Hey, L Chaters, and welcome to the iOS Chene Podcast. My name's Josh. I'm happy to be back. I'm here with Brandon. Brandon, how are you? I'm great. It's good to have you back, Josh. We had a wonderful substitute by Shiv Morjoria last week, but, you know, we're brothers in FPL, Josh, and it's always good to be podcasting with you. Yeah, it's good to be back.

It was nice to, uh, it's nice to take a, you know, a little tiny little break, but I didn't feel like I really took a break because I was, I was following, uh, those matches very close. It was a real, it was a sweat for me, uh, this last week. I, you know, I, you know, it's, I have to remember sometimes, you know, we do a Patreon pod, you know, midweek.

And so I often end up talking about this stuff.

But, uh, we, we do a Patreon pod, you know, midweek, and so I often end up talking about this stuff.

But we recorded after 26 was done.

But 26 was, you know, for anyone who was a pod-to-pot listener, Brandon, and you know, missed the end of 26.

I love the continuity.

Midweek was pretty dramatic.

Pretty, pretty hair-raising stuff, especially if you didn't have Sala.

The first half of that leads level match, if you had Sala, Captain, but not Triple Captain,

was about as bad as it gets.

And then he effectively lost a point in the second half.

And so I'll take that as a...

He walked it back a little bit.

He walked it back a little bit, which felt like a tiny, tiny victory.

Yeah.

I was all over the place like so many people were when it came to what to do for 26.

And maybe people were in the same boat about 27.

I feel like 27 was a little less dramatic just because it was more of a blank game week, you know, and you either, you're either free hitting or, or you're just trying to get through it, right? I'm trying to what your free hit status was, or whether you felt like it was worth playing or not. And, you know, I don't really think there were any other strategies that made sense. I certainly no one was triple captain anybody this week or anything like that. But I feel like the free hit, I think, was ultimately a pretty good move. I'm certainly happy with how it's gone so far. I mean, I've heard him three Burnley players, and I've got a total of six points, I guess eight. Oh, you love to see it. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. But the other players, the less dramatic players like Mr. The good players. Harold. Harold Canning. You know, Harry Kane was great. And, you know, I brought in Tallas, Alex Tulles. I got nine points from Tulles. Like, hashtag random. No one is more free hit hit than tell us you know and and that was just like a total punt right because I had levermento first bench too and so actually when he got eight over the weekend I was like on Friday I was like why why didn't I just start levermento like I think I think North just scored 15 total goals on the season so far so why didn't't you? Tell me why, Josh. Well, I think it was just, it was the many, many weeks when I had played Levermento and I got one or zero points from him. You know, it was like it was, I had a long, I just felt very burned by by him. Sure. Let me tell you about Josh Brownhill. Yeah. Yeah, the br-, you really had the highs and lows with Josh Brownhill, haven't you? Oh, my God. Unreal. I mean, and I'm still reliance upon Josh Brownhill because Burnley have become such an important FPL team in the last few weeks in the weeks to come. So it's like on the one hand,

it's great that Josh Brownhill has hit some form and some consistent starting because of that form.

Now it's incumbent upon him to score points when I actually start him.

So, you know, if you're listening, Josh.

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