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Season 4- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Premiership Round 13 Preview)
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It's another Fantasy Corner for the upcoming week of the Premiership. One more until we dive back into Champions Cup and Superbru, but don't worry there's plenty to chew on here with the Prem and The Rugby Mag. We try to resolve a dilemma or two and tip the scales in favor of some players or other. We also have that lovely little Start/Sit thing we like to do in these parts. Grab something cold to drink and have it folks!
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Fantasy Advice & Patreon Plug
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There's also been slightly more download than our regular ones, which...
00:00:22
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means whatever the fuck we're talking about obviously isn't with anybody's time yeah well you know people can pick and choose now they don't have to listen to our battle for the whole life you know exactly so i guess that's helpful for them and that's good good we they're trying to help the people obviously i guess it also means that we have some reasonable fantasy advice which
00:00:50
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I mean, we do, we have yet another, you know, I think every, every, you know, again, to plug the, the, the Patreon, um, you know, failing Mark, but he's new. Um, everyone else who has had access to it has had a top five finish this season.
00:01:08
Speaker
Yeah. So what else finished this week? Fourth, I think. Whoo. No, I think he was 12. Oh, he was 12, but still. I'll go to leaderboards. I'll solve this quickly. Answer that real quick. I pondered out this week. So give me 12.
00:01:28
Speaker
He was seventh. Sorry. Okay. So he stopped. Okay. So each one of us had at least top 10 finish at least one. So, um, you know, the, the, the information we're putting out there and Mark will get his soon. Um, yeah, the information we're putting out there is good. I am confident of that. So good for you for just
Current Fantasy League Standings
00:01:49
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listening. If you want fantasy advice, I feel like you're in the right place.
00:01:52
Speaker
You are all right. Um, let's yeah, let's look back at everybody's weeks. Um, Champions League give one for TRM, uh, a bit of movement, but that's it. Yeah. Duncan added a little bit of space. Duncan. And so the order is still Duncan, Ben, Carrick, Justin, myself, the gap only grew up, grew by 10 between me and Justin. So I'm not,
00:02:18
Speaker
I had a bad week, but so do you also grew by 10 on Carrick? So if you're if you're really looking past him, Carrick is less than 100 points away from you. So yeah, oh yeah, I know this. That's getting tight there, right? The battle for third is is heating up to heat up.
Player Performance Recap
00:02:35
Speaker
So I'm fifth and Anton has jumped Mark and is now in six damn damn and Anton go away.
00:02:44
Speaker
I mean, that was fun with Anton up top. I mean, that would love. And then Mark and then George, who did have a much better week. Oh, his team. So we've been mean to his team lately. I'm not sure if he dropped any points. I don't know. I can actually probably see here. Minus 40. Okay. So he dropped 40. And he ate 40 points. Wow.
00:03:07
Speaker
That's impressive. It's super impressive. So he did he did real good work out. See, this is why it's okay. You know, if you want to drop 40 points, but you gain 100 points, do it. Do it. I mean, he spent his coin really wisely too. Not much is like he had JLDP and Fafita and Clark and Simmons, Captain Simmons, even though, you know, those guys also scored really fucking well too. But like, yeah.
00:03:34
Speaker
just means he had four guys in his forwards who, well, three guys who had huge scores. Clark was very
Player Selection Insights
00:03:40
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good. Kenningham was good. Like, yeah, he's a, and it's just a shame, you know, what let him down was what let everybody else down, which was, you know, Terron Green. Yeah, scoring. And yeah, just a lot of lot of down points from the backs this week, this this week. Yeah. Yeah, I will say when you have an opportunity to get average points, the back is, that's probably not the worst place to use it.
00:04:03
Speaker
because they're a little bit, you know, they are very hit or miss sometimes. The exception of the few and far between and we've talked about the guys that are there. I mean, I got one of those to like, like, yeah, that's so like, I mean, I started mail ins and green, ended up starting right when who got who actually got 20. So he was actually on the plus side. And he was the one I was worried about. mail ins and green, I thought we're gonna
00:04:27
Speaker
go nuts, but right. Yeah. So, yeah, right. I should have used Casper Collins anyway through the time. Yeah. In Division Two, no movement. Franco Cobis, John Terry are the top four. Leanu, Bob, Yuri and Larry are your bottom three or bottom four, excuse me. But it's Franco's had a really good week. Like, I don't know if he keeps having 500 point plus weeks, he's nobody's going to catch him. I can tell you.
00:04:56
Speaker
especially in weeks where this was kind of down for a lot of people. So he's having 500 point weeks with everybody else. He's having a down week. He's he's getting right away with that division. I have a feeling I just have a wee feeling FRW. We have.
Fantasy Player Value Discussion
00:05:12
Speaker
Last week we had Justin who lost to Anton.
00:05:16
Speaker
Carrick just muscled out Mark. I only lost by 10 to Duncan, so that's not that bad. It was a pillow fight, 40 to 30. I would have beat your ass though, George, 42, Ben, 21. I went to set my line up on Saturday and was like, oh, oh yeah, it locks on Friday. That's set my line up.
00:05:38
Speaker
Yeah, that's the thing. So everybody listening, if the Saturday games, just get that line of set for Friday because they they're dumb and they lock it. Another reason I don't like them. That that pissed me off. I'm like, why the fuck? What the fuck? Like, yeah, I was I saw that earlier. I don't know. I thought somebody else had already spotted it as well and said it in the chat. Oopsie. Yeah, no, I just.
00:05:57
Speaker
Yeah, no, no to everybody else. This week, it's Anton against Carrick. It'll be Duncan against Justin, George and Mark. And then two fat asses going out. I don't know who they are. But yeah, you know, the dollar on the line. It's the dollar. Just got to fucking rush it out and send the mail to you now. Jesus. Or maybe maybe you guys come over and I can just get it to you in person. Yeah.
00:06:27
Speaker
have a beer. Anyway, just the same by renter ditch. Okay, like this one. So let's go with Dan Frost by renter ditch, ditch. Guys are getting healthy again, I'll be back soon. Cruz is on those was on the bench this past we came in. This is this is Tom Cruz's team.
00:06:53
Speaker
You know, Dan Frost is good. He's young. He's certainly showing value. He'll be certainly a rotation guy. But I'm on the ditch train with him. Same position. Julian Montoya at Byron to ditch.
Performance Analysis & Predictions
00:07:12
Speaker
I guess he's got to be a buy at this point, if for no other reason than, and maybe not, if you don't have him now, I wouldn't buy him right now, but certainly as Six Nations approaches, because Dolly was getting looks earlier and may get a look again, may get a run on England too. So if Dolly goes, then it's certainly going to be Montoya at home. Yep. Also same position. George MacGooghan, buy rented debt.
00:07:44
Speaker
You know, let me I haven't looked at his shit in a while. Actually. See where he is, and he's not. He's still average 2620 he's still doing all right. He had 28 points in his last five so yeah he's done better recently.
00:08:04
Speaker
Then he had in the past, he's a solid guy. He's at 230 though he's expensive. He's a guy who like if you need to play or fucking pick him up because he should be playing. Yeah, so maybe a rent on that one. Yeah, a rent or just a long term for your bench like I mean I'm like not I might go with.
00:08:20
Speaker
Fuck, I have Creevy. I might, you know, have McGuigan as my backup and then you just don't have to worry about anything. Just keep him there. Yeah, he might not go too far, either one of them. Right. The exception is past weekend for McGuigan. Right. And it's coming weekend for Creevy because he's. Right, because he's obviously on his butt. No money at all. Buy rent or ditch. At least.
00:08:52
Speaker
rent for this week. He's got an extremely favorable matchup that we'll get into later. But he's so hit or miss. He's a rent at best. Yep. Like that's Yeah, I'd pick him up for this week, but I wouldn't be planning on holding on to him. Right? Nope. All right. This is that.
00:09:18
Speaker
Let's see, I'm only going to do a couple for each. We're going to go prop for this week. Yeah, let's just go for this for this week. Trevor Davidson or well good to Clark. Wait a minute, you're no would certainly not be well good, good or Clark.
00:09:45
Speaker
I was like, is this a trick question? Sorry. Sorry. You're right. Trevor Davison or Valor Pablo Ruskin.
00:09:56
Speaker
Oh, Val. Okay. Davison, I don't know where the hell he is. Let me look at his average. Let me find him. There he is. He's all the way down there. He's averaging 14 points a game, points to start, I should say, and his last five or 15 points. His max, his top score is 28. No. No, thank you. All right. For this week, Joe Mahler or Bevin Rod? Let me look at the matchups again.
00:10:25
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So Marler with Chief's Rod with Bristol. Go Marler, I think. He'll make many more tackles. Yeah, no, I'm talking myself into it. Marler. Let's go to Hook. This is what we talked a lot about.
00:10:54
Speaker
Ooh, here we go. George McWiggin or Sam Matabasi? That's tough, because they're actually not, like Matabasi's been poor lately. He's really regressed, sad to say. Again, his average, so the two averages, McWiggin at 26, averaging 26, start on the season in Matabasi at 25.
00:11:19
Speaker
28 in his last five starts before for MacWiggin 22 from out of AC and they're facing each other. Let me see who's actually got a better defense. So Newcastle are fifth against Hookers, giving up 31 per match. Northampton are eighth, giving up 33. So not really, you know, the big difference in where they rank, but not a big difference in average score.
00:11:43
Speaker
I would still lean Medivacy, because he's one of those who, so let me go to the final criteria.
Matchup Analysis & Player Form
00:11:50
Speaker
Well actually, McGuigan has had five times over 25, twice under 10, Medivacy three points, three times over 25, zero under 10.
00:12:01
Speaker
Like it has the better high ski. I'm going to go with my go again, actually. That's weird. I did not expect that. I was like looking forward to all these reasons to use Medivacy, but right now I can't. No, you can't. No, you can't. All right. Locks stuff on the visa, Dave Evans. Oh, wait, let me go back to.
00:12:27
Speaker
Points against rankings. Quins are sixth at 49. Saints are right behind him at 50, at number eight. Levis, I think, because when he's in that role, he scores really well, well above and beyond, and ribbons. It hasn't been great this year.
00:12:56
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Just been kind of disappointing. Yeah. I just had it. Harry Wells or Sam Skinner? This week, Harry Wells. He's got a very good matchup.
00:13:13
Speaker
Who played him? Wasps. Oh, that explains a lot. Yeah. And wasps are, where are they? The other 10th against Locks. They give him 51 points a game. So 25 each. Fair enough. And Wells usually outscores his up, like he gets the bulk of them. So he could be looking at like a 30 plus point week. Yep.
00:13:41
Speaker
Jack Kenningham or Tom Curry? Slankers. Kenningham. Curry doesn't support that well. Yeah, he doesn't. Right. Go ahead. Yeah, Lewis Ludlam or Sam Underhill. I think Lewis Ludlam's scheme is actually gonna go off, so Lewis Ludlam. Okay. Do, do, do, do.
00:14:10
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Number eight. Doo-doo-doo. Hmm. Let's see. We got about Ackerman or DDP? This week DDP Ackerman going up against Saracen's. Not advisable. Ill advised. Doo-doo-doo.
00:14:39
Speaker
Let's talk about Tom Willis or Alex Dombrandt. This week, Dombrandt. Yeah, Michelle bounce back this week. He knows, he knows. And there are, so if I'm not mistaken, let me go back to it. But again, number eight, you know, we were just talking about the teams that they were going against. Harrison's are number two overall against number eight. Number one is Lester. So I, um,
00:15:08
Speaker
can't really trust Willis this week. Yeah. It's gonna be tough. How about let's go Jack Mondo, Will Porter. Scrum Habs. Yeah. Okay, let me look at Scrum Habs second points against Harlequin's ninth twenty eight and a half. And who was the other one?
00:15:39
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You have Porter and Maunder. Porter and Lester are they're giving up two points a game less. I go with Maunder because he's also been scoring fairly high. Porter is not. Porter is where am I? Oh, I'm not even on Scrum House yet. Too far ahead of me. I know. Nope, that didn't do it.
00:16:08
Speaker
Okay, so Porter. Yeah, I mean, Monder is scoring marginally ahead of him, but also has four over 25 point matches. So it's four and 11 starts. So take that for what it's worth, but it's still four more than Porter has at all. Right, right, right. All right. And then Ben Spencer, Ben, me and
00:16:41
Speaker
I don't want to say. OK, since I already said the bath game is not going off, then bend me in. If on the under the impression that bath are not going to play yet again, right? All right, tense. How about. George Ford. Or Dan bigger. Ford this week, Ford all day, all day, every day.
00:17:11
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Not that that is impending. It's not foreshadowing or anything. I'm going for there. Yeah, I'm thinking about it somehow. Joe Simmons or Brett Connan? Well, considering that Brett
Player Recommendations
00:17:30
Speaker
Connan costs like half as much as Joe Simmons, and they score almost exactly the same. I'm going to go with Connan. Yeah, save you in a pinch.
00:17:40
Speaker
Yeah, save you in a pinch, right? They're literally like, Joe Simmons is averaging 17.8 points, eight, three, sorry, because it goes to the second digit. So 17.83, Brett Conon's averaging 17.75. So how about that? Yeah. And right, the top score contents top score is 34. Simmons is 31. Both up. Yeah.
00:18:10
Speaker
All right, Senators, Nick Tonkins or Matt Scott? This week, I'm big on Lester this week, if you can't imagine seeing how Wasps played last week. Right. But I'm not sure if Scott will play, it might be Maroney, but either one of those. Yes. And wait, who was the first one?
00:18:37
Speaker
Tomo. Yeah, Gloucester actually. Hold on, I have this in my notes that you'll hear later. He's probably lined up against Harris. Right. He's a nightmare to play against. Exactly. So, no, Tomo plays 12. So he'd be lined up against 12 trees. That might be favorable.
00:19:01
Speaker
If it's Atkinson, no. Or it can be Atkinson. Atkinson would be unfavorable. So I guess that depends. So he's dependent upon matchup, whereas Matt Scott is not. He's only dependent upon whether he's starting or not. So I'm going to go with Matt Scott. Yeah. Hutch or Slade? Ew.
00:19:21
Speaker
My goal with this every week is to find a matchup that makes Ben say, ew. Where is Hutchinson? Oh, there he is. OK, so there he is. Well, first off, Slade is 319. Let's let's let's let's talk about that. He's at 319 and he's averaging 17 points to start with averaging 13 in his last five. Whereas it doesn't sound pretty. That does not sound good. Whereas where the fuck where am I looking for?
00:19:53
Speaker
there he is. Averaging 17.8, almost 20 in his last five. Yeah, I'm going hutch. He's 100 and some K cheaper. Yeah, no hutch hutch all day. Yep, yep. All right. wings to do to the wing.
00:20:22
Speaker
Louis Lina or Louis Rees-Hammond. Lina. Although.
00:20:30
Speaker
Lana's averaging, he's done poorly recently to be fell. Oh shit, his last five starts, he's averaging nine points to start, which is bad. So I'd really, I think my preference is zero. Although I have a feeling Lana's gonna go off this weekend, but that's just me. So that's why I'm going with Lana, because I feel like, yeah, I feel like he's gonna fucking rock up this weekend.
00:20:58
Speaker
He's one of those who like, he may take a couple weeks off, and then he'll just score, he'll put down 40. And you're like, Oh, that's right. It's Louis Lina. Right? Yeah, right, right. So I see that happening. Yeah, this weekend. Rad winners go sand.
00:21:15
Speaker
Radwen, I've dropped Skosan. He's too expensive. How about that? Been scoring poorly lately. It's been a good drop. I mean, I dropped him for Ollie Hustle Collins. Ooh, there you go. A little bit of an upgrade. Yeah, definitely. And he's cheaper. So it's like, Skosan, yeah, he's cheaper scoring better. Skosan's only averaging 18 in his last five starts.
Matchup Breakdown & Strategies
00:21:38
Speaker
He had two huge 40-point matches to open his prem season. Yeah.
00:21:44
Speaker
and it's been meh yeah he's had a lot of meh one good match since then and then like three or four yeah because he's had seven starts right um three only three over 25 so he's had those three huge matches but then not much else where it's like alley hasl collins might be averaging you know 25 he's he's he's only really a point higher but he's also 10 points higher in those last five matches first off
00:22:10
Speaker
and he plays every, he's played 11 matches to Skosan seven, five over, over 25 starts for Collin. So yeah, no, I'm not, there's other options. If you're using Skosan's money, yeah, it's better spent on Radwin, it's even better spent on Hovil Collins. Yeah, all right, fullbacks. Tyrone Green or George Furbank? Oh, Furbank fucking sucks. In fantasy.
00:22:38
Speaker
Um, I'm not a fan of his, if you can't tell, uh, yeah, he's only had two, two matches over 20, um, over 25 points this year and eight starts.
00:22:49
Speaker
green has had six. Yeah, he's a better fullback in general, and has been much better, you know, for bank again, the 19 is less five turns only 21, but he's still scoring higher, I go, and he's more consistently playing and he's not going to go away. No, no, no, Stuart hog or Tom to the landfill. This would either
00:23:16
Speaker
Well Not playing this weekend, so I'm going This you're maintaining that throughout being consistent it was making my decisions super fucking easy Oh Shit well then
00:23:41
Speaker
Okay, that does it for this or that. It made life so easy. All right. We got some starter sit to do. Starter sits. I believe you. I think you're off. I think you're off. Yeah, Bristol sale. Yeah. Yeah, I have Bristol sale. Look at that. Hey, look at that. I have notes for them. Here they are. Okay, sale.
00:24:07
Speaker
Seventh in defense, ninth in attack. So their defense has actually fallen off a lot, which is surprising. Bristol, same kind of thing. Sixth in defense, eighth in attack. So like, just a little bit better in both, which is considering where they are in the actual standings.
00:24:30
Speaker
for Bristol that means you know but like okay so for sale, sorry, there are there seven versus hooker so I'm going to kind of switch this up to just random shit or like their best and worst to what's relevant for the opposition so, you know, for the hookers relevant for for Bristol so they're Taylor seven versus hookers ninth versus locks.
00:24:49
Speaker
11th versus flankers, six versus number eights, four versus scrum half and fly half, five versus centers, seven against the wings and then last against pullbacks. So I'm hoping Pia Taos healthy. Yeah, fingers crossed. Thacker should do well. Lue Itua might even be an option because he will make a lot of tackles. So that he could be an option this week. Fitz Harding has been quite good, I think is the term. For fantasy points, let me
00:25:21
Speaker
Let me go to flankers a second because so I can give you the. That. One second. It's something ridiculous where he's. Flankers. One, two vocal issue. Yeah, but his last five have been like super good, so I.
00:25:46
Speaker
Yeah, Fitz Harding, there he is. His last five, he's averaging 31 points per match. And overall, he's averaging 29. So Fitz Harding is a good option. He's a good option here. He'll make, again, tackle, tackle, tackle. Harry Randall should be good if he gets his head out of his ass.
00:26:09
Speaker
If they're playing well together, keep, hopefully that keeps up. Uh, again, pee a towel. If he's healthy, keep the way off your team. Uh, you know, we haven't mentioned that name in a while. I don't think, yeah, it's just not been good. Yeah. That's what's disheartened to me. Um, and, and sit Kalanchiti.
00:26:27
Speaker
for sale. Crystal or third versus hookers first versus lock second versus flanker. So this is kind of rough. 11th versus number eights though. There you go. Third versus scrum have so if it's not quirky.
00:26:41
Speaker
No, 11th versus fly halves, which is which is quite key. 12 versus wings and fullbacks Captain America, which is not at all relevant for this match. No, but I wanted to include that anyway. First of all, really bad against the team that parts of the team that sale do not have. So hold off on the front row for sale.
00:27:05
Speaker
You know again with Bristol being third versus hooks and sale not really having high scoring props last week notwithstanding. Play Jean-Luc Dupriya but don't captain him. Start Dan Dupriya and maybe captain him. Corky if he's playing as I said and AJ fucking always but especially 11 versus flyhats. Yes, please. Yes.
00:27:25
Speaker
Yes, please.
Lineup Strategy & Setup
00:27:26
Speaker
All right. Um, Quinn's next. It's surprisingly exit are very low on the totem pole when it comes to fancy defenses. They are really 12th.
00:27:36
Speaker
something bad. Yeah, the 12th. That's what they're at. That's crazy. Second to Worcester. Yeah. Delta. Anyway, so for the twins, as noted, Exeter soft against props last Marla isn't usually high on my list. But because he tends to go 70 plus minutes, he's a boy this week. If lower tackles
00:27:58
Speaker
They exit a run where props tackle. And that's why they do well. Right. And then he's got a little extra to him as well. Like I said, so many minutes, so many plus minutes from Marley. Usually in this situation, we'll give him some decent play. So give him a go. If low returns, he's a thousand percent of play. Give him a go. Stepan, the V sex are also not great against locks. They're 12.
00:28:21
Speaker
So if you've got the Quinn's captain, he's worth the go this week as well. Um, pays me to say this, but could be a tough week for Danny character. Secondly, it's perhaps Phipps did put 50 on him. Um, but still go bench DC just because that you, that, that, that number scares me just a wee bit. And there are other options that most people have out there. So give it, you know, Alex Mitchell being one of them.
00:28:42
Speaker
Um, for Exeter, uh, Quinn, they're not particularly soft against a single position. So my advice on who to start are the consistent scores for this week for Exeter. So that includes Luke Allen, Dickie, Sam Simmons, Johnny Hale, but still, um, Skinner, if he plays.
00:28:59
Speaker
They just have lots to play in Jack monitor. Nothing too creative for them this week. Honestly, don't don't be cute. Quins are particularly tough against any position, like I said, except flanker. So let's face it, I'm not a Skinner and Armin are captain, most of whom don't start regularly. I don't trust any of the flankers they deploy. So get away from them this week, for the most part, with the exception of the four mentioned names that I had before. Right off to.
00:29:29
Speaker
Saracen's Gloucester. Oh, not Gloucester. Okay, cool. Yeah, that one. No, I was making sure you were done as you turned away. I'm being a pain in the ass. I wasn't sure if you were done or if that was you going after Taz there. No, I'm not taking him yet.
00:29:52
Speaker
So Saturday is first attack second in defense. Yummy. Gloucester seventh and attack eighth in defense. Yummy was great. Depends on which side of them. So for Gloucester and their defense their 12th versus props 12 out of 13. Six versus hookers fifth versus locks.
00:30:14
Speaker
Eighth versus flankers, third versus eight, nine versus centers, first versus wings and fifth versus fullback so there's, you know, as we saw last week with green. There's a chance that they shut, you know, shut down the fullback again so watch out for that. For Saracens, Mako and Vinny absolutely start, you know, they're fucking terrible against props so yep.
00:30:42
Speaker
Jinx or Woolie, whoever is at Hooker for Saracen always a go. Mauro and Nick would go without saying. Benny Earl, even if he's playing eight, depending on what happens with Billy exactly.
00:30:57
Speaker
Oh, yeah. And and fucking Chris Jackson Ray broke his skull. Right. Terrifying. Right. Fuck. I forgot to mention that when we were talking about the ref. I don't know how the hell that happened. Right. I know. You know, laws should be, you know, we talked about him because he deserves it. And again, mail-in kind of now I'm talking myself out of mail-ins.
00:31:24
Speaker
So using maybe the fullbacks were kind of if he yeah that's true yeah for Saracens their third versus props second versus hookers fourth versus locks first versus flankers second versus eight so that's kind of sucks if you have Gloucester pack players.
00:31:42
Speaker
They're 11th versus scrum halves, but that also kind of sucks. 8th versus fly half, second versus centers, which sucks. 8th versus wings and 11th for full back. So Rapava Ruskin and Singleton, stardom and hope. They, one of them, you know, if you have one of them, stardom and hope they score. I don't have just him, so I don't need to play him.
00:32:08
Speaker
So there's that where was I don't gamble on Ackerman this week. Oh, Clark Clark is a tackle machine. Don't I wouldn't expect much of a drop off at all. I mean, it's too expensive and way too low scoring to read the score well, but fuck you can do better elsewhere. I expect Harris to be pretty well bottled up.
00:32:29
Speaker
So bench, you know, look, look for him on the bench. I just added it. I know. Right. Well, we'll see. Maybe things will be back this week. Newcastle and Northampton say to 10th against wings. So, of course, that means Adam Radron goes to the top of the list for the week. I only had two as seven under 20 and even muscled 20 out last week has been mentioned earlier here. So what we're doing,
00:32:59
Speaker
this or that. Northampton averaged 20 plus points against for four, seven and eight. And unfortunately, that only means one of those is viable for Newcastle. I fully trust Sean Robinson. Maybe Callum check if he's at eight. Maybe. That's a big old fucking maybe there.
00:33:17
Speaker
to the many Trevor Davidson owners, Saints are still number two versus props, which at this point is not a coincidence. He plays the worst side of the scrum as well. Four points less than the loose head, he plays
Navigating Fantasy Leagues
00:33:28
Speaker
side head. So sit him if you can help it, or at least on the bench.
00:33:32
Speaker
For Northampton, Newcastle are last against centers. The toughest position to find a good scorer for most. And say you have a couple of decent ones. Dings and Hutchins are the likely candidates for the week. So especially with other injuries. Pierce Francis, it was so sad to see him go off last week after working so hard to get back.
00:33:50
Speaker
Poor guy. Poor guy. You gotta feel for him. Dave Bigger and Alex Mitchell might be the number one halfback pairing as far as teammates go this week. Newcastle are number 10 versus both fly-hats and scrum-haps. Yes, my dog is shaking and gigantic pain. Yes. Dog for sale. Somebody want him?
00:34:10
Speaker
This one's broken. I need to return it. I heard him rattle. Anyway, for an attempt on the other side of the coin. Tough week for the likes of Slates and Scott since Newcastle are very solid, though slightly vulnerable late to the wings. They generally do make lifetime on opposition up on Tyneside at Kingston Park. So bench them if you can, if you have them.
00:34:34
Speaker
All right, off to the CBS Arena for Wasby versus Lester.
00:34:42
Speaker
Yikes. Okay, wasps are third in attack, which is actually quite impressive. But that's also with a different fly half. And 11th in defense. Lester our fourth in attack and first in defense. They're just fucking first all across the board. So let's let's go with that. Lester our first versus props and hookers. Third versus locks. Oh, sorry. Fourth versus flankers. And then first versus eight.
00:35:07
Speaker
And really, at that point, that's where you're cutting it off anyway, for if you're looking at wasps, you're not looking to any wasps backs at this point, unless you're fucking nuts. So, like, GTA, probably good for the bench, god damn it, I'm not doing well with my, I don't have him no mo, I don't have him no mo, cruise and frost, whoever, you know, whoever's starting. I'm not sure that's a good option this week. Fafita and Stuk should be fine, but
00:35:38
Speaker
I think it's time to look, you know, at that point, Fafita is really, he's probably not going to keep scoring so high, and especially as they bring back launch debris. It's time to start moving away from, you know, especially the Willis to, you know, same thing with with Barbary.
00:35:58
Speaker
for this week anyway. Willis and Barbary will look to be limited. Well, it's time to move away from him, too, because the other Willis will be back. They have so much at that. Yeah. So much it's going to be back in Fafita can play six. So it gives them a lot to go on with that back five. Right. I mean, they still have shields and young, young and yep. And none of them are bad options. So it's it's you know, it's great for for wasps, but bad for fantasy owners. So I would really, you know,
00:36:26
Speaker
Yeah, I'd start moving away from their back road players and from a fantasy perspective. On the other side, wasps are ninth versus props, 11th versus hookers, 10th versus locks, 12th versus flankers, and oh, and their fourth versus number eights.
00:36:46
Speaker
they get something done, at least. There's six versus fly haves, eighth versus centers and 11th versus wins. So you know, that's where when I was talking about Ndolo earlier and Potter, wasps are weak there. And those guys should have a fucking day. But so for Lester Gensch, as always, Montoya or Dolly, big yup. Wells is a big yes, especially in Ford.
00:37:13
Speaker
Yeah, you mentioned that. Yeah. Matt Scott or Moroni, as I mentioned earlier, and Potter in Italy. Potter?
00:37:22
Speaker
I can't blame him for it. I mean, I can't blame him for not being amused with all the wizard stuff. But shit, that friggin Gens tweet was goddamn right. I still think about that in the lab, but I I show people that I have no idea what rugby is, but right. Well, because, yeah, you know what Harry Potter is. Right. Oh, sorry, Harry. I don't mean to keep going on about that.
00:37:46
Speaker
Oh, shit. All right. Bath and Worcester. This is going to be interesting for a lot of reasons, but most of which that both teams are not great. All right. Good news. Why are we talking about this game? It's not something played. Well, we're going to cover it anyway because.
00:38:03
Speaker
All right. Good news is Worcester are bad all over for bath fans. Tent or lower in points against in eight out of 11 positions, including the overall team. It should be a nice week for those that have Ben Spencer. Whereas in Alaska against nines and he has taken advantage of good matchups before so started if you got him even possibly over guys like DC who have a really tough matchup this week.
00:38:24
Speaker
Um, was there a last versus wings by four points on average to the next team? Yikes. Um, so if William years returns this week from his suspension, give him a go. Maybe, maybe, maybe rocking the uni right now. That's the only other guy I would trust. Um, I wish it was McConaughey, but I don't. I just don't. Um, and I like him a lot. Just not this year.
00:38:45
Speaker
Sorry, buddy. The one guy I think folks might get overconfident about with this matchup is our boy, Max Giamo. Be cautious when picking your centers this week. I still think he remains a bench spot at best. Yeah, I agree. And I do like him. He's worth it for his for his cost. Again, he's one of those guys. Totally cheap. So like, yeah, stick him on the bench and you can reap the benefits if he goes off by a little bit at least. So like he'll stay on my team this week for that for that purpose alone, only because
00:39:15
Speaker
I know my center like I have been hard from yeah and yeah and because he's a fantastic bench utility player and totally don't have him so Joe Moe is going to be
00:39:26
Speaker
Very much a spot there. Yeah. Yeah. All right. For Worcester, Bathurst Stock against Locks 11th. Though I don't love most of the out and out options for Worcester. If Kyle Hathroll were to find
Closing Thoughts & Preview
00:39:38
Speaker
himself in there, I'd say give him a play. Started there in round one and two. So it's a possibility. I know Justin Clegg has scored well in the past, but
00:39:46
Speaker
A little dicey on that one. I haven't seen enough of them to say that I love them so much. Bathrow 11 versus center. So one of our favorites could have a good week. Francois Venter should be rested after the bye week. A match at the wreck might suit his style quite well to boot. So there's that.
00:40:03
Speaker
Still way too many folks buying in on Waller's other one, 12 and 4%. Neither has reached what they are capable of this season. I'm not sure we're going to see it, especially against Boyce and Stewart, who are actually quite good. So we'll see how that goes. So much stuff that I had to choke on it. We're on other weeks. Cool. Good. No dying on the pot. We're starting the week.
00:40:34
Speaker
Well, I'm going to go ahead with this. Sorry, because I've made it pretty obvious earlier if you weren't paying attention. So sit down for this. George Ford is my start of the week. Shocker of the day.
00:40:49
Speaker
I am always in one, but yeah, so mine's kind of out there and out of the box and probably is not going to be a name that people remember. In terms of fantasy, at least I love this guy. I love his commitment to clubs caused despite the less than stellar year they're having. He's playing an opposition that can finally he could finally take full advantage of whether he's deployed seven or eight, which he's been deployed at this season. That would be great to see him open up. Of course, he's near and dear to us because he was actually born here in the States.
00:41:17
Speaker
hmm. I started the week around 13 the prem halfway there is bath in England back row. Sam Underhill. There you go.
00:41:26
Speaker
for a game that's not happening. Well, if it doesn't happen, I'll pick a new one. Right. My sit of the week, I actually considered I was like, I didn't even bother with that match to look at when I was when I was looking at starts and sets for, you know, for these other weeks. And I kind of ended up with with the guy who I already talked about because he was in one of my teams. I've been shitting on him and I'm not even certain that I'm eligible to
00:41:53
Speaker
have them as a sit of the week because I may have done it recently and I just don't give a shit that I'm doing. Sit of the week is versus sale, you know, going back old school, even though their defense isn't quite as good as it used to be. But Callum, she is just poop. Yeah, he's been pure. He's been poor. Yeah, I'm going to have to check on that. It might have been it might not have been five weeks yet. Might not be eligible. OK, well, we'll check that before we go to that sort out. We'll get a ruling by Friday. We'll go before we go to Friday. Yeah.
00:42:22
Speaker
My, so the week he had a really good week last week. Um, cause given 10 out of 10 for the season switching positions, he doesn't usually play and just putting in the hard yards. Uh, this will be just not going to go well for him, unfortunately. And his hard work is not going to give him the points that you need. My facility for around 13 of the prime is lost. Hardworking docket winger, Josh Bassett. Yeah.
00:42:43
Speaker
Yeah. And a lot of them too. We are best fans here. Right. We haven't used the term friend of the pod in some time, but I'd like to think that, you know, acid is the man's best friend of the pod. Besides the two that we have. Right. All right. Pick them. Unfortunately, I did pick up a week on you, buddy.
00:43:14
Speaker
All right, let's do this. Or a game on you. All right, Bristol and sail. Sail. Yeah. Quinn's an Exeter. Harley Quinn's. Yeah, I'm taking Quinn's especially at home. Yeah, series in Gloucester. New Castle and Saints. I'm gonna take Saints. I know they're gonna be a tough, they're gonna be a tough unit up there, the team, but. I feel like Newcastle kind of
00:43:43
Speaker
last week so they could rock up this week. I think they maybe feel like I had a better shot. Maybe. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. We'll see. All right. Wasser. Wasser. Wasser. I know you don't think it's going off the bathroom. Wasser at the wreck. Wasser.
00:44:02
Speaker
Yeah, same. That's what I was going to pick. It does. I do have and I'm not I'm not joking. I have in my notes Worcester at Bath. No game, though. Well, you know, just come up with this for the pie. I honestly do not believe that they're going to play this. We'll find out who's going to feel like Worcester or Bath. I think Bathidge is going to keep forfeiting the rest of the season. Oh, man. All right. Bad.
00:44:31
Speaker
At least I wouldn't blame them if they did. Yeah, I mean, we'll see. We'll see. All right. Well, we got this in next week. We're going back to Subaru and Europe and we'll see how that looks because I don't know what mess we're about to approach. So now it's going to get ugly. It is going to get ugly. It's only five weeks from the week before. Yeah. Or from five matches, whatever. Right. Anyway.
00:44:58
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