GW21 FPL: Dom is doing it (wildcard) Live!

Summary
The Premier League is back with a discussion on upcoming matches and player selections. Chelsea vs Fulham is analyzed, with a focus on Fulham's value and Brentford's performance. The potential picks from Chelsea's squad are discussed, along with the Newcastle vs Man City match. Aston Villa's recent form and upcoming fixtures are evaluated. The Everton vs Aston Villa match is reviewed, followed by a discussion on the Man United vs Spurs game. The new defender at Spurs is mentioned, and the performance and player options at Man United are examined. The conversation covers various topics related to fantasy football players, including the evaluation of Arsenal defenders and the consideration of Martin Odegaard in fantasy teams. The hosts also discuss the injury status of Jarrod Bowen and preview the upcoming matches between Arsenal and Crystal Palace, Bournemouth and Liverpool, and Brighton and Wolves. The conversation concludes with an update on the league standings. In this episode, the hosts review their performance in the previous gameweek and discuss the key players and strategies that led to success. They also share their transfer decisions and the use of wildcards. The conversation then shifts to team selection and different strategies for the upcoming gameweek. The hosts debate the captain selection and discuss the potential of Brighton's fixture list. They analyze the performance of Pascal Gross and consider whether to stick with Ivan Toney as a differential pick.

Takeaways
Consider the performance and form of players when making fantasy football decisions.

• Evaluate the injury status of players before making transfers.
• Preview upcoming matches to identify potential opportunities for fantasy points.
• Regularly check the league standings to track progress and identify areas for improvement.

Chapters
00:00
Premier League is back

01:09
Chelsea vs Fulham

02:48
Fulham's value and Brentford's performance

04:11
Chelsea players to consider

05:51
Newcastle vs Man City

06:43
Aston Villa's form and fixtures

08:02
Everton vs Aston Villa

10:00
Man United vs Spurs

13:26
Spurs' new defender

16:08
Richarlison and Everton's fixtures

19:15
Man United's performance and players

21:52
Discussion on Fantasy Football Players

23:10
Preview of Arsenal vs Crystal Palace

27:00
Consideration of Martin Odegaard in Fantasy Team

29:50
Evaluation of Arsenal Defenders

31:30
Update on Jarrod Bowen's Injury

33:09
Discussion on Bournemouth vs Liverpool

35:10
Analysis of Brighton vs Wolves

39:39
League Standings

44:44
Reviewing Gameweek Performance

45:13
Transfers and Wildcards

46:38
Team Selection and Strategies

47:47
Captain Selection

49:05
Brighton's Fixture List

49:28
Player Analysis: Pascal Gross

50:14
Stick with Ivan Toney

Transcript

Dan (00:01.646)
Hello and welcome to Red Red Blue, I'm Don Adams.

Diaz nuts (00:05.118)
I'm Wildcard Adams.

Andy (00:07.468)
I'm... that's not what we call it. I'm Randy Adams.

Dan (00:07.534)
That's what we call them.

Dan (00:14.798)
So we survived another football drought and the Premier League is coming back to us with less of a bang and more of a whimper because it's actually spread across two weekends which is actually pretty shit. You're going to need to carefully manage your team around the Afcon and Asian Cup D Parties as well as look at other injuries, look at the youth thunder thighs. Finally, you'll need to decide on Harlan Yeh or Harlan Ney. So let's just get stuck right in. The first match tomorrow night is Burnley vs Luton.

Diaz nuts (00:42.342)
It's wank. Skip.

Dan (00:45.102)
Should we move on? Skip, next. Loving that championship match. All right. Showing your age there by calling the First Division, Andy.

Andy (00:47.709)
That's a prime First Division game.

Andy (00:55.26)
I know, all right. Freaking championship, it makes it sound better than it does.

Dan (00:58.894)
Jumped at wannabes. The Saturday match is lunchtime, Chelsea vs Fulham. This is where your potential captain's coming in Andy.

Andy (01:09.064)
Yeah, big carploma, gonna do full of them.

Diaz nuts (01:09.262)
skip.

Dan (01:12.878)
So we were talking about Fulham being a decent side like two or three pods ago. Is that now vanished? Are we not caring anymore?

Andy (01:22.3)
Turns out, as we frequently are, we were completely wrong. Ha ha ha!

Dan (01:25.07)
No one listens for actual advice.

Diaz nuts (01:26.334)
I don't know if I'm wrong.

I don't know if I'm wrong, but also they have like one of the best fixtures coming up for the next five. So there is still value there, I think somewhere.

Andy (01:38.344)
Didn't I see a thing that Brentford have won more games in the last however many at Stanford Bridge than Chelsea have?

Dan (01:45.358)
Yeah, because they had that unfortunate doubling up of the Cup games. Fulham though, so obviously Jimenez, is his head still broken? After he managed to score his first header. Because he got injured. He got injured, didn't he?

Andy (01:59.104)
Did he break it again?

Diaz nuts (01:59.466)
It says not in the game.

Andy (02:04.328)
Was it a noggin injury? I don't think it was a noggin injury. I think he's okay.

Dan (02:04.334)
Let's search for Raul. Oh no, he's back in.

Dan (02:09.934)
no no wouldn't be okay so he's back in the game would you take him given what we saw before

Andy (02:16.676)
No, I don't think I want full-on plays. I think like I'm also like the Karl Palmer thing, by the way, is like Super freaking risky because Chelsea are like half the time abject matching more than half the time abject shit

Dan (02:28.59)
Yep. Feels like just reaching into a random grab bag and hoping you're coming out with something good. On the Chelsea side, you've obviously named our favourite player Colton Ploomer, the one that we can't pronounce. Well, I can't pronounce. What about Sterling, what about DeSassi, what about all the other Chelsea players? Which would you take? Well, you're in a wildcard, Dom. Which are you going to take? There's a question.

Diaz nuts (02:48.534)
What about them then?

Diaz nuts (02:53.618)
I've taken Carl Porma just because he seems to... No, no, no. I said I'd taken before he'd said that. And if we go way back in the season, I think I had Carl Porma before Andy did in the first place. But other Chelsea's I've taken, Mr. Gusto in defense just because he's super cheap as a fifth defender.

Andy (02:56.812)
because I did.

Dan (02:57.774)
Because I'm the idiot, yeah.

Andy (03:07.843)
Mm-hmm.

Andy (03:13.512)
Why? Come on. Calm down. No one's picking good dogs.

Dan (03:17.294)
What's this minutes recently?

Diaz nuts (03:19.576)
uh 1990-79.

Dan (03:22.35)
Okay, so he's got a game at least.

Andy (03:24.436)
I think you've got brain worms.

Diaz nuts (03:26.058)
Yeah, before that, he went one zero zero.

Dan (03:30.958)
That'd be the brain worms. Um, Sterling, make dreamy, I've got him.

Andy (03:37.428)
What has he done? What's he done for us lately?

Diaz nuts (03:37.522)
No, get fucked. Nothing.

Dan (03:40.27)
not a whole lot to be fair i don't believe i can tell you now uh... he didn't play for two games that doesn't help

Andy (03:48.724)
You can't get points if you don't play.

Diaz nuts (03:48.874)
Yep, he did. Fuck all for me. Absolutely fuck all.

Dan (03:50.51)
I've heard this, yeah, points, mean prizes and all that, so... Literally nothing. Uh, is he actually gonna play? What's the scout saying? That's a really interesting question.

Diaz nuts (04:02.119)
I wouldn't trust the scout.

Dan (04:04.878)
Trust a scout more than I trust you Dominic.

Diaz nuts (04:05.898)
But I am thinking.

Diaz nuts (04:11.406)
Let's get rid of Gusto. You convinced me already.

Dan (04:11.918)
I'll have a look.

Andy (04:14.081)
I'm like busy like workshopping his team while we're trying to do a podcast

Dan (04:16.078)
Let's what this is. The call is we'll just rename it to the Dominic Adams wildcard pod.

Andy (04:20.8)
like slowly mumble into himself while trying to record a podcast.

Dan (04:23.15)
Oh, so the Scout has them in, they have Palmer in the middle behind them, with Madueki on the other side. It's not...

Diaz nuts (04:24.763)
This sad thing into madness.

Diaz nuts (04:33.842)
All-Star players. Sounds really good, dad.

Andy (04:35.42)
Yeah, there you go. Remember when Don was shouting and Kunkku.

Dan (04:39.278)
Mm-hmm. I do remember that. What's interesting is obviously, no Jackson because he's gone off to the cup. So maybe even Kung Fu can actually solidify his place. Reese James has done what Reese James does best and got injured.

Diaz nuts (04:42.485)
Oh, fuck.

Diaz nuts (04:53.57)
Let's go to Dicky Tubby.

Andy (04:55.72)
Reece James is so bad, Chelsea is so bad. I wonder like if, I think there's no way Pacatino gets sacked though this year, right? Like they give him the whole season at least. Yeah.

Dan (05:03.47)
other ways.

Diaz nuts (05:04.727)
Yeah, what's the point?

Dan (05:06.894)
That's Bully, innit? He'll just do what the fuck he wants. Maybe we'll get... Maybe we'll get James Corden to come and do the managing for him instead. He's getting quality information from him anyway. Or could they?

Andy (05:08.913)
It does like sack him people.

Andy (05:16.264)
I mean, he does have like, he probably has a 14 year contract though.

Dan (05:20.494)
Could they just bring Frank Lampard back on his 14 year contract? Because he must still be in contract, right? I go for Lampard round three. Alright, so effectively what we're saying is for Chelsea, obviously Palma is the best asset. Other assets you could pick would be possible defenders. They've got Fulham that should be a win possible clean for them. And if you're a fool like me, then you've still got Dreamy, Rukimi. But...

Diaz nuts (05:20.673)
Yeah.

Andy (05:25.66)
Are we still on the contract? Yeah. Maybe that's the strategy.

Dan (05:51.022)
We'll move on. So.

Diaz nuts (05:51.562)
Just a waste of seven million.

Andy (05:53.612)
It is a waste of money. Like Raheem, I would not advise it. People don't have him and they're on a wild card, would not bring him in.

Dan (06:00.366)
I was about to say not everyone's on a wildcard Dom, some of us can't afford to just willy-nilly change our plays all around. Some of us are-

Andy (06:04.244)
Yeah, don't. Well, technically you can. You do have a wildcard, so you could if you wanted to.

Diaz nuts (06:05.789)
It's dumb. Asshole.

Diaz nuts (06:10.342)
Wait, hold on a second. I should have spoken a second. Mr. Can't Afford, how much points have you taken as a hit so far this week?

Dan (06:10.35)
No, that'll be silly.

Dan (06:17.198)
I took both my African players out so actually that's only minus 4, minus 4 I think or minus 8

Andy (06:21.374)
8 point hit.

Okay. I love you guys like kitten constantly. This is fantastic.

Dan (06:29.262)
Well, my thought behind that one is that not having an 11 players would be an issue. I'd rather have players that are going to play.

Andy (06:40.872)
I'm not criticizing you dude again. Keep going.

Dan (06:43.438)
No, I'm good. Newcastle versus Man City is the second game on the first Saturday that we're looking at.

Diaz nuts (06:43.51)
Keep going, keep going. Hit harder.

Diaz nuts (06:53.523)
often.

Andy (06:55.048)
Yeah. No, I don't think so. Kevin's gonna play, but Holland's not gonna play, I don't think.

Dan (06:55.214)
is how I'm gonna play.

Diaz nuts (06:57.674)
Who cares about how I'm playing? Is Kevin De Bruyne going to play?

Dan (07:02.83)
Is there any wildcats?

Diaz nuts (07:03.51)
I need to get Kevin in. No, he's not yet.

Phil Foden is, and Kyle Walker is.

Andy (07:09.938)
And then up. Yeah, Phil's great. He scored twice in the cup, didn't he, as well?

Diaz nuts (07:13.55)
So Phil's in, Kyle's in, in defense, and Erling's in.

Dan (07:13.614)
Mm-hmm.

Andy (07:17.725)
Why?

Isn't Kyle like super overpriced? He never gets a clean sheet and can't assist anything.

Diaz nuts (07:24.892)
5.4 so he's not that overpriced and he plays every game

Andy (07:29.12)
Kyle Badpedro Poro Walker.

Dan (07:32.974)
So let's, I know you're gonna talk about Petropora when we get to it, but that's his full Christian name yeah. Newcastle side, they've lost numerous games in a row, they're conceding goals left right in the center. Are you tempted to award any of their players? I have none now.

Diaz nuts (07:34.07)
That is his real name, yeah. Oh, fuck no.

Andy (07:37.068)
Yeah

Diaz nuts (07:51.854)
There's none of my wild card team. Oh no, apart from the Debravka just because he's a 4.2 start and keeper for a top 10 team. No.

Andy (08:00.236)
I'm not playing him this week though, I'm going to play Areola.

Dan (08:02.542)
Yeah, same. But would you have any Newcastle players in your team? Like, they were pushing for top five, weren't they? Back at the, like, ten game weeks ago.

Andy (08:14.197)
For the poopoo now.

Diaz nuts (08:14.39)
Give it like, yeah, give it like three weeks. See, I don't know when Harvey Barnes is coming back as well. I know the rest of that injury has come back.

Dan (08:21.39)
I mean you have to give it at least two weeks because they go Man City then Aston Villa who are doing quite well and then Luton.

Andy (08:28.288)
Harvey Barnes is the differentiator for you, dipshit. He didn't even get a game when he was fit?

Diaz nuts (08:28.617)
I mean.

Diaz nuts (08:33.238)
He did. He did get a game. And then you've got Gordon, who's what top six midfielder points. So it's like he's terrible.

Andy (08:39.225)
Not lately, which is why he's out my team.

Dan (08:40.974)
Nah.

Gordon is the new Al Moron Gordon Moron

Andy (08:46.)
Yeah, he's back to... I mean, look, well, what's he done? Tell me the last three games.

Diaz nuts (08:46.838)
I don't know if I'd say that.

Diaz nuts (08:51.906)
512.

Dan (08:54.926)
Yeah, I guess one of them for me too.

Diaz nuts (08:55.97)
So that's terrible. Eight points, three games over the two point average. They went five, one, two, six, if you want to take in that as well.

Andy (08:58.748)
What's I mean

Andy (09:04.82)
Okay, so the last three games, so Karl Pornman missed the, he didn't play in the palace game, but his last three games he played was 14-1-18.

Andy (09:14.772)
Palmer abject better than Poopy Gordon.

Dan (09:19.95)
I think abject is not the right word to use unless you just hate both guys. Like, we say objectively, if you want to be adj- haha Just abjectly, if you just hate them both. It's an abject disgrace of a man.

Andy (09:23.928)
Objectively guys, shut your fucking mouth. This is him making me waste mental energy talking about fucking Gordon.

Diaz nuts (09:27.014)
Objectively.

Dan (09:33.07)
It is. I know it's limited in your old age, so...

Diaz nuts (09:34.986)
He's top six midfielder. He's top six midfielder and the other four of the other top six are dead. The only other ones in the top six alive as Sacher and Gordon.

Andy (09:37.483)
Mm.

Andy (09:46.16)
Yeah, but like, seriously though, what are you ranking them on?

Diaz nuts (09:47.598)
because Wang, Sawa, Sun, Moen, points.

Dan (09:49.23)
So let's pull us back to the conversation we keep having though about form and fixture. Would you have a Gordon going into a Man City in Astor Villa double up?

Andy (10:00.06)
No, because he's returned twice out of the last six.

Diaz nuts (10:05.907)
makes a point.

Andy (10:05.96)
And that was including not returning against, he didn't return against Everton, Luton and Forest.

Dan (10:06.19)
and in his current.

Dan (10:11.47)
So his forms bad and the fixtures are bad It feels like Gordon's not a viable option at least for another two to three weeks and then they get a run of three good games

Andy (10:18.248)
I'm fine with Dom picking them. Dom should pick them. He likes them.

Dan (10:21.838)
Mm.

Diaz nuts (10:22.939)
If you were going to do that, then we would also say that Sacker is definitely not a pick either.

Andy (10:27.236)
I don't particularly like tobacco right now. No, I'm only kind of keeping him because I don't have a ton of transfers to go around and he's not injured.

Dan (10:27.246)
And we'd agree with that, to be honest, yeah. Yeah.

Diaz nuts (10:33.902)
Hmm.

Dan (10:36.046)
Let's flip it back then because we're not talking about any Newcastle players. I guess special mention to Trippie that everyone's now dumped and is still doing not a whole lot.

Andy (10:44.692)
You know the funny thing, like when there's like AI things for the team pick in, right. And, and that like, it gives you like the, this is the transfer you should do thing. So like the transfer it was trying to tell me to do was take Bell from my bench and turn them into trippier.

Dan (10:59.406)
Great, great transfer to it.

Andy (11:00.404)
Yeah, I'm like, wonderful. Like this AI has like got brain worms as well, like freaking Mansi in Villa. And I'm going to bring in Trippier.

Dan (11:07.662)
Yep. With a busted Newcastle team that have gone 3 losses on the bouts. Good shot.

Andy (11:14.576)
Yeah, AI broken.

Dan (11:17.166)
Man City wise, if you had a fresh start, who would you be bringing in?

Andy (11:22.336)
Fili Fodino.

Diaz nuts (11:24.272)
Foden, Halland.

Andy (11:26.772)
Well, I'm not howling because he's probably injured.

Dan (11:26.958)
Would you bring Highland in?

Diaz nuts (11:29.446)
He's not injured really though. He's 50-50.

Andy (11:31.356)
I think he 100% is. Like, Pep's a giant liar as well. Oh, remember when he was saying he might play in that weekend's game and now he's missed like six games or something after that one?

Dan (11:40.686)
out the christmas games was nice i get my play

Diaz nuts (11:41.686)
but he has been pictured.

Andy (11:43.208)
Yeah, you might play. Oh, it didn't.

Diaz nuts (11:46.114)
but he has been pictured in training now.

Andy (11:48.596)
Has he?

Dan (11:48.91)
with other people, because that happened last time, you got pictured at the training ground, but not with other people.

Diaz nuts (11:55.138)
Let me see what Reddit says.

Andy (11:56.823)
What does fantasy football scout say? Does it say he's playing or not?

Dan (12:00.494)
Let me just let you know.

Diaz nuts (12:01.134)
Fuck French, well, Scott, I'm checking on Reddit.

Dan (12:02.958)
We'd know we like it better than you Dom, if it were my brother I'd have it. It says he's playing.

Andy (12:08.685)
So he's playing. Wolf, wolf. May have to change my... The problem is, I don't really have a great transfer strategy to do that right now. Because I've still got... Actually, maybe I could do it. Bowen being injured and Zinchenko being injured makes it harder. Yeah, that doesn't help.

Dan (12:09.838)
Yeah, Skas says yes, Dobbs says no.

Dan (12:25.262)
Is it kicking the nuts? Yeah.

What about the Briner? If you had funds and space, would you be bringing him in?

Andy (12:32.916)
You probably want to give him a week to actually play 90 perp, aren't you? Like, he's not going to play a full game.

Diaz nuts (12:38.955)
No.

Dan (12:39.118)
is not bad.

Diaz nuts (12:41.494)
I'm just wondering how I can.

Andy (12:41.876)
You know the bigger worry with him is he's gonna fuck up food and-

Diaz nuts (12:45.382)
Yeah. Or people with alvarez.

Dan (12:45.454)
Yeah. It's good. I mean, that's the problem. That's a good shot. Who was... Was it... No, I don't have Alvarez. Was it not you last week? Was it not you last week, Andy, that was saying you were considering Alvarez as your third striker though?

Diaz nuts (12:53.13)
If you also got alvarez then.

Andy (12:55.357)
You think it's not Alvarez?

Andy (13:02.004)
I was, but if Harland's back and KDB is back, then honestly, all of the city forwards get less attractive because they're going to start freaking rotating them.

Diaz nuts (13:12.35)
And Doku's back as well, by the way. He played in the cup.

Andy (13:14.44)
Yeah, Doki's back too. Yeah, they've got too many forwards, not enough spots.

Dan (13:16.046)
Oh, Sygo's Greelish Minutes as well.

Diaz nuts (13:23.068)
Jezz is back.

Dan (13:23.118)
What a problem for PepTurf.

Moving on to Sunday, Everton vs Aston Villa is the first of the double header for the first Sunday. Aston Villa, where do we sit with them now? Still feeling good about it? It feels like, without looking at stats, it feels like they've kind of... Can't have to boil a bit though.

Diaz nuts (13:36.483)
Mmmm

Andy (13:39.724)
Well they won, didn't they?

Andy (13:46.335)
Eh.

Diaz nuts (13:46.955)
That was like one or two games though. I think we still like you. Me like you, Aston Villa.

Andy (13:52.36)
I don't know. I mean, they're not as dominant as they were though, right? And they had a draw against Sheffield United and they lost to Man United, which is like fucking hard to do these days.

Dan (14:02.574)
It's hard to do these days.

Diaz nuts (14:04.564)
If you go far for the past six games, they've had four wins, one draw, one loss. You can argue with that.

Andy (14:10.396)
Yeah, I think if you look at last six, four wins, one loss, one draw. Yeah. I mean, I think it's okay. And the fixture is coming up and like not terrible either. So, I mean, I wouldn't be getting rid of Watkins, but I don't know if I'd bring in anyone beyond Watkins.

Dan (14:20.558)
No.

And that's why I was going to ask is...

Diaz nuts (14:23.77)
I would. One person.

Diaz nuts (14:31.342)
because DNA is

Andy (14:31.349)
What's he done?

Dan (14:31.502)
We've never mentioned that name in like the entirety of this season's podcast. Why is it suddenly come out the blue to me?

Diaz nuts (14:37.664)
Dignier is injured now and Alex Moreno is back so he's going to take his place.

Andy (14:44.014)
Yeah, I don't know how I feel about that.

Dan (14:44.27)
and you want an asset build, Fender is cheap.

Diaz nuts (14:47.422)
He's 5 mil, but I think he's gonna do some stuff.

Andy (14:51.676)
Isn't concert the one that everyone's got?

Dan (14:51.95)
and it

Dan (14:55.662)
Ownership wise, dunno.

Andy (14:57.725)
Cons is 4.6 million, so he's kind of cheap.

Dan (15:02.286)
and Villa players.

Diaz nuts (15:02.314)
He's not Alex. You just keep your eye on Alex.

Andy (15:05.572)
Okay, I mean, I'm not interested, I don't think, in a Villa Defender, because in the last... like, Konsa's played the last four and he's got one, two, zero, zero.

Dan (15:05.742)
Bye.

Andy (15:17.348)
Even when they win, they don't keep coins.

Diaz nuts (15:17.386)
The only other one, the only other one that passes the eye test is John McGinn.

Andy (15:23.324)
Yeah, but I don't think I'm wasting a midfield spot on Jong Min again.

Dan (15:29.742)
So in terms of selection, you write that concert comes above Moreno, twice as selected as Moreno is.

Andy (15:29.918)
You should though.

Diaz nuts (15:31.095)
Hmm

Andy (15:38.464)
Bailey, technically, is like the closest, I think, to the top of the points chart, isn't he?

Dan (15:44.91)
and he's third most selected. Douglas Lewis is the most selected.

Andy (15:45.556)
Got a goal last week against Burnley.

Andy (15:52.744)
I don't think I would have them though. I don't think I want anyone except Watkins.

Dan (15:56.078)
Yeah. Man United versus Spurs then.

Diaz nuts (15:56.394)
I think Dan's thoughts are high about Aston Villa that he's frozen his camera.

Andy (16:01.536)
Diaby 85 points.

Diaz nuts (16:05.042)
Whilst Dan's dead, we can skip on to the next game then. Uh, my new spurs. Go on your, my new rant for this week.

Andy (16:06.812)
Yeah. Okay, what's the next thing? Oof.

Dan (16:08.686)
I'm not that.

Andy (16:14.504)
It's a way though, isn't it? United or away? Oh no, United or home. Hmm, I don't know. Depends. Spurs play a really high line. And we have like, in theory, gone at you should be exploiting like a team playing a really high line. We'll see. It depends. Like, they're like completely schizophrenic, so who knows what they're going to do. Maybe.

Diaz nuts (16:16.404)
No, it's a old traffic.

Diaz nuts (16:28.365)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (16:36.402)
Also, they have no son now, right? So they've lost the talisman.

Andy (16:39.136)
They do have no son, but Kuleszewski is on form, like Richarlison is somewhat on form as well. So it's not... I mean, he is, he's almost to the point where I want to get him in. I mean, Kuleszewski is good though now, right? He's done 79 points for the season. What's he done in the last few games? No, nevermind. 1-1-0 in the last few games for Kuleszewski. We're on to the Spurs game, and we ignored you, Levin, and now we're done with that.

Diaz nuts (16:44.51)
Oh god, I can't believe anyone's ever said those words before, right?

Diaz nuts (17:00.18)
Yeah, I have Richarlison. Yeah. Yeah, we're on Manus Perth now.

Dan (17:04.358)
story of my life it's okay really spoke about united jet excellent oh wonderful yeah well that's what you want isn't it really makes it even at least

Diaz nuts (17:07.591)
No, we're doing it right now.

Andy (17:08.34)
Podcast without you though, so it's okay. It's just red blue now.

Diaz nuts (17:17.196)
Just purple, just purple. We were talking about the fact that Andy Lightkill assessed Q&A until he looked at his points.

Andy (17:19.767)
Yeah.

Andy (17:24.444)
Yeah, his points not great actually, turns out.

Dan (17:28.37)
Speaking of spurs, what do you make of the new defender they've brought in? Who's he going to upset or replace?

Diaz nuts (17:34.198)
He's a certain back, isn't he?

Andy (17:34.568)
Um, yeah. Isn't it like, what's his face? It's probably going to be Romero or, um, probably not Romero because they like Romero.

Dan (17:43.046)
even though he's a red card machine.

Andy (17:44.904)
Yeah, well, maybe this is for when Romero is suspended. Maybe that's the plan.

Dan (17:48.01)
Yeah

Diaz nuts (17:49.086)
Back up plan.

Andy (17:50.228)
Well, they hate Dire, but he wasn't playing. Yeah.

Dan (17:52.698)
He's off to Bayern.

Diaz nuts (17:53.034)
I thought you... Yeah, he's gone somewhere else, yeah.

Dan (17:58.578)
Do we talk about the sun? Obviously missing there four minutes for somebody.

Diaz nuts (18:03.434)
Richie, everyone's going for Richard dad, aren't they?

Dan (18:06.518)
such a trap. Honestly it's such a trap.

Andy (18:07.868)
I might get him. I might do it. I think it's a little bit mean to your analysis. I think he's actually scored quite a few points in the last few weeks.

Diaz nuts (18:08.666)
It's such a trap.

Dan (18:11.57)
I mean, Charleston is a trap. Oh, that's good.

Diaz nuts (18:18.286)
Dan, past five weeks for a Charleston. 818915.

Dan (18:21.274)
Cut it.

Dan (18:24.862)
8 1 8 9 15 that sounds great

Diaz nuts (18:28.537)
He's a fucking trap.

Andy (18:28.828)
If by a trap you mean you'll score lots of points and do really well.

Dan (18:32.335)
I still don't want because he won't. You'll think that and then you'll bring him into your team and this will be the week where he does his usual dickhead self and gets like a random red card or takes his shirt off or says something racist or punches somebody. He's just so utterly volatile. I just don't want him anywhere near my team.

Andy (18:48.384)
Why are you so racist, Dan? You just hate him because he's Brazilian.

Dan (18:51.918)
I don't think because I'm Brazilian. Love me some Brazilian players. Don't let me in with Rich Arleson. I'm still scarred by the dickhead taking his shirt off and getting a yellow card after celebrating a goal that got disallowed afterwards.

Diaz nuts (19:02.198)
Oh god. He's the gasoline in my team.

Andy (19:02.217)
That was funny though.

Dan (19:04.064)
That's which also down to a T.

Andy (19:06.14)
You know, the funny thing though is Richalison, right? Like, if he, if they win, he does really well. If they draw or lose, he does really badly.

Dan (19:15.698)
So it's a confidence play.

Andy (19:15.756)
So like, it's not like Sun where like they can lose and he'll still get like a goal or whatever and get decent points. Like Richarlison is really bad if they don't win. But if they win, he gets really big points.

Dan (19:25.298)
that but is that not just saying then that he's not required for the win he's just kind of on top of it does stuff on top of the win

Diaz nuts (19:34.07)
he takes advantage of the win. But it's not looking.

Andy (19:34.352)
Maybe but like look at you've seen that fixtures though right like that fixtures are actually really good united brentford everton brighton wolves And then it's chelsea and palace after that actually as well, so i'd say like it's good actually until game week 27

Dan (19:43.003)
All good.

Diaz nuts (19:49.838)
That's why I got me three Spurs players in my wildcard right now. Richard Dad, Pedro and... No, I said I didn't want them. Danny said I didn't want them. I have them. I got Richard Dad, Pedro Porro and Vicario.

Andy (19:54.665)
Have you got?

You just said you didn't want him!

Dan (20:00.089)
I said that.

Dan (20:08.338)
Tell you now Dom, this is the week he gets his lovely red card for you and I'm gonna laugh my ass off.

Andy (20:13.372)
I do think that United are going to win this game this week.

Dan (20:20.705)
I love the optimism. I don't think you're gonna win this game this week.

Diaz nuts (20:21.946)
Oh God, New Year, say badly. Fucking hell.

Andy (20:24.124)
I think they are. I think they're gonna win this week.

Dan (20:27.38)
Never change, never change. Uh, I'll just-

Andy (20:31.078)
I'll bet you, Dom, I'll give you spurs and the draw for $10.

Diaz nuts (20:35.522)
Jesus Christ, I'll take that all the way to the bank. I'll give you 20 on that.

Dan (20:38.047)
$10

Andy (20:40.145)
All right, $20.

Andy (20:44.608)
on the pod, everyone knows now. I wouldn't bring in any United players though unfortunately, which is kind of sad.

Dan (20:44.626)
I think everyone's heard it, it's real.

Diaz nuts (20:48.174)
I think even.

Diaz nuts (20:51.894)
If you texted Steve, he'd probably take that back from you as well. So you could get $40 from both of us.

Dan (20:55.946)
Oh, Steve hit me up in work. I felt really bad because I was super busy so I couldn't grab a coffee with him. But if you're listening, Steve, we'll get one next week, mate. No worries. Just a lie. It depends if you keep winning the league or not.

Andy (21:03.292)
No, we won't, Steve. He's just stringing along. He just has to say that because the podcast's live right now. So look at United though, like Jesus Christ, like Bruno would be the one you would think would be like the best player to have if you wanted to try any attacking returns from United. His last like six returns, one, zero. No, sorry. That's a lie. I was looking at his, um,

Dan (21:11.37)
Oh.

Andy (21:30.268)
Next one, 010112.

Diaz nuts (21:34.814)
He is balls. The only thing you would even consider is gun-hat-show.

Andy (21:38.784)
How is his price not dropped more though? It's actually insane. His points per match is 46, but his price is 7th out of 338 midfielders.

Diaz nuts (21:48.502)
No one picked him in the first place. It's not like he's seen a big drop in ownership.

Andy (21:52.264)
Yeah, I feel like they do need, they should have some part of the algorithm, right? That if people aren't picked, but they're also scoring poorly, that their value should erode over time. They shouldn't just like stay high value for it.

Dan (22:01.682)
Yeah.

I just let you know lads while you were chatting away that I put a five pound bet over my charleston to get a card It's gonna get me 20 quid if it comes through I'm guaranteed it's gonna come through

Andy (22:14.092)
Of course he's going to get booked. He gets booked like every game, I'm surprised. They even give you odds. I think if you've got Spurs players, obviously you're going to play them because United's defense is horrible. If you've got United players, I don't know why, you should probably get your head seen to...

Dan (22:18.962)
Can't wait.

Dan (22:22.897)
Yes.

Dan (22:28.742)
Has O'Nan a left jet now?

Diaz nuts (22:29.13)
Yes.

Andy (22:30.588)
No, you like negotiated with Cameroon to stay for this.

Diaz nuts (22:34.291)
And then Sancho's gone though.

Dan (22:36.401)
Yes.

Andy (22:36.56)
Yeah, they've been central. Amazing transfer. At least they paid his wages so he can play FIFA in Germany instead of in Manchester.

Dan (22:43.682)
important though he's gonna play football with a smile on his face now which I thought was a bit of a snide dig but who?

Andy (22:48.516)
I don't care, he can eat shit in Germany as far as I'm concerned. Personally, I would have left him in the reserves and not let him play anywhere.

Dan (22:56.274)
I'll take the money.

Diaz nuts (22:56.654)
Speaking of people in the reserves, Tony played last week so just keep that in mind. I'll keep that as a spoiler for when the Brentford one comes along.

Andy (23:06.416)
Yeah, I don't know, but if you have United players, just don't, because it's a bad idea.

Dan (23:10.886)
Yeah. Next Saturday. So this is the Saturday the 20th. Now, there's not even any intervening midweek games. We just go Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Boring week at work, and then Saturday again. And it's Arsenal versus Crystal Palace.

Diaz nuts (23:11.411)
Not good.

Diaz nuts (23:28.686)
It's a fucking London Derby.

Dan (23:31.759)
So, well, you know what that means, Tom.

Andy (23:33.58)
I was not even about to tell this con.

Dan (23:34.938)
They are, it's not gonna be a one-man draw, they're gonna fucking smash em

Diaz nuts (23:37.618)
I don't know if they batter them as such.

Dan (23:39.802)
Well, I don't actually know actually saying that because how have Arsenal performed?

Diaz nuts (23:42.023)
Arsenal's performance has been quite shite.

Andy (23:43.91)
That's good. Dan throws out strong opinion 180 within 10 seconds.

Dan (23:48.866)
I won 80 because I'm actually looking at the form and they've gone for the past five games they've lost three of them and drew one.

Diaz nuts (23:51.53)
Last, last drop.

Yeah, but they lost full of lost Weston. Come on. Get your fucking head seen too.

Andy (23:55.336)
Yeah, but...

They're gonna win this one though, right? Like you have to think that it's gotta be a ton, like their team is not materially worse, right?

Dan (24:05.858)
No, it's not changed at all effectively.

Diaz nuts (24:08.866)
They just need to sign Ivan Tony basically.

Andy (24:11.524)
I think they honestly just need like a couple, I mean, we've talked about it before, right, but it's like, it's like Newcastle now it is kind of, and Brighton as well, right? Like it's like a confidence slash form game and you need a, you need one win to kick it off and then like they'll start snowballing it. Well.

Diaz nuts (24:27.182)
It's the second half of the season and it's awesome. It's happening already. It's just they delayed it longer last season than this season.

Andy (24:33.508)
Well, I don't know, I think the bed's probably shat enough now for them to actually have a couple wins every now and again, right? Like, they don't usually finish outside the top four.

Diaz nuts (24:40.016)
You gotta clean it.

Dan (24:42.866)
There's enough shit in the bed now that they can get a game to win. It's alright. But they're not title contenders though.

Andy (24:46.908)
Yeah, I think that's right. No, but I am seriously considering bringing an O to God.

Dan (24:53.851)
Why Odegaard?

Diaz nuts (24:55.071)
Yeah, why oh, dear God.

Andy (24:55.336)
I don't know, I just feel like when I watch the highlights, he's like involved in everything again.

Dan (25:00.306)
Now I'm going to have to check what Wooda Girl's done recently.

Diaz nuts (25:00.93)
That's a strange pic. Fuck all, by the way, spoiler alert.

Andy (25:02.6)
He's not done a lot, like, recently, but...

but I am considering bringing him into my football team.

Dan (25:10.478)
He's 8.5 million for a 2283222. He's not nothing, he's at one... One good game.

Andy (25:18.332)
I mean, you truncated that you had a 10 and a five before the 23822.

Dan (25:23.05)
Ah, okay. And then a three and then didn't play two games, three games, and then a two and a three. Key's been in-

Andy (25:29.788)
Yeah, I mean, on the season, like points, actually, maybe that let me rank it by that.

Dan (25:34.818)
Where is he on the season? Yeah, good shot.

Diaz nuts (25:36.37)
And unless you feel us in your jellies, Andy, I don't see that being any insightful reason to get out of garden.

Andy (25:41.032)
Hold on, let me see.

Points per match, that's what I want to rank him by. Points per match, he is at 4.9 points per match, which is, he's on the front page by points per match.

Diaz nuts (25:57.59)
He's 15th out of 338.

Dan (25:57.882)
That's optimistically worded, otherwise known as his bottom of the list.

Andy (25:59.836)
Well, no, okay. So the top player for points per match is 7.8. That's sour for midfielders. Then it's sun. Elise is 6.1 points per match.

Dan (26:10.68)
injured.

Diaz nuts (26:11.426)
Don't get me started, he's only half injured and I'm really considering putting him in the team.

Andy (26:15.712)
I don't think he's gonna half play the um and then it's in Buemo 5.8 well okay so here's a good comparison Bowen is 5.8 points per match Phil Foden is 5.1 and Odegaard's 4.9 he's not that far away from Phil and we're excited about Phil

Dan (26:17.442)
Yeah, that's how it works.

Diaz nuts (26:22.274)
Fuck up man.

Diaz nuts (26:30.846)
see customer more than all those people.

Dan (26:34.322)
How much more is he than Phil though?

Andy (26:36.252)
Yeah, he is more... Well, Phil's 7.9 and Odegaard's 8.5.

Diaz nuts (26:36.387)
6.

point six.

Dan (26:41.318)
just dramatically more, it just doesn't feel worth it.

Diaz nuts (26:42.69)
Fuck Martin Odegaard. Yes.

Andy (26:43.528)
Well, the best bargain is a lease of $5.9 million if you think he's going to play.

Dan (26:48.334)
if you think he's gonna play.

Diaz nuts (26:48.674)
God, fuck it, I won't release in my team so hard.

Andy (26:49.972)
which he's probably not. But like the problem with him is like statistically, the reason why his points per game looks so good is he's only actually played since game week 12.

Dan (27:00.654)
Yeah, and he's had good games.

Diaz nuts (27:01.546)
Yeah, but he's played his fucking socks off since Game Week 12.

Andy (27:04.18)
Well, actually, it's like 50-50. It's played one, two, three, four, five. It's played 10 games and returned in half of them.

Dan (27:11.694)
And is this a Almoron-style runner form? And can you predict when it's going to end?

Andy (27:16.272)
It is. It is right now. It's a nine, six, nine, 15 run right now. So like, if you're going to bat on a run of form, it's not a horrible one to bat on.

Dan (27:27.826)
It's just when it's going to end.

Diaz nuts (27:27.899)
Him and Dwight McNeil.

Andy (27:29.608)
I wouldn't start betting on it away to Arsenal though, probably.

Diaz nuts (27:35.286)
God, I want at least a...

Andy (27:37.152)
His fixture next week is home Sheffield United, so that's probably when I would start betting on it.

Dan (27:41.49)
and he'll probably be fully fit then as well.

Andy (27:43.365)
Yeah, I wouldn't do it.

Diaz nuts (27:44.158)
Well they go, Sheffield United, Brighton, Chelsea, Everton, Burnley. Like, come on. I want to least they.

Dan (27:49.43)
That sounds great. Next week. Brent.

Andy (27:51.132)
Next week. The problem is like, Arsenal defenders are we keeping them or not? Because they're shit. Yeah, Saliba. But Saliba is shit.

Dan (27:56.61)
No. Well...

Diaz nuts (27:56.808)
leave it.

Dan (28:01.006)
Yes and no, because they're as elites, I guess with, you know, air quotes, they're the cheaper elites. They're not the trippiers and the trends of the world, but

Diaz nuts (28:01.613)
Yes.

Andy (28:09.513)
Okay.

Like super shit. Like, so Lebo is gone. I'll give you since game week 14. 1 2 7 2 1 0. One return since game week 14.

Dan (28:13.872)
Okay.

Diaz nuts (28:24.407)
Right, he's out now. Fuck you.

Andy (28:26.088)
Elite as what? Like, I mean, he's elite at being really bad lately.

Diaz nuts (28:30.574)
Fuck's sake.

Dan (28:31.666)
So if you were able to pick your defense... Brian, you Andy. If you were on Wildcard Andy, who would you pick? Yeah, three-man defense. What would your three-man defense be?

Diaz nuts (28:35.342)
If you were a wildcard, who would you pick? Ask him for a friend.

Andy (28:43.924)
Well, one of them is Pedro Paro for sure. Just I think I'm.

Dan (28:46.231)
Yeah, he seems to be one of them.

Diaz nuts (28:47.854)
Sick.

Andy (28:49.252)
on form Pedro is good. And then if you look at the points per match thing, the next so the top three Alexander Arnold who's injured, he gets 5.4 points per game.

Diaz nuts (29:00.823)
that.

Andy (29:02.272)
Trippier is on 4.7 per game.

Diaz nuts (29:05.17)
All because of the first half of the season.

Andy (29:06.344)
Yeah, it's backloaded. A stupinance third.

Diaz nuts (29:10.103)
God.

Andy (29:11.308)
And then you do it, but you're clicking as we speak. And then the next three, Simikas, who's injured, Mikhulenko, Botman.

Diaz nuts (29:17.077)
dead.

Make a light come.

Andy (29:20.476)
Yeah, that's who it is though. It's Mikha Lankov. Botman might be an interesting chef. You think Newcastle are not completely horrible, which are. Now I'm trying to find the next like the problem is a lot of the ones who did really well are ancient. Okay, hit this is where you get to the real ones. Virgil is 3.9 Van de Ven for Spurs who's back now is 3.9. So Leibos 3.8 White 3.6. Arke 3.6. Burn 3.6 Anderson for Palace 3.5. Like those are like

Dan (29:26.234)
not going city now

Dan (29:45.938)
So I think the point we're making is, Arsenal defenders aren't that bad then.

Andy (29:50.7)
No. I mean, well, if you want it so if you want to do that, and if we're trying to give people useful fantasy advice, if you want to cross value, like cheapness with points per game, then your three at the back should be like, Poro, Burn, Van de Ven.

Diaz nuts (29:50.806)
Just defend as a shit in general.

Dan (29:52.247)
Yeah, it's defense is shite.

Andy (30:14.764)
Because Vendavan is 4.4 million, burn is 4.4 million, Poro is whatever he was like 5.2. He's now 5.4.

Diaz nuts (30:22.634)
Yeah, but Van de Ven hasn't played a game since Gameweek 11. Van de Ven

Andy (30:26.1)
Who hasn't? Yeah, he got injured. He was amazing before.

Dan (30:26.31)
He's injured.

Dan (30:30.598)
The only issue there is they're the one that brought in Drag, whatever his name is, that might take a center back position if Vanduvin may not play.

Diaz nuts (30:41.954)
Hmm.

Andy (30:43.292)
Yeah, I think it's hard, but like I would my personal opinion on defenders this year is like go for decent points per game for not very much money. Eventually, when I wildcard, I will be wildcarding my way out of Zinchenko and Saliba.

Dan (30:50.822)
Yeah, agreed.

Dan (30:57.79)
I just think more simplistically, defense isn't where your value should be. Minimize to what is reasonable so you can then maximize possibly another high-level player in the midfield.

Andy (31:09.768)
Yeah. I mean this, by the way, fantasy football scout Zinchenko is on a 75% flag, but it says he's going to play.

Dan (31:15.666)
That's right then, I'm happy for you Andy. The next game on the second Saturday is Brentford vs. Not Known Forest. I guess the only piece of interest there is the Ivan Tony news.

Diaz nuts (31:28.279)
So do you.

Andy (31:30.302)
Is it gonna play?

Dan (31:30.644)
Um.

Diaz nuts (31:31.798)
He played in the N23s.

Andy (31:33.36)
Oh, he is going to play, yeah. They've got him. Fantasy Football Scout has him up front this week.

Dan (31:37.155)
I know Andy, don't bet on it.

Andy (31:39.296)
Hmm. I don't know. Maybe I will bring in. Brent said at home, home to forest, Tony was telling game.

Dan (31:41.65)
Thanks, Tom.

Dan (31:46.552)
Yeah, that's pretty sweet.

Andy (31:48.7)
Wow, I bet he scores in that game. Come on. Home to forest. Probably that's if you were wild card. The problem is I actually like all three of my strikers, right? Watkins, Salanki, Kounia. Like I don't want to drop any of them.

Diaz nuts (31:49.054)
Mmm.

Dan (31:51.215)
Mm-hmm.

Diaz nuts (31:51.758)
Who would you drop for?

Dan (31:54.958)
If you're a wild carding.

Diaz nuts (31:56.526)
If you're warm, I'll cut. It's not like you're walking.

Andy (32:07.296)
Kunia is like amazing value. Like what is he? He's like, he cost me 5.8 million and his last like five games went nine, two, one, five, 12.

Dan (32:18.278)
I wonder, I'm just having a quick look now at what the odds are for Tony scoring or assisting even.

Diaz nuts (32:25.198)
I feel like I've gotta get totally...

Andy (32:27.101)
How much is he?

Diaz nuts (32:29.102)
Let me check. He is 7.9.

Andy (32:31.144)
He's probably on the front. He's not even on the second page. 7.9.

Diaz nuts (32:35.834)
Yeah, less than Watkins, more than Salinky.

Andy (32:39.08)
Yeah, he's not as good. I wouldn't, I would have Solanke over him, because Solanke's proved it all season.

Diaz nuts (32:44.718)
How about Watkins?

Andy (32:46.28)
Watkins I would probably have over him as well, right? Like he's also like done it all season until lately where he went off the boil a bit.

Dan (32:53.906)
There isn't the availability to see that yet because the game is too far out so they've not put the teams in yet.

Andy (33:00.442)
Mm.

Diaz nuts (33:01.374)
Should I sell Halon to get Tony?

Andy (33:04.436)
I mean, probably that is a rough one. Okay. Maybe we'll keep moving so Dom can do his private wildcard.

Dan (33:04.882)
these hard decisions.

Dan (33:09.306)
Yep. So, Sunday, the second Sunday starts with Sheffield United vs West Ham. Obviously the big news there is Jarrod Bowen is injured. He is orange flagged. He's definitely out. I think it's been announced that he's definitely out for this game.

Andy (33:19.408)
Is he really injured? Is he fully injured?

Andy (33:26.764)
Arrrgh! That's annoying.

Dan (33:29.99)
Great.

Andy (33:31.472)
Is he really out? Because what's his face is a big liar though usually, right?

Diaz nuts (33:36.107)
How's his knees looking?

Andy (33:37.712)
Moise is a giant liar.

Dan (33:38.158)
Fuck

Ummm... Bowen... Chad Bowen... What's the news?

Dan (33:52.831)
Leaving standards as he might play.

Andy (33:55.272)
See? Freaking Moise is a huge liar.

Dan (33:58.71)
Optimism at general balance ankle problem is not as serious as first feared

Andy (34:03.472)
Oh, thumbs team in shambles again.

Diaz nuts (34:03.77)
Mmm, god damn it. Fuck's sake. Roll, fucking spin the wheel again.

Dan (34:06.882)
not as serious, there you go.

Andy (34:12.36)
And it's Sheffield United, so if you've got him, you do want to play him against Sheffield United.

Diaz nuts (34:18.446)
Jesus Christ, who do I take her?

Dan (34:23.427)
Yeah, the latest on bowing is he might be out for 2-3 weeks at most.

Andy (34:27.475)
Mm.

Dan (34:32.662)
Ah. Other West Ham players, I don't think we have any we like, do we?

Andy (34:37.436)
No, because you gave up on WordPress a while ago.

Diaz nuts (34:37.751)
now.

Dan (34:40.006)
Who was the boy they've got in behind the striker? Kudus, is he injured? Yeah, he's out. International Duty, he's off doing the cup.

Andy (34:43.838)
It is.

He's not playing.

Diaz nuts (34:48.194)
it there.

Andy (34:52.124)
Yeah, so I think West Ham are losing that game.

Dan (34:54.454)
Mm-hmm, not good for them.

Andy (34:56.86)
Yeah, so probably if you've got Bowen, you probably want to... I don't know, I've made money on him as the problem, so I probably don't want to ship him out. Ugh, frustrating.

Diaz nuts (35:05.732)
I can't pick any of my five I would want to replace with Bowen, so yeah, he's not getting it.

Dan (35:10.698)
Alright, moving on, Bournemouth vs Liverpool. We don't need to talk about Bournemouth because obviously the only person to talk about there is Salanki, which most people have. But the Liverpool side of things, obviously Sal has now gone to the cup. Trent is injured. Are they the same side?

Diaz nuts (35:23.09)
Chauter.

Andy (35:24.18)
Jota, yeah. I think they'll play well and Jota will do really well. So much so that I think I have one transfer left because I saved two transfers going into this week. So I'm probably gonna do Sun to Jota.

Dan (35:41.015)
Any other attackers?

Andy (35:42.792)
Well, you don't want Darwin, I don't think.

Dan (35:44.586)
No, he definitely don't want Darwin, no. That experiment was a complete abject failure. That's the correct use of abject. And he is abjectly terrible. It's just so frustrating. Like, watching the matches whilst having him is probably one of the most painful experiences I've ever had because he gets on the end of so many chances. That he pings the woodwork, you know, he's in the six yard box, he's doing all the right things, and then for whatever fucking reason, he just can't put the ball in the net.

Andy (36:13.088)
What if you nail the once in every ten years that he scores though?

Dan (36:16.418)
Well there you go, you must feel pretty good about yourself. Um... Yeah, I don't think we need to talk about any of the rest of the Liverpool forwards, they're just not worth taking and there's too much rotation for them.

Diaz nuts (36:27.286)
New Ash D Ash is kicking around as well, but whether you get any fun, no.

Andy (36:31.924)
He's always kicking around, he never plays, but he's always kicking around. He got worse once his dad got rescued.

Dan (36:34.102)
No. Alright.

Did you? You had nothing to play for. You had nothing to play for. No stakes on the line. That's what it was.

Diaz nuts (36:38.55)
You did, yeah. Get rid of him. Like crack pose there as well. You're doing all right.

Andy (36:43.13)
Someone needs to go out there and re-kidnap him.

Andy (36:49.504)
Sure.

Diaz nuts (36:49.822)
If you look around form, Cody Gackpole, assist and goal in the past two matches.

Andy (36:54.62)
Yeah, but do you really want Gakpo in your team though? I feel like they make him play in midfield half the time.

Diaz nuts (36:59.262)
Yeah. And he's a forward slot that I would, if I was going to replace anyone, it would be with Tony. So not Cody Gackpo.

Andy (37:07.744)
Cody Kakpo.

Dan (37:08.046)
Alright, last match is Brighton vs Wolves. A lot of people have drafted in this duper nun. In terms of Wolves, they've lost Wang now, so it's only down to your boy, Kunye.

Andy (37:18.18)
Mm-hmm. Oh, spicy.

Diaz nuts (37:18.186)
and Neto's coming back.

Dan (37:21.382)
Take Petro.

Diaz nuts (37:21.65)
Yeah, Pedro Neto is back and I think he's going to go on a tear. Yeah.

Andy (37:24.044)
They're gone. He was the OG.

Dan (37:28.976)
Okay.

Andy (37:29.765)
before the second Korean in the Premier League. Yeah, the other Korean, yeah.

Diaz nuts (37:33.135)
That Korean guy, according to Pep Barriola.

Dan (37:34.218)
The other Korean guy, yeah. The other Korean guy, Jesus. If you could pick from Brighton players, would you pick anyone else except the Stupinand? Like, are we talking the Pascal Grosses, the Matomas, anything else?

Diaz nuts (37:47.647)
Mr. Gross is in my wildcard right now.

Dan (37:50.054)
That is gross.

Andy (37:50.592)
Why?

Diaz nuts (37:51.974)
missed the fucking grass because you've got the best xg like of non-penalty takers in the league

Andy (37:57.172)
What's his points per game? It's actually not terrible. It's 6.4. Oh, no, that's right. 82 points.

Dan (38:00.434)
Can we just pause for like two seconds Andy? What is your new sudden obsession with points per game? We've never talked about it before. And all of a sudden now you're like, fucking points per game. Points per games boys. What's this points per games? PPG.

Andy (38:10.132)
Well, because actually, if you think about it, points per game is probably... If you do points per game and you've played the whole season and you have good points per game, then that's probably a better predictor than looking at the last three games, right?

Dan (38:22.554)
What's a PPG man? I don't know. I think it can be misleading because it includes the entirety of the season and therefore could give you backloaded datasets.

Andy (38:34.344)
Yeah, but at the same time, like you can super front load things if you just go with like the last two games, like Alisa like scoring three weeks in a row or whatever.

Dan (38:41.946)
But that's favorable that we talk about form and confidence. It's not a machine, it's a person.

Andy (38:48.016)
Yeah, but like, I think the other argument to that, that we'll probably get one day when we actually do like a serious fantasy football podcast, like, um, like, Solanke probably is a good example, right? Like, as he goes through, sometimes you'll have two games where he'll get a one and a two, and then he'll come back and get whatever, like, 17 or something.

Dan (38:54.798)
Nah, sounds rubbish.

Andy (39:10.08)
So I don't know. I think this consistent play, there are like those consistently inconsistent players like Solanke and who else? Watkins is a little bit like that as well.

Diaz nuts (39:20.918)
Pascal Gross.

Andy (39:23.904)
Carl Palmer. Yeah, but he's cheap as a black.

Dan (39:24.946)
Call some border.

Diaz nuts (39:26.402)
God bless you all.

Dan (39:29.094)
So that is the games, they stretch from tomorrow night all the way through to Monday 22nd of January for a singular game week. It's absolutely bizarre. Should we look at the league, Zandy?

Andy (39:39.58)
You know, yeah, we can in a sec. You know what? What's bizarre now that I'm looking at it? My I have made so I made both my transfers for this week now. I have 11.9 million in the bank.

Dan (39:49.65)
That's cause you killed Haaland or somebody. Or Sun.

Diaz nuts (39:49.974)
You also got rid of Howland for Tony.

Andy (39:51.944)
Well, I lost Harland's son and Salah within like two or three weeks. So I've got like stupid and, but the problem is there's no one to bring in to spend it.

Dan (40:02.61)
That's the situation where you could splash out on like a premium Trent if he wasn't injured, for example. But you're right.

Diaz nuts (40:10.154)
So the only other premium defender you've got is either VVD or Trippier.

Andy (40:15.06)
Yeah, I might go VVD next week, we'll see.

Dan (40:19.754)
I don't like it, it's not in the box as much as it used to be.

Diaz nuts (40:20.318)
Why?

Andy (40:23.388)
Yeah. We'll see.

Diaz nuts (40:25.12)
With Salonaut there, then they might go for a bit more direct play.

Andy (40:27.668)
Who are they playing at? Who is, okay, so Liverpool are playing Bradley right back. Who the hell is he?

Dan (40:35.154)
I don't know but is he cheap? Because you know that would be a nice way to get in the team. Good old Bradley.

Diaz nuts (40:35.828)
Bradley?

Andy (40:39.148)
Connor Bradley is who they're playing right back this week. Four million. There you go. Wonderful. Okay.

Dan (40:41.202)
4 million. He looks about 10 years old.

It's at discount Carlton Palmer.

Andy (40:49.808)
Okay, let's do the leagues then. As much as people probably want to listen to us talk about Bradley from Liverpool. Uh, okay. Hey, you know what? He might, right? They've got like a decent fix. Uh, I don't think he will. I think Salenki will score against his old team. There's those kinds of narratives always play out. Uh, like Ivan Tony scoring on his return will happen because they always do. So, uh, 10th is all of the great.

Dan (40:51.41)
call.

Diaz nuts (40:51.99)
That's not.

Dan (40:57.318)
see what he gets to clean this weekend. Yep, bombless.

Andy (41:19.152)
She had 82 point week, um, back in the top 10 pushing Dan out by, she's keeping out by seven points. Ola. It's not okay. Ola. And then number eight is Muey Kiyosuke. Uh, Billy Long listeners at number seven. I think he, did he get, no, he got second most points in the top 10 this week. He did have a good week though. 91 points for Billy.

Dan (41:26.306)
I know, I know, I know.

Not cool.

Dan (41:39.974)
Yeah, you did well.

Seems fucking shot now though, FYI. We played a game of squashing ants this evening. He was bemoaning it.

Andy (41:48.76)
Oh God, look at his team. That's brutal. He's got, wow, six flags. And they're like real ones as well. He's got Sanchez, Romero, Henry. Why has he still got Rico Henry? No, Dominic did his brain so much that even though Rico Henry's out for the season, he still can't get rid of it. Oh, that's rough, Dom. You've fully screwed him. Okay. And then Alan Sinclair is in six.

Dan (41:50.81)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (41:58.346)
Thank you.

Dan (42:01.682)
really likes him. Big fan, big Rico Hamrick fan.

Diaz nuts (42:05.294)
It'll come back one day.

Dan (42:17.326)
Oh, just, sorry, just on that one, I got a text from him earlier. He goes, poor defensive performance, but I'm happy with that. Might be time for a wildcard. So you could be on the wildcard with you, Dom.

Andy (42:26.252)
I'm a really long listener on the Wildcars. And that, did I say that I was in ninth? I didn't say I was in ninth, I skipped over me.

Diaz nuts (42:28.65)
I'll let you know what the Wild God looks like at the end.

Dan (42:32.182)
No you didn't, no you skipped right over yourself which was very modest of you.

Andy (42:35.476)
No, no, no. I'm in ninth back in the top 10. Then Muhyaki Asuka is eighth. Billy's in seventh. Alan Sinclair sixth. Conor Gunn fifth. Hobie Miller fourth. Aaron Mill in third. Tobias Scott second. And Steve is in first by like eight points this week. 95 this week. Hopefully, oh, he's like a star card. Oh, he's on, where is it? 1211.

Dan (42:52.826)
What's Steve's points for now?

Sorry, I mean total.

Dan (43:03.92)
He's still like 80 points ahead of Tafavaldig.

Andy (43:05.928)
He's like semi fucked though, because he played his wild card and he's got a Kanji, Trent and Salo in the team.

Dan (43:13.298)
good wild card. I like it.

Andy (43:15.461)
No, yeah, now he's got a friggin double hit probably this week

Dan (43:18.35)
Yep. Uh, we're known as the league that everyone cares about and the one that matters is all change in the Adams family cup. In last place, slipping down from a majestic second is Dom with 42 points. Feels like it, dramatic. 42 points in the game week for 1067. Then we've got my eldest with 76 points in the game week for 1075. Then we've got Dad with...

Andy (43:32.948)
Not the biggest change in one week, ever.

Diaz nuts (43:35.694)
Probably.

Diaz nuts (43:41.251)
Nothing.

Dan (43:47.786)
93 points in the game week. Absolutely smashed it. Dad had Captain Salah. He got returns from Alvarez, returns from Cunha, returns from Darwin, Jesus, returns from Palmer to get where he was. Then we have myself in third place with 86 points in the game week for 109.8. We have Andy climbing up to second with 85 points in the game week for 1107.

Diaz nuts (43:53.442)
Sala Cup.

Dan (44:17.466)
But Eli is still at the top, my middle son with 72 points in the game week for 1-1-2-7, so he's 20 points ahead of you still.

Andy (44:24.372)
He's bleeding points every week.

Dan (44:26.606)
72 is not terrible. It's not like it's getting 42 in the game week, you know

Andy (44:30.856)
Yeah, I mean, I don't even know. In this game week, honestly, because it wasn't like non-obvious players returning as well. You'd have to pick a really bad team to be that bad.

Diaz nuts (44:32.718)
Christ

Dan (44:37.176)
Hmm.

Diaz nuts (44:38.134)
It's just cause I sold Stala.

Dan (44:40.75)
It was just solid, basically, was a differential.

Diaz nuts (44:44.82)
sold him.

Andy (44:44.872)
Was it? I don't think it was-

Dan (44:45.698)
Yeah, not capturing Salah's goodbye gift. Well Salah's would have been 16 or 32 respectfully if you captained or didn't captain him.

Andy (44:51.88)
Yeah, but Dominic also didn't have sun.

Dan (44:55.85)
No, he did captain Watkins for 16. He didn't have Palmer who got obviously good points as well.

Andy (45:03.688)
The key, I think, this week was Foden Sawa-san. Like, if you had the three of them, you had a really good week. And you captained one of the three of them.

Dan (45:10.395)
Yeah.

Andy (45:13.076)
But you didn't, so nevermind.

Dan (45:13.346)
Alright, that's us. Looking forward to getting the football back on the go again. Make sure you've done your transfers by tomorrow lunchtime because the games kick off tomorrow evening. Don't want to be left cold.

Diaz nuts (45:13.602)
Yes, thank you for that.

Andy (45:24.032)
What have you done? What have you transferred?

Dan (45:27.502)
What did I do?

Andy (45:28.584)
Well, have you done? We've not even talked about the transfers. You're skipping over the whole chunks of the podcast.

Dan (45:30.914)
not gonna let you know. I don't want to let the cat out of the bag. A stupid Ann and Bowen came in before Bowen's price went up and then Bowen got injured. So that's sad. Yeah. Happens to the best of us.

Andy (45:35.2)
You know what it's all about, I'm like, what the hell?

Diaz nuts (45:35.31)
That's because I'm a wildcard.

Andy (45:44.738)
You pulled the dab.

Diaz nuts (45:48.142)
I already had a stupid end, so that's not a copy.

Andy (45:48.216)
Hmm.

Dan (45:51.526)
Love it you.

Andy (45:51.596)
I did. I did. Who did I take out? I took out Sun and Sala. And I brought in Pullma and Jota. Yep, Joga. Yep.

Dan (46:00.454)
Joker. Brought in the Joker. What about you Batman? What do you do?

Diaz nuts (46:06.63)
So the wild card looks like this. The bravca and the cario go.

starting three in the back of a Stupin and Walker and Pedro Porro with backups in Anderson and Alex Moreno my starting five midfield Saka, Foden, Palmer, Richalison and Gross with my starting three up front of Watkins, Solanke and Tony

Andy (46:38.368)
Hmm.

Dan (46:38.95)
You're definitely going differential.

Dan (46:43.471)
No template for you Dom.

Diaz nuts (46:45.298)
I mean a missing hound as an obvious thing. That's it basically. I had Bowen but he's dead so what's the point? And Madison comes back next week by the way.

Andy (46:56.844)
Hmm.

Dan (46:57.755)
Okay.

Diaz nuts (46:57.802)
That's going to be a big fucking to do.

Andy (47:00.864)
The problem is when they had Madison, weren't they like 1-0 merchants like most of the time? It was only when they got rid of them that they started scoring a lot more goals.

Diaz nuts (47:07.746)
But Madison was involved in every one of the one nills.

Andy (47:11.464)
Yeah, I mean the one thing that I'm still tossing up this week is whether or not to do a minus four to go Watkins to Harland.

Dan (47:20.667)
Got the cash.

Andy (47:22.064)
Yeah, but he's only 50-50 and it's away Newcastle, so it maybe isn't worth it this week.

Diaz nuts (47:27.086)
Now I'm going to keep the cash in the bank just in case I need to swap out one of my upfront for Helen's if he starts fucking firing again. Otherwise he's got a stretch injury to his foot that can relapse all the time.

Dan (47:40.946)
Alright, so the actual real question is who's the captain this week?

Diaz nuts (47:47.198)
Mmm.

in.

Andy (47:50.092)
Right now it's Paul Polmo right now.

Dan (47:53.018)
I've got Harland as my captain, Watkins as vice.

Andy (47:57.632)
That's rough. Both rough.

Dan (47:59.878)
Why? Watkins vs Everton doesn't feel rough.

Diaz nuts (48:00.592)
Ivan Tomey.

Andy (48:02.673)
Easy way, though.

Dan (48:04.53)
Well, my other option would be Saka or Sterling. That's too dramatic. I can't put Sterling as captain.

Andy (48:11.336)
I think a lot of people are probably going to Captain Saka this week.

Dan (48:14.882)
Yeah, against Palos.

Andy (48:16.424)
Yeah, I mean he did score in the last game as well.

I think people are gonna captain soccer. I might. The toss up for me is Palma or soccer. They both have good fixtures.

Diaz nuts (48:29.866)
I'm going straight back to second. I'm Captain Ivan Tony. He's gonna do it, yeah.

Dan (48:33.946)
Big tones.

Andy (48:35.438)
Oh, there's a move you can make.

Dan (48:36.934)
sliding the chips in. Here we go.

Diaz nuts (48:39.317)
All in.

Andy (48:39.528)
Yeah, I don't know. If I knew Bowen was going to start, I probably would start him over Konya away to Brighton, maybe.

Dan (48:48.562)
You can't just put him in anyway, and it'll auto sub.

Andy (48:51.6)
I could, but then there's a chance of you'll only play 20 minutes of the game if he's kinda injured. So I feel like Kunio's not injured, so it's always better to go with not injured players over injured players.

Diaz nuts (48:58.56)
I think.

Diaz nuts (49:05.174)
I think Brighton are gonna be on a tear in this new year. They've got a fucking crazy good fixture list. They go Bulls, Luton, Palace, Spurs, Sheffield, Everton, Fulham.

Dan (49:19.282)
Just feel it in your stones there.

Andy (49:19.785)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (49:22.101)
I've got them.

Andy (49:22.176)
But they don't have any outstanding players to pick right now, that's the problem. A stupin' end's probably the best pick.

Diaz nuts (49:28.182)
You watched Pascal do me some points. That was the other one I was talking with, with Yao Bedrau, but who do I get rid of now?

Andy (49:29.38)
Oh, Joe Pedro, I guess you could argue you could pick.

Dan (49:34.534)
Yeah, but every five minutes he gets fucking swapped for a little Evan Ferguson, doesn't he? That's the problem.

Diaz nuts (49:41.066)
If you look at the points per match on Yoruba Drive though, fucking LND.

Andy (49:41.225)
Yeah, I wouldn't probably

Dan (49:44.126)
Oh, that points per match. Inquiring minds need to know. No.

Andy (49:45.29)
What is this place, Matt?

Diaz nuts (49:47.207)
Check the points of my hand.

Andy (49:50.316)
It's not great. It's 3.5. He's 13th out of 100 strikers. It's not great. I mean, and he has played a lot of games as well. So it's not like he hasn't played. It's like he doesn't actually, he went through a stretch from game week eight through to game week 13 where he didn't return. And then he had another one from game week 15 to game week 18 where he didn't return.

Diaz nuts (49:56.843)
Yeah, Pedro.

Diaz nuts (50:14.89)
Yeah, I'm sticking with my Tony. He's going to do me good.

Dan (50:18.274)
I'm genuinely interested to see how that turns out for you though.

Andy (50:18.57)
Alright.

We'll find out in a couple of days.

Dan (50:23.002)
Let's go.