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S7 Ep32: FPL Pod: Chips pay off after last minute twist

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6 β€’ 749 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A dramatic deadline to Double Gameweek 24 saw the most chips ever deployed, with news coming just before of another Double in Gameweek 25 πŸ€‘πŸŸπŸ€‘

So Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team review how the chips worked out, what move to make next with the Assistant Manager chip, and they look ahead to teams to target in Blank Gameweek 29.

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* Chip chaos (00m 40s)
* Double Gameweek 25 (12m 40s)
* Assistant manager thoughts (19m 56s)
* Buying Bournemouth (22m 10s)
* Everton consideration (28m 25s)
* Sidestepping Mbeumo? (31m 13s)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

There's been a lot happened since our last pod.

0:03.2

We reflect on a bonkers buildup to double game week 24, how that's affected our chip

0:07.5

strategy going forwards and Jules and Sam have a sort of heated argument about Brentford.

0:17.3

Hello, it's Thursday the 6th of February.

0:20.1

It's an FA Cup weekend ahead of us, but what a week it has been since we were last with you on the FPL pod, Julianne, Sam Bonfield and myself Kelly Summer's back with you. And it feels like a week ago when we sat here planning for the excitement of double game week 24, 24 hours later Sam, everything was kind of ripped up, not ripped up, but just turned

0:38.5

on its head. It completely ripped up in my bit because, you know, I sat here last week and said,

0:43.0

oh, I'm not going to play any chips and I'm really worried about it. And then, oh, not 24 hours later

0:48.0

had a chip active and feels very different now, doesn't it? But good week so far. But yeah,

0:53.8

it has thrown my chip

0:55.2

strategy into complete disarray. Okay, so myself and Sam ended up playing our assistant manager,

0:59.9

but on different managers. Sam went for David Moyes. I went for Arna's slot. Jules, for the

1:05.1

first time ever on this podcast, I can say you did exactly what you said you were going to do last week.

1:10.0

You went through with it.

1:12.9

But that wasn't necessarily through choice.

1:18.0

Don't really. No, because as I said, I wanted to play the triple captain chip on Morsala,

1:23.6

which I activated very early on in the week, which is unlike me. But I thought, imagine if I forget again or something like that. So I played it. Then I didn't even know there

1:27.4

had been an announcement.

1:28.2

It's only when we put in our WhatsApp group that something happened.

1:31.6

I was like, what happened?

1:32.6

I didn't even know.

1:33.4

So you and Sam explained it.

1:35.5

I was like, damn, I played the triple captain.

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