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Roll With It | FPL BB EP. 148 | Pre Season | FPL 24/25
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Give it a try at midmobile.com/save, whatever you're ready. $45 up from payment equivalent to $15 per month, new customers on first three month plan only, taxes and fees extra, speeds lower above 40 gigabytes of CDTails. [MUSIC] Good evening, everybody. Welcome to your FPL black box ahead of game week three. I'm joined by myself as and Mr. Let's Walk FPL himself. Mr. Mark Southern's. How are you doing? Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, survived the match of the challenge. I guess we should touch on that, shouldn't we, how that went? It was like a lot of time ago. Yeah, it does seem like ages ago. I mean, it was a real roller coaster. We really enjoyed it. Probably one of the best ones we've done, isn't it, in terms of it being a good and bad, which is nice. And I've had on any stream, I've done, I think. It was fun having you here. It was fun all the highs and lows. The order of match of the day was just, was perfect, wasn't it? Yeah, so it was like they did that on purpose, wasn't it? It was. It was. Yeah. But giving me the joy of watching Sun Getty's goals, which really did salve the hat trick from Harlem was great. So yeah, we'll look back on that game. We've got lots to cover tonight. I'm off to a music festival tomorrow, so I've got an early start. So I don't really need like a two to three-hour stream, but we might actually end up having two. That's what people want. It's what people want. Already seeing some comments say, make this say. I just want to shout out to my friend Phil May, who's watching with his one-week-old newborn as well. I think he's hoping that our dull-sit tones, you know, send, send little Harry to sleep. So congratulations, Phil. And yeah, hope we, uh, hope we send your kid to sleep. That's always our aim, isn't it, Mark? Yeah. Well, let's see. Let's see. Who's in the room? Let's have a look. Nigel's in us. Dan, Henning, Bobby Whitpey, Andrew McGaskill, Greg Fost of Calls, Pegeta, Grady, loads of, those of people, loads of new names as well. It's great. We've got 500 watching already, which is fantastic. Thank you, as always, for your support tonight and for Match the Day Challenge and for the Vids that I put out in the weeks. That's really good. What are we covering tonight? As I told you, it was packed. Well, we've got some data to look back on. We're going to roll out the numbers. They don't mean a lot, but there's some quite interesting things to pick out. People have got Dolemas on in Kunku, Solanky, Isaac. We're going to look at those. We're going to look at a couple of trends that I've spotted. We've got our own key performance indicator tables that we're rolling out for the first time. We're going to look at that as a couple of things in there. It's interesting. A few tactical things. Then, of course, we've got add predictions, captions, and our teams as well. We've put the ranks under our names as that's because for once we've had a good start. We've got a good start, right? We started this year, didn't we? We said, "Oh, there's no room for the ranks." We're going to do our name, and our Twitter, formerly TwitterX handle. There's no way we're going to do the ranks. We both started quite strongly with it. We need to shoot all these ranks in. Funny that. They might disappear. They might disappear when the few red arrows come out white. Before we get started, I'd love to hear you talk about sleeper, Mr. Az. Yes, I'm sure many people are aware of sleeper by now. Obviously, lots of content creators getting involved in that. We have a league, a pick-up league. I think over 1,000 people entered into that. Now, monthly prizes up to 500 pounds a month worth of prizes to win for the person who comes top each month. There's only one week left, but then it all starts again. If you haven't already joined, join this week. Get a bit of a feel for it. Then, in September, you can smash it and try and win one of those prizes. All you've got to do is pick the outcome. Of the games over the weekend. The person who picks the most over the month wins one of the prizes. It's like a steam deck, an iPad, an iPhone, PlayStation. You can take your pick with whatever you want. There's a QR code on the screen. Download it. Also, check out the sleeper app because there's loads of cool features on it as well. You've got any comments or feedback about it. They'd love to hear from you. Drop them in the comments. Hello. We're going to be indulging in the draft game that they've got running as well. Oh, yes. Yeah, we're doing a big content creator draft lead with Janney, Holly. The wire guys are on it. You and I are going to sync up our... We won't do it in person, but we'll sync up our mics and stuff. We'll be arguing over which players to pick. It's going to be fun. We've never co-managed before, so that would be very interesting to see how that goes. Indeed. Also, we were talking to Billy about the prizes. He couldn't believe what we were giving away. He wanted to know how he ended himself, didn't he? Yeah. An overall winner. So overall person of the season as well wins, I think, £1,500 worth of vouchers or something like that. So if you haven't joined yet, you need to join now to get involved in it if you want to win some of the big prizes. So download it, kick that QR code, scan it, whatever you need to do, and play pick up. Let's get involved. Right. It's a good game week. Let's start with you as... There we go. Let's blow it up. Let's go small. Yeah. Talk us through it as for the podcast. Go through those schools there. So there's a healthy one, right? It's a healthy one. Yeah. So Henderson in goal. He's looking like a poor pick, but there isn't really another four, five goalkeeper option that's emerged. So I think unless you've got Raya, you're probably not that happy with your goalkeeper anyway. So at least he's at least he's cheap. There's still some decent tickets to come, but yeah, just hit me with the one point. Trent Poren Robinson. It's a clean suite of defensive returns, which I was very happy with, six, six and seven. Saka Jota, Gordon and Smithrow also all returning. Gordon on the Sunday after match of the day. I watched that game. I thought he was poor. I thought Newcastle were poor. And there he popped up with a goal just as I left the room to get a cup of tea. Just like giving up the hope and the faith. There he is. Max bonus as well. And rested tonight. So pretty happy with that. Holland captain 34. I mean, I don't know who would go without it. Must be an absolute maniac. More ways to skin a cat has. But I was happy with that. And then the the fail is really east second and Matetta. Matetta obviously the transfer. He came in for Westam at home. They were really poor, lost comfortably to Westam and a blank for east. So just one assist in two decent looking fixtures and he's close to a drop, isn't he? And I think a lot of people are looking at ways to switch him to what is also underperformed, but has a great run to come. Indeed, yeah, some movement up front with obviously salanky injury and the exact. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't mean so much. I think it's easy. I just think Newcastle have looked lackluster. When we look at the data, we'll be able to see that come out over the first couple of games. It is early doors, of course. There are forest tonight. He's picked up a couple of knocks tonight already. So there's people on the exact watch at the city ground as we're streaming at the moment. Only 30 foot. Yeah. I mean, again, though, new cars haven't looked great tonight as well. So there are general concerns about Newcastle starts the season, which we'll touch on in a bit more detail. But yeah, I mean, that's a good score. Isn't it? He didn't triple Captain Harlan. Do you look back and regret that? Yeah, it's easy to look back and wish you'd done it. It'd be nice. You've got that chip over with. Like I said, your match today, my triple captain isn't going to get 17 points when I eventually use it. So would you take a cat trick from your triple captain? Of course you would. That general used it on him and lots of people watching match today had used it on him. So you'd be delighted with that. I think you said it was the most triple captains ever. Yeah. 477,000 in a single game week. Normally. In a single game week. Captain a double game week is the most ever on a player in a single game week. Yeah. Yeah. So we knew it was going to be like that, didn't we? I think we called around the 500,000 triple captain. It's fun to still have it, though, even though you'd rather take the points and run. It's nice to still have it for a bit later on when the double game meets kind of things like that. But yeah, no chances getting 17 points. So purely from points perspective, we should have used it. I think you're being a bit defeatist there. I don't know. I think we were in a double game week 17. I mean, you look at that. That's like, if Sally gets a double game week, that's just a goal in each game, 17 points for him. Have you ever had 17 points from your triple captain? In a double game. Yeah. I mean, it depends how they fall, right? It depends. We don't really know sitting here now how big the double game weeks will be and what candidates will have fall out of it. But I think if we get a heavier to in a double game week, I don't think 17 points is unobtainable. I think it's possible, particularly if it's a mere field, obviously Harlan's a striker. Yeah. As I say, that's two goals for Sally with bonus. Yeah. Two goals for Palmer with bonus, right? Depending on how the double game is full, with Saka, Palmer, or Sally get a double game week, it could be that we could-- You'd take 17, though. Oh, God. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. It's nice you're being optimistic, but-- I'm trying to get you. You were taking a run. Yeah. I mean, I didn't focus to equalize. I'm trying not to know the score because I'm recording the football, but I've seen this one all so that's fine. I'm not surprised because for us, we're actually the better team in the first half anyway. But, yes. Sorry, as you were saying. Well, as you said, I've still seen some tweets around, you know, I've not driven using my triple captain in a game week when I captain a differential and no one else has got him and it's worth more on that. I don't want to go down that road. Again, 17 points. You take that and run. I mean, if it does come to the end of the season, I'm two billion in the world and I want to stick a Hail Mary triple captain on someone, that might be the answer. But, you know, it's still only worth the third of the points, so you still need to get 17, or it would have been the right decision to use it this week. Yeah. Yeah. Long way to go. But yeah, I mean, it was obviously quite predictable in the end, wasn't it? When that third goal went in and on the moment on the video, it's like, I thought I'd got away with two and then he got that with two minutes to go. It was just a... Oh, this is right. Two goals. I know. No talking. No. Oh, it was the... Oh, Lewis. Oh, no. No. No. No. Yeah, it probably was the most predictable Patrick you've ever seen. Yeah. And it's his 12th since he arrived in the Premier League, which is crazy. Probably more to come. I didn't have him, but what I did have was 93 points anyway, so I've got through a really testing game week and, you know, to come out of the first two game weeks and be unscathed and have a good rank and ahead of some Harlan managers, I'm obviously very delighted. Two hundred forty five K. You are? Yeah. No. So yeah, it's good. It's my best start ever, I think, officially. Yeah. I've never been at this point this early in the season, so let's see what I can do from that. The game week, Raya's been key, 10 points from here, maximum bonus and the same point again. Pedro six, Trent six, Lewis came in and should have got more than two points. Hit the bar from about six yards out of course. Robinson seven. Smith road got his goal with 10. Sacco got another return for six. Salomikat team delivered on the Sunday with 10 pointer. Some was the hero with a brace 16 and Jean Pedro got the things rolling on the Saturday morning with a goal against United, the winner of course. And then really only ease that along with Lewis, the two players not to return. So I really can't complain with that. I really have spread the love and it was a combination of those nine players really just compensated for me, not having Harlan and I came through it and I'm absolutely delighted to come through it with a green arrow and a decent rank. You would not be saying that if you'd done. If you hadn't had the concert issue and you'd done son to phone and you'd be on. You'd be on 14 points less. So you'd be on like what 79. And then I think you'd be like, Oh, maybe it wasn't the right decision. And you know, it's fun. Little. Little butterfly. It is. I said it on the video, didn't I? Because my plan was going into the season. So I'll have some for game week one. I moved son off to phone and game week two and I have voted in that game to try and cover city. And obviously it didn't leak that phone was ill. Nobody knew that and you know, I fell of it, of course. And the only reason I possibly didn't make that move is because concert was the biggest fire and I felt like I had to move off concert. And I decided with son up against an Everton side with Ashley Young suspended and we thought Tchaikovsky was going to be missing as well. And, you know, maybe it was the Ashley Young red card that really did make him a minor rather than the concert thing. But it just shows you fine margins, right? If things had fallen, if concert had played the whole game and if young hadn't have got the red card, I would have been going son to phone and then I've been, yeah, you know, a lot worse off. So you can call it like I guess as there if you want to. What's that? What's that toast I made earlier? Let's go to the fridge. Yeah, not jam surely. Yeah. No, I will absolutely take that and I'm absolutely delighted with that, obviously. Let's look at the great and the good and where that puts us there. Let's just zoom in a bit and look at that. It's like the old days as top of the great and the good. There we go. Andy's joining us in the top half of the table. Yeah, it's good a bit for black box. We're doing well all in the top half. So Andy came in with an 86 game week. He's 715,000 in the world. So we're all in the top million and we, you know, that's as far as I can remember. I don't think we've had a start like that before. So it's just whether we can build on it from here, isn't it? Yeah. I don't think, well, I certainly not in the last four years have I been inside the top million after because we normally do our end of season, you know, debrief. And we say, yeah, if you're not in the top million after game week three, then you ain't gonna win FPL. That's the normal match we come to. But we could both win FPL. That's what I'm, that's the optimism that I'm going for. Yeah. I mean, obviously it's very, very unlikely. But when you start in the top million, it's a possibility. I think we looked a few seasons back, but it's not very often the winner is outside of the top million by a game week three or four. They normally have a strong start. It's always a common theme that we find. So getting a good start is a great foundation and we'll see how we're going from there. But I mean, you know, there's not big ranks here. You know, there's, there's no one who is like miles away. Obviously we go down Fabio Bors probably on a bad start. But then, you know, it's around three million, which he isn't about. And that's the kind of start that I've been used to getting is around three million out of the eight or 10 million managers. And that's still a decent start. So I think with Harlan's hat trick and so many captains in the league here as we saw, I mean, there's only what four, three of us didn't have Harlan. Then, you know, everyone got a very fairly decent start after the first two game week. So it's home. It feels good, don't it? To get it going again. Absolutely. I mean, you look at your rank, 245k, 163 points and we've got Marco at the bottom. He's on 120 at 5.3 million. So there's 43 points between 200k and 5.3 million. So I mean, 40 points is one good game week. So, you know, if you have had a bad game week, if, you know, obviously Seb's there with like 56. That's one of the lowest scores I've seen. But if you're in around the 50s or something like that and you feel like your season's over, don't worry. Loads of time to pull it back. Yeah. We've been on the end of bad game weeks and return from it. And that, you know, it could be just a Harlan hat trick at West Ham and then all those managers. Oh, I would just say. Catch me. The others up now. We're done. Well, let's start looking at some data. It's good to have this back. Let's just, yeah, we're zoomed in on that. So this is the team data defense. And what I've got in the final column is the difficulty of the fixtures they've had so far. So just the two games, obviously. And it's interesting to see, you know, it's which have had the hardest start. And there they are, the bottom of XG conceded non penalty per 90 of 2.61. I guess what's interesting straight away, particularly when we look at the attacking data after this is Liverpool on top. Now, we talked about slot perhaps being and having a system which Liverpool take fewer risks and being a bit more secure. Yes, they've had easy fixtures. It's which in Brentford, one of the easiest first couple. Yes, it's very early days and you can't put too much on the data. But from what I've seen and I've watched both Liverpool games now, they do look a little bit more secure. Is that your take as well as? Yeah, for sure. I've been impressed with them defensively. Obviously, they had the thing with Quancer, which we both said last week, not completely sure how well he handled it. I saw some comments afterwards saying he was fine and Liverpool fans, so it seems to have much of a problem with it. In fact, some people saying they quite like the fact he's a bit more authoritarian with things or his clock would, you know, be maybe a bit too pally with some of the players. So I don't know the ins and outs of the club. I still don't really know about that. Yeah, he was injured anyway, or so they say, so it doesn't really doesn't really matter. And yeah, and then we have the thing with Trent, didn't we, this weekend with the substitution of Trent, Trent on the bench, looking a bit annoyed, SOC goes up to him, says something, Trent didn't look impressed as well. So I kind of feel like while things are going well, he's not really getting away with it, but he can get away with these kind of things, you know, a bit of disgruntled players, but they're winning, picking up points. So it happens if they start going through a bit of a run where things maybe turn a little bit, do the players start turning a bit on him? I don't know, pure speculation. But for now, I think things are good. The attack is obviously clicking. It was a great breakaway goal. The Diaz defense looks very solid. Manchester United should be a walk in the park. Sorry, not advanced. But it never is really as in, you know, you never really know. But I'd expect Liverpool to win that game and push up from there. But, yeah, all things good on the Merseyside at the moment. Yeah. So 7.5 chances conceded per 90 so far. Obviously just the two gains. Very small sample. I keep saying that all through and out the show tonight because obviously we can get criticized far. Why are they looking at data? It means nothing. It's just got some interesting trends in it that are worth monitoring and tracking. If you're getting under 10 chances per 90, which Liverpool City, Forests and Spurs are, then you're doing well. I mean, that's kind of, that's the signs of a strong defense. So we'll see if that continues. I'm surprised about Forests. I think really that is on the basis of planes have Anton who managed just four shots and 0.14 XG on Saturday against us, which is a good sign for the Forests defense. Brighton, you surprised at them? They're in fifth here and 0.94. Again, if you're under one XG conceded per 90, your defense looks strong. Do you think Brighton would be more secure under Herzler? Yeah, I think so. I think the worry was that we would get undone by long balls again. I think we kind of did at the start of that Everton match, but then kind of found our feet a little bit. I was really impressed with this against Manchester United. We're really playing as a team. My dad goes on about, you know, playing as a team, transitions, pushing up, dropping back, and it hurts us definitely instilled that in the team already. You can see it. And you think with Cadiogloo coming in, that's going to potentially make us even better. I think he comes into the right side. Probably in displaces, Veltman. I've been wrong before. Probably end up on low when he's saying that first. I was going to say, when you were talking about Brighton, we take it with a slight purchase salt. Yeah. I mean, or basically, I think he displaces Veltman. So it even means Hincher would push going over to the right where he played for his last season, and cutting from the left, where I think he's a more natural left back. Or maybe Hincher would carry on on the left and get a close on the right. But that feels like maybe it's switching in positions a bit. I think Veltman drops out anyway. But yeah, I've been really impressed. And Forrest, you mentioned Forrest. But last year, Forrest would write at the top of the defensive numbers. Wouldn't they? It's just set pieces. And you haven't conceded a set piece goal yet? I don't think. No, after two games now. No. That's good. And we haven't been shaking on them yet. I mean, Millen Kovich made his Premier League debut on Saturday at Southampton. It was very impressive and should have scored. And he's gone right to the top of the XG numbers for defenders. But he was excellent at the back. And then him and Rilo should be pretty formidable. And we've just signed Mereino at left back as well. So we had a defense that's good. I'm still worried about the keeper. So, you know, obviously if we get anybody into the next 24 hours or so. Just others to pick out here. New castle. I mentioned them earlier. They're down in 19 after two games. Why it's why it's interested is because their start 0.49 difficulty is as easy as Forrest. But they're right at the bottom. Having conceded 2.02 XG conceded 0.9, non penalty 0.90. Obviously, the 10 men against Southampton didn't help. But then I don't, you know, I watched the Bournemouth game and they were pretty dire for long periods there as well. So far, the data backs up what we've seen with the I attest. I think they've struggled defensively. And when we look at the attacking data in the moment, we'll see a similar there. So that's what I've picked out here. I don't think there's any too much we can take elsewhere though because obviously just two games gone. Any thoughts on a new castle defense so far? I mean, I was looking at maybe Hall or Liverpool. I'm glad I didn't though. Yeah. I mean, you look at the red cards. Obviously, you've got to judge off the back of that. But also looking at Liverpool playing and Hall playing and then Hall dropping out and Kelly coming in and burn, playing in some of these different positions. There's been quite a lot of change around there. I was expecting Newcastle to, well, I'm still expecting Newcastle to have a good season. But, I mean, they need the transfer window to close. Because when he was going on with Trippie, for example, he's club captain. He started tonight. He said he wants to move. Essentially, is he going to go? Is he not going to go? When you've got such a key player like that, making noises that they want to move, it's the same, you're gay. A palace. The hedges aren't in the right place. And there's such a key part of that, that defense. He packed in Palace last night, didn't he? He did. These are players who have great influence in dressing rooms and there's a lot of uncertainty around them. So, yeah, we need both of those cleared up in the next 24 hours at Newcastle, don't we? I don't think you're going to be investing in Newcastle now. I mean, it spurs. It's two away games and it's Man City. I don't know. I mean, Lewis Hall owners are going to be annoyed that he's now at a risk. He started the first game. He got booked and didn't have a great game. And then immediately out. And that was always the risk with him. Livermanters. I mean, Livermanters may be the one to go for. But again, you're still going to be a bit worried about Trippie coming in. So, where do you invest? Maybe in hoping goal, but I think you'd pay five, really get martinets because the fixtures are better. So, yeah. We have a no-go in defense at the moment. Yeah, definitely. I mean, spurs walls full of my car and then City. I can see them conceding all those games. Yeah. You know, I think they don't travel well. So, even walls and full of might on paper look like fairly moderate difficulty games. But I think they concede. Both those teams can score goals. Both those teams have got a lot in attack. And spurs, I think, will definitely score. And probably, I do think spurs have a better day of it this time. They've suffered at the hands of Newcastle at such changes park in recent seasons. But I think this season could be different. Let's look at attack in data. And while we're on Newcastle, it's same there. Look, 0.49, the fixture. As we said, they're down in 16th for XG, non-parently per 19, 0.98. So, amongst the, the struggles there, and surrounded by teams who have had much more difficult start in terms of fixtures, like Brentford, like Everton, like Ipswich. So, considering the ease of those two fixtures, obviously, the 10 men went against them. So, you know, we'll have to see. But I'm just going off the back of the Bournemouth performance. I've seen so far tonight. They're the team that have kind of surprised me that they've stalled a little bit. And that is a concern with ease act, right? Yeah. I mean, you look at Newcastle's attacking options and they're not that. Their squad depth isn't that impressive. I mean, they had to sell mintade to us, for example, to comply with these financial fair play rules. Obviously, having to play Murphy on the right. A lot of people think they're saying it's going to be Barnes and Gordon playing on the right, unless they sell Almeron. The only way they seem to be able to buy a new right wing was if they sell Almeron before. You look at the other pictures and you look at Murphy, you look at Willock, you know, Fraser's still there. For example, they've got no alternative striker to, to Esack with Wilson injured. There's just a, Oschula, I think his name is. Yeah, it came from Sheffield United, yeah. He's very raw. Yeah. Yeah, he's played, you know, a couple of games in the league. So, I don't know. There's not a lot going for them in terms of that. I mean, it makes their, when you have got an Esack who he's going to, you know, kick on and start scoring goals at some point. You have got Gordy. It doesn't make those two good options because, I mean, I was sure Gordon was going to go off before his goal because he looked knackered. He wasn't playing well. They were four subs, I think, three or four subs lining up to come on. I was like, "Oh, that's Gordon coming off." But obviously, how just feels like he can't sub him. Did sub Esack, interesting enough? But, yeah, I don't know. I'm giving Gord another week and then probably moving him on before two away games, but it was a welcome ten points. I mean, I'll take it all day long. Yeah, I think the Spurs game is crucial for those holding Esack and Gordon and I'm amongst them. Watkins is obviously a player who's coming into the radar now with Villa's fixtures. I'll bring the ticker up again there just to go over those. I mean, Villa, go into a run now, Leicester, Evan, and Ballzitz, which is the next four, which is now standing around. I mean, those, you've got to look at it and think those defenses, all four of them, are going to be giving Watkins. I mean, he's had a couple of very good times. Yeah. He's had a couple of very good times already. Yeah. Exactly. So you've got to think Watkins profits over the run of four and he probably should, I would say, outscore Esack in that run, given how Newcastle have travelled and Esack is certainly a lot stronger at home, but the two home games that Esack's got in that period are against Spurs and City, so far more difficult than what Watkins faces. So you can see that move being on the cards for a lot of people and that's one of the reasons why I've made the move. I've made this week, so I've got the money to do Esack to Watkins, possibly soon. Are you looking at that as well, as an Esack? Yeah, for sure. We'll talk about transfers and things later, but I'm pretty certain going to save my transfer this week. I've already got a bit of a hinging headache. So then I can bring in a player that I want in Matoma and use that money to do Esack to Watkins. I think we're hoping that Watkins can get through this week without going too big. And do you know what? If he's getting chances and missing him, no problem with that at all. You miss as many chances against Leicester as you want. Ollie, the more chances you miss the bellocks, I know you're getting into good positions, save them all for Everton at home, and get a week before after the International break when you've had a bit of a rest. It's been quite a tiring few months for you. But yeah, he's almost said he'd come Everton at home the way Everton are at the moment. Yeah. I mean, he's a captain option, isn't he? He is. And I mean, Villa turn up here in the attacking day to an eighth, 1.65, which isn't, you know, it's just a table. But look at the difficulty of their fixtures. They've had, you know, ranked full for fifth for the difficulty of the first two games. Obviously playing West Ham away and Arsenal at home, not an easy start. And yet they've turned up in the top 10 still, which is, which is good sign because over the run that they've got, you'd expect Villa in a few game weeks time to be second or third in this table and stay there for the duration of that good run. So we've got to anticipate that, I mean, for me, I'm all about playing the fixtures early in the season because we don't have, although we're looking at data tonight, we can't rely on it. It's a small sample. So all that we really can go on is the fixture difficulty. And I'm all about playing that and trying to target the promoted teams, obviously, but any of the kind of bottom six candidates. And that, for me, means I've got to get on Villa for this run. Yeah. I mean, there's not a lot in it between, between Watkins and ESAC. I think if they'd both started the season with similar fixtures, I think it would have been a lot closer between them, you know, in terms of where, where we go. But obviously ESAC had Southampton at home first week. I think you would have been a very brave FPL manager to not have gone with ESAC. And to my, I mean, you look at the Elite 64 and the Analytic 64, I think it was like three managers that didn't go, that didn't go with ESAC. It's typical that he's the one that then after a few weeks is one work. So I thought he could potentially be a seasoned hold. You know, if he'd started off these two gaming week strong, obviously on penalties, no real threat from Wilson, I thought, okay, that's a good price for him. Was he eight, eight, eight, five? Yeah, you know, there would be any real reasons to take him out, but it's only two game weeks in. And now we're thinking of shipping him, someone that we thought would be good. But, you know, the fact he's so highly owned and the fact so many people are going to stick with it does present an opportunity to try and get ahead. Yeah, well, we're going to look at candidates to replace ESAC and slanky. If you go over them, we're both later in the show when we start looking at data, but we're going to start looking at goalkeepers first of all. I think what I want to pick out here, I mean, we don't often talk about keepers. And again, two weeks of data, not to go on, but already, while we don't normally want to spend five, five, or even five million on a keeper, so far, it's looking like that was the way to go. I'm sitting here with Rowan, my scrub, perhaps unbiased, but you've got to say that Alison and Maya have turned out to have a very strong start. No, it's the bonus that's been the killer. You know, two, was it free bonus in the last game? Yeah, one in the one before, something like that. But why has got four bonus points? So it says here, bonus, bonus, clean sheet, it's two per clean sheet. So now we didn't see that last season when he got a clean sheet, him and even the Arsenal defense didn't get bonus, but he has come through with two, well, an average of two points per clean sheet so far. I mean, they've been lucky. They've been lucky to keep two clean sheets. I still maintain Wolf should have scored in that first game. Surabia, you know, should hang his head in shame at missing that chance. And social walk-ins with two unbelievable chances in that game. So, you know, I think it's a different story. It's all ifs and buts and, you know, if my mum had wheels, you'd be a bike and all that. But if there's two games and you're looking at Reyes suddenly and you're thinking, okay, it's Brighton X and then Spurs. You're paying five, five. I think suddenly we're getting a bit twitchy feet, but we're not. And actually, this feels like this is the kind of low point maybe for Arsenal's defense. The two clean sheets is the low point, but I can only see them getting better because Marino's coming in who I think won the most challenges or something in across Europe, all of Europe's leagues last year, something like that. I remember when he was at Newcastle and not really thinking that much of him. And obviously went away and is now Euro's winner and in Arsenal. And yeah, I just look at that team that you've got so much strength in depth, particularly in defense, a great midfield. The returns are going to come. And, you know, I think Reyes probably going to be five, six, five, seven in a couple of weeks. And I think if you've got on in early, that's definitely a decision. You've got right. I wish I had him, but if I had him, I would also have in Kunku right now. And I'm glad I don't have in Kunku, so I'm not going to moan too much. Yeah, I mean, just looking at the, let's look at the long ticker, actually, and look at Arsenal's run that they've got. So in terms of, you know, up to game week 13, they're right down the bottom in terms of issue difficulty because over this run, they've got, and this is a run of what, 10 game weeks? They've got Spurs, Man City, Liverpool, Newcastle way and Chelsea away. So five of the game weeks that they've got in this run are difficult at the 11. But the thing is about Arsenal is I look at wherever they go, and obviously at home to buy it in the way it's Spurs and the way it's City. They are capable of getting a shout out in any game because that is the way they play. They're so well drilled and they are an efficient results machine these days with the emphasis on security at the back. I don't think they're going to get clean sheets at Spurs and City, but they're the only team I think I would even entertain the idea that they could. Well, the thing is, where do you go? Like, I wanted to pay four, five for a goalkeeper. So I picked Henderson thinking they had a good run of fixtures, and the fixtures aren't too bad. The next four Chelsea Leicester, Man United Everton, in particular that Leicester Everton game. There might be one clean sheet in there, maybe some save points from the others. I mean, a lot of people have got Flecken. Okay, it's Southampton next, but no clean sheets in the first two games. It's Man City away in game week four and Tottenham away in five. A better run from six though for Flecken, West Ham Wolves at home, Man United. Which is a tremendous run for Brisbane. Yeah, so that is, if you are while coding around that time, then I think Flecken comes the obvious four, five keeper. If you don't want to pay the extra four, for Raya. But I mean, Raya from game week six has got Leicester at home, Southampton at home, Bournemouth away. I mean, that could conceivably be through B3 clean sheets. If you don't have an Arsenal defender, that's going to hurt if they get. Even if they've got two clean sheets across those three, you're going to be struggling. So an Arsenal defender has to come in for me in game week six. It just depends whether it is a goalkeeper move or in defence. Yeah, and Alison's in second at the moment in the keeper table. We'll go back for a minute, but just looking at Liverpool's fixtures. United this weekend obviously is a test. I would expect United to score there. But then Liverpool go on that run, which we knew Liverpool had. And we knew that we'd have to start looking at Liverpool in attack and defence for this period, which is Forest Bournemouth walls in Palace. And you've got to think, you know, there's possibly three or four clean sheets there. I mean, I would say at least three, I would say. I mean, so, yeah, those two keepers right at the top at the moment of our table, Ryan and Alison probably are going to, you know, certainly I see Alison staying up there for a good few weeks because of the running features Liverpool have got. Maybe Ryan will slip down and some of the four fives can keep catching up. But if you look at the four fives, you've got sales who I don't still don't think he's securing goal for Forest. He's next in terms of points per 90 or 4.5. Then you've got steel. Well, Viburgen's coming back to talk to me about that. Surely Viburgen who played in midweek is going to be first choice, right? Yeah, I mean, he's back. He's back and he's a Belgian international goalkeeper. So he's going to replace steel. I imagine he replaces him straight away in the team. I think, you know, he's played 90 minutes. He looked comfortable, got a cliche, looked good, steel was done all right. I think the first few games. But the Brogan is the next level. He's better with his feet. He's a better goalkeeper all rounds and steel is a very capable backup. But I imagine the Brogan comes straight back in. And again, a four, five, a good pick. It's just bright pictures again. We've got two good home games coming up in form five. And then it's a bit of a rough, a bit of a rough sea of fixtures. I think then you get into the realms of Ariola and Flacken. And I definitely think Flacken with the run from game week six is the bargain. The Brogan is, of course, Dutch, not Belgium. But yes, I was going to sell this to the Belgian keeper. My Dutch friend will be screaming at me about that. But when I started this season, I think you remember when we did the post-mortem of last season, the goalkeeper position was one that I found incredibly frustrating last season because I didn't go to Raya, wish I had had done. And I moved around the four or five and got off pickford at the wrong time. Got off Ariola at the wrong time. So that was behind my decision to just go with Raya and hope for the best. But it has turned out a lot cannot better than I expected. I mean, the same bloody boat again. I was last year. Oh, yeah. I got through them all last year. You know, I had Ariola, I had Sanchez for one week, then he got injured. I had Martinez. You didn't do anything. The best decision I made last season and there wasn't many was getting Raya in on the war card. And it annoys me a bit. I haven't started with him again this week because, yeah, I think he's a great pick. But I'm sure there will be a four or five option that emerges at some point. And at the moment, my squad structure is pretty good. And I can't really complain too much because finding the extra million for a goalkeeper is tough. And like I said, if I'd gone for the six, five minutes, you know, Gunku and Raya, I think I'd be like three points better off. But I'd be having issues within Gunku, which we're going to talk about in a bit. So I think if I could go back, I'm not totally sure I would change. Change round. Looking at the XG prevented, you've got Sanchez, who's minus 2.40, who will come under pressure from Jurgerson. I had a hundred other goalkeepers they got in there. Yeah, that could be a seven as well. Pickford at minus 2.10 and Evan had a terrible start. I mean, that's not on Pickford, I wouldn't have said. And Joe's a sa who looks like. Well, some go was. Yeah, it definitely was. Yeah. And sa who looks like he's lost his place to Johnson, who signed today. So there is movement in this position. You've talked about Verbuggen. Johnson, I've just mentioned, is coming into Wolves, and I think he's at 4.4. So he's already taken the naught one. He could be a bargain for wild carders if they're looking for staying in that bracket. And then there's Ramsdale, who's moved to Southampton today, but looks a bit. Oh, that's a 4.5. Yeah. Yeah. So I'd be interested to see how he does there, because Ramsdale, in a side that's conceded shots, could do well for save points and bonus. Yeah. Yeah. But then I guess we've got the same thing we came back to in pre-season where the save points aren't enough to get the bonus anymore. And they need to be keeping the clean sheet. So what you want is a 4.5 million defender playing in a team that keeps clean sheets. That's the main thing. And at the moment, it doesn't really feel like there is that. I mean, Pickford was so effective at grinding up the one meals last season, but there's no evidence that's going to happen this time out. You know, it's forest that I like the look of at 4.5. And I mean, if the transfer window closes, you think sales remains number one? If there's no go quickly? Yeah. I do. But I mean, I think that is a potential weakness for us, Lo. I don't think he's good enough. I think if I was ranking the Premier League keepers, he'd be in the bottom five. And that's not what we want. We want a keeper who's going to get us into able. So I do worry about sales being the weakness now that we're looking stronger at the back. I mean, if we can protect him and we did a good job at protecting him last season and when we had Turner. But it was errors and set pieces. So hopefully, if we can rule them out, we'll be OK. So yeah, I agree. I mean, I think that sales could be an option, but we'll see if forest brings somebody in. I wouldn't move yet. The sales put it that way because now in forest, we've probably got one or two things up our sleeve at the deadline. Keper at Bournemouth? Yeah, possibly. Yeah. I mean, it looks like he's moved in the last 24 hours. He's going to get the shirt and Bournemouth's fixtures. I mean, Bournemouth last season were OK defensively. There aside, though, if you look at the long ticker, they don't really have a sustained run of good fixtures. They're a bit like Brighton. You know, they go effort and Chelsea, then it's Liverpool. So I'm too less than it's Arsenal and Villa, then City. So they've got a horrible run between eight and ten. Then they go, Brentford, Brighton, Wall. So they don't have a burst of four or five fixtures where you think, right, that's going to be a run of clean sheets. But maybe Keper for save points is potentially where you go. Because I think that the key thing is getting the keeper into your wildcard. And then after that, you just keep them right. It doesn't matter if they've got three or four rough games because it's just the fixture list up until Christmas, unless you're planning on making goalkeeper transfers, which none of us like to do. I think it's more important to get that goalkeeper right for these, what, five, six weeks before the wildcards have played. I know there's already some goalkeeper, there's always some wildcards being played now. It's interesting to know what people are doing. I mean, I imagine 90% of people wildcard in now will be on right. I can't really risk, isn't it? If you were wildcarding going into Game Week 4, you would just go right, would you? I think you have to, don't you? Because I think you can make, if you wait a bit and wait until Game Week 5 or 6, then you can see if there's a four, five option emerging. Maybe Brennan Vidal looking decent, maybe Kep has come in and then he's looking quite strong. And you think that the clean sheets and saves are going to be there, but we don't have that data at the moment, so you pick the safest option and he hasn't gone up in price yet. So I think if you're on a wildcard, Ray is an easy choice. It's interesting because I ran a few solves on reviewing. I've got a team that I put in Plan FBL that review throughout at me. And it didn't go right. It went Gabrielle and it actually went Edison and Gold. So it did go five, five, but it went for the citykeeper instead. Presumably Edison stays, doesn't go before he's done now. I'll slip us about Edison. I mean, we don't want to go there, do we? I don't think so. Now, I mean, we're expecting it already. I won't wait to become an option for some point. I mean, that's the trouble with, I mean, that is the only trouble with Ray, isn't it? I mean, there could be a defender that emerges. Like if you do want to get on a Gabrielle or a white with Saka as well, and then obviously have it up top, it does block you out of those three. But I think Ray in the defense is kind of okay. Whereas with City, you've got Gavadio, Fogen and Harlan's who all look really strong. So unless you're pretty much guaranteed that you're not going to go with one of those, then I wouldn't be big in Edison. And I guess I saved Allison, right? You've got Trent Jotta Salah as the three. But then I guess it's not really anyone. I mean, Saboz line maybe at six, five. Like we talked about maybe Robertson. I know he's going to look at Diaz in a minute as well. And he has Vardio. We're going to mention, we're going to look at Vardio as well. I've got some heat maps to show on both those players. So some goodness to investigate there. Yeah, I think you're right. I mean, this is it. If you're comfortable with Allison or Raya blocking the third slot, then you can go there. I'm okay with that. I think that I can forego an Arsenal defender and just go with Raya. The reason why I say that is I think that there are defenders with some attacking potential and some four or five defenders that I've got more faith in than the four or five keepers. And I don't know why, but I just find it more comfortable to swap four or five defenders with transfers. And I would a four or five keeper. Yeah. It doesn't make sense does it? But you do, don't you? You just think, well, because I've just gotten Qonsa to Lewis. Now, I wouldn't make a goalkeeper transfer in game week two normally. If I did, I'd be like fretting about it. But I may know what's about going Qonsa to Lewis because it's two, four or five defenders. So for some reason, it feels okay doing that, but it doesn't feel okay. It's four or five keepers. You've got a bit of a safety blanket when you have defenders, because you've got other, you've got bench options and things. And I guess you could maybe get a lucky attacking return or something. If Lewis could score that chance that he had was, you know, if a goalkeeper wants you to lose a clean sheet, that's it. That's not going to get that. So, yeah, it is a little bit different. And you know that if a defender, a four or five defender doesn't work like Lewis, you could just stick on your bench if you really wanted to. It's only four, five and bring someone else in. Whereas with a goalkeeper, if you get it wrong, you then need to make another transfer to correct it and so on and so forth. Good. I mean, Don, it just makes a good point here. I'm not paying five, five to keep the least important player in the side. You say that. You say that. But like Rayo is now what? The fifth or sixth highest scoring player in the game already. And last season, as we said, when we looked at the difference between our teams and we compared it to the FBL winner, one of the key differences was he got the keepers right and beat us by about 50, 60 points. So you can say it's one of the least important positions in the side. But before you know, if you're not careful, you notice that you're falling behind by just having the succession of four fives that don't deliver versus a five or a five or five that has got a steady stream of clean sheets. So that is traditionally the view Dominic. I agree with you, but I'm beginning to think maybe we need to, we need to realign that when you, if we're in a world where Alison and Rayo are going to get 15 to 20 clean sheets, which I think they could, then another four fives perform, which could be a possibility. And suddenly it isn't a position we can take too lightly. So yeah, I think we need to be prepared to change our opinion on that. I mean, if you, if you're off at 150 points for any position at five, five, you take it over the season. And actually this is the one where, you know, in other positions, obviously you can move them around and fluctuate and things. There's a goalkeeper. You don't want to do that. Ideally you want to pick a goalkeeper in game week one and just leave it for 38 weeks. And if you've got a goalkeeper at five, five, he's going to get you 150 points, which I think he was just under that last season. Obviously missed the first few games. Then you're laughing, aren't you? Because that's, you just set and forget you should do not have to worry about the position. Again, whereas at four or five, you've got risks that you're going to have to move them and move them around. And, you know, they could be coming in at 100, 110 points. And actually that Millie would have been spent on 40 or 50 extra points, which would have been worth it. Yeah, I mean, if Ryan and Alison keep getting bonus, which I didn't expect, then it gets even bigger. We'll have to see. But I think we need to be prepared to, yeah, rethink that opinion about the four. Because I went four, five's last season and it hurt. So we'll see. Trying to defend us. What was it? You did do that for a period, wasn't it? Was it Warden? Yeah. Everson. Everson Ward. Yeah. Classic combination of the day. That was the day. That was the day. It was that. Yeah. Defenders. Right. One name right at the top, Trent. And I want to talk about Trent and Robertson, Robertson in particular. This double act a few seasons back was incredibly effective, of course. And we talked about the Liverpool defense. When you look at the data so far, Trent is miles ahead. Xgion on penalty per 90. 1.68. The next defender down 0.99, Millie Kovich. Romero 0.95. So Trent, miles ahead so far. Very early days, of course. But I'm going to look at Trent in a bit more detail in a minute. Robertson also is there low in fourth, 0.62. I'm liking what I'm seeing. And I actually think when we talk about, you know, where you go with your three Liverpool slots, I wouldn't rule out doubling up on the defense if the salinity continues. And Robertson continues to get forward like he has been. What are your thoughts on that? Well, if you remember the end of my season last year when I was, I finished 450k. My season would have been a lot worse if I hadn't got Robertson in for the last four weeks because I caught two of his goals, two of his three goals he scored at the end of the last season. It's called no goals the year before that at all. So, you know, it was interesting that, you know, suddenly towards the end he carried on and it looks like his positioning and things looks kind of identical to how he finished last season very strongly. So I do like it at six million though. I mean, would I put him over Gavadio, Saliba, you know, and Perin with Trent? I don't know. I don't know. Well, I do know I wouldn't. I think I'd steal. I mean, for me, it's Polo or Robertson for me. I mean, Polo's up here in six already, 0.57. I'm going to talk about Vadio in detail in a minute. He's right down in 43rd, 0.09. And I'm going to tell you why I think that is in a bit. But I think, yeah, I think the comparison is Robertson or Polo. I mean, if you go riding goal, you don't need to have a six million Arsenal defender necessarily. But I'm seeing Robertson in a lot of wild cards put it that way. And a lot of people are looking at him instead of Trent to save the million. Now, what do you think of that? I'm not so sure there. I don't believe in the term essential. You've shown that you can do it without Harlan's and all that, but why wouldn't you pick Trent? Seven million. He's playing for a team that we think is going to be a better defense. The fixtures are good. His attacking numbers here are better than an elite striker. Although, obviously it's only two game weeks and all that. But you watch him just think he's putting balls in. He's getting into good positions playing for a good defense. He's seven million. I just wouldn't take him out. I think he's so important. And I'm seeing people while coding this week because they're worried about Trent and not having him and no easy way to get him. And I kind of get it as well. I think he's the most important player to have going forward. If I was wildcard and I'd build a team around him. Yeah. I mean, it is two weeks later, but this is Trent's season data going back, you know, seven seasons now, which is crazy. And if you look at his chances created per 90, big chance created per 90, touching the box per 90. So far over the two games, he is outstripping any of his previous averages. It is only two games, but chance created per 90 of 4.26. His previous best there was 2.68 or 2.84, a couple of seasons back. So he's significantly outstripping that. Now, it's only two weeks. It might not continue. But if he continues creating three to four chances per game, then we expect to see him improve on. If you look at the goal involvement at the bottom of this table, he's averaging around 15 to 20% goal involvement in earn in Liverpool's goals. Liverpool score a lot of goals. If he creates four chances a game, he's going to be getting over 20%. I mean, it's going to be a different animal then. Yeah. And you look at the fixtures and think I don't really know where this is going to end. I mean, many nights at Forest at Home, Bournemouth at Home, Wolves Away, Palace, Chelsea. That takes you right up to game week eight. I mean, that is a great run for the attack. You know, I'm sitting here without Salah, but if I didn't have Salah and I didn't have Trent, I'd be more worried about not having Trent. I was going to ask you with this run. So, you know, I've got Jotter and Trent. I'm happy with that. You know, Salah's obviously outscored Jotter. That's fine. He hasn't. I don't think he's outscorted by five million in that sense. So we'll see what happens over the next few weeks. But I would be, even if I had Robertson, I'd still be so worried about Trent. I just think you get him. If you look at the chat, I mean, it's very, um, it's very split. There's some people saying he's, he's, they think he's essential. Other people saying they don't think he is. RGA 964. So I think he's essential. Josie Robinson is Palmer's more important to get. I don't have him. Either I'd still be brooding Trent. I think Peppermint says Trent should only be on two assists. Absolutely. I think actually his data is so good that he's actually not had the returns that he, he does. I mean, look at that Jotter header. For example, should have been, should have been put away. And no six kitty says 7 million sub of early twice. Bradley will get some games. Might get rested around the Champions League. Really don't see the Trent appeal not even tempted. Oh, I might come back to that in a few weeks. Well, I mean, there's no, there's no player who is further ahead within his position than Trent. Yeah. When you look at midfield or forwards, even Harland in the forwards or, you know, solo in the midfielders, there won't be a gap that big. Now, I'm not saying this gap will stay there, but it's summit to track. You know, I do believe the gap between him and the rest of the defenders will be big this season. I really do. Robertson might be getting close if he, you know, and he is so far. Maybe he can keep that up. But even that at the moment, there's a gap there. So it depends what that gap is between a seven million Trent and the next best, which is your pollos or your Gabriel's or your Vadiol's, right? If that gap is vast, you know, 50, 60, 70 points, then, then, you know, the word essential starts coming into the vocabulary. Doesn't it? Yeah. I mean, the issue is like, like Xavier says on the, on the chat, Trent's attitude is concerned and we mentioned it earlier. He's kind of a strap on the bench and things. And we've already seen that the slot is a bit of a disciplinarian, we think. So I'm not saying that continues into the next game. But if that becomes a bit of a thing going forward, then maybe he does say, right. Okay, Bradley's getting this game now. You can have to learn your place and all that. But again, just, just purely speculation. I don't think you can pick, you can't avoid a play like Trent just because you think his attitude might be an issue. I mean, the one thing is, though, Trent has got one year left on his contract. He's got this in pre-season, him, Van Dyke and Salah all with one year. Him sitting, shaking his head on the bench, looking really annoyed, isn't going to feel all of the fans with a lot of optimism that he's going to sign before the start, you know, before the transfer window closes. And if it gets to January and he still doesn't sign a new contract, then, yeah, he might. He might have his head in Madrid. When Trent, he's coming off in 75 minutes, and he's not getting all the attacking returns in that final crucial 20 minutes. I get it. But then also, he could lock in a clean sheet, couldn't he? And, you know, so he could work either way. I'm not too concerned by that yet. If it continues, it's interesting. It does look like those slots wants to rest his fallbacks with the last 15, 20 minutes. He seems to be doing that with both Roberts and Trent. I think he's done it in both games. I want to let Rico Lewis and Vadio. Vadio's down there in 0.09. Rico Lewis, his fifth on 0.60, boosted by that ridiculous chance that he missed. I want to look at Vadio, though, because he's playing on the left and last season he played left back and pushed forward in a very advanced role was almost playing as part of the front three for periods. It's changed this season so far because Lewis has been on the right and he's the one in 13. I wanted to look at Vadio's heat map here. So the one, the first heat map is the heat map from 24 to 25. It's what we're seeing this season. And you can see there that, you know, the bulk of his touches are just after the halfway line, not quite in the final third. And then you look back to last season. And this is basically the two games in this season and then his last two matches of last season. So this is only a two match sample, both of this season and a two match sample at the end of last season. So you can see where his touches were very, very different at last season in terms of there are more. He was higher up and he was coming into central areas. Now we haven't seen that yet. And the reason why we haven't seen that yet is because of Lewis, because if you look at Lewis and he's the first heat map here, you can see that he is roughly in the same position in terms of touches, but he has had quite a few touches in the penalty area in the final third and also crucially in central positions. So he's the one in 13, he's the one getting forward and almost playing a more attacking role. Vadiel having to be more disciplined. The question is, is that going to continue and does that put us off Vadiel? Well, I wouldn't be buying Vadiel at the moment given this disposition and the lack of attacking threat. I think if you're paying 6 million for a city defender and city of, you know, we've got a few years of data to go on now and city have always been right up there in terms of defensive numbers. But the clean sheets haven't always been easy to predict. And I feel like they are with Arsenal, I feel like they can just go on a run and you get some attacking threat with Gabrielle and Sleeper or pay a little bit extra and get why it was if you're not really getting any attacking potential for a 6 million city defender, I think that's, you know, not, not great value. I just wonder about, I mean, what happens when Walker comes back in the team. Does that mean that Gabrielle then with hurts to how he was? Yeah, I would expect that. But the thing is, Lewis has been absolutely outstanding. He hasn't put a foot well and he's been their best performer in several of the games already and he, you know, I watched match the day challenge and mind you saw the highlights and he missed that chance. And I made a ridiculous one. I said, well, that's the last time we'll see Lewis in a city show because, you know, what Pep is like when you miss chances and I thought he was going to go, he didn't, he stayed on to the 90th minute. That's the first thing. So they made a lot of subs and Lewis didn't go off. And then you read the reports and you watch the game back and Lewis was a man of the match in a lot of people's eyes. Even though Holland got the hat trick, he's getting a lot of attention, a lot of plawed it. How's Walker going to get back in because Walker can't do what that heat map shows there. Walker's nowhere near as effective in the final third and he's certainly not as effective in the penalty area. So if it's working, does Pep change it? Well, I don't know, is the short ones. I know that's a pretty sit on the fence. I wouldn't be buying Lewis. So like I said to you last week, I was surprised that you bought him, but, you know, he is someone that you can just, you can just bench if you need to, but there's always going to be that worry that that Walker comes back in. His headache for me each week, you're always going to be worried about seeing him on the same sheet and where he's going to play, but he has got great potential. And if he had scored that goal against Ipswich, he would be a massive bandwagon at the moment. You know, his ownership would be absolutely soaring. So he's still standing a bit under the radar. He has gone up to 4-6, so he's getting traffic. I think when the Champions League kicks in, I see it that Walker's most likely to play the Champions League games. So I think it could actually work in the favour of Lewis in that I see the games that Lewis is going to play over Walker, being the ones where they come up against low-block teams, which will be the weaker teams, and the teams most likely to get a clean sheet against. Whereas Walker will probably play in the tougher games. Now this was my theory about Quanto and Kanate, and it went wrong in this, so I'm basically buying into the same kind of theory that there's going to be some form of rotation between these two defenders. We'll see. But I do think Lewis is worth the gamble. If I was wildcarding, I would go Lewis over Vadio for sure. I think I probably would, but I probably wouldn't have either. If I was going to pick one, I think I probably would go for Lewis at the moment and just hope that he can – he's that kind of spot maybe that you can just take a bit of a risk on and hope he plays, because like I said, I don't think there's – if you're going to get Cavadio, you're probably going to do Lewis to Cavadio anyway, because you're not going to roll with Vadio and Lewis, and then there's only really Harland and Foden that you'd consider, so it doesn't block you out of potential another spot. So you can risk it, I just – yeah, I don't know. I just think Walker is and has been such an important part of that team for so long, and for him just not to play, just doesn't really seem right. I mean, especially when you look at the relationship he had with Foden last season and how Foden was able to get into more central areas and do his best work and win play over the year because of the work Walker was doing on the riot, so suddenly changing that tactic is absolutely something PEP could do, but there's definitely risk associated with it. That's very valid as well because Foden hasn't started the season yet, so maybe Lewis is getting ahead at the moment because he needs that attack in impetus that he brings, whereas when Foden is back, then that might be the signal for Walker to come in to give a bit more reassurance, but to be fair, Lewis is defending one as well. I think that it's good for now, and as long as you've got Lewis as your fourth or even better your fifth defender, then he's definitely worth a pump because if he carries on, if he keeps the levels up, he's going to get 20 for 25 starts, I think, and maybe the Champions League is where we'll see Walker. So I definitely think he's worth a punt and also at the moment, Vadio, because of the effect Lewis is having, you'd have to be cautious about that as we showed in the heat maps. Let's look at these fielders. So just really quick on Lewis, can he play the other side as well? Can he play on the left? Lewis, I don't think so. I mean, he's very versatile. I mean, he could. I'm sure. I mean, he strikes me as a player who can play anywhere. I mean, I think that's why Pep loves him. He can play him in midfield and he could probably do a job on the wing as well. He can play central midfield. He's just... And it won't be long before he's breaking into the internationals as well, like he's going to be probably casually squat, you would expect. So I think that I think he's going to be... We talked about who are the breakthrough players this season. We didn't really consider Lewis. We are now. I thought it was going to be Oscar Bob. It's not Oscar Bob because of the injury. It probably would have been, but instead of Oscar Bob, I think it's looking odds on that Lewis is going to probably come out of the season with, like I say, 20 plus starts, which we wouldn't have said. We've been a few months back. We are a bit cursed, don't we? I just remembered. You were Bob and Konsa, me with Barco. Oh, he's an ex. Well, I've just wrecked Lewis, haven't I? Oh, no. Yeah, the point. Right, midfielders. A big name at the top, Bruno Fernandez. He was incredibly popular. We just crept into a lot of teams, didn't he, in the last few days? He has had 2.02 extra on penalty per 90 with zero returns so far. I mean, it's bad luck, isn't it? Because a lot of it came in that first game we saw against Fulham, whereas Leno kept him out, and then he had the assist for gone, actually, which was tapped in by Zirki on the line and then disallowed. But a lot of movement off Bruno, he's suffering a price drop, I think, if he hasn't already, you don't. I mean, I'm not seeing him in wildcards now, so it looks like people are moving away from him. No, and I don't really understand the demand for him at the start, and okay, it could be very different if he got a couple of attacking returns, but Manchester United have made a lot of signings. Tenhalk himself came out and said they kind of weren't really ready. Fulham was always going to be quite a tough game, I think, because they were so impressive last season, and I think Brighton Away was always going to be a tough game as well, given the record we have of them, the money we've spent, all the euphoria surrounding the club. So I just never got that at that price for him, but he should have at least won the attacking return. So I was just saying with Esse as well, Esse is also incredibly popular. He's 13th on the list, actually on one point zero eight, which one of those quite a few players above one, that's massive, that is massive underlying numbers, obviously he won't continue to post throughout the season. So you are unlucky if you went with one of them, or even if you went with both of them, but I still think there was much more risk going with Bruno than there was Esse, because Paul is finished so strongly at the end of the process. I wonder whether it was talk of the false nine was driving people that way as well, and obviously we know what we're getting. He's royalty, isn't he, he's FBL, royalty, he's probably his most prolific output is behind him, but he's still got the penalties and he's still got the minutes. Although he has, he has been subbed in both games now, so the whole idea that he's a 90 minute player. This is royalty. Well, in one season, I remember we did a show where we said he was a stronger aspect at that point than Salah. Yeah, I mean, he got 244 points that season, but it's been 150, 160ish points for three seasons now, which as that much of a talisman for the club, a big club as well, I don't really think that's good enough. He should be hitting 200 points every year. Yeah, no, I get it. I'm just, I think his legacy is there in terms of his FBL, his FBL output. As you mentioned, you're absolutely right, I mean, of the two, it's no question for me, you're holding his A and you know, people are saying in chat, well, the AI is still suggesting Bruno. It's not. It's suggesting keep his A. It's not. I mean, the wildcard teams that I've been seeing that the AIs is spitting out don't include Bruno. They do include his A and the reason for that is his numbers, of course, but also, you know, he's got Chelsea away, not an easy game and game for you. And then it's less than man, you know, Everton Liverpool and for us, so, you know, for the next five after going through a very strong, that Leicester feature, it's a bit like the Harland fixture with it, which isn't it? You're looking at that Leicester picture and you're probably worried if you don't have his A because his numbers suggest that he's got a double figure return coming and that could well be it. Are you worried about not having him? I thought with Mattetta for mighty Mattetta in my side, he's going to be in catch here now. So you're not worried about it, Mattetta? A little bit, I think Edouard's off though as well, 20 million to Ipswich, I'm seeing. So they've exactly got a lot of strikers available. The issue was that when we watch him back today, and it's just how wide Mattetta was having to drift to receive the ball. So you know, what I guess is being bought in for, is he being bought in, you know, to play as a nine, does Mattetta play just behind him? Do they play in both, like, together as strikers? I don't really know what the plan is for them. So yeah, I'd rather they weren't signing in catch here than it was just Mattetta there, but you know, he's got great work right at catch here. So hopefully it can lead to a few goals. I just had to clarify, by the way, FPL royalty, I was saying for Fernandez, he's one of the Premier League royalty. He's an unbelievable player and you know, I've had struggles, you know, for many seasons now, but you can never fault his quality and what he brings to the team. I wouldn't do that, but FPL wise, I have expected more. Fair enough. No, I think you're right in that respect. Last few seasons he has dropped off and his days of being a heavy hitter, show to speak, are behind him and they 8.5 price tag feels, feels right in that respect. Yeah. Yep. So fair enough. Also up here, we're going to talk about Diaz in detail. Cementio has been outstanding. He's started the season tremendously, 1.93 Xgion on penalty per 90, he's had eight touches in the box. He's got shots in the box per 90, 3.5. He wasn't someone that I necessarily was gravitating towards. When we looked at the 5.5 in neighbors, he was in our list and we did talk about him pre-season. He's just started incredibly strongly, hasn't he? And I think that when we're looking at, you know, in Cunku replacements, if you want to go down from the 6.5 where in Cunku is, then Cementio's got to be in the thinking, I would say. I like his Everton next as well, give the problems they've had. I think Southampton at home a few weeks later, Chelsea Liverpool around that. So it is a proper mixed bag, but if you can work out with a rotation, you know, around Smithrow, Rogers, whoever, then I think he's a really strong asset. I picked him up on the draft league and was really, really happy with that. I mean, we haven't seen if Allison, is that his name? And Allison, yeah, he had his debut on Sunday, yeah. Yeah, we haven't seen too much of him though, would he play about 65 minutes in that game or something like that? Yeah, he's okay. I mean, he had three shots, two shots is great. He did okay. Cementio was definitely the threat of seven shots in that game on Sunday. Yeah. So maybe it's even with him in the team, he's still a great option, but yeah, I do like it. And we talked about the 5.5 at the start. I think with Smithrow, Rogers, with Cementio as well, and another midfield of Westam, we're going to talk about it a bit. You can take a punt on him and know that you've got other places to move. Yeah, no, absolutely. One of the things that we've done this year is we've got our own KPI tables, key performance indicator tables. And in that, what I did is I looked at players that have improved markedly in terms of touches in the box per 90 to get an idea whether there's any tactical changes, any players are obviously getting more in the box than they did last season. And it surfaced Cementio here. He's thinking he's down mid-table here, so he's touches in the box per 90, gone up by 2.31. He's right in the mid-table, but right at the top there is Soushek. Now, Soushek has had eight shots in the box so far more than any other midfielder. He scored at Palace, of course, got the first goal. All of his key performance indicators are up. He's touches in the box up by 5.76, shots per 90, up by 2.96, shots in the box up by 2.09, XGI up 1.21, he's another one at 5 million. If you remember Soushek when he arrived in the Premier League, he was that player. He was that box-raiding goal-scoring player who could get 10 goals. It looks like he's maybe so far suggesting he could be going back that way. Well, he got seven goals last season, and the fact he's already up on the stats on that is definitely encouraging. Soushek, I mean, I saw them against Villa, and he didn't stand out as someone who I suddenly thought I was going to be able to take him through it. He got the assist in that game. Again, no, it's just a fixture, there's a big man sitting next, full of them away, Chelsea at home, Brentford away. Then it's in to which a home in seven, but then it spurs Mani Knight, Forrest away. It's just not really a time for him. I think the other options of Smith Rowan Rogers to me are just ahead of him. If you're rating him against a Semenio, though, then maybe it's a bit. I just think it's one to monitor, isn't it? I think if you can come into a decent one of fixtures with these numbers and clearly be they're targeting him corners and he's getting more advanced, then he's someone that they could go for, and if you've got 12, 13 attacking returns from a 5 million asset, you'd be delighted with that, I think, you're going to get armor every year getting 30 attacking returns or whatever. Absolutely. I think what I say is if you're wildcarding and trying to go Salah and Harland, then again, like it was at the start of season, there were 5 and 5.5 options available, like Semenio, like Soushek, who stand out so far with a small sample of data, albeit, but worth keeping an eye on. As he's numbers, as we said, are up on last season, so he's touching the box up at 1.51, he's shots per 90, up 2.36, Xj up per 90, 0.47, so as I'm just to underline that, I think he's absolutely a keep and the numbers should deliver soon. The only thing about him, of course, is he's losing a lot of his teammates around him, so I don't know what he's feeling about that with Gay, he possibly going, and Ketchia comes in and strengthens them, it's just that disruption, isn't it? That's the only thing that nags me about him, I would say. And the fact they've been poor at least, these last couple of games, and they were such a swashbuckling team on the Glasner towards the end of last season, I saw that only Harlan scored more goals than Mateta in all competitions since Glasner took over, which is not as when you think was Mateta, it was so out of it, but it's not just about Mateta, it was everyone, it was at least they playing, well, it was Jose playing, well, Munoz, I thought, looks a shadow of where he was at the end of last season, Mitchell was not a factor for us, and anything from him, so that's when it was so exciting to own Palace players last year, because they were playing so well, had so many players playing at the top of the game, whereas it's only really Eze now, I don't have returned something to be there, but he's still been playing well, and it's been unlucky, so he's still the talisman and the one to go for, but I wouldn't be moving for him, but yeah, I wouldn't be selling it either. No, absolutely, one that stood out here as well was Saka, he's touched in the box up 2.44, other key performance indicators up as well, and I just had a quick look at how so far his data compares to previous seasons, with the idea that I still think Saka's on the way up, but I still think he's probably got his best Premier League season ahead of it, and he's best FBL season ahead of him, and what we're seeing so far in the two games, even though Arsenal haven't been absolutely stellar in attack, Saka has been, touches in the box per 19, 11.39 is the most, his average so far in any season, shots in the box are the most, his average so far, 2.71, even chances created, he's creating chances at a faster rate than he's ever done before, it is only two weeks, of course, but he started strongly, hasn't he? So I'm seeing people for hits taking Saka out for Palmer, you think of that? Yeah, well, that's why I bought this up, because I do think that you're taking out potentially a player who's moving into the heavy at a bracket now. I don't know, I saw someone taking out Harlan, Saka, and I think it was Caroline in the chat, you know, taking a minus four to remove, I think it was Gordon, Saka, and Harlan to bring in Palmer, Watkins, and someone else, I can't remember, and Saka, and Saka, and I was thinking, oh, okay, that is a big, big move, I mean, we know there's so many good options in midfield and attack, and we did say that Saka is going to be a popular strategy, isn't it, to move the premiums around and try and target pictures and things, and arguably Palmer does have better fixtures than Saka, but you look at this data and think, oh, I don't know if I want to be doing that, because Arsenal are a better team, I think, than Chelsea, and would it surprise you massively if they lost one deal to Palace at the weekend? Chelsea, I get it, I want Palmer, I can go sawn to Palmer, that's one of the things I'm looking at. That's got to be rented. It is, yeah, but Saka to Palmer, I would have to think twice about it, because Arsenal have got fixtures to come where you want Saka, they've got Leicester and Southampton in Game Week six and seven, so if you don't have Saka for those two, you're exposed, I think, because I mean, you could look at Saka there for captaincy, and of course Palmer's got Crystal Palace, Bournemouth, Westam, Brighton and Follist, yeah, it's a great run, I see it, but I still, you know, I don't know, I mean, obviously they ran out six to walls, how much was that about Chelsea, and how much was that about Wolves on Sunday? Yeah, I mean, Wolves, Wolves just completely fell apart, and I said last week, I watched him against Arsenal, and he didn't seem to have to fight there for that game, and I do wonder if they've looked at these two fixtures and gone, we're not going to get anything from this, so let's just, I don't know, let's just give it a half-assed attempt, and the trouble is that they've got tough fixtures to come. I mean, not Forest of Way, it's tough, Newcastle's obviously tough, and it's Villa, then it's Liverpool, and then they have an away game against Brentford, which isn't even that easy, and then it's Man City at home, so it's conceivable they could come out of eight weeks with, I don't know, one point, or like one point. Yeah, they've got a terrible start. That is about as rough as it gets, and at least Ipswich have come out of their two tough games, and they had a good first half against Liverpool, they scored the goal against City, there's a bit of fight, a bit of life to them, whereas I don't see that with Wolves at all, so we're talking about Everton, and thinking about them as pendulum whipping boys, I think Wolves at the moment are as well. Yeah, no, I agree with that, I mean, we'll see how they get on our forest, they've got to get something out for us, because of the run they've got around that, so I'm still, the jury's still out on Chelsea for me, and Palmer's a quality player, I want him, of course I do, but I don't think I want him enough necessarily to lose soccer, I think that is difficult to do. Well, I mean, looking at the fixture ticket, I mean, obviously Palace at home now, this is a great time to be buying Palmer, you'd expect him to do very, very well in that fixture. Yeah, he's a captain, I think he is the strongest captain. He probably is, yeah, I think if I had him, I would be captaining him this week, definitely. But then it's warmer for most time away, again, good fixtures, but, I mean, but then it's Brighton and Forest in six and seven, but at the same time Arsenal has Leicester and Southampton at home, which is the two best fixtures any player could have. So even if you've got Palmer going into six and seven, soccer only is going to be thinking, well, I've got arguably a similar player with better fixtures. So you're always going to be coveting different players the way the prices are. And that's why it is such an exciting season. And it's why we might see some sales of Holland in game week five when it's Arsenal, because that might be people's way to going soccer, Palmer and Salah potentially. Yeah, and this was behind my thinking with the transfer I've made this week to get myself 1.5 in the bank, because it gives me the flexibility to exploit being able to get to Palmer without losing soccer, which I know Holland owners just can't do that. So unless people have wildcarded in Holland out to Salah ahead of game week four, we're going into a period now where people have got Salah over Holland, because they've got their extra little bit of money, can use it to get on whatkins to get on Palmer, whereas Holland owners are going to find it more difficult. I think now, maybe I'm being general there, but that's the feeling I get. When I say being general, I don't mean I'm not being Mark Mexican. I've been generalistic and maybe speculative about it. I've got to exploit that. I've got to get on Palmer from Salah as soon as I can, because I know that's not going to be as easy for people with Holland to do without losing soccer. It's going to be very interesting to see how people jump on off these players, because it probably means that other areas of people's teams are going to be ignored. Players like Enbumo and Eze and players might not be brought in for good runs, because people are so focused on moving around those premiums. Don't get me wrong. If you get it right and you take out sack of any blanks, you bring in Palmer, he gets a 20-point score. It could go very wrong. It could be the complete opposite, but the winner of FPL this season is going to be the one who gets that right. Maybe you want to put yourself in that boat and risk it. I want to see late Riser do that, because late Riser talks about, I was watching the FPL YF the other day. He's been quite a boring team from late Riser to start the season, so I'm hoping he risks it and carries on with his upside chasing. This season feels like you can do it, but you've got to set up in a way to do it. I understand why people didn't, because Holland is going into going with such a big risk going without him. But now we're entering the period where, if you are going to wild guard away from Holland, you can give yourself that flexibility. It'll be interesting how many people do that, whether they move, play the wild guard ahead of going week four, go Salah, go a couple of other high-level mids and navel and to move from Palmer to Saka, maybe to Son, maybe to De Boyne, and maybe to Foden. We haven't even talked about Foden, maybe he's going to be a factor at some point. So movement in that bracket is what I would expect, or you can just stick with Harland and skip that and hope that Harland capacity carries you through, and it could. There's no doubt he's going to be the top points core. I don't question that. It's just whether you can use the funds around him to do better. I want to look about Diaz. Let's go back to midfielders. Just one thing before you do, Mark, just that we've got 1,700 people watching live, which is amazing. So there's a mini-league code running across your screen now. If you've joined already, the black box, the mini-league, the code is H081L8, all in lower case. And yeah, just want to say thank you for everyone tuning in and watching us tonight, and also all the support we've matched today. We had a great, great reaction to that. And yeah, we're definitely going to be doing another one before the end of the season, but probably not at some point. It's going to be doing week two every season though now. Yeah, it's got to be a good one to do. Yeah, it's got to be. Diaz is right up the top of that table. I wanted to look at Diaz's heat map, because it is interesting. We did speculate about Slop's tactics with the two Y players, Sala, and Diaz. Obviously, we haven't seen Gatpo or Darwin get starched yet, and we know that Kyos has come in to probably take some minutes on Sala. I don't think he's going to take starts, but he's there to come on for Sala, because they haven't really got an option on the right. So that's been the case for a while. Whereas on the left, they've got Gatpo, they could play Darwin out there. They could even play Jota there, right? So I think it's needed, Kyos. I don't think it's a worry for Sala. He will get subbed with 10 minutes to go like we saw on Sunday, and he will lose some minutes. But it's interesting, the difference in the heat maps here, you've got Sala thirst here. And just for the podcast, we're seeing Sala very high, a lot of touches on the edge of the box, working into the right-hand side of the box, but not occupying too many central areas. And then you look at Diaz, and he's not as high, but he's cutting into central areas a lot more. And we did speculate about whether one of them would do that. And it looks likely it's going to be Diaz. And when we talked about Robertson earlier, it's interesting because Robertson is overlapping and underlapping Diaz. So those two over there are quite key to Slop's ploy. And I think Diaz and Robertson are going to have big seasons. At least at the word Chloe, they're scheming. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, what I wanted to see from Diaz was a nice clinical finish. And what do we get? On weekends, we've got a lovely clinical finish. So if he can start adding that to his game and become a bit more composed in front of goal and start adding more goals, then he's going to be a great asset for us. And for me, with someone who hasn't got Sala, I've had previous years where I've owned Catino and Sala, Sala and Manet, Sala and Firmino, there's always been a way to double up on that attack. And they're going to score goals. And it would be great to have that and not have to pay premium prices in Sala. So I am definitely monitoring Diaz, especially with the run that Liverpool have got coming up. And yeah, if I'm impressed with him against Manchester United, it might even be a transfer that I look to make going forward because it's a good price. You know, 7-5 for a player taking more central positions in a system which we think is looking to benefit him with a player in Robertson who is inverting to play those balls and help him out. All the signs are a good for him. So yeah, I want to be on that if it's going to work out. I mean, Trent Jota and Diaz, I think of three very, very strong options who don't cost the earth, really. They're like mid to lower price players and playing for what could end up being the best attack in the league. I think we've got to see where the Champions League comes in, what that does to rotation, because we haven't yet seen Darwin and Gatpo fall fitness and threatening minutes. I came off the bench where it was Diaz and Jota off on 72. So we're going to see that quite a lot. But what about starts? Is Gatpo going to get start soon? That's what we don't know. Is Darwin going to go to Arsenal? That's the rumours. Yeah, I know. I can't imagine that for one minute. Is Diaz a replacement from Kunku? I'm sorry, Gornaz. I just think that's an excellent signing because they have lacked that option on the right to give Sal a bit of a break and I know Elliot's played there a bit and they've moved. Did they move Diaz over there for a bit last season or Gatpo came in? They tried different genes. They've tried different things. I think they've got the money to pay from Caesar from Salenki's Salon fee going to Spurs. It's like £12 million. It's absolutely incredible bit of business, I think. Yeah, I don't think he's going to threaten Sal a start, but if they're through the Champions League, they want someone to play on the right, a bit more some of the bit more natural out there, then great. Easy signing and yeah, should do well. In Kunku, I think we talked about his A not being a sell. I think in Kunku is. Many have got rid already. I don't think many are going to hold him or certainly not going to be on wildcards. That was certainly one that people got long. I think that for me, I didn't want to go there until I saw Chelsea under Marescu and see how it's settled and all that's happened is they've just gone and signed more players and more competition. Shao Felix, we saw come in, of course, got the goal and then Kunku was benched on Sunday. I just don't see a world now where people can hold in Kunku without a degree of concern. He may well continue to get minutes, but I don't think we know what Marescu's first 11 is because what we saw against Man City was a very different setup to what we saw against walls predictably because you're going to play differently against City than you do walls. We're still learning. We're still learning what Marescu's first 11 is. We're still learning what Kunku's role will be. In the meantime, his price has obviously dropped and there are other options available. What would you do if you're an Kunku owner? Can you hold yourself? Oh my god, he'd be gone without a second thought. I think I was very tempted by him and I kind of got the appeal. The appeal was the potential. It was given two or three weeks and see if he starts as the starting striker for Chelsea and then goes into a great run of fixtures and maybe you'll end up ahead of other people who are suddenly clamoring to get him in. It hasn't worked out like that. It's worked out the complete opposite and I think don't be stubborn. If you've got him, I think you have to move him on because we've got what seven players, eight players on here, which are all better, although I will say this Madawake bandwagon. I can ask you about him because he's numbers. Look at the pink here, in terms of shots, but obviously he's only had the 190 minutes, very small sample. You're not buying into that then. I mean, his XG was 0.58 and he's called three goals in 14 minutes on a Wolves team who just literally gave up and didn't even start the first game, didn't even play, didn't even come off the bench in the first match. There's Tony to come. They probably get Oschiman as well. I just think you're literally moving from the frying pan into the fire with that move. I just can't see how it pays off for you. You're so much more likely to be sitting in two weeks with Madawake and thinking, "How have I gone from in Kunku to Madawake?" It's like going, "It's a Lewis, isn't it? It's like I'm closer to Lewis." I think by 4-5 to Thunder, you can afford to get wrong. That 6-5 slot is actually going to be quite precious to us. You've got so many options here. In Kunku to Rodgers, I think it's just a great move because 5 million for him from what I've seen so far. I think he's a great pick. Smith Rowe, if you haven't got him, I think he's just going to continue to get better as we go forward. I'm probably going to be buying Mattoma next week because Brian looked great. I'd rather have all of those than the Madawake regardless of the price. Mattoma has started the season remarkably well. He's got a goal and an assist, of course. He's got a price rise to 6-6. We go back to the fixtures again. Brian do have that nice little spell coming up in Game Week 4-5, "It's Witch and Forest." This is why Brian, I'm seeing a lot of wildcards. I'm seeing a lot of dunk, obviously Jal Pedro. I'm not seeing Mattoma though. I'm not seeing Mattoma in wildcards. You're just going there because he's brightening. No, that's very harsh. I think he was being brilliant. He scored a win in the cut this day. I couldn't do it when he was in my team. We know that Mattoma's got pedigree. We know that, particularly when we've got good fixtures, Mattoma tends to do well. I was at Bournemouth last season when he scored in that game after coming off the bench. We know he started off the season really strongly against that goal. He's got a goal. He's got against Wolves when he's doing match of the day when he just dribble past everyone. His style of play is very, very effective against lesser, respectively, teams rather than the cities and the Arsenals, because he is so good one-on-one against whatever right back you put on. If you're putting him against Ben Johnson, for example, I'm backing Mattoma every day to give him an absolute horrid time. And the key thing is he hasn't got the rotation, I don't think, that you have on the right and with Pedro, because Ruta Gruda Ferguson was back on the bench in the last game. Minte looks great, but I think there is going to start being some more subs for him. Who is the threat to Mattoma? There's OK, there's a Dingle who has started well. There's also Pedro who can play on the left and did so effectively for us last season, but the downgrade is massive from those. I haven't seen Gruda, I haven't really seen Ruta that well, but maybe there's a bit less of a step down from those, which always made a bit about those picks. So I think he is Rogers, but if you're looking at a 6-5, I mean, I said at the start, he gives White his the best 6-5 to start the season with, and he has delivered. He has delivered the points and he's going into the Wolves game now, fully rested, probably will get in Karlsley's squad as well, I think. So he'll be on a high going in against his former club. He scored against him last season. The fixtures aren't brilliant after that for Forrest, but they're OK. I mean, Brighton, Fulham, Chelsea, Palace, Leicester, West Avenue, it's not too bad. It's a decent run. I think gives White probably is still the best 6-5 there. I get your Mattoma claim. I do see it, particularly for those two fixtures coming up, but Rogers and I get does Rogers kill Bailey as an obstacle? You were talking about Bailey preseason, but does Rogers just mean that we're not going to go 6-5 to Bailey? No, I don't think it necessarily does. I think particularly at home, we know Bailey is incredibly effective and I think maybe if you've already got Smith-Roe for example, you might not want a 5-5 and a 5, and maybe having that 6-5 gives you a bit more flexibility to move to someone else if that doesn't really work. At the moment, I don't see too much between them though, and it is a lot of extra money for it. I mean, there's maybe a bit more rotation risk with Rogers, but I think what we wanted to see from him was that influence he has on the side, and he's got that showering at teammates. He's making take-ons. He should have had an assist for Watkins in the last game, and Bailey hasn't been as effective, I don't think, so yeah, there's a bit of a question mark there. I mean, I would pick Rogers out of the two, but I do still like Bailey as an option. Roger's 180 minutes. He played the 90 twice. Bailey's been subbed in both games. That's significant, isn't it? And I don't see Rogers losing his place. I don't think there's a light for light there. Ramsey can play that role. Duran's more of a centre forward, so I don't, unless they bring somebody in, which they could, I just don't see it. I love that we're talking about 6-5 options, and you're recommending Gibbs White, and I'm recommending Matoma. There's no bias there at all, is there? No, I'm surprised he would pick Gibbs White though, as the best option here. Well, he was at the start of the season. It's definitely fading now, because the fixtures are much tougher, but for the first three, I would have gone give White over and Kunku. But if you've gone in Kunku now, where'd you go? It is very difficult. I would say, like I say, Gibbs White so far is showing better numbers than last season. He's offset pieces, which is a good thing, because I think he'll actually get on the end of some of them. He didn't play well, particularly on Sunday, but he did get the goal. I don't, I mean, I think I like Matoma, but Michelle Pedro kind of kills Matoma a bit. Do you want to brighten attackers? I think if you're holding Gel Pedro, that's why it's difficult to go Matoma as well. I agree with that. I do think, though, if we see a benching for Pedro or we see an early sub, it's going to be people with an itchy, tricky thing. Maybe it's not that easy to know where to go to at 5.5, because you're going to walk up to Moonies or over to Armstrong. It's not really a lot of other other options. Yeah, Matoma is just such a key key player. I don't think you can go really go wrong, though. I genuinely do think, I mean, say Pedro and Matoma are all very strong options in their own right. You get something a little bit different with them, but the latter two have a bit more risk. Whereas, Matoma, I just think it's like Chelsea, not as much, but I still don't. Until we see Ruta and what role he plays, and obviously, there's another sign in today. Brighton are just changing too much. There's too many uncertainties there. I think Matoma's probably nailed on, but I want to see more games get more data yet before I move investing two Brighton attackers. I'm not going to go too hard, because the last time I did, Matoma will end up in bloody Spain, so I'm going to back up. I think if you want to include, you probably need to move up, but you probably need to start looking at the seven fives and start considering Jotto and Diaz and players like that rather than the six fives, because I think the ship may have sailed on Gibbs White. I don't like Matoma. You can go down to Rogers and spend the money elsewhere. That's the obvious move. But I think if you've got Rogers, then you're probably looking up into the seven five bracket and you're waiting to see whether Jotto keeps that style role up in. Yeah, I think you want one of Rogers, Smith Row, or maybe Semenio at that price point, because it is a very good price. But if I already had one, then yeah, I might be thinking of ways to move up a bit. We said that, didn't we? We said at the start of the season that the five five bracket is important to start with one of them, because at least one of them is going to fly. And if you can move to them quickly, then that's going to be an advantage. Smith Row started well. Semenio started well. Rogers has started well. I think you need at least one of them, because they're great enablers, and I don't see them. They will slow down. Smith Row perhaps hasn't got the great features. Semenio may slow down in terms of numbers, but they're still going to present value of those three, I think, over the season. Yeah, forwards are not too much to pick out here. When I asked you a little bit, what's the cause? What do you mean? Well, big top of the chance. One, three, seven, two goals, one, assist. What's going to happen then? With the Brighton editions that they've made, Jal Pedro moved to the nine at the end of the game and scored the winner. Is that what you expect? Do you think Wilbeck's going to lose his place? Bird and the overall points, Danny Wilbeck. He has started the season, not just the goals, but the all-round play. He's been very, very impressive. I mean, I don't see him staying in the lineup long term, or even the medium term, because there's just too many options. I think like you say, I think Pedro surely needs to be moved to the nine spot now. I was a bit hesitant to say that's what I thought was going to happen, because I've seen him playing in the nine and not been overly impressed. But I think now he's got the goal. I think he's got a bit more confidence now. He's got a manager of his arm around him a bit more than D'Zerby was. I think D'Zerby was quite cruel to him at times, whereas Hertzler is much more of a people-pleaser. I think that may be suits, Jap Pedro, a little bit more. Just the fact we've got so many tens in the side. I mean, even O'Reilly, who got injured after eight minutes of his debut. Hopefully, his injury isn't too bad, but when he comes back, he's again putting more pressure on that number 10 spot. It does tell me that Pedro has been marked as a nine, but then we've also got Ferguson there, and Wilbeck will be getting minutes. I see Wilbeck being a 20-minute man at the end of games to come on and rest and rest players. He's been a great servant to the club, but he's getting on a bit. We've got so many bright, young attacking players who are going to be desperate to play. I think he will eventually lose his place, but the Ferguson one's really interesting because Ferguson doesn't have the versatility that Pedro has. Pedro can play in three positions, the left ten or up front. Ferguson can only play as the nine. If Ferguson is going to break into the team, then Pedro is massively at risk because he's going to have to nail down the 10 spot, which might be difficult with the options we've got. I'm thinking that Pedro, it might be a limited time left in Haskell, but we'll see if he can get through the game weeks four-five, which is when right now those good features, isn't it? That's what we want Pedro to stay for. Then after that, I think people wildcard into game weeks six or seven will be going without Pedro, but Pedro is still being recommended in wildcards being played now, so he's still a factor. I don't hate it, because Riley's injured and he scored, he's on penalties, he will play a significant number of minutes, and he's only five-five. It's not like you're paying six-five, so you're in, so I still like it. Getting asked a lot about Chris Wood, he will carry on playing while we're struggling to get a forward in, but we're clearly trying to get more quality up top. Failed with bids for Santiago Jimenez, failed with bids for Eddie and Kezia. Still 48 hours to go, I'm sure we'll be in with somebody. He'll play game week three, he'll probably play game week four and five, but I don't think if we bring somebody in, then Chris would start and roll his in question. Aaron he started tonight, so he's getting back to fitness, so Wood's okay for now, but he's not long-term, I would say. I want to look at replacements for Isaac and Solanki, so similar tables to what we showed previously for in Kunku. Here we've got Watkins, who is probably the headline actor, he's someone with the villa fixtures that we've got to start making plans for, haven't we? I mean, they are so such good fixtures. I'm sure we've already mentioned them, but Lester Everton, Wolves Ipswich, Man United, right up until game week seven. I'm sat here with Rodgers, and I'm thinking that isn't enough for this, and I'm not really looking at the defence that much. Mattson is one that we may be emailed to the start of the season because they have taken potential, but hasn't really did. There's that four million defender, isn't there? Who's coming? I can't remember his name, but Mattie Cassie's out for a bit, so we've... And Ned de Kovic. Yeah, so he's obviously a good option, but alongside Rodgers, I really think we need to be looking at. I mean, like I said, what king's for Everton at home? That looks really, really dangerous to go without, and the fact is an international, they've got another game, and then an international break. He's obviously still finding his rhythm a little bit after being away for the euros, and I think by then he's going to come back and be a great asset for us again. So, yeah, I think you've got to be making plans, and ESAC is going to be the make-wait for a lot of people, because they're in and around the same price. Yeah, and I think so. I mean, I've got rid of Salenki, and I've moved for one of these players. I'm not going to talk about it yet until we get to our team of veals, and I've done that to get some money out in order to give me a bit more flexibility elsewhere. One of the reasons I've done it is because I need the 0.5 to go East actor Watkins as soon as I can. I probably need an 0.5 to go Sontapama maybe, maybe a need is the one where, but I've wanted it. So, I've gone with a downgraded Salenki, because I looked at Salenki, I don't think he's going to play Newcastle, then we've got two-week break, then we've got Arsenal. Salenki was locked, so the price hasn't dropped yet, but he'll only be locked, I think, until the end of the week, and then he's going to go down, at least not one, over the break, if he doesn't turn up at Newcastle, which I don't expect. So, if you're holding Salenki, you've got to consider you're going to lose at least not one on that. Maybe that doesn't matter, but when we're talking about players you've got to move to, not one could be the difference between being able to get to Palmer or get to Watkins. So, it is worth considering, which is why I've moved off in quickly and locked in the money. What do you make of it? If you got Salenki, what would you do now? Well, I was going to ask, do you think Salenki is done as an option? I mean, I think a lot of us started with him because we wanted to get him for those first two games, and then maybe look to Watkins and see Esak versus Salenki and see which one we might keep. I mean, if you say he's back in Game Week 3, it's Newcastle Arsenal, Brentford, Manchester United, Brighton. It's not a great run, and Watkins is better, for example, but it's not awful. And if you have got Salenki already in an Esak and you're looking at moving Esak to Watkins, maybe you do just keep him. Yeah, but he's not coming back Game Week 3. Well, if he's not coming back Game Week 3 and you don't have a bench player, then you have to move him out. Even if you do have a bench player, I moved him from a tetra, but at least it gave you a bit of potential to get a decent haul. Yeah, I think you probably do move for one of these. And I think if you are looking at making that Esak money up, then you do need to think about coming down. Haberts is the other option, but he might be tricky for you as he's 0.6, so unless you've got 1 million in the bank, you're going to find that difficult. Moon is an option. Moon is one of the most popular transfers last week, wasn't it? And I think just because he didn't score doesn't mean he isn't a good pick. I certainly would be going near Brentford, though, who wouldn't the right mind be doing that? I'll tell you why Brentford are appealing, because I look at the long-term ticker. And if you get to Game Week 6, they then go into a run of Western Wolves, United, it's which full and born with Everton Leicester. I think that's the best long run in the entire ticker. I've looked and I can't see one better than that. But would you not be wild-carding around that time? Yes, possibly. But have you got a slot from Bumo when there's so many midfielders? So that's why I think this is an excellent option, because he gives you some coverage of their attack. Nowhere near as good as Bumo, of course, but he's a million cheaper. And you get five midfield slots to move across other players. Whereas what other six million forwards are there to rival with? So yes, there's Munez. Munez is the short-term option with it, which was down Newcastle Forest. He's getting a lot of chances. He really should have points on the board already. So I see the validity there. But going this short-term now for Southampton, who I think they could beat them and they could get points with six onwards in mind. It depends. If you're planning to wildcard, if you book that in, then fine. You don't need to think about it. But I haven't. I'm not sitting here now knowing when I'm going to wildcard. I might wildcard game week 18 for all I know. I don't know. I'm going to wildcard when I feel the time is right and there's opportunity or there's a problem. Hopefully it's opportunity, not problems. But I don't know. You'll be a bit conflicted if Worcester gets this move to Forest, aren't you? Yeah, it's not going to happen. I mean, as soon as I saw that, I just, no, it's not going to happen. Solving your striker is probably the main team, but ruining your feel. Let's bring for the bringing somebody in and we don't know. So I think this gives you coverage of Brentford for that spell, unless of course you're happy to give up a midfield slot and boomo. There's nothing wrong with that because in boomo, he'll be on penalties and he's seven million and he's a great player. So yes, fine. But I do think the midfield slots are more precious than the six million forwards slots is what I'm saying. He started very strongly. Last season, didn't he? We're right up there. What did he give up? He ended the season. He ended the season really strongly. I think he got five goals in the last six game weeks and he obviously start up with a goal and assist now. I think without Tony there, he's an okay option. When the fixtures are good, this is good. I wouldn't go this in a run if it wasn't a good favorable run. But like I say, that Brentford run, I think we've got to look at their defense and look at one of their attack for that run. So if you're not wildcarding ahead of six, start thinking about how you're going to do that. Yeah. And you talk about Nkunku replacements. We did mention going up. I don't think we mentioned in boomo by name, but if I had the 0.5 to do, I think without without a doubt, right? Especially for this game. I mean, as a few people were saying, in boomo captain, for Southampton home, yeah, I don't hate that at all. But then you've got to be benching him at what city and Spurs. And that's where your Rodgers or your spiff row potentially comes in. You know, or your Jal Pedro, for example, because you can get a way of benching him in four if you've got one of those players. There's nothing wrong with starting him. I mean, he could come out with returns, particularly at Spurs, of course. So yeah, I mean, in boomo, that's what I said when we talk about moving up from Nkunku, he's got to be on the list because I don't see Tony staying. I don't, I think he's going to be gone in the next 48 hours and boomo's going to be on pens. And suddenly, yeah, he's unlocked for that run from six to 13, which is, as I say, I think that's the strongest run of features I can see in the ticker for that period, for any period of the season. So I think we've got to get, got to get on Brentford in some shape or form. And the wild cards are certainly, you know, even the wild cards from Gaming 4 are looking at that and looking at maybe Pinnock and maybe in boomo or Whistler. Yeah, I mean, the only thing I would say is I think Villa's fixture's probably maybe rival that from now, you know, given they've got Everton and Wolves two home games and then either side of that have two promoted teams. I mean, if you were to pick four fixtures right now, I think it would be Lester Emerson Wolves in Ipswich, maybe Southampton is their Leicester. But I think I'd be more impressed with Southampton than I have been in Leicester. So it's close between them, but that's a great, that's a great run of four. Oh, yeah. No, it's Villa now, but you've got to have plans to move to him. Yeah. Oh, Brentford player, I think for that run. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. This is what I mean. It's like if you, I think if you wild card in and you can get Harland out, it gives you the ability to go walk-ins and look at in boomo. But if you're not wild carding going week four and you're holding Harland, then your ability to move to these players, and we're talking again about Palmer, it's going to be restricted. So it's a really interesting, it's all calls by the pricing. You know, many people have said it and we'll say it again, the pricing has just made this season so much more interesting. Yep, completely agree. And I think it's only going to get more interesting as, you know, soccer halls next week and Salah carries on doing well and some's now an option again. I think it's only going to get, so as long as all the premiums are delivering, it's going to be fascinating to see how, I'll be able to, when your photon hasn't even played, yeah, it happens when photon comes and then we're looking at him. Yep. Let's talk about predictions. This is the standings at the moment. Yeah, I've done some work on that. I think it's great. That's good to hear. I'm sitting fifth. I'm happy with that. 20 predictions down and correct outcomes 55. You're on 65 low correct outcomes. Amazing. Yeah. I know. The highest here is 75, which is online and Tom Gold 195. These are people in our members league, right? And then you've only got 10% correct scores to my 25, which is why I'm ahead of you at the moment. So yes, sign out to our Patreon if you want in on that. Again, shout out to Liv and Lee providing the tech behind this. Let's look at our predictions for this week then, as do you want to talk us through? Talk us through these. Yeah, I think my dad will be disappointed with my first prediction in the early game on Saturday. I do think Arsenal win this one even with my Brighton blinkers on. I'm really looking forward to it as a spectacle as a game. It's going to be a really, really good game. And then afterwards, we've got tickets to go see Craig David, who's performing in Hitchen, which is maybe a bit of a fight from the beaches of Ibiza. I know your taste in films is pretty dodgy, but now you're going to see Craig David. I'm now creating your taste in music as well. Well, you always won't be happy to say that. Craig David is a legend. But yeah, I think it might not be the best start going into Craig David's because I think Arsenal could be winning that. I think we score. I think we get a goal. Like I said, I think Arsenal being a bit lucky. I think we got so much about us at the moment, but Arsenal just have that know-how to see it through. Wouldn't be too surprised if it was a draw, but I think Arsenal would be winning, given they got the home edge. Oh, I have gone another two-nil. I just think please, initially. I like to see Brighton make a game of it, but I think it'll be an early goal, then it'll be very, very, very tight and they'll just nick one at the end is the way I'm going. You've gone two-one. I've gone two-nil. I've gone three-nil. You think it's going to be tougher for Brentford now? Yeah, I mean, I wasn't that impressed with Brentford against Liverpool. Like I said, I've probably overall been most impressed with Southampton, about the three promoted teams, though it's hard to jump in switch, given they've had the two hardest games imaginable. But yeah, I think the promoted teams in general, I'm giving them a goal, I think, in all of these games, because they've still got that kind of fight about them before it gets to Christmas and they're all miserable and probably in the bottom three. So not a great time doing one of them, but yeah, I think Brentford probably got enough. FBL Swat is in the audience, and I know he's a Southampton fan, so sorry about this, but yes, they were impressive at Newcastle before and after the, yes, I went and created David Lincoln for an after the red car, but they were pretty poor against Forrest. And I listened to a lot of the Phantom fans post-match, their reaction, and they were very down about it. Yeah, they created, they had five shots and four of them came from the fallbacks. So that tells you how much of a threat they posed, and they conceded 23 chances to Forrest, who last season away from home, we struggled to put anything together in terms of crane chances. So unless Forrest were absolutely brilliant that day, I've got to say, Southampton were poor. Yeah, but they were good against Newcastle. I mean, obviously, there was the 10 men, but even before that Newcastle haven't played well. So I don't know how much of a gauge new car was going on. I mean, it's, I don't know. You say that, I think Brentford are just doing Brentford things. They're just, I think they can, you know, when they, when they go to Anfield, they're going to play free at the back and play differently at home. They're going to play four at the back. They're going to attack. I think that they will score goals going around. And, and yeah, I'm going free now anyway. Everton Bulmov talking to teams in about shape, looking to Neil Bulmov. I just can't see where the goals are coming from, from Everton or anything good about the way they're playing and almost, you know, we're all right against Newcastle in the end, got the draw. But I think anyone playing Everton will think they can win it. And I think it's, they will, because there's just, I mean, do you see the player, the players getting abused by the people off the train? Yeah, shocking that, won't it? Two game weeks in and they're fans of going home late. And it's absolutely ridiculous. So even at Goodison, I'm not expecting a great atmosphere there. And I think you rock up to Goodison at the moment and then you expect to win. No, I think they will. If you're Bulmov, if you're a reality, you're going, if we get on top of them, silence the crowd and get an early goal, it's going to go stop. It's going to be so on the backs. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, so if you, I mean, Everton players, what are they thinking going into that? That's just making them even more anxious and nervous. I mean, it's not, it's the complete opposite of what we try and do at Forest. And I'll know when we're in trouble, when fans around me are touching and shouting abuse to the players, because that hasn't happened even when we struggled and we have struggled more than Everton. So yeah, that is a, that's got to be a concern for diet, isn't it? I mean, they won in the lead cap. So that might buy us some credit in the bank, but I think Bulmov have beat them from what I've seen. Sameño, like you said, is a good bet here, I think. It's which Fulham, I've gone to, or you've gone to one to Fulham, game of goals though, you reckon? Yeah, I think so. And I'm, you know, I found this one quite a tough one to predict, because I think this is the game Ipswich I've been waiting for. And their fans have been waiting for, like, let's just get through those two games about getting humiliated, which they've done. And now we have a home game against the beatable side. So they'll be up for it. I just think Fulham are a better team than Ipswich are. And, you know, with Smith Throw, with Moon is, you know, with Anderson coming in, defensive, Leno in goal. You know, there's no easy games in the Premier League for Ipswich. And I don't know, at the moment, I just think Fulham, I've got a bit too much of them, but yeah, it could be a close one. This could be interesting. I like Ipswich. I think they'll score goals. And I think, yeah, I don't back I have a defense here. So I've gone to all. Villa, Leicester, I only see one winner. I've gone to know you've gone free one to Villa. Yeah, I see it. You just think that they're going to run right. Yeah, not much more to save. Villa are much better side. They just don't really do a lot of clean cheats. So I reckon Leicester will get one from probably Vardy or someone like that. Yeah, something. Yeah, some of those lines. Boris Wall Street, both gone 2-1. Thank you for that. That's good to see. I don't see clean cheats there. I think that we might sneak it. Much will depend on how we defend. They've got a lot of threats, but we're strong at home. It's always a good game with them. And it's always a bit of a needle as well. But I'll go through one. There could be, there could be very early question marks being asked around O'Neill, if we'll lose this game. I think that would be a shame. I think it would be a massive shame. But if it's another poor performance, that's three poor performances with the fixtures. They've got a couple more losses and these, he's gone. I hope not. West End Man City, both gone away win, of course. You've gone 3-1. I've gone 2-0. I don't get too much to say on that other than, well, we'll get to the captain's in a minute. We'll talk hard on then. And then the gardens end again. This is the best I could do. This is the best I could do to the captain's in the game. I know. Where would you look for the gardens end again if you weren't going there? Probably, Man, you live up all in that. It's pretty immediate. It could be a double game, because Panis could put up opposition. I've gone 3-0, so I've gone around the way. To be fair, if I was going to miss one, I've asked a Brighton Chelsea Palace, Newcastle Spurs, United Liverpool, it would be Chelsea Palace. So if we're saying we have to pick a garden in the game each week, then... And also 1-30, it's prime gardens in the time, isn't it? Get your shrubbery. Yeah, but it is fascinating. Chelsea, obviously, I give him a lot of stick, and there's a lot of craziness going on. But you can't deny it. It's entertaining. Not knowing who's going to come in, who's going to play, and some of the scoring six goals, and Madawake is getting a hat trick, and Tony might be coming in. And it's a good time to be playing Palace as well, because they haven't started the season too brightly. Like you said, Palmer, I think, looks a great pick. Yep, and we'll go to the captain's in a minute. Newcastle Spurs, here we go, different opinion at last year on 2-1 Newcastle. I mean, off the back of very big wins in the last couple of seasons, that's St James's Park against Spurs. I've gone 3-1 to Spurs. I don't like what I didn't see in the Newcastle, and I think Spurs are going to turn up probably with some down the middle, and I'm going to hope for more returns there. Yeah, well, it was 4-1 to Spurs in December when Spurs were at home. And then it was 4-0 to Newcastle when they played at St James's Park towards the end of the season. So you couldn't have a more different set of results there. I also haven't been too impressed with Newcastle's start, and I think this kind of game is what they need to get them going. The fans are going to be going absolutely nuts, and they can get it at Spurs. We know that the difference isn't there. So I think we've both gone different results, it could go either way, but just because of the home fixture, I'm back in the home side. And then a cracker you've predicted for this one. You've gone 3-2 to Liverpool, I've just gone a ball in one nil. So we're completely different here, both same outcome. I think it'd be a nutritious, tactical game. You think it'd be goals galore? Yeah, when you see a fix like this, I always want to bat goals rather than a nil nil, which more than often is. But yeah, I'm hoping, man, you get an only goal, Liverpool score a couple, United equalise, and then Liverpool get a late winner. Yeah, not much will to say, I'm hoping Sunday afternoon, get the roast on, watch a manual Liverpool. That's what the premium season is all about, isn't it? I'm going to be in a field watching, I don't know who's going to be playing Sunday, but I'm going to be in a festival. So no, I will not be making love on Friday, I will do it is. What's the phrase? Can I get a rewind? Not that kind of holiday, is it? No, it's not, no, not, no, not in that. This is a very middle class, everyone's very well behind at the end of the road. But yeah, so I'll be in the middle of a field then. Won't be seeing any football, be like last weekend, is that two-week ending? I can't see any football, it's really weird. Not the Holland hat trick. Yeah, I don't know how I'm going to do that, really. I mean, I obviously can check in with the scores, but I'm not going to be able to watch any of them. I'll record them all and watch them all back when I get, because I've got Monday off the catch-up. So I certainly will be catching up. But I hope it is one-nil Liverpool, rather than three-two, because if I miss a Goldfest, I'll be absolutely guessing. Let's look at captains, because obviously that plays into it. Jota and Salah, I don't think we're looking at Jota and Salah as candidates for the captaincy, despite what we see from the XG day terms, despite what Salah has done at all-traffered in previous seasons. I've got Salah. Would you catch him? No, I don't think so. I think like, I expected Brighton to win that game, but I didn't think Man United were too bad, actually, throughout. I don't think they were too bad in the first game against Fulham, either. Obviously they got the win in that, but a bit laboured at times. But I think the defensive signings they've made and the fact Casamero's looks fit again should mean they're a bit harder to break down than in other other games we've seen in the plugins against Liverpool. So, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I say that. I've got Liverpool to score three goals, so I'm kind of completely contradicting myself. But I think there's better options this week. Yeah, Liverpool to score three goals, and you don't think Salah's going to have a turn in that, for sure. You think? Yeah, I don't hate it as an option, but when I back him over Harlan's versus Westam. The trouble with Liverpool is obviously where the goals come from, because there's now three options there. It's D as Jota and Salah all competing really for goals. So, they score three goals, they get one each, whereas you know if... Yeah, you know if City score two or three, then it's all going to be the big man. So, Harlan and Palmer are probably the two big standouts, I would say. Obviously, we can't go too much on the data, but Palmer at home to Palace, and Palace don't look in great shape. Obviously, a lot of disruption. Not sure if Daisy's going to play, probably not. He probably would have left the club as well. So, really, it depends what we get from Chelsea. Will Palmer be wide, right? Or will be Palmer be tucked in into the 10-year-old with Maddowakie out wide? It probably will be that. It probably will be. Surely, Maddowakie's going to start. The Palmer's going to be in that. Is that his best position? Certainly, he was getting in the box more. So, I think if you've got Palmer, you can't turn him, don't you? Yeah, and it does worry me not only, because what we didn't want was a big call from him in a way getting against wars when not that many people owned him, whereas his ownership's now 40%. So, he could get a big call in this, and then our lovely ranks that we're presenting are suddenly decimated by all the promise. And it just means that our premium assets need to step up a lot. We need Saka to deliver against Brighton. Suddenly, he can't really get in a way with just getting an assist, because Palmer Foden could be hitting 10-15 points. And maybe that is going to be the difference with Saka. We know he's a reliable asset, but is he going to give us that captaincy option that maybe a Palmer or a Harlander or Salah gives? Maybe that's why we would end up making that move, not because Saka isn't a good asset, because he is. He's going to probably get 200 points again, but 5-10 points isn't enough to cover Palmer, who, you know, home to Palace, he could get 15-20 points in that, and I wouldn't be surprised. Definitely, definitely captain him, even if I had Harlander. Yeah, this is where we often roll out a graphic from Rob Tfbl, @RobTfbl. Follow him, if you don't already, because he puts out some amazing stuff. And this is another one he's done, and it kind of reaffirms some of what we've said here. Although he's backing or the spread bit in a back in the strongest amount of goals, for Arsenal, at home to Brighton, 2.45 is what they're saying, with 42% chance of a clean sheet. So that would promote Saka. Harland, similar 2.45 for Man City away at West Ham, that's a projected goals, 38% clean sheet. And then Chelsea at home to Palace, 2.15. So this says to me that Saka can hold his own according to the bookies, and so I don't have Palmer, I do have Salah. Salah at United is 2.10 projected goals for Liverpool. I'm probably going to catch in Saka. This obviously helps, right? Okay, I see why you've given them a comfortable tuner with now, and also probably best you're on a field, because you won't get to see the early kick off when Brighton come away as resounding winners in that. Yeah, I think, like I said, I think that's a big game for you. If you're captaining Saka, you need Saka to be the captain option, which he hasn't always, but I mean, he has, don't get me wrong, he can get 14, 20 points, whatever he's seen in the past, but he has often chipped in, and that's been enough, because you've got that player who just chips in, and then you captain the others. So now he's got this competition, he needs to start delivering bigger holes. So yeah, you're going to want 10 points from him, I think, against Brian Minimam. Yeah, Palmer, I do fear, although I don't know how many of that 40% also had Harland captain last week. I mean, in the community that we see, I don't see many teams who sit in here now, I've got Palmer and Harland, they might be moving to him with the wildcard ahead of Game Week three, but I don't think many are playing it, had a Game Week three, they're more likely playing it, had a Game Week four. So I would say to you that if Palmer does go big, I don't think they're adding to the scores of managers who benefited highly from Harland's hat trick. Maybe I'm wrong, because we do live in this Twitter bubble, and we think that what we see in our timelines are what FBL managers have got, and that obviously isn't the case, because that ownership from Palmer does surprise me, because we don't see that, do we? No, but like I said, we are seeing people make quite dramatic moves in, you know, in soccer out, for example, because I think people are focusing on that on that 20-point hole. And with ESAC as well, I mean, if you're moving ESAC down to a gel Pedro, for example, that frees up 3 million. And then if you've got Eze or Gordon and you've got a bit of money in the bank, then you move up to Palmer with that money. So there are ways to do it. They're not really things that we're thinking. We're not talking about selling ESAC this week, for example, but there will be a lot of people out there who've seen ESAC going to get an assist in two weeks and gone, absolutely not, you're out, I'm getting Palmer, he's got just got 20 points and not even thinking about it. So not too surprised. Here's the matrix of completely ripped off Lagomani's version and done our own version of that. Do not colors those, if you can't say anything. It is, yeah. And this really just underlines the task we've got in terms of identifying the heavy hitters. I mean, Son doesn't have many weeks coming up where you would captain him over the... You wouldn't class Brent for the home? Well, what I've tried to do is just narrow it to three in each game week. So I haven't, because obviously I'm trying to pick out of these players, Harlan, Salah, Saka, Watkins, Palmer and Son. I try in any one game week not to pick more than three that I would pick, right? So there are some game weeks where I've had to go for, because like this game week, for example, Harlan, at West Ham, Salah, United, Saka, Brighton and Home to Brighton and Palmer Palace, they're all quite close. I would say probably Salah, United, the hardest you could not have that as highlighted. So yeah, so that's why Son doesn't get picked out as much. So I think Son to Palmer, based on this, does make sense. And people have said earlier that they would do that in the heartbeat. I can see why that would be the case. I can't do it yet. Palmer has games coming up where he can be a decent captain, but they tend to be now, whereas look at later, Liverpool way, Man United away. Are you going to catch him there? Probably not. Watkins is the one though. Look at that spell where he can be feasibly be a captain over Harlan over Salah for some of that run. So again, it just a demonstration really that there is merits in moving the money around, moving the heavy as a round, rather than settling on Harlan and Salah and banking on them being the best captain week to week. If I were you, and this is going to bite me, I would be doing Son to Palmer for a hit and captaining him this week. Would you? Yeah, the only thing Son will likely be up front if Salah and he's not fit. And I do think Newcastle will concede. So if Son was wide left, if I knew Salah and he was fit, I would see merits in it. I think Palmer has caused Son by four points this week. That's mine. Yeah, I think you're probably right. But again, I'm still nervous about what Mareska is going to serve up. We haven't seen enough. Yeah, that's true. That's the only thing. If we were five or six weeks in and we'd seen more of what we saw at Wolves, yes, but we've seen it once. Is that the Chelsea we're going to get week to week? Probably not. But yeah, I do get the merits of that. I don't know if I want to take a hit though. I don't know. Because getting rid of Son up front, a new castle. It's Palmer. Anyone there going up? You might get a 0.1. You'd have a 0.1. Yeah, yeah. I think he's going up tonight in fact. Oh, there you go. Get your little 0.1. Yeah, but I don't mind that. I think Watkins is the bigger target for me. I think Watkins before Palmer, because of that rum is what I'm looking at. Because Palmer, born with Palmer at West End, again, it's just I need to see more of Chelsea before I know I want to put my colours on that mask in particular. Okay, let's look at your team. And of course, it's not really sized correctly, because you dropped it in late and we just do that now. Always my fault. There we go. Yeah, right. Talk us through it for the podcast. Yeah, I'm pretty happy, which is normally a bad sign. It's Hennessy in Gold. I'm not too happy about that one, but it's what it is. Trent, Poro, Robinson, happy with those three. Saka, Jota, Gordon, Smithrow, and Rogers, making his debut in my team, Harlan Captain and Esack, and then Bentley, Mateta, Barco, and Johnson on the bench. So, Mateta and Johnson on the bench, you know, bench, Mateta doesn't feel ideal, because I think Palace probably score. But there's not really anyone that I would pick over him. So, you know, there's some talk about Esack having a foot injury, which I'm not sure anything's got. I think he played the 90, didn't he? So I think he's probably fine. But yeah, there's a bit of temptation to try and bring Mateta in, but I think Smithrow and Rogers would be the likely ones to miss out, and I think they're both better options this week than him. So, yeah, and then Harlan Captain. So, yeah, I'm looking at this team. I think it's all right. So I'll probably get 10 points. What are you planning then? Are you planning game week four or hard card? No, game week four, I'll be doing wild cards, even laugh. So you're not going to, you're going to be OK with Jota and Trent, then for Liverpool, you're not going to, you don't think he's. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Next week, I'm planning to roll this week and I'll be doing Gordon and Esack to Matoma and Watkins for free. Yeah. That feels good. Yeah. Yeah. So that taps into Brian's two good fixtures and gets me walking. So you're just letting Barco drop. Is he dropping? Is he locked? I mean, do we know he's locked? Yeah, he's locked. He's fine. I'm having to play Trent, Paul and Robinson, right up until like game week seven or eight. Johnson's all right if I need him. So yeah, not really touching the defense and just focusing on trying to maximise the attack in players. Yeah, no, I see. I'm seeing a lot of patience in teams. I mean, I've been watching some, watching some videos and looking at teams on Twitter, a lot of people, like I said, are kind of fixated on rolling transfers and having three or four after the wild card. And I look at their teams and think, well, that's far more patient than I could ever be because they've got some of them still got console and he's going down again tonight. So that's suddenly not two. They've got Bruno. They've got Ezi. They got uncunku and they're not making transfers, which I mean, patients can be a huge, huge plus in FBL. I've never been my strength. So I'm not one to talk about that. But what's your view on that? Do you detect that people are rolling more because of the fact they can? Because I feel that. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, I could have rolled last week and just played Rodgers and kept Solangi. But I'm a bit like, I like to, unless I look at my team and I'm kind of happy with everything that's going on, I want to make the move, unless it's kind of the goalkeeper position. I mean, general's rolling, isn't it? I looked at his team and thought, there's a few issues with that. I've seen him before do this, where I've looked at his team last season and think, oh, he's in trouble. And then he's managed to be, the patience pays off and he gets out of it. So it's a tried and tested method that he uses. He's just very different to me. Yeah, I think the advantage is, obviously, is that we talked all episode about moving these premiums round. But if you've got that spare transfer, just knocking around, and then you've got a Palmer versus a Sacco, and you can just take a one-week hunt on it, then that gives you that flexibility, whereas we haven't really had that in previous seasons. So I can see why people are looking to bank them. But obviously, if you've got in Kunku and you've got Quancer and those players are dropping, I don't think you can be patient and you just need to get rid of them. But if you haven't got those, and you've got other players, then you can kind of maybe keep. He's like, for example, like, don't sell his A, just don't pay for him. He's absolutely a hold, yeah. I just think if you had Bruno Angkorn, so an Incunku, then that is really hard to sit on your hands then, I think. But, yeah, fair enough, it may well play you. Would you bench Matetta here? It doesn't feel great. Yeah, I would. I think so. Again, do Palace Score at Chelsea? I don't know how brittle that Chelsea defense is. If they were exposed by Wolves, you can't take anything from the city game because it's city. So, Palace could easily score there, but I just don't think Palace need time. They've got lot of disruption. And I think before they can start scoring two or three goals in a game, it's going to be several game weeks. So I don't think I'd be that nervous about benching him. You've got to play that midfield, I think. I think Fulham do score it, which at least won, and you've got to play Rogers. Yeah, I don't see where you can get Matetta in. Yeah, it could be Rogers that comes out from Matetta. It could be. Yeah. I think he's going to return in that game. I think all three could return. I think I'm going to be left with points on the bench, however I pick, but hopefully the lesser one ends up there. Here he is. Game week three. It's Riah Lewis Trent Conzer at the moment, although I've got options. I'll talk in a minute. Smith Rose Sol, second captain, Sala Rogers, Isaac and Whistler. And then I've got Don Emmers, right? So I don't think I'm playing Pedro, but Pedro Pojo or Robinson could come in for Lewis and Conzer. I think Lewis starts at West Ham, and therefore I've got to back the clean sheet, because I think City could keep a clean sheet there. Plus, of course, he can contribute further forward. I think Lewis has got one more game. Once a Champions League kicks in, then it's really dicey. So I think I'm going to start him. Conzer Lo is difficult because Lester could score. It's which could score. Newcastle probably will score. Arguably, Pojo offers win. No argument. He does offer the most going forwards and not playing Pojo Phil's won. But that's where I am at the moment. What would you do there? I don't like that bend. I was worried enough about my tester. I'd play Pojo, I think. I wouldn't play Conzer. I'd play Pojo and Robinson over Conzer. Would you? I think because what Conzer sent it back, isn't he? So you're completely reliant on that on that clean sheet. You get a lot more attacking potential with the others. Yeah, I think Conzer is the weak link. But yeah, I'd probably play it. I'd play Lewis Trent. The most likely clean sheet, though, out of that, I think. I just don't... I think Lester got the least goal for it out of Lester, it's which and Newcastle. So that's why he's in at the moment. I mean, Pojo's got the best chance of an attacking return. Conzer's got the best chance for clean sheet, but Robinson's got an even chance of both. Well, he's got an attack between him and he's got a good problem to have, though, isn't it? People say, "Why do you make early transfers?" Because I've got a bench that I don't mind playing. So that's what I always try and do, is set up to give myself the ability to make an early transfer because then I can get on the price rises. People say, "Oh, yeah, but information is king, but it doesn't matter because I get an injury. I've got Pojo and Robinson to come in." So obviously, if I had a bench where I had one active player or even not an athlete, I wouldn't make early transfers. So I like to have a bench so I can do it because I still stand by the fact that it stands to reason. If you can increase your team value or protect your team value over the season, it's going to contribute and it will help you. I can't see any other way. That's how you can sit here and say, "Well, I can have not five less by game week 30 and still do as well as you." Surely, there is some advantage by protecting team value. But I know a lot of people say it's about information. But my answer to that is get yourself a bench and then you can absorb anything you get unless I get free injuries, which could happen. You take a lot of criticism for it and you've got very experienced managers saying it's always knowledge over price and everything. But you showed last year, you can have a top 10k finish. You know, playing that kind of more aggressive approach. So you can't write it off. I think buying this was madness as early as you did, given that there was the cup games to come and in that situation, I wouldn't. He didn't play. I knew he wouldn't play and he didn't. He didn't. You were sub-winning. So I didn't think that was a risk. I didn't see the forest speculation come in though. Well, exactly. That kind of information would be useful. But yeah, I like your approach to it. So yeah, I'm not going to mock it. I just think that as the algorithms get more bedded in, as content creators get more influence, as Twitter gets more influence, the gains you can get are so marginal that price rises and playing them aggressively is one of the things you can look to do. If you don't do it and you sit amongst the majority and I tweeted this out, that majority is getting bigger every year. So the managers who start playing safe, play safe without doing price rises and make their transfers on Friday or Saturday morning, that group is getting bigger and bigger and bigger every season. And if you want to, you want to beat that group, it's going to get harder and harder and harder. So I just think playing aggressively is the way I like to play and I'm always going to do it. And it's kind of lived by the sword, isn't it? And see what happens. But I might get free injuries now or some last minute transfers. Don't go my way, but we'll see. It's all for you. Yeah, we'll see. Fabiansky is a flecken and bench boost. Yeah, maybe that'll be crazy, wouldn't it? Oh, here you go. My games have started. No, I don't know. I don't. I'm not thinking about bench boost. A bench boost. A flecken horror. Rob was having a picture with us. I know. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I will get something, won't I? Yeah, probably will. I know. It's awful. We've only got, we've only got five players the same and I was starting 11. It could be score if I take them out and different captains. So it's going to be an interesting week in our fifth season battle. I mean, I think that's key, isn't it? Like we're seeing and I'm going to put a wildcard team up now. We are going well over time, but I'm going to put a wildcard team up now. If I can find it, where is it? This is a wildcard team that I built with. I built with FPL plan and I looked at some of what the algorithms are saying and it's recommending something like this. I mean, the Edison and flecken combination. I don't really see the sense in that. I prefer via without the Arsenal defender, but they've gone. This is what it's recommending, currently going into going week four. If you're playing it this game, we Edison, Gabriel, Pinnock concert, Palmer captain. So Palmer, the AIC, that's the strongest captain. Saka Sala Esay Rogers have its Armstrong and then on the bench, you've got Robertson, Jal Pedro and Dunk. Yeah. I mean, Robertson over Trent, I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't go Edison. I'd probably still go Ryan. But obviously, when you play in the wildcard into game week four, the AI would give you something very, very different. I think what's key though, is that midfield? Palmer, Saka Sala, Esay Rogers, I think that's going to be pretty template, but wildcards going into game week four. I think that is the way a lot of wildcards will go. I like the midfield a lot. I do not like that front three, even remotely. 255 feels very restrictive and the Haverts, I mean, Arsenal's fixtures aren't amazing. There's no route to what kittens there. And I don't like the fact there's no Trent. No. Yeah. The algorithm is really like Robertson, but Armstrong, he's just, he's just no. Yeah, I think he's overrated because of the penalties and X-Men. So I don't like Armstrong. I'd rather put Robertson down and bring Armstrong up to, I mean, he'd even get a 7 million. Well, I mean, with no Brentford, I would get this, but then I would say that, because I've just got an integral. I think we're going with six onwards in mind, unless you're going to go, I mean, Esay to him, boomo, perhaps, because you've got to get Brentford cover, I think, from game week six. And I think this is a better option than Armstrong. He's not 0.5 more. I think I would just kill that Armstrong spot, just get a four or five strike and move Haverts up to Hawkins. For me, it's just, you've still got Pedro, Robertson and Dunk, Brits play. So you just bring that down to four or five. You bring him Pedro and then you have Watkins, but anyway, I'm not doing this. And it'd be interesting to see how it looks ahead of going before, which is when I expect most wildcards to be played. I do think most wildcards are going to have that Palmer sack of Salah Esay Rogers midfield. I think that is going to be the template on the wildcards, but we shall see. We've got some super chats to hit. Do you want to go through those? I would love to. So this is from Chimp Flipper, Jr. Thank you very much. Why did Ramsdale go to subalternable places? I hear they have a bird problem at St Mary's, very distracting birds. We know all about that. We get distracted by those, doesn't it? He says, yeah. We know all about our Brighton as well. We've got some very distracting seagulls flying around. I love that interview of Ramsdale with the birds. It was so, so sweet and wholesome, who's dropped after that one as well. I do like Ramsdale, and I'm surprised he's gone there. 25 million. I mean, it's a loam of an obligation to buy, loam of obligation to buy, which is, I think, what forest we're looking at. Now, you know, he's not going to go down with them, is he? So if they do go down, and let's face it, they are one of the favorites to go down. So all the promoting sides will be, he's going to be, I presume there's going to be a release clause in there as well. And he's certainly going to be, he's certainly going to have the chance to shine. I think it's a great sign in for Zand and to go and evolve. And I wish he was going to forest, but I am surprised he's chosen that. So, yeah. Yeah. In terms of why did he go, because he wants to play, I guess. Yeah, absolutely. And maybe even at forest, with the fact you've got about 300 goalkeepers, maybe you wasn't guaranteed to, you know, start and you cursed with goalkeepers. Well, I think we were distracted by signing the forward. And we let's around and getting ahead of us, which is a problem. Never mind yet. Tom, me and you say Sam Johnston become an option. Yeah, I think so. I mean, we talked a little bit about goalkeepers, didn't we? I think if you're going to, I think Fleck and Johnston, I don't know what the rotation is like, but Fleck and Johnston might be a good four or five seconds. Sorry, John, it's a wall to do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, he's not going to be an option until game week 10, because they play literally all the hardest teams between now and then. I really rate Johnson, though. I'm surprised that Palace, I was surprised when Palace bought Henderson for as much money as they did. And for the wages they put him on, it obviously looked like he was going to oust Johnson. But I think Johnson's a bit of goalkeeper than Edison, but mean, I think I'm looking at this Johnson, Fleck and combination. And it's not too bad. You can play, you can play Johnson against Newcastle and Villa, when Brentford Godu city and Spurs. And then, you know, it's a four or five rotation that could work. But yeah, I think up to have said, walls have got the hardest first 10 games in Premier League history or something. Absolutely crazy. So Johnston could be a factor, perhaps not yet, unless you're going to put him in a rotation. Yep. Next one. So, let me just close that. This is from Sonomi Boban, while carding on 172. What does that mean? Well, 173 points. OK, OK, aggressive with too many concerns, three essentials from both of you, more match of the day, please, we'll try and deliver on essentials, I think. You know what, Mark, this is a good question, because we've got the draft coming on Monday, and we need to think about our draft order in terms of what our essentials are. So, if you, who would your top freebie on a draft? Trent Salawakins, probably. Still Salawakins? Well, unless you trust Jota to keep his style. This is the thing. If we know now that Jota's going to play between game weeks, what is it, four, five, six, and seven, right? If we know now that Jota gets those games, Forest, Bournemouth, Wolves, Palace, then you don't go Salawakins. But do we know that? Do we know he's starting all those four with Champions League kicking in? Do we know Liverpool? Do you know if Salawakins is with K is the sign? Yeah, Salawakins can start. So I think because of that, because the concern that Jota might lose starts at some point, which is what we knew. When we got Jota in game week one, we knew there would be a point where his starts would start to become in question. I think that point, sadly, is after the international break, which is when you want Jota to be locked in. So, therefore, if you're saying you need to cover that Liverpool attack, there's only one option. And I think Trent is also strong, and I think Watkins is going to light up this next four or five game weeks. So those are the three for me. Do you have any different on that? I would just have Palmer over Salawakins. Would you? Yeah. So be Watkins, Palmer, and Trent for me. Okay. Interesting. The draft is going to be instinct. Nigel, the crab has subscribed in. Thank you, Nigel. Loving Forest, 36 shots on goal, 16 on target, defenders going for it. Where's the best value, though, in that side, really on the length of it? Sean, is that on to you? Best value in defense is probably Olowayna. I think that he'll move to right back, so he'll be fine. I like Min and Covid. It's late for the goal for it, and I think he's nailed on. So he's probably got more upside, I would say. So those two, would I go a Langer and Hudson Adore? Yeah. I mean, I think Hudson Adore is still in that five-five discussion, but I just would play it safe with Gibbs White for the penalties as well, and bank on the fact that he is going to have a break through season. And I think with Karzli in the England job, this is his time now to step up and get that double figures, goals, double figures, assists. I think you can. I'm looking to see Moreno, but obviously he wouldn't go there now. Yeah, they look good tonight. Yeah, I'd like to see him. I love him, right now. Sumo Nagam, just 3am here. Love your content. Cheers. Thank you very much. Thanks for staying up. So late early to watch us. I assume Phil's baby's asleep by now. It's been two and a half hours. What's really going on? Yeah, I mean, all we all talk about Brian and Craig, David, is going to put him just naturally. I know. Absolutely. Emery Kappa, just started watching going to ask a question all the stream ends. I don't know how much T.R.Y. 219, it sounds like a lot, and it's in gold. Thank you very much. However much it is. It's 1P or 10 pounds. We're very grateful. Sorry, just started watching and wanted to ask a question for the stream ends. I want to get Matoma game week four, but his two international friendlies are worrying. Last friendly is four days away from game week four. What do you guys think? Yeah, when he was benched against Bournemouth, I think he might have been coming back from international duty then. Don't quote me on that. I'm not 100% sure, but I think I think he was. And obviously, he's a long haul flight for him. He's also had this injury and now we could play Joe Pedro on the left. So Anna Dinger, as well, who was also starting to see him really strongly. So I don't really thought about that. There is a bit of concern about that. I'm hoping, selfishly, that he maybe picks up one of those international knocks and doesn't fly. You see that when the players come up from injury, sometimes see that. So if he does go, he plays both games. Then yeah, he could be a bit of a doubt for it. But against Bournemouth, he came off the bench and scored. So I wouldn't worry too much. Who's he going going for then? Because that's when that's forage, right? Okay, right. Yeah. It's the switch going for an enforced and five. Right. I'll see. Yeah. I think he can do damage off the bench anyway. So I'll still be going there. Good question, though. Very good. I hadn't thought about that. Adelia, a long time since I sent a super chat, you don't need to. You're a group chat with us. We'll answer it for free. You don't need a super chain. I'm sending ESAC to fund Palmer. Would you get Joe Pedro or Wilbeck? I hope I won't fall asleep before you read this. You've done well to last this long. I don't think you had Pedro. Probably Pedro. I mean, he's getting the 90 minutes. So he likes him, don't he? I just feel that I know there will be a bit of rotation with Pedro, but I do feel hurt. So we'll find a way to get him in and playing most games, whereas I think Wilbeck is probably going to be be outed. So, yeah, Pedro for me. And the final super chat the night is from David's family first, play one of Johnson versus Hall. That's got to be Johnson, right? Because Hall. Johnson. Yeah. Yeah. Hall, probably he's going to play. And which two of Rogers Wood and Gone Atcho or use one or two free transverses who have not in the bank and then Robinson, Smithrow and Rogers, they two out of Rogers Wood and Gone Atcho. That's hard. I mean, I play Rogers for sure. I probably favor Gone Atcho. Would you? I'd probably play Christmas. I don't know. Although, yeah, I've gone for two. I haven't gone for a clean sheet for Liverpool. Gone to one of them, I think. But yeah, I mean, we're likely to score against Wolves and Chris Wood is most likely to get us a goal. So I would say, yeah, Rogers and Wood probably just has gone Atcho. I started the season well. We'll raise it against Liverpool. I think they could all return, but Rogers and Wood just about. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'd do that. But it's quite close. I don't think you should need to use a transfer. I still quite like Gone Atcho as a pick. So I'd save it. You can have three transfers next week if you save it. Definitely roll with it. I would say. There you go. Cool. That's it. Thank you to everyone. You've got to be up early and I've got to do the podcast. Is that the new normal? Yeah, I've got a pack for the festival tomorrow. Yeah. If you're going to end of the road, look out for me. I'll be there and come and say hello if you're the brilliant festival. It's not up to Craig David's standards, but you know, I'm just going to be so good. It's so good. Great stuff, Mark. Great research, as always. Pleasure to see you twice in one week off the match of day. Yeah. And we will be back. Are we going to do one in there? That's probably not. We'll be back in two weeks. Yeah, probably. We'll have it. We'll probably do something. I'll either do a late tackle. I'll certainly try and keep my videos going during the international break. So we'll have a chat about what we're going to do. Yeah. It's been a good start to the season. We're happy at the moment, but we're braced. We're braced for impact. There's a lot more to come, I'm sure. I don't think we're both going to be happy after this week, because our teams are very different and there's a lot that can go wrong. I mean, Palmer could just get another 20 points and kill us both. Stop going on the back parlor. Yeah, it'll be all right, honestly. Okay. Well, I've got Henderson. So I don't forget to hit subscribe if you're new here. Hit the like for the video. Thank you for your support. It's a good night for me. Good night, everyone. This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network.