FPL Pod: Joining the 100-point club before the Blank
4/23/202642 min
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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First 90 secondsKelly Somers· Host0:00
[gentle music] Double gameweek 33 is over, but there's a blank ahead. We reflect on all being in the 100 Club. Jules discusses his chip-free team for this week, and Sam and I run through our free hits, and both of us are banking on Spurs. [upbeat music] Deep breath. We did it. I tell you what, I actually quite enjoyed double gameweek 33. [laughs] I get so nervous before them, but a double gameweek's always good fun, isn't it? Especially if you played a chip. We all played a chip. A first confession from me, though, of the podcast. Sam, what did I think I'd done- [laughs] ... on Saturday morning?
Sam· Panelist0:33
[laughs] Text me in a panic going, "Sam, is there a way to check whether I actually activated my chip now that the game's reloading?"
Jules· Panelist0:39
[laughs] Oh my, you're such a liability, man.
Kelly Somers· Host0:41
By past 11- No ... I was in Tesco, and I was like, "Ah, I don't..." Like, I'd, I was so set on my team, uh, like the night before, and then I just didn't check it in the morning, which I never do. I ignored my alarm 'cause I was in Tesco paying for my food shop. And then as I left, I was like- [laughs] ... "Oh my gosh." And then I was panicking. But at 12:20 or whatever, when the game updated, bam, I saw that I had done it. And I, I could tell, Jules, that Sam was getting a little bit excited that maybe I hadn't activated [laughs] it- [laughs] ... 'cause she saw that as her way in to overtake me.
Sam· Panelist1:09
[laughs] No, what did I say to you, Kels?
Jules· Panelist1:12
Definitely.
Sam· Panelist1:12
I was like, "You'll definitely have done it. This'll just be a moment of stress." Because then you, but then you caused me to second-guess myself. [laughs] And I was like, "Did I put the captaincy on the right person?"
Kelly Somers· Host1:20
Ugh.
Sam· Panelist1:20
But we'd all done it. And actually in the end, Kels, I kind of wished I hadn't played my bench boost- Same ... 'cause it didn't really bring me that many points.
Kelly Somers· Host1:26
Mm.
Sam· Panelist1:26
Like, it'd be better off [laughs] if I'd forgotten to activate it.
Kelly Somers· Host1:29
Yeah, it wasn't the greatest-