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Season 3- Premiership Mayhem Draft Special
30 Plays5 years ago
It is the Premiership Live Draft Special as TFRY are joined by the man known as The Fantasy Rugby Geek. As luck would have it, Jarrod and George were right in the middle of another draft. On top of that there were at least 1 other member of the Champi-Yanks League in the middle of this other draft.
Tune in for all of our mistakes, issues and sneaky picks, mix in some chaos to boot. Kick back and have yourself a laugh at our expense.
Follow our friend George via Twitter: @frugbygeek or his website: https://fantasyrugbygeek.com/
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 Rugby Draft Complexity
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Phrase and Early Yanks. My name is Jared Dunne. I'm Dunne Garden. And with us, of course, is the man, the myth, the legend, George Hawes, Rancher New York, the geek. How are you doing, buddy? Gentlemen, it's an absolute pleasure to join you tonight. Looking forward to it. I hope you got your draft strategy sorted. Yeah, well, you and I are playing a fun game of cat and mouse with two drafts going at once. Didn't realize that we were going to have another one going. There's a team not us. This full team thing almost threw me off.
00:00:39
Speaker
Yeah,
Player Selection Strategies in Rugby
00:00:40
Speaker
I know. I haven't even considered props or hookers in my personal rankings. But they're interchangeable, pretty much. Hookers, maybe, you want to think about hard. But the props, those are guys, they're like locks. You pick them up, you cut them. There's no real reason to draft them. There's only a handful of big scorers. In fact, the barf front three are always a handy front row. Correct.
00:01:08
Speaker
And we got about four minutes till we kick off our Champions League draft. It should be rather interesting. We picked the line up the other night. If you weren't listening, it was fun. Justin just made it back, apparently. Thirsty, Jared. Yeah, let's practice here, shall we? And you'll think of that. I don't know if I'm going to go water until I've done that.
Impact of COVID-19 on Rugby and FRD
00:01:36
Speaker
Cheers, guys.
00:01:38
Speaker
Thanks for joining us. This is going to be fun. It's not great for Justin to fuck my day up with his first day. Do you go, Radra, here as one? The personality of getting COVID. I don't know. It's tough to go away. That could actually
00:02:07
Speaker
in a way, be quite good for FRD. If the Fiji team had to put out of the automations cup altogether, then that might actually mean that they'll be able to play a few more prem games. Who knows? This season is just going to be chaos, isn't it? It is. And we're seeing it in the NFL over here. It's getting nuts. Yeah, it's starting to stack up.
Chaos and Strategy in NFL vs Rugby
00:02:31
Speaker
You plan for what you can plan for. Absolutely.
00:02:36
Speaker
Yeah. Um, but it almost does. Well, I mean, the cynic in me is saying it almost helps because, you know, you don't worry about him getting it again once he's healthy. True. Does he, oh, does he have symptoms? I don't know. I don't know. That'd be the question. I suppose. I don't, I haven't seen any reporting that he has it. I just figured, um, but along with you guys, if he has it. Yeah, that's all right. The only thing I saw is a test deposit. That's it. I didn't know if he had symptoms or anything like that. Um,
00:03:05
Speaker
Yeah, but I mean, Fiji don't have the Six Nations to worry about. So picking them isn't so, you know, unless there's something going on behind the scenes that we don't know about, but, you know, other than that. 60 seconds to go. Yeah. They got Muramurivalu to Asui. Any other prem plans? I mean, Sam Atavasi, who's not super relevant in this, in this situation.
00:03:33
Speaker
Shouldn't I just get passed on where I did? Oh, I didn't. I was like right before we started this. Yeah. Yeah. Sam Medivace is doing one of the, it comes to mind up top of the head. Yeah. I don't think they picked Appy from Northampton. So I think he's still out there. Not that again, not a super, um, yeah, not a super like relevant asset in this format, but meh.
00:04:03
Speaker
You know? There we go. Right. Who's Earl for Lions? Carrod. That's Jared. Cool. Sons of Zeus. That's Antoine. And Hawaii Trier's Carrick. Yup. Lionel 2020. Duncan. F.O. 2020. Donkey armbands. Mark. And then Grumpy old prop. That had to be. That's the one. And he goes. OK. All right. Well, that made my decision for me. Later.
00:04:33
Speaker
I got Sam Simmons in both leagues. I'm not sad about it. Yeah, he's one of the guys you need to just do that. You don't worry about it.
Front Row Player Drafting Tactics
00:04:40
Speaker
No. I'm sorry guys. Bye. Yeah, I might have gone and this might help you out short and I'm sure you already have your ideas. I might have gone Joe Simmons and Sam Simmons did a big pick first. Yeah. Who just went? Yeah, personally, I'm going to be going fly hard. I lost his front row. Third kick. You know what? I fell into that trap with Bristol last year and they finished like eight
00:05:02
Speaker
Out of 12 front rows, so I'm... Martha Smith. Martha Smith's a good pick, yeah. Yeah, Kerry. The worst front row have got a couple of people who pay in the back row as well. That does not matter anymore, Greg, so they're actually not a bad... Yeah, that's quite early. Yeah, I wouldn't jump there. Is Pietal hurt? I think he's up now. I don't understand why he's still there then.
00:05:30
Speaker
Well, because he obviously didn't end here well last year. He didn't. That's true. But now he's going to be playing because everybody have a people who are away. So he's got a chance. He'll have every chance to regain his form. I had to go wild. Yeah, he went wild. There's Joe Simmons. I was going to go for him, so I'm just going to go to paint here. Yeah, there you go. We've made yours before you. You're welcome.
00:05:58
Speaker
Yeah, it could be a points, a big, yeah, character, right? They could be a big points score this year. They could, you know, where am I? Oh, we just went. You're picking the other one there, big guy. Yeah, I'm going third option of, all right, that's the one. You should take it, oh, pretty soon. Yeah, you did talk about taking them.
00:06:27
Speaker
And your boy. Jimmy G. That Jimmy G. Going for steady points. Priestlin was actually my, honestly he was my number two. I had him, I had a Simmons.
00:06:49
Speaker
Interesting. I mean, really can't go wrong with any of them anyway. Yeah, like Simmons every so often will just go the fuck off.
00:06:57
Speaker
Um, but a lot of times, sometimes he just doesn't put up that much. So it's like, you know, these end of seasons, that's look really good. Cause yeah, he puts up points, but yeah, I saw it is kind of a, yeah. Especially since Eddie doesn't seem to like him at all. Yeah. But I, I'm pretty slim. You can just plug it in and you know, you're going to get like 15 to 20 or so. Cause there's a little doubt who has a kicking team for all three of these guys, even, you know, helps.
00:07:26
Speaker
Also, I went with Goppers because he's playing. He's their kicker too. Yeah. Good. That's a good pick. And he might be playing 10 while Lumaga is going. That's true. There it is. There we go. Okay. Would you go with your next one there? Maylands. See, he's going to be in and around the fringes of the squad.
00:07:47
Speaker
you might get released. You've like handcuffed the uh the
Midfielders and Injury Considerations in Drafting
00:07:51
Speaker
bear's 15. Yeah you kind of have. I guess you'll always have a starting pullback at least. Yeah he would have been my next flatter too. Yeah yeah I had him on my uh my wantless here. Oops uh
00:08:09
Speaker
I'm really trying to avoid anybody away with Six Nation Squad as the first couple picks. Yeah. And after that, all bets are off. I have so much waiting to do. Yeah. Sucks, right? Yeah. At least it's coming back. Yeah. Oh, shit. No, it's not. Yeah. Okay. Oh, Dupree. I missed a pick in the other one.
00:08:34
Speaker
Oh, did you? Shitty. I'm just... Lewis loved them. Could be worse. Yeah, that's way worse than that. Actually, I'm going to take him. Nope. I'm going to take... shit. Don't want us to make it gone. If there's another one away with Fiji, he might actually get a bit more game time then. Yeah. Well, now that he's not playing for them, that helps.
00:09:03
Speaker
So who's going here? We got Hasselkollins and a Flaherty off the board. Anton's up. What else madness will Anton do? He's already gone pretty wild. Please don't ruin my plan. Whatever you do, Anton. What is going on? Who got it? Have you got Fly Horse yet? No, you do. I don't.
00:09:36
Speaker
We'll see what's on the way back. I got to grab him. Because that dude, I grabbed him, Connie. That dude was red hot at the end of the year. Yeah, he was. I'd say that's his template. He had to knock that. Really hard to say now. Adolo finally goes. Woodward. So do we know who? I might pick him anyway, but do we know who the backup 10 for Sheedy is?
00:10:02
Speaker
They got a guy called Tiff Eden. I mean, I guess, I guess, Maylands, if he's there, he's away with England. So I don't see that happening. But if he's not, then it would just mean that Tiff Eden would be the. All right. I'm taking him because he's so good, but I got to find a backup plan here.
00:10:23
Speaker
You were getting it real quick. Yeah, Sheedy just went. No, you took him. No, it was me. DDP, the sons of Zeus. Of course, the South African takes the South African. Yeah. Seems like it has to be a rule, isn't it?
00:10:53
Speaker
Right. He's kind of going for character's taking his time. Big decision. You're up in the other one there, George. Thank you. Thank you. Just sitting right there. Sorry. Too late. I need to pick some front legs. I think I have, I grabbed one. I grabbed, I grabbed all gray.
00:11:23
Speaker
I don't need any more outside bags. That's for sure. This is the other one. What do I have here? I have McConaughey and Sheedy and Sam Simmons. That could be worse. That could be much worse. Nair Voro was just taken by Carrick. Baby bounces back. I'd like to think he's going to. Oh, who just went? Thorley. Thorley. I need to work out a fly half strategy here.
00:11:54
Speaker
Yeah, you might want that. Am I, am I better on my drop to me at 24? You know he's going to miss a shit in that time. I know. I mean, he's going to be great when he's in there, but he'll win you weeks. He'll definitely win you weeks. You know, when does, I think we'll see a litany of runs here of, uh, internationals going mid here. Cause we're all on what pick three or four. Yeah. Yeah. Once we get to that point, I think you guys see some of the,
00:12:24
Speaker
Yeah. Gotta do what you gotta do, man. Gotta do what you gotta do. I'm gonna have to. And then back him up. Where he was at, Camry and Bonaire from, uh, Luis. But he is not away with Argentina, is he? He wasn't playing today. I know that, but I don't know if he's in that team down there. That's the only thing I don't know. No, Sanchez played his fucking ass off in the game. That was great.
00:12:54
Speaker
He's not as young as I thought he was either. Oh, near or Sanchez. No, he's not. No, he's not. Yeah. Oh man. I like this, but. Pressure, Ben. No pressure. Yep. I mean, if worse that worse, if you get out of pet, you get been wrong.
00:13:20
Speaker
Yeah, but I think I'm going to go. He wasn't on my list, but he, that's cause I thought that I might have a shot at mine. I stupidly thought I'd have a shot at who guard here. Um, so I'm going to go with care. That's not bad. Yeah. And then I'm sewing up the fucking hardest position to sell off. Which one's that done with it? Midfielder. Oh, that's a good one. That is a good one.
00:13:50
Speaker
give you that one less thing to worry about i think i know who i want in my next couple pics it's just a matter of are they gonna fall because i have ideas how i get to wait who's that looking there god you're up in the other one buddy here at the same time this is what i was scared of don't be up at the same time in both
00:14:21
Speaker
There you go. Oh, yeah, I like Procter now he's a midfielder for sure. Yeah. And then on the, all right. On our end on the champion. Yeah, Kibery is a good pick always. So now that I've done my.
00:14:38
Speaker
I've executed the strategy I wanted for the most part. It's interesting to see the way that drafts go for fantasy rugby versus NFL. So when you draft football, you're not drafting a quarterback in the first round because you're going to get one of the top 10 to 12, whatever you know. Carrick wanted your guy.
00:15:06
Speaker
Who's CYL, Duncan? Duncan. Duncan has just stitched me up horribly. Oh, look at that. He knew what he was doing. Oh, that's a Tigers fan right there for you. At heart. And then there goes Earl. There he goes. I mean, eventually he was going to have to be there. God, how long do you let that fall? That was...
00:15:32
Speaker
Duncan, he just, he wants to hear this on the podcast. You know what he was doing. You know what Vellon is doing. Exactly. Oh, God damn it. I was hoping that was going to be on the back end. Oh well. Guess not. All right. I'm going to do this guy and. Yeah, you're up. Yep. I'm going to do him. I wanted him last year and he just really never,
00:15:58
Speaker
Yeah. Got cleared because fucking COVID and quarantine and all that shit. So that's one. Don't, don't mind that if I do. Um, yeah. Yeah. That was, that was, um, I was showing good about that one. All right. My, this is what we got.
00:16:26
Speaker
That's who Justin wanted, apparently. You're welcome. Sniped. Yeah, so it's just interesting to like running back. So you get a running back who you can count on every time for 10 to 15 points. That's going to be your 20. That's going to be your number one guy. Whereas in rugby, it's kind of like you
00:16:54
Speaker
There doesn't seem to be a similar strategy maturity every season. Isn't that right? Absolutely. So, so with that in mind, that's why I went to solidify my midfielders. Cause I found that like, if you get, you know, the, the, you know, 10th or 12th outside back, they're not going to be that far off week to week from the top guys, but like you get down to the 10th or 12th midfielder and they'll lose your, they'll lose your games.
00:17:22
Speaker
because they're just, you know, one or two points. That is true. Yeah, it's not completely wrong. So that's that was my strategy here where I went with Gopert and O'Connor. Oh, here we go. Did you get did you get a little drop out there on the year? No, we're good.
00:17:40
Speaker
Oh no. Oh, that was a good pick. Now log up. Definitely going to be under the radar for a little while. Yeah, that's a Ben Rensberg was the second pick. That's a good. That's not bad. I as much as I don't like team, I gotta take him fast.
00:17:54
Speaker
Oh, yeah. That's my half back. You have to. Yeah. Cause he can kick too. That's the other thing. Like people forget, like he'll kick, he'll kick for points sometimes. So that just adds up quickly. Um, see our other league. I got to get somebody here. I'm going to just go softy and take the American in the other league. Let's see. Yeah. Cause my other choice was probably going to be, um,
00:18:28
Speaker
He's going to adapt straight away. He's played a lot of sevens before. All trees. Yeah, only 12 trees is a good pick too. So somebody to just dismiss. He was on my radar for that pick. If I did not get goppers, it could have been 12 trees because of the kicking. You know what? I'm just going to be there.
00:18:56
Speaker
I took the D as many in the other league, and I know I know Duncan has him as a board. So that's karma. That's karma right there. You're probably grab Zach Henry, not just to be safe, but or try to be safe, but yeah, see up in both. Yeah, yeah, nothing stuck in the in that corner. Now he's got both. He's got both leagues that he's picking right now.
Draft Process Challenges and Adjustments
00:19:22
Speaker
Oh, this is so much fun. I never let him have this type of ridiculousness on this one. Just kind of. So I wonder who takes collider. I don't know how bad that is. Or you said like, yeah, it didn't look good. I didn't see what happened because he didn't show it, but Johnny May's gone already. Yeah. This is this format. He's perfectly fine.
00:19:52
Speaker
You know, we all play the rugby mag. That's not in his format by any means whatsoever. This one, he's perfect buying because he knows what the trial line is and that's really important in this one. True. So that is definitely a big one, but yeah, you're not completely wrong. Nope, I do not. I actually have two. Yeah. I actually kind of like where I'm starting with everybody in my, in each position, but now I need to start digging into some
00:20:20
Speaker
Some quality here. Is Thomas Young with whales? No. Do you have an idea in there? Do you need to help you clean up over there or something? Nope, I got it. I lost out on the fliker I wanted last time. Which is what?
00:20:47
Speaker
But some Dombran got taken way too early. Yeah. Well, he's pretty good, so. Yeah. And then he doesn't like them for the fucking reason. So, Tan Yoon will be the prop. And then, who's my next guy going to be? I'm looking at... I need an outside bag.
00:21:13
Speaker
Oh, do you? I really do. Yeah, they're important. I don't have any right now. I need some mitts. Yeah, you got a couple card. Martin. Martin is very tempting, but he is. He's going to be away with England more and more, I think. Who's that March? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, correct. I think now that he sees the season season, never take more. Oh, not care meant more and that's why he's not there.
00:21:42
Speaker
All right. Is that what you're looking for? That's what I was looking for. I don't like the player, but
00:22:12
Speaker
Is there any reason not to pick Mike Brown? No. He'll be fine. Yeah. I could see his game time starting to go down a bit this season. Tyrone Green there as well. Yeah, that is also true. It'll be a race between him and Axton as to who's out on game time. That'll be the thing. Quins are quite stacked in the back for me.
00:22:41
Speaker
You're up in the other lane too, big guy. Oh, wow. You're welcome. I've been doubled up again. You use Fecky Taylor. Yeah, Fecky Taylor's not a bad one.
Balancing Teams and Defensive Strategies
00:22:52
Speaker
I need a little bit of everything, but I've at least got one solid option at all spots, although I'm slightly concerned with one position. Yeah.
00:23:08
Speaker
You know what? Nobody's going to take him for a bit, so I'm going to just keep that in my back pocket and keep quiet. It was quiet as I could possibly just be now. However impossibly quiet I possibly could just be. Oh man. Oh, OK. Still. Move it Duncan, let's go. There you go.
00:23:38
Speaker
And Spencer was going to be my next. That's a good one. Yeah, that was a good one. God damn. I don't know that I even, Oh, I did write him. Yeah, I did. I definitely had him in the back of my head. All right. He should have gone over care. I did have him over here. Oh, well, did you? Yeah. Well, Harry Randall off the board as well.
00:24:07
Speaker
Although if you're going to take him, you got to take Garen, because you'd never know which one of them is going to fucking start lately. Yeah, but the problem is they really eat into each other's points. True. In this format. In TRM, they'll both score like 20s in the same game. In this, they'll get like three and five. Fair enough. It's weird. It's all about the scrum halves in TRM. It's like the most reliable captain pick.
00:24:36
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. If I'm like kind of stuck in a tough spot, that's where I lean. I'm almost like, you know, I'm going to take that just because I'm just going to like, I developed a default to that. Or there's a couple of obviously obvious players. I took hog and I was going to be away, but while he's there, he's going to do it. Yeah, that's the way we are in round one, two, three, four. I can't count your players.
00:25:04
Speaker
So we're in, I can't tell you the exact round, but I can give you a good yes. So we're in round seven, I guess. Yeah. I'm coming back yet. You're picking, are you picking your other leader, George? Back on again. Jeez, this is rapid. It is not, it is not slowing down. There's a lot more. Yeah. I mean, when people live, it goes a little fast. It goes a little faster. Adam Coleman. Oh God, look.
00:25:32
Speaker
All right. You got a good lock in there at least. That's not a bad one. He was one of the higher points per last year for locks. So you could do worse. Have you spotted many locks as loose forwards or any rather loose forwards masquerading as locks in the game? Other than JLDP and, you know. Kirsten. Yeah, that's right. That's the other one. I didn't think of that. Oh, did you take my pick you asshole? You did, didn't you?
00:26:03
Speaker
You son of a bitch, Justin. I liked you. I liked you for about five seconds. And then that happened. You wanted sale? No, I wanted. God damn it. All right. I gotta get this pick in cause I'm coming up on the other one. Damn it. You asshole. Can I say that enough? I don't know if I could. Oh, you know what?
00:26:30
Speaker
Yep. This is a, I think this will be a, I think this is going to be a everlasting pick. There we go. Yeah. Yeah. One will as good as the other. So I figure I'm going to take the one that's not going to go to England. Granted. I'm really happy that Jack Willis is playing for England now and you know, all that, but, um, I need the one that's not going to miss games every, you know, every other month.
00:27:01
Speaker
Any place eight quite often, so give me that. Give me, give me. All right, other league, what do I need? All right, oh, we just had to pick Hutchinson. Went to...
00:27:22
Speaker
Oh. Oh. Watch is okay though, right? I'm sorry. Well, great pick, Eric. No. You can still say the fuck you in an endearing, in an endearing term. Oh yeah, that's a good pick, exit or front row. Yeah, what you just heard was exit or front row in the building. You're not wrong in that thought. Problem is, yeah. Yeah, goddamn.
00:27:51
Speaker
See, we said that. Yeah.
00:28:03
Speaker
There does come a point where it's no longer look, it's no longer look at your rankings. It's look at, you know, look at what you want. My schedule of picks really ends around here at my 56, 57th pick because after that it's, you don't know what you're, you know,
00:28:23
Speaker
You got a plan to get punched in the face this late in the draft. Yeah. 56 57, you're looking at round eight. So by that point, it's like, all right, just start filling your needs and yeah. And make sure that you're not taking stupid pics. Yeah. All right. Who just went? Damn it. Have the captain seat taken away from him, but I'm sure that's not a knock on him. It's just more of a.
00:28:52
Speaker
He needs to focus on other things besides not fucking shit up. Would the London Irish front row be good? The hospital doesn't lay a dude pretty well. Well, now that they have Creeby, now that they have Creeby, they've kind of, they've kind of, you know. What's between them and Bristol at this point. So.
00:29:23
Speaker
I'm going to end up with Bristol. So I'm going to live with that and be happy. They're actually, they're one of my top ones anyway. They're on the list. So it's one of those, I made the, I made the rankings. I trust them. Yeah. I mean, they'll still be good. Like don't, yeah. Don't take that away from them. Yeah. Right. Like don't be, don't be silly. Um, and then the next one is the loader.
00:29:48
Speaker
Ben Loader's good. That's a good one. And he's going to play a really good one. Yeah. Could do worse. All right. I guess I don't need that, huh? Okay. Damn. Let me pick up my other one here. I'm trying to figure out the strategy. What else do we need?
00:30:16
Speaker
I need another one of those, okay. Let's look. Oh, oh yeah, what do I want? Romulan, nice. My back row sorted. Yeah, I like him.
00:30:46
Speaker
I'm trying to figure out my Oh, there it is. I know who my next. I think I know when I speak. Oh, you think I think that's one of you jerk offs. Wait for it. You got a long, long bit of thinking to do over there. Well,
00:31:03
Speaker
I still haven't made my paper this round that you picked your last one for, so give it a wee bit of time. No. Sounds like a U-Pro. Colletri, there it is. Colletri's going. Yeah, I mean, there comes a point where the gamble's worth. Yeah, and who knows, it could be just a... I just don't trust it when they don't show what happened, because that makes me think it's... Nasty. Yeah. It's like... Probably not.
00:31:31
Speaker
in the NFL, when somebody gets hurt, they'll show that injury over and over and over again. I remember... Who was that QB last week, the Washington QB? Was it Carl Allen? I don't remember. I don't know. I wasn't... I'm barely paying attention to the NFL. Same. But it wasn't Alex Smith, though. And that was bad when he did that. Yeah, although they came in.
Media Coverage of Player Injuries
00:31:55
Speaker
He came in for the guy who just broke his leg last weekend. I don't know how you do that. That's kind of weird, right?
00:32:01
Speaker
Oh yeah, you're up. I am. But like, if somebody gets hurt, they're showing that injury. Like I remember there's a guy, Napoleon McCallum, who, his knee was torn to shreds. It was the wrong way. Yeah, it went the wrong way. It was bad. And like, the picture was in the newspaper the next day. Like, this is how this happened. Like, what are you doing? But like, I find, you know, in Europe, when somebody's hurt, they're like, oh, we'll give them some privacy. You know, it's
00:32:28
Speaker
It's not a good situation. It's a little more nice. Yeah. It's like, no, we want to see the blood for Americans. Yeah. That's all. So, yeah, I have no idea what happened to Peledry. Whether it was bad, whether whatever. All right. I'm going to take yes. Bah! That he makes. I like him a lot. He usually did pretty well in FRD super. Super FRD. That's the one where it's
00:32:58
Speaker
Um, but yeah, so I know it's only a short term, short term deal. Um, we'll see what happens, but I can figure out another option for the longterm now at the very least. And I need, yeah, I have to start having answers at other places as well.
00:33:15
Speaker
I would have taken Orlando, but he's away with Argentina. Yeah. Which is how long is that going to last? Um, at least through, you know, whatever, however long the tri nations, because they're playing every, they're playing in every match from here out. Yeah. And that, in that competition is Australia and New Zealand have played each other twice now. Right. And in tri nations four times overall, obviously. So we'll see. Um,
00:33:46
Speaker
I see, I see Ben's favorite player around here. Let's see if you pick some. Oh wait, that's our little league. Sorry. I'm getting backwards over here. I'm back on there. I need either less beer or more. I don't know which one. Where am I? Okay. No idea. I need, I still need to fill out my outside back. That whole thing.
00:34:16
Speaker
I also need another loose foul. Oh, George, I like your idea in the other one. That's a good one. Yeah, that's quite a handy one for this league as well. Mark Wilson. Yeah, that's the thing. There are people on Newcastle that are going to score well that are not ranked, necessarily ranked correctly, even in the upgrade variation of FRD.
00:34:48
Speaker
No, it's not a full size league, Justin Chell. It's not the full squad, it's the eight lineup. The full squad just drives me nuts. Like the fact that we're doing it with the other one is like, I was totally caught up. God damn it. Yeah, sorry, dude. Bad news for you. Yeah, it beats me. All right, we got Duncan up and then Giorgio up.
00:35:15
Speaker
Let's see, last five picks. Radland, that's a good one. Meeks goes to me. Murray, Murray Volo and Tom Homer. So, the backs are flying off the board here. They are, aren't they? There's quite a lot of depth in the outside backs. There seems to be, yeah. Seems to be quite a bit. I'm looking at him and I'm wondering why I've heard he haven't ranked so high. Josh Beaumont, like, is he going to be
00:35:44
Speaker
a terror yeah because he's in his luck isn't he yes Jack Willis is gone yeah about time yeah this is a time where it's appropriate to take somebody like that now that you've kind of filled out your squad oh wait and proctor that was a good one yeah that was that was also on my list of double proctor yeah proctor I'm holding
00:36:13
Speaker
And I don't like these outside back choices anymore. That's the problem. I waited and now I just have to deal with the shop that I got, which is fine. There's, I can rotate through at this point. It'll be kind of a.
00:36:30
Speaker
Um, matchup based type thing. Yeah. Until, well, until we find somebody like Ollie Hassell Collins. Yeah, exactly. Ooh. Hmm. He's already gone. No, I know that. Thank you, Captain Obvious. Jesus. Listen, I am an amateur, but I am not that much of an amateur. God damn.
00:36:55
Speaker
Uh, yeah, I have, I have, I have thoughts, but I don't need to reveal them yet. Um, I'm going to need points when he's back. Wait for it. Big money. No, I mean, he's not going to stop. I don't know how well they're going to do because shit kind of drinking beer over there, George. I am on the Camden, the Camden Hills. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. That's a good one. You know what? I'm just going to go with it.
00:37:24
Speaker
Do it. Do it. Done it. Oh, I like him. Don't mind him at all. Yeah, good shout. It doesn't play every game, but he does use it as well. Right, exactly. At this point, that's what I'm going for. That was... What's his name? Joe Danfall. Yeah. That's what it is. Joe Danfall. I think I'm doing decently with the bears. I gotta kind of move away from them.
00:37:51
Speaker
Yeah, I don't want to go. I mean, getting married to a team is not always ideal. No, but they score points. So they do, but you don't know which one it is. All right. Speaking of scoring points, um, this guy does it. And so he should be on my team. Who's that Cornell Dupree? Yeah, he actually doesn't do, but I mean, he's away from Scott with Scotland right now, but yeah. I'll do you, I'll do you decently at the very least. He's fairly regular high score. Yeah.
00:38:22
Speaker
One more, I think I can wait one more round until I start uncorking some of my out of the box ideas. But until then, I'm gonna have to go make sure that I got guys that are playing at the very least next weekend. That's kind of important.
00:38:39
Speaker
Um, has somebody already picked John with Dupree? Oh yeah. Okay. Wait on. Is he a lock? Yes. Okay. Yes. Which, I mean, listening to, cause I obviously, um, I listened to Sam George and, um, the Bruce.
00:38:57
Speaker
on a FRD podcast. Yeah. Yeah. I was listening to him and like their logic's not bad, but JLDP is not a lock. He is a tiny lock being forced to play a lock because he's dynamic in the loose. Well, also because Bill Munk had hurt. Yeah. That was also the other thing. Like he was kind of forced into that role. Yeah.
00:39:16
Speaker
And, you know, I don't know who the option is. When DDP goes, if DDP goes down for eight, but that's who I would red path. Holy shit. We get a bunch of, I like, I like Louis sugar. I think he's going to be there starting nine. Even if it doesn't start out that way, like he's going to take that Jersey away from Mickey young. Sorry, Mickey young. You are way past your prime. Yeah. Get out of here, man. Get out of here. So you've already got a cap today. Did he? Yeah. Awesome.
00:39:46
Speaker
I like that kid. They were winning when he came in and they were losing. Oh, bother. That's less than great. Although I do blame entirely that on, on Peledry's injury. I mean, he kind of makes a difference. Yeah. Vanya wasn't bad. Yeah. Yeah. It's leave that Peledry is going to be a struggle. Minansi scored.
00:40:14
Speaker
Hey, all right. He doesn't even do that at the prem level. I wish he would. Uh, I definitely wish he would take care of that. Where am I here? Oh, I'm almost up. Sam James went Sam at the, at the, at the station last week. Awful hair, Sam James. Does his brother have the same hair?
00:40:48
Speaker
Oh, you're up, dude. I know. I'm working on it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I think, all right. I'm going to wait on that, but I definitely need what I need is I need a guy that's going to play right now. So I'm going to go with Henry party.
00:41:12
Speaker
Because I don't, I have one back that's not going to be playing for a little bit. Yeah. And I need, I need to start filling up. He's another one of those guys who, when he plays, he'll, he'll do all right, but he'll rotate through. But in their situation now, he'll probably get a good amount of time. I have a couple of thoughts for outside backup. I see that are not necessarily on everybody's radar. They're probably on some people's radar, but not everybody.
00:41:35
Speaker
Let's see if I can get him to slip through. James Grayson is off the board. That's a good pick. And Dan Bigger. I mean, that's the option for that though. That's the move. That was going to be my next move. I figure Bigger will be away when George Ford's going to be away. So I was going to go Grayson's. Yeah, Grayson's a good pick. All right. No, I don't want that.
00:42:04
Speaker
Somebody's gonna take him and somebody's gonna need him. So I'll let that happen though. Hopefully he's healthy and he does as well as everybody thinks he's gonna do, but I'm gonna take him.
00:42:23
Speaker
I think he's, I mean, if he's, if he's healthy and he plays every week, my lock position set, I'm not really going to lose sleep over lock position. So, you know, as long as it's good to go on that, you know, Hey, look at that. I'm starting props. I'm starting. I still need to fill out some of the positions.
00:42:51
Speaker
Get that, get that, get that. I'm actually quite pleased with how that's turning out. Let's go with that.
00:42:59
Speaker
Where am I? What's going on? Umaga went. Okay. Oh, look at all this. Koma, Duncan Weir, Jacob Umaga. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, obviously Umaga is away, but he's still supremely talented. So when he is there. And Weir is away, but he's not likely to be gone out once. No, probably won't be out once. Ben Russell and Adam Hastings get healthy. Yeah, exactly.
00:43:28
Speaker
Third choice for a reason. But that lettuce, on top of that lettuce, my goodness. Gorgeous. It's fucking gorgeous. Incredible. Absolutely crazy. Lang's away. It's peace to my people, so. Well, yeah.
00:43:47
Speaker
Zach Henry, okay. That's a tough one because, you know, to play him at fly half, even if he's... If he's playing it full back, I'll take him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. He's kind of locked in there. Makes it difficult, but he'll still score points. He's still a good spot guy. He looks like a decent runner as well. Yeah, he does. I mean, I think I would like him as a running 10 and maybe that's what they're working on. I mean, you know, they do kind of have a history of that.
00:44:16
Speaker
Correct. I don't think that's a stretch to say. No, probably not. All right. It's time to start thinking about when guys come back. Yeah. I mean, there's still plenty of high-end talent out there for when the Six Nation guys and Autumn test guys return.
Balancing Talent with Availability
00:44:43
Speaker
Justin couldn't hold his nerve much longer on that fly app, apparently. Yeah. It's a good, it's a good option. Who left? Oh, for me. It's a good, it's a decent pick. I'm assuming he's coming back healthy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is definitely a fine balance of Supreme talent and guys that are going to play every week.
00:45:10
Speaker
Cause some of these Supreme talents can definitely win you a week. Yeah. No doubt. And this guy will be playing for a little bit. Which one dad? Sam Lewis. Ah, that's a good one. I like him. I like him a lot. I know Ted Hill's going to be away. So right. And Ted Hill's Ted Hill's the guy that's got Eddie's, you know, that's on Eddie's brain. Not, not Sam Lewis and Sam Lewis is still pretty damn good. Last I checked. So what's up points. I'll give you, I'll give you that one for sure. AJ McKinney. Whoo. Damn.
00:45:37
Speaker
USA USA who's who's ass who's the asshole mark fuck you that was one of my plans damn it sorry i have a backup plan until i get spoiled by Duncan that wasn't it although i do like Cobus yeah the league needs a Cobus every year the league needs a good Cobus every year
00:46:04
Speaker
We were missing, uh, obviously Ryan at the end of the last year, but yeah, we'll, we'll survive, provide some entertainment this year. Certainly knew what the trial line was for the hurricanes. Uh, don't know. He was brilliant to start last season. Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet. You're not picking for me, are you? You're not picking for me. I have an idea. Let's see how this goes.
00:46:33
Speaker
I wish there was like a queue. You could throw your guys in. Yeah. It's at your own rankings. Yeah. I mean, yes, but, but I was thinking like, you know, as you get later, it'd be like, all right. I like that. So I can kind of put him in and move him somewhere. And so I don't have to go search for farm again. Yeah. That would definitely be a good addition someday for sure. Come on. I mean, you could do it.
00:47:04
Speaker
No pressure. George, you got your other pick there, buddy? Yeah, I'm looking at struggling a bit with that. All right, there goes Ted Hill. What else we got here?
00:47:35
Speaker
Also double trapped. Yep. Welcome to the land. Ted Hill. Yeah. Yeah. That was one. That went off the board. I see what you did there. George and the other one. Rocket Aguni goes off. And tons up. All right. Who's the best remaining South African?
00:47:59
Speaker
Um, probably shit. Yeah. Actually, they got to go pretty far now. Yeah. It's one position. Well, even still it's not close. It's not close. Isn't it? John Ross. Yeah. No, it's way down. It's way down just in the loose forward. Yeah. Hunter Liebenberg would be the last one. I think next one, which is not a bad pick. He was in the.
00:48:27
Speaker
He was part of that like best possible squad at the end of that, for that final round last year. Did I play him against you or did somebody play him against me? I don't remember. I remember being in one of the two finals. I just don't remember which one it was. I'm gonna go with that. I played him against you. It just makes me feel better. Go for it. You guys have a full set of positions now. I haven't got a lock yet. I don't have a lock. I do.
00:48:56
Speaker
I have three loose forwards. I have four outside backs. Other than that, yeah. Yeah. I've got a, I've got a need. I got a fill phrasing. Um, I do feel like the kickers of FRD, you know, fancy NFL, the kickers are always the last ones you pick up. What's that the lock? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, unless it's like, well, this is like a really good one. And even still you don't want to jump the gun on it. You want to, you want to wait, wait, wait, wait. All right. Here's here. This was my backup plan for this. So we'll do that. Yeah.
00:49:26
Speaker
Yeah, I don't, I don't have. Yeah, cause I mean, I have Sheedy and I need somebody that can, that's going to play 10 hopefully most weeks. Is he, is he going to be starting at a Joel Hodgson? I don't know. It's so, it's, he, he played every game last year. I'm pretty sure. So, and when he was on the field, he was taking the kicks. So yeah, whether or not he, it lasts that long. I have no idea.
00:49:55
Speaker
Um, what's the space counter was pretty good too, I guess from what I understand. Um, yeah, I mean, his, his time's coming to an end. There's no doubt about it. Toby flood, but you know, so I'll take the guy, I'll take the guy for now while he's still, he's useful. He hasn't run out of use yet for me. Um,
00:50:25
Speaker
Unroll. There he goes. All right. Where is he? We got what we got.
00:50:59
Speaker
Oh, that's interesting. Okay. I was just looking for somebody and I had a small surprise. I'm still going to do it, but wasn't wasn't what I thought I was looking for. Now I can't remember who that was thinking about before. Good job. Yeah. See, this is why they're the cues. That's true. It's helpful. That's true.
00:51:31
Speaker
The weights between picks are getting longer now. Yeah. Yeah. People are starting to kind of sit on their hands for the whole thing. Come on, Justin, you can do it. Actually, I'm going to hold off on that. But I don't know what it was going to do. I don't think he was going to grab them. So let's do this.
00:51:51
Speaker
There we go. Now I know what I'm doing. Matias Orlando. It's certainly a notable pick. It's a pick. Yeah. I mean, it's he'll be one of the better players in that Newcastle team. So no doubt. Solid midfielder. Right. So then again, that's big on that because there's it's hard to find high scoring midfielders. Even some of the ones that are ranked high or not.
00:52:19
Speaker
I'm going to take this guy because he was fairly consistent last year. Yeah. Interesting to see what that saleback three will look like. They've got quite a few options. They do, but he was definitely one of the more consistent ones out there. He wasn't top notch, but he's a guy who you'll play and he'll win you a game just because he
00:52:44
Speaker
won't score one point giving you this eight to 10. Yeah. So, and you need those guys, you need those middle of the road scoring guys that come in most weeks and rarely ever pop up, but don't usually have a bad week. Yeah. And so this is the time, this point in the draft, we're getting kind of late ish where you either take the safe ones that will get you low, low totals, or you like take some helm areas. Absolutely.
00:53:16
Speaker
Cause we only have, okay, there's seven, 17 picks. So, and I'm going to back up him with the 13th round. Back row set in Italy. Oh, yeah. I did, uh, John Noah and two Essex as my final one. It'll be one of my final back through back rows, Nathan Earl and Blair Callender off the board.
00:53:44
Speaker
I like Blair Cowan when he's not away with Scotland. And he's in the squad, isn't he? He's in the Scotland squad. I know, yeah. I mean, I would pick him all day for the Scotland squad if you give him a chance. But yeah, that's how that goes. See, I can't talk too much strategy right now because George picks. He fucked me over the once. Well, I fucked myself over the once. Yeah, you opened your mouth. I did open my mouth.
00:54:13
Speaker
Don't blame anybody else, but I put him right in the position to do it. That was my fault, so I can't right now. I gotta wait. I'm going for my back up Midfield and now. Yeah, I got ideas for that. I'm not sure all... Providing Duncan doesn't pick him. Yeah. But I'm basically... I'm gonna put Ollie Lawrence out, there's Misery. Yeah, that's... I mean, Jesus, worse. Yeah. It's really worse.
00:54:43
Speaker
Yeah. So what pick are we at? We are at pick 101 right now. So we're, you know, we're into the, we're well into 10 plus rounds here. We're into 13th round or so here.
Final Draft Strategies and Risk Management
00:54:55
Speaker
Like, yeah, really it's fill need. Go with who, who your gut's telling you. There's no, there's nothing special about this. Exactly. I've got my starters now. So it's time to start permanent school. All right. So let's go with Ali Lawrence. Nice.
00:55:12
Speaker
So I'm looking at my duo. This is the fun part about getting the turn, is you can just snipe multiple people from positions and just laugh while two people get mad at you. Or one person, because you picked the two people that they were going back and forth. Yeah, it might be one person. So one, I'm going to take another lose forward, because you guys were away.
00:55:40
Speaker
So assuming everything goes all right, it'll be Mark Wilson. Yeah. And then I need to back up 10 and no guts, no glory. I'm going to go with Cipriani because what if we get good Cipriani this year? Yeah, you got to hope. I got lost to really need him to come good again this year. He was, you know, he's disappointed with himself as much as anybody. So Chisholm went. So that allows me to do my plan. Wilson. Hooray. Boom.
00:56:11
Speaker
And Cipriani. Yeah. This is like, so there's two guys that have a good, or, or, or I will say this, they did well the last time they were in it. Um, and they're both on new guests and we'll see if they're both there or at least, yeah, those two guys are, are there that I would, that I hope are still there once, uh, my turn comes. Let's put it that way. Hmm.
00:56:36
Speaker
What do you know this this lease order was that who Caleb Montgomery? Yeah, beats me. He was there last year. So I don't know why he's so high down either. He's not bad, but I don't know. He's one of those decent locks that you just pick and say later. Yeah, never need to pick anything again, right? Again, I'd save that for the last round.
00:57:02
Speaker
Because the guy you're going to pick in the last round is going to be half a point in a game different from Vui. That's a chance. Yeah, there's a good chance of that. There is a good chance of that. I'll give you that much. Because like Ashton's off. There you go. Yeah. I mean, we'll see if Ashton comes back to form or not. Yeah.
00:57:28
Speaker
Well, he plays usually does well, but and he was he was playing at the end of last season he was.
00:57:37
Speaker
Again, he's my fifth, he's my fifth outside back. Oh, well then you can do worse. I need him then. Yeah. He'll be a good spot starter now and again. Yeah. And let's be real. Some of these players are going to go bye-bye from your roster very quickly. You never know. Yeah, exactly. Some of these picks were waste the moment they were made. Like with. Not that you know, but it's like. Right. Like what are you going to do? Yeah. You know.
00:58:06
Speaker
Man, this other league is just dragging. Yeah, this one's getting kind of surprised. I mean, it was easy for me to go, but then I have a while to think about it. We've got 20 odd picks to go here, and we'll be out. 136 is usually the last. Oh, hang on. I'm back on this one. Oh, don't forget that. Pick made. There you go. I grabbed myself another bear whilst between picks. I'll be back in a second.
00:58:38
Speaker
That's why we like him. One back. One back. Should've just brought the freakin' other drinks in here. Oops, oh well. We'll remember that next time. Oh well, yeah. Oh well. We're almost done with this one. How long is this one, Jeremy? Jeez, this one's forever.
00:59:01
Speaker
Wow, you're at 170? Yeah, because it's the full team. Goddamn full team ones. What a pain. I'm going to get housed in that other one. I can almost guarantee it. I'm extremely interested to see how my strategy plays out in this one. Oh, are you now? That's Scott. Good shot. Yeah, he's probably one of the few quality midfielders in that.
00:59:25
Speaker
Not Lester team, honestly. Who knows how Lester will go this season? Yeah. Nobody knows. Nobody knows. All right. Now we're starting to go with guys that are kind of a toss up. So let's do this. Especially since I'm going to need somebody that's going to likely play for a little bit at least.
00:59:53
Speaker
Your favorite player, Ben. Ah, nice. Yeah. And then I'm going to go over here and ooh, Paul is still sitting there. Interesting. Didn't think of that. I think you would be, honestly. He's probably going to start while Monchon's away. Well, I think they're going to play together. Why wouldn't you?
01:00:19
Speaker
That's the Hazen and the CK, midfielders. Oh, that's not, that's not any place I'm running. Right. But you can put, yeah. You could. Let's see what they got. Um, Louis Lina is apparently making waves for the twins. So, um, what's his dad? His dad was a really good player for a while. What's his dad's name? I can't remember. Michael Lina. That's the one. I say, I know the name.
01:00:45
Speaker
Listen, I'm, I'm an American. So forgive me. I have brain parts about these things. Okay. But yeah. He was at Saracens as well for a bit, Michael. Yeah. That's why his name stuck out to me. Yeah. Midfielder that's probably going to play Wayne. So I will, uh, I will take that. That could be, that could be, uh, one of those, one of those ones like, um, pretty obviously it was playing midfield for a long time and winning.
01:01:15
Speaker
So I'm hoping that's what it turns into. All right, here we go. Coming down the stretch here, we got 116 out of 136 here. So 20 picks on the nose.
01:01:38
Speaker
This other one is just absolute drudgery right now. Yes, he struggled enough. Oh, the six bench spots in that one too? Oh my goodness. There's so many bodies in that. Oh, good Lord. Marley Yard. Yeah. If he's playing and he's not got his head up his ass, he's good, but sometimes those don't coincide.
01:02:09
Speaker
Honestly, I'll let somebody else take him if they really want him. Just don't have a whole lot of love for him. All right. I think, yeah. The change of two is two, it killed me. Yeah, definitely. I was like, that was a great pick last year.
01:02:37
Speaker
Now it's not really that good of a pick at all. Oh, yeah. I mean, I think we can presume that JLDP will be the same way this year, Willie, where he's basically a loose forward line and a lining up. I like the level and pick Atkinson and London after yard. I like, yeah, I really do. I really do like him. I mean, we know he's going to be away with England a lot, but he's one of the first names on that sheet for sure. Yeah. No doubt.
01:03:06
Speaker
All right, so I need two picks, two picks left. I need a half back backup, which is fucking annoying. But my starter is Danny care who's going to play a lot anyway. So yeah, not to worry about that. Do you want to pick Linda or do you want to pick another guy from the team?
01:03:31
Speaker
So that's definitely his backup. It is definitely his backup, which would then just solidify it. I'm done. Don't have to worry about it basically for the year. Yeah. So that's a good idea. I was thinking about, I was thinking about Mitchell because he'll win, but he'll be away. Yeah. I mean, like Alex Mitchell is going to only get better as the year. Right. And care might fall off because he's.
01:03:56
Speaker
Yeah, because he's old. Well, he's not young. That's for sure. He's not young. I'm going to go with Mitchell, make that option there. And then the other question is, is it Lacyke or Rona? I mean, they're both good. Rona's probably going to play more even when everybody's full noise. I think Lacyke might too. Oh, no, he didn't really though, did he? No.
01:04:21
Speaker
Well, yeah, because they like they like land. He's my backside. He's my backup. He's not even he's my case of emergency brain glass. So and it's the 16th round. Yeah, we're getting back to the to the to the the bottom of the barrel now.
01:04:38
Speaker
Yeah, well, and they like to play line at 12 next to Smith. So yeah, I think you guys see Lang and Marshawn or Lang and Esther Hazen there. And some sort of some sort of that three can't tell you that I love it, but I'm just telling you that's what it's going to be. I would just love to see, yes. Smith, Lisique, Esther Hazen and then out to Marshawn on the wing. That would just
01:05:01
Speaker
Yeah, I have to not wear jeans. No, you want to wear jeans in that situation, dude. I'm telling you. It's my pants. Come on, man. I know it was a while ago for you, but did you not have the experience when you were younger? Come on. That's not a good choice. No, no, no, no, no. Right. You should probably pick a lock at some point.
01:05:28
Speaker
yeah you know that's it is it is necessary because they can score points assuming they don't get a red card there's so many there is like i'm gonna lewis will probably be there for me at my next pick and i'm i'll just say that out loud because fuck there's which one oh i love uh la viecia i like him a lot hey he's got a sequence
01:05:56
Speaker
Yeah, Ezekiel is there, like, fuck. I like Nick Ezekiel. Stuke. I'm calling him. Rezler, old pig. Ezekiel might play a lot of six this year, especially with laws. So you're looking at a flanker more than a lock. So that might be the Dom brand to a sui type as well this year, depending on how he plays, I suppose, as well. That's kind of important. You know, silly things like that.
01:06:25
Speaker
I have. What I what I find funny about FRD is that there's the two Sam Lewis's. There's one for for Lester and one for Worcester. Oh yes, but it's the Worcester one that they've changed to Samuel Lewis. You know, it's not like they won't. They won't give the actually, you know, they're the good one. The starter that yeah, come on. Like no, OK, so make the best enough. You get stitched up by that last season. Absolutely.
01:06:54
Speaker
I was like, oh, that's less than great, but okay, I guess, whatever. God damn it, I don't like this thing. What do I need? Although I really don't, I guess I shouldn't have Lewis, because I have so many fucking queens at this point. Oh, do you? Get Brown. Brown, he's not bad. Care. That's a lot of queens.
01:07:24
Speaker
Right. I'm going to hopefully take care of my front row problem right now and just do that. Yeah. At this point, it's really you.
Underrated Players and Season Prospects
01:07:34
Speaker
Yeah. Hoskins, Kepu. And I liked I liked Cornish when he when he played this past after lockdown. That was that was really good. That was a hell of a piece of business for them. Like, I don't know, like definitely under the radar from Cornish Pirates, like
01:07:54
Speaker
nobody thought about this kid being good and he's pretty decent actually so tack it on them for just picking that up.
01:08:04
Speaker
It's just dregs left in the other league now. Yeah, it's just just like dude and it like yeah, that's the problem with the full team and oh my goodness Yes, oh, yeah, we have six bench spots and you start almost pretty much the full unit Yeah, the full unit outside the three outside backs two midfielders a fire half a half back three loose forwards two locks two props, you know Yeah
01:08:34
Speaker
Oh, yeah, we'll see if he's Lindejo. There's Lindejo. I mean, I think this isn't the last pick, isn't it? It is. Yeah, yep. Final picks. I'm gonna go with somebody else at...
01:08:57
Speaker
halfback and it's probably a guy that'll play right away for the most part. Just Simpson. Yeah. Yeah. I just don't know what the hell Gloucester are going to do. Right. Well, I mean, Varney and Heinz are both away right now. Yeah. Yeah. I guess since they're, they're good. Yeah. So at the very least, something shitty happens to. Simpson's capable of putting in some huge schools as well. Yeah. He's had some big, big days. Daniel Thomas. Yeah. Never, never bad type of times.
01:09:27
Speaker
Yeah. And there's still some names out there that are going to be left on the waiver wire. So that is, that's all, but there's a lot there. I see Watson, I see Noel, you know, we're down to four picks. Who knows what happened to Jonathan Joseph. So there's that. Elicon, it's not a bad pick right now considering that Robson's away. So if somebody needs a half back, that's a good option. Cook and Asiga is still there as well. He's fit and playing. Yeah. Marcus Watson did landfill.
01:09:56
Speaker
Alex Kate's actually a decent name out of Newcastle that I know he was putting things down. Tom Curry. You know. Andy Clark, he should play a fair few games in the Gloucester back row as well. Yep. Although he deployed him at second row not too many times ago, not too many, like one of the games. So could be a little dicey if that happens. So just keep an eye on that. But that's why he's not your first one. He's your last one.
01:10:26
Speaker
For sure. God damn, this one's still going. Let's go. Get me out of here. Yeah, we're almost done. That's where the hell was. Half hour before us. Let's see. We got two. We must be on a little closer to our last check. Like, I got... Yeah, surely. Yeah, we got to be close. I think I might be done. Or maybe I got one more. I got one more, I think. That's it. So, that's all right. God damn, that's where the full team is. Johnny Gilgas.
01:10:55
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, if you already have a starting lock and you don't mind carrying them. I see what you did there, George. I don't, don't think that was lost on me. Oops. About that. He looked really good at the end of the last season. Jared, you can always trade him for someone decent.
01:11:18
Speaker
You know, Oh man. All right. It was, it was your mister irrelevant. It was Lewis. Oh, so let me see. All right. That's a good one. Yeah. Still not a bad book. Not a bad law. Yeah. Oh man. So this will be interesting. Um,
01:11:37
Speaker
Oh, I don't know. Who's that? I didn't even think of that. Who we got? Jared's. Yes. Let's go. Let's go. Oh, God speed. Carrots usually not a sludge. No, he's got a good spot. Yeah.
01:11:57
Speaker
Oh, we only have to lose forwards. Okay. When I hear. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is helpful. Yeah. This is way to go. Justin. Yeah. Oh yeah. Cause he's, he's got Peledry and Earl. So that's the zero right there. Yeah. He's going to, he's going to need to trade that out. He's got a lot. Um,
01:12:18
Speaker
There we go. Let's see. Let's see how it goes, man. Yeah. Yeah. My, my midfield certainly lists Wicoco as the, as a starting midfielder. We'll see if that, I don't think I'm going to hold that one. That's for sure. Yeah. So, and then divisions are.
01:12:34
Speaker
If you didn't listen to our show on the four of us, uh, the middle of us, it's actually, yeah, it's, um, the three of us. And then, uh, Carrick don't know how the fuck that happened, but it's how it happened. And then Justin Anton, dark dunking a mark in the other one. Um, so it'll be very interesting to see how it goes.
Draft Reflections and Competitive Insights
01:12:51
Speaker
There are no, no easy games in the champion. No, no, there's no, we had, I mean, and I think we're firstly, we had, there was at least, I think there was one person that was kind of a pushover. I can't remember who it was.
01:13:04
Speaker
Just seemed to always get hosed every game. I don't remember who it was. I was like, oof, yeah, sorry kid, you're an auto win. It happens. If you have like a bad draft and it's like, I had a shit draft in that league.
01:13:19
Speaker
I still managed to be. That's the one I picked fricking Bristol in with my first pick. Still made it to the final. Yeah. No idea. But, um, I got there. Yeah. It wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't my best move. Honestly, I, uh, I've learned my lesson. I'm not jumping down on the front. Yeah. It just shows you that it's recoverable. You know, if you,
Motivation and Points System in FRD
01:13:40
Speaker
if you put in the work. Yeah, absolutely. Um, so this'll be,
01:13:46
Speaker
kind of, this will be pretty fun. Points are on the line all the way until like the second to last weekend too in the standings. So we went the way we laid it out. Okay. All right.
01:13:57
Speaker
Like you're, you're the, the SACO bracket losers get nothing. Everybody else, everybody else has an opportunity for points. So don't give up on yourselves when you, when you have a shit start. That's the other thing I wanted to do with the, with the points spreading out the way I did in the FRD leagues. I wanted to make sure that it felt like somebody still had to, something to play for, even when they had a shit start, you know?
01:14:21
Speaker
So that's what I was going for.
Competitive League Anticipation and Challenges
01:14:22
Speaker
Um, I also wanted to make sure that nobody could quite run away with it, even if they won all through like three right in a row. Although I don't think that's going to happen. I don't see this is going to be tight. It's going to be a very tight league. If that happens, you cannot attribute it to skill. It's just, no, that's a bit of shit. None of these are pushovers. Like you said, no, no, I think we'll, I think we'll all put in a quality shift every time and it'll be fun. Yeah.
01:14:50
Speaker
Yeah, so, oh, it's gonna be fun next week. Jeez, we start off next week again already. It's crazy. Good Lord. What did that happen?
01:15:02
Speaker
Were we supposed to have time off? Yeah, we used to get like, yeah, like a few months. Yeah. So they tell me. Yeah. The fantasy rugby. Thank you so much for joining us. It's always a pleasure. Always a pleasure. And yeah, looking forward to the season. Yeah, so we are.
01:15:24
Speaker
Yeah, episode 100 will have you back at least from then. Count me in. Count me in. Well, like I said on midweek, on our episode midweek, we're going to do something a little different and it'll be, it should be good for a laugh at the very least.
01:15:39
Speaker
And that's what I'm playing on, so we can have a little bit of fun. But you're alleged, George. We really appreciate it, buddy. Thanks, guys. Have a good one. Later. Bye-bye. All right.
Community Spirit and Lockdown Experiences
01:15:50
Speaker
So yeah, that is the end for us. We're going to call it. And it's going to be a fun year, I think, with this especially.
01:16:03
Speaker
Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna have a lot of fun this year. I think, um, you know, this is, this is a, that's the other thing. This is a year that everybody needs to have just a little bit more fun. I think after all, I hope we can have a lot more fun. So I mean, I'm already feeling a little bit more relaxed for some reason. How are you guys doing? You're right. Yeah.
01:16:22
Speaker
We're, you know, it's, it's, it's just shitty in terms of, I know you guys went into lockdown. I see a lockdown coming for us too. I'm already planning my business for it. So that's how it goes, man. But if, if we can all get our heads out of our bums collectively, hopefully we can get on the other side of this by the time. No, it does come out our way.
01:16:46
Speaker
You wouldn't know it's a lockdown looking outside, like in the UK. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. It's people totally ignoring it. Yeah. That's annoying. Yeah. At least here, like in our area anyway, it's pretty good. Like people are like obeying the masks thing. Like even, um, even walking around, people are walking with their masks on because we're supposed to. And, uh, like, but
01:17:16
Speaker
Like I'll go for a walk in and just have it down. Screw it. I don't need my mask on. I'm not, I'm not seeing anybody. There's nobody on the, like we live in a pretty, we're in the city, but it's not that, you know, tight. And so, um, yeah, like I can walk around without a mask on, but I see a lot of people doing it. So I'm like, all right, that's discipline. I do. And I'm taking this freaking seriously. Um, yeah, exactly. I'm happy to see that. I don't see many people walking around without a mask at all. That's true.
01:17:47
Speaker
That's true. So luckily we live in a. Right there. A smart area. That's really unfortunate. Keep going to the left. My wife's trying to creep on you. I hear a lot of value. Jared said you guys are filming now. Yeah, no, we did. This worked out quite well.
01:18:11
Speaker
you probably heard that I moved so I got another room so that she can now banish us two as opposed to the other way around where we were kind of just pinning her into the bedroom and keeping her there like you stay there. Now it's not so bad. We're trying to move house at the moment as well and just yeah we put our house and market just before lockdown. Lockdown version one started and we've
01:18:37
Speaker
We may move before Christmas, but it's just been an absolute. Oh man. Yeah. It's probably a slog over there, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right guys. Well, um, really good to, good to talk. Yeah, absolutely. Always. Always man. All the time.
Looking Forward to Future Drafts and Tournaments
01:18:52
Speaker
So, um, yeah. And thanks for, thanks for being a part of our.
01:18:56
Speaker
our third annual live draft. Yeah, we'll do another one for super as well. Yeah, we'll probably even do it for champions. Yeah, it's gonna be more fun. Cool.