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Did you know King Supers always gives you savings and rewards on top of our lower-than-low prices? And when you download the King Supers app, you'll enjoy over $500 in savings every week with digital coupons. And don't forget fuel points to help you save up to $1 per gallon at the pump. Want to save even more? With a boost membership, you'll get double fuel points and free delivery. So shop and save big at King Supers today. King Supers, fresh for everyone. Savings may vary by state. Restrictions apply. See site for details. Hello, everyone. Welcome to your FBL Black Box head of Game Week 35. And look who's come crawling back. It's Mr. Mark Southerns. Finally. Finally. How are you? Yeah, I'm good. I'm happy to be back alongside you for a nice FBL chat. I'm going to ease my way back into the rhythm of the season, just as it begins to come to an end. Yeah. It must have been over a month, I think, since we did one. Has it? Yeah. Well, tough, I think. I mean, I know the answer. Yeah. I mean, it happens every season to me now at my age and what I do in life. Life kind of takes over at points, you know, my work in life and health and stuff like that. It was April. Yeah. Bad month for you April, I feel. Yeah. And so I basically had to lower my FBL priorities a little bit whilst trying to cling to a top 10K finish, which I'm barely doing next to last night's returns didn't help. But yeah, yeah, I'm OK. I'm happy to get back, get stuck into it again for the final game weeks. And then obviously build up to the new season and new challenge. And of course, you know, rejuvenated FBL. I'm sure they're going to look at their raw set and make changes and rigid. Oh, yeah. I always did. They're not doing that. Are you are you finding like the final, the final furlong of the season? Because I'm struggling. You're on the beach, aren't you? I've been like 500 K for about, I don't know, seven weeks, eight weeks. I just can't move in even direction. That's all right when you're 100 K or below. But I found it very frustrating this year. Yeah. I found it a very strange season. I think it's probably the season where I've been less engaged. And I don't understand why, because I've done well rank wise. But it doesn't feel like I've had as much to do with that as normal. Does that make sense? It's almost like it's been last 10 game weeks in particular. I think my decisions have been fairly straightforward. But once you've got your chip strategy, it kind of all fell into place. And obviously that chip strategy was wrong because there's a lot of controversy. Oh, free hit 29. Oh, he's got so well for the free hitters this week, isn't it? Should we talk about that? Because it's pretty extraordinary, isn't it? The way that's gone, isn't it? For Crystal Palace to turn up the five goals, and for Harland, obviously potentially the most devastating, highly owned player in the game to be injured. For those who kept him, who didn't have the free hit, which has probably been the majority. I can't imagine there's many non free hit managers who didn't hold Harland. And yeah, what happened as well? Yeah, Palmer relying on him off the bench, I feel this. And the way that Palace turned up is just completely out of character, but then West Ham were awful. And I guess if you look to that fixture ahead of time and you went, well, could West Ham turn up and be awful? Yeah, you probably could say that. I still wouldn't have predicted five goals for Palace, though. Having seen him in the flesh not so long ago, they really struggled to score goals and didn't look like doing that. But they've delivered spectacularly, and then that continued last night. So if you were free hitting, there's a chance that you went for the Arsenal differentials. Whereas non free hit has probably held their two Arsenal defenders and Saka, like me. Free hitters would have gone well. Let's take a gamble. Let's go white obviously, but let's go have X over Saka. So it's worked out so perfectly for free hitters. But you know, that's FBL. It's it's it doesn't always go like what it has done, though, is ahead of the double game weeks that we got in 35 and 37. I guess it's kind of reinvigorated our belief that double game week should be something you really go for, which is probably going to work out with it badly again. It's probably going to revert now. Well, two goals have been why it's completely ridiculous. Like I was on with Andy last week. We were looking at the stats. There was no sign of that. One of them was a complete fluke. He can say, oh, you can make your mind up at home. Absolutely no way did he mean that. Yeah, but he's got to be there to score that goal. And he, you know, there's no doubt that, you know, has been getting forward. But it just has to happen in a double game, isn't it? It's not like it could have happened the week before or something like that. It happened. It happened this week. And Palace turning up and scoring five goals and so it's not like that's just, you know, that is just so fortuitous that that's happened. Yeah. And not only that. It was a Lisa as a Marteta who all got double figures. Yeah. So it's not like it's called five goals. And I don't know, as I got on a sister Lisa, he got one goal. And that was it. It was like they all feasted, didn't they as well? So it was just absolutely perfect. I mean, but having said that, some people who play for it didn't get those players. Some people went to Palace Defender. Some people would have gone soccer over habits or, you know, or, you know, another alternative route. It wasn't that I'm not saying that everyone who did well out of the free hit were lucky because you had to get the right players hit. There's a big difference between what I'm seeing on Twitter and on Scout and in like the Elite 64 league at the average scores. Compared to what I'm seeing in my university mini league and more casual mini leagues, which is, which is interesting because I think there's been more of a catch up, you know, between between that because of the content that's available and people not they're doing. Really? Yeah, it's, I don't know, it is fine. I mean, it happens, doesn't it? You know, and the variance could work out this time around as well. Like it. Yeah, but I've got a wild card. So I could invest heavily in Chelsea and Spurs this week and then they do really well. Some gets a hat trick over the two games or something like that. You just don't know. But, yeah, going into that free hit and back in Palace and back in Arsenal differentials, it couldn't have gone any better, could it? So well played. I think one thing that was interesting was how badly the bench boost has gone for people because this was a week. You know, you always say use a free hit in a double game week or a blank game week, but we also say use a bench boost in a double game week. And there are a lot of people out there who have used bench boost because they've had Harlem. They've had Palmer, you know, decent, you know, I've seen Emerson's on some people's bench is coming in Henderson as well. Some people have big bench boost with two fit players and they've got like a minus three. I mean, that is swings around about us to a new level, isn't it? I mean, my bench is non-existent and that's down to obviously the absence of Harland and Palmer and so on gusto as well. So, yeah, I mean, the chip strategy, we often say, don't we, that we overplay the chips importance of them? And that's because very rarely do they fall so spectacularly is this outcome. It's probably like one in five seasons that you get a chip that swings like this. This is a bit like the Wilson-Ezak situation last season, if you remember. Do you remember that? I remember that first. Oh, but it's like that is like what it swings. 60 points to me in one week. And these things happen, you know, not even once a season delay to this extreme. I mean, like we're seeing people with 150 plus points. De Bruyne of four goals. That was a season before, wasn't it? Yeah, it's great for those who are flagging, who have benefited because obviously it means their end of their season has just been completely reborn. For us, we've just got to take it and accept it and think that, well, you know, one day that will be me. One day, I'll get Wilson's points or De Bruyne's points or someone's points. I have had decent double game weeks in the past. I have a few seasons ago. It did really well for me, but yeah, I didn't have him having this week. Anyway, we'll talk about how we're doing this. People are still saying my sound is low. Some people are. Well, it's not. So I'm just going to, I'm sorry, but I'm just going to ignore you because it is complete fine. The levels are fine. You sound fine. And just, oh, Dred's in the chat. Just a shout out to Dred. Hope you're feeling better. Oh, yes. Well, soon, yeah. Hello, Dred. Hey, Dred. Hope to see you. Yeah, hope you hope you're feeling better. Who else is in the chat? Claire's in the chat. Greg fast. Lots of people. Do you want to read a few emails in the chat? We've got it. It's been a while since I created these people. I can read some FPL roundups as Mark and as United again, what a treat. Mark and as United, that could be our full name. Yeah. Yeah, for well, be Alexander, Arnold, Robertson, Sal and Nunes all start. You know what's going to happen? We might be off before the game starts. We have no luck doing when we stream when there's games, when there's games on. No, well, I think we've done world by game before the games. It gives people like that. Peritif, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah. A moose boosh. Okay. You're very good. Yeah. Thank you. I didn't know how to spell a moose boosh. I thought it was like a moose. But it's a muse. That's in humans. Have you ever had a moose boosh? I think I have had one little balls you get, right? Sorry. Yeah. It's a fine dining experience. I just wanted to know because you're an acquaintance of like a smash burger and all those places. But I don't know. I don't know if you go into like the fine dining realms here. Well, you get a little burgers in the moose boosh, can't you? It all kind of... Oh, not a slider, isn't it? A slider, isn't it? Not really. Oh, sorry. It's a slider. Yeah. Anyway. Not to in the chat as well. Is that the real raptor or is that one of the fake raptors that's going around? Is there fake raptors about? There is. There is. Normally he has a little tick and there's no tick, so I'm a little bit. And also, he's praising me, which makes me even more. He's caught me the right raptor, Kelly, because he's the right raptor. Exactly. A peanut colada says tonight is going to add some mega scores. It's going to be interesting. 200 points. What are you wanting tonight? What are you wanting tonight? I just want Darwin to score some points. We'll come to it in just a sec. Okay. Don't worry. We'll come to it. Mitchie Weiss is early stream. Yeah, good. Delia's in the chat. She says, "Missed this duo. Andrew Frost, who could well be an old friend of mine from university, who now lives in Dubai, who I haven't spoken to in a while. And the fact it's going to be Chaz means it probably is him." Okay, nice. Thank you, Andrew. Good to see you. I wasn't Dubai flooded recently. It was. Hopefully it wasn't affected by that. Before we get into our scores, a shout out to our sponsor for this episode, which is, of course, Man's Gate. I'll miss this. Favorite. Did you see the one I did with Andy and Luke where they were very uncomfortable throughout? Well, were they squirming? Squirming? Because they haven't used their man's gate. Exactly. Exactly. Feeling nervous. 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Use your products. Don't hide them under the bed. That's the message from this episode. Yeah. So, my game week this week, I'm sort of... Relatively happy, but also annoyed that there's such big schools out there, 65. For me, Raya coming in massively with 16 points. I'm really happy with the signing of Raya has probably been my best signing of the season. I can't put in another goalkeeper on the wall behind me, but he actually is, in terms of average points, he's got to be my best player. And in that little microcosm, then that sums up your season. Right. Right. And only now the latter part of the season is he really started to become consistent. He's been absolutely phenomenal. And ten points in the first game of the double game week was amazing. Robertson, disappointing in the first game. I was not 0.2 off of getting Trent, who I wanted. So, all of your scrimping and saving that you've been on about all season. There you go. If I just had that, then I would have been able to have him. But yeah, hopefully Robertson gets something tonight. Gabriel with 12 Munoz as he was disappointed. Did you see his assist for Essay? You've just hit it wide. He just clipped the ball into the box. Essay took a touch and just smashed it over the bar. How close were you to do in Alyssa for Saudi Arabia? Not close. No. No. No. I'm quite happy with Saudi Arabia. He's done all right for me as well since I bought him in Luna Home next to, I wasn't really considering. I wasn't considering Matera and I wasn't considering Alyssa. I was quite happy with just Essay and Munoz. But obviously now I wish I'd done it. But yeah. You've got, he's, I can, and I'll win tonight. You've got, you've got a chance of winning points. And I've got, and because I did the late Robertson move, I've actually got a player in for Harla because he would have been Taylor because I did Bradley to Robertson just before the deadline. So I've been getting Taylor's too. So I've got Vardy all coming in for Harla. Okay. So yeah, I'm hopeful for a hundred point week with this, with this team. The big thing is going to be Essay versus Salah. I went for Essay captain. Obviously most people on Salah except for you for some reason who went rogue as we talk about in a second. Oh, yeah. I've got Darwin, Esak, Essay captain, Salah, Saudi Arabia, Munoz and Vardy all to go. So relatively happy. I basically got a grey arrow this week. Hopefully we can push on to slightly better things. Your team talks through it exactly the same point as me. Yeah, well, I was surprised that we were copy getting the same outcomes every week because our teams are very similar back in the day. Now, they're not so similar, but even so points the same 65. Neto the one plays at walls tonight. Saliba Gabriel. I regret not going Ben White. You know what? Billy and I both said right. We're going to sign a second after defender each. And I said, look, I said to myself actually that I went Kirk is over. What's his name? How do you pronounce these? How do you pronounce the centre backs names? Zabani. Yeah, that's it. Zabani. And Zabani was the safe pick because he was a regular starter, of course, but had low kind of upside. I didn't go Zabani. I wasn't Kirk has got injured, if you remember, then didn't play. I also bought Kirk has the same week as you. And then Vividity what you were talking about. Yeah, Zabani scored in the club. So I came out of that thinking right next time, I'm not going to go for the upside pick. So it was a play safe going for the regular pick. So me and Billy had this conversation and I said, well, I'm going to get Saliba because I'm not going to do the Zabani Kirk has mistake again. And he said, well, I'm going to get Ben White something different. And he's getting forward more. And I said, he is, but you know, Tommy Asu back. He never know. You know, double game might miss him. What happens? What happens? The upside comes in, doesn't it? And I say, no, I get this thing. Whenever I talk myself out on an upside player, I regret it. And I mustn't do that. I've done it several times this season. And it's cost me. So getting Saliba looks OK and paper. But actually I was close to getting white and I should have done really. And the irony is Kirk has is now playing on the wing and that's a great option. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Nightmare. Eight Norway is playing tonight. Hopefully, does he start? I hope he starts because if he does, you might get something. Foden will hopefully start a Brighton. And in Saliba Point, my vice captain is a 11. Oh, he does 10, no. No, he won't. No one from Hart for Holland. No. I've seen people down to nine and eight. Yeah. And Saka was my captain. The logic behind that is I thought that the two games have been quite open. I thought that walls with injuries are still might pick them off. And it was a lot more difficult than I expected. I don't think Arsenal played very well first half. They scored two and Saka got nothing. And then the Chelsea game went as I expected. I thought, well, Chelsea, you'll have the semi final. They'll be leggy. And I didn't expect Palmer to miss out. And Arsenal did to them what I thought. You know, they've found a lot of gaps and defensively exploited them and scored five goals. So Arsenal got seven goals. Now that I got one assist. Oh, that is unbelievable, isn't it? Yeah. So do you think Saka looks right? He looks tired to me. Incredibly tired. People are always saying that. They've been saying that all season. And what are you like third in the ratings in terms of score output now? Well, he didn't do much in either game. I thought it was double game. His output looked to me over the last five or six game weeks. Right. So he's behind Palmer and Watkins. He's ahead of that. So he's the third highest scoring player in the game. I'm talking recent now. I'm talking last month or so. But we had this before. I remember when he had that dip and then he went on that incredible run of consecutive returns. So he has had his period to season where you're right. He has looked like, oh, hello. Is he worth the outlook? Is he really that elite level asset? But the point say he is. I don't think he played badly over the two games and he could have done better. He could have had more points. But it's just the way it went. And so, yeah, I wanted to go against that. Because I thought that there's very few opportunities to push a bit. And I didn't think going Saka over Saka was that much of a tilt. Some, you know, expected value was about a point in it. If you want to talk like. So I thought, yeah, let's go for this. Go for it. You know, I want to try and push into the top five K. If it went wrong, I'll probably end up 20 K big deal. You know, it's not massive difference. But it hasn't worked out. See what Salah does. See if Salah destroys me tonight. Yeah. And then Harland, who won't play. Solanki plays tonight and Darwin, who let's hope he's turned. Darwin. Well, I mean, Darwin. I've been pretty sympathetic with Darwin all season. I've enjoyed owning him for the most part. I think it's been quite funny, you know, sometimes you get it. Yeah. He had a spell where he was getting five or six points and it was kind of quite nice. He's never really hit the big double digit goals. He's called that stupid gold against Chevrolet United when the keeper kicked it into him and it went in the goal. It's always been amusing with him. I'm starting to get really pissed off of it now. Genuinely, I'm like, I'm just thinking. Come on, mate. You're playing for Liverpool up front in the title race course and goals. I mean, Carl Morris has got more points than him in a team. There's no excuses, is there? Second season. He's got to be doing better. The talent's there. Well, what happens to him? Does he? He can't keep on like this, can he? He's going to get sold. No, he will get better. I mean, I will refer the honorable gentleman to your opinion of Kai-Havats and... I said after Game Week 1, he looked like a Sunday lead player. And I stand by that. He did. I always loved him. I always rated him still. You're the one that said... No, you as Verner, you said, wouldn't you? I was more down on Verner. You were more down on Verner. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah. But... Yeah, Darwin. I mean, he's going to be a source of amusement and frustration for us. But we're... Most of us are going to be looking at a striker that's even worse than Darwin's. I can't believe this. We're going to have to talk about Jackson a bit. I'm amazed. Absolutely amazed with the outpouring of support for Jack. I mean, he should have been sent off yesterday. It's pure maths though, isn't it? It's pure maths. He's got four matches. Well, the two matches have got two. It is like... You've got to go for the player with four games playing that fun. Got two. I get it, but what we're getting ourselves in for is... Yeah, it's pretty... We said he got one more game than other double-gaming players. Yes. Another game is Aston Villa-al-way, you could say. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, as we'll see tonight, there's doubts about some of the other double-gaming players. You look at Esauk and he's got Wilson breathing out in his ears. Are you going to get both? Don't you know, there's problems with the others, I think. You're not going to go there now, so Spurs haven't got an option. So... Yes. I mean, everyone's going to be on the Jackson train. Oh, I am not. Yeah, you were near the Jackson train. So... Probably buy him. Yeah. I think that was going... Do you look at some stats, Mark? It's been ages since you looked at some stats. Yeah, go on. Would you like Team Data Defense or Team Data Attack? I'll let you choose, sir. Well, can we get a ticker up first? Because I want to just go through the situations. How sad is this ticker now? Because we've only got the four left. Yeah. I mean, sad. Sad, maybe the wrong word. Great. Would be another word I'd use. Yeah, I've kind of... I've had enough of this season, to be honest. I do want to get it over you now. That's good engaging for the listeners, Mark. No, I think... I think about that. I think it's pretty... I'm pretty clear on how it's going to play out FBL-wise now. I don't think there's going to be too much. Because we know we've got the Double Game Week teams, right? Like, I'll ask you the question. Are you going to sign a player who hasn't got at least one Double Game Week? No. No. Right. So, it's like our moves are kind of set in stone now. Even if you've got a wild card, bench booth, whatever chips you've got, everyone signing Double Game Week players, right? So, we're looking at those teams at the top. That's Chelsea, Newcastle Spurs, City, United and maybe Brighton. So, you know, it's quite typical of this season in these last four game weeks. There isn't really much uncertainty about where we're looking and what we're doing, is there? But I will say, it's not necessarily about the players you're buying. It's the players you're selling. Because people are losing their Arsenal players, losing their defence that have been so good over the last few weeks, losing Saka, Havart. You know, if you bought them in a free hit, obviously you've lost them anyway, but if you bought them in for this week and then you're wild carding them out, Liverpool players, losing Salah, for example. That's a pretty big move in your season. Walk-ins, if you've kept walk-ins for this long, are you looking to move him on as well? Palace, Eze, I mean, Eze, for example, he was, you know, I was going to get him in and get him out next week. After seeing how he did against West Ham, if he plays well again tonight, it's going to be a really reluctant sell, I think, of him. So, I think people are going to go in different directions with the players they're selling. Do you? People are going to want to keep some of them and others are just going to get rid of them all. Well, okay, for me with a wild card, it's pretty straightforward. You go all in, don't you? Maybe you hold back on a couple of players, but I've got a bench boost in 37. Do you remember that? Bench boost? That's it. That seems like a lifetime ago when I played that. So, I've got to basically set myself up to maximise that, and obviously that is based, you know, all the doublers, as many as I can get in, hopefully all of them. So, again, it's like I said at the top of the show, my route to my path is kind of carved out. I mean, the details behind it, as in which players and which players go out, yes, of course, but I know what I'm doing in terms of the strategy. When I say I know what I'm doing, I'm going to turn out well. In a very figurative way, I know what I'm doing. That's the cockiest I've ever heard you. No, I don't mean it like that. I'm going to listen to anyone, listen to me. I'm honest. I know what I'm doing. Well, I've got no bloody clue what I'm doing. But seriously, how do you feel about the season? How has it left you feeling? God, is there enough words to describe? I feel genuinely quite below this season with it. I just, I've never, every season, I know, obviously you have peaks and troughs and sometimes things go well and sometimes things don't. I don't feel like I've really had any peaks this season. No. I feel like it's just been a slog all year and pretty much every 50/50 decision has gone against me. And we do our end of season review on some of those. And I think some of them, you know, I took a risk on quite a few captains early on. I went for some, you know, non-template players deliberately to try and go against the template at the start. And I keep doing that and it keeps affecting my start to the season. That means I'm playing catch up right from the off. I need to address that because it's clearly an issue, a skill issue, as I can say, because it keeps happening and I'm getting sick of it. Not so I just want to go template, but I need to be a bit more, a bit less aware of what other people are doing and try and make my own decisions a bit more. And yeah, like you say, when I've made decisions, I feel like they've gone against me. And when I've kind of maybe not done them, that's also gone against me. It's just been, like, the havers one. I was talking about soccer to have us for ages, just saying, yeah, I'm going to do that move, to save bank the 1 million. But in the end, just kind of chicken out of it a little bit because I was thinking, do everyone lose soccer? He's on penalties and all this. Yeah, I think you can forgive yourself. That's nice, thanks. I just think that the season's left me feeling a little bit indifferent. And I don't know why, because I've had, in terms of my rank over the season, it's been my best ever season. Like I've finished higher than I'm going to finish this season before. But I've never been in the top 100 K for as long and as early. Never. It's always been, I've had a late charge. And whereas this season, I've been quite high up for a long period of time and just kind of bubbled alongs and then had a little spurt to get into the top 10 K and I'm just out of it now. But it hasn't left me feeling excited though. It hasn't left me feeling bubbly engaged and thrilled week to week about what I'm going to do next. And I don't know why that is. You know what I think is a big part of it and it's something we talked about the start of the season. I think it's the lack of premium options that we've got. Because having Salah and Harland and Son has been easy. We've had all three of those for most of the season and not had to really think about it. And it hasn't really affected other parts of the team because the defense has been rubbish. Trent has been a fatter for a bit, but then we haven't had really expensive 6.25. No Chelsea fallbacks. No Chelsea fallbacks. No Meralding fallbacks. Midfield, we've had Palmer coming in at 5 million. Too easy. Yeah. Lots of 6 million, 6.5 million options. And then Cheap Strike has like Salanky up top. We've always 7 million at the start of the season. It's been very consistent. And walk into who we haven't needed to fix. And I think if we'd had like a cane and an Aguero and a Suarez knocking around, we would have had to have made more difficult decisions. We've had to have got an extra premium, but downgrade is a 5 million midfielders for example. Or gone without them and switched them around a bit more. Yeah. I mean, Holland doesn't dominate it in a way we expected. So that's been a good thing. But I think you're right. I think you're probably on to something there. It's strange. Like we knock the game and I don't think the game and the rules it does enough to bring variety season to season. And therefore that variety has to come from the outcomes and, you know, the things that crop up in terms of, you know, if a Palmer drops in, it's going to make the game duller. And that's exactly what's happened. I mean, before in previous seasons, when there's a bargain like a cane or a Vardy or a Mario, is that everyone has. And then that makes money almost inconsequential because you've got so much money and you're going to hold those players from the season. And Palmer's been there, hasn't he? And you can't sell it. That's the thing. You can't jump off him not only because of the points, but also because of the value you've got tied up in him when you want him back. So if he's got a bad fixture, you're not going to sell him for one week and then bring him back because you're going to lose 0.5, 0.6. Yeah, so I don't think the outcomes this season have done the game good in terms of adding enough variety to it and enough. Not challenge. That's the wrong word. But yeah, it's a little bit worrying. I think we need some extra spice next season. And like I said at the top, I don't know if the rule sets going to do that. So again, it's going to come down to perhaps pricing and how heavy it has fall. And hopefully we avoid getting a Palmer again. Yeah, I actually think they've got to push the prices up across the boards. They've got to be great. I mean, with Palmer, Palmer's a good example. What would you mean, Palmer next season? Nine. Yeah, I think he should be nine or nine five. Yeah. But I don't think they will. I think he'll be eight five. They will. They will. They will. You think it'd be nine or nine five? Yeah, I don't think the pricing was too disastrous this season. I think they got a lot right. And I think they will do the right thing there. Change a tune. 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Well, I don't think it would be a massive surprise when you look at the 35 fixtures. If Liverpool, if Salas scored a couple against West Ham, if Watkins scored a couple against Chelsea. Yeah. You know, Crystal Palace versus Fulham, Fulham have gone off the bit if the Crystal Palace options did do well. So I think it is still a risk getting rid of some of those players for the whole game and guns, but I can see why people are doing it. Jeopardy, does this good though? Does the game good? So in many ways, even though I've been on the wrong end of this week, it's been quite a welcome thing to see because I think, you know, we could have done with that kind of massive twist. Yeah, yeah. I know what you mean. You certainly could have done with it. Yeah, but being on the right side of it would have been nice. Let's take a look at some team data. Let's take a look at Defence to start with. We've highlighted the teams which people are going to be targeting because obviously in double game weeks are coming. I saw top of the pile as they have been for most of the season. Man City in second. I was a bit annoyed to see Akke back. I thought having Vadio, I thought we might get a little bit longer. Sorry, Akke, if you're listening, it's nice that you'll fit again, but it doesn't really help my team because now you're competition for the only left bag in the side. Yeah, and he was getting forward nicely as well, wasn't he? He's a really good player. I really like him. And now you think, where would you go if I guess DS for your defender now? I mean, I think I've prone to Guardian, one of my players, but I'm not going to risk it. I can't seem playing both in the double. No. I think you have to go DS, but even he could miss it. I don't think you'd go see Defence. No, where in the sun I guess wouldn't be getting it, just going over. Yeah, I guess we don't know where the season would be at that point either. Do you take if it granted it or go to the final game? Yeah. I hope so. I think so. I just watched Arsenal yesterday and I just thought, "How is this team that winning league at a cantor?" They're so good. They're so, so good. Yeah, I was really impressed. I've been, you know, I've watched games of City and obviously they've had really good games, but I'd say on the whole they've been quite a little bit inconsistent. You can see how teams can get at them and why they can see goals in the way they do. Liverpool injuries, you know, front three being rotated, issues at the back, not having a settled set in the back partnership, Trent being injured, you know, and they've won so many games from conceding first, haven't they? I think it's like the most in the league or something. Whereas I watch Arsenal every week and I just think you're so solid, you're so settled. Yeah, like a machine, isn't it? Yeah. So I can't quite believe they're not winning the league. And if Man City wins the league again, it's just, what have you got to do to beat that team? Yeah. They're just relentless. I hope he goes to the final game because obviously a bench boosted in 37, and you want that interest right to the end. Otherwise there could be more rotation, of course. Yeah. I mean, it's interesting when you compare the defense to the attack, the attack is the teams that double are right in the top 10, most of them in the top 10. Whereas defensively, that's not necessarily the case. Yeah, look at this, right? So it's pretty clear that this would indicate that if you're going to invest in the double game, weak teams prioritize attack and three, five, two or three, four, three is the way to go. And that, yeah. I think that is the case because of rotation as well. I mean, when you go back to the fence and weird you invest for the fence, it's very tough, I think. I'm just looking at the highlighted teams. Man City, okay, we've established that it's not easy. Walker, maybe someone suggested that Ludwig said in the chat, probably maybe the one to go for at five million, but we've even seen him. I think you've seen him drop out when he loaned, isn't it? Yes, thanks for mentioning that. I don't get those chats anymore. Yeah. Yeah, I probably will go Edison in goal because it's very hard. If you're producing, you've got to have, you've got to have the keeper. It's going to play twice and Edison's the best option there. And I probably, depending on what I do with Newcastle, I'll probably go and man City Defender as well. I'm just curious not fit because he would be a fun, a fun one to get back in. Yeah, so he's the algorithm's putting Trippia forward, and I don't know whether he's going to be fit for the doubles in '37. They've got Sheffield United this week as well, so it's a good point to jump on if he is, but doesn't look like it, does it? So it looks like Sharon and Bern will be the way to go. And then, do you go Isaac or Gordon? Yeah, probably. And so one of those two. But Isaac's got the rotation with Wilson now in '30, so that's the danger there. And Gordon. Oh, who's the guy? Gordon's not sure to start this. [LAUGHTER] Is Barnes back? Yes, Barnes is back. So, it's funny how that turned out. That's my favourite batter. That's been my favourite batter in this season, the Barnes banter. I think it was in chat about mentioning that. Yeah, he has done well. When we get to midfielders, you'll see how well Barnes has done. So, yeah, I mean, where would you go with you? I mean, you're not going to go. I mean, Chelsea have got the doubles, obviously Spurs have got the double double, and neither the Chelsea or Spurs defence are worth investing. I guess you go poor with a doggy outhouse. Or you can do in it. Oh, it is. It is a real bad landscape for defenders. Brighton was stupid and out now, and I wouldn't invest in this anyway. But, you know, Van Heck is cheap, but I can't expect this to get any. Did he cleanse you between that and the end of the season? Chelsea is a no-go, maybe gusto if he's fit, but also, I don't really want him. Spurs, Van de Ven and Poro, I'd say, are the decent. But Poro, I mean... So, do you keep at least one Arsenal? I think you do, don't you? Yeah, you do. Yeah. I mean, I'd be keeping Gabriel for sure. I mean, I'm going to be keeping Gabriel and White until the end of the season. And one of the reasons why I wildcotted in the way I did and wildcotted Rey in without really having a substitute was because, you know what? I can see Arsenal getting clean sheet against anyone at the moment. Yes. The Spurs game looks tough, obviously. If they won that 2-0, would I be massively surprised? Not really. Petrovitch looks good, or Edison as well, if you want to tug it upwards. But I'm pretty happy with Rey. Yeah, I think the goalkeeper is where I'm going with the double-defense, double-double-defense in terms of Chelsea. There isn't really an option in Chelsea. Nitto bench. Sorry, I'm just interrupting. Who's benched? Nitto. The ball-mouth goalkeeper. The ball-mouth keeper. Oh, joy. Gets better. Have you got it? Yeah, of course. No, no. Yeah. So, yeah, I will keep one-hour sort of vendor, I think. Now, the question is, do you roll the dice and go white and sell Gabrielle? You know what happens? You should do that, right? Yeah. Yeah. I just think those two goals could have come from anyone. It was just... Gabriel scored two goals in a game. I just prefer Gabrielle, I think. Yeah, true. It's all scored the most goals and corners, I still would back Gabrielle. But it's the year, isn't it? If you're pushing, and I know a lot of people benefited from white, but a lot of those people would have gone on the free hit and then thought don't own white, right? So, white is still a differential. If you're pushing the final four games, and you've got a wildcard, and you're going to go for one-hour sort of vendor, wouldn't you go white just to push a bit? I mean, you could go two. You could go two and then play them both in the Everton and many-night games. Yeah. Yeah. That's three out of four. It's only really the Spurs game, isn't it? It looks tricky for them. But it's the pure maths of, you know, is it really the case that you can't find a Chelsea and Spurs defender who can keep power or even out of score on our sort of vendor? Probably not. Probably not. Paul, I would have to get a take in return to do it, only, because I think... I think Paul rose a lot. I think probably the first name, if I was a wildcard, eh? Yeah. Well, I've got him already, so I'm going to hold him, I think. So, defensively, I don't think there's too much to think about. I think you keep one Arsenal, I think you go Edison, if you're wildcarding, you go petch of it, you're wildcarding, and you've got your bench boots, of course. And then you go one. And then you go one. Dallow, Van Hakenz. Well, Gustavo Maguire, basically, for 37, don't you? Yeah. Because the fixtures are good, but United's defense as well. Yeah, it's a lottery in terms of where we put our chips for the defenders. Yeah, 18th over the season, Manchester United in the defensive rankings, over the last six, then bottom. Yeah, not great. And Tottenham and Chelsea are 15th and 16th. Respectively, obviously, a lot of investment going in those, because they've got the double in 35. But the last five data doesn't paint them out. You only have to watch them. It's borne out by the ITS. They both look incredibly ropy. Yeah, you're not getting Chelsea in Spurs defenders for clean sheets, I think it's doubles. You've got to try and find a way that the promises of attacking returns. And sadly, with gusto out, I don't mean there's already a Chelsea option that Chillwell. But I don't think he's going to, you know, he's not consistently starting. The way good Greg is playing. No. Look at Forest here, fourth best defense over the last six, fifth over the season. Don't really show, does it? You must be getting nervous. You must be getting nervous. Very nervous. Yeah. What a loss that was to Everton. I thought you were going to win that. I've got to be careful why I say. What did you think of the statement? Yeah, it wasn't good, was it? I did the post batch. So I did a podcast 15 minutes afterwards. And I was quite scathing over the whole thing, the performance and the statement. What did you make of it? It's crazy, isn't it? Well, the statement or the decisions? Yeah. Well, both. They're both crazy, aren't they? They're both crazy. Yeah, I think they were very unlucky to not get them. I guess the question is, is it unlucky or is it, is there something more sinister going on, which is what, not in the forest, we're implying with the statement saying, you know, there was a, a Luton fan on the VAR and he didn't want to give the decisions. I think that is a, it's a pretty ridiculous thing to say. I don't believe that is happening. I don't believe that they would, that there'd be a Luton. No, no, no. Supporting referee deliberately. But at the same time, we know that they try and avoid those situations. So it is a bit odd while they didn't avoid it. Yeah. No, no, to be. That's careless. I mean, I don't get it, because I actually changed the referee. And isn't there a knots county referee? Yeah, David Coon supporting referee in the Luton game next. It's a bit, it's a bit crazy, but yeah, I mean, forestry in real trouble, definitely. Yeah. The thing is clubs get, like, I've been there with Brighton. You know, we had two or three decisions. I remember against Palace when a stupid man was taught off offside. And it feels like there's something more sinister going on. It never goes against Brighton. I can't remember any occasion this season where Brighton had been on the wrong end of a bad decision. You always, you're right. I can't remember one this season, but in previous seasons, it's been bad. We had Bruno Philando score a penalty after the bloody whistle had gone. Maybe. Of the full time whistle had gone. How much was that? What was that? It was our Palace fan on the VIR. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. That was bloody ridiculous. We've had some ridiculous decisions against McAllister last season when he was deep down. Ball it when his arm was. You've got to go back to last season. Yeah, I'm saying this. I'm not complaining this season. I've said in the past, I've watched them and thought there might be a conspiracy or something going on because it feels when there's so many of them in a row. You just feel everything is against you, but let's be honest. It's just. How do you think it's evicted FBL? Do you do you find it? Yeah, because I think it's getting worse every season in terms of when a goal goes in. Do you have that anxiety or hold on a minute? I can't. I can't celebrate it. Yeah, at the point. Yeah, but in some ways I also quite like it because a goal scored of a player who I don't want to score and then there's always that hope that it's going to get chalked off for something. It does. My feelings about VAR are pretty clear. I think it's I think it's awful. I don't see the, I don't think it adds enough to the game to warrant the killing of so many good moments. You know, I just, and the fact they still managed to get so many decisions wrong. I think Jackson should have been sent off yesterday. Oh, that's a shocker. I mean, and he's on nine bookings and we were thinking, if he gets a book in, I think that was his 32nd game. And what's it there for if it's not sporting? How's that not a red? If it's not sporting stuff like that. That would have saved us all from having Jackson in our teams. And now we've got to go through that now. That misery. Thanks to that VAR decision. Yeah. And like the, the, have a versus goal where I think Gabrielle fouled. Was it Mado A.K. or Jackson? Yeah. One of the two. But I understand that's a like, you know, that's a subjective decision going away. And I'm glad they went with the, with the referee's decision on that. Don't get me wrong, even though I thought differently. But they don't always do that. Sometimes there's a decision like that. And then they give, you never know. It just seems so inconsistent at times. I think they should just give VAR to FBL managers for a week and see how we do. It'd be fun. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, just Darwin score. This is great. Yeah. He wasn't offside. Give it how we forensicly assess every assist. I think we do a good job. Imagine Darwin, Darwin in us with no off sides. He would be an absolute beast. Hmm. Yeah. Anyway, that's pretty good. Attack data. I think I've got them already. So I get them at a good value. I think, yeah, I think I look at this and think, well, you've got to go. Well, presuming Palmer's fit. You go in on Chelsea with Palmer and Jackson. You get, you get at least Son and one other Spurs midfielder. You'd probably go Gordon or Isaac. You don't go both because you probably go to Newcastle defenders with the wildcard. Yeah. And city, you hold Harlan and voting. Yeah. I mean, Harlan today isn't going to play tomorrow, is it? So there's an injury. So it could be that if you're wildcard and you have to take him in and bench him and play an alternative in 35 hoping he's back for 37. But I think I'll do that. I think most wildcarders would do that because obviously going against not having Harlan going into 37. Wouldn't be a situation, particularly if city are chasing the title. I mean, the talk is not going to be in the squad against Brighton. So is he going to miraculously come back on Sunday, like four days later and be back in the team against Forrest? Seems unlikely. No, but you bench him, don't you? Well, that's what I mean. That's what I think is advantage wildcarders. I've got him and I don't have the luxury of being able to pick a decent bench. So if Palmer's out as well, I mean, big trouble with Palmer and Harlan now. Yeah, a lot. I mean, Andy was saying he's got like a minor. He's staring at a minus. Yeah. So it's like there's a lot of problems if you haven't got the wildcard now. So yeah, maybe I was wrong. Maybe there wasn't twists to come with the injuries. But yeah, I look at this and think, what about United? I mean, Bruno, unfortunately, is tempting. And I don't think I've had him this year or all through the season. I started with him and then sold him before he got his two goals against Forrest. I think he was. In fact, that sums up sums up my season. Yeah. I mean, I think I probably will go in for Bruno because there is no alternative. United I like. I mean, Rashford, when we get to the day to you see what miserable, miserable season he's had. Anyone from Brighton? Because Joe Pedro's been copping up in a few solves for me. Yeah. He's probably the only one that I'd consider. Minutes are still, I still think, going to be a risk. I think we've got to assume that at this point, we've thrown in the towel. You know, we've got, we've just got too many injuries at the moment. And I don't know what deserved his plans are for the future. He's being linked with Manchester United. He's being linked with moves, moves away. I actually think he's going to stay with us. I don't know. He's not going to go to Liverpool. They're going to be making moves for other man. Yes. I don't think Manny Knight would be the best fit for him. And I kind of think, where else is he going to really go to a Barcelona or a Bayern? That would be a massive, massive, massive step up for him. So I think he's probably with us for another season. Yeah. And I just wonder what he's going to do with the options he's got. You talk about going full strength. We don't have a full strength team. Doesn't know what it is, does he? So is it now just an opportunity to blood in some younger players, to take a few gambles? We're not going to get Europe. We're going to finish in and around the top ten. We're not, we're no danger of getting relegated. I think Brighton's seasons got a lot of power loss to your own. You have a few little highlights, but never really broke out into anything. No, Brighton got off to a good start, which is a very different term to mine. Well, okay. Sorry. All that line. Yeah. Pedro is the one. He's on penalties. He's our most exciting player. But he doesn't even play up front because we've got Welbeck playing up there. So I'd probably go gross or Pedro if I was going to pick one. But I... Would you? Pedro is fine. I think Pedro is fine. I think I'd probably just go for Hoyland, though. Right. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying Hoyland isn't the best pick ever. I think the fixtures are slightly better for Manchester United. Yeah. And I think he's got been all certainty around his starts. As we see, though, when we get to the data, it's very disappointing. Yeah. Well, Hoyland's Hoyland's data. Yeah. Well, they're 13th over the season. That's the lowest of the level gaming options in '37. And over the last 6th, then 19th, below Brighton. They're 22th for defence and 19th for attack. Yeah. Not the best, is it? Wow. It's surprising, isn't it? Yeah. Chelsea shot pretty well over the last 6th. They're 5th. But, are you games unbeaten or something going into this match? I guess. I mean, they're so driven by Palmer now, it's ridiculous. I remember there was a... Do you think he's injured? Would you think he's injured? Yeah. They're saying that, aren't they? A lot of people saying that he's going to be out. And it wasn't. Was it Tim Sherwood who gave that cheeky post-match comment and said, "Yeah, well played Cole. How'd you feel about Chelsea need to get some decent players around you?" And everyone took offence to it and Cole Palmer handled it very well. And obviously a lot of people saying, "Well, that was incredibly unprofessional to Tim Sherwood." But when you look at it, it's like... Yeah, that's got a point. It's right, though, isn't it? He's so far ahead of that team, isn't he, in terms of the stand. I think they have got good players, but the consistency that he shows relative to the rest of the team is ridiculous. Yeah. He's fantastic every game. Yeah. And for someone so young, that's an amazing trait to have. It's where you look at people like Andrew Fernandez and Sterling and Madrid. They're not got that consistency at all. They have one or two games that are outstanding and they drift back into the background again and don't affect matches. Whereas Palmer is just driving all the time. I think the thing we've asked on why they're so good is that you know that every player will always put in a 7 out of 10. A level. At least. The base level is so high. Whereas Chelsea, they all have a potential to drop a 2 out of 10 in a game. Yeah. Mudger, Sterling, Madaway, K, Jackson, Casado's been dropping 1 out of 10s all season. He's been absolutely awful. And even Enzo, Enzo, I'm really right. Yeah. But he can put, he can be so anonymous in some games. And the defense, there's just no, I don't trust them at all. It's so easy to get in behind, which you don't see in the other teams. I mean, again, you know, we talked about the reasons why this season has been a little bit indifferent. I think teams like Chelsea not providing us regular consistent options oven and Palmer is one of the factors, right? You need that. And when you look at Spurs, you know, they're quite similar in FBL terms. I mean, they've, we've flirted with Poro. We've had session areas where we've had some, but they haven't really provided us, you know, in seasons gone by. We've had Son and Kane, Son and Kane, right, for long periods of the season. Whereas, you know, when Chelsea go missing all together and when teams like Spurs don't contribute to our seasons in the way we would want. And I expect it does impact does impact the outcomes and the feel you get from the season nine. Yeah, no, I agree with Spurs. We've had Madison and Richard Wilson as well at points and then injuries of hampered those. And now we're not even really considering them for Madison has been very disappointing. Second half of the season, don't happen to him. We need to talk about him when we get to them. Yeah. Yeah. We're not going to talk about my feels straight away because of our keepers. We love talking about keepers. We've already mentioned Edison here are the goal keeps over the season filtered by points, but 90. The Pravka looks like he's going to keep his place until the end of the season now at 4-2. So he still looks a decent pick. But you said it's kind of all kind of. I said it. That's the first time I've noticed it. I didn't like that. Petrovich or Edison is probably the. Yeah, I'm going to go for it. Yeah. And both of your wild carding with which is 37. I think that's so straightforward. Because of the lack of nailed options in the defense in front of them. So to cover it, go with the two keepers. And yeah, I mean, the data here shows that our expectations should be fairly low. I mean, there's no question. Edison should have more than eight clean sheets this season. I mean, he has had some spells out that city's clean sheet returns have been disappointing. And it hasn't matched the data. And we've said it all season, haven't we? Yeah, another factor that perhaps would have made the season more interesting had there been some regular clean sheets from city Walker again. Gave us a period of time, but it's been very frustrating back in the city defense. But for the double, I think you do it. And you hope that the clean sheets drop in with Petrovich. Yeah, he's going to be on my bench probably in the doubles, but in the second double rather. But with the bench boots, he comes in. So those two for me, I don't know, I'm in a Narnar. Would you think about a Narnar? If you don't have a wildcard and you're going into 37? No, the fixtures are OK. Yeah, they are. He's just not someone who I'd want to own. Petrovich is also, I still don't massively like that as an option. But I'd put him a bit ahead of. And I mean, you could go Petrovich in a Narnar. And then you're instead of Edison. And I want to give you a Chevrolet Burner. And then you've got the double with two home games. Very tough home. And then that potentially gives you the option to go, phone, heartland, de Broina, or someone else, maybe, or if there is an injury in defense. And that option becomes really obvious of which one to go for. But yeah, I think Edison and Petrovich would be where I'd go. Yeah. I think that's cut and drawn. Sorry. A little sneeze. Over the last six, de Brotha is showing up the top for Keepers. Where is Edison on this list? Oh, isn't he even playing? Is he? No. He's not on there. Yeah. Petrovich, it's disappointing though. Five starts for him. Quite a lowdown. Fourteenth out of Keepers. Two point six points per 90. That's pretty rubbish. Just about getting an extra point from playing. I do wonder if Sanchez was going to come in from another game though. I've been saying it for ages. Yeah. Because you know, there's nothing to play for now, is there? They're not going to get Europe. I've brought it and settled there. They're goalkeepers down. Looks like it. Yeah. But I wouldn't trust it. No. I still think steel could come in for a game, the odd game. I wouldn't risk it. But yeah, it does. I think next season, we're going to see a more settled goalkeeper in Vomrungen. I think this season's been a blooding in. I want for him. He is a better goalkeeper than steel, I think. And nothing disturbing, though, sir. Yeah. Again, I think that, yeah. There's not much in this data to convince me to look beyond the two that we mentioned earlier, which is, you know, the Petrovitch Edison combination. If you're wild carded now into the bench boost, 37. And even if you're not, I mean, as I said, I don't know. I was the only one that would attempt me. Yeah. Are we going to go for a non-double game week goalkeeper? No, we're not. It's only Ray, isn't it? Ray is the only one that you might want to keep. Yeah. I think you probably don't. You probably go for one of the ones with more doubles. Vicaro is the other one you could go for when we mentioned him. Yeah. But I guess the poo option means that's where you go. You're not going to go. You're not going to double up on the Spurs defense because then you've only got one of their attackers. So I think because poo is there, and I think he's fit. I think there were some concerns about his fitness. Yeah. But we think he's going to make it for the weekend. So he is flagged at the moment. But yeah, that's the way you're going to go, I think. Yeah. Defense? Loads of options in defense. Chocolate is all rubbish. We spoke about it earlier. Like, where do you go with this? I do find it really tricky. I think Walker is the one that I'd be hunting on if I was going to go for a man-city defender. Now, like, move it away from Vardy elman over to Walker. But again, it's a fairly boring move. I just really struggled. I mean, Trent's a really interesting one because although he hasn't got the double game, he took up. He's now a bit of a differential and obviously gaining fitness in this race. And if you're, he is someone who, you know, you could turn his seats around because he could drop in there. He could explode. He could drop in a 20-pointer. No, absolutely. I mean, and you look at his output, three goals, five assists over the season. Disappointing. He hasn't been a factor either. He hasn't played into the heavy hit or equation as he really. He hasn't really at any point of the season been a mainstay in our thinking. So that's not yet another factor that's played into the narrative of the season so far. Hasn't changed all year, really. We haven't had the two Chelsea fallbacks at the top here in like flirting with, oh, look at what we could have given you. We could have given you two great assets, but they've never been, never materialized. Trippier had a good spell, but then went off the boil, cash started well, disappeared. Polo, yeah, the eight assists have been good. And you're going to, you're going to go there for the double game weeks because he's got the two. So you're, you're, especially with a doggy out. So you'll keep faith with Polo. And yes, some might punt on Trent might do. Because, you know, he has got a double figure returning him before the end of the season, for sure. And because of the insecurity of the city defense and else he spurs his options there, it could be worthwhile to maybe keep an honest or one going to Trent might be a way to go. But I think you've got about the doubles. I mean, I like a Trent, a asked defender at Apollo. I think that would probably be the three that I'd go for if I was, if I was well-coding. And my, my team hasn't got that. You know, I've got Robertson instead of Trent, I've got Gabriel, which is fine, but then I've got a Spurs defender at the moment. So I'm looking at that and thinking that that would be quite nice. And then for the bench boots, you could then grab some, some cheaper players. Take a punt on a Delo. Take a punt on a Van Heck for someone. Newcastle defender. If you're planning the transfer for 38, it's going to be for a Salah or Trent if you don't have them going into the Wolves game final day. So you're absolutely going to end the season with a one of those Liverpool pair, if not both, if you can get there. Whether or not you go Trent or you retain Salah in the wildcard, I think it, yeah, Trent's more likely to be retained because it has less impact on them. Your tack, obviously. And defenders are tough to find as we've said. So yeah, I've got sympathy with the idea of going Trent in the wildcard. I will definitely look at that. Yeah. Should we look at some, some look at some team news? Yeah. I think so. I think so. Let's take a look. Let's take a look. I think we kind of know that we know something. I think we've got to take a look at some of the other teams. I think we've got to take a look at some of the teams. I think we've got to take a look at some of the teams. I think we've got to take a look at some of the teams. 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This episode is brought to you by Purina and their certified therapy dogs, like Hanley. Say hi Hanley! Hanley is one of 30 therapy dogs. Purina has helped get certified to support kids struggling with their mental health. Purina employees are volunteering their time and family pets like Hanley. To help make pet therapy more accessible to patients, students, and kids like me. Learn more about Purina's pet therapy program at Purina.com/mentalhealth. 8norey starts. I've done about Swabia. Swabia is in. He is in, yeah. So, all eyes on the walls going for us then. You've got Swabia, I've got 8noreys here. I've got no ballman of keeper and goals. I know conflict of interest there, so that's funny. That's quite big, at least saying that. They're very popular. Hmm. Yep. Yeah. It's a bit of a swim. Yeah. It's all one Darwin and 8norey for me tonight. I need something for them to do. If Darwin can just get a brace, I will just be genuinely happy. But we're both no son of captains. I know. That's not constant. 180% EO. Oh dear. Even with the use of manscape, I'm feeling uncomfortable about that. At least I've got Esse though. Esse captain. Yeah. He should get something tonight. If he plays like he did against worst am, he will. He was absolutely brilliant. Lost six defenders. Anyone shooting up this list? Would he Dallow come into 27th? He was much lower down, I think, on the list before, wasn't he? Po-o dropping down. Yeah. Po-o dropping down. And Vadio up to the third. Vadio showing, yeah. Showing how promising he would be if we can count on him for the double. But can we? Probably not. Gusto as well. Gusto would be the Chelsea option if you weren't going to Petrovic. I don't think he had double on the Chelsea defense because you want Palmer and Jackson. Don't you? Depends if the Palmer injury, if more detail comes out about that, then, you know, he's going to be a lot, you know, he's a lock-in for the captain, isn't he? So if he's out of the equation, does change quite a lot actually, I think. So we need to get that team loose and figure out whether Chelsea going to be going off of details or they're just going to go easy to doubt and then we're not going to know. It's enough to make me switch to Son, I think. Yes. Yes. But it's whether or not you then don't go with him. Do you want to drop him completely? Yeah. I guess you have him. I mean, like me, I've got a lot of value in him. I'm sure managers have as well. So you're probably going to hedge your bets and hope he turns up a 37. Yeah. I guess the thing is, though, even if he misses one week, that's a quarter of the game's left. But without that point where the price is almost irrelevant, if he's going to miss two games, for example, it's a Palmer worth two games when you could get someone who's going to play four or even five. Yeah. Yeah. And final Jets are saying, can Mr. Mark Fonio not to admit, and there was another week to free Evelyn 29? Was I really advocating a massive... You can't pronounce it in the end, wouldn't you? Yeah, I was. I had a start. You were saying, no, not 29. Yeah, that's why I thought. I'm making my memories wrong, but I was pretty sure, saying, I'm going to free hit 34. And then my team looks so bad going into 29, I didn't really have much choice. So I was never very kind of like, I wasn't convincing others to do the same, it was just my team ready. I didn't know. I had about six players. So I think I gained about 12, 14 points, someone like that out of the free hit, but obviously had I free hitting 34, I'd like to think I would have done better, but no certainty there. So yeah, I don't know where that came from. I don't remember being impassioned by the... You must free hit 29, it's the only way I don't remember doing that, but I know you did. Anyone's got any soundbites of Mark saying how great the free hit in 29 was, but he said in my way, because he'd be good to say. I mean, the Harvey Baln's thing, definitely. I understand the question. Still not getting Gordon. No. No. Anyone else here that we want to talk about, I think that's probably defence covered, isn't it, there's no one else. Yes. No, as I said, I think it's... Let's move over to something more interesting, which is midfielders over the season, a certain Brennan Johnson creeping into some wildcard drafts, I've noticed. I like it. I like it. I think if you're going to tilt, going Brennan over Madison's the way to go, I think I might do that. You've got to do that, surely. I think I will, because he's showing up really well, 16th over the season, 0.58xg on penalty, which was a good return for him, given that he's had kind of, he hasn't been a consistent starter, he's done well, 21 starts, he's a good return, but if you look at the last six day to, he's ranking even higher, and there's no question he's got goals in him, and I had Madison been in more confident run, I have hesitates, I form, but there's something wrong with Madison. I don't know whether it's an injury, I don't know whether it's just confidence, but he just doesn't look the same player at the moment, he's not going to make that squad, is he? No, I don't think so. I don't think he will. I think the influence he had at the start of the season, remember there was that game where, I think, was it against Wolves, where he was dropping deep, but he was at the heart of absolutely, like what Oh, God, does for Arsenal, and he just thought, bloody hell, what a player, he can play in the turn, he can play deep, he's popping up with goals assist. He hasn't had a good game since he's been back from injury, I don't think, and I'm his biggest fan, you know, but even I'm not even really considering going for him. 22 starts, four goals, nine assists, it's an OK, it's an OK return, but he hasn't really started the season strongly, but that was it, he hasn't really had a spell since, so the injury, when it came, has knocked on to his second half of the season in terms of his output. So there is he Brennan's, well, up there in fourth, 0.966, sure, non penalty, 0.90. And you've got to go down to 39th to five Madison, 0.35. What's the difference with that in the season? The season data is five one, yeah, so it's a big, big, big drop. Yeah, no return in five starts over his last six, going weeks for Madison. So right here now, if you had a wildcard, where would you go? Would you, I mean, you're going some if you're going to go a second Spurs midfielder, where do you go? Oh, I don't think I would, would be my one, I think I don't, I think I'd only go. I'd go. See what? I have one song. And that's it. You don't invest in two Spurs players. Yeah, I think so. Would you? I think it's better mids. I think it's better mids. I think it's easy to get sucked into that, you know, the double game weeks. But again, the Spurs double game this week isn't, isn't that good? It's Arsenal and Chelsea, isn't it? No, I agree with you. But then, you know, the fact that the free hit has gone so well, and suddenly you start to believe in, you know, going, going full on for these and attacking those opportunities, don't you? I think it's, I'd rather have soccer or Salah than another Spurs mid. Would you? So Gordon Palmer, Son, I just thought it was Gordon Palmer, Son, Salah and Philandez, that would probably be nice, right? So you'd rather go to West Ham with Salah than have to double with someone like Brennan? Yeah. Yeah, I think I would. I think it's close. I can see why people are doing it, but I think I would. But then, you know, Salah's not going to give you a double in 37 either. So you're getting... No, but it's one week, isn't it? It's... Yeah, well, to be fair, maybe Salah's not the best, maybe not the best one. Maybe you go for someone else who's got a photo done, for example. And what does Foden fit into that fight? Who does he replace? Yeah, but my worry is about Foden is that when you get to 37, you just don't know whether, you know, what's the team selection going to be in the second game. So, well, I mean, you've got that with Brennan to some extent, but I almost feel Brennan could be more secure than Foden and 37, because they're going to want to give him more minutes, more starts, I think. They haven't got a lot of options, and it's just like, well, you know, bring Brennan on, that's what they're going to do, you know, next season's a really big one for him, because it's... River Charleson Black, though, there's a bit more uncertainty. Yeah, there is, and he's training, isn't he? So that does throw that into the mix, as well. Well, what about Gone at Show, because he's popular, a lot of people picked him up quite early, got the two goals. I've gone at shows, but he's not, like, paid in my season this year. He starts night against coverage United, I think people who have played him this week will be pretty confident. He was locked into a lot of people's wildcards, I think, but now people are going to Philandes, which is interesting, because you could... I don't think there's much in it between them, the stats don't pay out, there's a huge amount in it between them, either. Philandes with four goals over the last six. Yeah, he's got the higher output for XGI, as well, not 0.42 to 0.29, so there's a gap there. I don't think I'd want two United attacking players, so it is a... I think I'd go with Bruno myself, but I see the merits have gone, actually. If you're cash-wrapped and you need to get a double win or a lower end of the bracket, then there's no harm in going at that show at all, so yeah, there's merits there. I don't know if he's a wildcard target, though, I think people will look beyond him. It's interesting what you say about, because sack as a player I don't want to lose, because they've got the good fixture in 36, and it's like, if I go about Saka this week, if I almost want to get him back just for the Bournemouth game, or get an Arsenal mid-in for the Bournemouth game, so the transfers that you play in 36, 37, 38 have to factor into your plan in when you're playing the wildcard, because there's no harm in doing a hokey-cokey with a couple of players getting Saka in and putting him out again for 37, which is what I might do. So the alternative, like you say, is not going to Madison or Johnson and keeping Saka for the 35, it's a Spurs game in which Saka could turn up, can he? Yeah, and then you could make the decision like you say in 37, and there's always a chance of an injury or something giving you that option, and maybe it's going a little bit too early on Spurs. I think we can talk about Chelsea and the best Chelsea in Spurs assets, and I think we've got some tables on notes, but it is poor double game weeks for both of them, and I do wonder if too many wildcards are going to go too hard. If you're going free Chelsea in free Spurs, I think that's too much. Yeah, but you've got it, it's kind of fun, isn't it? You say you're not? Yeah. I don't know. Okay. Let's do forwards, and then we'll come on, too. If it's a fancy dress party, you've got a going fancy dress, haven't you? I think. Is that the analogy? Well, you went for bloody Saliba. That's going to fancy dress as James Bond's, and just wearing like your wedding tux. Yeah, but it's still a double game week player, but yeah, I think you know what you mean. Yeah. Why is going for going as, I don't know, Charlie Chaplin. There's always a risk with that, but it's true that you get these people who go, "Yeah, I'll come to your party, but I'm not going to wear a fancy dress," but that's what you're saying about the double game. Yeah. I'll play the double game week. I wouldn't be friends with something like that. Well, sometimes it's me, but yeah, that's your approach to the double game. It's like, "Oh, yeah, I'll play the double game, but I won't go all in. I won't, you know. I'll come, but I won't go all in." Yeah. I mean, I've realized that does make me sound very boring. I just think it's such a small double game week. It's not like we're having loads of people to choose from. It's really the end of the season. It's going out for bang, surely. Yeah, but they're rubbish. They're both rubbish teams of hard fixtures. I think everyone is, I love the way everyone's double game week, like vision changes that be after Holland's only got one goal and was like, "Double game is overrated." Yeah. You know, we're going to go those. And now it's like, "Double game weeks, woo! 200 points." They do. Yeah. Absolutely. Yep. Forwards over the season, Holland is top or waiting, anxiously waiting for news on him, Werner showing up well in third. He shows up like both tables, doesn't he? He always has done, and he always will, but will it always translate to points? Even for assisted nine starts, that isn't bad for him. I think he's been a good, I think he's been a success, I think he's been a successful signing for Spurs. Yeah, because they've kind of basically given him a role out wide and told him that, you know, taking that pressure off being the goalscore, which, "What do you arrive to Werner when he arrived at Chelsea?" He was built as a goalscore. Yeah. And remember, we all got on him, didn't we, pre-season, and one of the, one of the worst FBL experiences is how I got converted to go, Werner, and then watched him strong. Did you were so happy to see him as well as not that season? No, no, no. I captained him at West Brom. Do you remember when he hit the bar when he was, "Oh, it was awful." So he, but Spurs have done quite well because they've got, "Look, your speedy, you can get beyond defenders. Your final end product is not good, but, you know, if you, if you put in five courses, one of them will work, if you put in five shots, one of them will work." They've got managed to get stuff out of him. They're not signing permanently. I don't know. They just get him out left, and he's having drill balls into the box, and it is a really effective strategy a lot of the time. Yeah, and he does work in tandem with Brennan, but I know who the better player is in terms of his own product, that's for sure. Yeah. Yup. Asak, in fourth, he's had an absolute brilliant season, 17 goals for him, chasing the Golden Boot, absolutely locking, got to be on the world. He's probably about the easiest pick, isn't he? Is he, though, with Wilson back, do you think Wilson's going to be a factor in 37? I don't think, yeah, I don't think he's in the immediate concern, and he doesn't start to know how to take it. It's four games left, and they've got no other competitions, and he's chasing the Golden Boot, then, because they can't even really play him on the left now, can they? Wilson's on the bench. Let's see what they do with his minutes. Let's see. But are you right? I mean, I love him as a player, and I, I want him on the wildcard. I mean, I even got him last night to make sure I caught the rise, so... I don't think Wilson starts over D-Sec. No. I don't think so. Any point between now and the end of the season, maybe in the double there's a bit of, that's where it's most risky, which is arguably when you want him the most, but I'd still, I'd still back him to start here again. Both Gordon and Barnes start tonight, and he's... No way. That goes your theory. Won't be eating into Gordon's village, then. Was that Barnes on the right? Barnes on the left, and Gordon on the right, according to the BBC, you can't trust for one minute, can you? No. I haven't got him at centerback or something. Yeah. Garth cooks his X-11. Interesting. I need goals in that game. I need lots and lots and lots of goals, but none for Matetta, so if he could just not do anything, and Esse can clear off the net. Yeah, it's funny how he's gone elite, isn't he? Where's he in this table over the season? See, because he's not highlighted because he hasn't got a couple of game mates. He's not even in the... He's not in the top 30, but in the top 30, he will be over the last six, though. Well, should be. We come onto this one. He is... 12. All right. No.64, which is pretty good. He's decent data. Yeah. Look at the accuracy and conversion though, that's a shame because he's taken his chances. So maybe that suggests that the returns have been somewhat out of character, because obviously he hasn't kept up a 40% conversion rate all season, has he? Yeah. But yeah, I mean, he has paid well, and he broke into the side, I think, around Christmas, and then he stayed in that team ahead of Eduard, and I think he's been excellent. He's held it all up really well, and he's taken his chances. And so, yeah, and the thing is, when I went into this game week, I didn't know about the Holland injury. No one did, right? So had we had that information, I would have taken the hit to get Matetta in. Yeah. But we didn't have that information. It came after the deadline when we heard about old ones, so Harlan's brother and his girlfriend and his postman have benched him and whatever. Well, Harlan was always supposed to be the, you know, the go against the free hit play. Yeah. I got the free hit back on Harlan scoring and getting cussed. So you had to hold him, didn't you? Yeah. And I did the same phone as well, so yeah, so it was, it's just beautiful how it turned out. It turned out to be beautiful. Yeah, it's one word for it. I'm trying to be happy for them. Yeah, it's very, very, no. It's easy to do that 14k. It's less easy for them. It's easy for them. Jackson 21st, 0.42, and Watkins down in 19th, 0.43. Quite substantial drops in their underlying numbers compared to what we see from over the season. Watkins, I was stabbed by Watkins, expected as this. How many sisters he got this season? He's got the most, hasn't he? Something ridiculous. He's got 17. There we go. 36 colon moments. He's got 17 assists. Yeah, most assists. I was always expected this was like three or something. It's something absolutely ridiculously low. Like, no one knows how he keeps getting them, but yeah, 0.6. I'm not on pens as well, I mean, how incredible, incredible output for my man. I mean, we kind of, at the start of the season, a lot of people were on him and a lot of people were tipping him to exceed his, his value, and he has done that. And some, hasn't he? Been outstanding. So I guess he's now in elite status. I guess he's now a heavy hitter, right? He's going to go up to like 11 million next season. Yeah. I mean, you've got to have him at 10, 10, 5, haven't you? At least. Yeah. Do you think this is, because we've seen glimpses of this, haven't we? I mean, when he scored those, he got four goals against Liverpool a few years ago, and then won like seven, three or something like that, and it's obviously been a very- He's got a hat trick. I think great. Was it just three? Maybe, I think he might have got a couple of assists as well. Two assists, yeah. Yeah. Oh, you had great, isn't it? Yeah. You've got, you've got, you've got to get rid of him or something. And then there was injury or something like that. No. No, no, no. You don't know. That was, that was, you're heavily phoned. Yeah. In fact, you've bought him in. Or he's bought him in, especially for that Liverpool game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If he is 10, 5, do you think that there'll be some skepticism that he can't repeat this? This is what I mean. Yeah. Yeah. Whereas, someone like Isaac, you look at Isaac and you almost think like, Isaac won't go up to that level. So, he'll go up to possibly 9 million, right? If he's at nine and Watkins is at 10, 5, I think Isaac will be more popular, depending on how the Wilson rotation is, because it's almost like, I look at it and think Isaac's probably the better player, but it's so unfair to Watkins, because he's been standing. I know. Yeah. But I do think the FBL manager will be skeptical in general of Watkins. I think Watkins all-round game is better than his. I think Isaac is a better player to kind of watch. Like he's got more tricks in his arse than when he's got there, but Watkins in terms of what he does, in terms of the holdup and the ability to find that pass and also score the goals. Yeah. He's still underrated, isn't he? I think. And they're still talking about him potentially, like, do you take Tony over Watkins for England? I think that's obviously simmered down now that Tony's been so poor. I think if Tony had gone on and scored a couple of goals, I think they'd still be this conversation because he's more similar to Kane, but she's got to take Watkins, haven't you, after these? Did you bring Tony up with Andy last week? Because Andy's had a really rough time with Tony. Tony and Elanga have been absolutely awful signings for him. I told him to get Mooners, who's also been pretty terrible, but less terrible than Tony. Yeah. I feel sorry for Andy there. He's been, they were a bad hand with a lot of people. I don't feel sorry for Andy. He's been horrible to me lately. I haven't been on here with him, so maybe he's... No, he's... I want to shout out Andy, because he has been, he has been absolutely brilliant. You know, doing the streams of me, you know, stepping in for those. Luke as well has done a couple over the last few months. So, yeah, having them as options has been great because it's meant that obviously it's not the same as doing them for you, Mark, but having them to step in has been really nice. Anyone else want to talk about Huylands? Where is Huylands? He's gone back. That's a pretty good spell. No, you've heard now over the last six. It's not 0.11 extra on the penalty. No goal. No goals. All the turns in four starts. It's a leap of faith, isn't it, if you're going with him to 37? And you're doing it because of the options drying up really. Yeah, and it's a fixture player with Burnley, with an okay-ish double, but it is... I think I would be tempted by him. I think I probably would go for him. Go Jacks. You go Jacks on first thing. I wouldn't go Jacks on. I just have no interest in Jacks on. Fifteen goal of all, Mr. Jacks over the season, isn't bad. I have to say, he's done well to get that far. I wouldn't go for Jacks on. You see him last night, though. He's dreadful. I just don't rate him. I just genuinely don't... He doesn't say many things well. Yeah. The crucial stuff just fluffs it. It's like, you know, very much like the verna, and that one was bad. The two moments, I mean, there was many moments for Jacks on. What is the amount of yellow cards he picks up? One is that red card, he's got that in him, he's a quite a nasty player. When he was basically throwing goal and he just hit the ball into the side net, he didn't even attempt to go across the goalkeeper, just hit into the side net, he was like, "What are you doing?" And that one where he kind of didn't really commit to going for the ball and just kind of went, "Eh." Like that. What the fuck did he do? Yeah. I was just thinking, "Oh, come on, the proper center forward would have buried that." I think he was offside anyway, but I just don't want him. I just have no interest. Poshentino's comments at the start of the season, if you remember, he was billing him as like the next bright young thing. Could be the best player in the world, I think he said, didn't he? Or something ridiculous like that, and I was like, "Oh, my word." We all had him in that match, I think. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, he's... He's been a non-highlight of the season, hasn't he, really? Yeah. In that respect. And him and Darwin, moving from Darwin to him for the final four, it's not great, is it? Maybe Darwin would give me a present tonight. Darwin comes away tonight with nothing. Come on. Come on. It's rare for us to be aligned, but we're both a desperate for Darwinists. Looking at the options then, so London Calling was the name of the, it's the name of the episode, and obviously we've got the Spurs and Chelsea players to pick from. We've kind of touched on this as we've gone through. But in terms of Spurs' assets, we're looking at Sonra Charleston, Brennan Kudazeski, who's massively now out of the spotlight and Verner 2. I mean, Son, I haven't got sold at the moment because I sold him last week. Right. You've got to worry about that. Well, to get him, I either sell Saka for free, I've got the money to that, Salah for free, or I take a hit to remove someone else. I think I'm probably going to do Saka to Son, because that was always kind of the plan. But it doesn't feel great, it's one of those ones where I kind of just don't really feel that great about it, another kind of thing. I think you've got to cover it with, you know, the one extra game, two extra games over Saka. Yeah. And we've Palmer had dealt as well. I think it's the captain C2. Yeah. It's the captain C as well. Yeah. Yeah. So the big of questions. Well, the other option. Yeah. The big question is, do you double up? Quite surprising, the goal involvements of Machelis and Brennan and Verner, they're all around the 30-40% mark, which is surprising. Verner, in particular, 33% goals, he's been involved in when on the pitch, which is not what I've seen, but yeah, that's obviously the case. If I was going on an additional one, obviously I want to know about Rachaela's and see how likely he is to be a factor, because if he starts, you'd think he'd be down the middle, maybe not, maybe he'd be on the left. Brennan at the moment is probably ahead of him, I would say, over, over anybody else. Yeah. I think Brennan's the one that you go for if you're going to take a part on another one. Rachaela's would be fun, but again, he's had a quite a long injury later, often there's only four game weeks left, and two of them are double game weeks. So he's going to have his minutes managed, but I do think that puts me off him and Verner to the point in which you don't know if they're going to start, whereas Johnson, I think will keep starting, because he's been really good. Yeah. So it's whether or not you're going with that second Spurs mid. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, I don't think I would, but if I was going to pick one, I'd pick your mate Brennan. Yeah. For me, it's probably Brennan or soccer in my team. Yep. We've got Madison on here, actually. Good point. Sorry. Why don't I put Madison on? Yeah. No, no, Madison here. Don't we put Madison on? Are we ruling him out completely? No, no, at all. That was my fault. I just an oversight. That's really strange. I did that. Okay, probably won't have time to do that, but yeah, I'll do it while you're talking. Anyway, go ahead. Okay. Well, shall we move on to Chelsea then and come back? Yeah, yeah. Let's do that. The Chelsea assets. I mean, we're really looking at slim pickings here. You've got Palmer. Absolutely. Incredible season. He's had, obviously. Nicholas Jackson, who a lot of people are punting on. And then Gallagher, Sterling, Madawakay, Mudrick. I think we can pretty much rule out Sterling and Mudrick. They're just not starting enough consistently. Madawakay is interesting, you see? I think there's a player. There's a player there. But again, he's got that unlikable heart to him that Jackson's got in the sense that I've watched him fighting for penalties and think, come on, you know, you shouldn't be doing that. He's got that burst of pace, though, which really troubles players. But only seven starts over the season. Is he going to get you goals? Are you going to use a precious midfield spot on him? Probably not. I think with Chelsea, you're just with the two options in Jackson and Palmer. Yeah. I mean, a lot depends on the injury department, whether that's true, whether it's surfaces, and we get any detail, if it's not enough, you're going to go in with the wildcard. I hope he's available for 37. So Palmer and Jackson, I don't think the others play into this at all. It is just a stretch too far to consider one of the others in my view. Yeah. I mean, look at Jackson's stats. The box for '92, I just over two, that's the best on show. It's actually on non-pilot, but '90 is higher than Palmer's, even for example. Obviously, Palmer's had a lot of penalties over the season. 60% goal involvement for Palmer, though, is absolutely wild. Absolutely. Well, exactly. It was a case, isn't it? I mean, it must be one of the highest in the Premier League. Yeah. Not the highest, right? Yeah. I mean, Jackson's at 30%. You know, having a hand in one in three goals isn't bad. It's just how many goals are Chelsea going to score? But it should have been so much better than that, shouldn't it? Yeah. So, yeah. All right. What's the place in the file now? So we should be able to bring up, just bear with me a moment, and then we'll have a look at Madison relative to the others. Yeah. I'm kind of out of Chelsea description because I wouldn't go for Jackson personally. I wouldn't go for Jackson at all, or a second Spurs mid. So... I think you're, you know, I know, I know Jackson's terrible to watch, but it's just the pure maths of the extra game. And I think he starts all four, or at least he gets minutes and all four. I can't see what options they've got where they don't play him. Let's see if he's sterling down the middle, but... Oh, I'm... This just plays. I'd rather have a one fixture than I would for Jackson with two. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah. Is the table... You've done the table. I've saved it in there. Yeah, there we go. There he is. Yeah. Look at that. I didn't even need to resize it. Beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. So, Madison doesn't really impact it too much, does he? Yeah. John, I mean, John's created level with Sol is interesting. I would have thought he would have had more. Very similar goal involvement, again, 33% to the others. Yeah. Look at his pay loss. He's had six less startups than Son has. 47 shots. You know, that's slightly better than Brennan. And with the balance... The good thing is you can kind of compare Madison and Brennan, because they've had similar starts, 22 and 21 respectively. And that's actually quite similar. Big chances created are pretty similar. But look at the big chances for Johnson. Look at the XG per shot as well. So, Brennan's chances 0.19 is his average, whereas Madison's shooting with an average 0.02. But in other words, he's shooting from distance low XG chances. So, when you look at the shots per 90, even though Madison's getting 2.41 to Brennan's 2.12, the level of quality of the chance that Brennan's getting is much, much higher. In fact, the highest on show in any Spurs asset here. So, his shots are more likely to ending goals based on his average XG over the season so far. Yeah. I think you go Johnson over Madison. Sorry, you've done all the work to put Madison in the same. No, no, no. I think it's valid to have him on screen. And I don't know how I missed him. But I think this really just backs it up really for me, especially that stat in particular. And if we'd have seen more of a Madison in the second half of the season budget, we couldn't do it into these double game weeks with him in a, it's a shadow of the player he was. And I don't understand it because he's got the incentive to get on the plane and be in that squad. And he doesn't seem to be grabbing it. Someics play, whether it's, I presume it's an injury. We saw it, Lester, didn't we, before we had an injury, they often had to play him. And he was, when he's not fit, he's one of those players you can really tell. Yeah. But it's just not quite right. I wouldn't be spiced to him dropped in, I know they haven't got a bunch of options. Yeah. I just think it's been so poor for him that they might consider trying and, you know, giving a bit of a break and trying because he is playing. He's starting every game, but he's getting taken off at 60, 70 minutes. And each, each time it's, you know, it's because he hasn't been playing well. So why would they not? Why would they keep doing that? Surely they might just give him a break from action and bring someone else in. Yeah. Yeah. We've got 1000 watching live, by the way. Oh, the moose. That's very nice. It's looking well. As mysterious Darrylle says, OK, watching them to hit the like button. It gives a like if you're enjoying it. It gives a review of your listening podcast as well. And if Darwin scores, you've got him a team, then let us know because we'll be either consoling each other or, you know, going mad when he does score. Well, Darwin doesn't kick off to late, does he? 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People are going to be selling Robison's and Trent's. I'll go for a 2-1. You've gone for a 2-0 Liverpool. Must be a bit nervy selling Salah. Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. And I'll probably do it last. You know, when you hold card in and you think, "I won't do Salah out yet. Like it makes any difference you're doing." It's the last chance your mate will be Salah out. Like it makes any difference. But it's hard to lose, heavy heart and all that. He has been rubbish, though. Yeah. But we've seen this before, haven't we? He's played badly and still gets those returns. And, you know, there was times when I've gone against him, watched him have awful games and still get double figures. Yeah. I know that, you know, his performances sometimes don't really equate to lack of output in terms of FBL. He'll find a way. And I'm sure there'll be some former punishment from Salah. Should we sell him on the wild card? Yeah. I don't know how heavy it will be, though. No open play goal for Salah in five stars. Yeah. Must be a wrinkle for him. I know he's got the pet. He's got two penalties. That kind of keeps him ticking over a little bit. Do you think there's something odd there? Do you think there's an injury there? Do you think it's just tiredness? I mean, obviously we had the post-Afghan stuff previously, haven't we? And then this time, you know, to be fair, that narrative had it been out there. You could say, yeah, it hasn't really been the same since coming back. I remember Dan and all that kind of stuff, but I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's a lots of rotation in the front line. I think the midfield has obviously been all changed there. Trent's been out for a bit too. Trent, yeah. He's definitely been asked to play wider on the right in games and have less of an impact. So all those things considered it's not really too surprising. It's still had a good season. I think the right back changes were Bradley. The emergence of Bradley Trent being out, that inconsistency behind him has perhaps, yeah, changed things a bit. Bradley's been fantastic, no question, but just that little disruption might have tactically changed the way that Salah thinks in matches. And he's been a provider all season. His creativity's been fantastic. And he's almost, I would say, for the first time this season, you go into a game thinking but he's just as likely to get me an assist as he is a goal. And I've felt that. But I don't know if I really fear him. I sell him, but I don't feel all the time. No, I know. Yeah, yeah. I need him to just switch back to Salah Revolt over the Fox. I'm probably going to keep him to the end of the season. But not tonight. Definitely not tonight. No, come on, Everton. Oh, no. It's going to be a disaster. Fulham Palace. I've gone for two-one Palace. You've gone for a one-one. Tricky wants to predict Fulham. Obviously, you're really good at home. But Palace with Eze and Lisa, they look like they can score multiple goals against everyone. I think Fulham a little bit. Kind of done now, whereas Palace seems to have the wind in their sails. That's the manager. New manager balance, I think, is starting to come through. Yep. Fair enough. Man United. Oh, well, just quickly on that. What would you do with Eze and Lisa? Eze and Lisa, say you haven't got the wild guard to take him out. He's going. Going. Going. I mean, it's a look good all season. He's been in the out of injuries. When he's been in the side, he's looked fantastic. I mean, I remember he started the season. His data was fantastic. His ITES was fantastic, but the output wasn't there. I don't think we can look at it and go, "Well, look how well he's playing." It's that consistency of return, which... I mean, if you're looking at players who could step up next season and could go into the realms of 10 goals, 10 assists, you've got to look at both Eze and Lisa as options. They're in that, if you're doing a tier list, they will know that level where you go. We could get more from these two. They could. They'll probably be priced at 6.6.5 again around that price. And they could easily return like an 8.5.9 if they explode, like Palmer has this season. One of them could turn into Palmer next season. But I think at the moment, you can lose with the double game each. You can lose Eze and be OK about it. I'm keeping him. This is again. I mean, I feel enough. This is where the difference is. I mean, I was all set to lose him and even take it here. I was going to do Darwin and I'll talk about my team in a bit. But I think I want to keep him because he's full of... I don't think it's a less hard game than it was maybe before. It was a few weeks ago. Yeah, yeah. A Manchester United home in 36. I like that. Yeah, they'll fancy that. Yeah. Man United Burnley should be a comfortable Manchester United win. You've gone for a pretty comfortable one in 3-1. I've gone for a 2-1. Burnley got lots to play for. They're not out of it. Yeah, but I think they're still open at the back. I'd still back United to score goals going soon. It would be a shock, I think, still if Burnley won that game. I mean, I can see this game being in the balance for a long period. And then United just to see it at the end on the break. But I think it'd be very keen and contested. Burnley will give them a game. Yeah. Newcastle shuffled United. I've gone for a 3-1. You've gone for a 4-0. You see lots of investment in those. I don't think I'm going to be able to get to Gordon. Why? You know, if I'm going for some... And if I've got other issues with Palmer, I mean, maybe if Palmer, if we get any news that Palmer is out. I saw something that I'm asking. Yeah. No, Mark isn't part of a WhatsApp group where he's getting special messages about Gordon. He's got no idea. Well, that's good now. Yeah. All we know is that he was seeing holding his hamstring at the end of their last game. He's now got a cold, which was enough to completely rule him out of the squad. I don't think he traveled with it. Yeah, and there were some tweets last night suggesting there's an injury. Yeah, yeah. That's all we're going on. We don't have anything more than that. Obviously, if he's out, then I would probably do Palmer out to Gordon and get some for Saka and target that. But if he's not, it's a hard sell. And Sarabio is a funny one. Because I mean, the next game is Wolf's Luton. And I think Wolf's, I mean, Luton has conceded 10 goals in the last two games. And I'm looking at that and thinking Wolf's good score on that. So do we really want to be losing Sarabio ahead of Luton at home? It looks like a good fixture for him. Yeah. No, that could be... And all pens, if potentially. I mean, I don't really want to... I don't really want to lose 8-0 for that. I know. I've been doing how he does tonight because he's not... He's not really... He's an attacking option as well as clean sheet option there. And I don't know if Luton will score. They're not in a great shape. Yeah, I've given him one. I've come for a 3-1. You've come for a 2-0 Wolf's. I mean, it depends. I don't think it outwells the VAR was it? I shouldn't say that. Probably not. Right. Don't get as cancelled. It's the right form of apology to the... Oh, jokey. Really cool. Everton, Brendan Footburnford had been great lately. Cool clicking with Bummo and Vissa. Up top, you've gone for a 3-1. Be happy with that, haven't you? Yeah. I mean, I think that they found a group of Bummo, but they played incredibly well at Luton and really put them to the sword. And I don't know whether there's something behind the scenes with Tony. It's unsettled. He's obviously off in the summer, but Bummo is playing out of his skin again. And I think him and Vissa are going to cause... They haven't had a lot of problems. I mean, Follish has called a couple. I think Brendan Footburn won't be anywhere near as charitable. And they'll win that. Yep. No, I... Well, I don't agree. I've gone for a long one. I think they'll cause them problems, but Everton at home got the win in their sale a bit now after that win. I think it's... That's another one that's going to go to the wire. I think Everton, Forrest and Luton. I think Everton are safe. It's out of Follish and Luton. Villa Chelsea, I've gone for a Chelsea loss. That's the Villa 2-1. I've gone for a 2-0. I can't see Chelsea getting anything against Villa away from home. No, it could be more. It could be a rather thrashing. It's not a great game to go to, is it? After losing 5-0 to Arsenal. No. Yeah, tricky one. Bournemouth, Brighton. I think we lose. Do you? I think Bournemouth are a better team than us. It's interesting that Netto's benched. But you've gone for a 2-0. I think we'll score. I think there'll be goals in it. I'm worried. I always worry when you play against someone like Salenki. Big, strong, quick, centre ball. Yeah, you have problems with that, don't you? Yeah. Spurs, Arsenal. I've gone for goals in this. I've gone for a 3-2. Arsenal, you've gone for a 3-1. It'd be just like Spurs, though, to cause an upset here. Well, they'd love it, but I just don't... I don't see them breaching their Arsenal defence more than once. And I do think, obviously, we've seen Spurs defence all season being suspect. I mean, Odegard last night was just tremendous. Yeah. I think they'll have too much for them. And like I said, I think Spurs will score. I think they're capable of breaking through that incredible defence. But I don't see them doing it more than once. And that won't be enough to win the game. I'm going for a 94th minute winner from Arsenal. I think it's going to be 2-2. Right until extra time. And then Arsenal crop up with one. For a city, you know, better than anyone about this? Yeah, I'll be there probably. 3-0. That's going to be a painful day out for you, isn't it? Yeah. I can't. I mean, we got... The thing is that we got a book... We got a draw last season, Woodscored, if you remember, last five minutes. But that was under Cooper. And under Cooper, we were hard to beat. And yeah, we didn't have a lot going forward, but we were really hard to break down. But it was under Nuno. We just don't have that. We just don't have that fight. It has defensively. We're not... It's interesting. Like Takoski said, the post match that, you know, Evan, one of the teams down the bottom of the fight and for their lives. I don't think four is... It doesn't feel like four is playing like they're fighting for their lives. It feels like we're playing like in a way where we hope one of our quality players will, you know, one of our gifted attackers will win us the game. And it's not happening. And meanwhile, we're obviously conceding goals. You're so negative when you do get a goal as well. It's just like shut up, shopper, one-nil. Yeah. So I think we'll try and go into this city game to defend, but I don't think we'll be convincing enough to do it. And I don't... Do you want to be in charge next season? No, no. No, no. He won't be. I just don't think there's any realms of possibility we'll be in charge because I think the rumours that we were looking to replace him about a month ago, there's no smoke without fire. The Mamanakis would have been looking properly. So I don't know where we're going to be and who's going to be in charge right now. But what I do know is we're going to lose to Mansi. Good positive words from Mark Summers. Chelsea Spurs is the final game. Got went into all the way until Thursday for that. Sunday, right to 30. It can be a long week if we're on a red arrow. And then, yeah, hopefully the Jackson's and the Suns and the Johnson's can get us a green. I've gone for a Chelsea win on this. We could do a watch along for that, couldn't we? We could do a watch on for that. Yeah, do you want to? Yeah, I could do. Let's just make sure I'm not doing anything. Yeah, check it. You haven't got a fancy dress party that you're not going to have to dress. I think I might be out next Thursday. Oh, outrageous. Level of commitment says the man who hasn't turned that for a month. Yeah, now I'm out. I'm out next Thursday. Oh, no mind. Oh, OK. We'll have to do Wednesday. There's a few people asking about a match of the day challenge. I don't know if we're going to get one of those in between. You should be one before the end of the season, shouldn't be somehow. Yeah. We have done one this year. We did one right. The start of gaming two or three. Yeah, it was the Spyder episode. The Spyder episode. Yeah, you're going to come to hit you, won't you? And do the, do the, you know, the second leg. We should do. We should do. We can't do game week one because we got first. But we should do very early next season. Yeah. I think doing a game week two or three was really good. Yeah. Let's get one of those between any of the pictures. You've gone for two one spurs in that, so we've gone completely different. Yeah. They'll have, they'll have too much for them. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we're Palmer there. I think it'd be an early, early contested game, but I just think spurs have got more firepower because the Chelsea are so reliant on, on Palmer. So what's my output from Jackson then? Look, one goal is what I'm predicting. Yeah. Chelsea. I'm the same of his biggest fan. And we'll even, we'll even get it. Still, you still got to do it. I think you still got to go Jackson. Yeah. So the double 37 as well. Okay. No, I don't agree, but fine. Yeah, I feel fine. Yeah, I feel fine. Captains this week, you could go single game week, you could go for Harlan if he's fit. You could go for Sallogans, for Stan. You could go for Esak with the home game against Sheffield United, which looks very good. But you don't want to be the boring man at the party. So you're probably going to go for one of Jackson Palmer, Son Brellon. It's going to be between Palmer and Son, though, isn't it? Yeah. If Palmer's out, you go Son. If he's not, you go Palmer. Is that? I think in Son, two London Derby's penalties, he'll want to play up against Arsenal when he's going to be their chief threat and yeah, if there's any doubts about fitness, I'll go Son. But Palmer's obviously in terms of his dominance of the points for Chelsea, such a factor. But I don't know, how many goals are Chelsea going to score as we've said in those two games? Yeah. If we don't get any concrete news, it almost makes Palmer slightly more fun because, you know, you risk it and hope he starts both when they might put people off and to go for Son. Or if you could beat tits up and he doesn't play the first game and then just comes in for the second. I guess E.O. Why? Son is the better option because he's going to have a lower E.O. But if you're trying to do... Even if Palmer's flags. So even if Palmer's a yellow flag, a yellow orange. I don't think many people send him Palmer with 37 in mind, right? So it depends how many can get to Son. If you're wildcard, and it's easy, obviously, but non-wildcarders, can they get to Son and will they get to Son and will they sell Salah and Saka to get to Son? Probably will. I think the E.O. would be quite interesting. Yep. So I asked, can Gordon be a nice different captain? Yeah. Yeah. Gordon and Rizak, yeah. Is it risk from Harvey Barnes though? So do be careful. Yes. There he is. Absolutely. I think he mentioned that. Yeah. He was very worried about not... Gordon almost just feels like a guaranteed six of them points at least. He had seen an out game, isn't he? And again, Sheffield United. He could get a hat trick in that game. What is his level of blank at home? I don't think... I think he's blanked only a couple of times at home all season. I'm going to look at this, and I'm in the members area, so I'm going to have a quick look. But yeah, he's just been extraordinary. So he almost is a guarantee a point. Maybe I do just need to get him. I'm going to have a look at my team in a sec just to work at Hal, but yeah, maybe. Captain Matrix over the next four game weeks. We got Palmer as the primary candidate. That will switch to Son, though. Like you said, if there is doubts, Harlan V. Wolves, but then there's some other good fixtures from the secondary ones. Salivace Spurs. Looks good. Sakavi Bournemouth. Palmer versus West Ham. Another home game for him. What he's actually Burnley as well. Gaming 36 captains is really interesting. I think I'm looking forward to getting that wrong. Yeah. I mean, this is it, isn't it? It's like, while you're wild carding, you want to make sure that you, yeah, I mean, you're going to keep Harlan because of the 37 double anyway, but it is a chance for the non wild carders to go in on Salah or Sacco in that game as captain and go against Harlan. A lot depends on his fitness, obviously, but I think if you're trying to tilt, 36 is a really good game week to go against Harlan and go with someone like Sacco or Salah. Or maybe even another Arsenal midfielder like Oligard or, yeah, have it, of course. Hangouts. I think it's been, how is he outstanding? Yeah, absolutely. And it's kind of the back of a bit of a pull run for him when he was playing at the eight and not really getting missing quite good chances and there was some worries that he was going to be benched because they've got options up front particularly, but yeah, he looks really good. We've got the real FBO Harry in the chat now, by the way. It's good to see you. Nice to see you. Nice to see Harry. So, hello, Harry. Welcome to the chat. And you join us as we announce that Gordon has had one blank when starting at home all season. That's crazy, isn't it? Is it just what? I thought he'd had two. One blank. Just one blank. 16 starts. So, he's returned in 15 of 16 starts. That is absolutely ridiculous. Yeah. 20 attacking returns in home matches more than any other player in the Premier League, more than Palmer even, who's had 17 at home. So, it's as close as you get to a guaranteed return, Gordon, for that shift. What is that about? No idea. Because I thought, I remember we asked Luke about it and Luke just said, "Verrance." But for it to happen this consistently, is there anything more than just variance? Because that is just absolutely unbelievable. Well, I mean, Newcastle are going to approach a home game better than they do differently to an away game. They are going to be looking to dominate and be on the front foot. Whereas, away from home in some matches, they're probably going to play differently. So, it stands to reason, as we know, players are performing better at home games in terms of output. That's not, that's not rare. But to this extreme? Don't know. It's very, like he's had 13 blanks away from home in compared to one at home. Yeah. Yeah. So, he's... Yeah. Ridiculous. Well, this is, this is my team. I'll do mine quickly because obviously people will see your, your wildcard team. This is how I'm set up, I've got no wildcard, no chips left at all. So I'm kind of just struggling through to the end. Rare and goal, Robertson, Vadiol, Munoz, Salasaka as a Sarabia Palmer, Harland, Esack, Darwin on my bench alongside Gabriel and Taylor. I don't got Matt Turner as well. Yeah. Well, Matt, it had to be Matt Turner because I didn't have any money to go anywhere else and I didn't want to get Kelleher or... What are you doing now then? How are you, how are you going to play 37? I don't know how I'm going to play 37. It's stressing me out because I'm just not going to have enough players for it. So I'm trying not to think about it too much. I think I can get like seven or eight out with a, may it probably be with a hit too. Right. So I just need to prioritise the best. I think I'm going to have to go a bit differential with some of the ones I get as well and just try and avoid some of the main, the main ones, maybe captain someone like Philandes or try and be a bit different. Yeah. I don't really know what my target, my only, my targets for this season were to not get relegated from the Elite 64, but I think that's very unlikely now because there's like people around with 100-point game weeks this week. So fair place for everyone. And yeah, I'm involved in like a WhatsApp tournament thing which I'd like to win, but in terms of overall rank, to someone else in the chat earlier, do you think you're going to get 100k? No chance. Like 80, 90 points off that. I just want to, that was the other one. I want to beat my worst ever season, which is 380k. Right. But if I do that, then let's just move on to... I mean, we'll do a post-mortem on our season and I just looked at your overall ranks as a season. We've never had that period of positivity. I had one good week, but one good week we'll see. It has been one of those seasons though where I think that if you got into a rank at the right time, it was very hard to move from there because I've seen it being, I managed to get to 100k and then I stayed there for a long time and it really was difficult when I had to have a lot of luck to push up into 10k. Without that, like I probably would still be 100k now, 15, 16 game weeks stuck at 100k. So I think there was a point in the season where if you didn't get that pushed then, it was going to be very hard to work your way up from that point on. Yeah. Because I've just seen so little movement until this week, of course. I think the trouble, I've stayed too loyal to Darwin all season and Watkins as well. I mean, Watkins actually was when I captained him against Shavu's 90, that was my best week. But other than that, I'm really not with the Palmer one because I captained him in between that three and four goals against Shavu's 90 when he just got one assist and I think he was quite a good differential then because I think most people were going for someone else. So I've got that wrong. Captains have gone wrong. Yeah. Would I set it properly? But it's been a bit of disaster. My chance for this week is probably going to be Sakata-san. If I want to get Gordon as well, it'll probably have to be Eze that goes for him. So it could be Sakra and Eze to Gordon and so on. But losing Eze for a hit, this just doesn't, I quite like having Eze, but Gordon's got the double coming up. Yeah. That's the thing, isn't it? Maybe it's worth double. Maybe it's just worth double. Yeah, Gordon over the double, I think with him starting with Barnes tonight, that suggests that perhaps his minutes aren't going to be as under threat over the double as we would expect. A Newcastle will want to end the season on a high. I know that they're light bright and perhaps there's not too much to play for, but I think that I think the Gordon's a pretty safe bet for the double. I've just made it good for this one. I've just made FPL mode a moderator, but is that the real Andy? Don't even know anymore. Tell me something about you, Andy, that only I would know, only you would know. This is so we can, if I made a fake Andy moderator, then all hell's going to be a chaos. Anyway, yeah, I'm reluctant to lose Eze, but it might have to be done. Let's tackle yours though, because you're obviously on the wild car. This is the first one that you sent me with a triple Newcastle defence. This is really the template. This is what the models spat out for me. It's not what I'm going to do, but it is the starting point. Okay, this is the review welcome. Yeah, FPL review is so in this, and obviously it's presuming that Trippia is going to be back, which he's not figuring tonight, so it's probably not going to be the case, but interesting that it's promoting the three Newcastle defenders rather than going with an Eze, or Gordon. So yeah, I tend to do this. I look at what review would suggest and then build out from that and put some variation in, which is probably what I'm going to do. I mean, the basis of it is strong though. I mean, I mentioned Jal Pedro as the third striker, I probably wouldn't do that. I would keep Gabriel, I am going to keep Poirot. I'm probably going to have at least one, if not two Newcastle defenders. I will have Petrovich and Edison, Son, of course, Palmer, of course, and Bruno is probably the one going to go as well. The variance will be around the second Spurs midfielder on whether I have a Newcastle attacker. And I think I've given you another line up, which is a way that I could go. So it depends on a degree of how much do I want to vary from the template, because I think the previous one is closer to the template than this. Petrovich and Edison picked the sales Poirot in defense to Newcastle with Eze, so no Gordon here, but Gordon could come in for Johnson or, yeah, I guess Johnson will be the one to make way there. I see I've kept Saka here and I've kept there. We should have been to go Gordon over Saka. Yeah, possibly. But it's how convinced I am in that second Spurs midfielder, but like I said, do I want to turn up in plain clothes or fancy dress? What would you go as a sort of fancy dress by, what would be your fancy dress of choice? No, no, I used to be, I used to be called Shaggy after the Scooby-Doo character at school. Glad you've clarified mine. Probably do that. Yeah. And not the rapper. No, I was going to say, yeah. Or for any other weeks. Yeah. I wasn't into carpets, no, there's that thing, so yeah. So it would be... I thought of what you were talking about there and I was like, "Oh, yeah, Shaggy carpets are good." Because is that even weird? No, I don't buy. Yeah. Yeah, I like this theme. I definitely prefer it to the review. Yeah. I think you've got to have a little bit of spice in there. And I do like Isaac for the for this game week, for the single game week, "Chefra, denied your fixture." I do think that they win that game convincingly. So do I trust the Chefra, denied a defense? Would I rather have two Chefra, denied the attackers in that game? Maybe. That's the other thing to look at. But then where'd you go for that defender? So... And I haven't got a United defender in here, but for 37, I am kind of interested in perhaps flirting with Maguire or Dalho. The other thing I mentioned earlier, you've got to plan your transfers. You've got to plan with this is the starting point, what your transfers going to be between now and 38. And I think I said to you, Salho or Trent or both will probably come back in in 38. So I do want to set it up where I take two frees into 38 to allow for that, don't know. So I've got to think about that as well. You know, I'm in a good position because I've got the wild card and I've got the bench boost. So I'm going to have, hopefully, strong returns in 35 and 37. So you should get a top 10k round, what kind of bench boost do you do with the two chips left? I don't think I'll get 5k, I'd have to be very fortunate and do something a little bit wide. This is what I mean. I think there's so many managers around me with the same chips and the same level of knowledge and experience that I probably will get 10k, but I don't think I'm going to going to push up more than that. But you know what you're doing. If you go back three or four seasons, though, if I was sitting 14k with four game weeks to go, I'd be like, yeah, I know 5k, but the landscape has changed now because everyone around you has that same level of knowledge. You know who's thought it is, it's the people who do these videos and podcasts, they're there to play. Yeah. I feel so about that. If you'd asked me a couple of seasons ago, do I still think I had a chance to top 100k? I'd probably be like, yeah, I reckon I've gotten outside chance of doing it at this day now. It's like, no way. Absolutely. No, because you know what you're up against, and you know that there's so many people out there with, I won't say optimum, but with an approach that is going to be very similar to your own. Yeah. Yeah. It's tools like this that really tell me, like Plan FPL is brilliant. And you know, if you're not a member of Scout, you get Plan FPL with the membership too. So, because a friend of mine's taken it really seriously this year, Phil was probably listening to this. I mentioned him a couple of times. He's having a really good season, but he didn't know what Plan FPL was, and he's trying to build a wildcard team. Come on, Phil. You can't build a wildcard without using something like Plan FPL, let's be honest. Yeah. Johnny A says he blames slippers, of course, right? Yes, all he's got. We don't have to look anywhere else for that, you know, completely, completely always fault. Still Neil, Neil? In our last board with game? I'll count that as a clean sheet for eight, nor will he now mention it. Brilliant. He's really attacking. He is. Yeah. Watch that trickle down. I think that's about it from us. Yeah. Been really good. Been good to have you back. Yeah. Been great to come back and chat with you and get back into the groove of it. And by the time I'm up to speed it with the end of the season, but then we've got the post more and we've got all the summer stuff that we'll do. We're doing a meetup, aren't we? You're doing a meetup for the members. No. No. You've moved that now. Oh, that's completely gone now. Is it? Do you? Do you? Do you? Do you? That's my fault, though, because I'm going to the Chelsea fights games. Well, I would love to blame you, but there was... Well, you can't blame me. Oh. There was a lack of people willing to come to the event. I think there was one of those ones where I put the idea around it and was like, "Yeah, I'll come. I gave a date." And I was like, "Oh, I don't know." Can't make that. Yeah, I feel a lot. I think we'll... We'll do a summer one, though, right? They will definitely be a meetup at some point. We're running out of weekends, so it was only one weekend that I could do, and then that one wasn't the best, whereas, obviously, in the summer, next season, there'll be more choice. But we should just do a black box meetup in London, and then open for all, and then members can have some valevons, that's extra. Yeah. No, Delia, we're not meeting on the 11th of May. No, I'm at the Chelsea game, watching for us go down, probably. Yeah. Cool. Well, everyone, thank you for watching. As I mentioned before, if you haven't liked or subscribed to the channel yet, or liked the video or subscribed to the channel yet, make sure you do that. If you're listening to podcasts, drop us a review. We really appreciate that. Obviously, go to Manscaped as well, support them in their Testicular Cancer Awareness Month and buy some products using the code "blackbox@manscaped.uk" and, yeah, we'll be back next week, hopefully. Whenever, Wednesday, I guess, because you can't do first day, you've announced that. Are you back to the end now, or are you going to just see how it goes? Oh, well, you know, I won't commit, I'll leave you hanging, and, you know, you can't commit. You can't commit, and then just bow out the last minute, like you always do. Look, I'm knocking on my health isn't what it was, and, yeah, I'll be here, or gobbling, I'll be here next week. And, yeah, hopefully, you'll be able to get in the top 10k, that'll be nice, won't it? And, yeah, we'll see. We'll see how this tonight treats me, because that could be pivotal to it. It's all about next season, 2-2, in our four season- 2-2 overall now, yeah. Yeah. We've got to do some hype around the fifth year, because that is a big one, best of five. Yeah, I'm looking forward to next season already. I really hope that, you know, it does spice things up a bit. I feel some rule change is coming. Surely, surely something's going to change in the game, and then hopefully we'll get a suite of heavier institutions from Trent to be back, the Chelsea fallbacks would be a thing. Yeah, we might have a lead side back up who are going to provide some value as well, or a Leicester or an Ipswich, and, you know, I think those three teams, it could be Southampton. Maybe all of those teams could provide us some value. So I do think next season, I'm looking ahead to our thinking, yeah, let's see a bit of extra spice. Yeah. I agree. And we've got to stop losing all our players, so the leagues, because, you know, losing. We're not maybe not the draw that the league was. No. So, you know, players are like Kane going off to buy, and that would have been unheard of, I think, a few years ago, but obviously, no, it's not. Thank you, Caleb, for the Superchats, those in the know, know what the down, the down is. I don't know what that means. Is that something the kids are doing? I'll tell you up here. And if you look between W and R, if you know we're not doing that, what is all that about? I don't know. Is that absolute bloody nonsense? Yeah. Yeah. That's not even. It might be off air. I will. I will. All right. But yeah. Thanks, Aaron. And we'll see you next week. Bye.
