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FPL Pod

S5 Ep29: FPL Pod: Strategising for the blanks and doubles with Annie McGrath

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team are joined by comedian Annie McGrath to discuss her first season playing FPL and what she’s learnt along the way as one of the writers of Sky’s Fantasy Football League TV show 📺⚽️

They also look ahead and assess the different options managers can take as they plan for all the upcoming blank and double Gameweeks.

LISTEN 👇
  • Annie’s debut season (1m 39s)
  • Sam strategies (11m 52s)
  • Chelsea conundrum (19m 25s)
  • To bench or sell blankers (24m 52s)
  • Premium purchases (34m 06s)
  • Captains & Transfers (40m 00s)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Normal service is briefly resumed for Game Week 24, but with doubles and blanks on the horizon,

0:06.6

we try to forward plan. Is it time to look at Liverpool? Should we be chasing Chelsea and just who

0:12.4

are the pointsworthy premiums? Hello, FPL pod back with you again and this week a slightly less set upbeat intro from me

0:23.4

because yes, I was brought back down to earth this game week.

0:26.6

So it's hello for me, Kelly Summers,

0:28.8

flanked as always by Sam Bonfield of FPL family and Julian Lorenz.

0:34.1

And you two had really good weeks, especially you, Sam.

0:38.0

Yeah, it was another good week, Kelly.

0:39.5

I think that's my eighth consecutive green arrow now in a row.

0:42.6

So it's been a good run.

0:45.1

Hopefully it can last two game week 24 as well.

0:47.7

I kind of hope so for your sake and the sake of this podcast.

0:50.2

But now we're in a league, I kind of don't.

0:52.0

I'm going to be honest with you.

0:53.1

You want me to fail now.

0:55.0

I don't want you to fail.

0:55.8

I want you to do well.

0:56.4

I just want to do better.

0:57.3

Jules, how about you?

0:58.6

How was your game week?

0:59.9

Yeah, it was good 81 points.

1:01.2

I think I'm only 7.08 behind time, which I will take.

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