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one of our very smart Patreon

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supporters on the Discord this

1:00

weekend described FPL as the

1:03

devil's playground. And

1:05

that resonated with me because you can

1:07

mean many things, the devil's playground. It

1:09

can mean, you know,

1:11

it's a, it's an area of temptation.

1:14

It's an area of like exhilaration

1:17

and also pain. And

1:19

this season, you know, we're nearing the

1:22

end. We have a massive game

1:24

week in the doubles and 37 to get to. And

1:28

there's a lot of meat on that bone, but I

1:30

think if we could just already jump to the

1:33

end of the season, this one will be remembered

1:35

as truly a devil's playground.

1:38

And I feel like, yeah, here, here

1:40

on the Always Cheating podcast, we've definitely

1:43

been on the, on

1:45

the highway to, to it.

1:48

Well, that's fine. We can always start again. We can

1:51

always start again. It's fine. I mean, last year you

1:53

and I both had, you know, strong

1:56

seasons. Um, uh,

1:58

I mean, I, I've honestly had a nice run. strong

2:00

seasons. You know, two top

2:03

10K finishes in the last three years. Like,

2:05

you know, so I think that is sort

2:07

of, I sort of, I think

2:10

I just got on, I think I may

2:12

have talked about this like two weeks ago.

2:14

And thanks, by the way, to Dave for

2:16

being on the pod last Friday or last

2:18

Sunday, whenever you guys recorded. Yeah, and Timbo

2:20

as well for popping up on the Patreon

2:22

pod. I was in Rome

2:24

in Florence, which was just fantastic,

2:26

really enjoyed it. I highly recommend

2:30

anyone who hasn't been my first

2:32

time in both those places. Your description

2:34

of this trip, which will, you

2:36

know, maybe we'll take that offline with any listeners who

2:39

want to get into it, like

2:41

immediately moved Rome and Florence near

2:43

the top of my must. Okay.

2:45

Yeah. I

2:49

did. It was an excellent trip. And so, you

2:51

know, and I missed a lot of bad things

2:53

happening to my fantasy team. So even better, did

2:56

you catch any live Premier League in Rome? I

2:58

did. I did. Yeah, the Saturday afternoon, I had

3:00

a great, I had one of those live experiences

3:02

that reminded me why I like to watch matches.

3:05

I actually think I need to be at the

3:07

bar more often or at some, don't we can't

3:09

really watch. I'm trying to think of a non

3:11

bar space where you could watch the Premier League

3:13

and in New York,

3:15

like where would I go? Like, I don't think

3:17

like libraries are showing these matches at 10 a.m.

3:20

in New York. But I think it

3:22

doesn't just, does it require other people

3:25

being there? It's not like take your

3:27

iPad to the park. Solitude is

3:29

what we're trying to avoid here. I think it

3:31

is the other people being there. That's the key part

3:33

of it. So my wife and I found a, they're

3:36

a handful of Irish pubs. I'm

3:39

not sure they're everywhere. Right. Yeah, exactly. They're

3:41

everywhere. And they were a handful of pubs

3:43

that, I mean, you know, as

3:46

we all as anyone who travels knows, I mean, it

3:48

takes 10 seconds, right? You literally can just Google

3:50

Premier League, Rome or whatever, right? Go to

3:52

map view and you've got four spots all

3:54

within a mile of you. And so that's,

3:56

that's what we did. And a couple of

3:58

people actually had recommended. spots to us too when we

4:00

end up going to one of those spots. And so

4:03

yeah, but we like went down to like a,

4:05

you know, an old basement and but ended up

4:07

being they had a bunch of TVs and they

4:10

had the sound on and so I watched Man

4:12

United Burnley and realized by the way

4:14

this is like two weeks ago now. Yeah,

4:18

but doesn't matter but the matches themselves

4:20

don't matter. Watch Man United

4:22

Burnley and Newcastle play

4:25

and was that who

4:27

did Newcastle play? Was it Forest?

4:29

Doesn't matter. Again, this is back

4:31

in 36. Now

4:33

I have to look brand it because I

4:35

can't. Yeah, I don't think it was Forest.

4:37

Yeah, Burnley. Right. Last time Forest played Newcastle,

4:39

Chris Wood put on a clinic. Yeah,

4:42

it was Burnley because Burnley drew first

4:44

blood and then Newcastle came back and

4:46

shellacked them. So, but

4:48

anyway, so I was at the bar and then

4:50

we just we were just in the mood to

4:52

chat, you know, it was kind of a smaller

4:54

space and so we we heard an American voice

4:57

and we started talking there was a Texan who

4:59

works in Rome and there was an Englishman, West

5:01

Ham supporter who also worked in

5:03

Rome and they were just Roman, you

5:06

know, Roman workers just hanging out at this

5:09

bar and so we did but we just had a great

5:12

time getting my wife and I were drinking. Our kid was

5:15

reading a book like literally it was like it just in

5:17

the corner. It was perfect. They were, you know, everyone was

5:19

everyone was happy. It was all good. We were not neglecting

5:22

our child, but they were they were fine.

5:25

Sure, but there it is. Live sport brings

5:27

people together. I think it was invigorating. It

5:29

really was exactly and I and

5:32

fantasy was like, I mean, you know, Bruno

5:34

didn't really do anything in that match, right?

5:36

He ended up getting a couple bonus points,

5:38

but the point was I was just enjoying

5:41

watching the games and I think that sometimes

5:44

when I'm having a less than ideal fantasy season,

5:46

this will be my worst one by my long

5:49

stretch. It's

5:51

a good reminder that like you're not just it's

5:54

like it's not I didn't just like pick a sport at

5:56

random, right? It's not like you and I just decided, oh,

5:58

I want to do something like low

6:01

stakes gambling on, you know, I don't even

6:03

really know, like just, just some sport that

6:05

we don't get, we both enjoy watching the

6:07

Premier League, it's super fun. The fantasy game

6:09

is something that enhances it, right?

6:12

And makes it even more fun. And

6:14

so, and I think maybe I've gotten

6:16

a little, a

6:18

little too worked up about fantasy

6:20

this season. And, and so I'm trying to

6:22

get away from that. I, you know, I

6:24

always, we always want to keep things positive

6:26

here on the Always Treating Podcast, Brandon. And

6:28

so we've got a big Game Week 37

6:30

ahead of us. And you and I are

6:32

now separate, I think by two points going

6:35

into tomorrow's match. I have now lost my

6:37

defender for tomorrow's match, here at McGuire for

6:39

the rest of the season. So I have

6:42

a fun problem to solve. I thought, yeah,

6:44

I always find to have to solve a

6:46

4.2 million double game with defender dilemma right

6:48

before the double. And so that's, maybe

6:50

I shouldn't have had it in the beginning with, I don't

6:53

know. So that's, you keep talking, I'm

6:55

not a plug in my laptop. Yeah, so now

6:57

I basically have 12 hours to wait and

7:00

see if Bruno is going to start

7:03

tomorrow. Because if he doesn't

7:05

start, then I get Nicholas Jackson's points off the bench and

7:07

that'll be a real game changer for

7:09

me. If he does start, then I just

7:11

need him to score more than 16 points

7:14

and I'll be, you know, perfectly happy. Yeah,

7:16

and I get Jop Pedro off of the

7:18

bench if Bruno is a no show. And

7:20

that was part of my minus eight going

7:23

into Game Week 36, which

7:25

I just felt, it was

7:28

a mixture of all sorts of fantasy elements

7:31

of being terrified not having Holland.

7:34

Maybe I make a minus eight to do that,

7:36

but the point of not getting Holland on my

7:39

wild guard was to be different. And

7:41

I had Julian Alvarez, but it just

7:43

had this sinking feeling that I would

7:46

just be washed away to see

7:48

if I didn't have Holland. So

7:50

my minus eight to get in Holland,

7:52

Jop Pedro and Chalaba. I think assuming

7:55

like, Razmuth Heulen gets two points

7:58

against Crystal Palace, will

8:00

have netted me 45 points that

8:02

minus eight. So, uh, I'm feeling

8:04

really good about that. However, going

8:06

back to the little devil's playground

8:08

thing is, um, that sounds

8:10

really good. And if you look at my game week, 36

8:13

team, I have gotten a return

8:15

from every single player except for

8:18

Kyle Walker. And I'm at

8:20

89 points with the minus eight. That's a net

8:22

81 with Bruno and Dallow still to play. But

8:25

I am because of that minus eight and because

8:27

all of my guys did really well, but here's the

8:30

thing. Every, every single

8:32

dude did well in

8:34

the game this weekend. So I'm still on a red

8:36

arrow going into the, wow.

8:39

Yeah. I mean, it's basically a

8:41

gray dot. Uh, I've not moved

8:44

and, uh, it's really is remarkable to

8:46

get that many returns and to have

8:48

your captain return 42 points. It just

8:50

shows like a lot of

8:53

really engaged managers still playing out there.

8:56

And, uh, and also because

8:58

everybody returns the Saka owners, the Sala

9:00

owners, the arsenal defensive owners, I don't

9:02

know how many of them are actually

9:05

active, but, um, but

9:08

that, that hurts when you're trying to go

9:10

your own way and everyone, everyone returns. It's

9:13

a real something for everyone week, isn't it? Like

9:15

if you, uh, if you wild carded in a

9:17

bunch of players, they all

9:19

returned. If you held Saka

9:22

and Sala, right? Maybe captain Sala,

9:24

um, granted it wouldn't have gone as

9:27

well as, um, uh, captain Helen,

9:29

obviously, but like you would have gotten at least a

9:31

golden assist from that match. And so, um, yeah,

9:33

I think it's, yeah, so there was, you're right. I

9:35

mean, it was hard to have a really terrible

9:38

game. Like I've kind of figured out a way to do

9:40

it, but it was not easy to do. And

9:42

uh, kind of the story, story of my

9:44

season, but Brandon, I don't want to talk

9:46

about me. Okay. Let's not dwell on that.

9:48

No, I've done enough of that already. I've

9:50

been around you long enough, Josh, to see

9:52

the true, you know, we go to the

9:54

farmer's market and get our special Josh jam

9:56

that we put on our toast. I

9:59

would not be surprised if. if you got Nico Jackson

10:01

off the bench and beat me on points

10:03

tomorrow. So let's see. Let's see. We'll see.

10:05

I am. I am certainly red lining right

10:07

now and I need a I need a

10:09

dose of of positivity to

10:12

carry me through these final two weeks.

10:14

I am. I have, I'm limping to the finish

10:17

line right now, Brian. It's a full, it's

10:19

more than a limp. Honestly, I would say I'm like

10:21

a, uh, I don't really,

10:23

you know, I'm like a, I don't

10:26

know where I want to go with this Brandon.

10:28

I want to make some, yeah. Yeah. In your

10:31

life, would you like to see come out from

10:33

the crowd to actually pick you up from the

10:35

pavement and help carry you across that finish line?

10:38

Who is that? Great. I guess it's gotta

10:40

be you. Cause you probably want to do

10:42

it. Least that would make it the most,

10:44

the most famous person. Is there a famous

10:47

person out there? And they're like, Ooh, there

10:49

you go. Yeah. Do I want like, um,

10:52

yeah, like a, who do I, who do I really

10:54

want to meet? Like Paul Rudd. I

10:56

love this Paul, Paul Rudd, come

10:58

be a guest. Noted

11:01

fantasy player, noted fantasy manager,

11:03

Paul Rudd. Uh, and, uh,

11:05

yeah, I don't know. I'll, I'm

11:07

going to stick with you actually. You're, you're my

11:10

answer here. Great. So, so gaming 36 almost in

11:12

the books, we'll see what happens with Bruno and

11:14

Man Utd tomorrow. Some people will still have a

11:16

handful of, um, Crystal

11:18

Palace players as well. I mean, I'm head to

11:20

head against somebody with Mateta and, uh, Mateta is

11:22

going to have to get like four returns to

11:24

help this person. Yeah. Good.

11:27

Yeah. There's a 13

11:29

injured man United defenders. So, um, yeah, that

11:31

does, that does help things a little bit.

11:34

Um, so yeah. And,

11:36

uh, Chancellor, our old buddy, Dan, uh,

11:38

none of this like two points between

11:40

us because this is the closest Josh

11:43

Brandon death contest ever. Um, I

11:45

think so. I feel like there was a

11:47

season. Yeah. A couple of

11:49

years ago, I remember, I was having a little

11:52

bit of an off season, not to this level, but

11:54

I was like in the, in the a hundred K

11:56

and you were inside the top 100 K.

11:59

And I feel like I, I was, I needed

12:01

a really great Game Week 38 to

12:04

like, to come to Nick you, you know, in

12:06

the end in points. Like I didn't do it.

12:08

And I remember you were like, I really, I

12:11

remember you said something like, you were like, I really, this season would be

12:13

a failure to me if

12:15

you'd seen back in the end points. So

12:18

I remember, I can't remember what year that was, maybe

12:20

2019 or something like that. There was

12:22

one season two where we had, we

12:25

were doing our 50 buck cup head

12:27

to head and I beat you on head to

12:29

heads to win the 50 bucks. But then you

12:31

overtook me in overall points. And

12:34

it felt very much like

12:36

winning a bubble tournament or

12:38

something like that. Right. Yeah,

12:40

exactly. There's a, yeah, exactly.

12:42

What's the, the mid season

12:44

tournament or whatever they're doing now. Yeah, the

12:46

season tournament, I think they call that in the end

12:48

of the day now. Yeah, exactly. But what- It's

12:50

a nice thing, but it doesn't really

12:53

move the needle. What's interesting to me

12:55

about us being so close in points

12:57

is, I mean, naturally we're going, our

12:59

teams can converge game week to game

13:01

week because we're so close in thinking

13:04

because we do this podcast twice a week. But

13:07

we have had pretty different teams

13:09

for long stretches this season. I

13:12

mean, even look at this week,

13:14

I captain Holland, you went for a

13:16

Cole Palmer captaincy and still

13:19

we're this close. And I

13:23

don't really know how to explain that. It

13:26

feels like fate is having its

13:28

say here. Yeah, I

13:30

was reminded too of the

13:32

kind of yellow captaincy and

13:36

how much more fun they are in

13:38

theory than they are in actual practice.

13:41

It's, I think I, and this

13:43

is why I think it's so hard if you have a certain

13:45

kind of bent to make

13:48

up a lot of ground down the stretch,

13:50

right? Because you basically have to go against

13:52

your own instincts. Right? You

13:55

have to go against your instincts being, well, I suspect

13:57

this player is going to score the most. because

14:00

the player's gonna score. That's the player you

14:02

want to captain. That's why Holland was the

14:04

most widely captain player this week. And you

14:07

have to gamble sometimes, right? Like even though

14:09

I know this is the most likely situation,

14:12

I have to gamble that Holland has a

14:14

terrible match or still

14:16

wasn't fit enough to start, right? Something

14:18

has to go wrong. He misses a

14:20

pen, like who knows, right? I mean,

14:22

certainly we've seen Holland have off matches

14:24

this season. And then hope that it

14:27

doesn't pan out. It's such a stressful

14:29

way to play. It's the kind of

14:31

thing that only happens when you put yourself in

14:33

a position where you need to make up a

14:35

lot of ground, right? And the captaincy is ultimately

14:37

like a little bit of a kind of,

14:40

it's a little bit of a cheat, right? Like

14:42

if you can make it work for you. Ultimately,

14:44

I think it doesn't really... I

14:47

mean, I don't know what kind of does.

14:50

I mean, the captaincy is obviously hugely important,

14:52

but maybe the captaincy to make up

14:54

ground is a little overrated. The

14:57

Holland captaincy just happened to kind of,

15:00

it was the move this week, but it

15:02

just so happened to be the move on

15:05

the most popular forward in the entire game.

15:08

So there wasn't a huge amount of upside

15:11

there. Looking at my team in

15:13

particular, I feel like if

15:15

it's not the captaincy, there should be risks

15:18

elsewhere in your team. And I was taking a

15:20

big, well, I was taking a

15:22

gamble. It wasn't a big gamble going

15:24

double Chelsea defense coming into this game

15:26

week. And it paid off. I

15:29

got a clean sheet from Charleville, that one from Petrovich. Of

15:32

course, by

15:34

the time that we got there, I needed

15:36

that to happen because I

15:38

didn't have any arsenal defenders. Right,

15:41

right, right. The risks I'm trying to

15:43

make are just me trying to keep

15:45

up with the pack, which

15:47

is really frustrating. You mentioned missing a pen

15:49

there though. And the most

15:52

frustrating moment of the game week

15:54

was the Isak

15:57

Missakan, because it would have

15:59

been a Gordon. assist. A lot of people

16:01

have Gordon, a lot of people have Yuzhak,

16:03

how many people have the combo? And there

16:06

were a lot of scorers in that

16:09

match. Callum Wilson probably

16:11

had the...did he have the three

16:13

bonus? Anyway, I think it was actually

16:15

Bruno Gamersch. It doesn't matter. I do

16:17

feel like... Yuzhak finished with zero bonus.

16:19

Yeah, we could have... Yuzhak and Salah,

16:21

interestingly, both with goals assist and zero

16:23

bonus this week. We could

16:26

have gotten bonus for Gordon with

16:28

two assists or Yuzhak assuming

16:30

he gets his brace. But I had

16:32

this feeling, Josh, watching the build up

16:34

to that penalty, Yuzhak was gonna miss

16:37

who's like the most clinical finisher in

16:39

the Premier League this season. But there

16:41

just wasn't something right about him the

16:43

entire match. And I think there was

16:45

something about Callum Wilson's presence that was

16:47

throwing him off. There were a couple

16:49

of plays where Wilson and

16:51

Yuzhak were coming into the same space

16:54

and Yuzhak clearly just like ceded the

16:56

territory. He was like, I don't know what's going

16:58

on here. I can't do... Who is this guy?

17:00

I can't deal with him. And Wilson obviously has

17:02

a lot to prove and

17:05

reasonably so. So, God,

17:07

I was just so not surprised when he missed

17:09

that. It was truly frustrating. Yeah,

17:12

it was... Of course, then

17:14

he scores minutes later. Was that on

17:16

a Bruno assist? I can't remember now.

17:19

It was a Josh Murphy assist. Right.

17:21

Yeah, that's right. Murphy. He's always gonna

17:23

pop up, Murphy, isn't he? What a

17:25

weird season for Newcastle.

17:29

It's really... Honestly, I'm

17:31

just blown away they've been able to right the ship as

17:33

much as they have. Sure. What

17:35

is their... They now have... Of

17:38

course, they want to pull the table. There's a pop-up ad that

17:41

pops up. Yeah, so they now have four

17:43

wins in five. I mean, 12 points in their last 15.

17:45

They're not quite going

17:47

to make it back

17:49

to a Champions League spot. Yeah,

17:52

interestingly enough, I mean, The

17:55

Villa Spurs race is going to be quite close.

17:57

Although, I think Villa Probably only need to win

17:59

one more. Smash right and then know

18:01

nor have I am. I feel pretty

18:03

confident that Villa clinch that fourth. smart

18:05

because Spurs do have to play Man

18:07

City and we've seen some classic Spurs

18:09

City matches in the past. But at

18:11

the wave the Spurs as an Israeli

18:13

right now by yeah, we're gonna get

18:15

out there gonna get squashed like about

18:17

by that city as he I think

18:19

that leads us nicely into gaming. Thirty

18:21

seven, went to the weekend and we

18:23

can get into now I actually very

18:25

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you're done with fantasy for the next couple

19:28

of weeks and their next couple of months

19:30

and then youths come back in July. or

19:32

maybe that's when you wanna come and join

19:34

the pot and that's fine too And South's

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anger patria.com/always cheating to or podcasts I go

19:39

next pack yes each week. that's that's true

19:41

throughout the entire season. Ah yes, I jump

19:43

on. the disc for this guy was very

19:45

active today i have to say with all

19:47

the yes i wasn't too much of a

19:49

state of fpl self disgust to our to

19:51

really be a dive in their brain it's

19:53

but i was lurking make no mistake about

19:55

it just landed was lurking and those stats

19:57

yeah this is no okay ideas like a

19:59

heavy breathe emoji to like hear something like

20:01

like I'm here just don't talk to me

20:04

and hear yeah before

20:06

we move on I did want to say

20:08

a quick thanks and shout out to the

20:10

form is temporary podcast our friend

20:12

Roberto Hollis invited me on to

20:15

the form is temporary it was

20:17

interesting invited me and he made

20:19

a big show of not having you on the

20:21

podcast yeah it was a real clear snub I

20:24

had a really great time

20:28

recording that pod with Roberto and

20:30

Ollie and there was a fun quiz that we

20:32

did where I ended up well I won't spoil

20:35

the results but it was a tense time so

20:37

form is temporary podcast a really good show check

20:39

it out cool all

20:41

right well let's get into yeah yeah

20:43

thanks to Roberta for having you on there gaming

20:46

37 Brandon kicks off on

20:50

let me make sure because this Friday one

20:52

snuck up on some people this week didn't

20:54

Brandon especially it was yeah it was a

20:57

Friday one and was kind of a was it

21:00

a two thirty two thirty kick off early and

21:03

then of course they have this

21:05

90-minute deadline now too so it makes things

21:07

even it's tricky out there guys it was

21:09

it was a 3 p.m. kick off but

21:11

still people get

21:13

confused yeah wouldn't

21:16

be me but like I know that I know

21:18

there are people out there Brandon could happen I

21:20

bet some I bet some real moments yeah with

21:22

I don't know it's like am I getting old

21:24

I don't really know or am I just distracted

21:27

this year I think yeah we haven't talked about

21:29

too much I've got some personal stuff

21:31

going on it's all everything's good all good in fact

21:33

in fact it's very good right it's too good

21:35

in fact I need my personal life to get less

21:37

good and then I can focus more it

21:40

was it was so it was so helpful when

21:42

FPL was the only joy in your life exactly

21:45

that's when the times were at the base

21:47

I seem to sit like Emerson said right

21:49

I need to simplify and get back to

21:51

what really matters so gaming does kick off

21:53

though on Saturday morning May 11th just a

21:57

couple days before you make your returns

21:59

in New York be here for a

22:01

week. Absolutely. I'm coming back New

22:03

York, New York, the Big Apple, a

22:06

journey home. It's very Homeric,

22:08

right? It's coming home folks. Absolutely.

22:10

It being Brandon in this

22:12

case. Yeah. So,

22:15

yeah, so you actually have some double game week

22:17

stuff here. I think it'll be unfortunately working most

22:19

of this time, but it

22:21

kicks off Saturday morning full. Wow.

22:24

This is a hearty slate of 10 a.m. and

22:27

this is a real put the kids dip in

22:29

early. In my case, it's 10 a.m. to be

22:31

very early. Maybe just don't wake the kids up

22:33

would be a better description. I was looking at

22:35

the fixture slate. I was like, God, is this

22:37

the championship Sunday fixture slate? Me too. I

22:40

know. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Let me,

22:42

I'll share here for anyone who hasn't seen

22:44

it yet because it's, by the

22:46

way, this podcast is now available on YouTube.

22:48

Yeah. I see your screen.

22:51

Yeah. So, we have

22:53

eight teams play on Saturday and

22:55

then the non-double fixtures are then one

22:58

on Sunday and the final on Monday. And

23:00

then we get into the double game week

23:02

fixtures. We need to have a scheduler on,

23:04

by the way, to explain the

23:07

absolute chaos of the Premier League scheduling.

23:09

Why are there eight matches

23:11

on Saturday and then one

23:13

on Sunday? Can you explain that to me?

23:16

I really, I need your help on this

23:18

one. Now, if you go to a Stockley

23:20

Park and you look at the robot in

23:22

charge of goal rush, like Steam is going

23:24

to be shooting out of this robot's head

23:27

as this goal rush with kind

23:29

of six fixtures happening at once

23:32

is happening. It's wild. And,

23:34

you know, the most important one from

23:36

a table standpoint is the, well,

23:39

honestly, there are two because Man United hosted

23:41

Arsenal. I think before

23:43

Man United lost every single defender in their team, I

23:46

would have felt better about their chances there, but it

23:48

should still be a tough match. But

23:50

Spurs-Man City, I think is really the big one.

23:52

And as we talked about this briefly at

23:54

the start of the pod, but, and again, we're not really

23:56

talking about fantasy quite yet, but like just Spurs

23:58

has given Man City. trouble over the

24:00

years at home. And so I would

24:03

assume that would give them a little extra

24:06

burst of confidence. I

24:08

don't know how much they want to play spoiler, you know, for

24:10

Arsenal, but I don't think that, I don't think that they're going

24:12

to enter into their thinking. And the idea that Sun

24:15

would not want to beat Man City because it

24:17

would help Arsenal, I think is just absurd. And

24:19

I think that that's going to be a tough

24:21

match. They're going to give it everything they got.

24:23

Right. And so they certainly will. So

24:25

I think Arsenal fans and

24:28

other watchers have been pointing

24:30

at the Fulham fixture, the Craven

24:32

Cottage fixture for City as the

24:34

possible banana skin. If

24:38

Fulham are strong at the Cottage,

24:40

Fulham are though at the

24:42

point of the season where it's, you

24:45

know, where is the motivation? Do they have

24:47

it in them? The appealing thing

24:49

about Fulham as a club, Fulham

24:51

prides itself as being a nice,

24:53

happy, go lucky sort of a

24:55

fan base. And we're just,

24:57

we're happy to participate. You're

25:01

just happy to be there. Yeah, that's interesting.

25:04

Well, I mean, viewed through that lens, maybe

25:07

it's a nine nil Man City win, Brandon, I don't

25:09

know. But I mean, Fulham

25:12

have a couple of big kind

25:14

of notches on their wind belts, right?

25:16

This season. I mean, they beat Spurs very

25:18

handily a couple of weeks ago. Maybe in

25:20

fact, I guess it was back in

25:22

gaming 29, but that really started, I feel like Spurs

25:24

big decline in

25:26

form. So yeah, the worry

25:29

for Fulham is that, so,

25:31

um, Tosin Adebayo is

25:34

leaving the club, basically. So the

25:37

center of that partnership was Tosin

25:39

and, um, Calvin Bassi. And that

25:41

is really what took hold and

25:44

created this sort of like center

25:46

of power and the defense. And Tosin has kind

25:48

of just been cast off. It's like, all right,

25:51

you're out in the summer. We're going

25:53

to get minutes that you said the app,

25:55

you said the app, uh, can have real

25:57

clunkers of games. He happened to play well

25:59

enough. against Brentford this weekend, so

26:01

maybe Bassey DF will work. But

26:03

that's just something I'm thinking about

26:05

as I'm looking at potential captaincy

26:07

in cities odds at the cottage.

26:10

I do like DF though. I mean, you know, I

26:12

mean, he's, yeah, but. He's got

26:14

good games in him. There were, I

26:16

mean, when he's good, he looks, he

26:18

looks very solid. Yeah, but

26:21

he's always got those mistakes in him.

26:23

Yeah, what would have helped is if

26:26

Man City were still in Europe, I

26:28

could see this being even trickier, right?

26:30

But I think, yeah, as is no

26:32

second leg of the Champions League. I

26:36

mean, they really are rolling right now. I mean, this is,

26:39

it's wild to me honestly that Pep hasn't won

26:42

more Champions Leagues because the way that Man City

26:44

as a, like in terms of the current like

26:46

table have finished basically every

26:48

year that he's, every year but what, but

26:50

I guess his first year they didn't win

26:52

the title and then they didn't win it

26:55

once with the Euro Liverpool one. Otherwise he's

26:57

won every time. So I'm, I've got this

26:59

theory that I'm like sort of working on

27:02

as to why Pep hasn't won those

27:04

champions. So particularly if you look at

27:06

the semifinals this year with Bayern

27:08

Munich and Real Madrid specifically,

27:11

Bayern Munich has not played

27:13

great domestically, obviously Leverkusen has

27:16

just run away with it

27:18

in this like record breaking season. But

27:20

you look at that Real Madrid

27:22

matchup against City and it is

27:24

like Pep's

27:27

robots playing in a very specific

27:29

sort of way versus a team

27:32

in Real Madrid who feels probably a

27:34

little more empowered to be free. And

27:37

that doesn't always net you the most

27:39

predictable results, but it feels like in

27:41

the Champions League the teams

27:43

that are just the,

27:46

not necessarily flair but talent and

27:48

freedom seems to often win

27:50

out in the Champions League. So I think

27:53

that's why it's so weird. It's

27:56

gonna be so weird by the way, if we

27:58

end up with the Burris adornment Bayern. Munich

28:00

final. That is

28:02

truly the most unlikely of like

28:05

both the Dortmund are like fourth

28:07

in the Bundesliga table. It's just so, you know,

28:09

I mean, it would be a fitting tribute to

28:11

Klopp because I think Klopp took

28:14

that Dortmund team to the final against Bayern

28:16

Munich in the Champions League and they're lost.

28:18

You think they're doing it for for Jurgen?

28:20

Absolutely, doing it for Jurgen. Yeah, yeah. I

28:22

mean, it's a fun story. They'd be a

28:24

fun team to root for in the Champions

28:27

League final. I guess maybe maybe real Madrid

28:29

would be a little more fun. But

28:31

they're both, I don't know, do

28:33

you want another Bayern? It's like

28:35

I what I don't want to see

28:38

is another Bayern beats Dortmund. I feel

28:40

like I've seen that story. You get

28:42

what you get a finish for two

28:44

sides of the camp, the Kane, the

28:46

Kane haters and doubters versus Kane lovers.

28:49

Either Kane gets to lift a major trophy

28:51

and get that monkey off his back or

28:54

the haters and doubters get yet

28:57

another moment. That is

28:59

true. That is. Yeah, okay. All right. There's some

29:02

good narrative there then. Well, yeah, now we're

29:04

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32:00

All right. Well back to game week 37 who

32:03

plays twice and getting a 37 Brennan

32:05

it's Brighton. Okay, sure Chelsea

32:09

Manchester City Manchester United Newcastle

32:12

and Spurs so for both Chelsea

32:15

and Spurs at the second time

32:17

they played twice in the last

32:20

Three weeks. So yeah

32:22

very you know a lot a

32:24

lot of matches though Chelsea have figured something out

32:26

interestingly Like I don't know what? If

32:29

potches sort of starting to put the pieces together a

32:31

little bit But I mean I think the last couple

32:33

weeks are probably the most yeah, maybe just the last

32:35

week I don't really know It's like the pride the

32:38

most encourage you can feel as a Chelsea supporter

32:40

Was it Enzo Fernandez the whole time

32:42

like since he's been out of the

32:44

squad? It seems to kind of coincide

32:46

with this resurgence like taking

32:48

and one of those midfielders out and

32:52

Yeah, it's worked Yeah,

32:54

even Connor Gallagher. I've had some amazing

32:56

moments and there's a lot

32:58

of talk whether he was even kind of good enough to

33:00

Sure be in that squad and Nicholas

33:03

Jackson clearly

33:06

Doing better. I don't know. It's like yeah,

33:08

see what say what you will about him,

33:10

but he's you know Yeah,

33:12

you see this with Newcastle to Newcastle

33:14

kind of driving up the table and

33:16

they're getting a lot of players back

33:18

from Injuries, it's great to see Jolynton

33:21

back on the pitch for them and

33:24

Chelsea getting players back fit in cuckoo

33:27

and it's almost like For

33:29

Chelsea, it's not gonna impact how the season

33:31

ends for them But looking you can with

33:35

their form and the players coming back

33:37

suddenly It's easier to talk about Chelsea

33:39

in a positive light for next right

33:41

like all right Chelsea You're

33:43

not gonna be pushovers next season. Yeah, I

33:45

think it's true in Newcastle to Joe Linton

33:47

back, you know As

33:49

you noted like that's that's a huge one. So Who

33:52

would have thought five years ago, Brandon? He'd be so Down

33:57

right yeah, but it's quite Quite

34:00

like obviously true evidently true. Yes. All

34:03

right, so who actually

34:05

has The best and

34:07

worst fixtures in gaming 37, right? We talked about

34:09

the teams that doubled but you know Who is

34:11

the kind of better fixtures here? I think We

34:15

could drop a couple immediately like Brighton Terrible

34:18

for actually won today. I so I don't really

34:20

know I mean I pray how

34:23

did they win that match? I have no idea but

34:25

you know credited deserby. I guess like sort of felt

34:27

like it was It

34:29

felt like like that that that train

34:31

was was out of without a call

34:33

credit to a dingra Who was just

34:35

a man on fire that entire match?

34:37

He's been your guy I haven't jokingly

34:39

call people your boy, but he's

34:41

the closest one to an actual Brandon's boy on

34:43

that Yeah, I think he played

34:46

well and what Watkins seemed a little off

34:48

that match and they had an excruciating

34:51

tie against Olympiacos on Thursday night

34:53

granted It was home at 4-2

34:55

loss. It seemed like it might

34:57

have zapped their energy But

34:59

yeah Brighton still of the double earth

35:02

seem like they have the weakest sort

35:05

of like points Opportunity of

35:07

the bunch. I think so and You

35:10

know just moving through the the teams

35:12

that double here I mean obviously you have you have some

35:15

single gaming teams as well that we can talk about in

35:17

a second You know maybe Arsenal

35:19

way to man United most most notably Chelsea

35:22

a way to forest a way to Brighton Not

35:26

bad, I feel like I mean, you know and

35:28

the forest or You

35:31

know, I mean, I don't know they sort of they well, I

35:33

guess it's kind of a trick to tend to play them They

35:35

they did Have a you

35:38

know, do they ultimately secure safety with that

35:40

win? I don't know. They got pretty close

35:42

I think Newton could do

35:45

it But they just haven't been able

35:47

to win any games in that final

35:49

shot if the final shot had gone

35:52

in on Friday it's like they look

35:54

the last shot

35:56

of the match if that had they've gone that in

35:58

one two one maybe Maybe

36:00

the story is different. Yeah, but I agree. I

36:02

mean it's three points and one this weekend. I

36:05

don't necessarily want to count Luton out because I

36:07

mean it'd be fun for them to make a go

36:09

of it. Nor do I want

36:11

to say Forrest will think they're safe.

36:14

So that makes it tricky for Chelsea

36:16

in that fixture. So I

36:18

like Chelsea feel like they have the best

36:20

fixtures if you take home

36:22

and away out of it but they are both

36:24

away and Chelsea seem to rely

36:26

on playing at the bridge to

36:28

get these really standout emphatic wins

36:31

and results so and

36:34

then if you look at the teams that have strong

36:37

home fixtures, you've got Manchester United

36:39

who Have two

36:41

away fixer had two home fixtures in the

36:44

double, but they are against Arsenal

36:46

and a pretty informed castle. So this is

36:48

only a man city I feel like would

36:50

be it would be a worse team to

36:52

play than those two at the moment. So

36:54

yeah Tough tough fixer that well,

36:56

honestly, I would expect them to score in both of

36:58

those matches I think even even the Arsenal match I

37:00

feel like they can they can like get one pass

37:02

I suppose it depends on the Bruno situation because

37:05

you know if he's injured or if this is

37:07

one of those like He wants

37:10

to go this summer. It's kind of like

37:12

the like you were saying about the out

37:14

of bio Yeah, yeah out of a out

37:16

of bios On

37:19

toast and you'll be okay toast. Yeah

37:21

with toast and where maybe they're if

37:23

he really is gone Of

37:25

course, they wouldn't say this out loud, right?

37:27

But you know if he really is gone

37:29

then maybe they want to try and mount

37:31

in a more advanced, you know Like yeah,

37:33

I wish right now. Yeah, Mason mounts team

37:35

now. I don't know Or

37:37

or it really is just a small injury. I mean who knows

37:40

right so But I would

37:42

certainly fancy Bruno's chances in a

37:44

you know With two home matches and I

37:47

think Newcastle are in a fine spot as well given

37:49

their form Home to Brighton a way to man United

37:51

I see them scoring multiple goals in both of those

37:53

matches Spurs

37:55

are in a tricky spot again.

37:58

They can score just the story of

38:00

the season, by the way, is I don't like any of the

38:02

defenses in any of these matches. Yeah,

38:06

but Burnley home is a terrific

38:08

fixture, right? So that, that one

38:10

fixture alone makes them a very

38:13

interesting double game week team.

38:16

I'm already tripled up on them. So there's kind of nothing

38:18

I can do there. Not that

38:20

not the Spurs defense, you're, you're

38:22

doubled on them, right? No,

38:25

I'm doubling the Spurs defense. Yeah. What a

38:27

wonderful decision that was. And the

38:30

Carrillo, you know, the

38:32

Carrillo, I like, he, like his name as well

38:35

be like, Pyrrhic victory or he has like, he,

38:37

he has all these matches where he plays great

38:39

and has a bunch of saves and they, that

38:41

means nothing because they still concede four. And

38:44

so yeah, I hate having

38:46

to defend. I really, I think next year I'm

38:48

just going to spend no money on defense and

38:50

just put all of it up front. Is there

38:52

any, I mean, you can still, you can still

38:54

get these like Cavardiel guys at 5 million,

38:56

right? Like what am I, why am I

38:59

spending more than 5 million on anybody? Even,

39:01

even still with, with Guardiol, he did

39:04

bumpkis for like three quarters of

39:06

the season. 20 game weeks. Yeah,

39:08

exactly. So, so yeah,

39:10

it's, you know, it's, I think it's, I

39:12

think the, the defense has really tripped me

39:14

up a lot this season. And then you have

39:16

Man City who, you know, they, they have

39:18

two way matches, but they're, they're Man City,

39:20

right? So from a kind of pure fixture standpoint,

39:22

I don't love Fulham away or Spurs away

39:25

as a, as a double, right? Like I don't think

39:27

either of those are awesome matches

39:29

where I would

39:31

feel super confident in their, you know,

39:33

attacking players. I

39:35

would certainly be only had two Man City players.

39:38

I'd recommend getting a third, right? I

39:40

mean, it's, you know, there's a kind of like baseline

39:42

of just like they're an excellent team. They're going to

39:44

probably win both these matches. They're going to score a

39:46

couple of goals and most

39:49

likely keep a clean sheet, at least one of the two,

39:51

right? So there's like a lot of, there's

39:53

still a lot of like, you know, value in them, but

39:56

I don't see the massive upside there that

39:58

I might see with like, Newcastle,

40:01

for example, right? I think, you know, if you really,

40:03

I mean, this kind of brings me to the, well,

40:06

actually, no, before we get into the captaincy stuff, you

40:09

know, what do you think about Arsenal?

40:11

Like, if you were a manager who

40:14

had Saka or had Gabrielle or something

40:16

like that, like, are you, would

40:18

you be trying to get off of your Arsenal players

40:21

this week? Or do you, I mean, I have a

40:23

bench boost and I've got Gabrielle. And so I think

40:25

I'm in a slightly interesting spot there where I could

40:27

sort of, I could turn him into, you know,

40:31

another player for another double

40:33

game player for 37. I

40:35

would take Arsenal and two fixtures as

40:37

well. They don't have a

40:39

double in 37, but they finished the season

40:41

in a match that they will need to

40:44

win home against Everton. I don't

40:47

quite know what to make of that match because

40:50

Everton have been playing well, but I would, I

40:52

will be moving at

40:55

least one of my double game week assets to

40:57

get an Arsenal player in 38 for

40:59

that Everton match for sure. So

41:01

if you have Arsenal players, I

41:04

can't imagine moving any of them.

41:06

And, you know, you, because

41:09

we, we, we kind of like

41:11

don't know precisely what to think about

41:13

any team this season. And there's only

41:15

one aspect of one team that seems

41:18

to be a relative certainty and that's

41:20

the defense for Arsenal. So

41:22

if you have Arsenal defense, even though

41:24

if you, you, you assume Manchester United

41:26

are good for a goal in that

41:28

match, I wouldn't move them at all.

41:30

I, I'm not sure I would

41:34

bench them if I was not

41:36

bench boosting this week. I think I'd still

41:38

look to start an Arsenal defender unless I

41:40

had a doubler to start in their place,

41:42

just because this is, this is

41:44

the only certainty of this season. Right.

41:47

I mean, yes, I agree. Like I, if I had,

41:49

well, I don't know, like let's say

41:51

you had Brant Wait, who

41:54

has Sheffield United at home. Like would you start

41:56

him over? Okay.

41:59

Brant Wait. versus Gabrielle.

42:02

I see it's in

42:05

coin toss territory. You're

42:07

in coin toss territory

42:09

there. Yeah,

42:11

yeah. Yeah. I mean, but I

42:14

think you're a larger point, which is that it's probably fine.

42:16

And I, you know, I'm bench missing this week, as are

42:18

you. At the moment, my

42:20

plan is to, is to hold Gabrielle because I

42:22

also think there's a reasonable chance that he can

42:24

keep a clean cheat

42:27

or just score, right? Just

42:29

crazy goal that he scored

42:31

over the weekend that was ruled

42:33

off for a marginal offside or foul. I

42:35

can't quite remember, but yeah, that goal says

42:37

he scored this season that were, they were

42:39

chalked off for fouls or offside. So it

42:41

feels like, yeah, it feels like he kept

42:43

at 10 on the season. So

42:46

that brings me to the captaincy

42:49

question. And I thought we

42:51

could maybe think about the captaincy three ways, right? It was two

42:53

game weeks left the season. So

42:55

if you're being conservative, if you're

42:57

chasing, and if you're going full,

42:59

you only live once, full crazy,

43:02

full, full, full maverick, as we used

43:04

to say. So if you're being conservative,

43:06

Brandon, who is the sensible,

43:10

simple, best captain pick

43:12

for 37. Erling Holland.

43:14

Okay. I agree. He'll start

43:16

both these matches. He just scored

43:18

four goals. He's Erling Holland. What's

43:20

not the low? Yeah. What

43:23

about the, if you're chasing

43:25

and you can say Holland again, if you

43:27

want, like, you know, I think if you, if

43:29

you feel like it's just not worth it to

43:32

go against him, then, then, then that's okay. I

43:35

wonder if there is something to, I

43:40

kind of want to say Anthony

43:42

Gordon in this sicko sort of

43:44

a way because he is Mr.

43:46

St. James Park and

43:49

they have Brighton, which their defenses

43:52

is, is very strange. I'll

43:55

put it that way. I mean, I

43:57

was going to say you suck. So I think, I think.

44:00

feel like they are resurgent and

44:03

I like them just almost just for that

44:05

one picture. And as you've noted with the

44:07

McGuire, you know, we're at the dregs of

44:10

the Manchester United defense. It's

44:12

not like at Old Trafford, Newcastle are

44:14

going to be going up against some

44:16

stalwarts there. Yeah. Let me

44:18

pull up the, the Man United squad

44:21

here. Let's, let's see how many, yeah, I

44:24

mean, you've got, I mean, if you include Bruno

44:26

and Rastroby in flag too, it's a, yeah,

44:28

McGuire, Lindelof, Varon, Shaw.

44:31

I thought there might be like

44:33

a chance that Shaw maybe comes back right at the end

44:35

of it. It wouldn't really grow over and for this matter.

44:37

Well, I guess, I mean, I don't know, they, he has

44:39

been, he has played as a center back at times, not,

44:41

not well, I felt like, but you know, he's

44:44

done it. Yeah.

44:46

So even, even your boy Gore is

44:48

out Brandon, that's, that's tough. And your

44:51

boy, a lot of your boys are

44:54

injured right now in this Man United

44:56

team, your boy Hannibal too, man, the

44:58

trio of Brandon's boys, all right. Get

45:00

well soon Hannibal. I'm sure you, I'm

45:02

sure you've gotten my card. Next time I

45:05

see Hannibal live, I'm going to have the

45:08

sign that says Hannibal, your Jersey, please

45:11

after the match, a great TV show

45:13

just turned into a great, a great

45:15

asset, Brandon. For

45:18

sure. Well, what about, what about, we

45:20

kind of glossed over other city options.

45:22

So you've got De

45:24

Bruyne, uh, was

45:27

picking up some fantasy steam heading into

45:29

game week 36 with him

45:31

blanking in it.

45:34

It always feels like a, a

45:36

really great fantasy asset blanking, even

45:38

though they've been in great, great

45:40

form is harder to

45:43

swallow when somebody else on

45:45

their team hauls massively like

45:47

Alan did. And then

45:49

the cheaper version of De Bruyne and

45:51

Foden, if you want to put it

45:53

that way, even got a return. So

45:55

you do, do still have the opportunity

45:58

to captain De Bruyne or Foden. And

46:01

I wonder if either of those guys

46:03

might be just slightly more appealing than

46:05

going rogue on a Newcastle pick Yeah,

46:08

I mean Foden especially Foden has had some

46:10

massive Pals the season right

46:13

like hat tricks and more so

46:15

I think that Yeah,

46:17

I think that I think that you're right. I think Foden is

46:19

a great pick I think he sock is

46:21

is a strong pick. I mean, I think that you

46:23

could you certainly make an argument for For

46:27

Sun as well, right just because he because

46:30

that Burnley fixtures fantastic, right

46:33

and And

46:35

he's also scored a number of goals on Man

46:37

City and he scored me scored the last two

46:39

matches too. I mean it's like because

46:42

We've been so frustrated by I guess actually was

46:45

two of the last three right on the Chelsea

46:47

match, but you know, I think because Spurs

46:49

have looked so frustrating. Maybe We've

46:53

overlooked Sun I mean actually,

46:55

you know, I think I think he was the one who played

46:57

through that pass to the one that Like

47:00

remember at the end of the match was it was

47:03

it Richarlison like yeah, it

47:05

was It

47:08

was like Richarlison and it bounced off the I

47:10

thought I thought Sun played in

47:12

Richarlison Oh and it didn't matter because

47:15

it was offside anyway. Yeah delayed

47:17

flag Here's something about Sun

47:19

in that match that didn't look quite

47:21

right the ball was Kind

47:23

of loose at his feet. I'm not

47:26

feeling super high into his boot Yeah,

47:28

it wasn't really he didn't he missed the

47:30

stick him. He needed some pine tar or something

47:32

like that on his boots I mean, what about

47:35

Cole Palmer? So, you know Paul

47:38

Palmer's superpower is Stanford Bridge

47:41

But then these are two away fixtures

47:43

Super power was setting up his teammates

47:46

for chances that they can't convert that

47:48

was an incredible superpower But

47:50

he remains like silky smooth. He looks great.

47:53

He's an actual to everything I

47:55

use my vice captain right now on my bus

47:57

team. So I I think I have a I

47:59

have time for that as a captain to show.

48:02

Yeah, I like I like the Palmer shout for sure.

48:05

I think I think for me

48:07

I I'm probably leaning sort

48:09

of Z-SOC personally just because

48:12

given where I am I just

48:14

see no upside in Captain Hollands even even with

48:16

the bench boost I mean who cares like I

48:19

just like there's no there's no way that

48:22

the salvage the season so let me at

48:24

least like but I but I also want

48:26

to go crazy right like I basically

48:28

want to captain the who

48:31

I think is going to be the second best asset

48:33

this week right I'm gonna basically do the gamble that

48:35

I did this week again and

48:37

maybe it works out but that's why it's called

48:39

a gamble Brandon if it was not a if

48:42

it was if it was not a gamble it would just be

48:44

a percentage play would just be the smart move right and you

48:47

know you have to have your eyes

48:49

wide open just like the song

48:51

you know so I'm a queen read on

48:53

the yeah my

48:55

references are incredible

48:57

tonight and really I'm feeling it so

48:59

okay so let's say okay these are

49:02

the kind of the the

49:04

good like the reasonable picks then we've

49:06

listed off the kind of like

49:09

solid non Holland options

49:11

is there someone who stands

49:13

out as a true no

49:15

one's gonna go for him like

49:18

let's say Bruno is healthy like is

49:20

he he feels like he's

49:22

like 10th on this list but maybe he's like

49:24

a Yolo kind of pick yeah

49:27

I think that's right there is something

49:29

about a pen taker that

49:31

fits into that category for me

49:33

because even if you have question

49:35

marks about how compelling the fixture

49:37

is for that particular player anything

49:39

can happen from the penalty spot

49:41

that really just I think does

49:43

auger for Bruno and

49:45

we were we

49:48

went through this with Shane Duffy years

49:50

ago but I feel like

49:52

this does happen once a season where

49:54

there is a random goalkeeper

49:57

or defender and look

49:59

at Brantway in the game week 34 with the

50:01

20 points. Is

50:05

there a defender anywhere in this doubler

50:07

mix? I mean, Edderson

50:09

and Gull, Guardial, perhaps. I

50:16

guess I'm just naming Man City defenders. I'm

50:18

not going to say. Where else would you

50:21

go though, right? I mean, it's like, it's

50:23

not Dallow. Dan Byrne. Yeah, Dan Byrne. Yeah,

50:25

maybe if Shar were healthy, that would be

50:27

something. So,

50:30

all right, well, let's move on to a few

50:32

questions here. You know, should have had a question

50:34

about free hit team, but I think we should.

50:36

I had that on

50:38

the top, but I actually think it'd be more

50:40

helpful to look at a couple of the other

50:43

questions first. So the question from Kendall, Brandon, who

50:45

says, or Kendall, I don't know,

50:47

you know, it's Kendall, says, Shar McGuire,

50:50

the popular picks, or our two popular

50:52

picks for Double Gaming 37, now both

50:54

gone for the season. Who

50:56

are the best replacements on a bench

50:58

boost? Now,

51:02

I think Shar is fairly simple,

51:04

right? I think if you have

51:06

a third man city spot, you

51:08

go Guardial, right? And that kind

51:10

of solves that problem.

51:12

If you wanted to be a

51:15

little different, maybe

51:18

you could go for a, like

51:21

a Newcastle defender, right? That might be something

51:23

to consider. Here's what I'll say. I

51:26

think Mello Gusto. So

51:28

one of the reasons why I moved

51:31

Shar to Charlevo was you

51:34

look at the state of that Newcastle defence,

51:38

and it's Dan Byrne having to be moved

51:40

to centre back to play next to Emile

51:42

Kraft, who's not played a lot of football.

51:44

They have second and

51:46

third choice fullbacks in Lewis

51:49

Hall and Livermento, Livermento who's played very

51:51

well when he's been on the pitch.

51:54

Yeah. I

51:58

feel like the Newcastle defence... suddenly feels

52:00

riskier to me and

52:03

Mala Gusto who's back and looked

52:05

decent when he came on for

52:07

Chalaba against West

52:10

Ham. He's proved

52:12

he's got attacking output and I think

52:14

these Chelsea fixtures are pretty interesting for

52:16

him. I don't mind

52:19

it. It still worries me a little

52:21

bit just because he has missed three

52:23

matches and almost four matches right just

52:25

the seven minutes in the last match.

52:28

So yeah, the price is certainly right

52:30

too. So at least

52:32

he McGuire to Gusto

52:36

is like a move that most people

52:38

can make, right? Because it's only like

52:40

0.1 million more. There's no Chelsea defender

52:42

who you can like totally trust at

52:45

this point because Pacetino's been rotating and

52:47

Thiago Silva has had a little bit

52:50

of a niggle and doesn't play all

52:52

the time. And then his partnerships have

52:54

been rotated as well as

52:57

Chalaba center back as Chalaba full back.

52:59

Yeah, so it's very confusing. So

53:02

I take your point on Gusto. It's almost like

53:04

how do you even buy a Chelsea defender at

53:07

this point, even though I think that

53:09

like if you could get one that you knew

53:11

was going to get two starts, I'd be interested

53:13

in that. So I think

53:15

I was expecting back to back clean sheets from

53:17

them. I'm not sure many even the people who

53:19

brought in Chelsea defenders, I'm not sure they were

53:21

able to keep a clean sheet against West Ham

53:23

to like Jared Bowen hit the post three times.

53:25

Three times. Yeah. Yeah.

53:29

And yeah, I think I think it's a little

53:31

if you're if you want to move past Chelsea,

53:33

I mean, it's you

53:36

could look at I mean, Brighton have defenders

53:38

that are affordable, right? You could get Joel

53:40

development for 4.3. They

53:44

have had this wacky ability to keep clean sheets and

53:46

matches for you to expect them to write. Clean

53:49

sheet away to Brentford and 31 clean sheet

53:51

away to the or actually no home clean

53:53

sheet home to Villa and 36 home

53:57

to forest and 28. So I'm just

53:59

looking. through some recent results. So it's

54:02

not impossible. Like we have this idea that they're it's

54:05

like they just never ever keep clean sheets but they

54:07

can always bang them out.

54:09

The only problem is you don't really have that

54:11

kind of attacking player that you can trust right

54:13

a stupid on out for the season right and

54:15

there's sort of no everyone

54:18

feels pretty risky right like Joel development we

54:20

kind of know what he is at this

54:22

point right this is I think it's third

54:24

year in the league. I think Webster started

54:26

today too but Lewis Dunk is the one

54:28

who you know will play both

54:31

matches and that's Lewis Dunk is

54:33

just fingers crossed maybe he'll get

54:35

something on a goal yeah that's

54:37

pretty much it yeah so that that's that's

54:40

the kind of territory and he's at five point

54:42

two million I think he's too expensive to really

54:44

consider for for imagine

54:47

me at my wild card Josh where

54:49

I have Lewis Dunk and

54:51

I had I think four maybe five defenders

54:53

at one point I ended up with at

54:55

least four who were priced higher than five

54:57

million any season in which

54:59

defense has been awful. I

55:03

don't know that you will yeah

55:05

I think that you know

55:07

you had you had your move this year I've had

55:09

some personal life stuff you know this is not you

55:13

know but darn it Brandon we're putting out these

55:15

pods like like a couple of marathon runners. I'm

55:17

gonna have a great bench boost Josh. Yeah me

55:20

too I'm gonna have the best bench boost in

55:22

my life gosh darn it we're gonna we're gonna

55:24

we're gonna we're gonna make we're

55:27

gonna make applesauce from these apples from these

55:29

rotten apples Brandon we're gonna we're gonna mix

55:31

mix it with some sugar make ourselves

55:33

some applesauce eat that applesauce all

55:35

off season with some

55:38

cinnamon on top exactly we're going to

55:40

you know you know we should do we should get

55:42

into I'm trying to

55:44

think of like some kind of canning metaphor here

55:47

Brandon we need to basically like we need to

55:49

we need to like I'm gonna mix my metaphors

55:51

here a little bit we need to plant the

55:53

seeds right we did do our start the canning

55:55

right so that by the time put it in

55:58

our pantry some of the time this season season

56:00

starts in August, you and I have

56:03

created, right? We've seeded ourselves. We're ready

56:05

for next season. So this positive attitude

56:07

that we have right now, that is

56:09

the seed, right? That goes inside of

56:12

our pickle

56:14

jar or whatever. Yeah, that was a

56:16

terribly mixed metaphor, but I know exactly

56:19

what you mean. Any good things

56:21

that we can pick out, let's put them in a little bag.

56:24

I was trying, well, I was thinking, I like the

56:26

idea of planting a seed, but then I was thinking

56:28

that that seed, that's not going to get where I

56:30

need it to be by August, right? You can't plant

56:32

a seed in May, Brandon, and have that seed sprout

56:34

in three months. I think what you're

56:36

trying to say is that nature works. We're like

56:39

doomsday prepping for fantasy, I think is what you

56:41

mean to say. So

56:43

I mean, whatever. Like there's two weeks left. I'm still

56:46

going to watch the magic. I'm still setting my team.

56:48

I'm still thinking about the moves I want to make,

56:50

right? So nothing, nothing really

56:52

changes other than we're

56:54

not going to be winning any of our little money

56:57

leagues or anything like that, right? Other than that,

56:59

it's all kind of same as it ever was,

57:01

right? So you've got to keep your head up

57:03

and finish the season with a little bit of

57:06

pride. Well, tell

57:08

me what moves. I'm curious. I

57:10

mean, we have a long week

57:13

in front of us, but you've got a

57:15

few problems that you want to address. Plus

57:17

you have two frees to work with. You're

57:19

thinking of taking a hit to remake

57:22

portions of your team and

57:25

McGuire's got to go. Obviously

57:27

that's first out. Yeah.

57:29

I mean, so my free hits, excuse me, my

57:32

bench boost squad at the moment, my bench boost

57:35

is active. I went ahead and actually did that before

57:37

I forgot. And so

57:40

I have, yeah, I

57:42

mean, the situation at Bruno, I've got to keep

57:45

an eye on, right? But yes, McGuire

57:48

out for maybe

57:50

Malec Gusteau. DeSasi

57:53

out for Guevardial

57:55

would be the kind of

57:57

two obvious moves. And

58:01

I think I've just enough money to do that. And

58:04

then I guess that would be the squad.

58:07

Those are such boring moves. Like, ugh, the

58:09

McGuire injury is such a low key annoyance.

58:11

But, you know, this is the season of

58:13

the injury, right? So that kind of is

58:15

where we are where we are. If

58:18

Bruno's injured, then we're probably into taking

58:20

a hit territory, right? That probably opens

58:22

up the door for something like that.

58:25

I mean, DeSazzi, I don't really know what to

58:27

do there, right? I mean, I guess I could

58:29

keep him. But it's like, somehow

58:32

despite being a starter all season, now

58:36

he's lost his spot. And I don't really know.

58:38

Maybe he starts one of these two. He's not

58:40

very good. I think this is his problem. He

58:42

started for 25 weeks. Like,

58:45

I don't really, I mean, it's

58:47

crazy to me that I brought him in

58:49

because I thought he was the safer of

58:52

the Chelsea defensive picks. Like, I thought I

58:54

was being sensible. And instead,

58:56

it's completely blown up. And

58:58

so, yeah, I don't really know. I think, yeah, I

59:01

saddled him with Vaccario too. I

59:04

mean, I haven't any defenders from Spurs.

59:06

What an exercise in misery

59:08

that's been. So, yeah, so

59:10

I think, I don't

59:13

know. So I'll move to McGuire. And

59:15

maybe if I'm feeling really saucy, I'll

59:17

turn Gabrielle into Duarte Al instead and

59:19

take my chances with DeSazzi. I

59:23

mean, the front picks

59:25

itself, right? I mean, Ariola, the reason I

59:28

got him was just because he plays Luton

59:31

at home. And I thought maybe they could

59:33

keep a clean sheet there. I mean, obviously,

59:35

yeah, they looked absolutely disgraceful today, West Ham.

59:37

Like, their supporters, like, I'd be lucky if

59:39

anybody shows up for that match. And

59:41

next weekend. An empty stadium, COVID

59:43

stuff. So,

59:46

and then he like, yeah, I saw our

59:48

friend Tom Campbell was joking about them because

59:51

Moise was like still complaining about not having

59:53

Declan Rice after today's match. And Tom

59:55

was like, it's May 5th. Like, first

59:57

of all, they

1:00:00

sold them this summer, right? And also

1:00:02

they brought in Alvarez who's been decent

1:00:04

enough. I mean, Declan

1:00:07

Rice is, you know, he's

1:00:09

in the in the discussion

1:00:11

for generational midfield talent. You

1:00:17

don't just go buy another Declan Rice. Yeah, it's

1:00:19

also like they had the they had the off-season,

1:00:21

they had the winter break. It's like, now

1:00:24

clearly, you can't just find a Declan Rice out of

1:00:26

the, but like you had a year to short.

1:00:29

I don't know, it was not a great

1:00:31

look to be like, oh, I still can't

1:00:33

figure this out. He's in a situation where

1:00:36

he might still be trying to buy for

1:00:38

a contract extension with West Ham and West

1:00:40

Ham are probably like, buddy,

1:00:43

it's not happening. There's some interesting discussion,

1:00:45

I think, in the commentary today where

1:00:47

they're like, they better announce that West

1:00:51

Ham better announced that Moyes is leaving in

1:00:53

the summer before the next match because he

1:00:55

deserves a proper send off and in their

1:00:57

last home match of the season in

1:00:59

front of the sports. And I fully agree with that. I

1:01:01

mean, he brought them a European trophy and some

1:01:04

decent table placement. So, you know, I

1:01:06

don't want to disrespect the guy. All

1:01:09

right, I need to stop. No,

1:01:11

but he's also had like a nice long run there. It's probably,

1:01:16

all right. I don't want to look at my disgusting

1:01:18

team anymore. So you, why don't you share your team

1:01:20

and I can take a look at it. All right.

1:01:22

I'll throw my team up here on the screen. So

1:01:26

I've got 15 doublers

1:01:29

and my bench boost is also

1:01:31

active. So this feels great to

1:01:33

look at. Now, some of the picks, you

1:01:35

know, have been, are in questionable form. You've

1:01:37

mentioned Baccario a number of times here. Yep.

1:01:41

And make what you will of

1:01:44

Brighton. But Joe Pedro is finally

1:01:46

getting consistent minutes. He

1:01:49

got his goal despite missing the pen. So

1:01:52

generally feeling kind of like, okay, with

1:01:54

those Brighton guys going into a double,

1:01:56

that's fine. My

1:01:58

one, the one. Question mark I

1:02:01

have is actually Charlevo because I think Charlevo

1:02:03

has benefited from some injuries

1:02:05

in the Chilso defense and I think

1:02:07

his minutes in this double probably

1:02:10

my biggest concern and assuming

1:02:12

Bruno is fit

1:02:15

to play both Charlevo

1:02:17

seems like the one player that

1:02:19

I could target for my free transfer. So

1:02:21

I'm looking at could move him to Gusto

1:02:24

I do have point six in the bank to work

1:02:26

with so I could go as high

1:02:28

as like five point one five point two So

1:02:31

I could actually bench boost with

1:02:33

an Arsenal defender Just

1:02:36

to get ahead of game week thirty

1:02:38

eight But

1:02:40

it goes against my principal of what I'm trying to

1:02:42

do here Yeah, I mean at that

1:02:45

point you might as well just wait and

1:02:47

have two transfers for 38, right? Yeah,

1:02:49

that's true That's yeah odds

1:02:51

are like even our son have a chance to communicate

1:02:53

in shape But it's probably still at

1:02:55

best like 40% right like this is

1:02:58

our time game week 37

1:03:00

is our time for people who just

1:03:02

jettisoned the Arsenal defenders and and by

1:03:04

God we deserve it. Okay So,

1:03:10

but I feel like I want to kind of be

1:03:12

a little proactive I mean, do you see any other

1:03:15

players here that you you think need should should be

1:03:17

shoveled out for another? No,

1:03:19

I mean we have a very similar Frontline

1:03:22

I've got Jackson of her Pedro Otherwise,

1:03:25

it's pretty pretty much the same Yeah,

1:03:28

I mean it's like it feels boring to just

1:03:30

move defenders around shuffle them around but I think

1:03:32

I mean you also you kind of Pre-baked

1:03:35

your transfers right with the minus eight that you took

1:03:37

this week. Yeah sort of You

1:03:39

got in all the other kind of people that you'd want.

1:03:41

I mean, yeah, Vicario Petrovic.

1:03:43

I mean you're pretty much I Yeah,

1:03:47

I mean you're right cell about would be the one

1:03:49

it'd be fun to find someone in that range I

1:03:51

mean, it's sort of it's just the question everybody's asking

1:03:53

which is can I find a defender? Right

1:03:55

because you've got three men cities that eliminates them,

1:03:58

right? Can I find a defender? That's one? worth

1:04:00

owning. I mean, you already actually even

1:04:03

have Della, right? And so I guess the

1:04:05

only the only

1:04:07

possible option even though it's kind of boring

1:04:09

would be like a Dan Byrne. Right?

1:04:13

Yeah. And it would be good

1:04:15

coverage, I think. Yeah, that's true.

1:04:17

Because there will be a lot

1:04:19

of people rolling with Dubravka even

1:04:21

on a single game

1:04:23

week. Yeah. And there are a lot of

1:04:26

Dan Byrne owners out there too, right? He's a pretty

1:04:28

highly owned player. Yeah,

1:04:31

I don't hate that move either.

1:04:34

So I like it. I'm

1:04:36

excited to see how Bruno,

1:04:38

how his fitness turns out

1:04:41

and maybe go find

1:04:44

some Chelsea fans out there who have a

1:04:47

better beat on what the defensive rotation might

1:04:49

look like. The Poro thing

1:04:51

is funny, right? We both have Poro. And I

1:04:53

certainly want to think about next season, which is

1:04:55

this thing that

1:04:57

we all do when we set our

1:05:00

teams, when there's like mass wild card

1:05:02

moments. And it's like we

1:05:04

all kind of bring in Poro. And then it's

1:05:06

like we all kind of know that their

1:05:08

defense is terrible, right? It's sort of like it's

1:05:13

a well-known thing. And so it's so hard

1:05:15

to resist these players. Wouldn't we have all

1:05:17

been bad? I mean, of course, in hindsight,

1:05:19

it makes sense. You can

1:05:21

just feel the zero, like a 3.9 million player

1:05:23

doesn't even start and you'd be better off, right?

1:05:26

Because you could spend that money around the rest

1:05:28

of your life. Let the hate slow through you,

1:05:30

Josh. I know. There's a feeling tonight, I am

1:05:32

feeling it. I

1:05:35

think Poro was

1:05:37

still a decent pick. He's got enough

1:05:39

set piece threats and there's always

1:05:41

the chance. You know, we're risk-kicked.

1:05:43

We're gamblers, as you were saying,

1:05:46

Josh. And I think Poro

1:05:48

had enough upside that

1:05:50

it was worth a gamble. Worth it. Yeah,

1:05:53

I mean, I agree. Like it was, it was,

1:05:56

he was a widely picked player for a

1:05:58

reason. And maybe I'm being a little too

1:06:00

high. I just think in general, we

1:06:03

are really not thinking

1:06:05

enough about how few

1:06:07

clean sheets are being kept among most

1:06:09

of the Premier League right now. Arsenal,

1:06:12

Man City, top-notch defenses.

1:06:15

Even Man City can see practically every single match.

1:06:19

But isn't the counter-argument there that

1:06:21

you have to get the defenders

1:06:23

who have attacking potential? And those

1:06:25

are the ones that often have

1:06:28

the premium as far as fantasy.

1:06:30

How much attacking potential do they

1:06:32

have? Poro

1:06:35

hasn't shown much of that at all in

1:06:37

the last 20 weeks of the season. It's

1:06:39

been a lightning in a bottle season. You

1:06:41

look at Andy Robertson, he's got two and

1:06:44

two guardials doing what he's

1:06:46

doing. There was that

1:06:48

stretch where Gabrielle could not stop

1:06:50

scoring. Yeah. Honestly,

1:06:54

Pedro Poro had that stretch as well.

1:06:57

It's just farther away in time. It's

1:07:00

like I want to get back to traditional

1:07:03

principles too. Maybe there's just something to be said for

1:07:05

just like pick

1:07:08

two defenders, one from

1:07:10

Arsenal and Man City, or if

1:07:12

they turn out to be next year,

1:07:14

the two best teams, which I assume they will be.

1:07:17

Am I blurry on your screen as well? I

1:07:20

think your camera is just kind of a little

1:07:22

out of... It will come back into focus. I'll

1:07:24

come back into something. There we go. These

1:07:27

auto-focus cameras can be

1:07:29

maddening sometimes. Okay. Fair

1:07:32

enough. I think that... Where

1:07:34

was I going with this?

1:07:36

Oh, right. Just basically like

1:07:39

two top defenders from

1:07:41

the best defensive teams, whoever they end up being

1:07:43

next year. Again,

1:07:46

we're planting, we're pickling, we're putting

1:07:48

our cucumbers in the jar for

1:07:50

next year. Yeah, so we're keeping

1:07:52

it up. Okay. Yeah,

1:07:54

we're doing the prepping. See, why do you go doomsday? Why

1:07:57

do you go doomsday? It's funny. It's just

1:07:59

funny to me. Yeah, you're like, oh, yeah,

1:08:01

I moved out of New York out of

1:08:03

the blast zone or whatever, you know, I

1:08:05

don't enjoy it You know, I don't enjoy

1:08:07

doomsday talk and maybe they're a father of

1:08:09

a young child or something Yeah, no, but

1:08:11

we're just no we're just we're just going

1:08:13

back to humble humbleness my pickling right sensible

1:08:15

You know use every use every vegetable make

1:08:17

it last, you know So we put the

1:08:19

these are these are these these morsels of

1:08:22

a good FPL play Say

1:08:24

your team by the deadline set that bus team,

1:08:26

right? I'm gonna wait from

1:08:29

that. It's the basic principle. Yeah, it's the basic

1:08:31

principle. We can't be a bus team is a

1:08:34

Yeah, hashtag, you know the trademark always

1:08:36

do we should have trademarked that should

1:08:38

me out, you know, it's really it's

1:08:40

escaped us now You know either jewelry

1:08:42

was talking about bus teams on the

1:08:44

commentary the other day. Are you serious?

1:08:47

No, I'm not serious We

1:08:51

would have really made it if that were

1:08:53

100% but yeah, that's true. All right. Well,

1:08:55

anyway Let's move on to

1:08:57

a couple of quick questions here

1:08:59

Brandon before we close things out She

1:09:02

asked about perfect free hit team for the week No,

1:09:04

I don't want to go through everything here, but I

1:09:06

would say I would try to get

1:09:08

three man city I would try to get I would

1:09:12

probably try to get three. Yeah, it'll probably

1:09:14

about it I would have three man city

1:09:16

and three Newcastle. Okay, and

1:09:18

then from there. I would probably have two

1:09:21

Chelsea and Yeah,

1:09:25

then I think you can kind of mix you can kind of

1:09:27

mix and match a little bit from there I mean, I think

1:09:29

if I'm if I'm gonna free hit I know you

1:09:31

mentioned Gabrielle before but

1:09:34

I would probably Any

1:09:36

single game with her I think I would venture

1:09:38

I think I would still try to field three

1:09:41

eleven double game makers I agree with you totally

1:09:43

because you don't that To

1:09:45

use chip. I don't know. I just

1:09:47

feel like compelled I don't

1:09:49

know if this is too chip theory,

1:09:51

but I want to just maximize the

1:09:53

potential power of that chip Yeah,

1:09:56

and the only real power we have

1:09:58

is minutes that are assets Yeah,

1:10:01

that's the only thing I have

1:10:03

like hoping for those rollover and

1:10:05

hoping for those like massive like

1:10:07

above expectation Right now huge huge

1:10:09

20 20 point, you know

1:10:11

plus returns So

1:10:13

yeah, I think I think that's really where I would look I

1:10:15

think if I were looking at I mean,

1:10:17

yeah, like you made it you made a little bit of a

1:10:19

case for job Pedro I

1:10:22

think I probably honestly would have Nicholas

1:10:24

Jackson though given his form at the

1:10:26

moment. I wouldn't I wouldn't do for

1:10:28

sure Yeah, yeah, so, you

1:10:30

know, and I think I think the forest match in particular I could

1:10:32

see that being like a match

1:10:34

with more than I Could

1:10:37

see four more goals in that match Not as we all from

1:10:39

Chelsea side, but I can just see that being a pretty high

1:10:41

scoring kind of loose Those are two teams that don't well

1:10:44

again. I know I'm like repeating myself from the start

1:10:46

of the pop But I I do think that I

1:10:49

think the forest might feel a little looser in this

1:10:51

match now Like I think they they had their big

1:10:53

they got their big three points, right? And so now

1:10:55

I think they're probably yeah, let me just take a

1:10:57

quick peek at the table while we're talking here Cuz

1:10:59

I am curious Give us

1:11:01

the spread here. Everything stand. Yeah,

1:11:04

so we have And

1:11:06

they're all they've all played 36.

1:11:08

So yeah, so Brentford is now

1:11:10

I think officially fine Yeah,

1:11:13

they're they're well fine. They're ten clear

1:11:15

of Luton who's

1:11:17

in 18th place So

1:11:20

the situation now basically is that Burnley

1:11:22

and Sheffield are are down burn. They're

1:11:24

not literally down but they They

1:11:27

effectively are right there. They would your forest

1:11:29

would have to Get

1:11:31

zero. I mean, I guess it's not over over because forest

1:11:34

Basically in the same situation of Luton town

1:11:37

are Burnley is a

1:11:39

little bit I mean they have they have a couple

1:11:41

more points a couple more points

1:11:43

though, at least right So like Luton

1:11:45

if Luton win their next match and

1:11:49

And for us lose and they're both in

1:11:51

29 going into 38, right? So that's

1:11:53

that's pretty tight Whereas Burnley could win

1:11:55

their next match and then I'll I'll

1:11:58

then they'd be on Um because

1:12:00

their goal difference is so inferior to forest that

1:12:03

even if they won, there's almost no chance unless

1:12:05

they won 20 nil or something like that. So

1:12:08

yeah loot and basically need to win this weekend and

1:12:10

hope that forest loses So i'm

1:12:12

glad I looked at this actually because forests really do

1:12:14

need to try to find a way to win this

1:12:16

match, right? so maybe that makes it a Slightly

1:12:19

more low scoring match right like i'm not

1:12:21

sure that like a wide open match Helps

1:12:24

them right? It's like maybe they just try to one

1:12:27

nil their way to victory if that's

1:12:29

if that's a possibility and uh,

1:12:32

you know if they're able to keep it tight the first

1:12:34

half of the mattress like that, so maybe that makes someone

1:12:36

like palmer slightly less appealing

1:12:38

just because Forest have

1:12:40

an incentive to Honestly, they have a

1:12:43

real incentive just to get a point. How did this

1:12:45

match too? Even just getting a point really helps them

1:12:47

a lot going into um 38 It

1:12:50

does. Yeah, I take that logic. Are

1:12:52

are forests capable of sort of like

1:12:55

managing their style? In

1:12:57

in such a way that i'm less convinced

1:12:59

by but I Strategically

1:13:02

you're correct And let's

1:13:04

see in luton have uh west ham and

1:13:06

phillam. Uh, there are their final two matches

1:13:08

not terrible matches all things considered Pretty

1:13:11

good time to play west ham. Um, and

1:13:13

then um, they host phillam for 38 and

1:13:16

phillam Will

1:13:18

really have absolutely nothing to play for beach boys.

1:13:21

Yeah, exactly. So it could be interesting. I hope

1:13:23

we have a game week 38 I

1:13:26

mean, I you know, we may I you know, it should

1:13:28

come to pass brandon. We have a title Decider

1:13:31

and the relegation decider in the same weekend. I

1:13:33

say yeah, there will be stakes there will definitely

1:13:35

be stakes for sure Yeah, yeah, we need to

1:13:37

also really win that man. You know, it matches

1:13:39

to keep things super super spicy. Yep um,

1:13:42

all right, so, uh Any

1:13:45

other questions? Yeah two last questions once from

1:13:47

lucas he asked about rich harlison for the

1:13:50

double Because I already know brandon's

1:13:52

answers to this one's for josh. So you're

1:13:54

you're well known hatred of rich harlison Uh,

1:13:57

it's I will give him credit. He changed

1:14:00

the game for Spurs when he

1:14:02

came on. I see no world

1:14:04

in which Ange does not start

1:14:06

Richarlison at least against Burnley. I

1:14:09

agree. I think that Richarlison had a could

1:14:12

have had a brace and they could have had two goals and

1:14:14

a brace in today's match which would have been or two

1:14:17

goals and a brace two goals a brace and an assist

1:14:19

in today's match. So is

1:14:22

there in our I think this

1:14:24

only works if you have Richarlison

1:14:26

in place of Sun? Is

1:14:29

that that feels like a good

1:14:31

differential particularly if you're like looking at your mini

1:14:33

league and you need to be slightly different. I

1:14:35

do like that as a move. Yeah

1:14:38

I think that I think you're right. I mean I

1:14:40

certainly wouldn't move Sun to Richarlison. Are there people out

1:14:42

there who don't have Sun? I guess that's the question

1:14:44

right? I mean maybe if someone

1:14:47

didn't have him for or maybe

1:14:50

they dropped him between 35 and 36. Is there

1:14:53

someone out there who's going back to maybe to

1:14:56

get Katie B? You know like it's

1:14:58

a shiv free hit sort of a

1:15:00

question like Richarlison seems like a fun

1:15:03

free hit guy. That is a

1:15:05

great answer. There you go. That's

1:15:07

the scenario where Richarlison makes sense.

1:15:09

Do you say scenario or scenario?

1:15:12

I say it however Buster Ryan

1:15:15

says it in that. What's the

1:15:17

scenario? Yeah so and then Boston

1:15:24

profited a question about left field defender

1:15:26

picks with upside. Yes I

1:15:28

mean I think we kind of got into that already and the answer is

1:15:31

there aren't many. I don't

1:15:34

really trust the the fullbacks

1:15:36

on Newcastle. I think

1:15:38

that that's right because in theory Burn

1:15:43

is not a super exciting player now

1:15:45

that he's playing as a center back.

1:15:47

Yeah he's still like he is

1:15:49

hulking when he just looked

1:15:51

at how much larger

1:15:54

he was than everybody in

1:15:56

that Sheffield United match. It's

1:15:59

intimidating. Lee Vermento is

1:16:01

4 million. And if you think that Trippier

1:16:03

will not be available for the next two

1:16:05

matches, which is very likely, he's

1:16:08

a really decent replacement for- I'm getting

1:16:10

an itch suddenly for Lee Vermento for

1:16:13

my Choluba replacement. Yeah. He

1:16:15

frees up a little extra money too for 38. So,

1:16:18

yeah, I actually think that's a reasonable point.

1:16:20

I think there's an extremely good chance that

1:16:22

he starts. You could maybe see

1:16:24

Trippier certain 38. So if that was a worry,

1:16:28

you know. And

1:16:30

then 38, I think they're way to

1:16:32

Brentford. So, not a bad match really,

1:16:35

honestly. Yeah, right. Yeah, for Newcastle and

1:16:37

38. All right, well that

1:16:39

is the pod. I

1:16:41

know I came in a little spicy, but I was trying to keep

1:16:43

it positive here,

1:16:45

Brandon, as we get

1:16:47

on the stretch here. So thanks

1:16:50

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