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Season 6- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Champion Cup Final & Super Rugby Round 14)
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Big happenings in the fantasy rugby land so that means it's Fantasy Corner to the rescue. On this episode of the FC, we are looking at our CYL D1 and D2 leagues including the first leg of Semi-Finals in FRD Super. Then we look at the Champions Cup Final and rank each position with the two expected teams. It's also start or sit and pick 'em. Grab those notepads fam and enjoy!
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Transcript
Introduction and Hosts' Backgrounds
00:00:04
Speaker
It is. The Fantasy Robias. My name is Jared Dyke. I wanted to say it's stupid and let's move on, but then you kept going. I'm Ben Glauser. I don't like any way anybody handled that. Collusion. Collusion.
Podcast Format and 'Fantasy Corner' Intro
00:00:29
Speaker
Hey, everybody. Welcome to the fantasy Robbie H podcast. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. Let's do the fantasy corner thing. Doo doo doo doo.
Pet Stories and Humorous Anecdotes
00:00:43
Speaker
Throw me a cheese. Dude, we have we have we have a little bit of time for banter. Does Rocky like hear the cheese back and run?
00:00:56
Speaker
No, she hears when we get ice. What? Really? Oh, when we get ice, she is like all up on it. She does not care about cheese as much. I don't know. She's a fucking weird dog. Taz could be dead in his grave and you open that cheese bag and boom, he's there. Like, ooh, so are we PB cheese tacks? I'm like, you dick.
00:01:20
Speaker
Yeah, Rocky is the ice tax collector. She does not care about people food at all, but she's all about it. Huh? So like, yeah, we got you something strange there, buddy. Yeah, I know. Just saying. Obviously, they're fucking weird. They're great, but they're weird. It is. If you know you. Yeah, I know. It was just going to say it's like Kylie.
00:01:46
Speaker
I was just talking to film the story about the one time when she ate your pizza. We were at my old place and Jared had a slice of barbecue chicken. It was probably sitting on this little ottoman and Kylie was always good about not eating. She knew it was not. I would not have expected that out of her in a million years.
00:02:09
Speaker
And I think I'd been sitting there for a good like 20 minutes or so. And she was just like, you know what? Fuck it. It's mine now. I went to get it. And I'm like, where'd it go? And it's on the floor next to your dog. I was like, son of a, what the hell?
00:02:22
Speaker
I never would have guessed that in a million years. I know. She would do that. Not a chance. It would never, nope. You could, 10 times out of 10, I wouldn't have said that. But wow. I was like, hey, that's mine.
Fantasy Rugby League Standings Update
00:02:37
Speaker
She's like, I don't see your name on it. What are you going to do about it? She's like, no, you had your chance. You decided you didn't want it. It's mine now. I was trying to hate slow and not show, man.
00:02:49
Speaker
You know, no, but Rocky Lake doesn't know she doesn't she does she does she loves pizza crust. That's the only thing she will be like, no, that's mine. Fair enough. But other than that, no, the ice tax. She she's a collector there. Oh, OK. Let's go. Thanks. Oh, man. So the pram. Literally no movement, literally no movement because I didn't. You know, you have to hit the save button.
00:03:19
Speaker
Oh, you didn't hit save. I did not hit save or overhead. I think I did. I think I fucking did. But it didn't just didn't register it. So even worse. Yeah, I got a little fucked, which kind of sucks. So like I didn't get Finn Russell as my kicker because that was part of my life. Yeah, I had added him in and it still had slight homeless captain, even though I think I pushed a lot of people still did that entirely for a toy.
00:03:47
Speaker
who was on my bench. I still did okay. It's not the worst, but I got spooned because- You got the spoon. Your spoon is too big. Yeah, because of that shit. But at the same time, it didn't kill me.
00:04:05
Speaker
But I'm still going to bitch about it. But yeah, again, no, no movement. So Cobus, Stu, George, myself, Ben, Duncan, Mark, and Justin is how Prem Champions League looks. And then division two. No, no movement, really.
00:04:27
Speaker
Um, no, I lied. Um, Franco and Abby swap places. So, cause every had the yellow hat. So there you go. Um, that'd be Alex, Paul, Anton, every Franco, Luke, and Barty.
00:04:44
Speaker
Like I, I yeah. Sorry, division two. I'm coming for you next year. I think you champion actually, uh, like I look at my ranking in every other league besides that one. And it's like, yeah, that's awesome. And then I look at that. I'm like, God damn it. Yeah. Can't move.
00:04:59
Speaker
Can't move to save my life if I want to. Anyway, super rugby, super brew. Any woman here? Yay. I swap places with Justin. Yeah. But other than that, that's it. Uh, George had the yellow hat. It's Cobus Mark, Stu, Ben, George, myself, Justin and Duncan in division one, division two is, is, is, um, no movement, literally. Luke had the yellow hat. Paul Franco, Abbry.
00:05:30
Speaker
Uh, Barty, Luke, and Alex is how that order looks. And then, and then, and then semi-finals of the FRD. We do have SACO brackets, remember? So those of you that are playing in both divisions, please remind yourself of that. So you don't, uh, go squandering away points because points are still on the line out there. Yep. I want to do that. Um, but like one, um,
00:06:01
Speaker
George has got like a nice set. It's not like a super big one, but 17 point leads pretty solid. So I'm going to, I got, I got work to do. Uh, and Mark has a 20 point gap on Justin and then Sacco bracket. Ooh, you got a nice little 26 pointer on there. Yeah. Yep. I'll take it. Ooh. And about 25 for Steve Clark. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That helps. Oh yeah. Marky Mark. So we, that was kind of even balanced out a little bit.
00:06:31
Speaker
a little bit, not completely, um, division two. So
Player Rankings and Match Predictions
00:06:41
Speaker
wait for it. You know, my reason, my reason, um, kind of a pillow fight between, I know check to use this where I think that might be Barty. Um, and, uh, Alex 96, 72 Alex was winning though. So he's up by 24.
00:06:59
Speaker
Um, also up by about 24 is player X on Anton on 25, one on one. Anton. Yeah. Yeah. Who knew, right? I couldn't believe it. Dude. What are you doing? What are you doing?
00:07:21
Speaker
And then actually, yeah. And Paul is, I still don't know. I probably should know who Mr. Ruby is, but he had to definitely the best score of the week in division two. He had one 46 has about a 30 point lead on his. So he's going to get himself out of the sack. Oh, very fast here. It looks like we have only had some good ones. Tom, right? Marky Mark health. Um, that's a good one. She's from row, isn't bad.
00:07:48
Speaker
And then you can shape Yaki who had, you know, yeah, decent game. Plus he, plus he hit a kicker too. So that helps. Yeah. Try assist too. That helps. Okay. Nice. Well done friends. Well done. All right. We're on PWR picks. Do you do? Yes, we are. Okay. So, uh, big weekend.
00:08:17
Speaker
We got two left in the PWR before we go into semi-final time, which will actually give us something else to talk about once Prem's done, because there's semi-finals and finals going well into June. So hooray. Thank you for giving us stuff to talk about. With the supers. What's that? We'll have that with the supers. Of course. Okay.
00:08:42
Speaker
Big one for a couple of the matches, which is going to make picking things interesting for folks. Very, very interesting. Yeah. Although I'm pretty, pretty okay with mine. Yeah. I mean, I've gone, so I haven't done standings yet, but I can tell you that not last week, the week before the top scorers were Alex Matthews with 40.
00:09:09
Speaker
Um, Gregson breach Packer and then Katie Buchanan for making her. So funny that we have three backs on there. Usually it's a lot of forwards, right? So it's funny to see that there's three backs on there. Um, I didn't have Gregson two weeks ago, had her this past week and that I'll be happy. I'm happy with that. Yeah.
00:09:32
Speaker
No, you had, you had her two weeks ago. Did I? Yeah, you had two weeks ago. You hadn't, you had Meryl Smith. Well, I got that one this week. Okay. Fair enough. All right. Yay. Once I, once I wrapped that up, I'll put the standings together and I'll post that on. Yeah. Like we said in the other pod where we're kind of heads up bombs for ourselves. We're getting our heads out though. Slowly. Yeah. It's coming. Slowly coming. Um, so we have,
00:10:05
Speaker
picks for the weekend. Let me just look at something real quick because I want to make sure I'm not screwing this up. Um, okay. I think I know what I'm, I think I know what I'm doing. Hey, look at that. At least one of us does. Yeah, you know, have a good moment now and again. Um, yeah, like there's some event, some match ups that like you want to take advantage of and you're just like, that might be good. Depends on how everything looks, but yeah, anyway, um, we got,
00:10:37
Speaker
big one for the, um, for the shark. So I'm going to take, um, big year when it was my kicker on that one for sure. Um, and I think, and again, I'm going to hold myself to change this, but I think I'm going to go with Beatrice Rigoni also from the sharks. All right. Well, the Italian international there. And then that's where things get funny for me. Um,
In-depth Player Performance Analysis
00:11:12
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I think I'm going to go. I don't think I could get. We just look, make sure I'm pulling this one out of my bum. Yeah, I'm going to go. I think I'm going to go Rachel Malcolm from Loughborough for my forward. All right. What is that? I am going with that match as well for a significant portion of my team, I'd say. But I'll start with the forward and Bears, Quinn's I think will
00:11:41
Speaker
be very similar to Bear's Quinn's. I'm going to go with Alicia Butchers and the forwards from Bristol there. Good one. And then I'm going to go- Joyce Butchers. Joyce Butchers. Joyce Butchers, sorry. And then I'm going to go in the-
00:11:58
Speaker
in the, uh, I'm going to go with a kind of a mediocre, the great player on an, a mediocre matchup. Um, and for both my back and my kicker, I'm going with, uh, the, the Loughborough lightnings, Emily scarret. Okay. Nice trail fighters. Yeah. Use her for both. Yes. Okay. Nice. Back in my kicker. That's a, that's a, that's a solid play. I like that. I haven't seen anybody play that yet. So we'll see how that works. Right. Be interested.
00:12:29
Speaker
We shall be interested. I think it's been done with, um, Sophie, maybe Sophie. That's the only one I can think of. That, that, that sounds kind of right. So anyway, so champions cup. So we're going to, we're going to do something a little different. Those of you that have been with us since the, the rugby magazine days, we're going to put out, um, our own rankings, depending on who's in the lineup, obviously for both to lose and monster. Um,
00:12:59
Speaker
you know, of course rankings will have much to do with matchup, how the well they've scored and price. So, hence we will have a week chat about that and then we'll get into the start sets of the super stuff. Who's your, who do you see as the number one prop for the weekend? Like, it's probably buyer Porter, right? Yeah, I'd probably go with, with the Lenster.
00:13:25
Speaker
Uh, props in this case, um, they're both 4 million. So there's no real difference in terms of that. Right. That's the only, that's the only drawback there is that they're little on the go with the lesser of the, of either two and just maybe put your money somewhere else. But you're, you just, well, you may end up getting hit because
00:13:47
Speaker
Those are the only two props that actually use a score. Right. Um, yeah, exactly. Cause for a long one, be all right. But how much is he worth? I don't think it doesn't have it in the, okay. No, it doesn't have it there. Um, no, I was just looking for on the, on the results page. Cause that'll, um, but yeah, probably going to go with by over Porter, but it's a coin flip there. Um,
00:14:17
Speaker
I mean, for long is three, if you want to go something slightly cheaper, that's not going to totally kill your score. Right. But at the same time, his scores, he hasn't scored over 10. Average. Yeah, for sure. No, he hasn't scored over 10 in the competition. No, I know. But I'm just saying his scores are pretty much average to the props. Yeah. Although, and Porter has only done it once. So I'm probably, of the two of them, I'm going to go with five because he's done it twice. There you go. There's a 10 and 11 under his belt, and his lowest is a six.
00:14:47
Speaker
High ceiling, high floor. Yep. There you go. Bye, bye, bye. You should change your team name to that. Malvaca or Sheehan? Those are probably your two. There's a million between each of them in terms of price. Right. I'll probably go Malvaca because he's cheaper.
00:15:08
Speaker
There won't lose much. No, I and honestly kind of same thing like it was it so Sheehan's top score has been sixteen and a half again when he played against sale. Mavaka has gotten to twenty three and a thirty one under his belt against Quinn's on the road and Ulster on the road and an eighteen and a half on it. So he's he's topped fifteen
00:15:30
Speaker
Four times a few times Sheehan's done it twice. So I think I'd go my vodka. There you go. And he's cheaper like you said any cheaper
00:15:43
Speaker
Oh, by the way, there's no team limit. There's just the transfer limit and obviously in the salary cap is actually irrelevant. So I just realized that. Oh, so it doesn't matter. There you go. It does not matter. But I think my vodka still apply. Yeah. So that, um, cause I think I think Subaru realized there's no way someone can squeeze a decent team and tell pretty much is that some of these guys are at. Yeah. It's also the downside of not being able to adjust the prices. It is. So I have credit to them for doing that. Yeah. Um,
00:16:13
Speaker
With that, there's four intriguing locks in this match, maybe five, if you count Flamel, because he might be playing in the back row, depending on how things are going.
00:16:27
Speaker
Um, Baird, Mayafu, Baird. Where do we play if I have? Because he used to play fly. Mayafu McCarthy or Arnold. I don't, I like Richie Arnold. I just don't have a ton of interest in him. No, not so much. Mayafu and Baird are my guys. I mean, they, they've been my guys. So it's like, I'm saving a transfer on that. Yeah. Well, I have Mayafu. Yeah. I have both of them. I have Mayafu and Baird already. So they're not going anywhere.
00:16:57
Speaker
Um, back row is going to be interesting. It's like, to me, it's kind of like Kaitlyn Doris and then pick two to lose players, depending on what the back bar looks like. I mean, I still really liked Jack Willis. I do too. And I actually have him. Yeah. So I think it's him and Ruma honestly, but take my.
00:17:25
Speaker
Probably preference on that. Yeah. And I, I still think I'm, I'm hedging my bets on van der Fleer. So, um, cross could be a, uh, an interesting contrarian play. Yeah. Cause he's, he's scoring. Okay. He's one of those, but he hasn't scored under 11. He hasn't scored over 14. That's not bad. That's like, okay, you're going to get a solid, you know,
00:17:55
Speaker
11 to 14 points there. Whereas some others are more, you know, a little bit of, what should we call it? I can't think of the word. But I don't know. Yeah. Volatility. There it is. You don't need to. Too many. That's too much. No.
00:18:24
Speaker
We got there on the end. It's okay. I can't. Yeah. Make the case to pick James and Gibson Park over DuPont. Contrary in play. Because everyone else is going to go with DuPont. So you want to be that guy and go with Gibson Park.
00:18:51
Speaker
But bear in mind that guy either wins big or loses big. Oh, absolutely. It's it's a Hail Mary play. Yeah. And it's one of those you kind of lose big. So that's it. All right. That's the best I can give you there. Yeah. Fly house going to be very interesting. If you pick if you don't pick Ross Byrne and you pick
00:19:16
Speaker
Intimac, you have to pick Ramos in the back three or, or King Horned or whatever one it is. It doesn't matter which one, right? Because then you don't have a kicker. Right. Otherwise, because Intimac's not kicking unless something really bad happens. And it's kicking. Okay. It's not horrible, but it's not great. So do you, do you want,
00:19:46
Speaker
Intermark that badly? I don't know. Cause like you look at it, his, his highest, he, you know, he had 19 and a half at home against Exeter. Other than that, he has said seven and a six and a half. So the body work isn't quite there. Um, and as you said, now you have to pick in someone who's the kicker and it's not as though.
00:20:10
Speaker
Burn scored fairly well last year. Burn scored, yeah, he's not scoring badly, especially if you give him the tee. So I consider the tee, especially with this being such an important match, I see the kicking for three coming into play. I see Leinster kicking a lot of penalties. So, you know, I'm leaning towards Burn.
00:20:41
Speaker
Yep. So the midfield, are we, I think most people are going to end up with LaBelle if they can help it. Yeah, you have to. Because he ends up on the wing usually. Right. Um,
00:20:58
Speaker
Do you go with Aki or are you looking somewhere else in terms of center? Maybe you're Frawley's at fullback. I'm not certain if we're doing a start of the week instead of the week. I did prepare it. So I'll just say going back to the loose forwards, Jack Willis is my start of the week. So obviously I'm going to ride with him. Um, Peter Aki is my sit of the week. Okay.
00:21:22
Speaker
I think his style of play and the way that, you know, it kind of feeds right into, um, Blenster's defense. And I just don't think I don't see it. So I'd be looking elsewhere. Yeah. Although the same time, it was a kind of a coin flow between Aki and Henshaw. So what are you going to do? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or maybe you end up with a.
00:21:51
Speaker
an off the wall one like Jamie Osborne or something. Right. Which I might end up doing. I don't know if Ringrose would be healthy for this. Yeah, I don't know. And then back three. So if you if you've gone
00:22:08
Speaker
Ross Byrne. You don't need to go Ramos or King Horn. If you think that the points will be good enough without the tee, like against Exeter, obviously, you know, King Horns was pretty good. Ramos hasn't had quite the same luck. They put a pretty good number on Quincy, even if you didn't pick his. Pick up for a kicker, but
00:22:38
Speaker
I think law was going to be one of the first names everyone picks. Yup. Maybe Malia, maybe not. I don't know. I would roll the dice on Malia. And then your third is. So that's the question is, um, is Hugo Keenan healthy? I don't, I don't know at the moment. Right. And I don't know that I'd go Larmor.
00:23:07
Speaker
Um, and who's their other wing? Who am I missing? I'm, I'm totally blanking on it. Uh, might be Jimmy O'Brien. Yeah. I might, I might go O'Brien. Yeah.
00:23:22
Speaker
be interested. Yeah, whoever who's who and what is everyone's third back replayer will be very interesting. I think that's going to be there's going to be quite a very variation on that across the board for a lot of people that'll probably be the one or more.
00:23:38
Speaker
Um, yeah, that's probably why I'd go. The wider variety of it. Right. That's probably why I go. Um, well, no, we already said that. So yeah, we did, we did say that. So then it's a matter of, you know, do you, do you go with one of the guys from the, one of the full backs from Toulouse and then just live with the non-kicking points? Or do you put one of the other guys from Wednesday? And the issue is there is not only you going with the non-kicking points, but you know that they're going to probably get subbed out. Well, especially Kinghorn and Ramos from the same team. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
00:24:08
Speaker
Yep. Agreed. Agreed, agreed. All right. I think I started us on the super bruise now. Waked up in my head.
00:24:20
Speaker
Uh, hold on checking or do you, or do you have chiefs? I have, I have chief hurricanes. You start. So I start. Um, so, um, again, the, the sheet's not done. Um, I'm trying to, I'll hope to have it done tomorrow so you guys can get your, you know, last minute. So, but at the same time, but not much is going to have changed. Um,
00:24:44
Speaker
Anyway, for the Chiefs, you kind of know Tupouwai is good for both. Ratama is good for both. Their back row, we're probably looking at FRD at most. Damien McKenzie should still be in the mix for your 10 in Super Brew and with the tee.
00:25:06
Speaker
Again, I'd go Anton Leonard Brown over Tupiah, but at this point it's kind of close. I'm not sure we don't know which one. Tupiah has been moving around all over the place. Do you know he's at 12? I'm sorry? See his brother play for the Blues this past week. No, fuck. Yeah. A prop. Jeez. What happened? It's the one I want to know what happened. Quinn and Mason, what happened in there?
00:25:35
Speaker
And then their back three is obviously a full go. For the hurricanes, their front row, big time, yes. Obviously, the chief's front row too, especially an FRD is worth it. But for the hurricanes, yeah, their front row, Lakai and Jose are
00:25:55
Speaker
kind of shots in the dark for super brew because they could go off. They could also get completely stymied or I'm leaning towards, they'll get solid points. So if you've got them, I would not trade them out. If you don't have them, I'd consider them.
00:26:15
Speaker
maybe look elsewhere. Um, I think I have one of them and I'm just going to end up keeping them. So, um, same. There you go. Uh, so like, wait, who do I have? I have, oh, um, nope. I have Flanders. He's probably going to go cause he's, he's going. That's not the one you want to keep. That was like a one week deal. Um, yep. Uh, Parinara. Yes. Proctor over, um, Barrett.
00:26:39
Speaker
Um, and then the hollow and more be not so much love, although if in, in, um, an FRD love is a fine option. Solid play. Yeah, I think we'll see how it goes this week. Brumbies and rebels, um, for the Brumbies, I'm okay with the front road this week, although I'm not going to take any of them in super brew. Um,
00:27:02
Speaker
Maybe Tom Hooper and super real, but, and then if you're on a roll with him and I've already had to use, is he a locker or back row in that? Actually hold on one second timeout. I think he's a back row and maybe I'm crazy. That sounds right. It doesn't say if he's a, if he's a back row and that don't bother. Um, let's see.
00:27:29
Speaker
Yep. He is. So leave that alone, but I think he's locking. Um, so he's probably an okay play. Um, Nick Frost is at six. So he should be, he should probably be rostered in most FRD leagues, if not all. And then, um, for your consideration for Subaru Brown, Subaru only Valentini both, um, long against Subaru only again, little CO.
00:27:55
Speaker
both tool. Yes. Uh, to a Nicky towel, FRD only. Uh, I see to really, I read FRD only before Jesus. They took blood out of me today. It didn't help. Tom, Tom, right? Yes. Obviously I shouldn't have to tell you, uh, your head's kind of a shot in the dark in FRD, uh, for the rebels.
00:28:19
Speaker
not loving their front row this week. So maybe consider elsewhere. I might consider Canem in like an FRD situation. The auto has been okay in FRD. So that's also a possible play. Lauren's FRD only for sure. Um, no kind of Gordon this week. That's bad news for basically anybody outside of that. Um,
00:28:40
Speaker
I don't know if I trust strong. Callaway is like my top guy to absolutely like still find some work to do. And Dinagoo probably number two on that list. Everyone else I might avoid when I have Lancaster. So that pisses me off, but you know, it is what it is. All right. Off to, um, I guess staying in New Zealand. I am anyway. Yes. Yes. Moana hosting the Waratahs. Um,
00:29:10
Speaker
Good Lord. There's opportunity for points aplenty, but at the same time, this is kind of a who shits the bed mower game. Yep, absolutely. So for Moana, low to an EC, yes. Willy Haveli, especially in FRD, is a big time go. Sevilla could score because he's been doing it fairly often this season somehow.
00:29:36
Speaker
And even Danny Tawala, yes. The other backs are the Patafilo, Fomai, Finianisi are acceptable for FRD. For the Taz, Holloway, Gamble, Gleason are good for FRD. Gordon and Edmund are good for both formats. Then the rest of that back line is good for FRD with Peach and Marky Mark acceptable but not recommended for the Superbrew.
00:30:07
Speaker
The super bruise. Yeah. Like if you go with Marky Marky, yeah, he could probably put one down, but yeah. Um, I think he's pretty close to to lay in price. So consider that might be true. That might be true. Um, no, he's not actually. Fuck. He's only 6 million. Oh, no shit. Nevermind. Yeah, go for it. That's a, that's a decent bit of coin to spend there. All right. Crusaders and blues.
00:30:37
Speaker
for the Crusaders, their front row is, is, is good for me. Um, I don't know if I really like any of their back row this week. I like the way black at our plays, but it doesn't do anything for your fancy value. So, uh, Hotham, if you haven't picked them up in FRD, what the hell are you waiting for?
00:30:56
Speaker
Burke should be serviceable on FRD this week. Reese has been good in both formats. I think Amu will kind of get the writing on the wall that he was given last week and shape up a little bit and turn on at least an FRD worthy performance. So there's that.
00:31:12
Speaker
Fiyaki might be kicking after Burke gets pulled, so keep your eyes peeled on that one. Nickle's been good in both formats, so I'm okay with it this week. Just be careful, just temper your expectations in terms of that. That better be your third outside back if you're picking them in Superbrew. That's for goddamn sure.
00:31:28
Speaker
Blues, front row, yep. Tui Pilotsu should be a lot rostered in all formats. Yawani Institute to choke in desperation FRD if you need to. Funaki, NFRD, yep. Plumber, same. Lamb. 12 scares me, so this is kind of meh. Yawani's not been great. I need to see it from him honestly.
00:31:52
Speaker
Um, Talia and then, um, Oh, Parafetta is back. So maybe we'll see who has the tea. Right. I think it's going to be interesting to see that because Plumber's been great. I think it was, he has first missed on the weekend in like, I don't know, 50 kicks or something stupid. So I don't know if we're going to take it off of him. So that leaves Parafetta kind of man in those situations. So just.
00:32:16
Speaker
temper expectations, especially since he's probably not going to be given a full 60, 70 minutes. He's probably getting pulled at 50. Keep it in mind guys. Keep it in mind. Okay. Off to reds force. Um,
00:32:32
Speaker
Well, threads are likely to be a little, what's that word? Angriest. Yeah. So their front row is a go. Ryan Smith, I know you are not a fan. He's a thing this year, so I can't help it. That's what it is. McRae, obviously, especially without Wilson.
00:32:55
Speaker
He kind of puts the spotlight on him, but at the same time, he's doing all right with that. So do not really worry so much about that. Although he only got three last week, but that was everybody goes to the Drew and poops a little bit. The Drew comes away, beat up the usually little annoyed. So look for him to bounce back against the practice girl.
00:33:18
Speaker
Tate, obviously. Line is a sneaky option in Superbrew. And the centers and Tim Ryan. Grilly and Jock are okay for FRD.
00:33:30
Speaker
Right. I really want to get Tim Ryan on my team, but I'm struggling because I have all these other... Who do you take out? Right. Do I take out McRae? No. Do I take out Fester? No. Do I take out JTA? No. Do I take out Fluke? Don't take out Fluke. He's one of the best scoring centers in the game right now. Exactly. So I have to sort out who I'm going to take out. Good luck with that one. Thank you.
00:33:52
Speaker
Anyway, for the force, Jeremy Williams, Hamish Stewart are really the only ones who are okay in either format. Tazano, Donaldson, Billy Kunzel, Curly Beale are FRD only. And again, reds are going to be pissed, so. Mikey Dudley. Yeah. Good luck to everyone. Have fun storming the castle. Yeah. Highlanders and Drua.
00:34:22
Speaker
Hylin just went row. Nope. Uh, Billy Harmon's your only guy that you're going to play an FRD in the pack. Besides that, uh, going to the back row though, there should be interesting. Um, pocket Tava. Yep. FRD for sure. Probably not going to get them into super brew though. Um, there's just a slightly better picks for half back. That'd be my only logic there. But if I can go, okay. FRD. Yes. Roll them in there. Um,
00:34:50
Speaker
I think he's going to get a lot of kicks and he'll just be able to adapt to the drew a style play. Well, so might see some running room. Um, Sam Gilbert, FRD only, um, at best. And then the recce tabata, but not why in rotomatopoeic unique ends are definitive FRD rolls of the dice out there for sure. I mean, there aren't anything that rolls with the dice. I think those are solid places.
00:35:14
Speaker
Drew a front row is a is a good one for this week. You should play walker in Super real because he's playing six. He's this is a lock Salaba. Yes, both formats is fine. Curvoli frd only I'm stronger Vula same Momo River to manda dress I say yep, and then I
00:35:41
Speaker
I'm interested to see you as the take because I bet you in terms of long distance kicks, Valentini, I think has the better boots. So you might see him take the longer distance stuff and I'm sure I'm gonna take the shorter stuff. So you might see some split kick points this week, just FYI. So if you got to roll the dice on Valentini and fly off god fucking speed, you're probably in trouble. And then if I need to tell you to play Massey in any format, you should do it. Yeah. You should be listening to us more.
00:36:13
Speaker
Oh, you should be listening to us more anyway, but that's besides.
Upcoming Rugby Matches Predictions
00:36:21
Speaker
On to the of the weeks. Yeah. I actually happen to mention both of my of the weeks in this first, though, that it starts. This is a unit and a player who have been.
00:36:38
Speaker
Pretty excellent. So the player himself is the top scoring in his position in Superbrew. And I don't have the FRD stats up, but I'm willing to bet that that position group is one of the top scoring in there as well. Actually, no, I don't have it up on my computer. Hold on. I think I might be able to get it quickly. What is your top three? Is that who you're looking at? What's up?
00:37:08
Speaker
Blues are top three, if that's what you're looking at. No, I'm looking at the reds. They're front row and F30 are number two to the hurricanes, at least for total points. They're three. Sorry, that's a lot. Average, they're two. Well, OK, that goes. Yeah, I didn't take a look. Again, this is not counting last week.
00:37:28
Speaker
Um, so anyway, they were second going into last week. Um, so red's pretty good. Red's front row. Um, yeah. And in an FRD and then Matt faceler as the hooker. Good pick as my start of the week. Good pick. So.
00:37:46
Speaker
My fellow has got a good matchup. He's playing out of position to his advantage and super talented diet. I think he'll find some space this week. Uh, my start of the week's going to be as they appreciate from war to us. Also the war ties start the week last week and it didn't work well. Sorry. New South Wales. Sorry. Not sorry.
00:38:12
Speaker
My sit of the week, um, I did mention him, but like, uh, not only in passing, he was not in my, my list. I just kind of rambled into him. Um, but, uh, quintupiah, as much as he moves around the field, he's, I don't, I don't like him in super brew this week and an FRD. Um,
00:38:32
Speaker
Oh, I could see him getting like maybe an offload for a try assist. But I don't think he's going to have the running room that he likes to operate in, because I think the hurricane's defense is just too good. Yeah. And I don't think. Mackenzie's going to put him in great spots. That's for that. Now we wish the root cause of the problem. Yeah. If you had a better 10.
00:39:03
Speaker
He'd be excellent. Yeah. So this guy has become a little more popular in fantasy in recent weeks, but I think this is where he gets put back into his place, uh, playing a tough defense. And I just don't think, I think the guy that's playing the number across him is just going to completely outshine him. And he's going to have no idea what to do. Um, I said that he's going to be Christianally a Willie from crusaders. Fair. It's a two shoes across from him. He's going to pants him. Yeah, that's not a good matchup for.
00:39:33
Speaker
Nope. Nope. Nope. Okay. Pick them. Get me out of here. All right. Um, champions cup, the cup of finals, once her and to lose at Tottenham hotspur stadium, I have to lose winning. Okay. I'm not like,
00:40:04
Speaker
I don't know. I'm not sure how comfortable I'm with that, but I have them winning. Man. Okay. Things in pickup might get real interesting after this one because I didn't take one star. There you go.
00:40:19
Speaker
just feel like after the last two years, if they lose again, like Dublin might burn. I'm just saying. Just saying. Throwing that out there. I'm not saying it'll happen. It might. It might. Chief's hurricanes. Super rugby. Obviously, I got to go with the Chiefs. One dollar, sir. Yep. Brumby's Rebels.
00:40:49
Speaker
Brumby's. Yeah. Shot their shot. And now they're just playing out the string. Moana. Yeah, I agree. Now they're gonna get pants to watch. Yeah. Crusaders and blues. Oh, blues. Yep. What does I want the Crusaders to end to try and help us if we can help it. I'm not stupid enough to think that that's gonna happen. Right.
00:41:19
Speaker
Reds force. Reds. Yep. I haven't made that perfectly clear. A little bit. I'll just draw. I got the draw. Yeah, they so the things are interesting going into this final round and I do and I have the door to they really need to like lock this down and make life a little easier on themselves next weekend, their whole next weekend.
00:41:47
Speaker
to not very good Rebels team and Rebels may make the postseason as well. But yeah, they just really want to lock this down and try and give themselves the best chance possible. So if they lose, then the Western Forest are still within a shout.
00:42:05
Speaker
So it's like, yeah, you guys got to do this. So hate to tell you, right? You have no choice. It would be advisable. Yeah. You have no choice. You've got to do this. So, uh, it will be interesting to see how that goes.
Challenges for New Coaches
00:42:20
Speaker
Um, yeah. So we got, Hmm.
00:42:29
Speaker
And they already said they were talking about it on some of the broadcast. The top four is already locked in. It's just a matter of what the order is. Yep. And I think the reds are all but guaranteed if they're not yet, they should be. Yeah, they are. Okay. So they're in. So the only team, so that really is the rebels, the hounders and the jury all fighting like hell to make sure that they stay. Nobody else can catch them. Although really like the crusaders, I don't know if I don't see the force.
00:42:53
Speaker
I don't see the forest. I see maybe the crusaders sneaking into the eight spot. Yeah. Out of nowhere, but that's about it.
00:43:02
Speaker
Well, there was a testy exchange of their coaching staff, apparently. Oh, there was. I didn't see it. I wish I'd seen it. Damn. Yeah. It's just kind of bullshit because it doesn't matter what team it is, first year head coach, it dips a little bit. Sometimes it does. Generally. And you're talking about like, maybe one of the best club coaches ever. Right.
00:43:27
Speaker
So now he's the international coach. Like it's a tough act to follow, man. You're talking about one of the best tens that's played the game in a while. Right. A lot of shit over shit happens. Yeah. Give him, I don't, I don't like that they were giving him shit, but at the same time you got to expect it at some point. That's the, that's the nature of the beast. It is.
00:43:52
Speaker
Anywho. Yeah. So we're going to check out of here. My friends, one of us is going to owe the other one a dollar. We'll find out how that goes.
Conclusion and Future Announcements
00:44:01
Speaker
Um, but yeah, we'll get sheets out this week and obviously post start sit, uh, enjoy the champions cup final this weekend. And we've got you guys next week. Have a good one off later. Cheers.
00:44:15
Speaker
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