GW13 FPL: The Italian Christmas Donkey

Ever wondered how to ace your fantasy football game by employing shrewd tactics and strategies? Well, strap in folks, we're about to delve into a world of discussion and dissection of the Premier League and Fantasy Football. We're your hosts, Dan Adams and Dominic Adams, and today's episode is a whirlwind tour of an upcoming Manchester City and Liverpool match, the potential players to pick for fantasy football, and making well-reasoned captain choices. We've got key insights, playful banter, and a sprinkle of our favorite game of predicting clean sheets. 

We're going to tackle the challenging task of dissecting the Premier League landscape, starting with Burnley vs West Ham, moving to Luton vs Crystal Palace, and ending with Brighton vs Nottingham Forest. We'll navigate through the thorny issue of Bowen's injury, highlight the potential of Sam Johnston for a clean sheet, and even assess the penalty prowess of Carl Palmer. We'll also spotlight the current form of Chelsea and their fast-approaching fixtures, and the potential impact on your fantasy team. 

In our final act, we're going to help you navigate the often tricky world of Fantasy Premier League captain choices. We'll weigh the options of Salah, Haaland, Saka, and Sun, and reveal our top pick. We'll discuss how Matoma's injury could affect Brighton's game against Nottingham Forest, and the potential impact on your fantasy team. And to wrap things up, we'll share the changes we've made to our own fantasy football teams, and how these changes could potentially affect your game. So, ready to up your fantasy football game? Buckle up, and let's dive in!

Transcript

Dan (00:06.798)
Hello and welcome to Red Blue, I'm Dan Adams.

Diaz nuts (00:10.056)
I'm Dominic Adams.

Andy (00:12.038)
I am not Dominic Odom.

Dan (00:14.314)
Andy Adams on the treadmill. Another international week has gone by with most teams looking pretty dismal this time round. And we got a lovely suite of injuries to boot. Wonderful news for everyone. But on the flip side, the Premier League is back this weekend with some cracking matches. The first one actually is probably the best match of the weekend. We're going to look at the players you need to get. We'll attempt some team surgery for those injuries.

Andy (00:15.687)
I am.

Dan (00:38.734)
and then we'll look at how the leagues are going into Game Week 13. So let's just get straight into it then. The first game of the weekend, Saturday 12.30 is Man City, Liverpool.

T.C. That is correct, Dom. It is a game. There will be 11 players on each side. It's a game of football.

Diaz nuts (00:50.882)
That's a game.

Diaz nuts (00:58.222)
but there'll be no robots, so it's gonna... There will not be a robot, he's currently yellow.

Dan (01:00.056)
They will.

Oh. No. The most recent news is, he was a precautionary measure, and he should be okay for the weekend.

Andy (01:11.221)
Of course he's gonna play. Calm down.

Dan (01:14.464)
So.

Diaz nuts (01:14.53)
then that fixes one of my problems.

Andy (01:16.789)
Yeah, I'm playing him and I'm captaining him because they are going to battle Liverpool.

Dan (01:17.294)
Well, there you go.

Dan (01:22.158)
According to the Fantasy Football Hub, apparently Van Dyke will have him in his pocket. It'll be all over him. I don't know how he's going to fit him in there, he's quite large. But, I guess...

Diaz nuts (01:30.356)
Probably.

Diaz nuts (01:35.214)
I mean, Van Dyck's been non-form for the past never, and only had one good season, so there's that.

Dan (01:40.467)
and got slower in fact but yes anyway. In terms of players though so everyone will likely have a couple of city assets we're there for saying play all of your city assets even though it's against Liverpool

Diaz nuts (01:56.171)
It's a hat though, so.

Andy (01:58.109)
Why are we saying that every week? We shouldn't have to say that every week. Like if you have city players in your team, why are you not playing them?

Dan (02:04.362)
I wouldn't say every week, but there are one or two, like Arsenal and Liverpool, for example, would be teams where you'd be wondering is it better to put any of them on the bench, defenders for example, if you have gradioles or anyone like that.

Andy (02:17.713)
You play your city players every week because they're about a million times better than almost every other team in the league.

Dan (02:24.546)
Tom.

Diaz nuts (02:24.718)
I'm too busy starting McTominay to play an EMSI at players now. And Maguire... I still got fucking Maguire. Tell you what, you say that but the past two game weeks he's had six points and seven points. He's just not a screamer.

Dan (02:28.418)
You still have Maguire by the way. You do.

Dan (02:37.506)
Blinder. What about on the flip side then? So we're definitely starting to set you players. What if you have the most sellers of the world or one of the 10 dozen random attackers that they also have? Are you playing those?

Diaz nuts (02:52.398)
I think if you spend 12 million on Mo Salah, you're gonna play Mo Salah every week. It's the kind of the Halland trap as well.

Andy (03:00.529)
you spend over 8 million on any player you shouldn't even think about whether or not you're starting them.

Dan (03:06.234)
Another Andy Harden fast rule, like if they play poorly for two game weeks in a row then you do get dropped.

Diaz nuts (03:11.226)
there are exceptions.

Andy (03:11.261)
Who you gonna drop? Who you dropping that you paid 8 million for?

Diaz nuts (03:15.655)
I'm not playing Jerob Bowen just because supposedly he has lots of fluid in his knee.

Andy (03:20.377)
He always looks like that. That's just how he is. How can they tell?

Dan (03:21.79)
He does. He's got a lot of fluid everywhere. He's just fat though, it's okay.

Diaz nuts (03:23.029)
He's just big boned.

Andy (03:28.789)
God.

Diaz nuts (03:30.618)
Court is adjourned.

Dan (03:30.734)
Uh, okay, I mean, I get where you're coming from in terms of the, you've arbitrarily picked 8 million, okay, but I do get where you're coming from on that one. If you pay that money, you should be playing those players. I would argue there are probably some very niche situations where you wouldn't. Sun maybe or Fernandez if they're playing against a city, for example. They're not going to do it.

Andy (03:51.269)
Nah, you still play them. Because your bench players are always going to be worse. Most of the time, yeah. If you've got Hyeong-min's son and you've got a bench player that's better than him that you're not playing, then you probably have problems. But I would...

Dan (03:55.264)
Are they though?

Dan (04:02.163)
situationally better than him. If human-son is playing against man-city and your bench player is playing against Luton for example, is that not worth of a conversation?

Andy (04:11.079)
I still place on. I'm placed on every week and I do right now.

Dan (04:16.471)
Alright.

Diaz nuts (04:16.515)
How's it going for you?

Andy (04:18.394)
I mean, some weeks good, some weeks bad.

Dan (04:22.017)
I mean not great god damn it, but you know I'm doing anyway

Andy (04:24.233)
To be fair, if your argument is like situationally playing Vardy all for a clean sheet, how's that working out through this season?

Dan (04:31.31)
I'm not at all. Yeah, I thought I haven't.

Diaz nuts (04:31.354)
That's cheap enough to pick Vario because I know he doesn't start every week.

Andy (04:34.285)
Okay, if you're situationally picking a Liverpool or a city defender for clean sheets against the Lutons of the world, how's that going?

Dan (04:41.398)
It didn't go great with Simucast because they didn't play in one of the fucking games. That was a little annoying, but otherwise pretty good.

Andy (04:47.449)
I don't think City aren't even in the top five for clean sheets this season are they?

Diaz nuts (04:51.118)
Nope, not exactly.

Dan (04:53.132)
They always have that dodgy random goal in them don't they?

Andy (04:56.037)
Yeah, I really think picking clean sheets this year has been the hardest it's ever been. Even the good teams can see it now, like even when City and Liverpool win, they don't win convincingly from a defensive perspective. They're always letting one or two win.

Dan (05:00.104)
Mm.

Dan (05:08.994)
So at the end of the list of games, we'll play our favourite game of who can predict the clean sheets for this week and we'll see where we got to. So effectively, if you have city players, play them. If you have the pool players, play them because you've paid the price for them.

Andy (05:15.646)
Be rough.

Dan (05:24.77)
How do you think that match is gonna go though?

Andy (05:24.957)
Mm-hmm.

Diaz nuts (05:25.059)
Yes.

Andy (05:28.029)
I think Citi are gonna win. Especially if Holland starts, I think Citi are gonna win.

Dan (05:29.922)
batter them.

Diaz nuts (05:34.006)
I don't think it'll be a battering. I think it'll be a controversial game. Liverpool will get at least a goal.

Dan (05:44.302)
Mm.

Diaz nuts (05:45.514)
but see you'll probably win, yeah.

Andy (05:47.689)
Probably another little port ending off.

Dan (05:48.054)
many, I'll say how many VaR incidents do you think there'll be?

Diaz nuts (05:52.098)
Oh, fucking what? And then how many times a clock will get, I think at least one manager will get booked.

Andy (05:58.965)
I don't know his pep back from his suspensions. Yeah, like he might be hard for him if he's still on the stands.

Dan (05:59.278)
for it.

Dan (06:05.406)
would be a funny bet to take like I wonder if they've got that in Padi Parra to check later can you get cards for the managers that'd be good all right next match then is Burnley versus West Ham obviously you don't have any Burnley players West Ham are away and Bowen has a fat knee so like so

Diaz nuts (06:22.495)
attached to his fat body.

Andy (06:24.809)
Yeah, I mean, just as me though, we're not discriminating. Yeah, we're not shaming. Just the me. Yeah.

Dan (06:28.062)
not shaming, we're not shaming, no body shame, just a knee, just a fat knee. Any other West Ham players that you would consider?

Andy (06:40.073)
Didn't JWP do stuff this week? Well, last week. Yeah. I still wouldn't have him, but, because he's only done 11 points in like the last god knows how many game weeks.

Dan (06:42.27)
He certainly did. 11 points last week. Beautiful.

Diaz nuts (06:42.394)
You had an assist last week.

Dan (06:51.943)
Last time we did something good was game week 7. But hey-ho. Little bit.

Andy (06:54.837)
That's a little bit of a drought. But he is cheap. No, I would never need that players except for... Oh, Kudus. He was the other one we were talking about. I might think about Kudus. But I don't know. Was their fixtures, is their fixtures even good after this week?

Dan (07:03.086)
Mm-hmm.

Diaz nuts (07:09.316)
I think they are.

Dan (07:10.502)
Very good. They have Burnley, they have Crystal Palace and they have Spurs.

Andy (07:15.486)
Don't like spurs, but Bonely and Paulus are like...

Dan (07:19.64)
Weirdly enough the fixture difficulty rating has spurs down as a neutral, not a red.

Andy (07:24.229)
Are they high? Aren't spurs like one loss all season?

Dan (07:27.358)
Hey, I've... Well that explains it. Yeah, yeah, shit the bed. They imploded, didn't they?

Diaz nuts (07:27.386)
They're away. I suppose I've lost the past two games.

Andy (07:32.041)
Have it.

Diaz nuts (07:36.342)
They thoroughly shit the bed, pooped everywhere.

Andy (07:37.741)
Oh, the Chelsea game, yeah, the weird Chelsea game. Yeah, yeah, forgot about that one. It's been a while, Cupid International break ruined it.

Dan (07:39.146)
Yeah, a weird Chelsea game.

So.

Diaz nuts (07:45.687)
They lost a spurt, they lost a waltz last week 2-1.

And then they lost Chelsea. So, yeah.

Dan (07:55.182)
That's all kinds of fucked.

Diaz nuts (07:56.346)
Bad spurs, bad sun.

Andy (07:57.298)
I don't make rules.

Dan (07:58.838)
That's why it's a grey. So, West Ham.

You've no one to really pick from. Bowen is injured or looking to be more severely injured than originally thought and the rest of the players aren't worth looking at unless you're like me and you're stuck with JWP as a not a serious issue, but an issue.

Diaz nuts (08:07.834)
slightly.

Andy (08:19.669)
I still think that Kudos could be a good pick this season. I don't know if I would bring him in yet because it's like up and down a little bit with him, but he's done decent, hasn't he?

Dan (08:30.462)
No, he's like JWP mate, he's had one good fixture in the past four.

Andy (08:34.601)
But he's only played like four or five all season, I think, from the start.

Dan (08:38.69)
minutes played he's only played 90 minutes in the past three games and he's gone one 11 one against everton and forest were the ones

Andy (08:46.725)
I mean, he's playing, but he is playing sort of like number 10, I think, for them.

Dan (08:51.702)
Go for it. I don't know why you keep coming back to Kudos. Right, Looting vs Crystal Palace is the next game. Dom as our resident Crystal Palace expert, do you want to tell us about how we should be picking players in this match?

Andy (08:52.497)
I'm not going to pick him. I don't even know if we're spending this much time on West Ham. Like, cause I think he's good.

Diaz nuts (09:09.495)
You should be keeping your Sam Johnston, who will get a clean sheet.

Andy (09:15.277)
I'm tempted to play the mollusk this week.

Dan (09:17.506)
Oh, unleashed the mollusk.

Diaz nuts (09:19.706)
I think Edward or Abrichie as they could be good picks.

Andy (09:24.921)
I don't know this. I'd like schizophrenic as a team. How do you know what one's gonna show?

Dan (09:25.25)
Good enough that.

Diaz nuts (09:28.814)
They got Luton, Wetspam, and Bournemouth as the next three games.

Andy (09:33.333)
What did they do last week?

Diaz nuts (09:35.31)
They drew with Everton.

Andy (09:37.005)
Oof, that's rough.

Diaz nuts (09:38.778)
I think they've, no, they lost to Everton in 3-2.

Andy (09:40.774)
Yeah, they lost to Davidson.

Dan (09:41.802)
That was a buoyant pre-10 point deduction Everton. They're gonna be really sad now. Yep. They're like, whoa, whoa. Winning a football match, 10 points off. How dare you?

Andy (09:44.913)
Yeah, everyone still thought they were good then. Now the world kicked them in the nuts.

Diaz nuts (09:53.947)
Yeah, the worst thing comes that they're under getting sued by Leeds and Leicester and all these other people who we owe money to. And if we go default, then we lose nine more points.

Andy (10:06.445)
Okay, actually, you know, looking at Everton over the last, sorry, looking at Palace over the last point, you shouldn't have any Palace players. Lost, lost, win, loss.

Dan (10:14.314)
Yeah. Okay. The next exciting match of the weekend is Newcastle versus Chelsea. Obviously Chelsea in a weird up and down roller coaster place at the moment. Newcastle getting better from a rough start.

Andy (10:34.005)
Chelsea fixtures, because I seriously am team Chelsea, as I said before the last pod.

Diaz nuts (10:37.914)
What are you doing being Team Chelsea?

Andy (10:40.913)
I don't know, Lil Raheem, last five games, 16-2-2-5-6. For 6.9 million, that's not bad.

Dan (10:46.739)
Mm-hmm.

Not bad.

Andy (10:51.349)
It's not bad. Oh, now he's thinking, aren't you shit face? You're like, oh, he's bad now. Now you're thinking. And you know what? Look at his games. Have you seen his fixtures coming up? He's got, so he has a bit of a rough one this week, right? Newcastle away, so he wouldn't do it this week. But then Brighton United, Everton Sheffield United, Wolves, Palace, Luton, Fulham, and then Liverpool. So you've got basically, you'll game week 21 of good fixtures.

Dan (10:55.114)
What about... What about Palmer? What about Karl- Karl Palmer?

Diaz nuts (10:55.507)
No, no.

Dan (11:17.686)
If it feels like it's a post, like a Gameweek 16 seems to be the way you jump on, like post United or even Gameweek 15, maybe I'm being too keen.

Andy (11:27.504)
I would take home Brighton these days. Probably, yeah.

Dan (11:30.614)
Really?

Dan (11:34.19)
I don't know.

Andy (11:35.083)
I might do that. I might bring in Raheem for the Brighton game next week. I'm not going to bring him in this week, but I might bring him in next week.

Dan (11:41.114)
What about our favorite superstar ex Man City player, Carl Palmer? Would you not bring him in? To be fair to me, he was fucking ice cool in that penalty against City. It was really impressive. Yeah.

Andy (11:47.585)
Carl Palma. Carl Palma, king of penalties.

Andy (11:57.913)
I really wanted him to score that as well. Just to like in your face pep and he did as well.

Dan (12:02.454)
He did, just nailed it and then he just walked away with his little... Like what you gotta do? Ahahahah

Andy (12:05.405)
You know what he should have done? He should have done the shushen him to pass that one from the best one.

Dan (12:12.502)
I've got a lot of time for our good friend Carl Paulman. But enough to bring him into your team at a cut price of 5.2 million.

Andy (12:15.044)
I love Karl Palmer now.

Andy (12:24.249)
Maybe, but I would probably go, if I was gonna pick any of their players right now, it would probably, Nicholas Jackson's like creeping back into my thinking right now. And I would go in my, me picking Chelsea players, Sterling Palmer Jackson, De Sasse. De Sasse is a sneaky one too, like they are actually pretty good defensively when I had him before.

Dan (12:33.25)
Hmm, I'm not sure.

Dan (12:42.178)
Yeah.

Dan (12:48.446)
I would put sterling and palmer at the same level. I'm just not sure with Nick Jackson after watching him play. He's a bit of a tap in merchant. You know, he couldn't even figure out the fucking offside trap until someone did it like six times exactly unlocks his potential over sudden when the

Andy (12:51.697)
Thanks for watching!

Andy (13:00.441)
All we need is the other team to get three players sent off and then he's golden. And then still play like defense on the halfway line. And then he's fine.

Dan (13:10.494)
I just, I wasn't super impressed. Um, and then you.

Andy (13:14.117)
Yeah, I like their defence. For that six game run, their defence is a sneaky good pick, I think.

Dan (13:19.318)
What about on the other side with the black and whites? What are you doing for Newcastle?

Andy (13:23.485)
I'd have trippier, that's about it right now.

Diaz nuts (13:26.206)
Yeah, you gotta have your man, Anthony Gordon, come on. He's starting up front.

Andy (13:29.393)
What did he do last week? Did he do anything last week when he started at number nine? Oh, that would have been subtle, wouldn't it? Yeah. I'm not, I think.

Dan (13:29.677)
began.

Diaz nuts (13:34.306)
Not yet.

Dan (13:37.418)
Anthony Gordon 56 points so far. He's gone 27280512.

Diaz nuts (13:44.026)
he didn't start the zero game so he went 2 7 2 8 5 12

Andy (13:49.201)
Yeah, but the 2-7-2 is the more concerning part, and I think he only plays well when he has the other good players in the team, which he doesn't have right now, so everyone just marks him.

Dan (13:57.606)
Yeah, and then he gets all upset. You've got Chelsea, then they've got United, then they've got Everton though, so it's a decent couple of games. Wants to get past this one. I think United game's a good one, Andy, let's be honest.

Andy (14:04.826)
Yeah, I think the Everton game's a good one.

Andy (14:09.926)
You're talking about your backside, you know you're like in the top three for clean sheets.

Diaz nuts (14:14.906)
If that's the case, then why are you getting the Chelsea guys before United?

Dan (14:19.105)
Yeah.

Andy (14:19.137)
I have the United guy right now, I have the lot in my team.

Diaz nuts (14:21.502)
No, I mean like you said to get Chelsea, but Chelsea have United after Brighton.

Andy (14:26.354)
I want Chelsea's players, well, attacking players we were talking about then, which I still kind of want. I would take the United game to get the Brighton home game, because I think they will beat Brighton at home, Chelsea. I'll live through it. They might beat United as well, to be honest away.

Dan (14:41.366)
We are just bullies, Andy. I'm looking at it now. We beat Forest, lost to Brighton in Arsenal, beat Burnley, lost to Crystal Palace, beat Brentford and Sheffield, then lost to Man City, and then beat Fulham and Luton. We can beat shitty teams. Like, you know, the bottom 10 L League. We don't seem to be able to do very well against the top 10 L League.

Andy (15:00.014)
I mean they do have a fairly significant injury crisis to be fat to United right now. Like half the team's out.

Diaz nuts (15:05.986)
I don't know if it's any more serious than any of the other teams out there. I mean, look at Newcastle.

Andy (15:09.257)
They've got no left backs the whole season. Like, get Miro out the whole season. Oh, Newcastle had it for like two or three weeks. They can cry me a river.

Diaz nuts (15:13.678)
Look at fucking Newcastle. Isaac's injured, Wilson's injured.

Diaz nuts (15:21.294)
Burn, Botman, both dead.

Andy (15:25.213)
And they have about 9 million censorbacks as well.

Dan (15:25.262)
to do it.

Dan (15:29.102)
Did you read the article where they said that because of the Winter World Cup there's been 15% more injuries?

Andy (15:34.365)
Doesn't surprise me, it was a terrible idea.

Diaz nuts (15:37.338)
I don't know if you could correlate those two things.

Andy (15:39.633)
I think they make them play way too many games these days. I think they should probably just get rid of the League Cup to be honest.

Dan (15:41.943)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (15:44.782)
Mm-hmm. I just involved the Premier League teams very late on in the stage.

Andy (15:50.117)
Or just have it just be the reserve teams for the Premier League teams in the League Cup or something. Like I think it's just they are making them play like way too many games.

Dan (15:57.266)
Yeah. So Newcastle assets though, getting back on fantasy track. Who are you taking from Newcastle? Because you spoke about Chelsea. That's it.

Andy (16:05.301)
Trippie.

Diaz nuts (16:06.586)
I've got Tripp here and I've got Anthony Gordon.

Andy (16:08.985)
I probably wouldn't play Trippier this week though, to be honest.

Diaz nuts (16:12.679)
Mmm... come on.

Dan (16:13.43)
How much you paid for him Andy? If you paid that money from him, why you not playing him?

Andy (16:16.366)
I haven't paid money for him so I wouldn't play him.

Diaz nuts (16:16.374)
I paid... I paid 6.7 million for them of course and fucking played them.

Andy (16:21.461)
I don't have them so I don't have to worry about it.

Dan (16:22.334)
That's not dumb, that doesn't meet the arbitrary 8 million mark. You don't have to.

Andy (16:25.533)
Yeah, 6.7, though. He's... No, I actually don't think there is a defender that may... Uh, don't... Trent might... No, he's... What is he? 6.9 or something?

Diaz nuts (16:26.344)
It's choice.

Dan (16:34.638)
So I haven't said that.

Diaz nuts (16:34.71)
No, he was originally 8 million. He kind of lost 1.1 million already.

Andy (16:39.441)
What is the Alexander on? Where are we? Is the on page one still even in? 7.9.

Dan (16:42.466)
7.9. So equally, if you have Trent, you don't have to play him. He doesn't hit the 8.0 million mock.

Andy (16:48.945)
You know what? Trent is not on the front page for points though.

Dan (16:52.734)
No it's not. Not a whole lot of Liverpool defenders are to be fair.

Andy (16:58.525)
zero, the four that I'm looking at right now on the transfer page. Allison is the goalkeeper at showing me for some reason.

Dan (17:06.486)
56 points in the week to be fair.

Andy (17:07.925)
I tell you what, Alison's done pretty well the last four weeks. 8, 7, 6, 7. Even got six points in a draw.

Dan (17:14.786)
six more points than Sam Johnson. There you go.

Diaz nuts (17:17.675)
He's got to make a lot of saves because Liverpool's defense are fucking terrible.

Andy (17:21.457)
A trench, a trench!

Dan (17:23.587)
You done it again, you bastard.

Just looking down at you. Yeah, Alexander-Arnold doesn't come in until after de Sassi and Pau Torres and Pinnock and that. He's got 38 points in the season so far.

Andy (17:28.204)
Uh...

Andy (17:36.957)
Yeah, not good. Because he's like, I don't know what he does. He sort of tosses around in between the defense and the midfield and sometimes goes up to make crosses. Definitely doesn't.

Dan (17:43.938)
But he's not even doing that anymore. Like last season he was hammering them in all the time. Just not seeing him do it this season.

Andy (17:50.181)
I think they're playing like a much more midfield centric game anyway. We probably have to like not talk more about Liverpool right now because it's going to be awful talking about them in a bit.

Dan (17:58.366)
We've already spoke about them. It's okay, Andy, don't panic. We've been there, done that. That was the first game of the weekend. We did talk about Salah. I said to you... You said to me, you got him your style.

Andy (18:03.561)
Why didn't we talk about Sala then? Are we talking about, what? Did we talk about, did we talk about, no, no. Did we talk about who's Kaffirn Sala versus Holland in that game? We probably should have. Because that is like the thing this week.

Diaz nuts (18:07.023)
If you've got them, you start.

Diaz nuts (18:17.85)
I think the cap is a very big conversation because if Bowen had been healthy I probably would have capped Bowen ahead of both of them.

Andy (18:24.273)
You young men got this week, who does the sun mice they have this week?

Diaz nuts (18:27.842)
This bear's gonna lose against this week.

Dan (18:28.086)
Tottenham. They're playing Aston Villa.

Andy (18:31.661)
Ooh, home villa for some. Hmm. Interesting.

Dan (18:33.25)
playing the villains.

Diaz nuts (18:38.506)
I'd start my fucking cap my Watkins over sun and that.

Andy (18:43.161)
I'm probably going to cap Salah to be honest. Because I'm a little bit worried about Harland being yellow flagged that they might take him off at half time.

Dan (18:45.389)
Yeah.

Dan (18:49.962)
He'll get limited minutes, especially if they start winning as well. Whereas Syla has to play. He's the only, he's the central cog of the Liverpool machine.

Andy (18:55.985)
Yeah, ever. It's kind of lame though, because everyone's going to cap salad this week.

Dan (19:01.058)
cap out then. Be different Andy.

Andy (19:02.973)
Well, you can't because he's injured. You don't want to cap like the injured players done. That's why we probably should have talked about this when we were talking about that game.

Dan (19:05.687)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (19:09.629)
Don't you have slacker?

Andy (19:11.591)
I do have soccer.

Diaz nuts (19:12.986)
Capsacker against Brentford then.

Andy (19:14.717)
away though. I don't like Captain Players in away games unless it's Holland.

Diaz nuts (19:19.682)
Says the salad man who's about to go like, I'm gonna cap Liverpool salad away.

Andy (19:23.413)
Well, I don't have a choice, do I? He's the second most expensive player on my team.

Dan (19:28.042)
and he's definitely over 8 million. So.

Andy (19:30.141)
Definitely over 8 million. Those are my choices. I've got the choices. Exactly, I have too many choices of Sun, Saka, Sala, and Harland. I can pick any of them.

Diaz nuts (19:31.342)
So sad.

Dan (19:40.802)
I dunno, I was drawn for some bizarre reason towards the idea of capping fucking areola against burnley.

Andy (19:47.401)
Do it.

Diaz nuts (19:49.454)
Ballsy. Stupid but ballsy.

Andy (19:50.954)
Stupid.

Dan (19:52.106)
Yeah, but you're right, there's not enough clean sheets. Even Burnley have a chance of scoring these days.

Andy (19:57.373)
That's another one though, areola against Burnley or Sanchez at New Castle with no, no Wilson, no Wilson, no Isaac.

Dan (20:02.29)
How is that another one?

Diaz nuts (20:05.826)
They've got Auntie Gordon, he's waiting, he's hungry.

Andy (20:08.138)
All we've got is Anthony Goode.

Dan (20:09.99)
I got it. Gordon, is Gimara still injured?

Diaz nuts (20:12.738)
No, he's healthy.

Andy (20:14.505)
But he doesn't play up front, does he?

Dan (20:14.679)
That's it.

Diaz nuts (20:16.834)
And Joe Linton's there, and that's about it. That's, that's undone.

Dan (20:20.571)
What about the man, the myth, the legend that is Miguel Amoron? Is he available? Awwww. Well, they're definitely fucked.

Diaz nuts (20:23.562)
Mickey's flagged, Longstaff's flagged, Jacob Murphy's flagged.

Andy (20:24.957)
Maybe Sprague did. That's what I'm saying, like that team is like depleted right now.

Dan (20:30.555)
Definitely fucked then. It's ruined.

Diaz nuts (20:31.958)
Yeah. They need to sign Ruben Nevers from their Saudi friends and Ronaldo as well from their Saudi friends.

Andy (20:32.701)
Mike GoSantos.

Andy (20:39.378)
Yeah, you're allowed to now.

Dan (20:40.59)
Mm-hmm.

Andy (20:42.833)
You can do whatever you want now because they all voted against like being able to just do deals with yourself.

Dan (20:48.51)
Strangely. Okay, Nottingham Forest versus Brighton is the next match. I guess the question there is around Matilma, who is flagged as well by the way for a knock.

Andy (21:00.219)
of a major's ago because he's been shit all season.

Diaz nuts (21:02.414)
The questions are on fucking hour and a knee. That bastard's knocked as well. I picked him up this week and he got knocked.

Andy (21:08.117)
I think the question is, do you want any Brighton players anymore?

Dan (21:11.502)
No, I don't think you do. It's weird because we went from the triple brighten down to the zero brighten very quickly.

Diaz nuts (21:11.811)
No.

Andy (21:18.325)
Brighton off the boil, no longer the meta, having tons of Brighton players.

Dan (21:23.094)
No, no way near it. And Dom, you're saying I won you 6.4 million 42 points in the week. He got six against West Ham and he's only groin injury 75% chance of playing. So he still might come on.

Diaz nuts (21:35.194)
It's only his dick that's injured, so it's fine, you know. 75%.

Dan (21:37.736)
He's just bossed his dick. He's just bossed his dick. It's all good.

Andy (21:42.973)
Has he got water on it as well?

Dan (21:45.522)
Has he got a fat dick? I don't know. I don't know Andy. I don't know. I'm not a doctor, okay? I'm not a doctor, I don't know. Right. Brighton side of things, none of their players, they are no longer the meta. Forrest side of things, I won Yi. If he plays, is a decent shout especially against a now off the board Brighton as Andy said.

Diaz nuts (21:46.608)
Fluid, it's got fluid in the penis. No, dude.

Andy (21:54.705)
I'll get monetized this week.

Dan (22:11.806)
Next match is Sheffield United versus Bournemouth. Do you want to shout your usual shout for Bournemouth, Andy? I'll just let you have the opportunity.

Andy (22:17.15)
is good. Till next time, keep good.

Andy (22:22.033)
Everyone talks shit and I call him every week and he just keeps delivering these number fours out of the strike kids right now.

Diaz nuts (22:27.706)
Question is Andy, why did you not fucking buy him then?

Dan (22:27.746)
Why is it not in your team? Yeah, why is it not in your team?

Andy (22:30.993)
I really want him, but he's 6.4 and I would have to like do a double transfer to get him.

Dan (22:37.29)
he would make a nice replacement to Alvarez.

Andy (22:37.445)
I really want him to look. He's better than Darwin. He's better than Eddie and Katya. The only ones who you should have ahead of him is like Harland, Watkins, and Alvarez, points wise. Like literally only those three are better than him this season. And Alvarez is only ten points better.

Dan (22:51.99)
But what I was just saying there with Alvarez, he's gone off the boil. He's gone 5-2-2-9. So.

Diaz nuts (22:52.185)
Hmm.

Diaz nuts (22:58.358)
I sold Alvarez.

Andy (22:58.601)
I think the other thing with Salanki, right? Like he's doing you 56 points for 6.4 million. It's not bad.

Dan (23:05.486)
Mm-hmm. On a shite team as well, so he's doing it all by himself.

Diaz nuts (23:07.106)
That's good.

Andy (23:09.733)
And you know if there's going to be a goal for Bournemouth, it's going to be Solanke or Tavernier.

Diaz nuts (23:14.19)
Fucking hell.

Dan (23:14.43)
of, uh, won't be filled the bill though.

Andy (23:18.169)
I really want to like, yeah, I wish there was a way I could get them in.

Dan (23:21.454)
So here's Andy, you hit the transfer button and you sell your...

Andy (23:23.413)
I can't because I don't think it's possible without getting rid of a player that I actually like, unfortunately.

Dan (23:30.506)
I'm sure Dom next along can be really sad to hear that Andy that he is fourth choice in your eyes

Andy (23:35.265)
I need, if I just do Salanki for Morris, I have to find, oh actually I could get him. If I get rid of, oh I could get him. Oh shit.

Dan (23:40.622)
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Diaz nuts (23:40.867)
Oh

Andy (23:47.665)
No, I don't know. I'm not going to take a hit for Dominic Solanke. Is he playing in the street? Who are they playing for? At home. Home or away. Ah, meh. Ah, it's okay. He is good though. I mean, he got 13 points against Newcastle. Two goals.

Dan (23:52.024)
Sheffield United? Sheffield United? Oh wait, oh wait.

For Worst

Dan (24:03.438)
Well, it's like you said though, if anyone is scoring it is just him effectively. He's a one man team.

Andy (24:06.921)
And their fixtures, oh man, maybe I will. Sheffield United, Villa, Palace, United, Luton, Forest, Fulham. Oh, and like several, they've got six out of their next eight fixtures are green.

Dan (24:20.978)
Yeah, I think that's a next week move for me. It might be, depending on how Alvarez does, it might be a next week move for me.

Andy (24:24.015)
Cool.

Time for Dominic the Donkey.

Dan (24:29.394)
Okay, Sheffield United we're going to ignore, you don't need players from there. Moving on to the last match of Saturday, you've got Brentford versus Arsenal. So Brentford wise first, whoa, Arsenal, you got the Arsenal classic. But before we move on to the Arsenal of the Borosno, let's talk about Brentford first, and Buemo and Wisser.

Andy (24:40.061)
for watching.

Andy (24:45.682)
I'm out.

Diaz nuts (24:54.215)
Fucking those clowns again

Andy (24:55.553)
every week you would fucking well know every week when Tony back

Dan (24:56.702)
what? I'm just saying, I'm just saying, did he not do stuff? He did stuff.

Diaz nuts (25:02.198)
No he didn't. They fucking lost 3-0 to Liverpool.

Dan (25:05.846)
Oh, he's been doing stuff, I guess, is the more appropriate term.

Andy (25:07.357)
Not recently, but ever. He's been doing stuff.

Diaz nuts (25:07.36)
Ah, okay.

Dan (25:12.027)
He has, he's gone 2, 5, 13, 14.

Andy (25:15.421)
with the two and the five are a little bit, because you do everything backwards. Like those are the two most recent games.

Dan (25:20.27)
They are, yes. But against Liverpool, two points isn't unexpected. So really, against West Ham, Chelsea and Burnley, he went 5-13-14, respectfully.

Andy (25:32.105)
Get him then? 6.8 million for Ibuemo. Pfft. I'd rather have Phil food.

Dan (25:38.179)
And Boi Mo has got 74 points in the season, whereas Fuldinio has 55.

Andy (25:43.866)
Yeah, I'd still rather have full food.

Dan (25:47.146)
We'd rather have 20 points less.

Andy (25:49.777)
I mean, going forward, I would rather have Phil Foden here.

Dan (25:54.01)
I think I'm going to make a bold statement here, Andy. I think by the end of the season, Boyman's going to have more points than Foden.

Andy (26:00.417)
No, come on now. Come on.

Dan (26:03.116)
And Buemo is the only person that does stuff on that team effectively, whereas Foden can and will be rotated, is the problem.

Andy (26:10.23)
You gotta calm yourself down. You're getting over your skis on this one.

Dan (26:15.071)
leaning too far forward. Look, I'll put it out there, I'm saying it. Okay, £10 to the charity of your choice that Embrayman's going to end up with more points than Foden. I think I'm going to pick some kind of donkey charity for your Dominic Solanke, that would be good. Otherwise moving on to the other team, Arsenal. So who do you have from Arsenal at the moment,

Andy (26:16.965)
Way too far forward on this one.

All right, I'll bet you 10 pounds that Bowden has more points than Bueno. Yeah.

Andy (26:40.434)
uh, soccer and saliva.

Dan (26:44.546)
Dom.

Diaz nuts (26:46.178)
So, Leber and Martinelli.

Dan (26:49.454)
So, Celebra is the common thread, except I have Gabriel and Celebra. So, what we're saying is, if you have Celebra, you're doing well. Otherwise, it's a bit of a free-for-all because it's hard to pick who you probably should be taking for the rest of the arsenal slots.

Diaz nuts (27:04.826)
You shouldn't be taking him out now, because he's done fuck all for me so far, but he's cheap enough to get in and he plays minutes. I just hope he turns in and does what he did last season for some reason.

Dan (27:08.91)
Thanks for watching!

Dan (27:17.666)
I mean, looking at the points for the season, Saka is the choice at 71 points versus the next nearest Odegaard, 48. Up front, you've obviously got Eddy with 50 points, but at 5.7...

I don't know. I just don't like the idea of picking Eddie and Cathy, I don't know what it is. Even though he's doing bits. Well, he's been doing bits, but it just feels weird putting Eddie and Cathy in your team.

Diaz nuts (27:36.782)
because he's wank.

Diaz nuts (27:43.93)
Well, especially when Gabby Jesus is healthy again.

Dan (27:48.754)
Yeah, I'm interested to see if he starts actually.

Diaz nuts (27:51.934)
Mr. Jesus is back at 7.8 million.

Dan (27:57.838)
Oh, Ry has been red flagged. So I mean, Ramsell is going to get a game.

Andy (28:01.301)
Are you asked to if that's the only other goalkeepers have got that?

Dan (28:03.81)
Oh it's not an injury it's a parent club. Ah he's gonna play in Bramford. Boring. Ramsdale could almost have a reason to smile. Did you see his dad was saying he's lost his smile now because he's not playing in goals anymore. It's sad, it's pretty sad stuff. It's a bit of a weird thing they put out in the news but you know never mind.

Diaz nuts (28:07.566)
because I play in Brentford.

Andy (28:07.911)
Ah.

Andy (28:11.125)
So we'll get a game this week though.

Diaz nuts (28:16.27)
Hmm

Andy (28:17.023)
That's not good, is it? That's not great.

Andy (28:27.549)
I mean, let go of mine now, it's like ruining people's lives.

Dan (28:32.067)
Yeah, taking the smiles away from happy boys. There you go. It's pretty tough. Okay. Spurs versus Aston Villa is the first game on Sunday. So Spurs obviously have famously imploded.

Andy (28:35.241)
That's rough, isn't it?

Diaz nuts (28:47.353)
Yes.

Dan (28:47.684)
I'm assuming there's a pile of suspensions still in place and injuries still in place. What is it that's even going to look like?

That is a good question. Let's have a look shall we?

Andy (28:58.277)
Well, I know Hyeong-min's son is not flagged, so I'm almost a hundred-p-jillion percent sure he's gonna play. Pedro Parra is not flagged, so he'll play.

Dan (29:03.09)
Yeah, so you've you don't have. But so you don't have Romero van de Ven, Udoggy is yellow, Parasik is red, Madison is red, Richarlson is red, Basuma is red. Like it's gonna be a fucking bare bones team they put together.

Andy (29:21.159)
Ah, they'll be fine.

Dan (29:23.506)
So you're still confident in picking, I guess only sun really, but

Andy (29:29.981)
Yeah, I'm going Sun this week for sure. I mean, I'm very happy playing Sun most weeks. He's still got the little star as to being in the best team of the season right now with 82 points.

Dan (29:39.662)
Mm-hmm. What about little Brennan Johnson?

Diaz nuts (29:44.514)
He's a sneaky pick.

Andy (29:44.797)
Uh, no? Thanks. I don't want him.

Diaz nuts (29:47.935)
Fucking sneaky boy.

Dan (29:48.582)
He 5.8 million midfield. Definitely going to play because the rest of the fucking dead or suspended. So.

Andy (29:55.133)
I just don't know if he's gonna get, um...

Andy (30:00.701)
I just don't know if he's going to get the, uh, what's it called? The game time when other people come back. I think that's the worry. I don't like transferring people in where I'm kind of worried. Like if other people come back from injury, they're going to lose their spot straight away. And he's one of those players.

Dan (30:05.09)
Points? All right.

Dan (30:16.322)
I don't know if he is though, like... What is that?

Andy (30:18.345)
Who were they? Who else do they have? Who's Johnson starting because someone's injured? Is it Richarles? Madison. Oh, well, come on. If Madison comes back, you're guaranteed loses the spot.

Dan (30:22.354)
Madison. Madison, Mitch, Allison, they're both out.

Dan (30:28.15)
Cause it's Son Maddo Kulasevsky, right? It's like the three.

Andy (30:31.013)
Yeah, so he's not... well, we all know he's not starting ahead of any of the three of them if they're healthy. So he is losing his spot, and then he has to fight with Richalus and for the scraps. Hmm, doesn't seem great, but I guess it depends on how long they're injured for.

Dan (30:34.952)
Yeah.

Dan (30:46.658)
and then they're playing against Aston Villa. Do you still have any Aston Villa players? Do you still have the DABs or anything like that?

Andy (30:51.881)
Dougie Louise, I'm not happy about it because I timed it wrong, to be honest. Like looking at his performances this season, I mean, I caught a 2-2 after I brought him in after him going 8-2, 15-7, so rough.

Dan (31:04.874)
Oof, that is rough. That's just poor timing. Have you been in them often?

Andy (31:08.469)
Poor Timing. No, because he's cheap and I don't... I have other things that I want to do because I already just did a transfer right now because I wanted to.

Diaz nuts (31:17.874)
Was it ringing Raheem or was it being in the slanky? Oh, he's done it.

Andy (31:22.001)
I mean, it is the Dominic the Donkey season.

Dan (31:26.41)
It is Christmas time. Hahaha. She's a favorite song though. Can't wait to play it. We should play it on the pod. Do the outro as Dominic the Donkey.

Andy (31:27.765)
Hi hi

Diaz nuts (31:28.878)
That fucking song, I swear to God.

Andy (31:36.422)
DINGO GAME

Diaz nuts (31:36.578)
If you do the fucking intro as Darude Sansdar, it's straight up quit.

Andy (31:41.79)
Hills of Italy.

Dan (31:43.043)
That is weirdly still my alarm sound. I don't know why. It's absolutely bizarre if I woke up to Darude but here. Okay, other Everton looking at the next match. Other Aston Villa players that we could possibly talk about then. Watkins up front. Cash in another shout.

Diaz nuts (31:46.574)
Fucking Sans, dog.

Andy (31:57.385)
I think it's just Watkins in it. He's the only other.

Diaz nuts (32:00.058)
cash.

Andy (32:03.017)
But have they got the fixtures for bringing in a defender right now or not?

Diaz nuts (32:07.952)
They have Spurs, Bournemouth, City Arsenal.

Andy (32:08.893)
They do not. Do not bring an edge.

Dan (32:10.793)
Dough

Andy (32:13.381)
Yeah, probably not then. And then away Brentford, which doesn't actually look super great.

Dan (32:18.082)
The Abbey's on 65 and Douglas Lewis on 60, they're actually putting up some good numbers to be fair to them.

Andy (32:21.925)
I think the Abbey's okay. Like, I'm not saying I wouldn't have their attackers. I'm just saying right now do not have their defenders because they're going to lose probably two or three of those games.

They're losing to City and they're losing to Arsenal. 100%.

Dan (32:35.231)
Yeah, I agree.

Diaz nuts (32:39.818)
you get as a defender then.

Andy (32:42.253)
I had Dignier and I just soldered him off and I feel a lot better about it. I'm never bringing that shit house back into my team again.

Dan (32:49.934)
I'm just getting the symptoms meet, you know, where the Barney gets kicked out by Moe and then just appears behind him again, just DnA appearing in your team again. He's not coming back. All right, Everton versus Man United is the last game on Sunday. We do have a Monday game, unfortunately. So Everton versus United, Everton has just been docked 10 whole points. They're now in the relegation zone. However, everything I'm reading online is like really positive about it. It's like, oh, it's the best time it could have happened to Everton. This is the bounce back.

Andy (32:57.169)
He's never coming back.

Diaz nuts (33:14.999)
Uh.

Andy (33:17.449)
I mean, if you're going to get it, you won it in the first half of the season, I guess. If you do it the last game week of the season, there's not a lot you can do about it.

Dan (33:24.642)
But everyone on ICS is being convinced that it's gonna steal them to kind of group together as a unit and come back and fight.

Andy (33:30.737)
I told you, I don't, who did I tell this to? Was it you two? I think, no, it was in our chat. Like I wouldn't, and cause dad argued with me. I would bet right now on them staying up. Cause dad was like giving me all the shit about it. I'm like, the one point behind the team above, like they need to win like one game.

Dan (33:40.685)
Yeah, yeah.

Dan (33:47.242)
Yeah, they will stay up. No, I agree that they will stay up. A class better than the three, uh, recently promoted teams who will probably be the ones that are going down.

Andy (33:55.625)
This keeps happening though, like honestly, the only time that I can remember it going well over the last couple of years was like Leeds and Wolves, where like a team came up and they were actually like, okay, Bournemouth I guess, that was a little bit a while ago at this point, right? Like this is freaking close to like 10 years ago. I'm saying like recently of the teams that have come.

Diaz nuts (34:04.506)
Blaster.

Dan (34:07.81)
That's the shit that went down though. Yeah.

Diaz nuts (34:13.078)
No? No way. Lester came up and won it. It must have been 2016?

Andy (34:21.742)
You're forgetting what you... yeah, so eight years ago. I don't think the one at the year they came up with it.

Dan (34:25.447)
Yeah, time flies when you're having fun.

Diaz nuts (34:28.602)
How fucking old is that?

Andy (34:30.205)
Okay, this is great. So well done Czechs Wikipedia. I think the three promoted teams are all hot garbage and are probably all going straight back down again. Burnley especially. Jesus, have they won a game yet?

Dan (34:33.366)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (34:33.474)
Mm-hmm.

Dan (34:42.845)
Mmm, good question. I'll check that.

Andy (34:45.073)
I don't think they have to be, that's why I said it.

Diaz nuts (34:50.315)
That was my assumption.

Dan (34:50.414)
You checked already. It doesn't look like they have because he looked already and the answer is no. Um, Burnley have won a game actually. Won. Won, won, ten. The results are won, ten. Yeah, that's good. That's what you want. Who did they beat? Go on.

Andy (34:51.89)
Yeah.

Andy (34:57.385)
Did they? When did they when?

Diaz nuts (34:58.232)
Get seven.

Andy (35:01.443)
One, one, ten. There you go.

Andy (35:05.585)
And then who is it Everton are fighting out with right now? Is it like Sheffield United? Who's the one above them in the league? Let's see. Table. Cause I think they're staying up and I do think they're probably going to win more than those teams below them probably combined over the next few months.

Dan (35:13.154)
Who the fuck did they beat?

Dan (35:24.17)
Yeah, I don't disagree at all. It's a shitty situation to be in, but they're not going down at all.

Andy (35:29.189)
No, and I get it out of the way now. I think the people are right online, the anonymous online people.

Dan (35:35.118)
just these great people. It was me. It was just, it was me. It's all to myself. They beat Luton, by the way.

Diaz nuts (35:35.662)
It's just you posted wasn't it?

Andy (35:37.213)
Yeah, just Dan. Unnamed sources. Luton, there you go. Yeah, I mean, they want Everton like one win from going above Luton in 17.

Dan (35:51.234)
Yeah. On the...

Diaz nuts (35:52.367)
FULL OF IT.

That's the team that came up and did well.

Dan (35:57.818)
Uh, true.

Andy (35:58.61)
And Everton have form that would put them in the top 10 probably right now. They have three wins in the last five.

Andy (36:07.165)
You know who has the best form in the Premier League in the last five?

Manchester United. Four wins, one loss.

Dan (36:15.662)
There you go.

Diaz nuts (36:18.998)
If you got any of those plays, need to.

Andy (36:21.123)
One, yeah, do a bit a lot.

Dan (36:23.474)
Oh, Brentford does another one. That got promoted fairly recently, it done quite well.

Andy (36:27.209)
Bramford, yeah, I'll give you Bramford. They're relatively recent.

Dan (36:29.678)
21. Yeah, 21, two years ago. I raw shit. Yeah, yeah.

Andy (36:33.289)
But this year's team is just terrible. Don't go for it.

Dan (36:38.518)
Which is funny because I remember we had the conversation at the very start about Burnley, Vincent Company being another one of Pep's disciples and being a hard team, they smashed the championship and they took them up and got absolutely destroyed, but anyway, United is the away team against the buoyant Everton. Any United players? How do you feel about that?

Andy (36:58.897)
I think Everton are going to get beat by United this week. United have won four out of five. I think it'll be a one nil garbage game to watch again, but I would imagine that Bruno put in like a long range goal in the 89th minute. Yeah, exactly. Just straight dumps to fire most of the game. And then like a couple of Ananas saves an extra time in a Bruno long range goal.

Dan (37:09.999)
The United Classic you mean? One no garbage. Excellent.

Dan (37:21.594)
or a rando mctony bundle over the line or bizarly a maguire header from a corner yeah one of the three sure

Andy (37:28.541)
Yeah, I do think they're going to win though, because they are on like decent form. And this will be like the meta of the United will be fixtures, terrible, can't score goals, but like Ten Hag keeps his job because they get points.

Dan (37:39.946)
Yep, and we'll sit in the top six and we'll be in Europe somehow and that'll be enough again, apparently. Heyo. Players from United, would you have any?

Andy (37:50.373)
I'd have Bruno to be honest if I didn't, if I could, I would think about ways to get Bruno in the way that he's playing right now. If he starts to score again and he's still taking all the penalties and they're going to get mostly penalty goals, it doesn't seem like a terrible show.

Dan (38:02.292)
Mm. Okay.

Diaz nuts (38:05.738)
I've still got McTominay and McGuire, so I'm hoping everything can get slaughtered.

Andy (38:11.089)
I don't think they're getting slaughtered, but you might, I think you still might get a clean sheet from McGuire against Everton right now. Because that's the perfect McGuire team. Low block.

Dan (38:16.002)
Which, that has to make that an inspired pick though, right? Cause he picked Maguire and he ended up with three clean sheets in a row. Like we were mocking him for it, but that must be inspired then.

Diaz nuts (38:21.346)
You'd think so, but...

Andy (38:27.325)
Well, it balances out the McTominay pick, yeah.

Diaz nuts (38:30.682)
If only he'd got that goal when I first brought him in. I swear to God that would have been just chef's kiss.

Dan (38:31.445)
Hahaha!

Dan (38:35.678)
Yeah, I was, I was, I remember in the chat, be like, Oh my God, he's done it. Oh wait, no, it's offside. Thank God. Well done. Uh, all right. So the last game of the week is a shity one. It's on Monday, Fallen versus Wolves. However, shock, uh, transfer by me to get some money released. I have Huan He Chan in my team.

Andy (38:40.881)
Yeah, I know. Then when they disallowed it by bar, I was like, okay.

Andy (39:01.818)
Oh God, here we go.

Diaz nuts (39:02.874)
Oh, you've gone for the person that Pep refers to as the Korean guy.

Dan (39:06.582)
The Korean guy. I got the Korean guy.

Andy (39:06.889)
Does he? Oh, that's nice. The other Korean guy.

Diaz nuts (39:10.852)
Yeah.

Dan (39:12.986)
I mean, that's pretty bad when you are just the other one.

Andy (39:15.398)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (39:15.662)
Good job, Pat.

Dan (39:18.11)
No, I brought him in, 5.5 million, he's cheap as chips and has been doing some bits except for against Tottenham, bizarrely. So he's gone 2, 5, 7, 4, 10, 8. Not a bad mix for what he's worth. 5.5

Diaz nuts (39:32.662)
How much did he say he was again? 5.5 striker. Or is it midfielder? 5.5 midfielder, let's see who I would pick ahead of that nonsense.

Dan (39:37.498)
No, no, midfielder. Yeah.

Dan (39:46.402)
So I guess that's really, well, that on nettle, but he's 6.7, I think it was, or 6.6.

Andy (39:50.045)
Well, or Dougie Louise, I guess, from Villa, points-wise.

Diaz nuts (39:54.842)
Corp arm is only 5.2 down, fucking hell. Be getting on that, son.

Dan (39:58.502)
Yeah, Karl Palmer, no. I quite liked, if I'm rightly, just the fact that he's cheap, cheap enough anyway. He plays a shitey team this week, he'll go on the bench for the rest of the season or even be swapped out for someone else, but he got me back one million in the bank, so I'll do. Any other Wolves players? I've got to say Neto there, for example.

Andy (39:58.941)
You could have had carpool, huh?

Andy (40:16.789)
Fair enough.

Andy (40:21.725)
Nah, not playing any Wolves players. When Neto comes back, I might get Neto if he's still good, but who knows?

Diaz nuts (40:22.188)
Hmm, no.

Diaz nuts (40:28.867)
may be broken.

Andy (40:30.769)
Yeah, it might be like Raul Jimenez where he's afraid of the ball for the rest of his life.

Dan (40:33.998)
I mean to be fair, I'm home and it's a crack is head open, like it's not unexpected. I dunno.

Andy (40:36.733)
Why come back though? Like honestly why come back? Like literally it looks like he's avoiding the ball all the time.

Dan (40:42.822)
Yeah, he does look scared. I do feel bad. He scored though, didn't he?

Andy (40:47.409)
He did, but it was with his feet. And you know, that's not what he was famous for, is it?

Dan (40:51.39)
No, it's not what he's famous for. He's famous for daring headers. Anyway, that is this week's games. Andy, do you want to do the Red, Blue League?

Andy (41:00.654)
Yeah, that I'm totally prepared for.

Dan (41:02.806)
Yep, I knew you would be Andy, I knew you would be, that's why I asked.

Diaz nuts (41:03.066)
So bad.

Andy (41:04.969)
Yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready. Number 10, Ousmane Shabir. Number nine, Michael Akinloy. Number eight, Ola the Great. Number seven, Alan Sinclair. Number six, Aaron Milne. Dong's down to fifth. Um, Conor Gunn in fourth. Uh, Hobie Miller in third, Tobias Scott in second. Steve is still top, although did not get top points in the top 10 this week. That was Alan Sinclair with 94 points.

Diaz nuts (41:06.746)
He's on the ball, he's on his balls.

Dan (41:19.97)
Oh.

Dan (41:32.811)
Yes.

Andy (41:34.677)
Good week from Alameda.

Diaz nuts (41:36.859)
Are we finding ways to track from Steve still being at the top of the table?

Dan (41:40.979)
Oh, I've got to...

Andy (41:41.009)
You know what, I don't think that it looks like he's been listening to you because he's got two Crystal Palace players in his team. He actually picked Dezay after talking him up.

Dan (41:46.67)
See you.

So I would say Andy, on the Steve front, by the way, he's recently joined the company that I work for and he reached out to me. Firstly, say, hey, Dan, nice to see you in the company. And then secondly, where's my mug? So where's his mug, Andy? Like literally.

Andy (41:59.03)
Alright, alright.

Diaz nuts (42:02.116)
Hmm

Andy (42:03.077)
I still can't believe like the semantics of that given that I got more points.

Dan (42:08.441)
Literally the second fucking words out of his mouth. Where's my mug? I don't have it. It's in America mate. So can you ship that back for us please so I can stop getting grief about it.

Andy (42:14.249)
Aye, aye, aye.

Andy (42:17.909)
I'll bring it at some point. Yeah. The interesting thing in the league, I guess, is from the top to the bottom, there's less than, there's exactly 69 points from 10th to 1st. Yeah.

Dan (42:19.478)
Good man.

Dan (42:27.03)
Nice, nice, nice.

Diaz nuts (42:28.922)
but then the bigger question is, where do you and Dan and Dad then fall after the 10th? And I guess that's where Danny will pick up.

Andy (42:36.083)
I'm currently 17th and I'm 30 points out of the top 10.

Dan (42:40.066)
Well, I'll tell you about the league that matters anyway. So in last place is myself. I scored 83 in the game week for 6-6-9 overall. Then a grand eight points ahead of me are you and dad in a combined fourth and fifth with 81 points for dad, 83 points for yourself on 6-7-7. We then leap.

Andy (42:45.65)
Oh.

Andy (42:59.109)
I don't like, by the way, that it shows you without the hits. It says Dad's on 89, but he wasn't because he took a double hit.

Dan (43:07.043)
I'm looking at it with hits, that's why I'm using FPL gameweeks.

Andy (43:08.529)
No, no, I know. But like on the official site, I'm saying it's kind of annoying when you because actually, I don't know how many points people got on the top 10 because it doesn't count the hits. But carry on.

Dan (43:17.556)
Anyway, you two are in fourth and fifth. Then it's Noah, so my eldest has 83 points in the game week for 708. And then it jumps up again. So Eli, our resident dog lover, got 68 points in the game week for 715. Not a good week. No, it was actually why I did these so badly compared to everyone else. Captain Watkins, that's why.

Andy (43:30.921)
Not a good week.

Andy (43:35.633)
He did super bad this week and a week left raining points everywhere.

Diaz nuts (43:37.516)
You just.

Dan (43:41.266)
He had Salah and he had Haaland and he captained Watkins. That's rough.

Andy (43:44.229)
Yeah. You mean this is the thing when you try and go like big brain 4D chest cap. It's like if the two if the two of you come in. He's trying to be big brain. I'll tell him he's trying to be a big brain.

Diaz nuts (43:51.434)
Go on.

Dan (43:52.606)
Are you, are you accusing my 9 year old son of being big brain for DHS? You tell him, you tell him next time you see him. Alright.

Andy (44:01.996)
He's trying to go counterculture like edgelord and then look what happened.

Dan (44:04.654)
Yep. That's him. And then top of the league is Dom with 80 points in the game week for 7-3-5. So between ours, there is 76 points from top to bottom. So not that much more than in the league with the 69 points top to bottom.

Diaz nuts (44:06.07)
edge of a lot of you like Jesus.

Andy (44:07.486)
I'm sorry.

Dan (44:26.546)
Okay, what about your teams very quickly then to round off what changes have you made Dominic?

Diaz nuts (44:33.03)
I took out Alvarez and put in Ionee in the anticipation that I can use the spare cash to then this week come and change into Saka.

Dan (44:45.678)
Okay, Andy.

Andy (44:47.781)
I did two changes. I did, oh, I did, I did it. Kalan Molusk went out. Yeah. And Dominic, Dominic Solanke came in, my other favorite. And then I got rid of Dignier, who I've hated since he's been in the team and he's been absolutely useless.

Diaz nuts (44:52.302)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (44:56.09)
Oh

Dan (44:57.066)
What? Show favorite, Callum Mullis. Ha.

Right.

Dan (45:07.339)
What did you buy? I fucking hate you, get in my team.

Andy (45:10.301)
Well, you know what? It's like when you make those kind of moves and it doesn't work out, it just gets like extra annoying like every week when you play them. And it's like, obviously Villa were really good up until the week that I got him. And then Ferdinia, he went out and I brought in Van the Van from no Van the heck, Van heck, whatever the guy is from Brighton. He's just going to sit. He's sitting on the bench. It doesn't matter.

Dan (45:20.366)
Okay, so who came in for the D&A?

Diaz nuts (45:30.03)
Yeah.

Dan (45:30.042)
Oh, I was about to say, Van The Ven is dead. Okay. Uh, for myself, I just took out, um... Who was it again? Someone shite. It was, it was, um... Matoma came out because he's flagged for freeing up points with He-chan, so... No hit for me.

Alright, that's us. First game is 12.30 on Saturday. See you then.

Andy (46:02.057)
All right, no Friday game.