S1 Ep1: Welcome to Off The Bench

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Introducing our brand new weekly FPL podcast, Off The Bench, the perfect companion to the FPL Pod. The day after each Gameweek two Fantasy Premier League experts will discuss all the major talking points and analyse the key decisions.

First up is Lee Bonfield and Gianni Buttice, who consider whether Erling Haaland is already a must-have 🤔

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Darwin evolution at Liverpool (03m 12s)
Gabriel Jesus stick or twist (08m 33s)
What to do with Harry Kane (17m 35s)
Erling Haaland must have (19m 15s)
Lessons learnt (30m 11s)
Looking ahead (34m 35s)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the first episode of Off the Bench. I'm Lee from FPL family.
0:19.5	And I'm Gianni from Fancy Football Festival.
0:22.4	Gianni, it is great to have FPL back. It's great to have the Premier League back, but particularly
0:26.6	exciting to be here, you and I, on the first ever off the bench podcast. How good is this?
0:31.4	Yeah, mate, I'm so up for it. Like the next 45 minutes just chatting with you about so much that we saw over the weekend.
0:37.9	It was an eventful game week one, wasn't it?
0:40.2	It was a fascinating game week.
0:41.5	Some scores that, frankly, I wasn't expecting.
0:44.2	I don't know.
0:44.7	I mean, we'll get to it, right?
0:45.8	But what on earth happened to Bournemouth at Villa?
0:48.7	Well, what happened to Villa, actually, I should say, right?
0:50.7	I mean, Bournemouth were fantastic, right?
0:52.4	Yeah, they really were. Like, Scott Parker just does that job.
0:55.2	Like, you can tell they've been so well drilled. And then two goals, one kind of from a set piece.
0:59.8	And, yeah, like, no one saw that one coming.
1:01.9	Yeah, I think Stevie G's got a bit of work to do there with some of their defensive set pieces.
1:05.7	No doubt about it. But listen, the main talking point, and we're already seeing it because as FPL managers,
1:11.2	how fickle are we?
1:12.2	We've seen it for seasons after season, right?
1:14.1	Harry Kane already out the door by a lot of FPL managers and no surprises to see the
1:20.8	main man at City coming in, Erlin Harlan.
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