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FPL Pod

S5 Ep10: FPL Pod: Time to Free Hit?

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6749 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

With just seven fixtures in Gameweek 8, is it time to play your Free Hit, or even Wildcard? That’s the big talking point as Courteeners frontman (and FPL nut) Liam Fray joins Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team to tackle Gameweek 7.

Gambling on Son, assessing Chelsea assets under new manager Graham Potter and upcoming fixtures swings are also on the agenda.

Listen 👇
  • Intros (0m 26s)
  • Time to Free Hit? (6m 9s)
  • Son Heung-min (15m 50s)
  • Saka v Martinelli (19m 06s)
  • Do you need a full XI for GW8? (22m 53s)
  • Better to Wildcard? (24m 51s)
  • Teams with Fixture Swings (32m 45s)
  • GW8 captains (39m 07s)

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the first blank game week of the season, so is it time to wildcard your way out or fire up that free hit?

0:08.1

We've got all the tips to help you get through Game Week 8.

0:16.9

Hello, welcome back to the FPL pod. No FPL, of course, since we will ask with you, but plenty

0:22.0

for us to chat about as we resume with a blank game week eight. Jules and Sam are back with me

0:28.5

to do just that and both with children back at school, which Jules, I'm guessing, means no interruptions

0:34.3

from Margo. Well, funny you say that because she's just right there.

0:37.9

Her school starts a little bit later than her brother.

0:40.3

But for now, for now, she's good.

0:43.1

She's sitting on the iPad next to.

0:44.6

So I think she's going to be an FPL supreme manager very soon with all the tips that

0:48.8

she hears every Thursday morning.

0:50.3

Sam, how are the FPL family coping with half of the FPL family back at school?

0:55.2

Oh, it's the dream, isn't it? Suddenly, I can sit in the mornings and work out what I'm doing

1:00.1

with my FPL team without having to worry about how I'm getting them to school. Although this

1:03.8

morning, I have had to rope in the grandparents to come and take them to school whilst I'm

1:07.8

recording this podcast. So they are loving their life right now

1:11.0

with nanny and granddad who are way better than mommy and daddy apparently anyway.

1:14.5

I can't possibly comment. Our thanks from everyone here at the FPL pod for Granny and Grandad

1:19.1

for stepping in so you can be here with us. Enough children chat. Anyway, it's time to welcome

1:23.6

our third guest who is way cooler than all of us. Not that that's especially hard as that

1:28.6

intro chat probably goes to show. So it's a big hello to the front man from the Cortina's Liam Frey.

1:34.3

Liam, it's great to have you with us. And I believe you're a big FPL manager as well.

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