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Season 6- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Champions Cup Round 1)
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The Fantasy Corner makes its return! On this episode of FC we are looking at the Champions Cup game on Superbru (look below to join the TFRY Pod league) and talking about strategy, who may be worth it and who is not. We look back at the Premiership Women's Rugby Fantasy League we have, one manager stood the tallest this week by far, and we make our picks for the week. Of course, we have ourselves a massive Start or Sit segment for the opening round of Champions Cup and our usual pick em! Grab those notepads and pens folks, enjoy!
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Transcript
Introduction and Rugby Situation Discussion
00:00:03
Speaker
It is. The Fantasy Europeans. My name is Jared Dyke. I wanted to say it's stupid and let's move on, but then you kept going. I'm Ben Glauser. I don't like any way anybody handled that. Collusion. Collusion.
00:00:27
Speaker
Hey
Fantasy Corner Introduction and Rugby Events
00:00:27
Speaker
everybody, welcome back. It is the Fantasy Rugby Yanks. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. It's the Fantasy Corner time. Grab your pens and pencils and notebooks, friends. Nerds. Excuse me.
00:00:40
Speaker
Um, yeah, so we're going to dive right in. Uh, let's go to, let's just go recap the past weekend and then we'll dive into the fun stuff. We don't need to recap the past weekend is what it is. We've been throwing out the film, throwing out the film. I can not see over how bad this team was for the last five minutes and I'm going to make him redo it. I mean, you'll need to redo it, but we got to look at it anyway.
League Standings and Top Player Analysis
00:01:06
Speaker
Yeah, please.
00:01:10
Speaker
George at the top. Best week went to Cobus though. I came off it. Sorry. Spoon for the man. Shit. I even went up. I went best to you. Yeah. I dropped significantly. Yeah. I got dropped three points, three places, but. So we got
00:01:38
Speaker
The order is George, Stu, Duncan, Cobus, myself, Ben, Justin, and Mark. Mark's still hanging in there, but he's getting closer to hanging out with the rest of us. No longer hanging out in the, uh,
00:01:56
Speaker
The adrift, as it were. Working his way back in. He'll battle back. Yeah. And like, you look, I'm having a rough go over right now. It happens to the, you know, even to, even to actual champion's champions, it happens. So, um, division two looks like, looks like this with, um,
00:02:21
Speaker
Anton, Alex, Matt, Paul, Franco, and Avery, and Luke. So yeah, Anton's got a solid 40 plus point lead on Alex, but no movement there in terms of those two. Those two have been pretty much solid top two for a bit. Yeah, so we'll see how that shakes out. I will say this, if Gloucester
00:02:50
Speaker
Let Frowdy coach them. They do a lot better. Holy crap. Is he good at this? Does all right. Does all right. How are you doing there? Frowdy pants. Where you at? He's up a reason. He's top in our, uh, in our chamber. Yeah. He's seven in the, in the world. Geez. Yeah. He's got a, he's got a pretty good job thing going there.
00:03:16
Speaker
Yeah, I always does. He's always at the top of the charts. Yeah, he's always out there. Yeah. So
Champions League and Pod League Insights
00:03:24
Speaker
before we go into the actual game itself, we do want to just make sure everybody remembers that we have both champions league divisions open and also the pod is the pod league is open. So climb in and join the fun for the next couple of weeks because you don't want to just go to sleep. Although I think, oh, you know what we didn't check? How did my better half do?
00:03:47
Speaker
Oh, I was just looking at that. Where did you go? Where did you go? She went up three. Oh, she's 60 points behind me. Not too bad.
00:04:08
Speaker
No. No. Mark and Luke, shame for you both. I think I, I think I, wait, she had 153 and a half. Did I have 150? I think I just had 150. Yeah. So she's, she slowly but surely creeping up. Yep. Yep. Scared. Yeah. I need to, I need to turn this around. She makes her own decisions.
00:04:32
Speaker
Maybe, uh, I suggest, I suggested captaining reading. She ignored me. Oh, I had one 20. No, she grabbed up 33. I had 120. I totally pooped it this week. Yes, you did. Unredeemable. Redeemable redeem. She had a good week. She had, um, she had done off the bench or no started, but he had 11 and a half. Pretty good.
00:04:55
Speaker
Um, Randall, who else, um, he had Mac, she had max 17 and a half. So yeah, sure. Good week. Does she have access to the, uh, to, to, to, she had the, the, you know, um, access to the Patreon stuff. She has access to my brain, but that's it. Like, okay.
00:05:15
Speaker
But again, I advise, but she makes her own choices. So that's where that goes.
Team Performance and Strategy Analysis
00:05:21
Speaker
She didn't Captain Reed this week. That was smarter. Like I said. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. So yeah. That alone shows you that she's in control of this thing, not me. Right. You would not have advised her to Captain Dom brand. No, but it worked all right. But it worked out much better for her than for us.
00:05:44
Speaker
All right, so let's do a preview of the game. So much like the other two fantasy games that have been going right along here for Superbrew, it is once again a salary game. So you got to play the mix and match. I currently have a team pick, but I can guarantee you I'm kind of probably just eliminate everyone that I have picked. Right. Because like half the team that you picked is going to be
00:06:13
Speaker
nothing selected. Right. Whenever one reason or another, it's gonna be like, nope, not today. It's like, come on. So I've done a couple. There's only a couple that are in my I have what three people in my team right now. Right. And so but we so we always talk about, you know, who
00:06:36
Speaker
who are the bargains and whatnot in the position. I will say this is gonna be very diverse in terms of the selection because the price points aren't too, too bad in terms of like some of the positions like prop, it's four million. But then you have like 10 for some of the better fly-haves. Exactly, fly-haves. Like certain positions, you're gonna have to spend a certain amount, which is really gonna,
00:07:05
Speaker
constrain your budget. So yeah, 100 units goes relatively quickly if you're not smart. And there's definitely some guys who are worse. And I'll go into that in my starts and sets. I do talk about the value more than anything is at this point.
00:07:28
Speaker
Don't know what teams are bringing to the table exactly in some cases. And I kind of want to see the lineups before I make the final call, which we'll see Friday. But for now, I'm just going to talk about the, the bargains if they're around. Yeah. Um, to correct something on the previous pod, Dan bigger is on too long. I'm an idiot. Uh-huh. So I stand corrected. Well done. Um, so yeah, we'll go through it. Um, I bet like,
00:07:59
Speaker
I think the upside of this competition is you can pick many from a few teams to start and work your way towards the better players later on. Like I have got
00:08:13
Speaker
I have not hit my team limit on any one of them so far. Right. You can work around that pretty easily. Yeah. I think I've gotten actually too long. I stand corrected. I have three too long players, but
Fantasy League Picks and Strategies
00:08:25
Speaker
that's it. Yeah. Like I said, I only have three players on my team so far. Um, and they are as follows. Henry Arendelle, um, Pearson and a Toge.
00:08:39
Speaker
Yeah, I don't even know. I don't even know. And I don't even know. One thing I noticed, and I'm sure somebody else knows, Gregory Aldrich is not in this game. That is odd. Did I miss him leaving La Rochelle?
00:08:57
Speaker
And I tried to lift this up and I don't think I was wrong. I'm pretty sure I saw Aldrich in the lineup for La Rochelle at least once or twice. So it kind of baffled me. I was like, um, did we miss something here? What plan are we on? Are we on the plane? Somebody not tell me this. Well, I haven't seen any, there's been no news of him. Right. That's in a month. So was, was he hurt? He must've been banged up after the World Cup, but like,
00:09:26
Speaker
Yeah. Damn. No, I don't see anything. I don't see anything. No, nothing. I'm like, I'm doing a Google news search for him. And the last was that was before their quarterfinal match in South Africa. That was it. So no, no news stories, at least that I can see involving Audrey.
00:09:52
Speaker
Yeah. So again, just like kind of baffling like, uh, what happened? I don't see. Yeah. You wouldn't play this past weekend.
00:10:06
Speaker
This is a previous match. Tanga has been playing eight mostly. So yeah, maybe he is banged up. That's the only thing. But even still, wouldn't you have him in someone's squad? No? Did I make that up? Yeah. Someone else knows this. Please tell me. Yeah. It's a good question. I can't answer. I am confused. I'm extremely confused.
00:10:29
Speaker
But so and the other fun part about this is we see some old names that we that were familiar to us. Mm hmm. A certain stop from say scrum half is somebody that I've put an eye on. Brad Weber. Mm hmm. Um, like level, as we talked about earlier, um, previous parties on that team. Right. And it's just a question of are they playing like, are they, are they starting? Are they going to be right? You know, I would love to see Brad Weber play in this tournament, but we've seen things like that before where the guy just
00:10:59
Speaker
isn't used or they have their players or something. He's just there for a tour. Yeah, I agree. But we'll see. He may not be fully used yet. We'll see. In terms of scrum half, I am definitely going to stay away from DuPont. That's 6 million. I don't want to
00:11:20
Speaker
fuck around with. Yeah, no. Knowing that I'm probably going to lose him after this round. Right. So pass. It's an easy, you're going to have to, well, not easy, but you're going to have to make a change and you get six per round, but. That's one I don't want to have to make. Yeah. You know, after not obviously after this round, but when they hit the next batch in January, I don't want to do that, please. Thank you very much.
00:11:49
Speaker
All right. Um, before we get to start sets, we got to talk about the, um, the PWR fantasy league for us. Oh, that's right. I didn't even look to see the results. Um, so with the one canceled match and people were a little gun shy at picking folks from Gloucester and Bristol this weekend with, with good reason.
PWR Fantasy League Update
00:12:09
Speaker
Um, because that was the end of being a tough old slog.
00:12:14
Speaker
It was a lot of similar scores, but not same. Um, so the best scores of the round went to, um, a girl, Joe, she had 69. Nice. Yeah. She had 69. She had, um,
00:12:33
Speaker
Yeah, she had fairies. It was all from her. She had one point from Emma Singh. Yeah, I know. Our kicker scoring has kind of gone askew, but we can correct it in the second half and try to find ways to fix it. It's been pretty ugly.
00:12:50
Speaker
I mean, so yeah, it's gone haywire. But anyway, yeah, Joe had a fucking great round. Um, yeah, fucking 69 points between Matthews and fairies. Yeah. So that's a, that was a big one. Good match. Yeah. Yeah. Rollie just like for some reason, she was like the one. Yeah. Like Loughborough player who wasn't rocking it.
00:13:14
Speaker
Why didn't I pick Bo? Why didn't I pick Bo? Anyway, but yeah, so that vaulted her up. She was kind of hanging around, you know, mid to lower half of the table. She's now up to fifth. So she, she rocked that. It's still Ben, Julia and PWR ninjas. One, two, three at the moment as well. But the separation's not that wide from five to one. So keep that in mind. Where am I?
00:13:42
Speaker
I'm in weird fifty-four. I'm in weird no man's land. I'm ten eleven points from seven, but I'm still like twenty points from fifth. Yeah. You're eleven. Yeah. Ten. Right. You're just ahead of Matt by ten points. Twenty points ahead of you. And then there's thirteen points between Joe. Joe's in fifth and me. Jeez. Yeah.
00:14:06
Speaker
Right. So unlike I said, although there's still nine points between me and Julia, so I'm keeping it arm's way. So with that, we got picks to make. I think you are off. You're starting us off.
00:14:22
Speaker
Well, we're gonna do so let's do our for our BOR picks first. Oh shoot. I'm not I'm unprepared for this You can do that. Well, you can do that. Well, I talk about talk about mine. How's that? There you go. And then we'll come back to you afterwards So I'm gonna go with Sarah Beckett in the forwards for From Gloucester. Hopefully she Gloucester heartbreak. So hopefully she's in Deb Willis from
00:14:49
Speaker
Bristol's going to be my back. I'm participating some meters all over the place for them this weekend. And then I'm going to use my Emma Singh card this week. So yeah, we'll adjust the points come second half because I have a feeling there's a better way to do it, but we just haven't done it. But sure. And I have an idea. I just need to see the schedule. Oh boy. Where are we?
00:15:22
Speaker
All right, PWR. No, I want fixtures. That results. There we go. Okay, so Zari's run by. That kind of narrows it down, doesn't it? Well, with Bristol playing Loughborough, that makes it that much easier to pick Sarah Byrne in the forwards. There you go. And Quinn's are playing Chiefs, which is intriguing to me, but it also means that I can
00:15:50
Speaker
I'll be all right. I think I'll live if I pick Ellie killed on. I can be doing that. Despite the fact that Quinn's got a house, she still killed it this weekend. I think they'll be a lot better in this match. They'll be a lot more competitive, I think. Then Kicker, I'm not even sure.
00:16:13
Speaker
You should be able to use nine kickers if you do it right before we get to the other half of the season, just for those that are wondering and thinking about it. Right. We thought about it. Trust me, or at least I thought about it. I guess, I guess I'll go HSN. Okay. HSN. Yep. There you go.
00:16:36
Speaker
That's a good segment bears and and yeah, and then hold on. Nice, but yeah, so we both went for with two players from one team. Alright now. We're off to start sit and that means batter up for Mr Ben. Glasgow hosting Northampton. Yes you do.
00:17:01
Speaker
I'm interested in Rory Darj at four units. That might be okay. Tom Jordan at fly half is another cheap option. He could score points. Again, it's Northampton. Their defense has been amazing lately. So just be careful with that. But again, they're cheap for this round and you might want to have them for later just because of value. If nothing else, maybe they're good for your bench.
00:17:30
Speaker
because
Player Evaluations and Potential
00:17:30
Speaker
they'll probably start every week and not, you know, so if you have someone who drops late, they slot in and they're four and six, you're good. Some of their other stars like Kinsley Harry, Horn and Hugh Jones, they're like the top of the price range and I don't think that's high value. I think that you can get other players for their costs. That'll do better. I would like to see them devalued a little bit.
00:17:57
Speaker
Yeah. Nor did Hugh Jones. Hugh Jones having the World Cup, he didn't do himself any favors on that. Right. And he could be great, but at the same time, I'm just not, I'm not sure. So, um, but on the Saints, you know, the, the, the, I think we, and sort of me and you, I think tend to think, tend to overvalue some of the prem players because of how they do in the prem and it's much different in this competition, but still Tom Pearson can, can play and he's at five, which is,
00:18:25
Speaker
Pretty, also kind of cheap for- It's a friendly price, yeah. Yeah, for loose forwards. Finn Smith at a seven. Again, just like Tom Jordan. He is, I think, possibly a step up, maybe. So right around the same cost is accurate. And then Freeman and Ram. Freeman more than Ram, but Freeman's at six.
00:18:47
Speaker
and it's soaring pretty damn well for an outside back. So again, these are guys who aren't like your studs, but they'll throw you some points and they're relatively cheap. So we'll open you, like that will let you have, you know, some of the guys we'll talk about later that I'll mix into the match. Because there's no like top end, like you have to have this guy in your team in this match. There's just a bunch of guys who it's like, yeah, they're good.
00:19:15
Speaker
Fill in spots. Yeah. A note on Hugh Jones. He hasn't played the last five matches, so he might be banged up. Fair enough. I thought I saw him in the last match, but that might've been a different. If he was named, he might've been dropped. Might've been a different. No, I thought I was looking at their.
00:19:32
Speaker
their box scores. I thought I saw Jones in there, but that could have been any, there may be other people. There's a lot of Joneses out there, man. Keeping up with the Joneses. All right. So Connick and Bordeaux. So for the home squad in Galway, had a couple of friends go to school over in Galway now. One of my kids was over there too.
00:19:54
Speaker
Um, anyway, digress for Connick. Beelum is a, if you want it, he's a go. The King, the King has re-emerged. Joe Joyce. We can pick him. Love it. Um, and actually he's been pretty good in the super brew version. So on the UFC version of super Russo, I'll give him a thumbs up. I love Pender gas. Yes. Yeah. Joe Joyce has been a good fantasy player.
00:20:24
Speaker
Uh, yes. Bundy is potentially hurt. So just keep an eye on the lineup there. Hanson made a return, I believe last week and scored very well. So he's a, he's a go. Um, it has Santi Cordero listed. I don't know if that's a different one or if it's as if it's an error or what, but, um, yet to play for them. So, yeah, no, he's, I think he's still the breaks. Right. I think there was a, there was an, I saw an article about it. There's something, some sort of controversial thing around that anyway.
00:20:54
Speaker
Yep. And, um, instead keep your eyes on, um, fella named Kilgallen, Dermeer, Kelly Kilgallen. That would be somebody I would keep an eye on for that. Uh, for the event from France, um, wine country, uh, Bordeaux. So, and I'm looking at players basically that have been selected and obviously I recognize, um, yeah. So Tamifuna. Yes. Uh, Jelly bear, duh. Uh,
00:21:23
Speaker
I'm going to find I'm a little hot and cold on, so I'm going to say set right now, and then Pinot and BLAB out of your definite goes. Do it, and do it now. All right, off to too long hosting Exeter, which again- I can only imagine what your opinions of this are. Yeah.
00:21:48
Speaker
So for too long, there's a lot of high cost, high performance players here. And I think they should score well versus Exeter.
00:21:56
Speaker
Like I was saying earlier on the other pod, I heard of it, I guess, or Harold. I don't know if he's French, could be Italian. Enzo is a, I'm not sure exactly where that could, I can't exactly pin that down. And as I said, bigger is injured. I'm not sure if he's back for this match. Dave ribbons. I think he's fairly cheap. I think he's to get four units, which is,
00:22:19
Speaker
solid for a lock. But I think he could do very well in a competition like this, especially against exit. He knows exit or he knows how to fuck with them as a certainly among their forwards. Finding a new coup, though, here, this is who's 10 units and Villa area was eight. Yeah, these are guys like
00:22:40
Speaker
what I was saying from the previous match that I can't wait to see if I hang a new coup again and it would like bugged me I was like holy crap I got to see they get to see Lester fighting a new coup again I thought I was done with him for a bit but here he is in Champions Cup excellent
00:22:55
Speaker
Then for Exeter, look to their props. Their props will be cheap and they'll score points. This is not a place to go with the high-end props, I don't think. I'd rather... Because you'll still get... I know it costs more than two that I have right now. Because the high-end props, you might get 10 to 15 points, but with one of these guys, you might get seven and a half to 10.
00:23:18
Speaker
And that's like, but you'll, you're more likely to get there seven and a half to 10 and the yard to get to 15 from the other guy. Cause he might get like five as well or lower. So yeah, look for Exeter's props. They've been scoring pretty well here. Um, like even in garbage time. Yay. Um, fizz allow has been playing actually quite well. So I mentioned in the last pod, um,
00:23:39
Speaker
a couple of guys, like they have a couple of players who are cheap, but they'll get you 10 points. Fizilau is my top pick from that. And then in the back, Fe Woboso, if he's not hurt, I don't know what happened. He had to come out, but hell, he scored 17 in like five minutes because he had that long ass try. So if he's healthy, he's explosive, obviously. He might be worth it as a cheap option in the back line.
00:24:08
Speaker
Could be. Right. Bath and Ulster. We talked about Bath's, you know, history in this competition. They've had goods and beds. Hopefully this is good for them. This is a fixture we've actually seen, not too, too recently, but recently, Bath opening against Ulster at the Rec. So, should be tasty either way. For the Bath men, Dutois, Barbary, yes. I'm saying sit under hill this week. I feel like it's just
00:24:36
Speaker
Not quite the dynamics that you need here for him, that's all. No. Yeah. Spencer, yes. Finn, yes. If Lawrence is healthy, yes. And I'm going to say sit mirror this week. I'm a little worried about him over there. Yeah, that's better. I don't know how much he's, what does value is. He is cheap, but still just sit him. The fellas coming over from Ireland, Ulster.
00:25:02
Speaker
Kits off sin, he's getting some time under his belt already, so he's good. Tom Stewart's a name to know, he's been scoring well in...
00:25:10
Speaker
the URC version of this. So he's a go Ian Henderson. Yes. Fucking dumbass Dave. You were set him please. Nick Timoni's better by far. So yep. No. Um, Dokken CUNY actually don't over CUNY right now. If, and obviously one's got to play and one's going to sit, but, um, I'm more excited about Dokken CUNY. Let's put it that way. Uh, Billy Burns is a set because he doesn't kick off the tee. Um, McCloskey.
00:25:36
Speaker
is a go. Stockdale's a go and Ballocoon is a go. So here's the thing, though. You could go there if you had like Slade as your as one of your centers with the T. Right. So that's that is another option for that. Yep. Yep. No, I just I don't know if he's going to have the space and find the space. Yeah. That's the only thing. Exactly. So it's not even worth it for this week. At least not with that.
00:26:09
Speaker
Toulouse
Fantasy Team Selection Tips
00:26:10
Speaker
hosting Cardiff. Toulouse, you know their stars, DuPont for now, again, short term at this point. Ramos, Capozzo, Jamina, they're damn expensive.
00:26:22
Speaker
They are. On the other side, for Cardiff, it's probably just best to avoid them. Don't play anybody from Cardiff. Play their opponents. Yeah, sadly. The points from Cardiff are going to be kind of few and far between. And it's throwing darts, whereas instead of doing that, go get someone else you know who is likely to score.
00:26:44
Speaker
Like there's going to be people in Carter for score. Well, I just wouldn't roll the dice on them. I'd go somewhere else. By one saving grace. I was looking earlier. Um, they have reached carry, but he's three as a prop. That's way too expensive. Oh, come on. Like that could have been the one thing.
00:27:01
Speaker
The one thing. The one thing. Sad. Sad, sad. Yeah, I was cruising earlier. I'm just cruising right now. Toby Falatow was in the team. He's five. That's not too bad. Yeah. That's the thing. It's not quite at that price. And is Falatow still hurt? I know he didn't get hurt at the World Cup.
00:27:27
Speaker
He did, so I think he's still banged up. I'll be surprised if he's helpful for this. Let's put it that way. Yeah. Nope. Nothing else. Sad. Oh well.
00:27:40
Speaker
Next. Okay. Um, anyway, bowls and saris. Here we go. So bowls got a lot of familiar names that most of us know. Um, well, Kolo are actually known as BB eight to us. He's, he's a play. He's a play ocker. He's a play. Uh-huh. He's going to be a play. He's been scoring well on the USC variation of this.
00:28:04
Speaker
Young kid, Cam, I tried to, I was messing with Cobus on this one. Hanukkum, he's a play along with the other low and Venstad back there. Kuzia is his own period, but he's also hurt, so just ditch him.
00:28:22
Speaker
Um, uh, Kade and Moody Kirtley, duh. And then Willie LaPoo can poo himself somewhere else. Oh, you love Willie LaRue. Barf. He's just a dick as well. You love him. That's the worst part of it. Um, for the series. So there's obviously, like we talked about this, some
00:28:41
Speaker
guys that you're going to be like, eh, I don't know about that one. And because the, you know, the English teams just don't quite have it in this competition sometimes, but there are players that you're definitely going to want. Oh yeah. Jinx and Theo. Definitely. Like is English for this competition somehow. They're the only ones who are allowed to win anything in this. I don't know. I can only hope. Yeah. Jinx and Theo. Yes. Um, tis and the secret are both, uh, more highly owned than Maro because probably because of their price. I wouldn't play them though. Um, no play Maro.
00:29:12
Speaker
of the back rowers that have been picked up so far, Willis Christie Gonzalez, my favorites are Christie Willis Gonzalez in that order with Gonzalez being a heavy set. Um, and then fast and daily are both plays for me as well. What do you think about good? Actually, this is his competition. Remember?
00:29:33
Speaker
Yeah, I know, but I just think he's going to be on kicking duty with this one in terms of just banging it downfield. Yeah. Yeah. And daily he's going to end up probably playing someone in the back three and he's plus as a center. So, Oh, that's the upside. Fair. Okay. Off to, um, monster and Bayon.
00:29:55
Speaker
For Monster, they have some value at outside back by Kums and Zemo, or Zero. Thank you, autocorrect. Zemo at five. Zemo, fuck. I'm sorry. Autocorrect fucked me up. Both the Flyhaves, Crowley and Carberry are eight.
00:30:15
Speaker
So they're kind of cheap ish, but could be worth it. The loose forwards and locks are expensive, but worth it for this round specifically. They own kind of the practice girls for this competition. I always use their opponents and. Not to bring up a source, but avoid retuning your hour. Also, if you're in a bar, avoid retuning your hour if you're a woman. Apparently, apparently the fucking douchebag, you saw the three women talking.
00:30:46
Speaker
Like how just what are you doing? Tom has fucking up your life, right? So, yeah, that that's. And he was one of their like stronger players for the fantasy anyway, for the lock position, which is not good. So. Well, yeah, not good for them. Avoid.
00:31:11
Speaker
What should you be on it was it was that that was that that's rich in your role That's the one player that was looking up and down there taking out that I'm like, oh I know that name. Oh, yeah, that's that dickbag. Yeah
00:31:25
Speaker
Nevermind. Yeah. Nevermind. Nope. That's the only one right now. I'm not looking any further. I'm not worried about speaking of, uh, speaking of Bristol versus Leon. So starting with the bears, um, some players will do wonderful in this competition, but then some of them will not know. Nope. Um, Genj is a go and Sinclair's a sit for me. Sinclair hasn't done it yet.
00:31:47
Speaker
Thacker just finds ways to score. So, yes. Lue two is a sit. Randall's a go. She needs a sit. And then Vacatawa is, this is, he's got, he's going to be playing against old friends. So give him a go in the Nippetoye as well. For the visitors from Leon.
00:32:05
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Demba Bamba is a go, top for newer. I'll give it, I'll give that a shot. Even though it's a little on the higher price side, but that's okay. He's a very dynamic second row. So I'm okay with that. Dipshit number 10 returns. Fuck him. Um, and then Monty Awani and Nini Ashvili, both are lights outs should be good to go this week. I think I'm going to probably go end up having one of them in my team.
00:32:32
Speaker
Are you through? I am, too. Okay, excellent. Yeah, that was very short as well. Yeah. Sales versus Todd Francais. For sale, Dan Dupri at four is good value, so is Reid at five with a don't captain him.
00:32:49
Speaker
Um, quirky at three, if he plays, holy crap, that would be excellent. But I don't know what the hell is wrong with him. Uh, or what's why if Sanderson doesn't like a lot of guess war, that's what's wrong with him. I have questions anyway. Um, Ford at 10 units, carpenter at eight, Bobby dupes at seven and two lagi at six all the way to overpriced way to overpriced. Although he's broken hands. So well, then you don't have to worry about him. Um, nope.
00:33:20
Speaker
Then four to 10. Yeah, no, that hurts too. It's another guy who you can't use it at 10 with Slade at center with a T or something along those lines. Although you could do that with Ramos too. And then for the stud, Woof. You
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00:33:41
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mentioned Weber or Kaka were your favorite.
00:33:48
Speaker
Fucking autocorrect made it to knock out as I was writing it. God damn it. Love it. All right. Yes. You should be knocked out. There it is. Knock out. Who's only, who's three units? Scrum half, maybe. Again, as backups that you've got to be prepared to ditch once the pool play is over, because their competition will be over. Likely. Yeah. Agreed. Agreed. Agreed.
00:34:17
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All right, the big one.
00:34:21
Speaker
LaRochelle get to do it again against Leinster. We'll see. Um, it's going to be a different, different team for both, but definitely for, um, Leinster. All right. So for LaRochelle, defending champs, uh, Antonio Boogery. Yes. Portia. Yes. Um, Kerbarlo off you go. Uh, Astoy, Dante. Yep. Fucking no. No, no. He's going to get swooshed by these back by this back three. Like get out of here. Plus they've been trying to wield him at 13, which is stupid.
00:34:51
Speaker
No, thank you not a flanker might be more useful there For Lester
00:35:04
Speaker
of the two props, Porter's my favorite little down for a long right now. Plus I think he's banged up. So there's that too. Um, she ends. Yep. I know it was kind of high, but like he and Johnny Matthews are two guys I've I'm keeping my eyes on, uh, for hooker this year in this comp, uh, the locks that are more highly owned for Linster. My favorites are McCarthy and James Ryan Baird's on the sit side for me, Doris and Vanderflair.
00:35:32
Speaker
Yeah. You're if you're picking them, you're fucking playing them because that's a lot of money does. Yeah. Yeah. Gibson Park. Same thing. Rossburn said he seems to be not informed or in favor. So just keep your eyes on that tennis shirt for Lancer. Ringrose. Yes. Henshaw. No. Hugo Keenan. Yes. And then James Lowe, I believe is banged up. So don't bother trying to pick him up yet.
00:36:00
Speaker
All right, then it's hard to keep this. OK, Lester versus Stormers. Oh, cool. We're at the end. Yeah. Again, Stormers, were they in the UK at all or are they traveling this week? That would be awesome for them if they were already on tour. If not, again, it's going to make it a little bit rough for them.
00:36:27
Speaker
For Lester, Jasper Visa at six is kind of a relative bargain, but the rest of Lester don't really look for many points for this team. In the prem, they're the second to last with Newcastle, the inept, unfortunately, Newcastle last. Other than that, the next shittiest team is Lester by a long shot in attack.
00:36:54
Speaker
Still watch out for points here. I'm not seeing it. For the Stormers, Daimani we saw last year took this comp by Storm. Snautla at four for an outside back compared to how he scored last year. I'm pretty sure was, was, is, yes. Yeah, he's pretty good. Lebok, Blomchies at nine. Lebok is at 10. Blomchies at nine. Vilemse at eight. Way too expensive. Way too expensive.
00:37:23
Speaker
Yeah. Um, stormers players were home last week. Too expensive. What was that? Stormers were home last week. Yeah. So they're, they're getting on a plane. Good. You know, the problem is that you can't really take advantage of it. You know, maybe Pollard, it opens him up. That might be a good pick this week. Yeah, we'll see. He's expensive and you'd have to get rid of them. They don't get off the bus like they did against Exeter. Then maybe they might be open season. Hmm.
00:37:53
Speaker
All right. Last one of the week, uh, Rossing and Quinn's. You have some fun ones. So yes. Yeah. My pleasure. So we have.
00:38:10
Speaker
For the, they're in Paris, so this would be fun. It's going to be on the fast track. For Rossing, people are picking up Roland's as the most, one of the more picked forwards for Rossing, the other one being Khaleesi. Sit, sit Roland's, play Khaleesi. Legorak has, I believe has been doing a lot of the kicking. So if you're going to play him, that's another score map that's going to kick. Spiku, yes. And Henry Herondale, yes.
00:38:38
Speaker
Yep. He's a popular one over there. He's in my squad already. Yeah, like I said, I have four people in my squad or so. He's in it already. Yeah. For
Strategies for Quinn's Match
00:38:47
Speaker
the Quinn's, a lot of people picking these guys up here and there. Marlar is a go. Walker's a sit. Don't love that at all.
00:38:57
Speaker
Between lamb and launch, I'm going to go lamb. Um, Dom and Will Evans is just slightly a start, just slightly a start. Um, but would certainly understand anybody that had reservations on that. Um, Karen Porter doesn't matter. I don't want any part of this honestly. Um, no, thank you. Uh, Marcus. Yep. Esther Hazen. Yep. I'm early in green. Yes.
00:39:24
Speaker
Oh, and, um, I want to reiterate for people who might not be aware. Um, cause he's actually rated fairly, um, high in this game, Tom Curry. Um, he's out for the year. So don't, yeah, don't pick him. Don't. Yeah. We got a lot of P you got a lot of injured folks getting picked here. Yeah. I don't know what his,
00:39:49
Speaker
I didn't see what his, uh, ownership was. If, if he ain't the only one though, that's the thing. Yeah. Oh, it's popping one percent. Yeah. One percent is too much. Yeah. One percent. Like the one percent is not just one person. Cause I have a couple of people that have zero percent listed. So it's not just one person. It's more than that, which means it's more than one person making that mistake. So folks, wake up, wake up.
00:40:15
Speaker
Promised it'll be good. All right, so now of the week, but he dubs yeah OT dubs my start of the week I just picked him up. He's my fourth fourth player and I don't think I'd take him out anyway, and I actually even mentioned him Maybe he does end up getting the tea as well Thomas Ramos to lose versus Cardiff. Yeah, yes, please so I'm gonna go with Kind of off the board and off the grid a little bit for except for URC fans
00:40:45
Speaker
I call him, I've called a little bit this guy watching him and he looks good and he's definitely doing damage and putting his name in a hat for a selection of some sort. Um, but I'm going to go with Connick Stermier Kilgallen. Winger has been killing it and should be a good matchup. They play way better in Galway than they do anywhere else. So.
00:41:09
Speaker
I'm gonna back the back to home for sure. And we'll see what happens after that. Fair enough. Sit of the week. I did mention him and because but I have a late change.
00:41:25
Speaker
late breaking change as, as, um, the sirens have, have sounded and, and cause Jared sent out the word. So anyway, my, my original sit of the week was Manny LeBuck cause he's at the value 10. And again, travel all that business, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I cannot resist an opportunity to list fucking Dave Ewers as my sit of the week.
00:41:50
Speaker
Yeah, it's the first time I get a chance to in a long time. I need to take it doing it. I mean, but other than that, it's many Lebok. Yeah, for Pat for back rowers. Just from just from Ulster. For back rowers. There are. Let's see. I think I was two years. Holy crap. Yeah.
00:42:17
Speaker
on a points per game basis, there are one, two, three, four guys ahead of him, alone. That's, yeah, no. Dipstick Dave is only averaging about seven points a game. I don't care if he's just four million, that ain't worth it. No, no, no. Anyway, so for my sit, I talked about how I think it's gonna be a fun match, but at the same time, I'm worried for him.
00:42:48
Speaker
And I'm still, and I'm this, I'm just worried for him. Um, my city of the week is going to be well, I'm here from Beth. Um, um, I'm just worried about how he's going to do in this competition this year with the expectations a little bit higher. Um, I hope pressure doesn't get to him. You know, they didn't perform well last year and I'm wondering if it's going to be the same. So I hope not. But, um, on the side of caution, I'm going to call him my city of the week for now. Sad like the guy, but nope.
00:43:16
Speaker
Nobody. Nope. Okay. Pick them. Pick them. Pick them. Friday night, Glasgow and saints. I got the saints. Yeah. It's going to be interesting because Glasgow are near the top of the URC. They are. They're playing very well. Yeah. I'm just, I'm, I think saints are kind of clicking on there. They're the last couple of weeks too. They've, they've been on, I feel like. Yeah.
00:43:46
Speaker
Yep. Well, I am going to, I am going to take the warriors. I'm going to take the class to go at home. Yeah. I mean, you should. I'm stupid. Connick and Bordeaux. Connick. I'm going to go with Jelly Bear and Bordeaux. Let's see how that works out. It might be a total error. We'll see, but we'll find out. Tuon and Chiefs. A Tuon. No brainer.
00:44:16
Speaker
Bath and Ulster. Bath hosts. Yeah. And just cause they're home. That's the only reason really not unlike Glasgow and Saints. It's very even there. I just went the other way on that. To lose.
00:44:40
Speaker
I don't sell bulls in series. We talked about well, Jake White pick a strong squad. Won't he? I'm going to hope that I'm going to pick the series. I think it'll be close. It'll be close. I think either way. Um, but I think saris are coming to win. I think they kind of sacrificed last week a little bit and I think they were fine too. Um, but I'm still going to point out of it. Yeah. Stay in the top four. Right. And
00:45:06
Speaker
They'll still make it up. They're going to be at the top. They're going to be top four at the end of the year that they don't really think one game isn't as important. They're
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00:45:12
Speaker
they're throwing their resources at this match based on last week. So, yeah, I think Sarri's bring it. Yeah. Monster and Bayonne. Monster. Yeah. Home team being really the factor for right now, knowing not necessarily knowing a ton about Bayonne. Right.
00:45:37
Speaker
Bristol and Leon. Unfortunately, Leon. Yeah. I'm just, I don't like the fuck bag and charges back, but fuck bag extraordinaire. France is fine. Go play in France. Fuck off. Yeah. Uh, sale and stod. I have sale because they're at home. Yeah. That being the, the big determining factor here.
00:46:05
Speaker
La Rochelle and Leinster. La Rochelle. Yes. Agreed. Agreed, agreed. It's somewhat because of their hosts, but also because Leinster, it's going to be a tough environment for Leinster to walk into. They can do it. Yeah, I'm not sure the Leinster team that we all remember. Yeah. It can be tough. Tigers and Stormers.
00:46:31
Speaker
Tigers because they're again hosts stormers coming a long way and Lester aren't Terrible. I'm going to this neck of the woods. They got their butts kicked. Well, no, but they're they're they're hosting so to me the stormers are on the flight
00:46:47
Speaker
they're going to know. That's what I'm saying. The stormers. Oh, gotcha. Yeah. That's when they came to these next little woods. They got their bums just absolutely. I don't think that's going to happen, but I think Lester and they're, they're not very high up in the URC right now. That doesn't necessarily reflect much, but yeah. So, I mean, neither Lester's ever high up in the prem. No, they're not. So it turns into kind of a stalemate with the home team getting the slight nod. Right. Uh, Rossing and Quinn's.
00:47:17
Speaker
Rossing. I just, I, you know, obviously I want to believe the twins will win this, but I just, yeah, I feel, I feel like this is going to, Rossing will get a chance to turn the page. Not that Finn was like bad for them, but you know, they get to turn the page and officially be like, all right, we no longer have Finn Russell. He's no longer in this team. The world can now see it, not just the top 14. So yeah. Yep. Yep.
00:47:46
Speaker
All right. Cool. All right. Yeah. We'll have, starts it on Friday, the massive thing that it'll be. Um, but until then, uh, I'll get boom, bust up.
00:48:08
Speaker
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00:48:32
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