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S2 Ep27: Off The Bench: Wildcards pay off

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6749 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It was a week for Wildcard users to rejoice as many of the popular Run-In picks produced 🃏🥳

FPL experts Gianni Buttice and FPL Family’s Sam Bonfield look back at the first 10 matches of the Gameweek and chat through Newcastle delivering at home, ditching Liverpool attackers, and whether it’s worth owning Bruno.

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* Spurs conundrum (05m 01s)
* Man City triple-up (10m 34s)
* Great Gordon (18m 47s)
* Should we bother with Bruno (28m 20s)
* Chelsea assets (34m 11 seconds)
* Selling Salah (40m 40 seconds)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to this week's off the bench podcast from the Premier League.

0:18.8

I'm Janie Batici.

0:19.9

And I'm Sam from FPL family. Hey Sam. We still have one match to go. It's Chelsea versus Sp League. I'm Janie Bittici. And I'm Sam from FPL Family.

0:21.4

Hey Sam. We still have one match to go. It's Chelsea versus Spurs. It's Janie versus Sam.

0:25.8

But the first 10 games of the week have thrown up a number of huge talking points, haven't

0:29.9

I mean, we saw Harlan come off the bench to score. We saw Foden miss out through illness.

0:33.9

We saw Salah and Darwin, well, they were sold en masse, but both found themselves on the

0:37.9

bench by clock. And we had a couple of goalkeeper injuries, Martinez and Edison. But how was

0:43.6

Game Week 35 for you, Sam? Oh, do you know, Johnny, I was getting myself in a bit of a state going

0:48.2

into this one because a lot of the community had their wild cards active. And I had a bit of a

0:53.6

moment of kind of like, I wish I still had their wild cards active and I had a bit of a moment of kind of like,

0:56.0

I wish I still have my wild card because it's so fun, isn't it, playing your wild card?

1:00.5

And there's this whole wave of expectations and things that might happen when you've played

1:05.2

it and it could be great.

1:06.3

And I was looking at my team thinking, well, you don't really want Salah anymore and I don't

1:10.4

really want Darwin anymore because the form hasn't been there.

1:13.7

And the double has passed now for Liverpool and, you know, some trickier fixtures on the

1:17.5

horizon.

1:17.9

So I wanted to change them up.

1:20.1

So I ended up taking a minus eight heading into Game Week 35, which is something that I never do.

1:26.0

And of course, Gianni, it's one of those, isn't it,

1:28.6

where part of the decision for the minus eight was to bring in Isak, who I really wanted.

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