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Season 5- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Super Rugby Round 13)
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Forgive us that this is so late, one of us is still pretending he's coaching a team. If you forgive us, we do have some fun advice to give on Start or Sit on this week's FC. Oh, we look back at the happenings of the Champi-Yanks League as we wrap up the final competition with promotion and relegation on the line!
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Introduction to 'The Fantasy Europeans'
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!
Champions League Semifinalists Overview
00:00:27
Speaker
Hey everybody, welcome back. It is the Fancy Rugby Yanks. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. It's Fancy Corner time. Just drop on Buckleman, whatever the frig you got to do to do it. Let's go. So we have, we have Champions League stuff to talk about. Congratulations to our semifinalists, which will be Duncan,
00:00:53
Speaker
George, Justin, and Mark in the Division I. Man, I did everything I needed to do.
00:01:03
Speaker
but I needed Mark to lose and that did not happen. And that's all. And I beat Justin who I did not have on my backup board. I was like, there's no way I've beaten Justin. Not a chance. Right.
Match-ups and Playoff Dynamics
00:01:13
Speaker
Justin. I don't know what to tell you. That's not easy. It actually pulled Justin from two to three. So I was like, yeah, sorry, dude. Um,
00:01:24
Speaker
Yeah. But you know what? I left it late. I didn't really get going until the last like six, seven weeks of the comp. So that was really dumb of me. And that's just, that's the price you pay sometimes. You know, I did it once in prom and it worked out okay. It was not going to get away with that the second time. Clearly, clearly, clearly. What were the match-ups? Then we can talk about what's going on. What's going down semi-final wise and all that good stuff. Right. I get to play COVID three weeks in a row.
00:01:54
Speaker
Well, this week, too. Yeah. Oh, yeah. In the Sacco. I think I just played him like you. Like I just played him. Did you maybe over in pink clubs? Maybe. Yeah, I get the same people. We're going to get to that business in a minute. It was four weeks ago. So I play him one. Yeah. No, I played him four times in seven weeks.
00:02:20
Speaker
Well, you got what you deserved. Yeah, it was beat you. Mark beat Duncan, which again, another one I didn't have on my bingo board. That was probably my best number I put up for a while. And I'm sad. It just felt nothing, but it is what it is. And George beat Carrick in kind of what would be described as a pillow fight. So George just had a slightly bigger pillow. Right. Yeah, he didn't break 100. I at least broke 100. Yeah. Yeah.
00:02:50
Speaker
And so that sets up our semi-finals for championship bracket. It'll be Duncan and Mark. Oh, look at that. They're going to play each other three weeks in a row. How about them apples? Um, and then Jordan, Justin. Yeah. Right. And then you, yeah, you've got Cobus and I myself have Carrick.
Division Two Playoffs and Promotions
00:03:08
Speaker
I just need to miss not fuck this up.
00:03:12
Speaker
Please words of Nigel Owens don't fuck it up. Just, I just need to not fuck this up. And then I got the, I got the cop in the bed, the whole cop in the bag on the, on the division two side. Um, we have, so we have some.
00:03:35
Speaker
One of our front runners for the comp is still in it, which is good for division two because they're playing for promotion. We like that. Stewart is out in front right now and he's the first seed in this.
00:03:55
Speaker
and the division two playoffs here. So it's him, player X, Franco, and Alex and our old boy, Alex. So, and funny enough, I think those are the top three.
00:04:11
Speaker
Nope. That's a lie. Franco is further down. I thought, um, but yeah, Alex is tied for third and, uh, break goes forth. So not quite, but we get, we're getting to the pointy end just the same. So it would be those two going into, maybe that could go into the summer. Let me just see what the match-ups are. I can tell you in two seconds, um, Alex and play our ex and then, um,
Trades and Strategies
00:04:40
Speaker
Stu and Franco. And then Ian, we'll play right wing, which we haven't figured out who that is. And Sophia is going to play it. Okay. So Ian, we do have a spot in this thing, opening up next year, because we had, we had a ghost player by the end. So we got a new, we got a new spot for anybody that wants in. Um,
00:05:09
Speaker
So let's do two things. Let's do, let's, let's solve this, which is the business of the pink slips. I want, I want, I want Franklin money. Oh, you fucking cunt.
00:05:28
Speaker
and jake gordon's been great but lomani's been fucking awesome see i actually that i'm sorry i'm i'm honestly surprised by that i only only because i i thought you would go front rows because it didn't look i wouldn't i the front rows aren't bad for me right now i didn't think you'd have honestly and it's not
00:05:45
Speaker
Disrespectful to you. I this that's a ballsy trade because like just cuz Gordon has been good. You're right Yeah, he's gotten better over the last couple weeks, but Lamont he's been on fire all year So that's true as long as that he looked like he was grabbing his knee the other the other week But as long as that's nothing just right now, but he's been fine. He's been our option Yeah, exactly he's been scoring tries to hesitate like right
00:06:13
Speaker
Yeah, it's going to be hard. Like G Gordon's not going to find a ball on the ground every fucking match. Like that's what he got. That's what he got. Most of his points from last week. Yeah. Yeah. But he's been like he's been finding points. He's been doing. He has been. He has. So it's like not bad. It's not if it's not if it's not one thing, it's another really. Right.
00:06:32
Speaker
Right. And, you know, there's, there are other gaps that I could fill, but I don't think you have a player that I would want for that, for those purposes. So yeah. And where I have to make a trade, I'm just gonna go from good to great in terms of my scrum house. Yeah. No, that's it. That's it. Okay. Fair play. I, yeah, that's.
00:06:53
Speaker
Okay, I can't. Yeah, I can't argue. It's well, it's a well done trade. I like it. Yeah. So gotta go gotta go from
Future of Fantasy Rugby Platforms
00:07:01
Speaker
good to great. And sometimes right. And I'll tell you, yeah, I look, it could have been, I've, I've, it's probably the best, the trade that's worked out the best for me. That's probably true.
00:07:12
Speaker
throughout this whole thing. So, and I, yeah, I just, I liked Lomani. I like having Lomani. So I did, man. That's really all it is to get into those playoffs at least as well. Yeah, exactly. So, and that's why I'm like, wow, I don't know that I would.
00:07:27
Speaker
I don't know that I would have the guts to make a move like that because Gordon's been playing like he's been playing well and you never know with Lomani again. It's not been hit or miss. It's been like hit or been decent. So there's no, there is absolutely not much of a gamble. Hasn't been a whole lot of. No, he hasn't had one. He hasn't had one under five and he hasn't had one under 10 since round two.
00:07:55
Speaker
Dun-dun. He had 8.3 and 5.5 to start the year. As long as he starts, he's good. Ever since then, he's put up 20 twice, week three and week 12. And ever since then, between then, he's, you know, 11.6 was his lowest score. Yeah, 20 would be nice. I just need like 15. Right. And yeah, he's been doing that.
00:08:18
Speaker
So he's on that four times. He's broken 15 four times in eight starts. That's not bad. So while we're not doing a whole lot of starts, I do want to just kind of look forward because
00:08:36
Speaker
There's obviously, you and I are getting a lot of questions about Champions League. And I think it's just a general thing for fantasy rugby, like what's going to happen? Obviously, we don't have FRD lean on anymore. That sucks. Right. Nobody's fault there.
00:08:51
Speaker
No, it's but it's the premise fault, really, at the point. I know. Right. Because and it's not this part, but it's like they need to have something for next year because they've been riding. They've been, you know, part of why they haven't done anything is because of F.R.D. and the rugby mag. I agree.
00:09:13
Speaker
And they don't, now they don't have either because the other, those people have been like, this is too much for me to do as a side gig. Like it's too much for me to do. I'm like, right. There's no, they're not getting funded or anything like that. You actually give make this someone their job. Fuck boys. Like why? And it's so easy. Like that's the return is, is there. There's a lot of gaps at prem. Like there really is. And unfortunately they're not going to see that as this. So.
00:09:43
Speaker
With that, though, I know something, but I think they'll have to do something. So but in any case, we will piece together a league somehow. So let's let's just Russia shared that. Exactly. We will. We'll piece things together. The first thing I can think of is I'm pretty sure Superbrew is doing World Cup. So that'll be good. We can at least lean on that to start. Right. And really, anybody that played a Superbrew game this year, they sent out a survey.
00:10:13
Speaker
about asking about it. And, you know, they asked about draft format, point format, all that stuff. So if you're interested in keeping this alive, Superbrew is a big company. So they have the means to keep themselves afloat, even if they're possibly potentially hemorrhaging money on Super Rugby, or on Rugby in general fantasy wise, they do so many other products that they can keep themselves up.
00:10:39
Speaker
with those other things. So this, as much as people may want to share on Superbrew, like it sounds like they're willing to look at other point formats and other tournament formats.
00:10:49
Speaker
to for fantasy rugby. And I think we just need to make sure that, you know, while they may not be everyone's favorite, we have an opportunity to continue to go forward with this and with a company that might actually be willing to support this thing long term. So if you haven't filled out one of the surveys, get the fuck back on your computer, they probably sent it to you a long time ago, go back and fill it out.
00:11:13
Speaker
because I filled it out. I left our contact information for them. So if they, you know, if they feel like they want to have someone that, you know, knows a thing or two about the whole landscape of it, they can reach out to us. And that's where we're at, you know, we have to just
00:11:31
Speaker
put support behind the one thing that we know could be good. And is it perfect? Fuck no. None of these formats have been perfect, by the way. Let's just get that clear. Even the ones that we love, we're not perfect. And really, in the end, if we're all fancy, like we all claim to be, we have to support the stuff that's there. And that's just where we're at right now.
00:11:55
Speaker
it's where this part of the sport is because there's a whole lot of other holes that are going on with the sport and not enough people are going to care about this until they have a reason to.
00:12:08
Speaker
Right. Well, we just have to keep the fire lit. Really. That's right. That's what's going to happen. We got to keep the lights on. We got to keep the fire lit. And, you know, then when it comes good and, you know, five years, 10 years, whatever it is, we can be like, we're the OGs, dude. And that's just, that's where we're at right now, at least as I see it. So hope, hope, hope. Right. That's all we can do, man. Keep it going. All right.
00:12:39
Speaker
Let's do starts it. You start us off. OK.
Upcoming Matches and Player Insights
00:12:45
Speaker
Oh, yeah, because I got the Moana. Yeah, the first match. Yes, you want to hosting Crusaders. Well, it's just not. They're going to don't help show up. They're going to put on a show. Right. But it's not.
00:13:05
Speaker
No. The Crusaders are kind of been like.
00:13:11
Speaker
good lately, certainly this past week. So, but at the same time, this might be good. I'm not saying no to the Moana players. It's just going to be rough. But because Bailagi has been, the possibility is there and Crusaders aren't the best defense. Like, again, Blues really kind of shot themselves in the foot more than Crusaders stopped them. I thought, although Crusaders, you know, they played fine. It's just they didn't really
00:13:37
Speaker
I don't think blues challenged them enough. And when they did, it was working really well towards the end. So the points will be there. So if I like, yeah, you know, go with it, especially because he's a lock, right? That's that's he's still a quality point scorer for a lock and especially that range of, you know, if you get me any positive points. OK, thank you to. Hey, you can give me 20 points. Yes, please. Thank you. I love it. That's that's that's the message you want, man. Right.
00:14:08
Speaker
Funaki, I would hope you're not leaning on him, but he's start worthy. Laelia Fano is a gamble, but I could score pretty well. He actually has been scoring all right. It's more like the actual rugby production. He does things that earn points, which is awesome. Amua Anisi and Fomai. All right, yes, I would go with all three. Sit fighting Inuku and Inari, because I wouldn't touch them. Motuga and Havili,
00:14:37
Speaker
have you leave lately has been just been poop. So it was a time when it was like, well, he gets you 10 points, you know, it might be good for like a third, third. No, not anymore. Just no. On the crusader side, their their their forwards are kind of a mess. They're like this on who's playing. It's it's, you know, kind of a mixed squad and.
00:14:57
Speaker
You know, the front row is still good, but maybe calling Grace. And I don't know. I don't really not really excited about the rest. Hot Ham is like how does it go? Obviously, I liked him already. Yeah. Yeah. So this is a good matchup. So it's a good one. Like if you're you know, if you don't have a Jake Gordon or a Frank Lamani type, like this might be a week to grab him off the pile. You know, now that the things are getting squeaky, bumish.
00:15:27
Speaker
Time to reach out for things like for guys like Adam Burke. Yes, it's actually this is good week to start him. He might be around depending on your league. McLeod and Springer and that guy in the 15 jersey is OK. Yeah. Yes, yes, agreed. I don't know where he came out of nowhere. I've never seen him before, but yeah. So. Good hue is he's a trap.
00:15:55
Speaker
Yes, he is. Don't don't fall into the trap. Because if he's not leaving the game early, he's not really scoring points anyway. But he's one of those guys you're like, Oh, but he could go off for 20. Yeah, he could go off for 20. But he's, he's not gonna.
00:16:13
Speaker
Um, good, but probably won't look, I think it's like, again, the loose forwards, I'm not really inspired by and fee hockey. I just wouldn't gamble in this, in this, at this point, like maybe they'll score. All right. But okay. That's fine. Like I'd rather go somewhere. If it wasn't your semi-final round, that would be the thing that might be a different story. Right. Right. If we're talking by weeks, you know, that's a little different story too. Right. Also that the semi-final it's, you know,
00:16:42
Speaker
Gently on the usual stuff, some respect for yourself. Um, all right. So we got red, the blues. Sue. Hmm. So both lamps are out due to do two red front row. Hasn't been bad. I know the blues are tough against front rows, but it hasn't been bad. So if that's like the eighth front row out of 18 that you have in your league. All right. You've probably done. Okay. You know,
00:17:11
Speaker
Hopefully they don't get a card, but other than that, you'll be fine. Other than that, man, you got to play like the usual suspects for the most part with this one. McRite definitely, Liam Wright, sort of, and Yuru, no. Yeah, right more than Yuru, let's put it that way. Tink is a go. Crichton's been pretty good. Barre last week, but that's it.
00:17:38
Speaker
I don't love most of the backline fluke is like, probably you got to hope he returns to form. And I know, again, I know the blues are really good against midfielders. So I'm not trying to pump him up too, too much, but that's it. I don't, I'm not really excited about the rest, especially where they're probably gonna have a letdown in this match. Cause I just had a big one. You didn't, you didn't hear, you didn't hear if you're under a rock. Um,
00:18:04
Speaker
Blues on the other hand, yes, they change the lineup around, but they still have some good names in there. Obviously, you don't recognize some of them than where you've been. Front row is probably okay again. They are, again, they're just actually just in front of the Reds, I think, in terms of average score. So, all right, cool. That makes them number seven. So go ahead.
00:18:29
Speaker
And then reds are one of the toughest against the loose forward. So I'd say Akira is kind of a, probably an institute is a definite. And then, man, scrum half. I don't like to say I'm not that much in terms of not really know that. So that's my only beef with that. Bodhi you're playing plumbers probably. Okay. Team.
00:18:56
Speaker
I mean, he's an outside back playing 13, which can be good and bad. This is probably OK. And then, yes, you're going to play Talia. I like AJ Lamb a lot. And then Zarnes Sullivan is a great classic case for emergency. OK, off to Highlanders Rebels.
00:19:19
Speaker
No, no points will be scored in this one. Oh, the opposite.
Team Dynamics and Strategies
00:19:24
Speaker
This one is the race. You know, I said start everyone in this match and then it's, you know, the two worst fantasy defenses or, you know, I haven't done again, haven't done the update for this week, but going to last week they were and both of them kind of led up a lot of points. So, yeah, probably didn't change a whole lot. Didn't quite change a whole lot.
00:19:48
Speaker
for the Highlanders, you know, Harmon and Renton and Smith and Tooj and Timu and Lowe and Gilbert, like the guys who've been scoring are going to keep score. Got Gregory is a trap. Don't fall into it. No, no, no. It looks like averaging like eight points. Yeah, he's a shiny thing. Like, oh, no, no, doesn't score well. That's kind of been the story of his career. And it's maybe not, you know, it's not fair to him because like, you know, it's fantasy points and not exactly reality, but
00:20:19
Speaker
Yeah, he just doesn't score well. Whatever he does does not score points in fantasy. For the Brumbies, Valentin has been scoring well of late, like really well. And Pete Simon can still put it down, as we saw. Yeah, so double on the weekend. Yep. Lonergan not white, although white came off, so I'm not sure.
00:20:41
Speaker
what his status will be. Might see Lonergan all day. But if you have, but that, you know, that is beneficial to Lonergan players. So, sorry, Nick. Yeah, I hope he's okay, but I would prefer to see them play Lonergan anyway. Well, that's you to a mirror head tool, right? All. Just go. Go, sir.
00:21:05
Speaker
I mean, not to say like, you know, there's others who are options, but like, if you're nervous, you know, again, it's really this mostly, you know, you know, you're going to play less, less, you know, you know, you're playing right. Tool has been hit or like just a little bit of a miss hit, but still worth playing. So you're playing them anyway. But your head and two have been kind of.
00:21:27
Speaker
Not sure about the times like I've I've had your head. He's like kind of my he's been like three A or B kind of on my team. Yeah, that sounds about right. And I've been bad. So think about that. Just think about that. Actually, no, that's the league where that's the league where my points against are like at one point we're higher than everybody, but the top points for player like I was getting fucking railed each week. Yeah.
00:21:57
Speaker
About the fellas from melbourne We do that yet. Oh valentine, you know, I didn't oh, no, that's what that was it. Yeah. I'm your tool, right? Yep. Okay done We look up the same thing you did I tell you I probably sent you the wrong thing maybe that's my fault i'm an idiot One second, hold on Did I get the wrong game? I think we got the wrong. I think I got I either gave you the wrong game or
00:22:25
Speaker
I didn't think so. That seemed right to me. Oh, there's rebels. Oh, then. Oh, that was just me being an idiot by looking at the wrong team. I probably just had to still have the rubbies up because I was doing this last minute. That's my dad. That's right. I just had the wrong team looking at it. So we talked about that's fine. Right. Well, how about rebels instead? Rebels. All right.
00:22:54
Speaker
Sorry, trying to do this like an hour ahead between working here. Hold on, let me look at there. Oh. Rebels, I'm not really that I've kind of stayed away from rebels, so let me give me a second to.
00:23:11
Speaker
It was good. Yeah. OK, so like I've been saying, Jorgensen's, you know, kind of want to stay away from this week. Rebels not. I'm sorry. Toss shit. They would put up the wrong one again. OK. There we go. Kellaway. Yes. And Yawani. Yes. That's the one.
00:23:27
Speaker
Hodge, you're going to play, even though he's an outside back. He's actually he's been my 3A3B with the near head on my team that sucked. But they're actually that, you know, my outside backs haven't really been my problem. Let's put it that way. More like injuries and other positions. But yeah, those three certainly you're playing Carter Gordon is putting up points.
00:23:51
Speaker
that that forwards again, you know, Wilkin doing what he did last week. Hardwick has been good, but I don't know. I haven't been tracking his points since he got hurt. I don't know that I just don't know if they've been as good. Hold on. OK, the other week.
00:24:11
Speaker
pretty sure, but against the Highlanders, you might want to throw, you might want to roll the dice in the semi, like this, especially with, with the back, with the, what, it's a two week semi. So if he takes a shit this week, at least you tried, you know, you took the, you kind of took a little bit of a gamble there. Right.
00:24:30
Speaker
Yeah, he's actually, when he came back, I was surprised. And I think that was a boost for a lot of people's teams because he had actually been scoring really well as a loose forward. So yeah, a lot of people probably were jumping up at him to get him back.
00:24:44
Speaker
Right. Exactly. I just don't know if he's been worth it at the moment, but at the same time, you know, that's what happened when he had hurt. Like, you know, like even on the other side, Langley Gleason hasn't been the same since he got tweaked, at least. Right. And although I think I'm surprised he came back. Actually, I'm surprised both of them are back. I thought they were both gone for the season. So same. Definitely. You know, that I realize what they're trying to do coming back, but.
00:25:12
Speaker
Damn it's their fantasy points are not guys. Come on. Okay. Um, let's go to chiefs and hurricanes. So we'll start with obviously.
00:25:26
Speaker
Ben's team, hurricanes have some sticking points, but there's really not much to be afraid of in terms of the, what the full noise attack brings for the chiefs. Um, you'll play the front row. Um, loose roads is the only place that I would be like, huh, who am I playing here? Cause Peter gusset, um, if V now is healthy, I might give that a roll the dice. If I need to lose forward. Cause he played really well last week. Put his hand up a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. And they need, they need somebody to, yeah. Um,
00:25:56
Speaker
You need, you're going to play Weber. So there's that. If it's not D Mac at 10, you're probably okay playing. You want to go or bring Gatlin. Midfield, Napkinville. I assume he's going to be back in there and they'll be good luck. Have fun. Enjoy the points. And then any, any OB, almost any OB on the Chiefs is just a plug and play. Yeah. You're going to go for it.
00:26:22
Speaker
Um, on the other side, chiefs actually dropped the last couple of weeks in the front row defense. So you're definitely playing the hurricanes front row. I'm moving coals and all of them have been great. Um, Oh, uh, also why is a lock that's that's a, that's a good option for the chiefs, by the way, none of those, none of those exist for the hurricanes. So don't play. Um, for loose forward, I would definitely play already Dewey.
00:26:51
Speaker
Probably and then not Flanders. You're going to play right guard. Yes. Chiefs are one of the best against scrumhaps. You're playing them anyway. Leave either Morgan or God for you. Whoever the fuck else they roll out there at 10 at home. Do not play them.
00:27:05
Speaker
Um, centers, if it's Jordy and Billy, then yes, everybody else is kind of going to be a game kind of decision type of thing. Cause that scares me a little bit. Um, especially with the defense, the cheese shoes would play up the middle. Uh, and then outside backs, you're going to play a racy, the hollow probably. Uh, and then like more B is not really awesome. And then.
00:27:29
Speaker
The Jillian survey has been an awesome apart from that one game where from the, yeah, or two of his team still
Player Performances and Recommendations
00:27:36
Speaker
lost. So yeah, take a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Oh yeah. I don't get sucked into it. And certainly not this week. No, not this week. And we're on to Todd's Drua.
00:27:51
Speaker
How's Drew? OK, actually, the board have the water ties right in this one because I was basically saying what I was trying to do on the fly. This is like one of those the top for the ties, your home against the Drew, like it's a good place for you to to be, as we were saying. What? Still, for fantasy wise, rely on the proven and beware of the people who've been hit or miss. So like
00:28:20
Speaker
Gordon's returned to form, but he's been good in the past. He was just like, it was out of sort. It wasn't what you normally get from him.
00:28:28
Speaker
agree, but that's part seems to be back. So I would trust it. So I'm, oh, yeah, thanks. I'll take I'll take him, you know, like that's not the worst thing in the world to have fucking Jake Gordon on my team now. Donaldson's been solid. So don't, you know, don't expect much more than he's been giving. But at the same time, like if you're stronger, other places, if you focused elsewhere on your team and like he's your option at 10, you're OK. You know, that's it. You know, getting 10 points sometimes is just good. Good. Give me give me something to eat.
00:28:59
Speaker
Faketti and Parisney are reasonable second midfielders. If either of your best option, I'm surprised you're playing in a semi. Yeah, right. So, but again, they're your second at best and still kind of maybe try to find elsewhere. Peach and Novak in a Novosity. Yes. Look for them. Look out for Jorgensen, who, as we were saying,
00:29:24
Speaker
Um, last pod and whatever is, uh, you know, he's not, he's certainly not scoring at the same rate he was earlier in the season. And that like, it is looking more like that was a little bit of a mirage, um, fantasy wise. So, but at the same time who did score, he got like 18 a couple of weeks ago. So you never know, but I just wouldn't know. Cause Drew are actually decent defensively, um, overall. So it's not something I would, um,
00:29:52
Speaker
Yeah, I'd look for Peach in Nwakin in the last to eat the points and Jorgensen will do work, but not not score also. Well, for the Druitt, Tammany is a bubble player for at this point, if, you know, in the semi, I don't know, I wouldn't kind of Kavata is as it started. Like if you have an option between the two as your second lose forward, I go with kind of Kavata.
00:30:17
Speaker
Tamani, yeah, he's been meh lately. This guy, they're nine is also quite good. I don't know if anybody has heard Frank Lamani. He's a must start. Teddy Teller is a must sit. I think I played Teddy Teller last week and just because I
00:30:37
Speaker
had nobody else. I think like half a point or whatever. I'm like, I don't even know he got that. I think you wouldn't mind this. Ravovo. Yes, Massey. Yes. Ravitamata. Yes. Those are the only really ones in the backside I'd want outside of Lamani. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeses across the board. Okay.
00:31:05
Speaker
So we got a 16 bid. Yeah. We have forcing Brumby's. Yeah. Now we got that. All right. So Brumby's are, you know, they have good spots and bad spots as you'd expect for them. Force is going to be mattered. Do you have somebody to take advantage of it? Force front row is kind of slowly going down the ladder here. So I'm going to leave them at home for this round.
00:31:34
Speaker
They have two locks that have played pretty well so far with Williams and Kelliput, so either is okay, I guess. Loose forward, Tizano's been awesome since he's come back, so he's a thumbs up, and after that, I'm kind of struggling to find someone else, so there's that. Clients, Laila, Lhasa, Cher, but it's not gonna win you a league, so just maybe find the options out, we'll swear.
00:32:02
Speaker
Hamish Stewart is the only true fly half in terms of FRD that they play. And apart from last week, he's been pretty poor. So I wouldn't trust him. Even if the rating for Rambi's is a little low. Spinks the only midfielder I'm interested in.
00:32:18
Speaker
And then, yeah, OBs are going to be dependent on who's healthy, but Mattiella and Kiberig, you're probably your best bets, assuming Kiberig still got his leg attached. Yeah, we need more than one leg. Yeah, it'll do well when he's got two, I promise.
00:32:38
Speaker
And then force, again, not a, not, they're actually pretty poor in terms of points. So that's good news for everybody. It's got Brumby's players. Brumby's front row. Yes. Samu. Yup. Valentini. Yup. Jerome Brown, maybe. Kind of didn't really do as much as I was hoping for him last week. Like you said, Lonergan over, over white all day. Lola Siota. Midfielders.
00:33:08
Speaker
Ikytow and Tua. Like, Sapsford, who played last week? No. No, no, no. And even Ikytow, I'm not really. Better than Sapsford. Let's put it that way. Yes. It's an OK matchup. It's a decent matchup. So that's why I give him the OK. That's fair. That's a fair point. Yeah, that being the tipping point, as we say. And then OBEs, yeah, you're going to play Tua. You're going to play Tom Wright. And your head's definitely a great class in case of emergency type of thing.
00:33:38
Speaker
Yeah. At least as far as I see it. Okay. One last bit. Oh, two last bits of business. Yeah. But first the of the weeks. OT doves. My other week, you mentioned as okay to play. I'm kind of pushing him a little bit ahead of that.
Championship Dynamics and Predictions
00:34:02
Speaker
Uh, cause I think he's got a very tasty matchup as well. It's not just about his talent. It's about, and, um, his team can have rockets fired up their asses. So, um, my start of the week is going to be Bryce Heem, who I think is going to rake against, um, was it Henry? I think, I think is the 13 for, for the regrets. It's, it's a, it's a good, they're not. Okay. And blue, and blue.
00:34:29
Speaker
Yeah, OK. I like him. I like his speed against that. I thought he wasn't used properly against crusaders because he had a couple of real good flashes. But that could have been more useful in other spots when he just wasn't being given the ball because they were just throwing it wide. But we don't do that. Yeah, I think the coaches will sort that out and this will be a nice and then the Reds are going to you know, they don't give a if you know, maybe I don't know, maybe they do.
00:34:58
Speaker
Maybe they will take it like, you know, they won't be riding the last batch and just kind of coasting a little bit. But the blues, this is one of those weird ones because the blues are going to be like really fired up and we'll see if the Reds want to back it up or if they're just content to be like, yeah, we beat the Chiefs, whatever. Fuck it. We'll lose this game. We're cool with that. Like it's still a positive trip. Yeah.
00:35:22
Speaker
All right, so my start's going to be from a match that we, I would expect lots of points to just be pouring out of this thing for FRD purposes. I like this fellow as an international player, like this fellow as the club player, and I think he's going to have continued to have a good return to his year here. My start of the week is going to be Andrew Callaway from the Rebels. Yeah. Yeah. That'll work.
00:35:52
Speaker
Sit. Sit of the week. Where's OK? We may go back to it. Oh, yeah, I mentioned him. Max Dorgensen has been poop lately, the most part. He might be a guy you've been relying on. And you're still if you're still trying to ride that last bit of no, I I'm I think maybe it'll pop off again, just
00:36:22
Speaker
No, just don't know. I don't think this is the right matchup. I don't think this is the right week. And I don't think he's the right player right now. Yeah. I think I most would agree with that these days. Yeah. And I still think he's going to play awesome. It's just... Points will be there. Right. Yeah. What's he on that one?
00:36:47
Speaker
So mine is in a position that's really hard to come by, but man, sometimes you just got to know what the red flags are. And Taj Sinan is a red flag. And again, he is a true midfielder. He has one or two good games under his belt in terms of points scored, but this is not the week to play him. Yeah, he's a trap. He's a big charm trap.
00:37:10
Speaker
Yeah, I think if you're going to pick up red Matilda, it's got to be fluke and he's probably not going to be amazing either. So, right. Eat that in mind. Okay. Pick of them. We have our first final of the year. Yes. Let's learn La Rochelle. I agree.
00:37:37
Speaker
This is okay. So this is in the spirit of fuck it. I either make up a match or I lose a match. Um, but I'm, I'm taking La Rochelle. Yeah. I think if what had happened last week to Lester had not happened. And if this match was not in Dublin, then I might probably be on your page.
00:38:02
Speaker
I can't do that. I got to take that. I wonder what just Leinster is going to do if LaRochelle put up 20 strong minutes. I don't know. And it's not working for Leinster. What questions start running through their minds? So that's why, you know, the... Yeah. I mean, that is... There's the rockets up the butts aspect of it, but there's the same time.
00:38:25
Speaker
you know, that LaRochelle are not like an easy team to be without any distractions. And that is a thing that can happen to teams that have had a fairly dominant years. You know, you get 30 strong minutes against someone, you're like, Jesus Christ, this isn't working, you know? And yeah, and it's frustrating because especially when you're that dominant,
00:38:54
Speaker
in competitions. And suddenly, you know, like we talk about the championship, you know, championship type teams and some teams don't have that edge. You know, they're good. Like we say that with the Bruins. The Bruins kind of did it too in the NHL.
00:39:15
Speaker
best record of all time, most, uh, you know, um, standings points, um, of all time and lost in seven games to the lowest seed team in the playoffs. Yep. Like never know in round one. And it's like, yeah, like you didn't even win a playoff series. It happens. So, um,
00:39:42
Speaker
And it happens in baseball a lot too. The teams that are like the best have the best records. They spend the last season, like less than half of the season just kind of coasting and the teams that are scrapping and really having to fight for their lives every day. They're the ones who win when it's one-offs.
00:40:01
Speaker
Absolutely. Because they're ready for that. They've been through that war. It's a battle. It's not. It's a different different ball game. Oh, so. Yeah, I just I think La Rochelle can. It's possible. I'm very curious to watch this match. I'm excited to watch it. If even more than that, if La Rochelle get up early, if they score the first try.
00:40:25
Speaker
What is that? And they're capable of doing that. Like it's one of those, if they can, if I'm, I rarely do that. I rarely would push a strategy of just get the first 20 minutes or the first 30 minutes, just win those 30 minutes and then see where we go from, you know, if, you know, throw everything at them.
00:40:49
Speaker
And, but this is a strategy. I have one I might do. I'd be like, you know what? Especially the, that opponent. Fuck. So if they do that, this, this could be ugly. So that's why I'm picking leverage shell. Cause that's, I kind of want to see that. There we go. Um, super rugby Moana crusaders crusaders. Yeah. Blues, reds, blues, blues. Yeah. And this will be a lot down. We can fortunately read.
00:41:19
Speaker
I wanted Rebels in Forsyth Bar. That home team. Yeah, that being the only thing that makes a difference here. Yeah. Chiefs, Hurricanes, Chiefs. Home team. That's really going to be abandoned. Yes. Just go easy, please. Not in the face. Lube, something. God. Taz drew away from home, so I got to take the Taz.
00:41:49
Speaker
I'm going to take the drill. I think they're going to be a little, I think they're not traveling. You know, they're still traveling. It's not an easy trip, but not as long as they did last week. They went from Fiji to Western Australia, which is less than awesome. Right. So at least, and there are also, you know, coming back towards home might be helpful. And I just don't, I'm not sure about the water toss. Yeah.
00:42:13
Speaker
So this will make a break. You're probably for them. Right. Right. Because it's like, OK, you beat the rebels like I think you're supposed to. Yeah, you like. Yeah. You want to go. Yes, I do. Damn it. The Drew had actually beaten quality teams. So they have. They've got a lot of I realize it's different at home versus the road. But still, they have some they have some.
00:42:36
Speaker
Notches on their bedpost for sure And then force Brumby's Brumby's Brumby's yeah
Closing Remarks and Listener Appreciation
00:42:44
Speaker
Okay, all right So that's that Fancy rugby podcast at gmail.com for questions and all that good stuff We'll get we'll get busy on the twitters this this end of the week here
00:43:02
Speaker
cheat out all that good stuff and i'll obviously start putting stuff out for episode 200 and then we will um yeah big weekend with the with the final hope everybody goes and finds themselves some time to hunker down with a beer or two and watch this thing should be a fun one yep
00:43:21
Speaker
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