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Season 5- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Premiership Round 5)
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It's another episode of the TFRY Fantasy Corner. On this FC, we change things around a bit as we have a chance to digest the news of the day and discuss. Naturally we discuss the happenings with Worcester and also, how the Americas can get themselves a representative in the World Cup officiating team for 2023. Of course, we recap the happenings with Champi-Yanks League D1 and D2. Then, we have that fun thing called Start or Sit. Grab a pen and a cold one, enjoy!
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Transcript
Introduction and Episode Outline
00:00:02
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 gambled that. Collusion! Collusion!
00:00:27
Speaker
Hey everybody.
Weekend Reflections and Upcoming Plans
00:00:28
Speaker
Welcome back. It is the Fancy Rugby Yanks. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. It's fancy corner time. So we're going to reformat this one a little bit because of what we did yesterday. So we are going to do our usual spiel at the beginning, but then we'll do some news and then we'll jump into start set and check in on the Champions League. And thank you for indulging us on our recap of our weekend. Hopefully that
00:00:53
Speaker
Yeah. It was entertaining in some capacity. Exactly. Because I mean, obviously we were super excited about the whole the whole trip. Still are still buzzing from it a little bit. And I'm looking forward to the next time we get to go. But I'm slightly less fucked as as prefer it before I was. So I'm going to drink. Yeah. I'm not. I'm going to. That's right. So we're in through this one. Yeah. I don't blame you.
00:01:23
Speaker
I was in the middle. I was like, do I have it? Yes, I do. I didn't think you took me two seconds to figure out that I was that I was OK. Yeah, I was I brought a beer for that one and then never touched it. I didn't even open it because I was like I. And I think it was pretty obvious how like tired we still were. Yes. And our towards the end. Yes, definitely. We were a little zapped.
00:01:50
Speaker
I got the Northmore and Furbank tries confused, but that's okay, whatever. Yeah, you were crossing those out. Too many tries to remember which was which. Yeah, it's true.
Women's Rugby World Cup Coverage
00:02:04
Speaker
Make sure that you buy our good friend the fancy where we geek a coffee.
00:02:09
Speaker
Yes. Obviously, especially with this coming weekend, we're going to have a few things to mess through over the next few weeks as we, as things get sorted out for the premiership and the teams and the players from Worcester, which we'll talk about in a second. So he is going to be your guy to go to for that. No doubt. So the, the, the, the squidge approved fantasy rugby geek. Yeah. Right. I saw that. I saw that. Um,
00:02:35
Speaker
As always, there's no discrimination here on this podcast, nor should there be in sports or in life. On a positive spin, we've noticed, and maybe it's just because we're in this universe so much, but there seems to have been a positive shift towards the coverage of this year's World Cup, which past World Cups for the women in particular,
00:02:58
Speaker
Not as much. And the fact that they're shifting now is, is good. Um, there's a lot of, you know, over here, there's a heavy support for it. I know that, especially since our women's team is way better than our men's team anyway. Um, but overall, it seems like it's a good, been a good shift, which is really nice to see, you know, little, little, little things to clean up here and there, but, um, positive overall, I'd say positive overall. Yep.
00:03:26
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I'm liking it. And especially because like our coverage over here is actually way more accessible than the last one was. Indeed. It's extremely accessible. I did not think we'd get on that. I thought for sure we'd have to go dig on the
00:03:42
Speaker
God forbid, flow or something worse. Right. But, hey, we got it on peacock.
Patreon Promotion and Publishing Delays
00:03:47
Speaker
I was like, I will, I accept. And the matches are being shown on basic cable, too. Like CNBC is showing the women's eagles. Yep. No, they're showing, I think they're showing it live. Are they going to show some live? Good. I thought they were. I mean, what else?
00:04:01
Speaker
What the fuck else are they showing on CBS NBC at like, you know, eight at night? Oh, I don't disagree. I totally agree. There's nothing else to watch. And same really, you know, nine o'clock in the morning. But that's a different story.
00:04:15
Speaker
But yeah, it's good stuff. I am feeling good about it. I hope others are, and I know there's still much a gap to Bridge, but this is still good. This is still good stuff. And there's a fantasy game that we don't know how to play. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second. We'll get into that in a second.
00:04:38
Speaker
And in the meantime, grab our Patreon because we will have the sheet out soon and that'll be worth it. In the meantime, also meantime, I've got the latest boom and bust for the week up there. So you can go ahead and grab that. I don't normally plan on publishing it on a Wednesday. I'll try and get it up on Monday or Tuesday.
00:04:57
Speaker
Circumstances didn't really want to cooperate this week, obviously. You know, could I have wrote some of it at the airport? Maybe, but it was not happening. No, it wasn't happening. It wasn't happening. It was not happening. I don't have one of those screens that I can
00:05:15
Speaker
black out of everything besides the dead on, um, for like airport and stuff. Maybe I need to get one of them for her to keep doing this thing. Operational security at all times. Yes. We don't anybody stealing our content before it goes out. Yeah. Cause it's so important. Cause it's so important. So valuable fricking copyrighted and all that shit. But yes, grab your, grab the Patreon. Um, our sheets will be up and once that first sheet up, it'll make life easier on us going forward for the other comps as well.
00:05:47
Speaker
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo. Um, I swear I wouldn't do, um, any more, but I did anyway. Yeah. So there's one, there's one, there's one for everybody else. The elephant in the room. Yeah. The elephant in the
Worcester Liquidation and Its Impact
00:06:01
Speaker
room. Uh, what's the liquidation and player movement? It's an awful, it's a, is this is a black mark. Like there's no other way to describe it. Yeah. I mean, maybe worse words, but like at minimum it's a black mark.
00:06:18
Speaker
And where's the prem? We saw the... From Weasel Douchebag Douchebag. I don't remember his actual name, the one that's been on TV the last couple of weeks. Right. And it's like, you know, our thoughts are with, you know, it's like, they don't have any of your thoughts. Even one of the players said that too. It's like, they don't need thoughts. They need actions. Like, it's not thoughts. Do something about this. Like, all of this could have been avoided at this point.
00:06:46
Speaker
Definitely. Yeah, like you could have stepped in at any time before now and made sure that enforce the sale, do something like get it, make it so that this situation doesn't come to this. And it seems like they just kind of set aside and let the let it play out and, you know, passively. And wow, that sounds familiar.
00:07:09
Speaker
Yeah, that goes well, usually. Yeah. But that's kind of how they've been recently. It's very, very passive and just letting things happen. That's not good. You know, there's a lot of the stuff that we, you know, we've been talking about not just, you know, obviously the Worcester issue, but our experience with, you know, finding
00:07:29
Speaker
like Prim Rugby on bars and shit like that. Like, you're not doing enough. Start doing more. Like, and this is, if I have any of all things to not do anything about, this was like the worst thing to not, to just set aside. Yeah. It's like, this is the worst time to go silent. What are you doing? Yeah. What the hell are you doing? Yeah. And the player, like, I guess, you know, we're assuming that, you know, certain players are going to go,
00:07:57
Speaker
certain places like Finn Smith, I'm sure is off to Northampton. They just haven't announced it yet because that was always in the works, it seems. DuVin's already gone to Edinburgh. DuVin's gone. All the players that are on loan to Bath, I'm guessing that's going to be permanent. That's going to be probably permanent
Refereeing Critiques in the Americas
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and good for Bath, getting some massive talent infusion that was much needed there. Yeah, totally. And then now, and I even asked the question in the group chat today, but
00:08:26
Speaker
At this point, does the prem like re, rework the schedule because there's no need for buys. Now, instead of having one buy a week, you're going to have, you know, multiple teams not playing each week. Um, you know, they rearrange the schedule at all and probably not, but you know, start maybe starting further out, like after Christmas or something starting in the new year. Can they, can they rearrange? Uh, yeah, I, I.
00:08:53
Speaker
I would like that, and I don't have the feasibility stuff up in my brain right now. It makes sense as we're talking about it, but putting it into action. Well, again, we're asking an organization that doesn't do anything to do some things. Maybe that's the cog right there. Let's just stop there. That might be the monkey wrench right there. Just awful.
00:09:21
Speaker
Yeah, so I'm wondering like, I'm wondering what, you know, what happens to like this, this like the players I'm interested in for a like, it's more of a mental exercise because there's enough Worcester players, most of them, they were no talent was never there. Many of them. Yep.
00:09:39
Speaker
Many of them deserve contracts and they'll get them, I assume. Will the prem, you know, kind of relax the cap a little bit or something and help teams out to, you know, to help the players out too, right? You can't just have players without a job, without the prem stepping in and helping in some way.
00:09:58
Speaker
You know, that's, that's an interesting, that's a fun mental exercise. You can kind of do like, Oh, where we should badly go. Like Bristol makes sense. I've been doing a good job of that on Twitter. He's, he's, he's got an interesting thread out with all that. So that's, that's one place to go check that out. And then there's, but then the staff.
00:10:15
Speaker
Like, because the staff are people who let, you know, a lot of, especially, you know, the game days, all that stuff. These are people who live in the air. They're not going to move to another area. They're not going to, you know, especially with Worcester being so kind of remote from the rest of the prem. Like, where do they go?
00:10:32
Speaker
It's not like, you know, some of the teams, like if they were, if this happened to Quinn's, you know, and I'm just as a, as a, for instance, like there's plenty of other teams in London and in the London area where they could go in and find jobs and not really have to uproot their lives. But it's awful for the people who depended on that, you know, for the people who depended on game day for their, if we saw how many, um,
00:10:55
Speaker
How many pop-up trucks and stuff like food trucks and bar trucks did we see at both matches? Both, yeah, absolutely. And now that's gone. Like, that's awful. And yeah, something has to be done to help them out.
00:11:10
Speaker
Yeah. And the best, this is what we love about rugby. The entire rugby community has really been doing its best to just put it out there and say, we want to find help for these people and hopefully, you know,
00:11:26
Speaker
the goodness of what good humans there are out there now come through and these people can find jobs and whether it's something to just hold it over until they can, you know, Worcester can get back to playing, whether it's the season, which isn't super likely, or next season when they're in the championship, something to hold them over from now until whenever that point is, then we can only hope. We really can only hope.
00:11:54
Speaker
And that's what I'm
Support for Affected by Worcester's Liquidation
00:11:56
Speaker
hoping for. And I hope I do want to continue to have a positive mindset in terms of that, at least. Exactly. And this kind of goes to show, as much shit as we've talked about Wooster, nobody wanted this. We didn't want this. No. This is the last thing any of us wanted. I wanted them to be good. I was critical of them because I wanted them to be better. Always. And now I want them. And it's amazing.
00:12:23
Speaker
These owners have gotten me on Steve Diamond's side. Truth. What the fuck? I know you fucked up. And I hope I really hope that there's come up and for them like, you know, they're they're rich white men. So that's unlikely. But I don't know, maybe maybe they're better about that in in in UK. I hope they are. I hope so. Somebody's going to put a foot up their ass. Ass holes. Mm hmm.
00:12:54
Speaker
Other news, I do I want to talk about this only because it's a reference. It's current to us here in the United States. The referees announced for November in the men's men's automation series. And it's very likely that the
00:13:13
Speaker
referees we see in whatever competitions that are going, including in the the Reposage tournament that the US is partaking in, those referees are also likely on the radar for France in 2023. If you're not doing that, the likelihood of you getting into that is low, is like slim, very slim.
00:13:31
Speaker
and the ARN American Rugby News published something basically, it sounded like they were trying to be critical of World Rugby. And I have no issue with World Rugby. The thing is, the one point you pointed out I agree with is the bilingual referees that are trying to, they're trying that the South American countries are trying to bring through. I would like to see that and I don't argue against that. The problem with,
00:14:00
Speaker
the US with both Americas, North America and South America is the quality of refereeing is complete shit. And if you're judging it, if you're judging how good a referee or the best referee based on who does say the final and majorly rugby, last year was Federico Anselmi and he's crap. He is bad. So if that is your top two referee, maybe,
00:14:27
Speaker
at least as they see it, as North America sees it, that's a problem. And if you want to get referees into this, then we need to take a hard look at our officiating quality and how we're pumping them out and how we're educating them and how we're keeping them up on these things. Because I have no confidence in a lot of the referees in the MLR. I will say the one thing that didn't get mentioned much that should be is the man they call Mo Chaudry, who's actually from Canada.
00:14:57
Speaker
He is going to be on the sideline for some things over in November. So he's a possibility of someone we see going to France in 23. The other person that should be named is not because she's busy this month is Cat Roach. And unfortunately,
00:15:19
Speaker
She's not gonna be brought up simply because she's a woman. And anybody that tells me otherwise, I think you really aren't seeing it. She is the best referee we have. I don't think anybody that disagrees with that. You and I have experienced another referee in New England that is probably the best in New England and she doesn't get enough credit for her.
00:15:40
Speaker
for her ability and that's Amelia. And she doesn't get, she doesn't get to ref in the MLR either. She's only allowed to AR. Oh God, I would rather have her than like so many of the other ones. There's so many of them like, and they pump up Scott Green. I don't think Scott Green is that good. He sucks. God, the guy that lives, I think he lives in New York. What's, is it?
00:16:01
Speaker
I think his first name's Luke. I don't remember. But anyway, he's crap. Yeah, that's how important he is. In my memory, he can't remember his last name. Yeah, we're not giving the opportunities to the right people in my opinion. And that is just killing us because we're basing it on where they're from and whose butt they kissed earlier on. That's really all it is. And that's just a horrible way to do it. And I need somebody to show me the path otherwise because I don't see it.
00:16:31
Speaker
I really don't. And we don't have the setup right now to produce world-class referees right now. And it's, in a lot of ways,
US Teams' International Struggles
00:16:43
Speaker
it's terrifying. It's terrifying because it's gonna hinder performance here in this region. We've been saying that for a while too, that it does impact us. Because like when we go, you know, when the US plays,
00:16:57
Speaker
you know, any other nation and we get like a reasonable referee, like they're just not used to what they can and can't do, what they can and can't get away with. Like that's why one of the reasons we lost to Chile was a player with his, you know, the neck roll that isn't going to get caught in it or, you know, wasn't going to get caught in MLR because they didn't have TMOs. And now, oh, nope, the TMO like easily spots it, you know,
00:17:27
Speaker
Penalty kick game, like the setup for our current TMOs is awful. Like we don't have the camera angles that are required for all this stuff. You know, you have two camera angles at best and they're both crap. Nine times that time they're crap. And it's a pro.
00:17:45
Speaker
It needs to be looked at as a part of the whole entire performance like initiative for us rugby, not just trying to make the players better. We need to have better referees and we need to have referees that are willing to do the unpopular things sometimes. And also reckon like when you can't even recognize this supposedly the best referee in MLR that there's a red card incident in a game and you ignore that and go to a yellow card incident.
00:18:15
Speaker
I'm pretty sure the red card should be overruling that anyway, or both need to be observed. And neither of those situations occurred, and that's pretty poor. So, yeah, like when player safety is not utmost, that's a problem. And that comes down to, you know, the no arms, the high shots, and the neck rolls. Those are the three big ones right there. And they did not do a good job policing it. And I will not be shocked if we find a way to lose one of these games in the next month.
00:18:46
Speaker
Mm hmm. Suppose that. All right. Enough of that. More fun things, far more fun things. We have the World Cup Dream Team that is out there, and it's the only remotely fancy related thing that we could dig up. And our boy George dug that up, thankfully. No rules that I've seen yet. So that's.
00:19:16
Speaker
Yeah. And obviously I checked it out on my, on the mobile. Cause that's where we, you know, that's what we had access to. But like, I don't know what, what, what are the points? How do we, how do they score? Like there's no, um, at this point I'm assuming it's super tri-heavy with kicks involved, but yeah. So that puts, you know, kickers on the top of your list and try scores at the top of your list. So for like your, for your props, it's going to be like Sarah Byrne and hope Rogers.
00:19:44
Speaker
You know, people like that. Right. So just keep that little tidbit in mind. But do play it. Share. Yep. Engage with it because they'll sort it out. Yeah, if they if they see the engagement is fairly high.
Women's Rugby World Cup Fantasy Game
00:20:01
Speaker
then this could lead to good things. So bringers crossed. But yeah, engage with it if you're out there because it only helps us as fancy rugby lovers and so on and so forth. So please engage with it, share it on your socials and pray to God that they actually listen. All right, and the next thing we're gonna do is go over to Champions League. Hooray!
00:20:30
Speaker
and have a look at what happened last week. We were with the triage teams together and hold our own for the most part. At least you did. High score wasn't that bad. I'm just, yeah, I was annoyed. But anyway, so division one. Justin and Duncan, Duncan, yeah, sparely.
00:20:54
Speaker
went down by less than, is that, yeah, like 3.7. Yeah. Almost four. Some tight ones this year. There's been a lot of that going around. So I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Um, let's see. What was Duncan's downfall to eat? Oh, at homes. He had at homes and at homes. Yeah. That is the difference right there. That was it. And then two, he had negative 0.2. Yeah. Unhelpful. But also the big one was at homes. Right.
00:21:23
Speaker
I remain sitting on my donut. Donuts, not that kind, nevermind.
00:21:29
Speaker
Like the bad guys. Yeah, the bad guys in this case in Covis upended me and I am in deep shit. And that's despite Sean Robinson having minus points for a copis. Yeah, exactly. And not awesome for me. Radwan pulling a one pointer is unfortunate. Awful, awful, awful. The worst what I thought would be the worst part of my team actually wasn't that bad. That was Sam Stewart. But not great, but not not not like zero, which is
00:21:59
Speaker
And you were fortunate that Arendelle only got the 8.2. Oh, yeah. Like, the other the scores from the other the other guys just back free from absolutely ran through it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the other guys. Yeah, just ran through it. I was like, Oh, this is horrible. I watched I watched my dream go go with North, North, Northmore and that.
00:22:17
Speaker
yeah there goes that yeah and then the f yeah there was both the oddly enough the north moor and furbank tries yeah rather and yeah no not fun we watched them both and i was like and that's that
00:22:31
Speaker
Yeah. And then we had Carrick and Mark, Mark, what a good old smack on, on the, on the Carrick. Carrick has a, he had con and con didn't play. That was not awesome. Crystal front row was on the minus. That's not good either. Yeah. And that's, and then yeah, Mark had had loader, which.
00:22:53
Speaker
He himself felt like a lot. Yeah, that right there was more than half of Carrick's points was like so for scored for Mark. So it's like, all right. Yeah. Forty five points from one player. You're probably going to win that matchup.
00:23:11
Speaker
Ouch. And then you were able to rather handily take care of George and you didn't even have a lock or front row. Right. In that way. Um, yeah, it helps when you had one bad score. I had one score under 10. Yeah. Yeah. That was Billy, Billy V. So that'll help. That definitely helps. It will help. Yeah. Great time.
00:23:39
Speaker
Yeah, that Anianwu run. I was, I was extremely pleased by that. I'm sure you were. Jared can confirm as soon as I saw that it was him that broke the line and that he just, he was gone. I was like, I'll take that off the points. But, all right. And then over to division two, Sophie has been great about keeping us up to date, which we appreciate very, very much. So we have.
00:24:07
Speaker
Terry losing, I think that's Terry's first loss. As a matter of fact, you went, you went down to Stewart, Stewart, uh, put a good hurt on him as well. It was about a 50 point gap in that one. Ouch. That one that leaves a mark. And then we had, uh, Franco and, uh, Luke, big scores in both, but Franco took that and took it down and we'll put up the biggest score in, was it across both divisions?
00:24:36
Speaker
Yeah, I didn't have like 200 points. Yeah, 170. That's definitely the biggest across both divisions. That's pretty good. That's a good day for Franco. So well done to Franco. Sofia won again. She beat Alex. Alex is still struggling to piece together what he can from this. The good news is, Alex, there's no relegation from Division 2. You can stay after that. It's okay. So don't worry about that. Just worry about getting promoted. And this is all only one competition. We have plenty to go.
00:25:05
Speaker
I might be, I need to worry though. I keep sitting on this duck. I'm definitely not getting any points out of this comp. It's just the one comp, so there's others to go. That's why it's, you know, that's why it's the champion. It's not just the one comp where there's no way to go. You don't need to get points in every league, but it certainly hurts to, yeah, the donut is not unhelpful at the moment. And then we had,
00:25:32
Speaker
I believe it's John beating Larry, a bit of a, not quite a pillow fight, but it was approaching that. I think John must've got a little bit of help on the last day to get him over a 110. Larry did not put up a good number by any means whatsoever. And the standings are, yeah, Alex is sitting, Owen, which sucks. John got off the snide with that win. So that was the good one. So he's not, he's not winless anymore.
00:25:59
Speaker
And then yeah, nobody else is undefeated. And I'm pretty sure Terry was the last one. So there goes that, but Terry still got a lot of room up there. Like three and one, two and two, one and three. Yeah. He's in decent shape. The other conference is in tough shape. That is three, one, three, one, three, one, one, three. So that is a hold on to it. So right now all three of the four playoff spots would go to conference, the first conference there with, um,
00:26:30
Speaker
With Stewart, Franco, Sophia and John. Hold on kids. We got a lot to go though. There is a long way to go. There is, there is.
Excitement for Women's Rugby World Cup Opening
00:26:42
Speaker
Okay. It is start set time. Hooray.
00:26:48
Speaker
And we will have a sheet out for Friday as well. We will. That, yes, that will not be on a plane or a train or anything. Right. Or a bus. We're all sorts. We're on all sorts of different transit options. Yeah. Likelihood is I'll be firmly planted on my ass doing other work, but that's okay. Right. But at least we can do that in the background. Yes, definitely.
00:27:11
Speaker
So don't forget opening weekend of the World Cup. There's some teams already announced. So, yeah, do your duty and go watch that. I know I'm holding a couple of watch sessions for my high school team. I don't want them to. Yeah. I want them to all have a chance to watch this. And I'll be out in the woods this weekend, but I will be watching as well. Yeah. Just bring, you know, bring a device. Right. Oh, you know, I'm definitely bringing my iPad and it'll definitely be something. Are you guys at UVM?
00:27:41
Speaker
What's up? Where are you guys this weekend? Oh, no, no, this is I'm I'm going out in the woods with a buddy of mine who who has a cabin out in Western Mass. So I'm going to go. I'm going to go, you know, hiking and gotcha and doing.
00:27:58
Speaker
outdoorsy things. Now I understand. And then I'll be watching rugby when we get back. Former teammate of mine from back in the back of the day. Oh, okay. So he understands. He understands. Now I get it. Now I get it. All right. Start said thing.
00:28:13
Speaker
I believe I lead us off because we have the three, Bristol and Exeter. So for the Bears, a guy that I mentioned in my column, Richard Lane, has been quietly chewing up the meters. He's in that top 20 range of players that have chewed up meters in FRD, not counting front rows. I don't count them as I count front rows because they have way more than one player.
00:28:38
Speaker
Ryan out of time. So but he has been quietly chewing up the meters. And those are types of things that usually turn into good points. And he's, he's had what, three out of four good weeks, something like that. So yeah, and last week, he had pay dirt. So keep playing him, keep watching him.
00:28:52
Speaker
back rows typically have one or two guys that do well against Exer and Magnus Bradbury has been without a doubt the most consistent player in the back row for the Bears. So give him, if you haven't, don't have him yet, get him. He's a thumbs up right now. I drafted him on one league at least. Bristol Bears front row. That is something to caution right now only because
00:29:18
Speaker
It seems that when they don't have games, they just don't click. And he is definitely the linchpin of the whole thing right now. So if he's in, obviously, they're likely they're going to be a jackpot. If he's not in, yeah, if he's not in, temper expectations, maybe consider sitting them and just eating the zero because they've gotten negative points every time I think so far that he hasn't played. So that's not awesome.
00:29:45
Speaker
So Exeter have been fairly generous to front rows, but just make an educated decision on that whole thing. Don't just blindly put them in there because they've put up a couple of good numbers because they have, but you need to just educate yourself on the whole thing. Yeah. Although Exeter do give up points to forwards. Yes. We've been mixing through the year. So it's like you're kind of, I get what you're saying. It's like there's a lot of temptation to use them, but it does rest a lot on Genj's presence.
00:30:15
Speaker
Yeah, very much so. So just, we're at a caution, that's all. Before Exeter, Henry Slade finally came good. I know he had the boot and all that stuff last week, but still came good. I expect more from him going forward as basically the one real attacking option they have in the backs, not named Woodburn or, or, or Sir Joe. Yeah, I'm sorry. Or Sir Joe. So he's, he's a goal for me. Uh, extra front row are actually fairly, fairly good. And Bristol have given up.
00:30:44
Speaker
points to them as well. So that's also unhelpful for that sake. So
00:30:49
Speaker
Another front row to consider. They'll probably be in the top five for me this week when I rank them. Yeah, they've been OK. So that fucking weirdo shickling seems to be making help be a help. So I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, he's he's quite good. I got to say, I know. I know we don't want him to be because he's kind of a helmet, but that doofy haircut. Yeah, that lid can't even stand it. Maybe he's doing it for charity. We just don't know.
00:31:19
Speaker
Maybe, but I doubt it. I really doubt it. And you lose forward, not named Sam or Chris. I would, I would, I would bench. You know, obviously Chris is locked by designation, but still not really worth your time. Otherwise cap sticks, Ben. And he would be the only other one I would even remotely consider Vermeulan, Kirsten. No, just now. No, no, no, no, no, no. Dumbass Dave. No. Leave him at home.
00:31:48
Speaker
Okay, off to wait, where am I? Oh, off to the rack for Bath Gloucester, which should be a cracker. Because these are these two teams involved both score and give up points. So I'm looking forward and it's really I'm wondering how quickly the
00:32:08
Speaker
you know, the Wooster players get on the pitch for them. And, you know, it's one of those, if Ted Hill is playing with for Beth, I really liked that. Right. And they're not, it's not like they're unfit, especially the guys that were healthy to begin with. Hill was not healthy. That's true. But the other, like, for this sake, the other two that would be possibly in play, they were healthy. So as long as Ben Crann feels like they're ready to roll,
00:32:34
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If Lawrence is good to go, I'm looking forward to that too. Anyway, to go through as my notes go, the front row is a full go.
00:32:47
Speaker
Miles Reed, I think, is coming along and he can do it a pinch now that now that he's back playing. And I think he's only going to his score is only going to continue to rise. Bailey or Francis, obviously, depends on, you know, if Bailey's playing, then play him. Francis has scored well in his when he's out or when he steps in with the team. Red path that he's in is should be quality.
00:33:13
Speaker
And then I'd still, you know, even with Wilmer being out for the season, I would look for, for Rory McConaughey to play a bigger part, um, as, as he comes back. Uh, I think he'll step in at, at verbally and obviously Cochran's thing is, is, uh,
00:33:29
Speaker
Um, this is racking up the points. So yeah, don't, don't shy away from them. Um, Gloucester's defense is, um, suspect as we all know. So, um, a lot of points to be had for bath here. Um, on the other side, obviously that's defense is suspect. So, um, yeah, for the Gloucester and, uh, their front row, um, cause they will have valor paveruscan and Jamal Ford Robinson. And, and, and, uh, obviously the, the, that hooker stable, um, this is, yeah.
00:33:59
Speaker
The Freddie Clark is the option in the locks. And then don't try away from the loose forwards this week. They will be just fine, especially, you know, if Peledry is finally going to get his first. God, I hope so. I hope so, too. He's one to watch this weekend. Chapman, if he's at nine is good. Hastings at 10, yes. He'll get a lot of opportunities to kick for points.
00:34:25
Speaker
Atkinson Harris should be a full go. And then if I need to tell you to start Louis resam it, we've got problems. We have issues. There's an auto start right there. Right. The definition of one. All right. Lester and sale.
00:34:43
Speaker
see if we can take some points out of this. There are points to dig out actually, so. Are there? There are. There are. Less for Lester. Freddie Burns has become a more reliable option since his, after his week one blunder. Much more consistent, somebody that you can lean on. And Andre Pollard's probably going to be up for a little bit longer now that they
00:35:01
Speaker
had the whole thing that happened with him at the, at the stone X. So well, on that, uh, Tigers front row has actually been serviceable. And now that they have Julia Montoya coming back, he's that's going to make them a real thumbs up. And that should be very helpful for that. Um,
00:35:17
Speaker
The midfield has been a bit of a problem against sales. So that makes the guy that a lot of people want, you know, playing a pinch, Jimmy Gopert, a little bit, even less of an option for this week. Yeah. And specifically, you know, the sale don't give their don't have a lot to do with their own midfield, but at the same time, they don't give up a lot in the midfield.
00:35:38
Speaker
Speaking of sale, whoever is at full back is a thumbs up for me, whether it's Luke James or Joe Carpenter, they've found ways to produce. So I'm going to give them a thumbs up right now if they're whoever's wearing that 15 shirt. So go for it. Rob Dupree also serviceable at fly half. Did not see that coming, but here we are. And that's that. So those of you that were able to pick them up and probably are holding him because you're waiting on Ford or somebody else to come healthy. You did. You did good.
00:36:07
Speaker
As I mentioned, stay away from that midfield and sail. Tui's not producing Sam James and Sam James, so yeah, no. Big old no. If for every reason they do slot Roebuck in there at like 15 or at 13, excuse me, that's probably the only thing I would do. After that, no. No. Bad news.
00:36:29
Speaker
All right, off to Sunday, the first of the Sunday matches, up at Kingston Park for Newcastle hosting Sarries. Look, there's only three real names you need to know from Newcastle, and that's their front row, which obviously isn't a name, but for the fantasy purposes it is. Carreras and Radwan, and that's about it. The Matias is,
00:36:56
Speaker
In general, yes, probably not this week, though, because they're playing Saracens and. I don't know how much opportunity and I don't know how much space they're going to get, because, you know, and obviously we don't know the team that series are bringing up. They might not be 100 percent full noise, but even if it's not, I think there's still a lot of trouble to be caused there and have it to be wreaked in. Yeah, that are going to prevent Newcastle from
00:37:26
Speaker
You know, at least I wouldn't rely on those centers this week. Right. Agreed.
Saracens' New Playing Style
00:37:31
Speaker
For the Saracens, their front row, even with Jinx's injuries out about 10 weeks, we know they have hookers and hookers and hookers. Yeah, Willy, Cappelli. Will still be fine. Yeah. Right. They'll be OK. Then, you know, Theo. Theo. Theo. Theo.
00:37:54
Speaker
Ben Earl, Billy V, who, yeah, we mentioned earlier, he kind of had an off week this week, but that was because there was just, he didn't have that many opportunities because the ball was going everywhere else but to him. Yeah, Vencell, I think I might hold on to him, especially for this week. Rosserum, yeah, Rosserum. You don't need to start them, but Rosserum.
00:38:16
Speaker
If the centers are playing this, this style, then sales an option, and he could be running, and then the rest of the back line is just full go, because they're going to, if, again, I'm assuming at this point now, having seen them play a couple of times this year.
00:38:33
Speaker
They're not the same. They've shifted their style. McCall obviously has got the memo now. This is how we're going to play now. So, yeah, it's okay to rely on all that whole back line, and they'll be runners. Yeah, runner, runner. Okay, Washington, this should be fun.
00:38:55
Speaker
Points abound. Yes. Points abound. For the WASPs, there's always a good second back row player that does well against Northampton, and they have a couple of them. I'm going to pick out Tom Willis just because it's Tom Willis. Also, Tom Willis is one of the only forwards that's in like the top 20 in meters on FRD.
00:39:18
Speaker
So keep that in mind. Like I said, not counting the front rows. So yeah, he's one of the few forwards that's in that list. So keep your eyes on him. Jacob Mumaga performed very well last time. And I would say that I would expect it's probably going to be similar and he will find more space and likely going to have the tea. So there's that. With that, it starts putting a question mark next to Charlie Atkinson and his value in FRD as a fly app.
00:39:47
Speaker
I love the kid, but I just don't know if he's going to put up a lot of points. You know, we have seen a couple players find, you know, a bit of lightning that are not going to fly halfs, not not kicking fly halfs like Lloyd Evans and Harvey Skinner. But it is a risk. So just if you actually look back at his. So I'm looking at it now because I have him on one of one of my teams.
00:40:12
Speaker
He's only had an effort of three conversions kicked and one penalty kicked. He was not relying on the tee to gain points. I mean, like the first match he had to try and try and assist both of the first two matches. He had three defenders beaten and a couple of offloads. Like that has not been his, you know, he just had a poop match that week three. I mean, he had 76 meters in week two, too. So that's helpful. Yes. Yeah.
00:40:42
Speaker
I'm not shying away from him so much, but yeah, not having the tee is a big... I agree. But I also think... It's a risk. It's a risk, yeah. It is a risk. But if it's an open game, as we expect, then, yeah, he could totally hit. He could totally hit. I'm not saying it's not possible, but if you do have a second option that's maybe a little bit safer, that's something to consider. Exactly. Yeah, it's all... Like, I have Dan Bigger as my other fly-out. Yeah, so you're playing him. I'm starting Dan Bigger. You're going to play him. Yeah.
00:41:09
Speaker
Well, the Saints, we were talking about guys in, you know, top 24 meters run. Truck is the other forward that's up there. John Augustus. So despite the one game where he had a negative, but that was obviously due to the yellow card, he's been doing the job. So thumbs up to Truck and he's turning into another star for me right now.
00:41:30
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. How much fun was he to watch this weekend, too? He's a big boy. He's a huge boy. I was like, he's a wide load, bro. And he's playing eight. He's like Billy. I was like, Jesus. There's a wide, wide load right there.
00:41:46
Speaker
Um, speaking of wide loads, well, maybe not so wide, more just like lanky and that's Alex Coles. And he's been actually really, really good. Uh, I think he was available in one league and somebody got him. He is. Uh, he he's, yeah, he's been great. So as long as he's playing and he seems to just be standing, putting his hand up in Dave rib instead. So as long as he's playing, he's a thumbs up for me right now, especially the lock where he's
00:42:10
Speaker
putting up these kinds of points. Hell yeah. You know, he's becoming a top five walker. He keeps doing this. Yes. I agree.
00:42:18
Speaker
On the other side of the coin, um, it's now a, a, a, uh, caution sign for Frazier Dingwall hasn't performed it since, um, since the start of the season, really, unfortunately. And that's sad for me to say, cause I really like him a lot and he's just not quite found the scoring groove. He had 11 points this past week, but that was his first one for, yeah, that was his first double digit of the year. Yeah. And that was a big wide open match too. So I don't know what that says.
00:42:48
Speaker
You know, so that's like, so it's a caution. It's not, it's not, you're not ditching him. You're not, you're not sitting him, but I mean, you're not dropping him. Excuse me. Um, but you are going to have to start being cautious because his first two matches were 1.1 and 5.1. Right. Yeah. Well, it's a little scary and I know midfield are tough place to find the guy that can score, but just be very cautious. That's all I'm saying. Of the weeks.
00:43:19
Speaker
Nice. Yes. Um, my daughter is destroying the toy right now in areas to watch. He loves to pull, he loves to pull the stuffing out at like all at once if he can, but he doesn't need it. So it's funny. Yeah. He's just like, yep. Don't need that. Just keep pulling it all. Weirdo. Um, all right. My of the week. I, I, I mentioned him in, um,
00:43:43
Speaker
in my go round. And I hope he's playing. And if he is, my start of the week is going to be Jake Peledry. Oh yeah. That'd be great to watch him. Even if he only plays like 60. Right. Yeah. I think he'll still have space to run against that bath team. Agreed. Agreed. So my start of the week, same position. I also mentioned
00:44:09
Speaker
Performing, you know, just completely box office right now for considering his position. And he's going to be in the middle of a very wide open game and maybe start putting his hand up for Eddie to look at. We'll see. I don't know. He's not, we know Eddie doesn't do, do the popular thing. He does whatever he feels like, but just the same. My start of the week for round five of the prem is lost number eight, Tom Willis.
00:44:34
Speaker
Which is, yes. Anybody named Willis as he could start of the week. Yeah, seems it right. Sit of the week. This would be a bigger sit of the week in, sadly, TRM. But at the same time, so it's a little bit easier to work around it.
00:44:54
Speaker
He's been scoring OK, and then going up against a team that's quality defensively. And I knew my city of the week was going to come from this match. And just thinking about it for a few minutes got me to Dandupriya is my. Oh, OK. Interesting. I think they're going to bottle a little bit. OK. Yeah, they've they've they've kind of had their way with number eight. Lester is available in the champion.
00:45:25
Speaker
That's a good, that's a good player right there. I mean, to have a think on that. That's a good player right there. Anyway, my, um,
00:45:36
Speaker
You having fun over there, Taz? He's just destroyed this thing. This is awesome. Get it, buddy. Anyway, back to the, back to the more pressing needs. By set of the week. Yeah. Oh, it saddens me so much to say, say this guy's name and this, but he's had some stinkers lately and I love the player and I think he's
00:45:59
Speaker
going to come good eventually in the season, but he just, he's running into the wrong team right now and they shut down his position fairly well for the most part, not completely, but fairly well, certainly in their first two of their first three games. They've, they've made life miserable for wings. So my city of the week is England and Newcastle winger Adam Radwin.
00:46:21
Speaker
just pains me. That's your own player too. Right? Yes, I have him. It really pains me. I'm telling you, I'm not doing this by like, like heartedly or anything like that. It really hurts. It really does. So I'm yeah, I'm sad, but and
00:46:41
Speaker
Alex Coles is no longer available than that leak. I still had Orlando on my roster. I was like, wait a minute. Why did I have this pile of garbage on my team and not Alex Coles? Done. Watch. Now he bottoms out right here. Right here. Yeah. Although I doubt it. That would be my luck, though. I need anything I can get right now. I'm going for it. I didn't need anything I can get. You need that. Yeah. Take it. God damn it.
00:47:12
Speaker
Damn you, John Williams. Oh, wait, not that one. Land this shitty.
00:47:22
Speaker
Did we, we were doing like an entire season of Archer while we were over there too. At least we did actually. No, I think we went through too. Yeah, there wasn't, there wasn't too much that we could watch at the, uh, at the house. So at the Airbnb, so we'd be just throwing Archer and just had that going. That was sufficient. That was sufficient. There's the accurate try. Okay. Pick up them.
00:47:52
Speaker
Friday night, Bristol and Exeter, uh, it's that action gate. So I'm taking Bristol and they're going to be pesto. Yeah. Yup. Yes. And yes, they're going to be, and as we know from our discussion gesture, I don't think Exeter are that good. Yeah. Right. This, this will be certainly be a telling telling match in that case. Anyway, Beth and Gloucester Gloucester Gloucester. Yeah.
00:48:19
Speaker
Beth, you got to win until I start picking you. Sorry. Yeah. Like I said, yeah. Gloucester are also, you know, kind of itching. They, they have, they had that long well layoff too, after that loss to, to saris. So, um, yeah, they're champion at the bit. I'm sure for waiting, waiting to get let loose. And so, you know, all the love the bath. Um, but, but.
00:48:46
Speaker
Not today. No, not today. Lester and sale. I'm going to take the Tigers. Me too. Mostly because they're at home, but also the guys back. Well, they're going to get Montage back and they're going to get Jasper back. So that that being that and.
00:49:03
Speaker
Yeah. And I will probably see an Adolo back in this one. Like, yeah, I think there's going to be, there's going to be some, some hell to pay for a little for the Tigers. And they don't want, they don't want to lose two in a row. I can tell you that much. Right. And I think sale, I still think seller kind of a middling team. So I think Lester, that's why I have Lester too. It's a, you know, they're at home. They're a better team. Yep. They're coming off a thorough butt kicking. Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:33
Speaker
I'm sure Borthwick read in the riot act too. I'm sure. Although he needs to read himself a riot act. Yeah, a little bit. Some of the decisions he made. Newcastle series up in Newcastle still series. Got to pick series. Yeah. Like still Saracens. Yeah. I don't know what team they're bringing, but I think it's going to be better than whatever Newcastle has.
World Cup Teams Announcement and US Game Accessibility
00:49:53
Speaker
So we, let me have was in Northampton and I have kind of in my head, this flashback of the, um, I think it was the 2020 match pre-COVID where these two played and it was just box office. It was amazing. And Northampton came out winners because both teams were just running, running rugby. So I'm going to go with Northampton again. Oh, and I'm going to go with, here we go. I'm going with wasps. You are. Okay. Cause they're at home.
00:50:24
Speaker
Yeah. Well, there you go. We might have some separation finally. Finally. It was the idea. It keeps picking on the wise. All right. There is that.
00:50:38
Speaker
When that, that is everything for tonight. That is not so bad. So there is, um, there'll be rankings coming out tomorrow. I'm just about, I'm just trying to wrap them up right now so I can publish them first thing in the morning. There were first thing in the morning here, not for everybody else. Sorry.
00:50:57
Speaker
I'm not getting up in the middle of the night to publish my rankings deal with it. Yeah, right. Could set a timer, but that's, that takes work. That's effort. Um, so I'll get those published and then we will, and then we will do a sheet again on Friday. We'll get back to that. Other than that fancy rugby podcast at gmail.com. Go watch the opening weekend of the world cup teams have been named the red roses teams out for this weekend. The, um, what's there, but the black friends team is out for this weekend.
00:51:27
Speaker
The U.S. plays a decent time here this week. Yeah. South African and France have been named as well. Oh, really? I got to see the French team. I want to go see the French team. Yeah. And the U.S. game is actually a decent hour this this week. It is eight o'clock at night, which is how awesome is that? I was like, huh, really? Yeah. OK, I'll watch that. Twist my arm.
00:51:51
Speaker
I realize it's also probably like early in time there, but yeah, or something. I'm not mad about it. No, no complaints. Nope. Not at all. So that'll be great to be able to watch them play live and not have to wake up and avoid Twitter for the morning. Right.
00:52:07
Speaker
But yes, go do all those things. Support Worcester however you can if you have the capacity to and just support rugby in general because we know they're the tip of the iceberg of the struggle bus for this whole sport. So everybody get out there and support your local clubs and
00:52:25
Speaker
And if you have if you have any questions, you can always ask us because we're not the people to ask. But, you know, we have answers anyway. We might not like the answer, but I feel like we'll give you a good one. That's the truth. We'll give you the truth as we see it. Not not going to sugarcoat it. No. Yeah. Give it to you straight. We won't be dicks, but we'll give it to you straight.
00:52:45
Speaker
All right, other than that, yeah, we'll be back next week for all the good stuff. We appreciate everyone for listening and, you know, hanging out and following along and all that good stuff. We, you know, it makes us, makes us to have that inside. So we do appreciate it. We will, we'll catch you all next week and enjoy yourself some, some massive, massive, a must. Have a good one. Later.