Join Az (@fplblackbox_az) and Andy (@FPLMode) as they look ahead to a crucial Gameweek in our seasons, make or break for many of us! Andy is on a Free Hit, what's he got in store?
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FPL BlackBox
Eze Win | FPL BB EP. 137 | Gameweek 34 | FPL 23/24
Join Az (@fplblackbox_az) and Andy (@FPLMode) as they look ahead to a crucial Gameweek in our seasons, make or break for many of us! Andy is on a Free Hit, what's he got in store? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Duration:
- 1h 38m
- Broadcast on:
- 18 Apr 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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As someone who loves lasagna and hates Mondays, I've always liked that cat. I don't know if Garfield travels much, but if he does, I'm sure he'd find a lot to like at Motel 6. They've got clean, comfy beds to nap on, and pets always stay free. Maybe he'd prefer just cats stay free, but that wouldn't be fair to Odie now, would it? I'm Tom Bodad from Motel 6, and we'll leave the light on for you. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to your F.E.L. Black Box ahead of Game Week 34. The exciting Double Game Week is finally upon us. One of us is on a free hit. It's not me. It's Mr. Andy North, my special guest tonight. How are you? I'm good, thank you, mate. How are you? Yeah, I am okay. I'm a little bit stressed, a little bit stressed. We've seen people's free-hit teams and seen what people can build, but I don't think my team's a million miles off. People are taking punts, right, and centering around, right, on Matettas and Cooners and Sarabias. You never even know what you're going to get from those. The big one was Harlan's, like, obviously, be having him, and if you're on a free-hit, you're probably not. Now he's got a bit of an injury, so I'm a bit less excited now. We haven't really had much of an update on it, have we, apart from the fact that he asked to come off? So, obviously, that's always interesting when a player actually asked to come off. And Katie Bieber to the same, didn't they? But, I mean, the thing is, with the City Game, it's not till the Wednesday. So, or is it Thursday, it might even be. So, we're waiting for quite a long time for that to happen. And, you know, anything can change at all that time, can't it? So, yeah, it's not ideal, though, for all those non-free-hitters, I wouldn't say. Oh, he says, "Well, Robin, his hands together." Yeah, it is exciting times, and, you know, I haven't got the wild cards, either. So, I'm looking at it and thinking, "What chips do you have last?" On one more time, but, honestly, one more time with that joke, and I'm going to flip. Yeah, I've got nothing left, as Ian Beal, famously said. So, I'm trying to work out what to do, and I've actually lost a player who I'm going to want back for 35, anyway. So, trying to walk that tightrope between, yeah. Is that Son? Yeah, Son, he's gone for, yeah, the person who's the poster boy for this episode, Mr. Essay. - Yeah, nice. - Essay, win. - Essay, win. - Yeah, Essay, win. - Essay, win. - Essay, win. - That's loose. - Set you all those double puns, and you went with Essay, win, terrible. Mark and I have this running joke every time a double comes round, that we're going to call them, so double trouble, because everyone, if you look at all the streams across the channels, there's always double trouble. Scout of famous rich. Whenever Joe gets the chance to name a stream, double game week, double trouble, every time. Well, I think I sent you double on Tondre, when we thought Mark was on her, I sent you Menagie. - Well, I didn't go with any of those. - No, I was just 12, I was a good one. Yeah, yeah, very interesting. No sponsor this week, no one's giving us any money, so I'm not going to plug anyone. Let's just go straight into game week 33 points. We didn't do an episode last week, Mark was ill last minute, I thought you couldn't join us again tonight, it was going to be the three of us, but he's having a bit of a rough time at the moment, so, yeah, I hope things get better for you soon, Mark. It was Asia since we've done a black box, I'm a bit out of practice, but let's recap what was an all right game week for me, 79 points, small green arrow, rare in goal, with one, Gabrielle with zero, Bradley with one, here we go, back to the defence. But Vadiol, finally, coming through, I was ruining the purchase of Vadiol after his 45 minutes in yellow cards in the last game. But then for some reason, played Ram Madrid, looked absolutely amazing, backed it up with another goal in the game. Who they're playing, against Luton, it's Luton, yeah. Yes, Bradley has been a disappointing one now, but he's only four million, so we'll let him off. Salasan Saka, all incredibly disappointing, they're the three big hitters that I kept on the wild card and none of them have done anything, really, since I kept them and it's Palmer, who I kept in last week for his five points against the level of United. I did the same. 26 points against Menzel, against Everton. I was watching that game, just thinking absolutely ridiculous. Would you make it the whole penalty for Yasco? Oh, God, what made me laugh about it was like Chelsea have been looking every week for like positive news stories about them. They finally get a really good win and everything I saw about it afterwards was all about that penalty and it was all about the reactions of Pochettino and about those players and I just thought, they just can't have a good week, can they? You know, they have a massive win and it's all about the penalty taker. And to be fair, I know what they were thinking, they were thinking, "You've had your goals, you've had your hat." You've got your hat, right? Yeah, exactly, let us get off the mark, especially someone like Jackson. But, you know, Palmer's the penalty taker and it's up to him who takes it. It's not up to them to wrestle it off him. Yeah, I thought it was a bit mad to be fair, but I mean, Palmer, we've gone through seasons where we've had Kane being cheap. We've had Marrez, Vardy, Ramsey that year as well. Like, Palmer's on a different level at the moment. It's just ridiculous, four goals in a game. Just unbelievable, and only one of them being a penalty as well. Like, yeah, just ridiculous. My mate spoke to me the other day and said he's a bit of a casual player, yeah. And he said, he logged on two minutes before, he was looking through midfield as he could bring in and went, "Oh, I don't have Palmer yet, so we've brought in Palmer two minutes before." I know, bless him. It was frustrating, though, because we didn't captain him, obviously. And I thought with Harlan and Salah were those two home games. I thought they would, and they did rightly dominate the captains. Paul, and I haven't really seen too many people with Palmer captains, but he was still over 100% EO at my level, shall we say. So his points were a red arrow from each one that went in. Again, I think that just shows that there's just a lot more engaged people out there, all people that just left the captain on him, of accident from last week. But I still think Palmer, even in previous seasons, I don't think he ever would have reached a level where he's still causing red arrows at kind of 500k, wherever I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was it Greyhead at that table the other day, didn't it? Is FPL getting harder? And in almost every aspect, it looks like it is. Like the average budget, you know, the average team value of every team has gone up, the average points has gone up, everything just seems to be getting harder. So just everybody seems to be getting more points this year. Yeah, yeah, or a year on year. Which, you know, in a lot of ways is good, right? It makes the game more competitive. I think we're still stuck, maybe in the ways of if we don't get a top 10k finish, that still feels like a fail, and we've talked about it on previous Black Box in previous seasons. You know, is the top 100k, the new top 10k, and all that stuff. You still want to be aiming for that. When we put in as much effort as we do, you still want to be aiming for that top 10k. I still see that as like the kind of the target, even though we've only met once in the last four seasons or something. How many times are you? Is it your? Oh, right. I saw that. Yeah, yeah. Let's not start about rank, guys, all right? Yeah, those in glass houses. Exactly. Yeah, so do you think Palmer is the greatest, is the greatest budget option of all time? Well, I mean, he's still got games to go. That's the thing. He wins the Golden Boot as well. He's still with Palmer two double game weeks to go as well. Like he is, he is just absolutely ridiculous. And I think because no one really saw it coming, like, I mean, I suppose you could say the same about, like, like I said, a Marrez or a Ramsey from all those years ago. But I think if he carries on like he is until now until the end of the season, I think he is, yeah. And that's not recency bias. I can't remember a season quite like this. Like I said, Marrez, Ramsey, that they were good, but Palmer scoring four goals. Just seems just meant to every home game struggling in the struggling team as well. I mean, they are climbing up the lead now, but for a large part of the season, they have been they have been struggling. And yeah, I mean, Marrez, you know, he got his massive already five five, wasn't he? But then they won the league that, you know, they can't call them a struggling, struggling team. Spurs were a top four, top five side. - Yeah. - And the last are all right with Ramsey. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely, absolutely incredible. Elsewhere, Holland was kept in with with 10 of us double to 20, Darwin. Oh my God. Why have I still got? I'm just waiting for that haul that it's just never, ever, ever going to come. Darwin, Darwin rested tonight or dropped? He has been so poor in the last few games. - And that pose done quite well. - I think he was dropped rather than rested. I think it's it's the same though. He plays one of the adult of the two games. He probably he probably gets 80 minutes and 30, which he was probably going to get anyway. I'm not too worried about it, but yeah, they've been better if he was coming into this with some semblance of form. Every time every time we bring him in and we think this can't fail, this can't fail. And it just seems to doesn't it? I know. I know we always talk about it, but honestly, the volume of chances that man, that man misses, he hasn't had a double digit haul since game week 21, though, and he's had three all season like it is, it is poor. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Anyway, he's in. I'm guessing he's not in your free hit team. The other good thing that happened to me this week was Isak coming in, because I wouldn't have had him, well, I wouldn't have had him or Vardy. I've hadn't well-carded a few weeks ago. So it was nice to finally see some some returns on that. I'd definitely be in a worse position if I hadn't well-carded a few weeks ago. And obviously, that's kind of the minimum of what you expect from one. But yeah, I think it was the right decision to play. So I'm happy with that. This is your team. You had a couple of people coming in for you as well, who have been enemies in the past. I did have a few people coming in for me, so I had Neto coming in for Ariola for zero. I mean, that's funny to start. So that was great. I had Gabriel was zero, Gusto got me six, so he was one of my transfers in this week. Reggae on with eight was very happy with that. Yeah, at least the one I was thinking of, he's been an absolute disaster for you. Well, yeah, but last week he got nine. But I had Zabanyi coming in for one point because Tony didn't play one minute. There's not many moves that go as badly as Tony has gone. Like, even in the first week, I was like, God, Moon is outscored Tony so much. And I was like, but, you know, it's one week. I've got Tony for a longer time than that. And this was the game I was looking at. I really wanted him for Sheffield United at home before I hit my free hit. And he didn't even play. Do you know what I love about your free hit this week that he's going to come back in into your team? Oh, he's gone, then, though. He's gone, then, though. I think he's a wild card, don't you? Yeah, no, I haven't got the wild card. Oh, no, no, it's Tony to me. You're going to get stuck with him. You're going to get you're going to get stuck with him. You're going to get an injury and you're going to get stuck with him to the end of the season. This is what all this happens with players like that guaranteed. He's gone. I'll be even take a hit. I don't care to get rid of him. He's not even playing. Like, there's no point in keeping him. Like, that's the thing. It's not like he's underperforming, like, say, Darwin. He's just not playing. So, yeah, so, Zabanyi came in for one point. So my two auto subs, the amount of jam I've seen from other teams and their auto subs, and I get one point from two players. And then, Sakatou, Salatou, Garnacho, four. So, all my 50/50s just aren't working at the moment. I went for a Langer over Morgan Gibbs White on wild card. That went terribly badly. It went Tony instead of moving. He got rid of him badly, went Garnacho over Gordon. That went really bad. Gordon went off at half time and then fell out with a manager for liking a post about why he went off. Yeah, so Garnacho got four, Palmer 26, which hurt me. Some with one and then Harlan with 20. So, it's actually Reggaeon that helped me. Reggaeon and Gusto were obviously good at the back there, but, yeah, it's weird. I've been, it's like death by a thousand cuts. I was 36k about four weeks ago, and I've just got slowly got little red arrows, and I'm down to 60k now. Still okay with the free hit to go and the bench boost, and, you know, my team's kind of well set for after the free hit. But, yeah, it's the last couple of weeks. Just every 50-50 seems to have seemed to have killed me a little bit. But, there you go. What can you do? Like, it's just, you know, how it goes sometimes. The Tony one, I messaged you not that long ago saying, "Did I make an error getting Tony in? Was there something I wasn't seeing there?" And it's just, you can't call it that you just... At least Rodrigo Mooney is a stop scoring. Because there was a point when he was scoring every week, and you were thinking of getting him instead. So, at least that. Talking about Jam, did you see the highest points this week? Was it the captain, triple captain Foden? - Yeah. - And triple vice captain Palmer. - Yeah, but Joe came off the bench for Foden as well. Tyric Mitchell with his 12 points. - Oh, was it? - Legend, legend. - So, that Foden missing out got them, what's that? 26 times two, 52 plus 12, 68 points with one player missing out. I love this game, haven't you? Got to love it. Mark's team, 72, another kind of decentish week for him. - Neto in goal would be zero. - Did he get a bench play this week? - He did an idea, come on. - Oh, got Bailey on, didn't he for Foden? Of course he did. Gabrielle Gusto, Saliba, Saka Palmer, Sala Bailey, Darwin, Selenki and Harland. He does not have the free hit chip available, so he's in a similar position to me, he's got some players in place, he'll be all right, I reckon he'll probably get 9 or 10 out, similar to survival, so he'll be relatively happy with that. He's like, I think he's just outside the top 10k now, so he's pretty happy with that. Great and the good, lots of red arrows this week. Oh, I meant to highlight you and I thought Fabio instead, sorry. - I mean, I can see why you get a few. - Basically, basically. - Basically the same person. - Yeah, exactly. Not sure if Finn's got zero as total points either, but we can blame Grayhead for that one. I am now below Marco, who I've been ahead for a while, he's seven points ahead of me going into this. I'm going to finish in the bottom three, I think is kind of the reality. I'm still clinging on in the Elite 64 to not get relegated in that, that's the main target for me this season. If I can avoid relegation from that, I'll be happy. I mean, you're having a great season, but you're still kind of mid-table. Praz is the closest to you. Seven points behind Praz, you couldn't take him. This could all change around a bit after FreeHit, and if I play my FreeHit cards right and it all comes off, that could be easily be 20, 30 points more than a few people. Yeah, you've got to be pretty, I've seen your FreeHit team, I think you should be pretty confident about getting a decent green with that. Oh, it's the nicest thing you've ever said to be, guys. Mark is third in this league. He'll be trying to chase down Ben Krelin, who is top. He's still in the top 1k, but not by much, 934. Pretty much everyone for Harlan this week, a couple of Salas for John Valentine and if you're guns, but yeah, no Palmer. No Palmer captain, did we miss a trick there? I think Harlan did at home to Luton. If you went down the route of owning Harlan, I think you had to go for captain against Luton. That's what I was doing. I literally just kept looking at that fixture and thinking I need Harlan for it, so I was always going to captain Harlan for that fixture. So I don't think we missed a trick, but I think Palmer at home, from now on, just has to be thought about in the captaincy discussion every week. Question for you, the leaks. We know the leaks every mumbling on all season. We didn't get any interesting information on WhatsApp group before anyone asked. No, we didn't. It was funny, I saw Walker start against Rama Dred, and I was thinking, "Dred, what have Marx got a little tip off about?" But Walker, we met, like, probably not. Are we making jokes about that now? Yeah, maybe enough time since I was gone. Obviously, this was a weird one because we got the leak that Harlan and Foden both started, and then what happened, it turned out Foden wasn't starting. Harlan did well, 12 points, obviously, then outscored by Palmer. Two questions for you. One, do we need to stop trusting the leaks? Because now Pep's come out and said the leaks were wrong, big smile on his face. I think they were obviously doing something to weed that out, and it worked. And two, do you think that that leak kind of did make us go against captain Palmer? I mean, if we hadn't got a leak, I'd actually, I was on Salah. I was very, very tempted to go for Salah. Seb was the same, yeah. And when Harlan was kind of confirmed to start, I kind of moved it, moved it over to him. But I never really considered Palmer from being completely obvious, but I imagine there were some people out there who were. But yeah, what do you think about the validity of leaks now? Are we questioning it a bit more? I said it to you, didn't I? I said it in the chat and said, "This seems like they have tried to sneak out and try and find who is doing the leaks." Because they put out a fake leak and then all of a sudden it's not right. And obviously, then it came out saying, "Oh, it was that he wasn't fit." And actually, he didn't pass a really late fitness test, wasn't it? And then obviously, they asked Pep and Pep was like, "No, he was never meant to start." He was like, "Oh, here we go." I think, yeah, you probably got to take everything with a pinch of salt anyway. But I think we've kind of got into a real habit of just a lot of our moves are determined by leaks. And if those leaks are valid and they are 100% correct, then, yeah, you've got to kind of go for the players that you know 100% are going to start because you know they're 100% going to start. Whereas the ones later on in the week, you still have that uncertainty, don't you? So I get it. I was always on Harlan anyway, so it didn't actually change my moves. I made my moves about three minutes before we got the leak because I was just fed up waiting. Oh, yeah, I met and then you saw the photo news, didn't you? Yeah, I know. You were going to get in. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, "No, I just can't wait. I can't do it." And then it obviously came out of his play and I was just like, "Oh, brilliant." And I was going to lose soccer for him. So, yeah, I'm quite glad I didn't do that in the end. But I think it's one of those things where you enjoy them when you've got them and when you don't have them, you're just like, "Oh, well, I don't have them." But there are people out there just complaining no matter what we do, whether we get them, when we don't get them, when it goes wrong, when it goes right. So I'm not first either way. I think I would probably prefer a word where we don't get them because I just think it does seem a little bit unfair that we're getting them. But in the same respect, if you look hard enough, you get what you want. What would you do if we obviously know the accounts that kind of do this stuff and I hate myself for using them because I don't want to use them, but you kind of would be hamstringing yourself if you didn't. So we're going to, if we got them. But say the leaks were hypothetical examples. They were 75% right, but you knew there was a 25% chance that they were wrong. Would you still continue to use them in the same way, or would you just completely write them off? I don't think so, yeah. Because that's where it could get to right. If the clubs are going to start putting out conflicting information, some people have got the right ones, some people haven't got the wrong one. And you've got someone who is mostly getting it right, but there's always that slight chance you might get it wrong. You can't really use them anymore, can you? No, not really. I think you'd have to have 100% to use them at all, really. And also, if you're basing all of your moves on it, then you're going to get burned more times than you think you're not. But then some people made moves to get thoden, and then because they got thoden, they got a really good bench jab, and obviously it all worked out OK, so it could happen exactly. I mean, question for you though, if you had somebody jump in your DMs and they were 100% they worked for the club and they gave you a leak, would you share it or not? Absolutely not. I've been very, very clear about this, from the start. Firstly, because I do stuff with the Premier League, they hate leaks. The leaks are the worst things for them. I can't be seen to be sharing inside knowledge about stuff. For clarity, I don't have inside knowledge. I've never had any inside knowledge about anything. I didn't even get that walker news, so I don't even know where Mark got that from, but it definitely wasn't anyone I'm privy to. If I had confirmed news, from the club, no, well, I wouldn't share it because I wouldn't be able to share it, share it publicly. I wouldn't, I'd be absolutely terrified that it would be wrong. Yeah, yeah, because this is my point, especially now. I don't think I'd ever be 100% certain, unless it's pet ringing me up, being like, by the way, even then, I don't trust him, he can't trust anyone. Until that line-ups out, you'd just be dreading it, wouldn't you? You'd be absolutely dreading it in thinking, "Oh, God, anything can happen. This could be wrong. I'm going to get pelters everywhere." No matter how many times you get it right, you just need one, and that's it. Well, I had it. I mean, I said this. I said this when Walker Gate kind of came out. I had someone who I'd been in contact with regularly messaged me and said, "Liveramento starts today." And so I played him, didn't tell anyone, and he was benched. And I was like, "Well, I'm bloody glad I didn't go and tell everyone that he was playing." Oh, was that a head? Yeah, could be a little bit, I had a similar one this week. A guy that I think watches Black Box with exchange messages, he messaged me and said, "I've got a good authority, Vadio doesn't start." And I just thought, "You know what, I've been burnt by this again. You know, I'm not going to fall for it, or you know, not even fall for it, but I'm not going to trust someone who I've never had information like before." And Vadio ended up starting, and I played him, but... Ignorance is bliss, so isn't it? You're better off just not having that information, because as soon as you've read it, it's like brilliant. Now I'm going to be kind of fascinated. Well, it's just like 10 minutes before the deadline. And I was thinking, if I now bench Vadio against Luton, if it was going to be coming at me the same way they came at Mark, how the hell can I verify that this is genuine? I think like it's my team, I'm happy to take the risk with my own team. But when it comes to passing on that information, it's, yeah, it's interesting. Yeah. Anyway, having an inside joke between when I've had all leaks in a broken tap, we wish sex released genuinely on my dog's life. I do not get like regular leaks, the odd one that I'm like... And in fact, of all the leaks I've had this year, I'd say over half of them have been wrong. And they were the two that I had Vadio live from, and so... Just get random people in your DMs, like I've got DM requests, whatever. Just go in there every now and then people go in. Yeah, because you know, when you people... requesting you DMs, bots? No, not bots, fans, girls. No, shit, well, maybe. People wanted to get into FPL mode. Very good. Krelin' time, my favourite segment, talking about Ben. Stuff at Ben Krelin post, which is always interesting at Ben Krelin. The news we had, was it today, was about the... Yeah, the FA Cup, and talking about the colour of the new format for this, and it looks like we're not going to have blanks now caused by the FA Cup quarterfinals for the next six seasons, which Ben points out, normally caused between four and six blanks. Obviously, it makes planning more crucial because you've got to prepare for those, and also it makes it a bit more fun down the line because then you have the doubles that we have now. The FA Cup may cause blanks, but there's still a bit of uncertainty around that. But the EFL Cup final will still cause the blanks with two. So, Ben says, "We're only likely to get two blanks caused by fixture clashes next season, and there's a chance we'll get as many as six. We've got 10.5 blanks caused by fixture clashes this season." So, eight less blanks, eight less potential double game with... Well, not potential, but double fixtures later on in the season. Firstly, what do you think of that? Secondly, do you think FPL needs to kind of change and adapt? I think it, in some ways, obviously it hurts us because this is where... As soon as you get in the second half of the season, all the blanks and all the doubles is where you kind of gain a lot of rank because people that maybe don't take as much time to look at FPL as we do, don't know to invest in certain players early on and things like that. So, I think that hurts us. I like what I've done this season. Exactly, but in other ways, it is so boring leading up to, say, a double game week or a blank game week and you can only invest in certain players. Having the whole field open pretty much the whole year will actually be quite exciting. Having players where we haven't been able to invest in, say, a Spurs for the last couple of weeks because we know they've got a blank this week if you're not on free hit. So, being able to invest in those players a bit more, I think, will be quite fun. I do think maybe the chips have to change a little bit. I think something like, say, a bench boost, if there's only, say, one or two double game week weeks, I think it's just a bit boring, like maybe they could change that or if you just get rid of it. Or I think PRAS tweeted saying bench boost in game week one will be incredibly popular. And it's just little things like that where you think maybe they could change it. But I don't think they will, but I think something like that may have to change. Free hit, I think, will stay the same, triple caps will stay the same. But with three chips for maybe two big weeks, I don't know. Yeah, I think maybe the excitement in the second half of the season might go a little bit, but it will help casuals a lot more, I think. Yeah, I think that's all pretty much bang on. I've always been in favor of not having chips be saved until the end of the season for everyone. I think it's restrictive in the sense that everyone's using free hits this week or bench boost in 37. There's no variety. It's nice to think that it could actually open up now. We could actually be thinking about using chips at different parts of the season. So, I mean, that is a positive way. But at the same time, I do like double game weeks. I do like the fact that you've always got that hope that you're going to hit a massive hole from one or two players that can turn your season around. I mean, I'm looking at this this week and thinking, you know, we're seeing people talk about like Brereton Diaz, aren't we? And, you know, I've got SA captain and Koona's coming in and he's like the golden child. There's so much sort of excitement and buzz around them. And it kind of is why I'm just saying. I don't know why we were saying that Black Blank Game Week 29, why everybody was like, yeah, but you wait to, you know, you could use it in a big double game week and it just seems more fun. Yeah, it does. Yeah, I think they, I've always been advocate that they should be first and second half of the season. Yeah, I like that. Chips, you know, if they're going to continue with those, which I assume they are, they need to find a way to make the chips more accessible for people and to actually feel like they're having a bit of an impact. Because at the moment, it just feels if you've used them early, you're like, oh, I haven't even got my triple captain to play later in the season. I'm going to just give up. And that's where they're losing people. So I think they need to think about things like that. But yeah, I'm a, I'm a bit sad to see we're going to have less a double game. It can be quite restrictive. You do end up with plans that don't change and end up getting in useless players and who do nothing and avoiding all the good ones. It's probably good for us in terms of we can get in, there's a bigger pool of players that we can get now. But yeah, I think the buzz, the buzz around it will be a shame to lose. But yeah, step look up what's going to happen with that next season. Let's take a look at some stats. All the stats we're going to be talking about today are from the fantasy football scout members area, which Andy is a member of. That's the scout cast and other streams with his best mate, Flappy Jay. And Seb also takes part. It's best mate, Flappy Jay. That's fine, Seb. And Seb, Seb's around. I said, I said Seb, a note I took in my phone. Sometimes when I'm sleeping, I wake up in the night, I've had a dream. Right. And I've got a, I've got a little notepad next to my bed where I, right, my ghost, ghost been visiting again over there. Yeah, right. Swiggy Oseo, right, those down. And I wrote, sometimes I write the notes in my phone because I, you know, something's dark and all that. And I had a, I had a dream. And like, I don't remember the dream. But I've written in my notes at like 4 30 a.m. And it says, dreamt, they created a sustainable fantasy Premier League. Trent got the most points because he refused to travel. Seb loved it. Seb was a big fan. I said it in that. And I vaguely remembered that would be Sebled over in that, that league. Is this going to be a new YouTube channel? It should be. It's just describing your dreams. Sustainable Premier League. I reckon there's a mockup. Well, it's why I started the notepad because I have quite sort of like short story dreams. A lot of them evolve like zombie invasions or they're all quite weird. I reckon there's, there's a, there's a book deal for me out there somewhere. Yeah, good. Okay. Oh, yeah. This is what happens when Mark's not here. Yeah, just, just, just sending to chaos. I haven't dreamt about you yet, unfortunately. I don't think that's not true. Every night, just, I don't know. I can't remember what I was talking about. I've got a massive tangent data defense. Yeah, here's all the double game with teams. Flattered in yellow over the season. Not really many surprises. Arsenal top, obviously great, great defense. With a shot loss against Aston Villa. Chevrolet United down the bottom, Liverpool in third, Everton in fourth. What the hell happened to Everton in that game? Yeah, I know. I mean, wow, Pickford obviously got two assists for two of the Palmer goals, didn't he? Everton being in fourth is quite interesting, but obviously we've got to wait to see whether there's any brand plate news because with him out, that would make a big difference. Keen obviously came on. I don't think that's really what they want. I think they want brand plate to be fit. Pickford is quite a popular pick on Free Hit. And a lot of people are looking at bringing someone like Pickford in. I mean, they got, they got Nottingham Forest and Liverpool at home. So at least they got two home fixtures. Could get a clean sheet against Forest, but I'm not seeing one against Liverpool. So you're hoping for a clean sheet at least against Forest and then a couple of... eBay Motors is here for the ride. 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Whereas I see a lot of people going for, say, a sour and eggnore, a kiln or whatever it is, that Wolves' defense has kind of been used a little bit, which is interesting. Defense has been tricky all season to get right in general. That's why I've ended up with Double Arsenal and take away the Villa game. It's been pretty good since I bought those in. Liverpool defense, generally they've been conceding goals. We've had good options ever, Bradley, and with Keleher. Obviously, they're not factors for us now. Do we bring in Van Dyke? For example, he's a lot of money. Trent, what do you think about Trent? Well, Trent, obviously, starting tonight. It depends how many minutes he gets. By the way, someone in the chat says a guy who says, as I'm pushing the dream up. Oh, my God, it's my dream. That's a good touch. Yeah, it's super chat. You don't know what, I will send you my dream. Some of the dreams. Ironically, if you read his dream journal, you will never go to sleep again. I think Liverpool is an interesting one. Trent is the one. If you're on a free hit and you want that low EO high upside pick, Trent's the one. Surely you're going for it. It's just where do you think he's got the minutes? We were discussing this on Scoutcast, and I'm going to ask you the same question. Van Dyke guaranteed 180 minutes. Unless he gets injured, he's playing every minute at that double game. Trent, best case scenario, gets what, 120, 130? Well, best case scenario plays both, 90 minutes. Okay. Best reality case scenario. So what's better, 120 minutes of Trent or 180 of Urger Van Dyke? 120 minutes of Trent all day, every day, that's not even a debate for me. I wouldn't even be considering it. The fact Bradley's injured as well, he's not going to want to play Gomez at right back in these games when they've just slipped up. They'll lose so much. Bradley's so good going forward. They did look good tonight with him back in there. But the problem is, that's like I said, that's like best case scenario, but there is the worst case scenario where he gets maybe 30 minutes across the double game. I just think Liverpool's defense is pretty roapy anyway. I think Fulham's a quite tough game. Well, it depends what Fulham turn up, but they have been a look at Spurs when they rolled up there and got beaten pretty comfortably. And then it's the Derby, the Mars aside Derby. Anyone, anything could happen in that as well. I would take Trent all day, every day of the Van Dyke. It's interesting. I want to see his minutes tonight, because I think if he goes off around 60, I think he is more, I think he's going to be more popular on the free hit. And I do genuinely like him. This is what free hitters wanted. They wanted Harlan Dout brilliant. We got that. We wanted the kind of Bradley Dout because Trent, we wanted to come back in and think, "Oh, actually, we could maybe pick him." So what Trent came on for about 40 minutes, didn't he, at the weekend? Because Bradley went off injured. And he did look a bit rusty, but he was obviously getting into those positions, doing those trademark kind of across the world. Everything he did was off. All his passing was off. Yeah, he did look rusty. He's looked better tonight from what I've seen. So, yeah, he's got to be considered, 100% got to be considered, because he is one of those players that could just go off. And he's got more of a chance than that than Van Dyke. It's just whether you want 60 minutes less of him compared to Van Dyke, who's also got some gold threat in him as well. I'm pretty likely to be bringing him in, I think, as part of a minus four. I just need people a bit different. What's your long-term plan? I don't have a lot. I don't have one. I just need points in your short term. Yeah, I just need someone. I'm looking at picks this week and think, "I just need someone, anyone that can come in." Some of the other moves I could bring in, like, a Michelenko, because I've got the Son Money that I put into Esse. And I do need to think about how I'm going to bring him back, because obviously I'm going to want to. But he might even be Saka that I lose, who I've been toying up losing anyway, and obviously with no double game weeks to come. He could be the one, but yeah, I don't know. I like Trent. I mean, everyone likes Trent, but I really like Trent. I've always had that mantra. I've always had that mantra of, "You shouldn't really be investing in players where you're going to be fingers crossed every time the team sheet comes down." And I will be. I'll be sat there waiting for the team sheet to come out and think, "Please, please, please, please." It's a free hit, no. Brilliant. It's a free hit, but this is- But Van Dyke's going to play both those games. I do not have to worry. I'm like, "Yeah, he's there. He's going to be getting the minutes." Whereas Trent, I just, yeah, that's my biggest thing. Like, I get it's a free hit, but also, you know what you're getting with Van Dyke. And he could easily score ahead. Like, you did it in the last double game week. I just don't particularly like the game. It's a level defense. I think two away games and two, not that great teams, but both a bit dodgy games. I wouldn't be surprised if they conceded in both. And then you start with a Van Dyke nothing, whereas Trent can always get a goal, get a free kick, get you a couple of assists. The only thing I will say, we go with Trent, if you are on a free hit, not so much with you taking a hit and you don't have any kind of chip to get away from him again. But if you're on a free hit and the rest of your team looks solid, then I kind of get it. Because you've got Trent there, but the rest of your team is going to come out for you, then that kind of makes sense. But I don't particularly mind getting stuck with Trent for the rest of the season. I know there's only really the double game week in '37. I mean, he is a lot of money. He is a lot of money. Yeah, but I think, you know, it would essentially be Trent over Saka. That's the way I'm looking. Zero kind of around the same price. I mean, Robertson is, we just said Rob Jones in the message, and we're going to talk about Robertson when we come to defenders, but that's the other way you can go. Maybe a bit safer there. Although I'm not totally convinced from his minutes either, because you've got some of us there. Let's look at the last six. Gotta talk about Manny Knighted, bottom of the team date defense over last six. Spoiler, also bottom of the team date, your attack over the last six as well. He's got to go, I think. No, I'm... Desserting your hearing is going to take the reins. I'm growing more and more concerned that he's not going to be there to start the season. Yeah. I just... It's more and more looking like we're just going to have an overhaul of everything. And I don't think Tenharg has done nearly enough this season to suggest that he is the man that's going to take them forward. I do have things that I like about Tenharg, and I think that in some respects, when he's come in, it's been an unmanageable ship. Obviously, we've now got new owners and... Oh, well, part new owners. I do think they'll probably look elsewhere. I don't think he'll still be there at the beginning of next season. No, it's just where they go. I think Tazirvi would struggle, would struggle there with the makeup of the team and everything that goes on with the background. He's coming from a very different ship at Brighton, where everything's very steady, and he's kind of idolised that Brighton already isn't even being there long. Is he going to get that same level of respect from some of the players? I mean, a lot of these players have been around for three or four different managers, and it hasn't worked out. So, yeah, be a big move here. Like Potter going to Chelsea. You just never know how it's going to work. Look at some of the other teams. I mean, quite a few of these things kind of where we expect them to be asked to live up all first and third. That's where they've been over the season. Pretty consistent. A bit of a bump up for Bournemouth, and the Bournemouth defenders too. I mean, a villa away is obviously really tough and wolves away, isn't it? Is there another game? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's not awful, but tricky. They're not the worst team away from a home, defensively either. So, the fact they've got two away games is nice. The thing I am not a massive fan of with them is that a lot of people not on free hit are going to have Bournemouth defenders. Yeah. So, I'm quite happy to go against it and hope they can see it in both games. They don't, I mean, Kirk has the one again, because he could potentially be playing a bit higher up. So, Kirk has a little bit of a shout, essentially. But, you know, I haven't had Bournemouth defenders anywhere near my team, anywhere near my team. But if you've got them already, I think that's fine. I like Neto. I don't think the goalkeeper position is obvious this week. You can go for anyone. You mentioned Pickford. You can go for Alison maybe if you wanted to, but you just go for Van Dyke. That's where Neto comes in. But, yeah, pretty tricky. Sheffield United, though. Look at them over the last six, up to 11th. Oh. Talking about the Aas. About the Aas. Yeah, I know. They're shoring themselves up a little bit, aren't they? Like, it does it. It's made me laugh a little bit looking at the timeline where people are saying, like, "I've waited all this time to use a free hit. Now I get to pick the Sheffield United filter." But they are, they have got the two best messages. Don't you slate the Aas? Apparently, a man United. We're his biggest fans on this podcast. When we talk, we spend about 10 minutes talking about everything it's going. Yeah, we got slated for that. Call it back to us now. But if you look at the fixtures they've got, barely a man United, if you look at the team-dated defense over the season again, you look where Burnley and Man United are. Man United at the bottom of this list could be the way to go. I'm not even sure on his minutes, though, really. I think if you're picking the Sheffield United defender, then... I'll defend her, yeah, now. Yeah, you are. Brereton Dias, yeah. Yeah, we'll go to the attack now. Over the season, Sheffield United are bottoms. There they are. They're very, very low. Palace 17th as well, not being great for them. Obviously, they've got the new manager. And that was by far the best performance that we've seen under the new manager. I thought they were absolutely fantastic in that game. And if you look, I was watching the game live, but I didn't realize how good the goal was until I re-watched it. And the amount of passing and things they do, absolutely brilliant. Obviously, with Jose and Lisa back, they were a real threat. So take this for a pinch of salt. What was in 16th, born from 10th everton in 9th, Liverpool were the best attack over the season. But it's at a dodgy time, because now Jot is back as well. And Gagpo is playing well, and we don't know who's always going to start in those. You've got Dias on the free hit. I do. The one other thing I was going to say about Liverpool as well is they've got four away fixtures in quite quick succession. There's going to be rotation. Like if you're picking a Liverpool player, apart from Salah, they're going to be rotating at some point. So it's just hoping to get enough minutes out of whoever you pick a thing. Do you think you'll get enough out of Dias? I think so. I think Dias Darwin and Jota will probably get around the same. Jota's the one. Like Jota's the one that's starting to creep into people's thoughts. And I think out of all of them, he's the clinical one. He is the one that can explode if you want him to. Like, and I'm looking at it and thinking, if you only want him for one week, maybe Jota is the way to go. Oh, here we go. I know, I know. But then this is the problem, C, because now I'll be like, "I'll get Trent, I'll get Jota, I'll get Havart." So all of a sudden, they're all benched. And all the boring picks will come in and you'll be like, "Exactly, all the city boys will show up." Yeah, yeah. That's normally how it works. Over the last six, we see Sheffield United climb to 15th. Not a massive rise, but it's not bad. Actually, in 90, you have 1.03. So that's compared to 0.85. So it's a pretty decent rise for them. Main night over the last six, as we mentioned, at a bottom 0.77. So that's worse than Sheffield United over the season, despite having the best fixtures over that period as well, according to our matrix. Yeah. Brighter, though. Good company of us. We're second from bottom, 0.79. Jump off, you brighten players. We are done this season. I mean, United is an interesting one, because people are going to be investing before. Obviously, we got Sheffield United this week, and then we got the double as well. I bought Garnacho this week. Certain players have been OK for us. So, for instance, Bruno set a little bit of a purple patch at the moment. Garnacho's good, but obviously he's apparently now fallen out. I don't know. It's tough because we've got the double. So people are going to go for say a Garnacho, but I don't think that's the worst idea. We've just got to hope that there's a little bit of an uptick, but I just don't see it at the moment. You're just playing it for the fixtures, really. Well done for those who've kept Philandas, though, because Philandas has been doing well, despite the quite poor underlines. And he's someone I'm looking at for the double coming up, because I think people will rightly put off by some of these stats that we're showing tonight. Another thing I want to point out here was Arsenal. They've dropped to eight. Obviously, such a good season for them, such good attacking data. Lots of people making moves to switch out from double defense to double attack. People going for Haber, Zodagard, sacram, seeing lots of triple Arsenal know this week. It's dropped to 1.54, actually, non-pointing for 90. That's down from 1.77. So again, pretty sizable drop, but it's not like terribly alarming. I don't think it's still decent underlying numbers. But I guess that's a big decision for you on the free hit, right? Double defense or double attack? Yeah, it's such a shame they lost last week, because going into this week, if Arsenal and Liverpool had won, and that title charge was still going like it was the week before, it would have been so much more fun going for their attackers, I think. But with them being knocked out of Europe as well, you just feel like maybe this is just a little bit of a slump, like not a massive one, just a little bit of a slump, and you think, oh, this is probably the worst time for us to have a double game week for Arsenal. But Wolves away Chelsea at home, expect them to be favourites in both of those games. So you'd want a few. Let's rotate Liverpool, when you say it. Surely there's no worries. I mean, people are worried about Heather. Surely there's no worries about Heather. He'll start both of the next two. Yeah, I don't know. I've been considering taking Heather's output in Odegarden. I'm not sure, but this is the problem with free hits, because you can tinker for as long as you want. I've made my team, and the first team you make is probably the right team. Always go back to that. Yeah, exactly. So I'm tempted. I'm not overly convinced Haberz is going to play both games. I'm not 100% on that, because, I don't know, obviously played midweek, didn't do a lot. Jezus, obviously, hasn't been doing a lot anyway. But Haberz was the one I picked straight away in thought. He's playing up top, he's got a double game week. You know, it seems like a no-brainer, but Odegarden's definitely going to play both games. So I'm just surprised that people suddenly think Haberz is going to be dropped. I don't really know why. Suddenly, he's always been a bit of a doubt in my head, like, how long is this experiment going to last for? Like, if he doesn't score in two games, are they going to, you know, stop the experiment kind of thing? I think he's not warm enough to stay his first choice up top from what he offers. But yeah, okay. I'd go Haberz, I wrote a card as well. It's good to be disagreeing on things. Oh, no, we're not disagreeing. You wait till you see my free hit in a minute. Haberz in, it's-- Yes, exactly. Well, Trent, yeah, he's Trent's as well. Yeah, love it. Keepers, let's quickly go through these. If you are looking for the best points for 90 keeper over the season, it's Alison out of the double game rate options on the show. 4.1, Ray's just behind him at four. Pickers down 11, 3.5 and Saav 3.2. I guess it doesn't really matter. You're going to be trying to play the fixtures anyway. If you were picking a keeper, you are picking a keeper. You've gone for Saav, am I wearing that right? I have, yeah. I mean, remember as well, it's the way the makeup is, isn't it? So it's not like I'm just picking a keeper. If I could have a fourth player from a team, then I would play, say, a Raya or whatever it is. But, I mean, Henderson's not even on this table, which is interesting. Yeah, he comes up in the last six. Yeah, so, I mean, I think if you-- I didn't go with Henderson. Henderson was my pick, but I didn't go for him because I fancy one of their wingbacks, because I don't actually expect a clean sheet from Crystal Palace and either of their two games. And I wanted more of an attacking upside. So that's why I went for one of their wingbacks. But Joseph Saar, home against Bormorth, I think that's all right. But then he's got Arsenal, so it's like almost like a single game week, that maybe he could pick up two points against Arsenal. Pickford, I think people have gone cold on him because he just conceded five goals against Chelsea. And Raya, I don't like because I don't want to use that position up on Raya. Six, sorry, yeah. So I think keep is really tough this week. I think Henderson would be my pick, but it's whether you want to go for Henderson or one of the wingbacks. And I think a lot of people will be going Henderson. But yeah, I've gone Jose Saar just because, you know, he does have a few bonus points in him as well for saves and things. So if you look on this table, you know, 22 saves, he's got more than most of the players on it. So yeah, I think that's probably the way I'm going to go. I'm sure there'll be one of these keepers that does well, but I don't know who it is. I think I'd go for Pickford, you know, just because of the two home games. And I think they've got a chance of a clean sheet against Fores, then he should make some saves against Liverpool. We always say they just conceded six, there's going to be a big reaction. Darch is going to come out and get him sorted. And it could be, you know, like you just said, you don't know who's going to do well because keeper is such a gamble position, especially this year as well. And it could just take a penalty save or, you know, loads of saves for one keeper to kind of come out of the better than everybody else. But yeah, Saar is probably the way I'm going to go, just because of the make-up on my team. Yeah, nice. Defense, I say good defense over the season. We've already talked a little bit about Trent already. He shows up really well that he's third for defenders. Although he's actually a non-pilot of the 90 isn't massive. You know, we've seen that with him at 0.5, 0.6 in the past. It's at 0.35, but his points of the 90 is good in the top 10, 5.6 over the season. Great chances created, although a little bit lower than Robertson. Interestingly, who's 3.10, Trent's 2.92. 8 Nori showing up well, 13th on this list. His last six data is really good as we're touching on in a bit. And then it's kind of, well, where do we go now? I mean, Cenco is 23rd, but I mean, those numbers aren't great. 0.18, Gabriel's down there. 0.16, most of us are going to have him in the side. But I've tried to pick out some others. You know, Ben White, 0.43 over the season, 0.14. That's not exactly the most exciting. Van Dyke, 0.62, Mikulenko, 0.84. What made Mikul, 1.01, Mikulenko isn't on the, he hasn't played enough games. He's on the last six, which I've shown in a sec. But obviously, Mikul's had that, they've had roles changing. Mikul's now kind of winged back, so he'd expect his attacking potential to go up. Sleever and Zabani, they're the ones, but they're both down in the hundreds. I mean, who do you like? Any you like out of this list? I mean, we've spoken about Trent already. And obviously, if you are on free here, I think you have to consider him. Eight Nori was one, but you know, he might not play both games in the double game week, which is an absolute killer for anybody that invested him in early. Gabrielle, I think, is a lock. The question I was going to ask you, actually, is if you are on a free hit, double-assed offense. Like, I get it. The best defense in the league got two OK fixtures, probably going to keep a clean sheet, and at least one of them. But is that the way to go? Like, is that the best way of using it? Because the other defenders this season have just been terrible, really, haven't they? Like, is that the best way to go? Or surely, you know, going for it with Arsenal to hope that they may be score a few goals is the way to go. Like, double-assed offense on my free. It just seems, I don't know, just seems a bit boring to me, but maybe that's absolutely crazy considering how good they've been this season. I agree. I think it's it's bearing money. Look at this defensively, and you wonder where the points are going to come from. Well, having two asked defenders kind of feels quite safe in that regard, but I could see another guard over at Haverts, or even like a Martin Elie, but just just someone, you know, a bit different because everyone's going to have Saka. And if Arsenal do score two or three goals in both of those games, it's probably not all going to come from him because those points get shared around so much. So I think taking apart, I think I've have hurts. I'd go have a Saka and one defender. I think if I was doing it, but I'm quite happy with the double-assed offense. It's a weird one. I can make a case both sides. I'm not desperate to switch and make changes, but if I had the option, free here, you've got to go for it, haven't you? I just think you've got to go for the most potential, and also one of the best teams in the League of Double Game Week. So get two of their attackers. Yeah, no, I agree. Three of your attackers? No, I don't think I'd go for it. Going against Gabrielle, I think he is somebody, like I said, I've gone against most of the year because I had Saliba instead, and it killed me. And I think Gabrielle, because of what he can do is set pieces, I think you still keep him. Yep. Over the last six, I was looking for anyone who's really jumping out. Robertson does do well here. You know, looking at Robertson's stats, they are pretty decent, pretty encouraging. Actually, I'm not putting up a 90 over the last six of 0.37. It's pretty good. Eight Norries is really high, 0.47. He's obviously been playing on the wing. And now, Coon is back up top, and Huang's back on the left. Now, that's going to push eight Norries back. We would have thought, which is why those stats are still good, but still a good pick. Even at Wingback, he was doing well. And before that, Tarkovsky shows up pretty well here. 0.22, higher than Gabrielle, for example. Interesting that Mitchell is above Munoz. Yeah. So, Mitchell in 25th, Munoz in 30th. The thing I will say about that is, and I was talking to Luke. Point Nor one in it. Yeah, I know. I was talking to Luke, who's a Crystal Palace fan, and he said that the thing is, Mitchell obviously got the assist, but Mitchell plays way more kind of on the flanks, and he will stay stuck to that kind of flank. Whereas Munoz, he's basically a right winger. Yeah. And he's getting into the box. And he's just constantly there, constantly up there. And I think he is the pick out of the two of them. I love Mitchell, because obviously he's done me so well before. But I think Munoz is the pick out of the two of them. I think if you look at the heat maps, if you look at all that kind of stuff, and just look at what Munoz could do in two fixtures, two home fixtures, I think it's the way to go. Like I said, I don't expect a clean sheet in either game, but I think if you're looking for an attack in return, I think out of the two of them, Munoz is more likely to get it. I was on this podcast about a month ago. I've had a really, really wise person on it talking about Munoz. I can't remember who it was, for the best. Wonder where you'll go for that for a second, though. Straight in my wildcard team, he was after that episode. And this is it. I'm relying on him, and I've been really impressed with him. I think he calls problems for defenders that he's up against. He did against Sissy, he did against Liverpool as well. I don't, I, classing him as a defender, seems crazy, because he's so advanced. He really is when you watch it. I love him. He'll get one attack in return, I think this. Who'd have thought that my two man crushes this year would be two crystal pallet wingbacks? Two wingbacks. Who'd have thought they'd even be playing wingbacks? I couldn't imagine Mitchell as a wingback, but he's doing quite well. Oh, I'm glad you asked Connor Richardson. Why is Ben White's number 52 pink? There is actually a reason for that, because his stats are down over the season. I know how popular Ben White is on people's free hits and things this week. Over the season, his stats were 0.14, which I thought was quite low for him, given that we're paying more of his attacking option. But yeah, over the last six, down to 0.09. Really, really low. Point's been 90. Good, obviously got taken off before they scored the goal. People will be happy with that, but yeah. The attacking stats don't look great for White. Yeah, it's interesting. Good pick, I still think. But maybe not as good as some people are making out. Midfielders over the season. We have Salah in top, 0.82. Exhion, 0.90. De Bruyne, just below him, 0.77. Didn't do anything when I needed him. But looking quite good now, although things got injury. Saccharin IV, Elise, though. We've got to talk about Elise. His stats, whenever he plays, have been absolutely fantastic. Six goals for assists for him in the nine. Only nine starts he's had all season. Obviously came back into Crystal Palace team. Palace looked great. He looks great. I still prefer Reza, but he looks good. It does look good. If it's a straight-up decision between Elise and Esse, I think you go Esse every time, because of the minutes. I will say, there's a bit of a misconception about Esse. I think he is on pens, but when Elise is on the pitch, I don't think we're certain that he's on pens. I seem to remember when Elise came back from his injury before, they were both on the pitch and Elise took the pen over Esse. And I don't know whether that was a "you're back" kind of get on the score sheet kind of thing, or whether it was a "you are taking the penalties ahead of me." I wish I could trust Elise's minutes. I really, really do. I think he's going to start one of them. But I just don't see him starting both. The thing is, if I could guarantee he was going to start both, I think I'd go there. Like, I really do. He's such a good player. And his stats for the amount of games he plays. Like, you think he's 10th on this table, and he's got nine starts this season. It's just he's so such a good player when he plays. The thing I will say is, though, even if we're only getting, say, what, 110, 120 minutes out of him in the double, I think that makes Mattetta better. Because I think that helps him, because they overload on the Elise and Esse side, because they both go to the same side. And I think it just frees Mattetta up, and it just makes sure that they're creating for him. And I think it makes Mattetta a better pick. I think with Elise off the pitch, and it's just Esse, I think that's when it hurts them a little bit. But I think with both of them being there, I do love Esse, and I see why people are going for it. I just don't trust the minutes. Yeah. Again, it's another one. It's kind of, you're playing very dull with this free hit. If you're going to go Matessa over Elise, - Stop it. - Van Dyke over Trent. - They're like 1% only. Boring. - I was being called boring, and then Harlan got injured. And of course, I already had those picks. - Yeah. - And I was behind him, yeah. I like the Elise pick. I think he's a fun one to bring in. Esse is 17th on the list. 19 starts with him, 7 goals through assists, so he's averaging a return every couple of games. Probably fairly safe to get something this week, I think. - Good, Esse. - Yeah. - I think he's... - Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I mean, there was some question marks around his role in the system, because he hadn't really looked that great under glasener. Looked really good in the game against Liverpool. He's so central to everything that kind of happens, and having seen him live, I just love him. I think he's an absolutely amazing player. It can be so interesting to know what happens with Elise and Esse in the summer. - I think Elise is off. - Yeah, man-u. - Yeah, I think so. Potentially. - Ruining in, like... - It stinks, and Zaha, but it stinks to that, doesn't it? Like, when we got Zaha, and then Fergie left. - Yeah, yeah. Beraton Diaz, he's 13th. He is the bandwagon, I think, of Twitter at the moment. - He's gonna score. He's gonna score, isn't he? He's gonna be such a bad pick, and he's gonna score, and people are gonna go wild. - He starts four goals, one assist. Decent underlying stats, playing for a Chevy United team, who have improved a lot over the last six game weeks as well. And they've got two good fixtures, Burnley at home, and Manchester United. - They do, they do. F. L. Freddie, by the way, says, Andy doesn't think anyone will start both games in the summer. - Yeah. - That's because Az is asking me about all the gamble players. I did just say I think Esse is gonna start both games. - Who do you think is gonna start both games? - Oh, god, well, we just feel like if Esse doesn't, the things I'm bringing a bit of bloody captain in. - Typical, wouldn't it? - Yeah, I see. - Now, interestingly, the other one I wanted to talk about on here as well, and we kind of touched on it briefly, Diaz is 11th, and Jota is 19th. McCallus is nowhere on this, 'cause I was quite high on McCallister, but I did a lot of these stats as well for Scoutcast, and I was like, oh, god, he's like nowhere. But between Diaz and Jota, if you had to choose between the two, Diaz is genuinely been really good. He's in that first choice three. Darwin's kind of slipping out now. But if we get an indication that Jota could get the same kind of minutes as Diaz over this double, would you be tempted to go for a Jota over Diaz? - I like Diaz, 'cause I feel like he's in the form of his life, you know, and he, looking at kind of everyone in the livable front line, like Salah's way off it, at the moment, just doesn't look himself. Darwin don't even get me started about him. Gakpo looks pretty good, but I'm not sure he's got the full backing of Clop. Jota's obviously come back from the injury, so I think Diaz is hard to ignore, because of how well he's performed consistently for a while. 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I think Diaz gets you, what, 140 odd minutes in the double game week. But I think if Jot is getting anywhere close to that, I think you've got to consider him. You just said 13 starts, 9 goals, 6 assists. He's just out of all of them. He's the clinical one. He's the one that's going to get you the goals. It's just whether you can get the minute in that double game week. A couple of months or so, he returns when he plays. And he does everything that Clark wants, the pressing that he gives as well. It's just that injury that he's been out for. I think I'd stick with Diaz. Because I don't think there's a huge much in it between them. I think either of them could get a double in any game. But yeah, I think Jotter is going to fly massive. You're only really going to be able to get Jotter, aren't you, if you want to free hit. Yeah. Whereas Diaz, people are going to have anyway. So it'd be a bit less of a differential, but both look good. I'd lean for Diaz, I think, though. Other players to mention here. I mentioned Martin Ellie. Obviously, risk with him with with Jay's who's sometimes playing on the left. He hasn't had an amazing season. Although 11 returns, 23 starts. It's not awful, but hasn't really kicked on to what we thought he might. Sarabia, I've got him, 4.8 million. Relatively happy with him. I know lots of people are going for Kuna. He was a great chance at the bloody weekend. He is like that. He's a frustrating pick. Chance is great. It's good, though, 2.8. That is second highest, I think, to De Bruyne. 5.02. So that's encouraging. Has been playing as a bit of a false nine. Had pens, hasn't got those anymore. But I like him at 4.8. And then you mentioned Odegard. He's down in 39th. Good chances of creating. Actually, a little bit higher than Sarabia. 2.8, 2.8, 2. And Havart's is in 26th. I mean, where are you thinking of leaning with the Havart's and Odegard? I'd pick Havart's all day. Yeah, I've got Havart's at the moment. It's just if I worry that he's not going to get the minutes and I'll go Odegard. Like, actually, if you look at their stats, they basically got the same stats. It's just that Odegard's played more games. So I think the other thing is, obviously, if Saka needs a rest at any point, Odegard's on penalties. So that's a nice thing as well. But I think Havart's is the pick in terms of the fact that he's playing up top. And you look at those two games. I expect them to score against Wolves and Chelsea. So it's whether I expect Havart's to score the more Odegard. Odegard, obviously, takes it for a bit more from outside the box, where the Havart's is done quite well, actually, playing a striker. So I think Havart's is the pick out of the two of them. Yep. Kieran C, did I just say that your dad being kidnapped can make you play better? No, that's not what I said. I'm not saying that's disgusting. I'm just saying that when something like that happens, a traumatic thing in your life, and then you know, it can give you a bit of an extra... Imagine being canceled like on stream. Oh, Odegard donged once at it now. Your dad gave kids a bit of an extra spark. Oh, God. No, I definitely am getting canceled. No, it's not what I meant. It's disgusting. Do you want me to finish the stream? His dad's a big football man, and he comes to the games, and he kind of, you know, he just gives you that bit of extra impetus to impress. I'm going to stop digging. Yeah, before I go. Over the last six, Eze climbs up here. Look at those stats for Eze, 0.8 over the last six. Yeah, not looking bad. Yeah, so, you know, I said maybe he hasn't looked great in the game. I think he's looked a little bit... I don't know, I thought I'd say uncertain of his role, but I kind of couldn't really see where he was sort of playing, or what his best position was in this new system. But the underlying stats are still remained sort of pretty good. So I like that. Salah's second with 0.9, obviously that's the most popular captain pick, but I think we're going to see this week. Is that who you're coming on? Yeah, yeah. Nothing else to add on that, just, yeah. No, I thought we were going to get the captain later, are we? I didn't want to go into it too much. Diaz in ninth, 0.8. Again, these all really encouraging signs for people, players, people bringing in. Have us in 15. Our best mate, Diaz, down in 18th. Saka, look at that. Ben Breret, Ben Breret in Diaz, sorry, not Louis Diaz. Louis Diaz. Saka in 27th, touches in the box at 0.19, is in the top 10. But he has been disappointing. Since he started getting double digit halls every week, he hasn't had one of those ages. This is exactly what people were saying about Saka before he went on that run of like, he had four weeks where he was getting 14s and 15s every week. So, no, it wasn't. That's dark, but quite funny. So, no, Saka will be fine. He's limping off at the end of every game at the moment, but he's going to play every game, and he's on penalties, and he can easily get your goals in any game. So, yeah, he's a lot. Yeah, him limping at the end of every game is quite funny. I know, every game they lose. Every game they lose. Yeah, there wasn't anything massively I noticed from this. I think, like I said, as some of the popular picks that people are going for have climbed up these ranks, and that bodes well for them. Obviously, at least he's not here, because he hasn't played enough. But, yeah, I think if you're free hitting, you're going to have an Esse. You're going to have a Diaz. You're going to have a Diaz. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and then they go from there forwards. Obviously, tough. Nunez seconds over the season, 0.89. Salanky, 16, 0.55. Big Dom. Big Dom, Calvert Loon. Yeah, no, he's there. I'm looking for Matetta. Matetta is... Where is Matetta? He's not on there. He must be in the top third. Edwards on there. Oh, my God. Nunez in second, though. Like we said tonight, I am getting the impression that he's kind of dropped out of the favoured front three, potentially. If you have, darling, I would say... Oh, God, Matetta is 40 first, I'm sorry. There he is, there he is. I think if you have Darwin... I mean, if you have Darwin now, I do. You'd be getting rid of him. I do have Darwin. And would you be getting rid of him? I'd want to. And that's why I want to get Trent, because that also gets me rid of Darwin as well. Oh, dear. It's... Because I don't have Salanky, for example. So I could... I kind of wish, because I had two transfers last week. And I didn't really know what to do with my team. So in the end, I made the most boring move ever, which was... Richards, Crystal Palace Richards, to Charlie Taylor. I know, it's disgusting, isn't it? But I looked it off the deadline. I thought I could have done Darwin to Salanky. Yeah. Quite like that. I was too late and then Salanky scored. And taking out a player at home to Palace when I thought Liverpool would win that game was a bit of a risk. I can see why I didn't do it. But I could do that now. I could do Darwin to Salanky. I could do Darwin to Koona and then get Trent. That's what I'm thinking of doing this week. I don't hate it. It's interesting. I didn't think Darwin would be this much of an issue going into the double game week. And when I was looking at free hit drafts before this week, Darwin was in all of it. So it's really interesting how quickly he can drop it out. It is. Yeah. At 17 goal involvements per Koona over the season. You know, we talk about good budget options. That's remarkable. In 25 styles, 17 goal environments for 5.6 million. It was an interesting performance, wasn't it? Because he scored that wonder goal where the defending was just absolutely shocking. Yeah, that's true. But it was a hell of a finish as well. It was a great goal. And then obviously it was a bit of a tapping on that gold mouse scramble. So yeah, I think maybe it's been inflated a little bit, the hype. But I think he's been a good option. Like, wolf's options have been great this season. Well, and the Gary O'Neill, they've been really good. Sarabia and Huang, who could be back as well, which is big and Koona as well. I think they've had some really good ones. One amazing manager, Gary O'Neill, is the jobs he's done at both clubs. They're born with and now at wolves when they've been so... I wasn't a massive fan of him at Bournemouth, but yeah. Well, he got the job done, didn't he? They were pretty much cast a drift under Parker when they came up and then in Harlands. Well, I won't go into it now. I'm pretty sure I've gone into it before. I've just paid Gary O'Neill. Poor Gary O'Neill. I didn't like him that much at Bournemouth. Oh, I think he's brilliant. I think he's done a great job at wolves. I think he's been very mean. Good for you. Good for you, Ash. Fun, you marry him. Over the last six weeks, we see Nunez drop the underlines. That's still good, but he's obviously not second over the season. Tim Overn and Alvarez show up well here. So does Esak. We haven't talked about Esak. He's been unbelievable since I bought him. And he's been great. I thought I'd gone a week too late on him because he got the two goals against West Ham. But he's been brilliant. 17 goals for the season. He's well in the Golden Boot race. Six goals and assists over the last six game weeks. You know, only five starts. Wilson back in training. Any worries about him now? I don't think so. I think Esak's there. You know, he's that poster boy now, wouldn't he? And obviously, I think every game he's fit, he's going to play. I don't think it is like last season where it's a swap one in, swap one out. The only thing they could do is obviously his minutes could be a little bit reduced because they're going to start being able to take him off, you know, if they're two, three, four, and they'll up against Spurs again. But I think Esak's a great shot. I think his ownership from Game Week 35 onwards is going to be ridiculous. I think it's going to shoot up like mad because people are going to start dropping those other strikers. They're going to be bringing Esak in. He's such a lovely cost as well, only 8 million. So yeah, I think he's a really, really good shot. Obviously, I'm going Tony to Esak. And I think Esak, he's going to be a kind of season, keeping now until the end of the season. The fixtures are just too good. Slanky's in 25th over the last six, 0.33. I was listening to Planet PPL earlier, and James was saying that he was watching the game, and every time the camera panned Slanky, he was wincing, like he was in pain. I don't think his starts are in question, but he clearly is still carrying something. Still doing well, I mean, 17 goals for the season, or 18, or whatever it is, absolutely incredible. Do I need him, Andy? That's my question to you. For this week, I think I haven't done a free hit without him in it. No. I think he is somebody, the problem with you, the problem with you, the problem for you, the problem for you is you're not really going to want him afterwards. That's the thing, because their fixtures do drop off a bit of a cliff. I mean, they've got you guys at home, but they've got asked away, they've got Chelsea away. I don't think you're going to want him after it. So if you're getting Trent in and you're getting Slanky, I don't know, I think that's a little bit of a stretch personally, but I think for this week with what Aston Villa away wolves away, I'd say I'd probably get him in. Yeah, it's same with Koona, because Koona's got the double, but one of the games is Arsenal, obviously not ideal, but I don't think Slanky's two away games in this completely ideal. And then Koona's got Luton at home in 35, which looks good. Slanky's got Brighton at home, they're fine, but it's man sitting Liverpool for Koona in 36, 38. Yes, I don't really want him, either of those. So what do I do? I wouldn't mind a punt on Calvert Luton, you know, but I don't trust that. I don't do it. I don't trust that hamstring. I don't trust that hamstring, it is. He is, there's no way he's going to play two games in the double. Is that surely not? By the way, Nigel, the crab's asking. He's saying, "What are the bad crabs?" YouTube informs me, I've been spamming your life for eight months now. Have we had Aziz Obscure pick of the week? What's your Obscure pick? You have Cliver, Petinho, who is it this week? I'm tempted to stick with Calvert Luton. Are you? Oh, I like it. I quite like Everton's fixtures as ridiculous. I know he's got Hammer 6-0, but I think they can get something against Forrest. And that Liverpool game, obviously you don't expect them to win, but could be anything. Let's take back up some of the midfielders. Don't really scream at me. You can't go Brerety either. I think DCL's the one, mate. Yeah, I'll stick with DCL. You got one? No, no, no. I've played this game before. I'm not going against as mystic as. So, yeah, I'm going to let you have that one again. Just to recover Luton as well. If Calvert Luton starts, both games I reckon he could do really well. There you go, how's that for insight? I will say as well, a little bet we made with Luke. He went with Esak as his striker. I went with Nicholas Jackson, who did really well this week. Who did you go with as? Rodrigo Moones. Who went from scoring every week to never scoring again once I said that. Midas touch. Yeah, terrible, terrible. Fictioners then. We've got quite a few of these to cover. Just a bit going forward. So, let's do that. Luton Brentford. Not a huge amount of interest in the single game week games. There will be some stragglers with a flecken or a regulon. Maybe a morris. Like you have in your non-free hit team. Or a doetamin. Tricky game to predict. I've gone for Brentford win. Luton have got to win this one, though, haven't they? If they're going to stay up, they really have got to win this one. Yeah, I've gone to one Brentford. I think they've been looking better since they've had Whisser and Numbumo up top. And I think Numbumo is making a bit of a difference for him. Tony doesn't seem to be getting any minutes, which actually isn't hurting them. I think defensively they're looking slightly better. So, yeah, I've gone to one win. Yep. Sheffield 90, Burnley. I've gone for a Burnley win. Oh, I think it's probably a bit too late now, but might give him a fighting chance. You've gone for a 1-0. It's kind of a pretty rubbish set of fixtures at 3 o'clock on Saturday. But also, if Luton win and Burnley win, it kind of makes the relegation battle quite interesting. Yeah, I've got one all. I think they're both going to walk out of this game and go, what was the point? Yeah. They're going to walk out. Been like them in the league this season. Yeah, didn't help anybody. So, yeah, I'm going to go one all. Yep. Wolves Arsenal, we've both gone for an Arsenal win. I've gone for a 2-0, you've gone for a 2-1. Yeah, I think Wolves, if they do have Wang back, they've got Kunio Huang, Sarabia. They've got, I think they've got the attacking options there to maybe do it. And I just think Arsenal might have a little bit of a hangover from Europe as well and just be a little bit down. So, if they don't and they come back and they just win this 2-3-0, then I think that shows an awful lot about their character even though they're young. So, it'd be really interesting to see how they bounce back from what happened midweek. It's funny, the narrative you can spin is that you can say they might be a bit down, not really playing a bit disheartened all you say, are they going to be desperate to get their title charge back on track? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I just think they're, yeah, I think we're both supposed to win because they should beat Wolves. But, well, it was all a funny team. They could, I mean, if they lose that. I mean, it's Wolves and Fulham, isn't it? They're the two teams this year. Absolutely. Just one week they're awful and the next week they can thrash anybody. If Arsenal will Liverpool drop any more points now, though, they're done. Yeah. That's it. Oh, yeah, 100%. Yeah. Can't cut a point. Can't cut a point. You can see it in a win every game. Yep. Everton Forest, I'm back in Cavalloon. That's why I've gone for a 1-0 Forest win. Good. You've gone for 2-1. You've gone for some Everton points. I have. This is a massive, massive, it is a big game. There's some big games out there this week in that relegation battle. I've got a feeling with the whole Nottingham Forest ticket prices and all this stuff. Ooh. It's all doomed with the Forest. Yeah. And I think Everton are going to nick it. If, well, if Everton, let's just check the table quickly. If Everton do win that game, that'll be Forest on 26th. So if Luton won and Forest last, Luton will go above, above Forest. If Forest win that, they'll be on 29th, Everton on 27th. Oh, God, that is such a big game. That Luton, well, Burnley on 20th, Burnley on 20th, yeah, they're not going to make it, I think. It's spicy. Villa Bournemouth, I've gone for 2-1. You have as well, I've gone for 2-1. Yeah, I've gone for 2-1. Yeah, I think Villa might be a little bit tired because they went to extra time in the 1-on-pens, didn't they? But I think I think they'll get the win over Bournemouth at home. Selling our walk-ins and our other players, that's Godwell, isn't it? No, he's just carried on, isn't he? But you can't own him all during this bit, can you? And you've got to target the double game weeks and that, so. It is frustrating, though, when we've got all these players not doing that great and the top scoring player of the season just carries on doing well with all the people that don't think about FPL as much as we do have all kept him in. Palace West Ham, we've both gone before a Palace win. In this West Ham playing now against Levikusen, Levikusen just equalised to continue their unbeaten season. Incredible. He was there in the relegation zone when he took over a long time. Unbelievable. I think Palace will win this. I think that winnickets Liverpool will really give them some confidence that they're on the right lines and it's always tough to come off through Obelie again. Yeah, I think so. Two as a goals, two Matheta assists, we'll be happy. Do you know what? I'll lock that in right now. If I will take that, I will definitely say that. Fulham Liverpool. I think Liverpool get one clean sheet in the next two. I'm not sure. Yeah, I'm not totally sure about it. This game is either going to be a, I think it's going to be a Liverpool comfortable win or Fulham ticket. You know, and yeah, I just think it's... Yeah, I've gone for two-nil. You've gone for three-one Liverpools. You're thinking it's a comfortable win. Yeah, I think there'll be some goals. I do. I think when you look at the Double Game Week teams, I expect Liverpool to score more goals than anybody else. If I'm looking, I don't think I did Arsenal. Yeah, so I think Liverpool score more goals than any other team in the Double Game Week. Yep, that's why you all go for Salomon. Yeah. Arsenal Chelsea, big game, not big game. Yeah, both gone two-nil. Both gone two-nil. Yeah, I'm amazing result for Chelsea. I talked about them earlier in the stream about the penalties and all that. It's still, I don't know where that six-nil came from. I didn't see them harrowing to see like that. They surely won't get anything against Arsenal. Arsenal too. Well, this is just like Chelsea who wins six-nil and then the next week. Yeah. Just lose two-nil and not really show anything. Yeah. It'd be interesting with Palmer though. We've both gone two-nil and obviously everybody's very worried about benching Palmer. But I think you do. And this is the toughest fixture defensively that he is going to have all season. So I think it's fine. Yeah, I mean, Harlands is the other one, isn't it? That we're potentially selling or benching or whatever. I mean, the injury makes that a bit easier. I don't think anyone was really thinking of benching Harlands or selling him. Well, Palmer, there was a few people at Adam on Free Hit. Yeah, I don't blame them because we've been so poor. But Palmer haven't seen any kind of drafts. I think you'd play them if you need to. I don't think you'd be taking hits to not play them. No, I agree. Yeah, still it's good. Cool, cool, cool, something. Wolves, Bournemouth. I've gone for a one, all you've gone for a two-one. You'd love him, Wolves. Two wins. Yeah, I'm actually not too weird because I don't have any Wolves apart from Saar. And I'm not putting them in any clean sheets for me this day. Yeah, I know. So, yeah, but no, I just back to him to score against his two teams. So, yeah, I think they might get a win against Bournemouth and Gary O'Neill will get one over on him. Yep, Palace Newcastle, we've both gone for goals in this. I think this is why I like SA because I think the two home games, West Ham and Newcastle, they are, they should score goals in both of those games. Newcastle are going to score goals as well in this because their attack is brilliant at the moment. I've gone for three, two new goals, so you've gone for a two all. It should be a fun one, that. Yeah, I'm predicting goals. New Castle away from home aren't as good. I think they're going to concede a few and whenever they concede a few, they need to score a few and they always do for some reason. So, I don't want them to because I think people will be playing, say, an ESAC in a Gordon, potentially. And, obviously, as a free hitter, I want them to not do very well. But, yeah, I feel like this is the game for the goals. I'll be playing ESAC and ASA. So, if this game finishes three, two, and I get some ESAC and ASA points, I will be over the move. Ever to Liverpool? And, as I said, Darby, both come with Liverpool win, both come for a two one. In this scenario, you know what you're going to get better. He doesn't look great, though, does he? I don't think he's the man to save them. Then he can have a look back into this one. Oh, boy. I think, yeah, it's going to be, I'm not sure what it's going to be like, atmosphere-wise. Obviously, I know Merseyside Darby is always a bit fiery, but, yeah, I've gone two-one. I think both teams will score. Yep. Manchester United, Sheffield United, your team. Comfortable win, you've gone for it. No Diaz, no Diaz love. Nah, easy. Two-nil, you've gone four over two-one. Oh, no, on a ten-pointer. We'll win two-nil. Bruno, penalty. Gone at your goal. I think Diaz scores in the first five minutes against Manchester United. Do you? No, I know you. I reckon we'll be one-nil up in the 89th minute and we'll lose two-one. Yeah, that could well happen. Yeah, yeah. Bryce in Man City, that's the final game. I've got no confidence in this at the moment. I'm back in this to get a goal, but I think we'll go down three-one to City. You've gone for a two-nil. Didn't even give us a goal. Yeah, sorry, mate. Man, see, can't do well. Yeah, that'd be nice, but it can't keep clean shoes. I say nice, it wouldn't be nice. I feel very conflicted. I'll just, I'm just, this is that part of the season where we're just going to finish. The best case I was, we finished in the top ten. Yeah. I can see it's dropping under the top ten. We're just weird that though, isn't it? Yeah, it is. Predictions League. This is for the Godfather tier. Members do consider joining our channel if you're interested in getting involved in this and some of the other leagues we've got to things like meetups and start this core channel, check out the perks for that. Tricky FPL, who is our sort of long-term recorder of these over the years, also doing brilliantly in this, winning this league who set this all up as well, are doing well as well. I'm happy with my 51.87% results, correct? That's the best I've had in previous seasons, and it's just ahead of mark 51.24. So I need to get in this next year. Take that, yep, I'll get you in that. Don't you worry. Captains Data, this is the big question really. I mean, I know Stella's popular, but there are options. Saka, obviously, given that he's on for another 200-point season, 14 goals, I haven't seen too many going for Saka with the armband. I've gone for Esse, you can see the blue fixtures kind of make me think that's where the most goals might happen, but obviously he's playing for Palace and not for a top-top team. You could take a punt on a haver, it's a Trent, a Koona, Solanky. Yeah, I think, I mean, obviously I'm doing the same, I've got Salah, and I think Salah is clear, but I think Esse is a really good show. I really do. I think Esse is fun. I think he is with those two fixtures, and the goals we're expecting from those two fixtures as well. I do think Esse is a really good show, genuinely this week. I think Darwin's nowhere near because of minutes. I think Saka, I don't know, I haven't thought about Saka for captaincy at all. I really haven't. I'm surprised I'm not seeing him, like, mentioned. He's two decent games, Chelsea Moors. Yeah, it's not bad at all, is it? And obviously he's on penalties. I just think Salah's there, and with Esse and with those two home fixtures, it really is up there, I think, in terms of in your consideration. But I think just owning Esse is also enough. I think Salah is the clear captain for me still. If you were picking an Arsenal mid out of Saka Haberts, no regard, would you stick with Saka? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, I think I would too. My team then, so I haven't got any fancy chips. I haven't got anything. You did. I'm bleeding chips, as he says, in a casino royale. For me, this is this song. I've got another free transfer to make. I've got Ray Ringol, Gabriel Munoz, Vadiol. Salah Saka is a Sarabia, Harlan, Darwin, Esak. Turner, Palmer, Taylor, and Bradley on the bench. I don't really hate this team. I know it's only eight doublers, but I've got Vadiol and Harlan. So I'm backing City to do quite well against us, and Esak is in great form as well. So I could just stick with those. Or I do Darwin to Koona, and then Bradley up to Trent. And you would bench Harlan? Yeah. Well, if Harlan's out, I think that will push me more towards doing that, because I'd bench him, because it would be a bit of a reluctant benching of Vadiol, if I was going to do it the other way. So yeah, we'll have to see what the state is with Harlan, but... I think your team's looking good, though. Considering you haven't had the chips to be able to use. I know obviously you wildcarded not that long ago, but your team's looking good. You've got a few players in there that I'd be scared of not owning, but luckily for me, obviously Harlan's are down now. But Esak's obviously the other one. But Darwin was the big one I was thinking, God, if I don't own him on free hit, but it's looking less and less likely that he's going to have a chance to do the damage. So that's good. Yeah, I wish Darwin was Salenki. I think if Darwin was Salenki, then I'd be a bit more careful. I don't really want to... Some of this is before... It's after one transfer, so I had two transfers. Oops. So I did Santa Esse. It actually helps me if I can keep that transfer, because I can go into next week route to bring Son back in, maybe get Gordon as well, or have a Chelsea player, and have a Tottenham player, but I'm totally sure I want to do that. But it gives me a bit more room to play with. So if Harlan's fit, I'll probably just stick with this. If he's out, then I'll probably take the minus four. But this is what everyone's here for, the free hit team. The man in North talks through it. Don't talk it through. Yes, please. So yeah, I've got Jose Sarringo, I've got Gabrielle Munoz, and Virgil van Dyke at the back. Virgil van Dyke could be Trent, but we'll see. It's Virgil at the moment. He came on at 70 minutes today, Trent. Does that help at all? Yeah, I think he looked annoyed that he came off, apparently, as well. So I like that. You've got to go for Trent. How'd it go for Trent? You've got to go. I've got Havot Zinsaka in the middle with Eze, Louis Diaz, and Salah. I think that midfield is pretty locked, to be perfectly honest. And then Selenki and Mateta up top. Again, I think that's pretty locked, as well. With Gerbich, Mikolekko, Kunya, and Brantheway on the bench. I think majority of this is not going to change unless injuries happen. So Gabrielle Munoz, Havot Zaka, Eze, Louis Diaz, Salah, Selenki and Mateta are pretty much there for me. I can't really see them changing. It's Van Dyke and Trent. And then it's Jose Sar. They're my two, where I'm a bit like Muñoz. I was thinking about getting Mitchell just for the nostalgia. Yeah. But I can't ignore Muñoz and how far forward he is. So I'm picking him. I also like aesthetically how this looks. I think it looks very, very pretty. Very pretty. But yeah, so-- Slenki is the odd one, aren't they? Yeah, he is, dammit. So I think with how solid the rest of it is, I could go for Trent over Van Dyke. You've got to go for Trent. You've got to go. If I'm confident enough, he plays enough. I think I'd be tempted to. But Jose Sar's the other one. I'm just looking at it and thinking, "Just look so boring, doesn't it?" Like, "I'm just looking at anything. I'm not expecting anything from the Arsenal game." And then I'm hoping for maybe something against Bournemouth, but then I've got Selenki. But it's who else do I go for? I don't really want to go for Pickford. So it's-- I mean, the other thing was, do I get Henderson and then change Munoz? But I really want Munoz. Like, I want that attacking upside for the defender. So yeah, I mean, I could get rid of Matheta and play Kania, but I'm not expecting anything in that Arsenal game. So yeah, I think I'll probably just go Sar, knowing that he could get me a few or say points and things. So yeah, I think I'm pretty happy with this, to be honest. I mean, it's interesting that you've got Sar Henderson and Pickford all with all two home games. I think you go for one of those. I think, like you say, I think with Palace having good options with the wing back, then there's A&E saying and Matheta, that probably rules Henderson out, because you probably want to go for one and then two. So it's Pickford or Sar, probably as there's the picks. I think I'd go for Pickford, but that's not much in here, let's be honest. - No, it's not. - Yeah, no, I like it. It looks good. - Nice, thank you. - It's a good team. Can I slate it at all? That's what we tend to do on these things. - We're always struggling. - We're struggling. - You can't do it. - I mean, the only thing I can-- I just cannot believe you've got that diking over over Trent. - That's a one-looking question. - Yeah, remember. Remember, I've had this now locked in for a couple of days. So this was before we knew the extent of Bradley's injury and the fact Trent started tonight and got 70 minutes and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, it'll go down to the wire. I'm not 100% saying I'll go for Trent, because I do like the minutes of Bandai, obviously. But I think, yeah, I'm leaning that way. Loads people are asking me about Mitchell and me not getting Mitchell and going Munoz over Mitchell. - My boy Munoz, yeah. - Sorry, I love both of them. I love both of them, and I'm going to be going Munoz over Mitchell. - Oh, do you know what would be fun? - Because what? - You can get both. - Yeah, who I can't get both. - I need that. - I want Matetta. So that would be good, though. - Matetta, do you really want Matetta that much? - Yeah, I think so, yeah. I told you, with Isaiah and Alyssa, I think Matetta's a good option. You know, it did well against Liverpool. West Ham at home, Newcastle at home, I expect there to be goals. - Don't be all right. - Get Mitchell instead of Matetta. Go for the wingbacks. - No. - Play a 4-5-1, like a relegator. - Never up at him. - Oh, God. Never up at him. Yeah, I think that's Adam Clark says it best. Only way you can slay it is by saying it's a bit boring. - Oh, thank you. - Thank you. I thought you'd do that. See, I'd take that as an insult. I'd be like, "Right, I need to rip everything up." Get some interesting players in. Black box leaks. It's been a couple of weeks since we did these, and a bit of change. Sundeep still remains top, massive score, 91 points. First in the world, I think, still, must be up for 91. John O'Shea, the John O'Shea in second. Mike Dobson's climbing, Christopher Lay's climbing. Christian Larich has dropped to fifth. Summon, you in sixth, has climbed up as well. Big score, 80. Richard Smith, Killian Kenny and Chris Menon. Seventh-faked the ninth, and Joel O'Reilly in tenth, all wearing amazing seasons, and a much better than mine. In the apprentice league, though, and this is really what everyone cares about, Mark's in first, no one cares about that. As Phillips, up to second, overtaken both Liesl and Ryan. Ryan, who's never finished higher than top 500k, Liesl, who's playing her first-ever season, FBL. But ah, proud of you, finally. We always rise. Have they got any chips left? Yep, I believe they've got a lot of chips left. So I've definitely screwed. It's fine, it's nice to be ahead, even if it's for just a few weeks. In the Godfather League, Richard Smith is top of this, but Pratik had a good week this week, called up 14 points. Connor Graham, third, Avi Fructuring, fourth, Mr. Mark Subbins in fifth. Kristin Sick, Tom Gould in seventh, Stuart Thompson in eighth. Nick Baker and Chris Tanya both fall into ninth and tenth, respectively. Lovey stuff, Andy, hour and a half. We'd absolutely blitz through this. Easy. Bits through this today. Thanks for joining in. It was very nice. Thank you so much for having me. You're very welcome. Thank you everyone for watching. Sorry that the episodes have been a bit sporadic and sort of Mark's in and out and stuff. We're trying to kind of do as many of these as we can. I know my team selection videos have stopped. I mean, Mark is off because of work stresses and some kind of health issues. My work is absolutely crazy. And if you want to start doing some solo videos for the channel, you're more than welcome. I don't think people want that. I don't think people want that. I don't know if you want that. Yeah, let us know if you want some solo videos of that. Got some saying that sounds weird. If you have enjoyed the stream, do give us a like. We really appreciate all your support. As always, drop us a comment as well. Let us know your free hit teams. If you've got any fun punts going forwards, whether it's free hit or kind of over the next few weeks, we'll be interested to hear them. If you're listening on the podcast, give us a review on whatever podcast app you're listening to us on. We will read all of those. But yeah, otherwise, I should be back next week. God knows who we're with. Might be you. Might be Luke. Might be Mark. We just see what happens. Anyone, anyone on anyone to do. And yeah, not many weeks left of the season. So hopefully everyone's arrows can continue to be green. Very nice positive end, wasn't it? Yeah, sure. Cool, Andy, thanks a lot and I'll speak to you soon. No worries, bye. All social podcast network.