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Season 4- Weekly Fantasy Corner (Premiership Round 26 Preview)
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It's time for some fantasy rugby chat on the Fantasy Corner. On this episode of the FC, it's all about the results as we celebrate two champions that were crowned last weekend in our uber competitive Champi-Yanks League. In an attempt to keep things brief and not flap our lips too much, we jump right into Start or Sit for the final weekend of the Prem's regular season. Grab a note pad and enjoy!
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Introduction to Fancy Movie Podcast
00:00:08
Speaker
Hey, everybody, welcome back. It is the fancy movie podcast. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glavitt. It's into the fancy corner we go. We obviously have quite a bit to discuss in terms of some finals and final results and all that good stuff.
Ben's Travel Tales
00:00:29
Speaker
I'm popping one of these. I'm out of beer in my hotel room. That's what happens.
00:00:35
Speaker
Yeah, Ben's on another planet, also known as Syracuse. Yeah, I've been in a couple of foreign countries this week. I was in Canada and now I'm in Syracuse. Now you're in upstate New York, which is also a foreign country in itself. Oh man, the people are special here. Yeah, having just visited Buffalo. Oh my.
00:00:57
Speaker
Yeah, that is an accurate statement. You are also special, aren't you?
Superbrew Standings & Highlights
00:01:03
Speaker
Let's dig into Superbrew and Champions Cup first. First and foremost, Duncan again. Well done, sir. Really well done. What is he? Top. He's like two in the world, isn't he? Something stupid. Yep. Second in the world. Considering that a bunch of us are like top 50 or top 100. I'm 71. That's not that choppy.
00:01:25
Speaker
I came in fifth in the fantasy rugby yanks and I'm 71 overall. Yeah, so we had two in the top five. Duncan was two and George was five. Right. That's ridiculous. Well done, boys. You and I were two and three in the US. Right. Yeah, I still don't know who this other person is. So George was second, Mark was third, myself was fourth, Ben was fifth, Anton six,
00:01:49
Speaker
Carrick six and Justin pulling up the rear with a wooden spoon in seven or eighth, excuse me, I know, I know numbers, I swear. So it's it was, it was interesting.
Fantasy Rugby Captain Choices
00:02:00
Speaker
Final outcome because it was like,
00:02:04
Speaker
nobody that picked their captain this week I think felt good about it honestly and certainly in the end. There were a lot of people that went, eh, is that who I really want? It's like, yep, it's what you really want. But at the same time, it didn't work out. Yeah, it did too.
Team of the Round Analysis
00:02:24
Speaker
Team of the round would have been Sklavy who came off the bench so you wouldn't pick him Antonio. Boogery I had an inkling to play but honestly I was never gonna get away from Kelleher. It would be a good contrarian play and if you did that good for you. Skelton, James Ryan.
00:02:43
Speaker
Grigory, Aldrich, Conan, and Van Der Fleer. That was a lot of people's background. Those were my back five. Yeah. Yeah, I had Maloney instead of Ryan. That was the only difference. Virgin, nobody would have picked him, honestly. I think everybody was picking Gibson Park. Right. Who had negative 0.5. Great job. Yeah. Sexton made sense. I'm happy with that. Sexton made sense because he ended up knocking over all those penalties, so that obviously paid off. Henshaw and O'Brien, that was my midfield. Me too. That was all nine points. Big deal. Yeah.
00:03:13
Speaker
Rule, I did not see that coming. So, and you know, your perfect week would have had him captain as well. But the back three actually all came from while we're showing in the team of the week, right? Rule, Duane and Laid, all of them. And I signed. Yeah, Duane, I started Laid and he was on the bench. And I had Rule.
00:03:33
Speaker
And he was the difference maker for a lot of people.
Pot League Winner Announcement
00:03:37
Speaker
Yeah. Well done. Well done to the boys and T fry. And let's see who won. Who won the pot league. George, George and fighting spirit is that.
00:03:54
Speaker
Cobus. Yeah. Well done Cobus. I can do it in front of the tip of my tongue. Yep. So yeah, great, great job all around. This is, this is fine. I mean, if this is the, if this is the standard, I'm okay with it going forward. Although I hope FRD is back up and running for champions this year as well. Yeah. Yeah. I'm okay with doing both next year. This was good. Both. Yeah. I kind of want to do more super brew. I like it.
00:04:20
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I, I'm in, I'm in the, um, I'm in the super for soccer. I'm in, no, I'm in Georgia's super super, super brew. Although I'll start, I got off to a false start on that one. It was the first week and I forgot to submit a lineup, but I'm not in last anymore. So that's the good news. There's somebody else that's dumber than me. Hooray. Or just maybe less lucky, but you know, less paying attention or something to that degree. Um,
Super Rugby Final Results
00:04:50
Speaker
Speaking of super rugby, the champion's FRD super final. Yeah, I didn't even get 100 and Anton beat me well. So well done, Anton. That's his first trophy in FRD. So long overdue, I think. Long overdue. Still bitter. He got his before mine. Well, because you won the Six Nations League. So you might get a trophy out of that.
00:05:20
Speaker
Fair. Yeah. So there you go. So maybe we got a couple of guys that are going to get trophies. I probably should have had one by now. Really? The difference maker for him. And he pointed out a couple of sections, but in the end, it was Fergus Burke. Yeah. You know, just that that's 30 points, man. Whoo. That was great. Twenty nine point two for that. I'll give him credit. Pause yourself. Well, I'll fuck it off the bench against the rebels. Like, yeah, by hook or by crook. It was a damn good decision. Right. Really?
00:05:51
Speaker
You know, and more be hell just just kind of almost almost had a hat trick. Yeah. So, yeah, well, well done in time.
00:06:02
Speaker
beaming well, but we're the competitor in the SACO bracket. Fortunately, Carrick just looked up to the usual expectation of this comp for him. Yeah. And, uh, yeah, Mark, the need at the trial. So not really, I believe Mark's going to get a point out of that and Derek, you're going to be left with that. I will tell you, I will tell up the, uh, the tally, uh, this coming weekend. And since I'll have a little bit of time now, thank you.
00:06:27
Speaker
Um, and I will, um, I'll get those results up. Cause then we'll just have one league left to determine and that'll be it.
Saints vs. Falcons Preview
00:06:36
Speaker
Speaking of, let's do some star set. Yes. Let us do that. Um, do I start us off? No, let me check one second. I think I do. Yeah. Yep. Saints Falcons.
00:06:50
Speaker
OK, so the thing to consider this week is whether or not your team, each of these teams have anything to play for and what that means for their lineup. So for like a Newcastle Falcons, you know, they're probably just going to rock the same lineup because it's just another match for them. And they don't have many guys who score points anyway, so you don't have to worry about that. You know, you got your George Maguigans, you got your Sean Robinsons.
00:07:13
Speaker
Van der Walt is still there the question mark, whether he's going to be worth the, at this point, you shouldn't invest in him so don't time for this.
00:07:25
Speaker
have everything to play for. They have to make sure that they maintain, you know, they have to assume here that Gloucester are going to win and go from that. Like start with the worst possible outcome is, you know, Gloucester getting the five point win and say, OK, well, that means Northampton just have to win. So they're going to put out their players and they're going to roll. So you're you're normal guys from the Saints. Mitchell, I'm not sure about
00:07:54
Speaker
ribbons right now. That's the one guy. He's been banged up. So I'm not sure he's healthy. So this might be a match where they might have to be like, can you go? Because we might need you. And they've had a little bit of rest. So look for him.
00:08:11
Speaker
obviously, Mitchell and Bigger and Hutchinson and Dingell has been been coming back, you know, slight home if he plays Freeman, obviously. And Furbank has been pretty, pretty quality from from fullback lately. So I think he and Freeman really feed off each other. So that's something to watch out for
Worcester vs. Bath Insights
00:08:32
Speaker
too. Nice.
00:08:34
Speaker
to meet all the Freeman. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen him on like people's, you know, breakout stars this year. I'm like that there is him and someone else who I'm like, No, no, no, they were stars last year. Like I knew every knew about Freeman last year. I don't think it's fair to call him a breakout this year because this is not his first breakout year. That was the last year was his breakout year. This is like, and it was him and Aaron Dell.
00:08:59
Speaker
was on it. And I'm like, yeah, we haven't seen that a lot. It's too early. It's still too early, though. He's played like two matches. I mean, granted, he's been excellent. I'm not taking that away. But it's like, let's give it to somebody who played all season. Yeah, I'll agree on that one for sure. Arendelle can have his next year. It's like, you know, Freeman, Freeman played in a lot more matches last year than Arendelle has this year. So if you have one on this year, you can have both.
00:09:25
Speaker
That's how it usually is. Alright, so we have a barn burning here.
Sale vs. Bristol Analysis
00:09:32
Speaker
What's your bath? Who do you even have on these teams anymore? Number one, for both of these teams, do not invest in any of these players.
00:09:44
Speaker
Really just trying to avoid them. But there's obviously some guys that will be in teams already. So we'll give those players a look. For Worcester, the two for sure, I will say right now are Batley and Simpson. Both have been good and both have been scoring fairly well. We're the events boss at the very least.
00:10:04
Speaker
Another I would consider is nylon net. Um, not a bad score line in terms of hooker versus bath. And then also he's actually fairly quality as well. So after that, it's kind of a toss up. Like I have back, I'm not playing him. Um, so just, yeah, just keep it on, keep your eyes on that.
00:10:21
Speaker
For those of you that do have a Worcester player that's worth the damage, pretty much those are the three guys that I would be putting my ears up for. For Bath, I'll name three guys and there's probably a few more that you can throw out there as well. Stewart, Underhill, and Falotel. But again, if you haven't already invested in these guys, don't go buying them.
00:10:42
Speaker
I like little mirror. I think he'll be okay. Bailey, I struggle with. So if you have him, then yeah, probably going to be okay. As long as you're your kicker, obviously. Um, but then after that, I don't like a whole lot else. Miles Reed, that's the other one to say, wait, Miles, we would be the other ones that throw in there. Um, I think Bayless is still hurt. So that's unhelpful for a lot of reasons. Um, so yeah, those are the ones that are there. And then again, you have to avoid a lot of, a lot of guys that will be out there then.
00:11:09
Speaker
Everybody's going to be very tempted to play a lot of these guys. But again, if you don't have them already, don't go buying them just because of this match. I'm saying that out loud.
00:11:20
Speaker
So on to sale hosting Bristol. This is another one where sale have things to play for. So they're normal guys, like your AG McGinty's, which is interesting that he's playing Bristol in his last match for sale. Going up against his competitor for time on Bristol now in Sheedy likely. So, and we've seen what Bristol can do.
00:11:46
Speaker
sorry, I'm starting with the away team because they're not in this case, they don't have anything to play for. So the guys you're going to play or, you know, your movies, if he's only, if he's at lock factor, I mean, don't sign him, but if you've got him, yes. Um, sailor going back to their defensive.
00:12:05
Speaker
this, but Bristol, certainly the Bristol play, the way they played against Exeter, that open style, the sale won't be able to really slow them down too much. So the points will still be there. Pia Tao is obviously a fun play, his final match for the, final, if he plays, unless that was his final match last week.
00:12:26
Speaker
Yeah. And on the sales side, you know, the, the two of the Duprios is Jean-Luc and Dan. Every, the other Duprios is, you know, um, John Ross is obviously a yellow card waiting to happen. So no, Bevan Rod is a good play this, this week. As so as whoever's in hook for sale will be fine. And then basically, well, since McGinty's back, um, those wings, that back three that we've been talking, we haven't talked about in a while are back in play. The, uh,
00:12:56
Speaker
Aaron Reed, Roebuck, and Luke James. Again, that's still cracking me up. Not Sam, Luke. Right. So if you got them, they should be okay to play. Because again Bristol are going to have it open, which means sale will have the opportunities. Yeah, three of those guys will probably take them. Yeah.
00:13:17
Speaker
Um, all right. I have, I have for you an exit there versus hot liquid. Um, so a couple of teams that definitely have stuff to play for and don't want to give
Exeter vs. Harlequins Discussion
00:13:28
Speaker
it up. Um, cause I can promise you that Quinn's do not want to play whoever is on the, on the top seat. So they're going to fight like hell to stay in third. I saw Baxter take accountability for the team's performance this year. Well, that's nice. Could, should have been that long. Here we go. Actually, you know what? Quinn's are playing a dead rubber. I lied.
00:13:48
Speaker
There's nothing for them. There's nothing for them. So don't be shocked if we see if we see some unusual names like. Well, I'll talk an Exeter first, but we'll get into that in a second for Exeter. They are playing for something. So it's going to be shickering is OK. I don't have a problem with that.
00:14:07
Speaker
There's not going to be a lot though that I'm loving on this team. The half backs are actually all been okay. So I'll give them, I'll give them a go. Whether it's either monitor, it doesn't matter. That's fine. Any of the hookers good to go. I don't have an issue with that. Um,
00:14:23
Speaker
maybe Woodburn, maybe O'Flaherty. Woodburn had his, I think that like he's, since I've signed him, I feel like he's had like three or so excellent matches and then like the rest have been kind of bleh. So I think this, if he had his excellent match against
00:14:41
Speaker
Bristol, he had like what, 40 points. I'm thinking he comes back down like 10. This is, this is the time where they just neglect him. They don't give them the ball. Maybe, maybe. Yeah. So either one of those guys might be okay after that. I'm, there's not a lot of extra players I'm, I'm going after and there's no, there's none that I'm going after, but
00:14:58
Speaker
um the players that there's none that i'm going to be looking to play if i even if i had them um for the queen so as previously established uh they might not be playing for anything and they might not so which means they might be dialing it back a little bit
00:15:15
Speaker
If that's the case, Tommaso Allen actually is probably an okay play. I can live with that. We might see like Will Evans. Will Evans hasn't gotten a ton of playing time. I'll give him a definitive go. I know the name, hold on. I should have written down a little bit better.
00:15:40
Speaker
Come on. Tiz will probably be in, so I'd give him a go. Well, I'm trying to think of the name. I'm sure it's written down better. Tolani, that is also a possibility, a name that you possibly see. And if he's at eight, I'm okay with him. If he's elsewhere, you need the ball in hand. So I'm not a huge fan of that.
00:15:59
Speaker
Those are the names that are kind of jumping at me right now in terms of players. Big David, there's another one. Oh, yeah. That's a possibility. Are you really going to sign him for this one? You won't. You won't, but there are a few people that have him, apparently. So throw that name out there as well. Wow. Yeah. Talk about holding onto him. I love the guy, too, but... Yeah, no shit. Well, listen. 28% of people held onto Tyrone Green. So...
00:16:23
Speaker
Yeah, I think I know he's not on the team anymore. Checking that out there. So, yeah, and if it's a normal Quinn's lineup, then I will obviously change all those things come Friday when we do our sheet. But for now, that's it. I do it. My start of the week is from this game, so we'll see in place. So we'll see. Anyway, moving
Leicester vs. Wasps Preview
00:16:46
Speaker
on.
00:16:46
Speaker
Moving on to Lester vs. Wasps, where both teams have something to play for. So Lester has to win in order to hold off Saracens, who are just three points behind them. So again, like what I was saying with Northampton, Lester has to assume that Saris are going to get a five point win. So one of the assumptions is going to be wrong, but either way, win and it doesn't matter.
00:17:09
Speaker
On the other side, Wasps have three points. There are three points behind the Irish for Champions Cup and all they have to do is win. Yep. And so that's a big deal. So both these teams are going to be fired up and going at it. For Lester, you know, it's going to be, you know, Genj and this is this is the kind of game he lives for because Wasps defense are vulnerable.
00:17:38
Speaker
I guess I'm guessing Montoya is going to be back. I don't think we're going to see Dolly again. I haven't seen any report on it, but it did not look good. Yeah, sorry, bud. Wells is an interesting play this week. Again, he's back on my radar. He dropped off for a while, but I think he's also super cheap. So he might be a guy who you're going to you might have on your team through the knockout stages. So someone to maybe look into for this week if you don't have him or if you dropped him like I did.
00:18:07
Speaker
Um, not so I'm not really sold on the Tigers back three, um, Leibenberg, maybe Lisa, you just kind of have to hope he doesn't get a card. He's been good lately, but you know, now that there's going to be serious pressure, you never know pressure against you guys. And he could be a little bit of a hot head. So that could react poorly. Um,
00:18:29
Speaker
who are, I don't, it's either, it's probably going to be Young's and Wiggy in the nine. So stay away from them for Lester. George Ford is, yeah, he's good. Play him. Play that guy. Yeah. Play this man, his money. Moroni, if he's a, if he's a 13, has an excellent matchup. So that, you know, unless Fekatoa plays, which he probably will, in which case still playing. Cause I had someone, somebody,
00:18:55
Speaker
The other week referred to Moroni as a defensive specialist, but dude runs ball in hand really well. He runs an excellent line. So I don't know what they're they're talking about, defensive specialist. He's a very good center. Like he's an attacking specialist to me. What are you talking about? And then, you know, Porter could be good too, especially around that 12 area. Although that might have been his last match. So who knows who's going to be at 12 this week. We'll find out. Yeah.
00:19:25
Speaker
And then maybe Nadolo and Freddie Stewart, I think at this point is a full go. For the WASPs, Agrae, yes, or basically whoever is it. Frost also, yes. Right. The Locks, Stuke has been, and Lockspray's actually been scoring okay, but I think it's a lot of tackling too, which I thought that's a bad thing. But he's not going to go Freddie Clark on you.
00:19:55
Speaker
And then, yeah, obviously the flanks, all those loose forwards at WASPs are dangerous right now. I'm kind of holding off on whoever's starting at nine though. They're not, you know, it's usually the backup nine that comes in and makes a huge impact. So that kind of fucks things up. I'd rather, I'd think it would be better play to have the reserve nine as your reserve nine than to have the starting nine as your starting nine. And then it kind of gets mishmashy after that. I hope Umaga is playing at 15 if he is playing.
00:20:25
Speaker
Yeah. More useful there. Yeah. I agree. I agree. I agree. All right.
Gloucester vs. Saracens Matchup
00:20:31
Speaker
Uh, Gloucester and series. Yeah. Wrapping up, wrapping it up. Um, for, let's start with the boys from King's home. Um, Freddie Clark, full go. Hasn't really let you, has barely ever let you down really this year at all. You don't captain them. Everybody's going to see last, the last time and try and captain them. Don't captain them, but play them. Absolutely. Um, easy use ago that back three is a little meh for me.
00:20:55
Speaker
A name I want everybody to consider is Charlie Chapman, not me in, but Chapman. Me and I don't like as much fantasy wise, but if you have Chapman, considering that the series do tend to surrender a few points to nines, I'll let Davies and look at you.
00:21:12
Speaker
Yeah, I like Chapman a lot, so give him give him a play if you have him. I like him a lot. Yeah, as I said, don't and there's a lot that I don't like him out about lobsters matchups this week, so yeah, if you don't have him already, don't don't pick him up for this. Not for this, because even if they do sneak in, this not going to be as many bodies that you want out of this team, right? I'm the one that I'm kind of confident in there is still Louis resam if he's playing, because that guy can just.
00:21:40
Speaker
Yeah, you can answer the chance that he just turns into lightning in a bottle and kicks off. It's just a pretty good chance. Yeah, it seems to be a good odds these days. Yeah, not wrong. Not wrong. All right. For the series, a lot of the usual suspects here because they want the one spot. I promise you that. They don't want to play Quinn's. Right. No, they'll do it. Right.
00:22:05
Speaker
Um, so for the usual suspects, Earl, um, cock. Yes. Atoge. Yes. Not, especially, especially if it's in, I'm not sure I would have played Nikki. Um, Tom has been great. So give him, give him a go. Baz. Yes. Theo. Yes. Maco. Yes. Um, and then after that, it kind of gets a little jinx. Yes. Uh, Billy, if you've bothered to spend the money, you're probably okay. Um,
00:22:32
Speaker
And that's probably where the line stops, uh, mail-ins if he's healthy. Right. That's the one. Yeah. That's the other one I didn't, I, uh, I almost spaced on, uh, other than that. Yeah. Leave everybody else. A lot of Davey's like, no, like so much. Right. No, no, no, no. Why, why do 9% of you own Ella Davies? I have to know this. I need answers. Um, yeah. Have a pie. Have a pie.
00:22:58
Speaker
Um, actually, uh, one, one other thing, uh, if Shagan's in, not bad, not a bad bench. Good bench fighter. Right. He's actually excellent for the bench because he's one of those guys who could get like five, but could also put up like 40. Yep. So as well, I was like, you know, it's been, we were watching the game. I was talking to my wife about him and I'm like, this guy has been so inconsistent and like, he pisses me off because he's so talented, but.
00:23:25
Speaker
And then he, of course, had a fucking stormer. So it's like, well, that's why I don't like, that's way frustrating. Do that all the time, dude. Do that all the time. And he doesn't. Or more often than not, at least. Right. All the time is probably not reasonable, but more often than not, please. Yeah. Let's get to there. Then I'll be happy. I like that one. Okay. On the weeks. OTWs.
Standout Player Predictions
00:23:46
Speaker
OTW's so. My start of the week is also from one of my matches. I did mention him obviously going up against Newcastle. They are one of the worst teams against centers and he's been you know of of the Saints back line players. This guy has been the most motivated looking. You know, I mean say what you will about Freeman just being excellent and and some of the other guys too.
00:24:14
Speaker
Rory Hutchinson has been like heart on fire on fire. And yeah, so this is a great matchup for him. Newcastle are some of the worst against centers. Yep, no doubt. All right. So my guy, not entirely sure he plays, but if he does, we're going to go with this because his matchup is very good.
00:24:40
Speaker
points on both sides of the ball are a possibility here with, you know, we know defensive points will be, will be given to forwards by Exeter. And he's also very capable of picking up his, um, his offensive points as well. He's shown that many, many times in the last few, in the last few, uh, few years, probably at this point. Um, so my start of the week is Quinn's and England back rower, Alex Dombran. Tasty. Yep. Yeah. That's true.
00:25:10
Speaker
for my sitter the week, you mentioned him and then you kind of mentioned him and Pat, but in a positive and exactly as I kind of intended this, which is don't captain him, but I'm also going further enough to say, he's a bench player for me this week, I think. And that's Freddie Clark, who's my sitter the week.
00:25:38
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, Sarri's a number one versus Locks. Right. He just seems to find ways to get points more often than not. That's why it was okay with playing him. What I've noticed, so what I've noticed from Freddie Clark is that aside from his last performance, because that was...
00:25:55
Speaker
That was different. He's been excellent in defense for 60 minutes. And then in the last 20 minutes, he just goes on attack. And that's where he's like, he's had a chance to see the opposition, figure out where the holes are and his athleticism gets him through. I don't think he's going to manage that against Saris. He could still have like 25 points, which is why I say, you know, keep him on your bench. I don't see 40, you know, and there's, there's 40 points out there for locks.
00:26:21
Speaker
and flanks. I mean, Theo McFarland is a, I mean, he's almost like, he's kind of really reached like tizard status where it's like, kind of almost have to play him if he's on your team. And so what I'm saying is that I would almost take a flyer on a tizard this week, or I'm sorry, a Theo this week, certainly gonna, like, I would, I would rate that flipped from normal.
00:26:41
Speaker
uh, you know, even if he's playing seven or six, um, um, playing Theo and, and Clark is on my bench. Um, so my say the week, um, you as well mentioned him and, um, not, not a great matchup for him. Love him as a, as a, as a guy and a player, but this is just going to be one really bad week, which potentially could be his last week, uh, which is going to be this the last week for his club. Um, I said the week is.
00:27:14
Speaker
Yeah, it's not a tough matchup even with the K. You can't justify it you really can't know you can't. It's like, Oh, sorry buddy like I think that could be his future employers. Right, I know I think he's done. I don't think he's gonna play this match. I think that
00:27:32
Speaker
I don't think he wants to do more like what he did last, last time out. No, no offense, Jimmy. I did not watch that. And it sounds like it was a good thing. He did not look happy after that. So, but of course he is a competitor. So he might want revenge. Yep. Maybe, maybe. Well, I don't think his body has it in him. I'm surprised he's still playing next year that we perfectly want. You still want to keep playing the old man. Yeah. I mean, don't pay more power to him, but yeah. All right. I want to get into this pick them thing.
Premiership Final Weekend Predictions
00:27:59
Speaker
I'm thinking of the them.
00:28:02
Speaker
So the premier ship in the final weekend, North Hampton in Newcastle. I don't see how the Saints lose this. So yeah. Western Bath. Bath. Yeah, that's been playing hard. Very good form. Yeah, they're way better. Sail in Bristol. Sail. I hate it, but sail. I really do. Yeah, I love. Yeah, I don't hate it as much as I used to, but still so yeah.
00:28:30
Speaker
Exeter and cleanse. I'm guessing that nobody worth a damn from cleanse plays, so I'm going to pick extra. Yeah, me too.
00:28:39
Speaker
Well, you know what? No, I'm sorry. I'm flipping that. I'm going with I'm still going with twins because I don't think they're good. Yeah. She doesn't think she's are good enough because I think even if you put out Tommy Allen or or Edwards at 10, that there'll be enough there. I think there'll be enough there from twins and it'll be shit. Who's their backup nine? Steel or time. Yeah. Y'all time. That's it. It'll be gel time. And yeah.
00:29:06
Speaker
I think there's, and yeah, there's, there's a ton of the young talent there that, that will show up. Uh, Lester was last year.
00:29:18
Speaker
The Lesterman, the Lesterman. I should know because that would be stupid there to say draw because I'll almost definitely lose. I don't want to do that, but I also want this match to draw because that would be hilarious. Would be funny. Actually, I wonder if this match drew with both teams getting a bonus point. How would that affect? I think and screw a lot. I think wasps would still win or go go to the.
00:29:45
Speaker
Whatever. Um, they would, they would, because they have, they would have 11 wins. So yeah. Yeah. They'd have a level one. So I'm still get there. I'm rooting for a draw here, but I think, I think Lester win. I think they're going to rock up and. Yeah. Cause they don't want, they don't want to play you cleanse either. No, nobody. Um, series roster, series, series or other, I know blasters at, at home. Sorry, but still, um, yeah. I'm going Sarah since.
00:30:15
Speaker
All right, super rugby playoffs.
Super Rugby Playoffs Predictions
00:30:19
Speaker
Woo hoo. Crusaders and Reds, same result as last Friday. Yeah, no question. Otherwise. Nope. Chiefs and Mortars. We just saw that too, didn't we? A few weeks ago, but yeah. I'm saying I'm taking the Chiefs. Yeah. Blues Islanders. I'm taking the Blues. They're they're rested and now they're good to go.
00:30:42
Speaker
Rumbies, hurricanes. I'm taking my canes. I am too. I think this is a super, this is an Aotearoa competition after this week. Yeah, which is going to annoy every Australian person. Which honestly, while I will be annoyed by that as well.
00:31:00
Speaker
Australians' frustration about it will amuse me to the point where I'm okay with it. Oopsie. Sorry, guys. Sorry. Not sorry. Yeah, nothing personal. Australia is just that that's hilarious. Too funny. Yeah. Too funny. All right. Cool. The Simpsons Australia isn't going through my head. I'm trying to figure out which.
00:31:28
Speaker
which line to use from that, but I'll just mention that it's hilarious. I love Australians, but they're too easy sometimes.
00:31:36
Speaker
because we're making it too easy on me.
Upcoming Rugby Events & Matches
00:31:39
Speaker
So we have a big weekend for both comps, plus, plus, plus. We have obviously MLR closing weekend results to be, do have some bearing in some of those games. And then we have Friday, we're going to be tuning into six ways and seeing what goes down with
00:32:01
Speaker
Exeter and series like it's like it's friggin three years ago, except it's the women now. So obviously with lots of Eagles participating in this match as well. Yeah, to the point where they're talking about, oh, wait, we need to make sure that there's enough British players. It's like, hey, like, sorry, there's like this alone. There's good Americans and they don't have it. Yeah, they don't have a professional league here. So this is what they have to do. So right. And just because they're stomping your girl's asses.
00:32:31
Speaker
Yeah, I still have the series one despite all the girls on the other side that are American. We still have a few. We still have a few, so. We have Lottie, we have Olive, we have Barley. We want that. Yeah. Go on, series. All right. So, yeah, everybody, lots of big rugby this weekend. Sit back, enjoy, have a good one. We will catch you guys next week. We appreciate you all for hanging out with us and listening to us battle for a little while. Have a good one over here. Later.