GW34 FPL - God Dammit Cuhna

Summary

In this conversation, the hosts discuss the upcoming Premier League matches and the impact of double gameweeks on fantasy football teams. They analyze the potential picks from each team and share their opinions on players to consider. The conversation covers topics such as injuries, form, and differential options. The hosts also engage in banter and reflect on their own fantasy football performances. The conversation revolves around the upcoming double game weeks in Fantasy Premier League (FPL) and the strategies of the participants. They discuss the players they have and the potential transfers they might make. They also analyze the fixtures and predict the outcomes of the upcoming matches. The conversation ends with a review of the FPL leagues and the current standings.

Takeaways

• Double gameweeks can provide opportunities for fantasy football managers to gain an advantage.
• Injuries and form should be considered when selecting players for double gameweeks.
• Crystal Palace and Fulham may offer potential differentials for fantasy football teams.
• Liverpool players are still worth considering despite recent setbacks.
• Banter and reflection on fantasy football performances add entertainment value to the conversation. The participants are strategizing for the upcoming double game weeks in FPL.
• They discuss potential transfers and analyze the fixtures to make informed decisions.
• They predict the outcomes of the upcoming matches and discuss the performance of certain players.
• The conversation concludes with a review of the FPL leagues and the current standings.

Transcript

Dan (00:00.95)
Hello and welcome to RedRedBlue, I'm Dan Adams.

Diaz nuts (00:04.114)
I'm Dominic Adams.

Andy (00:05.905)
I'm Andy Adams.

Dan (00:07.626)
We're into double gameweek 34 with the Premier League's best and brightest having plunged out of Europe, leaving us all wondering how it's going to affect our teams. We're going to look at the matches, the leagues and our teams as we gear up for another full week of footy. Dom.

Diaz nuts (00:20.614)
I think you forgot about the Premier League's actual best are still there. Aston Villa, they're still in the Europa, whatever it is, Mickey Mouse Cup.

Dan (00:24.716)
I said Villa.

Dan (00:30.934)
Are they in the conference or are they in the Europa? Is that even a real cup? I still feel justified with what I said. And then it was very important for that one year, one year only. So let's jump straight into the games. Obviously, this is a week full of double games. It runs from Saturday all the way through till when Thursday even. It's bright in Man City at the end of it all. So the first one is Luton versus Brentford. Not a double.

Diaz nuts (00:33.258)
conference.

Diaz nuts (00:38.368)
Didn't mind you win that conference one a while back.

Yep.

Dan (01:00.862)
I've got a list of doubles. The doubles are Arsenal, Bournemouth, Crystal Palace, Everton, Liverpool, Sheffield United and Wolves. So Luton Brentford, not a double, is it even worth talking about?

Andy (01:10.394)
No.

Diaz nuts (01:10.942)
No, not unless you're talking about who do I get instead of Ivan Tony if you have Ivan Tony in your team. And at that point in time, you're thinking of Mr. Salanki if you don't already have him.

Dan (01:17.546)
Yeah, so I think we're all.

Dan (01:24.054)
Yeah, because everyone's off that train now. We move on then to a double. Sheffield United have got a double. They're against Burnley first and then against Man United away on Wednesday. Is there anyone from that team, given that they have a double that you could take a punt on? Doesn't feel like it, but...

Diaz nuts (01:42.278)
I'm gonna go with the HUD, no.

Andy (01:45.745)
Yeah, I don't think so.

Diaz nuts (01:46.834)
give that one the swerve.

Dan (01:49.246)
This is nice and easy, we're going to be through these in a heartbeat, it's pretty much no to everybody. And the last one on Saturday is probably where we're going to have a lot of conversation now, Wolves vs Arsenal. So Dom, you can give everybody the bad news if they haven't already heard it.

Diaz nuts (02:02.942)
Fucking Matthias Kuhnje.

Dan (02:05.096)
RIP.

Andy (02:05.32)
I know. I brought him in after the deadline and then he got injured. Is he out for both games or just the first game? No, it says 25%.

Diaz nuts (02:08.774)
Yep. Asshole.

Diaz nuts (02:13.906)
Just the first game I think. Well, he says he got kicked in the leg and has a muscle damage.

Dan (02:15.798)
25%.

Andy (02:21.136)
It says he's going to play though on the thing you won. Fantasy football scout having been the first team.

Dan (02:21.27)
He's not playing.

Diaz nuts (02:26.654)
They're liars because Mr. Manager said, and I say manager because I can't remember if it's Gary Jones or whatever his name is, said he's dead and Huang can only play 45 minutes and Neto's still injured and basically, yeah, basically wolves are going to get fucking pumped in both games.

Dan (02:40.426)
The update happened in the press conference today. It was the problem.

Andy (02:47.806)
Mm. Not ideal.

Dan (02:48.854)
Yeah, they got Arslan, they got Bournemouth.

Andy (02:52.08)
Yeah, it kind of sucks though on the Arsenal side too, because everyone has Saka and Saka's like the least on form of all the Arsenal players.

Dan (02:59.918)
I mean that is an opportunity if you really want to go out for it, isn't it?

Diaz nuts (03:00.271)
Still going to cap them, right?

Andy (03:04.476)
He's been rubbish. Last five games, 2-3-0-10-2. One good game in the last five.

Diaz nuts (03:11.002)
I was going to cap CUNY, going into this week as a differential. So now my differential cap.

Andy (03:14.588)
I brought Cunha in as a differential, like that was the plan. Didn't work out.

Dan (03:18.701)
I come in and I come back out again.

Andy (03:21.276)
Yeah, it's gone back out again. It's not ideal. It's a good thing I had two transfers, because now I can replace him with someone who's actually going to play.

Diaz nuts (03:26.682)
I'm minus forward to get him.

Andy (03:29.076)
Oh wow, that's not great.

Dan (03:29.516)
No.

Diaz nuts (03:33.167)
No.

Dan (03:33.182)
another field

Andy (03:34.952)
But like Arsenal, everyone's gonna play Saliba and Gabriel and then some midfielder.

Dan (03:40.942)
Well, Slippery Gabriel Sacka, it feels like that's a set.

Andy (03:44.252)
Well, Havits is the other one, right? The other people have.

Dan (03:47.422)
Do you still have habits done or did you actually, you binned them didn't you, did you bring them back?

Diaz nuts (03:51.93)
I didn't bring them back, but I'm trying to figure out if I have minus. Yeah. I have minus forward to get. Have I minus forward?

Dan (03:58.62)
To be fair, it's not an intuitive system. Like when you look at it, it doesn't tell you, by the way, you've already had like this many hits. It's just saying, yeah, go for it. Take another one. What's the worst?

Diaz nuts (04:06.298)
Yeah, I don't think I have minus four.

Andy (04:09.32)
I don't think it matters because you're bottom of the league, so...

Diaz nuts (04:11.718)
And I haven't minus 4 yet, so I will be tempted to minus 4.

So yeah.

Dan (04:17.766)
Okay, so if you had Cunha and you had taken him out, then who's going in his place?

Diaz nuts (04:22.986)
If I had enough money, I'd get Slanky in because he's the kind of dream forward to having this double week, isn't he?

Dan (04:28.254)
Is he though? Like, hasn't he had shite form recently? Just because he's got two games, doesn't mean he's gonna turn it around from his shite form. Oh, it's 722-780. Hmm.

Diaz nuts (04:30.919)
the Hasard shite form.

Diaz nuts (04:37.022)
The only other person would be Mr. Nunes.

Dan (04:40.37)
I disagree. There's a third option, one that I've gone for differential, crystal palaces meteta.

Diaz nuts (04:43.9)
Good.

Diaz nuts (04:48.64)
Kuna Matata.

Dan (04:49.95)
I'm going to go to the next game, West Ham and Newcastle.

Diaz nuts (04:51.682)
Andy's so annoyed he's on mute. He's not Mika or Lisa, I'll put it this way.

Andy (04:54.457)
That's a no. That's a hard no.

Dan (04:59.134)
He's not a lice, no. Or a zay.

Andy (05:01.646)
He's no Jordan, are you?

Dan (05:06.03)
Why does he need to be? I didn't realize that was essential. On the wall side then, any other players, if we're saying that Hwang's only got 45 minutes, just saying that obviously Qunya's out, Nato injured, do you? Aitner is out.

Andy (05:17.448)
Night Nori's out. I've got two useless fucking players from them now.

Diaz nuts (05:17.658)
No, eight degrees out.

Dan (05:22.958)
There's no really else that you scrape in the barrel at that point. You're not really worth bringing anyone else in right?

Diaz nuts (05:27.13)
It'd be surreal.

Andy (05:27.312)
Yeah, this double gaming week is kinda fucked, especially if Holland's actually injured. It's a rough week.

Dan (05:32.722)
He was pulled in Europe, wasn't he? Couldn't continue. Got dropped for Alvarez.

Diaz nuts (05:36.338)
Well, you wouldn't have Howland in your double game week anyway, would you? Cause he's not.

Andy (05:38.92)
Well you have him. No, he's one of my playing stars, isn't he?

Dan (05:42.41)
He has to be in your team still, doesn't he?

Diaz nuts (05:44.595)
does he?

Andy (05:44.624)
Yes, of course he does. He's playing bright and kind of crap. And it's to win the league, right? It's not like it's an inconsequential game.

Dan (05:48.918)
Not in mine. Surprise.

Dan (05:56.674)
I mean, it's kind of inconsequential, like City are gonna do what they always do, they're winning every game and Arsenal and Liverpool are doing what they always do in a fucking up right at the end, so...

Andy (06:04.404)
That was the best by the way, this weekend was just the best weekend in ages. Oh god, all the shit that they talked all season and they couldn't even beat Palace at home with a fully fit team.

Dan (06:06.718)
losing to Crystal Palace.

Dan (06:14.042)
The clock fell well, so it's gone so, so well.

Andy (06:17.076)
terribly wrong, what a shame. Anyway, Arsenal, yeah, so play Arsenal. Yeah.

Dan (06:19.751)
Yeah, so Wolves, no players, Arsenal, Soliba, Gabriel, Saka, possibly Havertz, not Odegaard anymore, or are you still 50-50 on it, Mandi?

Andy (06:30.716)
I don't know. I mean, I'm not gonna bring him in at this point, probably not.

Dan (06:34.034)
Okay, then we can spin on to Sunday. We have Everton versus Not No Forest. That feels like a dead rubber, no offense Tom, being the blue part of Red Blue.

Diaz nuts (06:42.774)
Um, I don't know. I think if you got better, he could be a differential. He is, he is a differential by the very term of the, of the.

Andy (06:46.96)
No, don't even start.

Dan (06:48.862)
I'm sorry.

Andy (06:52.02)
Good God.

Dan (06:53.47)
Everton do have a double game, but they're playing Forest and then Liverpool.

Andy (06:58.037)
People need to preface your advice with the fact that you're bottom of the league and these are terrible ideas.

Diaz nuts (07:02.814)
All I'm saying is Beto is a differential because only 0.2% of people own him.

Andy (07:08.668)
Yeah, differential doesn't mean good.

Dan (07:11.786)
I think it's funny that Dominik is bottom of the league, not because obviously he's bottom of the league, but it's because he was top. So there's that precipitous fall he's taken from being like a clear front runner at the top taking hits for fun to now being bottom. That's going to be interesting to reflect on when we get to doing the league races at the end of the season. How that happened.

Andy (07:31.731)
Not for Dom, but for everyone else.

Dan (07:33.835)
Well, interesting at least to understand how that happened. Like, was it particular?

Diaz nuts (07:36.478)
Thankfully, we have like an auditory kind of history of it all. If you want to hear week by week how it all went wrong, and please feel free.

Dan (07:43.266)
But was it specific decisions or did you just get to, you know, flipping with the trades? Cause then, well, Andy's saying don't take Dom's advice, but he was top and you were top for a good long while and you were miles ahead of everyone for a good long while.

Diaz nuts (07:47.122)
Ah.

Andy (07:47.464)
Yeah, how did you fuck all of it up, though?

Diaz nuts (07:56.938)
I think what we're looking for is that moment when you're making a TV show or a movie and then it kind of like the record pulls and stops and then there's a voice over goes and that's where it all went wrong.

Dan (08:08.589)
I'm just wondering what that moment is for you and for everything.

Diaz nuts (08:10.434)
I think it's when Andy recorded my name from being offensive. I think when I lost Diaz Nuts, I think that's when it went downhill.

Dan (08:14.161)
Hahaha!

Dan (08:19.742)
It was all charmed on the name. Okay, on the flip side, there is Forest, who do not have a double gameweek, and never are not worth talking about, although Andy still has a secret love for Chris Wood.

Diaz nuts (08:29.834)
And you also love Mr. Gibbs White, remember.

Dan (08:32.666)
I've gone off, give 2.

Andy (08:34.285)
What would he do this week? Did he score again?

Dan (08:36.974)
I think he did, didn't he?

Andy (08:38.761)
Can't stop himself, can he? He didn't score this week. His last five weeks, yeah, 9-8-8-6-2 is pretty good.

Dan (08:47.102)
Oh, yeah, it was 2-2 in the end. It was Danilo and Gibbs White.

Andy (08:51.248)
Yeah, hit an XG of zero. Not great.

Dan (08:54.626)
that times. Aston Villa vs Bournemouth. Bournemouth do have a double, Aston Villa do not. Aston Villa obviously coming off a game in Europe, perhaps tired, perhaps a bit leggy. Bournemouth could take advantage. You've mentioned Salanke. Is there any other players from Bournemouth? Because I have two other ones.

Diaz nuts (09:10.746)
Have you got somebody? I have you.

Andy (09:11.237)
No.

Dan (09:12.762)
No I don't, I have Neto in goal still and I have Smith on the bench because he was cheap.

Diaz nuts (09:16.426)
It's a Nessie.

Andy (09:20.476)
Yeah, I'm gonna play Neto and Salenki. I think the other sneaky one that you could bring in if you want a differential would be Cliver.

Diaz nuts (09:20.647)
Mm-hmm.

Dan (09:28.534)
You're welcome. What's his stats like?

Diaz nuts (09:30.778)
He's got three hits in the past three games.

Dan (09:34.858)
not bad. It could be an armor on style runner form.

Andy (09:39.096)
I might actually bring Klyver in. Well, cause I take hip seriously, unlike you. No, I do not have him yet. I probably, he, him, so I need to do two things. I need to replace Kunja with someone who's going to play, which unfortunately probably has to be Darwin Nunez, which is, yeah, it does.

Diaz nuts (09:39.122)
but you don't have them yet, Andy. Just confirming you don't have them yet, Andy, right?

Dan (09:46.046)
Don't dominate, don't dominate.

Dan (09:58.242)
Does it though? He got drops for the European match, like is he actually a death set to play now? I think Klopp's finally coming to the end of his tether with him being able to not hit a fucking barn door.

Andy (10:07.068)
But let's see, what does Scout say? Scout says Nunez. Sala Nunez Diaz.

Dan (10:13.174)
What about Jota? He was on the bench. Fit coming back.

Andy (10:15.216)
Mm-hmm. They might drop Nunez. They might do, they'll probably just do what they do and sub one for the other a bit, all right?

Dan (10:23.798)
Hmm. So the other much-

Andy (10:25.424)
I mean, I think that third strike is really hard this week, to be honest. Like, it's Harlan, Selenki, and then, like, now half of them are broken.

Dan (10:32.938)
Not how, it's like it's Solanky, Solanky Matata. Solankly, Solankly. It's Solankly Matata. And that's your sorted.

Andy (10:35.56)
So, I'm clean.

Andy (10:42.544)
No, I don't think for anyone with a brain it's selenke mateta.

Dan (10:46.862)
when my tether bangs in a hat-trick over the aggregate of two games.

Andy (10:49.138)
Yeah. How many hatricks has Mateta scored in his life?

Dan (10:54.946)
Gotta go with zero actually.

Diaz nuts (10:55.156)
How many, how many is fucking primary score this season?

Andy (10:57.124)
Mateta? Carlos Palmer? Yeah. Mateta scored seven goals in 19 games. Oh, sorry, no, seven goals in 33 games. Apologies.

Diaz nuts (11:01.127)
fucking right

Diaz nuts (11:05.098)
That's not beautiful.

Diaz nuts (11:08.921)
Oh, that's terrible.

Dan (11:12.282)
Uhh... he... don't think he has scored any in his career. No, I don't think so. That's pretty sad.

Andy (11:18.81)
No hat-tricks ever. Doesn't look like it. He's never scored more than one goal, actually, this season either. So I think the statistics on him getting a hat-trick this week, not high.

Dan (11:28.81)
It's ironic because I traded him out for Haaland and he's currently got the cap from where Haaland... Well, I don't actually agree with that and we'll talk about when we get to City. I think Haaland has definitely either been found out or isn't fully fit and they've been masking it. There's something not right with him watching him. But anyway, with the Matata piece, he's still got the cap from when Haaland was my captain from last week. And there's a little bit of an attempt just to leave it there out of spite now to see what happens. I've got to do something dramatic to get near the top of the league again.

Andy (11:31.636)
Oh good, he does go happy.

Andy (11:58.312)
Collins has 20 goals and 8 assists in 25 games.

Dan (12:01.866)
Yeah, but if you were to draw them on a graph, you'd see it be heavy at the front end and really slow at the back end.

Andy (12:09.684)
I guess. I mean, I'm not batting against early holla.

Diaz nuts (12:14.346)
You say it like you're doing personally, he's gonna come fucking sort you out.

Andy (12:16.176)
I do? We'll see. Just wait and see.

Dan (12:18.198)
Fucker do you? I'm not betting against him maybe scoring a goal. I don't think he's gonna be as prolific as he has been In any way shape or form. I don't think he's instant capable and I don't think he's worth 14 million

Andy (12:24.412)
You just did?

Andy (12:35.464)
All right, let's keep going.

Dan (12:36.894)
Alright, so the other match that Bournemouth have by the way is against wolves, the heavily depleted wolves, so this slanky is an essential effectively.

Andy (12:44.424)
Well, they might not be heavily depleted, I guess, but they might have people back by the second game, right? Yeah, so that's possible.

Dan (12:49.482)
Wednesday. Maybe.

Dan (12:55.114)
After that we have Crystal Palace versus West Ham. Crystal Palace do have a double. They have West Ham and then they have Newcastle on the Wednesday as well. So obviously easy picks there. You got Eze, Elise, Mateta. To genuinely nobody. So is that a genuine nobody or is there someone you would take from Crystal Palace?

Diaz nuts (12:55.277)
Mmm.

Andy (13:06.908)
Nobody.

Andy (13:15.312)
Not in a million years. Complete dogshit train wreck team.

Dan (13:20.418)
They beat Liverpool.

Andy (13:21.796)
Now, they pick Liverpool because Liverpool are doing it in Liverpool, not because of anything else.

Dan (13:27.206)
I watched it. Like I watched that full match. It was, they were good. They were fast. They're a quick break team with a lot of really fast forward players.

Andy (13:37.084)
You pick that place, though. I would be quite happy if other people go differential on to palace this week.

Dan (13:38.868)
I did.

Dan (13:43.362)
I'm just saying who else is fit from Palace to be picked apart from Matessa, because I had to get a striker.

Andy (13:49.512)
Let's see, view all, change to Crystal Palace, let's see. Goalkeeper, you could go with Anderson, I guess, if you're an idiot. And then Anderson and Mitchell are their two top scoring defenders that are fit. Then top scoring midfielders is Jordan Iyou on 99, and then Eze 93, Elise 76. And then up front, Mateta has 99 and Edward has 75.

Dan (13:58.452)
not.

Dan (14:15.338)
99. It's an auspicious number. I do genuinely feel that there is... I feel it in my stomach. I feel it in my plums that Crystal Piles are gonna do something. They're gonna do bits.

Diaz nuts (14:20.475)
He feels it in his stones. He's got it in his jellies.

Andy (14:23.577)
Well, we'll find out. We'll find out.

I don't think they're going to do anything, but we'll find out.

Diaz nuts (14:29.85)
I need to get his jelly sorted out, I think.

Dan (14:29.878)
Okay.

Andy (14:32.26)
Yeah, probably gonna get them fun a little bit. Yeah, something wrong.

Dan (14:32.944)
get checked by the doctor.

Diaz nuts (14:36.681)
Yeah.

Dan (14:38.582)
The last game on Sunday is Fulham vs Liverpool. This is a Liverpool that have now crashed out of multiple cups, lost to Crystal Palace, are behind in the league. Is this going to be a case of them regaining composure or are they going to go to shit?

Andy (14:54.004)
Well, they have to win, right? Every game they play this season, they have to win now. So they'll be playing like suicide attack at the end if they're behind. So I think having Liverpool attacking players is not bad because even if they don't win, they have to try and score.

Dan (14:55.598)
Thank you.

Dan (15:06.782)
Yeah, consistently have to try to be ahead and at least, no, I mean, it's not even a draw. They have to win, you're right. So.

Andy (15:12.124)
They have to win. So it's gonna be like, he's gonna have like five people up front at the end of games, like if they're behind.

Dan (15:17.41)
Mm-hmm. But are they gonna go behind to Fulham? Who have they now off for moon is-

Andy (15:21.564)
Well, they went behind to Palace, didn't they? Couldn't beat us and then went behind to Palace.

Dan (15:26.554)
But I don't see Fulham playing the same way that Palace do. Fulham don't have the same amount of speed built into their team. They're a much older team it feels.

Andy (15:35.408)
Yeah, when did they last play Fulham? They beat Fulham 4-3 in game week 14.

Dan (15:44.578)
Do you have any Liverpool players in your team? Obviously you need to have three. Which three?

Andy (15:49.884)
Yeah, I'm gonna end up with Virgil Diaz and Darwin probably.

Dan (15:55.382)
Hey, do you have them?

Diaz nuts (15:55.594)
I got Darwin, Salah, and unfortunately Bradley.

Dan (16:01.503)
I have Salah, Diaz and Trent.

Andy (16:05.396)
Trent's risky, just came off the bench in the last game, didn't he? Bradley is dead, so they have to play him, yeah.

Diaz nuts (16:08.018)
Yeah, but Bradley's dead now, isn't he?

Dan (16:13.45)
and he's played out of position, heavily attacking against Fulham and then against Everton. Feels good.

Diaz nuts (16:19.114)
It's a bit like eight and a half.

Andy (16:19.504)
I don't know if they'll play him out of position this week though. That they might have to play him in right back. They've changed to a 4-3-3 even, right? They're not doing the high wing backs.

Dan (16:23.627)
You reckon?

Dan (16:31.734)
But per your point, past Andy five minutes ago just said they have to play suicide attacking football. Who's going to be putting the balls into the box for that?

Andy (16:39.6)
I think they'll be playing... what's the team that they said? It'll be McAllister and...

Dan (16:44.886)
It won't be Mikals and Slobbers, they're both mid. I think. Central slash defensive mids.

Andy (16:49.136)
It's that the predicted team at the back is this is like actually Liverpool can't cry at all because this is their full first 11 that they're going to play this week except Alison actually I guess they have Kelleher, Kanate, Van Dijk, Robertson, Trent, McAllister, Endo, Zlobalai, Nunes, Diaz.

Dan (16:56.256)
It is so.

Dan (17:05.227)
Mm-hmm.

Dan (17:11.75)
Just uh, just pause a second there, why are we not taking the makeout you've been unable to pronounce names and we always rip the shit out of me for it?

Andy (17:18.004)
Because no one likes Liverpool so it doesn't matter.

Dan (17:20.174)
Seems a lot unfair. OK. So effectively what you're saying is I have two heavy differentials in Mateta and Trent then from what you have. Because we used to have very similar teams.

Diaz nuts (17:21.77)
flubbers of lye.

Diaz nuts (17:31.77)
I think you have Matata as a differential against 98% of people in the league then.

Dan (17:39.266)
So after the weekend, we skip Monday, we move on to Tuesday, it's Arsenal versus Chelsea. Neither of those teams have a double, but obviously they will still be, well Arsenal do, Chelsea don't, but they'll be heavily populated in your teams anyway, right? Everyone's got Palmer, people might have a Nick Jackson or a Gusto or whatever else.

Diaz nuts (17:42.243)
Hmm

Diaz nuts (17:49.016)
No.

Diaz nuts (17:57.182)
Gusto.

because they've got the double in 35, 37.

Dan (18:02.286)
Mm-hmm.

Dan (18:05.654)
Which is what I guess I was going to come on to talk about after we run through the games very quickly is how are you positioned for that, but take a brief minute now if you want. Are you looking towards 37, 38 already? Or 37?

Diaz nuts (18:16.206)
I'm thinking, I'm thinking bench boosts for the big double week. How'd you get.

Andy (18:21.66)
When's the big double week? Like, I mean, I think I'm probably just going to end up getting what I get at this point because it's kind of hard to position. You know, you basically you have three transfers from now to then. So it's kind of hard to reshape your team much with three transfers.

Dan (18:23.01)
37

Dan (18:32.96)
Mm-hmm. Well, thank you.

Dan (18:40.334)
And are there any overlaps in 37 from 34? There isn't, is it? It's basically like the other half of the league get their doubles.

Andy (18:45.524)
I thought it was just, don't Chelsea get two? They get a 34 and a 37.

Diaz nuts (18:49.498)
No, Chelsea is 35, 37.

Dan (18:50.18)
No, don't get a 34.

Andy (18:52.036)
No, they just got 37.

Diaz nuts (18:53.819)
No, Chelsea's 35 and 37.

Andy (18:55.94)
Oh yeah, no, they get 35 and 37. So they do get two. So I think if going probably what I'll do after this week is I'll probably get a Chelsea defender in for one of my defenders and maybe Jackson in for one of my strikers.

Dan (19:06.486)
Mm-hmm.

Diaz nuts (19:08.146)
but he doesn't get to take the pens, famously, now.

Dan (19:10.498)
That was awesome that was by the way. Patrick Palmer's like, fuck you guys, give me the ball.

Andy (19:11.112)
That doesn't matter, because you know what?

That one's an easy one. In both of those Chelsea doubles, everyone's gonna be captain in karma. It's not even close.

Diaz nuts (19:22.13)
The question is now, should I start Parma this week ahead of someone who has two games?

Andy (19:29.404)
I will be million percent. Palmer's the most on-form player in the frigging league. He's had, in his last five games, this is actually nuts. Like, I don't think I've seen anything as good as this except from like a Sala or like a Van Persie. Like, 13-50 and 25-26 in the last five games. That's nuts. And over the season, he's had one, two, three, four, six, seven, eight, nine.

Diaz nuts (19:34.258)
So you'd say I'm ahead of a doubler.

Dan (19:48.31)
Yeah. But see.

Andy (19:57.294)
10 double digit weeks out of 33. That is mental.

Diaz nuts (20:01.726)
He's good. Yeah.

Dan (20:01.806)
I was going to say, to your point though, Dom, who is the double game you're trying to decide between?

Diaz nuts (20:08.058)
I'm not saying one of the names because you'll automatically say that he should start ahead of him. So I'm starting Salah ahead of Parma and I'm starting Saka ahead of Parma. Would you start Foden or would you start Parma? Because they've both got single games.

Dan (20:14.977)
Yeah.

Dan (20:23.809)
Tom.

Diaz nuts (20:26.142)
So you would start him ahead of Fidino.

Dan (20:28.798)
Yeah, but Foden's been hit and miss, hasn't he recently? He had his like huge game where he scored a hat trick and then... Yeah. But before that, I mean, he went 3-2 before that. So he comes in fits and spurts.

Diaz nuts (20:34.994)
He's not played the last two Premier League games though.

Diaz nuts (20:40.098)
Yeah, true. And then there's Mika Elyse.

Andy (20:42.516)
Phil will be back this week.

Dan (20:46.566)
Oh, see Crystal Palace, you're doing it. You believe in it. It's like that moment in the Matrix. He's starting to believe

Diaz nuts (20:53.162)
I thought you were going to say Miracle on 34th Street because that's what it actually feels like we're going to fucking need. But he opens his jacket and says I believe on his button. The secret Chris McPallis supporters.

Dan (21:00.678)
Uh... yeah. Secret Crystal Palace team. We should do a chat manager with Crystal Palace. That'd be good. See who can be the best boy, Hodgson.

Diaz nuts (21:09.79)
Jesus Christ. What were you calling last week? Was it crystal powers?

Dan (21:16.398)
Quistal, Quistal. Again, why is it only me that gets the mic taken out? But anyway, all right, so on the other side of things, we've talked about them and their double. We said which three we take. We talked about Palmer. We've noted that Chelsea have the 35 and the 37 double, but not this week. You've asked who you'd start Palmer ahead of. I think we both agree, pretty much anyone.

Diaz nuts (21:20.342)
Oh Christ.

Dan (21:43.538)
Is the answer to your question, Doug.

Diaz nuts (21:44.693)
So above Fadino. Got it.

Dan (21:48.599)
I would.

Diaz nuts (21:51.754)
conceivable term.

Dan (21:51.838)
Alright, Wednesday. Walls versus Bournemouth. We're starting to run into some of those double games now. So we spoke about Walls and we spoke about Bournemouth. I guess we can very just quickly have an idea of what the score's gonna be.

Diaz nuts (22:02.122)
Question. Would you, would you Captain Salanki?

You wouldn't Captain Slanky because it's Slanky Salasaka, right?

Andy (22:09.076)
Maybe.

Dan (22:13.91)
Yeah, and it's Salah. And a must-win runner games, and he's fit. It's Salah.

Andy (22:18.676)
He's not been doing shit all little season, so I don't know why you're convinced that he's going to now.

Dan (22:24.458)
it got a better chance than Dominic7227celankey like

Andy (22:29.532)
Does he what Salah's last five?

Diaz nuts (22:32.894)
Don't, Dan.

Dan (22:34.126)
to 8171.

Andy (22:37.204)
How would you know which one's Salanki and which one's Salo if you didn't have the names on them?

Dan (22:41.194)
You wouldn't, but if you were to put bets on future prospects, you'd rather bet on Sylas than Salanki.

Diaz nuts (22:42.18)
haircut.

Andy (22:46.12)
You know who you'd bet on is 210672 Lewis Deos.

Dan (22:53.71)
I don't know, I watched, in that game again, the Crystal Palace one that I watched, DS just didn't seem to be, then again, he's a salad to be fair. I might even just Captain Trent, fuck it. Might be interesting, but I don't think I'm gonna get the full 180. What?

Diaz nuts (23:04.038)
you know what you should do.

Just capturing Cole Palmer. He's gone fucking 13, 15, 20, 26 anyway, even with one fucking game. Just capturing him.

Dan (23:12.743)
Who needs double gamewix though? Fuck it. Um So on the bottom side of things, possible Salangi cap is what you see.

Diaz nuts (23:22.158)
Yeah, I mean.

Andy (23:23.152)
cap in Solanki.

Dan (23:24.774)
I'm not. Purely because you are. I don't want to get a differential in there. It just left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not going to cap my tattoo even though it's sitting on him right now.

Diaz nuts (23:27.458)
Now now i'm not doing it because he's fucking doing it now it's gonna be michael alise. Bastard

Diaz nuts (23:37.502)
I'm fucking Captain Elisa, it's done. Make Captain.

Dan (23:39.606)
God forbid I get hit by a bus. Crystal-

Andy (23:43.572)
I've done it. I'm Team Slanky. Fuck you guys.

Dan (23:47.795)
I am team check the no I'm team check the scout and make sure that Trent's gonna play all right I'm capping Trent

Diaz nuts (23:49.35)
Matata, come on then, throw some balls.

Andy (23:55.984)
It says he's gonna play on the scope.

Diaz nuts (23:57.212)
Get those delis checked then. Boo.

Andy (24:01.428)
Spurs don't have a game this week, that sucks.

Dan (24:03.306)
No. Why does this suck? Who would you have from Spurs?

Diaz nuts (24:04.882)
That does it.

Andy (24:06.939)
for people who have suppose players.

Diaz nuts (24:08.91)
you've had to transfer it son so I've heard about how this sucks

Dan (24:14.006)
I'm sure he's very sad about it.

Diaz nuts (24:16.038)
I'm sure he was. But I'll be transferring back in again next week though for the Dublin 35 and the Dublin 37.

Dan (24:23.074)
Will you?

Diaz nuts (24:26.29)
Yeah, who's got the double in 35? So in 35 they play Arsenal and Chelsea. And then in 37 they play Burnley and City.

Dan (24:39.63)
So yeah, that's why I'm not sure, to be honest. I don't think he's worth bringing back in, especially the way that Tottenham play.

Andy (24:46.384)
Yeah, I think Spurs might be done for the season now. I think Villa would probably lock it. You know, I want, but do Villa have a double this season now or not? 37. I thought they might not have one. I thought they don't have one. Yeah, so having what, I'd love to have Watkins because like their running games is amazing, but like they don't have a double.

Dan (24:48.809)
Mm-hmm.

Dan (24:54.038)
37 wealth and is checked

Diaz nuts (24:58.706)
They don't have one.

Dan (25:00.322)
37

Dan (25:07.15)
them. Yeah, you can't afford to have them really.

Diaz nuts (25:09.438)
Who's the... did Newcastle have a double in 37? Yeah they do, they got Brighton and Man U, so I'm okay to keep ESAC then.

Dan (25:17.451)
Mm-hmm.

Andy (25:17.588)
I'll bring him back in probably after 35.

Diaz nuts (25:21.618)
He's not done too bad the past four games.

Dan (25:22.094)
Speaking of Newcastle by the way, the next match on Wednesday is Crystal Palace vs Newcastle. That's where Matessa is going to score a couple of bangers. It then goes on to Everton vs Liverpool, then to Man United vs Sheffield United, which is one of the ones that United didn't have a double. I don't think anyone's getting United players left, right?

Diaz nuts (25:26.874)
Alisa. Jesus Christ.

Diaz nuts (25:43.132)
And now, doing so.

Dan (25:45.966)
Alright. And then we finish off at the top with Brighton vs City with a possibly injured Hallan. So who came off again? Hallan came off possibly injured and Kevin came off possibly injured, was it?

Diaz nuts (25:58.478)
Kevin is injured as well. I've seen Pep's, his conference and he did mention both of them so.

Andy (26:07.412)
Which means Phil will definitely play.

Dan (26:09.566)
Yeah. That's a good point.

Diaz nuts (26:11.15)
Yeah, also Alvarez if anyone really fancies doing that, but you know, it didn't work for me last week.

Andy (26:16.98)
I think Harlan will play, I don't think he's going to drop Harlan. They need to win. He'll run the team into the ground now because they're out of the Champions League. What's he got to hold them back for?

Dan (26:25.998)
FAKUP. What's happening this weekend?

Diaz nuts (26:26.177)
I'll take a...

Andy (26:28.212)
He doesn't give a shit about that. Premier League, Premier League versus FA Cup. Of course he's gonna go for the fucking Premier League.

Dan (26:35.002)
you're underestimating how important the FA Cup is Andy and not just because we're one of the four teams that's left in it and we're against Coventry.

Andy (26:39.804)
I think the FA Cup, as everyone knows, is becoming increasingly more of a joke every season.

Dan (26:45.418)
Yeah, sadly.

Andy (26:47.42)
Same as the Ca- it's like not Carabao Cup level, but it's certainly closer to there than it is, primarily.

Dan (26:52.439)
Mm-hmm.

Diaz nuts (26:55.004)
Agreed.

Dan (26:55.19)
That is all of the games. So I guess the question to ask before we move on to looking at the leagues is setting up for 35 and 37 to either you have chips left to assist.

Andy (27:07.688)
Just the bench first, that's all.

Diaz nuts (27:08.059)
B-b-

Dan (27:10.722)
I've still got wildcard.

The question is, it feels like it's wildcard 36 setting up for 37 and then bench boost into 37 and somehow score the 60 points I need to take over Andy, right? That's how it works.

Diaz nuts (27:27.422)
I mean, you can say it again and again, maybe it'll happen.

Andy (27:28.916)
I don't think that's happening, but...

Dan (27:31.862)
art on the run of the irreparable you know

Diaz nuts (27:34.642)
He wants to. He really does.

Dan (27:36.095)
wants to. He's tried his best.

Andy (27:38.556)
I did it. Okay, I got it up actually today.

Diaz nuts (27:40.882)
God loves the fire. Hey! Hey-o!

Dan (27:41.194)
Well done. What about the league? Hahahaha! Oh, anyway.

Andy (27:48.055)
Jesus Christ.

Andy (27:52.86)
Dan is hanging on to the bottom of the top 10. Actually, barely as well, because all have put up an 81 this week. Yeah, you're on, she's on 39, you're on 1843. And then Eric Calvi is in ninth, 1875, from Heikki Oskar in eighth with 1887. Billy's up to 1891 in seventh with an 83-point week. That was a good week for Billy.

Dan (27:58.09)
Yeah, I think it's points in it, isn't it? Like a couple of points in it.

Dan (28:06.676)
Mm-hmm.

Dan (28:21.292)
Mm-hmm.

Andy (28:22.2)
I'm in sixth, 75 points with 19.07, and then Connor Gunn, fifth, Hobie Miller, fourth, Aaron Milne, third. Tobias Scott had an 84-point week. I think that's the most in the top 10 this week. And he's up to 20.30 with Steve now 11 points ahead with a 56-point week. And actually his team's looking rough as well going into next week. Does he have a wild card left or not?

Dan (28:43.553)
and week for Steve.

Diaz nuts (28:50.279)
He does, yeah.

Andy (28:51.83)
Okay, he's gonna need it.

Dan (28:54.67)
I think Dom's got it, and he seems to be reveling in the fact that Steve's failing so badly at the moment.

Andy (29:00.02)
I'm team Tobias Scott, as everyone knows. But yeah, exactly. But Bradley red flag, a kanji yellow flag. And then he's got like Sun and Udoge who don't have a fixture this week. It's rough.

Dan (29:02.893)
Well done, fact.

Dan (29:14.75)
I mean he's gonna have to... I've saved my wildcard for 36 into 37, he's gonna have to do this week effectively. Alright. Well, let's talk about the league that Matt's the one everyone cares about. So in sixth place, still holding up the rest of us, is Dom with 77 points in the game week for 1778. Noah has unfortunately plummeted down to fifth with 42 points in the game week for 1792. Dad... he dead.

Andy (29:21.3)
Apparently not according to Dom.

Andy (29:40.38)
Yeah, terrible week. Some really dodgy picks from Noah this week.

Dan (29:44.266)
Well, they've still got their teams to do, so they might reach out to you guys just so it's not biased from me.

Andy (29:49.944)
Oh yeah, now he's trying to back away from Dan BNC.

Dan (29:53.838)
Ah, we'll talk about that in BNC in a minute. Because C is still to come. Dad is now in fourth, having jumped ahead of Noah with 72 points in the game week for 1808. So it's only 16 points between them. Then we get up into the upper echelon. So I'm in third with 63 points in the game week for 1843. So a bit of a spike there. Eli then another spike ahead of me. 40 points with 80 points in the game week, 1882. And then top of the league.

25 points ahead is Andy with 75 points in the game for 1907. So it's still between you and Eli, it's probably still doable. Getting 64 points is probably not overly doable, but I'll give it a good old college try.

Andy (30:37.39)
The one challenge Eli has is his team now looks a lot like my team.

Dan (30:41.898)
Yeah, too much similarity.

Andy (30:42.952)
So that is, yeah, it's kind of hard if you're trying to overtake and you have essentially the same team, like that's tough to do. Cause then you're relying on like one or two differentials.

Dan (30:51.458)
and the shit differentials. He has Mikulenko who got a minus one last week, and he's got Ganatchu who got four to be fair. Yep.

Andy (30:57.032)
Garnacho's been on form, like honestly for a cheap player, he's probably the best, you know, I would have been much better off over the last few games having Garnacho than Gross as my bench player. And he's cheaper.

Dan (31:05.822)
Yeah, he's also got the Bravka as his goalkeeper, so that's another 6 points he got last week. Which worked out well. From here the most in the game we catch with 80.

Diaz nuts (31:15.162)
I feel like we're glossing over the fact that there's only 129 points between me and first play.

Dan (31:21.182)
I mean, it's all to play for Dom, as they say. All to play for, 100 in points, is achievable.

Diaz nuts (31:23.219)
Yes.

Andy (31:24.552)
I mean, if you think about it, if you'd capped Cole Palmer this week, that's you made up a big chunk. You didn't though. Well, you made up 26 of your gap. That's about as good. I mean, it's legitimately this season the best you could have done on one player in one week. Like.

Diaz nuts (31:29.49)
That's many points easy.

Dan (31:33.501)
Not a big chunk.

Dan (31:37.362)
136 you still got 110 to go. You got it!

Yeah, you've got to cap like Mr. Hattrick every week. I do wonder, I was about to say, I do wonder if you'd captained Palmer. Cause he's, isn't he like tied, tied now with Harland or above Harland for points?

Andy (31:49.521)
There were some people who were triple captain this week and they got it.

Andy (31:55.78)
Every game week. Yep.

Yes. If you'd kept, I think Palmer would have, because of the spikiness of his points, like you would have done really well. Cause when he does well, like he does really well.

Dan (32:07.233)
Mm-hmm.

Diaz nuts (32:09.566)
People are saying that he's like over 100% effectively owned now because the amount of people that cap him for getting double points. So when you don't cap him, every point that he scores is like, even if you've got him, it's double hurting you.

Dan (32:20.331)
Oh, it's double the gap, yeah.

Andy (32:24.124)
I'm not going to cap him. I'm not quite that mental on a way to Arsenal in a single game week, but like next week I'll cap him for sure in that double game week.

Dan (32:27.846)
Not in a double. No.

Dan (32:33.41)
Mm-hmm.

Andy (32:35.092)
But so will everyone else, so it doesn't really matter.

Dan (32:38.486)
All right, well, that is the matches, that is the leagues. What do your teams look like, Konandi?

Andy (32:46.32)
Neto, Soliba, Virgil, Gabriel, and that won't change. Ferdinand Diaz, Sarko, Palmer also won't change. Harlan, Solanki, Darwin probably won't change either.

Dan (32:57.902)
Bye.

Andy (32:58.94)
And Captain Incirlanky.

Dan (33:01.613)
Locked.

Diaz nuts (33:01.814)
I am Dabravka Gabrielle White Gusto Parma Saka Sala Olese Darwin Isak Salaanki with a cap on either Sala or Olese

Dan (33:17.75)
enough and I am Neto Ngole with a double, Saliba Gabriel and Trent all with doubles, Salah Saka, Luis Diaz with doubles, Foden and Palmer making up the rest of the midfield, Mateta and Salanki up front with the cap sitting on Trent Alexander Arnold.

Andy (33:34.532)
Yeah, I think Neto by the way is not a great pick. Even though he has two games, I think he's not going to keep a clean in either of them probably.

Dan (33:41.666)
But an aggregate four points for turning up is going to be alright though, compared to a regular keeper's possible six.

Diaz nuts (33:44.774)
be fair he may he may keep a clean against wolves because they got fucking no one playing for them yeah

Andy (33:51.848)
It's away though still. I think, you know, there's a genuine toss up in my mind between Onana home Sheffield United versus double away Finetta.

Dan (34:01.998)
mmm, travel nano on the bench that's fair if that was the case you already had him then yeah sure but, I mean my bench is still fucking areola that's not replaced so

Andy (34:11.26)
Yeah, I mean, because he got an 11 points or none at home to Everton. He faces a lot of shots. So if he ever keeps a clean, you're going to get like a bajillion points. Yeah.

Dan (34:17.145)
The most in the league in fact. For fuck's sake.

Andy (34:22.084)
Yeah, probably leave it though. I don't know, this is kind of a weird double game week. A lot of the fixtures are bad for even for the good teams.

Diaz nuts (34:28.562)
Yep.

Dan (34:29.826)
When you say good teams, it's only really Arsenal, Liverpool that are the good teams. Bournemouth, Crystal Palace, Everton, Sheffield and Wolves aren't...

Andy (34:33.917)
Yeah, I'm good.

But both of the fixtures are bad for Liverpool and Arsenal, right? It's like away for Liverpool and they're not on form. And then away home.

Diaz nuts (34:43.682)
away and Merseyside Derby as well.

Dan (34:45.298)
Ah, no, come on now. Away away, sure, but they have to win every match and they're playing Fulham Everton. That isn't a bad set of fixtures. You'd be chewing someone's fucking hand off for those.

Andy (34:51.792)
Well, it is a Merseyside Derby like Dom said. I think that's one where you're more likely to get red cards than gold.

Dan (35:01.239)
I am confident that they will win both those games handily.

Andy (35:01.416)
I don't know. You were also confident they were going to beat Crystal Palace last week.

Dan (35:07.254)
But not like you weren't confident either Andy. I think everyone in the world should have been confident.

Diaz nuts (35:09.927)
I'm confident.

Andy (35:10.036)
I'm allowed...

Diaz nuts (35:12.838)
I'm confident that Crystal Palace will win at least one of their matches.

Dan (35:17.006)
That's bold.

Andy (35:19.092)
Who were they playing in most of the two games?

Diaz nuts (35:20.85)
They got West Ham at home, Newcastle at home.

Dan (35:20.874)
West Ham, Newcastle, home home.

Andy (35:23.068)
I think they'll beat West Ham. They'll lose to Newcastle, probably.

They're not good enough to beat Newcastle.

Diaz nuts (35:28.614)
Yep They could not score against Newcastle. I've had to deprive them for a while and I've never got a clean out of them, so

Andy (35:37.972)
I don't know, didn't he get one last week? Did you not find him? No.

Diaz nuts (35:40.816)
I didn't play him, did I? Because I started looking for Kario.

Andy (35:44.816)
It's like me with Van Heck from Brighton. Whenever I don't play them they get a friggin' clean sheet.

Diaz nuts (35:49.674)
Yep.

Dan (35:49.922)
doing the okie-okie. That's us.

Andy (35:52.248)
All right, well, we'll wrap up there and then see people next. When's the next deadline? Is it right after this week or what's the deal with the double?

Diaz nuts (35:57.45)
Okay.

Dan (35:58.126)
So we finished games on Thursday, therefore Gameweek 35 is Saturday 27th.

Diaz nuts (36:01.371)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (36:04.596)
Yeah.

Andy (36:04.7)
So we'll be putting on Thursday then. All right.

Dan (36:06.29)
Yep, probably. See you soon.

Diaz nuts (36:07.606)
during the break match.