Hemisphere. There's no excuse for him not being on that tour in some capacity, even if he's like your starter on the midweek squad or however they're going to do it.
00:16:14
Speaker
Agreed, agreed. We had re-signings and a couple of big jumps, including Francois Huguard jumping ship from Worcester to Wasse. That Scrum half room just got real interesting. It did. And I know Velikot's gone, but that's a hell of a replacement for Velikot.
00:16:31
Speaker
Right. Velikot is your, that, that, I mean, the way their wasps are structured are pretty good. All right. They have their, their Robson who's there. He's their guy. And then you have Velikot for in a pinch. If you want to, if you want to season veteran as off the bench or, or to start. Um, and then porters is not showing so bad. So now it's like, now you're replacing Velikot with, with who guard a hell of an upgrade, but when's
00:16:57
Speaker
Porter going to see the field, right? Yeah. Let's see. I mean, you imagine Porter will see the field to win Robson's away because we saw this. I mean, who guards an 80 minute player? Oh yeah. Not he's not. He's not apparently an 84 minute player. Apparently it's like 82nd minute. I was like, huh? Just write it out. You dummy. The hell man. Oh man. I don't get it.
00:17:19
Speaker
But yeah, and Robson, yeah, he might have to come out. But if you have the choice of finishing a match, you're going with Hooghard. Right. Absolutely. But damn, it just sucks that the homeboy's never going to see the field again. Yeah, I feel a little hard done by if I was Porter. He's played pretty well.
00:17:36
Speaker
And then Freddie Burns is going to come home. Sounds like a crowded 10 room, right? Yeah. We'll see how long Henry and Diaz Bonilla deals are around. I don't remember seeing either one of them on the extensions, but it's also only been a year or two. So beats me. So we'll see. The women's international counter is going to get a revamp. It looks like, you know, the
00:18:01
Speaker
I assume the questions around, and they're legitimate questions around, this can't be amateurs trying to act as professionals. So I assume there's some sort of money that's getting injected into this as well to get these players paid so they're not running around on the table scraps that they're able to scrape together with their odd jobs and their full-time jobs.
00:18:24
Speaker
You know, I mean, unfortunately, we have situations where, like, Simi Pam is missing the match for Bristol because she has to work. Right. You know, and that's really unfortunate. I think she's a doctor, so fucking awesome. Right. I mean, good for her. She's doing better than most of us do. Right. So I mean, and that's that's, you know, yeah, just hitting a lot of warm places in my heart, you know, medical doctor as a rugby player and a prop who can
00:18:53
Speaker
Burn.
00:19:00
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not a younger man more attractive. I don't know about that one. I don't know if that would be shooting for the stars on that one, buddy, but I'm just saying I like you and all, but no. All right, so it'll be it'll be great to see this at the level it needs to be. I almost feel like this is like maybe something they had under their hat before they announced the World Cup getting pushed back.
00:19:30
Speaker
um and then they with the woke up getting pushed back they're like all right we need to like move this announcement forward to make sure it's ready to roll because
00:19:38
Speaker
whether they're just trying to cover their own ass or they actually want to show support to the women's game, either way, they need to make a move. And here we are. So assuming that all the questions that are being asked have an answer, this is awesome. And I'm really looking forward to it. I hope there's TV deals in place. If not, I'm pirating the shit out of this stuff. And I will watch by less than legal means. That's the thing. Yeah. What do you want to discourage that?
00:20:05
Speaker
world rugby. Yeah, please like help us out here. Just pirating. Yeah, please. Speaking of discouraging pirating the rugby network.
Major League Rugby Excitement
00:20:14
Speaker
And- As long as it's not the rugby channel. Oh God. And that's why I said that to you. I was like, I'm glad they avoided that C word in there. Cause that was a dumpster fire. That was a dumpster fire with a dumpster fire inside it. Like it was not good. It was bad. So yes, the rugby network is an excellent name, but also it looks really cool. So I've already, I've already signed up for it. So I'm going to be looking forward to that because it's going to carry loads of MLR, which kicks off this weekend.
00:20:44
Speaker
Yeah. I'm so excited about that. And I just saw that Grant Davis, one of our... Yes. Good on you, Garan. That's amazing. Yeah. Welcome to the Shit Show, Garan. It's nice to have you around, and it's great. The MLR is extremely fortunate to have him. Yes. Oh, I totally agree with that one for sure, considering some of the helmets they do have.
00:21:14
Speaker
So just a quick talk and talk about it. Seattle doesn't win this for a third time, do they? I think there's too much in the locker for the other teams now. Yeah, I think there's too much that's coming along. Yeah, LA seems very packed.
00:21:30
Speaker
You know, I think Toronto is still a problem for a lot of teams. I believe in our boys and I believe we'll punch above our weight. New York is not going to be a pushover. They got what they got a couple of years ago for a good reason. No Bastero though. No Bastero. No Bastero. But Rob Shaw's in.
00:21:53
Speaker
Yeah. So that should be interesting. That'll be interesting. Yeah. I'm looking forward to it. It'll be, you know, it's going to be awesome. Um, kickoff will be obviously this Saturday and we will be featuring one, our lovely free jacks playing out in LA. All right. Okay. Let's go to the six nations. Uh, quickly, Wales and Italy. Just
00:22:17
Speaker
This was a very disappointing, I'm tired of the narrative about like, I saw somebody just like shitting all over Italy. I'm like, dude, you're not helping. Just stop. Just stop. And that like whales are good. Like, let's, let's be honest now, whales are good. Very good. Right. And it's not as though like,
Rugby Team Analyses and Critiques
00:22:34
Speaker
And Italy have kept it reasonably close and like for stretches, but they're just not ready. Right. Like, and especially with, you know, with Peledry being out with and just that they they're not ready yet. Right. But they're still miles better than the next competition. So this whole like, yeah, pick them out of the six. No, they're still it's still good competition. They always rise to that competition, whoever it is that they try and replace them with. Right. They're just not they're just not there yet. And
00:23:03
Speaker
But they are getting better. There's a lot of good to like about it. They just can't sustain it. No, it's tough. Yeah, they have. Their starting line is very good at this point, and I don't think we can deny that. But we see the problem in depth, even with the injuries they currently are looking in with a brom stain out, with blood re-out, just a couple of days that come to the top of the head. I would love, like, you see what Mayer does, and
00:23:31
Speaker
when they keep him on the field. So there's a little bit of stupidity there. Why are you not taking? Yeah, take your defensive winger off, damn it. Yeah, anyway. But imagine if they had a peledri too. Like it's the attention that those players eat up. I mean, they do those, you know, they have great matches.
00:23:54
Speaker
even with the extra attention that they draw. Because if I'm the other team, I'm like, okay, well, I'm looking out for Mayer, I'm looking out for Ioannoni and Garbisi, and maybe Varney. But it's like everyone else, it's like, they're jags, essentially, they're better than that. But it's like, they're not going to be the ones who are burning you so much. It's really those four guys. But now you had a fifth, and now it's like, okay, that's a problem, right? That's one in three people, that's every phase you're going to have to deal with one of them.
00:24:21
Speaker
a really good ball carrier at the very least. Somewhere around that ball. And that changes things. There's no plays off if all five of them could be on the field. No, I agree. I think Welsh fans can feel very confident when Dan Bigger walks away, and if Gareth Anscombe does not come back, with Callum Sheedy. Sheedy has just
00:24:42
Speaker
been very excellent. Yes, I know it's Italy, but he was excellent before this game. He was, you know, anyway, that says otherwise probably losing their mind. He was excellent against England. Yes, he was. So yeah, speaking of, let's go to, let's go to Aikenham. Real letdown for France, I will say that and it was a great it was this was a game that was that rugby deserves, you know, and involving England on top of that.
00:25:09
Speaker
is only good for the game. There was less dickishness. So like, you know, it told you it wasn't getting penalized and he was actually showing form. So that's good. Oh, I'm not supposed to do that. Okay. I'll try to do that this time.
00:25:29
Speaker
hammerhead. Yeah. Yeah. So he kind of got some shit sorted out, which makes, is good for rugby, right? Him, him having a bad matches. Yeah. You know, you, you don't want to encourage stuff like that by any means whatsoever. Um, yeah. And I mean, and France got off to a hot start. Obviously DuPont got the try that he got and I was like, please count, please count. Yeah.
00:25:51
Speaker
It was, yeah, and you know, France, a little bit of live by the sword, die by the sword on their own part as well, which was a little problematic. It didn't help that. I didn't like some of the penalties, especially
00:26:13
Speaker
Yeah, I thought some of the decisions were incorrectly made by Brace. Brace, yeah, same. I thought Brace struggled. He did. And that's harsh because, I mean,
00:26:27
Speaker
You know, but I'm not, I can't imagine England are going to have too many or too much sympathy there. Oh, you feel hard done by a raft. Yeah. I imagine they won't. Yeah. So it was, but I feel bad because I, I kind of wanted, I was, I was pulling for France and I was too. And you know, I was,
00:26:47
Speaker
I, so let's take a picture. Yeah. Fast forward. So the one thing that annoys me about the game coming out the way it did is, you know, it means that Eddie's going to believe that there's nothing wrong with him. The RFQ are going to continue to believe there's nothing wrong. And the players that deserve to be on the single team are going to continue to be looked over. And that's really, that should be really bothersome to some England fans, honestly, you know, and yeah, you're happy you won. But at the same time, you're like,
00:27:17
Speaker
You know, are you going to continue to go forward without the likes of Marcus Smith and Sam Simmons? Right. Do you really want to? Yeah. Do you really want to?
00:27:30
Speaker
It doesn't make sense. If those three aren't on the team for the next World Cup, what the fuck are we doing here? They don't get beyond the quarterfinal if those three aren't on that. And they could win with them. Oh, 100%. They are game changers. Unbelievable, but too believable. And of course, the rugby world showed its arse once again.
00:27:59
Speaker
Yeah. That was a try. We all saw it grounded. So what are you complaining about? You didn't like the call? Who thought that wasn't a try? Our friend Terry put it well. It's nothing to do with the decision. It's misogyny.
00:28:18
Speaker
Uh-huh. It's a hundred percent what it is. And I'm, you know, being American, I'm going to interject race and everything because it's got to be a little bit of racism. There could be, there could be. They didn't want a toji scoring and a woman awarded the try. So, oh, that's all of that. In certain people's brain, there's a whole lot wrong with that. And there's a lot wrong with that person. So yeah, there's something really messed up with all that. I agree. I totally agree. No, Joe, I can't write the ignorance too.
00:28:47
Speaker
I didn't want that try to count either. So let's just be real about that. I did not want that try to count. I want friends to win. Like that is, that is exactly it right there. Okay. So, and you know, it's just, yeah.
00:29:00
Speaker
so much wrong with it. Right. I thought brace got the wrong, the got a lot of calls wrong. And you know, even that decision he got, he got wrong. Initially, Joy, Noah had to correct him for God's sake. Yeah, it was a lot of little decisions that went the wrong way, in my opinion.
00:29:20
Speaker
That's what it was. It was it was France would get a little bit of a, you know, get their butt up a little bit. And suddenly there was a penalty against them or, or, or they just knock was called against them. And I'm like, nope, that's not, if it's a knock, it's the other way.
00:29:36
Speaker
But so, you know what, it was an entertaining match, just the same. So, you know, credit to both teams for doing, for putting that show out there. I still think France is a problem for a lot of teams going forward. So just don't just go, Oh yeah, we beat France and pass it on. Like,
00:29:54
Speaker
Not that simple. Not that simple. This is still a, and you know, Intimac was clearly a decoy. No question about that. So. Didn't even come on the field. No, didn't even come on the field, which to me just speaks volumes. Like if he was.
00:30:09
Speaker
If he was healthy, I think France won this game. So I agree. So that would have been even more, you know, not that not the jelly bear was was playing bad at all. He had no fantastic game. But if you have the chance, I mean, shit, take out like fiku. And now you have another year and into my place, 12 for his club sometimes. So, you know, so it's a possibility. Yeah, that's definitely a possibility.
00:30:35
Speaker
but not playing it all, that tells you something. Yeah, it was mostly decoy in my opinion. So, c'est la vie. All right, let's go to Murrayfield. Yeah, I spoke French. I'm really articulate over here. Let's go to Murrayfield, 24, 27 in Scotland. Watch out, they'll deport you for that shit.
00:30:55
Speaker
Look out. You know, this was really unfortunate for Scotland. Like, you know, Ben Russell going down and having to put Scott Steele at six, like, and they still only lost by three. So credit to the boys in blue, but also to obviously to Ireland to just do it, getting the job done.
00:31:14
Speaker
Yeah. Well done to Ireland for that. It was, uh, you know, and to not get, again, similar to France, you know, they had kind of Murray sitting right there and they, they left it in the hands of, uh, James and Gibson park and, and he delivered so good on him. That's, that's what you do when you, when you start rotating guys through, when you're trying to build a squad for the future, something like that. It's a hell of a concept. I know. Yeah.
00:31:44
Speaker
I just don't understand why, um, why that's a problem. Uh, yeah, let, let, you know, how old is, I want to see anyway. I know Gibson park. I'm going to look him up. He's a little younger. He's not much younger. He's not much younger, but you know, that, that means you have a guy, you could, you know, mid mid age guy, you can trust mid career guy. You can trust, um, you know, he'll, he'll have another like.
00:32:07
Speaker
He'll be available for the World Cup and maybe probably not the next one though. No, probably not. I think Craig Casey is probably the guy that they're waiting on. I agree. I think I got that right. Hold on one second. That sounds right. Let's see. That's it, Craig Casey. Yes, Craig Casey is. That was alliterative types. Profile. He's 21, so that's probably the guy. That's probably the guy. That's probably the guy for real.
00:32:35
Speaker
Yeah. How do you, how do you earn a game that has a lot of potential? Give it a French referee. Give it Roman plot at that.
00:32:48
Speaker
And that's what we got. Oh, he's so bad. He's so bad. I can't, I can never get over it. I'm like, why with all the good referees that are out there, like referring in other leagues, are we sticking with Roman plot? Like good Lord in heaven. Right. Like can the guy, the guy just, he can't manage a breakdown.
00:33:09
Speaker
Like not to save his life. No. And that's the problem when you're in a playing in a. He got knocked over like three times in this match, too, by the way. And it's like this Scotland Ireland is going to be at the breakdown. So nothing, nothing else. You don't put a guy who's bad at managing the breakdown in charge of a breakdown heavy match. That's just like no, your fucking teams that are competing. Yeah. You know, this is this is the one where you want, you know, like a Barnsy or something.
00:33:38
Speaker
Yeah, stick, go stick plot back in Rome, like he would have been fine there. Right. It's not going to fuck up the match. Wouldn't have been anything drastic happening with that. Yeah. So it might have scored 14 points instead of seven. Like, really, that's it. You know, so, yeah, Mr. Stuart Hogg and the use of his chinny chin chin. Yeah.
00:34:04
Speaker
That was fantastic. Oh, Ireland were so pissed about that. He was like, please count, please count, please count. Not even because, I'm sorry, not even just because I wanted Scotland to win, but because it was funny to, again, just kind of like it was funny when England lost their shit. It was funny that Ireland were like so mad about it. It was like, no, that was just a good play. All of it was fine. Yeah, it was great. Yeah, lose your shit over something that was fine. Why? Why are you doing that?
00:34:32
Speaker
Yeah. Oh man. And, you know, obviously Finn Russell was Johnny on the spot. Who else would it be? Right. And to kick it through and it like, so the, yeah, the rebound off of, or the, you know, the bounce off of hogs chin and the ricochet off of, was it Sexton back there? Yeah, I think so. Of course he goes, right. Cause that's what, that's what happens. Yup. It is. And you know, it was,
00:35:00
Speaker
And the Scott showed some nuts by getting that final try over the line. Just couldn't, they're not quite used to being in those types of situations very often. So they are going to have some lapses. And there's some guys that were on the bench for the squad that I was like, Nick Haining, like, why is Gary Graham not on the squad? Like that's one thing I kind of, and he played for new castle this past weekend. So, so he was,
00:35:26
Speaker
He's healthy. Why the fuck wasn't he playing for Scotland? Beats the shit out of me. I think he would have been probably a little bit better.
00:35:34
Speaker
injection in there. Yeah. And Richie Gray as well. Like I know I like I know Johnny's better, but shit like Gilchrist or Richie Gray, I'm taking Richie Gray every time. So I would have liked to see Darcy Graham get on the field more. How much time should he play? Not much. 18 minutes. Yeah. And look, I. Oh, and Maitland played the whole time. So that's the other thing. Where the fuck did he go then? He went to fullback.
00:36:03
Speaker
Oh, fuck. No, I played the 80. Yeah, but Finn did not. Oh, Finn didn't. Right. Okay. That's what happened. That's right. Yeah. Finn did not. So I had to stick him back there. Oh man. Cause like, yeah, I love, I love Sean Maitland. Don't get me wrong. Not an attacking wing.
00:36:22
Speaker
No, by no means. They needed points scored at that point. So I was kind of disappointed that Maitland, although, like you said, Finn had to come out. Yeah, that was that was it right there. That changes. That was it right there. Like, really? So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What are you going to do? Good on the boys from Ireland for, you know, finally pulling it out of the fire. You know, in a way, it wasn't necessarily the
00:36:47
Speaker
A result that I believe was correct. But at the same time, I'm happy for Andy Farrell to kind of get the monkey off his back a little bit. I agree. I mean, it was I.
00:36:56
Speaker
I didn't really have a dog in this fight so much. I'm like, I like Scotland a little bit more than Ireland, but, um, you know, I'm pleased watching Ireland win a to a tough match like this, especially with, you know, over, over 50 points squared. That's what I want to see. I don't want to see. There's some points right there. So it's in the 17 to 14 match. This was a 24 27. That, that, that makes a lot of difference. Yeah, it does. It does. It does. All right. Uh, let's zip over to Crusaders and chiefs. Um,
00:37:25
Speaker
I think there's two moments we need to talk about. One was the opening moment with DMACC just willing his way to the try line. That's the DMACC you know and love right there. Yeah. I hadn't seen him and maybe, you know, still getting over the knee injury last year, but just like it didn't look like a try at the first blush.
00:37:51
Speaker
I couldn't see how the fuck he scored it. And then they show the replay. It's like, he just put the ball down. He looked like so many people. Yeah. But nobody was, was, was, you know, a lot of people in the general area, but nobody stopping that. Okay. Take it. Um, that's very much a DMACC thing. If it's right there, all right. It's just right there. I'll do it. I'll take that edge. Yeah. Yeah. And then, and then the, the knock.
00:38:17
Speaker
Oh yeah so you know for all the people are talking about the the captain's challenge like it's still subject to a cock up like this like so that's why it's not a perfect thing and that's why i don't care for it it's like you're never going to make it a perfect thing so just let it fucking be but that's such a kiwi thing um so as much as so so i've kind of sorted out
00:38:40
Speaker
what my bugaboo is with a couple different referees. So the French, yeah, the French basically can't manage the breakdown and they cock it up or any physical contact, like the scrum's the baddest scrum's too. But like open play, hey, play, play, play, whatever, if it happens, it happens.
00:38:56
Speaker
But that's like the fucking referees in New Zealand are exactly like that, but with like open play. Like if they had to, they thought the other, so not even just this one, they were, they didn't even bother to really look at it. They were like, oh no, like Weber's, was it Weber?
00:39:12
Speaker
Shit. Yeah. They thought it was Weber. They thought we were not because they didn't really look at it. They just looked at it live in space and like, Oh, Weber's arm was coming up. So he knocked it forward. And they didn't actually look at the, like when they actually, all they had to do was slow it down once and show it him hitting the arm. And it's like, Oh, hit the ball. Like they never even looked at it really.
00:39:33
Speaker
Um, but then the other one that happened almost like immediately afterwards, um, where it was, uh, um, several Reese flying down the, the, the right wing throwing a pass just past the stripe at the, that's at the 22, the, the five meter stripe that's at the 22.
00:39:52
Speaker
So he's just beyond that. And the, the receiver catches it just before the stripe at the five meter line. And they're like, what's that? I mean, his, his, his hands may have been going backwards. Like, yeah, pass traveled. Like
00:40:07
Speaker
Over 10 meters forward. It was pretty forward. They even had to look at it like three or four times. They didn't want to call it forward. And it's like they just, New Zealand referees just don't want to call a forward pass at all. They do not care if it's a forward pass. They would be like, nah, whatever, it was a pass. It was a pass. Although there was a blatant one that they did call that that was actually kind of surprised about. That's some other point. I can't remember.
00:40:35
Speaker
when it was, but it was inconsequential. It was just one of those. It was like, yeah, that was forward. Damn it. Oh, well. Oh, well. But it's like that didn't end in a try. These other two basically ended in tries because the the first one ended in the penalty try in yellow card to Weber. Right. You know, after all that, that that that fucked me in FRD, too. I'm so pissed. That's it. Right. That's that's the match, because Crusaders, you can I mean, the Chiefs were, you know, one point down a half.
Team Strategies and Performances
00:41:02
Speaker
And no, that's not the position you want to be in against the Crusaders. But if you can choose a place to be against the Crusaders, one point down in half, I can live there. I can live in that space. Right. At least have a little bit of hope for the second half. But you just have to worry if they don't get into their, you know, into their. Yeah, we're just going to lay points up on you now. Which I did. Of course, with the man up, they're going to do that. Yeah, they definitely they're good at that. You know, it was just all kinds of fucked up.
00:41:31
Speaker
Fubar man. And as it was said, we're never going to beat the chief. No, she's not going to beat him, but you want to at least compete, but unfortunately it wasn't even that. But you knew it was like, it was just, that was the, that was its arrival. Like you knew the time was coming, but that, that whole sequence with the forward pass that wasn't called and leading to the yellow. Yeah. All that. And penalty tried. Yeah. That was it. It was like, here's that time. Now it's falling apart. Got it. Got it. I know where we are.
00:41:57
Speaker
Yeah, I think we can put to bed who's going to be number 10 for a long time in an all black shirt. Oh God, he's good. It's Richie Mwunga. Oh, he fucked up early and I was like, I was like, he's human. Okay. He's human, but he's superhuman. He responds well. He responds well when he screws up. So good on him. Good boy. Good boy for that.
00:42:21
Speaker
traveling up to Oakland, um, blues and highlanders kind of a right away for the most part. You're right. He went out and that's the blues just kind of took over really. And it was just like, wow, this is a blue team. I've not seen the likes of in a long time. So good on them. Like that is, that's a mean front row too. Like there's like, you got what three all black pop props in that front row plus James lay like, jeez, um, that's not fair.
00:42:51
Speaker
That's not fair at all. Yeah. They just bullied their way over this one. There's, there's no really mixing words about that one at all. Oh, are they ever good God in heaven? They are pretty good. Like, yeah. And then you have fricking
00:43:11
Speaker
Caleb Clark, obviously, is just a is a freaking house. And then who's the who's the young kid that scored for this for this match, too? We looked really good. Now, I was like, Jeez, I'm the shit man. Fuck. We look good in this. Right. Like, Jeez, I'm saying something. Oh, man. Oh, shit. Oh, man. Sam Nock just. Yeah. Yeah. Is Sam Derry your new favorite player?
00:43:42
Speaker
I wish you weren't so fucking awkward. You finished the match, so good him. Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:51
Speaker
Oh man. Yeah. Just a complete runaway. And you know, Norecki's their game breaker. And once he left, he left. I was like, Oh boy. That's the end. Isn't it? Yeah. I will say it was really good to see James Lynch just out there again. That was, that was a horrific injury when he broke his ankle the other, the other year. Wolf. I remember seeing that. I'd be like, he is done for a while. So it was really good to see him back out there. That, that was an
00:44:16
Speaker
I do. It was bad. It was very bad. It was not good. So yeah, it was, you know, and then we had the, we had the try taken away from us. It was clearly forward. It's clearly forward. Another forward pass, but at least I got that one right on the replay. I'm like, another match.
00:44:40
Speaker
Yeah. It was like, okay, we can do this twice in one weekend. Yeah, right. It's like, please don't screw this up twice. Come on, man. Oh, shit. All right. Let's go over to the pram Friday night, Bristol and wasp. Uh, had some returning bodies. Dan Thomas, Nathan Hughes, bubbles.
00:44:56
Speaker
Bubbles was back and then... We did not practice that, by the way. No, we didn't. No, we did not. Tiff Eden at 10, but the rest of the back one looked like it was pretty intimidating. We're pretty ready to go, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Charles Feitel was unbelievable in this match.
00:45:14
Speaker
I like, he was, and I love the structure that Bristol used in their attack, where Tiff Eden was like, they have yet, Eden is at 10, Piers was at 12, and Purdy at 13. So you have Purdy, Nadia, Nadia Loken, and now Lago.
00:45:30
Speaker
and three wings on the field, right? And the way they worked it was they were like, okay, well, we're, when we're attacking Pietal, you're basically our first receiver and Eden is like a 12 essentially. So I was, I was nervous about starting Piers O'Connor. Cause I'm like, 12 don't score much, but they still used him like a 13. Right. So it was really, I love the innovation given the lineup that they had to go with. Yeah. They're kind of pigeonholed into a lineup for the most part, still even with the returning players.
00:45:59
Speaker
Yeah. Um, but those, everybody, um, involved in that played really well. So, and then it paid off even in the fucking pouring rain. Oh man. It was pissing down rain. They get the bonus point, you know, uh, try to get it any way you can, man. Yeah. Yeah. Any way you can. Um, but the, in fairness to watch, they came up pretty hot. They came out firing. They were not, they were trying to approve a point.
00:46:27
Speaker
Just probably the wrong team to try and prove a point against. And yeah, I mean, well, that's, that's what you got to do when you're, you're going into the house of the top of the table team. Right. You got to come in and, and especially with your wasps who are struggling, if you let, if you, you kind of ease into it, then just let Bristol get into their, their paces, their structures. It's not going to be, it's going to be a long fucking day. So, so wasps did what they had to do to, to make it as favorable to their, their effort as they could.
00:46:58
Speaker
Yeah, Vylon, who scored, did not expect that at all. Nope. Not somebody expected to eat on the scoreboard. Not so much expected to see the field too much either. Yeah. Available players that this team has. Right. I will say, and you know, Lee of Black, it's obviously just trying some things at this point because he's trying to figure out a way to get the team a spark. I will say when they signed him at this point, he's probably a bit of a disappointment.
00:47:25
Speaker
you know, Tom Willis has come through and Ben, Ben, the better eight man, really. Uh, yes. So yeah, that's probably a little bit of a disappointment for what they signed by Lonnie four, but Hey, you got over the line. So there it is. Right. The king of Bristol has scored as well. They said that was his first, that's his first partnership try. I don't think so. Good for him. Yeah, that's true. No, he scored in the champions cup.
00:47:51
Speaker
Yeah, there you go. But it's his first third try. He took it away from him, but he scored. Yeah, that was amazing. So, good one, George Joyce. You know, he's Bristol thrown through and, you know, you saw how excited the players were for him. And good on Jimmy Goppard for...
00:48:10
Speaker
Tell him the ref, don't bother going up. He scored. I appreciate stuff like that more and more every day. Like don't go, he got it. Like, let's not waste our time with the TMO. He got it. Right. Why are we talking about this? Like, he got it. Yeah. The guys who say they didn't get it or, you know, I'll like it a lot. So good on Jimmy G. Yeah. Attaboy. Yeah. So Bristol, you know, this is a sign of a very, of an excellent team, obviously.
00:48:40
Speaker
They're missing lots of pieces. Some they'll be missing for a long time. Some they'll get back soon. And they're still just able to muscle out. Bonus point wins by 17. So that is a sign of a quality team for sure. In the driving rain. And not just bruising forward tries too. They scored
00:49:04
Speaker
Right. So these are, they scored some open play tries, not like, um, another team that we'll get to in a little bit. Yep. Yeah. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna,
00:49:16
Speaker
We're going to zip over to Muddy Park. I refuse to call it Sandy Park at this point because that's not grass and that's not sand. That's mud. And that's an awful looking pitch. I'm sorry for the groundskeepers that have to deal with this pitch because it looks like it's just not helping, but damn, it's in awful condition right now. The people I understand there's, there's weird people out there who have this thing against artificial turf. Um, but.
00:49:43
Speaker
you're going to tell me you'd rather see that. If you're going to play in conditions like that, fucking play it on turf because at least the ball would be still a little slick, but players just couldn't run. They couldn't move their feet. They affected their ability to play rugby because they had to deal with the footing.
00:50:02
Speaker
And that just kills it. It just, yeah, it's not, it becomes just a fucking sploosh fest. And that's not cool with teams that want to play open style. And I get that that's, you know, that benefits Exeter tremendously to drag them down. But, you know, if you had,
00:50:23
Speaker
Yeah, you can treat your field better. I don't see how there's an excuse for for having it feel that fucked up. Yeah, I mean, at this level, that's that should be an embarrassment. Like they should be embarrassed to have a field like that to be perfectly honest. We see we see other pitches that are better cared for, too. That's the other thing. Like it's not like it's not like we see baths, you know, the wreck, like that field that's torn the fuck up. Yeah. The next the next weekend. Yeah. There may be patches that are bad, but, you know, after a few weeks, it's fine.
00:50:53
Speaker
extra Sandy Park. There's no reason for the field to look like that at all. None unless they want a bog like like bath this. Yeah. And you know, the stoop looks immaculate most weeks, um, as does Ashton gate, you know, there's, there's a lot of nice looking grass pitches and sorry to say, Sandy park is not one of them, but to the rugby, we will get there eventually. Um,
00:51:18
Speaker
Quinn's just let this one slip away. Like frustrating for the Quinn's. When Lewis went off, I thought that I, that's, that was the end of the match for me. Yeah. He's just so much for that team and, and 55 minutes in. So he, you know, that he was still still, I still shy of, of, of where you'd want him to be, but, but to have to have to come out due to injury is not, that's not good. It doesn't bode well. And it clearly affected the team.
00:51:48
Speaker
They're not the same, because they're not the same without him. He's just that good. No, he's clearly got an influence on this Quinn's team, as their captain now. So that's a load of credit to him. It's just a good old slog fest really in the end. And really this type of match we deserve better. So it's too bad that it had to be that way.
00:52:16
Speaker
I was really disappointed that it just had to be such a fucking chop first. And it kept Sam Simmons off the board, by the way.
00:52:24
Speaker
Yeah, that's true. He had a couple of potential opportunities that he just didn't quite have footing and didn't, you know, didn't quite have his same pop. So you're slowing down your burner. You're slowing down your best player. And maybe that's worth it if it's, if you're slowing down Marcus Smith too, but yeah. Yeah. And, and Marcus Smith is, you know, he'll deal with it. Right. He's done it and he's got a, he's got a pretty nice number nine that feeds in the ball too, that can look after it.
00:52:53
Speaker
for him in case with Danny care. But yeah, he's he's learning and he's learning pretty quickly at that. So I love the boy and I hope I hope this is only going to get better for him. And one guy I want to just give a good notice to was Will Evans. He plays balls off in this match deserves every bit of plot that he got that dude. We have 16 tackles. That's pretty good. We'll get to another guy that had a bunch of tackles later on.
00:53:24
Speaker
16. That's a nice half. Yeah, five turnover. Turnovers one though as well. So, you know, that's a seven. That's a really good seven right there. So yeah, they found their seven. They're good. Excellent. Seven. Yeah. That was well done for them. All right. Let's, let's burn it through a few more here. It was nice to see Vermeulen back on the pitch. It's been a while since he's been around.
00:53:47
Speaker
Right. Yeah, it's been it's been a bit. He started this match for the first time. So he got 60 minutes or a little over 60. And so, yeah, good on him. He I'd like to see more from him. I think that capstick has been the better player recently than than the green has been. But I just wanted to acknowledge for millions presence on the field. Yeah, it was good. It's John up to Kingston Park real quick. A couple of late subs.
00:54:12
Speaker
kind of causing a few things to go a little haywire. Causing a ruckus. Yeah. Best moment of this match was the nice little image we have of the two Mattavacis from across from each other. Joel and Josh Mattavacis across from each other. That was really cool. And mom and dad take a picture. That's pretty cool. You know, that really is. I would definitely take a picture of that. You know,
00:54:41
Speaker
There's something about this bath team that just seems to have started. They're nudging in the right direction after having a very, very bad run. You know, they beat, they lost last week to eggs or that's a tough ask, but they beat sale. They beat, they've won, they've won three or four matches before that. So.
00:55:02
Speaker
You know, good on Stuart Hooper and his boys, because this could have been just, once they lost to exit, they could have just gone back into whatever it was, their shell. Yeah, they beat Northampton before that, they beat Sail, and they beat Gloucester. So, you know, they're beating some of the teams they're supposed to be, but at the same time, like...
00:55:19
Speaker
That was a struggle for them before. Yeah, that was not something that was easy for them in that really bad run. Really, they should feel, except with everyone except for your sale, Exeter, Bristol. There's nobody in the league that bath looking at them on paper, I'd be like, they have no chance of this. No, they should be beating the majority of the teams.
00:55:43
Speaker
And they weren't. So it's not just, you know, it's not just like, you know, the shags, they're like Gloucester, unfortunately, we're having a tough, tough, tough season. But they should be beating Gloucester even if Gloucester weren't having a tough season. Yep. Just on paper. Right. And Newcastle have been kind of, you know, the
00:56:03
Speaker
Bitches to play against, to be perfectly honest. They're hard to beat. They're hard to beat. They're losing matches, but they're hard to beat. They're not an easy out. They make you work. Yeah, they're not an easy out. Generally make you work for it, unless you can score six forward tries in a match. Tom Dunna too. Jack Walker had one. The Hooker had a trick. Yep. And then Henry Thomas had one as well. Yeah.
00:56:26
Speaker
Underhill had one. Underhill had one. Early. He had the early one. I say it to you and I'll say it here. Tom McLaninville belongs in Bass 15. Bar none. He absolutely is. Right. He's there 15.
00:56:40
Speaker
That dude is a hot stepper right now. That, that, that dude's got some feet. Right. I mean, outside of fairly outside of wearing McConaughey, um, Jonathan Joseph, actually, I thought he showed well in this match. Um, but it's basically McConaughey and DeGlanville as your, those are your, your impact players that if you, if you need to play, they're your guys that you want. Yeah. From the back line. Yep.
00:57:02
Speaker
Yep. No argument on me back row for bath. And this one was very intriguing. Tasty. I liked it. I called it. So I was happy the way it looked too. Cause yeah, damn that, that is fuck. I like miles read. I feel like the
00:57:20
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, what are you going to do? Keep to loop a foul towel out in the form he's in, right? You're not, but you're not so good. I mean, good on bath for having that type of, you know, about this. If you have, if you, your, your back line, you know, they go into, you know, some knockout play it's.
00:57:36
Speaker
fallow, under hill Mercer with miles read as your, as your back row sub. And then you, you know, whichever one needs to come out of those three, he can replace and you slot, you know, so if like Mercer has to come out, you just slot fallow back at eight. Yep. He's like, you know, if under last to come out, you put read it at seven. Like you just, you have the options. Yeah. And they're spoiled a little bit there. That's really nice to see for them. Hell of a hell of a back row. You know, and it was a little disappointing for me because this is what I wanted to see for a back row for.
00:58:07
Speaker
for Newcastle save Mark Wilson, Graham, Vanderbilt, and Chick. And really, they disappointed a little bit. And that's really unfortunate to see, because I thought that was definitely one of the best back rows. I mean, Vanderbilt had 24 tackles.
00:58:21
Speaker
I thought he, I thought he showed up. That's very, that's very 70, 760. Like he played well. Um, for the most part, he did have five missed tackles though. So, but he had 29 opportunities like, damn, he's in the right spot. He's there at least. That's, that's yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking of some operators in space. So yeah. So good on the bath boys for getting that done. Um, let's hop over to,
00:58:51
Speaker
A disappointing thing that Alex Anderson should have, Northampton 17, sale 14. Alex Anderson is going to absolutely ruin this one. They controlled a lot of this match and somehow came out the wrong side. Territory possession were both in favor of sale and that's their game.
00:59:11
Speaker
Right. And it took a late try from lewd to, to really make it a game, a game. I mean, it was, yeah, it was 64th minute. So it kind of got to squeaky bum time, but yeah. So they just, they're not, they don't have enough in it. And if, especially against a team like the saints who have been just Swiss cheese when it comes to defense.
00:59:36
Speaker
Yeah, they just don't have the attacking options. You need to cut them up and they have the the opportunity to cut them up was there. Yeah, but I mean when you're rolling out.
00:59:45
Speaker
Hill and Sam James and McGuigan that there's a few players that just aren't going to, they're not going to move the ball unless like a miracle occurs. So like, it's just the way it is. Hammersley was okay. Reed is young. Um, but didn't, you know, he, he, he showed a couple, um, couple sparks, but they just don't have much going on back there. Right.
01:00:10
Speaker
So it's going to, it's going to be rough. They're, they're, they're going to struggle to, you know, take advantage of the weaknesses that the team like Northampton have. Yeah. Really disappointing for them. Really disappointing for them. All right. Let's, uh, we'll top over to Gloucester and Leicester. Again, something that I felt a match. I felt like Gloucester probably had within their grasp and Leicester are winning ugly. This is what they do. And this is how they're going to do it for a while. I have a feeling.
01:00:41
Speaker
So it's, yeah, that was a rough match. Yeah, it was. It really was. It was fun, but rough. Yeah. There was, there was a lot of meh about this match. Right. And it's later score. It was, it was a great score against his old club. Yeah. Yeah. It's see him back in and scored. Yeah, absolutely. And you know, you feel like,
01:01:09
Speaker
Gloucester attacked better in this match than Lester did, but yes, they were very inaccurate at times. And that's what killed them, you know, which has been their fucking bugaboo forever forever. Um, they're, they're very Worcester like in that respect. Yep. No, no question about it unless you're a little bit too. Let's be real.
01:01:31
Speaker
Right. Um, yeah, it was just the Lester Lester somehow put more points on the board. That's really what they shoved it. They shoved over one more, one extra one, which was the Wells try. That was a really, that was it. Oh man. I don't know what to tell you. So let's go to, and let's go real quick to Sunday. If I were to tell you that you were going to have 73% percent possession and 81% territory, you'd assume that you won, right? Right. And that's Worcester in a nutshell. And they lost.
01:02:01
Speaker
20 to 17, London Irish win. And if there was a man of the weekend to play, certainly in the league, it has to be player Cowan. Like he played, he came off of the very, he had 34 tackles. He missed one tackle. He was one tackle short of getting a hundred percent on 30 plus tackles. Right. I mean,
01:02:24
Speaker
The man's back was clearly aching after lugging those giant clangers around home. Of course he had to come out. Oh man, a lot of credit to that man. That's the best back row, by the way, for sure. Two is two eight, Rodgerson and Cowan.
01:02:42
Speaker
No question about that in my head. So that was amazing. Yeah. Talk about it. I don't know how the hell you keep going with that many freaking collisions in your locker. Yeah. Do you have any carries? Oh, let me see.
01:03:02
Speaker
He had nine meters, so. Yeah, he had a couple of carries in that case probably. That would be a couple, only one. So, you know, 30 odd tackles plus a couple, you know, he's pushing 40 contact areas. That hurts. That's a lot of hurt. So between he and, and Rogerson, Rogerson had 27 tackles missed one. So that's like,
01:03:27
Speaker
That's 60. That's 60 plus between the two. Tui Tui was the slacker because he only had 10 tackles. Only 10 tackles. He did only play 60 minutes. That also had a back turn. Donald came on and he had made 11 tackles. The whole team combined for 262 tackles. Fuck.
01:03:54
Speaker
Like, I mean, you never want to have to put in that kind of defensive shift, but when you can, and you can come out on the right side of the scoreboard, you got to feel really good about it. It probably means you're playing Worcester. That's probably true. It's probably true. Oh man. But, but to them, to them, to the other side, uh, I love seeing Tom Howell back.
01:04:20
Speaker
And I'm sure Worcester do too, because he can scoot and he finds gaps and he opens them up in ways that, you know, only Nick David does. And this has elements to me of Worcester's best back line. Really, if they, you know, Venter at 12, Morris at 13,
01:04:47
Speaker
Um, agreed. And I'm sure there's another wing that I'm, I'm just spacing on, um, instead of, instead of Humphries. I'm not the huge, just fan of Humphries, but this is like, this is a formidable back line that Worcester put out there and they use them. So yeah, to, to see that those, you know, you don't see those many missed tackles. Um, yeah, it's impressive. Yeah, it is. And.
01:05:11
Speaker
And the Centurion nylonette got over as well. That was kind of cool. You know, he's, he's, um, he loves it. He loves his ball and Worcester. So the fact that he was able to get over and they were able to celebrate him in that fashion was pretty awesome for, for his sake. So good on, good on that guy for, for getting that job done. But you know, we talked about it. There's something going on in Brentford.
01:05:35
Speaker
You know, it's there. They're in fifth currently. You know, they're there within your shot of top four, which is crazy to think about grand top four down to top six. Even seven is separated by nine points. Uh, three to three to seven is by nine points right now. So it's very tight.
01:05:58
Speaker
It's tight, but hey, they're
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01:06:00
Speaker
there. And this is not something, you know, our buddy Michael, though, an Irish blogger is probably dancing in his, in his flat over in England right now, because his boys are looking pretty good. They are. And there's a lot, there's lots of like about them.
01:06:14
Speaker
So maybe not their 10. Right. Which I did find it was interesting that people on the Twitters were saying, maybe this, you know, because I think the Prem was boosting his effort. And they're like, maybe this isn't the weekend of tout of rapist as a decent, maybe just put that away. Yeah. Put that in the locker, guys, please. This ain't it. But other than that, that's the only, that's really the only sour spot. That's really the only thing keeping me from
01:06:44
Speaker
outright falling in love with the London Irish, the way I have fallen. Yeah, fix that and we will talk. We will have very good conversations. That is a problem that I need to acknowledge. Yep. I think it's a problem everywhere. Otherwise, I would fucking love the Irish. Yeah, no, I feel it. I feel it. All right. I would go on the Irish. Yeah, there you go.
01:07:11
Speaker
I would go over Champions League, but we're trying to keep this to a dull roar. We'll talk about it on Saturday. I promise. I promise we will. We will. We'll have loads of time to talk. Exactly. And we'll try and talk rather in actually a couple of our six nations, brother, and are going for that. The number one overall spot in that. That's our boys. All right. This is not a fuck around competition. We got we got multiple people at the top there. Yeah, man. Yeah, man. Somewhere not near there.
01:07:39
Speaker
Right. Okay. Um, so in that case, let's do some start set. Let's, I think I start this one off if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. You do have the, you have the first one this weekend, the rebels versus ties. Yeah. That one, that one. All right. Um, yeah, this one is not, it's pretty clear going in what's, what's going to happen. Um,
Upcoming Rugby Matches and Predictions
01:08:06
Speaker
The Rebels have been in close matches with everyone and the Toz are just fucking getting pounded. I mean, the Toz even lost to the force. So let's be honest about what we're looking at here. It also shows on the fantasy scoreboard. The Toz are just, they're still actually pretty tough defensively, but they give up points. So Rebels front row, Joe Powell,
01:08:34
Speaker
For them, I temper expectations, because the Toz are actually decent against those positions, but everyone else fucking go. On the other side, the Rebels defense is fucking rough to the opposition. Yeah, I would avoid everyone except for Will Harrison and the Toz front row. Maybe Tizano and maybe Newsom, because you never know, all they need to do is- Right, I kind of like Newsom. Right, they're gambles at the bottom.
01:09:02
Speaker
Yeah, I think yeah, I think because that's their the rebels aren't bad up the middle in terms of being like, they're kind of middle of the pack outside back will be a problem. To my in my in my estimation, at least. So yeah, there's that. All right. What about the force? Anything? Anybody?
01:09:28
Speaker
No, I don't have the force. Oh, I have the force. I have the force. Grapples Taz, dude. Red's in force, ASA. Which one of us is more drunk? Jesus. All right. Anyway. That brings up a question. Are we, are we drinking this week? Not much. Jeez, I'm going to fall asleep if I do that too much. Just be real about this.
01:09:50
Speaker
You know, okay. So with that though, um, reds are actually not terrible against tens. So Jake McIntyre is in play this weekend. If you wish. Um, also on the, on that note, on that note, they're front row, the front row might be okay.
01:10:09
Speaker
I'm not going to lie. The front row might be okay. And then, um, the Reds are a little tough against outside backs, but Richard Kahui playing outside and he's a midfielder. It's better. The choice of the two midfield against the red or outside back against the Reds. You want the outside back. So you're going to take that. So Kahui is a, is a go this week on the other side of it. You know, the, the force aren't terrible for the most part, but there's also a point where you're just like, it's Swiss cheese.
01:10:38
Speaker
And outside back is one of those places that it's like, Mm hmm. Look out. So here it goes. So that would be, you know, there's going to be a new a couple of new brought bodies out there. It looks like so when you follow is the one and I don't screw this up.
01:10:57
Speaker
Dreyos, I say, I don't know if that's it. The one they're fine. If you're, if you're desperate for a new outside back and they're on your wire and, or you pick them up on a hope, then this is actually probably an okay week to play them. Fair enough. And then on the other side, you want to just be a little weary of, um, the word that I'm thinking of is the midfield. So the actual midfield, like current Johnny, just expectations.
01:11:27
Speaker
Trying to. Word alright girl on two yeah over over the over the water to the. Kiwis and hurricanes versus Chiefs. The Linux aren't out yet as the time of recording. I believe that they will be out at the time of release tomorrow because I think they're going up within a couple hours. Probably yeah.
01:11:53
Speaker
I don't know who's playing in this match, but my suggestion is to play them because this is going to be like.
01:12:02
Speaker
This could be a points first. Yeah. This should be a points fest, a fantasy points fest, if not, you know, just a scoring points fest. Um, but I was looking at it and like the chiefs are really strong against front rows. And, um, but then I'm like, wait a minute that the, the canes have a fucking front row. Like their, their hooker doesn't matter who it is, is going to run on you. Um, so, yeah, it might be Coles. Yeah, it might be Coles. It might be, um,
01:12:28
Speaker
Ricatelli, he's going to run. So I can't even tell you to sit a front row against the Chiefs. So yeah, expect points. Take the risk, even if you're not sure. Maybe look out for 12s. That's the only... Yeah, that's usually the toughest spot. But Chiefs usually can score from 12 because they just put bodies out there who just run.
01:12:50
Speaker
Yeah. And well, 12 for the hurricanes is usually a lot of my pay. Right. So same thing. Just go everywhere. There's that part. Unless they stick another playmaker at 12, it's probably going to be a lot of my pay.
01:13:07
Speaker
Yeah. And so, right. There you go. Both these clubs use their 12s as as as weapons. Yeah. All right. Blues Crusaders, big clash, three and four in averages points, points against as well. So this could be tough.
01:13:23
Speaker
Or it could be a big fantasy date. I'm not sure which one. So we're going to make some guesses here. Blue front row is the one front row that can probably go toe to toe with the Crusaders. So you can probably be feel okay about playing them. So I'll give them a thumbs up. Akira and Hoskins, let her rip. Crusaders aren't super strong against loose forwards and they're two of the better ones in the league. So you're going to give that a thumbs up too. On the other side, as far as a sit,
01:13:49
Speaker
When we played better, this is the wrong team to get cutie against though. Like no crucifixion number one against Scrum apps at this point. I would bet knock is, is the, is the starter for this one. I hope so. Or Christie's back then they go. That's the best one. Um, that's their best option for sure.
01:14:05
Speaker
On the other side, Mwunga, this sounds like a duh moment, but actually Blues are number one against fly half. So, but you're still playing him. So let's be real about this. And then also Blues have surrendered their most outside back points to full backs. Will Jordan, thumbs up. Rock and roll. You should feel confident about that one.
01:14:29
Speaker
on the other side of the coin, Scott Barrett, you're probably not going to sit them, but blues teams are number one against locks. And I think he's the odd man out between he and Sam white lock, which doesn't say much cause he still probably get like six points, which is great for a lock, but I'm seeing white lock get like 11 and him get like five. So there you go. All right. Starts.
01:14:54
Speaker
Okay, my start of the week is coming from a pretty outmatched match.
01:15:06
Speaker
from Australia. And yeah, I got to go with Rhys Hodge. I see him having a pretty big day. Taz are struggling against midfielders, and he's a midfielder who can run, even if he plays at 12, which I'm against. But there you go. Rhys Hodge.
01:15:27
Speaker
Everybody sit Rees-Hodge because he's my star of the week too. And the last time we did this, it ended poorly. It was Tamua. Yeah, Tamua. All right, we're doing it again. Yeah, I agree. Like, he is a great player for both he and for them, for the Rebels in Australia. And for whatever reason, the ties are Swiss cheese up the middle. Rees-Hodge is an amazing player on top of all that. So, yeah, he's my star of the week for sure. Who knew? All right, let's hear your sit.
01:15:57
Speaker
Well, let's try this again. So, uh, since week one, this guy has not had a big week and he's going up against a really tough opposition with, um, shall we say less than ideal situations, although they've had arrests. So maybe they'll be able to spark them, but I'm not counting on it. Cause these guys have played two really good opponents and they've shut them down. Uh, my say of the week is from Australia. It's from the same game. It's Jack Maddox from the war ties. I, you know, I was, I was.
01:16:31
Speaker
But I decided to go across the pond and and go with a match because.
01:16:37
Speaker
crusaders are fucking good against Tenz and I'd like to Terry Black a lot but this is the match where he I just don't see him um I score many points outside of his boot really so um this is so he's my sit of the week but it's more of a yeah if you've got like a
01:17:01
Speaker
pretty much like any fucking buddy else that may have a chance at scoring points, start them because I would not expect black to crack 10 this, this week. And that's really what you're looking for. Right. All right. Um, what do you primary and what is six nations next? Um, let's do prem because they're next up on my perfect.
01:17:24
Speaker
I think I'm first on this. No, I'm not. You get the Friday match. OK, the Newcastle wasps. That's what that is. All right. Here, McWiggin and Moolapolar are options. So so Newcastle's front row in an F.R.D. is also a pretty decent option. Stevenson and Penny, too. I thought Burland and Wacocki showed pretty well. And that wasps do allow other teams to run on them. So especially in F.R.D., you know,
01:17:53
Speaker
the you know, Berlin with cookie cookie and Stevenson and Penny are guys you want and Stevenson I think is even a midfielder in FRD. So I guess so. Yeah, look his way on the wasps and the front row is good to go. They may at some barber is knocking down their doors trying to get on the pitch and you know, they're only going to be letting him sit stew for so long. Yeah, no kidding. So any week now expect him back so so that that's still a good get in FR in FRD. Hold on to that.
01:18:23
Speaker
Bassett over Kiberige at the wing. Bassett seems to be scoring points, and Kiberige still hasn't scored so high, I think, since he came back from that concussion. Not that I'm blaming it, it's just that's the cutoff, it seems. Gaskell is a big go. New Castle give up points to Lox, and Gaskell's been... Yeah, he's been on fire.
01:18:47
Speaker
I'd still hold off on Umaga for now. He's problematic. Yep, he is. I agree. Yeah, Quins and Gloucester. Gloucester are middling to porous as fancy defenses go. Could be a good day for the Quins. For the Harley Queens, we'll go low. Props are a tough find, and I'm actually going to name a bunch of them, and my prem starts this week because that was something that Ben and I talked about.
01:19:11
Speaker
Quadzilla is one of them. Go get him. Tyrone Green, if you haven't noticed, he's pretty hot. Even after last week, he's still totally worth it. So give him a go. Brown, he's probably in FRD only this week. Gloss very good against fullbacks and TRM only. So just kind of make sure that he's in your FRD lineup only. James Chisholm, last week's probably a fluke and a once in a bloom thing. So I'd go ahead and bench him.
01:19:36
Speaker
on the other side for the Quinn's or for the Gloucester. Quinn's are a weird one. They're top foreign points against in TRM and bottom foreign points against an FRD. Meh, no idea how that happens when it happened. For Gloucester, Ed Slater, the Quinn's are good against second rows, but I think he still gets the lion's share of everything and he needs to be just gobbling up everything thrown at him. So give him a go. Coretta's looks like an extended run for him out there with
01:20:04
Speaker
some of the injuries that have been picked up and obviously there's also a guy named Olly Thorley that's suspended so give him a give him a go. Quinn's due surrender points to OBs and wings so there's that. On the other side of the coin, 12 trees could be a tough date for him if he's back in the middle. Quinn's are mean up the middle so FRD only just because of his boot
01:20:26
Speaker
And then Ackerman, again, tough against eight. He's not amazing. He played well this past weekend, scored well. So if you're really inclined to, you can play him in FRD, but that would be it. Okay, over to the aforementioned rec for Bath versus Worcester. If you hadn't heard from when we talked about it earlier, this show, the Bath front row is back. So go. I'm done. I'm done.
01:20:55
Speaker
Um, and Walker, if you, you know, he might be worth the start of him if he's on the bench, cause he'll get over. Um, and, um, under Helen Mercer, as we talked about her, her great fucking combo, um, pay attention to Beth's 10 situation, obviously, because the fuck knows who, um,
01:21:13
Speaker
Uh, recently dropping and scum and seems to be hurt. So, yeah. So who the fuck knows what's going to happen, but I, I don't think it'll affect Rory. So playing play him. Um, and, and as I said, on the other side for Worcester, uh, you know, Bathurst still fairly leaky back there. So look at, you know, Tom, how, uh, Frankie Venter, Ali Morris and Nick David from giddy the fuck up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I grabbed Nick David for TRM. Mm-hmm.
01:21:42
Speaker
Hell yeah, Exeter and Lester, this is gonna be ugly forwards, bring it on, backs, not so much. Lester, our stop four defense along with Exeter, end points against in both formats. E, so for the Chiefs, Hepburn is a good, this is a good week to roll him out there. He's fairly highly owned. This is the week to do it. Tigers are soft against props. Joe Simmons, this is also a good week to roll him out there. Fly halfs do very well against Lester. So go ahead and give him a thumbs up.
01:22:09
Speaker
I know he's had some rough weeks and we've talked about how he probably shouldn't be in every lineup every week. He's okay this week.
01:22:16
Speaker
On the other side of the coin, Maunder is still too highly owned for too little that he does, and Lester are very good against halfbacks as well, so no. Yannis Kirsten, why? Like so much why would that guy? I had him for a hot minute because of his price. He's not productive, and Lester are also good against locks, so yeesh. On the other side, four of the Tigers, as I mentioned, Exeter, top four in fancy defense, so you get to find your spots. Dan Cole, if you're one of the 5% that own this guy,
01:22:46
Speaker
Congrats, you can play in this week. Van Portbleat, if he's in, play him in either format. Exeter, extremely soft against that position. Wiggles is probably a TRM only because of seven points that he scores. Again, sorry to mention this again. Pretty steward. No, just no. Exeter, I mean to that position, so sorry. Great player.
01:23:13
Speaker
Not his week. Yeah. Um, and again, the same thing, tough week for Cobus van Wijk or Nadal. I guess there again are also tough against the wings as well. So outside backs are just not friendly for them.
01:23:26
Speaker
Overton, Northampton versus Bristol. Bristol are still that fucking roughness to go against. But Tom James, I'd still go with him. Pierce Francis, where the fuck did he come from as a fantasy scorer? Suddenly, he's been putting up a ton of points. I'd back him against Bristol, because apparently, he's going to be their kicker, I would assume. I think so. It's not him, it's Grayson. I just don't know.
01:23:54
Speaker
Everyone else, though, I'm just not sure about. So I'd kind of shy away from Northampton this weekend. For Bristol, temper expectations on the wings. So Northampton, as much as they give up points pretty much everywhere else, wings, they're actually pretty strong against. So Nailago, idiolocan, temper expectations. Don't expect it as much.
01:24:21
Speaker
The Piers O'Connor, yep. Tiff Eden in 10 is a maybe. Nice. Certainly as a point scorer. Locks in Vooey are very much a go. And Hughes at 8, yes, but sit the other flankers. So even Vooey at 6, yeah, go with him because he should score points as the locket flank. But there are other flankers that will struggle.
01:24:43
Speaker
Right. Yeah, I agree. Um, all right. So the other match, the one, the one match we're not going to watch this weekend in the, in the, in the watchathon, uh, sale and London Irish. Um, so it, he,
01:25:00
Speaker
The numbers say play him in terms of who he's going against, but he is way too highly owned for me and I don't like him. And it's kind of you stays and like, yeah, no, thanks. Like, no, although he, oh, he dropped since I last looked at this. So he was at like six now he's done the four. So congratulations. Some of you got smart.
01:25:20
Speaker
Uh, congratulations. Um, so yeah, they're starting to lead with a negative on that one, but that was just one that kind of bugged me. I was just like, that seems a little bit off. But anyway, um, Akers back, you can give him a go. Well, an Irish aren't particularly tough against them and he's probably going to play most of the match. He had his warmup match. Yeah. He's good. He's good. He's good. He's good. Um, and then as far as.
01:25:46
Speaker
Yeah, it's just there's a lot of players on sale. I just drive me nuts and Faf is one of them. I'm sorry. Yeah, no, well, he gets negative points. So no, uh, JLDP is good though. Like give that guy a thumbs up. He's, he's a lock in FRD and he plays, he plays flanker mostly. So, and he plays a good flanker at that. He scored this past weekend, obviously as well. So that's, that's your thumbs up there for the Irish. Um, if Blair Cowan continues to make those kinds of tackles, you are playing him because that's,
01:26:16
Speaker
That's points in the bag. No problem. That's money in the bank right there. So that's a go. And also, Ollie Hasselkallen seems to have come around. Yeah, he's back. Yeah. So he seems like his old self. I know sale don't like they're particularly tough against OBs usually.
01:26:39
Speaker
I think he, I think he'll be okay this week. Um, especially a partner still out. Like that's the pro that's that being the kind of the caveat I'll put on that. Right. That's what I'll put on that. And then, um, I, I love this guy, but for whatever reason up the middle, this is not going to be his day and he's not scored that well anyway. Um, I'm going to say Curtis Roan is a no.
01:27:00
Speaker
He's he needs to score. He needs to score these days to get his score up and he hasn't scored for a bit. No, this is and this is a tough outfit to score against. Yeah, that's gonna now we get sale. That's pretty easy. Yeah. I'll go with it. Alright of the weeks.
01:27:16
Speaker
Uh, so my start of the week, you, you've mentioned, uh, this particular match and you may have mentioned this particular player, but, um, I'm going to name him as my start of the week and it's, um, yeah. Hooker against Gloucester. Um, all day, easy money. Scott Baldwin is my start of the week. Yeah. Yeah. I like him. Yeah. He's played really well.
01:27:41
Speaker
All right. Well, my guy is going against one of the more poorest defenses in the league and he's shown his versatility in the ways he can attack for his club. His club also just love to attack period, which is why we love to watch them. And he is definitely going to drive that, that boat for a little while here. And if you haven't noticed, he's like, he might be one of the best full backs in the league right now. And
01:28:07
Speaker
Yeah. So bringing all the experience from the All Blacks, it's the All Blacks and Bristol fullback, Charles Pyotel. That's my start of the week. I cannot tell you how close we came. He's doing that too. I'm doing that again here. The only reason I didn't was because I think Hooker will score more points than a fullback. Although, but yeah, if you're looking for a back of the week, oh, fuck yeah, Pyotel. That's probably it. Yeah, I think the
01:28:32
Speaker
worst defense against full backs is averaging 20. And it's like, that's not that much. But then you got to figure most full backs are fucking dog shit and score like zero points. Yeah. There's a lot that do. Right. So, um, then Pieta was a very special, he's a special player. Yeah, for sure. But yeah, we came extremely close to having the same start of the week again. Um, my sit of the week, uh, another one of your matches and, um,
01:28:58
Speaker
just a real bad matchup for a real good player, at least fantasy wise. Although I've been coming around on him as a 10 as well. I think he's, you know, I kind of thought he was a fullback at first playing 10, but no, he can actually play some little 10, but not this weekend.
01:29:15
Speaker
He's playing Exeter and Exeter just fuck up 10. So it's Zach Henry. Yeah. Sorry kiddo. Sorry. Yeah. Mine comes from the same match as my start.
01:29:30
Speaker
These guys are assholes to play against. And that's just no way around it in terms of fantasy. And I really, really liked this guy as a player. And he's just, you know, the whole family is one of my favorites at this point. And I love him, but this is a position that Bristol just absolutely murder and it's hooker. And that hooker in this case is the Fijian and Northampton hooker, Sam out of AC. Oh.
01:29:52
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We'd like seeing Matt of AC smile as they break. I know. We love that though. We do love that. All right. Let's rip through Six Nations real quick. I believe you are starting us off. Yep. Um, for Scotland, Scotland versus Italy. Yeah. Um, so I was looking at guys who don't score too much or, or aren't, you know, maybe not as highly under as they should be, but do on vendor mirror and, and, and Darcy Graham. Yes. Um, and then other, other than that,
01:30:17
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don't go out of your way. Um, you should, you know, if you already have guys on your team, just fucking play them. Um, that they'll do, they'll score fine for their position. Uh, on Italy's side, garbage is facing the top fly half defense and it's by a long shot. Um, Scotland are killing tens. So, um, yeah, not, not a good one, uh, for him this week, my R and B's you should be fine because they'll, they'll get their opportunities. Money and money is only a problem because he's the guy they take off the fucking field when they get a yellow card.
01:30:47
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All right. I agreed. I agreed. All right. Let's go over to Dublin, Ireland, England. Englanders still sit as one of the toughest defenses in the comp based on average points against. What holes can we find for the Irish? Rob Herring, England have the worst points against for hooks. So go ahead and give him a thumbs up if you need a, you know, a contrarian play at this point, which some of us are going to need in order to make some ground up. Any of the Irish locks are actually goes to,
01:31:14
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Henderson, Ryan, even Byrne, you know, maybe Byrne is a sexy even is probably going to be okay. That's a place that England seemed to be surrendering points, which is really weird for England, but that's how it goes. On this other side of the coin, James Lowe, he's not doing it and England have kept wings in check. And some really good ones at that. So I would say he's a no go. With the exception of LRC.
01:31:38
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That's a sore spot. Healy, again, he's not getting it done and England are tough against props. So that's, he's too highly owned and not scoring well. So I would go ahead and ditch him. On the other side, it's Ireland are now second to lasting points, not dead last. Let's get some England players to fill your squad with. Maxi, if he still starts again, Ireland are terrible against full backs. Do it.
01:32:04
Speaker
He did the opportunities, so I'd like to see him play again. Daley had dick hands, so. Yes, he did. Dildo hands. Mark Wilson, Island Surrender Points to Fangers, and this game might be his jam. So go ahead and give him a thumbs up if he's in your squad. On the other side of it, May, Island have contained some really good names. The Six Nations on Wing. He's another one that's going to get added to this list, I feel like. So there's that. I don't understand why he's still on the field, but that's me.
01:32:32
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Yeah. Um, and I'm not, I don't like this guy and I'm not doing it just because I don't like him, but Ford, he's not the worst option this week. Um, but there are, and there are some betters, better options at the same time. So if you do have another 10 to roll out there, not named Ford or garbage, he do it. That would be my advice on that. I agree. Um,
01:32:54
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over to the match that everyone will be watching, especially us. France versus Wales. Wales are giving up the most points to 10s, but they're stingy on the front row. So that may change how you deal with France, I guess, a little bit. Like, Chalibert, DuPont,
01:33:15
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Yeah, go with him. Marchand, maybe hold off on him. On the other side for Wales.
01:33:26
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There's points on offer against France. Alan Wynn-Jones, Louis Rees-Zamit, Faletau. Expect a dip from Tipperick because France are really stingy to flankers. And he only got 21 versus England. So it's not that he's not going to score 20-plus points. But we have certain people that we know of who routinely captain Tipperick. This is the week if you're going to not captain him.
01:33:51
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it would be either against both England and Wales, I'm sorry, and France. So, yeah, hold off on the tip of the rig this weekend. There's plenty of options like a Hamish Watson who will score both. Probably, yeah. Yeah, I agree.
01:34:08
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All right, to the of the weeks. So my start of the week. This guy has been probably the man have my start of the week because you've had him already. So yeah, there you go. So this guy, he's actually been one of the more consistent performers outside of Dupont at his position.
01:34:25
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He's going to, he's going against a team that like to surrender points and his style, I believe fits very well. So, and he's going to be a little pissed after last weekend as well. And I, and he's basically played most of the minutes that are on offer for his club, for his team. So my start of the week for the final round of six nations is Glasgow warriors and Scotland scrum half Ali price from the same match.
01:34:52
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You're going to have him on your team. This may be a good replacement captain. And actually, I will say that I'm pretty pleased with the way Luis Abbott turned out with his, what, 41 points. That was a good one, yep. And it turned out very well. This is another one who, again, if you're a Tipperick captain regular, I'd maybe consider replacing him with Stuart Hogg this weekend. Hogg has been just fucking on fire. And yeah.
01:35:19
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He's going to have fucking opportunities. Yeah, I believe it. Yep. So, so the week, um, my, so the week is going to be from, uh, the island England game. I mentioned how awful wings have done against the English.
01:35:35
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And I, again, I really liked this player. I don't think it's done. I don't think this is a knock on him by any means whatsoever, but he's super highly owned and he just hasn't scored well. The six nations and he had, usually he has a match or two. They score as well in six nations. Hasn't happened this year. I don't think this is the week that it happens for him. And I really liked this guy, but my, so the week is Munster and Ireland winger, Keith Earls.
01:36:00
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Fascinating. I'm staying with the same match as our starts of the week and sticking with it as far as saying that since he's facing the top fly half defense, give him a pass this weekend. And so I'm codifying that advice with making him my sit of the week. Again,
01:36:19
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Not same with Tipperick. It's not that he's not going to score well. He may get 15 to 20 points, but he's not going to get really more than that. I wouldn't expect. So, Paolo Garbisi. There are plenty of better scoring 10s available for the weekend. So, go with them. Sit Paolo. Yep. I agree. Okay. So, we have some pick them and we'll be out. Alright. Rebels toss.
01:36:45
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Rebels. Rebels. Okay, by default, you get the Chiefs, I get the Hurricanes. Done. Reds force. Reds. Reds. The big one, Blues Crusaders. And this is Blues. It's in Auckland. Blues.
01:37:10
Speaker
Okay. There'll be some more ground to be, to be separated comma slash gain for me. All right. Over to the from Newcastle wasps. Hmm. Wasps just aren't like, they're not showing up. No, they're not. This could be this, you know, the way Newcastle have been going though. Um, this could be a match where they, they get into form and it depends on the lineup that they put out. So yeah, I'm going to go with wasps though. I think they're good enough to get it done.
01:37:36
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It's one of those like they'll struggle, but they'll, they'll get it over the line. They'll finally get over the line. Yep. I agree. Cleansed Gloucester. Sorry, Gloucester. You're going up against the wrong team right now. Again, um, Quinn's are going to be mad coming off of Exeter and a game that they couldn't play the way they wanted to play just based on the field conditions. So, uh, they're going to take it out on Gloucester a little bit. Bath Wooster. Bath. Bath. Yep. Exeter, Luster. Luster gave him a game for a little while last time around at Welford road.
01:38:06
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Yeah, that that's this is going to be at that muddy park. Yeah. And Lester are not built to operate in those conditions. So no, not yet. And they're not built to operate against the Kansas City, no exit or the Kansas. They're really not built to operate. It's definitely not built to operate against them, but certainly not an exit or either. Yeah. Yeah, no. Yeah. So then we have North Hampton and Bristol. Bristol.
01:38:35
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Bristol. Yeah. I don't think the bears are going to stumble to a team like the saints. I think they're not going to say we're better than you. We're going to outclass you. Yeah. They've figured it out a couple of times so far. Sail Irish. This will be interesting. This is at AJ Bell. Okay. I actually, we can't do a caveat because what if this is, what if AJ has a sit and that changes things. Yeah.
01:39:03
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I think the Irish have too much power. I think they have. I think they find, this is the game. They kind of turn the corner and say, here we are. We are here to be a legitimate contender. Yeah. Or at least for playoff. Yeah. And they will show they they've shown that they'll step up and throw a bunch at a top tier team. Right. And sale or, I mean, well, lewd has been steadying for them to say the least. And so is AJ, but I think they're, I still think they're vulnerable. I don't like them.
01:39:34
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they're positioning right now. And, you know, I don't think they're red. They have their feet as onto them as they think they do. No, I think they're missing a few things. Scotland, Italy. Scotland. Yep. I think this is Emory Field too. Yeah. Oh man. Ireland England. Oh. And it's Dublin. Ireland.
01:40:00
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Yeah, I think I'm going to take them to, um, England have a pretty good streak against them at this point. I think this is where it comes to a crash. Yeah. Unfortunately, France and Wales, do Wales get the grand slam done and leave all questions on, uh, and slam. Yes, they do. Yeah. France, France, for all of their Frenchness have not thought their loss against England was not a French.
01:40:25
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performance yeah like the bad first right they're still do and they're out right at this point um really they can't catch whale oh they can because they have two games there are plenty of chances for them to catch them but but a matter of you know one winning this match and two uh taking it to scotland one in the rescheduled match as well right which i
01:40:50
Speaker
Yeah, I just, I can see the French, you know, let's, let's see what they do when they face a little bit of adversity. And I'm going to, I'm going to bet on whales cause they just are a little, they're touched by something right now. Yeah. They've been pretty deep. They've been well gathered with them, with themselves there. Okay. Wait, who are you going? I'm going with Wells. Okay. Yeah. I am going with Wells. Didn't get an official ruling on that one. Got that one. Official ruling is okay. So.
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