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S8 Ep45: FPL Pod: Joining the 100-point club before the Blank

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6749 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Double Gameweek delivered in style for FPL managers as many scored over 100 points, but now attention turns to Blank Gameweek 34 😱🫠😱

So Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team discuss who impressed, what to do with your chips, and if it’s worth targeting teams in the relegation fight.

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* Chip strategy (08m 46s)
* New Chelsea boss (14m 16s)
* Best BGW34 players (21m 56s)
* Aston Villa assets (31m 11s)
* Differential of the Week (37m 07s)
* Transfers and Captains (39m 27s)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Double Game Week 33 is over, but there's a blank ahead. We reflect on all being in the 100

0:05.7

Club. Jules discusses his chip-free team for this week, and Sam and I run through our free hits,

0:10.5

and both of us are banking on spurs. Deep breath, we did it. I tell you what, I actually

0:19.9

quite enjoyed Double Game Week 33. I get so nervous before them. But double game week is always good fun, isn't it? Especially if you played a chip. We all played a chip. First confession from me, though, of the podcast, Sam, what did I think I'd done on Saturday morning?

0:33.9

Text me in a panic going, Sam, is there a way to check whether I actually activated my chip now that the game is reloading? Oh my, it's such a liability. By the past 11, I was in Tesco and I was like, oh, I don't like, I was so set on my team like the night before and then I just didn't check it in the morning, which I never do. I ignored my alarm because I was in Tesco, paying for my food shop. And then as I left, I was like, oh my gosh. And then I was panicking, but at 12, 20, or whatever, when the game updated, bam, I saw that had done it. And I could tell Jules that Sam was getting a little bit excited that maybe I hadn't activated it, because she saw that as her way in to overtake me. No, what did I say to you, Cal's?

1:12.1

I was like, you'll definitely have done it.

1:13.8

This will just be a moment of stress. Because she saw that as her way in to overtake me. No, what did I say to you, Cal's?

1:12.1

I was like, you'll definitely have done it. This will just be a moment of stress because then you, but then you cause me to second guess myself. And I was like, did I put the captaincy on the right person? We'd all done it. And actually, in the end, Kells, I kind of wished I hadn't played my bench boots because it didn't really bring me that many points.

1:26.5

Like, it'd be better if I'd forgotten to activate it.

1:29.0

Yeah, it wasn't the greatest, was it?

1:30.3

I mean, it wasn't the greatest.

1:31.2

It wasn't the, I kind of wished I hadn't played my bench boost because it didn't really bring me that many points. Like it'd be better if I'd forgotten to activate it.

1:29.0

Yeah, it wasn't the greatest, was it?

1:30.3

I mean, it wasn't the greatest.

1:31.2

It wasn't the worst.

1:32.3

But we did all manage to remember to activate our chips.

1:35.3

Jules did his free hits.

1:37.1

Myself and Sam did our bench boosts.

1:40.0

And I'm going to just tell you very quickly. All of us are in the 100 club. We're all, like, we shouldn't really complain.

1:44.5

We've all got green arrows this week.

2:01.2

But because we're recording actually on a Wednesday night, literally around an hour after the two games played this evening have finished, the game is still completely updating. So bonus points and things could change, couldn't they sound? But this is where we're at at the moment. Jules was a little bit confused by this as was I but this is kind of quite normal isn't it?

2:02.7

Because they're still, what is happening at this point? Yeah, so the bonus point system updates, because as things get seen in the game, past completions get added and taken away and all of that stuff, say if they find extra ones or defensive contributions, all that kind of stuff, all of it adds

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