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Super Rugby Fantasy Draft Special
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It's our draft special, listen to all the good calls and mistakes that we make in forming our teams for the Super Rugby season. We definitely made some mistakes so hopefully, others can learn from ours.
Did I mention there's a dog? Yeah, there is.
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Transcript
Draft Timing Confusion
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey everybody, what's going on? It's the Fancy Robby Yanks. We are live drafting in 200 seconds. Is that what this is? Something like that, 200 seconds. Dear God. This is weird. So I had a confusing moment for myself when I thought it said 207, for example, and it was two minutes and seven seconds, which would have been early. And nope, it's 200 seconds. Right, because now it's 199 seconds. This is weird. But okay. I don't math well, so.
00:00:35
Speaker
And we're slow in the morning. Yeah, yeah, it's so so it's very it's early in the morning
Value of Early Picks: Front Rows
00:00:40
Speaker
here. It's 930 in the morning.
00:00:42
Speaker
So we were just talking about front rows might be bait a little bit. I think they are in this because I don't know how many points you're actually going to get from your front rows. Right. Unless they score, unless they're scoring tries, um, they'll, they'll, you know, it's three players getting meters and three players making tackles. So they could score that way, but really realistically, how many?
00:01:06
Speaker
Front rows are gonna go for for too much of a jaunt, right? Maybe the hook maybe the hookers some of them maybe but I just don't see that you're you're gonna get that much value out of them. So the
00:01:19
Speaker
The front rows are, right now, they're ranked, the top front rows are ranked five and six. Right. Which, oddly enough, our picks are five and six. So they might fall.
Top Picks Strategies
00:01:32
Speaker
Well, the reds front row is probably pumped up by Tupo from the Wallaby prop, and then the alliance front row is probably pumped up a little bit from Malcolm Marks. Right. Because both those guys are very dynamic, but obviously,
00:01:47
Speaker
You have the risk of what the other front row is going to do, and those guys definitely aren't going to be available every weekend, too. Exactly. I'm not sure how much value you're getting from those front rows, so it'll be something to see as the season develops. Right. Neither of us have done this before.
00:02:05
Speaker
So this is all his own new experience, right? And we've seen in the premiership fantasy how you can see some of the players are clearly bait There's somebody ranked, you know, or you have to buy for like four hundred thousand right and they don't produce shit So it's just because it's a name. Yeah, it's been this is expensive in a different way This is draft capital not not your salary because obviously different game. Oh
00:02:31
Speaker
And no, we're not drinking beers or drinking coffee, despite what we may portray ourselves are. Ben and I aren't complete alcoholics, so we're not drinking quite yet. No, it's too early. I mean, it's only 9.30. We've got to wait till at least 11,
Draft Commencement
00:02:43
Speaker
right? Yeah, something to that effect, right? 40 seconds. All right, here we go. This will be interesting. Ben and I have picked five and six. Ben's five. I'm six. So we'll see how this goes.
00:02:56
Speaker
And we actually have an online drafter with us. Yeah. This isn't going to be a complete auto-draft. I feel bad for the people that are on this with us that this is probably an extremely inconvenient time for them because it's middle of the night. Yes. Well, the whole, their whole season is inconvenient for us because matches are in the middle of the night. So whatever. So they can suck it for the draft.
00:03:17
Speaker
Yeah, the only way that this probably would have been possible is if we had done this like two hours earlier. Three, two, one. And who's going to go first? Demi Mckenzie? Yep. Looks like it. So Mckenzie, so the auto drafters go to order Mckenzie Mwunga Folau. And then our other online drafter goes, is picking now. And Ben's dog has now started to assault me.
00:03:50
Speaker
Ants pants. Really? I don't know what to do. Yeah, she's fine. She's fine. Oh, oh. And who do you get? I didn't see who you got, but uh, the, who do you go with? You went with the lion's front row. Wow.
George Bridge's Draft Value
00:04:10
Speaker
Interesting. Okay. So maybe, maybe he's a Malcolm marksman. Maybe.
00:04:16
Speaker
But that leaves me. That leaves you alamalo if you want. Or bridge. Or the reds front row. Right. Or one of the Iwanis. Do you really want one of the Iwanis that bad? I mean. No. It's your call. It's your team. I know. I'm thinking about. Oh, Jordy. Hey, we got some people online now. Jordy's door's online. Class of 2015's online. All right. I'm taking alamalo. You took alamalo. Yeah. OK.
00:04:48
Speaker
I'm with you on the whole front row thing not being a Good idea this early. I do but we do want to grab a couple. I yeah for sure. I Just don't know if it's worth the first round pick, right So here's my thing is George was George bridge a fluke last year and the way he played for the Crusaders or is he the real thing I
00:05:14
Speaker
That's an excellent question. I know. You know what? I'm going to go. I would. I would. I'm going to have some fun with this. I'm going. I'm going to go off the book a little bit. Okay.
00:05:31
Speaker
I mean, it's a top 10 picks, so whatever. It's hard to say. It's hard to really make a hard case. It's really the strategy is whether someone of the gap between your first round pick or your first pick at one position versus your second pick at another.
00:05:48
Speaker
What, you know, what's the risk reward there, right? Like you take you on eat great. If there's, if you think there's, there's a bigger gap there than say from the reds front row to whoever the next front row is the sharks. Yeah. Or if they're still available, what, what have you, what have you. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I just, I'm sure George Reg will be great this year. Oh, we got another one off the board. Uh,
00:06:18
Speaker
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na
00:06:21
Speaker
I wanted him. And then we had Bernard Foley. And then some auto picks. Rich Front Row, George Bridge, Akira Iwani, and Apollo. I'm picking. And now it's back. Nope. No, I'm not. And then we have Ben Lamb. Ooh, that's a bit of a jump. But I also don't hate it. No, I don't like it. That's a damn good pick. He was a monster last year. Yeah.
Aaron Smith's All Blacks Snub
00:06:49
Speaker
As a large human being to be playing wing.
00:06:54
Speaker
I'm actually surprised he didn't get a nod to, at least a call up to the All Blacks. Surprised me a little bit. He's not leaving you alone. No, I know. I've signed up for myself here. I put my own doom in there. What's he got?
00:07:19
Speaker
She's like, no, you're a responsibility now. You signed up for it. You're in trouble now. Could be worse. She likes you at least. I see you. You're up. Yeah. OK.
00:07:39
Speaker
So I have Hayden Parker from the Sun Wolves, Moyano from the Jaguars, Leonard Brown from the Chiefs, or the Sharks front row. Those are my next picks. I don't
00:07:56
Speaker
I don't doubt that Hayden Parker can do it. I just don't really feel comfortable with it. I've already got an outside back. There's a lot of fly halves. Right. I've already got an outside back. I don't, again, I think this is too early for front rows, even if they are a good set of front rows. I am going to go with Anton Loner-Brown. Yeah, this is a tough decision for me.
00:08:21
Speaker
Don't want to take the fly. Yeah, I'm not big on Hayden Parker. I Think I can do all right. I already have an outside back. I don't think I still think it's too early to go front row And now so to me it comes between Another outside back Jordy Barrett Michael little or my actual pick will be arty. Oh bastard
00:08:46
Speaker
I guess I have to change my team name. That was my namesake. Boo. That's right. He was just sitting right there. Yeah, that's not a bad thing. I can't blame him. And then after that, flying off the board, Hayden Parker, so Ant's pants took Hayden Parker, Moyano, then Sharks weren't real, Michael Little from the Sun Wolves, Jordy Barrett, Jack Goodhue,
00:09:13
Speaker
from the Crusaders and Curtis Rona. I believe he's still playing for the Wartos. I could be wrong now. Yeah, I think he's still playing for the Wartos. And then we're back to one of our live drafters. So all our live drafters right now are in a row. It's one, two, three, four. There's five people that are actually online, so at least half the leagues in it is online drafting. The rest of them are all getting auto-picked
00:09:42
Speaker
So there's gonna be a bunch of auto picks in the row because it's also on the wraparound. Yes, and it's hard to figure out who just got picked sometime, or you know. Yeah, that's why I pulled up the picks on the left there. That was a good call. Yep. So we have... Uh oh. We have a dog. That's the dog. That's a dog. Just nobody be alarmed. It's a dog. She's more alarmed than you are probably. Mattelle from the Crusaders.
00:10:11
Speaker
Samaki from the Sun Wolves, Thompson from the Highlanders, Tom Banks from the Brumbies. Actually, I like Tom Banks. I already have an outside pack, but Sam with the Rebbe from the Reds. And the pick is... Mattelif. Okay. Yes, we hear you. You've done a good job protecting. And now it's Europe. To me, it's a question of, I know where I'm gonna go.
00:10:42
Speaker
All right, you're you're up This is a tough one I'm gonna do I go with an outside back I'm sorry a midfielder or don't go with a fly half and You know what? I'm gonna go whole hog here. Although it's gonna fuck me when they're on When they're on a bye week
00:11:10
Speaker
What'd you grab? You grabbed the Bowden Barrett. I grabbed Bowden Barrett. Okay. So that leaves me needing, I mean, they need obviously a host of things. Um, outside back, I see everything's outside backs all the way down to. Yeah.
00:11:36
Speaker
Everything's outside backs all the way down to Clark, Clark Smith and Robert Dapria. But I mean, it's a skip over Simaki who I don't care for that much
Reactions to Scutter Pick
00:11:47
Speaker
time. So I don't care for that much Tom banks. I like
00:11:50
Speaker
Yeah, that's that's another reason that I kind of skipped over to Barrett because none of them are None of the guys out there. I'm like, you know, I can get an equally Right decent purse player a little bit later, right? So I think I'm gonna go for the specialty position and go to pray because I'm gonna need one
00:12:08
Speaker
Yeah, I think that's a great, you know, that was, to me, that was the, the question mark was if I was going to Priya or, or, uh, Barrett. Well, after watching him in the premiership, he looked pretty good. Uh, if he brings that, if he brings that again. Right. If he brings that stuff, that type of play again, I'll be okay with it. I'll live with myself. Um, yeah, we getting, we got some,
00:12:33
Speaker
Quagga Smith just got picked up. So people are skipping over this, this series of outside backs. Not anymore because of the auto picks, but right. So Samaki, those other ones come off along with Deonti from the Lions. Okay. Well, Ginnia. Okay. There we go. Yeah. That's a good one. Yeah. Gonna start seeing the Scrub Hacks come off the board soon here. Right. I think that's the first one actually, Ginnia. I could be wrong. Didn't see any others.
00:13:03
Speaker
Yeah, no other scrum has been picked. Oh, you're up. I'm up. Who got picked before me? Um, the hurricanes front row. Okay. I mean, dinkles sounds like he's healthy. I think we're could tell he's going to, was obviously has obviously shown he's a good backup when he
Pocock and Chiefs Front Row Strategy
00:13:21
Speaker
goes down. You could do worse. Um, two mile gallon. This will be his last season in the, in the yellow. Makes me slightly sad, but that's okay. Um,
00:13:35
Speaker
Uh, so that leaves me Jack Maddox from the Rebels who I like, but again, I have an outside back already and he doesn't intrigue me as much that much to where I want him and want double up on the outside backs. Uh, Dougie from Jaguars, Romulan from the Bulls. Uh, Pulu from the Brumby's Pocock. Yeah. That's the interesting option there. Do I go Pocock or Romulan? I think I'm going to go loose forward.
00:14:05
Speaker
Uh, pressure's on. Um, you know what? He had a hell of a season last year. I'm going to go with him. That's a good call. I like him. I like him. I have 90 seconds on the board and let's see. I have my fly half. Um, I could use a midfielder, but I'm not, I want to, I have someone that I think I'm going to go with there.
00:14:35
Speaker
The midfielders on the board right now are Jesse Creel and Tay Walden from the Highlanders. Right. So, um, I have my fly half. I already have a loose forward. Well, they're kind of sitting there and, uh, I think at this point in the draft we're, we're okay to be heading into, uh, front row territory for me. So I'm going to go with the Chiefs front row. Ooh, good, good, good selection with, um,
00:15:02
Speaker
Guy that just got a shot last year. I can't remember. He's got a really long, funny last name. I'm not even going to. Yeah. I'll always go for the second. Once I'm done with my pick. What's your pick? Oh, we're back around. Oh, yeah. We're back around. So let's see who else came off the board. You went a little too certain row. Then Jack Maddox, Delgie Vermeulen, Tony Pulu, Jesse Creole, Tay Walden, and then Andre Esther Hazen came off the board.
00:15:29
Speaker
Or, yeah. Damien Vellonso, that's a good one too.
00:15:35
Speaker
but I'd hate to have two, I don't want two South African fly-offs. Just the style of play needs to be different in my opinion. When I have two, if I'm gonna pick a backup fly-off, just needs to, like a regular rugby team, you want your styles of your fly-offs to be very different, in my opinion at least. If they're productive, I'm not gonna complain too much though. Who just got picked? Who got picked? We had Wart Glen.
00:16:03
Speaker
And that means that means you're a big guy you gotta go for henry spade you you picked him in the champion's cup when he was playing for elster hmm Depends on how many outside backs you have I guess it does Let me think uh I think outside backs. There's still a shit ton available. I don't think that they are. I mean while they're rated high I'm not sure that's the direction. I want to go now because of the
00:16:34
Speaker
Just because of the value that's around. Right. And I think that there's a, I really do think that there's a large gap between the guy I'm about to pick and everyone below him. Yeah.
00:16:48
Speaker
So i'm gonna go with one of my specialties i'm gonna go with my other half pack Oh, you're taking tj and i'm taking tj. I was gonna take him. I know I I was absolutely certain And I don't like augustine pool that much I might I might be able to get him on the background. Um, Jared's gonna hate my team I'm gonna hate playing against you. Let's put it that way All right, let's go through
Draft Summary and Needs
00:17:16
Speaker
Like we said we guys start looking at certain positions and I don't have one of these yet so I think I need to get it and that is a Front row one thing that hasn't come off the board much yet And it's going to start because the best one's about to yes coming up is locks. Yep I'm gonna take the water toss right now. That's good. Good call. I Think we're at that time now. Yeah, we're about there. We're
00:17:44
Speaker
So just to go through our teams, right now I have Rico Ioannoni, Anton Leonard Brown, Robert Dupria, David Pocock, and the Waratas front row. And I have Alem Ollaville.
00:18:02
Speaker
Bowden Barrett, TJ Pernara, Artie Sevilla, and the chief's front row. Okay. So you need to start diversifying a little bit. I do. I have a plan. Augustine Pulo just got taken off the board. And then we had a bunch of auto picks. Who else went? Um, Michael Hooper. Ah, son of a bitch. Vomsa, uh, Melanie Nanai, Lucan Yoam, and Pablo Matera.
00:18:32
Speaker
That pisses me off Oopsie I know right? I mean we're down to you know, basically you're gonna probably just have to stack a couple of a bunch of
00:18:48
Speaker
halfbacks at this point too. Yeah. Cause I don't, I don't, I don't have any, but I'm, I'm probably just going to end up grabbing a handful of them and see which one works. Um, so I do have, yeah, I know my next two options. Yeah. Um, neither of which play for the hurricanes. So whatever happens here, whatever you, you select, I have my guy. Oh, jerk. What did he, who did he just take? He took scutter. Yeah. Oh, boo.
00:19:18
Speaker
Boo-boo-boo. I disagree. And only because that makes me mad. Oh man, it's all outside backs left. It is. In the exception of Timu. I don't care for Renee Ranger that much. I do like him. Ben Smith, I like. Caleb Penny. You know what? I'm gonna double up on it.
00:19:47
Speaker
Oh, you're going serious front row. All right. There you go. Cody Taylor. So now here's where I'm thinking. There's two players that that I I'm looking at right now. One is to me the key to his team. And then that's currently Beal. I'm not certain how he's how that translates to fantasy.
00:20:14
Speaker
If you click on it, it'll give you some stats. Yeah. Okay, well, that certainly helps. Those average points are about 13, so which are actually higher than the other guy I'm looking at, which is Brody Retallic.
00:20:30
Speaker
who averages 11.3 points a game. Now that's decent, but I'm... You get points for a lot of steals in this, don't you? Right, yes, you do. Okay, so that's a big thing. Yeah, that's a big thing. So that's my question, is do I go with that, or do I stick with Kurt Lee Beale as my midfield? And I think I can... Where'd he go?
00:21:01
Speaker
Oh, there's no there's no stats for any Ranger. Well, that's annoying. Yeah What won't get 10 seconds? Yeah, I do I'm taking the best guy disposition. Yeah, we're talent. It's a metallic. Okay
00:21:18
Speaker
And he's far and away the best one. The next lock isn't listed for... There he is. Yeah. Estebeth. Estebeth. 96. Yeah. So he's not listed for another 30. Right. 30 picks there. So that's not a bet. Let's see. Maybe Kirtly Beale makes it all the way around. Yeah. I don't think... He depends. It depends. Here we go. We have one pick.
Curly Beale vs Brody Retallic Debate
00:21:41
Speaker
Let's see. Retalic, then Kayla Tumu. Stormer's Front Row. Sean Stevenson. Saturo Frizzell. Spate Pollard.
00:21:48
Speaker
Yep. And Beal is still around. Beal's still sitting there, but he's got to make it through Ant's pants. He does. And if he does, then he's yours. Him, but they also can, I also don't have any problem taking Caleb Petty. So I like Caleb Petty too. Yeah. This, this might be the point where I start. Yeah. Yeah. This might be the point where I start saying, okay, I can start doubling up on certain positions and not, uh, not having to care.
00:22:17
Speaker
Especially since you need a couple of outside backs anyway. Yeah. Oh He picked who's either midfielder Ranger Ranger. Yep. So that leaves curly Bieler. Hey look petty for me. Yeah and
00:22:32
Speaker
Because I still don't have a single midfielder. You might want one. I might want one. So I'm going to go with Beale. Yeah, because you need to start too. I really like Beale, so I'm more than happy to have him on my squad. And I'm going to take the one guy that we didn't talk about in that, but the old war horse, Ben Smith. That's a good call. I was looking at him too. Obviously, he was sitting there.
00:22:56
Speaker
Yeah, since we need three outside backs and this yeah, i'm gonna Now it's time to start. Well, I I have a starter in each position. So now it's time to start. Well one starter I need to to Complete the rounds, but yeah
00:23:11
Speaker
I don't have a lock because obviously locks are way down the list here. Probably because they just don't go for as many gallops as you'd hope. Well, they're not going to score you the points that way, but they'll get the turnovers and they'll get the line-out steals. Hopefully. I wonder if they consider a turnover a pen, like if you win a pen.
00:23:36
Speaker
That's a good question. Maybe, because technically you've made the turnover, and they're not letting you possess it. I wonder if they give you that. I don't know, because we know that you lose points for giving away penalties. So I would hope that a penalty earned would be a... Maybe the turnover one of some sort. That would be a good feature for that one. And then we got another pick, and then we're going to have some auto picks here.
00:24:07
Speaker
Yep, coming back around. All right, so I took Ben Smith and then Nyserani, Bolshfront Rowe, Damian D'Alende, Warren Whiteley, that's a good pick. Quaid Cooper, that is an underrated pick. I do like it. I'm not saying that's a good idea to just have him, but I do like it. And Delph went to...
00:24:27
Speaker
Those are the latest picks on the auto pick. Yeah, I do like Clay Cooper. I think he's obviously got something to prove. He wants to get in to check his team. Yeah. And he's playing on the Rebels who had a heck of a season last year for the expansion team. Oh, and Ruonnell just got picked. Okay. Classic XV, Jordie Shore is up. Yep.
00:24:48
Speaker
Then a lot of outside backs left. Yes to Italy. Hey, let penny come bring Vince. Oh Yeah, that's awesome. That's a good one. I like him again. Can he go see?
00:25:01
Speaker
Bosch, Billy Meeks, I like Billy Meeks. I thought of the two guys that played midfield for the Rebels. Oh, you're up. He was definitely one of them. Kerwin Bosch. Really? Yeah. I don't know about that one. I have my pick of outside backs here. Yeah, there's a lot of picks.
00:25:26
Speaker
And I need one more outside back. So, so I have my token hurricane. I'm gonna take Vinsasso.
00:25:39
Speaker
Thank you for taking him off the board for me. Were you going to be a little torn between him? I was, but at the same time I wasn't because I already have enough problems now when they're on by. Oh, that's true. That's true. I think I'm done with the hurricanes for now. Yeah. So, Hallet Petty it is. Not bad. That's also a great pick. Thank you. I would not.
00:26:02
Speaker
I almost went with that, but I was like, you know, I'm gonna let my bias take over for just a second. So what do I need? I still need a loose forward and a midfielder to round up mine. Yeah. And then I need another loose forward. I need a lock. I'm so pissed that you forgot stolen from me.
00:26:26
Speaker
After our next pick we'll go through what we've got so far and what we need. Yeah Michael leech. Hmm. I like that. I like that thought Yeah, he's uh, I Mean some wolves. Oh god, I think he's gone. Yeah, I was like, yeah our our auto picks have gone through with Billy Meeks and
00:26:52
Speaker
Michael Wells, Davida Lee, Michael Leech, Cronier, Eben Zebeth, oh no, and Brad Webber. That took away my thought. Shoot. Loads of outside backs still. I mean, Grant, you have to start three of them, but there's a lot.
00:27:15
Speaker
Nivalu, Nkosi, Korobeti, Emery, Lameki, Mapimpi. Good Lord. Yeah. Need a lot, got lots of those. Yeah. Now it's going to come down to, you know, do you have enough? Yeah. So what's interesting, what is Ants Pat's going to do here? Ooh.
00:27:39
Speaker
I have my picks. I think I know who I want. I have a couple options of who I want next. Oh, no! The Jaeger. Oh, man. Get the Jaeger. Shoot. Oh, so one thing that I was saying before we even started with this is
00:27:56
Speaker
I'm so not used to seeing these names written out. So I look at him like, who the fuck is him? Like, oh, wait, that's how you pronounce that. That's who that is. Okay. Yep. Yeah. That was the first one that you looked at. Right. I was like, who the fuck is Ali? I don't know who that is. I know that. So I get, yep. And I get my guy who is, I need to fill out my midfield and, uh, I'd like him. I like the name too. Rhys Hodge. Rhys Hodge. That's a good pick. All right.
Aaron Smith's Fantasy Draft Position
00:28:29
Speaker
I'm gonna take.
00:28:30
Speaker
the guy that might be the best scrum half in the world, certainly is probably the best scrum half in the world. Oh, there he is, yeah. Southern Hemisphere, Aaron Smith. That's a solid pick. I think this draft might, well, maybe in fantasy, at this point might be the only place where, who is it? TJ gets picked before Aaron Smith. Yeah, probably won't be for Steve Hanson's team anytime soon.
00:29:02
Speaker
bad for him. That is too bad. That is too bad for him. Yep. Alright. He's classic fifteen. Who's he going with? Steven. So, we have Steven Parafetta off. Oh, that's a good pick. That is a good pick. Um decent pick. I don't I don't dislike that especially as long as he's not your one. If that's your one. Yeah. For your for your halfbacks. Yeah, you definitely want to find another one right away. Yeah. Cuz it's probably gonna be
00:29:29
Speaker
Musical halfbacks for you for a while because I like them, but I know that there's going to be issues presented. Yeah
00:29:36
Speaker
And he's not always his team's first choice either, so. All right, we have our auto picks in. Yanchi's off the board. Fine, I didn't want him. Brumby's front row. Oh, wow, Yanchi's one. Valentini, Jake Gordon, Bryn Hall. Ooh, Bryn Hall. That was a good pick. I like that one. So, I need a midfielder.
00:30:04
Speaker
Good. Oh wait, you've already doubled up on your front row, haven't you? Yes, I have. OK, good. Because I'm looking at the Highlander's front row with my next pick. Not bad. That's a decent bunch right there. Right. Just needs to get past Geordie Shore. Yeah.
00:30:18
Speaker
because I need, yeah, I need to back that up, but then there's. Yeah. Cause we talked about it. There's only 14 teams playing in a weekend. Right. There's 10 teams in this league, which means somebody might be so well on front rows every once in a while. I don't want that to be me. I don't want it to be me. That's why I doubled up. Right. And now I'm nervous. I grabbed them as fast as I could. Yeah.
00:30:36
Speaker
The only thing I'm nervous about is if I get, uh, where was it? So who's my front row? The Chiefs and the Highlanders on, on, on a buy the same day, the same weekend. That would be, that would be the only problem. I don't think that would, they usually just put one team on the, on the buy. So I think they'll be okay. Right. That's what I figured, but I just. Right. Yeah. And what do you pick? He went with. Similani. Okay.
00:31:04
Speaker
Peterson Sergio Peterson comes off the board. All right, that means I'm picking and The man That looks like he's frickin Might be predator reincarnate. Oh The new blues midfielder. No new mom. I knew I love that pic I absolutely love that used to be a hurricane before we left I
00:31:31
Speaker
I saw him pop up there and I cuz I hadn't I hadn't seen him on the on the list and all of a sudden there was I'm like That's a good one, but I'm still going with my highlanders front row. Yeah. Oh, no, it's I mean, well, I mean he's not available Exactly. Yeah. All right, so We have let's see. Let's go through What we have here, so I have my outside backs are Ben Smith
00:31:56
Speaker
Rico Ioannoni, Vince Ahso, I have midfielders, Anton Leonard Brown and Ma Nanu. My fly half right now is Robert Dupriya. My halfback is Aaron Smith. I have a loose forward and David Pocock. I don't have a lock yet. I have two front rows with the Crusaders and the Waratahs. And I have my outside backs, Halo Petty.
00:32:13
Speaker
Alamalo, my midfielders currently Beal or Reese Hodge fly half Bowdoin Barrett halfback TJ Parinara loose forward Artie Sevilla My lock is Brody Retalek and my front rows are the Chiefs and the Highlanders. Okay, so we get
00:32:29
Speaker
We're getting some things that yeah, I just think that that's such an important position to have a backup for that front row. Right, because as much as right as much as I don't think they're going to get points. You don't want to bagel. Oh, yeah, you really don't want to just eat that. You don't want to donate on that one. No, that's kind of why I'm I'm I was almost disappointed. We have so many fucking teams in our league. Yeah, I wasn't at least guaranteed. So you'd be like, all right, I can just leave that right and wait.
00:32:56
Speaker
But there should be like a social Yeah, but it doesn't work that way so all right, so I know I need
00:33:13
Speaker
of the positions that are sitting right in front of me right now. I know I need a backup fly half. And I don't dislike anything I'm looking at. I think we're looking at the same name. But there's two names I'm waffling back and forth between. And I'm hoping I'm going to pick the right one.
00:33:30
Speaker
I think I think we're both looking at the same name there. Oh wait, but I picked next. Yeah, you do We just we owed we missed a whole bunch of pics Under we are lips went. Uh, well, I'm gonna let you do that. Yeah We got so Non new highlanders front row butcher know do to our McCaffrey blues front row snyman tips him up Oh Jackson Hemipo
00:33:56
Speaker
I think is gonna be playing but a lot of back row. I think they actually switched his position in this game Roll off submit. Okay, interesting So I need an outside back still and I need another loose forward and I'm gonna save the loose forward for now. Mm-hmm So I still need another outside back
00:34:20
Speaker
There's a couple of decent options here. Yes, there is. There's plenty of decent options. I see names I would definitely be jumping on.
00:34:34
Speaker
And I feel like I'm biased against the jaguars, only because I don't really get to watch them play very often. They had a nice season last year, they really did. I'm basically down between, is it Tuckulip? Tuckulip, yeah. And Nevaulu, which are both really decent options. And I'm going to end up with the Chaguari.
00:34:54
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I mean don't don't sleep on any of that. I'm gonna call him the Jaguars. Yeah, I got a lot. I don't sleep on any of them. They're certainly gonna be something good. Yeah, obviously. All right. I think this guy changing the team he changed to
00:35:10
Speaker
after last season is gonna turn him into such a better player because the team he's playing for last year did not have a good season. And now he's changed into a team that has a potential for playoff and God knows what. I'm taking my backup off my half as Britton Gatlin.
00:35:26
Speaker
Yeah, yep, there it is. He was... I knew it. That was absolutely the name we were looking at. Yeah, the other one I was looking at was a Terry Black who used to be the... I know you have a soft spot in your heart for Bryn. I do. Because you love his dad. I have a soft spot in my heart because of his dad. Right. And not in a good way. Because he has his dad as his dad. Yeah. Poor guy. Oh, you love Warren. Good Lord. Warren Ball.
00:36:06
Speaker
I like him. I have mine my next loose forward picked out. Do you absolutely yeah? Oh Wait a minute. I don't have one. Oh, I have to I have my pick of my loose forwards. Oh
00:36:23
Speaker
Yeah, there's a couple, there's a couple coming up here. Yeah. Um, yeah, this is the, this is the time. It's certainly the time of the draft where people, we start bouncing around quite a bit. Right. Because now it's filling now it's, it's yeah. Cause now it's just like, all right, what looks good, what doesn't. Yeah. Um, somebody's team name and this is Ryan's grotty. Um, I don't know if they're going to get their namesake cause he's, uh, he's not drafting live. So yeah.
00:36:50
Speaker
Alright, we just had, we had a bunch of picks come off the board, didn't we? Yeah, we did. So I took Gatlin, Diganoo, Joe Powell, Matt Phillip, Sam Lausi, that was a good one. Yeah, Conbrick is good. Yeah, Conbrick is good. Naivalu and Nkosi. Nkosi. Not bad. So now with two to go to get to me, since Jared is only one of them, there's one player that he knows that I would love to have on my team.
00:37:17
Speaker
And it's another that he doesn't know that I would love to have on my team. So you might get that one. Oh, Jared's up. We just lost. I see a couple. And there's a couple I'm worried about as well. And so I think I'm going to go.
00:37:46
Speaker
Um, yep. See you. Oh, you. Yeah. I was like, you know what? I don't think this is a choice. So that leaves me with my, my backup option at that, that spot. Who are you going to take? I'm going to go with Sam Kane. All right.
00:38:05
Speaker
His neck is still kind of, eh, just keep in mind, you might want to scoop yourself up another loose ball. I will. There's a couple other options down lower that I'm looking at. Yeah, you got one of them. If Cain's available, then... Yep. No, I totally hear you. Ooh. I think I got my next pick as long as it doesn't go, as long as things don't go sideways.
00:38:31
Speaker
And then, so, Ben's gone, Sam Kane, we got one more online picker, and then we're gonna have a host of auto picks here. Yep.
00:38:43
Speaker
Yeah. Cause now I need to start thinking about, I don't have any locks. I need at least one. Yeah. I don't have any lost grid that there's still plenty of good ones left. There are plenty of good ones left. And actually there's one who's, um, there's one I want. Yeah. I think it's the same one. Probably. We're both looking at the same one, but I already got my guy. So you don't have to worry about it. There's a couple other, there's a couple other ones that I would certainly don't have to worry about what lock will be there. Yeah. As long as ants pants doesn't take them.
00:39:10
Speaker
I need to start looking at some of my backup. Sweet Pillow 2 is not bad either though. Patrick 2 Pillow 2. Yeah, I need to start looking at my backup. Oh shit, did I lose my option? We have Jason Emery that's off the board, Carabetti's off the board, Lameki, Mepimpe, Cameron Clark, Jerome Patea, and Sean Wannui all off the board.
00:39:32
Speaker
So I have two positions that I need to round out. Yeah, I need another half back and fly half. Yeah. Cause I need, I need a backup half back and I need at least one lock cause I don't have any right now. And let's see what we got here. Cause of course the rankings that they gave on the site only gave up till 200. So anything after 200 looks the
Terry Black as Backup Fly-Half
00:40:00
Speaker
same. Yeah.
00:40:07
Speaker
I am not seeing a I'm not liking my backup. I'm not liking my options at those positions. No problem now Because I think we're looking at back I think we might have we may have screwed up Now that I look at it. Yeah, as far as the you know, the lot I think a lot of people already took a backup fly half scrum half I took a backup fly half I
00:40:33
Speaker
Um, I haven't taken a backup path back though. The pick is in and it is. Oh, Sunnybell. Oh, okay. SBW comes off the board. Now what do we got?
00:40:51
Speaker
I have no idea who to pick. So as I'm looking at the, uh, my half packs and fly half backups and just not seeing any good options. So I'm just going to go with the highest rated fly half. Yeah. Of, of, uh, with black. Oh, Terry black. Yeah. He's good. He was the hurricanes backup last year.
00:41:12
Speaker
So okay, that's not a bad pick. All right, so he's moved there because bring because of musical fly half said yeah played in Okay, New Zealand. I'm just nervous cuz I yeah again Yeah, that's a that was the when we were looking at when I was looking at pack up fly half tonight Okay, Gatlin that was the other guy I was looking at so it's not bad. No, not that at all All right, and I'm gonna get my lock out of the way Sam white lock your mind. Thank you moving on Good call nice quick and dirty
00:41:42
Speaker
And now, yeah, for the, for the halfbacks or the, the real question, cause. Yep. I'm looking at a couple that I like, but I don't know if they're going to start. That's the, that's the problem is, well, if you have your starter now you're, but then you're, you're banking on the one week where they're.
00:41:59
Speaker
on, um, if your, your, your starters on by. That they're going to start that they're going to start. Yeah. But at that point, you might also be able to pick one up off the waivers. Yeah. That might be something that's scrappy. I don't want this guy anymore. Right. I mean, I'm happy that, that with, with TJ. Yeah. Like, unless he's hurt, he's playing. Yeah. So for sure. It's that's a, that's a bonus for me. Yeah. So, and, but, and that'll, but I think by the time you need,
00:42:29
Speaker
Assuming that the hurricanes aren't the first team on the by which I don't think they are by the time you need a back backup flyout Scrum half you might have an injured a guy that's in for an injured player already So you might be okay might be okay to scoop one up then. Yeah, so maybe I'll leave that for now. Yeah
00:42:49
Speaker
And then... Oh yeah, what happened with our... I had to pick Sam Whitelock, then Braden Inor goes off. Odin Dahl, Newsom, John Ben-Kutze, Andreas Kutsia, David Haveli, that's a good one. S.P. Morais. Not bad. Not bad. And now we got...
00:43:14
Speaker
Oh yeah. Yeah. There's so much, there's so much leftover. Yeah. So maybe that's the, that's the lesson today is that there are a lot of outside backs that get left out. Um, plenty of backup quality stuff that's left. So if you need particular positions, um, scoop them up. Okay.
00:43:40
Speaker
What's off the board? I have a V that comes off the board. Is he... See, he's playing... Is it... Yeah. Hmm. That's an interesting pick. I don't... I don't hate it. By any means. I am going to go... To Herangi, from the Chiefs. Might not start every game for him, but when he's in there, he is... Electric.
00:44:01
Speaker
and to piss off our friend who is offline, Mr. Ryan's Grotty, and also because apparently I like taking players that other teams are named after. So I'm going with Ryan Crotty. There you go. Yeah, he's a good pick.
00:44:18
Speaker
He's a he's certainly an old war horse at this point. So as it stands Hey, let petty took you lay. Hello, Malo Beal hodge karate in my midfield Barrett and black my fly house piranha at nine Sevilla Artie Sevilla Sam Cain my loose forwards Retallic and the Chiefs and Highlanders front row. Yeah All right, so what I got I have
00:44:47
Speaker
Ben Smith, Rico Ioannoni, Vince Aso. I have Anton Leonard Brown, Ma Ananu, Bryn Gatlin, Robert Dupria, Aaron Smith, Todd Orangi. I'm not trying to say his whole name, I'm gonna stumble on it and do the guy a disservice. David Pocock, I can see a police here, my loose forwards. Sam Whitelock is my lone lock at the moment, and then the Crusaders and Waratahs, front rows.
00:45:13
Speaker
So that leaves me, I want to go find a backup lock that I don't dislike. That's gonna be... Oh, shit. We lost a whole bunch of people. Pictures flew off the board. My pick, if he comes back around, if Ant's pants doesn't pick him up, is still available, so that makes me happy.
00:45:36
Speaker
So we have let's see who fell off the board two below two Sonatila then week Diaz Bonilla is a pretty good pick Marcus Kramer. Not bad. Meno him. No from the Sunwills and Libach and as long as Ant pants doesn't do anything stupid I'll be all night. I'll be collecting Will Miller. There you go. I
00:46:05
Speaker
Shouldn't be a terrible pick by any means. No. And again, because of Cain's ify-ness. Yeah. You gotta have that. Oh, how has he not been selected yet? All right. I don't know how he didn't even get ranked. Should I see my next pick? Sure. He got lost in the weeds here. I'm going to grab him as long as nobody else does so. I think I know who you're looking at. Yeah. Similar to a previous name you'd already picked.
00:46:32
Speaker
Maybe we're not looking at the same person. Nope. Probably not. At this point, we are definitely not. Nope. That's okay. That's a good thing. Nope.
Defensive Strategy and Scott Barrett
00:46:40
Speaker
All right. You're up. Who'd he pick? Uh, Rebel's front row. Okay. I'm surprised they were still available.
00:46:46
Speaker
I am going to, yeah, Will Miller. Are there any front rows? There's two front rows available. Guess who they are. The Jags and the Sun Wolves. Yep. I wonder why they're available. Yeah. Cause they're not that good. Other front rows that are available. Although I do like, you need them for a week. I mean, I do like creepy. Yeah. So, you know, whatever. I hope that's what I'm thinking of. Otherwise I just really tanked that. Um, so you grab Will Miller. Yep. I am grabbing,
00:47:16
Speaker
Frickin' find him. See, now I had to open my mouth. Ah, here we go. Scott Barrett. Oh, there he is. That's a good pick. Way down. He was way down in the weeds because they only ranked 200 players. So he's 201 of like 10 million 201s on this list. So I was like, I was just kind of scrolling. There's some good names.
00:47:39
Speaker
Sam Carter is on here, Ron Botha is on here, Rory Arnold is on this, Rob Simmons, I like some of the names that were still available, so, yeah. Strange is on here. How are they even, oh, they're ranked by first name. Yeah, that's basically all they're down to, yeah. So, yeah, just, if you got somebody who you think is still available, go hunting by first name, because that's where it's all at. Yeah. All right. All right, so what do I need? I need, how do I not?
00:48:11
Speaker
Okay, so there's two more. I think we're at two picks more here. Two to go. Yeah, so everything is... I think I know where I'm burning. Yeah, I think I know where I'm burning my last two picks. And here we go, there's a bunch. Matt Tamula comes off the board. Is he gonna come back?
00:48:32
Speaker
Cause he's still playing for Lester. Yeah. I don't think he's due to do back until they're done. So he, that's, that's a good pick for later in the season. Um, Marnas, scoom in, uh, Gibson, Tyler, Arden, uh, Dylan leds decio. Oh, hello. Um, it's a decent picks and now you're up. I'm up. Okay. So.
00:49:00
Speaker
There's two positions that I think are gonna be plentiful. And there's a position I think that'll be plentiful that I don't need to grab anybody at. And there's a position that I think that I'm gonna want somebody that's good quality. And that is loose forward. And I'm gonna grab, especially since I didn't grab loose forward very early, I'm grabbing Jordan Tafua.
00:49:29
Speaker
Now I need to round out, I need some backup outside backs because at the moment I just have three. So, bar and injury, something like that. Definitely need something else. And... There's actually some decent loose forwards left too. I'm looking at it.
00:49:55
Speaker
See if you go Fukuoka or Michael Collins. Hmm. And those are my two. Yeah. Those are my two options. Right. Or it's real DAG. DAG. He's good. As long as he's healthy. Yeah. That's the other question though. Yeah. That's always the question with him. Unfortunately, if he's healthy, he's brilliant, but then it is also my backup. So there's no reason not to take that chance.
00:50:25
Speaker
So I'm going to go with, with Izzy Dagg. There you go. Decent, decent selection. That was another one I thought about was, um, as my, as my other loose forward, Luke Whitelock and Liam Squire are both on there as well. I thought you were looking at Luke Whitelock. I did. And I said, so I know they got the other guy I want.
00:50:54
Speaker
For another position. It's probably not gonna make it back to me, but that's okay. I'll live with it So since yeah, what do you think of a Sarovi? I'm looking at half backs half backs
00:51:10
Speaker
It's a matter of the question of I think we're all down to backups here. Yeah, we I think we're down to a lot of backups here Yeah, I think let's see none of them seem to be getting yeah have like Yeah, not a lot of attention no I Might have to just well, you know what? I'm gonna do what we talked about and just go with you might have to just pick one up off the wire Yeah
00:51:41
Speaker
We got some pics. Yeah, we got some pics. Matt Proctor was the guy I wanted. Diamani.
00:51:53
Speaker
Bendy Hever that's most notable ones for the for the auto picks there yeah I think you're gonna be stuck with Dylan Hunt just went yep thank you we stuck with some somebody you probably don't love but it's probably not bad yeah
00:52:15
Speaker
I don't need a loose. I don't need a loose forward at all. I think I'm thinking I have to go with so Ruby Okay, there you go. As much as I do. Yeah, cuz he's still ranked. I'm not even sure what they see. Is it possible that he's starting? There's a I I don't know what what one they are. Yeah, which one they're looking at so He's ranked pretty high. That's the only reason is actually he's actually ranked higher than where I'm picking him. So I'm going with him. Okay, there you go
00:52:46
Speaker
Well, I'm going to show, assuming this is not a complete waste of time, I think I'm going to show one of the outside teams a little love here. Okay.
00:53:11
Speaker
Yep. I think I'm going to do it. Don't see any new news on them. There you go. Some, some walls midfielder center, whatever you want. Yeah.
Draft Reflections and Predictions
00:53:24
Speaker
And that's going to, that'll wrap it up. One story short picks. Yep. And classic XV. Right. And that was Fosse just went, I feel a little fussy. Yeah. Kern's run to be the current Johnny's a good pick.
00:53:40
Speaker
That's a very good pick. I could have grabbed him, I guess. And there it is. Michael Collins, Grant Hating. Grant Hating is our Mr. Relevant. For those that don't know, the last pick in the NFL.
00:53:55
Speaker
American NFL football draft is called Mr. Irrelevant because they usually don't end up doing anything. No. Almost always. There was a recent one who's actually come around to do something good, but yeah. Hell if I know. Okay. All right. Now I'm, I got booted out of the draft, so I didn't even see who got. So we got, so now let's look at my lineup and who's got what. All right. So.
00:54:24
Speaker
Yeah, we don't have any of the team news, unfortunately, because they make you pay for it. And with it being our first year, like the rugby mag, we're not really paying for it. Not that they shouldn't pay for it yet. So if we like it, then we'll consider it. Right. I'm actually considering doing the rugby bag one. Yeah, the rugby bag one.
00:54:41
Speaker
That when they they did that one week and it's only 10 pounds so it's like 16 bucks for a year Or something like that. That's not terrible. That's not no nice. All right, so Going through My lineup I have So I have Rico you wanting against the Crusaders also against the Lortas and
00:55:07
Speaker
Ben Smith against the Chiefs, Manu against the Crusaders, Leonard Brown against the Highlanders, Robert Dupree against the Sun Wolves, I think I'm gonna keep that. Aaron Smith against the Chiefs, Sia Khaleesi against the Bulls, David Pocock going against the Rebels, Sam Whitelock against the Blues, I think I'm gonna keep that for sure. And then we have the War Toss Front going against the Hurricanes.
00:55:31
Speaker
I might trade that out for the Crusader's front row going against the Blues though. So that's the only one I can see.
00:55:51
Speaker
Bowdoin Barret, T.G. Peronara, Artesivia against the Waratahs, Will Miller against the Hurricanes, Brodie Ritalik, and the Chiefs front row against the Highlanders. I think I'm going to keep those in there. I've just had the realization that I have one, two, three, four Crusaders on my team.
00:56:13
Speaker
I have both their locks and I have Tafua and the front row. They're all forwards. So maybe I'll make some rearrangements with that one. But other than that, I'm OK with where I'm at. Right. I have four Chiefs and three Hurricanes. Yikes.
00:56:31
Speaker
Yeah. You better hope New Zealand doesn't suck. I think that's a decent bet. I say they've won how many titles in the row now, the Kiwi teams. I think it's 2012 or something like that the last time a team not from New Zealand won. Maybe earlier, I just can't remember it off the top of my head, but I was looking at it a while ago. I was like, oh, damn.
00:56:55
Speaker
Alright, so that was, I like how this panned out, I think. We'll find out. We may not like it too much in like six weeks. Right, maybe this is one of those things when I play fantasy football. I'm like, oh, I love my team. And then three weeks into the season, I'm like, oh, what did I do? Alright, so we have, let's have one of the first games kicking off. Okay, so we got a couple weeks. Friday the 15th, February, that's our time here. Chiefs Highlanders, Brumby's Rebels.
00:57:24
Speaker
And then the Blues and Crusaders, along with the Wartos and the Canes, play on Saturday. Everybody started that week. All right, cool. All right. And then, yeah, so that leaves, I think there's one team out. I can't see who it is. Maybe not. Maybe I'm losing my mind. But yeah, so this will be fun. Yeah, I think. See how this goes. Until I'm in the basement of my of the division here. And I'm playing against Ant's pants in the first round. Are you? Yeah. OK, that'll be interesting. Who do I have?
00:57:55
Speaker
Let's have a look. Who am I playing? I am playing Checked Out, either a Michael Chekka lover or hater. I can't tell you which one, but one or the other. I'm going to guess. Checked Out, I'm going to say he doesn't like him that much. Not terribly pleased with his performance. He can join the rest of Australia with that one. Yeah. All right. Well, that's our draft. That was fun. That was only an hour. Actually, I've had
00:58:22
Speaker
NFL football drafts that take way longer than that. So I'm happy with an hour of a draft. Not bad. Not a bad way to spend the morning. Nope. We're doing anything productive anyway. Right. All right. All right, guys. Well, thanks for listening to us. And hopefully you guys can all laugh at our picks in like, I don't know, a month or so. Yeah. And we'll be back on Tuesday with our Six Nations for you. Thanks a lot, everybody. Cheers. Bye.