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S8 Ep17: FPL Pod: Key learnings to improve your season

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6 โ€ข 749 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 13 November 2025

โฑ๏ธ 42 minutes

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Summary

With the international break upon us, itโ€™s time to take stock and review how things have gone so far this season ๐Ÿ™‡๐Ÿ“‰๐Ÿ“ˆ๐Ÿ™‡

So Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team look at whether itโ€™s best to avoid the tempting Liverpool fixtures, what to do with players taking part in AFCON, and how best to use your final Chips.

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* Lessons learnt (09m 20s)
* Liverpool fixtures (10m 50s)
* DEFCON delight (14m 11s)
* AFCON plans (20m 27s)
* AFCON Free Transfers (28m 47s)
* Chip strategy (36m 45s)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Time to take stock in the international break. We discuss our key learnings from the season so far.

0:06.4

We look ahead to AFCON and the additional transfers we're going to get. Plus, we plan our chips.

0:10.8

As, as always, I've got a fair few left.

0:17.5

It's an international break, but that doesn't mean we get a holiday.

0:21.2

No, the Premier League and FPL keep us working hard.

0:24.6

Good morning, Jules.

0:25.4

Good morning, Sam.

0:26.3

We're back.

0:27.9

Jules, you're ready to think about FPR?

0:29.7

Where's your head in every other kind of international game?

0:32.9

Yeah, playoffs and everything.

0:34.1

But I prepared for the show nicely.

0:36.6

And game week 11, sorry, 32 points.

0:41.5

Was it a little bit painful because again, I left a lot of points on my bench with Volta Madder

0:45.6

and O'Reilly, Gehino playing at a tour for Crystal Palace really wound me up on the weekend.

0:52.5

And it was a tough game for everyone. But at least I said that

0:55.3

Netto was my differential. I brought him in my team and he returned. So I was at least happy

1:00.2

with that. But yeah, it was not a good week. Sam, I guess for you, good week. It was a good week,

1:05.3

wasn't it? No. I brought in Gahey this week. And then I was using, actually, I was also using, I was looking at the scores. No, I was using you as a benchmark, Jules, and Sam finished above you. So in that way, Sam is a good week. You can take a small little... Oh, okay, I'll take some, I'll take some heart from the fact I beat Jules this week. That will make me feel better. I mean, neither of us have done that much this season. Let's be honest, sadly. No. Do you know what? I was so frustrated this week because I think I was saying to you, I mean, I pretty much said everywhere I went last week heading into the game week that one of my big issues was that I didn't have a Crystal Palace defender and it was really hurting me every single week. And so on Friday evening, I was like, right, I've had enough, even though I didn't actually think that, I mean, that Derby game between Palace and Brighton is always a bit difficult to call. So I was a bit like, I don't even know if there's going to be a clean sheet, but I've just had enough. I've had enough of the pain of everyone else picking up defensive points from Crystal Palace. So I'll just get one. And I still haven't really decided

2:01.1

who I wanted. And in the end, Gayhee was going to price fries on Friday. And I thought, right, I'll just get him. And then I've done it. And yes, I've got to spend a bit more money, but fine, I'll be happier. And that'll be fine. So I felt really pleased. So going into this game, I was like, right, I'm really happy.

2:17.1

And then I'm

2:17.5

standing on the touchline of my son's grassroots game on Sunday morning or Sunday afternoon.

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