GW20 FPL - Talking way too much about Wissa

Summary

In this episode, the hosts discuss upcoming Premier League fixtures and potential changes to fantasy football teams. They analyze the performance of various players and teams, including Chelsea, Aston Villa, Crystal Palace, Man City, Man United, and Arsenal. The hosts provide insights into player form, potential transfers, and the impact of upcoming international tournaments. Overall, they offer valuable advice for fantasy football managers. The conversation covers various topics related to Premier League teams and player performances. It starts with a discussion about London derbies and the form of players like Bowen and Saka. The conversation then shifts to the inconsistent performances of North London teams, particularly Tottenham. The high line defensive strategy of Tottenham is analyzed, along with their vulnerability to teams that can exploit it. The conversation also touches on Liverpool's upcoming match against Newcastle and the potential replacements for Salah. West Ham's players and the impact of the Afcon Cup on team selection are discussed. The chapter concludes with a review of the Red Blue League standings and a preview of upcoming fixtures. 

Takeaways

• London derbies can be unpredictable, with teams like West Ham and Tottenham showing inconsistent performances.
• Tottenham's high line defensive strategy has been exploited by teams like Brighton, highlighting their vulnerability.
• Liverpool's upcoming match against Newcastle raises questions about filling the gap left by Salah's absence during the Afcon Cup.
• West Ham's players, particularly Bowen, have been in good form and are worth considering for fantasy teams.
• The Red Blue League standings show a close competition, with each participant vying for the top spot.
• Team selection for upcoming fixtures requires careful consideration of player form and fixture difficulty. 

Chapters

00:00
Introduction and Fixture Preview

03:45
Luton vs Chelsea

06:00
Aston Villa vs Burnley

09:00
Crystal Palace vs Brentford

10:15
Man City vs Sheffield United

13:45
Nottingham Forest vs Man United

20:17
Fulham vs Arsenal

20:54
London Derbies and Player Form

22:07
Inconsistent Performances of North London Teams

23:21
Tottenham's High Line and Vulnerability

24:42
Son's Performance and Potential Transfer Targets

27:06
Liverpool vs. Newcastle and Filling the Gap Left by Salah

30:56
West Ham's Players and the Afcon Cup

35:03
Red Blue League Standings

39:53
Upcoming Fixtures and Team Selection

41:57
Next Podcast and Conclusion

Transcript

Dan (00:02.951)
Hello and welcome to Red Blue, I'm Dan Adams.

Diaz nuts (00:06.252)
I am Dominic Adams.

Andy (00:08.576)
And the Adams in the airport.

Dan (00:10.995)
Again, so Christmas is behind us. 2024 looms with the African Cup of Nations and the Asian Cup taking out some key players from multiple teams. And we go again tomorrow. So we're going to sprint through the fixtures for game week 20, call out any sensible changes we can think of, and then we'll look at the leagues before hitting the Go button. So let's just get straight into it, shall we? First match tomorrow is Luton versus Chelsea.

Andy (00:12.177)
again.

Andy (00:37.874)
Hold on, before we do that, I'm not telling Dominic shit anymore. I'm telling him fucking nothing.

Diaz nuts (00:43.541)
What's it? What now?

Dan (00:43.981)
You mean Andy too? Andy too you mean?

Andy (00:46.207)
No tips and tricks, no player swaps, no nothing. Fucking robbery.

Dan (00:52.116)
Give it.

Diaz nuts (00:52.247)
What more have I done?

Andy (00:54.07)
To be fair, you didn't even rub the right players though, which is the amusing part. You rubbed all the ones that didn't get points this week. Okay, we can carry on. Looting against a...

Dan (01:00.959)
Well no, we can't carry on. I also, it seemed to be very important last week. It seems to be very important last week that we talk about who got the most points in the game week. That seems to be really important. We better just make sure we do that again as well. Ha ha ha.

Andy (01:04.988)
We can't carry on.

Diaz nuts (01:06.978)
Let's take a look.

Andy (01:12.126)
Mmm.

Andy (01:15.27)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it did get you off the bottom, which is a plus.

Dan (01:19.955)
Jump me two spaces up? That's no Sun Glow. It feels-

Andy (01:22.47)
I tell you what, he had an absolute nightmare of a December.

Dan (01:26.487)
Yeah, not been good. So Luton versus Chelsea. Obviously, we're not going to talk about Luton, but we can talk about Chelsea. Sterling is now back from his suspension. Nicholas Jackson is one of the players going to the AFKON piece, so probably worth.

Andy (01:40.078)
Is Nkunku going as well or not? Don't think so anyway. Doesn't matter. No one cares. What about Karl Palmer? He's not African.

Dan (01:43.687)
Don't know. Don't think so.

Diaz nuts (01:46.548)
No relax.

Dan (01:48.543)
Carpour... He's not African, yeah no. Even with his exotic name he's not.

Diaz nuts (01:51.551)
No, no.

Andy (01:55.15)
Now, the poems to Unmolisc in the same game, Unmolisc returned last week.

Dan (01:59.747)
He did. He was on someone's bench if I recall correctly.

Andy (02:02.725)
Yeah he was.

Diaz nuts (02:03.152)
I was about to type into Google, carton mollusk fantasy.

Dan (02:06.992)
Hahaha!

Dan (02:11.704)
Are you feeling alright? Bikini Bob, me standing there with SpongeBob

Andy (02:13.115)
Call it Moloch nationality, question mark. It's like about crustacean.

Diaz nuts (02:22.934)
under the sea. There we go.

Dan (02:25.415)
Yeah, so obviously Chelsea assets didn't. Why don't you also pick up this ASCII, I believe, last week.

Andy (02:31.448)
Not me.

Diaz nuts (02:32.67)
No, I mean, hips like me.

Dan (02:34.011)
or was it one of my boys did? No, one of my boys did, um, picked up the sassy. It was, Eli did, only got two points from obviously against Crystal Palace. Is it worth having any of the Chelsea defense? That's all, because you- just bad.

Andy (02:34.599)
So you believe wrong? You believe wrong? No.

Andy (02:49.302)
No, Chelsea are bad I think. Chelsea are bad. Inconsistent, inconsistent bad. They're no wolves.

Diaz nuts (02:52.654)
Chelsea Pad.

Dan (02:58.944)
So you'd get rid of, obviously, Jackson because they have CompuS, you'd also start getting rid of Palmer and Sterling then, or are they still worth keeping?

Andy (03:06.594)
No, I think you can keep them, I think Palmer especially because he's cheap, right? Palmer's very cheap.

Dan (03:10.74)
Mm. Pull them up.

Diaz nuts (03:11.986)
And Chelsea's fixtures are good for the next few games... ish.

Andy (03:14.61)
Fixed is a good, poem is cheap. Raheem is a little bit overpriced, I think, for what you get.

because he's not very consistent. I just got a lot of yellow cards.

Dan (03:20.819)
The daft yellow cards is what gets me consistently. Although, who is it we were talking about last week? Who has the most? It's Nicholas Jackson has the most yellow cards in the league. He's up to like eight or nine yellow cards, most of them for descent. Um, okay. So that was nice and easy. Moving on. Only at the weekend. Aston Villa versus Burnley. So.

Andy (03:29.394)
A lot of people? Sorry, Miss Jackson.

Diaz nuts (03:34.556)
is for real.

Andy (03:38.363)
Eh.

Diaz nuts (03:40.682)
Naughty boy.

Andy (03:43.046)
You're nice and easy.

Dan (03:50.223)
Aston Villa, the mighty Aston Villa, striking for the top of the league. Didn't quite go well for them this week.

Diaz nuts (03:57.154)
Fuck off. Don't even fucking pretend like this was a fucking great Manu game.

Andy (03:57.542)
Oh. Oh, that was a bit good. Second half was pretty nice. I would imagine that dad was a lot less mouthy in the second half than he was in the first half.

Diaz nuts (04:08.534)
That may have been the case, but Manu played fucking awful for like 60 to 70 minutes of that game.

Andy (04:11.527)
Yeah.

Dan (04:14.239)
I disagree. We played fucking awful for 35 minutes of that game and then came out and fucking stormed it in the second half. It was Patrice Evera that called it out and said that if we score one, we're winning it. And we did.

Diaz nuts (04:21.934)
Fucking terrible man.

Andy (04:23.142)
I only watch the highlights.

Diaz nuts (04:30.622)
I don't really rest my laurels on Patrice Evera's logic. He's not exactly the most stable person out there.

Andy (04:33.327)
Uncle Pat.

Dan (04:35.995)
He called it. He called it.

Andy (04:37.37)
Yeah, the downside for you is your version of Seamus Coleman, at least like 900 and still playing.

Diaz nuts (04:43.526)
Yeah, he's doing well. They've been late in veins.

Dan (04:45.843)
So.

Andy (04:46.034)
doing well on the bench. Yeah, I thought Villa, who do people have? They have Dougie Louise or they have Watkins.

Dan (04:55.759)
Well, what I want to talk about is Watkins because that's two weeks on the trot now that he's blanked. Is that within the realms of Andy's

Andy (05:00.014)
Yeah, it's actually worse than that if you look at the last five.

Dan (05:05.043)
Alright, you're right. It's blank. So is he now... not essential?

Diaz nuts (05:05.282)
Yeah.

Andy (05:06.966)
Yep, 4 out of 5.

Diaz nuts (05:12.783)
If Salah and Sun were still there then yeah, I would say you would get rid of him to fund those other two, but you've not really got much choice in January, slump hickens.

Dan (05:21.731)
I would disagree. Mm-hmm.

Andy (05:21.85)
Yeah, but you can play them this week though. You can play them this week.

Dan (05:26.939)
I mean, one, Salomon's son of a midfielder, so that's not super equivalent. And in the upfront.

Andy (05:28.35)
So, thanks for listening to me.

Diaz nuts (05:33.519)
by the fact that budget.

Andy (05:36.303)
Yeah, Cunha I think is nailed on. So Lanky's nailed on for me. Cunha just because of the price. I'd rather have Cunha than I'd have Watkins right now.

Dan (05:36.351)
Thanks for watching!

Dan (05:47.507)
That's what I'm saying, it's no longer essential because previously we said it was Salanki Watkins Highland locked in never changing. That's changed or changing now.

Andy (05:57.286)
Watkins locked out. I'm gonna get rid of him. Not this week, but I am gonna get rid of him. If he blanks again this week, because he's got a relatively easy game, I'm gonna get shot with him. Because that will be 5 out of 6 and then it's getting stupid.

Diaz nuts (05:57.598)
Hmm. I don't know.

Dan (06:06.207)
seems fair.

Diaz nuts (06:09.322)
Let's get you.

Dan (06:10.447)
And he's back to how we're on.

Andy (06:12.646)
He's back to Alvaro, as you've been. Yes. Not Almoron. He's in midfield. Oh, with Lil McGar. Yeah, I don't know though. You could argue if that was the case, then we should have got rid of him in five weeks. We should, you know, we've held onto him five weeks too long now, basically, for his form turning.

Diaz nuts (06:17.218)
Okay. Thank you, Julian.

Dan (06:18.303)
No, I meant that we went through that blue patch with Almiron.

Diaz nuts (06:31.338)
Yes.

Dan (06:31.423)
I think we fell down for him possibly. Like getting rid of him this week. Getting rid of him this week I think would be a valid move if you had a decent swap to move to.

Andy (06:34.534)
Definitely two weeks too long.

Andy (06:42.243)
I could swap him to Alvarez, which I might do.

Dan (06:46.752)
Hmm, I don't know. Just don't worry, Alvarez either though, that's the problem.

Diaz nuts (06:47.893)
Mmm.

Andy (06:49.742)
I don't really want Alvarez, but Haaland's out again, so maybe worth a punt for a week.

Dan (06:55.943)
What about the other Aston Villa players? You guys had Dougie Lewis and Davey and Cash?

Andy (07:01.454)
I think Luis is a good shot just because he's super cheap. But he's like a bench player, you don't want to be playing him every week. I mean you're not going to play him over sun, salla, soccer, any of the good ones.

Diaz nuts (07:01.694)
Now.

Dan (07:12.062)
Well...

We'll come back and talk about SACA in a bit anyway, because I don't think SACA deserves to be up there.

Andy (07:16.602)
Well...

Diaz nuts (07:16.918)
Well, well, soccer is bloody shy.

Andy (07:20.81)
He doesn't. I was thinking about Benin Saka after this week's game, but it's Arsenal and I feel like they'll probably turn it around and he's probably, I mean, he was, if you watch the game, he took a lot of shots still. He just didn't do much with them.

Dan (07:32.639)
Mm-hmm. Okay. Yep.

Diaz nuts (07:34.858)
On Aston Villa, one player we didn't mention, Mr. McGinn. He's the boy doing all the things.

Dan (07:41.307)
I did notice actually when I was watching the match, he takes the corners, he takes the free kicks. Like, he is the boy doing the things.

Andy (07:45.37)
Yeah. I loved like his little shithouse goal celebration then he lost 3-2. Life's hard. Chat shit get banged on again.

Dan (07:50.735)
Yes.

Diaz nuts (07:51.082)
He is a shithouse though. And again, he follows that kind of common thread of why he's a shithouse.

Dan (07:59.151)
Yeah, with Robertson in the rest, yeah.

Andy (07:59.998)
Mm-hmm.

the very small thread.

Dan (08:06.067)
So Crystal Palace vs Brentford is match number 3. Dom, Resident Crystal Palace expert, you must be feeling pretty good. Roy Hodgens, you know.

Diaz nuts (08:15.454)
After he had his paddy the other week, they seemed to have turned it around. All I needed to do was just throw his toys out of the prime and it was fine.

Andy (08:15.538)
Bye.

Andy (08:21.086)
Good job, boy.

Dan (08:22.323)
Fuck I love Roy Hodges right now, he actually gives zero fucks. Like he just seems to be slightly unhinged. He knows he's going. Apparently Steve Cooper's lined up in the wings to come in and take over. Why would you-

Diaz nuts (08:31.003)
Oh good god.

Andy (08:32.425)
I mean, you mean he's going as in like off this mortal coil or like they're gonna sack him? I mean he might though, he's old.

Diaz nuts (08:35.708)
Yeah.

Dan (08:37.38)
No, he's not gonna shuffle, he's not gonna sack him. Right, yeah, he is very old, it's true. What are your thoughts there in terms of taking Gany Crystal Palace players? Is it still a no-go?

Diaz nuts (08:51.134)
I don't think so. I don't think it's a no-go. I think Elise is a consideration.

Andy (08:51.502)
Where am I taking them?

Andy (08:56.571)
If it's not in my team, I'll take them there.

Dan (09:00.428)
So, anywhere but your team.

Diaz nuts (09:00.533)
I think.

Andy (09:00.774)
To the pub, yeah. Anywhere but my team, yeah. I'll take him to the pub.

Diaz nuts (09:04.887)
If you look at Alise over his past three weeks, where is he? Alise, he has had three returns in three weeks. So he's on form and that's against City, Brighton and Chelsea.

Dan (09:06.28)
Mm-hmm.

Dan (09:18.035)
So is this an hour on boss we should be getting on?

Diaz nuts (09:22.51)
Jump on it. Jump on Michael O'Lise.

Andy (09:25.924)
No, thank you.

Dan (09:26.835)
Who have they got next?

Diaz nuts (09:28.468)
Brentford, and then Arsenal, and then Sheffield.

Dan (09:32.743)
Not a bad run, if you're off the arsenal's not great but the other two are winnable.

Diaz nuts (09:36.758)
The problem with any form that you're thinking about for anyone in any team is that the next game week is on December 30th, then the next game week after that is on January 20th. So all form could be lost between now and then.

Dan (09:50.623)
That's a good point. Is that because of the FA Cup and the League Cup?

Diaz nuts (09:56.34)
Yes.

Dan (09:58.527)
Okay. On the other side of it you got Brentford. You're gonna hate me for saying it. What? Your boy Whissa is doing things.

Diaz nuts (10:04.226)
Fuckin' WESA. Fuck off, WESA.

Andy (10:06.926)
He got one goal in like a million years, no one wants Whissa. No one wants Bramford. Not even Whissa's mom picks Whissa.

Dan (10:10.798)
Alright, alright, moving on.

Dan (10:15.283)
That would be hilarious if it was true. Big Whistler. It takes Big Whistler. Big Whistler style. Man City vs Sheffield United is the next match. Obviously Man City gone through a weirdly turbulent patch, but seem to be back on form again.

Diaz nuts (10:16.846)
She picks his brother, other wizard.

Andy (10:19.059)
Oh the Wesser, he's not even in the league and she picks him over Wesser.

Andy (10:35.058)
They're getting done all over the shop a little bit, aren't they? Like, yeah, this week they did come back, but like they went behind to start. I was like, oh, is this going to be it again?

Diaz nuts (10:38.098)
Yeah, fucking lucky.

Diaz nuts (10:43.478)
Hold up, just on Mr. Wissman. He's part of DR Congo national team.

Andy (10:44.861)
Hold up.

Andy (10:48.562)
Hold up.

Andy (10:52.486)
DR Congo. What's that? Hardware store in Allen.

Diaz nuts (10:55.948)
There you go.

Dan (10:56.355)
I'm sorry.

Dan (11:00.019)
I thought it was JRD. I thought it was JRD Congos.

Diaz nuts (11:00.293)
J-R-D-E-S-

Diaz nuts (11:08.379)
You're fucking idiot. Okay. He's about the Democratic Republic of Congo team. You're happy now.

Andy (11:13.524)
JLD Congo

Diaz nuts (11:16.118)
You fucking saw that.

Andy (11:16.606)
I'm sorry.

Dan (11:18.103)
They've got a nice little cafe called Brewie's now. Get a good English breakfast. Maybe Big Whistler's gonna get it for you.

Andy (11:24.159)
There you go. Yeah, put the game on the TV while you have your breakfast.

Diaz nuts (11:24.547)
Sorry, Mrs. Wisse works there.

Dan (11:28.834)
Mrs. Whistler at JRD's.

Andy (11:33.342)
Oh, you know what, another aside, since we're very football oriented today, apparently in the podcast, so we're at the Delta Lounge at LAX, right? And Logan's like, I think that's a famous rapper that we walked past in the lounge. Like, oh, who is he? Like, oh, his name's Young Gravy. Like, okay. Like, are you gonna go and say hi and get a picture? And he's like, no, no. So I bet him $10, and so he went and bothered this Young Gravy man and got a picture with him in the airport.

Dan (11:59.923)
Was he actually... was it... one was actually young gravy.

Andy (12:03.123)
It was a famous rapper, Young Gravy, that we met in the airport today. Yeah, Young Gravy. That's what I said, Young Meat Sauce in the airport lounge.

Diaz nuts (12:06.538)
Mr. Bestow himself.

Dan (12:08.728)
Oh.

Dan (12:12.143)
Young Grave- he's a white boy.

Andy (12:14.106)
He's a very tall white boy, yeah. Six foot eight. Yeah, young gravy. Everyone knows him.

Dan (12:16.009)
with wavy blonde hair.

Dan (12:20.427)
Yeah. Hey, Matthew Raymond Howrie, born in 1996. Fuck, I'm old. Anyway.

Andy (12:24.346)
Damn it, too.

Diaz nuts (12:24.398)
I gotta say, if I had a name like that, I'd probably nickname myself Mr. Bisto or something as well. Fucking hell.

Dan (12:29.02)
Uh, Buffalo?

Andy (12:29.05)
Young Gravy out here in the Delta Lounge. Just chillin'. Anyway, back to Man City.

Dan (12:32.383)
Big powerful, big powerful, that's a lounge, I love it.

Diaz nuts (12:35.736)
That's Eli. Big problem. Jesus.

Dan (12:38.071)
Right, yeah. So Man City Obviously went behind against Everton, came back and won the match in the end. Watching them play though, it did seem a bit laboured, like they were getting the ball up to the final third and they were playing quite well in the final third but no one seemed to be having a way to actually score though. It wasn't great.

Andy (12:57.85)
Not good, but they did win and Foden got a goal, so I do think you keep your man city players if you got them and you play them if you got them, obviously.

Dan (13:00.647)
Eh-heh.

Dan (13:04.979)
Do you, with Hallum being out of the Alvarez will be up front, Greenish therefore will likely be on the wing, is he an option as well?

Andy (13:10.734)
Yeah, I said that last week, that Grealish was an option. Hey Dominic, how did the transfer in Holland back in early go?

Diaz nuts (13:17.182)
I didn't transfer him back in, never transferred him out.

Dan (13:19.601)
Take care.

Andy (13:19.962)
Oh, did you not transfer him out? Okay. I like that you stop him just in the faint hope that he's gonna rock up to the stadium with one leg.

Diaz nuts (13:21.44)
No.

Dan (13:22.558)
Holland in his heart. He never left him.

Diaz nuts (13:29.662)
Everyone was saying, everyone was saying it was 50-50 until the day and they was like, oh no, by the way, he's dead again, by the way. So fucking hip. Yeah. But it says he's fit as of January 13th, so we'll see what happens.

Dan (13:35.251)
The pep I can play, put me on.

Dan (13:42.116)
There you go. All right.

Moving on. Bulls versus Everton. So my boy Whang, my boy Whang did the Whang and Wing thing.

Andy (13:47.016)
Carry on.

Yeah, well, so good.

Andy (13:54.854)
To be fair, one of them was a real goal, the other one was a bad back pass that he like dinked away from the keeper.

Dan (13:59.816)
They were both quite funny clever goals. I quite liked them. It was good watching it. And the fact that-

Andy (14:04.454)
He's a lot faster than he looks, because he's built like a brick shed house, but he's pretty fast.

Dan (14:08.399)
No, yeah, it's not certainly something about him. What about the other old place? Obviously you got Cunha, Lamina now two weeks in a row Well, Lamina now two weeks in a row

Andy (14:13.878)
You get an air of that. Yeah, Kunya's good. Wang's good. Wolves are good.

Dan (14:21.627)
You know, you're dodging the question, what about Lamina though, cause he scored twice in a row now.

Andy (14:25.126)
He's a defensive midfielder, I don't like it. You know how I feel about that. It's like picking Rodri when Eli picked Rodri. You have to be very lucky if you pull that one off.

Diaz nuts (14:25.399)
No.

The only thing you have to worry about is Netso.

Dan (14:35.035)
Everyone went through a phase early in the year where they were picking Rodrik. He was doing quite well.

Diaz nuts (14:35.554)
Very true.

Andy (14:39.77)
He was taking a lot of shots from outside the box, which is kind of like Lamine is taking a lot of headers I think right now is like his thing offset place but like, I mean, I wouldn't bring him in. He's probably really cheap if someone wanted him as a bench player I guess.

Dan (14:45.971)
Hmm.

Dan (14:52.556)
And it is really cheap.

Andy (14:53.786)
I'd be okay getting any wolves players, wolves are good.

Diaz nuts (14:56.174)
Speaking of bench players, Neto was on the bench again this week, so he's coming back.

Andy (15:00.97)
Yeah, little Pedro.

Diaz nuts (15:03.882)
Yep, that's dangerous for any people on Bulls who have scorned points because he was the points magnet for the start of the season.

Dan (15:11.935)
So, Xnate on the Lumine, he's 25% chance of playing for personal reasons. Yeah, he's just a bit sad.

Andy (15:12.391)
Yeah.

Andy (15:19.442)
He just doesn't want to. Personally doesn't want to. Like now that he's back I give up. All the points are gone.

Diaz nuts (15:24.418)
Katty's being replaced by other Wissa.

Dan (15:26.527)
It's not fair. Big whispers coming in from. Everton players obviously a no-go unless you can say something dramatic.

Andy (15:33.95)
Oh Dominic, is Dwight McNeil thing worked out this week? I'm surprised he shut himself off about it.

Diaz nuts (15:35.183)
No.

Diaz nuts (15:41.182)
I was happy but no, I haven't known a long term pick.

Andy (15:46.33)
Pickford's so bad in goal by the way, holy crap, people give a nana shit. Like honestly Pickford, some of the howlers he's lighting against City, Jesus what.

Dan (15:47.729)
it.

Diaz nuts (15:48.535)
Yeah.

Dan (15:55.411)
It's funny, I was listening to the commentary in the Everton match and the commentators kept ragging on Pickford for being like weirdly jumpy. He's like, he's a very jumpy nervous keeper. You see him twitching and talking to himself and shouting at his players and it's like fucking hell. It's calling out of all of Pickford's mental health problems in the middle of the commentary. Not really worth it, is it?

Andy (16:12.222)
I'm surprised they could see him from that far away, he's that little...

Diaz nuts (16:15.446)
Hello. Now you've just said Dwight McNeil's name again. It is.

Andy (16:19.483)
I told you he did it this week! I gave you an out!

Dan (16:20.472)
You summon them, it's like bloody- it's like bloody marrying them or you just summon them

Diaz nuts (16:24.557)
It's like Beetlejuice, now you've said it, so it's past six games. Eight points, 14 points, three points, six points, two points, five points. He's on fire.

Andy (16:34.864)
Okay, get him in.

Dan (16:36.123)
Yeah, why isn't it you doing that, Dom? Make another!

Diaz nuts (16:36.306)
I wish I could. I've already made two transfers this week.

Andy (16:38.654)
Who did you bring in out of my team this week? We'll find out in a bit I guess. Jared Bowen I'm sure is one of them. Oh god you're such a cunt.

Diaz nuts (16:41.921)
Yeah, we will find out Andy.

Dan (16:43.439)
You may. Did you have, did you have to trust? Did you have to transfers to make them or have you just dropped four points for it?

Diaz nuts (16:45.386)
He's one of them.

Diaz nuts (16:52.106)
No, I just dropped four points.

Andy (16:53.238)
Oh, he took a hit to copy my team. Who was the other one?

Dan (16:55.527)
Well no, because now you're technically ahead of him, Andy.

Diaz nuts (16:58.444)
Technically, yeah.

Andy (16:59.707)
Yeah, here's the other one.

Diaz nuts (17:01.943)
Uh, who was it? Uh, a stupid.

Andy (17:06.688)
Okay, I'll give you that. It's on up.

Dan (17:09.827)
Last match on the Saturday is Nottingham Forest versus Man United. Um, yeah. That's weird. No, it's a singular hat trick against a bizarre looking Newcastle. I wouldn't.

Andy (17:14.918)
Alanga, good, fantasy good for at least two games in a row. Chris Wood, also fantasy good.

Andy (17:24.162)
He got goals the week before, he returned a couple weeks in a row then.

Diaz nuts (17:28.01)
Him and Dwight McNeil, should both be in your team.

Andy (17:29.531)
Woody.

Dan (17:30.688)
Chris Wood. You must be on crack if you got Chris Wood.

Andy (17:33.614)
Woody and

He did, he returned the week before.

Dan (17:38.122)
He has 4.9 million? OOF

Andy (17:41.178)
Well now shut your mouth. Shut the front door, Chris would then.

Diaz nuts (17:42.83)
squeak them in.

Dan (17:45.163)
No, I'm good thanks. He's returned twice out of the past 10 games.

Andy (17:49.096)
In the last two games though?

Dan (17:51.087)
Yeah. Well, you say this is a... Is this... Is this your armor on bandwagon, is it then? But I'll let you in your team then, Andy. Get your...

Andy (17:52.57)
11 then 17, he's on fire, what's this week, 25?

Diaz nuts (18:00.162)
Could be a team of two.

Andy (18:00.189)
I'm not putting them in, I never bet against United ever.

Dan (18:03.271)
Get Watkins out and put Wooden in. There you go.

Andy (18:06.024)
No, I will not bet against my own team.

Diaz nuts (18:08.179)
McNeil and Wooden.

Dan (18:08.207)
Okay, speaking of your own team. So Garnacho seems to be the singular point for United at the moment, doing everything.

Andy (18:14.055)
Good player.

The fancy pic.

Dan (18:19.984)
Would you have me too?

Andy (18:21.262)
Yeah, I would. I actually looked at it this week. I didn't end up doing it. Because if you look, I sort of talk myself out of it because like I end up doing comparisons with other players that I do have. And the challenge is most of the other players are more consistent than he is.

Dan (18:25.376)
anyone else.

Dan (18:34.943)
Mm-hmm. He's 4.7 though, which is tasty, but you're right.

Andy (18:38.822)
You're hoping that you catch him on like an upswing of form, that like this is the start of his like multiple returns, because if not, he's not very good.

Dan (18:43.855)
Yeah. No, cause he's blank three weeks in a row before that. So it's kind of.

Andy (18:50.53)
Yeah, you're better off with Dwight McNeil, unfortunately.

Dan (18:54.343)
and obviously Hoylan got a goal. Is that now him scoring goals in the premiership? Probably not.

Andy (18:57.282)
Olin did. Finally get a goal. I don't know. I mean, people talk a lot sure about him, but he scored the most goals in that group in the Champions League. Like, he can't be that bad. I mean, he's scoring against like decent teams in the Champions League.

Dan (19:12.069)
But don't think he is bad. I still think he has got the.

Andy (19:14.598)
I don't think he's like freaking... ..fala level good, but he's not awful. I think he's probably better than Whissa. The problem is half the team don't cross the ball to him. Like, Garnacho like, fucking did him dirty a couple times in that game, like not passing when he should have passed.

Dan (19:25.103)
No, it is a very...

Dan (19:30.959)
It is an incredibly selfish team we have right now. Obviously him, Rashford trying to prove himself. Fernandez has always been selfish, so there's a lot of Anthony at the worst for it as well. There's not a lot of...

Andy (19:41.07)
No one's crossing the ball. He's like up front. He has probably one touch a game. Like if there's a rebound, he can get his toe on like that one because no one's passing in the ball.

Dan (19:49.561)
Mm-hmm.

Andy (19:51.054)
Yeah, you don't want him. I think United Defender I did think about a little bit this week.

Dan (19:57.819)
You said that, what week was it? Not last week, was it the week before where we got fucking hammered after you said I'll totally get United defender and then we got blattered. Yeah, I think I'll just skip

Andy (20:03.842)
Yeah. I'm happy with my defense right now though because you know I have Poros, Zinchenko and Saliba and they're basically the three that I'll start every week and I think they're probably the best three that you can pick.

Dan (20:14.824)
I've got to the Arsenal as well, I think that is the right way to go about it.

Diaz nuts (20:17.747)
I've got two arsenals as well, but they got fucking shafted this week. So that didn't go very well.

Dan (20:22.351)
I thought it was Dom being like, oh, let's make a note of that then. Who else would need to buy you? Ha ha.

Andy (20:22.426)
It won't happen again this week, I don't think.

Andy (20:27.851)
Yeah, exactly.

Diaz nuts (20:28.158)
I already had two. I had two first. I had white and sleeper before you fuckers.

Dan (20:33.669)
Alright.

Andy (20:34.238)
So you have your little Pedro now as well, you copied them as well.

Diaz nuts (20:37.403)
White Sleeper, Pedro Parra, or Stupanen?

Andy (20:38.991)
Ugh, the worst.

actual worst.

Dan (20:43.866)
Moving on to New Year's Eve, we're speaking of Arsenal, so it's Fulham versus Arsenal. So Fulham's going to rise to a tendency, he seems to have come to a bit of a slow.

Andy (20:52.99)
It's a London dobby doe, isn't it?

Dan (20:54.555)
Well here it is, there you go. It says 1-1 draw. 1-1 draw.

Diaz nuts (20:55.394)
That fuck in London Derby.

Andy (20:57.71)
It's probably a 1-1 draw because it's the London Derby and Fulham play like absolute shithouses, right? They got that Polenia that's basically a walk-in yellow card.

Dan (21:05.351)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (21:06.686)
Although West Ham Arsenal was a London derby and West Ham spanked them.

Andy (21:10.746)
Weston a good job, Bowen on his own scoring against everybody. I looked him up because I was like, should I or should I? Because I was having like a dilemma this week of should I get rid of Bowen or Foden to bring in, I think who was I looking at bringing in? It was like Palmer or something. Um, and then I didn't do either of the transfers, but like looking at the form, like Bowen is like on form out of the whole frigging league at this point. You can't drop Bowen.

Dan (21:31.867)
Yeah, he's outscored everybody's thing. I was reading the stat of, that's why I was talking about Saka earlier where you're like, oh, you got to have Saka. And it's like, well, fucking Bowen is the actual must have. It seems.

Andy (21:41.946)
Yep. But talking about Fulham, you don't win any Fulham players, I don't think. And on Arsenal, I think you probably have two Arsenal defenders, but you're probably not super excited about it.

Dan (21:46.245)
No.

Dan (21:53.439)
Who else do you have I guess? It's one of those where defenders are shit this year.

Andy (21:56.986)
Yeah, exactly. I mean, and I think the good thing is, Saliba is not that expensive. He's like 5.2 or whatever when I got him. Zinchenko is not that expensive. And then Poro is amazing for the price. So yeah, I don't know.

Dan (22:04.051)
Mm-hmm.

Dan (22:07.731)
So about six to eight weeks ago, we would have been talking about which of two out of three Arsenal midfielders would you have in your team? Where's that gone and if would you have any if any?

Andy (22:17.35)
Yeah.

I watched the highlights of that game, like, Odegaard's so bad now. I mean he does take corners, which is good sometimes, and like he takes a lot of the free kicks, but like, Arsenal just aren't clicking at all.

Dan (22:25.971)
Mm-hmm.

Dan (22:32.371)
No, it is bizarre. Like, Martinelli, you just don't hear at all now.

Diaz nuts (22:33.235)
Agreed.

Andy (22:36.294)
Super bad now, he's back to how he was before this season where he was just like flashing the plan and not doing anything.

Dan (22:41.225)
Mm-hmm.

Andy (22:42.782)
I think the only one you want to seriously consider is Saka out of all of them. I know, I think Eli's got like, J-Zeus, but I wouldn't have J-Zeus with a million bajillion bonus points. He's so bad.

Dan (22:55.972)
Spurs vs Bournemouth going to the other North London team.

Andy (23:00.126)
Those are like a joke. Like, one week they're amazing, next week, laughing stock. Same players.

Dan (23:05.403)
Yep. It's incredible. I don't get it. Everyone's lauding Ang for having his way of playing and sticking to it regardless. And then the next week is like, why the fuck can't he just make a singular change and actually do something useful?

Andy (23:21.594)
Yeah, I think the highline thing, if they play against the team, who did they get done by this week? They had four goals past them this week, I can't remember who it was now. Bryden, yeah. I think if they play, yeah, and that doesn't surprise me actually. Like, I think if teams are good enough to beat their highline thing, then they're going to get murdered. Like, I think it gets United actually, I'd be like pretty excited about a Tottenham game now, just because of how they're playing and just, if, if-

Dan (23:29.579)
Oh, it's Brighton.

Andy (23:47.506)
Tenhawk didn't try and have 9 million IQ and just put balls over the top for people to run onto, which is the meta to beat Tottenham now. Like, Brighton just embarrassed them.

Dan (23:57.383)
Yeah, it was pretty fucking bad.

Andy (23:58.598)
And those penalties were just like laughable.

Dan (24:01.747)
saying that my boy's son still got me some points and he's staying in the team obviously this week and then leaves next week for the Asian Cup. How do you feel?

Andy (24:08.39)
What about Zhao Pedrao? Two penalty goals.

Diaz nuts (24:12.102)
Yeah, fucking Pedro. I think brightener on the bounce back. Now they've got a stupid and back.

Andy (24:17.51)
They don't play him every week I looked at his minutes, that's the thing about little Pedro. They don't play him that often. Yeah. Irving Ferguson stealing his minutes.

Dan (24:22.439)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (24:24.249)
No, because they've got little Evan Ferreggsons as well, don't they?

Dan (24:28.659)
Finishing Spurs though, you guys have Poro? Still happy having Poro?

Andy (24:33.426)
You get some assist every week?

Diaz nuts (24:35.946)
Yeah, I'm glad I unturned that jam.

Dan (24:36.116)
button.

Diaz nuts (24:40.374)
Hehehehe

Dan (24:42.559)
Thanks for watching!

Andy (24:42.777)
Yeah, Tetra and Pharah are a very good player. You do not want any of the spurs defended.

Dan (24:47.379)
Cool. And then up front, obviously, Sun.

Andy (24:51.726)
Yeah, I'm seriously still flirting with the idea of Richarlison for the price that he is. He was another one that I was thinking of binning Foden for this week. But I might bin Sokka for Richarlison.

Dan (24:56.327)
Yeah.

No.

Why Andy? He, if anyone is a walking yellow card, he's the moron that took his shirt off after scoring and got a yellow and a disallowed goal. Do you not remember that happening? Just let that be a lesson to you.

Andy (25:04.119)
Is good.

Andy (25:13.69)
I think he's good. I think he's good. I might get him.

Diaz nuts (25:14.99)
tell you what, if I could, if I could use my wild card as soon as I get it, my team would look totally different. So it does now with all these other players are talking about just like Dwight McNeil and the stupid and all these people who are informed rather than just because they're soccer or because they're you know, someone else

Dan (25:23.587)
Ugh.

Andy (25:24.686)
Just whatever mine looked like the week before you mean.

Dan (25:27.079)
I'm sorry.

Andy (25:34.546)
You've got a stupider.

Dan (25:37.747)
But that's the game, isn't it? It's trying to pivot. But it's trying to pivot into those players without obviously giving away too many negative points and prioritizing which of those players is the most important to get into your team. And Brightman Neal probably isn't one of those.

Andy (25:39.762)
That's the game, Dominic.

Diaz nuts (25:41.038)
That's the game.

Andy (25:52.21)
Aftergame.

Diaz nuts (25:54.07)
just like Jared Bowen. I had turned that rock through.

Andy (25:55.954)
Just like J-bo.

Dan (25:56.007)
Big bow.

Andy (25:59.098)
J-Bose, great.

Dan (26:01.203)
Fat J-bo. We'll get them in.

Diaz nuts (26:02.03)
I had him first. Let's not even forget that.

Dan (26:04.679)
Let's not, Streets won't forget them. Bournemouth, Dominic Solanke, still doing things. Everyone has him. He probably is the second essential striker.

Andy (26:10.319)
So good

Diaz nuts (26:12.854)
So glad I unturned that gem. Second.

Andy (26:17.586)
That's why you're in third now.

Dan (26:21.403)
Technically, yeah. Strikers wise though, obviously Salanki stays, isn't going anywhere. Haaland is coming back in January. But not this week, no. So who... I'm playing two strikers this week then I guess.

Andy (26:30.686)
But not this week, we don't think.

Diaz nuts (26:32.95)
No.

Diaz nuts (26:36.816)
I am as well.

Andy (26:37.278)
I think I'm playing three, I don't remember. I need to look at what I did.

Dan (26:41.571)
I've got EZAC against Liverpool which does not feel good.

Andy (26:45.354)
No, it doesn't. But it might do, because Liverpool can't defend to save their lives, so...

Dan (26:49.172)
Well, speaking of, Liverpool vs Newcastle is the game on New Year's Day at 8 o'clock. Liverpool obviously, Salah's last match, if you have him you're playing him. Trent is still doing stuff, I know we keep saying he's too expensive but are we wrong? Because he's doing stuff every week now.

Diaz nuts (27:06.49)
Eh, if you've got spare money, I'll be wrong. I think once you get rid of Sanna and Sala and Saka, then you've got spare money to go anyway, so why not?

Andy (27:09.995)
Are we wrong?

Andy (27:15.186)
Hmm.

Dan (27:15.911)
I would be tempted.

Andy (27:18.238)
So who am I losing for my team? It's the African Cup of Nations. I'm just losing Sun and Salah, right? Like that's the only two I'm losing.

Diaz nuts (27:21.826)
Sala, son. Well, name us your team first.

Andy (27:27.402)
Yeah, you wish. I think actually funnily enough this week right now the way I've got it set up I have Salenki's first on the bench.

Dan (27:28.643)
It sounds, it sounds pretty funny. Quick run to your team first.

Diaz nuts (27:28.974)
Hehehehe

Dan (27:39.737)
Ugh. Doesn't feel right.

Diaz nuts (27:39.854)
Jesus Christ, I'm just baldy.

Andy (27:42.21)
Yeah. Well, the other two strikers, Cunha's home Everton and Watkins' home Burnley, they all actually have good fixtures. But who am I going to drop? The only one I would think about dropping would be Saka for Salenki, and Saka's a way fuller, so it seems like a better fixture than the way Tottenham.

Diaz nuts (27:57.742)
Do you not want to drop? Good.

Dan (28:00.559)
against Liverpool. Oh, who for, Andy? Who for? Don't inquiring minds need to know. You could have said he wouldn't though, he's not that man.

Andy (28:00.666)
Do you think it's worth it?

Diaz nuts (28:01.974)
There you go, you dropped him. Oh, boom. I called it.

I called it.

Andy (28:14.398)
Mm-h

Dan (28:16.095)
Come on, are you copying me? Are you copying me? Ha!

Diaz nuts (28:18.786)
For one week. You got him in for one week.

Andy (28:22.234)
Yeah, because I had two transfers. I still have two transfers next week. Cause I'm safe. I'm banking one this week and then I have two next week to bring, bring Holland back in for Watkins probably next week and then Sun to someone in midfield, don't know who yet.

Diaz nuts (28:26.351)
Jesus Christ.

Dan (28:28.467)
That's just extravagant, Andy.

Dan (28:35.739)
That's just extravagant. You just throw money away for that. So Liverpool versus Newcastle, obviously we talked about Liverpool there. We spoke about Salah, you're playing him, you've got him. No one wants any of the other Liverpool front three. Same, that's what we just were talking about. But what about when Salah leaves? Who's filling that gap?

Andy (28:40.815)
is what it is.

Andy (28:50.238)
I kinda want Trent, even though he's 8 million.

Diaz nuts (28:57.942)
and live will go bad again.

Andy (28:59.796)
It's a, isn't it?

Dan (29:01.928)
What you want him then?

Andy (29:03.306)
No. He is a midfielder though this year, which is interesting.

Dan (29:06.768)
Hmm.

Diaz nuts (29:08.75)
Yeah? No.

Andy (29:08.926)
But no, I don't think you want him. Wait and see what they do, because the problem is they have too many players, because they have Gakpo, what's his name, Darwin, they have Luis, they have Jota, they have McAllister. They have so many players for that many spots.

Dan (29:10.271)
Okay.

Dan (29:23.587)
Yeah, that's true. And on the Newcastle side of things, I've just sold Trippier. I'm sick and tired of him and he costs too much money. Had enough of his nonsense. Would you have any Newcastle players in your team? I guess is the question.

Andy (29:32.101)
Get out of my team, Treppie.

Diaz nuts (29:33.791)
Good, they're harsh.

Andy (29:35.918)
Not enough. Dead to me.

Diaz nuts (29:42.359)
Uh, go ahead.

Dan (29:44.531)
Be happy about having your castle players near you.

Diaz nuts (29:46.75)
Not really. Not super happy.

Dan (29:49.395)
Andy?

Diaz nuts (29:52.554)
and is looking at his tibna. There.

Andy (29:55.679)
What are we saying about Newcastle? I've got Debravka but I'm not playing him this week, I'm going to play Ariel.

Dan (29:57.023)
Do you have any?

Diaz nuts (29:57.143)
Have you got any?

Dan (30:00.791)
Yeah, I've got the prof curve as well. When.

Andy (30:03.654)
I'm getting rid of the brave care, there's a failed experiment, we should all just give up on it.

Dan (30:07.091)
When's Pope back?

Andy (30:08.958)
I don't know. But I don't even think you- I think Newcastle are like, going back to where they should be now.

Dan (30:15.792)
Both statements being made here. Go back home, you cather. Go back where you belong. He's dead.

Andy (30:18.042)
I'm getting, I'm getting shot at. The bravka's gone. He's dead to me. I'm not gonna get rid of him till my wildcard, but then I'm gonna get rid of him.

Dan (30:25.127)
Yeah. All right. Last match of this game week is West Ham versus Brighton. West Ham obviously triumphant against Arsenal. I did like the video of the West Ham fan singing Declan Rice's name when he gave the penalty away. That was pretty cool. Are you getting any West Ham players in bearing in mind that the one that you like, Andy Kudos, is actually going away to the Afcon Cup?

Andy (30:56.645)
What's your favorite season?

Dan (30:58.751)
That's in the intervening years between the World Cup and the Euros.

Andy (31:18.318)
who scored this week. Like the game before he had like three shots that he blazed over the bar but if he's starting to score them, I think it actually might be interesting and he's very cheap.

Dan (31:28.191)
as you play.

Diaz nuts (31:28.59)
He is super, super young.

Andy (31:31.441)
He's the right back or the left back? I can't remember which. But he plays at the same time as the stupanen, so...

Dan (31:37.123)
Hence your wood is 4.5.

Andy (31:39.818)
Oh, so good. I might get him, just to have him.

Diaz nuts (31:42.411)
And he looks 12 years old.

Dan (31:43.599)
He does look about so he looks younger than Logan. Yeah, yeah.

Diaz nuts (31:45.846)
He's in midfield though.

Andy (31:47.938)
Izzy McField? Ah, robbed. No, okay, no, can't have him. Never mind.

Dan (31:54.494)
Anyway.

Andy (31:55.897)
Anyway.

Diaz nuts (31:56.801)
onwards.

Dan (31:58.003)
So where's that writing?

Any other...

Andy (32:01.772)
I think Grosz is still really on form, right? He didn't do anything this week though and they did score four goals which is a little bit worrying.

Dan (32:09.663)
Yeah, but then solid did that one where they scored nine goals and didn't do anything so it happens to people

Andy (32:13.943)
Eh.

Dan (32:16.499)
I still think Gross is an option. What is their next couple games like?

Andy (32:18.509)
Well Tom got a stupid hand in didn't he? Off the back of one screamer.

Diaz nuts (32:20.886)
Certainly did, so did Dan. So did Dan.

Andy (32:24.583)
Thank you.

Dan (32:26.068)
I mean for Trippie I'd stop putting money in the bank for when I get Hallen back. It was that and the fact they've got West Ham, Wolves and then Luton as our next three games so that's pretty tasty.

Andy (32:29.8)
Bye.

Andy (32:36.89)
Did you screw yourself on the how-and-back-in transfer?

Dan (32:39.619)
No, I've got money. I just had to do it. No, I've got money. It's fine. I've got money. I've got money. Jesus.

Andy (32:40.998)
You spread the money around. Did you spread the money around? Did you drop the ringer? Did you fumble the back?

Diaz nuts (32:50.92)
Jelly's left a doughnut hasn't it Dan? Fucking hell.

Dan (32:54.324)
It fucking will in a minute if you don't leave me alone. Jesus. That is all of the games for Gameweek 20. I guess Andy do you want to go through the Red Blue League?

Diaz nuts (32:57.06)
I'm sorry.

Andy (33:00.659)
Alright, fun.

Andy (33:08.842)
Yeah, you know what I was pissed about? Like the one game before I was in, I was number 10 and now I'm one point off the top 10. Very annoying.

Dan (33:17.568)
UGH

Diaz nuts (33:18.274)
There you go, I was mentioning number 11 in the fucking table for the one and only time.

Dan (33:21.379)
Exactly.

Andy (33:23.246)
You calm down. Technically, if they refreshed it right now, thinking about it, I would be in the top 10 because you'd be out of the top 10 because you're minus 4. That's not how it works. I mean, it's technically how it works. It's just not when they update the website. All is in 10th. Dom's dropped down to 9th. I think he got second fewest. No, you pulled it off, didn't you, dipshit? Fewest points by a lot in the top 10.

Dan (33:29.992)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (33:30.022)
No, it works. I'm speculating to accumulate.

Dan (33:32.415)
This is how it works.

Diaz nuts (33:45.908)
No, fewest.

Dan (33:50.143)
Dominic.

Andy (33:51.246)
He got 32, the next worst was 39. So Dom's nine. Billy's up to eight. He's gone past Dom. Billy had 53 points this week, which I think was the most in the top 10. You're not in the top 10 though, Dom. You're not in the top 10 either. Billy on the other hand is in the top 10 and got 53. What did he do to get 53, Billy? I bet it's a captain that went well. Oh, it's not a captain that went well. No, he had Arreola, Cufo, Wang, Salanqui.

Dan (34:00.231)
Not as many as me, just saying, not as many as me. I will be soon. Ha ha ha.

Diaz nuts (34:06.818)
Thank you.

Dan (34:15.067)
Mm-mm. Good picks.

Diaz nuts (34:16.302)
Keep on wanging.

Dan (34:20.735)
Who file? What a fucking wit. What a wit.

Diaz nuts (34:20.81)
He wanged it. He fucking wanged it.

Andy (34:22.173)
2-4. Ariola's the one, 10-point goalkeeper. Oof. Yeah, well, and he did have to make 9 million saves, that's how he got 10 points. Alan Sinclair, 7. Mahakioska, 6. Conor Gunn, 5. Hobie Miller, 4. Aaron Mill, 3. Tobias Scott, 2. And Steve is backed up by 2 points.

Dan (34:26.145)
old putting him against Arsenal.

Dan (34:44.047)
I hate how I'm still on top, it just doesn't feel right.

Andy (34:46.606)
It won't last, don't worry about it. Don't worry. Don't worry about it, it won't last forever. Uh, who's bottom? Who was the worst go- Oh, FareedZ got 23 points. Is he a dead team or is he a real team? Oh no, he had a real team, he just had an absolutely shocking week. Really fucking bad at fantasy bubble.

Diaz nuts (34:47.534)
Do you have a YouTube on top?

Dan (34:53.944)
Okay.

Dan (35:03.927)
A real fucking sad team. That's not good. Okay, let's talk about the league that matters, the one everyone cares about. It has changed dramatically from last week. So in last place now is my eldest Noah with 44 points in the game week for 999. No, by two points. So dad got 41 points with 1001. Then it's me with 55 points in the game week for 1012.

Diaz nuts (35:05.535)
Yeah, definitely.

Yeah.

Andy (35:20.414)
I thought that was bomb. It didn't end up bomb.

Dan (35:33.431)
Andy got 43 in the game week for 1022. Dom got 32 in the game week for 1025. So it's tight there. And then Eli got the least in the game week this week with 30 for 1055. What happened? What happened buddy? No, he doesn't.

Andy (35:49.442)
Is he panicking? Is he starting to worry?

Diaz nuts (35:51.67)
He was the one with the sassy, he had Phil Bill. He's got Phil the Bill in midfield, what the fuck is he doing?

Andy (35:53.43)
Is he fumbling the bag like his dad?

Dan (35:54.747)
He had... He had Dabravka, Mikulenko, Dasassi, Poro, Billing, Salah, Saka, Douglas-Louise, Watkins, Solanki, Jesus... And he had Garnaccio on the bench. Fucking Garnaccio on the bench.

Andy (35:59.995)
Oh.

Diaz nuts (36:05.27)
and he had got a jaw on the bench. Fucking.

Andy (36:05.53)
He's got some... He's got some very, very dodgy picks in his team. Mikulenko and Billing.

Dan (36:14.789)
I guess Mika Lonecomb-Billing would normally be sure and gone Nacho if he weren't in the team.

Andy (36:20.51)
Where did he pick the United? Is he United? Fanta? Suck up.

Dan (36:24.231)
I'll do that, I'll tell my nine year old son to stack up, I'll make sure. Sorry.

Andy (36:28.724)
Eli, sack up.

Diaz nuts (36:30.182)
And then Dan should probably start betting against Man U every time they play.

Dan (36:34.271)
uh... there was good it was going well it was going well half-time house issue of money is a comic book with it no well point that is it anyway so any transfers and a dramatic changes the mid

Andy (36:34.342)
Yeah. It's not going well now.

Andy (36:41.444)
Should have cashed out.

Andy (36:51.47)
Well, you said yours, didn't you? You copied Bowen.

Diaz nuts (36:54.382)
I brought back bones since I had them in the first place, yes.

Dan (36:58.621)
back bones.

Diaz nuts (36:59.722)
I got back bone and I also, I dropped. Who the fuck did I drop for bone? That's a good question.

Andy (37:00.958)
Who did you drop the bone?

Andy (37:05.766)
Was it Anthony Gordon?

Dan (37:07.515)
No, I hope it was one of the Afkon players, like, surely.

Andy (37:10.438)
Nah, fuck Anthony Gordon, he's... That's probably one week premature.

Diaz nuts (37:10.711)
It was Salah. It was Salah who dropped for Gordon.

Dan (37:12.927)
Yeah.

Yeah, I think you're gonna get humped by that.

Diaz nuts (37:16.934)
Nah, I didn't do Castle of Pugin. Boring.

Andy (37:17.71)
Yeah, that's a very, very bad move. You know what? I got rid of Anthony Gordon. Have you been watching Newcastle play? He literally lives on the touchline. They don't let him anywhere near the box. Now it was, I was watching that game. I'm like, great. I'm going to, I can guarantee I'm going to get zero points this week because he doesn't get anywhere near the box. Even when they're on corners, they make him stand outside the box now.

Dan (37:20.287)
He's gonna give all the scouts a goodbye present.

Dan (37:38.611)
I still like him, no one likes him. In fact that is a dickhead, it didn't take long.

Andy (37:42.128)
and how screwing me. I'm like, just let him do one thing.

Dan (37:46.599)
Yeah, I mean, obviously, speaking of Newcastle, my one change I made was bringing a Super Nine in for Trippier to get the funds in the bank and to not have Newcastle players or try and get rid of all my Newcastle players.

Andy (37:56.806)
Fuck 3PA. He's been bad for a while, he should have been done a while ago. I've been done a while ago. I feel a lot better about it.

Dan (37:59.879)
should have been a while ago. I think that's gonna be my epitaph for this entire season. Should have been that a while ago. I've been holding onto players for too long.

Diaz nuts (38:01.174)
Yeah, it does.

Andy (38:07.754)
Hmm.

Pedro Poro, eh? Have you got Poro, then? How have you not got Pedro? What are you doing?

Dan (38:18.247)
Don't have power, don't have power. Got the most points this week. Getting the most points this week. How many points did you get?

Andy (38:20.238)
You did a- you did- oh my god, what are you doing? So bad. I got the most points in December, I think. Did you win in the cup, by the way? I got through to the next round of the cup.

Diaz nuts (38:20.29)
Have you got some lanky?

Dan (38:31.527)
I can check that for you. We got KDAB last week remember?

Diaz nuts (38:33.155)
Me and Danny already got kicked out.

Andy (38:36.378)
I'm into the last quarter, in the last half million though, around 19.

Dan (38:39.375)
And you didn't get the most points in December, I did. So suck it. I got 296, you got 288.

Andy (38:42.686)
For how many?

Andy (38:46.774)
Ah, there's still one more game week there, wasn't there? This week? Ah, does it end in January? Nah. Does it start in December and end in January? Yeah, alright. Alright, how do they count that? Do they count that as a January game week?

Diaz nuts (38:48.81)
No, because it ends in January.

Dan (38:49.711)
No. Yeah.

Diaz nuts (38:54.092)
Yep.

Dan (39:01.179)
Pass. I assume so, yeah.

Diaz nuts (39:01.422)
I assume so.

to join the Man City only play one Premier League game in January.

Andy (39:04.764)
All right.

Andy (39:08.203)
United on its way too.

Diaz nuts (39:10.582)
Could be a sad January.

Dan (39:11.106)
It's all fucked up. Yep.

Andy (39:12.43)
It is gonna be a really boring January. I hate that they've messed up the fixtures this badly. Kind of annoying, because December's amazing and then January's terrible.

Dan (39:17.503)
Cheers, Liam.

It's like holidays, football, Christmas, best fucking month of the year, and then January's like miserable back to work and no football. Yep. Oh. Shit. If only you were going to Hawaii.

Andy (39:25.926)
Garbage as wintertime.

Diaz nuts (39:29.386)
should do it like basketball as I gave every three days.

Andy (39:31.566)
Yeah, if only you were about to fly to Hawaii for a week. I'll send you a picture from the beach tomorrow. Yeah. Oh, I brought in Hyeong Min Son for Anthony Gordon. That was my transfer this week. And then everyone complained about it. Yeah. Well, when he gets a return, and I ca- mainly because I'm captain in Son this week.

Dan (39:37.523)
I appreciate that. On that note then, right.

Diaz nuts (39:37.674)
Thanks, Andy.

Dan (39:45.235)
Good, good try, so I could score in the deck at...

Dan (39:53.251)
I already had him capped and I'm not copying you because I already had fucking sun before you Jesus wept

Diaz nuts (39:58.018)
Captain Watkins as a last attempt to get him to get some points.

Andy (40:01.026)
Oh, that could go right or horribly wrong. Five out of the last six weeks, it went horribly wrong.

Dan (40:02.288)
What can you f-

Diaz nuts (40:08.202)
I mean, I'm playing the chances here.

Dan (40:10.459)
He is against Burnley and they are terrible but that is a bold, bold no- I like it, it's gonna be interesting at least.

Andy (40:13.363)
They are very bad.

Diaz nuts (40:14.71)
That's bold, Conn. It's a bold strategy, Conn.

Andy (40:16.922)
Well, my week is really hard this week actually, picking my teamwires, because I'll tell you why. Alright, so I need to pick, out of these players, I need to pick three, basically I'm playing a 3-4-3, so I get four midfielders or five midfielders and then two or three strikers. So the choice is to pick from Saka, Salah, Foden, Son, Bowen, Kunya, Solanki, Watkins, and they all have amazing fixtures this week.

Dan (40:35.271)
Yep.

Andy (40:46.742)
Saka is the only one where I'm like he's away Fulham and it is the London Derby and he's not super on form But it doesn't feel great not picking Saka against Fulham

Dan (40:53.247)
but it's soccer and you paid 8 million or whatever for them, haven't you?

Andy (40:56.91)
Yeah, so really it should be Konya should be the one I shouldn't play, home Everton, which also feels bad.

Dan (41:04.479)
Mmm.

Andy (41:04.614)
And then on form it should be Watkins, the adventure.

Dan (41:08.063)
I think it's Burnley though. I would probably bench Cunha.

Andy (41:09.976)
Is it?

Andy (41:13.466)
I'm probably gonna benchpun you but I'm not happy about it cause he's playing at Everton at home.

Diaz nuts (41:13.93)
Agreed.

Dan (41:18.146)
No. I know, but you're paying the money, you're using the Andy Adams logic, you're paying the money, you want to put the players on the pitch.

Andy (41:25.094)
Well I mean, Salanki away Tottenham is not an amazing fixture, but he's scored against pretty much everyone so...

Diaz nuts (41:28.681)
No.

Dan (41:30.895)
I disagree. I think anyone who taught them was a good show.

Andy (41:34.97)
I don't know if Bournemouth are good at breaking down a high line though with the players that they've got.

Dan (41:40.775)
Dominik Slanky is an amazing striker, I'm sure he can manage.

Andy (41:44.945)
He does have to do everything. He's got the team on his back. He's like Greg Jennings with a broken leg. The team on his back. Alright, sounds good. Well, when's the next podcast? It's not for a while after this one, is it?

Dan (41:51.17)
Yep. I think that'll do it.

Dan (41:57.199)
So the next game week kicks off for game week 21 on the 13th of January. So we probably want to pod.

Andy (42:07.174)
Give people more than 24 hours to listen next time, baby.

Diaz nuts (42:07.403)
fourth, fifth, sixth.

Dan (42:10.263)
That'd be generous, we could do that, yeah. We could do it on the Monday the 8th.

Andy (42:12.334)
We could, yeah.

Alright, I'll be at JP Morgan, I think, but I can do it from San Francisco.

Dan (42:22.139)
I'll still be in Scotland.

Diaz nuts (42:22.314)
I'll do it from my bedroom, the same way I always do.

Andy (42:26.714)
I've podcasted from all around, I'm making this international, Mr Worldwide. Now-

Dan (42:30.387)
Hehehe

Diaz nuts (42:30.954)
Alright Pitbull, get fucked.

See you later, young gravy.

Andy (42:35.135)
All right.

Dan (42:35.76)
Cool.