Mark and Andy re-unite for a post-match, late late tackle to discuss the fall-out from Gameweek 35 and answer your questions ahead of Gameweek 36.
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I think I started catching you up and then you became the day before. I lost interest. At the point you started doing well, I just went missing. It always happens. As has done it all year, isn't it? We've been waiting. As is in the chat, by the way. I thought he was on his sick bed. The way it went was, we were going to do Black Box Popper last night, and then has got a man flu. I think you can still say that, can you? Do you see that photo he sent us this morning? Pathetic. Yeah, I did. With his dressing gown on and his bottom lip out. I'm not sure. I sent him to him. Did you send that to the employee? He probably did as well. I was going to make a screen of it, but I thought, "No, I better not show him up. We'll just show him up verbally as we normally do." You haven't got it. I thought you'd be showing that. Yeah, I was tempted. He should change his profile pick, I think, don't you think? Yeah. I think it'd be good. I think it kind of encapsulates the season. It's always done in. Absolutely. Yeah, I mean, basically it does. I think in the post-mortem show, in the season, I'll use that image for him. Yeah. Good to see him in the chat. There's a lot of people in the chat. There's been the chat up showing. So, hello to people. There he is as Phillips. There he is. Nigel, the crab in the house, as always. Thank you. Nigel, for your support. And there he is. Miss Rob, being Greg Foster. Adam Clark. A lot of the regulars in here, as I see. As I look up Connor Richardson's in, F.B.L. Mackham, Blaut, Mark Carm, Fatality, Kieran C, Stephen Harker, all in there. Say hello on screen at the moment. We are taking questions tonight, because he is. I don't know if you've watched Late Tech or before, but Andy and I just kind of ad lib. We just talk about F.B.L. in a very casual, late night way. Very relaxed, isn't it? Andy, that's how we like it. Exactly. Yeah. It's like a little fireside chat, isn't it? It definitely is. Lots of love in the chat, which is great to see. So thanks for your support. Thanks for tuning in and after the game. First of all, Andy, let's talk about the game. We just come from, I would say, come from a comfort of our armchair, as always. Yeah. What did you make of it? First off, is bad, haven't it? Yeah, it wasn't, I mean, it wasn't the kind of game you watch and it's getting you off your seat, if that makes sense. But I mean, Spurs were poor, I thought. They had a few little shots on goal, but a lot of them were pot shot straight a tetra-vitch, obviously got a few saves and a few bonus by the end of the game as well. I mean, it encapsulates like what we've expected from Palmer this year as well. You have that free kick from outside the box. Lovely free kick. Probably should have gone in and Jackson just taps it in. So Jackson known as a- Well, that's not what we see. Is it? That happened. Oh, dear. I mean, when he, when he headed that in, I was like, that can't have been Jackson, surely. And then it took me a few seconds to identify him, but- Yeah. Some strike, wouldn't it, from Palmer? It was, yeah. I mean, he's just on so much confidence. This means another home game where he obviously returns as well. But yeah, I genuinely thought Spurs were really poor. I did think they were really poor. They're struggling at the moment, aren't they? And when you think Chelsea, that was their only real fit players they had out playing that first 11, they brought on a lot of youngsters. I think Cassidy was the oldest outfield player they had on the bench. Really? So yeah, and he was obviously been on loan at Leicester most of the season. So, yeah, I thought kind of a lot of people were thinking that Chelsea were going to have a bit of a go at Spurs were going to have a bit of a go, but it didn't really happen. Conner Richardson's LSA and Gilchrist dealt with Son very well, surprised. Son was really poor, I thought. Yeah. I didn't think Son was great. I didn't think a lot of any of them really. I thought Johnson was quite poor as well. Didn't think a lot of him. He had a few crosses into the box, but that was it really. He got a lot of the ball first off. First off, it was all down his flank, wasn't it? Yeah. Son was just anonymous first off, and then obviously, Andrew got into them a bit, and they had a good 15 minutes where Son was a bit more on it. I just thought over the two games, Son was really bad, and I think Son Catan has got a way of one there with a penalty, so I don't think he was great in the first game. If he didn't have those double game weeks, he wouldn't be in many teams anymore, Son. Because we'd all be on, you know, Foden's, Bruno's, Gordon's, whoever it is, but I keep looking at Son and thinking, I want to get Foden in, and Son's looking at me, but he's got the double game weeks. I can't get rid of him. This is it, isn't it? It's a double game week. It covers up for these evils, doesn't it? Yeah. It does. He's on tens as well. I am 74 saying Triple Spurs hits flying. Yeah, possibly, because we're, you know, I'm taking Fries Spurs into Game Week 37. No, I'm actually, I've only got Po own Son, so I'd do myself at the service, but even so, it's like, I bench them Game Week 36, as we'll see later. But I don't, without the double, there's no way it'd be back in Spurs at the moment. There's no way what we saw tonight, right? No, I don't think so. And I think we're, we've obviously all loaded up on them. I've only got one. I've only got Son because I had a doggy. So he was my player that I was going to own for the doubles and obviously he's out for the season now. But to be honest, it's meant I could play other defenders instead of a doggy because he wouldn't be getting many points for me at the moment. No. I mean, Po are owners obviously got the, got a goal or a sissy the day, didn't they? That was good for them, but you know, it's not been great owning them. No, it is the clean sheets all season. I remember Maro's got the five goals this season, which is a good return for him. And he could have scored again tonight, but just generally they're just fizzling out, really. I don't know. It's very disappointing. And obviously we had high expectations of them with the double now and the Dublin 37, you know, a song got the return and maybe we'll get something in 37. We're going to carry them into that and we're going to bench boost. A lot of managers are going to bench boost hoping that that's going to pay off. But yeah, in the end, Jackson and Palmer turned it round. I don't, I didn't think, you know, Chelsea were great in great shape tonight. Palmer was quite quiet. I thought he didn't dominate in the same way he normally does. Did he? Yeah. We had one or two shots that were really off as well. Like there was one where he was on the right hand side of the box and you thought he was going to curl it into the top left and he hit it high and wide. And it was quite surprising because, you know, a couple of weeks ago, that was going in. So, yeah, he did just look a little bit on the periphery, but what does he do? Like I said, gets a free kick, it's a crossbar, Jackson taps it in and it's just, it's just his season, isn't it? Palmer. He's got those moments. Everybody into him. I think part of it was that he felt that he was going to get a man marked by the sumo a lot of the time and he stayed out wide a lot to try and drag the sumo out, I think, and leave space for others. So, it's quite an unselfish display maybe, but not what we wanted. We wanted a big return for Palmer, but we'll take the assist, that'll be fine, clean sheet point as well. I haven't looked at how the bonus is shaking up. You said, Patrick sneaked in, well, what was it in the end? Well, we had to turn out, he got too steady, would he get a few gorilla? Him and Kukarela got two. Yeah, he got four so far. Right. Because there was that really little pathetic shot for, I can't remember what I think it's because it's a consumer. Was it? It was true to pet and I thought, is that a recovery or are they going to call that a shot? And I was refreshing. There were quite a few blocked crosses he got to as well where I was thinking, can they count that? Can they count that? Yeah. Yeah. That was useful to see, useful to see and getting that. Caleb's seeking saying, Mark, getting Holland off the bench and petro points, petro points to stab up me in the second chance lead, yeah, sorry Caleb, I did have Harlan points off the bench for me. Shall we have a quick look at our game weeks? We'll have a look at as his team as well. I mean, these don't have the bonuses in yet, of course, but you've got to be happy with you. I mean, you got 79 before bonus, lovely. Yes. So looking like 81, I took a minus 12 this week. So I needed, I was looking at my team and thought I need to take, I need to take hits and I knew at some point I would need to take a lot of hits. I brought in ESAC for Tony. I brought in Gordon for Salah, which was my last one I did when we found out Salah was out. I took out a doggy for share, which was unlucky. And then I did Petrovich. So I brought Petrovich in for Neto. So three of those were absolute bangers of transfers. I would have had very few points from Neto was, I thought was going to be benched again. And he was Salah, obviously, was benched and Tony didn't do anything. So bringing in ESAC, Gordon and Petrovich for what was what 24, 34 points, I'm very, very happy with that. I mean, find out Salah's bench was a gift though, wasn't it? Oh, big time. Because I was going to keep him. Yeah. I was, I was all set on keeping him. So I thought Gates West and I've scored a few goals and Salah could come back in. I really wanted Gordon though, I really wanted him like because I love Gordon and yeah, but mine is 12. And I got a about 3k red arrow, which I am absolutely thrilled with. So. Yeah. Bloody hell. A little bit of a parmour. XG tonight was 1.8. Was it? Oh, because of that missed chance in the first half that went over the box. They didn't really make much of that, did they? Yeah. When, when the. Yeah. Surprisingly high, they didn't really like criticise Palmer for, you know, spooning that over the bar. It did come to him quick from the, from the clearance from van de Ven off the line, wasn't it? And yeah, that was very early on. I guess that was a high XG chance, so fair enough. Yeah. I mean, so with the minus 12, it's still, um, still a positive week for you. Yeah. Yeah. Someone's asking why I'm not in the godfather's league, by the way. I think that's, um, as doesn't want to see anybody else above them. Well, that's, well, only do that if you, if you pay us the money, Andy, because he's, you know what he's like, he's, uh, once you start paying me, I'm, I'm more than happy to do it. Oh, is he not set the check for you yet? It's outrageous. You get checks. Yeah. That's how, that's how we pay in, you know, these things, like, um, no, with the minus 12, I am genuinely ecstatic because I've now got two, three, hopefully, and for four more players for the double game week, we're on bench boosted in 37 and to take a minus 12 in a week and almost get a gray arrow, you've got to be happy. Lovely. And you closed the gap on me. No, no regrets on, on Morris, you, you, you, I mean, I guess, I guess gone at show the player you would have dropped, but I mean, my, the thing I would have loved is for Harlan to have missed out really, and then Morris to come in because the thing that made me hurt me against the field was that I don't have Foden and Foden didn't play and then everybody got Harlan in. So I played Harlan because I had to, uh, and everybody else benched him thinking he wasn't going to play. Obviously he came on and scored. Foden didn't play and everybody that had Harlan on the bench got him in anyway. So that would have been some nice differential points for me. But the biggest one was Saka 33% only was for me this week, 33% on so many, when he was he hauled, I was sat there going, this is nice. And everybody in my DMS was going, I don't own him anymore. Anyway, oh, I don't like this. Well, I'll bring up my team in a minute. I just, uh, Connor has just mentioned here that Gordon's banking one, home match, his baseball season, we're going to look, I have done some prep and we're going to look at Newcastle's home form and why we'll be a concerned taking Gordon and Isaac in over the next last three, maybe, I mean, you know, last four features for them. Um, yes, Saka, let's be up my team because then we'll talk about Saka a bit more. Um, I'm doing a white 72 with all bonus, something it comes in at 79 because Harlan will come off the bench for phone. And so with the bonus 79, um, I should be up to about 18 K. So the top 10 K could still be on. No, still bit of a stretch, I think, uh, Patrick's nine, Shah, one, eight, Norway, two, polo, two, Gordon, the 10, tall bag, all the minute, Palmer, the captain, 16, phone, zero, Harlan comes in for five, Oh, the guard, which was my, which was my little tilt, my little differential, just the two points on nine, exact 13 and Mr Jackson with, with, with eight. Um, so basically I had Saka and the mating captain game with before last, um, Arsenal with their double had, uh, well, I still have played three games called 10 goals and over those two, three games, either I've owned Saka and I've owned known to guard and out of 10 goals, presumably 20 returns. Maybe they won't assist. I've got one, one assist out of 20 returns. So I mean, Saka and Oda guard, I got one return out of 20 returns. That's crazy. So basically I've danced around all the recent returns. So I had Saka when Oda guard came in and Saka just got one assist and then I moved to Oda guard and then Saka hold. That's really interesting. You moved to Oda guard though. No, just the lower ownership. I, and the thing is I watched him, I watched him in that home game. Um, I can't, um, remind me who it was against now. Um, it was in the five. Neil, wasn't it? Um, he was like, who do they play? It was a, it was a mind myself who they played now when they won five. Neil, uh, uh, uh, Chelsea, of course. Yeah. Yeah. So I watched him in the Chelsea game and out of that, um, Oda guard got the two assists and the three bonus. I think he got the two bonus, but he was mad on the match, wasn't he? He was, he was just superb. And I thought going into this game week that I would hold Saka, but I, uh, instead I thought to myself, no, I won't do that. I'll go for even bigger differential because I knew that Saka would be, I knew that owners would be dropping him off for a double. I really wanted to hold an Arsenal player because of the ball move game coming up in 36 as well. So I fancied having an Arsenal attacker for that. But rather than hold Saka, I just tried to be clever, which sums up, sums up some of my decision-making sums again. Now I'm going to go Oda guard, the lower owned player, because I was so impressed with him against Chelsea. And I thought, yeah, I reckon he could do well there. And obviously, as we know, Saka was the player to haul, uh, it could come good for me this week. Oda guard could return against Bournemouth and Saka blank, but it just made those Saka returns so bitter for me because obviously I, I, I held onto him and supported him. I catted him in the game week, just in, in game week 35, 34 of her, when he got the one assist, and they had the two fixtures. But yeah, to get one return from the last 20 for Arsenal is tough when you own those two players. I'm quite surprised it was between those two though, because I thought habits would have been way more in the conversation for you because, I mean, he, he was great for me in the double, but obviously Oda guard out, I was scored him in the double, but he's just continuously doing it, isn't he? Yeah, there's, there's a long time viewer as Philip, so he's always, he's always, he's always a, he's always a show. He's constantly in my DMS all the time. Yeah, there he is saying that I can't believe he didn't go have it. Um, yeah, thanks us. Yeah. The only thing I'll say about him is though, in your DMS, if you tell him to do something and he does it and it doesn't go well, he blames you straight away. He's terrible. He's one of them. One of those characters. He is. Just don't need that grief, do we? No, exactly. Exactly. And as summoned at the mention of habits, of course, for those, uh, for the non long-term listeners, you may remember a few seasons back after habits is debut at Brighton, as famously described him as a Sunday league player. And now he's he's darling, probably going to be on the wall. Is he? If you, if you say habits in front of the mirror three times quickly, as appears. That's the theory, isn't it? No, I'm sure I had gone, gone the German because it would have been returns in both games. But I just, I love Odagard as a player. He's one of, he's like Modric, isn't he? He's a bit more affected than Modric as a fancy asset. But he's one of those players that you love him to watch. You love watching him play and you want him to be a top tier elite FBL asset, but he's not quite there. Is he still, he's still below Saka. There's no question. So I should have, I should have kept face, but, um, yeah, yeah, we'll see. We'll see how Bournemouth goes. Exactly. Yeah. We'll see. What's your team looking like? Oh, we'll look at our teams at the end. But have you got, have you one of these managers a load of injuries? Because I've got Charlotte and a Norwee there. Are you coming in the inter interferring? I've got, I've got Sharon Gusto at the moment. Right. Gusto might turn up low. That's the talk. Yeah. I mean, I was literally talking to somebody earlier saying that I think you've just got to keep Gusto until then and just make a last minute decision on him. Because if he comes back, you've got the player then, haven't you? Whereas I think, yeah, shares share share. I think we'll play a share. I think it'll be fine because it's going to be fine to 37 money. Yeah. Yeah. I think so. I don't see how he won't be. Um, and then it's, yeah, I think that's it then for me. But I've still got Zabani. So I'm going to do something about him as well. They really want him in the double and he's obviously got Arsenal this week. So most likely it'll be Zabani out this week and I'm looking at a city defender potentially. Yeah, me too. Um, so we should, um, we should talk about that. Yeah. Let's talk about how about at the end. I'm sure we might get some question about it. Should we look at this game? I don't really want to go on. Actually, no, I haven't bought in his latest points though. So I'll be doing a bit of service. Let me just go and grab his latest points. So talk about yourselves while I get that because, um, because it's just selves. Yeah. So, uh, let me, let me find him. Oh, golden. I'm looking down the mods and cons League, but I can't see him. Oh, hold on. You keep scrolling. Keep scrolling. Keep scrolling. Keep going. It's a long way down. You got it yet? Uh, yeah. Found him. Found him. There he is. Quite near the bottom. Let me just grab. Let me just grab his team because he did grab a well and this might cheer him up as he's on. And he's, as he's not feeling well. Um, yeah, I've got blessing in a game where he's done well. So they've been such a rarity this season, haven't they? Yeah. We've got a, we've got to give him a bit of, uh, give him a bit of credit. So let me just add his points total. I can't quite believe this point. So has he got bonus as well? I think, yeah, he's still in the chat. I think he's just had his cow pole. So he's feeling a bit drowsy now. So we need to tell him what I'm feeling delirious for now. I've just noticed his score. Hold on. Oh, no, he's done well. I know. He's like, I don't, I don't think tonight went well for him. Because he was son captain. Didn't have Hetrovich. Didn't have Jackson. So I think he was doing very well. 85, 85 points for Mr. Az. Um, there he is. Uh, let's go through his team for the podcast. Uh, Ray at one point, Robert's and nine Vadio 15, Munoz to son the captain. Interesting choice. He was lucky to get the nine out of him, really. Wasn't he lucky to get nine? Yeah, 18 for him. He had soccer as well, which makes it even worse for me. Foden zero points. He'll get, well, Serbia came on. He did come on. Yeah, he did. Yeah. So it's zero off the bench and in Palmer eight, Harlan five, kept Watkins for the two. Isaac 13. Um, he hasn't got his bench, but he was the course in 37. Should we mention that again? What? Yeah, strange. I don't know when he did it. Quite a few people said he took a minus eight this week as well. Oh, did he? Uh, okay. Yeah. So what's that 78? 78. 77. 77. And I got 79. So I still be him. That's all right then. That's fine. Yeah, fine. Sorry. Yeah. Good week. Yeah. And he's up to, he was up to 300 K, but he's probably dropped down again now. So I don't know what his goal is, but we'll find out next week when he's fit and well and back on the show. Um, yeah. So I'm going to talk about new cars a bit because we got some questions we put as put an appeal out for some questions. And I know we got some, uh, we got one or two about, uh, Anthony Gordon, Newcastle's form. Yeah, here we go. Rob Jones said here, could you please provide an analysis of Gordon and Newcastle's home and away from comparison along with the contributing factors that influence this disparity? Right. I don't know if we can do all of that. I don't know, you know, but we'll try. Uh, let me bring up the, uh, let me bring up the stuff that I've done here. Where is it? Gotta find it now. It's not in there. There is. Oh, perfect. There we go. Right. This is interesting because I, I had a look at this, like expected to see a gap. Um, but not this. So what you see in here is the home XG non penalty per 90 and the way XG non penalty per 90 and then the difference between the two and the team with the biggest difference between home and away XG non penalty per 90 is Newcastle, not 0.93 difference. So 2.19 XG non penalty per 90 at home, 1.25 away, 0.93 difference. Then it's Liverpool with a 0.80 difference, obviously stronger Anfield, Arsenal 0.62 stronger at the Emirates and then Spurs in fourth, 0.54. Um, and you go down to the bottom and you see West Hammer actually more effective away, walls more effective away, born with more effective away and not in the forest, more effective away by 0.01. Surprising that with forest being so strong at home last season. But yeah, there it is in black and white, the Magpies, uh, Newcastle huge disparity between their attack in terms of XG non penalty per 90. What do you mean? And I suppose the reason we have to bring this up is because they've only got one home game left this season. So they've got four fixtures in three game weeks, but they've only got one home fixture, which is against Brighton. Yeah. So got Brighton at home in the double, but the only thing you would say is the three teams they do have to play away from home, Burnley, Man United and Brentford, they're not awful fixtures, are they? I mean, Burnley have gone on a little bit of a resurgence recently, but Man United and Brentford and I mean, Man United in particular, like they are there for the taking for a lot of teams in terms of defensively, aren't they? So I, I think that I'm going to hold Gordon and Esack to the end of the season. Yeah, but there's an awful lot of people getting rid of Gordon to try and get a KDB in or try and get a Bruno in and things like that. And I, I don't know whether I believe this, you know, they only can return for you at home enough to get rid of a double game week player for another double game week player. I mean, I got them in with the wildcard. Rob says, sorry, that was a bit long with you know, it's perfect. Well, don't worry about it. It's all good. And then also, we've got a comment here. Also, I have to remember the Newcastle scored eight on the road to Sheffield United. Yeah. So that is a good point. Yeah. So why, the way XG Blampano is actually boosted by that Sheffield United game as well. I'm with you. I think that, you know, when I wildcarded and bought Esack and Gordon in, as well as Shah, I felt that I was likely hold them to the end of the season. The other thing about Newcastle, yeah, you're right. The fixtures aren't particularly bad. They've got that incentive as well. They're still playing for European football, aren't they? And Chelsea's win tonight means that they've got to keep their foot down. They can't, they can't relax on that. So they've got to go to Burnley and get a result because they've got to keep Chelsea off their backs. So I'm pretty hopeful. Yeah, like you say, the Burnley Man United Glenford away games, although we're seeing that huge disparity between their attack home and away, I'd still be hopeful that Gordon and Esack will get me something in there. I don't understand it, though. I mean, you look at the likes of Esack and Gordon, think they should be really effective players away from home. Yeah. It's just, I guess, you know, Rob asked us to give reasons behind it. It's got to be purely tactical from from Eddie Howes. It can't be anything else because it's not that the players game are worse away from. Yeah, I mean, I suppose this, it's not going to be significant in that table, but you look at the fixtures they've got left. They've obviously played all the toughest fixtures away from home already. So they've now got three away fixtures left, but they've already played like Man City Liverpool, Arsenal, whatever it is. So that's obviously going to make a little bit, but that won't make up the, you know, a lot compared to the rest of it. But I just, I look at it and think, you know, away from home against Burnley Man United and Brentford, surely they're going to score some goals. And if as long as he scores and goes, Gordon seems to be the one he does so well at home, but just doesn't seem to return away. Whereas Esack's the one I'm just thinking, I just trust him because he's on penalties as well, even if he's playing away from home, I got no interest in selling him. But there's going to be a lot of people benching Gordon this week against Burnley. Do you think so? Yeah. What have they got? Well, there's, there's, what are those? I'm trying to think of what the fixtures are now. There's loads of, could you bring them back up again? Yeah, bring them up. Because there's loads of people who have got really nice predictions there. Because there's a lot of people that are obviously building for the bench booth. So they have, say, Jackson, Esack and Harland up top, and they've got five quite nice midfielders and they're wanting to bench one and it's Gordon that they're looking at benching. And if you look at a lot of the polls that have gone up and a lot of the dilemmas that people are putting up, most people are saying, yeah, just bench Gordon, because it's away from home and they're assuming that he's just going to continue what he's been doing. But haven't most people got some and wouldn't they most likely bench song at Liverpool? I think before tonight, most people were thinking that Liverpool might be a bit open for him and maybe song could do something against him. Well, do you play song over goal? No, I'm playing both. But yeah, I mean, if I own song, and I obviously, I still need him for the double, so I'm not selling him, I think I would, or between the two of them, I mean, people are looking at that away record, aren't they? It'd be tough between the two of them. I think it would, but I think I think I probably edge Gordon, but it is close between him, I think. Yeah, no, and the thing is, yeah, OK, the data certainly suggests that Gordon's chances of returns are minimal given much of his returns have come away from. I think he's got 13 blanks away from home. But I just think Burnley gave up chances. Burnley have got to go for the win. New Castle need to keep Chelsea off the bat. I think it'd be an open game as well as all of that. So I think I've got a back Gordon and bench song. That's my approach. Anyway, that's what I'm going with. We've actually got a super chat there, Andy. So that'll be money that you're getting about for in a half years, if he gets to check through to you. It's £100, £100 super chat. I don't know what that translates to, but he's still very generous of you, Siobhan, and JLE. Thank you very much for the super chat. We will address your question immediately as we're talking about Gordon and the question is, I have Sir Abbey on a bench. We're bringing in Havot Sakovheim and bench Gordon for a free transfer or just role and play Gordon. I would role and play Gordon. But I think I work at home to Bournemouth. Depends because obviously you're making yourself weaker for 37 then as well, aren't you? Because Havot and Sakov have many out of the way. Gordon's got three fixtures compared to their two and one of those fixtures isn't overly nice. So I think I would probably role. And also, you then get another transfer to using 37. Well, this is it. And a lot can change, couldn't it? And if your bench boosting in 37 and you need to maximise that, just another injury could really hurt you. So having the two full transfers is going to be very useful indeed as well. Because we've seen a lot of injuries into the season. So I think you're right. I think I'd roll. I think I'll hold Gordon. I'm backing him. I'm starting him. So I think we have to go with that. But thanks very much for the question, Shavam. That was very generous of you. We will answer some more questions. We've got some still on Twitter to answer. So let's move away from our solutions because we'll come back to them in a minute and go back to the starting screen. I am rusty. I haven't done hosting for about three months because my last time we did a late take a look at my internet connection was a bit dodgy. And I was worried about that. I bizarrely, I've solved it by going wireless. It's my LAN connection. It's a bit dodgy, but wireless is fine. Really? Yeah, I shouldn't be. Well, you wouldn't know you were rusty, mate. Like riding the bike. No, you wouldn't. This isn't it. Get back in the FBL mode. I'm riding the bike, mate. You had to go there, didn't you? I did. I did. It's been a while. Okay, Clapper and Gil saying, "Gusto night in the squad tonight, Augusto. Are you Augusto or Augusto, man? Where'd you go?" "Gusto, okay. Hold Gusto and I hope he's back for 37, or does Reece James on the horizon mean he's worth a minus four, either way? Reece James isn't a factor, surely." I mean, I don't think that, are we? I don't think Reece James would be a factor until maybe 38. And then I don't see why they're very risky. But I am definitely going to be holding Gusto until the last minute to 37. Yeah, that's why. Because the worst thing ever is to get rid of him, and then all of a sudden he's fit for 37. I'm not sure he will be, but I might as well keep him up until then. I'm kind of saying, "I'm not sure where to sell Zabirani or Gusto, your sell Zabirani." Is that Zabirani? Is that Zabirani? It's a brainy. I can't utter the man's name because I went bloody Kirkes. So I can't say it because my system shuts down. The memory of it, of that goal. What is the pronunciation? I'm out to practice that. Zabirani. Zabirani. Does it actually sound like that? Yes, it does sound like. I think you ditch Zabirani, don't you? Yeah, I think so too. They have a nice fixture in 37. But you're not expecting a lot for Zabirani, are you? They've got Brentford at home, Brentford will probably score, and you're not expecting a lot, are you? No, absolutely not. We'll go back to social media for another question. My friend Matt Davis, my fellow forest podcaster, who hosts the Fantastic Forest Vakers, which I'm on now and again, a bit of a plug there. Would it also defend a bit of top priority to replace injured players this week, or do you prefer City with the extra fixture? Now that is exactly where we're at, isn't it? Could you repeat it for me, please? Because I was just putting up on the chat. Oh, well. VL Swat said Zabirani girls just want to have fun, maybe that. So I was distracted. So could you say the question again, please? I think that's actually a ban from Brian actually, the Zabirani. I think it is. Would an Arsenal defender be top priority to replace injured players this week, or do you prefer City with the extra fixture? No, replacement defenders, basically. Because we've got, we've got a few injuries back there, haven't we? Gusto and Charm, maybe people, maybe getting rid. Where'd you go? Arsenal or City? Arsenal obviously got born with at home. But City have got the two fixtures. Let's bring out the ticket just to help us with this. City got walls at home and then the Fulham Spurs away before West Ham on a final day. I mean, you look at Arsenal's three games. You think there's clean sheets in at least two of them, don't you? Yeah. I agree. Yeah. They're born with the neverton. You expect clean sheets in those two, don't you? Yeah. I don't think there'll be a clean sheet at Old Trafford. I think we'll score. I think they'll beat us, but I think we'll score. But then City, you've got walls at home, West Ham at home, which are quite nice. Fulham away could be anything, but the thing is with City, we've seen it so often. They get into this part of the season, and all of a sudden they just become a machine, don't they? And they just pick up two no wins until the end of the season. And I think with that extra fixture as well, the only thing you'd say with City is they don't really have that massive upside defender. Like Gavadio has been doing it recently, obviously, but he's not. I don't think it's something that's going to be. You say Gavadio, do you? Is it Gavadio without the, is it a silent G? Oh, I don't know. Okay. Is it a silent said in Zabarni? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Just before I pick you up on that, to try and cover up my incredible appreciation of Gavadio. You just don't have that massive upside. I was talking to somebody the other day saying like, "If it was can shallow, then that's different." Because you're expecting maybe to get a goal and assist or something like that in the next couple of weeks. But whereas with Arsenal, you do have Gabriela, who's obviously got the goal threat, you've got White, who's been incredible this season. So I still think I would favor a City defender myself over getting that second Arsenal defender. But I could be very wrong there by the end of the season. Just to shout out to Nigel, who's gifting FBL Black Box memberships. That has came out to might get one if he's lucky. I don't know who it is. Oh, bless him. That would cheer him up, actually. Yeah, it would be, wouldn't it? And they've been up the team data defense because that really does underline where Arsenal have been all season. But City have closed the gap on them. This is over the season. Actually, you conceded non penalty per 90, Arsenal at the top 0.70 with 1.09 big chances conceded per 90, which is by far the lowest in the league. The nearest then is City on 1.62. City have the second strongest defense in terms of actually conceded non penalty per 90, 0.91. And actually, chances per 90, City conceded fewer, 8.24, Arsenal 8.63. The thing we've seen with City though is just, I don't know, carelessness and you know, conceding the old goal in matches where they should see it out. Whereas Arsenal, I think are more disciplined. When they have conceded goals, it's been an error from Ryan more often or not, or, yeah, or one of the defenders maybe. So they've conceded goals for defensive errors, but not really allowing your position chances has been a story of the season. I kept to Arsenal defenders on the wildcard with a view that I wanted to take two into ballmouth as well as an attacker. I haven't yet decided whether I'm going to hold two for 37 given that, you know, obviously they don't have a double game week, but I've got a nori injured and don't like his fixture this week. So I will be moving to a defender and like you, I think I think I just favoured a City defender. I think if I didn't, if I could get, I don't have the slot to get another Arsenal defender in anyway, but I think out the two, I think I have to back the double. I think it's just more fun as well, like having that double game week there. And you're going to be looking at that double game week with Arsenal going to old Trafford and just thinking, Oh, I could have had a double game week player. The only thing is, is that which man City defender do you get that guarantees you get the fixture? Because Arsenal, you know, they're going to be playing those defenders now until the end of the season. Whereas City, we've already seen rotations, stones is back. Diaz got restless. So Diaz is going to come back in. Who's going to be the defender that gets you, you know, those those minutes until the end of the season? I guess the thing in our favour, we've got defensive date defender data up here last six game weeks. And in terms of City defenders, I mean, Akke's third here, but he encapsulates what you're saying there. I don't think you can look at Akke. He's not 0.38 extra. I non penalty per 90 body hole is in ninth or 10th here and not 0.27. Then you've got to go down. Where's Walker somewhere? I mean, Diaz is down in 57. Walker's down in 76. So there's no goal threat from those players. Diaz has been benched the last two as well, which kind of cast out on what PEPs back four will be. Okay. I'll ask you outright. Vodio and Walker probably are my picks of the defenders to go to. Do you think we get four games at them? I think we do our Walker. I think Walker will get all four club captain has to play right back. He fits into every system they play as well. Gavadio, I think gets the majority. I think he's going to miss one. Do you? And that's, I do. I think he'll get one then. Is that what you're thinking? Louis or, you know, stones, Diaz, like they're all there vying for it. I just think he's going to miss one. I, I, and I think it'll probably be in the double game week, which of what is going to be more annoying. But if you look at 36 and 38, I think he's great for those. It's just, it's just whether you're happy. I just looking at Walker and thinking, because Walker's the one that's kind of edging it for me at the moment. And it's just because I want to go into 37 knowing that I'm going to get those two games out of them. And if I can get two games in 37 out of Walker, I mean, they might not get the clean sheets, which obviously could happen. But if I know I'm going to be getting the minutes out of them, then I'm going to be very happy. I've kind of realized more this season. I'm really an ex-minutes man. Like as soon as I can guarantee that someone's getting minutes, I'm all over it. Like I did it in the, on the free hit, I was just all about the minutes and guaranteed minutes. But yeah, I do, I do think that's the way I'm probably going to go. And also, it's just feels a little bit different. Everybody seems to be jumping on Gavadio. And I don't, I mean, I don't think this is forms going to continue. It's not going to be scoring every week, is he? So I think Walker is probably the way I'm going to go. Yeah, I'm with you again here, Andy. I don't often agree with you so often. Oh, that's happening. But yeah, I mean, that kind of Richard's ass is Walker Stones or Vadio, where'd you go? And I think Vadio has the upside. I think that it's possible that he could play all four games. But like you, I think that Lewis might get, or D.S. could come back in and that he could play left back. I think that, yeah, he, Walker's the most likely to get the four. And I think that's what you're going for, isn't it? I think that's what he's going for. And Walker could contribute. We've seen him getting forward a lot of Brighton. He really should have got more out of that game. I think he got the assist, didn't he, for the Alfred's goal. But he, he was getting forward a lot there. So in any one game, he could be as much as a attacking threat as Vadio. Obviously, this data certainly suggests that's not the case. But I think, you know, he is capable of getting forward. I'm kicking myself and not only selling soccer, but not going Vadio. The reason being that I kept faith with ain't Norrie because he had that good fixture. And I thought I don't want to sell ain't Norrie with with Luton Town at home. Because I had him anyway. It's before the wild card was played. I didn't get him in on the wild card. I had him. And when you have a player and you're playing the wild card and you think that's a good fixture, do I want to lose him and regret it? If I was, if I were and the other fact was city were at Forest and I think my forest affection, well, more on the affection, isn't it? Didn't allow me to get back a city defender. I didn't want to watch that Forest City game thinking I don't want Forest to score. But I should have thought the flip side of, well, are we not either way for a score then? Exactly. I regret that. And of course Vadio capitalised on the set piece priority that we've got, which is just absolutely awful. And he got the gold of course and a 15 points hole for us. So well done Aspen and not well done. I'm the dude dude in the chat says, Mark, when was the last time Walker got an attacker return? I think it was two weeks ago, he got two fists to me. He gets forward a lot in some matches. It really depends on the tactics that Pepdó has exactly it. Yeah. And it depends on the opposition in terms of whether they play a bit of a low block or not. And he's much less effective with a low block, but he's better when the team attacks them a little bit. And if you look at their fixtures, what are their fixtures again coming up? Because they've got Spurs, haven't they? Who will go forward? So that's good for him potentially. And yeah, I think Walker could be a good shout. I think it's just as X-Men's again, a light, you said your X-Men's band these days. And I think Walker was the answer there. I put it up on the screen. Someone said about that. I'll put that on my Tinder profile that I'm an X-minutes man. That's quite good. Swipe left or swipe right. I don't even know which ones which I've ever been on Tinder. No, not a white. No, I'm really don't know. Of course, but yeah. You said that so quick then. I really don't know what I'm talking about, but I hear that the kids are into that these days, so to speak. Yes, yes, I like slipping into FBO mode myself. But who needs Tinder? That's right. Someone asked in, Baba Yagal said, "Do you think boys will get really good in which players do you think will leave?" That's too depressing. I don't want to consider that. But it's all about Sheffield United. And obviously, he's given us points back. And at least all the fans will still show up next year, because you haven't had a price hike in your ticket. So you'd be fine, wouldn't you? I just don't. It's bad times for the first fans at the moment. Absolutely. Mark Dorniel said, "Do you think boys will survive?" I don't know. I really don't. And it's been a strange season for me because in a way, the forest struggles have really consumed me. And I'll ask you this in a minute, Andy, but I found the FBO season towards the end. I find most of the decisions I've been making the last 10 weeks have been pretty straightforward, because of the double game weeks and the way the chips fell. So I've kind of not had to put too much effort and thinking into my FBO team. And the forest has kind of taken up that capacity in my head for thinking about football. It's just been a lot about forest, less about FBO in terms of my headspace. Have you found that similar this season? Have you found that? Because I just found the last 10 weeks, maybe the last three months of the season, have been not autopilot. But I just think my decision-making hasn't been that difficult because of the way once you decided to ship strategy and you went with free hit 29, while car 34, and so on, since 29, it's almost been mapped out for you, even before 29, because we were looking at it. Is that how you felt? A little bit. We spoke about this a little bit on Scoutcast a couple weeks ago, saying that what will it be like with less blank game weeks and double game weeks next year because of the FA Cup replays going? And we said, actually, in some ways, it opens up the pool an awful lot more because you get so tunnel-visioned with double game weeks and blank game weeks that, like you said, your moves kind of get planned for you. They do have an awful lot of moves to make, whereas if there's less double game weeks and less blank game weeks, you can still pick from even those players that have got single game weeks and have got nice fixtures. So I haven't owned a forest player. Oh, yes, I have. I've owned a Langer. That went well. Yeah. I was going to jump on top of that when you said that. Got about that. But no, I do think when you get to this part of the season, other players, you look at someone like Ollie Watkins, who's in hardly any teams again now, and you just think, it's bad, isn't it? Because you've got in no way you think I'm going to get on Watkins. No, you wouldn't want to do that. But you look at his fixtures and they're not too bad, and you think, well, that's a shame, isn't it? But you're never going to get him because he's got less fixtures. So, yeah, I get it. It's just one of those things that you have to play the double game weeks because, you know, in reality, they usually come good, don't they? Yeah. And as I said to Az, it's like, if you don't play for the level game you play as, it's like going to a party and not wearing the fancy dress being the one where you've got to go all in, haven't you? You've got to, that's the fun, right? And yeah, I think the way the fixtures fall with the FA Cup replays and so on next season, maybe the chips have been more interesting because they're not just immediately penciled in for these double game and blank scenarios because we won't have as many. So maybe it'll make it more interesting. I do hope there is something, just something new, a breadcrumb of newness and fresh approach to the game next season because I think that you can't always rely on the pricing to find that extra layer of strategy and for players to emerge to give you that level of strategy because often it goes the other way and I talked about it a few weeks ago. You know, the pricing and the players that emerged this season, Palmer kind of again was one of those players that made it too straightforward. You get Palmer in at the price he was and he's obviously turned out to be an incredible FBL asset. He won't be there at that price next season, but somebody else could come along and fulfill that role. So I think the game just needs something extra and I keep surveying, don't I? They keep serving the FBL player without doing anything with it. So I kind of hope that it's coming. I don't know. I mean, they don't answer the phone anymore. So I really don't have inside info, but I do feel that don't answer the phone anymore. I just don't know. I know that they they I needed like high buy ID then perhaps I might pick it up. But I just think we need something fresh, just a little bit of a change because I think obviously with FBL with you coming in right my team, there's a lot of those algorithms out there steering our thinking and then the way the double game week the chips for all that steers are thinking and it just makes it a little bit stale, a little bit by the numbers and I really just want something that just stirs it up a little bit more. What do you want me? What's your thinking? We had FPL challenge. What you talking about? They brought that in. Everybody loved it. I mean, to be fair, I mean, what can you do? I mean, I do wish that they would risk take a risk with the main game rather than bring new stuff in outside of it because obviously they had ultimate ultimate before, then they had draft, then they had challenge and it's basically their attempts to go, we need to make more of a fantasy. Yeah, but we're not touching the main game. And the reason why they don't want to touch the main game is because they're nervous of making a dream change and driving players away. And I absolutely get it. I mean, I'm in video games, so I know that you have to cater for the player that you you've got and retain that hardcore player that keep them buying and playing your game. But at some point, you've got to take a risk and go, we need to bring new players in or we've got to give the season players some it different because they're moving away. They're finding other things to do. This season was the first season FPL numbers plateaued or even decreased. That's got to be, I hope, a trigger for them to go. You know what? I think we all that change that we thought about two or three seasons back. Let's bring it out the cupboard. Let's have a look at it. I hope so. I hope so. The thing that I've wanted for a while, and I think it would be really nice, is a little bit like Gaffa does, and Gaffa does this really well, but they do do it to an extreme is to have two chips at the beginning of the season, two chips in the second half of the season. I'd love that because it's almost like a fresh start, the people that start in the second half, they're like, "Oh, I've got two new chips and I can use them." And it also means that you can use chips in a single game week when you wouldn't normally, like you don't have to just bank these chips until the end of the season. You can use to it in the first half of the season. It might be quite fun, and to randomly change what those chips are every year. So you get the bench boost in the first half of the season this year, but next year, you get the bench boost in the second half of the season, or whatever it is. And I just think that would be quite different. And I don't think that's a lot that casuals would switch off. That's the biggest thing. It needs to be simple, but effective if that makes sense. Yeah. And I think with the double game week change coming because of the FA Cup, that's going to make the existing chips more interesting anyway. So if you're throwing in more of that, that's not a new concept for the player to learn, but it does give us something else to think about. I mean, some people don't like the chips because maybe it reinforces the luck element, and I get that. But I just think we need something new, something a bit fresh, so we don't end up in this malaise again, because I think it has been there. For me, that since game week 28, 29, when the chip strategy was decided, it's just kind of like, I'll also pile it off we go. This is my transfers and this is what I'm doing. And I don't know. I want more from the game now. I've played it a long time. I've done content a long time. And obviously, I was a part of what the Premier League did. And if I was there now, I'd just be pleading them to make a change for it. Just try something, risk it, take a risk with it, because I do think most of the fan base, most of the player base are locked in. I don't think people would drift away. And if the change is subtle enough, if the change is an existing concept with a little twist, I think it's OK. But I think it's time now. So it's the key. It is. And we know all about a subtlety, don't we? We do. Divay Swarley has asked a question, a super chat there, and then we bring that up on screen, and we find him. Did I miss it? There it is. Who do I sell this week? I'm not going to go there again. 8 Norwegusto. It's a Barney 8 Norwegusto. For me, it's 8 Norweg or Zabarni. I would keep Gusto. 8 Norweg's got a decent fixture, hasn't he? In 37? I think I might. Got Crystal Palace at home. Whereas Zabarni's got, I think I'd sell Zabarni personally. I feel 8 Norwe could be played left wing. But I think Zabarni used to sell. What a player he is. I mean, I really hope that he's a defender next season. I'm sure he will be in the game. And I really hope that he plays wing back role or even further forward next season throw Neil, because I think that I really love watching him. He hasn't always. I've had him a couple of times. He's not got me anything. But he's a player that I'd love to have as a fifth defender and just bring in now and again, just so you can watch him play with with FBL points at stake. Because he's, I think that Wall's team with Kune and Wang and Neto and 8 Norweg, as next season could be really attractive side to watch when they're all fit. They haven't been fit for a lot of the season, but they could be a source of real value next season, I think, because I don't think price-wise they'll go up a lot. Neto never does, because of consistent injuries season after season. But if he has a season where he can stay fit and those players all along the pitch at the same time, and how Neil continues to improve as a manager, which I'm sure we will, they're going to be a source of value next season for sure. I think so. No, I do agree. I think they're going to be one of those valuable teams where, like you said, the prices aren't going to go up and they've just got players that seem to attack. Well, it depends who they sell, if they have to sell anybody and who they bring in. But no, I do agree. They've been great fun this season. James Hardy in the green and saying, yeah, it's got a bit stale. And even if changing school until our DM defensive midfielders defenders points, but I like that. I've always wanted them to bring in the extra position so that the likes of Declan Rice and Rodry are a factor in our teams. So you have to pick a midfielder and then you've got an attack in midfielder position that you can draw from. I don't think they'd ever make a change like that. I think it's too radical. Yeah, I mean, that would change the game entirely. The entire game would change them because you have so many players that then come into effect. I don't hate it. I think you'd have to have it maybe as a separate one. I would be absolutely shocked if they do it because it's just too, I feel like it would be too much of a change. And the people they want to just pick up and play it, they wouldn't, I don't think. Yeah, it's a shame. Because they'd look at it and go on as so many new rules. But yeah, I'd like to find a place for the defensive midfielders around, wouldn't you? It'd be nice to have Rice and Rodry and players like that. But the players watch games and go, yes, my defensive midfielder made another pass. Like, I don't know, not casual people. Casual people just literally want to pick a team and go, yes, my players scored. They don't want to know about EO. They don't want to know about I know. But then the argument is that casual players will think that Rice and Rodry are players they should have because they're great players in good teams. And yet, when they pick them, they then find out that, oh, actually, this game doesn't even appreciate their value. Because most of those players won't play after game week two. Yeah, there is that. But I mean, Rice and Rodry both are consistent. And if it wasn't for the fact that you only have free asked or you only have free city, so you're not going to go to Rice and Rodry, actually, in their price bracket, they are very good players to own. But it's the free limitation on free players. That means you're never going to go there, are you? Yeah, exactly. There were 982 people or 994 watching. So thank you for your support on this Thursday night. It's late tackle. We'll do another 10 minutes, I think. And then we'll leave you for the evening because Andy literally has school in the morning. Oh, yeah, I have parents evening tonight, strange experience. My first one at the secondary school, they always like this. Like, basically, they were in two school gym halls, all sat around like in a circle and you went from teacher to teacher. It's like speed dating, basically. Is that what it is at your place? Yeah, well, not at my place because I'm primary. So you literally, like, with me, it's like a carousel. It's just boom, boom, boom, getting them in 10 minutes, go, go, go. And you've got two nights to get through 33 people. But yeah, on a secondary school, you just, what do you have, like, 10 minutes, five minutes, 10 minutes with a teacher? Yeah, obviously, obviously some parents do it, exploit that and have about 15 minutes while you're standing there waiting. Not that I'm bitter only, but that did happen a few times. But yeah, he's like speed dating with teachers, which, you know, that might catch up. Are you? Are you okay, Mark? You've tinder speed dating. As soon as ours isn't. Yeah, I know. Absolutely. No wonder is ill. I know. Should we look at our teams? Yeah, quickly. Change the subject before we get on the grinder. Gabriel, Reggae on shark, Gordon, Son, Saka, Ganacheau, Palmer, Isaac, Harlan, Captain. Yeah, Captain see, you thinking about that? No, no, not really. Yeah. He looked, he looked, you know, better than he's looked for quite a while when he came on for his cameo, scored a goal as well. I think, so before I get on to that, so this is with 7.7 million in the bank. And I've got one free transfer, because obviously it's salad and Gordon, as well as one of my transfers. So I am pretty sure I'm going to do Zabani to Walker or Gavadio, and I'm pretty sure it's going to be Walker. I was tempted to try and get Foden in this week. Foden's the one, obviously, I'm missing, but I can't get rid of any of those for Foden. I can't get rid of Gordon this week, and I want Gordon till the end. Can't get rid of Saka this week, but I think next week I will be in the double game week. Yeah. Son, I can't get rid of because he's got the double game week, and I don't fancy doing the hokey-cokey with him. Ganacheau, I don't want to get rid of, but he is the one that's kind of tempting a little bit, but I don't want to get rid of another double game week player before the bench boost, and Palmer, I can't get rid of. So I'm probably going to be doing Zabani to Walker. Benching share, I'm guessing, because Reggae on at home to Fulham, Gabrielle at home to Bournemouth, I think those two are absolutely fine. So I'm pretty sure that's what I'm going to do. Keep hold of Gusto for another week and hope that he plays in the double game week. At least get some minutes in the double game week. And then it's what I do with Morris. So this is all for next week, by the way. So Zabani to Walker, and I'm not looking too bad for the double game week. I'm happy to keep Gabrielle in the double game week. Saka will become Foden, and then it's Morris to Jackson or Pedro or someone else. Well, have loads of money. You can go anywhere with that, can you? Oh, yeah. I can go wherever I want. Yeah. So that's where I'm kind of looking at the moment, but I would be getting Foden if it weren't for the fact that I can sell any of those. I cannot sell Saka this week. So Saka to Foden next week, and then maybe bring Saka in for 38 again. I don't know. We'll see. But yeah, I think apart from that, I think I'm quite well set. Yeah, Michael Scott saying Adebro is back for Luke. New years, but I don't think he'll start. I think that Morris will start tomorrow night. I think about playing Morris over gon' that show, you know, if I was you. I think Luke will probably score. If you're saying that, then I should probably be doing gon' that show to Foden, really. Because, well, no, I say that, but gon' that show I need for a double game week, don't I? So, yeah, I don't know. I think they're close. I think it's close. I'm not expecting a lot of goals from Morris, although having a player for tomorrow night might be quite nice. I say I think Luke will score. I think in my predictions, we'll look at it in a minute. I think I've said they're going to lose 2-0. But yeah, I mean, there's definitely a goal in them. I mean, I guess it's evidence defense, which is very strong. I think it's the fourth best this season. So, they could easily go there and shut them out. But Adebro back could help them. So, over 1,000 now, watching. Crazy. Thank you for your listening at quarter to 11, as it is in the UK. So, thank you for staying up and watching us on a Thursday evening. Hopefully, we can see off to bed with some FBI banter before in the next five minutes or so. We're going to look at my team next. That's banter in itself. Let's bring it up. Make sure you join us for late-tack away SMR after this as well. Yeah, where I'll be. Yeah, lower tones. Scraction and pens and yeah. Lower the tone or lower tones? No, lower tones. I can't put my tone. Petrovitch and Gull, Shah Gabrielle White. So, you kept the double arsenal. We're born with in mind. Gordon Palmer, Odegard, Foden, Jackson, Isaac, and Harland. I've got it on Harland at the moment. I am tempted to move it to Foden for the tilt. It's risky, isn't it? But there's no question he's been very effective in home games of late. I read Alex Forelex. He does all the amounts that he threats. I was DMing him the other day and he was saying that his team is just built around Foden and Katie Bee getting the horns as opposed to Harland. You've seen it. Harland hasn't hauled for so long. I know we got, what, did you get two guys got 10 points for a goal and assists, not that three, four weeks ago? But it's just built around Foden and Katie Bee. So, you could captain Foden this week and Katie Bee's the one that gets the haul. It could be Foden. I don't hate it at all. I don't hate the Foden shout. I like the idea because I look at my rank now. I think I'm 18k. I think that obviously I've got bench boost, but I don't think the bench boost would be enough. I have got some differentials in. I've got Odigard. I've got Gordon. I've got the two Arsenal defenders. I don't think many that have wild-carded and bench boosting will have the two Arsenal defenders. I certainly don't think many will have Odigard. So, they could come in for me and make that little bit of a difference. I guess the argument is I don't need to tilt on the captain. I could put it on Harland and let the other differentials do their thing, but I'm very, very tempted. I don't hate it at all, genuinely. I've got the captain data. I'll bring that up. Yeah. So, Harland there, obviously, over the season, 0.91 XG, non penalty, 0.90, and then you've got to go down a Foden 0.56. You look over the last six game weeks, though. Foden 0.66, Harland 0.86. So, he's closed the gap on him, but Foden's form over that last six game weeks, five goals, obviously. Harland's had the injury. The thing about Harland is how fit is he? Is he fully back to full power? Going to play the 90, and going to be roaring? And again, I guess, Foden's had the illness, and we don't know what how significant that was. So, I guess... Are we not going to leak? Yeah. Which is always tough with City. Yeah. I think Foden starts. I don't think there's any doubt on his start, is there? I mean, he's obviously been injured. He's obviously been ill. I don't think we've seen an update on whether he's not ill anymore, but I'm expecting him to start. I've got no things in my head that he won't start, but again, if he's been ill, if he doesn't start, he won't play, I guess. So, you know, he won't play at all. He'll just miss out, but I'm expecting him to start. It's just always tougher. I think we get used to having City leaks, and obviously, we're not. Why is Luton Everton on on a Friday night, by the way? Why is that game on a Friday night? I was not expecting that when I was looking at the deadline. I didn't even know it was Friday night. I thought it was Saturday. I don't think it does. I mean, I'm a forest fan, but I don't think it does Luton any favours, because basically, forest then go to Sheffield and I had known exactly what they need to do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, if Luton draw with Everton, forest, I could go to Sheffield and play less risk. They could come away and go, you know what? We'll just take a point here. That'll be enough because with goal difference as well, whereas, you know, I think if Luton win against Everton, forest then go all out for the win at Sheffield United. So, it really helps. That helps me as a forest fan that Luton are playing tomorrow night. I don't know. I guess it's TV, isn't it? But yeah, it's a bit old, isn't it? A big, good game. You think a big, good game? That's for sure. Yeah. No doubt about that. We've got another Super Jack from Tariq. Bench one of Gordon Son or Jackson also smashed the light button. Yeah, do that. Thank you very much, Tariq. You obviously a member there. Gordon Son or Jackson, for me, it's... See, this is what I've been. It's tough, isn't it? It's there on the screen, I'm benching Son. It's not Jackson. It's 100% not Jackson. You play Jackson West, I'm at home. Yeah, it's Son for me. Yeah. I don't know. I would be, I would need to paint that until the end. No, he's not. It's pure right test, really. I know... Burnly, but not too bad at the moment. No, and they've actually been pretty strong, defensively. I don't know. Just being up the... Lost one in eight, is it? It's being up the team defense last six. I think this will show, well, actually, you know, Burnly down there. But they've only conceded eight goals. I think it's eight goals in the last six game weeks. And if we look at the goalkeepers over the last six, I think Muriches is at the top or near the top. Yeah, he's fit for us. Yeah. So, Muriches conceded seven goals in the last six game weeks, which shows you that although they haven't kept a clean sheet, they're not conceding a lot of goals. You know, average of just over a goal a game in that run. So, although I said earlier, Burnly will give up chances. I'm not expecting Newcastle go there and hit three or four, but I... Yeah, I still think that... I still think Newcastle worked back. And so, for me, it's just something about Son at the moment. He just doesn't look... He doesn't look anywhere near the level that he needs to be. Plus, for Charles, we'll probably start up down the middle only. And as we saw, Son on the wing isn't as productive. In FBL terms, previously. So, I think that's enough for me to back goal. Now, I do think there's a couple of goals in it for Newcastle. And I think that means to me that you start golden over Son. Yeah, that's fair. It's penalties as well. And it's benching penalties is always tough. Yeah. Always bite you. Yeah, and ABC makes that point here in the chat, penalty takers over any midfielders, attackers. Yeah, and I get it. But, you know, it's just... I think Liverpool still will want to win that game, obviously. And I still think that's a tough place to go. And Spurs tonight just looked short of ideas for me. If I'd have seen more from Spurs tonight, it would have been a lot closer. But I'm going to go golden because, for me, it's a differential as well. And I think at this stage and the season, if you're trying to push into the top 10k, I've got to go against the grain slightly. I don't think it's a major risk to go golden over Son. And it could be just enough to give me that extra 1k up if it comes in. So, that's where we finish off on the last Super Chat from Mo. Well, I'm probably going to get his team up first before we do that. No, no, no, no. He's got soccer there. And he's saying Mo, thanks for the £2 Mo, on the Super Chat, thoughts on soccer for captain. And obviously, Az has got that option here. He's currently got Harland as well. If I was Az, I'd go soccer all day, wouldn't you? No, I think I'd be more tempted with Foden personally. I think we said before, yeah. I think I would. I think out of the two of them, I mean, Foden, we've seen it already this season. You can score your hat trick. And I don't think Zach has got that in him towards the end of the season now. Like, obviously, against Spurs, it was that counter-attacking goal. It got the assist for the corner, didn't he? Which was the own goal. Foden just, genuinely, I think it would be Foden over me. Foden's more of a captaincy shout than soccer this week. As his team, for the podcast, it's Raya Gabriel, Vadio, Munoz, Son, Saka, Foden, Palmer, Harland captain, Watkins. He said when he sent this to me, if I don't get a green this week, so he's competent. I mean, he's not getting one. His team looks very good. Apart from Munoz, the rest is just pretty much how you'd want it, isn't it? And interestingly, he's playing Son at Liverpool over Gordon and Burnley. So he has gone the other way. He's a tight decision. There's no question. I think I'd be playing Robertson over Munoz, by the way. I would. I was him. Yeah. I would. I don't see a Palace clean sheet there. They are in good form, but I do think United could score there, whereas I think Robertson's got that going forward as well. Plus, I don't think a clean sheet's out of the question at all. In fact, let's quickly go through our predictions. We've predicted goals there, but let's go through from the top. Luke, never turn. I've gone two-nil. You've gone two-one. You certainly think Evan will win out there. I think Evan's form confidence going into the game. We'll have too much for for Luton who still have got so many injuries. I know they've got plenty to play for, but I'm back in Evan there. Aston Bournemouth, we've both gone home win two-nil, three-nil for you. Brent for Fulham, two-one, three-one, home win there as well. Bernie Newcastle, you see, you've gone to two-one because I've gone to three-one, hence the support for Gordon and he's back there. Glad to see you're back in the forest win. I am. I think Sheffield United will score, but I think you'll, you'll nick him. I think this will kind of ruin him, if that makes sense. I just think, yeah, two-one to you. I do, like I said, fancy to score, but yeah. Yeah, but I've, and then City Walls, two-nil, you've gone, I've gone the three-one. I think Walls will nick one. I think they've got about, I'm going forward, and City, we both go in. We both go and City Defender as well, aren't we? Yeah, but I think, for me, it's City Defender for the double, hence go Walker. I'm not necessarily expecting a clean sheet, but that could certainly happen against Walls. Brighton Villa, we've gone for the away win. No supplies of Brighton have just given up. Literally on the beach, aren't they? It's shocking. I mean, he's even come out and said, "I'm just going to be playing youngsters and just seeing how they are for the rest of the season." So it's, yeah, it's not been the best for him at the end of this season. You've gone two-nil Chelsea. I've gone two-nil. I just think West Am, London, Derby, they'll pull something out of the hat. They've done it a few times this season when not expected to. Liverpool Spurs, two-two, you've gone with. I've gone three-one. So you got that hence why you're worried about Seoul and I get it. Yeah, I just think there's going to be goals in that game. I think both teams are just not perfect at the moment. I think there's going to be goals. And it's Palace Man United. I've gone two-one Palace. You've gone two-one United, hence no clean sheet for Munoz there. I don't know where to put the Golden Center game, but I think it's Brighton Villa live, it is, isn't it? Then it's got to be Brighton Villa, I'm afraid. Yeah, because of Brighton. If you need to go at the Garden Center, make sure it's between two and four o'clock. So you missed the Brighton Villa game and you make the Liverpool Spurs at 4.30 at my tip there. Lovely. Well, end on that. It's been great to be back with you, Andy. I've missed you, really. I've got to say. Oh, thank you, mate. Now I've missed you too. It's now you've gone back above me. It's been nice to stream with you again. But it is close. So there's a little bit of interest at the end of the season for us. You're 20 odd points behind. You could weight that up. That's 20. You've both got bench boost, though, haven't we? I think you've probably going to knit me, to be honest. I don't think there's going to be enough, unless Foden cameos and gets you one point in Harlan absolute halls. I think I'm going to be struggling a little bit, but we'll see. I think that's what makes me nervous about doing something different with the cat zig, because I could go for Foden and Harlan could come in. But I do fancy it. I do just fancy a little to it. And it makes it a bit more interesting to me. Make it interesting. Exactly. For the punters. Thank you very much for the 1,057 that have tuned in to watch us right now on a first day evening. Normally we do this kind of thing on a Friday night, Andy and I will do a couple more before the end of the season. I promise you that. I'm back with, as next week, when hopefully he's down his cow pile and he's back fully fit with us. But thank you very much for everyone in the chat, everyone who's tuned in, and for everyone who listened on the podcast, leave us a like, subscribe if you're new here, leave us a review on the podcast, because has loves reading them. And all it remains is to say thank you very much, Andy, for joining me tonight. Yeah, thank you, buddy. I really enjoyed it, as I always do. And it's a good night for me. Well, I find the credits. Where are the credits? There they are. Good night for me. Good night from me. [MUSIC] [MUSIC]