It's a chaotic show this week as Jules is unsurprisingly running late.

We plow on through though as we discuss the big moves in midfield if we all need the power three and who can help us with budget.

Hello and welcome back to this week's FPL pod and it's a pod with a slight difference this week because good morning Sam.

Good morning, Kelly.

And we don't have our usual third guest.

Good morning, Lee Bonfield.

Good morning, Kelly. Good morning. How are you?

I'm all right, thank you. We are indebted to you and the Bonfield family. We've had a bit of juggling around this morning because, unsurprisingly, Julian Durant is, has overbooked himself. He was on his way back from Paris because he was working there last night. You may have seen him gloating all over social media. And his train, shock is delayed. And so Lee has kindly stepped in. So yeah, Lee, how much notice did you have? Not much. Not a lot. I mean, it feels kind of typical for this season, but so many last minute winners, haven't we? Yeah, it's very true. A last minute draft into the pod. So yeah, feels all right for this season. Okay, for those of us, of those listeners that perhaps haven't heard from you as much or don't know how your season's going, just fill us in on how it's gone to this point. Oh, rollercoaster, Kelly. I listen to you guys every week and you're always talking about, oh, good game week, bad game week. I feel exactly the same. I can't get any consistency this season. It's a very, very tough season. And of course, we've had all the different rule changes, haven't we, with the defensive contributions, extra chips, everything else. But

even if you chuck those into the mix, it's still been a very inconsistent season, I think.

So I'm at about 600-ish-K at the moment. I had a really good week, actually, in Game Week 16.

So it's a good week to get me on. But yeah, up and down, Kelly,

I think is the way I would describe my season. Okay, well, it sounds like it's been more up than mine and Sam's, that's for sure. I know from Lee's rank. I was about, my next question was going to be who's winning out of the two of you, but I know from Lee telling me his rank there. It is Lee at the moment. Sam, let's talk about the last game week. How did you feel about it? Because for me,

it was a good game week and it felt like it was overall. When I looked at your team, actually, hold on a sec. I've got a bone to pick with you. You did not mention you were doing that many transfers. Kelly, I wasn't planning to do that many transfers. And I was going to confess to it on this podcast because it was one of those. I'm not letting you confess. I'm telling you off about doing that before you were able to confess.

I apologize entirely. I saw it on social media and I was like, what? I honestly, so I had made two

and I was fully intending to just make two. I'd done Pope to Rea. I'd done Metetta to Tiago and that

was going to be it. I was going

to stop there. And then I just went into Bruno Fernandez panic. And I was like, I need him. I can't do a move. I understand it. I do understand it. Yeah, it was one of those where I was like, I can't do another Monday. I just can't sit through another Monday night football without Bruno Fernandez and in the end it was it was a good thing that I did it um I made a few sacrifices one of

them I'm going to Virgil to cash and that was a bit of a one week pun. It was like, let's play the fixture this week and then move cash on again on reflection with cash getting zero. It actually would have been more sensible for me to just go straight to the player that I wanted for this week. But alas, it is what it is.

It was a green arrow, which I was pleased about in the end. It was red until Bruno, and then Bruno made it green, which made me think that I'm using all five chances is the right thing to have done. That's what Bruno does. It's what Bruno does every Monday. Just turned your arrows green. So I was happy in the end, 69 points. And my team feels like it's set up now.

Apart from the one transfer

that I plan to make for this week,

I feel like I'm set up now

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