Hey, L'Haters, welcome to the always cheating podcast.

My name is Josh.

I'm here with Brandon. Brandon, how are you?

Great. This is like a mini feeling I'm having of coming back from a summer break,

international break, has just kind of been the doldrums here. So I'm excited to get back to

where we left off. Like this is a cliffhanger resolution.

You triggered your wild card on last week's pod.

And we need to know what changed, where your strategy's at.

And also what's been going on with these national team matches.

I mean, the whole country of Ireland has gone into hiding after Declan Rice and Jack Grealish did did some dirty deeds to them.

So commiserations to the Irish for sure.

But how are you feeling, I guess, vibe check, Josh.

Well, the vibes are good.

I mean, I feel like I really kind of checked out for a few days. Now, last week, what we did are, you should go back and listen to last week's pod if you haven't listened to it yet, because I think it's a sort of evergreen pod. We talked about sort of big picture takes on all 20 Premier League clubs covered a lot there. And then I sort of revealed, I hadn't told you this before the pod that I had activated by wildcard. And so we went through that. Of course, I've changed a lot since then. I feel like it's still very much in flux. And I actually kind of screwed up because they made the classic wildcard problem of, you ever tinkered on a wild card and you took a player out as part of a tinker and then you

confirmed and then you realized that player had gone up point one without realizing it yeah and you've

lost the money okay chris wood so yeah lost whatever money you made on him were you ever going

to has he increased in price since you did that he went at point one and so he's he's back in the

squad i'll i'll share the updated updated team with you it did actually force a kind of

this is the problem is you know point one is so crucial when it comes to wildcard decisions right

there's a kind of cascading effect here so yeah i think it's been a very, yeah, the Premier League, you know, this first international

break is a toughie, I feel like, right? Because you have, there's a lot going on in the sports calendar. I think the Premier League sort of needs to compete in that world, right? You had the Wimbledon, or I mean, not Wimbledon, you had the U.S. Open Final, college football. Some people would have watched the Woody Allen film whimbled in, perhaps, with no Premier League on.

Sure.

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