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S8 Ep44: FPL Pod: Double Gameweek fun begins

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6749 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It’s the biggest Double Gameweek of the season and the chips are flowing as managers look to maximise their points 📈🤤📈

Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team identify the best players to pick, how to use your chips, and if single Gameweekers are worth owning.

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* Chip strategy (09m 59s)
* Man City options (13m 48s)
* Chelsea picks (21m 59s)
* Super Alex Scott (31m 12s)
* Differential of the Week (37m 58s)
* Transfers and Captains (39m 33s)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's a double game week and we're having fun with it.

0:03.2

We've all got chips active so we discuss which are best.

0:06.2

Who are the optimum players from each club?

0:08.2

What do we do about Nico O'Reilly?

0:10.2

And I start with an apology.

0:15.7

Yes, something that I have hammered Jules for doing all season, not deciding what he's going to do by the time we record.

0:23.8

I did it, guys.

0:24.5

I'm really sorry, yes, I wildcard it and I didn't say last Thursday because I know we say talent planning.

0:31.4

Sam always drills into us and vision.

0:33.4

Unfortunately, the planning started.

0:35.2

I reckon, so I was on the fantasy show Friday morning with Sam and her husband,

0:38.9

and I reckon I activated it about midday. I was driving down to Bournemouth and had to stop three times to sort that one card out. And I told you, you do this, didn't I? In the agreement, I said, I guarantee you'll play it. You said, no, I can't play it because I'm going to be driving. And I was like, I said to Lee on the way home, she'll play it.

0:53.5

And then you did.

0:54.3

I've never been more grateful than my recently potty trained daughter said,

0:57.3

Mommy, stop, we wait. No problem, darling. No problem at all. The problem is, I don't know, I'm interested. I bet there's a lot of listeners that are listening to this that wild carded and didn't really like their team. Like it was quite an uninspiring wild card.

1:12.3

I like it a bit more for this week.

1:13.5

But I mean, we'll come on to that.

1:22.3

It just feels like there's a few kind of curveballs with this double game week. But anyway, enough about me. I just wanted to get that off my chest, have my confession. Morning, Sam. Morning, Jules. We were just saying,

1:22.5

Jules,

1:24.8

has been the busiest man in the world this week and has literally just rocked it in a few minutes late,

1:27.8

but we'll let that slide.

1:29.0

5 a.m. train from Manchester after match of the day.

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