Preview of the Second Half of the FPL Season

Always Cheating: A Fantasy Premier League Podcast

Always Cheating Media LLC

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.8 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

With the Premier League's nonstop festive fixtures now behind us, it's time to digest what we've learned and establish a plan for the fantasy season's second half. The first big issue is, of course, the departure of key midfielders Mo Salah and Son Heung-min (among many others) to international tournaments. How can we best replace them—and how soon? We size up the favorite options of Saka, Bowen, and Richarlison, plus a few less popular picks, and debate the significance of Arsenal's attacking form, as well as Richarlison's ability to pick up the slack for Spurs in Son's absence. There's also the small matter of Manchester City's inevitable resurgence with the return of Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne. Hail Cheaters!

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0:00.0	Hey, old cheaters. Welcome to the iOS Gene podcast. My name is Josh. I'm here with Brandon. Brandon Kelly. That's your full name. Brandon Shane Kelly. How are you? After, after doxing me on the always cheating podcast, I'm doing great. Yeah, fantastic. Happy New Year to all the cheaters out there. I think I speak for at least you and me, Josh, that the festive fixtures were long but not boring.
0:41.3	That was crazy what we just kind of lived through.
0:45.6	We live to tell the tale.
0:47.3	I hope that everyone out there listening kind of ended on a positive note.
0:52.1	Sparrow thought for everybody who wild carded. Josh, can you imagine,
0:56.3	knowing what we know now, landing at the Game Week 20 deadline on Wildcard and the fallout there?
1:05.1	It was really tricky. I think it just didn't help that Sun and Sala had such good matches that Holland was out.
1:13.9	Holland being out, I feel like, was really the biggest problem, right? That just made things
1:18.7	really difficult because if Holland were healthy and expected to play in Game 820, everyone could
1:24.2	have captained him. It would have made some of the other decisions. You know, the sort of cascading effect, right? Once you pick your captain, you can, it's easier to sweat some other players. But when the captaincy is wide open, there's sort of a feeling like, ah, I have to sweat five or six different players, right? I mean, we saw, you know, some of the top of our personal, our longtime small, small, old-school mini-league.
1:44.6	I don't know why I'm getting so specific about it, but our Elks Lodge, as we call it,
1:49.2	the person at the top of that, Captain Saka, right?
1:51.7	There was a wide range of options available to you in Game Week 20.
1:55.3	And, yeah, I think on balance, it was a very exciting,
2:00.3	and ultimately good, certainly good for you and me,
2:03.5	festive run.
2:05.2	It started as bad as it could.
2:07.1	My Game Week 18 was like, am I going to quit?
2:10.4	Like I was like, I was like, what am I?
2:12.6	And I just really, you know, we did a YouTube live for our Patreon's our patrons but i think you can go just go find it
2:18.3	on our youtube channel you can you can listen to me walk through my the horrors of game week 18
2:23.7	and it was uh yeah it was i dropped like 500 000 spots and i was like man this just is not
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