What's up guys Joe Holland here. I am getting ready and geared up for the 2021 ice fishing season. We're still waiting for ice but it gives me a really good opportunity to get around to some of the local bait shops here in Maine and some of them might not even be local but I'm gonna get around to the bait shops see what's new see what I can do to support these guys and also get all the ice fishing stuff I need for the year. Today I am here in southern Maine in Wyndham at the famous Saabego bait and tackle. Now this bait shop is unique. I shot a video on it a couple years ago. It is a seasonal business. They don't do open water. They don't do the spring season or anything like that. They do ice fishing and the reason they do that is because Wayne is the owner and he loves ice fishing. They run a really cool construction consultant business. They sell Elgin, Leechfield, septic systems, stuff like that. In the winter they love to ice fish and they love to have ice fishing supplies so that's why this place is stocked to the gills with all of the really cool stuff and the good stuff you need for ice fishing season. Let's go in take a look. Saabego bait we are here. We've been here since 2011. We're going on the 10th year here. Wayne opened this store just as kind of a fun thing to do. We regularly sell leechfield equipment that grows in your septic system. Somebody else can answer that. In the off season when people aren't digging their leechfields ground is frozen well what else is there to do except go ice fishing. He started this is just a fun thing to do and 10 years later it's kind of become its own entity. I work as the office manager on that side and December comes around and I'm back and forth. Most people know I'm here you know Monday through Thursday is 8 a.m. to 4 30 starting January 1st we'd be open Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Yeah 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 5 a.m. to 2 p.m. We also have a Facebook page that it's Saabego bait. People can go there and get information. There's a Facebook just like you would have a Facebook page as a person that's called Saabego bait where you can friend us. Wayne usually monitors that he's very active in messaging people and we do post a lot of pictures and videos and stuff about whatever deals were running so if you ever have a question the phone system operates for the leechfield product place too so it's a lot of time people will hang up because they're like it says construction consultants well it's construction consultants in Saabego bait if I don't answer leave me a message or go right on and send us a message on Facebook so what kind of services do you guys have you have the live bait you have the artificial bait you have the auger sharpening and then a full service it looks like oh my gosh if you need something we probably have it and if you ask me for something that I don't have there's the potential that we can order it there's also the potential that you just don't need it if I don't have it that's how that works yeah so free auger sharpening we just ask that people drop their blades off I'm gonna put it in a little baggie with your name and your phone number and hopefully within a week we get to it the bait we have live bait right now all I have are shiners we're just kind of starting things up but normally we would have smell suckers we'd have different size shiners as we get further into the season and people want to go pike fishing well you know we can get really big shiners it can be hit or miss the last two years there's been kind of a smelt shortage as we get further into the season we have a bunch of big tanks out back that we store bait in we've got the refrigerated tanks that we can take a look at out here these are refrigerated they are like I said right now all I have are shiners but there's quite a mix of shiners and there's our size now you're looking for some big ones I have some big ones everything in here runs through a couple of filters there's a sorbine filter, there's a sediment filter and then there's some different filters that have different size gravel in them there's now all of the product we put bacteria in here every day fish make waste they they give off ammonia so the bacteria eat the ammonia we never have to change the water in these tanks and then right now it is dialed in at 42 degrees nice that bait is going to be nice and lively when you get on the ice right and the last thing you want is bait that's in 60 degree water and you take it out to 40 degree water well you know something I would like to mention these traps that we have right here these are made by John Hutchins they were originally made by his son Craig his son Craig passed away and now his father continues making them all of the funds from that goes to the center for grieving children or suicide prevention so John does not keep a penny he makes these people think they're cute we sell them this Christmas ornament and the money gets donated we do a donation for the sabego derby every year we do different donations there's a kids derby that's going to be happening that we were approached and we're going to be donating some product for the prizes for the kids so we do a lot of other things throughout the community we ourselves put on a derby many years ago where we tagged a couple of trout I think there were five they were about this big and as far as I'm aware they are still swimming in little Svego because I don't think anybody caught them every once in a while you know Wayne will come up with some hair brain scheme and we we follow through and if you have a derby that's going to be going on and anything like that don't be scared to approach us because if it's you know even if it's a couple of gift certificates that we can donate we'd love to do that oh that's great of you guys to do that and when there's good ice that Svego Derby is huge it is that's one of the biggest one of the top derbies in the state of mania and you know a couple of years we've we've had people oh I caught my fish on your bait and you know so we've definitely had a couple of winners from that derby that were caught on Svego bait they always make sure to come back and tell us that they caught it on Svego bait say new stuff for the year this year we could not stop Wayne from buying things so um you might have seen Andrew in here helping me the last two years he's not here today but he's definitely a big help in the bait shop but Andrew and I decided that we needed to do a little expansion so this year we have one two three four new shells we've moved stuff all around so when you come in it's not going to look the same as it did but we can definitely help you find stuff line leaders reels swivel sinkers hook so you got your hook line and sinkers we're gonna try to keep everything remotely together that's going to be going together traps I have heritage traps I have ht traps I have some jack traps a lot of people wanted jack traps and we went and got some this is something new that he brought in this year it's an ice rod case it's really nice hard cover not soft cover you don't have to worry about accidentally stepping on it and breaking something because you're not going to damage anything in there all your stuff for your otter sleds and your jet sleds I got covers I got the high facts kit I got the tow hitches heavy duty and regular this year we brought in some really big sleds I've got bigger than the otter magnum and bigger than the jet flood exhale and we'll see those here in a few minutes pack basket liners pack baskets we'll see more of those out back in a few minutes these these have been selling pretty good this year I heard yes the lowering pack baskets I have 24 inch and 28 inch and then I have the liners for them some without pockets some with pockets I'd recommend with pockets because then your traps aren't blailing all over the place we moved the ice auger parts to this wall we've got eskimo blades ion blades k drill blades strike master blades jiffy blades the little adapters where you can take your hand auger whether it's a nilson or regular hand auger and turn it into a drilled auger everybody likes those you know those drill bit augers now it's much more convenient than gas some different jiffy parts spark plugs tune up kits the collar gas caps and oil yeah you guys got it all we do we tried to think of everything extra covers to protect the blades yeah yeah some extensions if you needed an extension hopefully we'll meet them this year we need some more ice yeah we need a lot more ice but yeah we've definitely run out of extensions in years past so it's not unheard of that people need extensions the further north you go seems to be seems to be a calming thing we brought in a bunch of rapalas this year we never had this many rapala jigs so there's quite a few rapalas this year still got the cast master who's had those going for a couple years now brought in some new lindy jigs the custom jigs the VMC Wayne brought in a whole bunch of VMC nice and then we kind of made a little croffy fishing corner for people that like to fish for croffy um so you get a couple of little plastics some of the little jigs um andrew did this whole corner for this whole area um specifically so people are like oh go and croffy fishing we can be like come right over here nice we've got some sabiki rigs people were asking for those sure we're gonna try and keep more install and then you've got the swedish pimple wall wow the famous swedish pimple wall wow you got it you got the wall of them here yes look at all sizes all shapes and all colors yes that's amazing helmet this side we've got some northland stuff the airplane jigs the blue one is the most popular a couple years ago you could not keep that in stock all right so in this area in that area for the last few years for sabego lake that is the fishing lure when i used to live down here well i went to st joes yep that was like jeez 20 years ago that was still the hot lure then that's funny it's been 30 years 20 years of that being the hot lure but you know people from up north they're oh i'm just in the area they'll come in here and they will buy copper everything copper because up north copper is the thing yeah it's the airplane jig here and then the owl wives have really taken over in the in the lake and it's it's a resemblance of that color it's a really close close match it is yeah nice one ounce that's awesome yeah daddy mac we brought those in last year so that's new from even last year so those we've got quite a few of those he brought in a bunch of clam uh lures this year this is kind of the the trapped line area this is different line um than you saw over on the other side and if you want to have more than 100 yards they're all connected together oh nice yeah so we cut them if you only want the 100 but if you wanted more than 100 yards now if you're lining five traps with 200 yards or 10 traps with 100 yards that was in yards of line right there perfect yes that's great i got pink i got some dark green black tan the bright yellow um orange seems to come in just as fast as it goes out can't seem to keep orange a couple of other things this year that are new we've got the de-icer for your ice stopper bobbers people want this in like yeah they want this in gallon jugs i just don't have it in gallon jugs this is how they sell it cool i haven't even seen that yet that's something to out of feet today keep your your ice hole from oh nice from ice and back up so this is kind of what was going on when we were having our black friday sale like people can just oh i need these while they're waiting for the cash register these are pretty neat these were new this year can you see it light up something for the kiddos who's never had those before sure that'd be adults too yes still if you like a light up reel that's perfect for you um these are new this year and i have a pair myself andrew bought a pair for himself some of his friends came in and bought some they are hand warmers but you charge them i used mine probably three times when we had those power outages after the last storm just yesterday when i was out shoveling so they're really nice you pop them right in your gloves and keep your fingertips warm so i think the mat itself has different um different things on it that tell you how to cut it oh cool yeah then you guys have everything here this is the best ice fishing store around ice shacks anchors for your ice shack the eskimo clam just kind of a generic we've got the otter ones a lot of people like the ht it's just kind of a a generic adapter to be able to put the anchors in these are a hot seller they're 1599 we sell a lot of those stabilizers as we've we've had for ages so stabilizers corkers or something new this year that we brought in i think everybody has their own preference on what kind of ice cleat they like if you just want the buckle cleats or these kinds the corkers the stabilizers everybody's shoes are different so different choices back here we've got your real wraps put this on your wheel kind of it has a place to keep your hook got a couple of different colors different styles stuff to make your traps so if you wanted to make your own i've got different heritage parts i have some jack trap parts and then i have some just generic ht parts aerators um we have a couple of different kinds the bubble box is probably the best seller that's 1399 i've got tubing i've got air stones with tubing i've got some different two-way valves three-way valves whatever you need people were asking a few years ago for spring bobbers so now we have all kinds of spring bobbers people were asking for the the bite indicator lights so we brought in a bunch of those so and then this is the ice buster bobber so that it keeps your line from freezing the friable bait boxes they come with an aerator and these are pretty neat they have a little net so when you come in i'm gonna fill up your bait bucket your bait will go right in here and then whenever you need to change stuff out or do whatever you just pull the net out fish you're in here change out your water put it back yeah a couple of different trap bags the blue is different this year from the ones we've had we've always had the black jawjacker that's the digging base they've been pretty pretty good sellers or people been getting into them or when they first came out a lot of people wanted them and i don't see it so much now we've got something new this year that as soon as we advertise that we had these bam so this is the ht version works basically the same way so this is the little area for augers so this is the original k drill auger that came out a few years ago so these are gonna be your drill augers and would you get a brushless drill and then you just use this with the drill this is the new one that came out this year it's the eight and a half inch right now this one is 229 you come in before the end of the month this is the eskimo pistol fairly lightweight i wouldn't be doing this with a gas auger um and then the light flight strike master so before the new k drill this was the newest same thing very light and you got some spud bars that's cool yes those are nice for safety or for um or when when there's not that much ice right we do take used augers and wane takes a look at them make sure that they're in nice condition and um you know if you want to do any kind of trading if you're just looking to sell wane would be the one to talk to about that this is the 40 volt that a lot of people i we must have sold a dozen of these so far um right now even though it says 550 my price is 499.99 the black friday sale that he wants to continue through the end of the month that's a great deal 10 inch comes with one battery this is the one i have it's it's unbelievable is it yeah it's unbelievable i've never seen it in action but i'll send you some videos as soon as we posted them people were like save me one yeah it's and you know if you can't make it in here let's say you're from bangor area yeah i want one how do i get one call me pay on a credit card i'll put your name put the receipt when you have a chance to get down here it's paid for it it's put aside great customer service yes yeah we don't want anyone to be like oh i just couldn't make it you know we'll we'll take care of you right just call ahead of that one thing i noticed is you guys have a lot more gig rods than you had last time yes we've spent a lot of time drilling all those holes that is a lot of gig rods around the stores it's cool to see more people are getting into jigging and electronics and yeah and um and being more active when they're ice fishing probably one of the most expensive rods that we brought in are the fenwicks i do have some that are packaged in plastic and they're $59 $49 that are a different brand some have reels on them some don't you know we have ultra light we have medium we have medium heavy we have heavy so we we try to get a a mix of different ones depending on what people want to fish for you know around here big sabago you want to go catch a tow you're gonna want a fairly heavy rod wane likes to fish on little sabago catch a lot of white perch there you don't need such a heavy rod different little things that people that aren't local don't realize about the lakes around here so that's one of the great things about coming into a local bait and tackle shop is you learn really cool unique things about the local lakes and the local fishermen and the local fish populations right and the thing about this shop is other than myself i've only been ice fishing a couple of times when an andrew ice fish they ice fish all the time andrew's out ice fishing today you're coming in here to talk to people that are actually out doing ice fishing and no oh if you want to catch this kind of fish you should go here if you want to catch this other kind of fish you should go there you know there's different different things that we can advise people about that's not just about products in the shop we brought in a lot more mitts and gloves this year we had some of the new eskimo and i'll show you the pattern on the new eskimo it's a plaid pattern red and black plaid for their 60th anniversary i think we have one hat left right there but the mitts we sold out of some of the kinko gloves we've sold out of but we still have all of the furline hats i love those i have one myself the neoprene gloves and just some other different kinds of gloves if you don't want to go for the 30 dollar kinkos we got a little less expensive for a little less money for just a regular glove work gloves the mouth spreaders the hookouts the forceps scissors different things that some fishermen like to be able to use to get their hooks out these are pretty neat these were new last year so different bottle caps made into fishing lures cool and then just kind of some generic stuff that you might need or you're standing in line and think oh how am i gonna strap that sled down well here you go this is how you're gonna strap it down this is how you're gonna strap it down so we got some straps we got bungee cord cargo net over here we got some of the same stuff and then just some stuff that you know maybe on the off chance you might need these were new last year it's a different kind of hook remover more of the strike indicators the tip up line markers people like those well so we just kind of put a little bit of everything over here to say okay look at what else we have buckets you got all sorts of buckets too oh yeah nice so people come in needing a need and bait with a bucket and they don't have their day bucket they can still stop and see it there's buckets everywhere here so these are the home depots these white ones are pretty neat oh wow those are really neat so other than the rope handle they have a little handle here so easy to dump sleds i got a bunch of jet sleds out here the jet sled junior the jet sleds one the jet sled XL we got the black in color the camo that blaze orange is new this year i've had a couple of people come in and tell me that they have actually bought it to go hunting next year clam chairs eskimo chair this is the new pattern that i was talking about for eskimo this year they changed the logo to more of a cursive script logo and the chairs are plaid which i think are really cool that is neat got a couple cup holders and then that one's just a little bit smaller these are the heritage traps so yeah one thing i noticed that you guys got a lot more ice fishing traps this year than than the last time i was down so you have the the lineup of heritage lineup of jack some ht's and polar tip-ups and yeah we try to get a little bit of everything you know a lot of different price points so that people have you know i had somebody call the other day and ask what the cheapest trap was 8.99 perfect there you go so this is kind of the back stock area people that have been here before know we have several big bait tanks out back i'm not going to show those today but they're like horse 300 gallon horse trough tanks and that's where we keep all of our back stock of suckers and shiners but this is what we've got offering for the rest of the stuff i've got different jet sleds here and i have some otter sleds so this is the the large jet sled that's available this year and then this one i believe is the largest otter sled that we carry the otter nice it's taller than you yeah taller than me one of those is definitely going home with me yeah different shacks this year um last year we had the otter h uh xth which we still have some those are the prices on those this year we have the otter vortex which is i believe the vortex is an insulated four different kinds of those the lodge the resort the cabin and the monster lodge and then we have the eskimos we've always had the eskimo three and the eskimo five is a three man a five man so this year the new one is this one again with that pla this is their 60th anniversary edition of their ice shack great oh plenty of pack baskets oh yes plenty of pack baskets again 28 inch 24 inch the auger drill plate that was real popular um a couple years ago we couldn't even keep them in stock so when you get a k drill for instance if you don't want to hold it on your drill like you're drilling you can set this up and then it holds more like a traditional auger normally 7699 right now 60 bucks the light flight that i was showing you out front is another drill auger 169.99 these are the new lithium 40 volt we're looking at 499.99 on that we do have some ions in stock the g2 10 inch and the g2 8 inch 679.99 and 649.99 the eskimo pistol again one that i showed you out front i recall that i was doing flips and tricks with it 169.99 jiffy 30 this is our everyday price 299.99 if you want a simple traditional gas auger that has basically stood the test of time i had somebody in here today that told me that he had his jiffy 30 since the the baby jesus had been born it's a time tested sturdy gas auger jiffy 30 is the kind of the the auger to go to if you're looking for gas auger i think i have three eskimo propane augers left possibly four if i count the one out front i so i think four 359.99 on those this is the old k drill right now we're running the 189.99 price so that's the first version of the k drill this is the newest version of the k drill it's eight and a half inches instead of the seven and a half it said eight but it was more like a seven and a half seven and three quarter hole so this is eight and a half 229.99 another version of the strike master this is a 24 volt eight inch and that's 379.99 and then we do have eskimo gas augers i have the f1 and that one's 389.99 these are great prices well he just figured why not just keep the black friday pricing through the end of the year and you know if people are looking for something else we also do gift certificates so if you've got somebody that likes ice fishing but you're just not sure what to get them we do gift certificates if we see one in stock does that mean that you're down to one or do you have back stock or can you get a behind here see all those shacks right there oh wow look at all that that's all shacks right there nice so if you only see one in the shop it doesn't necessarily mean that i only have one if you're coming in just the bagel bait and you've never been in here before we have a huge yard so coming in with a snowmobile trailer uh is not an issue here we've got plenty of space you can just swing right around and most of the time that's what people do the fray bowl has their cooler and then angle has their cooler so these again it's a similar setup it has the air raider it has the net um just a different brand so this one that you're looking at here is a 19 quart i believe these ones right around the corner a little bit bigger oh and propane like right now we i you know have propane when the power went out i went to walmart to find some and they had none and i'm like oh i'm going to work i know i have propane so i can cook some breakfast we try to make things as convenient as possible for people you know we we do operate the the company called construction consultants is the main company so you know if you see us out here running around sometimes the door might be locked and it'll say out loading septic equipment back in 10 minutes just hang out and wait for us because you know we're out and around if we're here between eight and four thirty monday through thursday or you know the eight to six on friday we're here somewhere we just can't be in here with you and we like to give everybody that personal attention instead of being like oh yeah here you go i'm gonna go out and do this so pretty much whether you're going for a day ice fishing or a week long trip or stocking up for the season you guys have it all right yes yes and we've been known to have people come in and ask for 10 dozen smelts um we bag them we put oxygen in them and they go on their merry way and they're good for days all right guys that is a wrap on sabego bait and tackle check them out when you're down here give them a call if there's something you need i'm sure they can get it you know uh one thing we don't talk about enough is supporting local supporting your small guys because you know these are the guys that are donating stuff to the sabego derby they're the guys that are donating stuff to the youth derbies these are your rotary club members these are your local businessmen they pump a bunch of stuff back into the economy i know you can get stuff cheaper on amazon i know you can order stuff from china a little bit cheaper than you can get it here but amazon isn't supporting the local derbies amazon's not supporting the kids amazon's not supporting the community and amazon doesn't have the stuff you need when you need it that day so can please consider that type of stuff support your small local businesses stay tuned for more bait shops on across the state of main as i fish and travel around the state i'm going to stop in at the local shops and if the owners want to shoot a video we'll shoot a video and if there's any shops that you guys want to see or want to hear more about let me know put it in the comments let me know what you think about this shop and also let me know what other shops you want me to check out and review thanks for tuning in


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We have some insane supply for the Foot Captains promo cards that dropped onto the game yesterday and that is impacting the market and we saw a lot of market movements because of that on yesterday's game. I wanna talk about that today on Saturday and of course all the other Foot Captains related info with the Foot Hero Captains being released. Massive upgrades for these cards. This is definitely a most hyped spot of this promo is the Hero Captains and those upgrades. Milito with the league change, some weak foot, some skill move upgrades on these cards. Dina Tala getting the five star skills, some position changes or rumored to be coming as well as we have more leaks about the upcoming more versions of Foot Captains that we'll see only four of them released yesterday which was a bit of a buzzkill. I think more of us were hoping to see more than just four of these Foot Hero Captains cards released on the game but for the ones that are out they look cracked and I wanna talk about those cards and how the rest of the market moved and how there might be potential investment opportunity with SBC fodder as there usually is on the weekends as they get so cheap. I also wanna take a look at some new pack codes. Yes, there were some new pack codes that were actually added yesterday like a day and a half ago and one of them includes an icon moments pack. So we might be seeing a new version of an icon upgrade pack coming pretty soon. That might be as soon as today or tomorrow. So we have to take a look at maybe preparing for that and what that could look like on this game with that pack code that was added like 30 hours ago or whatever it was or something like that. So we're gonna take a look at all of that today on this video. So if you're excited for Foot Captains and you had a good day one, make sure you hit a thumbs up on the video and of course, subscribe if you are new. Now let's dive right in and talk about the cards that are in packs right now and how these cards work and kind of what's up with them, right? I know some of you guys will question right away where's the Marcello, right? If we take a look at the actual webpage that EA posted yesterday, we're a little bit underwhelmed by just a small part of this promo because we know there's more to come with some of the leaked cards that we have seen like Marcello, like Busquets, right? Maybe at Jordan Henderson as well. All items that we expect to be a part of the Foot Captains promo, but they look like they're gonna be a part of Team 2 or the mini-release, there's still a potential that that Marcello could be a mini-release card. That was a bit of a letdown for yesterday and again, like I said, only four of the Foot Captains Heroes cards released on the game yesterday, Dina Talley, Milito, Yunberg, and Dempsey. You know, that was a little bit of an elixence we were expecting more of those cards, but the promo team as a whole, I think people are very happy with these items, right? These are some pretty nice upgrades for a lot of cards that haven't had many specials this year. I mean, the Royce card is sick. The Ming's card, again, we talked about in yesterday's video as well, the pay split, right? EA did the business with this pay split. They gave him plus one sprint speed, just plus one, but they gave him plus 16 acceleration, which makes this card so much more usable than he's ever been. So this is a very hyped up card from yesterday. And again, like we said, a lot of this promo team is cheap, not the Hero Captain cards. They are not cheap. We'll talk about how that is playing out on the market in a little bit, but for the rest of this promo team, look at the price of these players. Insigne, 190K, Mounian 40, Dubois is 46,000 coins. Yoris is 190. Quagliarella, arguably the most popular card, he's been number one on the most popular page on footbin with almost a thousand of votes already to start off his first few hours in packs with that high, medium, work rate upgrade and just the insane stats that he has. People wanna try out this card. So even though this promo team is pretty cheap and there's a lot of supply for it, because of all those saved up packs yesterday that were open, I'm not counting this promo as an L. I think that the in-packs content is just okay, but I think some of the SBC and the objective content could continue to be a W as we head throughout this week. I like the promo from EA. I think it's cool. I like the concept and everything seems to be captains related on this game. So let's continue to talk about the market. Again, as we mentioned in yesterday's video, we expected a lot of supply early on for these foot captains cards because of the saved up packs. Again, cards like Tyrone Ming's who has 380,000 coins right now on the market. Also, big shout-outs to EA for putting in the quality search filter within like 30 minutes of these cards being released on the market today. That was a W. But Tyrone Ming's is like 100,000 coins cheaper than this within the first hour of his cards being released and then he jumped up in price. That was the movement for a lot of cards today. Now some of them have come back down a little bit. And if you bought a card in that first short time period yesterday, I do think that you got one of the best prices you're gonna see for these cards. Ooh, 119 for Quagliarella. I will take that right there. That's nice. I think you saw some of the lowest prices of these cards maybe on the weekend. But I think with a really good team too that has leaked to be coming, I think there's a lot of potential for still some of these foot captains cards to get cheaper over the next couple of days, especially your more expensive ones. Even a guy like this Quagliarella, yeah, I know he's hype. He's brand new. It's a nice card. It got a really, really good upgrade. But I really don't see this guy being too much over 100,000 coins. He's probably gonna be under 100,000 coins as we get towards the end of this week. So I still think that we're in a little bit of a bubble this weekend for some of these cards that are in the promo team, especially like Yuris, right? I wanna pack Yuris so bad for the first owner of a tradable squad. I don't know how good this man is in game. He was like 120,000 coins yesterday during the first hour. Now he's up to 200,000 coins. But again, like I said, with all of the saved up packs and all of that supply that came on the market yesterday, I don't think I would hold these cards for too terribly long. Again, you know you've seen some of them drop off already. Some of the guys like Yuris, Insignia, that are on that lower tier, but still gonna be supplied a lot, or let's say middle tier that are still gonna be supplied a lot. You know, I think they're gonna hold their prices okay, but I still expect them to drop later on throughout this week. There was just a lot of supply yesterday, right? Now the pack percentage and the pack weight on these cards, if you go into the store and look, it's not abnormally high or anything like that. I don't even know if they're running lightning rounds at this hour when I'm recording this video. It looks like they're not, but from a 100,000 coin pack, 6.7% for only having a side of 11, there's only 11 players that are in packs right now, four foot captains. I think we will get a mini release tomorrow on Sunday and that will make this percentage go up, of course, as there'll be more cards in packs. But you know, I think that's kind of like normal around the ballpark of where a normal promo team is for pack percentage. Now for the foot hero captains, these cards are incredibly rare, right? As we talked about, we wondered if EA would list the probabilities for these cards and they actually did. And I think the reason they have to list the probabilities for the foot hero captains is because they're only gonna be in packs for a week. And that's a little bit of the fine print that I wanna go and take a look at. But again, I just wanna rest on the point and settle on the point that for these foot captains, promo cards, not the heroes, but for the promo cards themselves, I think these guys started off really cheap. They're probably gonna drop a little bit more as we head to the end of this weekend and then depending on the content this next week, they might rise up and down a little bit. But I think they'll get lower again as we head into next week's content with team two sounding like it's gonna be a bit more hyped. There's gonna be a lot of hype around that. So just be careful if you own any of these cards this weekend. Again, with the way the market is right now, I would not be holding onto too many cards for very long just because the market is so volatile with so many people that have been selling cards, the prices have dropped so much. I think that's gonna continue even though we're still a couple of weeks from team of the season. I think that mindset is what's really gonna continue and these cards will probably stay pretty low, especially with all the insane supply that they have had. So, foot heroes, captains though, is what I wanna touch on next. And I think one of the reasons why these cards are so rare is, yes, they have low pack weight and heroes are hard to pack in general, but there's a bit of an issue with these cards right now and it might result in some compensation.  So foot hero captains are special upgraded cards of the foot heroes. We needed this for the longest time. They finally are upgrading heroes, right? We know that. They're gonna be made available throughout the campaign for a limited time only. Now, read what it says down here. Do foot hero captains replace their base foot hero version in packs? EA says, yes. Foot hero captains will replace the base version while only available in packs. So like right now, if you open a 100,000 coin pack from the store, you should be packing the foot captains version and you won't pack the regular hero version of Dina Talley, Unberg and the two other captains, Dempsey and Milito, right? You won't pack their base versions. It says foot hero captains made available outside of packs. So for like a guaranteed SPC or something like that, do not replace their base foot hero version in packs. So that's kind of self-explanatory right there. But the thing that's interesting about this is the first line, right? Foot hero captains will replace their base foot hero version only while available in packs. And it says on the screen that team one is gonna be, all these cards are available for one week. Until next Friday, they're gonna be in packs. But, popular streamer, a lot of you guys know AE9 skills, YouTuber and streamer, right? He was opening packs tonight and I've seen a lot of other people in my mentions with the same issue they've been packing. As of a couple hours ago, they've been packing the base versions of these cards. So, that would make sense as to why some of these foot hero captains have become incredibly rare over the past couple of hours. I mean, they looked rare from the beginning, right? I actually flipped a cup, I flipped a Milito today. I bought a Milito at 900,000 coins, sold them at 1.15. And Milito, oh, is he back up again? Oh, it's freaking go, man. Milito is rising back up. He is 930, 940. I just bought a couple more of these like an hour ago for 870,000 coins. This is really risky, right? I'm doing some risky trading right now because with the way that looks and with the tweets that I'm seeing and with people saying, hey, I'm actually packing the base hero version instead of the hero captain's version, that to me smells like compensation. I think EA's gonna have to do something about that. I bought two Unbergs at 800K, sold them at like 870, 880, right? There was some good flips with this card yesterday. You know, but these cards are incredibly rare. So I think EA has messed something up and they're gonna have to compensate. And what that really should do, they should be compensating. But what that's gonna do is it's gonna bring more supply on the market. Like this Clint Dempsey was 310,000 coins. I bought three of him, he's 370 right now. But I was able to sell those on for about 390,000 coins yesterday, 397, 387, and 390, you see there. So these cards are just incredibly, incredibly rare. They've made me a lot of coins already. But I have to be careful with the right, with that impending stuff that's going on out there. I'd be very careful if you own a captain's card right now, especially Dempsey. Because I think Dempsey's gonna have one of the highest pack weights out of all of these hero cards. Unberg would be maybe the second highest. But Dempsey for sure, I think his card, I mean, I know it's like the dead of night when I'm recording this video and a lot of you guys are actually asleep. But we look at Dempsey, he has one page. I know these cards are rare, but that's crazy, right? That is really, really crazy, just to have one page. Like how many of these cards are 400K for Mr. Dempsey? He's got like a 360 right here and then two 370s and then a 390, right? These cards are just so rare. I think that's gonna be compensated by EA. Again, don't panic sell if you have these cards, if you're trying them out. But if you see an EA tweet, I imagine that they would fix this and then they would tweet about it and then do some compensation. I don't think it would be like life-altering prices, like Dinitalli getting cut in half in one day. But I see the potential for compensation with these cards. So just be a little careful if you're trying them out because that could be coming. I don't think it's gonna impact a Dinitalli too much unless people start panic selling. But again, I can't just sit here and say, oh my goodness, these cards are just so rare and not point out the fact that multiple people I've seen now on Twitter have packed their base versions instead of the hero captain's version. So we have to of course think about that and know that there's potential compensation arising around that. It's actually been a while since we had compensation. So it's kind of, I guess, GGs to EA for not messing up that big lately anyways. So that's kind of the foot captain's cards that are on the market. Again, I would be careful. I am trading with them. You saw me with some Quagliorellas. Again, you saw me with some Militos, which hopefully this Milito, I'm really hoping that he can get back up to around a million coins. How many cards do we have to a mill? We have about a page. So I'm gonna watch this 949. If this one can sell, then I'm looking pretty good because I bought mine in the eight seventies. Hopefully I can get this guy out for maybe around like 980 overnight tonight into Saturday today. That'd be a great flip. But I would just be careful trading with these captain's cards. I know that like Ben Yetter and Royce, these guys fluctuate a lot and people are gonna wanna wake up today on Saturday and try these cards out. So you might see some fluctuations. Royce went from mid six hundreds to well over 700 earlier yesterday. The Ming's card, the Quagliorella, right? I have no problem looking at a Quagliorella today. I've been kinda trying to snipe him in the low 120s. I've got a couple of them. Just kinda, you know, trade with the cards that are hype, right? And this Quagliorella is one of those that is very hype. I'm gonna let that sit actually so that Footbin can catch it and then keep telling people to list that 120 when they look at Footbin. That's a little bit of a trader 101 there. Is sometimes when it's like a two or three K undercut and a card like this, you can see it gets bought up a lot. But if you let it undercut hit, sometimes Footbin will catch it and then people will just look at Footbin to list the card. Like right now it shows Quagliorella at 122 and then hopefully they list it like 120, 122 when he's actually about 125 and then you can get a couple undercuts even under that because sometimes people see Footbin at 122 and then they'll undercut it like 118 or 113, bang, like that, bingo. See, worked perfectly. But that's the kind of stuff I'd be looking for a quick flip today on Saturday. Now for the rest of the market, I just spent a lot of time talking about stuff that was added to the market yesterday. For the out of pack stuff, there was more panic selling but there was some bounce back as well. I bought it for Mino yesterday at 850, sold it at 930, he had a really nice bounce back. Not a ton of profit on that but a solid amount. DiBala was a card that rebounded well yesterday. He went from like 930,000 coins right now he's 1.02. So some of your out of packs, rare meta special cards, they had some bounces, right? We expect that on our promo Friday. So if you traded with any of that yesterday GGs and like I was saying all week, I knew there would be people that would go out and buy some cards and you would see some bounce backs on the market today. Some of your fantasy foot cards as well had this same sort of fluctuation. So Soko was down at 320, he's now 350 up in price. Marc Tenelli was 475, he's now 510. Some of the other fantasy cards. Rashford was 1.9, he's now 2.2. Nani was 330, 340, he's now back up to 370. Stones is down but that's because of the mings. Again, substitute item coming onto the game kind of people sell their stones to go use the mings card that was dropped yesterday. So some of the out of packs market had some nice rebounds yesterday, not all of it but some of it did based on people having coins from opening all those packs that were saved up put a lot of coins on the market kind of like we explained yesterday. Now, one part of the market with all that supply that is looking right for picking right now is the fodder part of the market. The fodder part of the market because again, like I mentioned, we are due another icon upgrade pack. The prime icon player pick expires on Sunday tomorrow but if you remember, was it two weeks ago or maybe even three weeks ago by now, I think it was two. We had the first icon upgrade SBC that included icon moments players. That was a 92 plus moments prime or moments pack which everybody went bananas for, right? I'm not saying that pack is gonna come again. Again, the one that we have added to the code right now was added again, like I said, like 30 hours ago. We had a couple new packs added. I'll get to these in a second but this one here icon moments pack. I think this is gonna be our next icon upgrade SBC pack and I would assume that's gonna come next after the prime icon upgrade but it could come as soon as today because again, like I mentioned, the other icon moments upgrade pack came out on a Saturday a couple of weeks ago. So if you're looking at fodder right now, you know you're gonna have more lightning rounds today but you're also gonna have more people looking to invest in that fodder and you had most of your supply in my opinion happened yesterday on Friday. So as these cards are kind of low and maybe if EA is running some nighttime or early morning lightning rounds today on Saturday which it does seem like they're going all out with the lightning rounds again, picking up a few of these middle tier fodder cards. I'm not so sure about the 88s. 88s and up I'm not sure about even 87s but some of the 86s is again, you see like Parejo 14,000 coins. You can probably snag this at 13K on bid. This is as low as the cards were last week before they spiked up really well into the weekend with the prime icon player pick SBC. If we have an icon moments pack that would also impact the market. We're having daily icon moments players SBCs continue. That's a part of the Foot Captains promo. I don't know if it even says it here on, I think it says it somewhere in here on the website but we're gonna have those daily icon moments players as well released through SBCs, probably gonna have another one today. So maybe the Fernandinho that we didn't end up seeing yesterday as well, that would be another Foot Captains player SBC that we would see at some point during this week. It seems like this is gonna be a week where there should be a decent amount of SBCs that would be decently hyped. The campaign player pick I think expires today. Maybe EA is gonna respond by releasing another one of those this weekend or in the next week. So maybe taking some bids or just getting on some low prices for this fodder. Wow, no way. This Hector card is already one of the cheapest 87s that he's in the current promo team, W. Anyways, I think the low to middle tier, the 84 to 87 rated, 84 to 86 rated fodder is good for a club stock. Again, like I said, I don't know if you're gonna see the rise like you saw last week. Like the 85s went from 7K to like 9, 10,000 coins at their absolute peak. 86s went from 12K to like 17, 18,000 coins. That was a really big peak for a short timeframe. That was a lot of profit to be made. I think you will see some movements like that, but maybe this week it's a little bit less.  Maybe they'll go to like 16,000 coins. But I think it's a good opportunity to club stock a few of those cards this weekend, especially with more icon moments SBCs coming out, more player SBCs for foot captains and stuff like that kind of potentially coming out. And of course that icon moments pack. If that arrives, that'll be probably a lot cheaper of an upgrade pack that more people would wanna go out and do. That would be their first really good value chance of packing an icon moments card from this game. So that's kinda how the content went down yesterday in terms of the market side of things. Today, more lightning rounds. We've had almost 100% guaranteed to expect. And actually as I'm about to enter the store, in one minute they're gonna potentially release a new set of lightning rounds. So I wanna check and see if they do that or not because they've been running the late night 85, 86 plus star packs and it's been impacting prices on the market a little bit. But that's why I was mentioning fodder because if you can time it right especially, they'll get a couple extra thousand coins maybe less and that could mean more profit a little bit later. So one thing I really like about this promo is a kind of a weird one. They haven't done SBCs like this in a while but I gotta point this out. Where's this from that? Daily log in upgrade. Basically what this is, is it's a re-ups. It's repeatable every single day one time. It's a cheap 81 plus upgrade pack is what it is. So W.E.A. Sports, that's nice. We take that. I actually opened that pack and won 85 times three on my account yesterday. You guys are gonna say red listed. Really the only pack that I opened was that 85 times three and I was able to snag it quite clearly. Maybe that's just a testament to how somehow easy these cards are to pack as I think a lot of people packed items from the promo team yesterday. Again, it was all those saved up packs, right? Tratable or untradable. A lot of people got these cards in their teams yesterday which is just overall gonna make their prices a little bit lower. Maybe that's having me thinking that I should have opened more packs but I'm kind of saving those more for a team this season. Here we go. 84 plus star duo players pack. I think that was, that's a newer pack. We haven't seen this one very much but again, 6.5% for foot captains. Gonna be a little bit more supply for those cards coming on the market late night and lightning rounds for fodder. Those are great packs that help supply fodder on the game. So it's probably gonna be a good time with club stock, that stuff once again and I think that's gonna continue into today on this market. Much team in the week cards today as well. Those could get kind of low today too. So to wrap it up, I wanna take a look at yesterday's content just a little bit more because we had a lot of stuff to go over and a lot of SBCs that I think are overlooked because of how the content was a lot of market based stuff yesterday. This Joaquin yesterday, really nice upgrade. Four star, four star, really good looking card. It's not gonna be the most meta item but he does link to Fakir in La Liga as a right mid item so nice links there to Fakir and it's not the best value SBC. I think it's coming at like 160 or 170,000 coins for this card. So it's not great, it's just okay in my opinion. It's just solid. Yeah, Joaquin is coming in 178K. It's just okay. Now the SBC yesterday that is a big W is this Joaquin Felix player of the month. Awesome dynamic image, five star skills. I know it's not as good as his numbers up card that has the insane pace boost but for like 28K, this is uber cheap and a must do for like what is it, 82 or an 83 rated squad is all that it costs to get this guy done, 83 rated with a team of the week. Get that done this week if they release player picks for your untradable La Liga team heading into, where objectives are important towards the end of the year. So I think that's a big W right there for the Felix. Also yesterday we had the Zenetti SBC which was our first icon moments player SBC based off of a captain and he's got an 88% up vote which is surprises me a little bit because this SBC is valued at 364,000 coins according to footprint. Yeah, this card is cool. It's, I think it's just really cheap and that's why people like it. I know it's a nice card, high, high work rates. It does have some pretty good stats and it's an icon moments. The thing that of course I look at and see is, okay, his card on the market is now the same price as this since he's dropped off with the leaks, with the panic selling and now that his SBC is out but I mean, to be honest, you're gonna be able to get this done so easily. So it's just a nice card to collect either using your team or to put it in the club when you have duplicates arising. We also had a pack supply SBC for a rare electrum yesterday. So all in all, really solid SBC content except for the player that was released as the player SBC. The rest of it I thought was really, really solid. So GGs and big ups to EA for all of that yesterday. Hopefully that continues today. I'm not entirely sure who they're going to release as our icon moments player SBC. Again, we've had a lot of names that have been leaked and put out there but hopefully EA drop a banger for one of those today on the game. Now, an objective is really quick as well. I know a lot of you guys like to grind these. Classic Cup is returning once again, two weeks and you only have to play, I think three wins of course. There are three games a day that it is for Classic Cup but you get all the packs. You get a foot hero captain's loan and tradable as a part of this. Premium gold players pack, mega pack, a lot of solid packs in here especially as you get towards the higher tier echelon. You get some really nice packs which will be very nice for a pack stash either opening during this promo or saving for a team of the season. Stindle, solid card, really no complaints here. I think it does take 10 separate matches in the live for friendly but if you want a card like this, nice item. Solid from EA sports there in my opinion as well. So overall yesterday, I think we rated it on stream. We were saying that the content was like a six or a seven out of 10. The hero moments cards are dope. The hero captain's cards. I'm gonna call them hero moments all the time. That's actually not their name of course, as you guys know but wait, did that 940 sell? Nah, it's still up on the market. This Dempsey's sold out for 360. These cards are so rare guys, I'm telling you it's crazy. Wow, Dempsey's 400K now. I should have bought that one, man. He's, look how rare this guy is crazy. I think they're gonna have to use some compensation because these cards are so rare and they weren't getting packed when they were supposed to be. We'll see what EA posts on their Twitter about that. I'm sure they're gonna have to assess this situation there. So, I'm excited for day two of Foot Captains. Let me know down in the comments what you think about this promo. Whether you packed anything yesterday, that's what I really wanna know. Did you open any packs yesterday? And if so, what did you pack? Because it seems like everybody was packing these cards with the supply being as insane as it was. It seemed like they just kind of gave out from these packs and that there were so many packs opened. That was the case. So I wanna know down in the comments if that was you and how you enjoyed the first day of Foot Captains yesterday. But if you are new again, hit that subscribe button on the channel. Good luck with your week in league if you're grinding red name marks for everybody. As we always try to drop a little extra pack look for you heading into your Saturday grind of week in league. So it's been Nate the Vote Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace out.


but without further ado, let me pass it to you and have your remarks. Please, please. Hello everyone. I'm a bit tall, so usually I have to check these mics out. They don't often work with me. First of all, let me thank USIP for this tremendous opportunity to engage with the policy community here in Washington. I'm here today because I believe that the American people want to hear about how a frontline country and its democratic vanguard, the Pakistan People's Party, has forged a path to possible futures of stability and peace in a tough neighborhood. I believe that these experiences could shine a light for others to avoid the strategic world winds reaped by unintended consequences. We all know that at the heart of today's debate lies competing ideologies, some real and some entirely imagined as faith. We also know that Islam, like all other religions, all other great religions, teaches and preaches peace. At the same time, we are also all aware of the brutal devastation that has been caused by religious fascists masquerading as Muslims. It is also clear that among many agendas, the extremists seek a return to the Dark Ages. In terms of history, this is a relatively new threat to the world. Yet while this threat may be new to the world, it's not new to me. It is defined who I am today. As you may know, my mother, Shahid Ben-Razi Putto, was assassinated by religious fascists in 2007. This was not the first time she was attacked. In 1988, when she was elected the first female Prime Minister of the Muslim world, it requires very little research to verify that Osama bin Laden funded her political opposition's attempts to oust her from government. When she was re-elected Prime Minister for a second time, the man involved in the first attack on the Twin Towers, Ramzi Yusuf and Mullah Umar, tried to have her assassinated and failed. Extremism in Pakistan was founded by opponents of my grandfather, Sulphiqar Ali Putto, as a cover to legitimize their coup, his assassination, and their reign. Over the next 11 years, Pakistan under the dictator General Ziyal Haq became the first country to fall to a traumatic program of state-led extremism. The world myopically supported this dictator, and indeed funded his policy of Islamization because of Pakistan's strategic importance in the first Afghan war. When my grandfather Pakistan's first democratically elected Prime Minister was overthrown and assassinated. The world ignored Benazir Putto in the 1980s when she warned that supplying arms, training, and support to the Mujahideen to fight in Afghanistan had created a Frankenstein monster that would come back to haunt us. Many declared these men freedom fighters and dubbed them the moral equivalent of George Washington. After 9-11 again, the international community ignored Benazir Putto when she warned that we must not run with the hair and hunt with the hound. Supporting dictatorship on the one hand while preaching democracy with the other was counterproductive. We have enough history to testify that this kind of strategy only strengthens the terrorists. In her final election campaign and her posthumously published book Reconciliation, Benazir Putto laid out a roadmap to combat religious extremism through reconciliation, democracy, social justice, and a new martial plan. However, distracted by the Great Recession and exhausted by nearly a decade of wars, the international community once again ignored her advice. More than a decade after the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center, the world has paid a heavy price in blood and coin to counter this threat. At some point, we need to inject a reality check into this narrative. From our vantage, it is clear that despite our heavy military and civilian sacrifices, it is heartbreaking to see no light at the end of this tunnel. Can anyone in all honesty tell me where these long wars are being won? This is the question that often keeps me awake at night. Objectively speaking, we've seen this threat grow from a small-scale guerrilla army who carried out a spectacular attack on the United States that's gone on to a global ideological threat. From the Taliban to Al-Qaeda to Boko Haram to ISIS, no matter what the world throws at them, like the legend of Hydra, every time one head is decapitated, another two emerge. Despite the audacity of their attacks, the heinous massacres, and the hundreds of thousands who've died in the wars they've ignited, it seems that many outside this room still don't see them as a serious ideological threat. They are still by and large seen as a national security risk, an army of crack combatants who can be exterminated through kinetic means. Something must be catastrophically wrong. If a decade after this battle began, they have managed to push much of the Muslim world into a dangerous civil war, and have continued to carry out meticulously executed terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe. Religious extremism is just one strain of a virus that is the greatest threat to modern civilization since the Cold War. But religious extremism is not limited to the Islamic world. While Islamic extremism dominates the post-911 narrative, other forms of religious extremism are equally dangerous. Religious extremists murder doctors, women's healthcare providers, and even school children here in the United States. Religious extremists' most potent weapon is fear. They spread fear through terrorism. They provoke us into unending wars. They scare us into compromising on our ideals, into surrending our fundamental freedoms, and into diverting our limited resources away from the welfare of the people. They infect us societies with fear, hate, and violence. They weaponize faith, manipulate religion, and terrorize societies to extinguish hope. Why did the Iraqi army take off their uniforms, abandon their American supplied war machines, abandon their post, abandon their people, and flee in the face of a disjointed army of religious fascists? It was because the much smaller, less well equipped ISIS claimed to have got on their side. Therein lies the problem. We don't see their murderous and depraved path to a regressive world as a legitimate, long-term ideological threat. We underestimate their power and their capacity to regenerate. And now we have a problem, the scale of which shocks us as they push through the meltdown of many states advancing to our gates and into our living rooms. The problem is they don't claim to be the ones offering the utopia at the end of their blood-soaked tunnel. They claim the Koran does, the Bible does, the Torah does. The only one who can prove them wrong is God himself. We must understand that this is a serious ideological threat to civilization as we know it, framed in a powerful quasi-religious narrative. This is more dangerous than the threat of communism or simple fascism. The foot soldiers of religious extremism have graduated from primitive to sophisticated warfare, while their digitized narrative is spreading their vile message far and wide. The world is left reeling from tragedy to tragedy. How can we stop this path to a possible Armageddon? Let me remind you of what FDR said during the last Great Depression, after World War I and before World War II. We have nothing to fear but fear itself. I firmly believe that no matter where the head of this Hydra emerges, be it in Pakistan, Iraq, France, the United Kingdom or even the United States, the best antidote to the poison of religious extremism is democracy. Democracy alone cannot challenge such dogma, but is the only system that allows open societies to the legal sanction and legitimacy to challenge this assault on liberty and civilization as we know it. Democracy is the greatest ideological force humankind has to offer, and we must harness its full potential to vanquish this evil. The truth is, we can't just challenge these turbo-armed cavemen on the battlefield. They are challenging our way of life. They claim to provide solutions to emerging public disconsent and argue that it is our sinful modern way of life that is the problem, the cause, not the solution to the world's problem. Many of us completely ignore this challenge because we don't believe or buy into their parallel universe. However, we cannot ignore the fact that a growing number of young Muslims from all over the world and even new converts to Islam are recruits to their vision. What drives young Muslims from all over the world from all walks of life to enlist? Why are thousands of Muslims leaving free societies and joining ISIS? Why do young Muslims hijack planes and fly them into the Twin Towers? Why do young British Muslims murder their fellow citizens on 7-7? Why do young French and European Muslims massacre innocent civilians on their own soil? How could any mother allow her baby to be used as a bomb on October 18, 2007 in an attempt to assassinate Benazir Putto? I've had to come, I've had to accept the realization, the reality, that they are people who seemingly defy rationality and they hail from all walks of life varying nationalities, race and gender. They are the same in that they have signed on to the same extremist message and are willing to kill and die for it. This is the real threat that has gone unaddressed to this day. The international community must of course respond militarily to protect its citizens. However, we must also seriously engage in the ideological conflict as well.  No matter where you're from, ask yourselves, is your democracy, is your country really the best it can be? Because it is our own failures that are exploited by our opponents. It is time to take responsibility for where we potentially create the vacuum extremism needs to thrive. Democracy promises the basic principles of equality, dignity, justice, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and peace. So we have to ask the question, why then have our democracies been unable to deliver on all these promises? Every country faces its own challenges. Some are more democratic than others, some are more equal than others, and some are more just than others. And some are more peaceful than others. However, just because no democracy has yet to deliver on all these promises, it does not mean democracy cannot deliver. What is important is the direction in which democracies evolve. We have to pursue reconciliation and unite despite our differences. We must adapt, evolve and further strengthen democracy. We have to establish a new social contract to guarantee the welfare of all peoples, regardless of race, religion or nationality. Our minorities and women have to feel included and empowered. Or the democratic model simply doesn't work. We cannot kill our way out of this war. Yes, if we believe this, then if we believe this to be the only solution, it makes us no better than the extremists. I may not be able to convince the world, but I've certainly made it my mission to try. We in Pakistan have made great strides in our counter-terrorism policy since the days of dictator Musharraf. However, my party and I are increasingly concerned that if the current government continues on its path of inaction, we're in danger of reversing many of the gains that have been made. Progress has indeed been made. Democracy has delivered where dictatorship could not or would not. On the counter-terrorism and military front, the Pakistan People's Party-led government forged national consensus and launched the first successful military operation in South Aziristan. In September 2013, the federal and provincial governments launched the Karachi operation, and we've seen a significant drop in crime and violence in the mega-city. Sombred by the horrific APS attacks in 2014, the Sharif government announced an end to its policy of appeasement, following which we all built a national consensus and launched a military operation in North Aziristan. So a few more F-16s might do some good. Regional and international counter-terrorism experts had long said this was necessary if we were to see any substantial gains in the fight against extremism. We've seen a drastic decline in terrorist attacks nationwide as a result. The state is finally articulating that it sees no good or bad Taliban. This is all serious significant progress. We're also crucially invested in a model of regional growth and connectivity from South through Central Asia, and that includes creating a just peace with India and Afghanistan. But the question to ask here is not a new one. Is our neighbor going to be left alone, defend for itself again after years of war? And will Pakistan, already mired in other pressing challenges, have to fend off the violence that will inevitably spill over? Most Pakistanis ask leading questions about how our border will be stabilized and who will manage instability if no peace equation are formalized. Right now, the roadmap to peace sounds good on paper, but real progress is not evident. Back home, there is still a lot that needs to be done, and we must be careful not to repeat the mistakes of the past and undermine the critical progress we've made as a nation. The National Action Plan, agreed to by all political parties, as well as the military establishment, is a comprehensive strategy on paper, but for the most part it is unfortunately not hitting the ground. We know all kinetic action has to be sequential, but action has to be taken in Punjab. Outside the war zone of North Luziristan, we see no action against terrorism or extremism in the rest of the province, despite it being the most severely impacted. Our largest province of Balochistan needs political reconciliation, and in my home province of Sindh, we started the Karachi operation and have seen a drastic drop in crime rates. While the slums of Liari in particular have become more peaceful and networks of criminal gangs have been dismantled, it would be dishonest of me to claim that we've beaten extremism and terrorism in Sindh. Sleeper cells and no-go areas are still a concern, and I think, I really can't think of any major religious terrorist who has been captured as a result of this operation. In addition to this, we are all also in danger of undermining the consensus built to fight religious terrorism and extremism, as powers granted to the federal government for this task are used beyond the given mandate. We cannot afford our young counter-terrorism operation to be made controversial or politicized. Nor can we sustain a counter-terrorism effort without a counter-extremism effort. That is why it concerns me to see the government pursuing a policy of political victimization against parties, against political parties with strong counter-extremism and counter-terrorism policies and have a history of that. Bands, for example, against the leader of the secular MQM on giving speeches, political cases against members of the Uwami National Party, the Mudaradakomi movement and the Pakistan People's Party, especially under the guise of anti-terrorism laws, is not only wrong but dangerous and must end. It undermines the government's legitimacy. It allows genuine terrorists to claim persecution at the hands of the state. This must end. Powers granted to the government to tackle terrorism should not be used to silence political dissent. In fact, just a couple of days ago, members of our airline union were shot and killed in broad daylight by our law enforcement agencies in Karachi while protesting the government's plans. Counter-terrorism forces have no business suppressing legitimate democratic opposition or the people's right to protest. Beyond the military component, the Pakistan People's Party-led government has made serious efforts to address genuine grievances against the state that the extremists exploited to their own advantage. We attempted to address the concerns of nationalists. We gave the people of NWFP the name they desired, Desire, and act that honored their identity and heritage. The state officially apologized to the people of Balochistan and implemented the Balochistan Economic Package in the strongest political move to bring the province into the national fold. We strengthened democracy by diffusing powers to the 18th amendment, empowering the parliament over individuals, devolving powers to provincial governments, passed women's, minorities, and human rights legislation, introduced the country's first social safety net in the form of the Benazir income support program, and much more. We conducted free elections and presided over the first constitutional peaceful transfer of power in Pakistan. All such steps serve to cement democracy, improve structural workings of the state, and undermine the extremists' counter-narrative. The National Action Plan goes beyond the military component of our counter-terrorism and counter-extremism policy. But unfortunately, most of this has gone unimplemented. As a result, we're in danger of losing serious gains both operationally as well as on the crucial hearts and minds equation. In our provincial government, the Pakistan People's Party passed curriculum reform laws and are in the process of registering madrasas, all to improve the education system that will inspire the minds of our next generation. Democracy has to deliver. Social justice and more effective governance are crucial for the demand for democracy to sustain itself. Big-ticket policy issues are yet to be addressed. How are we going to address the growing income inequalities, lack of social mobility, our inept judicial system? What are we going to do about our massive youth bulge and growing unemployment? We have to put our youth to work because if we don't, the extremists certainly will. The rural unemployment rate in Sindh is half that of Punjab. Both urban and rural unemployment is a serious issue that our policy tools don't quite address. Desperate poverty in Pakistan make the poor easy fodder for extremism. Our failure as a nation to address our education emergency, to provide the basic necessities of food, clothing and shelter, forces the poor to look to ill-equipped madrasas to meet their needs instead of the state. The Pakistan People's Party has struggled for democracy and against religious extremism from our inception to the present day. My mother did this every day of her life until she was assassinated in 2007. We still believe in investing in a vibrant democracy to combat religious extremism and terrorism in Pakistan and across the world. But we are not the only ones. They are Palestinians, Syrians, Egyptians, Libyans and many, many others who have their own experiences to share. But in order to hear them, we have to listen to the people fighting this menace and not the religious extremists. I know that some see Osama bin Laden as a face of Pakistan. But in reality, he wasn't even Pakistani. The true faces of Pakistan are Shahid Benazir Putto, Shahid Salman Tassir, Shahid Shebaaz Patti, our young Nobel Prize winner Malala Yusuf Zai and the vast majority of us who would rather go down fighting these religious extremists than bow before them. Similarly, the true face of Iraq is not ISIS. The true face of Afghanistan is not the Taliban. Chester has the true face of the United States is not Timothy McVeigh or the Boston bombers. I know this challenge seems insurmountable, but as a young Muslim Pakistani, I am determined to address these issues, not just because I want to, but because I have to. I am determined to see my generation succeed with those before us have failed. I believe, as my mother did, that we are bound to succeed because truth, justice, and the forces of history are on our side. As she said, we've come too far. We've sacrificed too much to fail now, and I can say the same. Thank you.


Mark, three points on the board, three away victories now on the truck must be pleased with the results after them. Yeah, the results was exactly what we wanted. I won't kid anyone by saying we played our best today. Too many unforced errors from my point of view but we're always the more dominant side. Clearly at times if you make poor decisions or give balls away in poor areas of the field then the opposition get encouraged by that so we need to cut that out of our play but for the most part they didn't really cause us too many concerns and going away from home that's what we need to do. We picked up one of the three points without ever reaching the level we know we can but we're happy enough we'll take that. Take encouragement as well from the fact that you admit we're not at our best today we've been sloppy in possession and other things like that but still being able to grind out the result and come away with three points. Yeah but it's no coincidence that that's the pieces of quality and when we play the right pass at the right time and put people in with good appreciation then we create chances and score goals and that's how both the goals came about, nice play by Chappy, individual play together penalty and then obviously great ball by Lee Angle to put in Tyreek and great finish so those types of quality we should show more often today but when we did obviously that was the difference. You spoke about it pretty much as well, the mentality side of it in terms of last week having to find a goal on doing the same again today, that hunger, that desire, that determination to do with it. Yeah that's not without question it's exactly what we want from the team, the team doesn't want to go under we've had experience of that earlier in the season and it hasn't happened since so I'm pleased with that aspect of our play but at times we just make it slightly harder than it needs to be I just think we can see games out more comfortably than possibly we did do today and that's just a little bit of detail of the game that we need to improve on but we're very happy with the result, very happy with the three points obviously and we can watch all the other results coming in now. A victory here as well a little bit more specifically, albeit before your time but in terms of a mental boost for some of these players who have played against Harrogate. Yeah I mean we've had a poor record home and away against Harrogate don't think we've ever been them since they've come up so we've put that to bed and that was mentioned in pretty much, it was about time that we changed that stat and we've been able to do that so yeah a lot of things we're happy about other things we know we can do better at but we're going in the right direction that's the main thing. And with a busy month on the horizon has mentioned three straight away wins now and looking good at home as well I guess it's all what you kind of want heading into plenty of fixtures that we've got. Yeah we've got, well every fixture is a big one but we've got a run of games coming up that looks quite strong we're going to have to be really at our best level to get maximum points but that's our intention today was a good exercise and a little bit of a warning for us because we need to be better against the teams that are coming up than possibly we were today but in the end the quality that we've got showed through when we were able to take the game away from them.