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Season 7- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Champions Cup Round 2)
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We are back with more Fantasy goods for your favorite pretend rugby comps. We are checking in to CYL D1 and D2, as the second competition gets under way. We then look at the happenings in our PWR league along with our picks for the weekend (it's a clean slate for this by the way fam). Finally, it's start or sit time, I'm sure you can guess a few of the ideas we have.
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Transcript
Introduction and Episode Overview
Champions League Performance Review
00:00:29
Jarrod Dyke
Hey everybody, welcome back. It is the Fancy Rugby Yanks. My name is Jared Dyke.
00:00:33
Grumpy Old Prop
I'm Ben Glauser.
00:00:34
Jarrod Dyke
We are here fancy cornering and all that good stuff. Um, so we got, hmm, we got champion anxly things to talk about. We got PWR fantasy to talk about plus picks. Um, anyway, I will introduce us to the whole thing.
00:00:49
Jarrod Dyke
So champion league, uh, obviously we won in champions cup or super brew. Um, poor Justin didn't put a team.
00:00:59
Grumpy Old Prop
Oh no.
00:01:00
Jarrod Dyke
Oh, he's on, he's on a donut. Um, this is not a long competition either. So that hurts.
00:01:06
Grumpy Old Prop
Right.
00:01:07
Jarrod Dyke
No, he did. I think it might've been him actually. Someone did it once, um, a couple of years ago in one of the competitions and they rallied and and they they finished like six or something like that.
00:01:17
Jarrod Dyke
I was like, all right, that's respectable considering.
00:01:19
Grumpy Old Prop
Right.
00:01:20
Jarrod Dyke
Um, but I think it was in the prep. So. Lots of time to recover in that. This, oh man, you got to be digging out of that hole for a bit, but that's all right. Um,
Division 2 Insights and Player Calls
00:01:29
Jarrod Dyke
so the, the winner, the winner of the week is Mark.
00:01:31
Jarrod Dyke
I think he, who did he captain? did he captain? I think you were talking about who, he also captain DuPont. All right, cool.
00:01:40
Grumpy Old Prop
yeah ye
00:01:40
Jarrod Dyke
That's what I did. So BLB area wasn't a bad, bad shout. That's a good one. Um, anyway, so there's that, um,
00:01:52
Jarrod Dyke
Then it's Duncan, then it's Cobas, then it's me, Alex, George. Oh, shit, I skipped over Stu. Sorry, Stu. Stu's in second, my bad. Duncan's in third.
00:02:06
Jarrod Dyke
go and Cobus myself, I really, really pressed up against the the the clock on that one too.
00:02:06
Grumpy Old Prop
yep.
00:02:13
Jarrod Dyke
ah It was told spur of the moment. I was like, this looks good. This looks good. Go, go, go, go. but Man, it was right up against the clock to get that thing done. And then I had i had to go see who I do have a meeting.
00:02:24
Jarrod Dyke
So I was like, God damn it. um Alex Jordan, Justin, as we talked about, has a sitting on the donut for division one. That's that.
00:02:32
Grumpy Old Prop
For D2, first off, we're we're missing three. So we got to get Aubrey, Drew, and also we're missing Barty.
00:02:42
Grumpy Old Prop
We got to get you guys into the... ah ah Matt, come on, man. I'll have to send you a written invitation.
00:02:48
Jarrod Dyke
I thought we were friends.
00:02:50
Grumpy Old Prop
ah Um, anyway, uh, yeah, get in there. I hope you you guys put it in team and didn't pull a Justin and it doesn't matter. Um, you can just join the league and your points will transfer in. Um, so that's nice. Uh, anyway, for our standings, Paul, um, out in the
Challenges of Fantasy Rugby Picks
00:03:06
Grumpy Old Prop
for actually a pretty big lead of almost 40 points already. Um,
00:03:10
Grumpy Old Prop
Jared, you're not in this competition, but right now you're in the the league. oh Yeah.
00:03:13
Jarrod Dyke
yeah um Yeah, I gotta exit there. I was waiting on you to join, that's why.
00:03:16
Grumpy Old Prop
um Yeah, I literally joined like Friday. So ah anyway, um and Franco in the actual second, ah Luke in third and then I am in fourth with the spoon because I picked a poopy team.
00:03:34
Jarrod Dyke
What's your excuse?
00:03:35
Grumpy Old Prop
yeah I was doing it while I was at work and had very little time to to really ah consider it.
00:03:40
Jarrod Dyke
That's fair.
00:03:42
Jarrod Dyke
Think about it. Yep.
00:03:45
Grumpy Old Prop
work You know how much it sucks to work at an office, you know?
00:03:45
Jarrod Dyke
That's fair. I've been there.
00:03:49
Grumpy Old Prop
because
Data Gathering and Analysis Importance
00:03:51
Grumpy Old Prop
working from home, I can like take an hour in the morning to just be like, all right, I'm going to sit here and just consider my team.
00:03:57
Jarrod Dyke
Do this.
00:03:59
Grumpy Old Prop
um It's OK. I will, you know, I will still work late until what? Two o'clock when it's time to start watching rugby. um It's Friday. Nobody gave a shit. um Again, my new job.
00:04:10
Jarrod Dyke
Funny how that works, right?
00:04:11
Grumpy Old Prop
Fuck. I can't wait till we actually turn this place around and I can kind of fuck off on Fridays.
00:04:18
Jarrod Dyke
Don't be nice.
00:04:18
Grumpy Old Prop
So anyway, yeah, I can actually put a team together.
00:04:21
Grumpy Old Prop
That's my excuse.
00:04:24
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, shit happens.
00:04:27
Grumpy Old Prop
Earning a living, not being able to fuck off at work. Uh, okay.
00:04:30
Jarrod Dyke
God damn it.
00:04:31
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. The first world problems.
00:04:32
Jarrod Dyke
When did this happen?
00:04:33
Grumpy Old Prop
God damn it.
00:04:35
Jarrod Dyke
Thank you. PDF, you are fancy. I do not have the numbers for this week. Quite wrapped up. But those of you that haven't noticed, we are getting all the numbers these days, which is awesome.
00:04:42
Grumpy Old Prop
Was it? Yes, it is.
00:04:48
Jarrod Dyke
Um, the previous week round eight, since we didn't get to talk about that. Anyway, um, Tom had the, had the big week for, for everyone. And that kind of puts them right there.
00:04:59
Jarrod Dyke
Tom had may Campbell, may Jones and Zoe Harrison. So make Jones was the big one on that one.
00:05:05
Jarrod Dyke
She had, she's going twice
00:05:06
Grumpy Old Prop
Not bad, yeah
Player Performance Highlights
00:05:08
Jarrod Dyke
and she had like a hundred odd meters, 150 meters. So yeah, that'll do two weeks ago.
00:05:10
Grumpy Old Prop
Right and make up may put at least one down.
00:05:16
Jarrod Dyke
I don't think so. I think she scored last weekend.
00:05:17
Grumpy Old Prop
Oh It's too easy, I'm sorry it was this past weekend when I picked her well
00:05:17
Jarrod Dyke
Sure. Yeah. And this past weekend, I'm pretty sure she did. yeahp Yeah. Yeah. I saw that. Um, so because the dampening doesn't want to sort well, I'm 88% sure that Duncan's in first and Julia's in second as of without this current round. So just keep that in mind. Um, but yeah, I just keep that in mind. And then, but yeah, pull up the rear is I think it's, I guess George he's close. Yeah. He's the rear.
00:05:47
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm. See, see.
00:05:48
Jarrod Dyke
George, my friend, you are the you are the basement. welcome to the Welcome to being the foundation. Sorry, I've been there, done that.
00:05:56
Grumpy Old Prop
Yup. That's what got me to D.
00:05:59
Jarrod Dyke
Anywho, that's true.
00:06:00
Grumpy Old Prop
We got me all the way to D2.
00:06:03
Jarrod Dyke
That's true. Fast experience. um Also for everyone's information, the slate is clean for this weekend. You may pick whoever you want as long as, I but i mean, you can pick whoever you want.
00:06:15
Jarrod Dyke
I'd pick someone that's starting now.
00:06:18
Grumpy Old Prop
it would be Preferable especially if they have a game even better. um How many?
00:06:21
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, pretty sure they have a game as well.
00:06:23
Grumpy Old Prop
but did anybody else cuz other people had like who did I have I think I had a The Exeter Kicker um Whose name I can't recall the top of my head.
00:06:34
Jarrod Dyke
lu mcgovern I didn't get any email.
00:06:35
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah let live the government and some people that people had that like amber read this past weekend and i I don't know if they They contacted you to change it. So um
00:06:46
Jarrod Dyke
We didn't get any emails during that.
00:06:48
Grumpy Old Prop
So I yeah, I don't know how many people picked You
00:06:49
Jarrod Dyke
um So hopefully we got some, let's see. Um, neither Rihanna nor Tom picked anybody from that game and yeah.
00:07:04
Grumpy Old Prop
check the bad place Yeah,
00:07:06
Jarrod Dyke
And Barty didn't pick anybody from that game. So that's good.
00:07:10
Jarrod Dyke
Um, no, I remember remember that.
00:07:10
Grumpy Old Prop
Joe didn't pick anybody from that game
00:07:18
Jarrod Dyke
And then I don't think George did.
00:07:23
Jarrod Dyke
85% sure on that Okay, yeah, and I think don't get I think I can did too Yeah Well, you were kind of hemmed into a corner like one of the other Because you're because you kick your situation Anyway, we're back to square one um No, you don't so for this weekend.
00:07:24
Grumpy Old Prop
Okay, no. And then Oscar and and Julia both, um, avoided that match. So it looks like I was one of the only ones who, uh, even picked one a player from there. So right.
00:07:46
Grumpy Old Prop
But now I don't have to worry about that anymore.
00:07:51
Jarrod Dyke
I I am going to go with, um, I think she sells these to D Kabeya from Loughborough.
00:07:55
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm. Yep.
00:07:57
Jarrod Dyke
Last time I picked her, uh, two times I picked her last year. She was pretty dynamite. So I'm hoping that's what's going to happen here. I am going with DJ, DJ Jazzy Joyce, and then read Amber and go with Amber Reed.
00:08:04
Grumpy Old Prop
OK. All right. Well, one of us made a good decision, at least so. um I have taken in the forwards, uh, Jade Kunkel Roberts, um, Harlequin's at, at Loughborough.
00:08:16
Jarrod Dyke
Ooh. Okay. Yes. Yes.
00:08:18
Grumpy Old Prop
I think that will, uh, I think that's going to work out well, I hope. Um, for the backs, I went with Millie David. So one of us made, one of us made a good choice.
00:08:26
Jarrod Dyke
Oh yeah, also a good choice.
00:08:29
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, that's that's ah that's a for sure thing, I think.
00:08:29
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, and then my kicker is Amber Reed also.
00:08:33
Grumpy Old Prop
So yeah, we, we, we like, we're in the same neighborhood.
00:08:34
Jarrod Dyke
Okay. Well, hey, I like it. Didn't quite copy each other's homework, but we came close.
00:08:42
Jarrod Dyke
Yep.
00:08:46
Jarrod Dyke
Ben glanced over and saw the wrong name.
00:08:49
Grumpy Old Prop
yeah My eyes aren't great anymore.
00:08:51
Jarrod Dyke
ah
00:08:52
Grumpy Old Prop
I might, I might need reading glasses.
00:08:52
Jarrod Dyke
yeah
00:08:55
Grumpy Old Prop
I'm kind of scared about it. Um, any, um, am I starting us off for, for sharks and shits?
00:09:01
Jarrod Dyke
I believe ah you have your sale Rossing, right?
00:09:04
Grumpy Old Prop
Yes, I do.
00:09:04
Jarrod Dyke
Or do I? Okay. You do.
00:09:06
Jarrod Dyke
Okay.
00:09:06
Grumpy Old Prop
Okay.
00:09:06
Jarrod Dyke
There you go.
00:09:06
Grumpy Old Prop
I just wasn't sure which I, I,
Rugby Matchup Insights and Predictions
00:09:09
Grumpy Old Prop
yeah.
00:09:10
Grumpy Old Prop
Anyway.
00:09:10
Jarrod Dyke
You're on it.
00:09:10
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, I think what was, I was looking at the, um, Fixtures from on the EP the European site and now I was also looking at the fixtures on Superbrew and there aren't always like a line so I But I think you go with the EPCR, right?
00:09:22
Jarrod Dyke
Nope.
00:09:26
Grumpy Old Prop
So anyway should have known for sale ah Hosting Rossing sale.
00:09:26
Jarrod Dyke
Yes, I do.
00:09:32
Grumpy Old Prop
I just wouldn't they're not
00:09:36
Grumpy Old Prop
Like you may might start one of them and get a good score, but no matter which one you grab, there's better options elsewhere. That's kind of where I am with sale. it's like
00:09:47
Grumpy Old Prop
Mmm, and they're not they're also not that good um and wrestling are really good I think Rossy you're gonna come in and stomp him a little bit.
00:09:48
Jarrod Dyke
Tully. No.
00:09:54
Grumpy Old Prop
So um to that said Rossing I'd look at Wokey Lagerach if you if you are you wanted to give him the K as well um that he'd be more obviously more valuable with it, but not he was pretty he did had some pretty good scores even without it, so
00:10:09
Jarrod Dyke
See, I remember last year we were having him and he was usually pretty useful even without a kick. So.
00:10:13
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. Um, and that, obviously that's like a good call if you don't want to have, uh, DuPont, which, okay. Um, weird, like FICU and Hibosi, I think we'll, we'll score well too.
00:10:23
Jarrod Dyke
Falsy.
00:10:25
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah.
00:10:28
Jarrod Dyke
Agreed. All right. Um, so we have Castor Monster. So obviously Castor totally selection dependent right now.
00:10:35
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm-hmm.
00:10:36
Jarrod Dyke
Um, well, T2, I think you might, we maybe see me might see him, the Pigeon flyer. Um, if not, if he's healthy and if not, then nevermind.
00:10:46
Jarrod Dyke
Um, the only other guy that you might consider, which is not many. um ah Shaboni, he's the only guy that scored over 10 that wasn't in the pack, therefore not reliant on the set piece dominance that cast had.
00:10:55
Grumpy Old Prop
yeah
00:10:57
Jarrod Dyke
So um that's it. Other than that, dismiss all.
00:11:02
Grumpy Old Prop
yeah
00:11:03
Jarrod Dyke
Munster on the other hand, Byrne, Coombs, Crowley, Tommy Farrell, Nankaville even. I thought we didn't score great last last week, but still I'd look his way.
00:11:12
Grumpy Old Prop
did he get a yellow?
00:11:12
Jarrod Dyke
Maybe daily. Yeah, that probably that probably didn't help him.
00:11:15
Grumpy Old Prop
I think I fucked him
00:11:16
Jarrod Dyke
That's true actually. And then, um, we talked about him before Abraham's like, yes, yes, yes, yes. Take all of that. I cobbled together my team so fast last week, but I managed to slip him in there. Slip it inside her.
00:11:38
Jarrod Dyke
You're welcome.
00:11:39
Grumpy Old Prop
God damn it. What's that from shit?
00:11:43
Jarrod Dyke
Okay.
00:11:44
Grumpy Old Prop
That's what I thought I was like
00:11:45
Jarrod Dyke
It's totally from letter. Can you get me?
00:11:47
Grumpy Old Prop
like is that letter cut like yeah <unk> it insider i anyway um Anyway Bulls hosting Northampton, honestly um There's a couple guys I would look at in this one, but mostly I'm kind of staying away from it for the reason that um The Bulls are but both he seems are traveling so there's gonna be a little bit of the jet lags and I You know, getting, shaking the legs out, although I think bulls are more suited to it.
00:12:19
Grumpy Old Prop
Plus they're at home. I think that favors them at the same time. Saints have, and it's kind of going away a little bit this year, but they're kind of showing it of late. They have ah a tough defense and that defense travels.
00:12:31
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, and they've got the puncher's chance with, with Freeman and slates and, and, and all the the skies in the backs. Um, so like Hanukkah and Moody from the bulls, I think you would, you know, those are guys you, you're not going to, if you have them.
00:12:37
Jarrod Dyke
Right.
00:12:46
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, you're not going to drop them and I wouldn't, I'd play them and and still be pretty happy about that.
00:12:50
Jarrod Dyke
No.
00:12:52
Jarrod Dyke
Mm-hmm.
00:12:52
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, for the saints Augustus Mitchell.
00:12:56
Grumpy Old Prop
And at this point, I actually think either Freeman or, or slide home are, it's kind of like how, um, you know, I, I have a Millie David and you have a jazz Joyce butchers.
00:13:08
Grumpy Old Prop
It's like, yeah, one of them might do really, really well, but
00:13:10
Jarrod Dyke
One of them will work.
Player Strategies and Match Outcomes
00:13:12
Grumpy Old Prop
are you going to really, like, are you going to gamble that it's going to be the guy you pick?
00:13:17
Grumpy Old Prop
um versus go with a better player, or not a better player, but a better matchup elsewhere.
00:13:20
Jarrod Dyke
Better match up. Yeah.
00:13:24
Jarrod Dyke
Agreed. Agreed. No argument out of me.
00:13:28
Grumpy Old Prop
And I just would not i touch Finn Smith in this one. He's not my set of the week, but oh, wait, I just scrolled down.
00:13:35
Jarrod Dyke
Wait a minute.
00:13:36
Grumpy Old Prop
Nevermind, put your hair carry on, let's let's move on.
00:13:40
Jarrod Dyke
Nevermind. Forget I said that. You heard you heard nothing.
00:13:44
Jarrod Dyke
He's not the droid you're looking for. um
00:13:45
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, yeah, yeah.
00:13:48
Grumpy Old Prop
Hey, what's that? What's squirrel?
00:13:50
Jarrod Dyke
Squirrel! Where? Ulster Bordeaux. As we know it before, Ulster were very banged up even before the Toulouse trip, so this I'm sure they'll be welcomed home but at the same time. We'll see what their lineup looks like. um Maybe Herring.
00:14:06
Jarrod Dyke
Maybe Izuchuku and maybe Timoni for ulcer. That's really all I'm interested in. For Bordeaux. Tepmifuna, fairly cheap prop and very productive. Lamont, semi-sneaky hooker option there. I know there's a lot of really good options out there, but it could be like a nice contrarian play that's not a mavaca or a kellahir or a Langdon or something like that. Petty, Samu.
00:14:33
Jarrod Dyke
Jollibear, Deportia, Moifana, especially if he's deployed out wide. And then the two guys we talk about all the time for this team, BL Battery and Penno, like yes, yes, and all, just give me all of it and have fun.
00:14:42
Grumpy Old Prop
Mhm.
00:14:47
Jarrod Dyke
That's all I know.
00:14:51
Grumpy Old Prop
All right, Leinster and Claremont. um For Leinster, to me in this one, just throw darts at their roster. um
00:15:01
Jarrod Dyke
no
00:15:01
Grumpy Old Prop
I would I would take but so much of them.
00:15:04
Grumpy Old Prop
um So it's like.
00:15:08
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, I would say stay away from Frawley, though, if he's not a 10, which he won't be so. Stay away from him.
00:15:15
Jarrod Dyke
I think he's hurt.
00:15:16
Grumpy Old Prop
Oh, is he?
00:15:17
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, I think he's hurt.
00:15:18
Grumpy Old Prop
I didn't I I got.
00:15:19
Jarrod Dyke
I just saw something the other day.
00:15:21
Grumpy Old Prop
Okay. I was only kind of semi paying attention to the, to the end of that game.
00:15:23
Jarrod Dyke
yeah ah Yeah, he's hurt.
00:15:24
Jarrod Dyke
So made the decision for you.
00:15:24
Grumpy Old Prop
So, okay.
00:15:25
Grumpy Old Prop
Well, then there you go. Decision made. Um, and then Claremont, I just, no, I, no, I don't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't touch them this this week.
00:15:38
Jarrod Dyke
We'll see what team they send.
00:15:40
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. um I'm not expecting them to send ah a strong team. And even if they do, even if they do, I don't think they're
00:15:45
Jarrod Dyke
if they do look out.
00:15:49
Grumpy Old Prop
I think when they're going to pounce them.
00:15:52
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, I had I threw a player in there just as a token and it was teaser on and you actually need to do too bad.
00:16:00
Grumpy Old Prop
Hmm.
00:16:01
Jarrod Dyke
So there's that. um Yeah.
00:16:03
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, I mean, I'm just of guys who are going to be notable. um You know, again, the yeah, there are plenty of potential comp contrarian place. I just don't like this opposition. I just to me, it's a gamble and I wouldn't wouldn't take it.
00:16:12
Jarrod Dyke
Mm hmm.
00:16:17
Jarrod Dyke
Do we know if they're playing set the RDS or if they're playing this at the Viva?
00:16:20
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, I closed the, which yeah.
00:16:21
Jarrod Dyke
I think that actually, let me like, I can find it one second. Here we are on this guy. This is being played at the Viva, even more fun.
00:16:33
Jarrod Dyke
ah
00:16:34
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, I think I'm going to reiterate, maybe just chill this again and again, like, I just don't like the matchup more than anything.
00:16:43
Jarrod Dyke
Right.
00:16:46
Jarrod Dyke
Right, right, right. Okay. Um, Lester and the sharks see what the sharks bring. Um, my, so my recommendations are assuming that they bring full noise. We'll see what they bring. Like I said, um, Lester, uh, Montoya Wells Holloway, um, like the law, what Holloway did when he came on last week. So hopefully he gets to start, um, Levenberg, um, showed what he's made of last week as well. Um, we've been poor fleet.
00:17:17
Jarrod Dyke
If Pollard's healthy, like Pollard didn't want to tell you a kind of question marks, cause I don't know if they're healthy or they just left them at home last week. I'm guessing the latter, but I could be wrong. Um, Parise freaking talk about being a tornado.
00:17:30
Jarrod Dyke
And then, um, Freddie flying Freddie, get him in there too. He had a great week last week. I think, I think more could come, uh, for the shocks, the whole front row ox and you can't get in, but I'll be as much as I don't like him and nobody, um, still worth playing.
00:17:44
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm.
00:17:46
Jarrod Dyke
That's a Beth. See ya. I just come half, honestly. I like them both. Um, Jordan Hendrickson as well. Esther Hazen, Fosse and Mack, my Pimpry as well.
00:17:55
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:17:56
Jarrod Dyke
Esther Hazen knows this building a little bit as well. That'll help.
00:18:00
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, exactly. he'll He can, you know, they they shouldn't be surprised by what's in store for them there.
00:18:05
Jarrod Dyke
No.
00:18:09
Jarrod Dyke
Next.
00:18:09
Grumpy Old Prop
All right. La Rochelle versus Bristol.
00:18:14
Grumpy Old Prop
I mean, this basically, you know, we joked a little bit about AJ, because he's ribs. Sorry, AJ. We're obviously we want you to play and we were not happy about it. It's just.
00:18:26
Jarrod Dyke
Both of the medical staff helped you sort out which ones you have and which ones you don't.
00:18:31
Grumpy Old Prop
Right, that was a hit, so sorry.
00:18:33
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah.
00:18:35
Grumpy Old Prop
And you know, but that this game kind of hinges on that because they still just don't have any anyone in reserve. um Ultimately, like I'm looking at Fitzharding and Matzah, maybe your gambles, um, you know, they're going to feed a Bitoye, but is he going to be the the one of the higher scoring wings?
00:18:48
Jarrod Dyke
Mm hmm.
00:18:53
Grumpy Old Prop
I'm not sure. Um, but then on the other side, you've got like Aldrit and Carr Barlow, who I think, you know, Harry Randall's still much more of an attacking nine than he is a defensive nine.
00:19:06
Grumpy Old Prop
So I think Carr Barlow could, could once again, um, put up numbers. But again, that means you're not playing Antoine DuPont, which is weird. um But Algy, I think, um but is a guy who, i but again, this also could be a very defensive battle. um We'll just see, it's one of those, is La Rochelle, are they on that level of what Bristol went up against last week? I mean, the answer is definitely not no, like a hard no,
00:19:42
Grumpy Old Prop
I just don't know who's gonna score.
00:19:42
Jarrod Dyke
This is still not gonna be a cakewalk.
00:19:43
Grumpy Old Prop
Well, like there's there's too much Bristol do have to do enough talent to like Contain some of lower shelves better players. It's just like they're great players like I'll do eaten car Barlow are gonna Have some games Like I don't know that I would put it West in this week Although I think he scored I mean he scored pretty well this past week, but that's like that's one of the things I just also don't know What's his uh?
00:19:55
Jarrod Dyke
Yes. Yeah. No. No, I have no interest in that guy. Pass. There's a lot of 10s I'll take, not him. Yeah, because there wasn't that good, though.
00:20:14
Grumpy Old Prop
How much, how much does he cost six and he was the one, two, three, four, five, six, seventh highest score, but he was only 14 points.
00:20:16
Jarrod Dyke
Uh, give me one second.
00:20:28
Grumpy Old Prop
So fuck.
00:20:29
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah.
00:20:29
Grumpy Old Prop
There's just not, not many, not many points being there. yeah There's only a couple tens who really showed out five.
00:20:34
Jarrod Dyke
If you want to get picky with price, Pendergast led the way and he had, he, his price is better.
00:20:42
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. Yeah, he was on my bench. um So maybe that'll...
00:20:46
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, he's on mine too. I was like, well, teach me to do that ever again.
00:20:49
Grumpy Old Prop
Yup. ah
00:20:55
Jarrod Dyke
but Lesson learned.
00:20:56
Jarrod Dyke
Got it. i hear I hear you, Sam.
00:20:56
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, like that, okay.
00:20:58
Grumpy Old Prop
I get you.
00:20:58
Jarrod Dyke
I hear you.
00:21:00
Grumpy Old Prop
Loud and clear, especially with, yeah, that being able to even have a West as your backup or a Hendrix as your, fuck, Hendrix as your backup.
00:21:01
Jarrod Dyke
Yep.
00:21:09
Grumpy Old Prop
All right, nevermind. Carry on.
00:21:10
Jarrod Dyke
ye You got some good ones. Let's go to, let's go to Quinn Stormers. Um, For the twins, I assume this will be an angry Harley Quinn's team.
00:21:21
Jarrod Dyke
Still, like you got to pick and choose your your guys that you're going to pull out of this game no matter what.
00:21:21
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:21:26
Jarrod Dyke
um Dom, Will Evans, assuming he starts this time. Porter, maybe. Again, that means you're not picking DuPont. That's weird. um Marcus, Northmore, Marley, and Green, if he's healthy.
00:21:39
Jarrod Dyke
um For the Stormers, depending on what they send, um The ones I'm looking at are like Dweva, Ben Jason Dixon. He plays that position usually. um Hartzenberg and Hulant Hartzenberg was deployed on the wing last week. So he may be doing so with it again. And he's actually scored well in this competition before. So that's one reason I'm also putting him out there.
00:22:03
Grumpy Old Prop
Benetton hosting Bath. For Benetton, it's a question of Brex or Menoncello as to who's going to put up the points. Menoncello lately has been winning that competition, though, I will say. it and they I guess there was a time when they were kind of splitting it. It was one or the other, or both. um Like I say, Brex is kind of getting overshadowed a lot. So that's why I'm gonna lean towards Menoncello in this one. um In other words, it's been a while since he's really been like the better one without Menoncello showing up too. So it's like, if you're gonna have one, Menoncello is the more consistent.
00:22:44
Grumpy Old Prop
um For Beth, I think their back row could do very well here. I'm not sure Benetton's
Strategic Player Selection for Matchups
00:22:51
Grumpy Old Prop
loose forwards have their athleticism.
00:22:55
Grumpy Old Prop
um And yeah, just mobility around the pitch. So that that could work out very well in Bath's favor. Finn, as always, but at the same time, he's a lot more expensive than um and like Pendergrass, this we were just talking about.
00:23:08
Jarrod Dyke
So of the other options out there. yeah Right.
00:23:10
Grumpy Old Prop
So, you know, there you go. um And then Mira and Koka and Asiga, I think are both. Mira had more points this past week, but I think It's not quite the same competition and there's going to be a lot more space and they are horses compared to, I think what Benetton has out there on the wing. So I think there's going to be a ah big physical advantage there for them.
00:23:35
Jarrod Dyke
Um, I think one of the wings is britavรฉ from Fiji like he's at he's a house He's a house the other one's line up.
00:23:41
Grumpy Old Prop
Okay. Well then there's, okay. Yeah. He's a hoose.
00:23:46
Jarrod Dyke
So take that forward as much as we like line up as much as we like line up
00:23:47
Grumpy Old Prop
There you go. That's yeah. Right. That's, I would take right now, right now, I gotta say, I haven't seen Lana really impressed me in in and a while, unfortunately.
00:23:59
Grumpy Old Prop
So I would take, I'd almost take mirror in that matchup, like on a rugby pitch, not like, yeah, right.
00:24:07
Jarrod Dyke
anywhere else. Not anywhere else.
00:24:11
Grumpy Old Prop
It's just that like, I'm not saying he's better.
00:24:11
Jarrod Dyke
All right.
00:24:13
Grumpy Old Prop
I'm just saying that like, like, that's a better, like that's a, he's got the better out of that matchup. because of his his qualities, general hoarseness.
00:24:19
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, probably does.
00:24:23
Jarrod Dyke
Yep.
00:24:25
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, horse indeed. ah Starting. Stop from say putty and Saracens Saracens visioning. We'll see what start put out their home So maybe it's a little hung quick and then they go with a better lineup I don't know if it's gonna be that much better um Just that scored okay last week so Considerable, but may I'm probably not gonna do with him. Maybe Zack Henry. Maybe John Marchant. Maybe Louie Carbonell I don't love a ah whole lot of it That's a roulette wheel that that team has.
00:24:57
Jarrod Dyke
So Godspeed. If you go to any of them for series, um, a lot of the same usual suspects, Reese Carrey. Yes. Um, jinx or Theo Maro Theo Mack, of course, had a great game last week.
00:25:07
Grumpy Old Prop
I mean West, I swear comms was calling him Tom West.
00:25:10
Jarrod Dyke
Um, Earl, assuming he starts Willis and then, um, what's up. was them I think they did direct themselves and say, oops, sorry, Tom Willis.
00:25:21
Grumpy Old Prop
They're like, it would mean Willis. It's like, yeah, that's Tom.
00:25:22
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah.
00:25:24
Grumpy Old Prop
Look.
00:25:25
Jarrod Dyke
Tell them what stuff you play with the team anymore, damn it.
00:25:26
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. It's not the same position, not the same team. Like, what are you doing?
00:25:31
Jarrod Dyke
Put your finger out.
00:25:32
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:25:33
Jarrod Dyke
I'm skipping right over the centers unless Sinti plays there and the and also going with Shagan and Daley.
00:25:36
Grumpy Old Prop
Hmm.
00:25:39
Jarrod Dyke
I love Tobias Elliott. I love what's going on with him.
00:25:41
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm.
00:25:42
Jarrod Dyke
This is a big stage for him.
00:25:43
Grumpy Old Prop
He's.
00:25:43
Jarrod Dyke
I'm just not sure it's gonna, he'll do all the things necessary for them to win.
00:25:47
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm.
00:25:48
Jarrod Dyke
He probably won't put up points though.
00:25:50
Grumpy Old Prop
He's he's a center in the competition but and in on Super Rube, by the way.
00:25:53
Jarrod Dyke
Oh man, that would be a great play if he actually was going to produce.
00:25:55
Grumpy Old Prop
I. I know I play all I played, and that's that's one of the reasons why I i poop this weekend. So technically, that i thought I thought that was actually kind of a.
00:26:01
Jarrod Dyke
ah
00:26:05
Grumpy Old Prop
A good risk, and it just didn't work out.
00:26:09
Jarrod Dyke
Didn't quite work.
00:26:14
Jarrod Dyke
Didn't quite work.
00:26:14
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, all right. So yeah, he only had three and a half points. ah And so, so here's the thing though. Um, wait, how do I get to the points breakdown? There we go. Um, so just for being a starting player and your team wins, you get four points.
00:26:32
Grumpy Old Prop
And Tobias Elliott started and the Saracens won and he had three and a half points.
00:26:32
Jarrod Dyke
Right.
00:26:36
Grumpy Old Prop
So he had one turnover.
00:26:36
Jarrod Dyke
So he did something that he shouldn't have lost a point or lost half a point, whatever it was.
00:26:41
Grumpy Old Prop
He didn't even have five meters carried.
00:26:45
Jarrod Dyke
That's rough.
00:26:45
Grumpy Old Prop
He had a turnover one, and then he had one missed tackle and one penalty conceded.
00:26:51
Grumpy Old Prop
Like, he just didn't do much, good or bad.
00:26:52
Jarrod Dyke
Yikes. No, clearly.
00:26:55
Grumpy Old Prop
Anywho, enough of that. Toulon for hosting Glasgow. That is a fun match.
00:27:02
Jarrod Dyke
Yep.
00:27:03
Grumpy Old Prop
This is one I want to see. um You know, I said it at the time, the chair I missed Dave Rubins. It's so much fun watching him. um
00:27:12
Jarrod Dyke
He's killing it though.
00:27:14
Grumpy Old Prop
And his week, this he is, so he's definitely on my list of, uh, of starts, uh, Isa and Villieri, um, are just.
00:27:22
Jarrod Dyke
Telling it.
00:27:23
Grumpy Old Prop
Are going to have days, I think on the other side.
00:27:25
Jarrod Dyke
Yep.
00:27:26
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, Darge. Yes. I think, um, it's, it's going to be a bit of a struggle for him as it was this past week. Um, but I think that didn't, um, wait, am I saying that cause I had Darge and he, or ah did I want him and then.
00:27:40
Jarrod Dyke
Darge was good last week.
00:27:41
Grumpy Old Prop
No, Darge was good. No, he had 14. I wished I started him. That's right.
00:27:44
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah.
00:27:44
Grumpy Old Prop
um No, so so don't make that same mistake. um Don't leave him on your bench like I did. um Hugh Jones, also a good good start this weekend. And and Kyle Rowe, I think, is the um the wing to watch or the player in that back three to watch this weekend.
00:28:01
Jarrod Dyke
Okay. and
00:28:06
Grumpy Old Prop
And again, obviously George Horn, but that's not to punt, so it's weird.
00:28:12
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah. I mean, it's ballsy for you to do that and not play DuPont when everyone else probably is, but just say yes.
00:28:19
Grumpy Old Prop
Right. If it works for you, excellent. Great job.
00:28:24
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah.
00:28:25
Grumpy Old Prop
Like I think it did this past week, but I'm pretty sure Horn had like 35 points.
00:28:28
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah. ah That's a, that's a case of lightning hitting twice.
00:28:31
Grumpy Old Prop
Exactly. Yeah. He's not going to have a hat trick every week.
00:28:34
Jarrod Dyke
Nope. Um, and lastly,
00:28:38
Grumpy Old Prop
And even with the hat trick, he only had four more points than DuPont. So it's like, shit.
00:28:42
Jarrod Dyke
Wow. Yeah, because DuPont is just that good.
00:28:46
Grumpy Old Prop
yeah
00:28:48
Jarrod Dyke
Anyway, dipshits in Toulouse.
00:28:54
Jarrod Dyke
Brr, Exeter?
00:28:55
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:28:56
Jarrod Dyke
Bewaboso. That's the list.
00:29:01
Jarrod Dyke
That's the list.
00:29:04
Grumpy Old Prop
I still think it's one too long, but I get it.
00:29:07
Jarrod Dyke
That's the only one worth a goddamn. um
00:29:11
Grumpy Old Prop
Although I did have Dan Frost on my bench, um, but only cause he's, but he's, he's cheap and he's going to play every week.
00:29:15
Jarrod Dyke
He's too much of a helmet.
00:29:18
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, um I'm waiting for him to get a card.
00:29:19
Grumpy Old Prop
So it's like one of those, I'm not, I'm never going to start him. I have my vodka starting, which I, you know, didn't work out so well for me this past week, but Frost isn't going to put two down every week.
00:29:28
Jarrod Dyke
No, but like he's lucky he got that many.
00:29:31
Grumpy Old Prop
Right.
00:29:32
Jarrod Dyke
um Anyway, and then for Toulouse, all of them.
00:29:36
Jarrod Dyke
Real easy, all of them.
00:29:36
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:29:39
Grumpy Old Prop
Him and him and.
00:29:40
Jarrod Dyke
close Close your eyes, throw a dart, have fun, enjoy.
00:29:43
Grumpy Old Prop
Right.
00:29:44
Jarrod Dyke
And yes, DuPont should be in your team. um Interact actually might be the only one that I'm not super interested in because he doesn't kick the points.
00:29:51
Grumpy Old Prop
Right.
00:29:51
Jarrod Dyke
That's my only that's the only thing.
00:29:52
Grumpy Old Prop
I mean, that's why you could start Legarec, but again, that's not DuPont, so it's weird.
00:29:55
Jarrod Dyke
Right. Yeah, right, right, right. Other weeks.
00:30:04
Grumpy Old Prop
Other weeks, so my start of the week, I've, been down on him, but man, he had a hell of a mesh, and maybe he's finding his groove again. um And um given the opposition, I think yeah he's going to have a huge week.
00:30:20
Grumpy Old Prop
So I'm going to go with Josh Van Der Fleer as my start of the week.
00:30:23
Jarrod Dyke
Mmm. Yeah, I like it. So I'm sticking with the back row. um There's a one team's playing another that loves to just feed forwards points.
00:30:36
Jarrod Dyke
And there's a really good forward on this one. It's to loses Alexander Ramat. And I think he's just gonna absolutely crush it. Didn't score amazing last week.
Conclusion and Strategy Adaptation
00:30:45
Grumpy Old Prop
Mm hmm.
00:30:46
Jarrod Dyke
I think this will be a week that he just absolutely eats up.
00:30:54
Grumpy Old Prop
Fair enough. Oh, and instead of the week. All right.
00:30:56
Jarrod Dyke
That's it.
00:30:57
Grumpy Old Prop
I.
00:31:00
Grumpy Old Prop
I like keeping these things a secret. um So um obviously, you know, put on your shocked face ah because it's about to get
00:31:03
Jarrod Dyke
Oh, yeah, you already left the cat in the bag.
00:31:13
Grumpy Old Prop
what the fuck are I what little what the fuck II yeah it's in Smith is my suit well the thing is at one point I was I wasn't thinking I was just kind of like going on instinct and I was like or you know like oh you know who plays for what team and who's playing where and I had many Lebok and I'm like wait a minute no and for some reason it was still stuck in my head that it was gonna be many Lebok and I'd like like no he's not even playing so oh wait I'm talking about Finn Smith and I
00:31:18
Jarrod Dyke
Oops. Oh, you know, make sense.
00:31:41
Jarrod Dyke
Damn it.
00:31:45
Grumpy Old Prop
Well, obviously he's been on my mind on either side of the week.
00:31:48
Jarrod Dyke
yeah
00:31:48
Grumpy Old Prop
So yeah, he said the week.
00:31:49
Jarrod Dyke
there Um, so mine's based on the fact that there are 7% of people that own this guy or that have selected this guy. And I am really shocked that that the number is that high folks that are picking Lee half pennies competition.
00:32:04
Jarrod Dyke
What the actual fuck is wrong with your brain? Like, but yeah. Okay. He's cheap. He's going to, he scored 0.5 last week. 0.5.
00:32:14
Jarrod Dyke
That is it. Like folks, please be smarter than that.
00:32:19
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah.
00:32:20
Jarrod Dyke
Get rid of him.
00:32:20
Grumpy Old Prop
Cause like, hold on. Let me see. He was, he's, he's worth 4 million. So you could have James Ram who had 14 and a half.
00:32:26
Jarrod Dyke
Yes, you could.
00:32:28
Jarrod Dyke
You have James Graham. You could.
00:32:28
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, but then and yeah Ram might, might sit out.
00:32:32
Grumpy Old Prop
So, okay. Um, let's, let's find another four mill.
00:32:33
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah.
00:32:36
Jarrod Dyke
Sonatla.
00:32:36
Grumpy Old Prop
So yeah.
00:32:36
Jarrod Dyke
You could be, you could end up playing it this weekend. there There's options guys. There's options. I promise. That's not the only one.
00:32:48
Grumpy Old Prop
Um, yeah, exactly.
00:32:52
Jarrod Dyke
I promise you there are other things. Put the gear from sharks might end up playing this weekend, like another one.
00:32:58
Jarrod Dyke
Like, just, come on.
00:32:58
Grumpy Old Prop
Oh, Mike Brown had three and a half off the bench.
00:33:02
Jarrod Dyke
Gear off the bench.
00:33:04
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah. So there's cheap options.
00:33:06
Jarrod Dyke
Yeah, Tom Seabrook's one that's potentially gonna be productive.
00:33:06
Grumpy Old Prop
Just find a cheap option. Like that's the thing. If you want to have a cheap option, be versatile with it. Yeah. That too.
00:33:14
Jarrod Dyke
Not a guy that could barely run.
00:33:16
Grumpy Old Prop
Yeah, he can't move. He's not going to score you points.
00:33:18
Jarrod Dyke
No, no. Like, did you see the, the, the one where they tried to go quick and he like barely could move. I was just like, Oh, this is not going to go well. And yep. Lost the ball right there. It was bad. but Okay. That's that for us today, friends.
00:33:35
Grumpy Old Prop
I think, didn't the ball go behind him? Cause he was too flat. Cause that was the only way he could keep up with the play. Like I seem to recall something went behind anyway.
00:33:40
Jarrod Dyke
I don't know. That's a possibility. That also, ah that's a very good possibility. That is right there. Anyway. So we'll get the sheet out on Friday in a more timely manner, I promise.
00:33:53
Jarrod Dyke
Get caught a little bit with my my shorts around my ankles on that one. But it happens.
00:33:58
Jarrod Dyke
um So we'll get that.
00:33:58
Grumpy Old Prop
And that, well, that's, that's the other thing is I'm at work.
00:34:00
Grumpy Old Prop
So freak in the past, we have, uh, we've split the duties.
00:34:03
Jarrod Dyke
but Pretty able to just tag the other to be like, you got to do it, dude.
00:34:04
Grumpy Old Prop
and Yeah. Right. And it's like, okay, I'm on it. You know, cause one of us will be at home. Like we've been really obviously pretty good about that. Um, in this case, I, I literally had the option of I can't do it.
00:34:18
Grumpy Old Prop
I'm um'm i'm in an office.
00:34:18
Jarrod Dyke
Yep, yep.
00:34:20
Grumpy Old Prop
So it's, ah um you know, 100% on Jared, and ah um which sucks unless he wants to, you know, just take up, if you can just take a screenshot, but then that's the whole point.
00:34:24
Jarrod Dyke
So, like I said, I got, like, yep,
00:34:28
Grumpy Old Prop
Just all you have to do is take a screenshot and post it. So um generally it's going to fall to Jared.
00:34:31
Jarrod Dyke
you know, is what it is. But we'll get it out this Friday in a more timely manner, and then I will get those two things out tomorrow, the PWR fantasy standings, and then the little thing for the Patreon.
00:34:44
Jarrod Dyke
But other than that, um we appreciate you guys for listening. Please, you know, shoot us a message on any social media that's not Twitter. And we'll catch you guys next week. Thank you very much for listening, everyone.
00:34:55
Jarrod Dyke
Have a good one.
00:34:56
Grumpy Old Prop
Later.
00:34:57
Jarrod Dyke
Cheers.