Welcome back to this week's off the bench podcast from the Premier League. I'm Sam from FPL family.

Hello and I'm press. The first 10 games of Game Week 33 are in the bag with three double

game week fixtures still to come over the next couple of days. And it's been a big one at both ends of

the table as well as being a divisive one in FPL. 823,000 bench booster active, 693 captains, as well as 444,000 free hits and 219 wildcards.

In fact, there are 2,379,580 chips active this week, which is a record only beaten by Game Week 24 last season, which was the first week

of the assistant manager chip. Pras is chip season. Do you have one active and how's the game

week going? Yes, I have to first say this is so nice to see that so many people are active at this

point in the season, so many chips are active. And of course, I was also on one of those.

I was actually the more rarely seen wild card, which was a week later than when everybody played.

And of course, happy to talk about why I did it.

But pretty happy with it so far.

I've got 10 players who've played.

Obviously, Zhao Pedro didn't show up.

And we'll talk about

him if he does later this evening. But 55 points, reasonably good Green Arrow and like most other people

have another set of doublers to play in the next three games. How's your week? Yeah, it's been good so far.

I also have a chip active, although I am one of the more popular chips with the bench boost being active. In itself, the bench boost chip has been a bit, I'm going to say disappointing. So obviously I have Roofs as my goalkeeper on the bench this week because I played Dabrach, which neither of them is going particularly well, to be honest. Nort points for Debravka, one for Roofs on the bench.

I didn't quite see him conceding as many as he did to Aston Daly, but we'll talk about that game later. I do have Morgan Rogers, though, on the bench, so that was nice. Gabrielle with a nought pointer, although to be honest, perhaps, and I'm sure we're going to talk about this in a minute. I'm quite thankful that it was just the nought and not a minus point, which is what I was thinking might happen in midway through a Sunday afternoon.

And I had Tiago, which was really disappointing as my bench boost option.

So my bench is now done a grand total of 11 points, which I think is disappointing given given that last week I had Gayhi on my bench for 15.

So in it, I should just played it last week. However, as you say, the rest of the team stacked full of doublers, so they're all going to play again. So 62, a big green arrow so far, hopefully if some of them

can return. And of course, if Jiao Pedro could turn up tonight, that would be really nice and set us up in good stead for the rest of the week. It does mean that my team is looking a bit difficult for next week. So I'll have another chip active again for the blank coming up. But yeah, it's been good. I do enjoy the madness of a double game week. Yeah, it's fun times. I think everyone has their own agendas. Like, people who are not on a bench boost, they're hoping Jao Pedro doesn't show up. Because we're like, you know, we're like, we want the bench boosters to be mudded and this kind of this rivalry that shows up with multiple chips in play. It's fun. It's fun. Who would you have off your bench if Jadreau doesn't turn up tonight? Bruno Fernandez.

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