GW19 FPL: Kudus, Gross and.....McNeil?!?

Summary

In this episode, the hosts discuss upcoming Premier League matches and the performance of various players. They also talk about their own fantasy football teams and the Family League. The conversation covers topics such as team selection, player form, and potential transfers. The hosts provide insights and opinions on different players and teams, offering advice for fantasy football managers. The conversation revolves around the upcoming match between Man City and Everton. The hosts discuss Man City's recent form and evaluate the potential of Man City and Everton players. They also review the top transfers in the league and analyze the performance of Pascal Gross. The conversation concludes with a discussion about potential transfers for the upcoming week and considering changes to the team. In this conversation, Dan and Andy discuss the recent match and upcoming matches in the football season. They also mention a break in the schedule.

Takeaways

• Assess the recent form of teams and players before making transfers.
• Consider the upcoming fixtures when selecting players for your team.
• Review the top transfers in the league to identify potential differentials.
• Stay updated on injuries and suspensions to make informed decisions. The recent match was not good.
• There are upcoming matches in the schedule.
• There will be a break in the schedule.

Chapters

00:00
Introduction and Family League

02:08
Newcastle vs. Nottingham Forest

04:31
Bournemouth vs. Fulham

06:19
Manchester United vs. Luton

07:43
Burnley vs. Liverpool

10:11
Brentford vs. Wolves

11:39
Chelsea vs. Crystal Palace

15:06
Manchester City vs. Everton

21:34
Discussion about Man City vs. Everton

22:10
Assessing Man City's recent form

23:20
Evaluating Man City and Everton players

24:33
Considering other potential transfers

25:37
Reviewing the top transfers in the league

28:08
Predicting the outcomes of upcoming matches

30:31
Assessing the performance of Pascal Gross

33:00
Analyzing the top transfers in the league

35:02
Reviewing the league standings

41:01
Discussing potential transfers for the upcoming week

42:30
Considering changes to the team

43:18
Review of the Match

43:36
Upcoming Matches

44:01
Break in the Schedule

Transcript

Dan (00:00.858)
Hello and welcome to RedRedBlue, I'm Dan Adams.

Diaz nuts (00:04.036)
Ho Ho, I'm Dominic Adams.

Andy (00:07.815)
most points in the family league Adams.

Dan (00:09.906)
That is his new official name. So we've just been through the pre-Christmas games. Hopefully everyone's got the presents under the tree, ready for tomorrow. And then the day after that, we get more presents in the Boxing Day fixture list that is, it's kind of all the lame ones. You got the United match and the Liverpool match, but all the good stuff happens later on, I'm afraid. But before we get stuck into that, well, I got really excited when it was like Boxing Day matches. I mean, it is on Amazon Prime, so it's all free.

Diaz nuts (00:33.556)
You really know how to sell it, don't you, Dan?

Dan (00:39.746)
If you've got a prime account, which is a bonus, so you don't have to mess around, but um, yeah, not super exciting ones, but we're going to get into that in a minute for after we quickly address Bum bum and the and the family league I just want to talk about it because you're talking about most points in the family league as if Uh, I had done awfully and terribly, but I've only five points behind you. You made it sound like it was something incredible

Diaz nuts (00:42.084)
Be free free.

Diaz nuts (00:53.704)
Redress.

Andy (01:06.442)
But still behind me though.

Dan (01:09.106)
You made it sound as if you had like 70 and everyone else had like 40 like the most points in the league thing

Andy (01:14.286)
I think I've had the most points in the league for a couple weeks in a row now is the more important thing.

Diaz nuts (01:18.612)
Danny just wants everyone to know that he's not doing that badly anymore.

Andy (01:22.122)
Yeah, exactly. I'm off the bottom. He's like, Everton, despite his point deduction, he's off the bottom.

Dan (01:23.975)
It's an important move.

I am off the bottom, but only for the sake of my eldest son unfortunately though, which doesn't feel bad. No, he just didn't bother doing it. I think he's actually going to end up falling out of the league.

Andy (01:31.158)
Did you sabotage Noah's team so you could get off the bomb?

Andy (01:38.054)
Oh, he's pulling a ban.

Dan (01:39.326)
Pull her then. Can't deal. It's not going well for him. He's gonna bid it.

Andy (01:43.654)
Eli's only still in it because he's winning. We're going to have to start singing at him. You only sing when you're winning once he starts going down the league. I don't know if he's singing or not, but.

Dan (01:50.158)
He lets continue to do well. He was only seven points behind you this week. He's the first one to break a thousand as well. Right. So on Boxing Day, we've got five games, the first of which comes at lunchtime Newcastle versus Notnam Forest. How do we feel about Newcastle?

Andy (02:08.61)
Is it Newcastle at home? I feel okay then. I'm gonna keep Dubravka and Gordon but I'm obviously not excited about it when they're losing to Luton. God. You know, that was the annoying part this week. If I'd played an optimal team I wouldn't have played Dubravka. I would have played Areola against United and got 8 points. Very upsetting.

Dan (02:10.128)
Yes.

Dan (02:17.822)
1-0 to Luton and I watched it as well, they deserved it.

Dan (02:31.867)
Yeah, I thought I was being clever to be honest with the Dabrafka move over areola

Andy (02:36.874)
No, it's not clever. Dabravka is just not clever. I think, I think honestly. I don't know. They've got like a lot of injuries because they're all of a sudden not as good as they were.

Dan (02:46.79)
doesn't feel as good owning Newcastle players anyway. I still have Trippio who is a heavy weight in defense that I wanna bin. I do, I've got Isaac as well.

Diaz nuts (02:50.996)
Oof.

Andy (02:52.002)
Do you have Isaac? One of you has Isaac? Cause I want... Y'all that was good. Did you see he came on and they scored a goal and they got disallowed?

Dan (02:58.094)
I saw he came on and I saw his score to go and I saw it disallowed. I got really excited when he just came on Andy because to be honest he wasn't even playing to start off with which was pretty bad.

Andy (03:00.286)
Yeah.

Andy (03:05.362)
Yeah, I mean, I was excited at the start of that game because he was on the bench. And then I was excited when the goal got disallowed. It was like double excitement.

Diaz nuts (03:12.116)
I feel like Andy's in the salt bae mood right now. He's got fucking salt in all of his wounds. Just sprinkle it.

Dan (03:15.914)
Oh, he's just... only my wins, so dumb. You know, me at the bottom of the table. He's not talking about anyone above him, because, you know, that exposes his actual position of just being third.

Andy (03:26.578)
Anyway, should we keep Anthony Gordon? The question is probably not because he's been kind of poo the last few weeks. He's only had one return in four weeks and that was with an Everton game and a Luton game in there that he didn't return.

Dan (03:31.032)
No, no, I don't.

Dan (03:39.994)
And it's the same to be said for Trippia, Dabravka, Izaak, Wilson, that I don't think any of them now are worthwhile assets at the moment.

Andy (03:48.37)
I might do Gordon to Karl Palmer.

Dan (03:51.602)
Power empowerment no you don't because he's gonna be suspended

Andy (03:55.83)
Paul is suspended. Well, I'm not doing that. No, no, Paul.

Diaz nuts (03:56.564)
Karma Primer and Sterling.

Dan (03:57.886)
Karl Palmer and Sterling both got yellows. And apparently Karl Palmer, as I was listening to it, is mostly for descent, mostly for being a shitter.

Diaz nuts (04:04.956)
I'll promise.

Diaz nuts (04:10.46)
He does look like a wanker.

Dan (04:12.378)
There you go.

Andy (04:12.388)
I'll just, I'll keep Anthony Gordon for another week.

Dan (04:17.96)
On the Norton and Forest side of things, they had a good match against Bournemouth, lost 3-2. Is it worth taking any of their team?

Andy (04:25.778)
No, just Dominic Slanky, but he doesn't play for them.

Dan (04:28.694)
No, he plays on the other side. All right, so we'll move on then effectively. Bournemouth... He's not my guy. He's not my guy. I've not spoken about Gibbsway, I've not spoken about Phil Billings, although it was in a while to be fair. Bournemouth versus Fulham is the next match. Obviously Bournemouth beat Nottingham Forest last week, whereas Fulham lost to Burnley.

Andy (04:31.978)
Well, your guy, Gibbs White, did get an assist, didn't he? So you usually love talking about him.

Diaz nuts (04:36.968)
Good guy. He's a boy.

Diaz nuts (04:52.66)
Good job Dominic, so thank you. What a pick from me.

Dan (04:56.098)
Hat-trick for Dominik Szilankyi, is he now essential? No, he wasn't. We spoke about him last week and I remember this. He was spoke about in that mixed bracket of other strikers next to Watkins and Harland.

Andy (04:58.878)
It was essential last week.

Andy (05:10.002)
Last six games for Salenki. 13, two, six, two, seven, 17. Woof. It's good.

Diaz nuts (05:17.268)
That's the number, Dan. That's the number.

Dan (05:18.722)
No, I'm not disagreeing. What I'm saying is that now I'm locked in front three. Watkins, Salanki, Haaland.

Andy (05:25.73)
That will be my front three after when Howland's not dead.

Diaz nuts (05:31.896)
Is how I'm dead? Is he not dead? That's the question. 50% dead. Yep. I think it's like he as much as I would like for him not to be a perma pick he is right now. And it's the only reason why I didn't have a shit week.

Dan (05:34.156)
50% chance of playing. Apparently.

Andy (05:35.926)
Half dead, technically half dead.

Dan (05:49.298)
Yeah.

Andy (05:49.386)
How can you not have him at 6.6 million as well? It's not even like he's expensive.

Diaz nuts (05:53.956)
He's 6.8 now, isn't he? 6.9.

Andy (05:56.222)
It was 6.6 when some of us got on the Slanky Bandwagon.

Dan (06:01.135)
Is it still worth it at 6.9?

Andy (06:04.35)
Yeah, I think so. He's having best the last six. Look, look at his last six weeks compared to Watkins. He's outperformed Watkins in the same period and Watkins is 8.6.

Dan (06:07.166)
Okay.

Diaz nuts (06:08.39)
Errr

Dan (06:14.232)
Yeah.

Dan (06:18.206)
Okay, next match after that.

Andy (06:19.97)
But don't get him, because I enjoy you not having him.

Dan (06:23.174)
Thanks. We're not going to speak about the next match because it's definitely United versus Luton, which is a non-match unless there's something I'm not aware of.

Diaz nuts (06:30.957)
No, it's Wank.

Andy (06:32.022)
Who scored for Luton? Do we know who scored for Luton? It wasn't, it wasn't... It wasn't Coltomolsk.

Diaz nuts (06:35.909)
Wasn't the mollusk.

Dan (06:36.127)
It wasn't Bell, it wasn't the mollusk. I'll tell you now, two seconds. It was Townsend, assisted by Barclay.

Andy (06:43.875)
Mmm, not Callum mollusk.

Diaz nuts (06:46.836)
Oh yeah, because it was the double Everton. Yeah. I know, sorry, they're both, were they both? No, yeah, Townsend was also Everton, but Townsend, you also play for Newcastle. And I can't remember if Barclay played for Newcastle too.

Dan (06:48.83)
Everton throwback. I was just about to say, is that double Everton? Is that... Is it... It's not Andros Townsend is it?

Andy (06:55.83)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Andros played for Everton. He did play for Everton.

Dan (06:58.238)
But it's

Andy (07:00.586)
He played for Spuz- no, Townsend played for Spuz, didn't he, as well?

Dan (07:04.334)
Is it the same town's end? Fuck me, he must be ancient. Like, no, I don't know if it's Andros, I'm saying all it says is town's end, so he must be fucking ancient if it's the right... Jesus wept.

Andy (07:06.186)
I think it is, yeah, there's only one end rest time.

Diaz nuts (07:11.832)
It is Andros Townsend.

Andy (07:13.366)
You know what the funny thing is? Russ Bockely looks like a barrel with arms and legs.

Dan (07:18.109)
Is he bigger than Bowen? Is he bigger or smaller than Bowen? That's my measure.

Diaz nuts (07:18.214)
That's a funny thing.

Andy (07:22.783)
I think he's rounder.

Dan (07:24.018)
Ha ha!

Diaz nuts (07:25.022)
Only in the knees.

Dan (07:27.506)
beats Bowen's knees. So not talking about that game effectively. So the next one is Burnley versus Liverpool. Liverpool assets except for Salah. None is what I would say.

Diaz nuts (07:34.301)
No.

Diaz nuts (07:43.144)
Pretty much, unless you're going to be ballsy and pick Trent, who got another assist this week.

Dan (07:49.126)
It's so expensive though.

Andy (07:51.17)
Too much money, I'm not paying that.

Diaz nuts (07:52.144)
Yeah, so it's Trippier, but you're sitting with him.

Andy (07:54.666)
You know, Suleyba, to be fair, I think any defender of a 4.5 these days is too much money.

Dan (07:54.724)
Not a choice.

Dan (08:01.51)
Yeah, it's getting that way in my mind as well, is that you can't rely on clean sheets at all. So, it's not worth it. Saying that, fucking gutted, when I watched the fucking... Who was it? We got clean sheets this week. That killed me.

Dan (08:21.191)
Was it the West Ham clean sheet? Yeah, with areola. That was painful.

Dan (08:28.306)
So more salad. But when's the African cup start?

Andy (08:31.934)
Mmm, January I think, right? Does Salah go? Is he going? I thought he might have retired because it's not a real cup, is it?

Diaz nuts (08:33.736)
Jam.

Dan (08:36.59)
Yes, of course it goes.

Diaz nuts (08:42.692)
It's their entry to the World Cup.

Dan (08:42.946)
African Cup Nations, the first matches on the 13th of January.

Andy (08:47.318)
It's like the Asia Cup, like also not a real cup.

Diaz nuts (08:51.444)
It's also their only way into the World Cup, the one they kind of just totally disgraced them.

Dan (08:51.633)
I think.

Andy (08:54.646)
Look at this, look in the chat. Let me see if it lets me post this in the chat. Everyone.

Dan (08:54.65)
Yeah.

Dan (08:58.391)
It's a company you're denigrating an entire continent effectively.

Andy (09:01.462)
I won't let no it won't let me do it never mind. I'll show you later I've got a fantastic pixel art for this week

Diaz nuts (09:05.116)
You're scaling up from countries.

Dan (09:09.062)
Excellent, that's good to know. Is it Ross Barkley being very round?

Andy (09:13.146)
It's Russ Barkley with a barrel for a torso.

Diaz nuts (09:15.14)
He's a... ..fucking hell. Poor Ross.

Dan (09:19.288)
I knew it would be.

Andy (09:20.43)
He's a thick boy. Double C.

Dan (09:22.562)
I think honestly, what do you do with that salamone when it goes? Does it immediately become sun if you don't have sun already?

Andy (09:29.406)
It becomes a little South Korean man named Young Min Sun.

Dan (09:33.786)
What about Kevin De Bruyne though? He's coming back soon.

Diaz nuts (09:34.092)
exactly what you do.

Oh, crowding the brine. Yes, go back to the game.

Andy (09:38.422)
Maybe. It may be the regular, the Croydon De Bruyne is injured. Kevin De Bruyne, yeah. No, I think it's just Sun. But I think Sun actually has, there's an Asian cup as well, the East Southern Octopi.

Dan (09:44.167)
The groin broiner, Kevin the groin.

Dan (09:54.226)
the rest of the Asia Cup.

Andy (09:57.438)
All kinds of cups except for like the European play. Like the whole league is just going to be the European play.

Dan (10:03.674)
MyUnited vs Aston Villa is the last game on Boxing Day. That'd be a good one to see out with at 8 o'clock. How are you feeling about Unite right now, Andy?

Andy (10:11.746)
Don't have any in my team, not getting any in.

Dan (10:14.818)
Yeah. What about on the Aston Villa side of things apart for Watkins because that's just like a obvious...

Andy (10:23.446)
I think it's just Watkins. Matty Cash is suspended for that game, which is good for United. Oh, Dougie Louise. Yeah, he got an assist this week. He could have a little Dougie. I mean, if you're going to get rid of Anthony Gordon, he's a decent Gordon swap. It's him or Poma.

Diaz nuts (10:30.281)
You've still got Dougie Lewis, Andy.

Dan (10:32.85)
That's what I'm saying.

Dan (10:40.422)
What about Dina in defense?

Andy (10:42.302)
No, I've been there, done that, no thank you.

Dan (10:44.534)
I don't want to go back. Did not like. Okay.

Diaz nuts (10:47.829)
Oh, so you don't have Dougie Louise anymore, Andy? I thought you did.

Andy (10:50.718)
No, I got ready room for Bowen.

Dan (10:50.754)
No, no. Fat bones.

Diaz nuts (10:52.972)
Ah, man.

Dan (10:55.61)
Okay. And Dom. Ross Barkley here fill all the girth.

Andy (10:56.874)
I wanted some more girth in my midfield.

Diaz nuts (11:02.469)
It fills every space.

Dan (11:04.306)
Tom, what about your United assets? You had McTominay and McGuire, have they both been shipped now?

Diaz nuts (11:07.2)
Oh, God. McTominay is still here, but that's only because he is healthy and not suspended. That's not through any characteristics or skill of his it's just that he's alive and gets on pitch. That's his only benefit to me at the moment. Yes.

Dan (11:27.194)
He's not flagged effectively.

Andy (11:28.662)
You've all got team problems. Dad's got team problems as well. He's got tons of flagged people.

Diaz nuts (11:33.908)
Yeah, it might be so like next week when Stella is healthy, LaSalle is healthy, and Helen is healthy.

Dan (11:34.078)
Thanks, Andy.

Dan (11:39.986)
Selling's not unhealthy, he's just a dick. Too many yellow cards. He's just a dick. Alright. Moving on from being just a dick. So on Wednesday 27th, so we have effectively 3 days on the trot, year 26th, 27th, 28th, so on the 27th we kick off at 7.30 with Brentford vs. Wolves. Wolves assets, Cunyx was on the assist, was he?

Andy (11:40.212)
All my team fit.

Diaz nuts (11:42.985)
Please just take care.

Diaz nuts (12:09.071)
No. It didn't do shit.

Dan (12:09.316)
No, I got ruled out.

Andy (12:11.434)
No, he was my only player that didn't really pop off this week. And he's had a couple of like, you know, I guess it's harsh. He went in since game week 12. He's gone five, seven, five, nine, two, one. So like the two ones a little bit concerning, but his next few games is Brentford, Everton, Brighton. So you don't really want to get rid of him.

Dan (12:31.878)
Yeah, it was Lim Minha and Doherty that scored.

Diaz nuts (12:32.264)
You try.

Andy (12:34.647)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (12:34.756)
You try and tell me, Andy, that Cunha was your only player that didn't pop off.

Andy (12:39.55)
He was one of the ones that I was surprised that didn't, I guess.

Diaz nuts (12:42.104)
Oh, okay, because you had Sackett, Gordon, Van Hecke, Paros, Lieber that didn't pop off.

Dan (12:43.658)
90% of your team didn't pop off, you had fucking bow and sal and salanki, that was it. You had three people pop off. You're fairly un-popped. You're like a shitbag of popcorn with all the kernels. Nothing went off.

Andy (12:50.43)
I mean, I was surprised that Kenya did.

Andy (12:56.894)
And to be fair, Saka looked like he was going to do something against Liverpool.

Diaz nuts (12:57.148)
Here's the kernel.

Diaz nuts (13:01.636)
He fucking should have.

Dan (13:02.79)
luck all he likes can he? F***ing didn't did he?

Andy (13:05.174)
Doesn't matter, still got the most points.

Diaz nuts (13:07.372)
Lucky lucky Saka, get the fuck out of here.

Andy (13:09.266)
I have more points on my bench than you had on your team then?

Dan (13:13.426)
I have five points less than you? I don't know how you make it out like this, some kind of fucking miracle bully you've done? Jesus wept.

Andy (13:19.102)
I don't know. I'm like, top of the points this week again.

Dan (13:23.322)
we talk Captain Picks that was a good one.

Andy (13:25.466)
Oh God, if I'd packed, you know, imagine I put Salanki. Oh God. And it was, it was a, no, it was a toss up between Salanki and Watkins and I went Watkins.

Diaz nuts (13:26.337)
Ah, fuck me.

Dan (13:29.54)
You never would have. You would have put Sala.

Dan (13:35.958)
No fuck away, that's a retrospective that is, rose tinted specs.

Andy (13:38.871)
100% it was a toss up between Salanke and Watkins because I didn't want any of the Arsenal or Liverpool players because I thought that was going to be a draw.

Dan (13:45.05)
Swear on your stocks Andy.

Diaz nuts (13:45.4)
Yeah.

Andy (13:47.678)
I thought that it was gonna be, like, obviously I didn't do it because I went Watkins in the end.

Dan (13:54.014)
Yeah. Brentford, obviously we're talking about the two. And Wemo, Wissa. No, no.

Diaz nuts (14:04.548)
I'm one of them dead.

Dan (14:06.974)
I can't be dead still, I'll show you his back now. Get to the transfer machine.

Diaz nuts (14:10.92)
Hmm.

Andy (14:12.09)
I think you're just waiting another couple weeks if you want to pick Bramford players. So Tony, coming back.

Diaz nuts (14:16.113)
Yeah, Pueblo is still dead.

Dan (14:16.718)
Employment's dead. Wiss is still good though. He's not done much.

Andy (14:20.118)
Team of the week? None of them in the team of the week then, none of them. Goalkeeper of the week? Trafford.

Diaz nuts (14:20.273)
Tony's coming back on.

Dan (14:25.382)
Me night. Sad, isn't it?

Diaz nuts (14:25.732)
to.

Andy (14:31.118)
Strikers of the Week, Solankeum Wood.

Dan (14:33.882)
It's a good week. It's why man say you don't play effectively, let's be honest.

Diaz nuts (14:37.392)
Yeah.

Dan (14:39.826)
Chelsea versus Conor.

Andy (14:39.966)
Actually, look at that team of the week though. Trafford, Gabriel like you would have given, like several fantasy people have Gabriel. Doughty, Emerson, Oddebert, don't know who the fuck he is. Townsend, Burge, Lamina, Johnson, Selanke, Wood. It's literally just Selanke and Gabriel out of the team of the week. Johnson from Tottenham, yeah. Maybe he's an edge case there, a couple people are there.

Dan (14:57.03)
Johnson from Tottenham.

Dan (15:01.721)
No, wait, edge. No, it's got him.

There you go. No, it didn't do me any good, but hey yo. Chelsea vs Crystal Palace. Tom as a resident Crystal Palace expert, how you feeling about Crystal Palace right now?

Diaz nuts (15:06.388)
Didn't do him very good.

Diaz nuts (15:17.521)
Going against Chelsea with no stalling, no Karl Parma and all the rest of it, not so bad to be fair.

Dan (15:24.734)
I think you're right, honestly. It's not a terrible shout for them, they could win that.

Andy (15:28.13)
Chelsea will win, I think. I think that little fella we scored today might score again.

Diaz nuts (15:33.384)
That little fellow is going to say...

Dan (15:34.455)
That's what I think. I think I'm going to.

Andy (15:37.005)
He's not big.

Dan (15:39.829)
Okay, thanks for that.

Diaz nuts (15:42.284)
And he ties all of his stats to the size of play.

Dan (15:46.118)
Physicality, it's all about physicality. How round are they? How tall are they? How square is he? How many edges has he got? How many vertices does he have?

Diaz nuts (15:48.36)
Yeah.

Andy (15:48.81)
He's not big. He's five foot ten. He's five ten. He's a striker in the Premier League. Good God.

Diaz nuts (15:52.532)
Fuckin' tidy.

Dan (15:58.963)
He's bigger than Daniel Poodes and that's the marker of a small person.

Andy (16:02.118)
Jesus, what? Five foot 10. I thought you looked little on the TV.

Diaz nuts (16:07.248)
but I was just far away from it.

Dan (16:09.475)
It's like the sheep with Dougal. That's just far away.

So we're not taking anything. It's what we're saying from Crystal Palace.

Andy (16:17.442)
Do you want any Chelsea defenders though? Maybe you do.

Diaz nuts (16:20.261)
I do, and I just did.

Dan (16:20.262)
Do you? The Sassy.

Andy (16:22.122)
I think you might. Dissasi looked good. He was up front for half the game.

Diaz nuts (16:24.12)
No, coal will.

Dan (16:25.458)
Mm-hmm. How will?

Andy (16:27.498)
Why would you pick the bad one out of the two, seriously? Like, oh, I could have this athlete, but I'll go call. Well, the one who doesn't go upfront half the game.

Diaz nuts (16:30.612)
call.

Dan (16:33.967)
Was that a price thing though? Was it a price thing?

Diaz nuts (16:35.728)
It was a price thing. It was a price thing. The sassy is like for eight, I think in cold for six. And I had specifically for six.

Dan (16:45.114)
this preparing for Harlan's imminent return.

Diaz nuts (16:48.568)
Oh no sorry, Dissassi is 4-9. No this was just because I had to get rid of fucking dickhead, smick ass.

Dan (16:54.31)
Supercast. Dick Macass.

Diaz nuts (16:56.903)
Yep.

Andy (16:57.826)
That made me happy when he went off injured. I was like, that's screwed all you lot until one point and he was injured.

Dan (17:02.67)
I'm just glad he played Andy. I was expecting 10 men on the pitch this week. That was a bonus for me. One extra point towards my second highest points in the league.

Diaz nuts (17:08.777)
Thanks.

Downsets lowest low bars just so we can jump real high

Dan (17:15.546)
Yep, I get to be excited every time. Chelsea, seriously, so watching them, honestly, I don't think I want Sterling in my team anymore.

Andy (17:25.846)
want an attacking player from them. I would want the sassy because I mean, just by the eye test of like, he literally was in the opposition third for like half the game.

Dan (17:32.11)
Mm-hmm. So was Sterling, didn't do much with it. Well that's his job I guess. He did get the assist.

Andy (17:37.278)
I mean, you pay a lot less for the sassy than you do for sterling.

Diaz nuts (17:40.264)
Tell you what though, last two games still and 4 and 6 points.

Dan (17:44.795)
I'm paying 7 million for that though.

Andy (17:46.558)
I enjoyed when he got booked.

Dan (17:48.663)
and then it gets booked often as well which doesn't help and lost bonus points because of it. Great.

Diaz nuts (17:53.684)
4 and 6 points, not terrible.

Andy (17:55.222)
When that booking went through, I still like everyone's point in the hub thing, like that point, I was like, yeah, get it. Book them again.

Dan (18:03.459)
I'm surprised it wasn't the same afterwards. Okay, Man City return to the Premier League on the 27th against Everton. They are away and I guess we can go back to that question we had at the start of the pod. Is Haaland going to be in or out or is he shaking it all about?

Diaz nuts (18:15.121)
Fuck you know.

Diaz nuts (18:19.14)
He was training last week, this week. So I assume he's semi-close.

Dan (18:22.846)
Uh... was that the picture I saw? Because then there was all like the super sleuth comments underneath from the internet like, oh, but that's the group of players behind him, so it means that he's training by himself. That means he's less likely to be starting, right? It's like, fucking hell. You're reading a lot into a singular picture of a guy standing still.

Andy (18:36.206)
I think he's going to start. Fantasy football scout, have him not starting as well. They have Alvarez up front.

Dan (18:41.638)
I don't think he'll start either. I think we've got one more week to sort our teams and get ready for his return.

Diaz nuts (18:48.061)
Hmm.

Andy (18:49.942)
Fantasy Football Scout also have Rashford playing number nine for United this week.

Diaz nuts (18:54.052)
fatty football scouts seemingly on drugs.

Andy (18:57.39)
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised because freaking hell, like, Hoi Linh was terrible.

Dan (19:01.73)
He is, genuinely, it's not just an adjustment thing now, he's just bad. What is that, like 14 or 15 games now he's had?

Andy (19:07.238)
Yeah, but like, come on, like how many chances does Garnacho get to miss as well with like Rashford on the bench? Like I know he's getting in the right positions, but he hits it at the keeper every time, like straight at the keeper.

Dan (19:18.378)
When Rashford gets on the pitch, Andy, what's he doing? Yeah, there's a lot of walking, a lot of dejected walking and not a whole lot of scoring.

Andy (19:21.845)
It's a lot of walking.

Andy (19:28.482)
You know what? I was hoping they'd play Kamwalla again because at least he gave a shit. Like when they conceded the second goal, he like ran and got the ball and was like going straight back to the center. He was the only one.

Dan (19:33.778)
This is

Yeah. I do like it when the kids give a shit. I'd rather just play the kids to give a shit. If we're gonna afford to those seasons. Yeah.

Andy (19:42.25)
At this point, the season's kind of botched. Just drop half the team and play the under 21.

Dan (19:48.31)
I can just go for it, give him a shot. Can't get relegated.

Andy (19:50.102)
I mean, that's what we did when we got like Beckham and the rest of them was like we had to play a team, a youth team kids. Let's do the same. They won like the FA Youth Cup or whatever. They're like a good youth team.

Dan (19:57.503)
Well, can't get relegated and we- that's the- We'll get Europe, can't get relegated, fucking why not?

Andy (20:02.902)
Yeah, exactly. Why are you playing these tosses? Like honestly, I can't stand watching half of them. I'd rather watch the kids lose.

Dan (20:10.874)
Anthony drives me fucking nuts now. He's the most predictable player in the Premiership by a mile.

Andy (20:13.494)
He just runs into people.

Diaz nuts (20:18.252)
I told you, Dwight McNeil would get in the team ahead of Anthony. He fucking would. Anthony is fucking gashed.

Andy (20:22.09)
I don't think Dwight McNeil would get in the head of anything, because Dwight McNeil is also bad.

Dan (20:22.142)
Probably.

Dan (20:26.752)
It's getting, if I was the manager ahead of Anthony, just I don't like Anthony, but that's different.

Andy (20:31.215)
I mean, if it was me, I would play Rashford where Garnacho is and then put Garnacho, or like, it would basically be Rashford and Garnacho on the wings and not Anthony right now. Or I'd play Diallo or Pelestre ahead of both of them.

Dan (20:40.667)
Yeah.

Hmm.

Diaz nuts (20:43.848)
and then McNeil will be on the bench ahead of Anthony.

Dan (20:47.302)
So spin it, we've kind of gone off on a wild tangent here, but we're talking about Chelsea assets. De Sasse, Dom, you brought him in. Sterling, even though he got the assist. Oh, Colwell, he brought the bad one.

Andy (20:47.394)
Till next time.

Andy (20:55.786)
No, he hasn't broke the sassy and he broke the bad one and he broke Cole Willem.

Diaz nuts (20:58.3)
We're not talking about Chelsea. We're talking about Man City. We're not Man City Everton now. Come on, come on. And I can talk about Everton, because Dwight McNeil, for his past five games, has gone. Do we go more recent, or more old, or old to new?

Andy (21:01.63)
Yeah, we're talking about Holland, calm down Dan.

Andy (21:14.038)
How many goals did Calvert-Lewin score this week, Don? Talking about strikers who are amazing at hitting the target.

Diaz nuts (21:18.052)
Let's talk about Dwight McNeil. Dwight McNeil's, let's go old to new, so he went eight points, 14 points, three points, six points, two points. Dwight McNeil's on fucking fire.

Andy (21:28.598)
I like how you lowered your voice for the six, for like the three and the two. Three, two points.

Dan (21:28.9)
Why's it not your team?

Why is not in your team though?

Diaz nuts (21:34.264)
He will be after this Man City match. When I take out Sterling, when I take out Sterling and I put in Dwight McNeil in one week's time.

Dan (21:36.178)
16, 24, 22! Hahaha!

Andy (21:46.03)
Go for it. I would enjoy that very much. Please do.

Dan (21:46.902)
I'll be amazed.

Obviously, I mean, joking about everything assets now, but there are some people that had Mikhalenko, for example. Obviously, you don't want to play him this week because they're going to get battered. But is he worth keeping?

Andy (22:00.81)
Mm-hmm. Mm-mm. Don't think so.

Diaz nuts (22:02.46)
bit presumptuous then. Look at Man City's fucking last couple of games.

Dan (22:04.708)
It's fucking presentuous Tom. You're joking

Dan (22:10.402)
Um, actually, I will wind my neck in a wee bit because you're right, they have not been their usual selves in the past couple of games.

Andy (22:16.162)
They are going to blat Everton this week. Guaranteed like three goal win for C. They're like angry and they're at home.

Dan (22:23.91)
their way revisions of

Andy (22:26.986)
Are they? Oh, maybe they won't win that much time. I think they'll still win though.

Dan (22:31.294)
Because they've gone, draw with Chelsea, draw with Liverpool, draw with Tottenham, lost to Villa, just squeaked it past Luton 2-1 and then drew with Crystal Palace 2-2. They've not had it their way.

Diaz nuts (22:47.092)
having to teach set you a lesson.

Dan (22:47.182)
And with Harland... Ah! I wouldn't... Dom, you fucking ruined it now. You fucking ruined it now, Dominik.

Diaz nuts (22:51.56)
Dwight McNeil. Dwight McNeil is fucking holding class, baby. There comes McNeil.

Dan (22:57.218)
I would take the bet that Dwight Minil will not get more than his turning up points.

Diaz nuts (23:03.152)
Well you just watch, he's gonna fucking kill it. Come on Dwight.

Dan (23:05.727)
He won't eat.

Andy (23:05.73)
They've got a good, they've got a good defense this week and they've got Roderian Stones back at defensive mid as all this week as well.

Dan (23:12.824)
Hmm. On the city side of things though, anyone still have food?

Andy (23:16.478)
I still have food and I'm not gonna drop him with plain Abbotin, am I?

Diaz nuts (23:20.2)
Phil Boy.

Dan (23:20.238)
No, but a lot of people did drop him recently because he was getting mixed in about with Greelish, Doku and the rest.

Andy (23:27.33)
But now Daku's injured and De Bruyne is still injured, Harland injured, I think Ferdinand will play the whole game.

Diaz nuts (23:33.224)
Ducky dead, proydin dead.

Dan (23:33.521)
and

Dan (23:36.846)
I'm just making notes.

Diaz nuts (23:38.967)
Yeah, screw it, right in the back.

Andy (23:40.003)
I tell you what, you know, talking like things that might change though, like Newcastle's defense, like we skipped over a little bit, but what's his faces are almost back, isn't he? Botman. Because he came off the bench this week.

Diaz nuts (23:51.104)
He is back. Yeah, he's back. He's got no flags.

Dan (23:53.253)
Is that gonna change it though?

Andy (23:55.07)
I think it, well, that was what they had at the start. They're almost back to the team that they had at the start of the season now. They're only missing Joel Linton.

Diaz nuts (23:57.14)
Hmm.

Diaz nuts (24:00.826)
at in defense.

Dan (24:02.729)
I don't think it's players, I think it's fatigue. I think they've overplayed a select group of players in more matches than they used to, and they're just looking fucking knackered now when you watch them.

Diaz nuts (24:12.936)
They're still missing Tenali, and they're still missing Barnes, and they're still missing Willock as well. So let's not get them. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Andy (24:20.402)
Anyway, another tangent, blah blah. Back to man City Everton. I think, if you've got City players, obviously you're playing them against Everton. If you've got Everton players, I guess that's why you bought them.

Dan (24:24.6)
Hahaha!

Dan (24:29.146)
Yeah, but what other city players do you have? What other city players do you have?

Diaz nuts (24:33.033)
Uh, no.

Andy (24:34.718)
Everyone's probably only got Foden and Harland, right? Like I think those are the only two left that most people have. Yeah, maybe. And if you've got any of them, you play them against Everton.

Diaz nuts (24:39.52)
or Alvarez possibly.

Dan (24:46.138)
Would you start investing in any of their players, given that you think they're angry now?

Andy (24:49.162)
once Holland comes back.

Diaz nuts (24:52.776)
Thank you.

Andy (24:52.979)
Not this week. Holland, I will invest in next week, right? When you come back.

Dan (24:55.81)
Obviously yeah, but out with Holland, I mean like Vardy or for example or Grealish.

Andy (25:00.822)
What are their fixtures?

Dan (25:02.918)
and

Diaz nuts (25:03.152)
Everton, Sheffield United, Newcastle, Burnley, Brentford, Everton again.

Dan (25:09.314)
I was thinking, just thinking of it double kicking.

Andy (25:09.73)
Wow. Maybe I will invest then because that's like several potential kick-ins in a few weeks.

Dan (25:15.394)
I'm tempted towards someone like a guard, if I could pick the right defender that's going to get all those matches, I think there's at least two or three clean sheets in there.

Andy (25:24.275)
Mm. So the top five transfers in this week, obviously number one, quarter of a million people bringing in Dominic the donkey because it's Christmas time. And then number two, Trent Alexander Arnold. Number three, Kudus for West Ham because he's doing the business again. Alvarez is number four. I don't understand that one either. And then little Pedro number five.

Dan (25:37.288)
Mm-hmm.

not a bad show. Looks good.

Diaz nuts (25:40.25)
Mmm.

Dan (25:44.37)
Don't get it.

Diaz nuts (25:51.188)
Stranger people pick up kudos now when West never come up against Arsenal and Brighton for the next two games.

Andy (25:57.558)
Are they fixed your proof though? They beat Wolves, they beat United, they beat Palace, they beat... Have they beaten anyone good this year? Newcastle they beat? Yeah. Well to be fair, I don't think they didn't play anyone good since like... They played Liverpool and City in game week 5 and 6.

Dan (26:04.506)
That's it, because you're not going... That's the bad list, Andy.

Diaz nuts (26:07.417)
Yeah.

Dan (26:14.886)
If you're going through the naughty and nice list, that's the naughty list. He's not played anyone in the nice list yet.

Andy (26:17.398)
Well, so their last, since game week 12, they've win, draw, win, loss, win, win. So they've won at like five out of the last seven with a draw and a loss.

Dan (26:24.732)
I'm-

Dan (26:29.902)
watched a lot of the West Ham games though and I've just not been sold on them to be honest. I don't think they're going to beat Arsenal away.

Andy (26:33.514)
It beats verse.

Diaz nuts (26:38.177)
now plus it's a london dive in it

Andy (26:38.542)
Kudus. Kudus specifically though. Kudus since game week 11. 11, 1, 10, 9, 2, 16, 9. I can see why people are getting them.

Dan (26:40.691)
Oh, Jesus, yeah.

Dan (26:45.511)
Mm-hmm.

Dan (26:51.634)
What was the two twos?

Andy (26:53.142)
The two twos were Fulham and Tottenham.

Dan (26:57.035)
And that was in the form of going through that being good period.

Andy (26:59.998)
It was a way in a way and against so full of me played 63 minutes. He only played two.

Dan (27:04.04)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (27:04.24)
Yeah, that would have been during European time as well.

Dan (27:07.099)
Hmm.

Andy (27:07.602)
I don't know, Kudus is a decent shout. I mean, I probably wouldn't pick him up for the Arsenal game, but would pick him up after the Arsenal game because then it's Brighton, Sheffield United, Bournemouth, Man United.

Dan (27:11.911)
No.

Diaz nuts (27:12.146)
No.

Dan (27:19.808)
It's worth it.

Andy (27:21.238)
Could be. Could be a risk if you know if you're going to make up ground in the league. Like he's definitely a differential because he's only owned by like, what's his ownership? How do you find ownership now?

Dan (27:34.942)
That is fucking bizarre, I'm just looking at the Everton Man City match, by the way, it's at quarter past eight. Why quarter past?

Andy (27:36.523)
6%

Diaz nuts (27:42.28)
in the morning.

Dan (27:43.565)
No, in the evening.

Andy (27:45.77)
In the morning it'd be weird.

Dan (27:47.266)
To be weird, yeah, I'd be really surprised to end on. No, no, quarter past eight. Well, like the Waxham Day Man United Aston Villa match is at eight, but then the Everton Man City and the Arsenal West Ham are both at 8.15.

Diaz nuts (27:48.725)
be weird. Dan said it was weird like, fucking hell.

Andy (27:59.222)
Mine's gonna be all messed up because I'm gonna be on a flight to Los Angeles at the time.

Dan (28:03.314)
I may not even get to see it.

Diaz nuts (28:05.98)
You'll get to see Dwight McNeil taking class, pushing Man City's doors in.

Andy (28:06.102)
I don't think I will. Kind of upset about that.

Dan (28:08.57)
Is this a problem though? Do I make Neil back, doing in the back doors? Don't think he's going to. I'm sure you survive. Brighton vs Spurs is the first game on Thursday. It's at 7.30. Spurs? Sun felt pretty good this week.

Andy (28:14.978)
I'll console myself at Disneyland, it'll be okay.

Diaz nuts (28:33.213)
I guess you might have. And you're on mute, you twat.

Andy (28:37.294)
Shut up. I think Spurs are good. I'm going to play both of my Spurs defenders this week because I don't think Brighton are that good right now.

Dan (28:37.895)
Ha ha!

Dan (28:45.39)
You got Poro and your doggy this week, yeah? Yeah.

Diaz nuts (28:45.839)
now.

Andy (28:47.102)
Yeah, although that doesn't feel... I never liked playing Defenders away.

Dan (28:51.998)
Hmm, you always advocate for the home team. I can see that being a 2-1.

Andy (28:57.17)
Yeah, I don't think it's gonna be clean sheets, which is kind of annoying, because then you're hoping that they're gonna get assists, which they might, because they have before.

Dan (29:00.303)
This is... Yeah.

Diaz nuts (29:04.25)
Yeah.

Dan (29:05.522)
horror especially.

Diaz nuts (29:08.165)
Double P.

Andy (29:08.626)
Yeah. So yeah, if you've got spurs players, I'd be playing them.

Dan (29:12.13)
Would you be interested in picking up someone like Brandon Johnson? It's pretty cheap.

Diaz nuts (29:18.487)
The way you phrase that makes it sound as if you're hooking him off the back of a van. Would you be interested?

Andy (29:22.465)
uh Are you trying are you spelling a brendan johnson? Tom that cocks your microphone you moron. Otherwise i'm gonna have to fix it all in post

Dan (29:25.535)
I've got one Brendan Johnson.

Dan (29:30.01)
got one Brendan Johnson. He's 5.8 is why I say that to be honest.

Andy (29:33.866)
He's only little though, isn't he, Autolozy?

Dan (29:36.708)
It doesn't say on the thing, I mean, I can't help you that.

Andy (29:39.619)
find out.

Diaz nuts (29:39.857)
Christ.

Andy (29:44.034)
6 foot 1, nevermind.

Dan (29:46.502)
I look at the points, you only really did the biz against Everton to be fair.

Diaz nuts (29:47.341)
big boy.

Andy (29:50.302)
I don't think I want Brendan Johnson. I think the only players you want from, if you don't have them, is Poro and maybe Sun, if you want to go like double premium with no Holland.

Diaz nuts (29:52.149)
No, no.

Dan (30:01.53)
Don't want sun this week.

Diaz nuts (30:01.742)
if you're flush.

Andy (30:03.403)
Why not?

Dan (30:04.67)
Because he's one of those players that has off and on again weeks, isn't he? He's gone 10 to 17 to 7, it's going to be 2 again.

Diaz nuts (30:07.113)
Oh god, he's on his off week.

Andy (30:08.076)
Ah yeah?

Andy (30:12.801)
Is it like a home and away thing or is it just random?

Dan (30:15.974)
Uh, it is a home and a way thing- well no, that's a lie. It's random, yeah. It gives no fucks. Moving on! Well, Brighton, actually, is worth talking about Pascal Grills, because you mentioned the Grills question when we were watching them.

Diaz nuts (30:20.077)
random.

Andy (30:22.746)
Okay, nevermind, next.

Andy (30:31.122)
He is good. He's a good player. I'm not going to pick him up, but he is good.

Dan (30:33.654)
worth picking up.

Diaz nuts (30:36.789)
He's a medium-sized fish in a very small pond at the moment.

Dan (30:40.29)
Are we talking height again? I'm getting confused.

Diaz nuts (30:43.733)
It probably is.

Andy (30:43.974)
I don't know why, like you can be mean to Pascal Gross, but like in the games where he's played 90 minutes, so he only played 33 minutes against Chelsea for some reason, but in the games where he played 90, he's gone 9-12-7-1-7 in the last five, and that's against Palace Arsenal, Brentford, Burnley, and Forrest.

Dan (30:57.249)
Peace. Bye, Pick.

Dan (31:05.818)
I guess the concern for me is at least 6.4 for that kind of return. It doesn't feel like you're getting enough.

Andy (31:11.906)
Well, I mean, what is his rank? It's not the best. He's 16th at that point. Well, the problem is for that points per rank thing. They take that out of everybody, out of all the games. So it's like he's only 16th then.

Dan (31:21.745)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (31:23.673)
Yeah, they should have some qualifier around as to what gets counted and what doesn't get counted.

Dan (31:27.773)
They don't have like a list of points per minute. I thought they had points per minute

Andy (31:31.798)
They do. His form is six. But the points per minute is like divided by games. Right? Like it's by total games.

Dan (31:40.819)
Hmm.

Yeah, I guess. Okay. Last match of the game week is Arsenal vs West Ham. Arsenal 1-1 Liverpool.

Diaz nuts (31:57.363)
that's what it's going to be.

Dan (31:57.872)
On one you think, Tom?

Andy (31:59.342)
I think I'll still win that one. It's a home game, isn't it?

Diaz nuts (32:01.029)
Meh.

Dan (32:04.094)
Are they missing anyone? Ask them.

Diaz nuts (32:04.209)
there one more. Awesome.

Andy (32:07.854)
Thanks.

Diaz nuts (32:10.821)
Not on the top of my head. They've got party back this week.

Dan (32:12.722)
Havertz is out. Wasn't a big piece in the puzzle. No, they've got a full healthy team at home.

Andy (32:20.128)
Yeah, it's almost the whole team. Yeah. I think they'll win too. I think that's a win.

Dan (32:22.814)
I think they'll win.

Dan (32:27.058)
So with that in mind, who do you want from them?

Andy (32:32.194)
From Arsenal? I've got saliva and soccer and that's probably what I'll stay with.

Dan (32:33.63)
Mm-hmm.

Diaz nuts (32:40.562)
white on top and that's what I've got.

Dan (32:45.478)
got Saliba and Gabrielle which was pretty cool actually last week getting 10 points against Liverpool.

And then on the flip side, the West Ham fat bone. Is that it?

Diaz nuts (32:58.993)
Thank you, Deez.

Dan (33:00.594)
Well we spoke about kudos actually, I want to look up his... Did you look his points already Andy? kudos

Andy (33:00.674)
Foodies maybe.

Andy (33:04.534)
Yeah, they're good. He's actually done really good, especially in the last six.

Dan (33:10.844)
Hmm

Diaz nuts (33:11.952)
I wouldn't say he's better than Dwight McNeil.

Dan (33:15.791)
No, I know I look up Dwight McNeil, no.

Andy (33:16.266)
I mean one of them has a 17 in there and it's not Dwight McNeil.

Dan (33:19.706)
Look at Dwight McNeil now. Dwight McNeil is awful dominant. I don't want to keep talking about him. He's gone in reverse order just because it's easy to read down the list. He got two against Tottenham, then six Burnley, three Chelsea, 14 Newcastle, eight Forest, two, three, one. He's just, he's had a wee bit of form and then it's all fallen away. Unfortunately.

Diaz nuts (33:27.429)
It's going really well.

Andy (33:44.942)
I tell you what, if you go on points over the season and I look at my midfield, the ones I need to get rid of is, it's freaking Phil Foden.

Dan (33:56.482)
Yeah, if you were to pick the perfect midfield, fit perfect midfield right now, it'd be Salahsun, Bau and Saka Gordon.

Diaz nuts (33:56.645)
Phil Borg.

Andy (34:03.498)
Yeah, and that's what I've got. I've got Salah, Saka, Gordon, Bowen and Foden. So I need to change Foden to Sun and then I have the best midfield in the game.

Diaz nuts (34:13.253)
until January when both Saller and Sun go on international.

Dan (34:17.186)
Yeah, call us a John.

Andy (34:18.302)
Yeah. I don't know, like that's funny.

Dan (34:22.418)
Hmm.

Diaz nuts (34:23.569)
hilarious.

Andy (34:24.394)
And strikers wise, I have two out of the three. I have Watkins and Solanke.

Dan (34:28.572)
Top 3 is Harland, Watkins, Salonka.

Andy (34:30.794)
Defenders is just like completely random because the top four defenders is Alexander Arnold, Trippie, Asa Leibes and Chenko.

Diaz nuts (34:31.29)
Maybe.

Dan (34:37.562)
I think you probably could. I was just wondering that now. I was just wondering if you could buy the perfect team.

Andy (34:40.17)
You can't have the perfect team, I don't think. I think it's part, I think Harland's dollar son screws you.

Dan (34:47.454)
because you've got like a 4.8 and a 5.6 and yeah, it's too expensive, especially with Trippier and Trent. Yeah, too many pre-memes. Okay, that is all of the games in the week. Andy, do you want to run us through the Red, Blue League?

Andy (34:55.287)
Yep.

Andy (35:02.998)
You just make me click on different things, so it's like awkward when we come back to it. Oh, did you- before we go to that, are you two still in the cup or not? In the, um, the regular cup.

Dan (35:05.94)
Exactly.

Diaz nuts (35:06.309)
Click a bit more, click a bit more.

Diaz nuts (35:10.915)
I'm not in the cup.

Dan (35:11.382)
Oh don't make me check this Don't I lost the overall cup. Um 73 points the guy got in game week 17. Fuck me Yeah, yeah, the bravka the bravka celeba simicas gabriel poro bowen gordon palma sala Fuck me like hit like a nine out of 11. I can't fight that

Diaz nuts (35:14.541)
I'm not in the cup.

Andy (35:14.922)
I think I'm still in. I batted the guy this week. He only got 19 points.

Andy (35:24.022)
Oh, you got cooked. And then we...

Andy (35:35.31)
Hahaha

Andy (35:39.294)
I won again this week 49 to 19.

Dan (35:42.283)
Ugh, that's rough.

Andy (35:44.618)
into the next round of the cup. Okay, go back to our league now. When does, do we have a cup for our league? Okay.

Dan (35:50.002)
It doesn't kick off for a while because it's volume based.

Diaz nuts (35:52.541)
Yeah, it doesn't go until Gameweek 33.

Andy (35:56.895)
Okay, all right, back to the league. Okay, 10, Billy's in 10th, 989. So almost the whole top 10 over a thousand points now. And then.

Dan (36:07.902)
Tommy Vovre taking Billy Long listening. Jesus.

Andy (36:10.674)
Yes, yeah. I think Dominic's just been dropping down. Billy's actually catching him. Ha ha ha. Yeah, Billy actually made up another like nine points this week. Ola's in ninth, Dominic's in eighth. He didn't get the lowest points in the top 10 this week. That was a plus. He got saved by Alan Sinclair in sixth. He only got 30.

Diaz nuts (36:13.101)
No, didn't work. Oh, yeah. See you the way around.

Dan (36:16.85)
hahahaha

Dan (36:23.429)
Ah, jeez.

Andy (36:36.018)
Maheke Oscar in seventh, Alan Sinclair with 30 points. What happened to his team to get 30 points? Jesus, what? Did he get any returns? He got, he had Salah and Sun, but he capped Watkins. And so he had, he went Martinez blank, Saliba blank, Poro blank, Liverimento blank, Gordon blank, Sun and Salah both got seven, then Saka, Palmer, Cunha, Watkins. Did he have?

Dan (36:41.372)
Must've been bad.

Dan (37:01.726)
Not bad team, look at you.

Andy (37:03.25)
Is Benchi adding Kunku as first sub with seven points? So that's rough. That's rough. Okay, nevermind. And then, so fifth, Conor Gunn, fourth, Hobie Miller, third, Aaron Mill, and Steve's in second now. And then Tobias Scott is first. Did Tobias, his team's called Nkukumbo, but he doesn't have Nkunku.

Dan (37:05.714)
That sucks. I hate when that happens.

Diaz nuts (37:09.061)
Okay.

Diaz nuts (37:23.697)
Joke first.

Dan (37:28.67)
having Kunkku with the team. That's a let down.

Andy (37:33.679)
Yeah, the Archer on the bench and he had ariola on the bench as well. 8 point Archer, 8 point ariola.

Dan (37:36.378)
saying that my team's are you sure I don't have either are you or sure my team so

Andy (37:41.962)
No, probably good this week. Yeah. No, don't have the cat kicker in mind. I tell you what, he looked the whole game like he was injured as well. He was like semi-limping like the entire game.

Dan (37:44.094)
I don't know, do you have Kurt Zumer in your team Andy?

Dan (37:56.04)
Was that who you called out in the text? You're like, number four engine already? The fuck is this?

Andy (37:57.515)
Yeah?

Andy (38:00.706)
So seventh place, Mohe Kiyosuka got 68 points because he capped Salanki, 34 points. And in midfield, he had Kudus and Salah. Wow, good job by him. And he played Arreola.

Diaz nuts (38:05.625)
You know why. Yeah, it's a fucking selenky, innit? Bastard.

Dan (38:07.908)
Oh, it's a good pick.

Dan (38:13.554)
Good pick.

Diaz nuts (38:15.029)
And he had a real look.

Dan (38:17.278)
But let's talk about the league that matters, shall we? Let's go on to the one that everyone cares about. So in last place is my eldest son, Noah, with 36 points in the game week for 9.55. What went wrong for him there? Oh, he had two, three players that didn't play. I think the attention span's gone on that one. It may become a five-person league instead of a six-person league, unfortunately.

Andy (38:38.534)
Oh wow, how long do we give people before we boot them out?

Diaz nuts (38:43.365)
Do it, Grace Bird.

Dan (38:44.618)
Yeah, I'll see if he's interested in doing this to you. I mean, it's fucking Christmas. No way I'm going to get him off his bloody computer. He's out. He's a casualty.

Andy (38:51.17)
Tell them this is, we're doing the podcast on Christmas Eve, aren't we? So.

Diaz nuts (38:51.494)
Tant.

Just get him to download the app on his new phone, it'll be fucking sorted.

Andy (38:57.622)
That's true, he's got a phone.

Dan (38:57.67)
There we go. Let's get a new phone. In fifth place is myself. 44 points in the game week. The second highest. Just to frame it the way Andy frames things. 9-5-7. 9-5-7 for the game week. Dad in fourth with 37 points. Only one higher than Noah who had three players out. Jesus. Dad had everyone in and did really badly. 5-1s? That's horrific.

Andy (39:07.995)
It is second, yeah, second high.

Andy (39:18.894)
That's not a bad way.

Andy (39:22.678)
Yeah, but look at his team, it's brutal. He's got, but he's losing, he's missing three players this week. At, he has like Palmer, Simicas and Cash all out this week.

Dan (39:34.886)
Yep, and Flack and Udoggy and Alvarez can come in.

Andy (39:38.674)
Udagi and Alvarez will come in, yeah, but he's gonna be one man down. Unless he does his transgo for one of the others.

Dan (39:45.662)
So he was 37 for 960, and he got 49 points in the game week, the highest out of the game week for us for 979. I just wanted to make sure everyone was understood. Dom.

Diaz nuts (39:54.149)
That hasn't been mentioned enough in this podcast though, by the way.

Andy (39:54.99)
Good week.

No hits this week for me. No hits.

Dan (40:00.562)
Dom in second, 39 points in the game week for 993. And then Eli remains top, my middle son, with 42 points in the game week for 1025. So he's still 32 points ahead.

Andy (40:14.338)
Closing down though, it's not extended anymore.

Dan (40:17.494)
He did extend. He extended by three points.

Andy (40:18.698)
No, I think the leap... not over me, didn't.

Dan (40:22.539)
It isn't just you versus the league Andy, it's not the Andy Adams versus the Adams Family League.

Andy (40:24.586)
That's how I view this. Like it is me versus League. Once I'm backed up again, then it will like, like normal orders restored.

Dan (40:33.012)
I hope you have a shocking week this week Andy. As terrible sportsmanship as that is, I hope you have a shocking week.

Andy (40:35.206)
Unlikely, Dan, unlikely. Cause you know what I'm going to do this week? I'm going to capsulink you this week.

Diaz nuts (40:41.206)
The issue with me wishing Andy has a bad week is that I will probably have a bad week if he does.

Andy (40:44.566)
Yeah, because you copy my theme. Yeah.

Dan (40:44.71)
Half your team is on this. Yeah, exactly. At least some of us are trying some of the different stuff.

Diaz nuts (40:50.041)
It's called a template for a reason, though.

Andy (40:51.906)
Dominik went fully defensive, like just copy my team.

Dan (40:52.186)
Yeah. All right. Speaking of templates and making transfers, what changes are you going to make in the last four minutes here, Andy? You first.

Andy (41:01.57)
Why is it the last four minutes then? Oh, okay. I was gonna say, calm down. What was I gonna do? I was gonna do something. Oh yeah, I might do like, I might get rid of my bench defender for someone better than the one that I've got right now. So I might go like, yeah, Balor Van Hecke out for like Joe Mez maybe.

Dan (41:03.09)
45 minute podcast then, bang on.

Diaz nuts (41:06.734)
it in.

Dan (41:07.463)
very specifically going out.

Dan (41:19.482)
You're gonna get bail out, weren't you?

Dan (41:25.01)
Okay, cheers bello.

Diaz nuts (41:26.349)
Ah, you're getting the bell out. Fucking hell, then.

Dan (41:29.822)
Tom.

Andy (41:30.13)
Whip the bell out of the team.

Diaz nuts (41:33.546)
I went from broken simica to Levi-Cole due to budgetary constraints.

Andy (41:39.246)
scraping the bargain bin.

Diaz nuts (41:41.066)
I am.

Dan (41:42.094)
I think I can play a full team without to make a change so I might do that. Although I really hate Evan Darwin in my team. Like pathologically hate Evan Darwin in my team.

Andy (41:52.918)
Why do you still have me so bad?

Diaz nuts (41:54.701)
He's so fucking bad.

Dan (41:54.87)
E is so bad. E is so fucking bad. It's so fucking painful.

Andy (41:56.97)
He's like really bad, like if you watch him play, like there's no chance of him scoring.

Dan (42:01.822)
Yeah, it is pretty bad. But we'll see. That would be the change if I was going to make it.

Andy (42:05.714)
Yeah. You know what's interesting now? Is that, oh, that's just the game week. That's not the whole season, right? Okay. I was just looking for like team of the week. I only had one player in the team of the week this week, but that's fine. I thought it was team of the season for a second, but holy crap. That's bad. Yeah. It's just, okay. So yeah, I need, I have two transfers though, and I don't like carrying one, so I will do something.

Dan (42:19.586)
You're like, wow, I've got some hell of a differentials going on.

All right.

Dan (42:30.062)
You have to do something. And it'll probably be a bell.

Andy (42:32.386)
Probably Bella Van Hecke, yeah. Although, Belle got seven points this week because Luton beat frigging Newcastle, didn't they?

Dan (42:38.598)
Yeah, but they're not going to do that again. Let's be honest. World beaters are looting. They're playing at Sheffield United. So they could actually.

Diaz nuts (42:41.355)
now.

Andy (42:41.577)
Who are they beating this week?

Andy (42:46.383)
Let's see, they might win this week and they might win the following week because they've got Sheffield United, Chelsea Burnley.

Dan (42:52.53)
Take it all back.

Andy (42:54.242)
Loot up loot. I'm gonna keep belting van hecke out.

Dan (42:57.606)
Well then, heck out.

Andy (42:59.158)
Yeah, he's been rubbish. I've had Van Heck. And you know what? He hasn't returned the entire season. Like literally, he's played and he's played like he's played literally like 15 games and he's the best he's done is a three.

Dan (43:06.302)
Have you got him?

Dan (43:10.864)
Okay.

Dan (43:14.582)
Oof, big scores. How'd he get a three?

Andy (43:15.978)
Wow. Against Everton, I don't know what he did. He must've got a bonus point, yeah. Where's the bonus thing? Yeah, he got a bonus point against Everton. He got one bonus point.

Dan (43:18.718)
They got a bonus point.

Dan (43:23.953)
That was a bad match.

That was a bad match. If Van Heck's getting the bonus point.

Andy (43:29.194)
Yeah, it was a 1-1. 1-1 Van Heck bonus point. All right, well, we'll see people. When's the next match week after this one?

Dan (43:34.023)
Jesus.

Yep. We then spin out to the 30th of December. So pretty sharp again. Yeah, three days. Yeah, take your stuff to Hawaii. We got the 27th as the last game, so we pod on the 28th. And then we'll have something out ready for game week 20.

Andy (43:43.89)
Oh, so it's not long. So I have to take my stuff to Hawaii is what we're saying.

Andy (43:55.294)
Alright, well, freaking hell, there's only a couple of continents left, and I've potted from everywhere?

Dan (44:00.158)
Chip Chop 2, let's go.

Diaz nuts (44:01.957)
Thankfully after that, on the Tuesday the 2nd there's a game and then there's not another game until Saturday the 13th, so you have a 10 day break afterwards.

Dan (44:11.559)
Take a breather.

Andy (44:11.63)
That doesn't really help me because that means I have to do two Hawaii podcasts in that break.

Dan (44:15.575)
Bam bam, and then take a breather.

all right

Andy (44:20.354)
All right.

How do I stop this? Oh, that button.