Second Place Chasers: Recent Episodes
Keith and Jack
Keith and Jack discuss FPL, talking about their teams and how they are much better than others who may be ahead of them in their mini leagues.
Jack and Keith are joined by new host Lachlan. What should you know about Lachlan? Well, his first tattoo was of the Chelsea badge, he likes Chelsea, and he also really likes Chelsea. Other than that character flaw, he's quite nice really.
Jack and Keith are once again without a guest but they carry on regardless.....speaking of carry on.....
Jack and Keith are back after the International break to look ahead to gameweek four. A late withdrawal means that there is no guest this week, but they soldier on with more nonsense, some semi-reasonable advice, and there is a joke*
*Keith has questioned whether it actually is indeed, a joke.
Jack and Keith meet at the start of the international break to look back on a reasonably successful gameweek three, they also spot the bald fraud, a big win for Leicester, and have some advice for Dominik Szoboszlai.
This week Jack and Keith welcome their first guest of the season. Everything is going well until Lachlan is given the keys to the car......
Jack and Keith look back on gameweek one, both just scraping above average scores. One manager in their mini league did somewhat better, finishing the gameweek inside the top 10,000 managers in the world. The secret to their success? Spending about five minutes choosing their team. Anything more is overthinking it.
Jack and Keith are back (again) to give you zero useful insights into the Fantasy League world, as they look ahead to gameweek one and give predictions for the season ahead.
A final look at the 23/24 FPL season and who won what. Jack gives us his favourite transfers of the season, what he thinks of the England squad for the Euros, and reminds Keith about a cup final result.
Jack and Keith look forward to the final gameweek of the season. Even though they won the league a couple of weeks ago, Jack still manages to find a reason to mention Leicester.
For the fiftieth (recorded) time, Jack and Keith cast their eye over the FPL landscape (possibly some Championship, too).
Jack and Keith talk to possible/probable head to head champion Leo on the phone. There is the inevitable Championship talk, with Leicester's victory making Jack very happy, the usual guff and nonsense, and some very inappropriate team selections.
Jack and Keith record in the middle of the double gameweek, with Jack getting thrashed by Gary, and Keith moving up again. At least Leicester are giving Jack some joy in the midst of his illness.
Jack and Keith are joined in the "studio" by Lachy. If you like Chelsea and swearing, this one is for you.
Jack and Keith once again have Surya on the phone, who's pre-gym routine includes drinking Guiness. He's also not at all interested in the Championship, or even hearing about it.
Recorded halfway through gameweek thirty-one, Jack and Keith look ahead to gameweek thirty-two and spend way too much time on the Championship. Jack threatens legal action.
Jack and Keith start off the episode in the Championship, where QPR have won three in a row, and Leicester have lost three in a row. What? Jack outscored Keith in gameweek twenty-seven, but he rarely mentions it, and they look forward to gameweek twenty-eight where Bournemouth and Luton double.
Jack and Keith look back on gameweek twenty-six, which had a surprising end, and ahead to a big game in the Championship.
Jack and Keith record just before the end of double gameweek twenty-five. Jack goes off on KDB, Keith laughs at Mick Beale's predicament and looks forward to QPR getting out of the bottom three, possibly. There's also some innuendo from Jack, and sarcastic applause for Mark.
Jack and Keith struggle through a cider free episode, but lose most of the recording due to equipment glitching. Excellent.
Jack and Keith get through the longest gameweek and prepare for gameweek twenty-two via the Championship, a one point thrashing, some sage advice to Jack, and it all begins with an apology (of sorts) to a Mr Crisp.
Jack and Keith discuss their options for gameweek twenty-one which takes place over two weeks and will be without Salah, Son, Alexander-Arnold, Kudus, Hee-Chan, and probably Bowen and Haaland too, due to AFCoN, the Asian cup, and injuries.
Jack and Keith recorded a podcast just before the end of 2023, during the silly season. Keith edited the podcast and promptly forgot completely about it, until today. Merry Easter.
Jack and Keith record during another thunderstorm and a hangover. Jack shows off his new Christmas present and tries hard to give away some kittens. Keith laments another Chelsea failure.
Jack and Keith finally have themselves a guest, as Hayley joins them to talk about her FPL team, Man United, kittens, and moustaches.
Jack and Keith look back on gw16 with barely a mention of Jack selling Son before a 17 point return. It's still hot, there are still birds in the background, and Keith is completely unaware that the cup has already started.
Jack and Keith Complain about their gameweek scores and the heat, consider whether Leo has stolen the luck of the Irish, and notice a crack in Liverpool's defence.
Jack and Keith look forward to gameweek thirteen and the delights of having several players flagged as doubtful. Franklin the cat makes a very brief appearance, and Keith goes on and on about Reece James.
Jack and Keith enter the international break, and talk over possibilities for their teams. QPR are still unbeaten under Cifuentes, but Leicester are stumbling.
Jack and Keith lament a woeful gameweek, but QPR come away with a glorious point under their new manager, Marti Cifuentes. Leicester don't fare so well against Leeds.
Jack might mention Eddie Nketiah a couple of times in this episode. Keith is more concerned with how the rock star Gareth Ainsworth left QPR, and their new manager Marti Cifuentes' ability to point.
Jack and Keith have equally good gameweeks. Jack moves up in both leagues, while Keith only moves up in one. That's because he's (still) top of the other. There's also way too much Championship talk from Jack.
Jack and Keith are joined by Leo to talk about gameweek nine and find out where Wilf Zaha is playing these days.
Jack and Keith look back on gameweek seven and ahead to gameweek eight with different outlooks. One is quite smug, the other is just sad. You can figure out which one is which.
With contrasting gameweek six results, Jack and Keith look forward to double gameweek seven. Keith is happy to not change much, Jack wants to change everything and gets very angry at Chelsea. Keith suggests an alternative to penalties.
Gameweek six. Jack and Keith look forward to scoring more points than they did in gameweek five, when things didn't go so well. Jack talks about bad haircuts on footballers, well, one in particular, and Keith verbally abuses his second eldest nephew.
Premier League returns after the international break. Jack and Keith try to remember what happened in gw4 and look forward to gw5. There's a very in depth look at the Championship (not really), Keith suggests bringing in Darwin, that's the all new Darwin with the Bielsa firmware update, and Jack gets dissed by Richard Allen.
Jack and Keith look back on a good gw3. Jack decides he's had enough of his team and is on a wildcard. He also has a theory about what Johnny does on his holidays, how to get our next guest, and there's a horny toad in the studio.
Jack returns to the studio, and brings with him, some cider, and a bold prediction for the Premier League title. It appears that Keith has finally brought in Haaland for gw3, but he may not be finished with transfers this week yet. Rumours of an early wildcard abound.
Jack is on the phone again as he and Keith look back at gameweek one, and forward to gameweek two. Is Keith still going without Haaland, or has he seen the light?
Jack and Keith return for the 2023/24 FPL season with score predictions for gameweek one, top seven and relegation predictions for the season, and most of their gameweek one squads. Covid has also returned, so while Keith stays home, Jack is on the phone.
Jack and Keith face the final curtain, and with no gameweeks left to predict, turn their attention to predicting player prices for next season and player transfers. There's a phone call to double champ Patrick. Jack eventually congratulates Keith on his cup win, and flags the launch of his own movie podcast coming soon, called Have You Scene?
Jack and Keith head into the final gameweek, looking for those differential players that will lift them up the league, or get them to a cup triumph. Jack predicts the Leicester v West Ham result using his lunch, and puts forward a proposal that Leicester play in the wrong colour.
With the penultimate gameweek coming up, Jack and Keith are joined by Troy and Patrick (our Head to Head champion for this year). With Leeds and Leicester in danger of relegation, Troy and Jack have different takes on how their teams will fare in the final games of the season. Even though it sounds like everyone is in a different room to Keith, it's just distance to microphones.
Jack and Keith are joined by Gary this week. The only man who laughs at his own jokes more than Keith. Still in the cup, and still to receive a cider order from Surya, Gary spends his days making up puns and squeezing the juice out of apples.
With gameweek 34 yet to finish, Jack and Keith need more from their players to get through to the next round of the SWP cup, and a win in the head to head league. Like Leicester, Jack's season hangs in the balance. A loss in the head to head league surely ends his title bid for another season.
A below average week for both Jack and Keith, but double gameweek 34 is on the horizon and that brings with it a chance of breaking one hundred points....and don't they need it!
A less than stellar week for Jack and Keith in the fantasy league, but both Leicester and QPR managed wins. Find out why Stellini moved from three at the back to a back four, what Ainsworth said to QPR before the Burnley game, and who is the latest to slip into the Gary zone.
Jack and Keith get ready for blank gameweek 32, with Keith looking for a way out of the Gary zone. Jack explains how Bielsa got his nickname, too much cider is drunk, and there's too much QPR talk - again.
This week Jack lords it over Keith, after a comprehensive head to head victory. Keith ends the week in the Gary zone, but hatches a cunning plan to escape, using bits and bobs lying around. A bit like the A-Team, but involving Darwin Nuñez in the Murdoch role, it's so crazy, it might just work. Leicester get a new manager, Burnley get promoted, and the Rs get a point!
Jack and Keith look forward to gameweek 30, and have another guest on the phone, as Surya gives them a detailed account of his experience in the Gary zone, gets Uber Eats, finds some wine in the fridge, rolls dice, and swears a lot.
Jack and Keith return after the international break, admire their gw28 scores, and green arrows. They talk about manager departures, manager arrivals, injuries and illnesses, how we should all have Maddison, should stay away from Fernandes, and there is one very poor pun. Jack outlines his plan for a head to head gameweek win, which might surprise some, but not Keith.
Jack and Keith are once again waiting on two game results to save their gameweek. Jack continues to blame others for his poor choices. Keith refuses to talk about QPR, then talks about QPR, then decides that supporting Spurs would be worse.
Jack and Keith look back on gameweek 26, where Jack had a low score, but at least he didn't play a wildcard and have a low score, like Keith. They also welcome their first guest onto the pod as they talk on the phone to Lachlan Batalla, direct from his five star luxury holiday Villa, somewhere in Canberra. He talks about Chelsea, laughs at United, talks about Chelsea, laughs at Leicester, talks about Chelsea, laughs at QPR, redesigns the humble hospital bed, and then leaves us for some fine dining.
With two games to go at the time of recording, Jack and Keith's teams are both sitting below the average score, but are hopeful of a turnaround. They also talk about future plans for the upcoming blanks and double gameweeks.
Jack and Keith look ahead to gw24; the calm before the storm of double and blank gameweeks ahead. Jack also has a trivia question, and claims to have a special talent involving pigeons.
Jack and Keith once again try to predict this weekend's fixtures, mention Gary's Perky Pecker, Casemiro's fascination with Will Hughes' beard, Souttar fitting in at Leicester, future plans, and general nonsense.
Jack and Keith look forward to double gameweek 22 and decide that it's a good idea to have a plan or two, even if both of those are the same plan. Once again, no useful information is contained within this podcast.
With two games still to play in double gameweek twenty, Jack and Keith might just be regretting their choice to triple captain Haaland. Who's idea was that anyway?
Jack and Keith chat about their options for the upcoming double gameweek, predict the scores for each fixture, and mention how rubbish Southampton are they day before they beat Man City in the Carabao Cup. Probably best to take any advice given with a pinch of salt.