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Season 2- Episode 9- World Cup Semi-Finals & Premiership Round 2
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First off, apologies for the length of this pod, we didn't think we had this much to talk about, but somehow still managed to talk this long. I promise it's worth it because we have a few laughs and try to really help you out with your fantasy teams. We talk about the referee appointed for the World Cup Final and who else we would consider. We talk a bit about the comments being thrown about after the big clash last Saturday with England & New Zealand, and of course the game that was a definite let off that occurred the following day. Of course, we wrap up all of the weekend's action in a sloppy weathered round 2 of the Premiership and give you our best advice for start sit in The Rugby Magazine fantasy teams as well as draft format leagues. Bear with us, get cozy and enjoy the ride for this week's episode.
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Introduction and Podcast Promotion
00:00:08
Speaker
Everybody, how's it going? It's the fantasy rugby games. My name's Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. So, yeah. Not as much to get to at least in this week, but. Slowing down a little bit. Yeah. But there was some fantastic rugby and there was some pretty crap rugby, depending on what day you watched rugby, I guess, and which country you watched it in. So we'll get into that. Let's let's open these beers real quick here. I don't have to ask me twice. Yeah. Good new. That is the name of the beer.
00:00:38
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and it's not so bad. No, it's quite good.
Podcasting Tactics and Humor
00:00:43
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Make sure that you're subscribed to us on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, and Spotify. Leave us a review. We haven't had a review in a little while. So we would certainly welcome a review, even if it's a one-star review and you write something about us that you don't like. That'd be great, because it would at least help us. We're okay with that. We don't- We don't share our beer. Yeah, that's about it. Why don't we share our beer last week? That's true, we do.
00:01:07
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I met with the people. Yeah, we did. Well, if somebody wants to share beer with us, that's cool too. Yeah. But yeah, you know, we don't beg for five star reviews and you know, there's a certain other sport fantasy podcast that is basically saying leave us a five star review and ask us a question and we'll read it on the air. I'm like, that's kind of gimmicky and
00:01:28
Speaker
We don't do this for the reviews. We do this for the rugby Yeah, we do this for the rugby and we do this for you guys So we just want to know what your what your thoughts are and that's all we want for it We don't we if it's a one star. It's a one star and we'll figure we'll do what we can right? You know, we're only two guys for the most part We might equal a third if you put a few we are quite large average say if you ever just I guess we could probably get a third somewhere in there small third person, um
Rugby Mag Upgrades and Rugby News
00:01:54
Speaker
Yeah, rugby-matic upgrades have been huge for me, especially last week, where I, well, number one, there was nothing we could do about the whole Ben Spencer thing. I was like, oh, I guess I'm still on that one. That's something that you get automatically. My captain and kicker.
00:02:09
Speaker
Same. Yeah. Yeah. So my captain, I already made my captain Earl, but they switched my kicker to Sheedy, which wasn't that bad. Could have been worse. But yeah, just the whole lineup. The lineups have been getting tossed around once again. It's early season.
00:02:28
Speaker
Coaches are trying to figure out what their best lineup is still a couple injuries have popped up So it's it's really helpful to just have it all in one spot and now hey, my whole team is sitting I probably need to take make some changes, you know So yeah, your rugby mag upgrades are totally worth it in just that thing alone So go ahead and go have a look at them and make sure that you help those guys out
00:02:48
Speaker
News and notes Dave Rennie it sounds like it's a confirmed Appointment to rugby Australia not official official, but it's pretty much gonna be Ironclad after the World Cup's over so that'll seal my
00:03:05
Speaker
Michael Cheka was done, and we talked about it last week. So he's had to go with these guys before, just not quite to the same level. So we'll see what happens. Good luck to you, dude. There's a lot going on in Rugby Australia that needs to be addressed.
00:03:22
Speaker
You know maybe something about the player pool and how that's established because You know, you might need to lower that cap number a little bit or have some sort of exception rule like you get one player that's an exception Because I can think of one guy that probably should rather woke up for them that wasn't and you can just be like I have a couple maybe uh, there's one one big one. Yeah, there's one two big ones, but
00:03:45
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one of them. Yeah, one very big. But yeah, so maybe do something like that. Yeah, you got to have, you know, and that's what so well, then we'll see, you know, when we get to one of these matches. But Razi Erasmus said to, you know, South African rugby, like, hey, I need to be able to pick the players I want. Right. And so they're like, OK. Yeah. That was like, oh, that was easy. Yeah. And that's why didn't I make that easier? Yeah. They've done their own things to help make South African rugby a little more
00:04:14
Speaker
uh, appetizing to the players to be able to stay home. They got Malcolm marks to stay home. Um, I think they got Pollard to stay home as well. So, or maybe actually, no, I don't think Paul is leaving, but he's got enough caps. So he'll be fine. Um, but yeah, so they, they have gotten some guys to stay, stay put in South Africa to make their road be more appealing.
00:04:32
Speaker
to the fans because obviously that's what you want to go and watch. You want to go watch the guys that are playing for the Springboks and the club teams. So that's a but I think rugby Australia can take a couple of notes around there.
Referee Concerns and Match Analysis
00:04:43
Speaker
Definitely. It'll help. It'll help. There's other stuff that are news and notes that I want to get into. I guess you know what? Let's talk about drone guy says. How to ruin a final.
00:04:58
Speaker
I mean, like, right now, if I'm world rugby, I am shitting my pants over this.
00:05:07
Speaker
like to have a French referee work the final is, I mean, we, I think we talked about that at the very beginning of this, like when, even before then, when, when the, the, the teams were announced, the, the, the referees were announced. We were like, uh, there was a lot of French, is there any, it's possible that we get a French referee in the final and we both kind of. Four of them out of how many the odds are much higher at that point.
00:05:32
Speaker
But they still had other options, like, because, and it's not that, you know, at some point you have to take the referee ranking out of it and say, okay, look, I understood Nigel Owens has picked up an injury and can't referee. Fair enough. It happens. Okay. So there's one. Right. Um, I got three more in my brain that I'd probably like better. And Barnsey can't referee because as we saw the England players were selfish and would not let him referee a final.
00:06:00
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Yeah, shout out to Squidge. And then you have a guy like Gus Gardner, who might not be as highly rated as some of the French referees, but you can be fairly certain he's not going to just completely cock it up. Whereas with Garces or Plott or any of these fuckers, flip a fucking coin.
00:06:22
Speaker
Because you don't know what you're getting. No. And do you really want that to like, you know, for as much criticism as the referees have taken this World Cup? Some of it even deserved.
00:06:38
Speaker
There's it They're opening themselves up to being like what the fuck you people just saying what the fuck happened at the world cup The referees are the story not the players and you don't want that especially in the final. It looks like we're getting Right. No, you don't Yeah, I mean there's a reason that there hadn't been a french referee in a final And it's not because that you know, the french made all the finals because I hadn't so You gotta tell me
00:07:05
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You know what changed between you know 1987 and 2019 Probably not much not much. So yeah, that's that is what it is. Unfortunately Um, yeah, i'll i'll say the names that I know obviously nigel. He's hurt can't do anything Well, I would I would have taken both australians over this guy and I would take him. Who's the other australian? Nick barry
00:07:28
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I take Ben O'Keeffe as well. Yes. I put him on that list as well. So, yeah, I mean, without Nigel. I mean, I'm going to have fucking Skeen as the TMO because I might as well. Right. Might as well. Oh, we're going to just completely bottle this thing. You might as well just do 100 percent and throw Ben Skeen in there. If you're going to do this, let's fucking go. Let's go. Oh, God. All right. So enough of that. Let's let's talk about the teams that that are going to play in it and how they got there. Hell, yes.
00:07:57
Speaker
Holy shit, what a match. I mean, what a match, especially by England, but really, it was just a titanic clash that we were really hoping for, and it was the match that everybody deserved when it was decided this would be these two teams. It was a collision course that everybody saw. They were just like, all right, both these teams are probably gonna win their pools each. They're just gonna put them on the same side of the bracket, so this was gonna be a hell of a semifinal, and it was.
00:08:26
Speaker
I think that's going to end up being a better match than the final, unfortunately. But that was just like, you know, there's a lot of comparisons between sports when you are, you know, especially in America, they like to talk about, you know, we get to a Super Bowl in the NFL and it's, it's, they talk, you know, it's too heavy weights, kind of, you know, feeling each other out or they're just going toe to toe, like punch for punch. Throwing it. And that's, you know, England came out and they said, they first off, can we talk about the smirk?
00:08:55
Speaker
Yeah, I mean because the whole the whole thing with uh, the thing about it is just silly like the the people that are just like oh it's like Disrespectful or whatever i'm like, no, how much that's that's confidence right there. That's somebody looking at this and saying This is your challenge to me i'm ready for this challenge and you don't know how ready we are That's that's that's what that smirk said to me. It's like you can do your dance And and it's not disrespectful to say, you know, it's your day. No, it's
00:09:22
Speaker
Do this guess what this isn't gonna be decided in the here and now this is gonna be decided in the next 80 minutes right and we got you and Boy, howdy did they prove that right off the bat? Mm-hmm and just the for England to come out and do something that a lot so we talk a lot about
00:09:42
Speaker
or I've talked a lot about Ireland and how they were able to get other teams to play their game. New Zealand, the only way to beat New Zealand is to be better at their game, which is just playing fucking rugby. It's not, oh, we're going to, you know, pound you. It's not, oh, we're going to.
00:09:59
Speaker
Just go, you know, crash, crash, crash, and then and outscore you. You know, Ireland are successful. Yeah, they got up early and then choked him out. That's that's definitely certainly a tactic to to to use, but that's not England's style.
00:10:14
Speaker
They so they were like, all right our then we're gonna play open rugby. We're gonna run to space We're gonna put the ball in space see if the the kiwis can defend us. Yep, make a man up and Shit, did they do a good job ever? I did see a interesting piece talking about how because The all-blacks do love to use their decoy runners to get the ball wide and especially off the ruck they like to
00:10:39
Speaker
have the decoy runners come in and then skip those guys and go right to the 10 while they didn't use those decoy runners enough to make England respect them. So England were just like, screw them, we're just gonna fuck off this and go attack your back line where you guys are set up. And that was what they killed.
00:10:56
Speaker
the last two the last two poems with or yeah, the last certainly island at least was getting that ball wide quick and just getting them to bite on that inside those inside guys and I don't think England cared they were just like, listen, if you want frickin Joe Moody to take that ball up, okay, go ahead. Yeah, I'll take I'll let Joe Moody run. I don't want Bowdoin Baird or Richie Wong or any of those guys getting loose.
00:11:17
Speaker
So it was a fantastic match, you know, guys to point out. And, you know, this is not to take anything away from New Zealand. People are kind of going over the head. You know, Steve Hansen, I don't know if you saw the press conference with him and Karen Reid or the comments that were made. He took a bit of a, he took a question that was
00:11:37
Speaker
It might have seemed a little harmless but because of the the terms that were used and the way the pride that the Kiwis have It was a bit of a dagger to him and he didn't like it questioning whether or not the Kiwis were hungry enough to win the match I was like, ooh, and that's not something that they thought he we take lightly. Yeah. No, that's yeah, I was you know, it's
00:11:59
Speaker
And I do think there's been a lot of, a lot of the media have like, there's a couple of articles I've seen that like, oh, they got one lucky try. They got three tries. No, the, the Kiwis did. And, you know, New England, I'm sorry, England dominated. I'm sorry. I live in New England. I can't help it. England dominated them. I'm like, yeah, they did defensively. But to say that they like dominated them and they got one lucky try is absolute shit.
00:12:26
Speaker
They earned, trust me, they earned that try. They did. No doubt. Listen, you don't get down there by mistake. No. Yeah, okay, Jamie George screwed the throw up, but Artie Surveyo was the one that was Johnny on the spot, so good on him. We talked about the guy wearing the 10 shirt for the team in white.
00:12:47
Speaker
I don't love him, and I don't necessarily think he did amazing, but what he did do is he did not screw it up, and that was the thing, he definitely had to be sure he didn't. And really, everybody else played to attack. He didn't have to, he just had to be there and service and make sure that he made tackles when they came at him, because they were coming at him. And he made the tackles, so I'll give him credit on that. He made the kicks because Farrell was banged up.
00:13:14
Speaker
And that's so I'll give him credit for that. But, you know, again, he didn't play otherworldly. No, but he stepped up, but he he did the things that people didn't think he'd do. So that good on him. I still don't love him. I hope they put Ferrell back at 10. They probably won't because it worked. Yeah. So that's just and that's just how it's just the way the way this is setting up and we'll get to it. I think Ford's back at 10.
00:13:35
Speaker
Yeah, so yeah, um, let's talk can we can we talk about the the the really the three young guns for england and the the match that they had?
England vs New Zealand Analysis
00:13:45
Speaker
Yeah, uh, I mean it goes without saying mario atoji tom curry sam underhill
00:13:50
Speaker
uh, uh, otherworldly amazing like The one of the things that's amazing to watch with mario atoji Is you know that it's a cliche that you know big-time players make big-time plays in big-time games But fuck if he doesn't do that Like think about the two finals. He just played last year. Yeah, I when when when shits on the line mario's like, you know what?
00:14:15
Speaker
These are the, you know, like they got, you know, the finishers, the, the two laggies and the Watson's and, and, you know, Ford and Farrell, they do their job, but the, the opportunities that Maro Itoji
00:14:28
Speaker
almost by himself gives to them. Like the, oh, I'm like seven feet tall. So I'm just going to reach over this mall and just pull this ball in. Yeah. I saw him do that. I was like, I remember doing that once or twice in my day, but man, they did not do it again. So the guy's these size are this good. Right. So that's a special skill right there by him.
00:14:46
Speaker
and curry and under hill that you know, it wasn't that long ago that we were talking about england and their lack of options at like six and seven And i'm not talking about that anymore And it's been even the guys they left behind. Yeah, like and wilson came on and did a fucking bang-up job Yes, he did. He stole a penalty late too it it like These guys that are getting around the park and they're making tackles and and they're they're making key runs and offloads and all that shit just
00:15:14
Speaker
Hey man, I said that the thing that was going to be key for England was they had the thumpers to put these guys on their butt and they had two or three guys that were definitely putting these guys on their ass. It was the guys I was thinking of right off the bat that started it with Underhill and Curry for sure. I love the two kids. Sam Underhill was USA eligible. Did you know that?
00:15:38
Speaker
He was also Welsh eligible too, so he was never choosing us. I have a special place in my heart for Sam Underhill, but it's still pretty cool. He got his revenge. Yes, he did. In a way. Yes, he did. He still should have scored another fucking try. I contest that Sam Whitelock made the exact wrong decision on that. He did. That was a conscious decision by Whitelock to take the dummy runner. Yeah, good job.
00:16:02
Speaker
and and cynically asked for the penalty and and he gave it to him and or like they eventually reviewed it they reviewed it but i i think that was a conscious choice he didn't have to he wasn't you know i i disagree with that decision though if um if sinker had been a little flatter to the line i think that i think that would have been that would have been play on
00:16:24
Speaker
So I yeah, nope, for me, it was not but doesn't matter. Yeah, it's moot. Nope. They did England take it home. Nineteen seven. They move on to the final in what was a fantastic game, you know, and Kiwis were all class at the end. You know, I think they said they shared a beer afterwards. It's, you know, yeah, like the all blacks coaches came to the England dressing room and they they drank with the coaches and England players went to the New Zealand. Beautiful. Like dressing room. Beautiful. And they all drank. But I mean,
00:16:54
Speaker
What else are you gonna do god love you gotta know that's what's in the cards one of them One one's gonna win one's gonna lose. Let's all have a beer. Yep, and and you know celebrate rugby That was this was both came out both came out ready to play this match. Don't question either side really Yes, okay, anyone jumped on them and they but they did the exact thing that you're supposed to do and not lit up Yeah, that's and so good on them, you know loads of territory loads of possession ended up wanting it for them in the end
Wales vs South Africa Tactics
00:17:19
Speaker
Uh, let's look at I mean the less the less exciting part of this but the fancy side of it. Um, well, I picked brody retellica a week early Yeah, 39, uh, pretty good for him. Sevilla obviously a try but also he was everywhere for them. He was given his all clearly Uh, uh maro obviously had a man in the match performance matches his uh matches his score 42 pretty good
00:17:43
Speaker
Pretty good day. Ben Young's again, high score, but I'm still not impressed with him, but that's fine. We talked about it. Ben Spencer on his way over to the World Cup because Willie Hines is injured and won't be able to play the final on the need. This is what happens when you don't bring another freaking nine, Eddie.
00:18:00
Speaker
You need to call one over from England to Japan in a week. I doubt what spencer sees much of the field No, he probably won't see much and if he has to then I love ben spencer, but just to get thrown into that I know look if anybody if anybody can do it. He can do it. I know but still Terrifying thought I thought he'd box kick a lot better than then youngs would yes Yeah, his his box case has not been pretty
00:18:23
Speaker
I thought Laws was a beast for the 55-ish minutes, 60 minutes he was on. He blew his gasket completely though, he was done. He's like, I'm so tired, get me off, I'm done. Phrasing. Yeah, but he played pretty well, 54 minutes he came off, I was close.
00:18:44
Speaker
So, yeah, there was so many England performances across the board that you can't really, you know, single. It's hard to single one out in particular, but, you know, so really good. So all 15 of them, well, all 23 of them together to create that performance. Yeah, absolutely. They had good individual performances, but all of them were together or they're a fucking machine.
00:19:04
Speaker
Yep. It was pretty good stuff and that is what it takes to beat the guys in the black jerseys. I do love those black jerseys though. The ones that they have with the fern sewn into them. Those are kind of hot. Anybody want to send me one of those? That'd be awesome.
00:19:23
Speaker
Do we do we did we have do we have a second semifinal? I'm i'm now yeah, sorry I think what happened I think two teams played each other, but I don't know if it was a real representation of rugby In this but this is what the spring box have done almost the whole tournament
00:19:40
Speaker
And it's not been pretty and they've got it done. So then we go back to the the again the the same thing with the the ireland And and new zealand and and I guess we call it south african now. They each have their own little Ways of doing things and and you're not If you look if you beat them playing their game against them They'll say they'll tip their hat to you. Absolutely um
00:20:03
Speaker
Whales why you've been so good at playing out open rugby, you know spinning it wide using your your runners out in space Why would you play South Africa's game against them?
00:20:17
Speaker
Never and like never they have hey, it's a box. Hey, it's a box. It's a box the other way like give me kick tennis anybody and and all they're doing is they're letting their guys get wailed on by the big fucking forwards from South Africa when they catch the ball and it's like
00:20:33
Speaker
Or they're letting those big fucking forwards from South Africa set up the wall so that the South African backs can catch the ball Completely uncontested for the most part. Yeah, like they didn't they didn't spend the ball wide a whole lot to be to be honest, right to be fair The one time they did obviously Dale and they got over he said he's a unit to stop so The one time he decides I'm gonna go forward obviously it's gonna work. Yeah, you know speaking of big and burly
00:21:02
Speaker
That that God I think I got from rugby dump or something like that When your little brother's wound you winds you up? I thought Jake Paul was gonna eat fast. Yeah. He looked like he was about to swallow. Oh, that was such a dick Okay, he wasn't dick he was a pest
00:21:23
Speaker
I thought there was one penalty that he probably should have got another back 10 on. Yeah. And it was the one that Jake Paul wanted to eat him on. Right. That was cynical. And then he continued to try to get under their skin afterwards. Yeah. But guess who had the whistle? Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Continuing to make our point from before.
00:21:43
Speaker
Jerome, this is like, wake up. I don't know if there's a version of wake up for you Frenchmen, but fuck, wake up. Good God. I think they all have the same laissez-faire attitude. Pretty much. So yeah, that's how it goes, unfortunately. Wales played a heck of a tournament to get where they got.
00:22:03
Speaker
I mean, if you told whales that they'd be playing New Zealand in the last weekend of the World Cup, they, they probably, you know, six, six weeks ago or so, they would have been ecstatic until you told them that it was the. The bronze game. Whoopsie. It changes things a little bit. That kind of switches things around. You know, it's, it's a shame to see some of these guys have to go out. I thought Lee halfpenny did a damn good job of filling in for Liam Williams. Um, you know,
00:22:29
Speaker
Salty old veteran like that. He's gonna he's got that in him. So well done on him It's a it's a shame to see some of these Legends of the game have to bow out in a third place game such as Kieran Reed Alum and Jones Especially those two to be named
00:22:46
Speaker
And there'll be a few others that are leaving as well, but just those are the big ones that come to mind right off the top of my brain. This may be Ken Owens' last go around. I would anticipate he's probably gonna be captain of the next Wales team that's picked, but I don't think he's got much more left than him.
00:23:04
Speaker
So it's um, again, it's a shame to see world cup careers come to the end at least you know kennel is just 32 he's yeah if he makes it to the next world cup a Part he's a reserve. Yep, probably so I uh It it was a great It was a competitive game and it kind of sparked up in the last few minutes and last like 20 minutes or so, but really I think it was um
00:23:31
Speaker
I thought whales could have grabbed this by the scruff of the neck and they just kept playing that stupid game. And they let South Africa win, unfortunately. So we have, as you predicted, even way back in early September, the final that you had predicted, South Africa and England. Repeat of 2007. We'll talk about what's gonna happen in that. Real quick.
00:23:57
Speaker
Fantasy notes. There's not a there wasn't a lot to really hang your hat on. Nope. My start of the week wasn't great It was Lou Diager. My start of the week was Smith was Aaron Smith who also didn't do much. Yeah There was no there was no call by he dropped obviously he was he's still too banged up to play but nobody's I don't think anybody scored over 2028 David Dale and is going to score 28 that was it so that
00:24:24
Speaker
I think is certainly a good indication of what this game was. Yeah. So there you go. Not a lot of open play, not a lot of open meters being gained. Yes, two tough defenses. And yes, that's exactly how both these teams have kind of gotten there. But I think the one that plays a little bit more open probably should have got there, but not always rewarded. But not when you don't play open. No, they didn't. They turtled up a little bit, unfortunately.
00:24:51
Speaker
I mean, you look at the number 61, possession, present, possession, 62% territory, really hard to argue with, you know, that, but at the same time, you didn't use it. No. Okay.
00:25:06
Speaker
It was a wee bit of a soaking weekend in jolly old England because this and it caused some serious issues with some of that.
Exeter's Strategy in Wet Conditions
00:25:16
Speaker
Starting with Friday night. Would you say that Bath may have out exited Exeter in some ways?
00:25:28
Speaker
I don't even know what to call that. I mean, they did a pick and go to get there. They only got one try, right? Yeah, I think so. They did do a pick and go. Both only had one try. I think it was just kind of a more like, I think Bath played the game, not so much the out exit or an exeter, it's that that's the game you got to play in that kind of those kind of conditions. Wendy, wet.
00:25:51
Speaker
Yeah, just it's sloppy. Let's uh that field looked like it belonged in a park over here, right? Like let's keep it tight Um, and you know the the scores fantasy scores obviously are representative of that you look at you know, a lot of forwards outside of I mean you get yeah, there's there's no
00:26:06
Speaker
Hog had 22 22 outside of the other and mercy mom. Sorry monder had 20 outside of that No, no other back in the game had more than more than 20 more than 16 17 sorry priestlin had 17
00:26:22
Speaker
But that's it everywhere else that you know, the the points are all scored in the forwards because that's all they did was was um hit up and And and picking go and and oh that one the try line the on the As a spectator, you know on the on the screen on the right side. So um, the first half exit er is just down in that end Yeah, just pounding away at it until they get the try and then the second half
00:26:47
Speaker
There's there's bath doing the same thing right in this in the same exact spot. Like, I think I texted you as like, if I was the groundskeeper, I'd be like, what the fuck? God damn it, guys. Come on else. Yeah, I remember that because that's that's one of those like, you know, an area that, you know, if you tear up that area, like just one specific area that could be the whole season. It just stays like that. It's hard to fix. True. It's really difficult to fix that.
00:27:16
Speaker
So I'm really hoping that, you know, I'm I feel for you. Yeah, I think they're away this week. But yeah, thank God. That'll give him some time to heal. I think how about the how about the tackle on childbirth for Mercer to stop the try and get him into touch?
00:27:34
Speaker
What work? I mean, I thought he was burned. I was like, you're done. Yeah. And nope. He was. He said, no, I fooled you. I'm going to I'm going to catch you, fucker. That's just great, great work. Certainly displays his quality. Yeah. I mean, good work by Cuthbert to get in that position. I thought for sure he was in. But nope. Nope. Change that. Change that real quick. That is one of the nice things that I always used to love about rain days.
00:28:02
Speaker
Um, back when, even when I was, um, fast for a prop, I was still only fast for a prop. You know, it's still most, most centers and wings would, most of them would kind of would, would have the speed on me except on rainy days. Yeah. Now we're all the same speed pretty much. Right. Oh man. So it was a, it was a great game by bath. The, um, Brie, Reese Priesland showed his class. He did. He had a great game. Yeah.
00:28:29
Speaker
Just ball on a string. I'll do with it as I please. Change in field position. Yeah. There were a couple of really bad kicks directly to touch this weekend. I can't recall if Priestlin had one of them, but he didn't have many. And he had a lot of good ones that I don't know. If he had one, he kind of fixed himself. I think it was early. But yeah, I don't think he did actually. Might have been Shelly that had one. Yeah, I think Shelly had one. That was not great. Yeah. Yeah, Shelly had to leave this game somewhat early, didn't he?
00:29:00
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. He played. Yeah. Twenty five minutes. Yeah. So he came off of that. I think it was a head knock and that was the end. Yeah. A lot of a lot of guys got beat up this weekend in all matches. But this one was went to Bath 13 to 10. They beat Exeter and you know, Exeter are they they've got the forwards. But again, you've talked about it. The backs are clearly guys that need a little bit improving. Hog brings a good element to them. But he he needs to be it needs to be more than him. So we'll see what happens with that team.
00:29:30
Speaker
Uh, no tampton and wister this was a little bit more exciting at the very least Brought some more tries to the table george firbank, uh, enjoyed his um, his sliding around just a bit Having to do it with going over the whitewash. Yeah Tom collins was in was in there getting got that loose try that I think it was venter or mills just just missed dotting down and couldn't get their hands on and he was
00:29:57
Speaker
There to follow up so you gotta give him credit. I thought I think these two young Northampton Second rows have been playing very well coals and moon And they have they've they've put pretty well that one of their emotional years to Mona Harrison returned that helped
00:30:14
Speaker
Hutch wasn't anything special. He was, you know, solid if nothing else. So they've got some good things going on at Northampton. Obviously, they put 35 points up in a really crappy weather game. And basically a half. Yeah, without Dan Bigger as well. That little thing. Or who's that other guy?
00:30:33
Speaker
Yeah, that guy yeah, yeah, um other Northampton news, uh, they have signed our our boy. Joel kapoku Because he is I mean he's he's buried on the depth chart which and we talked about last year remember when will skelton decided he was gonna stick around we talked about it like I would not blame him if you decide i'm out and He he decides he's out. It kind of came down to him and nick isiqui and one of them was gonna be out. Mm-hmm And the sequel has been getting the starts and that's it's not to say that
00:31:02
Speaker
Here's the thing, when you're second row at Saracens, if you're third, fourth, fifth choice, that's not a knock on you. They have some good locks. Amazing locks. I mean, the Sequoia and Skeleton would start on the law teams. And there's two guys that are playing for the World Cup final.
00:31:17
Speaker
that are also on this team. Right. So, you know, it's really hard. It's really hard to bash it. So, I mean, good on Gopoku. Go do you. Right. And go get it, dude. Absolutely. If you get playing time, I think he's going to develop into a pretty damn good player as well. So, good on him. We'll use you while we have you. Absolutely. But, yeah, you know, it's the same thing with Henry Taylor over there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, hey, good luck. Seriously, like, these are guys who
00:31:43
Speaker
They're certain, you know, it's it's not like You know, they left for the money or no and they left because they needed to play. Yeah, and they deserve to play Yeah, and they're good. Yeah, they're good. Um, Brent's where who got left this game with shoulder injury It was uh, not a pleasant looking injury and it might have been a
00:32:00
Speaker
Little late on the hip, but it you know referee looked at it didn't said there was nothing nothing doing so off we go Northampton take care of Worcester 35 to 16 Worcester were in this game for a little while and then the Northampton decide Oh, yeah, right over Northampton. We got this. Yeah
00:32:18
Speaker
Uh, did you get a chance to watch any of the sale irish game? I did not yeah A lot of sale not a lot of irish. That's what it looks like some good some good offloads from sale. Uh, the deprias were Yeah, salamona had nice little chip and chase to get himself over and then he came off almost immediately after So I was like, oh, that's not great mother. Yeah, i'd get over after Hey So good for him, uh
00:32:44
Speaker
Janssen, Venn, Rensberg got over after a nice offload. Yeah, the story of the game for sale was chip chase and offload. And they did it very well. That was about it. Both got one late. And that was nothing else to be done for that.
Individual Player Highlights
00:33:02
Speaker
But he did get it fed to him, right? Just very, very obviously by Poppier. The backup's coming out from sale. It's like, oh, why did I? Oh, no. Why did I do that?
00:33:11
Speaker
Uh, but uh deprea, I think Robert deprea, I believe was a little pissed after last week and missing that kick but um Made up for it. Um, this is the irish that we thought we might see right? So, um, you know last week was so yeah, right Last week was obviously a very good week for them and you know showed that maybe they aren't going to go down So easily this week might convince people otherwise. Yeah and the
00:33:39
Speaker
The only other they don't there's two undefeated teams. John Tanton's one and the other team is Gloucester. And they played a pretty darn good match at home in front of the Kings in front of the shed. It was, you know, Joe Simpson had himself a day. He did. And a slide in slide.
00:33:58
Speaker
I was a hell of a slide. Yeah, and and I'll maybe a little extra move there that that I mean it was there was a fair move and Plus he got a little bit pushed over in there in the rough Yeah, a little help from Ludlow and yeah, I mean that was a
00:34:14
Speaker
a hell of a match and basically a puddle yeah it was a puddle it pretty much was did you see ollie thoroughly just absolutely shunt feck you tell us nope yeah you're not tackling meat and not only that but like just
00:34:30
Speaker
asked him. He just tossed him. I was like, oh, that was thoroughly announced. That's not a nobody. Okay. Someone might be mad about being here and not in England. Yeah, I understand that completely. I mean, he got hurt, which sucks. It was a rope.
00:34:52
Speaker
You know, if you get hurt in April, May, it's like the worst time to get hurt if you're an England player, especially or anybody in the Northern Hemisphere, because that's when they're looking at selection. So it's like, ah, shit. So you've got to feel for the kid. But what a slippery pill in this game. Like, guys just running, like, even Thorley had one where he's just running an open field and just squirts out of his hand. Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, get back here. Wait, how does that? You know, and these, you know.
00:35:16
Speaker
That doesn't happen. That doesn't just happen. These guys are professionals and they're good about it. They're not, you know, they might lose the ball in contact every so often, but not just a bar. So yeah, that was I it's been a while since I've seen a ball that slippery. Yeah, I did. I did think I was pretty sure that Fakito was going to off somebody when he got his card. And I was like, that's kind of shitty. He's lucky that punched and land in the face. Right. Oh, yeah. I thought I thought it did.
00:35:43
Speaker
To be honest, I thought that was a very cheeky like I thought he came under Who was it Ackerman? I think so I thought he came like under his chest and kind of caught him on the chin there I couldn't but I couldn't tell and obviously it was it was a very like that The only reason is that they know because of how that all played out I mean if you just got punched in the side or like just you know the little Forearm in the side or upper arm in the side I don't think Ackerman would have reacted that way and if you looked at his head he kind of like
00:36:17
Speaker
I thought that there was a little bit of a cheeky kind of little right hook there that
00:36:23
Speaker
You couldn't quite see and you know, hey that I think that's what fecky toa saw was. Oh, I can get away with this No, you didn't quite get away with it. Uh, but they scored the cluster I was able to put up a good chunk of points when they when he was in the bin know what though wasn't he so blog scored a penalty and nope, maybe not no, I thought I thought it was fairly even
00:36:43
Speaker
Yeah, nope looks like but but at the same time it just takes it takes the energy out of your team, too So there's also that uh, the first module try I thought was all jason woodward All jason woodward all woodward Just show his quality and just like all right i'm gonna put pressure on you And if you bite i'm getting rid of this and if you don't well, then I get a try. So let's see what happens And they did to just make the make force the decision then you lost it
00:37:10
Speaker
Well done. Four tries for the Glosterman and they stay undefeated and they go and they are right at the top of the premiership along with Northampton there. And there's, but, so we talked, we talked about the two undefeated teams in this league. One of them's, one of the teams that don't have a win is WOS. So maybe time to think about it a little bit there, Dai Young. I, yes.
00:37:38
Speaker
It's time to think about it. Write that novel that you've been working on. You're right. Think about other opportunities elsewhere. Maybe not so much in the premiership. Maybe in the champions. Not a boy. Yeah.
00:37:54
Speaker
Oh, yeah, so Gloucester take it down 25 to 9 was don't even get over the line So that's it's definitely a time to rethink that that offense there just a little bit The Quinn's Bristol match was not was a little bit sloppier than the rest of them It seemed because they just the handling seemed to just let them all down. Yeah This was a hard to watch game, too. Yes, it was it was a it was a bit of one that you might need a shot with Oh wait, I did have a shot when I was watching it
00:38:25
Speaker
So yeah, but I will Evans played pretty well for for the twins He was he seemed to be kind of you know universally everywhere. Mm-hmm. So I'll give him that This is not a good game for Bristol in terms of how they wanted to play because we know the style that they want to play this type of weather does not let itself to it and they weren't really able to do what they wanted to do and
00:38:46
Speaker
And Quinn's coached by Guzy who was a big part of the architecture of the that Saracen's wolf back defense So he's uh, he's he's definitely he definitely knows how to stop teams And that's all and really in this one. That's all you need to do is just be able to stop someone. Yeah
00:39:02
Speaker
The, uh, there, uh, who got over the line for them? Was it Heenan at the end? Yeah. He was, that was a nicely worked trial. You got to give him that, uh, good hands, good offloading. Uh, that was a little bit of the Bristol that had been missing most of that match. So, uh, I mean, Heenan's the recipient of the tribe, but the whole, the whole team certainly put their effort into that one.
00:39:25
Speaker
Yeah, I mean martian scoring a try and getting 17. I don't know what that says, right? It says that a lot else happened. Yeah, this is the same thing. You look at the at the back scores, you know, everything out. And this one, it was everything. Everybody outside the 10, except for Charles Pietel, because Pietel is Pietel. Yeah, because he's he's just that fucking good. That's how good he is. Yeah, it's all it's all kind of dog shit outside of the 10. Oh, and it had a decent match. Did he have another try?
00:39:54
Speaker
Um, no, I don't think so. He came he had a couple of scampers. So I think that helped him. Um, yeah. So yeah, this game actually like this game was boring as fuck right up until the last like 15 minutes. And then all of a sudden it was like, Oh, wait. Okay. Now it's tight. It's late. Let's just start trying to see what happens. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. I agree. Um, yeah. Cause then you had to try to use yellow card was not helpful. Yeah. Obviously, you know, you lose a loser player, but you didn't use a player of anything use quality.
00:40:24
Speaker
dope yeah so quins take it down 22 to 17 bristol are you know they're not done obviously oh no you know this is this is just not a what this is just not a game that you know was something that was going to help their their playing style you know i appreciate what pat lam wants to do so i still like the team i still like the team to do some things this year this is just one of those games that you really can't do a whole lot about because
Match Highlights and Player Performances
00:40:50
Speaker
He knows it's wet in England. He played here last year and the year before so he knows it's wet in England that This past weekend was gross. Yeah, so there's a big difference
00:41:01
Speaker
And then the Sunday game. Oh, so much nicer weather. And we had such nicer rugby, thank God. So it was good stuff. Saracens and the Tigers, of course, Saracens being a very nice team and Lester being Ben's absolutely 100% arch nemesis. And really, I had my vision. Oh, nemesis is a harsh word because nemesis are usually equal to or better than and make you better. This is more of just, I can't fucking stand them. Fair enough. Fair enough.
00:41:30
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it was nice to see the Sarries' youngsters and the Wigglesworth to Vunapola connection. Very old against very young. 16 years, I don't know how many days. Wiggles coached him when he was in school, like, good God. Right. This is a
00:41:51
Speaker
And Wigglesworth helped him through some stuff. I think Vodapola had a, did he, was it a bad pass that ended that was, did he get intercepted for a try? Yeah, Thompson's try. Yeah, you know, it's growing pains, but it's kind of good for, to get that kind of shit out against a team like Leicester where they're, you know.
00:42:11
Speaker
You're going to outclass them even with your best over in Japan, especially with their best over in Japan. Yeah, what is definitely their best. Right, and really their only almost over in Japan. This is never really going to work out well in Lester's favor even though they're at home.
00:42:29
Speaker
Yeah, they did. They did lose Will Spencer early. They also lost Eastman, which is not a loss. No, but and Harry Wells did come in and play pretty well. But Will Spencer is a pretty good player in his own right. So that obviously didn't help. I you know, you're the guy that was your sit of the week did try his ass off to do everything possible. Guy Thompson. But man, there's only so much you can do sometimes when you're just getting overpowered.
00:42:52
Speaker
Wilson Croft. What a day for the boy. What a day for the boy. He was what do you have like four pilfers and a couple like a couple pens at least easily. So he was you know, he was like you guys don't need Jamie George. Oh, I'm here. I got you. You guys don't need Jack Singleton. No, no, no, I got you guys. No worries. What the open seven minutes to. Yeah. Well, he kind of needed to. I like Joe Gray, but he's solid. He's nothing else. It's not going to. You won't get anything spectacular. And he was hurt left wing tools. Yes, he went to find out. Yeah.
00:43:21
Speaker
That's why Piffletti was in and not him. Mm-hmm. Although I did I did love seeing Piffletti in the starting lineup It was just too bad. He got pained up, too. Yeah What a pass from Wigglesworth the Tompkins on that first try. Yeah, I mean good line by Tompkins But what a pass to get it there in one shot from Wigglesworth
00:43:39
Speaker
Yep, it was a long distance, very flat pass. That's one that could easily be picked off, except for the fact that when you're on your own goal line, you don't really launch like that because you don't want to run right past it. They were expecting it to go back tight, too, so. Yeah. They thought it was going right to the pod, and he's like, I'm just going to skip the pod and throw right to a little over there. Corrining Tompkins. Yeah. Just a, yeah. Brilliant play. Yeah, and there was no stopping that one. Nope.
00:44:07
Speaker
Especially not with the gap that was right there. Yeah, well, I think he saw it and I think I think they tried it again later and it just didn't either the pass was not I can't remember the pass wasn't great or Or if they actually covered it or something, but they clearly saw Saracen's clearly spotted something where they had that 9 to 12 connection Right on in that particular end of the field right right on the goal line, right Brad Barrett heal up buddy Yeah, we don't need you yet. You're all right. We get we got it covered. Tompkins is playing his ass off right now
00:44:38
Speaker
We need to talk about the the elephant the room also though a Ben Earl sized elephant What some I don't know what rocket found his way up his ass, but holy shit this year he has been a
00:44:54
Speaker
Yeah. The last couple of games for sure. Yeah. I mean, he was, he showed flashes of this in the past, but just flashes and he's put together two really good games, really good, complete games. And he's, I mean, he's obviously very fast for a guy that wears a seven shirt. Right. You know what? I don't remember who I saw tweeted, but like where, oh, where do you fit him into an England back row?
00:45:15
Speaker
because good god they have so much right now that's that's the problem you know that again there's that that is Ben come play for the free jacks we'll we'll get you eligible for the u.s and play that way seriously problem solved but yeah i mean the other the only problem with that is he has you know it's not like the um um
00:45:35
Speaker
It's not like the Kapoku thing. There's really nobody in front of it. I'm assuming that when the national team players come back, you'll see, I'm guessing their back line, their back row, I'm sorry, will be Jackson Ray at six, Bonapola at eight, and Earl at seven.
00:45:54
Speaker
It's hard to say otherwise, right? You know, especially the way he's playing. It's I mean, right. Right now it's so here's the thing. You got to find find a way to get skeleton, the Toge and Cruz all on the same team. And you probably want them on the same same lineup if you can. So if you. Yeah, certainly. You know, we saw work last year for the Saracens and both their finals, so.
00:46:17
Speaker
It's it's a good problem to have right? It's a good problem to have and at that point he's giving us a good problem right and at that point I'm looking at maybe a toji at six and and and jacks can can sit in when Yeah, or crews have to come off then a toji will slide into the the the locks and and rail slide into six But yeah, you have all sorts of options there and when guys need a rest they'll have more than enough players to get through it and
00:46:45
Speaker
No, it's definitely a fact. He was jotting on the spot for a second try to chase down and I thought that was a fair call. I know people didn't like it. Maitland was just trying to put his knee up to make sure he didn't get smashed. He got his hands to the ball, so it's hard to say he didn't have rights to the ball.
00:47:05
Speaker
I'd say that's that argument becomes moot and he I don't remember who the hell he freaking shipped but just like noped somebody and then took the took the gap and I was like, he's got the speed to finish. Oh, yeah. It wasn't that long and it wasn't that far to the try zone. It was about twenty two. Yeah. He was just out of twenty two and he started to run. So yeah, and you're not like no for him. He's got the speed. You're not going to you're not going to catch him. Did did did somebody did somebody make him the start of the week?
00:47:32
Speaker
I don't know I don't think some asshole did I wasn't paying attention yeah 59 nicely done I mean if I'm if I'm gonna pick somebody as my start of the weekend might as well just go balls in and just do it and yeah you know so I'm yeah I made it my captain and
00:47:49
Speaker
118 points later, it's not looking too bad. Saracens do win 24-10 on the actual scoring note. And they obviously have found a way to at least somewhat rate the ship before the boys come back from England. I would anticipate that they won't get them back for another two weeks until Europe. So yeah, because they'll play this weekend. Well, they got the Irish. Yeah, the Saris have the Irish this weekend. So once again, they can play this squad. At home.
00:48:15
Speaker
And if the Irish they're they're playing at Allianz as well. Yeah, that'll that's also that and then the next weekend they play Gloucester which That's gonna be a tough. That'll be a tough one. Yeah. Yeah, I'm and if it's at King's home, I'm not back. I'm not really it's one of those they might just write off and say look if we can sneak one out of here with our
00:48:34
Speaker
Well, the last time we were there, I think we got a bonus point or two. We definitely got one kind of late. We might've got a second one just as time expired, if I remember right. It was a game we didn't play very well, and it was a team that I would not have backed by any means, and we still got two bonus points out of it. So that's the type of things that the Saracens can do. So if they do it here,
00:48:55
Speaker
I would certainly leave happily with two points in that fashion at least. Certainly from King's home where they're definitely a pain in the ass.
00:49:05
Speaker
Okay, let's go through some top players real quick in your fantasy and then we'll do start sit and pick them. We'll get out of here. Oh yeah, we got some things to help you with your teams as well. Don't forget that. Jans-Eben Renzberg was top both center as the center or midfield or whatever in both in either format. The props, the top scoring props this week, all from Bath. That tells you that match right there. Obano, Boyce, and Stewart, 27, 24, 23.
00:49:34
Speaker
Wow. Yeah, exactly. That's why I was like, is this right? Do we have this right? OK. OK. Stuart? Yeah, right. Stuart. So so many stewards in that game. Yeah, that's what it was fun. Stuart Hooper, Will Stewart, Stuart Hogg, Stu Townsend. Stuart.
00:49:52
Speaker
I kept saying and I couldn't stop. I know you can't. I couldn't stop. I was like, oh boy, I'm so in trouble right now. That's all I kept saying. Sorry, squirrel. Let's keep going through TRM. Fullback, Verbank, Der, Dupree, FY half, and he was, I think, was he both? No, he was second in FRD. Monica Smith was first in FRD.
00:50:16
Speaker
Flanker, two guesses. Earl, both formats. Loose forward in Flanker. Hooker, Wollstonecroft.
00:50:25
Speaker
Uh, eight man was Sam Simmons as another guy that you've, that you've been pumping. Uh, Joe Simpson in both formats, 42 and 22. Not bad. Yeah, not bad. Um, Locke, Johnny Hill, Johnny Hill's actually scored well as both formats. I can't believe it. I was, I've, if you don't have him in your team and you're, and he's not, he's out there, go grab him right now. He's the only walk, lock worth the damn moment. Yeah, no kidding. Um, and what else do we have? What do they skip? They skip anything?
00:50:50
Speaker
No? Fullback? Yeah, I got it all. And outside back was church for a bank as well in FRD, which shouldn't shock anybody.
00:51:00
Speaker
All right, so you wanna do free agents or you wanna do good buys real quick? Free agents is fairly short, so we can blow through that. So for FRD, Jared was nice enough to, we split this up as far as positions. Jared was nice enough to give me midfielders, loose forwards, fly-haves, and front rows. And I say that because three of those positions, the midfielders,
00:51:28
Speaker
fly halves and front rows Um, first off, a lot out there midfielders are pretty much dog shit all around It's really hard. You're not gonna get you know, if you get a guy with a good week great Great job, but but centers really in in uh in the premiership aren't aren't big point scores
00:51:45
Speaker
Um, so you kind of have to to throw a dart, um fly halves. Uh, so I looked at both of our leagues that we have going, um, to see what's available and really it's the same kind of thing. It's like you might want to pick someone up who may be starting here or there. Um, just this week, a spot starter, if you're really hurting, you can, you can find someone, um, I'm sure available. Otherwise you're going to have somebody who's starting probably already on your roster. Um,
00:52:13
Speaker
So that's that's that's really difficult to pick out in front rows again You're however many teams you have in your league. You're gonna have a starting front row. So if you're looking for a backup You shouldn't but if you're looking for a replacement for your sucky front row You're probably not gonna find too much better. There probably won't be a lot on the waiver wire. So unfortunately, so that's unfortunate for loose forwards I Looked for both of our leaks
00:52:41
Speaker
Will Evans was available in both. I think he's now only available in one because I picked him up. The duprizes seem to be readily available. And Don Armand, who again,
00:52:55
Speaker
All right. See what happens. He hasn't played yet, but he's going to play eventually, right? I wouldn't assume as much. So I'm like, I think I would want to. Again, we're not sure about the the injury situation there, because I'm kind of there's been a couple of guys who just haven't gotten the time that you'd imagine like a even a Dom brand who is on the bench. Yeah, it's amazing. What's on the bench?
00:53:14
Speaker
I don't I don't understand it. What do you have to do to get Dom right in the team? Right? You'd think like he kind of this this happened with him last year too until he proved himself and I was like, all right, well, we can't keep him off the field. Yeah. What do you make him do it again? Like he got he even got the caps this past year. Right. And and played really fucking well for England. Why? You know what? I'm not going to question. Yeah. But yeah, there's there's there's a couple of guys that I would look into to any of those for the Will Evans decreases his
00:53:41
Speaker
Um armand if if somebody you might want to stow just for when he finally does play because he'll do very well Um pull edgy might be out there. He's a guy you you might want to look into Yeah, if he hasn't been if he didn't get picked in your draft go get him right now, right? Um, so I I got the um, so i'll do outside backs locks and half backs believe me locks was hard Um, so both uh is there um, so for the next and I looked at like matchups for the next couple weeks there and looked at like teams that
00:54:10
Speaker
teams are going to play at least one, if not two at the bottom three in terms of points against for locks. Both is there for the Irish and also to a suey, their eight man is a lock on FRD. So that's something to consider. You know, think of like Tyler Ardern, obviously to us, who is probably not quite as good as Tyler Ardern, but think of Tyler Ardern from the Chiefs last year. And when he played eight man, probably, I think he played eight man about five or six times to the Chiefs and did really well.
00:54:38
Speaker
So and to get that type of production from a lock is like, uh, you know, it's, you know, the heavens open up for that one. So go get him and then grubler. If you need to fill in for the next couple of weeks, while most are still away, definitely grab him up half backs.
00:54:54
Speaker
The the cook chudley Combination is probably worth your look right now, especially with chudley on the bet probably on the mend cooks probably available He's got a couple of matchups that are looking pretty good for him in terms of bottom bottom three Simpson if you don't have them yet go get them
00:55:11
Speaker
Steel, we'll see what happens with him from the Irish. If you need a scrum half, his matchups are not bad the next few weeks, so maybe look at that. I think Phipps is coming in soon, so that'll be a fill-in. It's not gonna be something that's gonna be permanent. Just keep that in mind.
00:55:27
Speaker
And then the more exciting of the three positions I have, Kiberige for outside backs. Kiberige is definitely somebody that should be on a team. The kid's performing pretty well. I know he played a crap game this past weekend. It was crap weather if you didn't notice, so that probably didn't help him. Cuthbert is definitely another one to keep an eye on for X, so he's probably the only one of the few guys that can get done in the back line for them. And also the matchups that he has coming up, you know, they're looking pretty favorable for him.
00:55:53
Speaker
And then look at the sail wingers yard and asked him when he's ready to go. Because both of those guys have some decent match ups as well. And they're gonna and I would expect them to be ready to go. Solomona came off this past weekend. So yard might be the guy. So keep that in mind. And then so for your TRM teams, the goodbyes. Goodbye.
00:56:17
Speaker
So I looked at, so I was doing this by team by team. Um, I had a couple for, um, so where are my saints? Um, look up, look at Grayson. Um, he's 185 K he's certainly going to be playing for a little bit. Um, and they like him. Uh,
00:56:37
Speaker
Yeah, he's got at least a few more weeks here. Right. I'd say avoid Henry Taylor and Alex Coles only because they're 149k and 157k, which, yeah, great points for now until the guys come back. The guys are coming back. It's really hard to justify cutting someone and only getting about 150k back. There's no value there.
00:56:59
Speaker
Did you did you uh, do whack alex good Yes, it did. Yeah, I did too. It was a unfortunate cut, but it was 400 some odd or 300 some on my bank and i'm not gonna sit have that sit there That's a 300 that's about 300 000 pound Uh paper weight there. Yeah. No, thank you. Um for harlequin's, uh, ibetoye is is only 199k He's producing that's a good one
00:57:23
Speaker
Yeah, um, but so will evans is a bit of a tease in in in the rugby mag is it's he's again that he's that 155k And I see it. Yeah, there's a question mark of whether or not and in my opinion whether or not he's going to Continue to contribute once um, you know guys get healthy Um when they come back from from japan. Yep, you just don't know so it's it's kind of a crapshoot Yeah, it does dombre take his position eventually exactly. You just don't know um
00:57:54
Speaker
And uh Let me say um with uh, then lester Um, they're they're one goodbye as far as I can tell is is the scrum half ben white? Yep, because he's 158k and and even when youngs comes back He's going to contribute. He's not you know, young isn't gonna play
00:58:11
Speaker
He's gonna play a few times right in there. Yeah, I know I don't play like and he might even be somebody who who even if only he only gets 20 to 30 minutes may actually end up producing for you for that that much So yeah, and he did well last year when he had to fill in too, right if I remember, right? So yeah, that's a that's a definitely a good good one to look at at a Gloucester. You mentioned him grobler Yeah, he's a lock. He's only two 199 K, right? There's really only three locks for Gloucester
00:58:37
Speaker
Yeah, that you can probably reasonably so even once yeah, make the case for yeah, well even once monster comes back He's you know grubler's still gonna get the occasional start and he'll get spot one likely. Yeah He might be worth just having on your team. Mm-hmm. Yeah, because Yeah, Freddie Clark's gonna be a back rower more than anything else. So
00:58:57
Speaker
Wooster here's someone you need to look into I think is a nail in that Okay, he was feisty this past weekend. He looked like he wanted to kill somebody. He's only 165 K
00:59:07
Speaker
Ooh, that's a cheapo. He's a cheapo. And I don't think they really have it. I think he's their starter. He is. So. Yeah, because Singleton's gone. Tafete might be their starter eventually, but he's at least getting how many matches we're playing this year, 22. Right. So he's getting probably 10 to 12 starts a year. Exactly. If you need a third hooker, that's an option. Yeah, if you need another hooker that's just kind of not going to waste too much. Yeah, he's a good guy. If he gets good. I mean, remember, this is by law. It's like the stock market. He may balloon up to 200.
00:59:37
Speaker
Right. Bang. And then I didn't write his number down, so I'm kind of pissed at myself. But Colonel Dupree's. Oh, I have it right here. $1.99.
00:59:49
Speaker
199 good value there for Exeter Tom O'Flaherty at 211 is Holy crap, he could he could potentially score you some points, especially once they the the the big boys come back a little space will open up for him and then jock vermullen
01:00:07
Speaker
Who is again has the versatility of the lock and flanker at 190k? Wow. He's a guy who I think will likely Continue to play absolutely and and continue to produce. Yeah, I think I mean he's keeping Mac domestic out of the team right now So that's pretty right. That's pretty good. Just last time I checked So I'll fill in the blanks for you here
01:00:32
Speaker
So a couple of props for Beth Benno Bono at 280, which isn't great, which isn't, which isn't cheap, but it's, he's also producing. He's, you know, he's one of the lowest pounds per point guys on the team. He's, you know, six pounds per point. Not too bad, especially for a prop. You got to consider the,
01:00:51
Speaker
The really expensive ones that aren't producing and are away, and the cheap ones, yeah, they're cheap, but they ain't producing shit. So, Obama was averaging 23 points a game right now, which is pretty good for a prop. And then his, one of his partners, Will Stewart. Stewart? Yes, he's always a good value. Yeah, 177 right now. So I will sign up for that all day long. Yeah, the only reason I kept, oh, so my criteria for my signings were they had to be under 10% owned. Oh, I like that.
01:01:19
Speaker
So all those guys that I listed were under, you know, they're about 200 and they're under 10%. So Obano and Stewart just missed out because they're at that 15 and 14% ownership. Oh, okay. Not bad. Not bad. Still pretty good. I jump on them before a lot of people get wind of a day. Yeah.
01:01:35
Speaker
So, and then for the Bristolians, there's a lot of good buys on this team, really. I'm gonna point one out that you said Prothero, especially with Leo out. He's out for probably at least a couple months, I think, or a month at least. So he'll miss.
01:01:52
Speaker
Three four games easily, you know and you can he'll probably top out at something and you can always ditch him if you need to but You know, yeah, but he's 164 you can even just keep him in there for when he's ready for the time that he's ready to go Remember there is no limit on the number of times
01:02:08
Speaker
players you can have on your roster, it's just the salary that limits you. If you could fit 45 players on your roster, you get to keep 45 players on your roster. That's how it goes. I think I ended last year with like 39 or something like that. I had a lot. I had a lot of guys. I was amazed at how many guys I was able to keep. So yeah, pro throw for a wing. He's got a little bit of versatility on top of that.
01:02:30
Speaker
Dan Thomas, Flanker, for Bristol, very good. He's under that 200K mark. He's averaging about 15 points a game, which is solid. But against the teams that are weaker against Flanker, he's gonna put in a good day for you. So when those days come up, he's gonna be worth having in you and he's not that expensive. So definitely somebody to look at.
01:02:56
Speaker
Irish has obviously a few goodbyes George not is one of them although until when Adam Coleman rocks in I don't know if it's gonna be him or both uh So that's remains to be seen. We'll see what happens a guy I never thought I'd say anything that nice about Blair Cowan Pretty cheap scoring on an average of 32 right now. So he's 233 not bad. I think he's got a little versatility on top of that. So definitely somebody to investigate in their sale Where do I start?
01:03:25
Speaker
Wonder Mervo, Deprea, which Deprea, pick a Deprea, you know, that are all fairly low end, 187 to 234. That's where they're ranging right now. Those four, the big South Africans. And I don't see how you get any of them off the field as well, even when they get healthy and get everybody back. Right. So they'll, you know, bank on that happening. So there you go with that.
01:03:47
Speaker
Um, we talked about him already for the Saracens. Ben Earl, you know, he's 238, but you know, he's that last game obviously bloomed his average, but he's had two good games. Right. At this point, he's got to be on your team. He's got it. So I'm working out ways to get him on my squad for this week.
01:04:04
Speaker
And another one two other guys that I want to say Nick Tompkins and Ralph Adams Hale if Adam tail gets starts He's actually done pretty well Yeah, so you got to give him that credit and then Tompkins is filling in for Brad Barrett until Brad Barrett's healthy So and honestly, I hope he finds ways to not get off the field I think I hope he finds a way from a call to sit to just give the finger to McCall and say no I'm not coming off and
01:04:25
Speaker
One of the cool things that we get with this upgrade is it does give you, and I don't remember if it, I honestly don't remember if it happens without it, but it gives you points per 80. I don't know if that happened without it. So I like that. Right. So I'm going to say that that's, that's just with the upgrade, um, with TRM. And I think it was like Ralph Adam's hail has the highest by far points per 80 of any player. It was huge. It was, yeah, it was some ridiculous amount. So obviously he wants to get more time.
01:04:55
Speaker
Yes, very much so. And then Wasp, I want to note a couple things about Wasp, and we'll just start to sit and go pick him. Vailanu, I said his name when we talked about Draft, and the Prime preview, which was, by the way, thank you guys for making that our most downloaded episode ever. Thank you very much. You guys clearly liked the Prime ownership, maybe a little too much, but that's okay.
01:05:16
Speaker
Vailanu is 170. And he's got, he's averaging 26 right now. That's not bad. So that's pretty good. Cib Rigi is 163 and he is going to play a lot for this team and he's probably going to find opportunities to score. So keep him in mind and then dial it back to FRD. James Gaskell is actually a loose forward in FRD. So that really turns me off of him even more. I thought he was a lock and I was like,
01:05:42
Speaker
But James Gasco, where is he on this lock list? Wait, why isn't he? Oh shit, he's a Loose Forward. He's played pretty well in terms of fantasy, but that's, in terms of Loose Forward, there's 20 others I'd rather have besides him, so yeah.
01:05:59
Speaker
I'll stop saying so yeah sometime in the next like 10 years, I promise. Okay, start or set. Actually, I get to go first because I have the third place game.
01:06:17
Speaker
I flipped a coin, actually better words, my wife flipped a coin and I told Ben to call it anyone. So he gets to the final. So I'll do the third place game. Obviously this is before we know anybody's sitting or starting or anything like that, but I'll give you the best advice I possibly can with the knowledge I have.
01:06:36
Speaker
for the Welsh start start the big man Allen Wynn these are these if I'm starting these guys they're highly ish owned and the points against favor them to do at least okay if not good because you have a limited selection at this point you're gonna have to pick what you got
01:06:53
Speaker
So start Alan Jones Tipperick and Moriarty. I don't think anybody owns it waiting right anymore if they do Okay, fine. But yeah, those are the two that I'm looking at right now Josh Adams again, he still scored 20 in a really bad game. So I think you can And you got to realize like yeah, there's there's not really anything to play for but how many times do you get the opportunity to play? New Zealand
01:07:19
Speaker
Oh, these guys are going to rock the fuck up. So yeah, that's definitely I would not hesitate to play players in this match over players in the final.
01:07:30
Speaker
Yeah, no, you're using your brain here. You're not, you know, yeah, I mean, I picked my start since this is the week are all from the final, but, you know, you're still you have to use your brain with the rest of your team because you're not going to be able to pick everybody from the final. They're a little leaky at center. The only one I would pick, though, is Jonathan Davies because he's got a little bit more ability than Parks.
01:07:49
Speaker
Ross Moriarty as a number eight, I'd take him as well. The Sits. Unfortunately, Halfpenny is just not a position that you can, somebody that you can start right now. And the, and despite the last match, the Kiwis are still pretty good against Scrum Half, so Garrett Davies finds the pine and George North. For the Kiwis.
01:08:10
Speaker
So your centers are probably guys to look at. So Sunnybill, Goodhue, ALB, Karate, if he comes in, he may. This is kind of his last go around, so they might give him that call. Whatever hooker, whether it's Taylor or Coles, if it's Coltman, then forget it. But Taylor or Coles,
Fantasy Rugby Picks and Strategy
01:08:28
Speaker
fine.
01:08:28
Speaker
Joe Moody is actually one of the higher scoring props in this competition, and you need props, so go ahead and put him in your team if you want. Either Scrum half, they're both world-class, play him, Smith or Paranar, it's fine. Even if Weber plays, he's played pretty well in the times that he's gotten a shot, so go for it.
01:08:47
Speaker
For the sits. Well bad news. I'm longer a Barrett That's those those the guys that actually these are two positions that these guys have actually contained. So sorry The two guys that you probably are just like yes. Yes. Yes. Nope. No, sorry Reeser bridge you shouldn't have recent your team anyway, but that's a different story for a day a Bridge have a have a seat and then the the three big locks were talic white lock Barrett if it's not one of those three you wouldn't play them anyway But if you can get away from them get away from them
01:09:17
Speaker
the final for the final england versus south africa uh starts um ford um i'm assuming he plays um ford should have a big attacking day uh toji uh jamie george mako and maybe sinkler um as as prop options um you might want to go with uh mako and and moody um but but sinkler is always a good option because you never know when he's going to do something
01:09:46
Speaker
Fucking amazing see the quarterfinal game May and Watson I I struggle to sit Johnny May he had a bad semi-finals But He's been going off this whole this whole tournament. Mm-hmm. So he's and Watson you never he's the guy who it's like you play him He pulls it from nowhere. Sometimes I'll give you that
01:10:08
Speaker
And then Curry and Underhill, I would like, honestly, if you're not sure what to do with one of the flip a coin and just pick one. Just pick one. And hope you get to. Shouldn't be too bad. Right. Because if you pick actively, if you say I'm going with Curry, then Underhill is going to have the day. And if you go with Underhill, then Curry is going to have the day. Just let me know which one you pick so I can start the other one. Thank you. Then on the South African side, Dale Enday, I think, is a guy who should have a big day, fantasy wise. Yeah.
01:10:38
Speaker
FAFTA clerk should have a decent day. I'd have him as my reserve scrum half. Okay. André Pollard, Lou Diager are guys that are that are worth considering starting. Diager, more so. Kalisi, I'd probably have in reserve, in my reserves. And then Villaluru could have a good day, because I think they'll be England as they do. They'll kick tactically and he'll have the opportunity to get meters in return and kick yards.
01:11:08
Speaker
And if Colby is playing, then my pimpy and Colby. Sitz, Daly, Farrell, and Tuolaghi, I think are gonna struggle a little bit. And for South Africa, I would sit Ambunambi and Marx. Sit Etsibeth, and then if Colby is out, then my pimpy and Nicosia are Sitz.
01:11:34
Speaker
Yeah, he just opens up so much he does it's it's not it's not even funny My so funny that you mentioned the man my World Cup TRM start of the week maka Zola my pimpi is from is my start of the week from South Africa the English are a little leaky against the outside backs and
01:11:53
Speaker
even when they've been semi-contained, they've been able to, you know, wrap it up a little bit. So I'm going to go ahead and back them. I picked both my start and my sit from this game. You know, it's funny, I didn't think I'd do this, but I'm starting. The start of the week is South Africa. I'm trying to use my brain and not my heart or any other part of my body. That wasn't what you just pointed at. No.
01:12:26
Speaker
No, it wasn't, but it wasn't anywhere else either. I don't know what it just poured out to tell you all its truth. Oh, let them, let them... Let them wonder. Let them use their imaginations. Oh, shit. This is why we do this. We don't care about you guys. We just want to laugh.
01:12:43
Speaker
I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Yeah, I tried to use my brain, what little space there is in there, for the starts and six, set of the week. My start of the week is my pimpy, and my set of the week is somebody that you were a little on the fence on, Kyle Sinclair.
01:12:58
Speaker
All right. And my start of the week for the World Cup is Mauro Itoje just because of the impact he's going to have around the park. I don't expect him to score, but I mean, shit, he didn't score against New Zealand and he put up like a 40 spot. Oh, yeah. So he's going to he's going to rack up the points. You know, he he scores in various ways. That's why he's valuable and TRM for sure.
01:13:19
Speaker
And my sit of the week, just because of, um, again, he, this is, it's, it's not so much, I think he's going to have a bad day, but he's, it's because of, um, where he's going to fit into the lineup, I think. And the points he's going to produce or not produce based on that is as Owen Farrell.
01:13:37
Speaker
Yeah, it's funny. I looked at it like when he starts at 10 amazing. I mean he starts at 12 Really gross. I mean, that's the again Right. That's the the difference between the impact of fantasy versus reality, right? They don't always match. Yeah
01:13:53
Speaker
No, I agree. I don't disagree with that. If he's at 12, yeah, he's definitely a set. Yeah. Let's go to the prem. Start. So I believe I have the first match, Bristol and Sale. Yes. Okay. So there's a lot of funny things that happen with this match. Some variations, some of the formats players are good in. Some of the formats teams are really bad against. So it's like,
01:14:16
Speaker
This was a really weird anomaly in this case, especially where it's both these teams that are decent in some formats, but really garbage another. So it's like, wow, I can't believe I've got this much contrast between the two formats in this one match alone. So Bristol, so your outright starts are gonna be
01:14:33
Speaker
O'Connor, Pyotow, Hughes, both Pyotow's actually, so Ciali and Charles and Thacker. The points don't, some of these guys are unsettable, so you gotta do it. Thacker's one of those guys that's unsettable, so is Hughes. It says sit, you're starting him. He's gonna be one of those guys you have to start, and really, Pyotow might be one that you would wanna sit because of the numbers, you have to start him. So just play him. He's got too much ability, even in a crap match last time.
01:15:01
Speaker
He still put out decent production, so you're going to play him. Here's the fun parts. These are all guys that have different starts, different sits, depending on format. Morahan and Prothoro are both sits in TRM, but starts in FRD. Vui, Atwood, Dan Thomas, Lua Tua are all starts in TRM, but sits in Fantasy Rugby Draft.
01:15:26
Speaker
So yeah, we'll wrap your mind around that one, kids. Have fun, okay? I just did this, so yeah, you're welcome, okay? Callum Sheedy, Urine, Bristol Front Row, fuck. And Jonofoer sits. Not good. For sale.
01:15:42
Speaker
Pick a Dapria, play him. Both formats, fine. John Ross is a start in TRM. I don't know how valuable he is in FRD. So that's the only problem. If he is one of your loose forwards, start him, don't expect much.
01:15:58
Speaker
Okay, I don't have a reason to sit him, but other than the fact unless he gets over the line Yeah, unless he just unless he finds a way to produce unfortunately Akravan Amurva is a start in TRM for sure and Renz very after that last game And you know what he's been doing if he starts fucking put him in there, man
01:16:13
Speaker
Again, we have some variation in the two formats here. So everybody I'm about to list is a sit in TRM, but it's probably a start in FRD if not for the opposition or because of what they generally do and or the availability of players.
01:16:30
Speaker
Sam and Luke James, McGuigan, Ashton, Yard, Salimona, Hammersley, all Sitz and TRM, but you're probably gonna start them in FRD. And then everybody else that are outright Sitz, Ross Harrison, Sailfront Row, Wilcliffe John, and Wilcliffe.
01:16:48
Speaker
Saints versus Quinn's I'm just gonna go through this pretty quick the seat because there's It's still difficult once they get when the guys are away Japan but the starts Grayson is kind of a must-start at this point Taylor and fur bank if you've got them again, they're they're kind of Right, they're tough to sit but they're also tough to own in NTRM if you can justify it, right
01:17:16
Speaker
Um, for the sits, I would say Collins and Naira Voro and Hutchinson because Quinn's have shut down centers and wings. So, you know, I, you know, and for Naira Voro that to me, that means you put them in your reserves instead of starting him. Um, but you don't, you don't just take him completely out of your team. Um, and FRD, obviously you just start them anyway and you kind of hope for the best.
01:17:37
Speaker
For the Quinn's, uh, you start inventory, Marcus Smith, um, Dom Brant. I'm assuming he's going to get on the field eventually. And then, uh, Linda Hill, if you've got him, there you go. Yeah. Um, the sits are, uh, even though I just picked him up in FRD, but, uh, but will Evans and, and Rob Shaw, um, if you're stuck, you know, it's one of those things.
01:18:01
Speaker
Yeah, Saints have done pretty well against flankers this this season so far, the first two games. So yeah, I would I would I would look to to give them a sit. Yep. Was and Bath Marcus Watson, if he doesn't go to the World Cup. Also, good on sale for let's just backtrack that good on sale for second Ben Curry to the World Cup to see his brother play. I I applaud that. I hope was can manage to do the same with Marcus Watson because
01:18:29
Speaker
Family deserves to be there. It doesn't matter what they're doing for an occupation. They deserve to be there This is a moment that is never gonna be repeated probably so they they deserve to be there back to it squirrel Marcus Watson if he's if he's there start him. This is the back three basically start him Bassett kibber Iggy back rowers for the wasps as well. So by Lonu car shields if it's Tom Thomas young play him if he's happened to be back. Yeah, I
01:18:57
Speaker
Um, Tommy Taylor is probably a start. I don't know about cruise, but go ahead with that. Um, this is an area that is going to be tough for you to sit. Guys like soap, walk up, but you got to, uh, Fakito actually hasn't done shit. So, uh, this is a wait and see moment now for, for me with him and young as well. Sit in both. The only thing about that is you might have to start. Leave a soap, log in FRD because you might be stuck. Yeah. But if you can get away from him, do it. Uh, bath automatic starts that are out the wazoo, like.
01:19:27
Speaker
Not really out the wazoo, but guys that just like are no-brainers Mercer and rockin doo-goonie should be guys that you're starting probably because of what they can do on the field Start them in both formats Obano starting TRM Jules again, like we talked about with locks any FRD lock with a pulse play them and then play them in TRM
01:19:45
Speaker
Roberts is a start in TRM, if you have him. He's kind of expensive for a guy that plays every other match, but if he's in there, play him and you have him. FRD, if you can get away from him, do it. Cook and Chudley are definitive starts for FRD. It'll probably be Cook, so go ahead and get away from him in TRM. Sits outright. Priestland, Mike Williams, Tom Homer, Will Stewart, and Henry Thomas.
01:20:10
Speaker
uh the battle of the stirrers stir le versus glow so for lester um you want to start then this is again pretty simple just based on the the the talents on um both sides um
01:20:27
Speaker
Lester, you want to start Guy Thompson and Jonah Holmes. You want to sit all the front row forward. So that makes it pretty easy for the transition between TRM and FRD. Yeah. If you got a Lester front row or you have the Lester front row, fucking park and park.
01:20:43
Speaker
For Gloucester, you got to start Joe Simpson at this point. Moray, if Pileggio or Morgan is playing, start either or both. And for the sits, and this is going to really make me sad because I have them. Again, the front row. Gloucester. Gloucester. Yeah. But mostly, really, that's all about the props.
01:21:06
Speaker
Who have not been having a great season and again Lester have been doing a pretty decent job against props. So it's amazing Yeah, I don't know what I'm gonna have to do with my front row, but I might just play in any way and hope for the best Yep, got speed The Saracens against the Irish
01:21:23
Speaker
automatic start, obviously Ben Earl. Lewington and Maitland are both starts this week. Barrington and limits to Telia both starts this week, as well as Wollstonecroft, so if you have any of them, go ahead. Saracen's front row, der. I mean, if I'm naming basically their starting front row, you can probably feel good about starting them.
01:21:41
Speaker
So here's the thing. Jackson Ray start him in TRM if you feel comfortable with it and you have him because he's versus all he is worth it. You can probably get away from an FRD. The other way around would be Matt Gallagher is actually they actually the Irish are okay against outright fullbacks, which Matt Gallagher is.
01:21:58
Speaker
But if you have them, I can't blame you. No, you'd start him. So outside back as well if he's one of the one of yours start him Hard to get away from a sequel and skeleton even if The numbers say don't but really the two the name say yes, so it's really tough for the Irish for the Irish He hasn't had a great start, but I still believe in him curse Rona go for it. I
01:22:23
Speaker
The second rows not and and both go for it Ollie Hoskins the the property Saracens are traditionally not good against props, which is weird so go ahead and start the Irish front row if you happen to pick them up and then sits big name Blair Cowan and then Voldemort, so
01:22:42
Speaker
Yeah. Onto the last stir versus another tur. Wooster versus Exeter. Wooster. Assuming he's healthy, Huggard has got to start. Hoping he's healthy, man. Hoping he's healthy. Exeter have kind of been, they've allowed some points against the against Nines. So that's why I'm singling him out because he's a player you would never take out otherwise anyway. But he's a guy who should have a big day.
01:23:09
Speaker
And then Annette, they did an islandette that we talked about before. And the Worcester front row for FRD. Cornell Dupree at eight. And Bresler at lock is a maybe, he's a guy you should be looking for for Exeter.
01:23:26
Speaker
Uh, sam simmons. Yeah, um auto start I yeah auto start I shouldn't even have to mention it but at the same time Fucking he should have a big day. Yep, um for the sits Uh for wuster, uh kitchener Has kind of been either slow to pick shit up and and yep, he he's not really He's not scoring points. Let's put it that way not not like he did last year. Yeah, um and and sit dunk and weir
01:23:51
Speaker
in this match. He's having a rough go. He's having a rough go and Exeter are good against flyhaves. Also true. And then for Exeter's, your sits are that center combination, Witten, Hendrickson, Hill, whatever they got. Fucking the centers aren't scoring for Exeter and centers aren't scoring against Worcester. So yeah, don't have a bum. Have a seat on your bum.
World Cup Final Predictions
01:24:15
Speaker
Start of the week. Mine. Nick Tompkins from the Saracens. Centers are, centers are leaky for the Irish and Nick Tompkins is obviously off to a hot start in both formats. Go ahead and you said to start him, but I'm saying he's my sit of the week, Marcus Smith.
01:24:32
Speaker
Okay, bath are tying up fly half the last couple weeks. So And granted they haven't played anybody otherworldly, although I think she's pretty good But you didn't score that well in a game where they scored a fuckload of points So, you know that kind of says a lot to me. I know Joe Simmons isn't a fantasy machine But so I think this is something that you can probably dial down the expectations of Marcus Smith And if you get away from them pin them
01:24:55
Speaker
So for my start of the week, uh, I'm going to do it only because he was my sit of the week last week. Um, and so it's going to be Guy Thompson. Um, I think they're that, uh, Lester are going to rely on their forwards against Gloucester. Um, and, and Guy could have a pretty big week because there's not many other options. Yeah, that's true. Um, and then my sit of the week, just because he's somebody who, um, if you own him, you're starting him every week and accept this week and that's Duncan Weir.
01:25:25
Speaker
Too bad. That's a good player, usually. Yeah. All right. Pick him, and then we can get out of here. Although, we're going to spend a little bit of time on this. So bear with us, kids, I promise. Yeah, we're almost done. I promise. But yeah, I mean, bear with us. We'll talk about the third place game. Bear with us? You know, it's kind of a crap shoot, because who knows who's going to start. And you're going to get guys that get nod offs, like Matt Todd. And obviously, Alan Nguyen's going to get his goodbye, as well as Lee Halfpenny.
01:25:54
Speaker
You know, so it's sunny bill. Yeah sunny bill. So it's going to be kind of a crapshoot about who plays and all that stuff, right? Um In terms of depth i'm back in the kiwis. Oh, yeah, I mean the wales I mean wales came into that semi-final Banged up and then they only got worse. Uh, george north went off Yeah, he did way early or no. He went off at half someone else went off early. Uh, I can't remember who um
01:26:19
Speaker
Yeah, I as much as I would love to see whales take this I think the Kiwis are gonna be even the one you know Their reserves are gonna have a big fucking ship on their shoulder and especially their reserves who want to show that they still got it Yeah, I think in 2023 the world still has something to fear.
Premiership Matches Predictions
01:26:36
Speaker
Yep Okay the final Unfortunately the one negative about it referred by a Frenchman, but everything else should be pretty good. Yeah
01:26:48
Speaker
Oh man, I'm I'm reversing course. Yeah, I had when we when we started this I had I had this I just you mentioned I had this is the final and I had South Africa winning it I'm going with with England. There's yeah, they're playing Unbelievable rugby
01:27:07
Speaker
And that's really, I think, what's going to make the difference is, yeah, there's certain aspects of the game that South Africa has the advantages. But in the open field, in open play, and just their ability to use the ball at any width, they can run the short hard ball if they want to, the short crash ball.
01:27:26
Speaker
Or they could spin it wide and burn you out. Pretty terrifying. And also, but maintain possession. England, I think, are just going to do what they did to New Zealand, except South Africa just aren't as good as New Zealand. They're playing rugby like that.
01:27:41
Speaker
No, I, uh, I agree. I believe the, I believe England will be able to rock up. They were, hopefully they recovered. This is the, that's the key at this point for them is recovery. Um, so hopefully they've recovered and they will be okay to really put this thing home for them and they will lift their first web Ellis trophy since 2003. Hopefully they won't need a fucking drop goal to do it. Yeah.
01:28:07
Speaker
All right to the prom slightly less exciting Bristol sale Friday night to Friday night matches. Oh, that's fun. Bristol on sale I So with last season Gloucester emerged as my side piece I feel like Bristol are slowly becoming that are kind of overtaking them in that respect I still have respect for Gloucester, but man, I love what Bristol are doing At the same time at the same time
01:28:37
Speaker
I have to start acknowledging that that's what a monster they're building with sale. And I think they take this one. I'll back the boys that are going to be at home at Ashton Gate and pick the bears. Saints at Franklin's Gardens hosting Juzzy and the Quinns.
01:28:57
Speaker
I got Saints. Yeah, same. Yeah. Franklin Gardens is not someplace they're going to lose. Right. That's really what it comes down to. Although I might take the Saints on the road here, I think they're definitely going to win it all. Yeah. They play some exciting stuff, so I'll give it to them. I'll back the team that plays a little more attacking. Hopefully the weather's a tiny bit better. Even just a tiny bit better. Saturday, Was and Beth at the Rico. This is a tough one.
01:29:27
Speaker
No, it's not that tough. That's the problem. I think that they're gonna snot the fuck Geez Louise. Yeah, Beth are a slightly better form. So I guess I gotta give it to them Lester foster. Don't just just shut up you I'll bet I'll back the cherry and whites as well. Yeah Again, just be quiet over there. I'll take the Saracens at home. I
01:29:52
Speaker
Irish did not look good last time. I was here since a lot better. So I mean, Irish looked good when they were playing wasps. Yikes. Look at wasps. You could be in trouble. Yeah. Waster and Exeter, despite the fact that wasters at home. This is a Sunday game. It's not a Friday night game. So nobody's going to be nearly as pissed drunk as they as the bad fans were on Friday night last week. So I'm going to go ahead and take the Chiefs.
01:30:18
Speaker
Yeah, I think Worcester still are not quite there. They're not at a point where they can beat Exeter even at home yet. So yeah. If this was later in the season, they've kind of a little bit better. Right. And especially with the way Exeter is playing defense and. Yeah, good luck breaking that line. Yeah.
Closing Remarks and Engagement
01:30:41
Speaker
Yeah. So there we go.
01:30:44
Speaker
Oh, phew. Thanks guys. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks. Um, we, yeah, we tried to give you a lot of information for your fancy teams because we are the fans. So we were, we were definitely trying to get a little bit more into that for you guys. Cause we know that's something that some of you out there are looking for. So thanks a lot for bearing with us. We'll work on our efficiency. Different story for a different day. I suppose I've never been that efficient. I've been, I waste gas like it, like it's no waste business in my bum, especially.
01:31:12
Speaker
So, thanks for listening, fancybergiepodcast.gmail.com, follow Ben and I on Twitter, our Twitter tags are in the show notes, so if you're still wondering where the fuck you find us, that's where you find us, ask us questions morning of, I'll put the start set up, come Thursday for the World Cup and Friday for the permission, and yeah, like I said, feel free to ask us questions.
01:31:34
Speaker
I'm off work all day, basically until the end of the year. Attaboy. I have to burn all my time off. Earning that paycheck. Seriously, if you have any questions or just want to chat on the Twitters, I will be available all day on Fridays.
01:31:52
Speaker
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