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Season 3- Episode 12- The Yanks Plus One (6 Nations Preview& Premiership Round 7)
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It is the latest from your favorite American rugby knuckleheads for your listening pleasure. It's a long one so feel free to skip around and listen to the stuff you REALLY want. We start off the pod with a pretty cool announcement (4:35). The Yanks are joined by old friend James to chat all things 6 Nations, predictions, hopes, dreams and all that stuff (22:21). We then say bye to James and we talk about players to keep an eye for your TRM teams from each country (1:09:31). We wrap all the action from this past weekend in the Premiership (1:16:57). For your fantasy needs we recap the goings on in Champi-Yanks League and take our best shot at Start or Sit for both the opening weekend of 6 Nations, and the weekend's Premiership action. Kick back grab a couple for this one, it's a doozie, but a goodie, and enjoy,
Ask us questions via Twitter: Jarrod- jdyke8man & Ben- admrablsnackbar. Send us your thoughts for the show and questions for upcoming shows via e-mail fantasyrugbypodcast@gmail.com. Use #AskTFRY for your lineup questions this weekend.
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Transcript
Introduction and Hosts Catch-Up
00:00:07
Speaker
Hey everybody, welcome back. Here's the fancy RBA. My name is Jared Dyke.
00:00:11
Speaker
I'm Ben Glauser. And with us, of course, is the Mr. James Herrick. How are you, good friend? Good evening. I should say 637 p.m. on a fine Wednesday evening. Yeah, we're getting there. All is well. Yeah, you're still alive. Yeah.
Touch Rugby Plans & Beer Talk
00:00:30
Speaker
Looking forward to playing a little touch rugby this weekend. First time in a long time. So I mean, that's all I could ask for right now. You know, step by step.
00:00:39
Speaker
Right. Just get back to some normalization, I suppose, when we can. You know, it feels better. It feels better. All right. I have a beer and I'm cracking it. Ben, do you have a beer this time? I have a beer. Oh, boy. Ben was a little on the level last week. Hey, what do you got? It's the Devil's Purse from South Dennis. It's a Cape Cod beer. It's a kulch, as they say in Germany. Nice. From Cologne. Nice.
00:01:08
Speaker
The one I have is actually from a brewery right around the corner for my house, which is really nice. That's good. That got me a lamp lighter from Cambridge.
00:01:19
Speaker
Attaboy, that's always a good one.
Fan Appreciation & Episode Milestone
00:01:21
Speaker
Okay, just to get a few things out of the way, check out George, our buddy, the fancy rugby geek. We, again, thank George so much for that 100th and steering that ship because God knows that ship would have gone down like the Titanic had he not helped us out. So let's be real about that. So buy the man a coffee and go ahead and look up his tips and make sure that, especially with the six stations opening up this weekend, everybody's gonna still kind of be going, I don't know, a little bit.
00:01:48
Speaker
unless you go and read his column.
00:01:53
Speaker
And, um, make sure you get your TRM upgrades. Um, they did, they did do have a deal on now. Yeah. I think it's over by the time where people will hear this for us. Sorry. Um, they are doing, um, doing their part with their upgrades by, uh, donating a portion to restart rugby in the RPA.
Black Lives Matter Discussion
00:02:10
Speaker
So get on that. That's, um, that's a big one that'll, that only helps the guys in the game and kind of sort themselves out with that one. And then, um, as always black lives matter.
00:02:21
Speaker
with this podcast especially. We had, this is not quite, this is not regularly, but it is black-lagulated. James, you probably saw this. Ian Wright had a...
00:02:32
Speaker
bit of abuse in his way because a kid was playing a video game as him and did not like the way the game went. So he started sending him right. Super racist, abusive, like messages. I was, and I guess they came down with some sort of verdict today and it was very light handed. It was a slap on the wrist or even less. And the end right was not happy. And I don't blame him whatsoever. That is just,
00:02:55
Speaker
The lawyer said, had to rush the blood to the head. I'm like, if you do that and you kill somebody, I'm pretty sure you usually have to pay for it. So I'm just going to go ahead and look this way.
00:03:07
Speaker
Now, if I remember back in the day when I lived in the UK and Ian Wright was sort of in his prime playing for Arsenal, he was never a guy he wanted to mess with. Like he was kind of a scary enforcer. I mean, incredible player. He was an enforcer and he's actually a hilarious human being. Oh, I follow him on Twitter. I love him. I will follow him on Twitter.
00:03:28
Speaker
Yeah, so and of all things and there's also if anybody has time, there's a great clip on YouTube where he's it's relatively old. It's something from the BBC. I forget if he was at Emirates or if he was at Highbury or whatever before the Emirates. He's in the stands and he sees his old school teacher, Mr. Pigdon, who he thought had died years before.
00:03:51
Speaker
And this guy was a father figure to him and it's the most gut wrenching sort of just emotional. Just oh, he's like becomes a little boy again. You know, like immediately takes off his hat. He's like, Mr. Bington, I thought he died. And it's just I'm in tears every time I watch it. So that's all right. That's cool. I'll check that out. Ian Wright is a legend.
00:04:09
Speaker
Yeah. So it's, uh, it's unfortunate that the decision was made that was made. Um, yeah, he, he, he exercised forgiveness to the kid, but he was also expecting the kid to get punished as well. So I was like, yeah, he was being nice and saying, I forgive him for being dumb and stupid, but he, she'll still try to pay the price. But, uh, hey, call me, call me nuts. You know? So that's what that is.
Rugby Watchathon Announcement
00:04:33
Speaker
Ben, we had quite a bit of player moves. Oh, wait, hold on. Actually, I am getting way too far ahead of myself. We have something really cool that we're going to do, Ben and I. So we did episode 100. Yeah. Hold on to your seats, kids. I don't know how much we were drinking when we were thinking of this. This is a scary thought. I was 100% sober when I thought of this. Yeah. You were dry. You were not dry, were you? Yeah, I was right. No, it was midday. I was working. Yeah, fair enough. Why?
00:05:03
Speaker
as he drinks his beer. So obviously we did 100 the other week. What's next for us? We're gonna do a super Saturday watchathon. The last Saturday of Six Nations. We're gonna be watching rugby for 24 hours straight, give or take. And we're gonna raise money for the Greater Boston Food Bank.
00:05:22
Speaker
If you don't want to donate to Greater Boston Food Bank, this is a time where we're going to encourage you to go to any sort of food bank or the like and give what you can, whether it's food or money. This is definitely a time where people need that. But for us on this side, we're going to be going to Greater Boston Food Bank and we'll have event sites up probably within the week. So yeah, this is going to be really fun. What day is that? Is it the 20th that we're doing that?
00:05:50
Speaker
the weekend of March 20th. Yeah, that one starts under the 20th to the 21st. Yeah. So maybe we'll get some, maybe we'll get some friends to kind of help pull us over, especially when we're in the wee hours of the morning, we're going to need somebody to pull us over the line there. Somebody wake up and help us because we're going to need lots of coffee, someone that write coffee and someone else to talk to besides each other. Yeah. So I'm going to get mad with you at some point anyway. So let's be real about this. Yeah.
00:06:18
Speaker
So, yeah, we're going to be doing that. We're going to start a heavy push for that real soon here. We'll at least start mentioning it on our Twitter feeds here. But other than that, yeah, so keep your eyes peeled and we'll try, I will do my damnedest to try and make sure this thing ends up on YouTube. Otherwise, it's kind of pointless, right? It's not really a good point of it. You know, nobody wants to watch a recording of 24 hours. It's not fun. They just want to be able to pop in and say, hey, and call stupid and move on.
Lions Tour Debate: Australia vs South Africa
00:06:47
Speaker
Okay, with that new cycle, we did have quite a bit of player movement and out of primarily one location quite a bit. Yeah, well, it's always interesting to see exoduses. We've kind of seen them in the past, wasps obviously, which was one we touched on a lot. We're seeing one out of BAF now.
00:07:13
Speaker
Mercer, Judge, and Chudley. Chudley. I'll leave in within, like, 24 hours. Well, you know. Announcing their elements. Yeah. Announcing. Right. Yeah, and they're bringing some replacements in, but still, that's an odd thing to see, especially when you have some, you know, not so much Chuds, but Mercer and Judge are not terribly old. These are guys who should be like franchise guys. Right.
00:07:41
Speaker
Moving on quickly. I mean, judge, yeah, he's, he's bounced around a bit already, but he seemed like he had a home there.
00:07:47
Speaker
Correct. Well, one thing I'll say probably about Zack Mercer, right, is that he hasn't really gotten a look with Eddie Jones's squad. You know, the main reason England players stay in England because they're going to play for England. Right. That's not looking good. I mean, there's there's so much more money out there in France and Japan and he's going to Montpellier. Yeah. You know, he's going to live that French life. Yeah, they they splash the cash right there. Yeah, he'll be fine. He'll be fine. This is great for him. Yeah, definitely making the right move.
00:08:17
Speaker
If I was a professional rugby player, God, if I wish I was sometimes. And, you know, and I, you know, played for a country that I didn't have to necessarily live, you know, play for that home unions club side. I'd go to France in a heartbeat. Although.
00:08:38
Speaker
just from hearing from stories from James Haskell and people like that that went over about the French players having cheese and wine and cigarettes and then going right out to the training paddock. I just don't know if I could do that. I'm not sure I would be into that. I'd let you do that, but I'm going to pass.
00:08:59
Speaker
Good Lord. They did. Yeah. As Ben said, they did. Beth did find at least one replacement. Yaku Katsuya is on his way to the rec. It's interesting how this whole thing with the South African teams joining the pro 14 is going to take place because there's still a couple of odd teams out from from the clubs down there. So you're going to see, I think, formally known as Stormers is going to be one of them.
00:09:25
Speaker
I think the other two,
Rugby Player Movements: Transfer News
00:09:26
Speaker
I think the, I think one of the other two that's currently in the pro 14 is staying and one's getting the kick. And I think the one that's getting the kick is the cheetahs. Cause it seems like a lot of their players are just going everywhere. Yeah. So it seems it. Um, so we'll see how that goes. Um, Sissino on his, uh, Santiago Sissino on his way to, uh, Gloucester to help her place. Um, the departed, was it Hanson? Yeah. Yeah. Is he back in Australia? That's where he said it.
00:09:54
Speaker
Yeah, most of these Aussie guys, I think you're probably going to head back because, you know, it's just, I mean, you could say the grass is always greener, but it's far greener over there because COVID doesn't exist and you get to sort of live your life. So two weeks, two weeks of lockdown, you can live your life.
00:10:10
Speaker
yeah bad trade over there and things like that so um you know it's just that you know play playing you know as a foreign ozzy guy playing rugby in the uk or europe you know you go there for the culture and the experience and you're not going to get that right now you know you can't even go down the pub
00:10:29
Speaker
And that's I think the big, you know, a huge draw. It's just that's rugby. It's the culture. It's the fact that you can't really get together with your team. They'll get a couple of pints. It's your mates. I think it's a lot of reason why people are going back to their home nations that, you know, well, I'd say just Australians and Kiwis. I mean, I can go home and have a beer with the team after the game.
00:10:49
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, don't blame him. Yeah, I mean, speaking of Kiwis, he and Tafua both potentially on their way back to New Zealand after cut and bait and canceling their contracts with immediate effect.
00:11:00
Speaker
Well, isn't Jordan Teffo going to Leon? Oh, is that where he's headed? Yeah, immediate effect. I don't know what the story is there. I haven't dove too deep into it, but I thought he was enjoying Lester. He was certainly one of their only bright stars. Yeah, one of the best ball carriers for sure. No doubt about that yet.
00:11:22
Speaker
And he was always, he's such a talented player, but it can be tough to fit in on too long sometimes. There's plenty of players that have found a tough life there. So I don't blame him if he's ready to cup eight and go home by any means whatsoever. And super rugby should be pretty good this year too. So you got a couple opportunities because some players have jumped ship to Japan.
00:11:47
Speaker
or elsewhere and so that opens up a few doors as well so we shall see what these guys do. Lions tour still to South Africa at this point which is
00:12:01
Speaker
I can't believe that. I don't, you've seen in the news that Australia, Rugby Australia has reached out and said, well, I have. That would be such a great idea. Opportunistic bastards. It makes no, no sense whatsoever. I know Rugby Australia needs money, but
00:12:18
Speaker
I think South Africa as a country deserves the tour, obviously. I don't think they should have it this year. I know there's a worry that people are going to, you know, it's going to affect the whole line store. I think it's a safe thing to do is to not have it. Because if you can't have touring Brits and the Irish come over and you can't have people at games, it's not worth it.
00:12:38
Speaker
especially that tour. The best thing about that tour, and I've read it from other players, is when they look up and see a sea of red. So I think if they could hold off for another year, do it in 2022, even though it's a year before the Rugby World Cup, I think you're going to get a better experience.
00:12:59
Speaker
I like the Australia idea. It sucks. You're right. But I can't see it happening the year before the World Cup because it's a toy that guys are going to come back like blown out of recovery time. And so it can compound on injuries after that. And I'm not sure a lot of national team coaches would want their players
Logistics Solutions for Lions Tour
00:13:24
Speaker
doing that so close.
00:13:29
Speaker
Yeah, I think those but those are those to me are the two best options either do it in Australia and they've offered to say look, we'll do it will everything above cost is going to South Africa. I think it's the safest way to do it.
00:13:43
Speaker
and the most responsible way to do it anyway. And it would be kind of interesting. It would be, it would certainly be something memorable, right? It would be like, oh, they're gonna, you know, we're still gonna have the South Africa matches, but we're doing it in Australia. That would be, and you'd have crowds, you'd have, you know, all the things that make the Lions tour, the Lions tour, at least with SARS fan engagement, just with different fans. And now you get like, you know,
00:14:10
Speaker
be very curious to see I'd be very curious to see how they how the fans would split there between their dislike for the Brits and the dislike for the box plenty of plenty of expats for both countries there there's a lot of South Africans in Perth interesting
00:14:29
Speaker
Yeah, and they and they always pop up playing for like for western force. That's true. That's true. You know, there's always a few South Africans sprinkled in there. You know, there's plenty of Brits that English guys at least for sure that live in Australia. Because let's face it, it's just a nicer England. Better looking people.
00:14:52
Speaker
There you go. Yeah. Beaches, but pubs, but you get pubs, you know, it's like, yeah, that's not so bad. What could you ask for? Um, but, um, so would they, the question is, would they just have the three main games or would they bring in a couple other teams? You know, the whole, I think they played the rugby Australia franchises. Honestly, that'd be the likeliest scenario.
00:15:15
Speaker
It's just weird if you think about that. Yeah, so I mean, that's just they need what they need some tune up games and you don't need every, you know, they don't need to play as many games as they did last time in New Zealand. That's I think it's well established and it's been accepted. So that's the good news. But I think yeah, that's probably the best option because you don't want to have to wait. You know, you really don't want to pay for two of two or three of the South African franchises to come over because
00:15:44
Speaker
Yeah. South Africa needs the money. They don't want to spend that much. We're planning on that. Remember? The Springboks themselves, though, haven't played a test match since the World Cup final. Right. Well, that's Razi's fault. When are they going to fit that in? Because those guys need to get out there and actually play right. I think I think that's more the thing that proves that's not necessarily very true. Very true.
00:16:08
Speaker
But I think that I think not having a test match for two years would be pretty tough on the box. That's a little different. It's a little different. That'd be pretty darn tough. I think what Argentina did was special, but I think to expect the same type of result another year later. What they could do if they wanted to do this. They send.
00:16:31
Speaker
Yeah, they send the Safas over to Australia early and they play against the island nations. So they play against Fiji. There we go. And then both French, both, you know, all the countries get something out of it too. Gate proceeds, shit like that. And then, so they're there for a little bit. And then the lions.
00:16:59
Speaker
Let's put together an email and let's send it over. This is a great idea. Who can we get a hold of right now? To whom it's concerned. Probably nobody, but that's all right. That's fair enough. Then he'll take care of the rest of it. Yeah, okay.
00:17:17
Speaker
He can get on the horn with the likes of Keith Wood and stuff like that. Apparently. But he can't reply to my emails. He doesn't like you. That's all I know. He doesn't like you. Speaking of MR, a couple of developments have happened over the last couple of weeks. We're about 45 days from kickoff here, something like that.
00:17:39
Speaker
So the Legion have moved out of San Diego for what will be the foreseeable future for the season to Las Vegas to obviously San Diego is a fucking nightmare when it comes to COVID. So it's a good decision. How is Vegas somehow better? I don't I think the least responsible city on earth.
00:17:59
Speaker
That might be true. But the casinos are really not operating well at a high capacity right now. So you can't just go gamble half your life away if you're one of the players. So it sounds like a bad idea, but at the same time, there's a lot of facilities that aren't being used there right now. So that's the best time to make this bad idea. They're going to become the San Vegas Legion. Yeah, something like that. San Vegas gamblers.
00:18:27
Speaker
Good Lord. Our neighbors to the north are going to fly to Atlanta, which is not a bad idea in terms of the city and warmth at least, and share a home city with Rugby Atlanta for the season as well. So try and keep them in the country because otherwise we're going to have a hard time getting through borders here.
00:18:50
Speaker
Yeah, kind of tough. It's yeah, that I was curious as to how they're going to handle that because the NHL, you know, all those, all the Canadian hockey teams are just playing each other. Everybody's playing within their conferences here. Yeah, but the Canadian teams, you know,
00:19:05
Speaker
are just playing themselves, not coming to the US and vice versa. It'll be interesting. It's going to be an interesting third season, hopefully a full season, because there's so much potential there. Will there be crowds? We don't know. No idea.
00:19:23
Speaker
Um, I, I don't think early, early games, there will be in certain places. Yeah. I agree with that. You know, it's a, it's a huge bummer, but, um, you know, just the way, you know, some of these professional teams here in the Northeast can't even, you know, you're not allowed anybody. So, right. Yeah. Some of the full on professional teams. Why would I slowly rugby players get something?
00:19:46
Speaker
I'm unlikely at this point, but keep the fingers crossed and hope. I mean, seriously, I'm really excited for it. I think it's going to be a great third season. They've got some big names on some of these teams. Billy Meeks playing for the Guiltinis. That was a random one because he just signed for London Irish.
00:20:07
Speaker
Yeah, I think he's on his way here after last week. Is that his final game? I think so. They did mention he's leaving soon, so. Right. I thought they'd mentioned it was his last match, but I could be. Yeah, I could be off based on that one. Yeah, they have some interesting signings. There's a lot of
00:20:29
Speaker
There's a lot of fun signings that are going on, despite all the bullshit that's going on. So it's, I do want to see them play. I want to see what that looks like. I want to see what this league looks like and how it, uh, how it develops as, um, as third, fourth season, whatever it is. Um, shout out to the free jacks for putting in a pretty good protocol there, you know, all their players that just arrived or I mean, these guys, you know,
00:20:53
Speaker
Poor fuckers look miserable. Yeah, they do. But I mean, you know, give them a round of applause for putting that into play because that's smart and responsible. And I think really, at the end of the day, they're very from the outside looking in there, they look like an organized organization. That's I could use a better word. But I think, you know, I think it's going to put them ahead of some of these teams.
00:21:21
Speaker
So I hope I won't complain if it does. Yeah, much as long as they can keep it responsible and keep the players buying in.
00:21:30
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. You got it. It seems like, you know, right. It seems like Martin's got it. No gender reveal parties, boys. No gender reveal parties. Well, yeah, that's, you know, they're going to be certainly some games that maybe not happen, unfortunately, because so some players are going to get it. And travel is going to be, you know, at some point going to be interrupted. Yeah. You know, you got to, you got to anticipate it at least. Yeah.
00:21:56
Speaker
Yeah. Well, hopefully we get the majority of the games in and we have a season and we can, uh, we can crown our champion and hopefully we can watch maybe go see a game or two and have a couple of points, uh, together at
MLR Season Updates
00:22:07
Speaker
least. I, you know, I'd love to head down to the old union point and watch the free jacks play. I think it would be exciting. So yeah, I will, I will look forward to the day where I can punch my ticket finally. Same.
Six Nations Tournament Preview
00:22:20
Speaker
Same.
00:22:20
Speaker
Okay, let's go to some really random competition starting this weekend. I don't know if anybody's ever heard of it. I guess it's called the Six Nations. It didn't just happen. It just happened.
00:22:38
Speaker
uh wasn't that long ago it literally was november when i remember watching england play france into that sudden death game england basically just kicked the both teams just kicked the ball away the entire time yeah it was sloppy weather from remember right it was terrible terrible weather but it literally this just happened um and it's happening all over again i mean it's all over again good to have international rugby back i mean
00:23:03
Speaker
What was it? French rugby just said a couple of days ago, Oh yeah, six nations can happen. Why are you saying it right now? Yeah. There was, there was like people shitting themselves on Twitter. Like this might not happen. They were concerned very.
00:23:17
Speaker
Cause France hadn't said that it was okay for a while. Like it could be five nations this year. Well, cause they, you know, weren't letting any of the, um, Heineken cup or whatever it's called. Right. Challenge cup happened at all. All right. That was kind of, yeah. Same, same, same. Heineken's back as the sponsor.
00:23:35
Speaker
It is, it is. It's the tile sponsor now. Let's kind of run through each team and talk about chances and all that shit and what we hope for and what we might be disappointed by and all that shit. Let's start with odds on favorite England.
00:23:51
Speaker
Of course. I mean, why? Says the guy that says the English guy. Listen, it's going to be this, you know, I'm hoping there's going to be some more exciting rugby come out of England that it's been, you know, only thing really exciting we've seen is Johnny May with that try against Ireland back in the Autumn Nations Cup. Rather than that, you know, it's been very blah. Just just yeah, just kicked a lot of kicking a lot of sort of ball one hand. Not much passing. Smash. Yeah.
00:24:22
Speaker
And Eddie Jones knows how to win, so he's going to stick to that formula and he's going to stick to some of those usual suspects. But France, though, would be, I think, second best contender there. Okay. I think that's really hard to say otherwise, yeah.
00:24:41
Speaker
I don't think it's close. First off, I do think England are prohibitive favorites only because France are going to be France for a match. They're going to have that Scotland match last year where they're going to just completely shoot themselves. You have to bank on that happening once, which means that England right there have the inside line at their direct line to it because
00:25:06
Speaker
assume France fucks up. And then after that, it's like, fuck, who cares? Yeah. Who's really going to push after that?
00:25:13
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I think. Yeah, it's exactly it's going to be it's well, that's also the best part of the Six Nations is that one upset game. Yeah, always fun. It's it's you know, either France should I mean, England can too. You know, they lost to Wales. What was it just last year? So season before. But yeah, season before. That's right. I think even last year they lost or yeah, last year they lost to France. They lost to France. Right.
00:25:41
Speaker
They had really, they shouldn't have lost that, but. Yeah. Well, the Rams came out with the air on fire. That helped.
00:25:48
Speaker
Yeah, that was that game from that that clearance kick from I forget who it was that sent that torpedo ball. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But from literally hit just in front of his post to the to the England 22. So yeah, that was a that was demoralizing to be honest, just seeing that and being like, really? Because you know, like England, the way they play, they work so hard to get down there and then just with one action all of a sudden is like, all right, we got to start all over again.
00:26:14
Speaker
Yeah, reset. Yeah, that's a little bit of a head dropper right there as it were.
00:26:20
Speaker
But no, England has brought in some, you know, a couple of interesting new people into the into the into the mix. For this, for the Six Nations. You know, still retaining some of the usual suspects, but of course, Joe Marlar drops out because the family reasons want to spend, you know, obviously, when you're when you're going into this bubble, you're, you're away from from home for, right? Pretty much, I think the entire time, right? Yeah.
00:26:47
Speaker
So he's going to step out. Joe Lontry broke his leg, I believe. So yeah, so it's it's made. Kyle Sinclair is also he wasn't included. And that's because he's of his card from I think it wasn't actually a card, but it was a ban afterwards. That's right. So the theory is, you know, he's he's gone for two games. Eddie Jones will bring him in after that. Right.
00:27:14
Speaker
Yeah, which wouldn't which wouldn't shock me at the least. So of the guys that go ahead, Ben, I think you're going to ask the same question I am so. Of the guys that are that are going to play that got called in, how much do they play? How much does a dog will play? How much does Harry Randall play? You know, those are the two names that people are going to really pay attention to at least. So I think that that's the question that needs to be asked first.
00:27:40
Speaker
Well, my question is, so there's three on the main roster that aren't uncapped. So my question to James is going to be, which do you want to see capped the most? Which one do you want to see get their first cap?
00:27:53
Speaker
between O'Bano, Randall, and Odaguo. I'd like to see Benno O'Bano get a cap. I think it would be pretty cool to see him go out there. I just watched his documentary on Amazon. Yep. It's good stuff. And it was pretty interesting. You know, he's related to Maro Atoge, which I didn't actually know.
00:28:14
Speaker
Not a lot of people do that. Yeah, he's got a great story. I'd like to see Paolo Adago potentially play. I mean, he could have played for Italy. He's crazy to think. Well, I think his name, his first name gives it away. But as a Paolo, I assume he's Italian. Yeah, he's a potential Harry Randall's exciting player to watch as well. But Ben Spencer, I think missed out on a spot there.
00:28:42
Speaker
uh yeah i think a lot of people would agree on that we've been talking about that yeah so ben youngs is always going to get the starting shirt he always shows up for england he doesn't you know maybe not as much for his club but whenever i'm not sure that people would argue that that's all the world cup final yeah i'm gonna go i'm gonna go ahead and say that
00:29:02
Speaker
Yeah, but yeah, you know, it's gonna be the usual suspects playing. Which is too bad because this just feels like, it feels like even in the other nations, he actually did it more than I thought he would by blooding some of the guys like Maylands, especially. I believe he should get way more time than he's probably going to because he looked really good and we know the talent that he possesses and the kid plays all over the place and he'll just, he does it all.
00:29:31
Speaker
I don't see a reason to not play the guy, really. Fullback is a need position where they have guys, but they're not always solid back there. They always find a way to fuck up somewhere. I think Malins is more of a natural fullback and he's got the speed to go with it. And he's in good form on top of all that. He's a playmaker fullback.
00:29:54
Speaker
you know, yes, he is. Whereas Elliott daily is a, is a good covering fullback and he's a kicking fullback. And Anthony Watson is a, he's a, he's just a, he's going to run. So yeah, it would be kind of cool to see him. I don't think he'll start, but maybe they'll pull him in at some point. Anything, right? The Italy game is the second game, I think after Scotland for England. Sounds right.
00:30:17
Speaker
That's where they'll probably switch it up a bit. No disrespect to Italy, but I think if anything, you'll see some changes come in there, which would be exciting. And I think they should do it. I'm just confused because Ben Young's, I mean, I get it, but he's not he's not going to be there. Scrum half the World Cup next year. I don't know the next World Cup, right? No, not at all. Isn't it time to start? Isn't now the time and he got his hundredth cap and
00:30:45
Speaker
congratulations to him for it and thank you, but like, isn't it time to start really looking at the next generation scrum half? And like, isn't it more valuable to have something to, cause if, you know, if you know Young's is not going to be the scrum half then, why is he the scrum half now? I think it's like you're wasting, you're wasting experience on a guy who's, he's been there, done that, and he's not what he used to be.
00:31:13
Speaker
I think whoever the backup nine is for England, whatever game it is, if Ben Young starts, he should come out at halftime without question. Done. Just leave it. Just leave it halftime. Thank you for doing whatever the fuck you did, whether we're behind, ahead, whatever, especially looking at the guy I'm really thinking of as Dan Robson.
00:31:31
Speaker
that guy has played so well for his club. And he's so good. He's so good. He's just not being unearthed because Eddie refuses to. And it's really frustrating. Is he in the squad? He is. He is. So I think he'll, he got a couple of looks in the automations. So I think, I think he's, I think Harry Randall's probably just in there to just sort of develop and to kind of soak up that sort of first England camp. Exactly. That makes total sense. It's just odd. That's fine. Yeah.
00:32:01
Speaker
Like Robson, I think, yeah, he has seven caps. Like, yeah, that's, he still kind of won a little bit more before you make sure he's the guy, but. He would have been on that plane to Japan, if not for that whole. That's not for the guy. Really unfortunate. They also have Alex Mitchell on the, on the shadow squad so they could pull him up at some point too. Shouldn't he be. Yeah. Right. So I'd like to, but I'd like to see him.
00:32:30
Speaker
Yeah, on the upside for England, if Young's does get hurt, they have already made replacement with Robson, no doubt. They won't lose a beat with him, I promise. So, anybody that goes ahead and shits themselves if Young's get hurt, don't worry, you're good. Let's go to number two. The, seems to be the consensus number two. Le bleu. Jouer.
00:32:56
Speaker
No, it's a Mac for a little bit here. He's still recovering. But hopefully we get to see him later on in the tournament. I love when it's an English refs. They're just so you. Barnes is the worst. Barnes is the worst at it, for sure. His French accent clearly speaks it a little bit, but he just he just sounds like it's just an English guy speaking. Oh, it's a super. Yeah, absolutely.
00:33:21
Speaker
I'm doing my best. What are you going to do? They can't really...he's speaking the language clearly just in a really bad accent. And speaking of refs, this will be the first Six Nations in years without Nigel. Yes, Sir Nigel Owens. Which is good morning and well.
00:33:46
Speaker
Yeah, it's gonna be very interesting to not see him out there with a whistle in hand. You can actually cheer for whales now without any consequence whatsoever. It's very true. So that's a good upside for him. So one of the big things that's been with this French team is the youngsters that have come through with that U20 squad. Rumor mill going around the whole circle is Cameron Walkie is going to start this first this first match coming up here, which
00:34:13
Speaker
I mean, it's against, it's against Italy. So, you know, if you're going to throw a youngster in this first start, I don't see anything wrong with that. The kids played amazing since he's stepped onto the, basically since he stepped into professional rugby at all. So, um, I don't blame him. I think the kids got a lot. He's got length, he's got speed and he's just a good ball carrier on top of it all. So yeah, good option.
00:34:37
Speaker
Well you know what they have Antoine Dupont who is by far the best scrum half in the world right now. Good god that man is amazing. He's so good he's just watching him not only you know his his his passing but his running lines he's always there and always there to pick up the ball and score he constantly scoring so
00:34:55
Speaker
He's always just got to keep him under wraps. I just read that Gregory old read Gregory at all, right? He claims he's he's fit. So there's you know, he'll maybe he'll get a look or not. I'm not sure Teddy Thomas has been playing pretty well for wrestling Metro.
00:35:14
Speaker
And then who was the, is it Villier, Gavin Villier? He was the sevens player that kind of came alive and he's incredibly fast. In the automations, he scored a wild try, I think, against Georgia, just came out of nowhere. And he wears a scrum cap, I believe. Yeah. And then, yeah, I mean, so obviously,
00:35:38
Speaker
The thing that a lot of people are going to ask right now with this, with this French team is who plays 10, uh, if into max, not there, they have plenty of options and most of them are pretty darn good. So it's just gonna be a matter of who was, you know, who's slipping on that 10 Jersey. Um, the, I think the odds on favor right now is jelly bear, but, um, could be carbon now as well. Right. Could be either one, especially for this match. Who the fuck knows? Yeah, that's also true.
00:36:05
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's it there in Rome. So also when in Rome, it's yeah, it's the question I have to get if you if you go out full beans on your first game because it's the opening of the Six Nations or you sort of hold back because it's it's it's Italy. But Italy, you know, I want them so bad to win one fucking game. Yes, it's one game they deserve. I mean,
00:36:33
Speaker
Yeah, I think they deserve it. They've been doing it for so long. Not to mention in whether we transitioned to Italy after this, Sergio Paris says there's a potential for him for his final game in an Italy jersey. Get him a crowd so he can say goodbye. They're not, they won't allow
00:36:49
Speaker
I don't think they'll allow a crowd in Italy because they haven't had people in the stadiums for God knows how long in Italy. Yeah. I know they had the, they had, they got hit the hardest right away. Um, way back when, um, yeah, I hope the man needs to say bye either way. Um, let's look at the forward position. Um, shot or Marshawn starts at hooker.
00:37:14
Speaker
Yeah, right. Yeah. Funny name, but God damn, he's a good player. I like shot better. Um, but Marcia is good too. I flip a coin. I'm I wouldn't, I mean, especially for this match, I wouldn't, I wouldn't presume to, to figure it, but I think Marcia and your, your regular starter. So maybe shop for this man shot, shot coming off the bench, um, as fresh legs. That's mean just cause he's not, he,
00:37:43
Speaker
at the international level, I'm not sure he's, I think he's more of like a 30 minute player than a 60 minute player. So that's why I would, I'd have him in reserve, especially the energy that he brings. Yeah. When he's running on his neck, we'll get to the scrum before the rest of it. Yep. No doubt about that.
00:38:06
Speaker
Oh man, that dude's got zero neck, my goodness. Top 14 rugby has been a lot of fun to watch this season just because of how free flowing it is and all the names. So I'll be excited to see the French team come out.
00:38:23
Speaker
Maybe not, they won't be as flashy as usual without Antimac, but Antoine Dupont is going to steer the ship. Yeah. And he's still going to be pretty decent. Well, Charlie Baer was showing some, some clear true fashion in the Champions Cup. So I think he, that's why I think he's going to be the starter. Yeah. He'll be just fine. Just because they, that's, that's what they, you know, that he's more, he's certainly right in that Intimac mole. You know, an all tool fly half. So.
00:38:51
Speaker
And these guys are all so young. This is a young French squad. This is exciting. Yeah, it is. Yeah. If I'm a Frenchman and I'm a French rugby fan, I am very excited for this team, especially what's coming up in, obviously, in 2023 as well. So I think they're going to play the best rugby out of anyone in the Six Nations. I just don't think they're going to win because it'll be, you know, in general, they're going to be playing great rugby and then they're just going to shit the bed. Yeah, I know.
00:39:20
Speaker
Let's go across the other way across the pond. Let's go to Ireland and Ben's favorite team. They're moving in the right direction. They're the third team because at least they're trying to play good rugby. I just don't know that they're there yet.
00:39:38
Speaker
Yeah, maybe they can actually peek at a World Cup. Yeah, they did not have a very impressive automations at all. They weren't that exciting against Georgia, really, they weren't exciting against England, obviously. But I don't know, it'll be interesting to see what's his face says he's fit to play 10. Action.
00:40:03
Speaker
When was the last time he was fit to play 10? I know. I know Ben's answer on this. So James, I'm going to ask you when like, is it time to move on from Sexton? I think this is he's it doesn't he insist he's going to want to aim for that 2023 World Cup is is his aim. I think Lions is first. But yes, well, he yes, you have to. He has to. Finn Russell will play 10 for the Lions.
00:40:31
Speaker
i think that's a great idea and i think i don't see any way sexton plays ten for the lions no no way it's we're past that now yeah mostly because his body can't take like how can how can you take a guy like him who
00:40:48
Speaker
I mean, he's good. I'm not saying he's shit yet, but he's trending towards that from where he used to be. But you're bringing a guy who is not one of the best in the world anymore, and he can't take the pounding. So at any moment, you could lose him, and now you're down a player at a starter or something. No, no.
00:41:12
Speaker
And that also goes for the World Cup, where you're playing a compressed schedule of high intensity matches. His body cannot take it. So, yeah. I want to see more of Billy Burns and Ross Byrne. Yeah. And Conor Murray as well, he's not as impressive as he used to be. I think he's lost a step. I want to see Jameson Gibson Park get a run.
00:41:36
Speaker
Yeah, you know, yeah, Leinster have always constantly impressed year after year. Can't believe that Stewart Lancaster is doing that's just crazy. It is hard to think about the difference between what Lancaster did with England and what he's been doing with Leinster and obviously he's not the head man at Leinster so that probably helps him just a little bit.
00:41:55
Speaker
Um, it's also not an international job, although once there's pretty darn close the type, the type of job that you would want just the same. Um, but yeah, so it is quite, it's quite a difference that he's got there.
00:42:06
Speaker
I think, well, the Ireland team might be a little more reinvigorated because they brought in Paul O'Connell to help coach the forwards. And I think having a presence like that in camp is going to certainly change mentality. He's a towering figure, lion's captain, just a scary looking human being. He was quite the figure when he was playing in a green shirt there.
00:42:27
Speaker
Yeah, I think, you know, Ireland need to come out strong. They need to do it for some of these guys that are trying to put their hands up for the line store. And they need to do it for Andy Farrell because they have not really played for a guy that was, you know, defense coach or whatever it was, has been with Ireland for this long. They've not really sort of played like the team that they have in the past.
00:42:49
Speaker
So I've seen them working towards opening it up. Now, I think you're right. It's certainly against Georgia. They went heavy. But I think that's just because it's like, hey, that's an easy way to beat Georgia. No effort at that point, other than obviously the physicality. But you don't have to think about, well, will this work? No, this is going to work.
00:43:09
Speaker
But I think they've been trying to get to a more open game, which is another reason why I want them to move on from Sexton, because I think he hampers that by attacking the line instead of moving the ball. So I think they're kind of moving. You can see the movement in the more
00:43:28
Speaker
You know, open play direction. I mean, you look at the especially you just get to the back three. First off, who's who's playing in the back three? Well, that was going to be a question I wanted to ask who plays in the back three for this team, because Stockdale's out and they don't have Carney anymore. So it's now down to a few. It's down to a few guys at this point, guys that they have are.
00:43:50
Speaker
I would absolutely put Hugo Keenan at the top of my list, the way he played for Leinster and the way he played for Ireland in his past fall. So I hope he's on that list.
00:44:03
Speaker
Him, Lo, Larmor, Earls, like... I keep thinking Keith Earls is like 45 because he's been around for so long. He's been around forever. He's only 30, well, 33 years old, but he's like, he was on that, he was on that 09 Lions tour, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I believe so.
00:44:25
Speaker
It's crazy to me that he's still getting, I don't know, I need to look up how many caps he has.
00:44:35
Speaker
like ring rows out there, a Henshaw, or, you know, if you go in that, you can have the Bundy Aki at center, but you can also go with an all speed center pairing too. I think if you get away from the Sexton fly half, you can put Bundy Aki and you're not hampered in attack by any means whatsoever. Because Ross Byrne will open it up. Billy Burns will open it up a little bit. And you can use him as that battering ram that he likes to be. Perfect. Go for it. You know, so that way, that way you don't
00:45:04
Speaker
Lose a whole lot in attack and you still have a you know, you still have that option when need be and he's capable of certainly opening it up to given the chance. So don't don't put that past him either.
00:45:14
Speaker
Yeah. Um, one question I have is, um, do you, do you have to be playing for, you do, I think for your Irish provincial teams to play for our own. So, um, uh, what's his name over it? I'm playing for London Irish right now. Sean O'Brien. Yeah. Sean O'Brien. He doesn't have a, he is not eligible, but he, he needs some, I think he needs a little more time to sort of get himself back into, uh, you know, he's quite, he didn't have a great, he, he had an okay game in this. Oh, wait, no, did he maybe want to end the match? I can't remember.
00:45:43
Speaker
He was there. Yeah. He was, he was, he was, he was in quite a few places for, for the exiles his best weekend. Um, yeah. So he's getting there. Yeah. He's also, he's also 33. So yeah. He don't even know if he'll, they'll, they'll give him a look again, but no, he's a good, he's a good sort of guy from car. He's got that, that's one of them accents. He's a, he's a, he's one of those farmer boys, man. He was, he is a farmer boy.
00:46:11
Speaker
Yeah, he's a beast. That's where he gets his strength, throwing shit around on the farm all friggin' day. That'll do it.
00:46:19
Speaker
Um, let's go to the aforementioned Italy. Um, yeah, there's, there's, there's hope always for this club, for this team, for this country, but then it just doesn't quite come to fruition and you're just disappointed as shit about it. Um, Stephen Varney's in the team that that that's fun. No, Jake Pledry kind of makes things really disappointing. That's for sure.
00:46:42
Speaker
That's where it is. It's like, you know, I'm looking at this, you know, you look at the other lineups and you're like, oh, man, this would be good. You know, with Jake Peledry, suddenly the mood changes. But without him, I'm just, I'm not seeing it. I'm like, wait a second. Who's actually attacking here?
00:47:04
Speaker
Yeah, but not no monotony because uh, you know again sort of same sort of uh, excuse not excuse the terrible word but Same reservations that joe marler has it's you know being part of that bubble for that long Uh monotony came out and said he just he just couldn't do it. Yeah, which I understand especially family um, but he's also, you know one of their best players
00:47:29
Speaker
He's back in the squad, I believe. Yes, he is. He's a promising young Italian bread player, which is what you want to see. Right. Him and him in Canada make quite a fun look at that midfield area for Italy. Obviously, they have Tommaso Allen if they need be, but he's one of those guys that's getting at the wrong end of it.
00:47:56
Speaker
He's not old, but at the same time, the talent that's underneath him is really pushing him to be better. He's an old 27. Let's put it that way. Yeah, he kind of is. I'll tell you what's awesome. A lot of Myla Jonah. Yeah, he does have Myla Jonah. Monte Iwani. He's Digby Iwani's brother. Yes. He qualifies for Italian
00:48:17
Speaker
to play for Italy because he's been playing for, I think, Benetton or Zeb for three or how many years? Yeah, I think Bassem, yeah. So he's been pulled into the squad. He's a winger. It'll be interesting to see him play because, you know, he grew up playing probably in Australia, I believe, or maybe New Zealand, one or the other. You never know with these Islanders. Yeah, you never know.
00:48:38
Speaker
But it'll be kind of exciting to see maybe him inject a little pace if they can get the ball out there, hopefully. Yeah, find a way to get the ball out there. If he gets a start. Yeah, it's almost like you don't have a reason to not start some of these guys at this point. Like, yeah, there's just I don't have a reason to not play some of these guys for sure. Is there a reason to not start Steven Varney? I don't have one, honestly.
00:49:05
Speaker
Like I, you know, what you get me and Callum Braley, who is a solid. Prem starter, but not no great shakes. So it's not, this is not his level of play. Like he's the, he's your backup. Like he's not, he's not your starter come world cup time. If you really want to be, yeah, if you want to win a game, um, even the quality team Braille didn't even get pulled in. I don't think, or did he?
00:49:31
Speaker
Oh, at least I'm seeing he's on. He's on there. Oh, is he? OK, so never mind. I'll show you wrong. I miss that part. Yeah, yeah, and they have a couple of Italian born scrum halves on top of that, which I'm sure they're going to be feel obligated to play at some point. Yeah, so Franco Smith's got quite a he's got it. I don't envy anybody that is coach readily honestly. No, no, it's just it's a thing. It's almost a thankless job, although you can now guzzies in line still.
00:50:01
Speaker
Well, he's at Benetton now. Yeah, that helps. I'd be interested to see how that goes. So, yeah, likely much of the same for Italy this year, unfortunately, which is super disappointing, but that's how it is. Speaking of disappointing, let's go north. Either attraction we go is... Yeah. I was going to say Wales, maybe?
00:50:31
Speaker
I always, more and more, I have hope for them, obviously, don't want them to win the Calcutta Cup. I think they're going to come out guns as a blazing with
00:50:43
Speaker
with, uh, now I'm losing my mind with what's his face back at 10. Yeah. Uh, because, you know, there was, he wasn't playing before this. There was that sort of people either school or whatever happens.
00:51:00
Speaker
Well, he was just a loose cannon. That's all. No big deal. So with him sort of driving, steering the bus, Cameron Redpath is going to be pretty exciting. I am extremely excited to see him in that blue shirt.
00:51:17
Speaker
If they pull him in, yeah, it'll be, it'll be pretty interesting. And listening to an interview with him, with the guys at rugby pass, the reason he went to Scotland, obviously his father, famous Scottish player, but, you know, he looked at sort of the setup at England and he's a, he's a center and, you know, he doesn't see himself going in there right now. There's the, I mean, it's tall because in the way Eddie Jones picks his team, um, there's no real way he could kind of.
00:51:43
Speaker
get himself into a starting place. So, and there's such a future there. Um, so it's, yeah, he's just at a bad time. Um, although I think I do think his, his pet career path will go take him to 10. Um, I think he's, he's a good center, but I think he could be a deadly 10 from having watched him there a little bit with Beth. Um,
00:52:11
Speaker
So I think that's right. If he's a center for now, fine. But like, I think at the end, you know, he's 21. So he's got he's got a little bit of time. Another thing I think is exciting is seeing the brothers gray reunited again.
00:52:29
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, Richie Gray's been brought back. Is this the first time he's been back in a while into this? I think so. It's been a wee bit. It's been a wee bit. So if he gets help, yeah. Yeah, clearly these guys are saying, you know, because Richie Gray is a two time lion's tourist, I believe. Sounds right. His brother was in the last one. I know Richie went to Australia. So they're clearly thinking, well,
00:52:52
Speaker
We got to play well for our country to get get into that Lions squad, because I think there's going to be a few more Scottish players than there have been in the past. And maybe, you know, they can maybe maybe they can skimp on the Welsh players this time, because I've had enough of that. They've got so much talent on the Scotland team. Like it's the opposite. When you look at the Italy team and you're just like, where, where is it on the Scotland team? You're like, boom, it's right there.
00:53:21
Speaker
you mentioned, you know, the Grey Brothers, Finn, Ali Price is pretty damn good Scrumhalf. And then you get out to, you know, Chris Harris is an excellent center, Stuart Hogg, one of the best fullbacks in the world. Like they've got the talent all over the place, but they don't use it right. And so that's why it's so disappointing. It's like, okay, you're going to use Finn Russell to just forward crash all day. Like that's not,
00:53:49
Speaker
or just rely on his magic right but that's the thing that that pisses Townsend off when he does that he's like that's not the way it's supposed to be it's like no that's it works let it let it go man let it go like how's the crash ball rugby treating you you're winning a lot lately huge huge jones is back in the squad after his injury mission
00:54:08
Speaker
Um, he's someone that's had South African experience because he's South African. Um, so, uh, you know, maybe there's going to be eyes on him for one of those backups, backup, uh, center spots for the tour to Australia. He's played a little bit of a fullback as well too, for his club. So, uh, adding that little, little bit to his repertoire. I mean, look at, looking at this, this, you're right. The, the.
00:54:34
Speaker
the sky Jamie Richie's great as well. The Scottish players are great and they should be doing better than they have. I think there is they're going to put up a fight against England as they usually do as they usually do. Well, in recent years. Yes. Yeah, I guess that's more more to the point. Yeah. In the last couple years, they've definitely not gone away easily by any means whatsoever. They've they've been right there about the whole thing. It's yeah, it'll be a very close one. It'll be it'll I think it'll be the game to watch the weekend.
00:55:04
Speaker
Yeah, because it'll be the two teams that are just pounding each other to death. It's going to be bloody. Yeah, it's probably going to be very bloody. But also, because of the style of play that these two teams play, it's going to be tight, so it could go either way. Correct. Unless England really opened it up.
00:55:28
Speaker
actually, you know, play some attacking rugby. In that case, it won't be close. But I'm assuming that Eddie will continue being Eddie. Although he's been, you know, he's been, um, him and a couple of the assistant coaches, you know, had that COVID scare. So they've been, um,
00:55:47
Speaker
Yeah, they were isolated, locked away for a bit. So it'll, it'll be interesting to see how that affects preparation. Correct. Correct. So we'll see how that goes. Um, yeah, let's go, let's go over to James's second favorite country, Wales. This is, this is the thing. This, this tournament is going to be the make or break for Wayne Bivack likely.
00:56:10
Speaker
You know, even though he's, I think he's what, still has like two years in his contract or something. If they don't have a good Six Nations, he's not going to be, he's not going to be in, you know, there anymore. Not to mention they just had Josh Adams has been like, oh, from the squad because he broke COVID protocol. I was about to say, James, you don't have to, that's crossed one name off the Lions tour list that you don't have to worry about coming from Wales.
00:56:38
Speaker
Yeah. Even if he was on the fence, he's no longer on the fence. He is on the wrong side now. Oh God. What an idiot. I don't know how, how are you that dumb? Good Lord. Um, yeah, there's, there's an interesting mix in the, in this Welsh team with, um, youngsters that are, that should bring them forward in the future. You know, you look at the likes of
00:56:59
Speaker
Lloyd and Sheedy and then Reece Zemet and Nick Tompkins, guys that have applied their trade quite a bit in England. And then you look at the other end of the spectrum when you have Lidgett, who was apparently just played out of his skin this year, Halfpenny, Alumwin-Jones, and so on. Yeah, quite two different ends there.
00:57:21
Speaker
Ken Owens is another one to say I know I had another one in my head. There's the one. So yeah, a lot of, you know, mid to high 30s, and then quite a few like 27 and under. So not not a whole lot between. Maybe there is I'm just mis calculating but not a lot of puppies either. To be perfectly honest, like there's there's
00:57:43
Speaker
you know, you're really solid for the 24 to like, yeah, 33 age, but there's not many, there's, I've seen one 22, a 23. Like there's 20. Yeah. Right. And Lloyd's, Lloyd's 19. Yeah, it's true. He brings that average age way down just with that. This carry is only 22. Holy fuck.
00:58:11
Speaker
He's already quite a good prop, so good on him. That's not easy. They haven't sprinkled in, but only here and there, they have the young puffs. But even then, they have ridiculous caps. So I mean, Reece Carey has got 12 caps at 22. Right. So it'll be, and this is likely
00:58:33
Speaker
Alan Jones last year in the six nations. If I had to guess, this is Jake balls last year in the six nations, as we, as we all know. Um, so yeah, start blood and some guys. Ken Owens is last year. He's 34 years old. That dude is a brick. Yeah. Dan Lidiot and Justin Tipperick. Those guys have been around for forever as well. Um, really fucking good. It works only 31 though.
00:59:00
Speaker
He's still, he's still liable for the, I know which blows my mind and probably he'll get a look, he'll get a, a lion's cap. It'll be what? Maybe it's third tour. That sounds right. Yeah. That's absolutely amazing. Yikes. That's absolutely ridiculous. Um, who, who was the backup tend to this squad? Not named Dan bigger. Like if Dan bigger breaks, how fucked are these guys?
00:59:30
Speaker
Yeah. Is Reese Patchel in the squad? She's very raw on the international level. And I love Callum Sheedy, but he's very raw at this level. So, I mean, if, if, you know, saints, saints, friends are going to all go banging down our door tomorrow, if Dan bigger breaks at some point in this tournament, you know, who steps in and really how fucked are they?
00:59:57
Speaker
It's a good question. Because I don't know where they're going to develop a new Welsh fly half from. Well, I don't really watch the Pro 14 that much. I don't really watch Welsh rugby that much.
01:00:14
Speaker
It's been damn bigger for years. And yeah, and Reese Patrick kind of steps in here and there. I can tell you that Wayne Pivec just woke up and for some reason out of the darkest corner of his mind said, I need to kill an American right now. I don't think he thinks about Americans to be. No, no, I think it just he's somewhere, you know, Jared mentioned the thing. Son of a dream.
01:00:43
Speaker
And he's like, oh, fuck that guy. I don't know who he was, but I got to kill him now. Oh, shit. Yeah. Well, you know what? They do have Gareth Anscombe, but I mean, he's got a long road to recovery. Yeah, that's the one thing, like, damn. He'll be if he can come back all right and bounce back, he will be the
01:01:01
Speaker
He's definitely the starting 10 like yeah, and he complements damn bigger quite well on top of all that Jared Evans is probably another name to throw in there, but he's not like somebody that's gonna wow you by any means whatsoever. So yeah, keep damn bigger wrapped in bubble wrap. That's all I know. Don't let them get hit hard in training. Don't let them. Yeah, no. No, that's shit. He put put the put the pink jersey on him so he doesn't get whacked.
01:01:29
Speaker
as it were, which George North made the team. Is he gonna break or is he gonna actually finish? I don't want to see him at this level anymore. I really don't.
01:01:43
Speaker
I, it's, it's, it's asking for bad news. Right. We don't like, there was a, what was it? The England game where I thought he was, I thought he was dead. It's not like, cause it's, cause it's George North and we've seen it so many times. I just don't think it's responsible at this point. So I'm, I'm, I'm angry about that.
01:02:04
Speaker
Uh, the dude, Josh Navidi gets, uh, gets a look again. Um, he had some injury trouble white for a while. Yeah, just a bit. He's a, he's an exciting player, you know, he's a brick. He is a brick. You know, I mentioned Owens, he's another one that dude is just solid. Good luck running through them. Yeah. I don't want to play hard to know. No, no, no, no, no. No, they, they, they, they do have.
01:02:27
Speaker
some great back rowers that can, that can tap you. And a couple that can carry the ball. Tipper can carry the ball. Valentine can carry the ball obviously, but yeah, I just don't know. I just don't know what, who else is going to carry the ball for forwards for this team. Um, so they're going to have to really rely on whatever backs they can. So it's going to be tough.
01:02:46
Speaker
that it'll be interesting i think overall with the six nations just because of of you know it being played in front of no audience whether or not there's going to be more squad rotation to just because of uh player welfare um i think it's something that they probably could look into i know like you know especially with england all these saracens guys haven't really played a game
01:03:08
Speaker
Uh, yet since, since international rugby, uh, Billy, Billy got 40 minutes or 80 minutes the other day. That was that wonderful healing trail. Yeah. Oh my God. Yep. He's ready. Yeah. At least he got off his ass.
01:03:24
Speaker
So I don't know, I, you know, I always, there's going to be the spirit of competition and everyone wants to win, but I wonder if at some point they're going to look at it and be like, you know, well, this is going to, this is going to be a six nations with an asterisk probably just like the last one.
01:03:41
Speaker
I think so too. No, I don't. I don't know. It's really, I think more and more people are starting to worry about player welfare and more attention to it, especially with what's came out about Steve Thompson, former England hooker, who says they can't even remember the World Cup final. Final. Wow. It's just, you know, it's a little scary. I wonder if it's the booze, but I don't think it is.
01:04:06
Speaker
don't know. No idea. So it's something that I think teams are going to keep in mind more. And I think it would be somewhat smart to have a little bit of a rotation, especially if they're trying to go ahead with
01:04:22
Speaker
Alliance tour, maybe rest guys, or not rest them, but don't, you know, don't play some of your starters for the full 80. Yeah, we'll see. Yep. I agree. All right. So first England, second France, third Ireland, Ireland, fourth, Wales. Oh, no, no, no. Scotland, Scotland, Scotland.
01:04:48
Speaker
Actually, you know what? Somebody changed my third Scotland in third. Okay. Okay. I hope so. I kind of I kind of hope you're right, James, honestly, you know, I really do because that means they will kind of woken up and started to play some nice looking rugby and not this bullshit that Townsend's currently got them playing. So I hope you're right. Really, I do. So James says Scotland third, I own fourth, Wales fifth.
01:05:17
Speaker
Yeah, Italy. And then Italy, Italy holding up the bottom. Take that wooden spoon again. Yes, they will. Okay. Well, they come in, they say, where would you like it this time? Good Lord. I'm sorry, Italy. I'm sorry.
01:05:37
Speaker
Uh, I would definitely put, put England at one, which is something that kind of makes me feel gross, but also I'm not stupid as I look. Um, France too. I'm going to go to James and say, Scott on three. Um, I'm hoping Ireland can again, another team that needs to just open it up a little bit and they won't finish just above Italy. So they'll go for, yeah, it's, this might be the end of Wayne PVAX with Wales going fifth. And, um, and then, yeah, it was very old and up the bottom there.
01:06:07
Speaker
All right. And I got England, France, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Italy.
01:06:12
Speaker
Okay. So that's how it is. Um, let's do, let's do pick them for this weekend. Shall we? And then James, you can go ahead and get on your merry way. My friend. Oh, fellas, I have to cook dinner. I'm doing an all vegetable dinner and it's, it is what it is. Yeah, it is what it is. All right. Um, the weekend opener, Italy and France. I don't think there's a question. If there is, then we're all batshit crazy considering what we just said England's got on. It's getting England for me. England.
01:06:42
Speaker
Same. Wales, Ireland. This is a tough one. This will be a tough one. Now, I don't know how much home soil really means anywhere without home ground. Is it in Dublin or is it in Cardiff? It's in Cardiff, I believe. Then I'm going to say it's Wales. Okay. I'm going Ireland, obviously. Yeah, I'm going to go with the green as well.
01:07:10
Speaker
So James picked the picked it correctly a couple of years ago. I think you all got all but like too wrong too wrong last time or too right. And so yeah, that's the begin. Yeah, I you know, I think I see whales winning this I know it's gonna be very close.
01:07:26
Speaker
Now I got to go back and kind of reshuffle how I think I wanted to structure people because now I have less hope for Ireland. I don't know. It's the Six Nations. It's the best tournament out of all rugby tournaments aside from the World Cup and Lions Tour. It is. It's better than the Tri Nations or Rugby Championship. It is always, you never know what's going to happen and that's the best part.
01:07:53
Speaker
Yeah, that we like, that we definitely like. Definitely. All right, James, thank you so much for coming by. We'll let you go and do your dinner thing. We'll have you back again sometime within the Six Nations so we can chat more about this shit, you know?
01:08:09
Speaker
Yeah, and make sure you tune in to Peacock NBC. Fucking Peacocks. Doesn't sound like a fucking gobbled bunch of freaking, you know, voice modulator or whatever. Good lord, man. I could spend I could spend a whole podcast just just shitting on Peacock for multiple reasons. Same.
01:08:32
Speaker
All right, man. We'll talk to you soon. Have a good one, buddy. All right. So off the back of that, let's talk about five players from each country that you would pick. Obviously, these don't have to be the players you would pick necessarily for your Six Nations TRM team. But let's talk about five guys that are up there. You know, there are 20 guys that are picked at 40% or higher right now.
01:09:01
Speaker
Fuck, really? Yeah. I mean, well, yeah, that doesn't make sense, because let me see. I've got my squad open, but I don't know if it says, it doesn't say how many, what their percentage is. But like, you know, everybody's going to have Maro Itoje, because he's just... He is without a doubt the highest. He's at 77%. Fuck. 76, yeah. Yeah. I just popped it open. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. So he's well above 70%. Right.
01:09:33
Speaker
And we've been talking about the best scrum half in the world right now. Antoine Duprom is at 80%. Okay, so yeah, he's the highest. Yeah. And the guys that you know are going to start and play and because, you know,
01:09:50
Speaker
I'm kind of surprised. Um, uh, Finn Russell's at under 50%. He's like 47 and it's like, yeah, that kind of makes sense. But do you really know if he's going to start? You don't. So hope he does. Well, it's a matter of who has the tea too. Like, is he going to be able to kick and are you going to want to use his kicking points? But do you care? Cause he's, um, what was it? We're holding on. Where is he? Sorry. I lost him.
01:10:12
Speaker
I mean, he needs to be able to turn it over and get meters. But he's also a center. He's center eligible in TRM. And that's fine if you put him at center. I don't need his kicking points. And that's the thing. If you're not worried about it, then fine. Yep, absolutely. So five names that come off the top you hit for England right away.
01:10:35
Speaker
Well, Otoji, Jinx, Farrell. I'm not sure I had one of them. That's what you're saying. Johnny Hill, oddly enough. I have him on my team. It's hard outside of that.
01:10:59
Speaker
Maybe it is a Mako have fit. Is he, I think so. I think he's fit. And then, then Mako, cause fucking it's minutes and points that we've talked about him being that, that, you know, leading your team and carries and tackles that this is, this is where it'll get your points. Agreed.
French Rugby Players Spotlight
01:11:19
Speaker
Five names from France.
01:11:22
Speaker
Dupont, as I said, oh, I forgot we were doing. Dupont, obviously. I'll leave all because he's he's gonna. He's at 52% right now.
01:11:38
Speaker
Yeah. Teddy Thomas, Teddy Tomah. I want to see what he did. I know. I just like calling him Teddy Thomas. Vieira, as you mentioned, because again, that's an I want to see it. I want to see what he brings to the competition this year.
01:12:02
Speaker
And I'm wondering if we're going to see crew you at some point. I know I'm, I'm going to over backup and this isn't so much fantasy, but that's just a name that I kind of all the roster. I kind of want to see. And then the whoever's playing hooker as our competition, there are discussion before. Yeah. I have to see who it is, but yeah, they'll do well.
Irish Rugby Players Analysis
01:12:22
Speaker
Um, five names on the island that kind of, that you kind of want.
01:12:27
Speaker
Oh, for long. Easy. Right off the bat. You want that prop. Yeah. He's one of the high ones. James Ryan, as again. Toji and Ryan as your locks. That's pretty good. Yeah. And then there's back three. Right off the bat. Lamborghini and any of those. Yep. Low. Yep. Those three really. That would be my back three if I could choose one of those guys. So those three.
Italian Rugby Players Potential
01:12:57
Speaker
This will be a tougher one for you. Five names you would take from Italy, because if you want to maximize this team, you got to take five. You know, my my love for Niccolรฒ Canone. Yep, I like him.
01:13:11
Speaker
He's been good, and he's a guy who maybe you don't start, but you have him on your bench, and he eats up a lock position and an Italy spot away from something. Like I mentioned, Itojie and Ryan, those are your starters. You have any other lock, if you pick a lock from France at that point, you're missing out on
01:13:33
Speaker
One of the players that friends for the French have. Yeah, absolutely. Right. So this is where you pull guys from from random spots. Tommaso Allen is ridiculously versatile in the game. He's three positions. It's ridiculous. Right. Yeah. Fly half center fullback. And even if you again, just like we were talking about with Russell earlier,
01:13:56
Speaker
Alan might not have the tee, but his points from just general play at fly half are probably going to be better than most other fullbacks. It's dependable. It's a guy you can just plug there and he should get you some points.
Scottish & Welsh Rugby Players
01:14:14
Speaker
Outside of that. Tough.
01:14:18
Speaker
Again, I want to see who their Scrum half is. I would like to see it be Varney again, so I'm going to throw him on there. But again, whoever their Scrum half is, it might be a good one to have for a bench spot or a spot start in case someone's playing Italy, so they don't start.
01:14:39
Speaker
And then Luca Beegee. It's hard to fit him in, though, because there's enough good hookers that you actually want. You want one on your starter and on your bench. So he might be a good fill in as a bench player. And I lost count of how many players that is. That's fine. I think you covered it. Scotland, this should be five names that probably go right away.
01:15:03
Speaker
Oh, Johnny Gray. Yep. Xander Fagerson. Yeah, he's one of the high ones up there. Another prop. So, you know, you get three props. We have Mako Wunapola, Tyfer Long, Xander Fagerson, those three, and you're done. You'll be just fine. But then turning to
01:15:26
Speaker
Oh, shoot. Well, Jamie Ritchie in your back row could be an excellent pick up or Hamish Watson. Both of them are just those both those guys are just fire plugs running with the ball and and hard to tackle. So they'll get you this tackle broke busts and mine breaks here or there. So they're there and they tackle like motherfuckers. So on top of that. Yeah. Yeah. Finn Russell, the
01:15:54
Speaker
and Stewie Hogg and Chris Harris. That's my like, if they can just somehow connect those three. If Finn and Chris and Stu are running connected, it'll go well for Scotland. How about the Welsh?
01:16:21
Speaker
Dan Bigger. We won't talk. We won't bring up our earlier conversation on that. At this point now, LRZ has got, I think that Josh Adams' situation opens the door for him. That's true. That's very true. Nick Tompkins, as we said, the possibility is there for him to be an attacking center if payback opens it up.
01:16:46
Speaker
And those, the Navidi and Tipperich. Yeah, I like those guys. I like those guys a lot. Yeah, they'll get your points. Yes, they will. All right, let's flip the script a little bit. Let's go to Six Nations. We're talking all kinds of Six Nations.
English Rugby Teams Performance
01:17:03
Speaker
Let's buzz through Prem real quick. What's to be said about Bristol Bath other than the fact that Bath just didn't look good and Bristol looked great?
01:17:13
Speaker
That's about it. Well, put it this way and we're not there quite yet.
01:17:22
Speaker
Um, but that the last week, the week from last week, uh, when it was what some, I have this score right here. Oh, that one. Yeah. 52 44 wasps versus bath, which seemed everyone is asking, where's the defense? Well, then you look at this weekend and, um, bath give up 48 wasps give up 49. Maybe you just can't play defense right now. Maybe it's maybe it's the teams.
01:17:48
Speaker
And Bristol, man, they're just, they're relentless. I think that, I think probably towards the end of the game, they're like, I can't believe we gave up three fucking points earlier. Like it wasn't for that one slip up, just a perfect game. Yeah. Yep. So yeah, just think of all the guys that they're, they're, that are missing.
01:18:14
Speaker
We have a couple of guys missing too on top of that. Yeah. It's really, it should be very terrifying for people that are playing
Sale's Rugby Form and Player Critique
01:18:19
Speaker
Bristol right now. Right. When, when they get, uh, and you know, if mail-ins is playing, um, maybe more Randall, even yeah, more, more hen and, um,
01:18:29
Speaker
Earl. Yeah, they're missing if they're seven, nine, 10, although urine was pretty good. Yeah, it was quite good. Right. And, and the, you know, two back, well, I guess, Owen Lloyd, but he's, you know, he was a 10, but, you know, you'd probably have him at one of the back three positions or, or mail-ins. So it's like,
01:18:56
Speaker
fuck all these guys that that where this could go um and bath aren't bad they're just playing really bad right now yeah they're not they're they need to write the ship just a little bit um did you catch did you watch tigers sail at all
01:19:08
Speaker
I snoozed through it. I wanted to see what the new improved sale would be. I don't know if it's new and improved, but it's a little improved. Not yet. The one thing that point that I can remember off the top of my head was AJ's kick that Yard caught. He got smoked when he made that kick. People kind of
01:19:34
Speaker
just dismissed that like, Oh, yeah, that's no big deal. Like he got smoked when he kicked that thing and landed on a point on a pretty good point. Yeah, yard had to make a good move to get himself over but that doesn't get there by accident. So cut on AJ. Yeah, boy. So so can we talk about I'm gonna mention one thing about
01:19:55
Speaker
Like I've seen people talking about this, this character and I, I, the fucking annoys me because he scored a couple tries and he's not good. He's just not good. Um, and Sam James, um, let's put it this way. He had, uh, he intercepted a pass right at the 22 took it for a try. So right there, you know, when it's easy to, to, to know how many meters you gained at that point. Cause you're 78, right?
01:20:26
Speaker
Guess how many meters he made for the match? Besides that? Total. Oh, total? Oh, probably like freaking... I don't know, what? 85? 79. Close. Wow. So he gained one more meter the rest of the game. Yeah, it's not good. Had no more clean breaks. He threw two passes and made one tackle. And he played 80 minutes of rugby. Like, what the fuck is he...
Northampton vs Gloucester Match Review
01:20:51
Speaker
So, yeah.
01:20:53
Speaker
Don't get too, don't get too excited about him. Yeah, just a little bit. Um, next day, Gloucester, Gloucester, Northampton, um, hello, Northampton and hello, Gloucester in some ways, because they, they looked a little bit better too. And, and, and some aspects as well. So good. I've been, doesn't get injured this game. Very different.
01:21:17
Speaker
Yeah. And he's out for a little while. It sounds like at least at least three or four weeks easily. Ouch. Yeah. It didn't look, it didn't look good. Nope. It didn't look bad, but it didn't look good. It was one of those like, yeah, that's a three to four week injury. Yeah. Break it. But he, yeah, no, he's going to need a rest. Yeah. Clarison and for a bank up in the air, that was scary too. Yeah. I got to say though, I'm a little disappointed that there wasn't, um, a yellow on that.
01:21:45
Speaker
Cause it was like the way he was tackled kind of fucked up his legs. So, but what are you going to do? You can't, you can't throw it just cause you know, throw a card just cause a guy got hurt, but it wasn't, it wasn't a good tackle. Wasn't the prettiest.
01:22:02
Speaker
And then for bank and, uh, and Carreras, that was, I mean, Carreras was out before he hit the ground and for bank, probably the same bank was a little loopy too. So yeah, I'm glad they both came off and stayed off at least. Right. That was a weird way to go. Um, all right. Are we seeing a re ignition for both teams or is this just two bad teams that are knowing that are scoring on each other? No, I think they played good rugby. Um, and, and both.
01:22:32
Speaker
Gloster, okay, Gloster scoring 26 points, especially how they ended it was a lot due to the fact that Northampton can't defend. But Northampton's points were scored, I thought they scored very well because they played, I mean, Mitchell had an outstanding match. Hutchinson and Proctor, like they had guys contributing all over the pitch. So, and they were using the ball really well. So it wasn't a,
01:23:02
Speaker
And I don't think that had anything to do with the opponent. That was them passing well and, and, and making good decisions. So, um, yeah, I think Northampton or, or, or that's a pulse. I think if they can keep, you know, we'll see this week, but it looked like they were going somewhere
Worcester vs Exeter Strategic Critique
01:23:21
Speaker
good. Yep. Um, tough tussle at six ways with Worcester and Exeter, Exeter getting back on the board, but still kind of misfiring a little bit here and there. I,
01:23:32
Speaker
This was the most Worcester match. Front to back.
01:23:43
Speaker
they had every opportunity, like it's okay. So let's fast forward towards the end. Somewhere in the last 10 minutes or so Wooster had a penalty and exited territory and they're down four points and they decided to go for post. And it's like, you fucking idiots, you might never get down here again. So what are you doing like making this a two, you're not making it any,
01:24:08
Speaker
easier on yourself. Also, consider the opponent. It's Exeter. They live by discipline and forcing you to make the penalty. They're not going to make these last few minutes. They're going to just shut it down and say, don't take penalties. It's Worcester. You got to figure that the players, they're going to trust you to fuck it up. No, they kick for points and they miss it and they never really get a chance to score again.
London Irish vs Newcastle Analysis
01:24:35
Speaker
How Worcester very, very unfortunately. Um, Sunday, uh, one Irish new castle. That was, um, that was quite a decent performance against a good club for, for the exiles might be, might be, might be turning a corner here. They're, they got something. Um, they certainly have something and they're still like,
01:25:03
Speaker
There's still so much more that they can get out of them, out of the team too. So fuck, who knows? Like this is, this is certainly a quality side.
01:25:13
Speaker
Yeah, they've shown it. And I mean, their, their injection of Aussies have not, has not been by accident by any means whatsoever too. So that's, that's helped a bit. I would say, um, Tom Barton getting installed at full back definitely helps. That's, that's a fit. It's clicking there. It works. It works. Um, as far as tens go for the guys from the way up north, um,
01:25:36
Speaker
Is Hodgson their best 10? Is Flood their best 10? Is Connor their best 10? Because I'm not sure Dean Richards knows at this point.
Harlequins' Strong Performance
01:25:43
Speaker
Well, I can tell you it's not Flood. And I think it's time for him to take a seat. He's not helping enough. And he's good. He's, you know,
01:26:01
Speaker
Because at the end, I don't think this team needs the leadership more than they need the athleticism. Because that's evident. The Irish just ran all around them. And that's not just Toby Flood's fault. But when you have dead legs at center, it hurts a lot. It'll go there. Yeah. With the outside backs they have that are just
01:26:28
Speaker
Lightning quick, if you're getting run around from that, it's because they're getting sucked in because some of your guys aren't in the centers, aren't where they need to be. Yep, yep, no argument here. And then over to the Rico.
01:26:42
Speaker
This is what can happen when you have the situation that happened to Quince. They can do one or two things. They can poop it or they can galvanize themselves. And I think we would all agree that they steal themselves quite a bit here. I think this is a lot of character from Quince and this is what I want to say about it. Because they saw what happened with Guzzy and they said, this is our fault.
01:27:06
Speaker
This is 100% our fault. We were not doing our jobs to our to our maximum ability. And, you know, we need to show that we are better than this because what happened to guys he wasn't very and you can see the
01:27:19
Speaker
the, the well wishes that went and people are upset about it from this too. Um, so yeah, this is, this is something that Quinn has decided we fucked up and we need
Impact of Louis Lineup
01:27:29
Speaker
to correct it. Um, before somebody else gets fired. So they, um, they, um, they did it and they, they looked damn good doing it at that. So good on them. Where, where did Louie lineup come from?
01:27:58
Speaker
I feel like he just popped out of the soil at times. Where'd you come from? Yeah. Wait, there was nobody here, but other. Yeah. Yeah. Excellent game on his behalf. Obviously. Yeah. Good. That was, that was a good, that was, that's what he needed to get going. Cause he's got the talent to be something special for this club. And I think that's where he needed to get going there. On the other side.
01:28:02
Speaker
Michael Aina?
01:28:25
Speaker
Yeah, pretty good stuff. Yeah, on the other side, the the the pack kind of let the was down a little bit, I will say.
Fantasy Rugby Draft League Update
01:28:32
Speaker
I don't think that's wrong to say that. No, the other Gaskell, I thought didn't he's he's very easy to spot. So quite also very when you're not seeing him. And I was I didn't see him as nearly as much as I have seen him in the past. Roland.
01:28:52
Speaker
He's not, that's weird. He's not that old, but he's, again, the whole mileage thing. He's not looking this fast. There are a couple plays where two or three years ago he'd have been fucking through. Maybe not scoring, but through.
01:29:09
Speaker
And that just wasn't happening. He's kind of getting through the tackles, but he's not not scooting afterwards. And Willis, though, his he didn't his shirt ripped like somebody get that boy a fucking shirt. God damn. I know you have another one for him. Get it there. Here's the blank jersey. Just get on him. Let's go. Pussy. God damn it. Fucking that's the man. That's the that's the equipment guy's fault.
01:29:39
Speaker
Okay, let's do, let's do recap. Shabianx League real quick.
01:29:48
Speaker
go to FRD prem and we will be picking the order for FRD super rugby next week's pod. And then we'll be drafting next weekend. Yay. Yay for drafts. I like drafts. We'll see. All right. So last week we had, we had some good, we had some weird scores. Mark kept George on the bottom of wherever he is. Anton beat me in a pillow fight. And yeah, I know that was the time to beat him and I couldn't do it.
01:30:18
Speaker
I don't know what to tell you. Carrick beat Duncan and then Ben was able to up end Justin
Rugby Magazine Fantasy Insights
01:30:23
Speaker
and everybody seems to be worried about. So there's that. This coming week, I think coming back around to some of the similar matchups that we started with. Yep, that's what it looks like. It is myself against George. Ben's gonna go against Carrick, Duncan and Mark do battle and Antonin. Justin do battle, the Saffa battle.
01:30:44
Speaker
In the other land of fantasy, that would be the rugby magazine. I had Anton for a minute. Yeah, you had him for a hot minute. You had him for a hot minute. I went, I dropped down to four, which was my less than ideal thing. Actually, yeah, the thing I posted wasn't quite accurate because I did jump ahead, back ahead of Duncan.
01:31:09
Speaker
But yeah, I dropped down to four. George jumped me. Yeah, they had time for a hot minute, and then it went bye-bye. But you know what? Quietly at the bottom, and it's really unfortunate he's at the bottom. Justin had a big week. 5.19. Second overall. Yeah, fourth. Fourth.
01:31:29
Speaker
Damn. Yep. Burn gets subbed in for him. That was an upside Simmons, captain, uh, who guard Reverend Rodrow. That helps. Um, Nick David on the wing for him, which was a big one. Um, his locks are Dom Brant and Coba's fees who I don't love a FOA. That was the other one. That was the other runner that John at a day. Yeah. So again, I did say if you had him play him, but damn, I did not have him. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I wasn't adding him, but damn, that was a,
01:31:57
Speaker
That was a hell of a guy to have right there. I'm just happy I was able to do so well with, I had Ben Spencer who got a big old goose egg. Oh God, that was a bad day for that. I still ended up scoring pretty well. All right, let's do the start sit thing. We can do pick them and tell everybody bye-bye. All right. Six nations. Italy versus France. Yay. The guys I mentioned before, BG, Canone,
01:32:29
Speaker
Tommaso Allen, tomato Tommaso, but Garbisi, if he's starting, he might be worth a bench spot, but again, I don't know who they're going for. At 10, I'm assuming it'll be Tommaso Allen. And again, I'd like to see Varney at nine. So watch that space when they announced the lineups, which I think by the time we release this, it may be,
01:32:55
Speaker
I'll try and, I'll try and post it right after this, but by the time you're listening to it, yes. Right. For France.
01:33:06
Speaker
Wokey or I'll treat whoever's in there. The back row either way. Antoine Dupont, whoever's at 10 and the centers and wings should score well, but again, it might not be the guys that they're going to rely on. So you know, maybe don't have them if you help it. Yeah.
01:33:27
Speaker
Yeah. So if you have them and you've been silly enough to pick them, oh, well, you've done that. Okay. Um, I have the Calcutta cup England and Scotland, um, should be an interesting opener for the guys. You know, the guys, you know, can score are probably the ones you play. Um, it is a short competition. So if you take a swing with something, you know, a little different swing hard. Okay. Um, England usually have some of the better TRM scores as well. Um,
01:33:51
Speaker
guys that probably aren't as high on everybody's list, Ben Earl, if he starts, you definitely are playing him without a doubt. I don't know if he's going to, but God damn, that dude can score when he's on there. Johnny Hill, definitely somebody that enough people haven't picked up and he will do just fine, I promise. That is a large target. Lineouts, lineouts, lineouts all day. He will do that all day and just not even bat an eye. I think he starts too.
01:34:18
Speaker
On the other side, a couple back rowers for England that I just don't trust anymore in this format. Billy V is one, just doesn't score for TRM as well as he does for his country. He just doesn't score in TRM. And then same with Courtney Loss, just doesn't score well on TRM. It's a little bit of a...
01:34:38
Speaker
for the most part, but yeah, nope, not him. On the other side for the Scots, they do have some solid scores as well, but again, we know England love to bring that bruising defense, so that makes it a little tough sometimes. The guys that are on there for Scotland that maybe haven't quite thought about, Gary Graham.
01:34:56
Speaker
If he plays in the back row for the Scotland team, he will do well between tackling and ball carrying the guy can do it. So this would be his kind of game. This is if they're going to play in this, I think would be the game that they would want him for. Yeah. And if he gets one of those offloads, he's he knows where to go.
01:35:14
Speaker
He's pretty good at it. He showed it for Scotland for Newcastle's past weekend. Another name that it's always a Scottish prop that we want to find because they seem to always have one really good one. It's been Sutherland, it's been Dell, and it's been Fagerson. Well, I'm going to go back to Dell. Alan Dell is a name if he starts playing him. He hasn't been scoring in the in the prem though. That's my concern.
01:35:37
Speaker
Yeah, but you know what? He usually does an okay job for Scotland. I think he comes back around either way. So if you start to play him. He can absolutely put up points. Yeah, he's done it before. So we'll see. On the other side of the category, two names that everybody's going to want to start, but this might not be the day to do it. Hoggy and Finn.
01:36:01
Speaker
I don't, I don't know if there's space for them. That's the problem. And also I don't know what attacking style Gregor Townsend is going to bring to this, to this tournament. And that's the other thing. So between those two things, I am airing on the side of caution. I love the two of them. Don't get me wrong, but this might be the day where you go bench spot and that's it. Yeah, right. Um, toward the last matchup, Wales, Ireland, um,
01:36:26
Speaker
So Ireland are always going to be strong in defence, duh. So it's going to be hard to find points on Wales here. So keep that in mind as you just select your team for this week. But Thomas Williams and Dan Bigger should still score very well. They actually, oddly enough, Ireland do give up points to 10s.
01:36:51
Speaker
Sorry, I have something in my throat. So again, that channel will be available and Thomas Williams and Bigger will hit it. And then that back row, Tipperick and Naveedee.
01:37:04
Speaker
Yeah. And then you got to keep an eye out for Louis Rees-Zamit, just in case, because if he gets the chance and he gets the appearance, he could go. On the Ireland side, as I said, tag Ferlong over Kean Healy for your team. Go with Ferlong. He's the guy who will... He's the try scorer, so that's helpful.
01:37:26
Speaker
Um, for your locks, uh, James Ryan, Tygburn is a, or Ian Henderson. Pick one. Cause I'm going with Ryan only because I think he's going to be the, he's going to be the guy no matter what. It's going to be, I think it'd be him. Um, and the other flank, the other lock will be Tygburn or Ian Henderson. Yeah.
01:37:51
Speaker
CJ Standard in the back row, I think is your best option. Peter Romani is decent as a tackler, but TRM is so balanced that you need somebody who can attack to make it worthwhile. So I'd go with CJ Standard. And then, as I've said, a couple of times on this pod, the back three. Yeah, love it. Love it all. Especially Lo and Keenan. Yeah, love it all. All right, start of the week.
01:38:21
Speaker
We'll go Lee's first here. He's fresh. He's one of the most selected in TRM. And no matter the opponent, he typically scores. He'll be a problem at the Calcutta Cup. And we all know he does the things that score you points in this format. My start of the week for week one for Six Nations is England's talisman second row, Benoit Bono's cousin, Mr. Mauro Otoje.
01:38:48
Speaker
Fantastic. Um, and yes, also that, um, by start of the week is we don't know who it is right now. Um, but it's the person who is wearing the number 10 Jersey for France. Yeah. Probably Jolly bear going. I'm guessing it's jelly bear. So I'll say Jolly bear. Um, and yeah, I think he's going to run wild versus versus Italy.
01:39:12
Speaker
Yeah, that's fine. That's that's probably a good call. So interesting enough, this might be a shot off the bow or over the whatever. This is going to be shot in the dark either way for my city of the week. A little counterintuitive given his opponent, but he's one of the he's one of the 20 players. It's 40% on actually that that number of players may have gone up since 40% on. He didn't score well last six nations despite all he does for his country.
01:39:39
Speaker
I see him in a similar role for Le Blue. My state of the week despite playing against one of the poorest teams in the comp for round one is Francis Center, Gail Ficu.
01:39:51
Speaker
Oh, good call. Definitely a good call there. My set of the week is going against the best defense in the competition. Strike one right there. And he's also just not a fantasy point scorer. He's a guy you want on your squad. He could end up winning man of the match without doing anything in fantasy.
01:40:14
Speaker
And because he's not really much of an, he may score a try here or there, but it's, he can't rely on it. So just keep him, don't, don't touch. There's the, the every, you know, you might get be tempted to, but, but sit Sean Maitland. Hands off. Hands off Sean Maitland. Yeah. Yeah. I love him. And he's just, he's just not going to quite do it in this comp probably.
01:40:38
Speaker
Right. I mean, seriously, because he's going to be there, you know, the bomb diffuser when because under Ben Young's kicks and Ford's kicks. Right. And Farrell's kicks. That's what they're going to do. He's going to be the one tasked with with catching that pass. And he could still he could still fall over the line at some point and get man of the match.
01:40:58
Speaker
Yeah, but you don't want to lean on tries. If you can help it, you don't want to lean on tries. All right, let's go to the prime Bristol and sale. This is actually a very interesting one for fancy as well. So once again, a black hole for fancy points. First, first in FRD, second in TRM and points against per game. That said, there should be a true test of the fancy value and these Bristol players. Rads is matchup proof. Do not worry about it. I promise you he will be just fine.
01:41:24
Speaker
He's not going to score you 37 or 40 or whatever. He'll get you like high twenties. Don't worry about it. He's, he's worth it. Get him in there. Brian burn. Same thing. I think he's probably close to matchup proof as well. He's played so well for this club. Line out the down game here and there, but for the most part, like again, it'll be probably a 25 or point for him. You know, it's not going to be 50 odd that I got last week. I understand, but you can still play him. You don't, you need those types of players in your squad. You'll be fine.
01:41:54
Speaker
On the other side, Urine and O'Connor, TRM, maybe, FRD. Actually, that's probably the worst spot to play in, so don't play there. On the other side, Bristol. Guess what? Second in points against an FRD, first in TRM, so they just flipped. It's really big.
01:42:16
Speaker
and sales struggles scoring points. Yep. So here we go. AJ all good. He has been pretty solid. So that's a good option. If you're, if you have him, go ahead, make him your kicker, you'll be all right. JP Dupree is not owned enough. I cannot say this loud enough. He's not owned enough. He scores 20 plus except one match so far. He's done pretty well. And he just, he does the things that you score your points in this, in this, in this format. So go get them, you know, lineup seals are huge, especially in FRD do it.
01:42:46
Speaker
Um, so there's that, um, on the other side, Cobus, Cobus V's, I am, it's time to move on from him. I, it's not worth it. He had a good week this past week, but yeah, but that's the first good week he's had since I think the first start he had, like, yeah, it's not been, it's not been super weeks and moved on early, but yeah, if you haven't by now.
01:43:07
Speaker
Don't get rid of them. Yeah. Faf is far too highly owned for my liking, far too expensive and producing far too little. So ditch him as fast as possible. If you have him still doesn't do it. On to back to my notes.
01:43:29
Speaker
Wasp Saints. So Northampton are actually showing a little bit of fortitude, but it comes to defending forwards. So that kind of sucks for wasps, doesn't it? So although James Gaskell, I think will still score points because I think he's their only option really in the forwards at the moment, at least for from the the plug and chug perspective. Will Porter will score points.
01:44:00
Speaker
I guess it's going to be Goprith at 10. Maybe. Because Sopuaga had to come off hurt. I don't know what his status is. You look a little rusty. Not good. Right. So I don't know what's going to happen there, but I still think Bassett and Kiberigi should have a pretty good day. On the other side, as we talked, wasps are leaking points. Yeah.
01:44:25
Speaker
Can't defend anywhere and it's only going to be worse because they're without so many players now. Yeah, no, and it's going to in poorly as it were right. So James Grayson.
01:44:40
Speaker
Yeah, look his way. He's shown a propensity to put up some points here or there inconsistently, but again, this is the opportunity, so he'll do okay. I think there's going to be somebody for Saints who's probably going to be pissed off that he's playing for Saints, and that'll be the one Rory Hutchinson.
01:45:02
Speaker
who also had a day this past week, so I think you're going to see more of that. And then the big man. It's been a while since we've busted up the large man's name, but especially in FRD if you've got him or if he's hanging around the waiver wire, which I doubt, but
01:45:21
Speaker
Maybe people just aren't patient enough for him. It's to Kelly Nair Voorhees. Big T. And then, again, Matt Proctor has been just scoring points lately in both formats. So I think he's also pretty cheap in TRM. He's not too bad. He's mid twos, I think. Yeah, low twos, 237. There you go. And he's just, like I said, he's been scoring points. So, yeah, look his way.
01:45:47
Speaker
Worth the grab. Bath Quinn's. Quinn's have been generous 9th in points against per game in both formats. Though they have stiffened up just a wee bit. Giggity. For Bath, Mercer's still been fairly quality even when Bath are poor so
01:46:03
Speaker
Well, yep, that's probably the one guy I'd lean on. Stu should start if Jules is away. And I like Elliott Suke. And I don't mind either one of them, honestly, but I do like Stu a little bit more than the rest, but still quality just the same. On the other side, Spencer is dropping off like off a cliff lately, which is really unfortunate.
01:46:27
Speaker
Starting to get to gotta see it. I'll play him in FRD, but that's probably I'm gonna look for another option TRM Also his partner priest another one just in this is actually a tough group to play against fly half wise for FRD and There's better options for TRM. So I'm gonna say no no priest this weekend Bath are the most generous on the other side Fantasy wise and it's by a good margin. Thanks the last two matches that they
01:46:58
Speaker
So for Quinn's quietly doing work and playing well this year is will Evans and he's not super expensive. So that's that's one to go. Louis line that seems to have turned a corner as well. So if he he's starting he might be worth grabbing because he seems to have kind of started to figure this thing out this whole rugby thing.
01:47:19
Speaker
On the other side, local lows probably a little too expensive for my liking and Bath are still fairly decent against props. So that might not be quite the way I lean. And James Chisholm still has a higher ownership percentage than I would like. And I don't think he does enough. So go ahead and bench that guy too. So the the Exiles hosting Gloucester
01:47:43
Speaker
Cluster are weird defensively, but again, they're giving up points to eights, but holding down flankers. So I don't quite understand that, but there you are. Fun fact. But the Irish front row in both formats. And in both formats, I mean by their individual players in TRM and obviously the front row. FRD, yeah. They're just scoring points.
01:48:10
Speaker
Have you heard this guy, creepy, this young kid, they were talking about all the wallaby caps. I'm like, oh, yeah, that guy too, right there, that's throwing the ball and that's playing for Argentina a billion times. So, yeah, he's just racking up points. So I think he's expensive, but maybe worth it.
01:48:31
Speaker
Curtis Rona is a guy you're going to. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I really like him. Right. He should be on your team. If, if, especially in an effort, if FRD, he should be owned, but if he's not, um, Oh, go scoop him up now. Good Lord. Um, and then the back three, the, the loader Stokes Parton. Fuck. Yeah. I'm low. I'm loving Tom Parton now for especially. I'm very happy. I picked him up ahead of Anton. Um,
01:49:00
Speaker
So I didn't even know I was a race, but I'm glad I won. On the Gloucester end, Irish are stronger versus backs and forwards. But then again, is Evans OK? So are backs even something to worry about? But then you got to kind of look for your
01:49:26
Speaker
your studs for that team. And it's Lewis Ludlow will be a tackling machine. So definitely in TRM, somebody to look at. FRD, he'll get you solid points, but in every so often, he might go off, but he's not consistent that way. Correct. As more of a defensive player. Willie Heinz seems to be back, as is Ali Thorpe. So those guys still may shine, even though the backs are iffy here. And Alemano,
01:49:56
Speaker
Hi, yeah, it's been quite good. Yeah, quite good someone. Yeah, start looking his way too.
01:50:02
Speaker
Yeah, agreed. All right, Lester Worcester. Worcester aren't quite the fantasy said they once were middling in both formats, but still surrender points to buy the buckets to certain spots. So for Lester, Matt Scott or Maroney, either one, if whoever's wearing that 13th shirt for Lester, go ahead. That's, that's definitely someplace that was there seems to be getting blown open without Ollie Lawrence hanging around. So, and also Cowan Green, another one, and this is kind of the theme right now, quietly going about his work and scoring well.
01:50:31
Speaker
That's probably not a bad one. I like, um, I'm a Calum green fan personally as well. So, um, sorry, he's playing for Lester, but let's see. On the other side, Zach Henry, strangely Worcester are poor against fly halfs and TRM, but strong against them in FRD. So TRM, if you have them thumbs up, if you have, if you have to play them in FRD, Nope.
01:50:50
Speaker
And then Dan Cole, just stop. Just stop people. Stop. Stop buying him. Stop. Stop owning him. Get rid of him. He doesn't do anything. And he's still in the high twos. I think maybe high threes, but yeah, no, no, no, no, no. Get rid of him. Get rid of him. He doesn't do anything in Worcester. Actually. Oh, pretty good against props on the other end. Lester have shown some strength. Fantasy wise in the last couple of weeks, third and TRM again, and points against per game, six and six and FRD. So a little bit more leaky there for the warriors.
01:51:20
Speaker
Nick David, Lester, our tough against Obies, but he's been very consistent this year as a player. I think he's going to be fine in this match, especially since we're hanging around still. Annette should be good. Well priced as well. That's a good, that's a good hacker option, especially if Ocker is not good to go this week, which he dropped late last week. So everybody hit the panic button. Oh no.
01:51:47
Speaker
Um, uh, on the other side, uh, Andrew Kitchener, I don't trust any Worcester second row, especially him. He's the highest owned. So no, um, that's why I'm naming him. Uh, many are going to be excited to see Ashton at six ways. This is not the time to play him though. Don't get cute.
01:52:06
Speaker
So, yeah. All right. Do you have one more? Yep. Newcastle versus Exeter. So, you do have one more, don't you? Right. Exeter are leaking now, so... Yeah, wow. Don't shy away from going with Newcastle people. So, okay. That sentence...
01:52:23
Speaker
last year would have made no fucking sense. I would have punched myself for saying it. No shit, right. Okay, exit are leaking out. What the fuck? So don't shy away from using the Newcastle players. Wait. Wait a minute. Did I just take my crazy juice or what?
01:52:41
Speaker
Even the last two years, that would have been something insane to say. Yeah, absolutely. The Newcastle were up in the... Oh yeah, definitely. You didn't have them on your team at all, if you wanted to do well. All of a sudden, here they are. And of course, dammit, I'm going to plug the yank, Greg Peterson. Hey-o!
01:53:00
Speaker
he may steal some line outs. There's, there's, there's, Exeter's line out is not, um, I mean, you know, without those fricking twin towers and. Oh, I know without hell, especially in angry, obviously, but yeah.
01:53:14
Speaker
So on that, for that matter, um, McWiggin, uh, you don't have to worry about line out line outs from them. Uh, should be open season for, for new castles line out. Um, uh, Sean Robinson, same, same idea. Philip Van der Waal. Um, I would, I would stick more with the forwards, um, for new castle, uh, because we noted the 10, who the fuck knows who's going to be playing. I know that's been the problem for them at this point.
01:53:36
Speaker
And distribution has been a problem. So yeah, keep it. Agree. Look more to the forwards, especially because the exit are going to be hitting the forward. So you're going to be getting tackles from the Newcastle forwards. So on the exit, they're struggling to score, too. And without all these guys who are away, their best players being away, well, except for Sam.
01:54:01
Speaker
but their front row should actually be okay. The handle is pretty good. He's quite good, yeah.
01:54:08
Speaker
And they still have some decent props that are in a way. So yeah, start their front row. You should be all right with them. Sam Skinner, I've been plugging him whenever I can. I think he's going to play a huge role through Six Nations. So he might be one to pick up in TRM for the time being while you're in some internationals, maybe away. And Sam Simmons is always, you know,
01:54:33
Speaker
And you know I've been selling on Joe Simmons for a little bit from a family Tennessee perspective. And I think it's time now to see if you can trade him in FRD. There's going to be someone out there who's going to want him who's going to be like, oh, Joe Simmons, fuck, yeah, I'll take Joe Simmons in his five points a game. But they don't know that. So shh.
01:54:56
Speaker
But seriously, I know some leagues he was a first round pick. Some cases like a two overall to three overall. He's very well wanted, but he's not worth it. You can fleece somebody right now. Yeah, you might be able to. You might be able to do that. Okay, of the weeks. My picks for the week actually have a pretty noticeable theme. We'll get to them.
01:55:24
Speaker
So why am I not going to pick somebody from this club? Considering their opposition is against the most porous defense. He's fantastic form. He's just extended to stay with this club. And what's not to like about that? My start of the week for round eight of the prime is the man they call DC at the stoop. Quinn's in England. Scrum half Danny care. Good call.
01:55:47
Speaker
Um, my start of the week is, uh, actually, and both my, my start of the week instead of the week where we're mentioned, um, by one of us, um, who, who are evaluating the team. So mine, my start of the week is someone who I got to evaluate and I, I just was selling like crazy, obviously. So it's the London Irish front row and August and creepy. Ooh. Yes. Let me guess. But any of those, um, any of those type fives or any of those front threes, um, would be good for the Irish this weekend.
01:56:17
Speaker
Mm hmm. Quite good. On the other side, we talked about a lot about guys that do a lot for their club country, whatever. But like my six, again, like my six nations, say the week doesn't usually translate to fancy points in this guy's case. He's also going against an opposition that is on fire, and really tough to find points against. Also, I don't like him.
01:56:40
Speaker
So it is with a bit of a smile on my face that I named my sale week for around eight of the prem. The Tyrion Jamie crossover sale and spring Brooks halfback Francois Faf de clerk. I like that for a couple of reasons.
01:56:56
Speaker
Nice. So my sit of the week is you actually pointed him out in your evaluation of his match. He hasn't been scoring and his team is playing like utter dog crap. So at this point, if you can, especially in FRD, I'm trying to figure that out myself right now, because I have him and Lloyd Evans and I don't think I want to play either of them this week. So my sit of the week is Reese Priestland.
01:57:22
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Tough, tough week. Tough week for the priest. It's not gonna go well. Okay, let's go to pick them real quick here for the prom. Bristol. Hold on. I messed up. That is not the one we want. We want Bristol sale. Yeah, there you go. I'm going to take the bears.
01:57:44
Speaker
I'm also going to take the bears. I think the, yeah, unsophable force beats the immovable object. Yeah. I agree with that. All right. So that's the front. That's the one Friday match on Saturday. Was and saints. Oh boy. This is actually very interesting considering both teams form. Um, I think I want to go. Ooh. Once again, nine, look at, look at the nine and 10 here. Right.
01:58:13
Speaker
Um, I don't know. See, I don't know if Mitchell's playing. I, I'm going to assume he's playing for Northampton. He's not. I'm assuming that, that all, even that, that the shadow squad is, is they have to be in the protocol, right? Okay. That might be a good point. Okay. That's a, that's so that's the assumption I'm making anyway. Yeah. But even, uh, you know, I, I liked what Northampton did last week. So I'm going to take them.
01:58:41
Speaker
I am too. I like Will Porter, but I still think that the Saints will have the edge at 910. Who's playing centers for wasps at that point? You'll put Goprath in.
01:59:05
Speaker
I mean, maybe mill, you know, I will say Miller played a lot better last week than, uh, than a lot of the was players when he came on. So maybe he, he gets a shot and maybe somewhat of a solidifying factor in there, but I don't know that. And I'm not super comfortable with making that position prediction. So yeah. Either way, as long as Hutchinson avoids Fekitoa, um,
01:59:27
Speaker
Yeah. It'll go very well for Saints. Yeah. Fekito might play 12. And Hutch was at 13. That'll make life easier. Whichever combination it is, they just have to figure out a way to get Hutchinson away from Fekito. Yeah. Get him away from him. Stay there. Run him lines away from him and things will go just fine for you.
01:59:51
Speaker
Agreed. Okay. Um, let's try and rattle these ones off. Beth Quinn's Quinn's, uh, Irish Gloucester. Yeah. Who's playing 10 for Gloucester. Yeah, I know. Maybe George Barton. Um, geez, uh, Lester Worcester. I don't like picking this, but I'm going to do it. Lester. Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah. And all of that. I'm not even going to say it. Um, Newcastle, Exeter.
02:00:20
Speaker
up at the Kingsman. Yeah. I got new, you know what I meant? Yeah. Up in, up in new castle. That's the word like Worcester almost had exit or an exit or so. No, that was a six ways. I think.
02:00:34
Speaker
Was it? Oh, I think you're right. It wasn't six ways. Yeah. Yeah. But still that's a long trip. That's a long trip up north. Newcastle is better. Is that much better than Worcester though? So yeah. Okay. Cool. So we ran a little long. If you didn't notice we did, um, we did a, we did a pretty cool little segment there with James. So that's why I ran a little long. Sorry, but not sorry. Uh, we will, um, we'll, we'll, we'll be back to being brief next week. I promise. Uh, as brief as we possibly can be. Hmm.
02:01:02
Speaker
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