Final Q&A and Closing Thoughts

Hi folks, Mark here, Thursday night, personal record on the live stream. Gonna briefly talk about my team and spend most of the stream doing a bit of a Q<unk>A and interacting with the chat and I'm sure we'll go in a few different directions as always. So First of all, my team, I've only got one free transfer. I've only got 0.1 in the bank. So I'm probably gonna do absolutely nothing. Waiting two weeks to do absolutely nothing is never fun, but sometimes it is the most sensible thing to do. On paper, 442. Seems pretty good. Virgil, Munu, Sinesi, Poro, that's all fine. Some Players play each other, of course. Bournemouth Crystal Palace. A lot of players will have that problem this week of Assets facing each other. But at least with the defenders now, you can get def conts even if they don't get clean sheets. Midfield, Saka, Captain, and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna leave the Captain's armband on Saka for the fixture away to fill 'em. Yeah, it was good to see him take the penalty, which makes it easier to captain him. Hopefully he takes the next one as well. Bruno Fernandez plays Liverpool. Not a great fixture, but Liverpool not a great defense at the moment. So hopefully he can get something. Some menu Curus, so I quite like Poro and Curus at home to Aston Villa. Hopefully Tottenham get a result in that one and both players can do well. Up front, the misfire and duo of Yocariz and Joe Pedro, but Yocariz has a good fixture. Joe Pedro is rested and plays and he's passed a cog who's not in the forest. I was kinda hoping Ange would still be there for this fixture because we know what he's like when it comes to defending. So If ever there was a week to sell Joe Pedro, it's probably not this one. Um so I'll just keep 'em for one more, reassess things. uh game weeks right after an international break can often be odd game weeks, sometimes not a lot happens. There can be unexpected pensions, you know, just injuries that we don't know about from international duty. Players coming back late from different parts of the world, all that kind of stuff. I've seen Alderete seems to have picked up an issue with Paraguay, I think it was. Um, couple of other things, you know, and a a coming back from Asia and stuff as well, so Uh doing nothing makes sense to me this week. Yeah. on the bench you've got Dubravka. Who who I could start over Pope, but Pope's my set and forget really. I don't really ever want to start a Burnley goalkeeper. Pope's a way to Brighton. Um, Newcastle one of the best defenses in the league, so I will be starting Nick Pope, Anderson, Anderson, Cunya, Chris Wood, uh too much money on the bench. Yeah, but I'm a rich man this season for obvious reasons. The Anderson It's almost a case now If you've got a if you've got a defender who gets DEF CON often You probably should have them for sub, even in a difficult fixture. So Anderson plays Arsenal, but that could be a four-pointer. uh because he's probably gonna have plenty of defending to do. Um can you Probably not a guaranteed starter given that he didn't start the last game. And Chris Weird seems to be flagged as well. Uh, so maybe that's an international break issue or something, and his minutes are dodgy anyway. So it's probably a case of My only decision this week is probably Uh who goes for Sob, Anderson or Cunha? Yeah, and at the moment I'm just leaning towards the The guy who can get four points a lot easier than Cunha can get four points. So that's the thing in there. Saka Captain, Summenio Vice Captain, and hopefully bench is not required anyway. And then two free transfers the following week. Probably to get a third arsenal. And maybe maybe something else as well. But we'll cross that bridge when it comes. For now, I'm gonna jump into the chats. I'm also gonna get the Scout Fixture Ticker up so you can have a look at that while I am talking. Let me move the camera. I have sorted this by Difficulty for the next four game weeks. That brings us to the next international break, I'm pretty sure. Let me make this as small as possible. Um that should be enough. So Just for the audio listeners, next four game weeks best fixtures are for Arsenal. Then it's West Ham. So maybe players like Jared Bowen. Cat I still like. Uh was just reading there before I came on that Fulcru is gonna be out for quite a while, I think. So that's a blow. I say it's a blow, it hasn't been much good anyway, but one less option for them up front. Making up the top five for for fixtures, along with Arsenal West Ham, it is Wolves. John Larson's an option. Brighton and Nottenham Forest. And the teams with the worst fixtures for the next four. Asenvela right at the bottom. So we n always knew this was a turning point for Rogers and Watkins, you're hoping you had five goals, five assists from both players at this point, but you don't have very much, but it's certainly time for them to go now. Uh although Rogers did look a little bit better in the last game, got a nice assist. Also teams that have tough X for the next four are Bournemouth, Manchester United, Manchester City and Fulham. But I never worry too much about Manchester City when it comes to fixtures. And I think Bournemouth as well are just a very good team. And I certainly wouldn't be selling semennial just because of the factures that are upcoming. Because the guy is on fire. Um So yeah, I'll leave the fixtures there. And I'll get a quick drink of water and I will get cracking. Um quite a few people mentioned wildcard already, so towards the end of the stream I will do a very quick draft. And then maybe tomorrow when I've got more time I'll I'll firm it up and post it on the Patreon page as well after the after the pressers when we've got all the information. So I'm scrolling back to the start and I'm gonna pick out Not the best questions, but the ones that are best to talk about and that other people will be interested in as well. Uh Marvin says it's been a long two weeks. Is it time to say bye to the frustrating Bruno Fernandez or hold on to him a little bit longer until another premium midfielder puts their hands up? So yeah, Bruno Fernandes is the most frustrating Person, player. in the world at the moment. Especially for me, because I've timed it completely wrong on them this year. I've got all the penally misses I've missed all the attack and returns. Certainly hasn't been a fun journey so far. Fixture wise, it's obviously not good this week. Away to Liverpool. But it's probably not the worst time to play this Liverpool team. Yeah, still in transition. So but again, I'm not expecting too much from Bruno. I'm hopeful more than expectant. Afterwards it looks a little bit better because it's Brighton Home Game Week Nine. Notn't them forest away, as long as Ange is still there, I think that's great for attackers. And then Tottenham away obviously not so good, game week eleven. So the fact that I'm gonna keep them for Liverpool, I'll probably keep them for Brighton and Forest as well. and then probably reassess things before the Tottenham game, Game Week eleven. So Unless It's maybe Bruno to Saka. Think you know, those who are playing a normal FPL season and don't have Haland yet, if for some reason you don't have Haland yet. And you need money. you can obviously lose Bruno Fernandes to get to the Norwegian, but otherwise I don't think there's a huge amount of Certainly premium's screaming out at the moment. that you need to have. Um so Bruno Bruno's fine. He's not a fantastic pick right now, but he's he's always fine. He's always got rich to points, even on a You know, if United were to lose three one, for example You know, Bruno can still get a ten pointer. with bonus, defcon, attack and return. So Hopefully I'll actually get some of his points soon. Yeah, so yeah, I think he's a hold for now. Unless if you don't have Saka I like that move. Uh question there, someone who doesn't have a name. User D P one K E sex Z U A J. Little Anonymous Post. How are you doing and how's your mental health? Couple of FPL questions as well. Mental health, first of all, very good. Thank you for asking. Much better than it has been previously. Uh About eighteen months ago, you'll remember I wasn't wasn't in the best place. not in an extremely bad place, but just need to take some action, talk to the doctor. Talk to the councillor, uh tried medication for the first time which I'm still on, uh small dose, but it's been very, very beneficial for me. I was always kind of anti-medication. eighteen months in I feel a lot better. Um And I might even come off it in the new year possibly, but yeah, just not not in a rush to come off it of course of course. But yeah, feeling feeling good, uh, life's good at the moment. Um Enjoying w enjoying the Premier League, enjoying family life. uh switched off quite a bit during the break. Uh Michaela's been off this week. This is her uh October holidays. So we've been out and about doing loads of family stuff which has been which has been lovely. We'd usually go away for October week, uh but we decided to stick around, get some stuff done in the house. Get on top of things, as she likes to call it, and just yeah. just out and about uh local, which has been nice. Um so yeah, thank you for that. Uh mental health is good. Um Anyone who is struggling, you know what I am. Patreon inbox is always open. Uh if you're struggling. You know, if you don't have anyone else to talk to, you know where I am. Just send me a message. Uh I get loads of messages on different platforms, but if you If you're a patron and you message me there, that will definitely get a reply. I can't I can't always reply on on, you know, X, Instagram, everywhere else because just just too many, of course. But my Patreon inbox is is all obviously always open, especially for in more important things than than FPL. Um follow up to that question, uh changing from M uh mental health to FPL, which is obviously closely related. Um Regret no Salahaland oh so am I regret no Salahaland? And number two, if you owned Lyle Foster, don't ask, would you still bench boost as planned? Got zero point one the bank, so no options to replace him. Uh shit just on Lyle Foster, first of all, he did pick up uh Picked up a knock, I think, on international duty. I'm gonna say South Africa. I could be wrong, but yeah, I think he is South African. Um wherever he wherever he plays anyway, he he did have a knock. So keep an eye on an up I actually think the press conference today for Burnley and there was no update on Foster. Or am I getting mixed up now in something else? Anyway, I'll I'll double check tomorrow and I'll get it all posted. Um The If there is any doubts over Foster, you m you know you might need to abandon the benchbase plan, depending on who the other players are. If Foster misses out, and then if you get unlucky and you'll one of your other fourteen miss out, then you're down to thirteen, and it could be Could be a waste of the chip, but um yeah, maybe maybe copy paste that tomorrow again when I've got the press conferences rounded up. Uh am I regretting no Salah, no Halan? No regrets. I mean it was a it was a commitment. Um it was a commitment rather than a you know, a strategy. It was a decision to take a bit of a breather kind of as much as I can F P L wise this season without taking a taking a year off. It's hard to take a year off when you when you when it pays the bills. Um so I just, you know something different to to to yep you know, I'm not competing with the usual people I can compete with, you know, in terms of other, you know, you know, mini leagues with content creators and elite sixty fours and all that kind of stuff. So I've been enjoying, you know, detaching from many leagues, chasing many leagues and chasing rank and stuff like that. Obviously it's been uh disastrous uh rank wise, but when you don't care much about your rank this season, it's it's fine. And I am watching more games, I'm enjoying it, I'm enjoying the challenge and I mean Haland will calm down soon. And There might e he might even blank one of these game weeks and if I can hit a captain when he blanks It's gonna be uh it's gonna be the highlight of my season. And I'm gonna rise about Seven million places. Even though I'm what now? What am I s five I don't even know. Five or six. We're not we're not worried about rank. Um so no regrets, no plans to change. I think someone else was at Yeah, Paul or three said Please stop being so stubborn. Without Haaland the season will be a disaster. Uh save whatever you can, it's not too late. Yeah, I like that comment. How can your season be a disaster if you're if you're If you're not really bothered about this season, if you're willing to take willing to take a hit on your, you know, overall rank history and, you know, min you know, finishing lower in many leagues than I usually would, probably get relegated from Elite Sixty Four, which has happened before. Uh It's you can you can tell that I am still enjoying the season. My enthusiasm is here. for FPL, for the content. um probably more for the content than it has been for the last couple of years and hope I hope that's coming across um you know with with a few more ITS notes and that to come. So um I will not be I will not be throwing in the What do you do? You you wave a white flag, do you? uh I will not surrender. Yeah, I will not be thrown in the towel and and and reversing the decision. There's about six hundred people in a mini league. I can't leave them behind. I can't I can't I can't tell them all to join the league and then jump ship and leave them all scrambling without Sal and Halland so I will I will stick with it for the season and I mean I'm already excited for next season because I will come into it refreshed. And I actually think there's a lot to take away from this season. Playing differently. You can you can you can definitely, you know you know, fine tune your game and think about you know, I'm thinking about what what I might do already next season with you know, certain little decisions and stuff like that. So it's it's been a it's been an eye opener in many ways. So Um Yeah, you need to get used to not seeing them in my team. But anyway enough about me, let me get to more questions. Josh is asking for a Charlison replacements. point seven or less or roll the transfer and turn 'em into SA. Or similar next week for free. Yeah, I'll be on the move. while the stream is going. So Josh, let me go to As I always do, watch list. Uh look at the forwards, see who's under 6.7 million. Uh If you're selling Charlotte in this week, you're probably looking at Vultum No, you're not looking at Voltumada, he's seven point two. Yeah, there's not many, is there? Strand Larson possibly. Hopefully, you know, a two week international break has helped him shake off whatever he's been nursing recently. Hopefully it helps Wolves overall as well. Strand Larson, Sunder underway, Burnley Holm, fill him away. Even just as a three game. move, I like that as a differential. Richard Lus and De Straund Larson. I quite like that move this week. But I do probably prefer Stecking it out for one more week, maybe roll the transfer. And the midfielders are a lot more interesting than the forwards at the moment. So I I do like, you know, Sarr instead of Strand Larson sounds good to me. Um Again, going back to my notes yesterday, watching that palace game back, I need more palace players. Yeah, Sar in particular just he's He's a striker. He's a striker, basically. And we don't have many of them, you know, midfielders that are strikers this year. And they're just such a good team. On the front foot all the time. Wharton is so good. Camar has been really good this year as well. Really like Pinot. Pinot just gets the ball and just looks to play a through ball to Sar or Mater. uh and we know we n you know you already know how I feel about Moose as well. So Waiting to get Sar, I prefer that than getting Strain Larsen. It also just gives you another inf week of information just in case other stuff emerges or you know, other other um fires appear in your team as well. Another week is always is always decent. Yeah, Laughlin's um Going to Bench Bush this week Dubrovka. And the stave or Electric Steve, as we should be calling them, at home to Leeds, so that's obviously good. Richards home to Bournemouth and Reindeer's home to Everton. Just need to replace Watkins in the starting eleven, thinking about Jared Bowen. Yeah, Lachlan. Benchbridge sounds fantastic there. And also Bowen in for Watkins sounds good as well. Because they have the good fixtures. West Ham play Brentford, Leeds, Newcastle, Burnley. As good a time as any to get on Jared Bowen. And hopefully a bit of an upturn there with uh with a new manager as well. So good luck with the bench boost. That one should be successful. What else is here? couple of these I will miss, folks, but just copy paste tomorrow because some of them are kinda easier to answer in a QA format. Anything else to pack out? Uh Dean is finally saying goodbye to Watkins and torn between Bone and Joe Pedro. Could take a minus four and have both. What you re recommend. I don't like a minus four. I was actually listening to it today to um FML F P L. I'm sure some of you listen to the to the to those guys. I've been listening to them for years. Probably the podcast I've I've listened to for the longest in terms of six, seven, eight years possibly. Yeah, whenever they started. And they were even they were talking today about, you know, our hits someone asked them, Are hits dead now? You know, should we never take hits? Because we get so many free transfers and they accumulate so quickly. And I I do tend to agree that We shouldn't really ever be in a position now where we need to take a minus four. You know, sometimes you might want to to play aggressively, but Even my case there I took three Uh I mean three free transfers last last game week now I've only got one and straight away I want to roll to get to two again. Uh once you get to two or three, you should never really need hits. Yeah, maybe later in the season when it comes to blank gimmicks and stuff, but that's that's an exception. So I wouldn't take a minus four for Bone and Joe Pedro. I would decide which one you want and go that way. Um Joe Pedro Joe Pedro like Bruno Fernandez is very, very frustrating. The thing about Joe Pedro is he doesn't have as many Rich to points as Bruno Fernandez does, no pens, well unlikely to take pens when Enzo's there. And he's not going to get Def CON either, because he's a forward and they don't really get them. So but he has rested and he will miss the next European game as well through suspension. So his minutes should be good for forest away, Sunderland home. question is would I rather own Jared Bowen? over Joe Pedro. E I'm just thinking even with the fixtures, I I really like Meteta. Bournemouth home Arsal away I know is not as good as the others. Yeah. Player is More secure. And he takes pens. Yeah, Jared Born is probably the way I would go there because Brentford Holm leads away. And if you want to keep them for four game weeks for the Burnley home fixtures, you basically go bowing for this period until the next international break. I think that is the most attractive. And and again I'm biased because I own Pedro and it's been painful the last couple of weeks. But I don't think anybody would be surprised if Joe Pedro gets points. against Nottenham Forest and Sunderland. So again, I'm gonna keep them, but if I was on a blank canvas I'd probably go Jarred Bone. And then M what you could even do, Jared Bone for the next two weeks, and then game week ten, bone to Miteta. Game Week Ten Miteta plays Brentford at home. when Jared Bowen plays Newcastle. So Bone for two, Materra for the long term then, that could be the best route of all. The only decision Ian Noble has is to be is to play Sinessi or Tarkovsky. Roll into three free transfers. Very nice, three free transfers. Yeah, fixture wise, just to remind myself, Sinessi plays palace, doesn't he? Yeah, so Sinessi's a way to Palace. Pretty rough fixture that one, but we know how good Sinessi is for DECON, except when I own them. One for one week and I have one hundred percent zero DEF CONs from him. uh but hopefully he's back amongst the in the palace game. Uh Tarkovsky a way to set the Yeah, I think you've got a place in it, see. Better fixture. You you yeah, you don't you don't want to play Turkajski probably gets booked against Seti and probably concedes Two. So even if he does get Defcon, you it could be a two pointer? Am I right? Pointer? Yeah, I think so. If you if he surely he gets booked in that one. Um Senasse I mean they're both they're both goal threats, but I would say Sinessi's more of a goal threat than Tarkovsky is. So yeah, I would play the Bournemouth man there. And if you if you think about clean sheets, you know who's more likely to keep a clean sheet? Bournemouth against Palace or Everton away to City. It's got to be Bournemouth. What else have we got uh John Flanagan thinking of a minus four after I say heads are dead. Thinking of a minus four to sell Romero and Rice. Bring in Tember or Gabriel. And then either Enzo or SAR. Or gappole. Or do I just save my transfer? So yeah, John, again, I don't like the minus four. I think it's four some things there. Especially when you're kind of indecisive on which guys you would bring in. Uh Race, we need an update on fitness, don't we? He went on he went He went off engineer in the last Premier League game. I didn't really follow the international, so I don't even know if he was involved for England. I presume he wasn't. I know Elliott Anderson got a deserved start because he's been so good this year. So yeah, an update on Race and Friday will be needed. Romero Romero out for an Arsenal defender, though that sounds like a no-brainer. If you can afford it. Which it sounds like you can. Yeah, I still think Gabriel's the safest to go for. Uh I do like Timber, but s yeah, Gabriel is the one So yeah, Romero to Romero too. But Romero's home to Villa, isn't he? Villa very poor. This season an attack. So Romero could keep a clean sheet there. I think Joe I just think role. Think roll, if and doubt roll of transfer. Uh Steve Bull is asking Best Six Million Defender. Best six million defender. Gabriel's more expensive than that, isn't he? Yeah, 6.3. It's probably, I mean, I'm gonna say Munos because I absolutely love the guy. But again, a large chunk of bias involved in that answer. I think Gabriel uh not Gabriel, I think Timber's great if you can't afford Gabriel. I mean I if I was to make a move this week, I could do Virgil to Timber, for example. Um Yeah, that's the only way I'd be able to afford timber. But Virgil to me is still a long term hold. Hopefully Liverpool tighten up and he continues to get Dev Corn and he's always good for goals as well, hopefully. So I'm gonna say tember. Other options. We know the Palace Guys are good, but the next two fixes are not so so easy. Uh Guardiol, just don't like him. He won't hit the F Con too often. Even Duitko Arsenal. If you can't afford Gabriel Just get Tumber. I know Calafiore's been doing well this season as well, but I think out of more faith longer term in Timber. And I like Timber because he can play right back, left back, whereas Calafiore's only going to play left back. left back centre back but they've they're well covered at centre back. Tember is very versatile. So yeah I like him more than Calafiore. Yeah next couple of questions. This is a busy chat. Great to see you. Thanks hoax for the interaction. Always makes for a better stream the more interaction we have. Um I'm enjoying the boys here talking about the the sumo wrestling in the chat. Gary asked if if anyone was been watching the sumo wrestling on the BBC and Dr. Mamon said he's going to the wrestling on Sunday. Dr. Mamon, are you a fan or are you a sumo wrestler? That's what we all want to know. Uh Simon, thank you for commenting Simon and thank you for watching. Regular lesson rarely comment. Yeah, I love I love people commenting who don't usually comment. Uh the what are the the lurkers. The Lurkers Amongst Us. Uh, I'm very well, Simon. I hope you are also. Simon, uh side note Simon is probably the the most common Uh nehmen. of Patreon subscribers. I have Many, many Simons. Uh what else? Matthew's very common. Yeah, there's there's a few names that are just There's a silly amount of some names. Um there must be some kind of correlation between Simons and Matthews and F P L and Yeah, they're just just drawn to this game. Uh FPL Shin, do you think Mark Gay's been overlooked? One goal to assess DEF CON potential all for four point nine million. Yeah, he's great. He's great. The problem is the palace defenders are all great. Richard is cheaper. Uh he's probably got more points. I mean Gay's not even on my watch list, is he? But he should be. Yeah, let's just have a let's jump over here to Palace. They're all good. So yeah, Gay's actually the top scoring pass defender on forty six. LaCroix thirty seven. Munows thirty six. Mitchell thirty five. Richards thirty three. So Richards is the cheapest. He's got the least number of points so far. But I don't think he finishes as the bottom. scorer of those five. I would I would expect to m to be Mitchell bottom. Uh Munos probably ends up fourth bottom because the DEF Cons will just, you know, trick away trickle away all season for the centre backs and he needs to get a lot of attack and returns to keep pace. He's doing it so far. Hopefully there's more to come. But we know DE CONs are more repeatable than attack and returns. But I'm hoping Munoz can can be an exception to that rule just from the positions that he takes up. Uh yeah, Gay is absolutely been overlooked and partly because he almost went to Liverpool at the start and people avoided him for that reason. What's his ownership? He's actually in quite a lot of teams, 31%. Um Gay 31% of teams Laqua's only in four percent of teams, that's surprisingly low. Munnows twelve percent, Mitchell two point five percent, and Richards See, there's a good example of the Twitter bubble versus reality. When you look at teams on social media It seems that Richards is the most popular palace defender. Overall he's only in three percent of teams. Um So even if you think you have the Twitter template team in the over grand overall scheme of things, Richards is a fantastic differential. That's uh There's and there's loads of those examples every year. Let me see to to do to do The wrestling chat has taken over here. FTL streams are are very unpredictable at times. You just don't know what direction they're gonna go. I'm gonna have to go back at the end of when I finish recording I'm gonna have to go back and catch up on this uh read all the the the chat about the sumo wrestling and then maybe fire up the BBCI player and uh see what the see what the fuss is all about. Don't think I've ever seen sumo wrestling on the BBC, so uh maybe it's maybe it's new, but uh it certainly sounds intriguing. So yeah, Mikaela, sorry, we're not watching the last episode of Task tonight. Um we're uh we're watching the Sumo Wrestle instead. I say the last episode, the last episode's not until next week. Um but very good show. Hopefully some of you uh took that recommendation and and checked it out. It's been very, very good. Uh right, I'm getting sidetracked here. I'm gonna go for 10 more minutes, folks. Told me Kelby funny is a quarter to ten. So I will stick to my words. Let me just try and go quickfire for the last 10. Lus is your last chance, folks. Any questions, get them in. And if not, I will get them. And Doctor Mamon says A fan, not a sumo wrestler, even if my body shape may be approaching that of a summarestler. Great comment. Love that. If I didn't if I didn't force myself to play football twice a week, I would be I wouldn't be too far behind you. Uh random random one for ya. Play football started playing football on Sunday nights. See if any of you any Charl Charlton fans in the house. I'm trying to think who else you played for. Uh but one of the boys who plays with us is an ex pro, Mark Stunton. Interested to see if any of you know that name in the chat. Um Scottish folk might know Craig. Craig Menzies plays with us as well. played at a decent standard. So yeah. Sunday night five aside is intense. Tuesday nights is a little bit a little bit better. Yeah, I play eight aside on a Tuesday and I play five aside on a Sunday. Sonny's crying. I'm gonna be in trouble. Right, let's get this done quickly. Uh Wakerman asked, do Brav go home to Leeds or Riffs at home to wolves? It's one of those where you can almost think that a lot of people are gonna bench boost Dubravka this week. So Dubravka is probably a risk to many of us this week if he keeps a clean sheet in terms of rank and mini leagues and stuff like that. So that might be enough just to kinda cover yourself and maybe play the Bravka over over riffs. I'm not gonna do it with Pope because I just rate the Newcastle defence very highly. But if it's a close call between a rifts and a Dubravka, then you know that might be you know that might be a way to to decide it. Um John said Rice played both games. I completely missed that. So it must have been Rice and was it Rice and Anderson in one of those games. I just had a quick look at the team sheets. Um Call about the Scotland games, which was which was pretty rough. Um Ireland games were just as rough. Uh being an Irish man who lives in Scotland, it's uh I need to uh we need to find a new international team s to support Yeah Yeah, Peter says you used to work for Jag Jaguar Land Rover and felt like a good ten percent of the staff were called Andrew. Yeah, it's funny how you know certain names can just pop up in certain places. Lots of them. Uh Had a had a nice Jaguar for a wee while sadly let it go at the start of this year. Downed it from Jaguar to Ferrari. Yeah, I wish we got a a nice Hyundai Tucson. Hyundai Tucson hybrid, which we uh I thought I would miss the Jag a lot more. But it was uh it was a money pet. So uh made a sensible decision to to downgrade to the Hyundai. And we really like it. Uh you're very welcome, Shane Wyatt. Uh Bench one of Senesse, Poro, Munos, Gordon, or Paqueta, currently named Sinesi. Well, you're gonna play Munos, I think, in in most fixtures. You've gotta play Gordon, good fixture. Keller takes penalties, you've got to play him as well. So it probably comes down to Poro versus Sinessi. Um I'm gonna play both. If I had to decide Yeah, I don't like I don't like the fixture this week for Sinessi, so I would play Poral, uh Home Fixture, Home Devilla. hopefully some attack and returns there. And you know, Poro can hit Def CON sometimes. So I would I would say Tottenham Defender over Bournemouth defender this week, but there's there's certainly not much in that. Yeah, what about Aze for Saka if you can afford the big man? Yeah, I like that. I like it especially with Odegaard injured. I think that's good for Eze's minutes. It's a I I just love the player and I expect the One at some point. I I don't have an ever I don't have an Arsenal defender. Yet. And If I decide not to get one, which is insanity really, but again the season I'm having I can I can play slightly differently. I could go Yorker's Saka Eze as an attack and triple up, which I quite like the idea of. Um possibly for Burnley Sunderland, give me ten, give me eleven. So Aze is in my thoughts along with the likes of Gabriel and Timber. If you can't afford Saka then I think Aze is a good place to go. Uh don't know if this is a trick question or not. Are you holding wood? Need to be careful with this one. Safe place. Cresswood On my bench. Firmly on my bench. I will have two freeze. Two free transfers uh for game week nine. And we'd probably go at that point. It'll it could even be I mean cash is really an issue to me, but wood could might even just go to uh Could you be a Calvert Lewin? you know, free up what is it, two million roughly. Uh could be a four point three million forward. It could be a strand Larson if he looks good this week and he plays ninety minutes. Um yeah, Chris Wood, he's never gonna be in my starting eleven again. So he's he's either gonna be rooted to the bench or he's gonna be let go. Uh and he he will be let go soon, but it'll it'll be part of a double move at some point, most likely. Um Uh Charlie, good to see your name in the chat, Charlie. Uh would you sell enjoy now? For Sar or Enzo or Roll. Already have three freeze. En Jai Oh yeah, because he plays Selly, doesn't he? Um Enjoy Where's Everton? I haven't played Man City away, Tottenham home, so that's nasty. Two nasty fixtures. Sundering the way. Not easy either. Fill 'em Homes Good. It does it does feel like it does if you're playing the fixtures, which is obviously a sensible thing to do. It does feel like a good window to jump off and j to someone else. Enzo is very attractive, although he's isn't he managing a little bit of a knee issue at the moment, which is slightly concerning. Uh Sar as well. We know Sar is great, but the next two fixtures are not so good. But I would say SARS fixtures are better than in Jais. Hard one that one. En J again Sunny. Taught them. A roller transfer. Or replace 'em, I should say. I think if in doubt just roll to four free transfers. And Jay could easily get something against Silly. You're just probably hoping for a maybe a lucky pen or I mean it's uh it's harsh saying you're you're hoping for a lucky pen 'cause Eny's very good. And the Even Attack is good. And Dewsby Hall's gonna be back, which improves it as well. Uh Enjaya will be on the right, Dewsby Hall in the middle, Greelish won't be playing, mm Enjay might even play left this game, which I think would be good for him. Then it's probably doubling her Alcraz. Alkros was was good when he came on. Um Yeah, yeah, I think I think I'd probably keep enjai. Keep enjai, Charlie, and and have four freeze. Yeah right, folks. Three minutes to go. Let me try to answer three questions in three minutes. I am the biggest rambler when I answer a question. So let's try and do this. Uh Ian says Palace are massive. Must be a fan. But they are massive. They're so good. Is the triple up essential? And which three. Um I would say not essential for the next two game weeks, but after that makes sense. I I I like Munosar Mateta. But I own menus. Um Definitely shar. Definitely a defender. I wouldn't go Mitchell. I would go... Gahee, I think any one of Gahee I cannot remember the names. Gahe, Retchards, LaCroix. Any one of those defenders with And Munos I still think is viable as as mo as viable as those three and sar. And because there's not many forwards, I like I like Mateta a lot as well. Um so take your pick of a defender, Sar and Mateta is I think the best three. But there's plenty of routes to go. You could go Henderson, you could go double defense. And if you need a five million Mathillo, you could go Wharton. corners, Def CONs, but again, you probably don't want to take up a a Pala spot with Warton, that's a problem. Right, there's one question. Let me do two more. Yeah, change going, uh strong 15 on the wild card will probably mean bench pain every week, but should be good for the bench boost and squad depth. Yep, fine, that's kinda what I did on the on the wildcard. Uh cheers, content as good as ever. As good as ever, if not better. Good to hear that. Thank you. And plenty more to come, of course. Sarn are Sarn Betana underrated. Absolutely. I think you know by now I'm a big fan. Wickerman says have Salah and the robot and I'm still bottom of the work mini league. That is a supernatural skill. That's what happens when you captain players like Timber. I know you did well with Captain Timber that week, but that might be where you're going wrong. We need to meet for a paint and uh I'll set you straight. Uh full on our star Sar. Menes, minutes, minutes. playing up front. Full and always fathers to receive. Um Yeah. I I would go SAR. Right, folks. It is twenty one. Forty four. On my clock. So I will leave it there and I'll come back tomorrow with more in the Q<unk>A. Yeah, all the usual stuff tomorrow, pressers, there will be another 15th minute pod tomorrow. I recorded one last Friday and there's gonna be one tomorrow, just in case you missed that. There's a video with Joe up there from from last week and this week as well. Uh pressers, QA, power picks, all the usual Friday content. We've got a Saturday this week, so plenty of time to overthink and make the wrong decision. But so good to have the football back this weekend. Enjoy it because before we know it. There's another international break. They should be banned. International break should be banned. It should be for the summer only. Maybe a little window at I don't know. Maybe one international window during the season. And then summertime. Yeah, but nothing we can do about that. I'm looking forward to the games being back and it's I'm doing quite well in Fantasy Scotland this year. I'm in the top one hundred, I think I'm eighty first. Uh I've got another boost to use this weekend, my away days chip. So uh hopefully be in the top fifty this weekend of Fantasy Scotland. So I'm enjoying that just as much as well. So yeah. Have a good one folks. Good luck with your decisions. Hopefully no injuries crop up between now and the deadline. And I'll talk to you all again in one way or another tomorrow. Thanks for tuning in. Thank you for watching back and thanks for listening to the podcast. And thanks for your continued support, most importantly. Talk you soon, folks.