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S2 Ep8: Off The Bench: Popular picks blank

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6 β€’ 749 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

FPL experts Az Phillips and Oscar, aka FPL Focal, dissect a challenging Gameweek for managers as top captaincy candidates and highly-owned players struggled for returns πŸ™ƒπŸ€

They chat all things Spurs, Haaland, and holding transfers for the international break.

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* Chelsea consideration (05m 34s)
* Have a go Haaland (18m 33s)
* Brighton worries (20m 58s)
* Bye bye Brentford (30m 07s)
* Must-keep Man Utd (31m 26s)
* Everton inclusion (39m 18s)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back for this week's off the bench podcast. My name is As and I'm from FPL Blackbox.

0:19.0

And I'm Oscar, also known as FPL focal.

0:21.1

FPL managers find themselves with two weeks of thinking time as we head into another international break.

0:26.8

But Oscar has a lot to think about.

0:28.6

The two most captain players both blanked.

0:31.4

Son failed to return in the first match of Game Week 8 and Harland also finished the game week

0:36.0

with Al to return as well.

0:38.9

Sterling punished those who sold him and it was centrebacks Powell Torres and Mickey Vanderven who rewarded

0:43.2

their owners with attacking returns or Harley owned wingbacks in a dogey, cash and Porro all failed

0:48.9

to register attacking returns. One of those weeks, Oscar, some take a breather, but before we do,

0:53.7

let's take a look

0:54.2

back at GamerGate. How did you get on? Yeah, not too bad, actually. Yeah, it's nice to come on there

0:58.5

with a green arrow, unlike our last recording together. Yeah, I played my wild card back in GAMIC 7,

1:03.6

which was a net gain and more gains than Gaming 8. So, yeah, all good. Not a massive green arrow. I got 50 points all out, so that puts me at 450 points in total.

1:13.0

Still a way off where I'd like to be, but heading in the right direction.

1:15.9

I had son, Sala and Harland, and I did go for Sun Captain in the end, which was the biggest regret.

1:21.2

Obviously not helped by the red car from Basuma.

1:23.3

How'd you get on? Well, it's like they knew when they, where they paired us together for these, that we'd have kind of similar seasons.

1:28.3

I'm on a 4-4-7, so you're three points ahead of me,

1:32.2

played the wild card same time as you.

1:34.0

It's just been slow and steady, like, increases.

1:36.2

I'm still waiting for that one big week that, you know,

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